Sixth Sense

PMG · #51 (**permalink**) 03-12-2007, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Deer Stalker

Good for you mate. Take your camera this time.

I would offer to come with you, but your a bit too far away for me.

Ha! ha! You're a pal for offering but Hampshire is a bit of a trek! I've got folk who could and would go with me if asked but I sort of feel there will be nothing to 'feel' if I'm not alone......... it will be a perfectly ordinary boring bit of wood and I will wonder what all the fuss was about! And there won't be an eye to be seen......... anyway I will lay this particular ghost to rest in 2008 (well it beats the diet resolution - cos that always fails!!!)

Pauline

coasty · #52 (**permalink**) 04-12-2007, 09:12 AM

I was doing a site survey on a derelict building years ago,, I kept hearing this weird moaning noise, I did make my hair stand up a bit.. I did try and follow the noise and eventually worked out it was wind across the end of a scaffold pole,,,,Now if I had scarpered id have been typing on here about the moaning from beyond the grave I heard.

Gill Catton · #53 (**permalink**) 04-12-2007, 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by coasty

I was doing a site survey on a derelict building years ago,, I kept hearing this weird moaning noise, I did make my hair stand up a bit.. I did try and follow the noise and eventually worked out it was wind across the end of a scaffold pole,,,,Now if I had scarpered id have been typing on here about the moaning from beyond the grave I heard.

I did a survey of the old nestle building in Norfolk about a year or so after it had been derelict it was fine until I reached the shop floor where they were probably active 24/7 churning out chocolate and it was like being in an empty school, I kept seeing things out of the corner of my eye, it was wierdest thing.......

That's a weird thing the empty school thing.... why do they feel a bit strange to be in? They're just a building but none-the-less they feel strange when they are empty......

Mr Mag00 · #54 (**permalink**) 04-12-2007, 09:21 AM

i do get a lot of movement out of the corner of my eye in my house, and windows which is quite old and my son often talks about ppl in the house, i am not the only person to feel this in our house, he is very sensitive to these things compared to my other son.

PMG · #55 (**permalink**) 04-12-2007, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Gill Catton

I did a survey of the old nestle building in Norfolk about a year or so after it had been derelict it was fine until I reached the shop floor where they were probably active 24/7 churning out chocolate and it was like being in an empty school, I kept seeing things out of the corner of my eye, it was wierdest thing.......

That's a weird thing the empty school thing.... why do they feel a bit strange to be in? They're just a building but none-the-less they feel strange when they are empty......

Don't I remember someone doing some research into buildings a few years ago and obtaining conversation trapped in walls? Or was that just a gag and I believed it? If that is true then it begs all sorts of other questions about buildings and what remains? I've had that sort of feeling Gill in derelict buildings esp old spinning mill factories.............

And coasty - you're a better man than I gungadin - cos if you'd been as scared as me that day - you could not have stayed - and my point is I'm a 14 stone bruiser who doesn't scare easily and have been in all sorts of scary places and situations and not fled - so altho I've put my account up and knew some folk might want to laugh it off - I'm saying it was serious that day and definitely different to the 'lets tell a scary story round the campfire tonight' scenario

Pauline

The Black Rabbit · #56 (**permalink**) 04-12-2007, 09:51 AM

Hey Andy.

Over 20 years ago or so now, when I was a lad, I had a sort of similar experience...

Instead of doing homework, I'd often take one of my dad's old golf clubs up to the fields behind our house, to get a bit of hitting balls in, just after the dog walkers had departed and the light almost had.
One warm, still, very quiet summers evening, I was on a "rough rec" (a not very well kept recreation and cricket ground), and I was doing just that, smacking a few golf balls with a club, as dusk fell.
It was so quiet - you could hear a mouse far... er... cough.

I'd just thrown a few balls at my feet, and suddenly, in the distance (as far as I was concerned) I heard this very eerie moaning noise.
I stopped and tried to see what on earth was making this ghostly (ghastly) noise, but the light was quite poor, and anyway, I couldn't see anyone or anything else on this deserted rec.
I was stood stock still, all alone, slap bang in the middle of this (quite large) cricket ground, and all I could hear was this very frightening (at the time) eerie moaning noise.
But worse still.... it was DEFINITELY getting louder, and closer. Quite fast.
Very fast in fact.

My heart was now racing. I still had the club in my hand, and I started to whirl around, desperately trying to see what this invisible foe was, or even indeed where it was coming from.
I started to thrash the club around me as a makeshift defence. (Probably works against ghosts eh?)!
Hey - I wasn't thinking straight by now - I was fast becoming hysterical.

My pupils must have been completely dilated as they fought the panic, and dusky light, and all the while, whilst I was looking this way and that, that eerie moaning was getting louder.
LOUDER.
NEARER.

I was alone. There was definitley no-one and nothing else around. Not that I could see anyway.

The eerie moaning was getting LOUDER.
VERY LOUD!
VERY NEAR!

HELLO?!
WHAT IS THAT?!
HELPPPP!!!!

It was at that moment that the MOTHER of all Cockchafers smashed into my forehead, and knocked me clean over.
(Though you could have knocked me down with a feather at that point anyhoo!)

I don't think I've ever been scared of being outside in low light (or the night) since!

Doug

coasty · #57 (**permalink**) 04-12-2007, 10:09 AM

NIce one Doug

And in a similar vein when I was a small boy at a boarding school ( which was in a 17th century mansion ) The housemaster told us all a story of how the school was haunted by the Highland piper who was a victim of a family feud 200 years ago. He told us how the piper had walked the school grounds playing the same tune. and for anyone who heard him that terror and madness was sure to follow.

Months later late at night in the dormitory my mate Pete ( chippy ) Mills said in a trembling voice whats that weird noise,,,, and one by one we all could hear the eerie sound of a bagpipes wail,,,,as a small boy of 10 years old I can assure you I was very frightened,,,,,

Anyway must get back to work,,,,

Gill Catton · #58 (**permalink**) 04-12-2007, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by coasty

NIce one Doug

And in a similar vein when I was a small boy at a boarding school ( which was in a 17th century mansion ) The housemaster told us all a story of how the school was haunted by the Highland piper who was a victim of a family feud 200 years ago. He told us how the piper had walked the school grounds playing the same tune. and for anyone who heard him that terror and madness was sure to follow.

Months later late at night in the dormitory my mate Pete ( chippy ) Mills said in a trembling voice whats that weird noise,,,, and one by one we all could hear the eerie sound of a bagpipes wail,,,,as a small boy of 10 years old I can assure you I was very frightened,,,,,

Anyway must get back to work,,,,

I remember when my cats went missing I slept with the window open in case I could hear her and was tortured for ages by the sensation that I could hear her bell in the distance..... but it wasn't there, it was entirely in my head.....

The Black Rabbit · #59 (**permalink**) 04-12-2007, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by coasty

NIce one Doug

And in a similar vein when I was a small boy at a boarding school ( which was in a 17th century mansion ) The housemaster told us all a story of how the school was haunted by the Highland piper who was a victim of a family feud 200 years ago. He told us how the piper had walked the school grounds playing the same tune. and for anyone who heard him that terror and madness was sure to follow.

Months later late at night in the dormitory my mate Pete ( chippy ) Mills said in a trembling voice whats that weird noise,,,, and one by one we all could hear the eerie sound of a bagpipes wail,,,,as a small boy of 10 years old I can assure you I was very frightened,,,,,

Anyway must get back to work,,,,

You weren't at Dalhousie were you?
Anyway, my eerie foe was no highland piper.
I've edited the end to the tale in my post above.
Doug

Gill Catton · #60 (**permalink**) 04-12-2007, 10:21 AM

I remember doing a barn owl survey in north wales at night, I also had a bat detector with me and i could hear what I thought was foot steps both through the detector and by ear coming towards me and at first wasn't bothered because I thought it was probably my colleage but the foot steps continued but nothing was visible and nothing was getting closer and it sort of freaked me out until I realised it was not foot steps at all but the sound of a cow cropping grass in a slightly more systematic way than normal!

I still get stupidly frightened though can't seem to turn it off esp when on my own - its very annoying!

The Black Rabbit · #61 (**permalink**) 04-12-2007, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Gill Catton

I remember doing a barn owl survey in north wales at night, I also had a bat detector with me and i could hear what I thought was foot steps both through the detector and by ear coming towards me and at first wasn't bothered because I thought it was probably my colleage but the foot steps continued but nothing was visible and nothing was getting closer and it sort of freaked me out until I realised it was not foot steps at all but the sound of a cow cropping grass in a slightly more systematic way than normal!

I still get stupidly frightened though can't seem to turn it off esp when on my own - its very annoying!

Gill.
Can I recommend watching either of the films:
"The Blair Witch Project" or "Watcher in the Woods"
before you undergo your next survey?

Mwah ah ah ah aaaaaah!!!

Doug.

(Always here to help)!

Gill Catton · #62 (**permalink**) 04-12-2007, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by The Black Rabbit

Gill.
Can I recommend watching either of the films:
"The Blair Witch Project" or "Watcher in the Woods"
before you undergo your next survey?

Mwah ah ah ah aaaaaah!!!

Doug.

(Always here to help)!

ok just after the blair witch came out and I'd seen it (and it is very much the kind of scaryness that gets to me the kind you can't see) I went and did a survey in a conifer plantation in South Wales.

During the course of that day I found circles made of logs on the ground - fair enough I thought probably just kids with a campfire - oh hang on no camp fire in the middle... well it is a conifer plantation probably more sensible kids than normal (which seemed unlikely really!)....

Then I came across a car with relatively modern plates, enclosed and surrounded by mature trees with no feasible way in for a car.......that added to my wierd feeling until I realised that although the trees would have been there when the car was driven there and abandoned they would have been bendy saplings so that was how the car ended up there. So probable and likely explanation but weirdness feeling increased further in my head

Then in another adjacent section, and the sun was setting a bit now, I was only about 12m in when I came across a couple of sheep skulls - fair enough I thought its wales there's plenty of sheep where there's life there's death etc... not bothered, two steps further and there was another and another within a 50m square there were loads and almost entirely skulls of varying age of decomposition and the odd rib or leg bone but very few other bones - no spines very odd indeed!

I phoned my boss for a logical explanation and his helpful response was 'get out of there! get out of there now!!'

I had another debate with myself about probably risk and still left rather sharply!!!

The blair witch certainly hadn't helped esp when the friend I called before my boss kept getting cut off!

In reality I expect it was evidence of someone butchering sheep on the sly but at the time it was more than enough wierdness for one day for me just after having seen that film!

coasty · #63 (**permalink**) 04-12-2007, 11:36 AM

Well Doug,,,,Not had a cockchafer but when I used to ride a motor bike and wore an open helmet, I had a bumble bee hit me in the eye at about 80,,,, It hurt like hell,,,,

any way settle down and I will finish my story,,,,

Eventually the wailing stopped and we small boys managed to get back to sleep.. This occurred on anoither occurence about a year later and yes we were very scared, Beleive me they make a scary sound,,,,

I only found out about 10 years after when I returned to the school and was discussing it with some other ex pupils, A teacher was asked and asked us we would like to meet the piper,,,, The farmer over the fields turned out to be a member of the local pipe band and when the wind was right you could hear him as if he was in the same room.....

Andy