Genealogy Chat

Looby - You are the one with 233 people on her tree and the other has 296. Dea Xxx

This is digressing a little bit but could be paranormal, I once worked with a Medium, who stated that another colleagues daughter had a spirital guide who had followed her throughout her life, when the Medium disclosed the name, it was actually the name of the Daughters imaginary friend from when she was younger. The day that I lost my Dad, I could smell the smell of my Grandfather like he was in the same room........ xx

excellent Beverly - I am not sure on what I think of spirit guides, but just found it very strange that day when we went to 3 meetings that all 3 mediums said the same name - SPOOKY! They do say that young childrens imaginary friends in fact are guides but as they grow older and are 'taught' there is no such thing they lose their ability to see them - or so ive read!

Ooh yes. We've got many pics with orbs, and even mist, on. Im interested in most aspects of the paranormal, although Im going to watch what I say about it seeing as I recently had some verbal abuse from a man on GR. Might have to get him banned if it carries on.

Rebekah - that's diabolical (the verbal abuse - not the orbs)!! I am sceptical about orbs - but then I'm Mrs cynical!! lol Jean, Interesting about the imaginery friends - both my children had one - and both friends were called Patrick!! However, when asked to describe them, they were totally different. Both my girls believe they have seen ghosts, and the elder had an 'out of body' experience when she was 2. I know because of a reaction she made to a situation, and when she was about 4 and could describe things, I asked her about it. maggie

Rebekah, sorry to hear about the verbal abuse, don't let it put you off conveying what you think, 99% of people on GR are lovely and receptive. We also think that we have a ghost in the house, there was a lady prior to us moving in who had lived here for 36 years and was a recluse, when we first moved in we had strange things like the hair dryer running on it's own, amplifiers sounding in the middle of the night, the printer running on it's own. the toilet flushing..it settled and now, we are moving, we are experiencing the same things. My Sister went to a Medium and was told that my late Father would sit on her bed whilst she slept. Sure enough, that night she felt pressure on her bed, she was a little upset though and felt that she had to ask him to leave..there were other things that the Medium knew about like slabs waiting to be paved in the front garden. x

I had an interesting experience with my youngest daughter who was 3 at the time. I could hear her chatting away upstairs, it was just her and me in the house and I love listening to kids play mummies and daddies! Anyway I asked her who she was talking to and she said the strangest thing - her answer -'a 7 year old called Fabien hes a white italian She was 3 wouldnt of even known what an Italian was!

Sorry but I don't believe children are taught not to believe. My daughter, when 3, had a 'friend' and I actively encouraged her to tell us about this 'friend' and never said a bad word about her (Betty) or tried to put her off. I even went to a medium who told me Betty had been my friend who looked after me when I was little and now she was looking after my little girl - my mum confirmed all this even though I remembered nothing of it. Then one day her 'friend' had gone. I think it's when children grow up they lose the power to connect with the other side. It's like learning a language, when babies are born they have the power to speak any language in the world - the longer you leave it the harder it becomes to learn. If young chldren have contact with the other side they learn to speak to them - but they get so distracted with growing up and learning other things (but especially tv's and computers) that they forget about their 'friends'. Snowdrops

My younger child's 'friend' was a 7 year old (the age he died)chimney sweep, who helped his grandfather, who he lived with She told me this when she was about 3!! Mind you, 'Patrick' used to get blamed for the drawing on the walls/floor etc. I used to tell her to tell Patrick that wasn't the way friends behaved!! Maybe I was a little lenient with the idea of not 'poo-pooing' imaginery friends, as she's just told me (at 23) that he's still around occasionally!!! By the way, there are no chimney sweeps in my ancestry. maggie

Very true Snowdrops, unfortunately I didn't encourage my daughter, much older and wiser now and regret that

when my daughter was about 3 she told me and her older sister (8) ' before i was born i went to Devonshire rd school my name was elsie and i had a friend called Arthur then i died' we were both listening intently engrossed in the story and nearly believing it when i asked her how she died she said 'I drowned in a glass of water and was swallowed by an elephant ' we both fell about laughing!

LOL Carol - she had ya there!

Just imagine how rich Medium's would be though, if they could connect with all of our dead relatives! They'd do GRO out of a job! x

nudge to read later

I believe we all have the ability to tap into the paranormal, or that we are part of the paranormal (I think!) I know there are some bizarre peculiarities about my mum's house (a perfectly ordinary semi-detached 1930's semi) and it does make me wonder if it has anything to do with all the problems my parents had/have, but that is suggesting that a paranormal activity can have an evil influence over humans and I'm not quite prepared to believe that (yet!) Bev x

great stories - really interesting subject!

Paranormal....fascinating stuff! Check out my paranormal group for some awesome EVP (voices) and videos: www.sjpr.org Judy : )

Does anyone know of a really good medium either over the phone, or in the West Mids area?

Can that sort of thing be done over the phone? I mean I know people advertise it but is it really possible, if they can't see you how can they see whats is around you? Never tried a phone medium but could be tempted to try it out

If you don't believe it can be 'done' from afar, see Louise Sharpe's Pyschic thread on General