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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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Cathy
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Posted - 19/10/2005 : 13:45
Marcia....Good Luck. Take something comforting with you - and not the kind of thing that Nolic is talking about.
All thru the fields and meadows gay .... Enjoy Take Care...Cathy |
melteaser
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Posted - 28/10/2005 : 16:46
Oh I think I'd go with Oilcans suggestion.
Are you worried/nervous Marcia?
Mel
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Marcia
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Posted - 28/10/2005 : 17:00
Mostly about being cold, Mel :) I will be packing a sleeping bag and two jumpers just in case.
And yes, I have some alcoholic-type spirits to fortify me - I may even take some Lithuanian mead :)
- Marcia Allass
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rosilee
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Posted - 10/10/2006 : 20:32
no one seems to have posted anything on this thread for a while ,on Jully 22nd this year 2006 myself and 3 other members of my family attended a wedding and booked an overnight stay at Monks House on Manchester road Barlick .I shared a room with my daughter and she saw a ghost in the room we slept in it was a person in a long dress or cloak with long hair ,every time she shut her eyes and opened them again it had moved nearer so she got nervous and said go away and leave me alone and it vanished .I was sleeping so never saw anything .I asked the propriater if then place was haunted and she said yes it was .She said her and her hubby were psychcics and saw them regularly Rosie
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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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Posted - 11/10/2006 : 05:48
One of the great things about ghosts is that there is no proof they exist one way or another. I have had very realistic hallucinations from time to time when very short of sleep or under great stress. In recent years, quantum mathematics has indicated that there may be more than one universe and this means that there could be different dimensions. None of this proved or disproved but I believe that there is a lot out there that we don't understand yet, only a fool will discount the possibillity completely. I will never rubbish anyone who sincerely believes they have seen something. Have you ever read Oscar Wilde's short story 'The Canterville Ghost'? Fiction, but a lovely story and well worth seeking out.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk |
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Posted - 11/10/2006 : 09:22
Well had thought of booking Monks House on my upcoming trip..but maybe not...I prefer live company.
In Toronto there have been several stories some may be true some bunk. A friend of mine who actually was a serious candidate for mayor, told me a story that in their house they would here the piano at night, one night they actually caught/saw an old lady playing, they asked her who she was and she told them, and where she lived. When they checked with the city they found that the name and address checked out with old records. In an historic site in Toronto (Todmorden Mills) they would leave the lights on at night, many mornings they would find the lights off, and in fact the light bulbs removed. When I was 10 years old in Barlick my mother and I heard a loud bang in the front yard (19 King St.), looked out on the street and there was nothing, this was about 10.30 at night. The next morning I went to my grandmothers on Gisburn St. and found her dead in bed, time of death was eventually set as about 10.30 the night before. Watch out halloween is coming!
HERB
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Cathy
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Posted - 11/10/2006 : 10:11
Just after I had read the last 2 replies.....my mouse refused to work for a couple of minutes...Spooky!!
All thru the fields and meadows gay .... Enjoy Take Care...Cathy |
melteaser
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Posted - 11/10/2006 : 10:23
Nothing spooky about it Cathy...probably dust!!
Mel
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HerbSG
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Posted - 11/10/2006 : 17:16
GHOSTLY DUST!
HERB
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 11/10/2006 : 17:52
Sounds like a very militant Mouse,theres probably a health and safety rule that says they can't work in dusty enviroments,whats the world coming to,lab. Rats will want paying next..
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Cathy
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Posted - 12/10/2006 : 10:31
Very funny, I liked it. Hasn't happened since. Doesn't bother me either way, but my fingers are crossed.
All thru the fields and meadows gay .... Enjoy Take Care...Cathy |
Flutterby
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Posted - 09/12/2006 : 00:48
Hi, im new and in reading this thread like Cathy do sense things! I feel im guided from people that have passed over . Two years ago when looking after a year old baby and getting her ready for bed giving her, her nightime bottle. A voice came clearly from the baby monitor " Night , night little thing twice" was said in a female voice?
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moh
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Posted - 09/12/2006 : 13:45
Can anyone tell me why all these old topics are re-appearing?
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Ringo
Site Administrator
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Posted - 09/12/2006 : 13:49
Because we have a new member who is obviosly digging well into the site and not just looking at the active topics on the homepage
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moh
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Posted - 09/12/2006 : 13:57
Ah I see
Say only a little but say it well |