Posted: May 10, 2012 9:39 pm
tolman wrote:Nora_Leonard wrote:Anyway the landlady's mother, who also lived in the house, was quite ill, and in fact not far from death. One night I woke up and found this ghost standing at the foot of my bed. It wasn't very distinct, just this ethereal form, but I was almost paralysed with fear. It just faded away and I was terrified of falling back to sleep in case it came back.
I saw a 'ghost' once.
After a long drive across Europe, I stopped for the night in a rented caravan on a riverside campsite.
Had to get up in the middle of the night for a call of nature, and wandered outside without my (not very strong) glasses to find it somewhat misty. While answering the call, I looked up and saw a lovely female 'forest spirit' standing in front of me (which the next day could be seen to have materialised where there was, in reality, a gnarled tree trunk.
The weird thing was the emotional ambivalence of the experience.
On the one hand I was genuinely startled to see what I 'saw' and at the time I saw it as being completely 'real'.
On the other hand, seeing it didn't stop me carrying on answering the call of nature in 'full view' of the apparition, and going back to bed without the slightest feeling of concern and without spending a second analysing the experience.
Presumably that combination of apparent 'belief' but complete unseriousness is a result of being half-asleep, as was seeing the thing in the first place.
Whatever the eventual, correct explanation, we'll never get nearer to it by dismissing and ridiculing the evidence, only by allowing science to do its job..