Go on then - who's seen a ghost ?

[ventoux50]

I have.

when I was 14 I was camping at a dairy farm in Derbyshire, helping out on the farm with the milking and herding etc..

We'd finished the late milking and the last cows were making their way out of the yard into the fields.

It was a dark night, clear as a bell though with the stars visible.
The cows needed to be encouraged into a field beyond two others and me and my mate were left to do it while the farmer cleared away in the parlour.

The cows knew where they were headed and we followed behind to shut gates behind them. They were walking in procession from our right to left and slightly downhill behind a low (chest high) hedge.

All of a sudden I literally felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, and at the same moment the animals stopped moving and stood looking around as if unsettled.

I looked towards the field they were headed to and saw a light misty gray man sized shape gliding along the side of the hedge.
I was certein that it was not a person or another animal and had a really wierd feeling about it.

All of a sudden the shape disappeared and within a few seconds the cows started walking forwards again.

Me and my mate ran for it back to the farm absolutely bricking it ! (well we were only 14)

The farmer caught us running into the yard and when we told him about it he told us the story of a previous owner of the property who had been found murdered in a pond at the foot of the field many years ago.



Now I'm a very cynical type and if you told me this story I might not believe it, but this was so real. I've never forgotten it and can still picture it clearly.



Spooky eh ?

Anyone else seen a ghostie ?

 

[Archie_tect]

In the night staying in a 16th century farm cottage holiday let I heard the door open to our bedroom in the dark- I could feel someone at the side of the bed. Thinking my son had walked into the room because he couldn't sleep and was standing at the side of the bed, I got out of bed to see what he wanted. I was completely freaked out when I turned the light on to find no-one there and the door still closed. I am a rational person and still to this day convinced there is a totally sensible reason but all I can think is I dreamed it and woke at that exact moment. I don;t do ghosts and paranormal- I believe it's all explainable down to our own irrational thoughts and imaginings.

 

[jimboalee]

Which story do yo wanna hear?

1984. GF and I parked up in woods at what is Elmdon Park where the Hall gardens were.
GF asks "What's that?".
There was the white upper torso of a man floating across the lane ahead in the headlamps. We both saw it. Totally white with no legs.

Pronto exito.


The bungalow across the road had new owners. They mentioned the noises in the night and their ornaments changing position on the shelves where they put them.
The bed in the master bedroom would shake in the night ( NO! not what your thinking ).
When they came to re-wallpaper, after stripping off the ( what looked like new wallpaper but a hideous pattern they didn't like ) old wallpaper, the entire room, walls ceiling and eventually the floorboards too were painted gloss black.
The Vicar was called in and did his thing. The noises continued and now the lady on her own lives there defiantly and tells whatever makes the noise it will not frighten her.


In the 'Coldroom' at Lucas Electrical, Great King Street, ( where I worked ) a chap in a brown lab coat would come walking through without saying a word. An apprentice asked who the chap was and the reply was "Oh, that's Charlie, he froze to death in 1972."


Christmas 1968, my cousin Pam got a Ouija Board. Unbelievable things happened and then there was the smell of human excrement.


There is a ghost which walks up and down Block 1 at Land Rover Solihull, the first block to be built for the Shadow works building engines for tanks before WW2.
Reports from a few employees are the spirit is a middle aged lady in a white dress.
My Grandmother was the grand daughter of the man who previously owned the land where Block 1 stands. She died in 1938, two years after the Shadow works were built.
As a girl, she walked and played in the woods and fields where Block 1 stands.
Call me superstitious, but every time I walk into Block 1, I whisper "Hello Nelly".

 

[jimboalee]

In the night staying in a 16th century farm cottage holiday let I heard the door open to our bedroom in the dark- I could feel someone at the side of the bed. Thinking my son had walked into the room because he couldn't sleep and was standing at the side of the bed, I got out of bed to see what he wanted. I was completely freaked out when I turned the light on to find no-one there and the door still closed. I am a rational person and still to this day convinced there is a totally sensible reason but all I can think is I dreamed it and woke at that exact moment. I don;t do ghosts and paranormal- I believe it's all explainable down to our own irrational thoughts and imaginings.

Have you had dreams that the spirit was a Quaker lady in a black dress with a white lace head scarf?

If you have, you're not the only one.

 

[jimboalee]

My Great, great grandmother on my mother's side was a Romany. Their family name was Cross.

Her neice and family were parked up on an empty site at the top of Kingston Hill by the railway line in Small Heath, Birmingham. There was a small but deep pool on the site.
Small Heath Alliance Football Club had become Birmingham City FC and were looking to relocate to a new ground at the top of Kingston Hill by the railway line.

The Romanies were served an eviction order, and on that day, a young lad Romany fell in the pool and drowned.
My Great, great, grandmother's neice placed a curse on the site and stated that the football team who played there will NEVER win the FA cup or the English league.
The curse still hangs over the Blues. They'll NEVER win the FA cup or the Prem.

Excuses, excuses...

 

[longers]

Didn't Barry Fry take a leak on a footy pitch to try and lift a curse? Was it St Andrews?

As a kid, me and a friend made ourselves imagine we'd seen a ghost. Can still remember it but it wasn't real.

 

[jayonabike]

I can go 1 better,I think I have photographed a ghost. A few years ago me and the Mrs stayed at Littlecote House in Hungerford, which is a hotel and also supposedly the third most haunted house in england. The story goes that 400 odd years ago the Lord of the manor got a local yokel pregnant. She was brought to the manor where she gave birth and her baby was thrown on the fire outside the bedroom. This photo is taken outside the bedroom, and if you look in the oak panel above the fire place is a face of a woman in a cloak. I really do think I've photographed something and I'm normally quite sceptical. Some people I've shown the photo to say they can see a face of a man above the woman. But for me it's the womans face. When I zoom in I can see every detail of her face, her eyes, nose, open mouth, the look of horror on her face.

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[JamesAC]

No one has, because there aren't any!

 

[Maz]

Some people I've shown the photo to say they can see a face of a man above the woman.
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I can see it...the painting of the fit woman in the red dress...she has a blokes head. Looks like Sir Isaac Newton.

 

[dan_bo]

WoooooooOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo!

 

[surfdude]

i thought i saw a ghost one night but turned out to be the wife in a face pack .mind you a ghost would have been a lot less scarey .

 

[jayonabike]

The picture of the woman in the red dress is a bloke. He liked dressing as a woman and had his portrait done.

 

[rusky]

Have a look here http://www.paranormaldatabase.com/index.htm You can see if others have reported your sighting!!

 

[661-Pete]

I can go 1 better,I think I have photographed a ghost. A few years ago me and the Mrs stayed at Littlecote House in Hungerford, which is a hotel and also supposedly the third most haunted house in england. The story goes that 400 odd years ago the Lord of the manor got a local yokel pregnant. She was brought to the manor where she gave birth and her baby was thrown on the fire outside the bedroom. This photo is taken outside the bedroom, and if you look in the oak panel above the fire place is a face of a woman in a cloak. I really do think I've photographed something and I'm normally quite sceptical. Some people I've shown the photo to say they can see a face of a man above the woman. But for me it's the womans face. When I zoom in I can see every detail of her face, her eyes, nose, open mouth, the look of horror on her face.

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I looked at your picture. I must confess, at first I mis-read your post and took it to mean, I was meant to be looking in one of the paintings, and guessed you meant the one of the woman in the black dress. Because I can definitely see the suggestion of a man's face at the upper edge of that painting, cut off just above the eyes. To my mind it looks like Nelson Mandela, but no matter.

Then I read your post properly and looked in the oak panel. Sure, there's a face there, possibly two, one above the other. The upper face appears to be in torment.

My point is: the human brain is conditioned to recognise a human face on the flimsiest of evidence, because a human face is what most of us see first of all in our lives (probably the midwife's), and what we find easiest of all possible patterns to recognise. That's the way we are. Witness the Turin shroud. Witness the 'face' on Mars. Witness the Man in the Moon for that matter.

So, if you are in that frame of mind, you'll see a human face in just about anything, any time. I've seen faces in an earthenware bowl full of water. And not my own reflection! Sorry, but it proves nothing at all.

 

[rusky]

I can go 1 better,I think I have photographed a ghost. A few years ago me and the Mrs stayed at Littlecote House in Hungerford, which is a hotel and also supposedly the third most haunted house in england. The story goes that 400 odd years ago the Lord of the manor got a local yokel pregnant. She was brought to the manor where she gave birth and her baby was thrown on the fire outside the bedroom. This photo is taken outside the bedroom, and if you look in the oak panel above the fire place is a face of a woman in a cloak. I really do think I've photographed something and I'm normally quite sceptical. Some people I've shown the photo to say they can see a face of a man above the woman. But for me it's the womans face. When I zoom in I can see every detail of her face, her eyes, nose, open mouth, the look of horror on her face.

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I have to say, I can't see anything in the panel!!