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She is 6.
We live in a 200+ year old house.
She only sees them in one room.
She doesn’t call them ghosts, she calls them “dust people” or “smoke people”. The other day my wife asked her if she could see any at the moment and the reply was “There’s one behind you”.
We’ve had her eyes checked to see if she has any “floaters” but she came back with a clean bill of health.
Woo!
Could it be mrsfry?
A bit of previous there.......
Do any of them have axes?
Can they use a tv remote?
You'll get used to it. You may even grow to like it.
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Hang on a minute ... this is really scary!
What are you going to do?
It'll be fine. Six year olds do spooky shit all the time...
[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/i-see-injured-overweight-people-slightly-supernatural-content ]My first ever thread on STW.......[/url]
What are you going to do?
Nothing. The rest of us can't see them and she isn't bothered.
Maybe you should rethink your night-time attire, and only wear it for weekly cross-burning....
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I used to live with a vicar's daughter, and her dad was trained in religious exorcisms.
I was fascinated, cos I didn't know 'exorcists' actually existed. But she told me that he had helped many families with your sort of thing going on, regardless of their religious inclinations.
Nothing. The rest of us can't see them and she isn't bothered.
Ah well in that case it all sounds groovy.
Interesting though.
My three year old son sees "the grabby girl" who comes out of the cupboard or the wall.
Even I have to check now.
I'd want to know who they are/were and why they're still bothering with things 'down here', I think.
Interesting.
My daughter (aged 6 ish) apparently takes part in superhero training whilst she is asleep.
She's almost done Level 1. Up next is level 2 which is all about animal rescues.
Creative things aren't they?
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It's the names they give them that gets me.
My cousin is in to all types of ghosty stuff,she has loads of stories like this.Little kids just have a brilliant imagination.
It's the detail that gets me and the fact that she doesn't call them ghosts "no daddy, they are people". She only sees them on the landing outside my wife's home office. Never in the office. The landing dates from 1810, the office from 2004. The office is north facing, so it doesn't get shafts of light through the window.
obviously they don't actually exist, so she's seeing imaginary friends and that's even more fun, she should be congratulated for putting ghosts in there with imaginary friends, we need Frasier in here to do some couch work.
Didn't I read somewhere that excessive consumption of pastry can cause hallucinations in children?
Lid only pies from now on. 😉
If you live in an old house it's just one of those things, you get used to it in the end and they are pretty easy to ignore.
If it bothers you just move to a newer house.
“There’s one behind you”
I'D BE GETTING THE F*** OUT OF THERE
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You can't post Ghos****ch without a health warning! FFS!
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If it bothers you just move to a newer house
and to quote myself...
What are you going to do?Nothing. The rest of us can't see them and she isn't bothered.
She can see you. Have you checked you're alive?
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could actually be something there, just that as adults we are conditioned to not "see" them anymore. Loads of psychology studies to show that people will only perceive what they expect to be there and will not register things that don't fit into that, Lots of Darren Brown illusions work on the same principals of inattention blindness and saccadic masking
My daughter (aged 6 ish) apparently takes part in superhero training whilst she is asleep.She's almost done Level 1. Up next is level 2 which is all about animal rescues.
What was level 1? Plant rescue?
My 6 year old and her friends assist the fairies that live in the school orchard. I'm not entirely sure why the fairies need help but I blame the Rainbow Magic books:
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We have over 70 of them :-/
could actually be something there, just that as adults we are conditioned to not "see" them anymore.
Yeah... Or perhaps kids just have wilder imaginations than (most) adults and more readily ascribe fanciful interpretations to every day phenomena?
(As every parent who has had to explain a "scary shadow" or "radiator monster" will understand)
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yep had to do the whole scary monster, ghost thing with my kid, however look at classic studies like the invisible gorilla, Our brains are great at filtering out what we don't expect to see. Interestingly there is an element of learned behavior and dependent upon your cultural and religious belief systems, different people will filter different things from the same scenario, both convinced that they are right and the other person is lying about what they have seen
in the same way that if you have a heightened awareness regarding something (say example, bloody single speeders) you will "see" more bloody single speeders, whereas other folks wont notice any within the general blur of humanity or just see a bod on a bike
Or perhaps kids just have wilder imaginations than (most) adults
Last week:
Him - Daddy, tell me a story about the ninjas. The fire ninjas. Cooking bacon. On Lego.
Me - The fire ninjas cooking bacon on lego?
Him - Yes. Not the turtles under the bed. They eat sausages.
He's 3 1/2 and we've never spoken about ninjas before.
He's 3 1/2 and [s]we've never spoken about ninjas before[/s] has been watching Ninjago- Masters of Spinjitsu.
FTFY
I wish my conversations with my kids could be about lego ninjas.
Last nights gem.....
"Dad, I've got a bawbag!"
"What!? Where did you hear that word?"
"At school"
"Well, that's not what it's called. I don't want to hear you saying that again.."
"But it IS a bag and it's got Baws in it!" 😯
could actually be something there, just that as adults we are conditioned to not "see" them anymore.
LOL.
do you read horoscopes to.
I watch a lot of horror films and therefore an expert in these things...also I have access to the internet which makes me an expert on everything.
Your next step should be a Ouija board.
Then when it escalates and the spirits get violent, you need to get in student paranormal investigators.
You'll eventually be forced to flee your home in terror in the middle of the night, but before the credits it will be revealed that the ghosts are linked to your family not the home, and they've come with you.
You're weird Aunt may be part of a Witch Coven.
Harry its mould spores in the room.
I've seen one at a training college where a security guard verified what I saw/he saw it too previously.
I've had things move round our house and a voice say 'good night' to me.
Im still a sceptic. Where are all the cavrmen ghosts?
When he was five my son came back from school saying they had a pie cooking competition and he made the champion pie and won, and the deputy head held him aloof and paraded him around the school and all the children cheered.
Best.
Day.
Eva....
Kids, brilliant!
DrP
Also, the sequel will reveal more and will confirm whether your Aunt is a witch.
Probably just wait for that to be released.
Where are all the cavrmen ghosts?
Good point. Who gets to stay behind?
I was on a residential trip with 40 8-9 year olds last week. The first morning was rife with stories of someone seeing a "black figure in the corner of the room," during the night. Within about 20 mins virtually everyone had seen something.
Everyone forgot about it until the next night when about 20 mins after lights out we were in the teachers lounge. A couple of the girls came down in tears complaining that they could see the "black figure" in the corner of the room. One of my colleagues snapped back...
"don't be so silly, everyone knows ghosts are white!" *
I nearly spat my drink out laughing.
* The colleague then went to the girls room had the whole trick of light talk. Turning lights on and off until they all realised it was someone's coat hanging off the corner of a bunkbed!
Where are all the cavrmen ghosts?
In caves?
LOL.
do you read horoscopes to.
hahahaha...no. I'm a hardcore scientist, (like a normal scientist, but listen to black flag) hence my awareness of such studies where professional radiologists looking for lung cancer nodes will not identify or report a gorilla in the x-rays even when eye tracking shows that they have seen it an so on.
"Mrs Cutter" at my friends house (when we were growing up) used to unroll all of the toilet paper and then stack it up, perfectly folded on the floor. Could never understand the point of all that effort.
Hearing my kids talk to people in their rooms when there was no one there took a bit of getting used to.
If you [s]live in an old house[/s] [b]believe in things a six year old tells you[/b] it's just one of those things, you get used to it in the end and they are pretty easy to ignore.
FTFY.
My 6 year old and her friends assist the fairies that live in the school orchard. I'm not entirely sure why the fairies need help but I blame the Rainbow Magic books:
We have to write letters from 'fairies' most nights as well as provide spells for our girls' spell books partly thanks to the same books.
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In a previous house:
Next door neighbours teenage daughter killed herself in her bedroom, shortly after this family moved out and new family with 2 young kids moved in. These kids would not go into the bedroom where she killed herself because of a ghost. (new family had zero knowledge of suicide) SPOOKY!
My 8 year old recently had a dream about a land called Doughnuttydoo, where [u]everything[/u] was made out of doughnuts.
She is her Daddys girl.
When my youngest daughter was about 4 or 5, she used to see what she (and then we) called 'dotsies' floating about her room in the dark when we put her to bed. They were bright coloured spots of light, at first we thought it was her getting confused with having her eyes adapting to the dark or some kind of eye problem, but we ruled that out for definite. We could be lying on the bed with one of us next to us and she'd say they were there. She liked them, they didn't keep her awake, so we left her to it.
Years later when the girls were both at secondary school (and we'd had an extension and my daughter had moved into another room) it came out over tea one night that they'd given a name to 'Gertrude' the spirit that haunts that room.They were very matter of fact about it, and they are well-adjusted kids.
Occasionally when my wife is snoring badly I'll sleep in what is now the spare room, it's slightly un-nerving, but Gertrude has done none of us any harm. My wife refuses to sleep in there though when I'm snoring!
I saw the saw a very distinct 'figure' (the shadow of a woman wearing a Victorian high-waisted dress and hood) twice in our 40s/50s house when I was about 8/9. It didn't scare me and it didn't appear malevolent, so nothing was done.
We have over 70 of them :-/
Yeah, that beats me. 😯
I've seen a documentary on this before
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1778304/
don't worry, i'm pretty sure it was all fine in the end
Best ghost story I heard was from a Boer war cemetary beside the railway near a place called Vaterval Onder in South Africa. Friends of mine own a lodge there and the cemetary is an interesting place where they sometimes take visitors. One visitor went with her son aged about five. They'd been there a while when the boy asked: "Mummy, what are those soldiers doing?" When the Mum asked who he meant he described three characters in British Boer War uniform, two lounging under a tree and one standing by smoking. When the Mum asked what they were doing he replied that they seemed to be waiting for somebody. What's convincing is that he later described the uniform accurately to my friends despite having no interest in wars, armies or militaria. Gives me goose-bumps even now.
"Where are all the cavrmen ghosts?"
I once slept on a robbed out Neolithic burial mound.
I was a bit spooked at pissing off the original occupant.
During the night my phone lost signal once or twice. On my way home I fell off my bike...
Makes you think.
Makes you think.
That you were drunk? 😉
If it bothers you just move to a newer house.
Our house is from the 70's, we moved in last year and proceeded to sample all the local takeaways. After one particularly hot curry we were upstairs in the bedroom and I looked up to see a ~5yr old kid in the doorway, not a shadow, not a shaft of light and some dust, a kid stood in the hallway watching me. Strange trying to see it (and it was still there if I looked away and looked back), rationalize it as a mix of way to much capsicum and a few beers and not freak out. The brains a wierd thing!
Neighbors (who've lived there since before the house was built) haven't mentioned any deaths!
Him - Daddy, tell me a story about the ninjas. The fire ninjas. Cooking bacon. On Lego.
Me - The fire ninjas cooking bacon on lego?
Sounds like a load of blocks to me.
Don't watch:
We used to live in an old converted Victorian girl's school. MR junior's gf swore she saw a 'little boy' standing at the edge of her bed, on and off throughout the night. One sunny morning on waking I saw the very distinct silhouette of a dreadfully thin (bald?) person reflected in the (powered-off) CRT television screen. It was peering through the open bedroom doorway, craning it's neck around as if looking in on me. There was nothing there when I rolled over and looked behind me to the now empty doorway. Really freaked me out as I ran into the other room to find Mrs MR properly ensconced, not having moved in the last 10 mins or so.
She too saw a number of small shadowy figures over the 10 years we lived there. The house had frosted/stained internal glass windowed internal doors, and at least once a week we would see something 'walk' past in the hallway, often stopping at the lounge door and just stand as if looking in at us. So often, and so clearly that I used to double check all of the cupboards before locking up at nights in case of an intruder hiding out. I even became paranoid that a neighbour was sneaking in and hiding in rooms. Nothing was ever resolved. Guests too would regularly see the shapes in the hall through the lounge door glass and say 'oh, who was that?'.
One evening whilst alone Mrs MR saw what she now laughinglycalls 'hessian man'. It startled her in the passageway outside of the kitchen as she glanced out. 'I can't describe it, it just looked like a figure of a man or woman, but it was indescribable, hazy, but more visible than mist, and seemed to be rocking slightly.'
Shortly after moving into the property (again, in the passageway), I distinctly heard a girl's voice in my right ear call 'Moll-eeee?', in a sing-song, beckoning, slightly mocking fashion. Our adopted cat was called Molly. (She was killed shortly after by a car speeding out front, coincidentally.) At first I thought it must have been Mrs MR in the bathroom, calling for our cat in a silly voice, yet the sound was right in my ear as if there was a girl standing next to me. Then I remembered Mrs MR wasn't there. Have tried to tie all these down to visual and auditory hallucinations, but part of me has a 'what if?' feeling that maybe we sometimes experience a 'fuzzy' interface with other times? ie past or future occupants of a certain place may be visible, even though years apart. What if time was like a coiled slinky spring and where the coils sit close together there is some interference? So our Victorian (?) 'fuzzy residents' could themselves see us 21st century fuzzy residents? Or maybe it's just the brain playing tricks, as others have said. But if there are such things as 'ghosts', I'd more readily believe them to be living, albeit in a different time.
My Mum aged 86 believes she has something in her cottage, which is over 300 years old. On the window sill in the dining room she has photographs of her marriage to my Dad and much latter re-marriage to her second husband, now also deceased. On two separate occasions she has heard a bang from in another room and gone to investigate; the first time she found the first photo frame disassembled, with the little metal tabs bent back, lying on the floor and the second time it was the second photo frame, also with the metals tabs bent back. She lives alone, so who would have done that?
Old relative used to see figures on the landing, but then he had dementia.
Arguably the reason is the same as for kids, a less developed or damaged brain stumbles on recognition and attempts to recognise shadows or objects as people.
I reckon we are all dead our maybe in a type of coma. These visions are all memories or some sort of confusions/parallels.
All we become clear once we die again
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Nice day outside 🙂
I reckon we are all dead our maybe in a type of coma.
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If you live in an [s]old house [/s] believe in things a six year old tells you it's just one of those things, you get used to it in the end and they are pretty easy to ignore.
That would be freaky, as I don't know any six year olds.
a less developed or damaged brain stumbles on recognition and attempts to recognise shadows or objects as people.
Yep, [url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia ]Pareidolia[/url], a bit like the "less developed brain" of Googe's DeepDream neural net finding eyes, faces and animals everywhere it looks:
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I'm an open minded sceptic on ghosts. Been to several reputedly haunted houses, the most intriguing was one where the owner didn't believe in ghosts but described a series of sightings and noises that he had not been able to explain. The front bedroom, now a guest room, had seen several friends kept awake by a young boys figure appearing in the night.
Interesting to hear though.
Slept in the hotels and the 'haunted' rooms in Abingdon near Oxford while helping film a documentary.
1st night no problem. Zzz mmm.
Then everyone told me ghost stories in the pubs the next day.
2nd night didn't sleep a wink with fright especially when a locked cabinet door opened by itself with the slow creak.
The floor boards extend into other rooms - you could hear creaking from other rooms as people walked around.
The cleaners refused to clean one room alone too.
I didn't see a thing but the temperature did drop (summer) below 5C and we all felt like something was there after the mind was tricked by local ghost stories lol.
Beware op,
Your daughter WILL kill you in your sleep...
I'm an open minded sceptic on ghosts.
I'm an open-minded sceptic generally. As a kid I hoovered up stuff like "Unexplained" magazine, as an adult I learned how five-nines% of these cases are actually Explained.
I'd dearly, dearly love to have first-hand experience of ghosts, or working hypnosis or some such. I challenge anyone to prove it / show me.
[b]deadkenny[/b] - Member
She can see you. Have you checked you're alive?
^^^ Right this is freaking me out now ^^^
[i]can anyone else read that?[/i]
'I can't describe it, it just looked like a figure of a man or woman, but it was indescribable, hazy, but more visible than mist,
Sounds like one of my daughter's "dust people".
Woo!
Where are all the cavrmen ghosts?
Never mind them, why isn't there any in tracksuits or other modern clothing. Do you have to be dead for a certain amount of time before you can come back?
We live in a 200+ year old house.
I live in a 300 year old house which we've been told is haunted. Haven't told the kids that yet but they think it is anyway. I've not told them about the [url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Godfrey ]alien abductions[/url] either.
Never mind them, why isn't there any in tracksuits or other modern clothing. Do you have to be dead for a certain amount of time before you can come back?
Have you not seen...
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"If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." 🙄
( ... this is your imagination I am not here ... 😈 )
My 6 year old and her friends assist the fairies that live in the school orchard. I'm not entirely sure why the fairies need help but I blame the Rainbow Magic books
Good thing they're not classic old-skool Fey, or Faerie; they'd have had the kids away to use as slaves, and replaced them with something horrid, a changeling.
It's been suggested that under certain circumstances, especially when there's violence, or a person in a heightened emotional state, the event can 'imprint' or 'record' itself on the fabric of the building or locality. Seeing as how everything has an electromagnetic structure, then there's an element of truth hiding in there.
why isn't there any in tracksuits
Maybe the afterworld has a dress code?
anyone ever heard of / done smudging?
If it was me i smudge the **** out of that place, Just sayin