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Ken
Local Historian & Researcher
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02/07/2004
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Copy of E-mail received yesterday.
About a year ago, I was walking home at lunchtime from Gisburn Road Nursery Barnoldswick with my son. We started to walk past Cravenside old peoples home when I noticed a young man crossing the path to Cravenside next to the grass, he looked and smiled at me, he was carrying a brown paper bag.
I just remember thinking what a lovely warm friendly smile he had as he went off for his dinner(what I presumed was in the bag), then without taking my eyes off him he vanished. I never said anything to my son as he was only 4 at the time.
It wasn't until he vanished that I realised he must have been a ghost, and when I started to recall more detail in my mind I remembered that his clothes were greyish brown and dusty looking(at the time of sighting I just thought builders apprentice) afterwards I'd say more Victorian or 20's/30's.
I have later found out this used to be the coal yard where the old peoples home now stands, maybe he was a young man who lost his life there, or maybe he comes back in spirit to the coal yard because he was at his happiest, when he worked there?
If you can possibly shed any light on this story I would be grateful. contact me joannacw@supanet.com
Thanks.
Joanna Warrington.
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Flutterby
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Posted - 09/12/2006 : 16:39
I havent got the gist of the web site yet, sorry to start with the first thread as it is abit strange to me and different to what i am used to! |
TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 09/12/2006 : 16:50
There is no gist,you can post on any topic you like,i think there are 6195 of them..
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Flutterby
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Posted - 09/12/2006 : 21:38
Just finding my way around still! |
Invernahaille
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Posted - 16/12/2006 : 15:48
Personally I am a sceptic on the subject of Ghost, believing that there is a perfectly rational explanation for phenominal events. However, I post a clip from today's Rochdale Observer for those of you who have a leaning towards this subject.
Pub haunted by ghosts of Christmas present
GHOSTLY APPARITION... landlord Paul Whitmore says festive spirits have returned to his pub in more ways than one.CHRISTMAS spirit has taken on a new meaning for regulars of the Bull’s Head in Ogden as they await their regular festive visits from ghosts.
The apparitions of a man, a woman and a dog have been seen by customers, the landlord Paul Whitmore and his wife, Marlene. They say glasses are mysteriously thrown from behind the bar when there is nobody there and a former chef at the pub was singled out by the spirits who constantly threw pots at her when she entered the kitchen.
The ladies at the pub invited two mediums, who announced that the pub was haunted by three spirits. Curiously, the spirits only turn up around Christmas and leave when the weather starts to get warmer.
AdvertisementMr Whitmore said: "One night at 5.30pm I saw a woman wearing a long coat walk through the pub into the restaurant. All the tables had been booked and I asked my business partner Henry Wakelin to have a word with her, but when he got into the restaurant no one was there.
"A customer saw what appeared to be a man walk through a door which had been blocked off. The ghosts are not frightening, they are quite playful. They throw pots and glasses off the shelves. This only happened last week.
"One of the theories as to why they always haunt the pub around Christmas and not during summer, is that they come inside out of the cold into the warmth of the pub.
"The ghosts are quite a talking point among regulars, who say they are here again. One of the ghosts is that of a dog. My wife Marlene said she had moved out of the way of a dog and then realised there wasn’t a dog in the pub. The customers aren’t frightened of the ghosts, but they can be mischievous."
Stephen Foster
First published by the Rochdale Observer
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Flutterby
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Posted - 17/12/2006 : 16:06
I went out for a meal in an old hotel in Burnley , in front of my eyes an ashtray fell off ahigh shelf , later i went to the ladies and again something came off a shelf, it was my handbag!Coincidentally my grandfather used to frequent this hotel and it was in the area he lived and used to beat as a policeman. I do think it was him! |
gus
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Posted - 19/12/2006 : 10:09
 I`M PINK THEREFORE I`M SPAM"
Gus
http://www.flickr.com/photos/angusbrennan/
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moh
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Posted - 19/12/2006 : 10:20
What's that about?
Say only a little but say it well |
Invernahaille
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Posted - 19/12/2006 : 12:57
Moh,
Its a skit on Cartesian phiosophy. Renee Descarte, French philosopher. He did a thesis on dualism, and came up with the view that A priori existed even if he was unconscious therefor he existed. He then came up with the famous expression. "I think therefore I am".
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gus
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Posted - 19/12/2006 : 15:55
bravo Robert,
Gus
http://www.flickr.com/photos/angusbrennan/
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Sue
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Posted - 21/12/2006 : 09:51
When I was 13 my grandfather was extremely ill in hospital. We were very close indeed, and when he died Mum and Dad did not tell me straight away as it was late in the evening , so they decided to tell me the next morning, Sunday.
During the night, I awoke thinking of grandpa, and praying, that he was OK, but knew in my heart he wasn't. I opened my eyes and he was sat on my bed. He said to me' Don't worry about me, I am fine now, look after yourself ( a favourite phrase of mine these days). A premonition, a ghost, wishful thinking, who is to say, but that is the last happy memory I have of him and it will stay with me forever. The next morning Mum came into see me early, and I just said that I knew grandpa had died because he had told me during the night. She was shocked that I knew as nothing had been said to me or my brothers and sister
Sue
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moh
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Posted - 21/12/2006 : 10:19
I experienced something similar - my dad always said he would die before me so he would try and let me know if there was life after death. He had moved from Barnoldswick to a home in Burnley to be nearer me, he was only there two days when he got a chill, but it was not thought to be serious. During the night I heard a loud knocking on our front door, went to both the front and side windows and there was no-one there. I only wished I had looked at the clock before getting back into bed. The following morning at 8am they rang me from the home to say he had died between 4am and 6am. I told her about the knocking and she said they often heard tales like that.
Acouple of months later, on holiday in Portugal, I dreamed my dad was getting off a bus, I asked him what he was doing, he was dead, he replied he did not like it there it was cold, dark and damp and he wanted to come back. The following night I dreamed about him again, again he said the above, adding he did not like to leave me with the responsibility of my mum (who had MS). I told him it was no problem I would look after mum, and he must go back and settle down. I didn't dream of him again for a long time.
Say only a little but say it well |
belle
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Posted - 21/12/2006 : 13:13
I don't know how to explain this, but my mother was ill for some time and we all had to go back to our jobs, in my case, a couple of hundred miles away. I had just gone on a break when I suddenly felt the need to be alone, I walked back along the corridor, and just as I turned into my room I felt something ping off me as though attached by elastic that had just broken I knew immediately, my mum had gone, needless to say the phone call I got a few minutes later was not as much of a shock as it might have been.
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Boudicca
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Posted - 21/12/2006 : 15:50
I see and sense things my minders don't.I could tell Minder No 1 had something wrong with her for about 2 weeks before she discovered she had breast cancer. I followed her round and tried to communicate my concern but she just kept telling me to stop moidering her. Nowadays if I want to tease the pair of them I just go and stare at them - they start checking themselves all over for lumps and bumps, and I usually get a chewstick out of it. Minder No 2 dreamed about her dad smiling and waving goodbye from his car while she was walking backwards over a cliff, but she didn't fall, she was just suspended there. A few weeks later the news broke that he had terminal cancer - so maybe you humans are more perceptive than you think. You just don't interpret things correctly, or maybe you can't get your head round the fact that some things don't have a logical explanation. |
moh
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Posted - 21/12/2006 : 20:25
who is hiding behind Boudicca and dare not face us??????
Say only a little but say it well |
melteaser
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Posted - 21/12/2006 : 20:50
Boudicca is Cally's pet pooch Moh.
Mel
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Ghost?
