Spooky

[Bee35]

Anyone out there had any GENUINE paranormal experiences? E.g: ghostly visitations, precognitive dreams etc they would like to discuss with someone else who has.

[purplerockie]

Several years ago we went on holiday to Cornwall with my sister and her husband.  We are all interested in archiology and decided to visit some local sites.  One of the sites we visited was a fogou (these are underground buildings with tunnels and chambers, which are thought to date from iron age times, the purpose of these buildings is not understood).  So there we were having a good old look around this fogou, I took quite a few photographs, one of which was towards the opening of the fogou from inside.  When I took the picture my brother in law, and my husband had gone outside, leaving just me and my sister in the fogou. Nobody else was in there.  When I had the film developed a while later that photo showed a blurred, but "solid" image of someone wearing a rather odd looking hat, standing in the fogou just infront of the opening. 

I still have the photograph, and have never worked out a rational explaination for how this person ended up in the photo when nobody was there when I took it.

[SGKelloe32]

I haven't had any really spooky things happen to me - just little odd things that i can't explain! My nan, however, had a spooky experience when she was younger. She was very ill and laid up in bed, she swears she was awake, when her father, who had been dead a number of years, entered the room and sat next to her on the bed. He asked her to go with him because he said he had been sent to get her. She refused, saying that she wanted to stay and look after her children (my mother was only 11 at the time) He was trying his best to persuade her to go with him, but she stuck her ground and refused, and with that he said he would come back for her again when it was her time and then he disappeared! As is that wasn't spooky enough, my fiance and i recently took a trip to my nans house and stayed over night. We were sharing a double bed but my fiance couldn't sleep, so he decided to go and sleep in the room where my nan had the visitation (he was unaware of this) Anyway, he came back into my room about half an hour later and he was white! He swears that the door handle turned by itself and that the door opened when he was in there. I myself have slept in that room many times before and never had any problems! All i can think is that old Grandad Stevo knew he wasn't a member of his family and was having a bit of a nosey!!!!

[mullein]

when i was 16 i went to a spiritualist church with the parents of someone i was dating at the time, and as we went through the door their was a man on the platform playing a piano and when he saw me ho just stopped playing and stared at me so as i was young i was a bit uneasy. anyway this man was the late gordon higgins a very good medium and he started the service and he came straight to me and said you will be doing this one day so i was suitably not impressed. anyway he gave me lots of names of deceased relatives but i was adopted and i just told him i didnt know any of them, that night as i lay in bed the figure of a man came through the wall so of course i was scared i had the whole house up all the lights went on.. and next day dad was telling the old woman next door and from the description i gave she said it was our houses previouse owner,,and after that well i had loads of experiences and i did go onto being a proffesional clairvoyant,,also at some stage i traced my real family and all those names i was given at that spiritualist church were correct.i have had too many experiences to write in the answerbank but believe me spirits exist...mullein

[Scarlett]

Mullein- do you do readings?

[mullein]

yes mullein does readings i have 2 diplomas 1 certificate in the study of the tarot and i am also a herbalist and clairvoyant..i worked for three years for one of those psychic lines that costs a fortune to phone. for one of the top uk companys, now i just do it as and when . i did a weekend of readings for charity in the summer, and the  odd reading . i have also worked in new age shops doing readings and have done large pub bookings, i am more interested in growing herbs now, but if you have any questions throw them at me i will do my best to help you, mullein

[CiderMonkey]

When i was living away at Uni i was sharing with 3 other girls. One of them was hardly ever in so i barely saw, let alone got to know her and her mate. One night i had a particularly vivd dream about the cat belonging to my flatmates friend. For some reason I felt like i needed to tell her, even though we'd only ever said 'hi' in passing. so next time I saw her i explained that i'd had a dream that her cat had hurt his left back paw and that we were trying to get it to the vet. I described the cat in detail (colour, size, marking etc) and she was shocked because it was spot on. She went away to call her dad and found out that during the week her cat actually had injured the same paw that i dreamt about. She'd only just found out then so it's not as if she'd been talking about it and i took it in without realising. very strange. I have also noticed that quite regularly lights will flick on or off whilst i am near by. Not lights in a house - it's mainly street lights. I know they are on timers and this probably happens to all of us and maybe i just notice it more? But it seems to happen too much to be random coincidences. I read on the internet a few years after i first noticed and it seems that this does happen to other people and these people are called SLIders. (Street Lamp Interference)

[Scarlett]

Mullein- I would love to have a reading done, or something! I have tried most alternative therapies and am really interested in what you said about spirits. Do you have a website?

[mullein]

to scarlett no i dont have a web site i have only had a computer for 3 weeks as it will keep me amused in the winter months. you have jinxed me i have just had a phone call to put a clairvoyant night on at a pub,i told him no a month ago but he begged so i am a mug.i was going to retire but it looks like i am not going to be allowed too. i dont agree with some of these clairvoyants and psychics charging a lot of money i still charge the same as i did in 1995 i allways tell people to go to the spiritualist church as its free and they have evenings of clairvoyance psychic suppers etc.. i dont go anymore as i am not a group person but its the best place to go to start. i looked on some tarot sites when i got my computer and most of them just charge too much..the same as these psychic phone lines the clairvoyants only get 30p a minute the company get �1.20 its a laugh and some of them get so greedy they tell you anything just to keep you talking so beware of where you go for psychic information.. mullein

[tigga]

Not paranormal but a bit spooky !. My grandad was from sierra leone in west-africa, at the age of 18 he was a slave on a ship which docked in at liverpool.

My grandad and his friend escaped into liverpool and started new lives but unfortunately seperated from each other, later in life he tried to search for his friend but as they had assumed false names- after 60 odd years of searching without any look he passed away in 1991.

At the funeral we were talking to the vicar who (wait for it)... turned out to be my grandads friend from all those years ago !!!. 

Although they never re-united we managed to catch up on lots of family history and chat with one another's families.

[Kay]

Hi mullein, as a medium what do you think of Derek Acorah? Gimme this weeks lottery numbers LOL.

[Ray the DJ]

How can you use GENUINE and PARANORMAL in the same sentence.
No ghost or spirit fromthe dead has ever been genuinely observed and recorded.
They were invented by superstitious, ignorant folk long ago in history because they had no scientific explanation at the time.
But they make good book and film subjects.

[el duerino]

when I have an objectively confirmable experience, then I will believe.

[mullein]

well i think a lot of mediums like derek acorah are more like entertainment hosts ..i am not saying he hasnt got the gift but when a lot of these mediums and psychics start earning mega money they start to see the money and not the genuine work..and then their actual gifts decline a bit. when i first started to work i was in a new age shop with 2 men psychics who charged 5 x more than me,,and they kept criticising me by saying i talked to much and i should let the customers talk then they would more or less do their own readings. anyway within 2 months i had all the customers and they left they used to flatter the ladys and pretend to admire their clothes hair etc..and also charge extortinate rates for other services such as healing or private home visits,,,i am not being bitchy i have come accross many proffesional readers and they are money machines,,those shows on tv are entertainment and it gloryfies them and then they get loads of work as people think they are wonderfull..i was asked to do tv once but i declined as its not me i would have been a nervouse wreck just thinking about it..its no big deal you just need the gift of the gab and away you go..their was a man medium on the tv that i saw and thought was good but i cant remember his name i think he was american,  mullein 

[Kay]

Mullein thanks for that. I go to a spiritualist church just once a month and I've had the most genuine messages from my loved ones who passed and even a suprise message from a girl who had died donkeys years ago when she and I were 12 years old! Considering the reader was from Berkshire and Im in Cardiff what other proof would I need!