Ghost Stories

[Jon MW]

I saw the film when it first came out.  I used to think Demi Moore was attractive then.  Gone right off her now.

Never seen the film but damn she was fine back in the day.

I'd gone off her by the time Ghost came out.

She looked amazing in St Elmos Fire though.

You liked her because of the 80s hair-do, didn't you?

Pretty much.

Not so much because it was 80's though.

St Elmos Fire: Girls Haircut
Ghost: Boys Haircut

[Claw75]

Well .......are we sitting comfortably children , then I shall begin.

When my kids were young, a couple of things happened.

Not long after Stacey was born she was laid in a familypassmedowntradtioncrib, by the side of my bed. It was on a home made wooden stand, didn't rock or owt. Well on more than one occasion in the night I was awoken to the sound of wood creeking and the crib moving in a sort of rocking motion. Stacey was new born it was no way her moving it.

In the same house when Gregg was around 3 he would come into the room saying that man is here again mummy. He reckoned to have seen him on many occasions in our home.

I also have another great story from when we went to Prescott in Arizona and stayed at a " reknown" haunted lodge. But that is too long for now.

And i am all in on pkt K's.

hope the kings won!  Looking forward to the other story when you have time

[kinboshi]

I saw the film when it first came out.  I used to think Demi Moore was attractive then.  Gone right off her now.

Never seen the film but damn she was fine back in the day.

I'd gone off her by the time Ghost came out.

She looked amazing in St Elmos Fire though.

You liked her because of the 80s hair-do, didn't you?

Pretty much.

Not so much because it was 80's though.

St Elmos Fire: Girls Haircut
Ghost: Boys Haircut

Swayze had the girl's do for Ghost.

[Acidmouse]

Used to play a bout with the Ouija board when I was a teenager most probably only about 5-10 times. This one time we did it in our garage and it basically said I was a medium, yikes. It then proceeded to tell me I needed to find a knife in the old Mill Garth police station in Leeds which was used to killed a women and throw it in the canal to free her spirit.


Ok so here’s where it used to be: 

    its near the market behind new police station ringed in picture.

When we went there the next day it was a virtually derelict building with old cells down the cellar. We cracked open a window and managed to find ourselves downs near the cells where low and behold we found a old bloodstained knife with what appeared to be the one!.  We all pissed off and never went back, my mates were more scared than me and none of them planted the knife as the place was all locked up still + they would have said afterwards.

[Claw75]

did you throw the knife in the canal?

[Acidmouse]

did you throw the knife in the canal?

Nope. The place is now a carpark so no going back.

[Colchester Kev]

Firstly i have to stress that I dont believe in God, Ghosts, heaven, hell, reincarnation etc etc ...

But this tale has been told and told in our family for a lot of years.

When I was a baby, around 4 months old, I was ill with a virus and made a hell of a lot of noise ( no change there then) ... My parents lived at that time in west London in a house with 4 flats in.

One day I was crying more than ever and my mother took me out in the pram to try and get me off to sleep. On returning from the trip I was still whining so my mum left me in the pram outside the door in the communal lobby, after a couple of minutes I had gone quiet and mum came to the lobby to see a woman of around 40 standing over me smiling and stroking my face, the woman looked at my mum and said "dont worry, he will be fine. He just needs to get used to all the new things he is seeing, and take them all in" ... My mum thanked the lady and she went down the stairs and out of the building.

When my Dad got home from work, my mum told him about the lady and the fact that she had never seen her before ... she described the lady and what she was wearing etc ... and my dad went white as a sheet.

He immediately went to the bedroom and deep in the wardrobe in an old shoe box were some old photo's, he produced the only picture he had of his Mum, who died when he was only 4 years old .... The picture matched EXACTLY both the description of looks and clothing of the lady in the hallway !!

[Claw75]

Firstly i have to stress that I dont believe in God, Ghosts, heaven, hell, reincarnation etc etc ...

I don't either, but there is definitely stuff that happens like this that is hard to explain.  Interesting that your story and Maureen's both involve young children - I don't know if something about their innocence and lack of cynicism that makes them more likely to experience such things.  I've got a few stories of my own, this is the most recent.

Four years or so ago, when my daughter was one and a half, my family moved from Ealing to Ruislip.  The flat we moved into wasn't your usual candidate for hauntings - built in 2003 we were only the 2nd people to live there.  Over the course of a few weeks, a lot of stuff happened that was hard to explain.  The first time I was alone in the flat with Hannah.  She was standing in her bedroom doorway looking out into the hall, and I was kneeling in front of her looking in to the bedroom.  You know that feeling you get when someone is standing right behind you?  Well, I got that feeling and, at exactly the same time Hannah looked over my shoulder.  I turned around to see nothing there, then turned back to face Hannah, at the same time shrugging it off, and she said 'girl gone'.  I can't remember the order the other stuff happened in, but it was all within a short space of time.  We had unexplained crashing noises in the flat, bottle tops and jar lids having been removed of their own accord, doors opening by themselves and another where Hannah appeared to be conversing with the 'girl'.  Two experiences which were personal to me - I was lying in my bed one afternoon about to take a nap when I heard a little girl's voice right in my ear - I turned over expecting to see Hannah lying on the bed next to me, but she wasn't there.  The other was in the evening.  I had gone to bed before Gary and was just dropping off to sleep when the covers came flying off the bed.  It was as if someone had got hold of the bottom corner of the duvet and tugged them off hard in one go.  I sat up expecting to see Gary at the foot of the bed and ready to give him an earful, but he was still in the living room and the duvet was crumpled on the floor.  It was a good few days before I'd stay in the bedroom on my own again, and until the day I moved out, if Gary was away overnight I'd sleep on the couch.

Nothing really happened after Hannah had reached an age where she could vocalise properly, so I never really got to find out more about what she had experienced, but I'm still sure that place was haunted for a bit!

[Joobie538]

my 3yr old niece has started talking about her nanna that picks apples - my dad's mum who died 2 yrs before she was born my brother has fallen out with that side of the family so has never spoken about them.

I went on a most haunted style ghost hunt last year run by this company http://www.frightnights.co.uk/home/ (don't all take the piss) my sister-in-law is really into it and was too scared to go on her own, so me having a mild interest went along,  it was a all night jobby with a medium, - far less dramatic than most haunted!!! few strange banging noises and movements and only being 10 of us in the house, all in the same room, they couldn't be explained!!  - it was a great night i'd reccommend it, probably won't do another but glad i did that one.

[Claw75]

my 3yr old niece has started talking about her nanna that picks apples - my dad's mum who died 2 yrs before she was born my brother has fallen out with that side of the family so has never spoken about them.

I went on a most haunted style ghost hunt last year run by this company http://www.frightnights.co.uk/home/ (don't all take the piss) my sister-in-law is really into it and was too scared to go on her own, so me having a mild interest went along,  it was a all night jobby with a medium, - far less dramatic than most haunted!!! few strange banging noises and movements and only being 10 of us in the house, all in the same room, they couldn't be explained!!  - it was a great night i'd reccommend it, probably won't do another but glad i did that one.

that sounds great - blonde night out?!

[Joobie538]

my 3yr old niece has started talking about her nanna that picks apples - my dad's mum who died 2 yrs before she was born my brother has fallen out with that side of the family so has never spoken about them.

I went on a most haunted style ghost hunt last year run by this company http://www.frightnights.co.uk/home/ (don't all take the piss) my sister-in-law is really into it and was too scared to go on her own, so me having a mild interest went along,  it was a all night jobby with a medium, - far less dramatic than most haunted!!! few strange banging noises and movements and only being 10 of us in the house, all in the same room, they couldn't be explained!!  - it was a great night i'd reccommend it, probably won't do another but glad i did that one.

that sounds great - blonde night out?!

Ok, I'll bring the Toffoc (well know weapon against ghosts)

[Josedinho]

Not a ghost story or paranormal but thought i'd at it anyway....

True story, happened in Sheffield to a friend of my aunties.
A lady had been shopping for the afternoon and was on her way back to her car. As she got near to her car she could see a man in a suit standing near her car. The man saw her looking at him and as she got nearer he asked if this was her car. She told him that it was. He said "Some lads were hanging around near it, looking in the windows so i acted as if it was my car and walked towards it because i thought they were going to break in, they ran off but i stuck around in case they came back". She thanked him but then he said "The only thing is i'm going to miss my train because i stuck around, i know it's rude to ask but i don't suppose you could give me a lift to the station could you?" The woman was a bit unsure about giving a stranger a lift but he had been kind and looked after the car so decided she should reward his good deed.
She got into the car but strangely he didn't get into the front passanger seat but instead opened one of the back doors and sat directly behind her. She thought this was a bit weird and got nervous. Thinking quickly she said "Oh my hand brake is really stiff, can you come round and take it off for me please?". The man got out of the car and as he did she started the engine and drove off. She felt really guilty but it had made her nervous.
When she got home she noticed that the man's briefcase was on the back seat. She decided to go to the police station explain what had happened and give them the briefcase and hoped that they could return it to the man.
Not too sure of the time period between giving the police the briefcase to the next part but the briefcase was unclaimed and so in an atempt to find the rightful owner the police broke the suitcase open.
Inside all they found was a strangle wire and a hand gun.....

[Claw75]

that one's been doing the urban myth rounds for years!

[WarBwastard]

They say the kid behind the window in this scene from three men and a baby is a ghost (36 seconds into this clip)

Might just be a kid mind.

[Claw75]

They say the kid behind the window in this scene from three men and a baby is a ghost (36 seconds into this clip)

Might just be a kid mind.

I remember hearing years ago that it is actually a cardboard cut out of Ted Danson that was accidentally left on the set!