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Post by elophile on Jul 13, 2017 17:35:00 GMT
Wow, elophile ! I'm impressed by how similar your experience was to mine! It's a strange impression talking to someone, then turning around and seeing there was no one. Did you guys feel scared from then on? I don't remember being scared afterward... with two roommates I probably wasn't alone very much in the apartment. I'm sure that if I was alone after that I would have been scared. It is a very weird experience... so natural at first and then you realize what is actually going on and you're like
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Post by queenofthehours on Jul 13, 2017 18:24:13 GMT
All I've got to add is that I once went to the Tower of London, a place where the paranormal and ghosties are to be expected, and felt nothing. Nothing spooky in the Bloody Tower, nothing in the Church of St Peter ad Vincula where the bodies of the executed are buried (including Anne Boleyn) and nothing in in Bowyer Tower where the Duke of Clarence was drowned in a butt of Malmsey. But just before I left, in the last tower I visited (The Cradle?), I felt something very, very scary. I don't know what it was, perhaps it was the feeling of being watched or just bad vibes but it wasn't very nice and I didn't like to be alone in there.
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Post by Helmut83 on Jul 13, 2017 18:47:50 GMT
But just before I left, in the last tower I visited (The Cradle?), I felt something very, very scary. I don't know what it was, perhaps it was the feeling of being watched or just bad vibes but it wasn't very nice and I didn't like to be alone in there. Why were you alone? There weren't any other tourists with you in such an ants' nest as The Tower of London?
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Post by unomusette on Jul 13, 2017 21:34:42 GMT
Great tales everyone. I've never had a proper experience like that but I think we all sense atmospheres. For instance when viewing potential homes people often have overwhelming impressions of either feeling right at home or needing to leave as soon as possible. Not only have I felt this but my extensive research of watching property programmes backs the theory up.
I can also report on Mr Musette's experience - when he was a teenager he and his friend got into ouija boards and decided to carve themselves one out of a round table top. They'd only carved out some of the letters of the alphabet when they both felt a really negative mood descend upon them so they put their creation away in the shed. When they came back to get it a few days later all the carving had disappeared off it. No more dabbling in the occult for them after that.
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Post by elophile on Jul 13, 2017 21:51:23 GMT
For instance when viewing potential homes people often have overwhelming impressions of either feeling right at home or needing to leave as soon as possible. Not only have I felt this but my extensive research of watching property programmes backs the theory up. oh, this reminded my of another creepy experience I had: Years ago when me and Mr Elophile were first house hunting we looked at a row home in the same town we live in now. The family was still in the process of moving out so there was some furniture here and there and some family pictures still on the walls - a mother with one pre-teen son. Mr Elophile had previously rented a home in the same block and all the homes were identical so we were familiar with the floorplan/layout of the house. I found the home oddly creepy and I kept thinking it seemed so much smaller and claustrophobic compared to the one Mr Elophile had rented. We later found out from a neighbor that the mother had killed herself in the house only weeks earlier. The real estate agent hadn’t bothered to tell us.
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Post by elophile on Jul 13, 2017 21:55:10 GMT
When they came back to get it a few days later all the carving had disappeared off it. No more dabbling in the occult for them after that. Creeeepy!!
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Post by unomusette on Jul 13, 2017 21:56:31 GMT
Ew, that is creepy elophile, I wonder how many other people felt it and how many others were completely oblivious?
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Post by elophile on Jul 13, 2017 22:01:58 GMT
Ew, that is creepy elophile, I wonder how many other people felt it and how many others were completely oblivious? We were pretty horrified when we found out.
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Post by unomusette on Jul 13, 2017 22:11:05 GMT
There's a flat in Cardiff Bay where a horrible murder took place, but afterwards it was up for rent again and people still live there now. It didn't even appear to have had much of a makeover. I bet the current tenants don't know the background, the murder was a while ago now, but anyone local would be aware of it I'm sure.
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Post by Helmut83 on Jul 14, 2017 1:26:07 GMT
For instance when viewing potential homes people often have overwhelming impressions of either feeling right at home or needing to leave as soon as possible. Not only have I felt this but my extensive research of watching property programmes backs the theory up. Totally. Have you ever seen the program "A haunting" in Discovery Channel? It corroborates exactly what you say, people can feel at ease or that there's something really wrong about houses since their very first visit there. Normally if the house is considerably colder than it should be that indicates a very strong bad energy. But in a few rare cases, the energy of the house is good only to deceive the family into moving there and once they do things change for the worse. I can also report on Mr Musette's experience - when he was a teenager he and his friend got into ouija boards and decided to carve themselves one out of a round table top. They'd only carved out some of the letters of the alphabet when they both felt a really negative mood descend upon them so they put their creation away in the shed. When they came back to get it a few days later all the carving had disappeared off it. No more dabbling in the occult for them after that. Woops, that's a terrible idea. Worse still, once you open a "door" (or portal) with a ouija board you've got to be careful enough and close it.
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Post by Helmut83 on Jul 14, 2017 1:50:55 GMT
The real estate agent hadn’t bothered to tell us. More than "hadn't bothered to tell you" I'd say he took care of hiding it from you. Houses which are reputed to be haunted can be really difficult to sell. Not just that: workers of all kinds (provided they are locals and know the neighbourhood), like electricians, plumbers, construction workers, etc... excuse themselves from working in those houses. Two houses away from mine (this is, there's just one house between mine and this one) there's a house which was vacant since well before my family got here (decades). It changed hands several times, and each new owner that purchased it tried to build in it (it needed a few works before becoming inhabitable), and many times the works stopped very little after having started, then the house remained in a standstill during years until it was sold to another owner. Each time the works began, after a few days workers vehemently refused to keep on working there. They said they put the bricks in piles and time and time again they appeared all thrown everywhere, pulley wheels rolled violently in front of their eyes with no one pulling from them, they heard steps going up and down the stairs and many other eerie things. It seemed like a lost cause and that no one would ever get to live there. However, a couple of years ago a guy bought the house and somehow managed to finish the works (he must have made sure the workers were more scared of him than of paranormal forces) and now lives there with his family as if anything, and I've heard no more tales of strange things happening there. Have you ever suffered a paranormal experience, eloneen ?
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Post by Horacewimp on Jul 14, 2017 8:15:49 GMT
A lot of the work my company carries out is in old pubs and hotels many of which claim they are haunted. I often have to survey the buildings when they are empty, the cellars are always dark and a little scary but I've never seen anything or felt threatened. Sometimes I feel like I'm been watched if I sense this I'll speak out aloud "I'm only here to do a survey then I'll leave you in peace" this seems to appease the ghosts either that or it makes me feel better.
Many years ago we worked in a haunted hotel one of my fitters told me he often saw a little boy watching what he was doing, once he was spotted the boy would run off, I'm not sure how true this was he might have been winding me up.
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Post by vlogdance on Jul 14, 2017 8:50:29 GMT
The only person I've met who has actually seen a ghost was one of my teachers.
When we were kids at school we used to love having a student teacher because they were young and fun. This particular student teacher once told us how, when he was a teenager in Liverpool, he and his friends arranged to meet a rival gang after dark for a fight, behind a deserted building - a former convent. The other gang turned up, at the opposite end of the alley. Battle lines were being drawn when the lads suddenly saw a shadowy figure walking through the alley. When this figure turned round, they saw it was a nun, with no face.
None of them slept that night.
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Post by eloneen on Jul 14, 2017 10:13:55 GMT
The real estate agent hadn’t bothered to tell us. Have you ever suffered a paranormal experience, eloneen ? Nope.
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Post by elophile on Jul 14, 2017 13:35:08 GMT
Ok. I have a more lighthearted scary experience to tell. I watch A LOT of horror films so this is more of a cautionary tale about the effects of watching too much horror. I was walking my dog and as you sometimes do when walking a dog I had started up a conversation with a passerby who had remarked about the cuteness of my dog. He was a teenage boy. We had been chatting for a couple of minutes when I got the uneasy feeling that he was flirting with me. I assure you that this isn’t the kind of thing I just imagine. I’m usually the opposite where when I get hit on I’m totally oblivious to it. I was in my thirties at the time and I’m certain he could tell I wasn’t in his age range. I don’t think I imagined it and I have no idea what his motivation was. Maybe he was messing with me or testing boundaries. Maybe he was a little weird. Maybe he had just watched The Graduate. He had a very innocent looking face but there was something off about him. I wasn’t flattered. I broke off the conversation and headed home, looking back once in a while to make sure he couldn’t see where I was going. When I got in my house I nervously looked into my back yard. I was about 99.999% percent certain he would be standing in my back yard staring at me like this: Of course he wasn’t but that’s what watching too much horror will do to you.
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