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I've got tickets to go and see Derek Acorah the spiritual medium.  I'm a bit of a sceptic but try to have an open mind. I won't believe unless something happens to me. I love all the ghost hunting things and wonder have any of you had any weird,scary,experiences? Any experiences that have confirmed to you that there are ghosts?  Do you think it is all a load of codswallop and just a way to extract money... that is the thoughts of my OH. Saying that, he's coming with me so at least he is intrigued. Hope he doesn't sit there laughing!

there are ghosts. both OH and myself have had experiences. they are in a different 'dimension' though so no interaction with this world. they can 'walk right though' you etc. that is how they manage to 'walk through' doors and walls.
this is from my personal experience.

whether we can learn anything from them (i.e. ghosts 'talking through' a medium - i doubt it personally.

So  come on then Svea, tell us what your experience was? Did it frighten you or was it totally a different feeling?

well, OH lived in an old house which was beleaguered during the civil war, way back when. they had visits often, with the ghosts shouting and rushing through the house being followed by others (fighting, basically). also, people banging on the front door demanding entry.
OH and his mom both witnessed those independant from one another. his mother once inquired whether he had seen any ghosts, and if he was scared, and OH said 'no, i just wish they didnt make so much noise'. bless :)

mine was a few years back, a ghost walked strough the first floor window and into the room, turned to look at me and 'touched' me. i had a bit of a panic attack, to be honest. but nothing bad happened.
later confirmed by a guest who was house sitting for two weeks one summer. same occurence, and we had not talked about it before.

I've seen two "ghosts" (only one of which can be put done to being tired and stressed) and taken a photo of a ghost.

I do believe there's more to this world than science can explain - in fact I know there's more to this world than science can explain! (I once had a two-way conversation with a plant after a particularly long, intense meditation session.)

But I'm still highly sceptical of this showbiz psychics.

Svea what a house for your OH to grow up in! Funny how he seemed to accept it as the norm as a child but I suppose you would wouldn't you.  I think I'd  like to see a ghost but I reckon I'd be freaked out by it.

Aqui where/how did you see your ghosts?  Did the photograph come out with anything on it?

Well Heldi, I am in the codswallop camp. Whilst appreciating that there are no doubt many things beyond our knowledge, I am too practical a person to even consider them. Life is complicated enough as it is!

First ghost - I was at work late and the only one there. Someone walked into the stationery cupboard, so I went to see who it was. No one was in there. But I was very tired and very stressed, so I think that explains that one.

second one was about a year ago. THis was the day after another meditation session, so maybe I was tuned in better. I was walking home from the shops (not carrying much) and saw someone walk through a brick wall. THis was not out of the corner of my eye or anything - I was looking straight at it. Very strange. but not at all creepy.

Ghost photo - well that's a bit of a cheat really! I was taking a long exposure of a big country house lit up after dark. My dad was walking towards me and his ghostly image can be seen in the picture where he moved. Because of this I'm very dubious about ghost photos.

I've watched these psychics, and whilst I do not doubt psychic abilities, these showbiz ones are just very good at asking the right, general questions. It's very clever, but it's not psychic.

Only one experience, when I was 12 or so. I woke up early in the morning, cold, so I crawled to the bottom of my bed for an extra blanket. At this moment, I heard my parents door open, and through my open door, I saw this disembodied hand move out and across the landing . . .

I was perfectly awake at this point, and I remember, I did not sleep any more that night!

Yes, I did freak out. At that age I was not prepared for something like that. Now, I would just accept it as another example of this strange world we inhabit. It has been a pivotal point in my vision of all things, so I have to be grateful to have witnessed that.

Beejay I'm so pleased that there is a camp for codswallop! I've been wondering where codswallop came from hee hee hee!!

How weird to see someone walk through a wall and even weirder Derek ...a disembodied hand! Wonder what that was all about?

After reading both Aqui's and Derek's  stories I have been reminded of something.  I'd completely forgotten about it until it popped into my head just now.

I used to have an old downstairs flat in Newcastle. It had two bedrooms. It was a cold place,ice on the inside of the windows that sort of thing. I was sleeping in the back bedroom one night when I suddenly jolted awake. I had the impression of something or someone holding me down. It terrified me.I could only make out a black shape. What I could describe as someone with a cape on,like a highwayman sort of thing but not actually seeing a person just a shape. I can't describe it very well but it loomed over me and seemed to hold me down. I tried to get up and I remember trying to shout and scream but no sound would come out. It lasted for what seemed like minutes but I expect it was seconds.It suddenly disappeared. Like it quickly dissolved away.I was left feeling exhausted and very wide eyed with fright. I didn't move for ages only lay there staring at the window and wondering what had just happened. I'm not sure and have never been sure if it was real or a dream. I asked my brother, who was staying with me at the time, in the morning if he had heard me shouting or screaming during the night. He said no.  When my brother left I moved straight out of that room. It gave me the creeps for ever more.  I've got the colly wobbles just thinking about it.

Had a few ghosty experiences myself, hubby was a non believer till one happened with both of us there, we found out afterwards she was called the Grey Lady)
Now at his work they have a ghost who "appears" on the stairs in the form of a smell! Burning hair to be exact. Many people have smelt it, the fire brigade have been called out time and time again and can't figure out what it is, so they don't bother to call them anymore.  during the war it was used as a sanitorium I think.
  His Mum has seen a child at a desk in a room of a house that no kids lived in, my Dad and mates played cards with a dead mans spirit during the war. (gruesome story that)
My hubby reakons all the women in my family are a bunch of witches! ;D  We do seem to have a strange connection between us all that freaks us all out sometimes,like knowing what the others are doing, who is on the phone, or my best this week, picking up my always silent mobile whilst saying to hubby, phones gonna ring, and yes it did, in my hand  :)
I think here is something in it, we just have not discovered what yet, shall be interested to hear your reports back on Derek Heldi, wonder if he will go into one of his trances ;D  DP

I have to say I too am a NON believer in such things.  Same as with religion.
Each to their own I say, and whatever makes people happy and gets them through the day is good with me as long as it isn't shoved down my throat  :)

I have a friend who believes strongly in such things and to be honest I have to stifle a yawn each time she goes on to tell me how she once saw her grandparents on the landing of her mother's house, even though they'd been dead x number of years.  It's very hard to make a conversation between two people when one believes and one doesn't, LOL. 

Ooooooooh Doris tell us what happened to change your hubby's mind? I'd like to hear the story about your dad too. It sounds like something that would make the hair stand up!

YP. my OH is a non believer whereas I want to believe.

Doris - It's like that with the women in my family too - I always know when my mum is calling and she knows it's me when I call her (before we speak, I mean!) We all predict thunderstorms and I have a barometer in my knee!

Hubby and I seem to have a telepathic link too - we often start singing the same song sometimes even in the same place at the same time (even when it's not the last song we've both heard!) We often email each other at work at the same time and a few times we've even called at teh same time - once I called him at home and the phone didn't ring at all - at that same moment, he'd picked up the phone to call me at work!

I do like to think that I might be a witch!

We got ours exorcised. She was fine for 30 years or so, but then started fiddling with the electricity. So she had to go!

Oh Tim!  You make a statement like that then withdraw  ;D  We're all on the edge of our seats here  :o :o :o

i don't believe i ghosts but i do believe in a sort of inherited memory.
i'm studying for a degree at the mo (neurobiology) and the human brain can do some amazing things.
people with terrible injuries to the eyes can somehow catch a ball or navigate a strange room without bumping into things.
in times of great stress people have demonstrated telepathy, superhuman strength etc.
i don't disbelieve that you good people saw what you saw, i just believe that we inherit memories and episodes of high emotion genetically from many generations back, just like we inherit everything else.
Tara xx

It's not necessarily from long ago. I one woke up terrified from a dream. I deamt that I was riding the red Honda 90 I had at the time, down a typical West Cornish valley (I was living in Mid-Cornwall at the time, Decmber 1984). At the bottom was a little tidal harbour, and nearby there was a wreck under the cliffs. I had to go down to it for some reason, and I was just beginning to abseil when I woke up terrified. It was blowing a gale, but it didn't seem any worse than the usual ones we used to get up on the moors. I couldn't get back to sleep, couldn't make out why the dream had upset me so much, and eventually got up wondering whether there really had been a wreck, I couldn't think of anything else. There had been; not only had a ship very much like the one I dreamt about gone on the rocks in a place very much like the one I dreamt about, at just abut the time I had the dream, but it had taken a lifeboat and its entire crew down with it. Some time after that I started having dreams about a city; all these dreams had a sort of 'special' feel, I knew by then there was something in them. Within 24 hours of moving to Birmingham I started recognising places I'd been to in my dreams.

I'll report back on Derek Acorah when I see him but it is a long time away yet...November.

Tara what you've said has made me think. I was adopted as a baby so I could be having memories of relatives I know nothing about. That feels strange. I'll have to be convinced some more before I believe it though. Mind you,when I lived in that flat I used to sometimes get an image in my head of a body under the floorboards. Obviously there wasn't a body under the floorboards but it was a very convincing image! It could have been from something I've read or watched though. Or from what you've said from someone elses memory. Haven't had that image since leaving that flat. The more I think about it the more I realise uncomfortable I was in that place.

Robert your dream is so upsettling and very shocking when you discover what had actually happened that night.  It gave me goosebumps reading about it.

when you were dreaming of the city did you know you were going to move?  Listen to me...parnormal investigator heehee!

I definitely have seen a ghost about 25 years ago.  In fact there were three of us to see "it" together. 

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