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It’s the middle of the summer, back in the 80’s. I’m was an experienced soldier with three mates deciding what to do with our free evening,.. … It’s the near the end of the month and we have no money for serious parties cos we’ve blown it all, but we decide we can scratch enough together for three bottles Pomagne of cider, which isn’t really enough for us, so we decide instead just to head for a local beauty spot to drink them and enjoy the warm evening.

We don’t know the area at all so we get the map out and chose, then drove off in an open topped Spitfire to Frencham Ponds in Surrey…

The story begins..

Upon arriving at the beauty spot, the first thing we notice that’s very slightly odd is the car park is empty… totally empty and its 9.30pm, odd in the middle of summer we thought.
We drive, zig zaging across the empty car park up to the path closest to the ponds and park in the nearest bay. At this point we’re greeted by a large Rockville dog who wanders up to us out of the blue, he seems friendly enough, no collar and no owner, some of the lads make friends first and then we decant from the small car.

There’s a sandy path which leads gently down through a wood of Silver Burch trees to the ponds, we head down it whilst playing stick throwing games with the dog, he’s very friendly and soon had us all enjoying his company… he stayed with us for the entire evening.

The ponds where beautiful, very quiet and totally empty of any human life… I can still see the reeds across the water slightly hidden in a mist and caught by a shimmering moonlight in my minds eye as I write this
We sat on the twiggy sandy beach looking back just forty yards from where the path emerged… at the foot and in the shadow of a small island of trees that had escaped the woods across the sandy beach and now stood alone at the edge of the pond.

We chatted and sipped our cider, played games with the dog, the hours passed casually. It wasn’t long it seemed before we sat their in relaxed silence, all bottles empty, putting off the inevitable suggestion of going back to camp… its 11.40 ish.

There’s a hint of movement in one of us, a foot gets planted.. Is he going to get up and say “let’s go then”. No, suddenly we’re still again, two people have emerged from the path, they look like lovers. We can’t quite see them in the gloom, they move quickly hand in hand, her skirt and his shirt billowing in the breeze and their pale coloured clothes light enough to see against the woods which come right down to the water on that side. They gently skip like in a dance down to the waters edge just across the beach from us…

“I wonder if there gonna shag”, says one of us giggling,
“I don’t think they can see us against these trees.” says another.

We watched them swim out just beyond the bushes at the edge into the clear moonlit water, we can see then now very very clearly… they dip below the surface, and swam about gently for a minute or two... As swans do.

“Hey, there not people their swans” says one of us whispering,
“Oh yeah, who said they where people” said another whilst taking a slap at the nearest.
“Oh yeah says another, where did they come from?” …

At this point the swans came out of the water again…

“Oh you’re stupid you are, look they are people after all”
We watched them trot back up the slope again into the trees, there cloths billowing just as before.
“Hay yeah there not swans they are people, eh, what just happened”

I hear them for the first time at this point, just as they disappear down the path I hear the female giggle excitedly, although one of the guys decide it was more of a cackle, I think he got scared.

“What the heck just happened” we all said rising to our feet.
“No splashes and ripples either” notices another.
“We should get to the car park quick and check it out, that was just too weird”
“Where is that mad dog” say one of us as we gather our stuff to make a dash for the car park.
We turn to see him sitting sphinx like at the foot of our trees, he’s been their the whole time, as we start to move across the beach his good nature instantly turns and viciously growling he runs in front and herds us backwards a little.
“What the hecks the matter with him” we exclaim.
“Calm down boy, what’s a matter with you” says another to the dog.

The seconds are passing rapidly, soon we’ll be out of time to check these people out, slowly we make our way across the beach, constantly harassed by the dog halting our progress, but then suddenly, he vanished into the woods as quickly as he’d arrived and by the time we got to the car park a minute later, it was just as it was when we turned up, totally empty apart from our car.


But that was just the beginning…

I don’t remember the ride home, I think we where all pondering our thoughts, somehow trying to privately clarify what we’d just witnessed.
The next day it was our topic of conversation however, we yabbed continuously to everyone about it, mostly for their amusement and we did get accused of taking more illegal substances, but unusually for all of us we were indeed very straight and clear headed that evening.
One of us had separate duties that day and just before lunch he invited us to join him as he’d spent most of morning in the local library investigating and looking for similar evidence.
He’d not found anything conclusive, but much of his investigations had uncovered a common denominator of sighting around Frencham Ponds, that being most sightings of ghostly things had been seen on midsummer night. … “And guess what” he says, “last night was midsummer night”

We lapped it up…

Four years later…

I’m telling this story just as I am now to a good friend who loves this kinda stuff, hes a bit of a mad librarian himself and has rooms full of books of fact and fantasy, hes also a great lover of old tales and myths.

I can see him in my minds eye getting excited whilst I tell him, suddenly he springs up from his seat and rushes to fetch a book to show me.

The books is large and leather bound, just the sort of cover you expect to find true fairy tales within I though, lol… he flicks though it and shows me a beautifully decorated page of red and gold, that fluid scrolling that I can’t remember the name of and some words to explain the main art piece at its centre.

Its headed, Swan Fairies and the picture is a pair lovers and a pair of swans entwined.

The words said something like…

Swan fairies, human spirits that take the form of swans in a demonstration of their everlasting love.
Often protected from the physical world by various animals, usually and most common seen in the form of a dog

:)

Now what do I belive after that... :thinking:
 
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:eek: I love it!

I'm a big fantasiser and will probably dream of this tonight :lol: Thanks! I would love to experience something like that.
 
Sheesh! I'm the world's biggest cynic about this stuff, but that takes some explaining!

I must be mellowing though because I sometimes watch the clairvoyant Lisa Williams on TV and she impresses the arse off me! :eek:
 
I so want to catch up with those guys again, (No idea where they are now though) ...just to clarify they remember it like I do. Its one of those events that scoured into my memory, I can remember every detail and wasn't at all frightened at the time and seemed to easily accept it was totally real and quite natural… if you have no doubts, then its likely to be true, especially so cos I witnessed it, kinda logic.
 
How about this one, this was back in the 70's when touring the west of Scotland, we were on a hilly single track road with just passing places, straight road, no exits at all. Got to the top of this hill and ahead of us was an old vintage car just about to reach the top of the next hill, when we reached the top of that hill the vintage car was nowhere to be seen, we could see for miles ahead of us with open spaces either side, we stopped and looked at each other with puzzlement as there was nowhere the car could have turned off.

We drove on, there was nowhere it could have gone.

It had simply disappeared:eek:
 
You end up with a rather disterbing feeling hey.. you know its not possible and yet you both saw it had no place to hide...

But then you don't think of a car has having a spirit either... so perhaps ghostly is the wrong interpretation...

Interesting I think that the people doing theory in advanced physics are talking about black holes and invisible fields making the effect of gravity within the same sentences as alternate dimensions and the building blocks of all we know being both vibrations and partials at the same time... then also such things like 99.9999% of all atoms is actually space or, for want of a better phrase.... there mostly absolute nothingness.

I hope, within my life time to read more about these two usually apposing opinions (spirit and science) actually joining each other in some real yet surreal state and I do think eventually we'll actually understand it is true and real and mark it all down as just an alternate and less common view of our world..
 
My mum's had a wied experience. When she was little, her mum took her along with her elder brother and sister to an old house (National Trust type I think). They were on a tour of the house, which was part closed due to renovation, when there was a big crash from the room next to where they were. My mum, who would have been less than 8 at the time, piped up 'so they found the fireplace then' and the guide didn't believe her (neither did anyone else except my grandmother). The guide nipped through to the next room to ask what they'd found - a fireplace. My mum then went on to describe the blue tiles including the chipped one, so the guide went back to check and the workers cleared a bit more, only to find a chipped tile, exactly where my mum had said it would be. The room had never been open to the public and they reckoned that the plaster covering the fireplace was over 100 years old.

Explain that one!

My grandmother never faltered in her belief of my mum (who both believe(d) in previous lives - my grandmother passed on before I was born).

She's a strange one, my mother. She sees things. Call it a gift, call it a curse.

She's also seen a ghost rise from its grave and walk towards her shouting at her to get out of the way before walking through her. We were on holiday at the time, so we mentioned it to the locals in the pub that night. They told her never to walk through the graveyard alone again. Ever.
 
Oooh some odd things here so far!

I was in the white cliffs of dover tour thingy when I was 14 / 15 with my grandad. They had recently opened the hospital wing / floor and during the tour we were stood in a tunnel between the reception and the theatre, as I was looking down the tunnel, I saw a man wearing full scrubs like they wore during the war, he was stood there looking at us, as if to say I am in this room. I assumed he was an actor or someone who used to work there who would tell us about the working conditions etc, but I didn't see him again. As we got to the end of that section, we were in a tunnel full of piccies, many of which had this fella in. The tour guide told us he was the head surgeon there, and died the previous year.

I don't know if what I saw was a ghost, but I would say I do beleive they exist now!
 
I have another one, we live in a very old cottage and we were woken up in the early hours of the morning by a loud noise in the loft, hard to describe but imagine a if you were to slam a large piece of thin wood down onto a hard surface to make a loud slap, or the sound a plastic ruler would make if you slapped it on the kitchen bench only a 100 times louder!, anyway it woke the both of us and the immediate reaction was "what the bloody hell was that", we both had heard the same thing.

I could not imaging what would have produced that noise up there as we do not keep anything in that half of the loft.

As it was about 3 in the morning so I decided to take a look after breakfast, when I climbed up there to have a look there was nothing out of place, nothing had fell, I came back down with no explanation whatsoever as to what may have caused it. We have huge old A trusses holding the roof up and could not imagine creaking timber making a sound as loud as the one we had heard that night. I also checked the outside of the roof and found no damage.

To this day :thinking: :suspect: :shrug:
 
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Cool story Adam
Thanks for sharing :thumbs:

I am, part of a ( part - time) paranormal investigation team
Using both scientific instruments and human "senses"
It is amazing some of the things that I have seen and heard.
You need a clear head and to be VERY CLEAR "where you are" though to get involved.

I will relate one story, Just for the grin factor
I had one "trainee" jump into my arms, all 17 stone of him.
I often remind him of it over a pint, its funny as hell, I think that it did affect him ( and still does a little I am sure)
but he just "forces a smile". and says yeah very ****ing funny

"We" were investigating an old court house and prison cells not uses as such
in over 100 years.

A small group of us was "packed" into a tight area small corridor with cells leading off
And "something" pushed through "us" triggering the remote camera and movement sensors
Jump? had he been a frog he would have been clear into the next county :D

Oh and I never stand that close to him any more, :D
 
I'm a skeptic but a few weeks ago I was photographing daff's down the local church yard, there was no one around and I thought "hope no one thinks this is disrespectful", at that point I heard a loud cough and actually felt like I could feel it. I looked around and there was no one there, so I said "sod off" and carried on. Was odd.
 
Cool stories ... :thumbs:

CarolF said:
She's a strange one, my mother. She sees things. Call it a gift, call it a curse.
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This is the link for me. ... We do have something else going on...the simplest example of this for me is when I'm walking down a busy street and I see some gorgeous woman across the road. The streets full of people going about their day and yet my looking through them all at the girl across the street reaches her, she’s turned and sees me lusting after her .... how does that work I ask myself, how could she have known to turn and catch me looking at her?

There’s is this view from the alternative medicine world, of something labelled 'the local mind', this is a world wide field of some sort of energy containing information from all minds. Its even been suggested that when your being creative and imaginative, thinking of new ideas and solutions your mind is actually dipping into this melting pot of the 'local mind' and some of your ideas come from it, as well as your new ideas being added to it.

Farfetched do you think...

The you'd be even more surprised to read articles in New scientist in recent years theorising that quantum physics, quarks and other strange particles that can be found in our brain, may possibly be linked to other quarks and particles ...not found in your brain but elsewhere…

And in some abstract way communication between these is somehow possible....


Like they have proven that some sort of binary type quarky particle split into two across a lab are linked still by a unknown method and this seems to operate out of our time and space.



Cobra said:


A small group of us was "packed" into a tight area small corridor with cells leading off
And "something" pushed through "us" triggering the remote camera and movement sensors
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Undenyable that one then bud... no doubts and no guesses, you all physically felt the pressece of someting that wasn't of our dimention. (For want of a better phrase)
 
Forbiddenbiker said:
Undenyable that one then bud... no doubts and no guesses, you all physically felt the pressece of someting that wasn't of our dimention. (For want of a better phrase)
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It was quite cool Adam :thumbs: ( in all senses of the word
The electronic thermometer registered a 0.5oC drop )
"what it was" remains to be seen or not :D
 
On the way back from a ghost hunt me and a friend saw the Caterham By Pass Ghost walk out in front of my car. After extensive searching it seems that what we saw fits the description of many reports.

Also a friend was at Heaver Castle a few years ago and was on a tour at the back of the line. Someone tapped him on the shoulder and started talking to him. Then after a brief conversation dissapeared. A bit later that same person was to be found on the wall as a painting dating back to the mid 1800's.

Spooky!
 
Some interesting stories here i need to show my wife as she's into this big time. She's part of a Paranormal investigation team (part time) . She often comes home in the morning at Stoopid o'clock and starts waffling on about what had happened that night . Funniest was when she came home put some pictures on the pc and when i got up i looked through them and photoshoped one of them (put a white mist on some stairs) when she got up she got all excited by the picture, but me laughing gave me away:lol:
 
Forbiddenbiker said:
Cool stories ... :thumbs:



This is the link for me. ... We do have something else going on...the simplest example of this for me is when I'm walking down a busy street and I see some gorgeous woman across the road. The streets full of people going about their day and yet my looking through them all at the girl across the street reaches her, she’s turned and sees me lusting after her .... how does that work I ask myself, how could she have known to turn and catch me looking at her?

There’s is this view from the alternative medicine world, of something labelled 'the local mind', this is a world wide field of some sort of energy containing information from all minds. Its even been suggested that when your being creative and imaginative, thinking of new ideas and solutions your mind is actually dipping into this melting pot of the 'local mind' and some of your ideas come from it, as well as your new ideas being added to it.

Farfetched do you think...

The you'd be even more surprised to read articles in New scientist in recent years theorising that quantum physics, quarks and other strange particles that can be found in our brain, may possibly be linked to other quarks and particles ...not found in your brain but elsewhere…

And in some abstract way communication between these is somehow possible....


Like they have proven that some sort of binary type quarky particle split into two across a lab are linked still by a unknown method and this seems to operate out of our time and space.





Undenyable that one then bud... no doubts and no guesses, you all physically felt the pressece of someting that wasn't of our dimention. (For want of a better phrase)
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I'm not too sure about the ghost theory, but when it comes to human senses being extremely perceptive, I have a major belief, I consciously shout my colleagues across the resturant without opening my lips, and it gets their attention, and my sister and I often know what each other is thinking, even if its come from a very abstract way of thinking. I can remember certain occasions when I have gotten very emotional, and received a call from my mother "just checking" that im ok. strikes me as odd that people are quick to dismiss such things when it must be fairly common.

I also used to work with a lady who claimed to be able to see the aura of a person, but would not tell me the colour of mine.

In my short experience, I'v encountered enough people with enough stories and beliefs, for me to believe that it would be foolish to ignore these things.
 
AndyWest said:
A bit later that same person was to be found on the wall as a painting dating back to the mid 1800's.
Spooky!
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Great story
I love those little snippets :thumbs:

Rozzy said:
I also used to work with a lady who claimed to be able to see the aura of a person, but would not tell me the colour of mine.
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It not that difficult to do in the "right conditions" One possible reason for her not commenting on yours
Were you at a particularly bad time in your life or maybe suffering from an illness?
Failing that however,
"some people" are "almost impossible" to read


Forbiddenbiker said:
I see no ones joining me on debating possible scientific ideas. :nuts:
...anyone?
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I've got scientific data coming outta me ears..........
"When the possible has been excluded what remains is the impossible" ( for the moment at least ;)
 
I'm pretty sceptical of most things, mostly the people you have to pay to be told your future or talk to relatives from beyond the grave.

But when it's just normal people who say they've seen something and telling others is of no benefit to them then you really do think there could be something. There is undoubtably a vast amount of things we don't understand.

All your stories have been really interesting and I'm looking forward to more :)
 
I've a couple of oddities.

When I was 18 I was plundering along on a normal none eventful day, when I had a sudden urge to ring my best friend. So powerful the urge I found a phone box (as I was out at the time) and called her. Turns out that she had just come out of hospital and had pneumonia. She was quite poorly, and just before I had called she was thinking that she should ring me and let me know.

About 8 years ago me, Chris and two friends of ours (Anna and Lee) went to Whitby for Valentines. We were having a great time. On the second night we were there we went for a stroll along West cliff, walking to the pier and then back. When we got to the pier Chris and I decided to have a walk up there. Our friends stayed at the entrance to it as Anna said she felt a bit cold and didn't want to go up there. Well Chris and I were messing around chasing each other along the way. We got to the entrance to the final bit of the pier, but when we looked back to see our friends Anna appeared to be trying to get our attention. I felt a horrible fear in the pit of my stomach and we headed back. When we reached them Anna told us she had been shouting us for ages, in fact we had not even gone 30 ft in when she started. Yet we couldn't hear them :shrug: She had seen 'someone' looking over the edge of the pier a bit of a way off, and was scared for some reason. Yet we didn't see anyone on the pier with us? Anyway we had a bit of a laugh about it as you do. Trying to dismiss it as just a bit odd.

When we got back to our hotel on West Cliff, we were discussing it when the guy behind the bar overheard us. I can't remember exactly what he said but he said something about it being a ghost. We were intrigued to hear him recall a tale about a lady who is seen on the pier at certain times. She is waiting for her true love to return from a fishing trip. Apparently she always greeted him on his return, but this one time he never came home. Until her dying day many years later, she apparently stood on the pier every single day at the same time waiting for her love to come home. Now she has 'gone' but her spirit continues to wait.

I think I'll do a bit of research this morning actually. I don't think I've ever tried to find more about the story ... hmm ;)
 
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WOW, what an amazing thread!

I don't really have anything spooky to report.
Although where I work (Southampton airport) is supposed to be very haunted.
There's a girl who works there, lovely girl. I really like her, and she claims she can 'see' spirits, and she's a medium.
She see's things every day, and although it freaked her out for a while, she just takes it in her stride now!

There's many a spooky story going around, and although I am very much a believer, I take them with a pinch of salt......

However, this one is very odd, and I actually added a twist to it.....

The original story goes.....
One night, two security officers were watching the car park CCTV, and walking through the car park was a night bus driver. Along side him was a lady in a red coat. When he got to the terminal, security had to let him in as the doors are locked, and then they asked who was the lady with him?
He said there was no lady with him, and I think they even played the CCTV back and saw 'her'.

This would have been a few years ago.
Recently, I was telling this story to one of the engineers who works there, and he told me that one night they were waiting to get into the ladies toilets to fix something, and they were waiting for a lady to come out, before they could go in.
They waited, and waited, and she never came out. After about 30 minutes, they went in to investigate, and there was nobody in there :eek:

The lady who they SAW go in, was wearing a red coat.........
They didn't ever know about the original car park story.
 
One evening i was driving along a country road, pitch black, there was a car further ahead of me... but as i passed a farm i slammed on the brakes, as i had seen a white light in the middle of the road and i thought i was going to hit whatever it was... so after having a mini heart attack i carried on..... the next day i had said to my dad and told him where it was. He said that when he was a kid there was a family that lived on that farm and the parents were getting ready to go out for the evening and their son was burning rubbish on a fire.. but when they went out he was no where to be seen, turns out he had fallen onto the fire and died, they couldnt see him on the fire but once they had put it out they saw his body. so was it the ghost of that boy that i saw that night right outside of the farm :shrug::shrug: i will never know...
 
Just remembered, A mate of mine told me that he was driving along a quiet B road and knocked a bloke off his bike. The rider and bike went into a ditch and my mate stopped straight away [he had recently passed his advanced driving test] . He got out the car and searched up and down the road for the biker but there was no one there at all!!! To this day he is convinced that it was a ghost. Although there was a bang when he hit the bike there was no damage at all to his car!
 
ok great thread now my story.

When I did my first wedding for a pal [a freebie] after the speeches as a thank you to me her and her new husband gave me a beautiful watch. .

Nothing weird about that I hear you say.

Well the watch was too big and needed a couple of links taken out. As it was a really nice watch I decided it had better go to the jewellers as I didnt want to mess about with it.


Well time went on and I didnt want to wear it to work so it sat on the bedside table for about a year, with me remarking to my other half about twice a week I must get that watch to the jewellers.

As I said after about a year I had a dream that my late grandad was fiddling with the watch and telling me to sort it out.

On waking up and getting dressd I told my husband of the dream and said I would get it sorted today, and he just rolled his eyes. I then picked up the watch to take it to the jewellers and two links just fell out and it fits perfectly.


Now that's weird.
 
I've had 2 experiences.

The first one happened at the gym my parents used to own, me and my dad had gone in early one morning to open up and as we went through the main doors and started to switch all the lights on, we heard a noise upstairs like someone was running/jogging. My dad said "Oh its probably steve (guy who worked for dad) just sleeping here overnight after being on the ****".
My dad then stayed downstairs and worked towards the back stair case turning everything on, I went upstairs and turned everything on. I got to the back stair case and went down to the spa room and said "You seen Steve then?" he said "Nah I thought he was upstairs?!"

The front door never opened after we went through, we know this because it used to make a really loud creaking noise which you could hear no matter what, he also hadnt gone out the backdoor as it used to be secured from the inside by a bit of wood and that was in place. It wasnt the heating pipes either because the building didnt have any central heating!

My second happened in my office, it was about 12am and I was on MSN to a few mates and just listening to music through my headphones. All of a sudden my headphones flew off my head and towards my desk, hit my desk and then fell on the floor. I presumed it was my sister ****ing about but I didnt see her in the window reflections, nor did I see anything when I turnt round.

Also - someone above mentioned about people knowing to turn round when you look at them, I have this all the time - its very strange that people can walk along and not have the urge to look anywhere except where they are heading, yet you look at them and they instantly look at you. Strange!

Regards, James
 
Good to read your stories guys. :thumbs::thumbs:

Rozzy said:
Im not researched enough to offer any scientific approach, however, I too would love to see the day when these things can be reasonably explained, and these seemingly made-up abilities can be enhanced
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Soz but I missed your first post Rozzy ... that 'I like your style' was for Philimacs post.

Your observations in your first post defiantly fall into the same don't they.

We've all seen Darren Brown combination of psychological illusion, perceptual manipulation and the applications of his persuasive techniques. He plays on our inherent similarities within our subconscious I feel, he seems very aware of how close we are to the original hunter gatherer and uses that elegant geometry of living and survival that’s found within all of us to conjure his results.

But still even that goes no way to explain the observations we're both talking about does it... our senses are not all they seem I agree.

Which bit would you have enhanced!?!. :D





Cobra said:
I've got scientific data coming outta me ears..........
"When the possible has been excluded what remains is the impossible" ( for the moment at least ;)
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We're talking God here right? well yeah, sure, its just ... well, I can't help but think he'd have done a better job of it. Firstly (Taking; 'That we humans and our world are actually a necessary part of his plan, as we do give ourselves excess credit I think.) hes done such a superb job so far, the attention to detail is astounding, the beautiful complexity of natures world to be behold.

...so then he goes and smudges it all up with ghosts and hypotheticals, with some sort of vague reasoning attached that no one has ever been able to understand anyway....

Just seems to not be his style ...by the looks of it hes got much bigger projects going on...

More like, 'Ghosts in his machine' I like to think..
 
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I used to work in a pub and one night after everyone had gone home and we were clearing up, we heard a baby crying from the flat upstairs.

The manager lived upstairs on his own and he was gay. He was out at this time though so thats irrelavant. There was only me and another girl in the pub at that time (it was a quiet pub) There was definately no one else in or around the pub. Its on a lane on its own and the nearest house is in the village across the road.

We both heard the baby crying for about 1 minute before all went quiet.
 
Forbiddenbiker said:
We're talking God here right?.... ..
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Erm no not really Adam :D


What I actually meant was that once all the data has been analysed
and electromagnet fields, power serges, drafts, static electric discharges etc
have been discounted there are not really a lot of (im) possibilities left ;)

 
You may find this strange, Adam, but we don't really go to these
places to either prove or disprove the existence of Ghosts.

"we" get called in if there is "Un-explained" activity in any given area
and report our findings.

There are a couple of mediums in the group that "claim" to be able to move "spirits over"
and I will admit after they have done their thing that the the "clients" are normally satisfied that there are no further occurrences.

Although they ( the "mediums") only do this if there is a perceived problem with the "spirits" remaining.

I have only ever once come across so called poltergeist activity,
Small pebbles were left in a locked room with a motion sensitive camera
after an hour we went back to the room, the pebbles were neatly stacked
one on top of the other and the camera had been running
once the recording was analysed it showed nothing except the final "stack"
I love the American expression " go figure" :D

Do I believe in ghosts?
I believe that there are things "at work" that we have no real knowledge of.

Have I seen a "ghost"?
A few now times I have seen and felt things that I could not explain.
Both while fully alert and also in a self induced trance like state
( That will take some explaining and is something I wasn't going to post ;) )

Paranormal investigations are all about keeping an open analytical mind and not getting
"sucked in" to "mass hysteria" which I have seen with "un prepared" un-experienced people that claim to be investigators
 
Interesting snippets Chris...

Not strange no, I understand its about recording findings accurately and without bias, I can totally see now why you have to remain neutral and subjective, I was just intrigued as to what you'd might suggest as an impossibility. :D

I'd imagine there's a huge depository of these stories online somewhere, you got any suggestions as to where to look for my story... as you suggest mostly it's mostly dross if I search google for swan fairies.
 
Forbiddenbiker said:
Interesting snippets Chris...

Not strange no, I understand its about recording findings accurately and without bias, I can totally see now why you have to remain neutral and subjective, I was just intrigued as to what you'd might suggest as an impossibility. :D

I'd imagine there's a huge depository of these stories online somewhere, you got any suggestions as to where to look for my story... as you suggest mostly it's mostly dross if I search google for swan fairies.
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As you guessed Adam I try to remain impartial
and not try to explain the unexplainable.
There are plenty of others out there that try and do that
both within our group and "on line"
(whether that be Christian, Spiritual or Pagan groups)

however "impossible" is subjective. Sailing around the world
without falling off was said to be impossible
Man flying was "impossible" at the turn of the 1900's
60 odd years later we were on the moon...
Maybe not depending on your point of view, one thing is certain though, man flying en mass was a reality.

I will take the stone stacking as an example..
Impossible? well it happened so its possible.

How did it happen? thats a different angle and open to conjecture
We may never know


I am not really sure where to look to be honest regarding your swan fairies
but I will have a "chat" next time the group meets
and see if I can get any references, I'll let you know if I do :thumbs:
 
Forbiddenbiker said:
… Just as the Bermuda Triangle used to be for instance.

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Thats certainly a fascination subject that I haven't really studied,
but isn't that supposed to be related to the magnetic pull of the Earth?
( well one theory anyway)
 
i can only think of two instances that happened to my wife and self respectively.

the first happened to my wife some years ago. she and some of her friends were messing about with a ouija board for a few days. one night there was a knock on the door, someone answered, and then came through to the other room saying that someone was at the door asking for Donna. so up she got and went to the front door. standing at the door was an old friend she hadn't seen for sometime.... instead of saying hello etc, the old friend just told her to stop playing with the ouija board. they stopped immediately... the old friend had a feeling of urgency so had driven up from plymouth to edinburgh to give the warning...

it was during the last months of my schooling that i had seen the omen at my aunties house. After seeing the film, I had taken a very keen interest in bible verses that had mention of satan and hell. one particular evening I had the radio on as background noise as I sat on my bed and was scribbling down every verse i could find in the bible mentioning the devil. i had practically covered the front cover with small text when all of a sudden the radio turned itself off. I looked up at the radio, confused as to why it powered off. suddenly a voice came from the speakers "Don't play with darkness" then nothing. seconds later the radio came back on. that was enough for me to stop in my tracks, and take the torn up book and disposed of it in the bin.
 
Ghost of Garliston


Published Date: 13 August 2008 in The Galloway Gazette
The long straight leading to Garlieston from Kirkinner has long been an eerie stretch to travel alone.
Stories of ghostly goings-on and strange apparitions along the three-mile stretch are nothing new for the older residents of this sleepy harbour village.
But not so long ago, a local man of 40 years old was driving home from work at the back of two in the morning when something startled him in the woods ahead.
Driving at speed, the man was going to fast to slow down in time but as he whizzed past, a young girl in a white nightdress stood watching him from the roadside, having stepped out from the misty woods and dripping from the heavy rain falling around her.
Slamming on the brakes, the man reversed at speed, shocked at the sight of a young girl so far from a house at this time of the morning.
He spotted her at the back of the car as he stared in his rear-view mirror and stopped the car.
Engine still running, he pulled on his handbrake and opened the door to help her as she was obviously lost.
Jumping out, he asked "What on Earth are you out here for?"
But... there was no one there. The man, certain she'd ran back into the woods, abandoned the car with the door open and the radio still blaring and headed into the dense woodlands, shouting out as he stepped forward.
After a few minutes, he realised he was in danger of being unable to find his way back so turned, shook his head, decided he would call police when he got home and ventured off towards the light of his headlamps through the trees.
He neared his car and as he reached out to open the door it occured to him that he couldn't remember having closed it. He also noticed a deadly silence... hadn't he left the radio on?
Reprimanding himself for being so paranoid, he took the driver's seat again and as he did so - darkness. His headlights went black.
Stunned with fear for a split second, the man turned off his engine, waited 10 seconds and flicked the key back on. This time, his lights came on with it and he put the car into first gear, drove off and let out a small laugh.
Not a mile up the road, the man began to spot the orange glow of streetlights from the village and breathed a sigh of relief.
He finally arrived at his home and parked the car up for the night before walking towards his front door. As he entered and closed it, he turned back to glance at his car - and saw the girl in the driver's seat, watching him.
He has never driven that car since and now travels via Sorbie so as to avoid the Straight.
 
Oooo great thread! Come on people, I love reading these stories! :D
 
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