Originally posted by @Chertsey-Saint
Originally posted by @Dubai_Phil
Originally posted by @Chertsey-Saint
Do they exist?
Have you ever seen one?
Anyone got any good ghost stories?
Never seen one myself, but had friends that have sworn they have been present around ghostly behaviour.
Yes.
HTH.
And no, it doesn’t involve Golf.
Ooh, spill…
Oh alright then.
The Night was dark and stormy…
Actually it wan’t and it was Daytime, and it was long before SMS was a twinkle in Ruperts’ eye.
It was “That Time”, early in the morning and the (Very Ex) wife is just starting to go into Labour.
(Oh FFS Pap not YOUR bloody Labour I mean the PAINFUL REAL LIFE version)
Being fully prepared we loaded the car and headed to the Maternity Unit.
Everything actually happened really quickly and within about an hour our first was born.
Gawd knows what time but I guess mid - late morning (yeah I know we are all supposed to know all that stuff, c’mon at least I remember it was in August, or was it September? No think it was August)
Now comes the “cannot explain part”.
Healthy Baby pops out, I have not feinted and Midwife hands Baby to (Very Ex) who places Baby on her right side and Kaboom, there is (Very Ex) wife’s mother leaning across to see the Baby with a smile and that whole Grandma thing.
It was as clear as day and actually seemed far more clear, real and vivid than anything Jermaine Wright ever did in a Saints Shirt.
I started to raise my arm to point and open my mouth to say something in a sort of typical ghost story mega slow motion way and looked back to my wife to say - It’s your Mum and everyone was staring at me.
I can confirm I was not on any medication and had not been on the Summer Lightning for at least a week as I was on stand by.
The (Very Ex’s) Mother had passed away some 3 or 4 years earlier.
So there you go.
I have a mate who does the whole Brain thing - NLP & Hypnosis and we have talked it through over beers over the years, obviously the stress or intensity such moments can induce or maybe the Gas & Air mix had been leaking. We agree that a brain fart is as likely a reason as a Ghost (200 odd miles from where she had lived and passed away after all).
BUT here is the spooky thing - I really did not LIKE her Mother (not in traditional Mother -in - Law way just that I wasn’t deemed to be good enough for her I guess), so of ALL the people that my Brain could have counjuered up in that moment why the hell would it have been her?
No ectoplasm, no rotting flesh ripping the still beating heart from my Chest, just Mother in Law coming to see her first Grand Daughter.
After that? I made sure I was very pissed the night before any future deliveries.
Daughter is fantastic and has provided an amazing Grandson and yes I mentioned this, and yes I have forgotten many thousands of things of when the Kids were Young but that image is so engrained in my mind it could even today be a 3D hologram, even now 30 odd years on I could (if I had ANY artistic talent) draw/paint that room.
So yeah, I saw a Ghost.