Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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I knew there was a reason I try not to think of my old school friends.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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As I always say Brian each to their own. If someone believes that's great, if not that's fine by me too.
When I worked as a facilities manager in Euston Road (the building by Arthur Beresford Pite) I had lots of spooky things happen, I even wrote a book about it, anyway the building is now closed to the public but I visited recently to take some interior shots. The photo I attach is completely untouched (other than enlarging the orb.)
I was standing on a staircase taking an arty shot looking down the middle, when I felt someone behind me. There was no one there so just started snapping away at the stairs. Afterwards when I looked at them I saw the face in the orb, a familiar one at that! It looks like Arthur was accompanying me around the building that day!
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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It`s a poorly explored field I should imagine Jeane, and we don`t know it all. I keep an open mind on anything, including certain biblical happening`s, such as the birth and crucifiction of Jesus. I find many things in life interesting and always open for discussion, though I won`t believe in such things as someone parting the Red Sea to let a load of people across. If an alien life had visited the planet at that time though, I could believe in anything. As someone once said, to a person of 100 years ago, many things in our age would appear as magic to them.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I have an open mind on this subject.Like Jeane I sometimes think of someone and the phone rings or they suddenly turn up after many years.
Two days before the late great Robert Culp died I had a strong urge to look him up on a movie data base and check his age,background and credits.I then found his hit TV show I Spy theme tune on YouTube and played it for Natascha.We had been watching Everybody Loves Raymond in which he occasionally starred as Debbies Dad and I was explaining that I had watched him as a boy on TV.Odd but true.Its happened many times before so now I tell the wife of my dreams or thoughts in advance....not that I can sleep much these days.
As for the photo above it looks like Arthur is enjoying a King Edward type cigar!!
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Colin, some years ago there was an investigation into the possibility of the Red Sea parting around that time. It seems there was some tectonic plate movement (undersea evidence) that could be dated to around that time. Recreating the plate movement in a lab proved conclusively that it WAS possible for the Red Sea to have parted sufficiently for people to walk across from one side to the other.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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if i can add my experience, make of it what you will.
when i was first married we lived in a newly built house in stratford, east london.
next door were a couple, the bloke a local lad and the girl from northern ireland, sadly i cannot remember their names.
they had two young lads glen and darren that were about 3 and 4 going from memory.
cathy(remember her name now, lovely girl with a fiery temper from time to time, was having her third baby when she was taken into hospital and had to have an emergency op.
the anaesthatist cocked up and the machine was not switched on properly, hence she went into a coma and later died.
the husband (graham, his name has come back to me) took the kids over to belfast soon after to stay with his in laws.
a few days after he left there was an almighty banging crashing from next door, the missus asked me to investigate as i had the key, i said "don;t bother it is just cathy returned and gone apesh*t at the kids not being there."
i have no idea why i thought and said that.
a few weeks later speaking to graham i related my experiences, he said that the kids get visited most nights by their late mum who tucks them in.
i was staggered by this comment as graham was one of those blokes that believed in nothing like that at all.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Quote Colin: "As someone once said, to a person of 100 years ago, many things in our age would appear as magic to them". Isn't that the truth.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Interesting that Sid, though I`d have to look it up. If it came from the U.S. I`d be very sceptical of it. Scientists over there have to be religious otherwise they can lose out on grants etc. This is why I have so much hate for the Christian movement over there.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Marek I sometimes get dreams where I see things happening before they do, alas it's usually uninteresting stuff not the winning lottery numbers!
I read something about that too Sid.
Howard that's a lovely story of the mother keeping an eye on her kids.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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upset me posting it jeane, tried to forget it.
i sometimes wonder how glen and darren are getting on, must be in their middle thirties now and no memory of their mum.
No memories Howard, but I'm sure Graham will have given them some wonderful stories of a very loving mother taken too soon. In a way she still lives, because caring people like you remember her and tell others.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Howard I understand, no doubt she is still keeping an eye on her 'babies'!
Guest 662- Registered: 18 Mar 2008
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Hi Melissa,
There is a Spiritual Church that meets in Biggin Hall on a Sunday evening, I've have always meant to go but never got round to it. There may be someone there that can advise or help you. I think it meets at 6pm.
If you want the number of a local medium that is the place to goxx
Thanks Sheli i will do that. im sitting here now and i can here footsteps up stairs and its only me here!!!! Howard that was a very sad event what happened like jeane says im sure she is still with them .
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Spiritualist churches can be very useful.
Melissa the noises and activity often tends to be strongest on staircases or around windows and doors. Treat them like children and tell them to be quiet. It sometimes works!
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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Well, having resisted until now, I'll pass on my own close encounter. I do believe in spirits (not sure if I'd call them ghosts) but keep an open mind.
My mother and father were both in the RAF, my Mum came out of the service when I was born but Dad stayed in until I was 17. In my formative years I found moving to a new home and a new school very frequently was really upsetting me and was actually stunting my development, and Mum & Dad took the difficult decision to send me to prep school rather than have me move school constantly. I was fortunate enough to win a RAF scholarship which helped financially and so I was sent to Burys Court School, a prep school near Reigate in Surrey at the tender age of eight.
Burys Court is in a large 18th Century country house, a wonderful building that is full of character and history. The boys sleep in dormitories, about 12 to a dormitory, and ours was arranged in two rows of six beds facing each other on opposite sides of the room. This particular room had a huge bay window and on sunny spring and summer mornings the curtains weren't particularly good at keeping the light out. One morning I woke up early and looked towards the window where a shadowy figure was leaning over the bed of a boy I was friendly with at the time, calling his name and offering him a beaker of water - it was a plastic coloured beaker (we weren't allowed glass!). The figure was silhouetted against the light shining through the curtains, and it was the figure of a man crouching with his arm extended and holding the cup in his hand. I sat up in my bed and called out to my friend; the figure vanished (literally) into thin air and the beaker of water fell to the floor. I could hear the sound of plastic bouncing on the lino, so I knew the cup had fallen to the floor, but the figure had just disappeared. I rushed to my friend who still asleep, went to the curtains and opened them which let in the daylight properly and I could see that all the boys were asleep in their beds and that noone else was in the room. By my friend's bed there a small puddle of water where the cup had fallen but the cup was never found, although I looked high and low for it as did the others when they woke up. I reported it to one of the school staff but nothing came of it. I heard whispers that this figure had been seen before, but I don't know of any more sightings whilst I was at the school and I have never seen another 'ghost' since.
I don't know if this was the sleepy imagination of a young boy, but the episode has stayed with me, crystal clear in my memory, to this day and my abiding memory is one of nervous curiosity tinged with a little apprehension. I daresay the episode can be explained away in one form or another, but I still have the memory that tells me this was a spooky event........
True friends stab you in the front.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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What a lovely story Andy, the fact that it is so crystal clear in your memory even to this day makes me think it definitely wasn't a dream or half asleep recollections. Perhaps it was a kindly teacher or member of staff keeping an eye on his boys from the other side.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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The presence of a ghost can also depend on the character of the peson living in the house. Ghosts never visit me, I never search for them, and always inwardly sense the atmosphere of a room or house when moving in to make sure there is no hokus pokus going on on the part of entities, meaning that if there were any, they would have to vacate!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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not very friendly alexander, the odd poltergeist could be good compny when there is nothing on the box.
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