Halloween!!

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One night seven years ago I pulled my bus up at a stop to pick up a woman and her son , after she’d paid their fares they went and sat down on a seat quite close to me, before I pulled away I looked in my interior mirror, as I did the woman looked up and caught my eye and for one brief moment I saw my deceased Mother smiling at me, I immediately turned round and looked at the woman expecting to see my Mother sitting there, and felt extremely disappointed to see the woman looking out of the window, the experience left with a feeling of extreme sorrow for about an hour,
Perhaps it was my Mum reassuring me that things were ok , who knows?

sober at last

Dave

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Too right I do !

Used to work in a Chemist in a local village, doing photo processing (boy could I tell you some stories about that game…teehee) and it was well known by those who worked there that it was supposedly haunted by and old bloke. Yeh yeh yeh.
One evening while working late on my own, the photo printing machine ran out of paper so I had to go upstairs into the store room to refill the cartridge. No worries. did it and was walking down the stairs when the hairs on the back of my neck didn’t just stand on end…they nearly fell out. I tell you now, and people may scoff, I WAS FOLLOWED DOWN THOSE STAIRS !.
To say my sphincter was puckered would be a very very big understatement.
Not only where there footsteps (out of sync with mine I should add) but there was a ‘presence’. Normaly I try to take one step at a time coming down stairs…I think I cleared the last nine in one leap!.
Funnily enough, I didn’t do any more processing that night (got a rollicking for not locking the shop properly though !) and when I mentioned it the next day, was told the old man had only passed on in the last two hundred years and that he had a double barreled surname.
After that incident, I felt his presence, and on two seperate occasions could clearly make out a figure standing with a slight stoop, on numerous occassions and almost allways in the same room. Interestingly though, I never felt any mallice from whatever it was there.
And heres another one. A few years ago, one the guys in my office passed away and it was muggins here who had to clear out his desk drawers. A week after his funeral, 5 of us where working late in the office when all of us heard my name called out. It was the recently departed’s voice, all of of us there vouched for that fact. We looked outside the windows…no one in site and when we looked into the corridor…yeah I know it sounds cheesy but…there was a definite chill by the office door (mid summer time !). Basically, it scared the whatsit out of one of the girls who promptly asked to be escoted to her car and never worked late agin.
The followin night, the remaining four of us where again working late when again something happened that we could not fathom out. One of the girls had left her handbag on this guys desk…in the middle of his desk…and we where all working away at the other end of the office, when her handbag fell to the floor. Now I like to think that there is a rational reason behind this but I cannot think why an unnattended handbag would suddenly decide to slide two feet to the edge of a desk and drop to the floor on its own.
Yes I do believe that there is somthing that could be called a ghost or spook or whatever.

And finally on a lighter note, most people believe in life after death, how do I know ? why else do they put you 6 feet under with a concrete slab on top.

cheers

Gary

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Hiya A’babe,thats the same avatar as mine , I play guitar how about you? (there is a guitar thread somewhere down the line if you’re interested) do you play an instrument of any kind?

Sorry everybody I’m digressing!

sober at last

Dave

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Kabir

Try not to spread the news,it is definately a “celebration ” you can do without

sober at last

Dave

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not many people know there is something called Halloween in India.

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Well, I was born in Ireland so I naturally believe in Banshee’s and “little people”.
As far as ghosts are concerned, I believe in spirits coming back to warn of danger or future problems.
I have often lay awake at night in my bed with the feeling that I was not alone!

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I’m not for these violent way of doing things. But if you tell you’re not interested, they still come. Around here, you have to be mean when speaking with them. Unfortunately.

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Dcfly, we did that last year…guess what ended up splattered on the windows?

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Here in northwest Spain (Galicia) we´ve a very curious legend.
It was supposed that, if during November 1st night you were out in the street you could meet with the “Santa Compana”, a ghost parade. I guess just the ghosts of the local sinners, good people should go to heaven.Anyway, this vision was a signal: you will die soon
It sounds funny today but 30 years ago, in a small town, with fog, it was a very serious story.People avoided being out on this night.

I guess keltic can tell you about this story much better than me!!!

Regards

Jorge

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We had a few “Trick or treaters” round on halloween

and being the cantankerous old fart I am I didnt open the door but sat back to wait for the “trick”,

but the kids round our way dont have the courage of the convictions,

NOTHING HAPPENED!!!

I felt so deflated

sober at last

Dave

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With regards to Jehovah’s witnesses, they often used to call and fair enough they were always polite. But one time I was in a real hurry to go out and of course the door was knocked and the conversation went something like this as I opened the door…

Jehovahs Witness: Good Morning, do you know Jesus is coming?

Me: Oh, Right! I’ll go and put the kettle on.

Funnily enough that one never came again.

Regards,

kev35

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bit of harmless fun for the very little kids

then you get the 12 to 15 years old who are to oyung to go our drinking, etc so they go trick or treating on a monumental scale.

me and my mate devise elaborate ways of stopig them.

three years ago we set up an ambushaat the door with waterr pistols

second year we got BB guns

third year he got a paintball gun

working this year 🙁

rabie :9

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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 01-11-02 AT 06:22 PM (GMT)]To get rid of Jehova witnesses’ in a less violent way, I suggest showing them your Blood donor card…i’ve been told that is effective :9
Nah…but anyway,to get rid of them I suggest just telling them I am a Christian and you do not appreciate their way of live being forced upon you is normally an effective way.Kind and not illegal!

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Yes, A friend of mine once had another relatively “nice” idea… against witnesses of Jehova who disturbed him every Sunday at 7 AM He didn’t throw water, but some real big bangers…. It was effective, they never showed again.

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I live in a haunted house (yes seriously!!) so I do believe in ghosts.
A few years ago I had my old Dalmatian put to sleep at home. A few days later my Mum heard him barking. When we eventually got a new dog, our next door neighbour stopped me outside one day and said that the new dog sounded exactly like my old dog as she heard him barking in the yard every night. I never told her that the new dog was too young to bark (he took ages to start barking properly), but every night we used to let the old dog out into the back yard last thing, and he would then bark to come in. Also a friend once visited and she saw my old Dalmatian sitting in the lounge (he had been dead two years then).

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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 01-11-02 AT 10:39 AM (GMT)]Frank,sadly however tempting that option may seem, I don’t think the authorities would see the fun nor the rationalisation in that idea.
My idea to frighten the moron was to splash water on them…simple yet an affective option }> Problem was no one turned up and terrorised my area, which was lucky compared to last years events!

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I’m seeing Gohst a couple of times a year….. My mother in law! 🙂

In the Netherlands we do not selebrate Halloween. But in the norther part we celebrate St. Maarten on 11 november. This looks like Halloween only we do not dress and we use lights and sing songs. And then the kids get candy. But this got nothing to do with scaring people but it looks the same and it is a thing that goes way back into time.

Last couple of years Halloween is more and more pressent in the shops and it is becomming comercial in the Netherlands. Bud the children are not trick or treating yet!

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Do you believe in the supernatural and have you had any ghostly experiences?

Yes and yes.

Regards,

kev35

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As Benjamin said, Halloween was introduced here for commercial reasons. But 1st of October remains for me the religious day it always was (rememberance of the deads in the family, and a day where you catch a cold on the cemetary….)

Saab, just an idea, frighten that moron, with, say… a FAL or a Minimi. Some ZSU23/4 is also good }>

And Happy Halloween to those who celebrate it.

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Keltic, your religions very much interest me.May I welcome myselfe to this board. I like commercial aviaton .I always purchase Airliner world – good stuff about low cost airlines this month – its a good mag.Thats just my veiw on what I would do with trike or triters…we all have our own penions.

Kindest regards
Jemma.