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all ghost stories and other wierdness in here please....
I will have to make a list of all the biazarre things that have happened to me!!
A starling once appeared inside a closed clothes drawer, when I lived in a big old house as a kid.
He managed to fly off after a while. No idea what that was all about, though.
hollygolightly
03-05-03, 02:16 PM
I'm a true believer in all of this.
I spent my teens on a farm which we'd renovated. The house was built in 1633. My room was downstairs and I'd got recessed shleves in the space where the fire used to be. I'd wake up warm in the night seeing a glow from the fire and the outline of someone dosing in a chair (no chairs in the room).
At Christmas, we had the tree up in the living room. Every night we switched the lights off, every morning - before anyone was up - the lights would have been switched back on.
The rocking chair would rock with no-one in it.
One evening when I was in on my own, a frying pan somehow ended up in the middle of the kitchen floor. I picked it up and put it in the cupboard. I went into another room and as I did so I heard a bang. I went back into the kitchen and a big storage tub of rice had "flown" off a high shelf and landed in the middle of the kitchen floor.
One night I had put the fire guard up and gone to bed (there were only embers left - that couldn't jump out of the fire). My dad (luckily) came back and woke me in the early hours. An ember had somehow landed on a bean bag and smouldered to nothing (noxious fumes everywhere), the only thing that saved the house from going up in flames was a camel haired rug under the beanbag.
Enough for now! There is more though and a long history of ESP in our family on my mum's side.
I feel safe in this house, even though it is built on the site of an old chapel!
we have lots of goings on here to...perhaps its a yorkshire thing!
I dont remember so much activity down south!
we have things move and hear footsteps upstairs when we are downstairs.
"Jim" loves to play tricks! he is great at turning the radio up and down, he hates boybands!!
a moisturiser bottle started rocking by itself once when I was sat on the loo...I said yes very clever and it just stopped dead still, didnt slowly rock to a halt, just as someone had grabbed it!
the clock in the lounge hasnt worked for months and every now and then the pendulum starts swinging but the time never changes!
I love living here!!
I have been hit in a church in wakefield for reading a book while waiting for something and I knew he was a man in a robe
The most poignant thing that happened to me recently was knowing my nana had died before the rest of my family, she came and visited me during the night and the next day I had the phone call http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif
actually it was completly reassuring that she had come to say good bye to me, we had planned to drive down to Bedford that night to see her as we knew it would be the last time. she saved me the trip, bless her.
have loads of other bits but will tell you another day!
potty beth signing off!!
Here's one that can relate to nfh;
An OAP neighbour was walking up the lane pat nutter nfh's place. Nfh was sitting outside fixing her a bsiliisk stare as she walked past, staring at the old lady as she passed the whole length of the property.
From the original thread;
I'd like to see my NFH's head turn 360 degrees.[/b]
By all accounts it is not a pretty sight!
Matthew
05-05-03, 04:36 PM
Makes me think of that film where they all take the supposed 'elixir of life' to make themselves look younger permanently? They then all fall apart, one of them does a 360 deg heard revolve!
Now, what on earth is it called - Hollywood production I think, female big stars.......anyone?! http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif
horsefans
05-05-03, 07:06 PM
One of my 'experiences' as follows .. the most personal one too but have loads more as me and a friend fancied ourselves as ghosthunters when we were in our early twenties!. - do have some tales to tell but not today...
An out of body experience.
You are all welcome to form your own opinion on this matter and no offence will be taken!!
When I was 21 I was involved in a very serious car accident. I fractured my skull, broke my neck, broke my pelvis, broke my knee not to mention the multiple head wounds due to broken glass etc.
I cannot remember anything about the accident except the following..
It was a November evening yet I seemed to be standing at the other side of the road . It was pitch black yet I could see everything but it seemed to be in 'black & white' .It was if you had spotted an accident at the other side of the road and had stopped for a look but I can only describe being totally overcome with a comlete feeling of puzzlement....why was MY car in that accident????.
I have absolutely no idea how long I watched the scene for but apparently under hypnosis I had a ' conversation' with 'someone' about the accident!!??..We have been absolutely unable to pin down 'who' this could have been??
I also remeber vividly that it was a quite stormy night , the grass nad trees were swaying about yet I could feel no sensation of wind and in fact it was absolutely silent all around me!!.
The firemen had to cut me from the car and I remained unconcious until I reached the hospital.
No bright lights or tunnels or none of that nonsense but a very very real experience for me.
HF
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Mistyeyeddreamer
05-05-03, 09:52 PM
This is all very spooky http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif You obviously were having an out-of-body experience rather than a near-death experience then, HF. The son of one of our neighbours had a near-death experience after a nasty car crash. He said he could see the doctors working on him and then he went 'somewhere' and he didn't really want to come back.
I just found this article about the 'holographic universe' that might explain the supernatural, esp, regression etc. A very interesting read and all science based http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif You can find it at: http://www.keelynet.com/biology/reality.htm
Misty
one of them does a 360 deg heard revolve!
Now, what on earth is it called - Hollywood production I think, female big stars.......anyone?![/b]
I was thinking The Exorcist when I posted my bit earlier.
Don't know if that's the one you meant, Matthew.
H.
hollygolightly
05-05-03, 10:32 PM
Originally posted by Matthew@May 5 2003, 5:43 PM
Makes me think of that film where they all take the supposed 'elixir of life' to make themselves look younger permanently? They then all fall apart, one of them does a 360 deg heard revolve!
Now, what on earth is it called - Hollywood production I think, female big stars.......anyone?! http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif
Death Becomes Her (?) I think that's what it was called.
With Meryl Streep/ Goldie Hawn / Bruce Willis
Great film.
astral travel or astral planning, is the name of having lots of outa baody experiances.
you can do it while meditating, never managed it myself though!
yes Holly, matthew was thinking death becomes her!
HF: I totally believe you!
Matthew
07-05-03, 08:50 AM
Originally posted by hollygolightly@May 5 2003, 11:39 PM
Death Becomes Her (?) I think that's what it was called.
With Meryl Streep/ Goldie Hawn / Bruce Willis
That's the one Holly! http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif It was on the tip of my tongue........isn't it annoying when you can't remember things like that. Gawd, what will I be like at 65? http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif
mmmm.... Goldie Hawn.... http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif
Matthew
07-05-03, 11:46 PM
Originally posted by Homer@May 8 2003, 12:27 AM
mmmm.... Goldie Hawn.... http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif
Stop drooling Homer! Doh. http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif
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hollygolightly
08-05-03, 06:40 PM
Give up!
Meryl Streep is a far better calibre of actress. http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif
Give up!
Meryl Streep is a far better calibre of actress.[/b]That's as maybe. But, as I said
mmmmm........ Goldie Hawn .......... mmmmmmmmmm http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif
Stop drooling Homer![/b]
What do you expect me to do if you go mentioning words like 'Goldie' and 'Hawn' in the same sentence?
spinkysay
22-05-03, 04:57 PM
Searched back to find this thread to say; Beth your man Derek Acorah was on Kilroy today! I am definitely going to see him on tour and maybe interview him after.
Very interesting discussion (on Kilroy) which I'll come back to as partner has just come in - and I'd lost all track of time!
I know!!
got very excited and settled down to watch it then realised I only had 20 mins to get ready (and showered!) before I haad to go to an appointment!
ended up missing the last 1/2 hour! http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif
I know your feelings on him spinks but I think he is sound!
horsefans
22-05-03, 07:22 PM
Originally posted by Matthew+May 8 2003, 12:46 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Matthew @ May 8 2003, 12:46 AM)</div>
<!--QuoteBegin-Homer@May 8 2003, 12:27 AM
mmmm.... Goldie Hawn.... http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif
Stop drooling Homer! Doh. http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif
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any more of this nonsense and the Pot Noodle patrol will be round laddie!!!
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spinkysay
22-05-03, 11:28 PM
Well you missed a very interesting bit! Will be back soon to tell you as it was VERY interesting regarding these spirit guides. Derek's guide is Sam isn't it.
Some really spooky things have happened to me this year regarding a work project. I've been trying to think of a way of putting it on here and leaving out certain details.
My mind is completely open on these matters - as massive coincidences have happened to me, truly massive, that just can't be happenstance - they could if they occureded once in a blue moon but they happen with great frequency to me.
Anyways, will be back to tell all.
darn it!
typical!!
yep his guide is Sam!.....i am now waiting for your next installment!
spinkysay
24-05-03, 01:33 PM
First Kilroy.
I started watching it about ten minutes in. In the last quarter of the programme Kilroy spoke to a guy who reckoned he had a spirit guide and said he was Chinese and called Chang. He said he was with him all the time. Kilroy said;"Where is he now?" and the guy said "Behind me, taking this all in, he's very interested". Kilroy asked if anyone else could see him and a woman said she thought she could, so did a couple of others so the chief skeptic who was poo pooing everything, said; "Ask them to draw what they see, to see if it's the same" So Kilroy did, he hastilly got papers and pens - and got another skeptic in the audience to draw what he thought 'Chang' looked like all at the same time. needless to say all the drawings were the same, roughly, including the non believer's drawing - who definitely couldn't see Chang! They all drew a stereotypical Chinaman from a bygone age. While they were all talking I drew one too - and it was almost exactly like one of the believer's, as we all have these fixed images in our head of certain things.
Kilroy asked Derek Acorah why all these spirit guides are from other countries. I wanted to ask how they spoke good English too - including colloquial modern English - I've heard Derek Acorah repeat things from his spirit guide that an Ethiopian from another age just wouldn't have in his vocabulary! Derek's answer was that there had been a lot of people in the world - and then waffled. A proper answer wasn't given.
These spirit guides reek of quackery to me, for other reasons. But a spirit guide from another age and country is more romantic than Aunty Betty from Hull I guess. It also (could be very wrong here) stems from the spiritualists' golden age where all sorts of trickery was going on. Native Americans are thought to be a very spiritual people and in touch with nature - hence the preponderance of native American spirit guides.
I believe we all possesed the skills of 'seeing' and the sixth sense that's always talked about - but it was lost. Some people have it even in this age though - so why doesn't an ancient Briton turn up as a spirit guide?
I'm posting this before being timed out
Matthew
24-05-03, 01:56 PM
Originally posted by spinkysay@May 24 2003, 2:33 PM
I believe we all possesed the skills of 'seeing' and the sixth sense that's always talked about - but it was lost. some people have it even in this age though - so why doesn't an ancient Briton turn up as a spirit guide?
I believe each and every one of us still has the ability to 'see and hear' more things, to develop that into a more sensitive reach into things that are unknown to us. Only if we want to though, the choice is ours.
I have a very open mind - I don't just disbelieve the things where I cannot see them, I am willing to explore new concepts and new ideas, but I still do so with a logical and enquiring mind. (I sound like a Vulcan^^ now).
Living with Beth for the last ten years or so, I'd have to have an open mind! I've lost count of the number of things that Beth has experienced either on her own or with me - she is very definitely 'tuned' in if you like, to some things I don't pick up (although I have developed a more in-tune mind I think! Well, I'd have to! http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif).
I think of it like a radio station - some people can tune in to the station, others need to just adjust their antenna a little more to get rid of the static http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif
Total non-believers come and live with Beth for a month, you'll soon change your mind! http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif
spinkysay
24-05-03, 01:58 PM
Part two - new log in!
The great escapologist Houdini became interested in spiritualism and mediums of the time, wanting to contact his mother who he adored. He exposed a lot of charlatans and did his own spiritualist act to show how it was done. He vowed that if there was life or some form of existence after death he would come back and give a sign to his wife if she outlived him (she did) or to anyone at al he could contact. There was a 'seance' if you can call it that, every year on the day of his death - and there was nothing forthcoming from the other side. I have an LP of the last seance held to try and contact him, in 1933 if I remember correctly. It's a strange thing to listen to and a bit unnerving, but all that happens is a thunderstorm at the end that they try and say is a weather phenomenon and; "Could this be Houdini speaking from the grave". I really think not. However saying all of the above - I'm not a skeptic!
Badger - that news report was scandalous. It edited the report to say that "1000 people at two locations of supposed hauntings failed to find anything other than climate changes and natural environmental changes in the atmosphere". Soon as I heard the edited news story I smelt a rat. As the summary was reported as "Scientists have proved there is no such thing as ghosts".
Yes - flawed!!!!!! For so many reasons.
I'm a cynic - not only in NFH and crime related issues but in psychic phenomena too, but there are definitely other factors at work than the ones we know through scientific means. I'm going from personal experience here. I really will have to knuckle down and say what's happened to me at some point.
A lot of what we see/hear goes back to deep rooted fears when we didn't live in modern houses lit by electric lights and street lights showing all - excepting if you live out in the sticks of course.
I can look into the face of the forest sometimes and think all kinds of strange things are maybe there. I know they're not, but the fairy story/legend/nursery stories and tales I grew up with - and you did too proabably, plant those ideas in my mind - hey I aint complaining - I've made money out of those strange ideas!
I do say again though, my mind is wide open due to things that have happened to me.
Posting before being timed out - I've had so many messages go west I can't risk it again!
Matthew
24-05-03, 02:35 PM
Originally posted by spinkysay@May 24 2003, 3:00 PM
Posting before being timed out - I've had so many messages go west I can't risk it again!
Oh alright http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif
I've just increased the session expiration/time out from 45 minutes to 60 minutes http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif
spinkysay
24-05-03, 03:02 PM
That makes sense! I thought I was living on borrowed time!
Matthew - my partner says I'm 'tuned in' too, the exact words he uses. I definitely think some people are to these things, whatever they may be. My particular thing is massive coincidences, they used to spook me a bit - I'll be honest, they still do. They happen nearly every day and I think the days they don't I'm not tuned in myself. It is scary, as what the hell is going on.
Oh this is interesting! Back to my word document!
Beth do you buy the magazine 'Spirit and Destiny'? It has some really interesting articles and looks at things form all sorts of spiritual angles.
gosh!
it is like tuning in and Its not something I am always comfy with!
some stuff happens when Matthew is around but most of the time its when I am on my own which makes it hard to prove to others.
this is when all the non believers say aaaaaahhhhh!!
I can not prove it happens but I believe.
The one thing I was able to share with Matthew which really really freaked me out and had me in tears was a touch of stigmata!!
its true!
I was wtching the discovery channel or something and it was about stigmata, I looked at my hands (as you do when people talk about hands)
and there was nothing there.
10 mins later after sitting on the sofa with Blossom under one hand and a cup of tea in the other I realised that I had full red circles on the palms of my hands.
this worried me a little!
but on the back of my hands I had purple bruises appearing on the opposite side of the red marks.
Matthew cam home from his late shift and was met by me at the door yelling look at my hands I don't want to be chosen!!
after I calmed down a bit and got the tale out we did a bit of research on the net, didnt really find much apart from other recorded stories of bleeding and saints!
well several hours later I was getting ready for bed and found a 3 inch long red weal on my stomach, just at the side!
freaked again as I had not even been thinking about my side, only my hands and feet.
There was no marks on my feet!!
I am pleased that Matthew saw the marks and didnt think on that occasion I was totally barking mad.
the next day they had all gone!
so mock if you want, or have that open mind!
spinkysay
25-05-03, 03:42 PM
I'll choose the open mind option - and have done since I was born I think!
I'm glad you say you're not happy with it - because it spooks me sometimes. Today I've had about three coincidences already, small ones, but when they come every day interspersed with MASSIVE ones that are so crazy that I believe other forces have to be at work - that's honestly what I feel. Just what other forces I don't know, maybe something that can be explained by science eventually, but seem out of this world in this century.
The last semi big one was a few days ago, watching the documentary about Mary Archer. The presenter said the Archers used to live at 'The Boltons' an exclusive area in London. Now I lived in London for 11 years and know people in all areas of London - and I've never heard of the place! I asked my boyfriend if he'd heard of it and he said no, so I said I'd look it up on the internet or ask a friend on the phone the next day.
That night I was reading a double biography about the lives of Quentin Crisp and Philip O' Connor, two eccentrics who's lives were linked and crossed. The first page I read that night in bed, the writer said that Quentin's father was brought up in The Boltons in London and; "Just happens to be where my agent lives". So I'd never heard of the place and then it's mentioned twice in three hours!!!!
The writer then goes on to talk about where Quentin grew up and where his mother lived - only the street in Tooting I lived in for a year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mistyeyeddreamer
25-05-03, 04:18 PM
Wow, Spinky, that is synchronicity in action http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif It's weird the way things like that happen. My husband was given a three digit number to wear when he was in the police force, and it amazed me the number of times I saw that number, it might have been when I was looking at clock, or the price of something, it actually appeared in an advert on tv. I suppose there were lots of other numbers that I didn't take notice of because they meant nothing to me. But it makes you wonder about the nature of reality http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/huh.gif
Beth, it's ofen been claimed that the stigmata is caused by the mind. I'm not saying one way or the other, but it was strange that you watched a programme about it and later it seemed to be happening to you. The mind is a strange and wonderul thing. Have you ever dreamed about something that you've seen during the day but when you saw it you didn't take much notice of it? Then at night the subconscious seems to make a big thing of it!
It all makes you realise just how little we know.
Misty
spinkysay
25-05-03, 07:34 PM
I love hearing coincidence stories! Mistey - know what you mean about numbers - mine is the year 1956, not the year I was born (that's 1959) - but I began to think as you did, that perhaps it jumps out because I'm aware of it and other numbers don't have that significance as they're not in my mind. But on too many occasions (once a week at least) before I look at the date for something I just know it will be 1956 and it always is.
April - perhaps you've found your number! Uri Gellar has a theory on all this, and says that ceratin numbers do crop up with great frequency in a person's life, can't quote him exactly but he says they have a meaning which we're not aware of but can train our minds to understand the significance of it. I haven't so far!
Sue - wish you lived near our Sainsbury's, we'd follow you! Just recently we've picked some terrible checkouts, so frustrating when all the queues around you have gone down and you're still waiting.
I can't post all my coincidences as they're far too many, but when remember some interesting ones I'll post them.
Here's another.
During a holiday to Scarborough when I was fifteen, me and my big sis went into an antique shop and I bought three old postcards. (This kicked off a my postcard collecting) One was a drawing of a girl kissing goodbye to a soldier at a railway station. It was a card from The First World War, as explained to me by my sister. (So kicking off fascination with WW1)!!!! The caption said; 'God Bless You'. Many years later I'd kept collecting and got really into it and got myself a postcard dealer who would send a selection of postcards every month and I'd keep the ones I wanted, sending the rest back with the money.
In the first selection he sent, indeed the first postcard out of the envelope, was another copy of the very first card I bought when I was fifteen, with an added caption "God Bless You, Greetings from Brighton". That's strange huh?
A few more years down the line and I had my first production of my WW1 play at a new thetare venue in London (now closed because the neighbourhood put a petition together saying the venue was unsuitable for public performances and won!) Anyways, the producer wanted to put a little display about WW1 in the foyer and I said I'd bring along some of my collection as part of it.
After speaking to her on the phone I went straight to my postcard albums and picked the first card I ever bought as one of the selection to be displayed. I looked at the back. It was posted in 1916 to a street in London. The very same street that my WW1 play was being performed.
Hold on to your boots - I've got bigger ones than that. The most recent one takes the biscuit. I just have to work out how to post it without giving out names - and a lot of it is to do with the persons name.
Mistyeyeddreamer
25-05-03, 07:54 PM
Flippin' 'eck, Spinky your stories get spookier and spookier http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif Can't wait to hear the next one if it's even better than the last one http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif
I can't think offhand of any really spooky coincidences I've had. Although there were some coincidences neighbours before last (before NFH moved in). They had two girls and a boy, just like me. One of their daughters was called Lindsay, just like mine. Their son was the youngest, just like mine, and both of them had their birthday on the same day. Just a pity they didn't stay because they were perfect neighbours, not noisy and not nosy. But they couldn't stand all the noise from the yobs http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif
Misty_waiting_for_Spinky's_next_instalment ( or is there two l's in that?)