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Post by xjsarah on Dec 17, 2007 16:27:12 GMT
Spooky sightings, ghostly goings-on, haunted houses....if you have experience of any or all of these, tell everyone about it here.
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Post by glam on Dec 17, 2007 16:39:39 GMT
this story was so strange it actually got published in the Fortean Times I finished talking to my fella on the phone around quarter to one in the morning and went into the bathroom to do the things you need to do prior to going to bed. After I brushed my teeth and everything I decided to do some tidying. In my bathroom there are a lot of glass shelves. I started doing some dusting of shelfs and put the toilet lid down to kneel on to reach the high ones. I dusted the top and when I looked down there was a £20 sitting on top of the toilet seat prefectly flat as if it had just come out of a cash machine. I took a picture of it on my phone as I was rather perturbed by this.  had my PJ's on and my purse was in my bag in the living room and I don't tend to have £20 floating about my bathroom so I've no idea where it came from. When I checked my purse later on I wasn't missing any money from it so it hadn't came out of there. I was a bit confused by this isand I texted the picture to my fella and told him what had happened. He suggested I say thank you for it so I did and at that point there was a knock on my bedroom door however I was in the flat on my own. |
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Post by cheeselova on Dec 17, 2007 18:43:30 GMT
Guardian angel of some kind??
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Post by glam on Dec 17, 2007 19:53:22 GMT
I don't know, the money's still safe in my knicker drawer I figuring it's meant for something important
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Post by inky on Dec 17, 2007 20:21:25 GMT
Crikey glam, that is really spooky. I think the weirdest thing that I have experienced was in 1992. I had lost my lovely Beau (the first Boxer dog I ever bred and who was my constant shadow) following surgery for an emergency condition called 'bloat'. I was totally devastated as she was only 9 years old and it came right out of the blue. About three months later I had one of those dreams that you can only describe as real. I was letting the dogs into the car and Beau jumped in just as she always did, messing up the rugs in the car. I told her off and she stood looking at me, wagging her tail. Then, this being a dream, I was in bed and Beau and Rusty and Bernard were all laid at the side of my bed as they did every night. One of them was very restless so I put my hand down to reassure whoever it was. I stroked their head and I actually experienced touching Beau. I knew it was her because she had a little lump right on the top of her head and I felt it. As soon as I felt it, I knew she was in the room with me. She settled back down and I woke up. It was the most un-nerving thing I have ever experienced because I really did 'touch' her in my dream. My dear nanna said that she had come back to let me know she was happy. It makes me go all goose-bumpy even now, 15 years later and it still makes me cry when I think about it and her  |
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Post by glam on Dec 17, 2007 20:25:23 GMT
aww, that's a lovely story though, I agree with your nana.
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Post by inky on Dec 17, 2007 20:53:51 GMT
aww, that's a lovely story though, I agree with your nana. My nanna had a similar experience in the 50s with a cat. She lived in a little village in the middle of nowhere and had a cat called Timmy. She loved him dearly and he used to sleep on the bed at night. He also used to follow her to the bus stop when she went to work and many evenings, would be waiting for her when she came home. Then one day, he just diappeared. Nanna advertised and put posters up but he was never seen again  After a few months she accepted that she would never see him again. One night, she and my grandad had gone to bed and were just dozing off when they both felt him jump on the bed and settle down in a little ball between their legs to go to sleep. My grandad said to nanna 'Now you know he's OK, don't you' My nanna was a great believer in animals having spirits. Maybe she was right  |
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Post by glam on Dec 17, 2007 21:06:36 GMT
Your last few post have reminded me of the song The Dogs and the Horses by The Divine Comedy but sadly I can't find it online |
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Post by inky on Dec 17, 2007 21:18:47 GMT
Your last few post have reminded me of the song The Dogs and the Horses by The Divine Comedy but sadly I can't find it online That's a shame glam. I have liked all the stuff I have ever heard by The Divine Comedy but I've not heard that one. I think it's time I bought some of their back catalogue  |
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Post by glam on Dec 18, 2007 0:31:15 GMT
I'll see what I can sort out tomorrow. I love The Divine Comedy, Neil Hannon's a little Irish munchkin
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Post by lymaze on Dec 18, 2007 11:18:30 GMT
My parents have had many animals, especially cats, over the years. Many years ago they had a black cat who, amongst many strange things he did, would bring home any injured cats he found so my mother could nurse them back to health. He passed away finally but since then, whenever another cat is about to die, you become aware of a black cat sitting looking through the glass in the internal doors and waiting. He always disappears again once the old cat has passed over and we like to think he comes to guide them over to their new playground. Often when I stay there, I feel something get up on the bed. It's either one of the ex cats or our old dog. I just say hello to them. |
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Post by Eclair on Dec 18, 2007 12:13:22 GMT
I love these stories. I like your black cat one Ly. What a lovely old fellow he was. Bringing home cats for your mum to look after.  We had family cats too, and have had the "cat jumping on the bed" experience. I tell mum (who is a bit spooked by it) they are just "visiting". I had a vision  one Christmas dinner where I had a type of "flash" and there next to us at the dinner table were our two previous old cats sitting side by side on their haunches watching us eat dinner....another visit I thought. Anyway thats amongst other things.... I have to say things have been quiet on the supernatural front for me recently, no doubt they have been blocked out by naked pics of Mr May driving Astons or in wetsuits or leaning against Mini cars or the like....  |
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Post by mansonmaniac on Dec 18, 2007 13:27:55 GMT
This happened quite recently (sunday), It's true... Honestly I had just turned my bedroom light off and I kept hearing strange things, like whispering and stuff. Also it sounded as if there was footsteps in the hall but I could also see in the corner of my room a dark figure standing there (I have thought about that It could be my guitar or curtains but it doesn't look the same) But before I went to bed I heard like the sound of nails scratching down my bedroom wall but I just turned round and told my brain to shut up  . But when I woke up the next morning I had a scratch across my cheek and faint scratches down my neck. The one on my cheek has went all scabby |
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Post by lymaze on Dec 18, 2007 16:08:17 GMT
Does your building have a lot of history Manson?
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Post by Mayfayre on Dec 18, 2007 16:23:32 GMT
I've had the cat-on-the-bed thing a few times in the house I'm in now (new to me 3 years ago). My old cat died a few months before I moved, but the people I bought from had cats too, so I guess it's one that used to live here. I don't suppose my Harpic has followed me from the place he spent his whole life (apart from the first 6 weeks) & now lies under the end of the lawn.
I know it's not my current 2 cats because it's happened on nights when they've been shut out of the bedroom.
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Post by mansonmaniac on Dec 18, 2007 16:23:34 GMT
kinda, I did a wee bit of research about the flat and it was built on an old mine which exploded killing 5 people one of them a 14 year old boy called william, me and my mum always see the boy (It's not in my head) |
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Post by petitbeurre on Dec 18, 2007 19:02:51 GMT
my mother took her own life when I was 5 and I sometimes feel like she's standing next to me.
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Post by Eclair on Dec 19, 2007 7:40:34 GMT
Oh Petitbeurre, I am sorry to hear that. I hope you get comfort from that if you feel her standing beside you.  |
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Post by lew on Dec 19, 2007 7:45:53 GMT
Oh Petitbeurre, I am sorry to hear that. I hope you get comfort from that if you feel her standing beside you. and me Petitbeurre  really sorry |
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Post by lymaze on Dec 19, 2007 9:36:22 GMT
Yes, Petit, sorry to hear that but I do think they are around us all the time, making sure we are OK. |
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Post by petitbeurre on Dec 19, 2007 12:46:14 GMT
Thanks guys. I really miss my mother but the times I feel her pressence give me comfort. I enjoy the talks I have with her then (may sound a bit weird this)
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Post by Eclair on Dec 19, 2007 12:50:38 GMT
Aww Petit, doesn't sound weird at all....  |
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Post by glam on Dec 19, 2007 12:59:49 GMT
indeed, my gran used to talk to my grandad all the time after he died
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Post by glam on Dec 19, 2007 22:52:38 GMT
Another odd one that happened to me April 2005 The Boy and I were running to get a train to go to Charing Cross tube station. I made it and he didn't (very Sliding Doors) anyhoo he mouthed to me to get him at that station. So off the train trundles and I arrive at Charing Cross and get off. The platform was quite busy as it was a Saturday afternoon, however it cleared quite quickly once people left the station or got on the train and I was the only person left on the platform. I plonked myself down on the benches to wait for the slowcoach. At that I heard the noise of a woman crying very close to me. I though someone had sat on the bench and I hadn't noticed so I turned round to ask if she was alright, but no one was there, I was the only one on the platform. Very odd. At that the train arrived The Boy on it. Inky, I can't find my copy of Casanova at the moment so I'll offer up Absent Friends instead www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN0gl0qJAgs&feature=related |
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Post by inky on Dec 19, 2007 23:09:41 GMT
Thats excellent glam. Many thanks. I love his voice. It's so distinctive. Reminds me of Richard Hawley. He also has that geeky look like Jarvis Cocker A Yorkshireman of great talent |
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Post by glam on Dec 19, 2007 23:16:38 GMT
Yay, glad you like him. I've loved him for years. He's got such a glorious voice and I was going to say more but I'll leave it at that |
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Post by inky on Dec 19, 2007 23:20:55 GMT
Yay, glad you like him. I've loved him for years. He's got such a glorious voice and I was going to say more but I'll leave it at that I won't ask However, I will be diving into The Divine Comedy back catalogue in the very near future |
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Post by glam on Dec 19, 2007 23:29:12 GMT
tis a tale for pints and pubs ~ and was also going to feature Jarvis. There's due to be a big reissue of the old albums all collectors edition and shiney this year so maybe go with The Greastest Hits ( A Secret History) to start off with. Actually you'll probably be able to pick up the last album Victory for the Comic Muse fairly cheap which features one of my favs www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVfv9X0y-UU&feature=related |
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Post by inky on Dec 19, 2007 23:42:25 GMT
tis a tale for pints and pubs ~ and was also going to feature Jarvis. There's due to be a big reissue of the old albums all collectors edition and shiney this year so maybe go with The Greastest Hits ( A Secret History) to start off with. Actually you'll probably be able to pick up the last album Victory for the Comic Muse fairly cheap which features one of my favs www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVfv9X0y-UU&feature=relatedThat is a brill track glam. We will have to meet up one day and you can tell me all the details Will be visiting Amazon soon ;D What was the track they did years ago about a shed? I loved that |
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Post by glam on Dec 19, 2007 23:49:38 GMT
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I held you, you felt me, I touched you, you kissed me.......
one Christmas dinner where I had a type of "flash" and there next to us at the dinner table were our two previous old cats sitting side by side on their haunches watching us eat dinner....another visit I thought. 
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really sorry