Paranormal Activity/Unexplained Phenomena

[Hermit Crab]

Has anyone had any experiences or encounters with the above? I'm really interested in this sort of stuff and I'm interested to know if other members have had experiences that they cant explain? Ghosts, Strange creatures, UFO's, aliens etc, please post your stories below if you want to share them.

I had a real doozy the other week. I still cant work out what happened. I was lying in bed sort of dozing but I think I was dreaming as well and in my dream I was in a city somewhere and it a big square with loads of people around and there was an incredibly loud bang up in the sky like a sonic boom and when I looked up to the sky there was a ufo of some kind shooting off at an incredible speed but at pretty much the same time I woke up to an incredibly loud bang in the room I was in. It was that loud my ears were actually ringing. I had a look around but found nothing out of place and nobody around, I even had a look out the window but again there was nothing. Could it have been some sort of sleep paralysis or just my brain waking me up and I only imagined the loud bang in the room? This has really stumped me. The whole experience seemed so real.

I've seen strange lights in the sky before but never seen anything to 100% convince me it was otherworldly. Anyone got any interesting stories or encounters they'd like to share? Id be interested in reading them.

[Mon Dieu4]

I've had some really strange experiences in my mum and dad's house, they always seemed to have happened when something bad has happened in my family, I used to think they were ghosts or spirits as they are pretty unexplainable but the older I get the less I believe in it all, will put them in some kind of order

First and foremost I've had a couple of cats over the years and a couple of times late at night they have both stared at something at night that wasn't there, I mean transfixed and refused to go near that part of the room, only happened on a couple of occasions but was totally out of character and one one occasion there had been a really strange atmosphere in the room when it happened, after one of these times my mum had heart issues the next day

Another time I was sat watching tv with my friends and heard a huge bang up stairs in my mum and dad's room, went upstairs and a picture had fallen off the wall, strange thing was that the picture hook was still in the wall and was one of those hooks you had to physically slide the picture over the top of it, couldn't see a way the picture could have fallen off the wall, it freaked me out, so I went out for a bit and when I came back all the lights in the house plus the fireplace had been turned on, only me and my friends had been in the house and not all of the lights had been on when I left, next night my dad stands on a man hole cover which breaks under his foot and he falls and breaks his nose and injures his face

When I was about 15/16 I was off for the school holidays, walked past my house with two of my friends, I heard a another huge bang come from within the house, all three of us ran up and looked through the front window to see a man in a suit standing in the living room, everyone else was at work and only I was about so thought someone was breaking in(well dressed burglar), I went into the house with my pals and there was no one there, we thought maybe it was a trick of the light but couldn't explain the loud bang, we sat down to watch tv and about 10 minutes in two of us turned round and saw the man in the suit sitting at the dining room table, we shat it and ran out the house, I refused to go back into the house and called my dad at work who had to come home and calm me down before I'd go back in the house (after that can't remember if anything bad happened, but my mums dad died when she was really young, being young myself I'd never really seen any pics of him as they weren't really on display in my house, can't remembered how long after I saw a pic of him but could of sworn he was the man in the suit we had seen)

The last one was probably the strangest and my mum actually has what happened on video, my grandad died and that night my mum couldn't sleep, she was in the kitchen pottering about about and heard a faint tapping noise again and again, she turned round and there was an empty two litre milk bottle on the bunker, the lid of the milk bottle was half lifting up and down, up and down when she was five feet away from it, she grabbed her phone and took a video of the bottle top and it was as she said, one side remained where it was and the other half was raising up a couple of millimetres and back down again making a tapping noise, went on for a fair few minutes, she said she wasn't scared and put it down to my grandad telling us everything was ok

As I said when I was younger it all used to freak me out, but now even though these are all things I cannot explain, have other witnesses that where there or have other stories I cant remember off the top of my head I'm not sure I believe it supernatural , I saw what I saw but there must be some explanation for it all that's based in science etc

[Peevemor]

Pretty tame in comparison, but when I was maybe about 6-7 years old I had a horrible feeling of dread/sadness - I don't know what - one afternoon. I think it was the October holiday as I wasn't at school. It started just after lunchtime and I felt really bad, I couldn't shake it off, and it was the only time I can remember feeling anything like that without being able to explain why. Later in the afternoon I was watching Magpie and the neighbour came to the door to say there was a call for us (we didn't have a phone). It was to tell us that my gran (dad's mum) had died at the beginning of the afternoon.

What's wierder is that my big brother had already experienced something similar when he was a bit younger than me - that time it was my mum's dad who had died.

The only other vaguely interesting (at least to me) event was on a day trip to Rothesay when I was about 10/11 and I experienced incredibly lucid déjà vu. I had never been there before, but I knew exactly how to get to a certain restaurant we were looking for.

[Moulin Yarns]

Has anyone had any experiences or encounters with the above? I'm really interested in this sort of stuff and I'm interested to know if other members have had experiences that they cant explain? Ghosts, Strange creatures, UFO's, aliens etc, please post your stories below if you want to share them.

I had a real doozy the other week. I still cant work out what happened. I was lying in bed sort of dozing but I think I was dreaming as well and in my dream I was in a city somewhere and it a big square with loads of people around and there was an incredibly loud bang up in the sky like a sonic boom and when I looked up to the sky there was a ufo of some kind shooting off at an incredible speed but at pretty much the same time I woke up to an incredibly loud bang in the room I was in. It was that loud my ears were actually ringing. I had a look around but found nothing out of place and nobody around, I even had a look out the window but again there was nothing. Could it have been some sort of sleep paralysis or just my brain waking me up and I only imagined the loud bang in the room? This has really stumped me. The whole experience seemed so real.

I've seen strange lights in the sky before but never seen anything to 100% convince me it was otherworldly. Anyone got any interesting stories or encounters they'd like to share? Id be interested in reading them.

Did this coincide with the thundersnow event?

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/04/edinburgh-hit-by-thundersnow-as-sonic-boom-wakes-residents

[Moulin Yarns]

My mother in law was into this. She said that every year on the 26th July she heard the sound of marching. This coincides with the day before the battle of killiecrankie.

She had a seance that I was at. Freaky. I was sceptical but the glass moved when it was just my finger touching it. We contacted a soldier called Wattie who had fled the battle and had died after hiding in a well.

Aye right I thought, but after a bit of digging we found a well not far into the field behind the house, no skeleton though.

[overdrive]

It didn’t happen to me but happened to mum a few years ago. My uncle (my mum’s sister’s husband and my dad’s best mate) had died a few years prior to this. My mum didn’t really keep her mobile phone to hand back then and picked her phone up around lunchtime and found she had a missed call from that morning... from my dead uncle’s mobile number. She assumed it was her sister perhaps using my uncle’s phone for some reason, so phoned my Auntie on her house phone to check. My auntie said she had chucked the phone and in any case the number had been disconnected.

My mum called the number back and right enough it had been disconnected. When she looked again, the missed call had taken place at 11am... the date that day was 11th November. She is convinced it was my uncle making contact for some reason.

[Hermit Crab]

I've had some really strange experiences in my mum and dad's house, they always seemed to have happened when something bad has happened in my family, I used to think they were ghosts or spirits as they are pretty unexplainable but the older I get the less I believe in it all, will put them in some kind of order

First and foremost I've had a couple of cats over the years and a couple of times late at night they have both stared at something at night that wasn't there, I mean transfixed and refused to go near that part of the room, only happened on a couple of occasions but was totally out of character and one one occasion there had been a really strange atmosphere in the room when it happened, after one of these times my mum had heart issues the next day

Another time I was sat watching tv with my friends and heard a huge bang up stairs in my mum and dad's room, went upstairs and a picture had fallen off the wall, strange thing was that the picture hook was still in the wall and was one of those hooks you had to physically slide the picture over the top of it, couldn't see a way the picture could have fallen off the wall, it freaked me out, so I went out for a bit and when I came back all the lights in the house plus the fireplace had been turned on, only me and my friends had been in the house and not all of the lights had been on when I left, next night my dad stands on a man hole cover which breaks under his foot and he falls and breaks his nose and injures his face

When I was about 15/16 I was off for the school holidays, walked past my house with two of my friends, I heard a another huge bang come from within the house, all three of us ran up and looked through the front window to see a man in a suit standing in the living room, everyone else was at work and only I was about so thought someone was breaking in(well dressed burglar), I went into the house with my pals and there was no one there, we thought maybe it was a trick of the light but couldn't explain the loud bang, we sat down to watch tv and about 10 minutes in two of us turned round and saw the man in the suit sitting at the dining room table, we shat it and ran out the house, I refused to go back into the house and called my dad at work who had to come home and calm me down before I'd go back in the house (after that can't remember if anything bad happened, but my mums dad died when she was really young, being young myself I'd never really seen any pics of him as they weren't really on display in my house, can't remembered how long after I saw a pic of him but could of sworn he was the man in the suit we had seen)

The last one was probably the strangest and my mum actually has what happened on video, my grandad died and that night my mum couldn't sleep, she was in the kitchen pottering about about and heard a faint tapping noise again and again, she turned round and there was an empty two litre milk bottle on the bunker, the lid of the milk bottle was half lifting up and down, up and down when she was five feet away from it, she grabbed her phone and took a video of the bottle top and it was as she said, one side remained where it was and the other half was raising up a couple of millimetres and back down again making a tapping noise, went on for a fair few minutes, she said she wasn't scared and put it down to my grandad telling us everything was ok

As I said when I was younger it all used to freak me out, but now even though these are all things I cannot explain, have other witnesses that where there or have other stories I cant remember off the top of my head I'm not sure I believe it supernatural , I saw what I saw but there must be some explanation for it all that's based in science etc


Some really interesting stuff there mate, especially the man in the suit. Thanks for posting.

[Hermit Crab]

Did this coincide with the thundersnow event?

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/04/edinburgh-hit-by-thundersnow-as-sonic-boom-wakes-residents


No it didn't, would loved to have witnessed that though. (I was out the country)

[Hermit Crab]

It didn’t happen to me but happened to mum a few years ago. My uncle (my mum’s sister’s husband and my dad’s best mate) had died a few years prior to this. My mum didn’t really keep her mobile phone to hand back then and picked her phone up around lunchtime and found she had a missed call from that morning... from my dead uncle’s mobile number. She assumed it was her sister perhaps using my uncle’s phone for some reason, so phoned my Auntie on her house phone to check. My auntie said she had chucked the phone and in any case the number had been disconnected.

My mum called the number back and right enough it had been disconnected. When she looked again, the missed call had taken place at 11am... the date that day was 11th November. She is convinced it was my uncle making contact for some reason.


I've read stories like this before, phone calls from deceased relatives phone numbers but when people call back its a disconnected number. Very strange.

[Mon Dieu4]

Somebody must be trying to tell me something, just back from the haunted house and my folks told me they had been looking for a remote this morning, wasn't where it usually is, they looked everywhere for it and then it did turn up where it usually is, as long as the ghost stays in their house I'm still being a sceptic

[Hibrandenburg]

I've seen a few things I can't explain, doesn't mean there's a supernatural explanation to them though.

[McD]

2 things to share, one happened to my Dad, the other to me:

- My Grandad (my Dad's Dad) passed away before I was born, when my Dad was 20. My Grandad was physically disabled, and walked with 2 crutches or sticks most of his adult life. The only way he could get upstairs in their house was for them to have a bannister on both sides of the staircase, and he lifted himself up the stairs using both arms, facing backwards. This was the case for all of my Dad's life, and for all of that time, my Dad's bedroom shared a wall with the staircase, and my Dad was long used to hearing the bannisters creak all the way up the stair as his weight shifted up, passing his bed's headboard, until my Grandad reached the top of the stairs. After my Grandad died, a few days later, my Dad was the only one in the house overnight, and woke up during the night, and a moment later the bannisters started creaking just the same as they always had, and the creaking went slowly up the stairs, passing the back of his head, all the way to the top of the stairs, where the sound stopped, and silence. My Dad jumped out of bed, light on, got dressed, but didn't want to open the bedroom door. He waited for a few hours until daylight broke, and worked up the guts to throw open the door and rush downstairs and out the house. Never happened again



- About 6 years ago, I was walking my dog alone around Bangour, it was a weekday so very quiet. I was walking along a road with a hedge next to me, when I saw a man on the other side on the grass. He was walking in an odd direction, almost parallel to me, but going in the opposite direction. This was odd as I was walking round a curve, so it looked as if he had burst through the hedge ahead of me (which he hadn't as I would have seen him) and was walking towards nothing in particular, literally nothing at all. He was wearing royal blue trousers and jacket, heavy duty cotton material like a coal worker or manual labourer might wear, black steel toe cap boots, with steel grey hair parted in the middle, black eyebrows, probably mid to late 50s, hand shoved in his trouser pockets. I turned to speak to the dog for a split second, then looked back and couldn't see him. I chalked this up to the hedge, and continued on about 15 feet until the hedge thinned, and looked again, and he was gone. There was nowhere he could have gone, nothing he could be hidden by. It freaked me out a bit, and I spent a few minutes looking for him, and then headed back to the car still feeling freaked out.

[Hibby70]

We had a spirit in our old house. We were advised to use alphabet spaghetti to allow it to contact us. But all it ever said was oooooo, oooooo. Not sure we'd used the correct tin.

[Future17]

We had a spirit in our old house. We were advised to use alphabet spaghetti to allow it to contact us. But all it ever said was oooooo, oooooo. Not sure we'd used the correct tin.

Either that or it was the spirit of Michael Crawford.

[heretoday]

We had a spirit in our old house. We were advised to use alphabet spaghetti to allow it to contact us. But all it ever said was oooooo, oooooo. Not sure we'd used the correct tin.

Spirit of Babs Windsor - ooh matron!

[J-C]

I used to do some paranormal ghost hunting a few years ago, had a good few experiences I cant fully explain, shuffling feet, stones being thrown, weird smells, shadow figures and EVP on digital recorder. I've had an EMF meter going haywire in a room void of electricity in an old empty house.
Not had any UFO experience but there are thousands of people yearly experiencing all these phenomena regularly, some can be explained by natural causes, others can't, they're not all fruit loops as too many people see so many unexplained things.

[J-C]

2 things to share, one happened to my Dad, the other to me:

- My Grandad (my Dad's Dad) passed away before I was born, when my Dad was 20. My Grandad was physically disabled, and walked with 2 crutches or sticks most of his adult life. The only way he could get upstairs in their house was for them to have a bannister on both sides of the staircase, and he lifted himself up the stairs using both arms, facing backwards. This was the case for all of my Dad's life, and for all of that time, my Dad's bedroom shared a wall with the staircase, and my Dad was long used to hearing the bannisters creak all the way up the stair as his weight shifted up, passing his bed's headboard, until my Grandad reached the top of the stairs. After my Grandad died, a few days later, my Dad was the only one in the house overnight, and woke up during the night, and a moment later the bannisters started creaking just the same as they always had, and the creaking went slowly up the stairs, passing the back of his head, all the way to the top of the stairs, where the sound stopped, and silence. My Dad jumped out of bed, light on, got dressed, but didn't want to open the bedroom door. He waited for a few hours until daylight broke, and worked up the guts to throw open the door and rush downstairs and out the house. Never happened again



- About 6 years ago, I was walking my dog alone around Bangour, it was a weekday so very quiet. I was walking along a road with a hedge next to me, when I saw a man on the other side on the grass. He was walking in an odd direction, almost parallel to me, but going in the opposite direction. This was odd as I was walking round a curve, so it looked as if he had burst through the hedge ahead of me (which he hadn't as I would have seen him) and was walking towards nothing in particular, literally nothing at all. He was wearing royal blue trousers and jacket, heavy duty cotton material like a coal worker or manual labourer might wear, black steel toe cap boots, with steel grey hair parted in the middle, black eyebrows, probably mid to late 50s, hand shoved in his trouser pockets. I turned to speak to the dog for a split second, then looked back and couldn't see him. I chalked this up to the hedge, and continued on about 15 feet until the hedge thinned, and looked again, and he was gone. There was nowhere he could have gone, nothing he could be hidden by. It freaked me out a bit, and I spent a few minutes looking for him, and then headed back to the car still feeling freaked out.

We were out at Bangour a few years ago, it was all boarded up waiting to be developed, standing next to one of the buildings we heard a knocking coming from inside on the boarded up window. While walking from that building across the road to the next I could smell burning, a charcoal smell, the other 2 guys smelt nowt, he told me the building we were approaching was on a fire and several people died, it was a very weird experience.

The royal blue uniform appearance is interesting as Bangour was used as a field hospital during the war, used for men with severe injuries and mental illness.

[Moulin Yarns]

Maybe 35 years ago I had a temporary job with Edinburgh Council, surveying properties and creating a record for their property terrier. A lot of records were stored in the old closes and rooms under the City Chambers. One day I was with another lad getting titles that were stored there, in a room with a metal rail with hooks on it, it was thought to be an old butchers shop. We wer both in the room which wasn't warm as it was a few floors below High Street ground level when it suddenly got very cold for about 30 seconds before returning to just cold.

This is now part of Mary Kings Close.

[EH6 Hibby]

I’d completely forgotten about this until reading through these.

When I was around 18ish I think it was, my dog out of nowhere started acting very strangely. He was a wee cross breed and was the most placid well behaved dog ever. He was brilliant. This one night, about 11pm he started barking and growling at the wall in my mum and dads room, he was in a right state and wasn’t listening to us when we tried to calm him down, he was sat in the middle of the bed going mental at the wall. All of a sudden he jumped down and ran to the front door, he was crying and whimpering to get out. I put the lead on him which I didn’t usually do because he would usually walk right beside you without one, but just because of the way he was acting I put it on. He literally dragged me down the stairs and along Lorne Street, pulling like mad, then we got to the church on Lorne Street and he stopped dead staring into the grounds. He wouldn’t move after that I had to end up lifting him up to get him away from the church. It only ever happened the once, but my mum always used to say that house was haunted and there were a few odd things that happened over the years.

[Jones28]

My parents live in an old smiddy, and my mum swears she got a very distinctive smell of horse right where it would have been in the old days. I’m skeptical but have once or twice had the odd feeling of being creeped out in older houses, never in my current home though, which is newer but has what would be considered a creepy extended area to the rear.

[bobbyhibs1983]

very intresting topic and some really intresting replies for sure!
i don't think two of my stories are as intresting as other replies,one isn't *too* paranormal/unexplained phenomena as such​ but here goes nothing.
1.sadly my uncle died in 2013 ,Where we are (west of edinburgh) we do our shopping at wester hailes centre and have done for many years.After my uncle died about a year/18months afterwards, my mum and I were going to the shops and we went into the centre and there was whom i thought was my uncle!, I mean my uncle was like 5 4", on the more chubby side has straight black,some grey hair and was bearded and wore this old blue jacket. and dark blue joggers and this guy sitting down was like the spitting image,same kinda jacket and blue joggers! We saw this gent 2-3 other times ,though in thinking we haven't seen him for a good while

2. kinda on the unexplained part i recall it was morning about 8 30 which is the time i normally get up and well i woke up and i just could not move,my body felt numb like there was heavy ait on top of me and try as i may i could not move my arms,legs, any part of my body,and i heard this voice, more so in my head saying gotta get up, gotta get up, gotta try to get up . After like 2-3 mins i got up and walked like 5 or so feet and then it was like i was okay.
It sorta freaked me out and has only ever happend to me once

[Sylar]

A close friend of mine during childhood lived in a really old house in Bathgate - shortly after his parents moved in (well before he was born), they discovered an old passageway in the house, connecting one of the upper bedrooms to the attic. It had been boarded up on both sides, and shortly after moving into the house they found a skeleton of a young child in the passage. They assumed it was fake at first but quickly realised that sadly it was a real skeleton that had been in-situ since the early 1900s (I didn't believe this at first but it's actually documented in the Bennie Museum in Bathgate).

Anyway, fast forward to when my friend's family are living in the house and he's at school, and there used to be a LOT of strange things happen in the house - from knocking noises, to things moving/falling from their positions...one night, when having a sleepover (we were high-school age by this time and must have been around 4 of us this night) we heard a loud smashing and screaming noise. Every one of us sat up at the same time and looked at each other - we headed along the hallway to the old spiral staircase that lead downstairs to the bathroom and kitchen to find the bathroom door locked from the inside with nobody inside.

I'm sure ALL of it could readily be explained but as a young kid, it freaked me out at the time!

[Caversham Green]

Three separate events over the years from me.

At a family get together we were chatting about my sister's forthcoming move to Ellon in Aberdeenshire and I said that we'd been there when I was a wee boy. Neither my mother nor my brother (who is 2 years older than me) thought they'd ever been there - my sister is much younger so it would have been before her time. I could remember travelling on a bus across an old, narrow bridge towards a white building and various other bits of the town but Mum and Bro were adamant they'd never been there. After the move we visited Sis and sure enough, there's an old narrow bridge with a white building at the end of it, almost exactly as I remembered it. As we walked around the town various bits were very familiar to me but Bro was drawing a complete blank. The strange bit is that the bridge I remembered crossing had been closed to traffic and a new one built alongside it long before I was born - I even said "I see they've built a new bridge" when we got there.

The second incident relates to a dream I had about a helicopter crash two or three days before the Leicester City tragedy. When I was much younger - maybe 40 years ago or more - I used to have recurring dreams about helicopter crashes but they were mostly fairly surreal and didn't bother me much. However, the one I had this time felt more disturbing - the helicopter was blue and white and after it hit the ground it toppled over onto its side. Also the place it came down was very similar to the setting of the real crash. There were differences between my dream and the reality, but the similarities were such that I felt more than a bit sick when I saw the pictures of the crash on the news. Just to put it out there, I've recently had a dream about a very large helicopter crashing into the Tay Road Bridge. This one was very surreal, so I'm not particularly worried about it.

The third thing is quite personal and I'm not using the real names as it just doesn't feel right. Shortly after my wife died (twenty years ago) my sister went to put flowers on her grave. She had to take her then 2 year old son with her as there was no-one available to look after him, but they hadn't told him my wife had died and she told him they were just going to see the church and look at the flowers. On the way back to the car the wee boy said "Must tell Cav". When my sister asked what he had to tell me he said "Jenny's ok now and she was really pleased to see me." That one was both heart-warming and heart-breaking at the same time.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

I've had an EMF meter going haywire in a room void of electricity in an old empty house.

Unbelievable. 😉

[Mon Dieu4]

I've been discussing this thread with my mum and dad and they reminded me something that happened when I was a wee boy, I can still remember it clear as day 35 or so years later but havn't thought about it for a while, I have no history of imaginary friends, lying or making stuff up even as a kid

Every Christmas my whole family would go to my Nana and grandads house, one year there was this old man sat on the settee in a brown suit and he showed me how to turn a piece of paper into a boat/hat and chatted away to me, after we left I asked my mum and dad who he was and they had absolutely no clue who I was on about, we had all been in the same room and there were about 10 people there max so it's not like they missed someone

I can still remember where he was sitting, what he did, nothing spooky like disappearing, he was just some guy at my Nana and Grandads to me

[The Modfather]

I remember being on an overnight train from Dnipro to Kiev after the Hibs game. I woke up in the night so went for a wander. The train was stopped and there was a load of strange lights on the other side of a tall embankment beside the train. Couldn’t explain them at the time. Sadly I learnt later on there had been a fatal rail crash that night and my suspicion is that it was probably the lights from the search crews, but it was certainly lights like I’ve not seen before.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

I remember being on an overnight train from Dnipro to Kiev after the Hibs game. I woke up in the night so went for a wander. The train was stopped and there was a load of strange lights on the other side of a tall embankment beside the train. Couldn’t explain them at the time. Sadly I learnt later on there had been a fatal rail crash that night and my suspicion is that it was probably the lights from the search crews, but it was certainly lights like I’ve not seen before.

There were quite a few strange "events" on those trains! 😲

[The Modfather]

There were quite a few strange "events" on those trains! 😲

Yep, I remember being invited into a compartment with the most stereotypical of grizzly looking Russian mafia types who spoke no English. They gave us some beers and some rocket fuel I think was meant to be vodka. As well as the most rancid of food we had to pretend to enjoy all while communicating using the extent of “Shevchenko” and “Kiev”. Got many a story from that trip 😀

[J-C]

Unbelievable. 😉


You should believe it because to set off an EMF detector you need some form of electricity/power. If you go into a kitchen or room you will get a spike on the EMF, you go through all the rooms and get a base line so you know what is expected, if the EMF goes up above the base line it generally means there's been a surge of power from somewhere. We were in an old building void of all power so the base line was at zero, to get massive spikes in a building with no power is a big deal.

[Peevemor]

You should believe it because to set off an EMF detector you need some form of electricity/power. If you go into a kitchen or room you will get a spike on the EMF, you go through all the rooms and get a base line so you know what is expected, if the EMF goes up above the base line it generally means there's been a surge of power from somewhere. We were in an old building void of all power so the base line was at zero, to get massive spikes in a building with no power is a big deal.

https://youtu.be/sfCLt0kTd5E


Tune!

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

You should believe it because to set off an EMF detector you need some form of electricity/power. If you go into a kitchen or room you will get a spike on the EMF, you go through all the rooms and get a base line so you know what is expected, if the EMF goes up above the base line it generally means there's been a surge of power from somewhere. We were in an old building void of all power so the base line was at zero, to get massive spikes in a building with no power is a big deal.

Ok, sorry.

I believe.

[J-C]

Ok, sorry.

I believe.


Not so much about believing, don't know if even I believe but I'm open minded about these things. Millions of people all over he world have experienced different sorts of paranormal events and much can be explained away, it's very hard to changed peoples minds on these things as personal experience is vital to make you believe.

[sleeping giant]

Not so much about believing, don't know if even I believe but I'm open minded about these things. Millions of people all over he world have experienced different sorts of paranormal events and much can be explained away, it's very hard to changed peoples minds on these things as personal experience is vital to make you believe.

You are missing a whoosh mate.

[calumhibee1]

Not so much about believing, don't know if even I believe but I'm open minded about these things. Millions of people all over he world have experienced different sorts of paranormal events and much can be explained away, it's very hard to changed peoples minds on these things as personal experience is vital to make you believe.

It’s absolutely true that you will have to have a personal experience to make you believe.

I’ve never witnessed anything that I would consider paranormal etc and as such I have absolutely no belief in it.

I’m sure that would change the minute it happened but without it it’s just impossible to fathom.

[HibbyDave]

I should really share The Awful Story Of The Empty Barn.

















Ach, there was nothing in it.







Credit for this tale to John Laurie from dad’s Army circa 1970😀

[Pretty Boy]

A few years back I was working in a job selling flooring. A colleague and I were sent to inspect a wooden floor in a castle that a fitter had ****ed up.

On arriving we were greeted by the owner of the house (who happened to be an Earl) and got on with what we had to do. As expected the floor needed redone from scratch and we had the fitter with us expecting as much. We agreed to stay to help out and we got to work right away. At about 1pm the housekeeping staff asked us to use the back stairs if we needed to go in or out as the 'master of the house' was sitting down to lunch and shouldn't be disturbed. They did warn us that we would have to pass a small drawing room in which the Earls father would be. They said just to go through as he had advanced dementia and would just ignore us. I had to go out to the van and as instructed came back up the back stairs. As I passed through the drawing room the old guy, as advised, completely ignored me. There was a child in the room though and he was climbing on the window sill then jumping on the floor repetitively. Just as I was leaving the room he gestured to the old guy and said to me 'he can't see me you know'. Given the guys infirmity I thought this was just a kid being cheeky and thought nothing of it. When I got back downstairs I casually mentioned to the housekeeper that one of the children was in the old guys room and jumping near the window. She looked at me and said 'there's no children living here at the moment'. This prompted a swift dash upstairs by the housekeeping team to check this out and there was no child to be seen. One of them sheepishly asked the Earl if any of the children were on site and he confirmed that they weren't.

I'm still not totally sure I didn't imagine the whole thing or what the explanation is but it left me really unsettled for weeks and I'm still uneasy about it now.

[Scouse Hibee]

I had never been a believer in ghosts or anything like that. About thirty years ago I was working in Sussex and stayed in a small hotel that my company had used before, there was a group of us and some had stayed previously and they all said room x was haunted according to the stories they had been told on previous stays and not to accept that room if offered it. I laughed and said what a complete load of bollox. I took the room and off I went to bed, what can only be described as some form surrounding me and smothering the life out of me was my experience that night. I eventually broke free of it and bolted from that room banging on the door of my mates room where I slept on the floor. Never been so scared in my life. still don’t know wether it was on my mind and just a nightmare or a real experience but I never belittled ghost stories after that experience.

[Hermit Crab]

We've had some strange goings on on our old rolling stock a few years ago. One night we had a dead coach, no power to it at all as the MA (Motor Alternator) had a flash over so it was gubbed, all alarm systems in this coach were isolated as well. The only lighting available was by using glow sticks as even the batteries were dead (the batteries never lasted long anyway as they were old). Now this coach was in the middle of the rake but all coaches either side still work normally as the power supply still passes through the power cables to the coaches on either side, it just doesn't power the affected coach.

Anyway, this one particular night a call alarm went off (there was a call attendant button in each berth) and the staff went off to investigate it. Upon arriving at the dead coach they discovered that one of the call buttons had been pressed from inside a locked berth in this dead coach. Seemingly impossible as the coach was without power. Anyway they looked in the berth which was of course empty so slightly stumped they reset it and went about their business again. This happened a total of 3 times iirc, the same thing in the same coach in the same berth. The coach number was 10666 and it had a history of strange occurrences and also many years ago an elderly passenger went to sleep in that coach and never woke up. Could it be connected to that? We will never know as the coaches were all scrapped or sold to private collectors/companies earlier this year when the new fleet entered service.

[Bangkok Hibby]

Around 40 years ago I had an experience which would send most folks running screaming out the house. This went on for a whole week, every night. Its too long a story to go into but it involved visions, sounds and physical touches.
I've never been one to leap to the supernatural explanation for weird stuff, there are billions upon billions of dead people. Why do only a tiny fraction of them manifest themselves?
For my particular experience I was incredibly stressed at the time so chose to ride it out telling myself it was my brain playing tricks on me, even though it was as real as I'm sitting here now. After a week it stopped and never re-ocurred.
I believe until we fully understand the human brain people will continue to attribute these strange experiences to ghosts, alien visitations, whatever.
Not denying or belittling other folks experiences in any way but Im sure science will figure it all out some day.

[J-C]

About 5 years ago we went to Stourbridge to meet up with friends, we all did internet radio presenting and the station owner and many of the original presenters lived down there.

We booked into the Talbot Hotel for a couple of nights, the hotel is around 400 yrs old and was seemingly on Most Haunted. The 1st evening after a few drinks we went back to the room and went to sleep. Around 2.30ish in the morning I awoke to hear the tap in the bathroom sink turned full on and water pouring out it. I woke the wife and went to the bathroom to turn it off, I asked her if she forgot to turn it off after brushing her teeth but like me was too tipsy to remember her teeth and went straight to bed. So no one had used the tap but it came on in the early hours, I turned it off and on again and the tap didn't seem to be loose, after telling the receptionist, she told us that room does gave a history of poltergeist activity.

[Mon Dieu4]

I had something I couldn't really explain when I visited my gran in her care home, will set this up by saying her care home was fantastic, was more like a hotel, really modern, open and airy, clean, lovely staff etc

But one occasion when I went to visit I had a feeling come over me that I've never felt before or since

This wasn't a place I dreaded going or had any particular ill feelings about but that one time as soon as I walked in the atmosphere felt really heavy, I felt uneasy and claustrophobic which is something I've never suffered from before or since

I just had a genuine feeling of I'm hating this place today and I have no clue or reason why, it just felt horrible

After I left I returned to normal and couldn't explain what had happened, everyone else was happy as Larry going about their day but I just felt so uneasy and rank

[Rattler]

I'm a firm believer of the supernatural etc, so whether that makes me more susceptible to things is open to debate, but I'm had a few things happen that are difficult to explain.

First, the house that we are in we purchased in 2002. It's not a new property - built in 1970. The previous owner was an Italian woman and owner of the BBQ in Corstorphine. When we viewed the house, it had several beds in each room and hadn't really been touched since the day it was built - really gave the impression that it was used as either a British base for her (she spent most of her time in Italy) or was used for staff etc. The house took a lot of time and money to do up, but one night I remember waking up in what is the biggest of the 3 bedrooms upstairs. Looking out into the hall, there was a guy standing there who was maybe around 50 - just standing at the bedroom door. I remember being overcome with shivers and wouldn't move. I couldn't say anything for what seemed like forever, but was probably more like 10 seconds. The person then just seemed to move along the hallway towards one of the other bedrooms. My young daughter was sleeping in one of the rooms so really had to get up and see who/what it was and ensure everything was as it should be. She was only about 5 at the time, and was sound asleep. Taking her to school the next day, she just happened to say that she had been playing with a friend in her bedroom during the night, but was a bit disappointed when her Dad came to take her home. Can't explain that one!

The second one happened one night in the middle of winter. My wife's family come from and still live in and around Stranraer - that in itself isn't strange. Any time we visit we head down the A77, past Ayr, Turnburry, Girvan etc. One time we were heading down we had been told that the road just outside of Cairnryan was closed due to sever flooding, so had to travel via Dumfries that time. It was dark, about 8pm on a Friday night and chucking it down with rain. We were coming up to Castle Kennedy, which is a small village on the A75 just outside of Stranraer. It wasn't the weather for anyone to be outside, but about 100 yards before the houses started there was a guy standing at the side of the road. Remember him clear as day - a guy in his early 20's, short brown hair, wearing a red checked shirt and jeans. As we passed him he almost seemed to run towards the car. I remember swerving slightly to avoid him, and I was greeted with my wife asking me what I was doing as we could've been killed by swerving into the path of the oncoming HGV. She said that she didn't see anyone, and why would someone be so stupid to be standing outside in that weather. We mentioned it to her brother-in-law who has been driving HGV's for several years. He mentioned that there was a bloke killed just outside Castle Kennedy several years beforehand by an HGV - I'd never heard the story before.

[Northernhibee]

The only other vaguely interesting (at least to me) event was on a day trip to Rothesay when I was about 10/11 and I experienced incredibly lucid déjà vu. I had never been there before, but I knew exactly how to get to a certain restaurant we were looking for.

I don’t get it as much or as vividly I used to but I got this a lot in my teens and twenties. Things like when I managed a Blockbuster store and had to cover another store due to illness - had never been in there before but a member of staff who Id never met before cracked a joke whilst filing the returns and I was at the front desk. Knew the punchline straight away even though it was his original joke but was aware of the exact same person in the exact same building and we were in the exact same positions.

It wasn’t uncommon for me to know what was coming up word for word in little snippets of conversation or even finding myself in new places and having an immediate familiarity with them.

I went to a friend who runs a spirituality forum to ask about this and although it’s not something I could say I firmly believe in, she started talking about past lives and the like. She spoke about auras and what you could tell for them and she picked out a family member of mine (by relation) and said that they’d been struggling with their health in the last couple of months. She’d never met this person and neither had I spoken about them, but she was certain.

Next time I seen this person I told them about this and they opened up to me that they’d been battling with their mental health but didn’t want to talk about it in case they were seen as weak over it. I certainly hadn’t been aware of it - they hid their struggles very well.

[Pretty Boy]

This one isn't paranormal but at the time it was really weird.

Last summer I ran in a fixed time event, basically run as many laps of a fixed course as you can in a set time. This race was 12 hours and the first 11 hours was on a 5K course then switching to a 1K course for the last hour. It just so happened that this was one of the hottest days of the year and the sun was beating down all day.

By the time of my last lap of the 5K course I was severely dehydrated, had ran about 85K and had just under 6000ft of climb under my belt. In other words I was ****ed. I was just rounding a bend that led to a downhill section where I planned to pick up my pace, get back to the aid station and get some fluid and food on board before moving to the shorter course. Suddenly I was aware of someone running right on my shoulder. There were only about 40 runners in the race on a 5K course so there was no need for this and I was a bit pissed off so I slowed down to let them pass. It was then I realised I had watched myself just overtake me. I stopped and watched myself run happily off round the corner. I was properly in a panic and thought I had collapsed and died or something. I started running again, got back to the checkpoint and had it confirmed I was very much alive. About half an hour later similar happened again on the shorter course.

I done a bit digging later on and it seems such a phenomena isn't that uncommon at times of extreme fatigue and/or dehydration. There are some really interesting stories of endurance athletes experiencing some properly wild hallucinations and the like. I read about one guy in a 100 mile race who lay down in the middle of a path and insisted to anyone who would listen he was a very important guest sleeping in a suite in the Plaza Hotel. Now I know it was nothing to be particularly worried about I'd quite like to experience it again.

[Jones28]

This isn't remotely spiritual, but I almost always check my phone/the time on my computer/watch at the same time of day every day.


The time?

19:02.

Every time.

I don't know if its become something I do out of habit, I certainly don't do it consciously but to do the same thing at a certain time of day is feels weird. Sometimes I'm not even going to look at the time, it just appears.

[Hermit Crab]

This isn't remotely spiritual, but I almost always check my phone/the time on my computer/watch at the same time of day every day.


The time?

19:02.

Every time.

I don't know if its become something I do out of habit, I certainly don't do it consciously but to do the same thing at a certain time of day is feels weird. Sometimes I'm not even going to look at the time, it just appears.


I get that a lot, and I mean a lot and I cant explain it. I can only imagine that the year has been drummed into us for years before we won the cup, thats why we must think its significant when it happens to us. :dunno:

[overdrive]

Not really paranormal as such but when I was teenager I was coming back from Fuerteventura with my parents and felt a sense that something bad was about to happen. Anyway, part way into the flight images of a plane crash came into my head and I mentioned it to my mum. I got really dirty looks from the cabin crew. Shortly after, the pilot announced we were having to divert as certain airspace had been closed.

Landed to the news that Concorde had crashed.

[Speedy]

This isn't remotely spiritual, but I almost always check my phone/the time on my computer/watch at the same time of day every day.


The time?

19:02.

Every time.

I don't know if its become something I do out of habit, I certainly don't do it consciously but to do the same thing at a certain time of day is feels weird. Sometimes I'm not even going to look at the time, it just appears.

Only had that once. On the back from Hampden when we won the cup.

[McD]

I don’t get it as much or as vividly I used to but I got this a lot in my teens and twenties. Things like when I managed a Blockbuster store and had to cover another store due to illness - had never been in there before but a member of staff who Id never met before cracked a joke whilst filing the returns and I was at the front desk. Knew the punchline straight away even though it was his original joke but was aware of the exact same person in the exact same building and we were in the exact same positions.

It wasn’t uncommon for me to know what was coming up word for word in little snippets of conversation or even finding myself in new places and having an immediate familiarity with them.

I went to a friend who runs a spirituality forum to ask about this and although it’s not something I could say I firmly believe in, she started talking about past lives and the like. She spoke about auras and what you could tell for them and she picked out a family member of mine (by relation) and said that they’d been struggling with their health in the last couple of months. She’d never met this person and neither had I spoken about them, but she was certain.

Next time I seen this person I told them about this and they opened up to me that they’d been battling with their mental health but didn’t want to talk about it in case they were seen as weak over it. I certainly hadn’t been aware of it - they hid their struggles very well.


I get that kind of thing happening, fairly rarely now, but much more often when I was younger - I once even experienced deja vu thinking this feels like deja vu , like I was going through something for the 3rd (or more) time



My wife has a friend, been friendly for years. She told us something once, which I found fascinating (as I do with most supernatural things). As a child through into adult life, she'd felt a benevalent presence with her, almost like a guardian type figure, which she said never made her feel afraid, only good vibes from it. She never saw them directly, only fleeting glimpses out the corner of her eye, but felt that this was an older woman. As she got older, she became more attuned to whether the spirit was with her in that moment, and when she moved into her home with her husband, she said she could occasionally look up to one of the house windows when getting into the car, and would see a faint shape at the window, and knew the spirit had stayed in the house. Her cat would occasionally sit and stare intently at a chair that sat in the corner of their living room, the same chair that my wife's friend would also occasionally catch a glimpse of her spirit.

She is a nurse, and several years ago was working on a geriatric ward. One night shift, she was working at the nurse's station when a woman visitor walked towards her, and as she passed my friend, she stopped and turned to her, and said 'Hi, I just wanted to tell you, I know you're pregnant, and this time everything is going to be fine, you'll have a wee boy'. This was said in a friendly, compassionate way, with a smile. My friend and her husband had been trying for a baby for a long time, and had several miscarriages. She knew she was about 9 or 10 weeks, and hadn't told anyone outside of her husband that she was pregnant, in fact hadn't even told anyone about this miscarriages. As you can imagine, she was a bit shocked when the visitor said this.

The visitor saw the surprise in her face, and said 'oh don't be surprised, your companion told me. She's been with you since you were born, and she's kept an eye on you, and she's proud of you. When your son is born, she'll move to watch over him, you'll not see her any more, but not to worry as she'll be with your son'.

After her son was born, she hasn't felt her spirit's presence, not once, and hasn't ever had a glimpse of her.

I found this fascinating for both the spirit thing and that the woman in the hospital was able to tell her all of these things, and the details that simply couldn't be known

[danhibees1875]

This isn't remotely spiritual, but I almost always check my phone/the time on my computer/watch at the same time of day every day.


The time?

19:02.

Every time.

I don't know if its become something I do out of habit, I certainly don't do it consciously but to do the same thing at a certain time of day is feels weird. Sometimes I'm not even going to look at the time, it just appears.

I'll throw my hat in the ring for that one too.

I think it's just a case of being more aware of it compared to when I glance up and see 15:47...

[Peevemor]

This isn't remotely spiritual, but I almost always check my phone/the time on my computer/watch at the same time of day every day.


The time?

19:02.

Every time.

I don't know if its become something I do out of habit, I certainly don't do it consciously but to do the same thing at a certain time of day is feels weird. Sometimes I'm not even going to look at the time, it just appears.

I had a watch like that too - turned out it needed a new battery.

[Mon Dieu4]

I'll throw my hat in the ring for that one too.

I think it's just a case of being more aware of it compared to when I glance up and see 15:47...

10:04am for me

[Hiber-nation]

My only experience was having an old knackered watch lying in a drawer for years which suddenly came to life when Uri Geller (yep Uri Geller the fraud) did a TV experiment way back in the late 70s to start up everyone's knackered watches and clocks. Nobody believed me of course.

[Hermit Crab]

I get that kind of thing happening, fairly rarely now, but much more often when I was younger - I once even experienced deja vu thinking this feels like deja vu , like I was going through something for the 3rd (or more) time



My wife has a friend, been friendly for years. She told us something once, which I found fascinating (as I do with most supernatural things). As a child through into adult life, she'd felt a benevalent presence with her, almost like a guardian type figure, which she said never made her feel afraid, only good vibes from it. She never saw them directly, only fleeting glimpses out the corner of her eye, but felt that this was an older woman. As she got older, she became more attuned to whether the spirit was with her in that moment, and when she moved into her home with her husband, she said she could occasionally look up to one of the house windows when getting into the car, and would see a faint shape at the window, and knew the spirit had stayed in the house. Her cat would occasionally sit and stare intently at a chair that sat in the corner of their living room, the same chair that my wife's friend would also occasionally catch a glimpse of her spirit.

She is a nurse, and several years ago was working on a geriatric ward. One night shift, she was working at the nurse's station when a woman visitor walked towards her, and as she passed my friend, she stopped and turned to her, and said 'Hi, I just wanted to tell you, I know you're pregnant, and this time everything is going to be fine, you'll have a wee boy'. This was said in a friendly, compassionate way, with a smile. My friend and her husband had been trying for a baby for a long time, and had several miscarriages. She knew she was about 9 or 10 weeks, and hadn't told anyone outside of her husband that she was pregnant, in fact hadn't even told anyone about this miscarriages. As you can imagine, she was a bit shocked when the visitor said this.

The visitor saw the surprise in her face, and said 'oh don't be surprised, your companion told me. She's been with you since you were born, and she's kept an eye on you, and she's proud of you. When your son is born, she'll move to watch over him, you'll not see her any more, but not to worry as she'll be with your son'.

After her son was born, she hasn't felt her spirit's presence, not once, and hasn't ever had a glimpse of her.

I found this fascinating for both the spirit thing and that the woman in the hospital was able to tell her all of these things, and the details that simply couldn't be known


Quite astonishing stuff. Great read. :agree:

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

10:04am for me

3am is the eternal time for me, oddly enough it's the time for the last train to transcentral too 🤔

[1 8 7 5]

Im going to be the doubting thomas..... flickering light ? Paranormal, thought I saw someone - Paranormal, strange feeling of dread come over me - Paranormal,

...the railway carriage posts - just fantasy - nice teffort with the 666 reference (the "beast" referred with 666 to is not the made up "devil" but nice try anyway)

Just because one cant explain a situation doesnt mean spirits or other paranormal activity. Its just unexplained. At one time, we didnt know where the sun went at night.

Great reading all these experiences though, in a Scooby Doo sorta way....

[Mon Dieu4]

Im going to be the doubting thomas..... flickering light ? Paranormal, thought I saw someone - Paranormal, strange feeling of dread come over me - Paranormal,

...the railway carriage posts - just fantasy - nice teffort with the 666 reference (the "beast" referred with 666 to is not the made up "devil" but nice try anyway)

Just because one cant explain a situation doesnt mean spirits or other paranormal activity. Its just unexplained. At one time, we didnt know where the sun went at night.

Great reading all these experiences though, in a Scooby Doo sorta way....

I'm with you, even though I've experienced weird things there must be a reasonable explanation I don't know or haven't thought about

I'm an open minded skeptic on these things

[1 8 7 5]

3am is the eternal time for me, oddly enough it's the time for the last train to transcentral too 🤔


great reference there :greengrin

the time I always seem to look at clocks is 12:34

[Caversham Green]

Im going to be the doubting thomas..... flickering light ? Paranormal, thought I saw someone - Paranormal, strange feeling of dread come over me - Paranormal,

...the railway carriage posts - just fantasy - nice teffort with the 666 reference (the "beast" referred with 666 to is not the made up "devil" but nice try anyway)

Just because one cant explain a situation doesnt mean spirits or other paranormal activity. Its just unexplained. At one time, we didnt know where the sun went at night.

Great reading all these experiences though, in a Scooby Doo sorta way....

Maybe that's the whole point. Supernatural and paranormal might just be natural and normal phenomena that the human brain can't comprehend. The fact that we don't understand it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

[Smartie]

I'm a bit freaked out by the musical references to EMF and the KLF in the context of this thread - two bands I have been heavily into at certain points in my life.

Did you know that the sample at the start of this song is Mark David Chapman reading the lyrics of John Lennon? It was removed from later copies of the "Schubert's Dip" album after Yoko Ono (who inherited the rights to Lennon's music) demanded it be removed.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRjqy3aFkrQ

Re the paranormal - I don't have much to offer here. My mum (who is generally of the more cynical sort) would swear blind she saw her grandad walking down the road in his pyjamas years after he died, not far from where he lived and died.

I had an odd experience with a ouija board when I was in first year at Uni in Dundee. I've largely tried to block it from memory, but it was very unsettling. As it turns out, we weren't far from what is known locally as "the murder house" although we didn't know that at the time. As I say, my memories are sketchy and I really don't want to go into detail as it totally freaked me out and thinking about it to this day - it still does.

[Moulin Yarns]

I'm a bit freaked out by the musical references to EMF and the KLF in the context of this thread - two bands I have been heavily into at certain points in my life.

Did you know that the sample at the start of this song is Mark David Chapman reading the lyrics of John Lennon? It was removed from later copies of the "Schubert's Dip" album after Yoko Ono (who inherited the rights to Lennon's music) demanded it be removed.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRjqy3aFkrQ

Re the paranormal - I don't have much to offer here. My mum (who is generally of the more cynical sort) would swear blind she saw her grandad walking down the road in his pyjamas years after he died, not far from where he lived and died.

I had an odd experience with a ouija board when I was in first year at Uni in Dundee. I've largely tried to block it from memory, but it was very unsettling. As it turns out, we weren't far from what is known locally as "the murder house" although we didn't know that at the time. As I say, my memories are sketchy and I really don't want to go into detail as it totally freaked me out and thinking about it to this day - it still does.

Roseangle?

[Smartie]

Roseangle?

Yup.

I was in Airlie Halls in first year, it all happened in what was known as the "library" - round the back, at the bottom of Airlie place, just off Perth Road.

So just yards away from there really.

Have they ever done anything with the house? Last time I was there I'm sure it was still derelict.

[Moulin Yarns]

Yup.

I was in Airlie Halls in first year, it all happened in what was known as the "library" - round the back, at the bottom of Airlie place, just off Perth Road.

So just yards away from there really.

Have they ever done anything with the house? Last time I was there I'm sure it was still derelict.

A bit of history (not the murders) of the building

https://www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk/details/914552

[J-C]

The brain is largely unknown with only about a third understood. Yes most paranormal can be explained away but it's the stuff that cannot be explained we as humans have a hard time trying to explain. Science can explain some, the creepy feeling of being watched or seeing shadows can be explained by high EMF frequency for example in a kitchen or room with a lot of appliances plugged in, or near an electrical sub station. What about people who see visions of the future or can read minds, so many things about the brain unanswered. Until all these weird things in the world are answered they'll still be very fascinating and interesting.

[matty_f]

It's really interesting reading through people's experiences on this thread. I must admit that I don't believe in ghosts at all (a subject, along with UFOs, that we discussed on our Bangers podcast recently). I think weird things happen and the human brain is very suggestable - much more so than most of us would care to admit. I like a lot of the work that Derren Brown has done on these topics and how he highlights a lot of the ways that the mind is tricked/manipulated etc.

I am generally of the mind that there is always a reasonable explanation for events, even if that explanation isn't immediately obvious (or in some cases, ever found out).

[Pedantic_Hibee]

This isn't remotely spiritual, but I almost always check my phone/the time on my computer/watch at the same time of day every day.


The time?

19:02.

Every time.

I don't know if its become something I do out of habit, I certainly don't do it consciously but to do the same thing at a certain time of day is feels weird. Sometimes I'm not even going to look at the time, it just appears.

7.02 and 19.02 for me. Almost every day as well. Weird.

[Hermit Crab]

Im going to be the doubting thomas..... flickering light ? Paranormal, thought I saw someone - Paranormal, strange feeling of dread come over me - Paranormal,

...the railway carriage posts - just fantasy - nice teffort with the 666 reference (the "beast" referred with 666 to is not the made up "devil" but nice try anyway)

Just because one cant explain a situation doesnt mean spirits or other paranormal activity. Its just unexplained. At one time, we didnt know where the sun went at night.

Great reading all these experiences though, in a Scooby Doo sorta way....


I can assure you that is not a made up story and the coach number was 10666, I regularly worked trains with that coach in the formation before it was sold. It had a history of electrical alarm issues and was totally dead that night with no power supply to it.


EDIT, it wasn't scrapped, it was sold for preservation on the Mid Norfolk Railway.


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[matty_f]

I can assure you that is not a made up story and the coach number was 10666, I regularly worked trains with that coach in the formation before it was sold. It had a history of electrical alarm issues and was totally dead that night with no power supply to it.


EDIT, it wasn't scrapped, it was sold for preservation on the Mid Norfolk Railway.


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See with things like this, it's a good example of how we (people) fit things to suit the narrative or the stories we tell ourselves.

The number isn't 666, it's 10666. It's a different number. Only by ignoring the inconvenient bit that doesn't tie in does it have relevance.

[The_Exile]

Millions.....maybe billions of human beings will have dreams about the future while they sleep at some point, it would be MUCH more scary if not a single one of these dreams actually went on to happen. It's the human condition, we are built to see patterns and make connections with data and events, that's why we've become so advanced.

As someone mentioned above, it's the stuff we can't explain yet that would seem to fascinate and scare us the most, another part of the human condition, we fear what we don't understand and e MUST look for meaning or explanation. Occam's razor folks, the more assumptions you have to make, the less likely it is to be true.

Now in saying all that, I had something happen to me years ago where I came downstairs after a solid 8 hours sleep and saw a glass with ice cubes in it, kids swore blind they hadn't been down to the kitchen since the previous night :greengrin

[Hermit Crab]

See with things like this, it's a good example of how we (people) fit things to suit the narrative or the stories we tell ourselves.

The number isn't 666, it's 10666. It's a different number. Only by ignoring the inconvenient bit that doesn't tie in does it have relevance.


I always said the coach number was 10666, not 666. I personally have worked with that coach and have experienced oddity's with it.

[matty_f]

I always said the coach number was 10666, not 666. I personally have worked with that coach and have experienced oddity's with it.

I know.

[MagicSwirlingShip]

2. kinda on the unexplained part i recall it was morning about 8 30 which is the time i normally get up and well i woke up and i just could not move,my body felt numb like there was heavy ait on top of me and try as i may i could not move my arms,legs, any part of my body,and i heard this voice, more so in my head saying gotta get up, gotta get up, gotta try to get up . After like 2-3 mins i got up and walked like 5 or so feet and then it was like i was okay.
It sorta freaked me out and has only ever happend to me once

Sounds like Sleep Paralysis, encountered it a few times myself. Harmless but quite alarming

[Andy74]

This isn't remotely spiritual, but I almost always check my phone/the time on my computer/watch at the same time of day every day.


The time?

19:02.

Every time.

I don't know if its become something I do out of habit, I certainly don't do it consciously but to do the same thing at a certain time of day is feels weird. Sometimes I'm not even going to look at the time, it just appears.

1.23 am for me.

[bobbyhibs1983]

Sounds like Sleep Paralysis, encountered it a few times myself. Harmless but quite alarming


ok thanks ! it was alarming as you have said though its never happened since so fingers crossed

[Hermit Crab]

I follow a channel on youtube called Bedtime Stories, they delve into the world of the paranormal and publish videos with in-depth research and art work that is simply outstanding.


Heres a link to their youtube channel if anyone is interested. https://www.youtube.com/c/BedtimeStoriesChannel/videos

[Northernhibee]

Thinking back to a conversation before, my mum had a dream a number of years ago. She was in a fairly non descript environment with a lot of people, but one woman stood out in a sore thumb despite not really doing anything up to that point. She walked up to my mum in her dream and told her to ask her mother about her sister. She had brothers, but no sisters that she knew of. It was so vivid it woke her up straight away and kept her awake for a bit.

She finally managed to slip into conversation with her mum who was similarly taken aback by it, but before my mum was born she had a failed pregnancy of what would have been a baby girl. She'd never spoken about it to her children before.

[1 8 7 5]

I can assure you that is not a made up story and the coach number was 10666, I regularly worked trains with that coach in the formation before it was sold. It had a history of electrical alarm issues and was totally dead that night with no power supply to it.


EDIT, it wasn't scrapped, it was sold for preservation on the Mid Norfolk Railway.


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as pointed out, its not the correct number for your inference - the devils number. Its a popular misconception that "the beast" is what you think of as the devil.... its not.

Your post was a bit scooby doo, thats all.

[CloudSquall]

This isn't remotely spiritual, but I almost always check my phone/the time on my computer/watch at the same time of day every day.


The time?

19:02.

Every time.

I don't know if its become something I do out of habit, I certainly don't do it consciously but to do the same thing at a certain time of day is feels weird. Sometimes I'm not even going to look at the time, it just appears.

Some great reads on this thread, this one made me laugh though as it's a common occurrence for me also, but my time is 15:16, any WWF fan will know the "Austin 3:16" reference :greengrin.

I started off having a laugh with myself about it but it's almost a daily occurrence of checking the time exactly at 3:16.


I have a couple of entries for the thread myself,

1) When I was younger we moved to a new build in Kirknewton where things started to occur. One night my pet cat who had died appeared in the middle of the room and then walked through the wall.

Another common occurrence was something I can only describe as a type of sleep paralysis, often during the night my breathing would increase rapidly until reaching a point in which I wouldn't be able to move with an intense pressure all around me, at this point "figures" would always enter the room and come towards me before I'd eventually snap out of the pressure.

I was always scared of some out of possession because they were always coming or diving directly for my face.

2) My mum's cousin's dad died when he was 14. When he was 15 he wanted to buy a motorbike and he had a huge argument with his mum about it. Later that day he entered the kitchen to the sight of his dad washing the dishes who turned around and said "your mum said no to buying the bike" before disappearing.

Suffice to say no bike was bought :greengrin

3) Actually have a third entry, a friend of the family has a daughter that seems to rival the kid from Sixth Sense. She was constantly going on about conversations with an elderly couple in the house who were telling her things about the house such as minor plumbing or electrical issues which no one had any idea about but all turned out to be correct. Turns out an elderly couple had died there before they moved in.

[Hibrandenburg]

My dog wakes up every morning at the same time 05:59 Mon-Fri but we get a lie in at the weekend until 07:30. I'm guessing his subconscious has been programmed to recognise some sound that we can't hear and relates that to the time we used to get up when the kids were in school. That could be one explanation for the time phenomena that some of you are experiencing.

[Saturday Boy]

My dog wakes up every morning at the same time 05:59 Mon-Fri but we get a lie in at the weekend until 07:30. I'm guessing his subconscious has been programmed to recognise some sound that we can't hear and relates that to the time we used to get up when the kids were in school. That could be one explanation for the time phenomena that some of you are experiencing.

Maybe I’m over thinking this.

Is your dog controlling psychic phenomena?

That’s probably why I have to get up so often for a pee.

[Hibrandenburg]

Maybe I’m over thinking this.

Is your dog controlling psychic phenomena?

That’s probably why I have to get up so often for a pee.

If my dog doubles as your subconscious then yes, maybe. :greengrin