Ghosts and shadows

Alan Wilson said:

Have been thinking about this for a while.
Anyone want to share any 'strange' experiences they've had while out
walking? You know the things I mean, shadows on the edge of your vision,
sounds where there shouldn't be sounds, just that feeling you are not alone.

I had an unsettling feeling at Loch Coire Mhic Fhearchair at the back of
Ben Eighe after visiting the remains of the Avro Lancaster below Triple
Buttress.

Anyone else want to own up to similar experiences?

Regards,
Alan

Corrour, Jan 78.

In the night the candle-light
Is casting shadows on the wall.
Flickering shapes that rise and fall.

In the room the deepening gloom
Is closing in. The candle dies.
No sounds now but whispering sighs.

From the past, the distant past,
Stirs a long-forgotten ghost.
Memory fades and time is lost.

A sudden start! A beating heart!
Someone else is moving near,
Someone from a long-gone year.

Now on the hill the wind is still,
Only footsteps in the dark;
But outside no footprints mark
Their path across the soft white snow:
The ghosts of winter come and go.

--
R
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"I always knew the entire Green party were nutters" - Ken Livingstone

"Alan Wilson" <[email hidden]> wrote
Anyone else want to own up to similar experiences?

I was walking alone on the ridge of the Eastern MacGillycuddy Reeks in Kerry
last year. It was a nice calm sunny day and I was enjoying the superb views.
Just above Lough Cummeenapeasta I stopped for a rest and a drink. I suddenly
heard a weird whirring sound somewhere in the vicinity. It was like the
sound a grasshopper makes only vey much louder. Or, like a plastic bag
caught in a rock and blown by the wind...only there was no wind. I couldn't
pin it down but it seemed very local. It stopped all of a sudden and did not
recur. I thought it very curious. It was probably nothing much. Maybe it
*was* a grasshopper the sound of which was exaggerated in my mind due to
exertion. But just as Alan had a weird experience near the site of a
Lancaster crash, I heard this curious sound above Lough Cummeenapeasta, the
site of a World War 2 American bomber crash with fatalities.

Regards,

John

Alan Wilson said:

Have been thinking about this for a while.
Anyone want to share any 'strange' experiences they've had while out
walking? You know the things I mean, shadows on the edge of your vision,
sounds where there shouldn't be sounds, just that feeling you are not alone.

I had an unsettling feeling at Loch Coire Mhic Fhearchair at the back of
Ben Eighe after visiting the remains of the Avro Lancaster below Triple
Buttress.

Anyone else want to own up to similar experiences?

Regards,
Alan

Only once, at the old man of Storr on Skye.
We had retreated from the Cullin due to poor weather and took a walk up
to the old man of storr, middle of the day in fair weather. I just got a
very strong feeling that I can only describe as dread, I just didn't
want to be there. Nothing that my concious senses picked up can explain
this. It wasn't the result of an over active imagination (things that go
bump in the night when alone) as I has several companions. I have often
wondered if anybody else has had a similar sensation there.
Cheers
Graham

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 21:15:24 +0000 (UTC), "Alan Wilson"
<[email hidden]> wrote:

There are some interesting stories over in The Angry Corrie. See, for
instance, this one:

http://bubl.ac.uk/org/tacit/tac/tac53/ghostlyc.htm

Best wishes,
--
,,
(**)PeeWiglet~~
/ \ / \ pee AT [guessthisbit].co.uk

carrigman said:

heard a weird whirring sound somewhere in the vicinity. It was like the
sound a grasshopper makes only vey much louder. Or, like a plastic bag
caught in a rock and blown by the wind...only there was no wind.

You may have heard a Black Grouse. Scared the bejesus out of me the
first
time I heard one.

Chris

Chris Gilbert <[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

carrigman said:

heard a weird whirring sound somewhere in the vicinity. It was like the
sound a grasshopper makes only vey much louder. Or, like a plastic bag
caught in a rock and blown by the wind...only there was no wind.

You may have heard a Black Grouse. Scared the bejesus out of me the
first
time I heard one.

Chris

I heard them on the 'Springwatch' programme with Bill Oddie and the
scrumptious Kate Humble (8pm week nights).

They sound like some kind of aliens!
Some good stuff on the programme by the way, if you haven't seen it....

As for spooky experiences, I took a lady friend up to the B29 site on
Higher Shelf Stones, and she sat down and went very quiet, affected
emotionally by the knowledge of 13 deaths at the spot.

I found the steady squeaking of a bright shiny piece of panel was eerie
in hardly a breath of wind.....
--
Gordon Harris

"Paul Rose" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"Alan Wilson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

Went for a night hike up Coniston's Old Man from a lone wild camp near
Levers Water. There was a full moon but the light was seriously diffused by
dense cloud; it was just possible to walk without artificial light. Prior
to the last haul up to the summit I pushed my way into some dense fern for a
pee (not sure why now as it was 1am, I was alone and it was deathly quiet;
must be a man-thing). Just as the task was almost complete, the moon came
from behind a cloud and illuminated the rising, figure-shaped cloud of steam
in front of me.

I now know that, despite an agnostic attitude toward spooky stuff, deep down
I can still come close to losing control of most functions.

Fabulous views from the summit and sniggered to myself all the way back to
the tent.

Tony