Quote: Originally posted by mcguire6078 on 10/3/2013
Thousands of different species exist on this planet, is it only the human species that has the gift of afterlife....?
My thoughts entirely and I know that some people have claimed to see headless horsemen and people with dogs but I've never actually heard of anyone seeing a ghost of a mammoth or dinosaur. Strange but true!
Must be fun at the abatoir after dark.
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Duct tape is silver
Never experienced ghosts, and somewhat sceptical. However, I occasionally find myself in a situation, and at a point where I say a selection of words and I am immediately in a memory from the past and not in the present.
They call it Dejavu, and the clarity with which it hits me is disturbing to the point I have to take 'time out'.
Can't explain it, don't expect anyone else to. I suspect its a neurological crossed wire. My version of my ghosts perhaps?
When my children were a lot younger, we regularly visited our local Guildhall to take part in fun days with craft sessions etc. When my eldest DD was walking round following clues to find the treasure she came hurtling down a set of stairs saying that there was 'an old woman in an old dress and she was cross with me'. Couldn't find the lady of whom she spoke and so went to one of the staff and asked if anyone had complained about my daughter being rude (innocent until proved guilty, not). It turns out that many children had seen this woman and she wasn't of the earthly variety! My DD would never go back to events after that.
Years later we went on a 'Haunted' tour of our town and the Guidhall was part of it....my DD refused to even walk by the hall so we had to take a detour and then meet back up with them!
Quote: Originally posted by DaneR on 09/3/2013Anything you don't understand would seem like magic. Imagine taking a 747 back 200 years, aliens, dragons or god.
Possible that we were visited by an alien race 10,000 yrs ago and all these stories of gods were invented
Indeed, you be burnt as a witch (at least 300 years ago). I am sure UFO did contribute to some of the storys of Old Nick.
Very, very few were burned as witches. Those executed were normally hung.
I try to keep an open mind as far as ghosts and paranormal things are concerned, but I have had a few experiances back in my Nursing days that were unexplainable and happened to other collegues on separtate occasions within the same clinical area. The most frightening was when we were working in an old Fever Isolation Hospital, the place where patients with the most serious of infectious diseases were nursed before modern day antibiotics were available.
This one had been converted into a complex for the care of the elderly, being an ex fever hospital it was down a long country lane out amoungst the fields at Etwal in Derbyshire. I was on duty one night in a Bungalow station nursing 4 private patients, all of them very frail and unable to mobilise without help from another person. I had done the drug round, cleaned and settled them into bed for the night, and went to sit at the Nurse's desk to write up my reports. All doors were locked, and windows closed. It was then that it happened, a dirty great thump on my shoulder, enough to send me flying forward off my chair. I turned around but nothing was there, I went to check that all the doors and windows were closed and locked, they were, all of my old ladies were sound asleep in their beds, so I tryed to convince myself that I had imagined it, despite a big red mark on my shoulder.
The next night, a collegue of mine, Linda,was working in the same Bungalow, and went into the linen cupboard to get fresh linen for one of the old ladies who had suffered a mishap, only to have the linen room door slam closed behind her, and she couldnt get out, no matter how hard she tried. Luckily she had her mobile phone in her pocket, something quite rare at the time in the early 1990s, and she managed to call over to the main block nursing station to get help from someone to get out. the door was actually locked, and again no evidence of any forced entrance or any other person around other than the sleeping ladies. Over the next few weeks, a few other strange things happened, a pint bottle of milk manged to move itself out of the kitchen and into one of the en-suite bathrooms, and one of the residents said that someone had been tapping her on the shoulder during the night, and was cross as she thought it was me.
Linda and I decided to do a bit of research about the old fever hospital, and the buildings surrounding the main block, we initally wondered if their were any underground air-raid shelters where maybe a tramp was living, as this had been the case on another hospital site where Linda had worked, and we thought that just maybe he had a key. But no such thing was found, although we did discover that the new bungalows where we worked with the private patients were built on the site where the previous Mortuary had stood, and the particular one we were working in was bang on the spot where the pathology room that the post-mortems were carried out in stood when it was the old Isolation Hospital.
Julia
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Celebrating 37 years of Caravanning in 2019, Recently Considered Retiring, but Totally Addicted for Life!
personally never had any super-natural experiences, i know quite a few folk , normal, sane ,every-day type folk ,with nothing to gain from lying about it ,that claim to have.
if fact a good friend of mind is a ghost hunter in his spare time and to be honest he do's have some convincing video footage of 'ghost's'
i'll keep an open mind , neither believeing or dis-believeing, until such time as i either have my own super-natural experience or someone proves catagorically that spirits do or don't exsist.
just as an aside ,though, isn't christanity founded on the beleif that christ died on the cross, was buried and rose again.....wouldn't that make JC a ghost ?
as for little green men from outer space, can't see no logical reason for there not being such a creature, given the vast number of planets floating about in the universe, whether or not they'd be in anyway interested in us is another matter,
again this would all be dependent on any such beings own evaloutionary status
Post last edited on 13/03/2013 15:01:08
------------- no tin tent outings booked as yet ,just another cruise in Sept' booked so far
Years ago when I was a young adult and still living with my parents I was sat in the living room reading late one night...
Sitting with my back to the window I suddenly felt someone was watching me and the hair on the back of my neck stood up like a dogs hackle...
I turned round to the window....and saw a man with red hair and beard staring in at me!!!!....I let out a yell and backed towards the room door keeping my eyes on him the whole time....As the rest of the family arrived from bedrooms etc...He disappeared???!!!!
Went to the window to see if he was still about but he was gone....Nothing too strange in that you might think...Some idiot having a laugh by looking in etc...
What makes it strange is the fact that we lived 3 floors up in an Old Glasgow Tenement our L/room window looked onto a shared back court....and there is no way he could have shimmied up/down a drain pipe fast enough for us not to see him....
Unsettled me for a while...But as I said before I don't dwell on such things
As a footnote to this...I have a laugh when Willie the Groundskeeper comes on the Simpsons on tv as this fella looked just like him....Though of course the Simpsons were not invented till 30yrs after this event...
Laugh if you like but that incident is as real to me today as it was the night it happened....
Jelboy.
------------- Campers of the storm,Into this world are born
The AA once published a very amusing book called 'Give way to Ghosts' back in the 70s, it told of all the sightings around the roads of mainland Britain, as well as listing a few famoust places and the Ghosts that were said to haunt them.
There is also a good book about the ghosts of the Norfolk broads, which tells the stories of a ghost Galleon Ship that sails out of the mist on Oulton broad, a big Black Dog called 'Old Shruk' that crosses the marshes and foot paths then disapears into thin air, and the Ghostly Monks that haunt St Bennetts Abbey ruins and the nearby riverbanks, plus a few more stories from the area. This book is still in print, and can often be found on sale in the local tourist shops and visitor centres, and it can be good fun sitting in a dimly lit boat cabin on a dark evening in the areas that the stories are told from and telling the tale to the rest of the crew lol!
Julia
------------- Just love to be out amoungst Nature and Wildlife
Celebrating 37 years of Caravanning in 2019, Recently Considered Retiring, but Totally Addicted for Life!
A day of all things motorhome and campervan. The show is held both in the main indoor arena and across the grounds. Catering, hot drinks and food options are available. Easy access to the site and free parking included. Win one of five pairs of day tickets
Topic: Ghosts
Not actually on the camp site, but down the lane leading to it 
