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I joined some friends of mine quite a few years ago and did one, I was scared but stuck it out. We had a lady come through from the 1930s I forget her name (think it might have been Helen) she was trying to get us to help her pass on a message to her boyfriend Lenny, she told us he was a gangster and he and his friends had just robbed jewellery from somewhere (cant remember where she said) and she was driving the car they were using to get away in.She said she was shot by whoever it was that was chasing them (possibly police cant remember exactly) and that Lenny had buried the Jewellery in her grave and that she couldnt settle till he removed it, and that she wanted us to tell Lenny to remove it, she kept saying ' Tell Lenny to get rid of it' and when we asked her where she said 'from my grave'. It went on for ages, she described the clothes that she wore and told us her age, the only thing she didnt tell us was where she was buried! oh and of course where Lenny was.

some other things that happened between these time`s. i was stopped by a gypsy in the street on the isle of wight who said some wierd things and made me do something that i could`nt stop myselve doing and what she said happened prior to my split. when in hospital a women would`nt leave me alone and showed me some religious stuff and the name on one of these made me see a tarot reader when i came out of hospital.he said some very frighting things and suggested i see a medium.which i hav`nt yet,he also said to stay off the internet and go have lots of ex which i thought very odd how did he know i was on internet,i came off for a few months but as you see i`m back on.if everything is connected i don`t know. i also had hypnotism to stop smoking probably at the wrong time just after the breakup this was prior to all the pain`s and the problems but i felt funny for four day`s fell down stairs twice and things got worse when i started again two months later. derek

Very interesting replies... Thank-you Maz x

Judy, I would be interested to know if you think the spirits remain in the place where they were contacted and allowed to enter, or whether they can attach themselves to individuals who are present when they make their appearance, following those individuals around thereafter. CB >|<

CB - I believe that the spirits can attach themselves to an individual and follow them around, but I guess it depends on the place - maybe if it's somewhere a spirit used to live then they would rather hang around there? I must admit that I wondered if I had attracted a spirit after doing the Ouija as I moved into a bungalow with my partner not long after and there was definitely something around there. Kaye x

I have been told by various mediums to stay well away - with a medium you can decide if you wish to comunicate with whoever is being bought through. With a ouija board you have no choice, there are very bad spirits out there and they can pretend to be someone else. Please be very careful, see a medium if you fancy a dabble.

Inclined to agree with Budgie ....... I think that IF there are nasty spirits, that are powerful or clever enough to attach themselves to people or places, then I cannot work out why they would need a load of people pushing a glass around a bit of cardboard or whatever with which to do it. Bev x

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Kaye, I asked what Judy thought about it, as I've been to seances myself many years ago, and it never harmed me, but someone I knew was convinced that she had 'picked up' something bad after one of them. She was certain it was a bad spirit that followed her around. I wasn't so sure. Personally, I do believe in Evil as a force, but I'd need a heck of a lot more proof that a spirit world actually exists before I'd believe in it. I think most evil is the work of the minds of mankind, and not something over which we have no control. Maybe I'll find out when I get to 'the other side'. I have a pact with my son that when I go, we'll do our utmost to contact one another. CB >|<

Christine is this the story regarding Enfield? • The Enfield Poltergeist Case • Another English ghost – this one in Enfield in North London – made headlines in 1977. The strange activity seemed to center around the daughter of Peggy Harper, a divorcee in her mid-40s. Again, it started on an August night. “Late at night,” An Urban Ghost Story relates, “Janet, aged 11 and her brother Pete, aged 10, complained that their beds were ‘jolting up and down and going all funny.’ As soon as Mrs. Harper got to the room, the movements had stopped – as far as she was concerned her kids were making it all up.” But things got progressively more bizarre from there. Shuffling noises and knocks on the wall were followed by a heavy chest of drawers sliding by itself across the floor. Mrs. Harper promptly got her children out of the house and sought the assistance of a neighbor. “The neighbors searched the house and garden but found no one. Soon they also heard the knocks on the walls which continued at spaced out intervals. At 11 p.m. they called the police, who heard the knocks, one officer even saw a chair inexplicably move across the floor, and later signed a written statement to confirm the events.” Several people were witness to the events that occurred in the following days: Lego bricks and marbles were thrown around the house, and were often hot to the touch. In September of that year, Maurice Grosse of the Society for Psychical Research came to investigate. “Grosse claims that he experienced the strange happenings – first a marble was thrown at him from an unseen hand, he saw doors open and close by themselves, and claimed to feel a sudden breeze that seemed to move up from his feet to his head.” Grosse was later joined in the investigation by writer Guy Lyon Playfair, and together they studied the case for two years. “The knocking on walls and floors became an almost nightly occurrence, furniture slid across the floor and was thrown down the stairs, drawers were wrenched out of dressing tables. Toys and other objects would fly across the room, bedclothes would be pulled off, water was found in mysterious puddles on the floors, there were outbreaks of fire followed by their inexplicable extinguishing.” The case became decidedly unnerving when the spirits revealed themselves – through Janet. Speaking in a deep, gravely voice through Janet, the spirit announced that his name was Bill and had died in the house – a fact that has been verified. The voices and the phenomenon have been recorded on tape and film, and Playfair has written a book about the case called This House is Haunted. Despite the documentation, however, much controversy surrounds the case. Skeptics claim that the case is nothing more than the work of a very clever and mischievous girl – Janet. The poltergeist activity always stopped when she was watched closely, and when she was taken to a hospital for several days to be tested for physical or mental abnormality, the phenomena ceased in the house. Some researchers believe that Janet taught herself to speak in the strange male voice, and that photos of her levitating in her bedroom merely caught her jumping off her bed. Was this poltergeist case just the result of an attention-seeking 11-year-old? Annie x

Christine, You mentioned dogs being scared of places. We took a holiday one year in a house in the depths of the Suffolk countryside. It had been built in the 1600s and had many of the original features intact - one being that some of the bedrooms had floors that sloped at unbelievable angles. We'd taken our dog with us, and he'd never shown any fear of entering a building before (we'd had him about 7 years), but when he got out of the car, although he quite happily wandered about in the gardens, he refused to follow us into the house. He even went and sat back inside the car! He'd never done that before, and we couldn't work out what was wrong, so as he was 'Mummy's boy', I put him on his lead and talked to him as we walked inside. He was fine after that, as long as at least one of us was with him, but he refused to be left alone in a room there and made every effort to go outside whenever the doors were open. Very odd indeed. He'd never done that before and never did it again after we came home. CB >|<

im gonna have nightmares now!

In my opinion, you would be well advised to stay clear of the Ouija board. We had some personal experiences a few years ago resulting in my sister in law burning the Ouija board. Frequently bad entities would come through and you leave yourself wide open to these elements. After discussing this with a person knowledgeable in the physic field. She informed us that any ' spirit ', good or bad can access the board once you have opened it and warned us to leave the board alone in future.

Hi Christine I know the Hop Poles pub have been in there!!! We'll have to reminisce one day!! :0) Joan

Well I'm a believer through and through. One thing that really upset me throughout the two years we used a Ouija was being told two days in advance that an old lady, Winnie (Winnifred) would drown in the River Swale with her dog. The river ran along beside the woodland of our school, a Convent. Two days later my gran's friend Winnie was found drowned in the river, seemingy trying to save her Jack Russel. I have about half a dozen notebooks locked away full of all the messages we received during the two year period. Predominently (SP) from someone called Larry. Although we believed many of the 200 or so other spirits we communicated with were actually him pretending to be someone else. The board was always alive!! Always someone there - wether or not that's because we were in a convent - the chapel of it - the graveyard - a dorm or just a classroom, and they might be places more prone to activity I don't know. It still fascinates me - but haven't used one since finishing A levels 10 years ago. I would, but don't have any believers around me to do it with - and it's not something to mess with or to be taken as a joke. I guess it's hard to not take it as a joke though until you've experienced it, had desks flung around a room that you're in when there's no one remotely near them and the like... x

I have tried it many times in the past, sometimes with positive results, but would never do so in my own home. I am in favour of investigation if it is carried out under controlled conditions. len

hi maz,yes years ago we did it,with my friends mum and sister there.a dear friend of ours had died at around midnight on the 17 or 18 aug,while we were waiting for the inquest we asked a ouija board and it said the 18 along with some other stuff that turned out to be true.ive never forgot this and as i lay flowers on his grave 32 years later my friend and i often bring this up.what made it all to real was i should have been on the back of his motorbike that night,but i got grounded.spooky eh.xx joy

CB: In answer to your question, yes, we've had a few instances where, on occasion, a few of our investigators did bring something home with them from an investigation. Judy

Very interesting stories here.. Thank-you for adding them... My friend reckons we should try in on an old grave at the local graveyard! After reading some of these replies, I am having second thoughts!! Maz x

The only spirits you should have contact with are the ones that you pour into a glass - leave the others well alone. A group of my brother's friend thought it would be a laugh to have a go. There was no laughing involved when the glass started whizzing across the board and smashed against a wall!! Put it this way, I believe after the scary experience they all had, it was a case of clean underpants all round!!