super natural

[hightara]

not being religious myself.......more......agnostic

i went to these so called physicists..just cause i was bored......a few of the family went too

but i am still on the fence

just throwing this out there;-)

[hightara]

wow, some really interesting stories

i did of course mean psychics:_|

[stampingpat]

I wouldn't mind going to a seance. I enjoy watching the Most Haunted on the telly. I get such a kick out of watching the folks on there scaring themselves silly. I can't say I have ever run into a ghost, but folks I know say they have. So I think there could be something to this. I have only once felt the cold thing and the hairs standing up when I visited Nuneaton Hall. It was in one of the bedrooms where there was a priest hole.

But I have had some really strong deja vu feelings. But they were only in the US. I would drive by someplace or visit a town and it was like I had been there before and I knew where things were and I had never been there before. One of which I went past a field and a small forest and it was like I was in the middle of a battle of some sort. Again in the US. Since moving to the UK all of this has vanished. I don't get those feelings or the strange trapped dreams  that I used to get. The ones where you are asleep, but you are trying to wake up but can't and you are paralyzed. I used to get those alot. But again not since moving to the UK.

I sometimes wonder if maybe there is more to our brains or cells that we still don't understand or know about. Sort of like when animals know instinctivly how to do things. We don't understand why hedgehogs self anoint(lick and spit on themselves) but they do it instinctively as I have had newborns do it!! No one has shown them how to do it. So it isn't learnt behaviour, but something built into them so it has to be some sort of thing remembered in their cells or brain or passed on from the mum to them while still in the womb. Life sure is mysterious at times and wonderous too.

[alisonsvintagechicboutique]

Yes definite believer have seen and experienced a few things that I have gone on to research to know that it was not all in my head! 

This week is the anniversary of my Grandmas death.  I cried my heart out at her funeral but after that 'something' told me that there would be no more tears.  No matter how often I think about her for some reason I am unable to feel sad and I am not able at all to cry.  It is really most strange!  There is definitely a block stopping me as soon as I feel I am welling up I get an incredible feeling of comfort and my eyes dry like magic.

This week she has been greatly in my thoughts and oddly there have been several wonderful things happen to me this week.  Several random acts of kindness from strangers and things falling unexpectedly into place in my life.  I have also felt happier and calmer this week than I have for a long time and I was not expecting to 🙂

[dr-whos-assistant]

I think lots of people need to believe in something,  to me they are just actors/actresses none of what they say is based on anything that can be proved, but its entertaining for some.

I wouldn't go to one because I think its a bit daft but each to there own.

[fishpieface]

Dr Who's Assistant, I think also that people have a great need to know that they can

turn to something/someone for comfort when they need to which kind of boosts the feeling of needing to believe.

For example, a Christian I guess finds comfort in God, A Spiritualist finds comfort in the spirits of their loved ones etc.  It is often when in times of most needing comfort that even the most ardent non-believer will pray to God - not 'cos they believe particularly, in fact not at all, but probably from desperation and need for comfort at that hard time they're having.

Huggles, how lovely, about the yellow butterfly.  I'm sorry though, I hadn't realised your daughter had passed away.

Almost seven years ago I had to have my beloved cat, Paws, put to sleep at the great age of 21.  I'd had him half my life and missed him hugely.  We gave a home to two little needy kitties who I love to bits, but I'll never forget Paws.  One day, about three years ago, I was walking with my youngest son round the block, just going for a little walk when I spotted a ginger cat.  This cat, well I have never seen a ginger cat more like my Paws Cat, though he

was a younger version.  I had to do a double-take, but this little ginger cat came to me across the road, he rubbed himself all round my ankles and purred.  I remarked to my son how much he looked like Paws, and as I said the name, the little cat looked up at me, I bent down to stroke him some more and he purred and purred and continued to rub himself around me.  Eventually we had to carry on and I told the little cat to go back home safely, he followed us for a while, then went back.  I'd never seen him before and I haven't since, I wondered if it was Paws coming back to tell me he was ok.  The markings were identical, even down to the distinctive "M" mark that ginger cats often have on their foreheads, his behaviour was the same.  I felt so honoured to have met him, Paws or not, because he brought me great joy and comfort.

Some people might think I'm bonkers, but I don't mind, it brought joy to me and harm to nobody, so it must have been ok! 

[10phizz]

My two youngest sons are now in their 40s but when they were little shared a bedroom at the north end on the house. Night after night we would hear one get out of bed and run diagonally across the landing to a bedroom at the other end of the house..... I would run upstairs in case they wanted the loo.

They would always be fast asleep

. You can`t actually run .diagonally across the landing.

It ceased when they got to school age

It started again when two of our little grandsons stayed for several months..

My mother in law  (un-invited guest )  used to come into our bedroom if the youngest child cried and pick her from the cot near the door (Don`t ask !!!!)..one night Jenny was crying and OH said to the figure bending over the cot "Its all right Mam, I`ll get her ".............I said, who are you talking to your mother isn`t here (thank God ).........sorry about the brackets , but I still  have very un- Christian feelings about her !

[captainbovine]

in one of our previous homes, I was getting premonitions, I would write them in a diary and sure enough within a day or so it would come true.

I had one when the Martioness went down in theThames and I woke up and said to OH I was seeing a black guys face coming up to mine and sinking down again. At the same time I was "seeing" this, a black guy was drowning on that boat.....it was quite un-nerving at the time.

Once we moved out of there I never had them again................................

[ilove2patch]

When I was six until I was thirteen mum & dad had an old coaching inn/pub in Egham, Surrey. When they were in the bar working they often heard my sister (toddler) & myself running along the corridor upstairs. When they went up we were both sound asleep. This happened on many occasions over the years we were there. Also dad would go down in the morning to open up & the doors would be already open. The coathangers were tossed out of the wardrobe once all over the bed!

[vamo48]

I agree with Pat, I think there's more to our brains than we know, and I don't think that seeing ghosts or believing we can is anything to do with one's religion (if any).

A few months after our last dog died, I was sitting at my desk and felt a furry body press against my leg.  We had no other pet at the time, and OH had a similar experience.

[**streety**]

I'm terrified of ghosts, nasty or nice, so I hope I never encounter one. 

I know it's stupid, moving to the house is worrying me because I always found it creepy at night :_|

What has happened to me, and I hope continues to is dreaming about people who have died.

Most people who were close to me have visited me in a dream to tell me they are ok. The best one was my dad, but he took his time.  It months after.. He looked so happy, he came to me on a hot sunny day and said he'd never felt so free, look what I can do, he said.  He floated in the sky like Peter Pan..! 

I remembered he used to say he could fly in his dreams and how it would be nice to do that for real.:-x

My old 3 legged cat came up to me in a dream after she died.  Her fur was wonderful, shiny. She had 4 legs and ran to me, let out a really loud Miaow, turned and ran away

[*elphaba*]

Streety, your dreams are to bring you comfort.  Let them :-x

There is a huge gap between what humans can perceive and what is surrounding us all of the time but is beyond our ability to register it.   

'Ghosts' may fit in this gap.   

I have experienced some inexplicable events.  None of them were threatening in any way. 

As you are worried, Streety, make the new home your own:  Go around with an incense stick (so the scent lingers) and say "this is my home now and I will protect it, but ask for quiet and peace for my family."   I think its your mums home anyway??   I think you are pagan, so invoke the household protectors - the lares and penates.  No one need feel worried in their own home :-x 

[**streety**]

Elphaba.. Yes I have incense sticks ready.  My incense holder is made of Willow which is my tree of life.  I'm going home to the willow that lives towards the bottom of my Mums garden and I'm really pleased to connect with that again.

Willow is the tree I connect with the most.

Thank you.  With all that was happening I'd forgotton the simple wishes that ere there to help us:-x

[stan3502]

I am a great believer that my loved ones have either just been present or have guided me through some very tough times, but I also respect those who either sit on the fence or dont believe as my thoughts are mine and mine alone 🙂

[**streety**]

Absolutely Stan, absolutely

[cat-knitter]

I'm a fence sitter .... I'd like to believe but I am very very sceptical ..... I've never seen, heard or felt anything to convince me of anything 😐

[hightara]

i have to say the so called phychics talked a load of carp.......... i just sat there giving them no hint of anything.

we only went for a giggle.

i would like to believe that our loved ones go to a better place, as that would bring so much comfort especially to myself. :-x

[shelly180]

I had one really vivid experience.

When I was little, my Dad worked for British Transport Hotels.

They ran the old victorian hotels at the main train stations.

When my Mum & Dad were going to a Dinner Dance,

they didn't bother with baby sitters, they just took

my sister and I with them and we were in a room next to theirs

with a connecting door.

On one ocassion we were staying in the old St Enochs Hotel.

They were all old victorian hotels with long corridors with lots of rooms off

on either side. The Housekeeper used to come in regularly and check on my sister

and I. 

This one time I heard footsteps but they passed our door and didn't come in, so

I went and opened the door to see why the housekeeper hadn't come in.

I saw, as clear as day, a woman in a severe high necked Edwardian dress with a chain attached to her belt with lots of keys on the end of it, walking down the corridor where she turned picked up the chain and used a key to open a door and enter a room.

I wasn't upset or disturbed by this, I just went back into our room.

When the Housekeeper came I told her all about the figure I had seen.

She smiled and said very matter of factly " Oh you've seen Miss Thomson, she was the Housekeeper here at the turn of the century" 

I have never forgotten this.