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My opinion,
The human mind is an amazing thing and is quite capable of playing tricks on us,
some people are more susceptable to these tricks than others.If you are thinking about your dead grannie even subconsciously then some people will actually see/smell/hear their grannie in the room with them. Others will not. The grannie is not there but your mind makes you believe she is.
Just my opinion.

GR clique #7 - "people are resorting to personal abuse!"

Translation - "people are disagreeing with me!"


xxxxx mick

Oh dear Chris............

I forgot about the Welsh and Im married to one, told you I was not very good at history!

Well said, Foggy and Rambling Rose.

Chris of Wessex,sorry,I was too tired to scroll back last night to see who wrote about the Celtic/Gaelic genes tending to be psychic.My apologies!

Mick i do hope that quote re "personal abuse" will not be misinterpreted as me complaining about someone disagreeing with me? Everyone is free to do that lol.?

I was refering only to the use of a specific word ( one which I still see in it's old usage as unacceptable) and some comments directed at Eldrick on his blog.

xx

Don - as a young busy mum with a baby I can assure you I was definitely not thinking about a dead granny - did not even possess a photo of her until some 18 years ago. Then my father dies a month later unexpectedly in my house

Never seen her since.

That may be so Don, but what about two sane sensible women who see the same dead granny who isn't THEIR 'dead granny' and they see her in the same house that they are visiting,, in the same room, but 20 years apart with no prior knowledge? Now either they are both loopy , or they are seeing 'something'.

oh and it isn't a 'haunted' house by reputation so they are not going with any expectations,one is there house hunting , one accompanying a friend to see someone.

A rational , scientific answer would be interesting and up for consideration :) creaking floorboards, open doors and reflections won't cut it in this case , a woman sitting on a kitchen chair is hard to mistake for any of them :))

Qualifying somewhat my original comment of 'no' ;-))

Although sceptical, I do have an open mind and know several people who have seen or experienced 'ghosts' or 'odd' occurrences. They are sane, rational beings and I have no reason to doubt their accounts. I have never experienced anything, and I tend towards logic and pragmatism. However, when I was younger, I was fascinated by the supernatural and had numerous books about the subject and always wanted to visit so-called 'haunted houses'. My Dad died when I was 18 and for years I longed for a 'sign' of some sort, perhaps more in hope than in true belief of 'the other side'.

Dare I be controversial and say that I don't think most men pick up on anything that is purely a 'feeling'.
I don't want to go into it too deeply as it would take over the thread.I read a book on Asperger Syndrome where it said that as many as 1 in 10 men suffer in various forms. One aspect of it, is a lack of understanding of the feelings of other people( ?Jason on the Ice Dance panel) . The same men if given a nudge, would quite happily ask why they had been given a nudge.Whereas if a woman nudged another woman it would alert her immediately to look for a reason, without words being spoken.
Its this receiving of unspoken messages or feelings that is the basis for the understanding and acceptance of information that we don't fully understand its origins. Some people, by virtue of their makeup are far more receptive than others and I think they are the ones who have shared their stories with us. -jl

I am afraid that I disagree with you Janet

which bit?- lol -jl

Not saying

You have hurt my *feelings*

So There !

Shane - thank you at least I got the country right if not the spelling!!

There's some interesting stuff about Celts here :-


www.ardue.org.uk/library/book5/history.html

Well I,m a bit of a "Meybe" but when I was younger, I had a "Ghost and a Phantom" Sadly I had to get rid of them, Cost too much to run.:o))>**M**.

Awwwww Robin....I didn't say ALL men-jl

Janet

I could see something in what you say ......... it makes some sort of sense!

If I nudge OH, 9 times out of 10, he's say out loud "Huh, Huh, what did I do, what do you want?"


all I want is usually for him to stop saying or doing whatever it is he is saying or doing!


sylvia

I find it both comforting and irritating that spirit comes to me...I also find it scary sometimes

I also know that some people will think I am either nuts or telling fibs


There are some interesting stories here and some that I heard on Margot's thread a while back....if they are lying all I can say is they must have good memories

Im not suggesting anyone has called anyone liars!

I have no means of explaining what happened to me


all I know is that I could describe a woman from head to toes

I had never seen her before


she was not a person from my past



But that she had been a live woman was confirmed months later


I also know that my husband, who is half-Welsh as well as being a scientist through and through, demanding proof and reproducability of everything, used to pooh pooh such things, UNTIL that evening.

Even he says that something happened, even if he himself did not see the lady.


Equally, my mother used to see things, that could be explained by some as shadows, wisps of light etc etc ........................ but things would happen later as she said they would



sylvia

Sylvia

I can totally understand your husband

I went to visit a family war grave in Anzio about 4 years ago. No one from our family had visited his grave as they were too poor to do so at the time

We gave our respects and then went on to have our holiday

On the last night I couldn’t sleep at all...then at about 5am in the morning I needed the loo and thought...I'll wait, I'm getting up soon...lazy girl!

So...tossing and turning in bed, being lazy...I turned to my left side and there he was....

A very small man in a military cap with a red band around it, long coat

....he had NO expression on his face at all, not smiling, not frowning, nothing

I was so scared I turned away but then looked back....he was still there, just the same

I shook my husband and whispered..of course when he looked there was nothing there

BUT...he being a sceptic, surprised me when he said ' maybe it was your family member coming to say 'Thank you'

You definitely saw something I have never seen you look so 'scared'