dancin'hamster Posted March 4, 2004 #1 Share Posted March 4, 2004 I have often wondered why people see odd-looking ghosts, and was re-reading a rather old book when I came across a section on hauntings in Ireland. There was a story about a lonely island where a monastry once stood, and a large manor house was built. The house was lived in for many years before falling into disrepair and eventually being bought once again. The new owners employed some men from the town to re-build the greenhouses and to do the gardening. One man was working in the greenhouses one night when he became aware of an unpleasant sensation of being watched. Knowing he was the only living soul out there he turned around to see a tall figure wearing a 'long robe' but instead of having a face 'it had a sheeps' head'.....the poor man ran back to the house and apparantly knocked over two young men that got in his way! This made me think of the hauntings in Leap Castle...........where there is supposedly an 'elemental' which appears in the shape of a human with a rotting sheeps' head instead of a human head......it also stinks of rotten flesh...how charming....... So why do people see this? Is it just scrambled brain signals? It reminds me of a joke........this bloke goes into the butchers and says "have you got a sheeps' head?" and the butcher replies "No - it's just the way I part me hair" Anyways - thoughts and ideas? Hammy xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverCougar Posted March 4, 2004 #2 Share Posted March 4, 2004 Baaa! wait... what kinda elemental would have a sheep's head?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent_21 Posted March 4, 2004 #3 Share Posted March 4, 2004 I've read about something similar in England. Can't for the life of me remember where it was. I hope I never see a body with sheep head that almost sounds worse than clowns..... What about a clown's head with a sheep's body? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cufflink Posted March 4, 2004 #4 Share Posted March 4, 2004 Didn't pagans wear animal carcasses and skulls for ceremonial purposes? Could it have been the ghost of someone from that time period? After all, there is that bronze age warrior knocking about in Wiltshire(I think), isn't there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent_21 Posted March 4, 2004 #5 Share Posted March 4, 2004 It occurred to me too. I don't suppose it had to be a monk. Some Wicker Man type pagan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thistle Posted March 4, 2004 #6 Share Posted March 4, 2004 I like Cuffy's idea too ...........bronze age warrior in wiltshire????? MUST KNOW MORE " thoughts and ideas " - Hams, you're jokes are nearly as bad as A21's ( but I laughed anyway ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverCougar Posted March 4, 2004 #7 Share Posted March 4, 2004 Didn't pagans wear animal carcasses and skulls for ceremonial purposes? Could it have been the ghost of someone from that time period? After all, there is that bronze age warrior knocking about in Wiltshire(I think), isn't there. HAY! I do not wear animal skulls!! May get things made with them... hehe Yeah, priests and such, medican men, shamans.. the likes, would wear skulls as to show pretty much who they were in the society, as well as spiritually. If given the chance, I would where like a cougar fang or claw necklace, given the right circumstances of it's death. (Like no hunting killy with the dogs..oi the dogs!) However, I don't think monks were in that habbit of wearing animal parts.. so that island probaly had alot more happening on it then a monistary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cufflink Posted March 5, 2004 #8 Share Posted March 5, 2004 I like Cuffy's idea too ...........bronze age warrior in wiltshire????? MUST KNOW MORE Our Hammyboots posted it a while back. http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum...wtopic=7819&hl= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thistle Posted March 5, 2004 #9 Share Posted March 5, 2004 Thanks Cuffy , don't know how I missed that one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent_21 Posted March 5, 2004 #10 Share Posted March 5, 2004 Thanks Cuffy , don't know how I missed that one Someone pulled the wool over your eyes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kismit Posted March 5, 2004 #11 Share Posted March 5, 2004 Um yes, and speaking of wool . Can any one recall a story about an apparently curesed Sheep skull from England . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambyglam Posted March 5, 2004 #12 Share Posted March 5, 2004 it was not the wool, it was the skull being pulled over your eyes, but thats what u get for wearing a long robe in 2004! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent_21 Posted March 5, 2004 #13 Share Posted March 5, 2004 Surely not the worst thing that could happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancin'hamster Posted March 6, 2004 Author #14 Share Posted March 6, 2004 Didn't pagans wear animal carcasses and skulls for ceremonial purposes? Could it have been the ghost of someone from that time period? Ahhhhhhhh Grasshopper ~ you learn well This is exactly my thought. That or perhaps someone with a very dodgy haircut While researching a story about a woodland here I came across a sighting of a ghost from back in the 1960's. A young farmhand ran home and said he had seen a woman in a short skirt, floating int he air and holding a dagger. I didnt pay much attention to this until I read more about the area and met a lady who saw something in the 1990's. She was taking a shortcut through the woods, and when she entered a small clearing she was astonished to see a Roman Centurian, complete with leather armour and a short woollen kilt. He was holding a Roman short-sword (known as a Gladius). He appeared to be floating in the air and was looking 'very bored'. He then vanished. Other people have seen him there too. Now, back not so long ago, not many people were taught about anchient history in schools. So, couldn't a simple (and I do NOT mean that in an offensive way) farm-hand have seen something that looked to him like a woman - because it was wearing a skirt? Think about it ........ you know it makes sense Hammy x x x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cufflink Posted March 6, 2004 #15 Share Posted March 6, 2004 She was taking a shortcut through the woods, and when she entered a small clearing she was astonished to see a Roman Centurian, complete with leather armour and a short woollen kilt. He was holding a Roman short-sword (known as a Gladius). He appeared to be floating in the air and was looking 'very bored'. He then vanished. Thank you, esteemed master. *bows* Big question coming up, Hammy, and this is it: *drum roll* Why would he look bored? Especially if he was floating? I have to ask, or this will eat away at me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancin'hamster Posted March 7, 2004 Author #16 Share Posted March 7, 2004 Why did he look bored? Ok, picture the scene. It's early 4 Century AD and you wake up one morning, put on your best toga, and wander off to the Army Recruitment Office to enrol. You want to help Rome expand it's Empire, to travel the world, to make friends, to kill people etc You enrol and become a Centurian...............and you are told that you're being sent to the lastest and newest bit of the Empire! 'Ooh - how exciting' you think - 'I'll pack me best sandals'........but when you arrive, it's some chilly and damp island inhabited by a bunch of psycho-pathic Brits who run around in the nuddy covered in blue paint. It rains all the time, the wind gets up your kilt, and your sandals are buggered. Wouldn't you be bored and cheesed off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thistle Posted March 7, 2004 #17 Share Posted March 7, 2004 LMAO Hammy, I think would just about explain the boredom bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cufflink Posted March 7, 2004 #18 Share Posted March 7, 2004 Noooooooooo.....I mean, if he was floating, why would he be bored? Does hovering usually induce feelings of indifference in the average Italian? Unless the floating was just the witness' way of describing the figure appearing slightly above ground level. Did he die of boredom, one wonders? Was there Reality TV back then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancin'hamster Posted March 7, 2004 Author #19 Share Posted March 7, 2004 THe area was part of a hill-fort that the Romans nicked from the poor old Angles, so there were earth embankments. One assumes that he was seen standing on duty on a chilly embankment with the wind whistling through his smalls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cufflink Posted March 7, 2004 #20 Share Posted March 7, 2004 THe area was part of a hill-fort that the Romans nicked from the poor old Angles, so there were earth embankments. One assumes that he was seen standing on duty on a chilly embankment with the wind whistling through his smalls Ah, right, Hams, that explains it. And if the wind was cold, small is probably the right word to use. Here's a thought. If there were haunted battlements, and the castle/fortified manor house was knocked down, would that leave a ghost wandering around, in the same style as our fed-up Roman, but about 100 feet up in the air? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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