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Ten police cars would hardly turn out to a burglary, would they? There was a helicopter out last night as well.

Daizie, that's really funny. The whole of East Dulwich would be one giant cat's cradle :))

legalbeagle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So there you go. No doubt there's a perfectly good > and scientific explanation for all of that. xxxxxxx You'll probably find that the usual suspects will pick out the bits of your story where they can find some alternative "scientific" explanation, however unlikely, and conveniently ignore the other bits. Hopefully you won't be subjected to the mocking and name-calling as well. :-S

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I haven't given up at all and loving it. Well > done for giving a boost to The Goose is Out! xxxxxx Hadn't noticed that :) If you're into folk/roots/blues, check out the Goose! (But I haven't updated the website since Friday's gig, ooops :)) )

Blimey, a compliment on here makes a pleasant change :)):)):))

What???

Wonder if anyone else who had stayed there had ever seen her, Jaws? Would be interesting if so, and to know who she was. When my Mum died, at her funeral, one of my sisters saw her turning cartwheels - although my recollection is that she said it was "in front of the altar", and I'm not sure they have altars in a crematorium? Will have to ask her. Just remembered something else which freaked me out somewhat. I went on this weekend course at the College of Psychic Studies, never done anything like it before (or since) but I'd had a few weird experiences and had found them quite scary and I thought if I found out more about what was going on I wouldn't be so scared. Anyway, the main thing I remember is that we did this exercise where each person wrote their name on a piece of plain paper, then crumpled up the paper and put it in a bag. The tutor came round with the bag and we each had to pull out one of the crumpled up balls, open out the paper again, and talk about what we "got" from it. With mine, I couldn't see anything on the paper at all really, and when it got to my turn I said all I could see was a boomerang, which meant nothing to me at all. The person whose paper it was then said she was about to emigrate to Australia. And no she hadn't mentioned this before, and I had never met her before.

Yeh I remember Miller and seven. I remember lots of useless things :)) Oh and I've found out from my OH how the vase got broken, but as it's a :-$ memory I will never divulge it :))

@minkturtle - I once had a friend who could affect stuff like that. Don't think she ever played machines though! She was also a healer, and worked with cancer (I think) patients (with the doctors' permission) in an NHS hospital (I mention the hospital work only in an attempt to stop further mocking, though I doubt it will). I agree that having precognition can be a curse. There are some things you just don't want to know about, particularly in advance. ETA - sorry, wrote the above before I'd seen your later post, what you say is very interesting. I have (another) friend who has a similar what I would call gift. She can also do absent healing, and I can always tell if she's been doing it on me even if she hasn't said she's going to, because I can feel it. @Jeremy - I believe what you say about particle theory (or whatever it's currently called) is correct, but the alternative to thinking that there's an actual scientific explanation for some of the incidents described above is that there is some "psychic" thing going on, however you choose to define "psychic". Isn't it? And we have no idea if or how parallel universes might interact, assuming they exist in some way. Many things, like flight and space travel, which used to be considered "in the realms of science fiction", as you put it, were subsequently found to be possible. And now I must get off the forum cos got a gig tonight and things to do for it. Damn!

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Sue you were getting grief for not being bothered > to wear REAL fur coat, for wearing a fake nylon > 'impression' of the real thing, goddammit why > couldn't you just wear REAL dead animals instead > of pretend dead ones ? > xxxxxxxxx :))

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And why aren't they looking to return East Street > to its former glory as a "destination market" to > recoup some of the losses? [/quote > > Because it's not the 80s anymore? xxxxxxxx Eh? I'd have thought in a recession more people would be looking to go to markets. Just, not expensive ones.

As a councillor, James, to whom ultimately presumably council employees are responsible, can you not put pressure on these particular employees? It does seem to me that somebody must have taken their eye off the ball (to put it mildly) if they did not realise what was going on at East Street, resulting in such a massive deficit. Or are we talking turning a blind eye? OK you probably won't want to answer that :)) And why aren't they looking to return East Street to its former glory as a "destination market" to recoup some of the losses? Too much effort compared to North Cross Road?

:)) But not in my case cos I've never taken any :)

Now can we get back to the subject of the thread, thanks.

I'm so sick of people mocking things they can't explain. And mocking the people who talk about the things they can't explain. It's pathetic and closed minded.

My daughter doesn't take drugs. Other people saw the bike there, not there then there, including the cleaner. The bike was locked up. It was still dusty. The flatmate/neighbour thing doesn't work. My daughter got a first class degree and an MSc and is now a hydrogeologist. She's clearly not stupid. She can't explain it logically.

Some people always have to have a go, don't they? I've got A level physics and a psychology degree, does that make me mad as well? I also did physics for a year at uni. And as it happens, I used to tutor first and second year undergraduates when I was doing research, and one of the things we used to discuss was parapsychology. Edinburgh Uni has a whole department on it, or did have (I wasn't at Edinburgh but I did do some research there, not on parapsychology, on stereotyping). And I also made it clear that I had no evidence for my theory about parallel universes. If you were being funny (or trying to be) then feel free to ignore the above post. :-S

Fair points and I've no desire to take you to task on them

Some of us like fairy lights all year round, why do you think they are Christmas lights, are they in the shape of reindeer or something?

For what it's worth, and I have no evidence for this whatsoever, I think that some of these incidents (not the bending key ones I don't think) are to do with either parallel universes or dimensions, and that sometimes there is slippage between them. Could also be time slippages involved. And if you have read anything about theories in modern physics, you'll know that is not necessarily a totally improbable explanation. Edited to add: I think a lot of people don't talk about stuff like this for fear that people will think they're mad, so thanks KK for starting the thread :)

I was once verbally abused on a train for wearing a fake leopard fur coat. I was so taken aback I couldn't think of a suitable reply. I think it's interesting the change of popular feeling re fur. I used to have a second hand - sorry, vintage - fur coat in the late seventies/early eighties. I wore it proudly for several years until I realised I was being treated like a criminal in some quarters, and I stopped wearing it. For years, you would never see people selling these coats, but now they're back - one of the stalls on North Cross Road had a whole rack of them the other week, and models have started wearing fur again. So what changed exactly? My own feeling is that wearing an old fur is fine - the animal's already long dead after all, and why waste a good coat. They're very warm (obviously, that's why animals have fur I presume). But I don't like the idea of animals being farmed purely for their fur, or being killed purely for their fur, and I wouldn't want to wear anything made of that fur. I do eat meat, but if I am buying it myself I will only buy stuff which I know is free range.

I have another case which is even more weird, but although I was told about it by someone I trusted I'm less sure about them than my relatives, and I'm not in touch with him any more. Anyway, this guy for some reason (don't ask, it was in the seventies) had a crystal which, if memory serves, he had left on his bed and it had disappeared. He couldn't find it anywhere. Some time later, he moved house. On moving the bed, he noticed a lump under the carpet under the bed. The carpet was in one piece, there were no holes or anything. On further investigation, it was the crystal. :-S

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > As for losing something, then finding it in an > obvious place a few days later... xxxxxx No, the point was in the first episode I had literally shaken my bag out over the car, and it was absolutely completely empty, no car key in it anywhere, no doubt whatsoever. It was quite a large bag anyway, and even if it had somehow got lodged somewhere, it would have been at the bottom, not right at the top. In the case of my brother, I think he might have noticed his bottle of pills, or whatever it was, sitting on the middle of the floor in what was an extremely small front room!

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >> We had a lot of weird stuff happen in that house. > All the older relatives, Grandparents and Great > Aunts etc, would remark whenever they first > arrived, that something was 'up'. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx That's really creepy and it's reminded me of something else. I went to stay for the first time with a boyfriend's friends in a house near Aldeburgh. We slept in their guest room at the top of the house , and in the morning I woke up with the most terrible splitting headache. my boyfriend's grown-up son had just had some bug or other, and I said to bf that I thought I must be catching it and had his son had a headache with it, which he said he didn't know. At breakfast, one of the couple who owned the house asked me how I had slept, and I said "OK", but didn't mention the headache. They then said that several people who slept in this room had woken up with headaches and that the story went that some maid or other had been murdered there (presumably hit on the head?) OOER missus etc etc. :-S

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hmmmm, once is surprising, twice is intriguing, > but five times suggests that the thing they all > have in common is a very forgetful lady with a > penchant for Uri Geller.... ;-) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I had nothing to do with the last two episodes apart from being told about them by relatives I trust! And I can provide witnesses to the aftermath of the other three - plus the original bent car key, should I be able to find it in my presently chaotic house :) Don't know about Uri Geller, he's just out to make money in my opinion.