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Have You Ever Been Tricked By Someone Claiming To Be Able To Contact The Dead?
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Driving home today I was listening to Jeremy Vine interviewing A J West about his new book, 'The Spirit Engineer', which examines, among other things, the reality or otherwise of the spirit world and the trickery used by charlatans to convince people that they are actually contacting the dearly departed. Mr West threw out a couple of 'cold' readings and asked listeners to phone in if they thought anything he said referred to them personally. I arrived home before anyone called so I've no idea of the outcome. Interesting nonetheless.
So … have you ever been tricked by a trickster - and when did you realise you had?
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So … have you ever been tricked by a trickster - and when did you realise you had?
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My kids (now grown up) all used to say that our house is haunted because a previous owner drowned himself in a nearby lodge after finding out his wife was having an affair. At some time, he had scrawled his intials, JW, on the inside of the garage wall, near the front at eye level, in clear varnish. It had run down to look like that spooky writing you see with the drips and was only visible from a certain position. All of that is true, except the haunted bit. My kids still believe it's haunted but I think it's cobblers. It's just an unfortunate thing that happened. And I now have a different garage. No spooky initials!
a 3500-year-old ghost in the British Museum
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For whatever reason, the notion of communing with the dead seems to have been around for a very long time.
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For whatever reason, the notion of communing with the dead seems to have been around for a very long time.
To answer the question 'No'. But I don't go to visit Spiritualist churches. I am convinced that the majority of show 'psychics' are clever fakers. Some will not be.
I say this with hesitation because I have had personal inexplicable experiences and I know one can get ripped to shreds on here. I haven't read all this long thread.
Life - or some sort of continuation after death - is a fact so far as I am concerned. Since childhood I have experienced odd and inexplicable things - you are never ready for them, they come out of the blue. You can't ask for them They just happen.
Sometimes I just 'know' things and they turn out to be right. If only I could control it I could be rich!! :)
I can cite a couple of instances that were witnessed by others, including a couple of poltergeistic ones
Not frightening, just a note that there is more than the material world around us. I can't explain it any better.
I say this with hesitation because I have had personal inexplicable experiences and I know one can get ripped to shreds on here. I haven't read all this long thread.
Life - or some sort of continuation after death - is a fact so far as I am concerned. Since childhood I have experienced odd and inexplicable things - you are never ready for them, they come out of the blue. You can't ask for them They just happen.
Sometimes I just 'know' things and they turn out to be right. If only I could control it I could be rich!! :)
I can cite a couple of instances that were witnessed by others, including a couple of poltergeistic ones
Not frightening, just a note that there is more than the material world around us. I can't explain it any better.
P.P. Jung cannot explain 3 girls sitting around the kitchen table, having come in from an evening walk, my mum at the sink - and an egg-cup flying in a perfect parabola from a cupboard some 2 yds. away from anyone and landing on the floor a few feet away from Mum. Those present were my mum, me, my sister and her friend, who went quite pale and excused herself rapidly to walk home. Contacted her recently and she remembers it well, as does my sister, No, it was no set-up. The situation was normal, no spooky talk or preface. The egg-cups were kept towards the back of the cupboard, so a fall was out of the question. This was the mid-1960s, forget electronics.
There were other odd things. I have read some Jung - but he doesn't go towards explaining them.
There were other odd things. I have read some Jung - but he doesn't go towards explaining them.
My lovely old grandmama, born in the 1870's, frighten the life out of me one day. Her, her eldest son, my father (her son) and his wife and me, were sitting around a table eating a meal. Suddenly Gran went deathly white and then grey, started trembling and speaking in a voice that sounded nothing like her own. I can't remember what she said but it frightened me to bits. Unbeknown to me she was a Medium who had become aware of her "gift'? as a young child when she had sympathised with her neighbour over the death of her cat. The neighbour said her cat was fine thank you very much. It died the next day.
She held seances but never charged any money and was highly regarded by the Police after a child had gone missing and she told them that she could see the girl, under water, her dress caught on the roots of a tree in a local river. They asked for her help for a few years after that but I don't know whether she was always able to help. Glad I didn't inherit her 'gift'.
She held seances but never charged any money and was highly regarded by the Police after a child had gone missing and she told them that she could see the girl, under water, her dress caught on the roots of a tree in a local river. They asked for her help for a few years after that but I don't know whether she was always able to help. Glad I didn't inherit her 'gift'.
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