Look who I bumped into...
- 5 June 2011 17:49108969Saw these two whilst I was up in Nottingham.
1. The devil-like Pan.
2. Mr Mad, bad and dangerous to know - Lord Byron.
- 5 June 2011 17:54108971that pan character seems a rum cove, which reminds me i wonder how vic is recovering from his operation.
- 5 June 2011 19:23108975Jeane
You should have tried Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem lots of ghost in thereMillion-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten. - 5 June 2011 20:37108990I have visited there a few times Stewart, it's very atmospheric. I couldn't put my back to the wall in the caves under it, I felt like someone was behind me and watching even though there was no one there. We stayed in a supposedly haunted hotel. Nothing happened this time but I have had odd things occur on previous stays like when I awoke one night to hear a horse and carriage on gravel and the call of the horseman. The carriage stopped and the horses were stomping on the ground and making some noise. I got up to look out of the window but there was nothing there (no, I hadn't had that much to drink!) I mentioned it to one of the staff the following morning and discovered I wasn't the only one who had reported hearing a phantom carriage! Originally there had been a gravel drive where coaches pulled up and I have since seen some old photographs depicting this.
The barmen told me about a 'presence' which some of the staff had sensed in the cellar, when I persuaded him to let me have a look I found that I couldn't even walk down the corridor unless the door was left open - I felt that uncomfortable. I didn't see anything but I certainly felt it and it wasn't friendly! Another odd thing that happened on a subsequent stay. I heard a loud crash coming from my bathroom in the middle of the night. Gingerly I got up to take a look and found everything that I had stacked on the bathroom shelf had now piled itself up in a pyramid in the centre of the bathroom floor. Nothing was broken not even the shelf. I left everything where it was until the following morning and slept fitfully for the rest of the night!
- 5 June 2011 21:06108996My parents once stayed overnight at Leeds Castle. When they were asked at breakfast if they had had a good night they said yes, apart from the dog that was howling all night. The staff apologised and said afraid we can't do anything about him, he died 200 years ago
- 5 June 2011 22:06109012Interesting Ray.
There is a dog often spotted on the roof of Newstead Abbey in Nottingham (Byron's home). People have reported a collie up there and the fact it must be stuck. Apparently what they see is Byron's dog Boatswain!! - 6 June 2011 00:22109016Jeane, I had an experience when I was about 10, in Malvern Road Dover.
About a year earlier, our Graqndmother sent us some items from Australia, including a small round gold nugget.
The nugget was later placed in a drawer upstairs.
Nothing else was said about it for a whole year or more.
Then, one day, sitting in the dining room downstairs, alone in the house, I suddenly thought: "I wonder where that gold nugget is!"
Just out of curiosity.
A few days later, I enter the house, crouch down in front of the door, which leads directly to the dining room, to take my shoes off, and from the top of the basement staircase this gold-nugget comes rolling directly towards me!
The floor being perfectly flat, and no-one in sight, and no wind in the house, had I made a movement, the gold nugget would have scientifically gone in the other direction and hopped down the stairs, but it come rolling towards me from the very edge of the stair-case.
And no-one in the family had put it there!
I later told my mother and gave it to her.
At any rate, my casual thought a few days earlier about that gold nugget had been read, and it was sent rolling towards me just as I was crouching down looking towards the floor.
So my thought had been read, and in reply to my silent question, I was given this small piece of natural gold of which I was thinking about, which my Dad's mother had sent us. And I gave it to my mother.
How can I interpret this, Jeane?
I have had various dreams about this house in Malvern Road, and in one dream, in October 2009, the Police entered the house while I was inside, and came towards me, never directly looking at me, and kept saying: "He said he would join the Police"! One had a piece of paper, and showed it me.
They were serious, and meant it.Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
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Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 6 June 2011 08:49109021Alexander, I think it was your Grandmother's way of getting your attention with the nugget. If she has passed away they do that sometimes but it tales a lot of energy so she really must have wanted to say 'Hello' or perhaps reassure you that everything was going to be ok. If she is alive then it's a sort of telepathy. You were obviously influenced by her to give it to your Mother.
The police dream I feel would relate to a feeling of being restricted in some area of your life, possibly work. An unsympathetic boss or too many rules and regulations and the feeling of being stifled of your creativity. In the past you had hoped or expected to go further of progress with something. - 6 June 2011 11:48109043Jeane, thank you for the reply.
My Granfmother was alive at the time, so it may have been telepathy. However, she was very attached to her own mother, my Great-grandmother, and from Australia had told us, in that period, where her mother's grave was in Dover, albeit in a secretive way. In fact my Dad and all of us went looking, but couldn't find the grave.
When I was about 11, my mother and I again went searching for this resting place (my Dad being in the meantime in Australia visiting his mother!), and we were determined to find out where it is, but didn't know even the cemetary. So we tried one cemetary, and I was walking in front of my mum, about 10 paces, and found my Great-grand-mother's grave immediately, as if attracted to it. I immediately turned and told her, and we both felt a great sense of achievement.
It seems to be matriarchal, where mothers are important, and have to be present.
The explanation about the dream with the Police rang many bells, in fact it seems to be the exact interpretation!
A good note to it: I'm getting more work coming through lately, and am happy.
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Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 6 June 2011 13:12109054That's a lovely story; they certainly do work in mysterious ways.
I'm glad the dream interoperation made sense and it's good that you are getting more work and are happy. - 6 June 2011 14:13109058I also feel much healthier, with more work and some money more to spend. I feel like 16 nowChanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
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