Paranormal activity???

Ooh Im so pleased this thread is still going! I have had a few little things happen to me but could probably be explained but my friend has had a few which can't so I'll tell you hers. Most notably, a few years ago her and another girl I also knew, rented a three bed house in the Midlands, quite an old house. One day I met her for lunch and she was scared to death, she said that in the middle of the previous night she'd woken up in the night and seen what she thought was a figure in the darkeness at the end of her bed and had raced out of the room, past it, into her mate's bedroom and slept with her - for the next few days as it turns out. I calmed her down and convinced her that it was just shadows of the stuff at the end of the bed, stereo, wardrobe etc. Fast forward about 6 months, she's now with her boyfriend and the incident is forgotten, never mentioned it to him as she believed it was shadows. She was having breakfast with her mate and her fella came downstairs to join them, he was quite shaken (I know him, not the type to scare trust me) saying that he'd got up in the night to use the bathroom and when he walked back in he felt as thought he'd walked "through" a person standing at the end of the bed :o My friend then told him what had happened to her.

As a postscript, he also heard his name being whispered when he was having a lie in one day, got dressed and fled the house. Lots of other things happened so in the end they ended up having a family friend in who was a medium and she told my mate it was an uncle who had passed away years earlier, only meaning to look after her and was mortified that he'd scared them!
 
This is a fab post.

My dad used to work on a geriatric ward where it wasn't unusual for patients to die. He used to say that firstly you could tell the moment someone had died even if you were nowhere near the person (i.e in another room!) as there would just be change in the 'air'. He also said that when he got this 'feeling' he would know by instinct which room to go and check, bearing in mind this was a ward where everyone was very old and ill, and would always be right about who had passed away.

He also said it was common to find things had moved about in the night / doors opened / tv turned on etc (all the patients were unable to get out of bed themselves - so had to be someone else doing it!)
 
Wow I am so glad that things don't just happen to me!!
When I was a child, I shared a bedroom with my 2 sisters, and we used to be visited every few weeks by a ghost that we called "Charlie", he used to move things, make noises and announce his presence quite loudly, he never scared us though. My mother and father poo pood this and used to chastise us for mentioning that we had had a visit by him. We lived in that house for 15 years. Upon my mother selling the house she did then say that it in fact was haunted by a young man who had hung himself.
My sisters and I are still visited by Charlie to this day but on less regular occassions.

My grandfather died many years ago, he still visits from time to time, he will fill the house with the smell of sweet pipe tobacco, in fact my children can all smell it too. My husband has come in through the front door after returning from work to question who I have had in the house that has been smoking.

Another instance is that my husbands Auntie who he was really close to died quite a few years ago from Cancer, one evening as my husband and I were getting ready for bed I heard a voice say really clearly to me, to tell him that "she was ok and she knew that"! I looked at my husband and repeated what I had been told, his face went white as a sheet and he asked me how I knew what he had been thinking...I told him that his Auntie Patricia told me....with this he started to shake with tears filling his eyes. His Aunt was always known fondly as Toni but her first name was Patricia, I never knew this!! My husband was thinking of her and felt really bad that he was not able to visit her in the hospice before she died quite suddenly, he wanted her to know that he loved her and still missed her to this day!!

We also used to run a pub in Lincolnshire, everyday something would happen, go missing, crash and break, doors slam in the middle of the night, glasses chinking at 4am in the morning. Our bed used to shake, objects would hurl themselves at us, we would be pinched, glasses spin on their own, the gambling machine would light up and spin whilst unplugged, the list goes on and on. We were there for 8 months until we heard out 12 year old son scream with terror in the middle of the night, he had been woken by a noise and heard footsteps on the landing, he said that they were really heavy footsteps like someone was carrying something heavy. The footsteps stopped outside his room and then he saw his door handle spin from side to side, the door opened slowly and what came in was heavy black mist....he screamed the place down... we left a week later heaving a big sigh of relief!

In my bedroom I have been woken at night by the presence of someone, sometimes they have perched on the end of the bed and I have woken as I have felt my toes crush. Other times they have made noise looking through the warbrobes which has woken me up, each time I see the same old lady. My husband thought that I was talking complete nonsense until one night when he woke to the noise himself, he turned on the light to see an old lady stooped over the bedside dresser, within a few seconds she faded away in front of his eyes. Lol he instantly woke me up in hysterics :)
 
I have sat here and read every single post. Good on you for starting such a great topic but am now covered in goosebumps despite the plus 30 degrees temp here in India. Have had my own experiences with the not too be explained easily. Something on the bed, chimney sweep at the base of my bed and the house which gave me lovely flower smells but HATED my then oh and rattled the metal clothes hangers in an empty wardrobe so badly that he left and went to his mothers! I tend to be a massive sceptic (hope I spelt that right) but there really are too many stories which simply cannot be explained away and I have no rational explanation for the things that have happened to me soooo, guess I have to be a believer.

Am tired and want to go to bed but now will wait up for hubby to come home... :-(
 
Well, Ouija boards. As others say, don't go there. My mother told me a story, of her and her friends doing it. They contact one of the girls deceased father. Or so they thought. It turned out to be quite a sinister spirit posing as said girls father. Anyway, fast forward a couple of hours, the put the board away and either went to sleep, or went home and asleep (She doesn't like talking about it either) apparently, one person woke up covered in scratches from head to toe, and another woke up with a broken arm...

On my mums side of the family, we have a 'family' of three. My great grandparents, and their son, (My great uncle) anyway, everytime of these has passed away, the night of the funeral our lights have flashed, and blinkered. It's the only time they do it, they've never done it before apart from these nights. It's nice to know that they were there with us.

And my hairdresser was saying of a time a friend of his did it, the ghost told her that she would miscarriage, and she did. She was freaked out, and went back to the ghost who told her it was "now or never" with regards to having a child. She went, and got pregnant, (Or was already pregnant) and she had the baby, and the doctors told her, that after that baby, she'ld never be able to have children again...

A lot of these are condensed down as I can't remember all of it,
 
Here goes ...

18 months ago i awoke in the morning to find the Very Large and heavy picture on the wall at the bottom of our bed was not on the wall , it was on the floor but at the bottom of the other wall in the room about 5 Ft away, i woke my husband and asked if he had heard it fall off the wall over night ( as it would have made a very loud noise due to the weight of it ) but he had not heard a sound and neither had i ... i turned to him and said "If i didnt know any better id say someone has Died " he said to me " Not to be so silly, see you woman, Honestly " i then got ready etc , went out in my car drove about 10 miles and when i approached the area where i get mobile phone signal , my mobile was bleeping like mad ,,, stopped the car , listened to the messages and it was my best friend telling me to go to her as her husband who was 39 had died very very suddenly during the night ! he was a fit and healthy chap.

RIP J X
 
I have had a few funny experiences that I can't explain.

Whoever it was who was saying 'how do you know if the people you see in the street are real' earlier in the thread;
Apparently when I was a kid, I used to tell my mam about other people and say things like 'look at that woman with that funny buggy' or 'why is that man wearing such a funny hat?' and there was no one there like I had described, but I would clearly describe a woman in victorian dress pushing an old fashioned pram, or a man walking along in top hat and tails. She thought I had an overactive imagination, and thought nothing of it, until I began waking her up in the night and ask her to 'ask the lady in my room to stop knitting' as the click of her needles would keep me awake. Of course, she would come in and there was no one there, but I described a woman in a rocking chair in a black shawl knitting as she rocked back and forth. Again, she took no notice until some years later, an elderly lady came to the house saying she had lived there with her mother until her mother's death years before and could she have a look around. Needless to say, her mother had had my room and used to sit knitting late at night in her rocking chair as she didn't sleep well. My mother nearly died of fright, and it made her wonder if the other things I had said were also true.

When I was 17 I got a job working on a yard, and some strange things happened there too. The yard and the groom's cottage (that the stable manager lived in) were really old, but the big house had been demolished years before and replaced with a modern bungalow up on the hill overlooking the drive.
Once, I had gone down to the kitchen to get some hot water to clean tack, and you had to walk through the old dairy to get to the kitchen. The dairy was just a long room with some tables and chairs in it that we used as a lecture room. It had two big heavy outside doors with latches, and then the kitchen was a little room on the end with a sliding door with a pane of glass in it. As I walked into the dairy (latching the door behind me cos it used to bang), a woman was sitting on a table wearing a sidesaddle habit (not that weird, we did do occasional sidesaddle lessons). I smiled but I didn't recognise her so walked into the kitchen to fill my bucket. I was wondering if she was a new client, but thought I hadn't seen a sidesaddle lesson on the list, and as the bucket was filling I leaned back to look through the glass window in the door to see if I could think who she was. I got the shock of my life, cos she was just staring at me as if she knew I was going to look through the window. I felt really scared for no reason and went back to my bucket which was full. I gave myself a little talking to, saying 'don't be so ridiculous, it was just coincidence, and now she will think you are really rude'. So I pulled myself together, and picked up my bucket, ready to talk to her and find out who she was riding so I could tack up. I pushed the door open, and she had vanished, nobody there. There is no way she could have opened either of the dairy doors without me hearing! I was really freaked out, but went back up the yard and asked who needed to be tacked up for the sidesaddle lesson. My boss said there wasn't any sidesaddle lessons that day, and what was I on about. I said 'well there must be a mistake, there was someone in a sidesaddle habit down in the dairy, she must have come on the wrong day'. My boss sighed and said ' oh, she is back then is she?'. Turns out a figure of a woman in a blue habit had been seen around the yard before, and seemed to really hate the young girl grooms and haunt them from time to time. The story was that she was the governess from the big house, who fell for one of the grooms at the yard, who killed herself after catching him at it in the barn with one of the girl grooms...... Spooky! I didn't see her again though.

Another time, my lovely horse (still with me now) was turned out in the field behind the bungalow (that I mentioned earlier, that my boss lived in. Her parents had built it in the 60s when they were farming there). My horse was grazing with the others, and I went to catch her so I could ride in my lunch break. I led her along the fence line towards the gate, but as we came to the back of the bungalow, she started freaking out, going totally mental and just refusing to walk on, rearing and pulling backwards. She looked genuinely in fear, with her eyes fixed on the bungalow. I eventually had to give up, and walk all the way round the other fenceline, and the whole way she was wildeyed watching the house.
I went back to yard and mentioned this to the yard manager, as it was my bosses' day off. She checked the date and told me that this day was the anniversary of my bosses' fathers' death. Apparently he had lost his wife some months before and been struggling to cope without her, and on this particular day he took his shotgun into the bathroom, got in the bath and shot himself. Makes you wonder what my little horse had sensed.
 
I saw an apparition/a ghost of a miner with a pickaxe in my bedroom once, I was terrified! It was a blue-ish colour and was fuzzy, a bit like a television and then he used the pickaxe. At that point I went under my bedsheets.
There's a forest behind my house and it's full of bricks, and in a couple of places there's the remains of walls. I also live very near to a country park with a history of mining and lots of pit bings!

Creepy!
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Another one, more recently. My first cat died in September 2009 (very suddenly) and in December we got another cat from Cats' Protection. One day I was outside and was talking to my mum. It was a very sunny day, and both of my cats have loved the sun. I asked where Orla (new cat) was, and at the same time saw a cat in the corner of my eye walking past. My mum replied 'Oh she just walked by' (seeing the cat too) and I turned around and there was Orla sleeping on the bench (opposite direction from where the cat had been heading) . My mum and myself were totally convinced we saw a cat, yet Orla was sleeping and had been for a while. I'm sure it was Sasha (first cat) as she loved sitting on the patio (where this cat had been heading)
It wasn't a neighbours cat or anything either..
 
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I have finally some time to write some!

When i was 14 my Gran died and the day she died my sister and I went on a riding holiday (It had already been booked and my parents thought it best for us to be away for a week). She lived with us, she had a little granny flat downstairs.
Many years later when i was old enough not to be too terrified they told me about the week after her death.
The sky box was in her room as she was in there most of the time and it changed the channel in the living room too. This kept changing to things she would watch. Her shower was on twice a day, her toilet would flush. My Mum and Dad would smell her and feelher presence. She would be heard shuffling around in the night, the kettle would boil, etc!
My parents had a priest in to bless the house and he said that basically she didn't know she had died, quite sad really, bless her.

A few years ago i bought my OH a trip to Liverpool and stadium tour of Liverpool football club for Christmas. We went on boxing day and stayed in a really old hotel, they told us it was practically empty and there were only a few people staying so the restaurant wasn't opening.
That night when we went to bed, just dropping off and we were both awoken to what sounded like furniture, a big bed perhaps, being dragged across the floor above, back and fore from one end to the other and on a wooden floor. carpets everywhere else in the hotel!! As soon as you turned the lights on it stopped, we looked out of the window to the window above and no lights on. We just thought maybe someone moved something. Falling back to sleep, same again. We decided to put the telly on for a bit. By this time is was about 3am, we were really tired, so tried to get some sleep, as soon as we were drifting off, a bed being dragged back and fore, it was really loud and spooky sounding. We thought why the hell would aanyone move furniture about in the middleof the night? My OH who has NEVER believed in ghosts was starting to get really creeped out too. By about half 4am we were dressed and had everything packed and left!! When it was light we went and asked for a refund for that night as we weren't going back! We stayed at a Toby Carvery place that night instead!! That place was definitely haunted!!
 
tinkandlily said:
What are they like?? i want to see them, but they'll probably keep me up for weeks ;)
i'm such a big wimp
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:D The first one is not that scary just the music makes u think somethings gonna happen but it never really does!! but you have to see the first one to understand the second one!! :D Go and rent number one out and watch it then go to the cinema and c the second one :D lol
 
When my mum and dad were newly married, they bought a house in a small country town in Victoria. The house was very old, and part of the 'heritage' tourist trail through the town, being one of the original buildings.

Mum and dad tended to the place, they found a 'sunken' garden beneath the blackberry bushes, dad re built a pergola, and generally they restored it back to what would have been it's former glory. Not long after moving in, they began to notice strange things. Whispers could be heard, and a very distinct gentle 'slap slap' of slow slippered feet shuffling down the hall, things moved and the front room was always cold. Mum and dad asked around, it turned out the daughter of the house's original builder, lived in the house into her old age and eventually died there.

My older brother was soon born, and the strange occurrences grew! Whenever he began to cry at night the light in his room would turn on. It was one where a string is pulled to turn it on, and the string could be seen gently swinging. The light would also turn on briefly, before turning off during the night. Mum was never worried, she always got a 'good' vibe, and thought the old lady's ghost was just checking on my brother :D Mum and dad loved that house, and I think the ghost lady appreciated.

Not long after selling, mum received a call from the new owners, asking if mum had heard the whispers and the soft footsteps shuffling down the hall :eek: :D
 
Lyle said:
When my mum and dad were newly married, they bought a house in a small country town in Victoria. The house was very old, and part of the 'heritage' tourist trail through the town, being one of the original buildings.

Mum and dad tended to the place, they found a 'sunken' garden beneath the blackberry bushes, dad re built a pergola, and generally they restored it back to what would have been it's former glory. Not long after moving in, they began to notice strange things. Whispers could be heard, and a very distinct gentle 'slap slap' of slow slippered feet shuffling down the hall, things moved and the front room was always cold. Mum and dad asked around, it turned out the daughter of the house's original builder, lived in the house into her old age and eventually died there.

My older brother was soon born, and the strange occurrences grew! Whenever he began to cry at night the light in his room would turn on. It was one where a string is pulled to turn it on, and the string could be seen gently swinging. The light would also turn on briefly, before turning off during the night. Mum was never worried, she always got a 'good' vibe, and thought the old lady's ghost was just checking on my brother :D Mum and dad loved that house, and I think the ghost lady appreciated.

Not long after selling, mum received a call from the new owners, asking if mum had heard the whispers and the soft footsteps shuffling down the hall :eek: :D
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:D i like that one :D
 
Love ready all the stories so I thought I would share mine.

When I was 19 I rented a house off a friend who was going to live in London. Quite often when I was lying in bed drifting off to sleep I would get a very strong smell of what could only be described as "old people" and at the same time a very strange sensation. This went on for some time so in the end I mentioned it to my house mate who said she had never noticed it. However whilst I was decorating my room I asked her to come give me a hand to move a wardrobe. As we started to do this the smell happened and as we walked accross the room the smell followed us totally freaking both me and my friend out. Later that week I was fast asleep in my room when all the posters I had put up on my walls fell off the wall together (there must have been at least 4 of them if not more). That was the last straw for me, I found somewhere new to live.

Since I've got older other things have happened too but in a much nicer way. I nursed my mother-in-law whilst she was dying with cancer and since she died she often comes to see me. When I was viewing my new house before I decided to buy it both me and my husband became aware of her presence with us and we took this as a positive sign. Also she often comes and sits on the bottom of my bed (I can actually feel her there). I know it's her, I can smell her and feel her presence and there is nothing but love coming from her.

On a stranger note I often dream about things that appear to then come true. I dreamt about a relative dying and it happened. Dreamt about buying a house in detail which I then went on to do. Dreamt about helicopters crashing (my ex husband was in the forces at the time) only to have him ring me the next day to let me know that 2 had crashed but that he was not involved and was ok.

Spooky eh?
 
I love reading about these!!
Our uni house we are sure is haunted.
We wake up frequently to someone running up and downstairs at about 6am. We have toilets flushing, lights coming on and doors and kitchen cupboards opening and slamming shut.
Since then, I have had bath taps turning off whilst I am in the bathroom, my car keys have been hidden under my desk (only 2 of us live there and my room had been locked all day), boiler turned off, a horse clothes tipped over and all the recycling cans knocked everywhere.
Also, when my friend stayed she said she felt someone stroking her neck - slapped me I woke up and she thought it was me!
We were watching Paranormal Activity one night with the lights off (as you do!) and at a really quiet part, the TV just shoved itself forwards and the DVD switched off.
Anybody explain that???
We have called him Peter and we say hello to him now and ask him to stop doing things - coincidentally things do stop when we ask!! We think he might just be cheeky - if he was out to hurt us I think he would have done so by now :)
K x
 
My Dad is very 'old school' and would never admit to any thing daft as ghosts etc...But, after coming home from work one morning (he worked shifts) he was in quite a state. He worked as a kilm operator in a factory and was checking the kilm and saw his work mate Dave walk past. He said 'alright Dave' turned back around and carried on. Before realising he got goosebumps and all the hairs on his arms and the back of his neck were up...As he remembered that Dave had died a few days before from cancer. Dad said he always wore a white shirt, which he was wearing. Dad said he did go back and check but could find no one about. There are only 2 people that work nights on the kilms and he found the other man at the other end of the factory!

After that he had another experience when driving to work for the early shift. He said he was driving along a lane and there was a really bright light in the middle of the road. He said he carried on driving towards it and it was so bright he had to shade his eyes with his hand. Then it just vanished and as he drove thru the spot where it was, he got shivers all up his spine and goose bumps! He can't explain what it was but it freaked him out! Poor Dad!

I also have had a awful experience, worked looking after a troubled teenager and the house was a really old cottage. Any way there were 2 bedrooms up stairs and I slept down stairs on the sofa bed. Settled down to sleep, just drifting off and felt some thing sit on the bed beside my legs. Que me panicking like mad to find the light switch! Felt very threatened, didn't see a thing and hardly slept the rest of the night. Told the other member of staff in the morning, thinking she will probably think I'm weird? She too has heard heavy foot steps up and down the stairs, banging, feeling as being watched. Didn't feel so bad then, managed to get moved to another house in order of not spending another night there...thankfully!
 
curragh said:
I also have had a awful experience, worked looking after a troubled teenager and the house was a really old cottage. Any way there were 2 bedrooms up stairs and I slept down stairs on the sofa bed. Settled down to sleep, just drifting off and felt some thing sit on the bed beside my legs. Que me panicking like mad to find the light switch! Felt very threatened, didn't see a thing and hardly slept the rest of the night. Told the other member of staff in the morning, thinking she will probably think I'm weird? She too has heard heavy foot steps up and down the stairs, banging, feeling as being watched. Didn't feel so bad then, managed to get moved to another house in order of not spending another night there...thankfully!
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well reading this bit at work, both pcs im the office rebooted at the same time and the phonelines went dead!! literally ran to the office next door and thankfully theyve had the same thing- the whole complex had just had a power cut, though the coincidence actually nearly made me cry!! :(
 
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