Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 13, 2005 23:14:40 GMT 12
Make up? I wasn't aware we were argueing. I have no problems.
I see your point Bruce about scepticism. I think some people are more attuned to seeing things than others, I don't know why. I personally have seen unexplained phenomena which I can only attribute to ghosts. One used to appear very regularly in my bedroom, virtually three times a week. I haven't seen him for a while. He comes and goes. I had an unearthly experience too when I awoke one night and instead of being pitch black, there was a luminescence in the room, and the ceiling was different, like a hologram. It had pateerns like one of those old Victorian ceilings. I was freakin out, and I couldn't even scream. i was scared rigid. Then the pattern began to move and it slid down the wall straight at my head and went idown behind the head of my bed.
It was so wierd, and bloody scary. It has only happened to me once, thank goodness, BUT, it has happened twice - a mate also saw the very same thing on another occasion in the spare room when he stayed here.
This is my sister's house and she's never seen a thing. She and thinks I am barmy! But I know what I have seen. It is almost always just after i've dropped off, and am in a very light sleep. I awake bolt upright and there it is, a ghost. He/she/it never does anything harmful, and is never clear enough to make out features. But that ceiling thing was as clear as if a bright torch was on it!!
I have also seen something ghostlike on occassions at my parents house, and this was also seen regularly by my Dad. One day I was talking to a mate, Kerry, who then lived round the corner and visited often, and I told him about how we thought we'd been seeing a ghost.
To my amazement he said he'd also seen it. Only he'd got a much better view - Dad and I only ever saw it out of peripheral vision, corner of the eye - it was there as long as you didn't look round, it was clearly there, but and when you truned to look straight on it was gone. My Dad said he was sure it was my Nana, who had lived up the front of Mum and Dad's, who are down a right of way driveway behind Nan's old house. But it seems from what Kerry said, the ghost goes back till when Nana was still alive.
Kerry said he had left our place on dusk and walked down the driveway He said he saw a man standing in Nana's back step, which he virtually walked past about four metres away. He simply assumed Nana had a visitor (he knew Nana btw), and thought nothing of it.
The man was smoking a pipe. Kerry said hello to him, and he nodded. He thought nothing more of it till he got out the gate and had walked past two houses down the road and suddenly stopped in his tracks. The same man was standing in the garden in front of him. Kerry knew there was no way he'd passed him. He stood there for a second, and the man disaappeared.
I was amazed when he told me this - Kerry had kept it to himself till the day I brought up our ghost. He's a totally no nonsense person, and he didn't quite believe it himself. The wierdest thing was, he described the man to me, and I knew instantly who it was. My great-grandfather. He described his face, moustache, stance when he stood, his clothes, the lot. I got him to tell this to Mum, and then Mum got out the family album which Kerry had never seen, and showed him photos of great-grandad. He was almost certain it was the same man, as I'd guessed.
Great-grandad had dropped dead from a heart attack in my Nana's back garden. He had lived around the corner where Kerry was headed. I guess he was off home after a visit too. Spooky, eh!
Some of the stories on the FlyPast thread seem a little overdone, with fully normal-looking people in uniforms coming up and conversing with live people, and then vanishing. It sounds far-fetched. But then I think of Kerry's encounter and think, well, yes. It's probably true.
Wouldn't it be great if you did have such an encounter and rather than crapping your daks, you calmly engaged them in conversation for a bit, I'm sure it would be a heck of an experience to talk to a piece of history. I don't think it'll happen though.
I see your point Bruce about scepticism. I think some people are more attuned to seeing things than others, I don't know why. I personally have seen unexplained phenomena which I can only attribute to ghosts. One used to appear very regularly in my bedroom, virtually three times a week. I haven't seen him for a while. He comes and goes. I had an unearthly experience too when I awoke one night and instead of being pitch black, there was a luminescence in the room, and the ceiling was different, like a hologram. It had pateerns like one of those old Victorian ceilings. I was freakin out, and I couldn't even scream. i was scared rigid. Then the pattern began to move and it slid down the wall straight at my head and went idown behind the head of my bed.
It was so wierd, and bloody scary. It has only happened to me once, thank goodness, BUT, it has happened twice - a mate also saw the very same thing on another occasion in the spare room when he stayed here.
This is my sister's house and she's never seen a thing. She and thinks I am barmy! But I know what I have seen. It is almost always just after i've dropped off, and am in a very light sleep. I awake bolt upright and there it is, a ghost. He/she/it never does anything harmful, and is never clear enough to make out features. But that ceiling thing was as clear as if a bright torch was on it!!
I have also seen something ghostlike on occassions at my parents house, and this was also seen regularly by my Dad. One day I was talking to a mate, Kerry, who then lived round the corner and visited often, and I told him about how we thought we'd been seeing a ghost.
To my amazement he said he'd also seen it. Only he'd got a much better view - Dad and I only ever saw it out of peripheral vision, corner of the eye - it was there as long as you didn't look round, it was clearly there, but and when you truned to look straight on it was gone. My Dad said he was sure it was my Nana, who had lived up the front of Mum and Dad's, who are down a right of way driveway behind Nan's old house. But it seems from what Kerry said, the ghost goes back till when Nana was still alive.
Kerry said he had left our place on dusk and walked down the driveway He said he saw a man standing in Nana's back step, which he virtually walked past about four metres away. He simply assumed Nana had a visitor (he knew Nana btw), and thought nothing of it.
The man was smoking a pipe. Kerry said hello to him, and he nodded. He thought nothing more of it till he got out the gate and had walked past two houses down the road and suddenly stopped in his tracks. The same man was standing in the garden in front of him. Kerry knew there was no way he'd passed him. He stood there for a second, and the man disaappeared.
I was amazed when he told me this - Kerry had kept it to himself till the day I brought up our ghost. He's a totally no nonsense person, and he didn't quite believe it himself. The wierdest thing was, he described the man to me, and I knew instantly who it was. My great-grandfather. He described his face, moustache, stance when he stood, his clothes, the lot. I got him to tell this to Mum, and then Mum got out the family album which Kerry had never seen, and showed him photos of great-grandad. He was almost certain it was the same man, as I'd guessed.
Great-grandad had dropped dead from a heart attack in my Nana's back garden. He had lived around the corner where Kerry was headed. I guess he was off home after a visit too. Spooky, eh!
Some of the stories on the FlyPast thread seem a little overdone, with fully normal-looking people in uniforms coming up and conversing with live people, and then vanishing. It sounds far-fetched. But then I think of Kerry's encounter and think, well, yes. It's probably true.
Wouldn't it be great if you did have such an encounter and rather than crapping your daks, you calmly engaged them in conversation for a bit, I'm sure it would be a heck of an experience to talk to a piece of history. I don't think it'll happen though.
;D
