tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-571238967019462780.post6213966438720204748..comments2023-06-14T05:33:24.525-07:00Comments on A Stuffed Life: Natural Born SkepticsKellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04818135004045748078noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-571238967019462780.post-81802115662030787862009-10-08T07:28:00.673-07:002009-10-08T07:28:00.673-07:00Ok, so here comes what always sounds like 'the...Ok, so here comes what always sounds like 'the crazy' :) (and I apologize for the length!)<br /><br />My family's history is steeped in Fair Folk legend... it came over from Scotland and Ireland with my ancestors and never left. We leave cream out in a saucer at night, we wear our pajamas inside out on St. Patty's to ward off the Bahn Sidhe, and generally we wear one article of clothing inside out at all times to be immune to Fae glamour.<br /><br />So... needless to say, when things that most people attribute to ghosts happen, I attribute them to Faeries... unless there is a history to the place that suggests some spirit may want to hang around. (My cousin got her house cheap because the doctor who had lived there killed himself in one of the rooms downstairs... at night, you can hear someone walking from the closet in the master bedroom, down the hall, and down the stairs to the room where he did it... I've always attributed that to sounds of the house settling... otherwise being there alone would be too creepy!)<br /><br />And now that I sound like a ravin' lunatic... lemme explain :)<br /><br />What I believe in most are Family Traditions. I am in love with the fact that my Grandfather passed these traditions on to us, carefully telling us the whys and hows of each element, and that they had been passed to him by his parents, and so on and so on.<br /><br />So many people I talk to today don't seem to have family traditions that extend past their immediate family (like friday night is movie night, or some such)... and it seems like more and more often, kids don't even know where their ancestors came from. I think that's a bit sad. I'm fascinated by my family tree... the good AND the bad that can be found in it.<br /><br />I BELIEVE in the tradition, even if I can allow myself some skepticism about the truth of those beliefs.<br /><br />I do have to say though, I did have an experience that scared the CRUD out of me... and I honestly don't know what to make of it.<br /><br />I was sitting at home watching a VHS of a fairly depressing movie (it was probably written by that danged Nicholas Sparks...) when all of a sudden my TV switched to static and a high pitched laughter (not something that *could have been* laughter, but honest laughter) started blaring from the screen. Totally freaked out, I tried to turn off the VCR, but it wouldn't shut down... so I pulled the plug on it... and the static and laughter kept going, so I pulled the plug on the tv... and the thing kept going for a good 30 seconds before stopping.<br /><br />A bit unnerved, I went to the bathroom for a moment to calm down, splash some water on my face, etc. <br /><br />The hall to my bathroom had bookshelves lining it... and the minute I opened the door to leave the bathroom, every book on those shelves that had something to do with faeries (about 5 books total... and they were on shelves on both sides of the hall), fell off the bookshelves to the floor.<br /><br />This is the only event in my life that I truly am at a loss to explain... mostly because of the very selective nature of the fallen books... <br /><br />I'm highly skeptical of it... but I still just can't explain it... <br /><br />I'd love to hear your theory on ghosts.Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15111661500387424612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-571238967019462780.post-81500377733771480182009-10-07T03:45:17.260-07:002009-10-07T03:45:17.260-07:00Oops - bit of a long waffle there, sorry :)Oops - bit of a long waffle there, sorry :)Carmen https://www.blogger.com/profile/07968725221313800020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-571238967019462780.post-16588267858402546332009-10-07T03:44:46.243-07:002009-10-07T03:44:46.243-07:00Oh see now I'm the total opposite. I believe i...Oh see now I'm the total opposite. I believe in EVERYTHING (except religion) until you can prove to me otherwise. I don't doubt this house is haunted, to many things have happened but it's not malicious whatever it is - just gives you goosebumps and raised hairs on the back of your neck every now and then.<br /><br />Ours is centralised to our hall and stair area. Every now and again you will get hit by a powerful waft of floral scent - could be me? Nope I'm all for the fruity scents not floral. Things go missing for days and then turn up exactly where they are supposed to be, if we put a light bulb in our hall, at least 4 other bulbs in the house will blow - even longlife ones.Not the same ones each time either so now we just don't have a hall light.<br /><br />Sometimes if I sit in my computer chair with my back to the hall door I get that sensation that someone is behind me, whip around, no-one. Same when you go up the stairs. Same with the seeing things out of the corner of the eye.<br /><br />I went to a psychic once, there was a psychic fayre in town so we went along. It was weird. She told me EXACTLY where I was having experiences in my house, what was happening etc. She said it was a woman named Ivy who lived there many years ago and just didn't realise she didn't anymore and had to move on. She meant us no harm. It still freaks my eldest daughter but not me so much anymore. If things go missing now I say "a jokes a joke Ivy can I have it back now?" You'd be amazed how often it works :)<br /><br />I'd love to know your theory btw.Carmen https://www.blogger.com/profile/07968725221313800020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-571238967019462780.post-5003713789175532312009-10-06T17:05:57.810-07:002009-10-06T17:05:57.810-07:00Kelly, I have experienced something similar in a h...Kelly, I have experienced something similar in a house I lived in years ago. I said nothing about it for many months, and then one day it came up in conversation - my roommate was experiencing it, too. Time passed, a new roommate, I said nothing, new roommate brings it up after several months of weirdness (apparently whatever it was didn't like him very much). I, too, am a skeptic, and yet...Kathy-Catnip Studiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08494802011573058411noreply@blogger.com