My house is haunted!

[kyoto]

I recently moved to Ivydale Road in Nunhead with friends and last night undoubtedly saw a lady ghost, I kid you not.

I was very scared (she was frowning and looked menacing) but it was also such an amazing experience!

I'm sure some of you will be skeptical and you have a right to be, but I don't suffer from mental problems, nor am I attention seeking or had been dropping acid.

Any of you ever see anything ?

[Strawbs]

I'm the biggest skeptic about but I've had a few strange things happening lately including the radio turning itself on and two nights ago I was prepping dinner and the kettle turned itself on! Button went down and light came on, freaked me out!

[kyoto]

Where do you live?

Our house only seem to be haunted in one room, not mine but my friend's (I slept in his room last night, hence the sighting). He has seen weird stuff 3 times (he has lived there a year) and it only happened in his room. None of the other housemates have ever seen anything.

[DulwichFox]

People can become very sensitive to The Paranormal.

But usually develops through Phsychic Training.

I have worked with people who had themselves worked for The Institute of Phsychic Research.

They worked with Specialist Photographic Equipment in an attempt to capture Photographic evidence.

This involved the use of Leica Cameras using infra-red film.

Infrared is usually divided into 3 spectral regions: near, mid and far-infrared.

Glass lenses cannot generally be used as I.R does not travel through glass.

Plastic Lenses need to be used.

People often 'See' Apparitions out of the corner of their eye.

This is due to part of the Human Eye Retina sensitive to I.R. relates to the

part of the Lens at the corner of the eye.

I have only ever seen one 'Apparition'

That was at Borley Rectory Essex.

I was about 30 metres away and saw an lady in the Churchyard at the Rectory

She was standing over a Gravestone and was shaking her head.

She was ther for about 15-20 seconds. I went to the place where she had stood but 'She' faded away.

The gravestone where she had stood had been vandalised.

Fox.

[Peckhampam]

There is no such thing as ghosts!!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Behind you!

If you are worried, contact your local priest who will arrange for a blessing or if necessary an exorcism.

[kyoto]

Here we go!

[KidKruger]

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,604326,page=1

[DulwichFox]

Peckhampam Wrote:

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> There is no such thing as ghosts!!

That is true for most people..

You cannot see Radio Waves but we are surrounded by them.

You need to be able to tune in to them .

'Ghosts' are a bit like that. They are not Solid objects.

They are also Not Hallucenations.

They are manifest in the people that see them.

People that say that something cannot be done.

It's because they do not know how to do it.

People that say . There is no such thing as ghosts!!

It's because they do not have the understanding that such a thing is possible.

Without such understanding, They simply do not exist.

Just as Radio Wave do not exist to someone without a Radio.

Fox.

[kyoto]

Thanks Kid Kruger!

[aquarius moon]

Unfortunately my 13 year old cat was put to sleep a few years ago.

One night, not long after, I heard her scratching in her litter tray, then felt her walking around on my bed.

Only happened the once & never since. I was definately wide awake & not imagining it.

Never believed in anything to do with ghosts before then, but do now.

[jctg]

kyoto Wrote:

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> I recently moved to Ivydale Road in Nunhead with

> friends and last night undoubtedly saw a lady

> ghost, I kid you not.

> I was very scared (she was frowning and looked

> menacing) but it was also such an amazing

> experience!

Take a camera to bed tonight and if anything happens photograph it, put the photo up on here and then we'll take it from there.

[Annette Curtain]

Fox

Have you ever thought of 'Writtig' (sic) a horror/mystery/thriller

A bit like a grown up scooby-doo story

It would be hammy-er than a vist to an Austrian butcher

But i'd read it, cover to cover

Honest, & I mean that

Nette ?

[Jeremy]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> If you are worried, contact your local priest who

> will arrange for a blessing or if necessary an exorcism.

I wouldn't want that job. I've seen how the movie ends... not good for the poor priest.

Maybe you could try the Ghostbusters instead? OK, so there was widespread destruction, but at least the protagonists all survived.

[TheRealMorris]

I'd be really interested in meeting a ghost, can I come around? Seriously!

[Loz]

I met someone once who told me they were a ghost. Of course, I saw straight through them.

[kyoto]

Come round for a few beers and a game of ouija if you think you're hard enuff!

[TheRealMorris]

Sounds like a perfect way to spend an evening, what could go wrong? Unless it followed me home, do ghosts do that?

[Guest]

I'm told scientists now say that everything is basically composed of energy, so there are no clear divisions between physical objects, and outside our daily experience time is non-linear, so it can't be long before they find a way to explain that ghosts and other supernatural phenomena really do exist.

I think a lot of people see and hear stuff from time to time but don't talk about it for fear of being thought mentally ill. See the Hearing Voices Network (http://www.hearing-voices.org/). Not necessarily incompatible with the above, more a question of how the experience affects you personally.

[Huguenot]

Well yes and no Ms B.

I don't think that science would refute the existence of ghosts or Gods.

But science would highlight that the laws of thermodynamics would mean it most unlikely that ghosts would be in the shape of cantankerous old women, and God was unlikely to be in the shape of a Bronze Age patriarch.

That would be an altogether too literal interpretation of the argument - requiring human interpretation in an everyday reference frame: i.e. What does this look like that I am already familiar with?

On that basis you already have to believe in both ghosts and Gods in order to perceive them; they're a figment of your imagination.

[Guest]

Huguenot, EVERYTHING you personally experience is an interpretation via your beliefs and memories, which themselves were interpretations at the time. Distinguishing between supernatural experiences and anything else is surely therefore more a question of degree and probability.

[Huguenot]

I think you're being too relative with this.

There's a difference between subjective and objective evidence.

Just because someone off their tits on LSD thinks there's an elephant in the room doesn't mean there is. A series of activities designed to feed the elephant is just going to end up in a messy carpet.

Neither ghosts nor Gods pass any objective test for their existence, which whilst it provides no foundation for denying the possibility, certainly provides no reasonable excuse to claim they are more likely to exist than the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Do you believe in that?

Please forgive rational people for placing ghosts or Gods in the same category.

[Brendan]

I'd like to believe in the flying spaghetti monster. I think it would make me seem mysterious and interesting and make women want to sleep with me. Unfortunately I have never seen the flying spaghetti monster.

I have sure as shift seen a ghost though. What I saw, why and whether it was a hallucination brought about by certain conditions and shaped by my own frame of reference or a messenger from the flying spaghetti monster is a mystery to me. It was however a genuine experience. I suppose it could of course have not happened and instead be a fabricated memory implanted in me by super-intelligent sewer dwelling lobsters as part of an interesting but otherwise insignificant sub-plot to the orchestrated docudrama that is modern human society and which they oversee editorially for a race of pasta based trans-dimensional beings.

But this is highly improbable.

[Huguenot]

Well don't give us just half the story, was it the England cricket team?

[El Pibe]

Thing is if it's observable then how come in almost two centuries of cameras has no image been captured.

If it's not observable then the perception is in the mind.

That's not to say this can't be caused by an outside phenomenon of an ectoplasmic nature, (though psychology suggests that overactive imagination and cultural conditioning* filling in the gaps is by far the most likely explanation of sightings), but again nothing has been able to recreate this in blind trials.

None of which stopped me from going to really spooky places in my youth like Clophill and scaring myself silly.

Never saw a ghost though.

*hence why mexicans see chupacabras, americans see greys and brits see cantankerous little old ladies