Ghost Buildings

Hello Tigerfeet, this is interesting. I guess the fact you can she buildings from the past, is cool. The fact that no one else sees them, is typical for someone who is on the medium spectrum. That gift could really come in handy, like the guy from ghost whisper who could hear ghosts, but couldn't see them, Melinda could see and hear them.👍

Unexplained, I read the story you highlighted with great interest - and became very jealous that the writer had interacted with the hotel people, something I've never done 😢 I would love to talk to people from a previous time! The story seems to be a similar haunting to the famous Versailles event and the not so famous (but well known) event that happened on the Normandy beach where the D-Day landings took place.

MariaMason - apart from the event on the motorway, I have never been scared of what I see - in fact I sometimes wonder if these sightings are what sparked my interest in history.

This is something scary I have read today. Interesting post!

Your excellent story reminds me of this one:

Http://www.yourghoststories.com/real-ghost-story.php?story=14944

Thank you for your kind comments and for you welcome to this group. I have to say that some of the stories on here have really made me think.

AugustaM - I have tried to draw what I see, but unfortunately I have the artistic abilities of the average cabbage! I can just about manage to put the outline of a building on paper - my worry is that my imagination will fill in details I didn't actually 'see' just because my mind is telling me these things should be there - hope that makes sense! Unfortunately, when I was at university I didn't once see a phantom building when on field trips, which is a real shame as I studied at the University of Kent at Canterbury, an area that is full of historical and archeological sites.

Jubeele - to be honest, it's never occurred to me to whip out my mobile phone and take pictures, something I will definitely try when/if it happens again. As far as I'm aware I have no connections with the areas I have seen the ghost buildings in. My father was not from the UK so no connections there, and my mother's family lived in London and only started moving out of the area when I was a young teenager. Before moving to the West Midlands, I'd never been further north than the Oxford area of the UK, so no connection with this area either. A couple of years ago I started a job in a fairly local area and after working there for about 18 months I went out of the back of the building into the rear car park for a crafty cigarette (dreadful habit, I know, and one I no longer indulge in) and saw a large barn that covered a fair section of the car park and also the pavement and road at the side of the car park. Other people were with me, and they saw absolutely nothing - I really wish they had seen it, if only to reassure me that I was seeing this barn. I discovered that the area my office was in was previously farmland, with the main barn approximately where I saw it - hard to compare 100 year old parish records with a modern town - so at least I knew it had been there once.

Manofon1 thank you for your comments. I have suspected for some time that what I am seeing is some kind of residual haunting. I have tried interacting with the buildings (I never see spirits of people or animals with these, but do see plant life) but they seem to be almost like a 3D film. They look solid enough to me, hence my scare on the motorway, but the edges of the buildings sometimes seem slightly out of focus but I can never put my finger on why they look like this. As you guessed I am very sensitive, I've been seeing spirits since I was a very small child. My mother told me that she came into check on me when I was playing alone in my bedroom, and stood outside listening to the conversation I was having with someone - she said she could hear me clearly but whoever I was talking to was, to her, a very low, quite voice that she could hear but not clearly enough to hear what was being said.

I should say that I come from a very long line of female sensitives - my grandmother, my 4 aunts, my mum and now my daughter - have all been sensitives to some degree. One set of my great grandparents were of Romany Gypsy origin, so I assume that is where our gifts/ talents/ curse (depending on how you look at it!) comes from. I see it as a gift, but not always as a convenient one!

This is fascinating! I have never heard of it before but I don't doubt you. As an archaeologist, I have wished so many times that I could do just what you can! What a wonder it would be! Have you ever considered attempting to make artists renderings of things you have seen? It would be such a wonderful resource! I wish you could come to the states - how I would love to take you round to places where family homes once stood so I could stand a chance of maybe getting an idea of what they were like.

Hi tigerfeet (great name), your account is truly fascinating and I don't find it too long at all. Have you tried capturing the visions? Since mobiles (cell phones or hand phones) come with a camera these days, it might be worth a try. When you're not driving along the motorway, that is!

In the process of your research, have you found any connection at all to these locations? Perhaps a long-lost family from some distant past? Just an idea...?

Looking forward to more accounts from you. Welcome to YGS.

Hi tigerfeet - I found your account of great interest. There are many well documented cases in psychical literature that detail people witnessing apparitional structures. These can be as elaborate as the Versailles reports you referenced and full manor houses with outbuildings and stone fences, to small houses, temples and so on.

The cottage and the terrace houses you saw fit in with these reports perfectly. One theory is that such structures are part of a more elaborate "apparitional drama"' in which the consciousness of a deceased person is thinking about a location that was important to them in life and you, who are probably more sensitive than the average person, pick up on and actually briefly become a part of the "drama" and "see" the structures the consciousness is thinking of and, in conjunction with your own subconscious, create the image. That you were the only person who saw the cottage on your school trip is interesting. Often anyone who is a part of a theoretical apparitional drama are, in essence, sucked into it themselves as it is dramatically appropriate that they should be. It seems, as I suggested earlier, that you are just particularly sensitive to picking up on this specific phenomenon.

Thanks for sharing your experiences with "ghost buildings".