Banshees-witches & Halloween

Merlin the Magician

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That Halloween posting regards pets, jogged my memory ...I was looking at the general subject of Banshees-Witches and Halloween, the other day which was interesting ....The bean-sidhe (woman of the fairy may be an ancestral spirit appointed to forewarn members of certain ancient Irish families of their time of death.
According to tradition, the banshee can only cry for five major Irish families: the O'Neills, the O'Briens, the O'Connors, the O'Gradys and the Kavanaghs. Intermarriage has since extended this select list.

It goes on to describe the equivalent to a BANSHEE in the other countries of Britain too...........

Do you know someone who fits the bill?????????? :P :lol:

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Alright, the threads in need of reinvigoration, and since we appraoch the witching hour, I'm going to twist aroud a we bit.

Has anybodt seen what they would call a ghost??? Or experienced a strange thing where they think something beyond the grave has guided them?

Personally I have, but until the response flood in, I'll leave it there
 
I have some spooky stories Warbler :blink: , but everytime I mention them I then have flashbacks followed by nightmares..... :ph34r:
 
Well I spoke to someone who lost consciousness on an operating table it turned out!!! She regained and lived!!! But I know damn well I had that conversation at 12.30 in 1996, and it troubled me to a point there after, so in 2001 I finally rang her parents to tell them what I thought had happened in 1996. That's when i dated it for them, thoroughly expecting to have the phone put down on me, but its only when I told them the full story, that they then told me she'd died in an operation in the month i mentioned, and at the time i said ( I couldn't give the day - it was 5 years after). She did live in the end though.

I've been mistaken for a ghost before, butthats a different story, although even that has something about it, but I'd need to be able to produce diagram to show you how what the two staff members claim to have seen, can't physically have happenend!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH
 
"She died in an operation... " and "she lived in the end" - what are you on tonight, Warbler? You mean her heart stopped for a while but she didn't die, do you?
 
Yep... I don't believe its unheard of. Indeed the same has happened to my good self after falling down a lift shaft apparently, where i had to be resucitated in the ambulance. I only discovered this a few days later when the attending para medic came to visit my hospital bed. It was only when he told me, that I suddenly realised I had no memory of the ambulance journey. I remember being hoisted out of the shaft, and remember beign rushed into the hospital building, but nothing in between. Not sure that one is a ghostie story though, rather an object lesson in how not to leave a building site.

I sued and won.
 
Originally posted by Warbler@Oct 30 2006, 10:30 PM
Has anybodt seen what they would call a ghost??? Or experienced a strange thing where they think something beyond the grave has guided them?
Yes.

I've had a door shut in my face for some obscure reason. (And no, there wasn't any fucking wind ;) )

In the same abode, footsteps have been heard walking through the house when all were safely tucked up in bed.

My father has been tapped on the shoulder, twice, in said abode.

One night, my parents heard my sister screaming from her bedroom. They rushed upstairs to find that she was pointing at a blank space in the room, saying "There's a pair of eyes watching me".
Being the sensible sorts that they are, they informed the presence that it was "scaring the wee lassie and to come downstairs and talk to them if it wanted to". The eyes disappeared and my parents retired to the living room.
My mother then had what she described as "a mental conversation" with the ghost. She elicited certain information from it that she had no prior knowledge of, that the ghost was related to a man who lived in Canada with whom they were in negotiations to purchase land adjoining their property and that her name was Sissy. My mother informed her that Canada-chappie was not going to be returning and that she wouldn't find him there.
A conversation with the chap in Canada confirmed that he had an aunt by the name of Sissy.

There has been no further ghostly activity in the house since that night.

Make of it what you will. I ran the story past a confirmed sceptic once, asking if he could come up with a rational explanation for it. The best I could get out of him was that he thought we were all lying about it. Anyone else got a better one, given that I know that not to be the case.
 
Originally posted by Warbler@Oct 30 2006, 10:30 PM
Alright, the threads in need of reinvigoration, and since we appraoch the witching hour, I'm going to twist aroud a we bit.

Has anybodt seen what they would call a ghost??? Or experienced a strange thing where they think something beyond the grave has guided them?

Personally I have, but until the response flood in, I'll leave it there
I saw Ghost a few years ago, and it has had a profound effect on me.
 
That's some story, simmo :huh:

I was brought up not to believe in ghosts but I can see no reason why they shouldn't exist, especially if you believe in life after death.

I remember being unable to get to sleep one night as a young man. My attention kept being drawn towards what I can only describe as a presence at the bottom of my bed. It had no discernable shape and emitted no visible aura. I just felt something was there. I eventually convinced myself I was either pished or stressed and conked out.
 
Poor little pumpkin - Mummy Griffin, you are NOT going to trot these out for the first boyfriend, are you? :D She's coming along well, isn't she? Lovely roundy face, and very bonny.

I reluctantly admit to something strange happening to me about 40 years ago. I was trying to think up a fresh, exciting way to sell the subsidiary rights to another of our rather dry railway monographs at David & Charles, the now-defunct publishers where I was then working, in Newton Abbot (Devon, for non-Devonians). My pen was resting on my memo pad when I realized my arm had started to tingle a little, and my hand was rearranging itself into a position I didn't use when writing. Okay, to cut down a yawnathon, I then got, when I allowed it, three days of on/off automatic writing.

The writing was nothing like my own hand, with very characteristic swooping big Ns for No and a huge Y for the Yes answers. The 'writer' was a young widow, probably turn of the 20C, whose husband had been killed in a fall from horseback (possibly hunting - that was a bit fuzzy). They had lived in Newton Ferrers and she described her house to me clearly. I had a mental picture of a slim young woman with her back to me, looking out of a ground floor window to a garden. I didn't see her face, although the 'idea' that she had brown eyes - which she then later wrote she did indeed have - occurred. She gave me her name and her husband's name, but sadly I've forgotten them now. I showed my Mother the pages and pages of notes, who was intrigued and said I should follow up on them. I didn't, and I haven't encouraged anyone to use my pen again, either!
 
My dear departed nan used to visit us quite frequently in our old house. I heard her far more than I saw her and didn't at all mind her being there. Mr GG heard her too, and it frightened him. He thought she was there because she didn't like him but I know it was because she was looking after me and the girls. We moved two years ago but I very rarely hear her, I'd say she's only been here a couple of times.

For several years I've been seeing an image in my mind of my nan, grandad by her side, in the back garden of a house they used to live in with one of my cats at her feet. I can see the expressions on their faces, it's very clear. I recently had a psychic reading done and the very same scene was described.
 
My cousin has some psychic ability, Griffin. During the Gulf War, my Mother (back in the UK while I was still in Saudi) was quite concerned for my safety, as we had the occasional Scud aimed our way (Dhahran). One day, my cousin rang her to say she shouldn't worry at all as she'd had a 'vision' of a man in what she described as a 'dark uniform' telling her that I'd be all right. My Mother asked her to describe the man some more, and my cousin said it was very strange, but the background behind him appeared to be an explosion. My Mum then said she understood the message, and to say a big thank you to my father John, who was in the Royal Naval Reserve during World War II, and had been killed during coastal duties. His motor torpedo boat had been blown up (the explosion) by German boats during an engagement off the coast of France. Obviously, he was represented in the dark navy uniform. My cousin was surprised - she'd thought my Father was in the army, and she'd been unaware of how he'd died, so the message was by no means 'planted' by prior information.

My Mother visited a Turkish lady when she was still living in Devon, and was told that she would fairly soon be departing for another life abroad. The woman, Mrs Suleiman, said that Mum would be living on an island with palm trees. Was she thinking of going to the Bahamas, as she was getting B-A-H but struggling after that. No, Mum said, only in her dreams. Within the year she was living on the island of BAHrain, surrounded by palm trees! She hadn't even met the person who would encourage her to live there at that time, so again, no prior information was available to the psychic.

If there is a psychic energy to be tapped, and there seems to be some reason to believe that there is, then it's an area we don't work on enough, perhaps. It has to be more than just intuition, because there are too many examples of premonition (positive or negative) for it to be just that, or coincidence.

I woke up one morning when I was working in Saudi, following a horrible, vivid dream. I dreamt that a Saudia plane (or at least what looked like one, with its then blue and green livery) was circling on the ground, on fire. I then flew over it (as you do, without the aid of a plane or wings!) and saw that the top of it was open, and the inside was black and smoky.

I felt quite shaken by it, but not so badly as when I arrived for work at 7.00 a.m. and my colleagues asked if I'd heard the morning news about the awful plane disaster in Riyadh? I then got really afraid, as my then boyfriend was due to return from a business trip to the city that morning, by plane. Thankfully, I got a call from him a few hours later to say that he'd been delayed leaving, because of the incident with the plane. I asked for details and they were that a Saudia flight had caught fire in the air and was coming in for an emergency landing - it seems that some idiot in the cabin had started a fire. The pilot landed okay, and was taxiing the plane to safety, but the passengers had panicked in the onboard smoke and rushed the exits. They refused to be pulled away so that the doors could be opened, and it's thought that the captain continued to taxi on the ground because he was trying to avoid fuel hazards and other planes. Meanwhile, as he became disoriented, his crew and the passengers suffocated to death.

My boyfriend said there were no survivors and when he flew out of the airport, they'd flown over the stricken plane. Yes, from the air he could see that the whole top of the plane was open, and it was blackened and smoky inside. :(
 
Originally posted by Colin Phillips@Nov 1 2006, 07:16 AM
Do you think horses have the same sort of experiences, if they have souls, that is! :shy:
:lol: I know that cats do :P Joseph pussy cat and I have seen a ghost of Josephs best chum Phoebe who was killed on the road aged thirteen months. We were talking about her and she quickly walked past us. I was sat on the floor while Joe was above me on a chair and both our heads turned at the same time to watch so I know he saw her too.

I can assure you all no alcohol or drugs were involved :lol: I do see and hear things that most people don't. I've no explaination as to why and it's not something I have any control over.
 
Will you let us know the next time the winner of the big race on a Saturday tips you the wink in advance?
 
I also wish the dreams of premonition were useful! I've had quite a few involving air disasters, which then turn out to happen within the next 24 hours. I can see the plane's livery and the type of disaster, but what the hell are you going to do with that? You'd either be arrested as a likely saboteur or dismissed as a looney. I think the people who said they'd had premonitions of, say, 9/11, weren't wrong - it's just that unless you have real specifics, it's too fuzzy to report, and usually the timeframe is too close to the event to be of any preventative assistance.
 
Originally posted by Desert Orchid@Nov 1 2006, 11:34 AM
Will you let us know the next time the winner of the big race on a Saturday tips you the wink in advance?
My grandad is good for racing tips from beyond the grave. He tipped up Pappilon and Lammtara. He also tipped Red Marauder but I assumed he'd gone stark raving bonkers and didn't follow his advice.
 
Originally posted by Griffin+Nov 1 2006, 01:40 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Griffin @ Nov 1 2006, 01:40 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Desert Orchid@Nov 1 2006, 11:34 AM
Will you let us know the next time the winner of the big race on a Saturday tips you the wink in advance?
My grandad is good for racing tips from beyond the grave. He tipped up Pappilon and Lammtara. He also tipped Red Marauder but I assumed he'd gone stark raving bonkers and didn't follow his advice. [/b][/quote]
Only three winners in about 20 years? Even An Capall does better than that ;)
 
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