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Possibly a shadow cast from a statue, or maybe someone loitering, perhaps?
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Possibly a shadow cast from a statue, or maybe someone loitering, perhaps?
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We used to get a loud bang in our house every Monday morning. The door frames would shudder afterwards. Eventually we worked out it was Concorde going over. We could never hear or see the plane, just heard the sonic boom. I found it worrying until I knew what it was.
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A sound theory, especially if it was somebody just lurking. It wasn't in the previous frame.
Probably innocent enough but it does seem a little odd, especially the stance of the figure and I'm sure I was alone. The file with the figure also wouldn't load in LR properly whilst the previous one, shot a little while before loaded fine.
....previous frame,
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How long between the frames? The figure may have been in front of the shadowy bit at the right side of the building when the previous frame was shot, or if the frames were wider spaced, he/she could have been just out of frame.
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Concorde was not permitted to fly supersonic over land here because of the disturbance created by the sonic booms.
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If it was soon after take off, it would be on afterburn, that was loud. I spent some time in Clapham as a lad and heard it too.
Which reminds me. I was brought up in the South Wales Valleys, during the cold war. We'd often get fighters, bombers etc going over, it was almost daily. They'd be low and fast playing war games in the valleys. This would often shake the house and cause strange sounds.
We also lived close to a quarry which would often blast the rocks, 3 or 4 times a week. Again, it would rattle the windows.
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Does that mean they were jumping the lights a little then? I live on the Isle of Wight.Concorde was not permitted to fly supersonic over land here because of the disturbance created by the sonic booms.
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Concorde would sometimes fly over the Channel, I think they could go supersonic over water but whether that was the Channel or over the Atlantic, I'm not sure.
It would sometimes fly over South Wales but definately not supersonic at that point.
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There may have been a little issue dodging by the operators (according to what Mum and Dad were told at the time.) The original flightpath went over their house and for the first flights, the bang happened almost dead overhead. An agreement was made to not go supersonic until they were over water so, rather than wait until they had cleared land on the original flightpath, they doglegged down to the channel and put their foot down - over water... A clarification was then issued!
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Had a weird thing happen tonight. Dad passed away at end of January. Am at Mums and this evening I walked passed his chair and could smell something strong. I sniffed, turned to my mum who looked at me and she said what's that smell... paraffin I replied, as I couldn't work out what it was, then she said white spirit which I thought yes it was. My son smelt it too, and it lingered in that area for a short while.
Then later, I walked past the same spot and smelt it again (the lounge and he had a bed in that spot for his final days), same area, son smelt it and again lasted a few minutes.
No painting or use of similar has happened, nothing spilt or anything. Cant work it out. I did joke it was because my mum and sister were saying about repainting the lounge as only he liked the colour earlier that day.
Then later, I walked past the same spot and smelt it again (the lounge and he had a bed in that spot for his final days), same area, son smelt it and again lasted a few minutes.
No painting or use of similar has happened, nothing spilt or anything. Cant work it out. I did joke it was because my mum and sister were saying about repainting the lounge as only he liked the colour earlier that day.
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When I was a kid we used to live in a house split into two flats, we lived upstairs. My mum tells me that when I was about three or four I’d often sit at the top of the stairs chatting away to someone. She put it down to me having a kid’s “imaginary friend” until one day I came up to her crying my eyes out. When she asked what was the matter I told her that the lady had said she was going away now and wouldn’t come back anymore. Mum asked me who this lady was and I apparently described my granny, and very accurately. My granny had lived in the flat downstairs but had died in her 50’s of heart problems. The weirdest thing is I’d never met her, as she’d died three years before I was born.
I’m generally very sceptical about the paranormal but things like that do make you wonder. It’s been suggested that I’d maybe seen a photo of my granny and my accurate description had come from a photo, but apparently who I described was very different to any photos we have of her.
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If and when a ghost says "good evening" to me, I'll just bear the following in mind...
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The science behind seeing ghosts
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