hi, this is my first posting on this site so i hope what i post will be intresting and also you might be able to help me with some questions.
I'll give you a quick run down about myself, i am a mid 30;s dad of four being married for 16+ years and live in a 8 year old 4 bed semi in devon uk.
Now for the good stuff i think my house is haunted, we have strange orange lights that appear out of walls mostley at night but sometimes during the day as well , some of the time a big blue flash of light almost as though some one has taken a picture with the flash. This has been going on now for a couple of years sometimes you can go months without anything going on at all and other times you see three or four flashes in a day.
I have called a ghost team in and they were very good and explained that the lights are called orbs or spirits and the flashes of light could be a start of manisfestation.and as you can guess they spent the night in my house with all the equipment and not agreat deal to show for it except for a few orbs caught on film and my dog going mental barking at some unseen whatever in my sons room. At first i was sh**ting myself and ended up sleeping wih lights on at night including my kids, it seemed centred around the top of the house and stairs, but never donnstairs.
I have over the past year i have been researching books, the internet and trying to understand what is going on and gradually learing to live with it and not getting scared, the kids also except the light flashes and balls of light that appear for no reason and at the moment all things are quiet.
NOW i am into sh**ting myself again and bloody scared as my wife and myself are seeing shadows that dart around on the stairs, landing and our bedroom not full forms almost a dark grey image of a human form form for a split second and dissapearing very quickly.
my wife woke me at 3am saying that somthing was in our room she said she could see a shadow even though it was dark but it dissapeared when she moved to wake me up.
The flashes of light and the orange balls i can live with, but not these things not in my house the only saving grace is the kids have not seen them yet. WHAT ARE THEY? CAN YOU GET RID OF THEM?

My goodness that sounds a fantastic place to live in! I would love to be able to spend a while there myself, but I live too far away. When I saw my first ghost, I too was scared almost witless but since seeing other ghosts in other places I am now intrigued by them and am dying to see more of them. As for getting rid of them you could of course try the usual methods such as calling in ghost hunters again to do the job but I don't think getting a priest round will do much good although if you believe a priest could do it then that might be a help( your belief). Personally I would want to observe them a bit longer and take lots of notes and photos and maybe video film of those stairs. If you really want to get rid of them straight away, I think the best thing is to address them seriously (the spirits) yourself and tell them nicely that they are upsetting you and please to leave the house. To get on the friendly side of them you could also ask them (out loud) what it is they want and how you can help them. I envy you. Lonecat

Thanks for the reply, you are right it is a intresting place to be and like yourself found myself wanting to know more about the light flashes and balls of light, i have only told you just a fraction that has happened over the years , i think i can write a book, but the shadows have really spooked me and i suppose because it is a very recent thing i am not understanding what they are, or who they are it makes it more scarey.
I sometimes have to look at myself in the mirror and say " i am 37 ,this is my house and this my family protect them and don't get scared" it works only until i see another shadow. lol

Hi,

The shadows might be new ghosts, however they are likely to be the same ones you have experienced for years as orbs, flashes, etc.
The shadow is just a way of manifestation, they might as well show themselves as an orb or a "proper" ghost, looking like a human.
Just because you are currently seeing them as shadows, does NOT mean they are evil.
But to make sure what you are dealing with, get the ghost hunters back.
Oh, and I have read that to protect oneself, one should imagine oneself covered in white light.

Lucky

i have never heard of anyone seeing orbs with there eye, usually its only on camera, in my opinion orbs arent spirits, they are balls of energy, usually given off by spirits, if you do have shadow people in your house though, i wouldnt worry to much, i mean yes, they are a type of spirit, but they arent really dangerous, they are mostly just annoying. They shouldnt really do anything to hurt you, maybe just make noises and wake you up at night but thats about it. They are pretty easy to get rid of though if you want to. I personally have a few in my house and i like it, but hey, to each his own.

I agree with Lonecat, sounds interesting and would love to see it for myself. If a place has history or the land does that can attrack spirits, the shadow/grey ones you see may be new ones and sound like nothing to be worried about. I say that because sooner or later others will be on here telling you that shadows are evil or demonic, which I don't believe they are. There is nothing negitive at all about the activity you are experiencing.

You can remind them that this is your time now living in the house not theirs and that the bedroom is out of bounds during nightime...no harm in setting some boundries with them..., but don't be agressive or negitive about it, always be respectful and they will respect you back.

Use the bubble of white light around you and your family if you feel nervous at any time or when you want to talk to them to get a point across. If you are really just looking for a quick fix to deal with this then look for a good medium to come out.

I've seen orbs with my bare eyes aswell floating around in my parents house which is build on a medievil cemetary.

I refuse to jump to the conclusion of ghosts though, it's just ridicolous to jump to any conclusion regarding these things.

My theorys are that :

1. My mind is playing tricks on me since i know its an old graveyard and i get scared just having that info in my mind.

2. Some sort of energy science has yet to answer for.

The supernatural is non-existant, only our limited understanding of nature is real. Jumping to conclusions only limits us even more.

Hi thanks for or the positive feedback it is reasuring that there are like minded people out there who don't think i'm crazy.
The orbs that we see are not anything like that you see in photographs they arrive out of a wall or the cupboard and are only around for maybe 2 to 3 seconds and they are gone, we have even had one come right between my wife and myself in bed one night that seemed to come out of the headboard. they have a a bright white glow with an orange glow in the middle but they don,t happen very often. It sounds crazy i know and sometimes when i tell people they look at me as if i am mad. The flashes of light that i mentiond that are like camara flashes,they are a different kettle of fish all together, you can tell when you are going to see one. I was getting my 6 month old daughter ready for bed last week and i wallked into the bedroom that she shares with us and i felt the atmosphere in the room was charged with static, like when you rub the back of your hand over the telly. And i said to myself here we go again and within a minute of me saying that there were two flashes of light in the room followed by the smell of what smelt like pipe tobbaco, as soon as the flashes stopped there was no static charge left in the room. it did not affect my daughter in any way she carried on as normal.
I will have a quiet word with them tonight (shadows) and tell them the bedroom is out of bounds at night time anyway.

Very very odd.... Actually the orbs you speak of sound like the ones i saw in my folks home. Orange on the inside like little suns with a white glow... Even more odd i also got those flashes coming there, so quick that i thought maybe my head was just acting weird. But even 10 times as odd is that you say you could smell pipe tobacco, like a sweet tobacco let me guess ? Sweet Dublin whiskey tobacco is what i also picked up a scent of in my parents house....

I'm starting to think this is some weird phenomena...

It sounds like ball lightening. There is a often a flash when one dissapears. It is common in high mountain areas. They can also cause some electrical damage.
You might want to have your home wiring checked out by a quality electrician.

well i don't know whether it was a sweet smell of tobbaco or not , but you described the orbs excactly as i see them a roundish form the size of a uk 50p coin.
i know what you are saying about about lightening balls i have read about that somewhere and done some research on it. But to have them come out of the headboard and not cause us any harm when it was less than 6 inches from our heads is unlikey. The house we live in is a modern home (8 yrs).
The flashes of light that appear sometimes flashes without any power points around, but the thought of my very own weather system in my own home seems cool....

There is a team of investigators attached to a radio programme based down in Devon - they might be interested in seeing if they can help
radio programme on the paranormal,they are doing a lot of experiments and investigations at the moment.

If I can find a link to their site, I'll post it for you.

I am from New York State, if you know who I am typing about, call them.

Yea nice one, the are the guys that came around and done the investigation, TIP, Torbay Investigation of the Paranormal. a relly good group of people with alot of understanding of the paranormal and they certainly put me and my family at ease. They have there own website www.tipfiles.com can't seem to link this site but is worth a visit.
How did you get to here about them all the way in NY ???

I believe you, because it sounds totally what i've experienced. The spheres are exactly very very small like a 50p. At first when i gazed upon 2 of them, i thought it was some kinda fly's that was reacting funny to the light from the lamp. So when they disapeared i went closer to look for the fly's but there was nothing, and that's when an orb came flying with major speed from the ceiling and down into the floor.

Actually i only seen it once the experience happened like this :

I sit a my folks computer late night reading. I hear a sound from my left... I look.... Nothing there and then shortly after. A flash from same area, like someone took a picture only not as bright. I look and i see 2 small orbs dancing around like fly's above a table. then i go to look closer as they disapeared into thin air and i see the next orb i told you. Smell of pipe tobacco in the air, but only for a few seconds, leaving me wondering if it was really even there or my mind just made me smell tobacco in some weird mind error.

I'd just like to say i don't believe this has anything to do with diseased people or spirits, that's just ridicolous to jump to that conclusion. I'm sure it's some sort of lifeform we don't understand or something.

Pip I believe what your seeing! I've seen orbs or spirit energy which i prefer to call them with my naked eye quite a few times, various kinds of and no they aren't eye floaters or eye sparks before someone suggests that, I know the difference I've seen them disappear or become transparent as they move thru solid objects like my body or furniture and nothing has ever burned or electrocuted me or others. I'm receptive to spirit so I believe them to be spiritual, the ones I have experienced have been anyway.

Thanks, that means a lot to me that someone like you, and others that have replied and left some good sound advice for me to sleep on and put some of it into practice.
thanks pip......

Actually, it's those viewed with the naked eye that are more reliably true spirit orbs (though not alweays of course). Those captured in photos are for the most part dust particles or moisture droplets and such.


Pip.......I certainly believe your experiences are real. We have at least one, perhaps 2 resident spirits in our home. Our home is only 33 years old, but the land it sits on is steeped in history. If you are not the first owner of your home you might want to research its history.....as in if any deaths took place there or on the land it sits on. Even if you are the first and only owner of your home, a check into the history of the land might give you some clues. Then there is always the possibility that these spirits are attached to one of your family members. Has anyone dabbled with a ouija board or attempted a seance or anything similar?

oo wow i love this topic, i have showdow ghost of my own im my basement. the only difference is that they will appear on a ngihtly basis. One time my friend fell alseep in my basement and when i left him there i turned of the tv, and the lighs,. He woike up to hands infront of him waving at him and people looking at him, i didnt believe him until he was like lets go downstairs and just sit there with eh light off and see if ne thing happens. So i was like fine no problem we go down stairs and we turn off the lights tv and sit on the couch. And after 1 seconds you could see shadows begin to appear. the first one came from behind my pool table as if it were waiting there. then another came out from next to teh tv and another came out from the walls as if it were looking carefully out to us. and all while this i happeneing you can see a blue outline and a black shadow. after 5 seconds of waatchi this i ran my ass up stairs and never went down there for that nite. then i was sitting in my room witth my friend .same nite. and we heard foot steps comming from the room above us. and no one lives in teh room above me and by this point its like 2 am. After the foot steps you begin to here a rolling chair rolling around the floor. So im thinking wtf is that. so Me and him go upstairs and we open the door and turn on the lights. We xsee that the chair rolled from one side of the room to the other side with teh top of the chair spining. signifying that it had recently been moved it pretty coool actualy.

But the best way to approach your situation is too say aloud how can i help u, wat do you wasnt from us, or just do what i did and ignore them. its hard at frist but eventually youll get the hang of it. You can even go one step further and install cameras around your house to see if you catch ne thing one them, and post the videoson here. Good luck and hop everything turns out good

Im ganna have to go against with you aganinst that. How can you say that the super natrual doesnt exsist whenm there evidences of ghost, orbs, sounds that come from a hosue that cant be explained. Im sure its reassuring to you whenver you see orbs to say that its not real when its right in front of you.

Yea nice one, the are the guys that came around and done the
investigation, TIP, Torbay Investigation of the Paranormal. a relly good group of people with alot of understanding of the paranormal and they certainly put me and my family at ease. They have there own website www.tipfiles.com can't seem to link this site but is worth a visit.
How did you get to here about them all the way in NY ???



I run my own web site Psychic Growth, I have a few members/friends from the UK. I turn to them when I need a reference or to help soemone.

I kind of agree with you on some of the things that you have said, i think you can will things to happen and see things that are not there, i have to step back sometimes and tell myself that what i saw was a figment of my imagination because i am in a house that has a lot of strange things going on every odd thing that happens you want to put it down to a haunting.
The balls of light and the flashes i often wondered if it caused by the earths natural magnetic forces through ley lines that run round the earth. We live quite near (3miles) from a big ley line and we have water running behind the house, so those things together could produce an energy that we yet don't understand. Also i have read in a book about ley lines that the spirits can use these as pathways. Anyone got any ideas ?

I think ley lines, earth lines and running water can provide a energy source for spirits/ghosts and poltergiests.

I agree with you, Anvil. And I have had many similar orb experiences like what you mentioned earlier in the thread. They seem to be attracted to different kinds of energies, like what you have said. I have even noticed them, in the past, by the tv or high ceiling lights, (my cats and kids have seen them in those places too, at the same time). I don't get any negative feelings at all, with orbs...just curiosity.

Anvil said in a earlier thread "get a medium in". Well i have had one in, and i think it ended in a very odd conclusion and that is why i have not mentoined it before.
She arrived one evening in August 04 (she had no idea of the history of what was going on, i made sure when she phoned me back i gave nothing away just saying there were odd things happening). she walked in through the front door and sighed and said that the close that we are living in is not a happy one and driving around the corner she felt very negative energy and felt very uneasy, i thought fine i don't live round there. After sighing she looked round the hallway and huge beam of a smile swept accross her face and said this is safe house you are being protected from the negative energies that run around the close.
She introduced herself and she met the rest of my family, after chatting for a while she told us that she wanted to look around the house, she walked around downstairs and went into the dining room which is under mine and my wifes bedroom, and and told us she felt a an energy in this room rising up into the room above she then proceded to go up stairs and into the bedroom and she become almost child like and got really excited and held her arms out and started to breath really heavy and started to slowly spin round (not by any un-natural force) promptley stopped and looked at me and said " YOU HAVE FAIRIES". To say i was stunned was an understatement. She was being very serious and told me that we were a very lucky family to have such beautiful souls in our house. She then proceded to walk around the rest of the house and came back into our bedroom and told us that there was a vortex in our room that ran from under the house and up and out of the house.
The energy that that the vortex was giving of did not give any negative feelings but the spirits gathered energy from it and used it as a stepping stone for there travels.
Again the fairies were drawn to this energy but stayed close by probably going next door aswell.
The medim also said that the spirits sometimes came in through the vortex and had a nosey round. After she told us all this i had a thousand and one questions to ask her.
1 Fairies, come on they only exsist in childrens books, don't they ?
2 How did the vortex get there ? And more questions and more that i asked . She told me
that the vortex was there before the house was built and was due to the earths forces which she could not explain but it is just there, she also said you can try and close the vortex but she was not able to do it on her own but advised to leave be unless we were desperate.
As for the fairies she tried to explian that they were giving of a beautiful energy that surrounded our home, she then tried to tell us that they were a differnt lifeforce to us and lived on a different plain to us and they used the vortex to dart around. Hmm!!! I'm not to sure on tht one, but any feedback would be much appreciated.
I could write so much more on this one but i have kept it as basic as i could.
It is something that i don't shout from the treetops and say my house has fairies, so you lot out there are the first to know.
Me im not sure whether we have or not.
pip

Hi Pip, I think you should get a second opinion, get another medium in. If you do take your time to find a respectable one. If you need help with that let me know!

I don't say this because I think she was wrong or anything but perhaps alittle limited in her experience... Personally speaking I would be left disapointed if that was all she had to offer. A good medium would be able to come up with more detail about the history of the place/land, energy and probaly be able to offer you proof of their ability in a more personal way if you know what I mean. True mediums link via spirit and are guided by such, so their is more than just sensing wether a energy is postive or negitive. She's probaly right about the vortex but these are everywhere really so that's no suprise and most prefer not to close them unless they are particularly negitive and causing problems.

Yea nice one Anvil i will give the offer of the medium some thought.
But the thing of the fairies being real is that really true or is it another persons interpritation of a ghost or spirit form.
Do you belive, it just seemed a strange thing for the medium to come out with ?

I sit on the fence with that one. I have never come across fairies myself, but that's not to say they don't exist. I like to keep an open mind I do think there is such thing as non spirit (human) entities from elsewhere and so the fairies may just be an interpetation. But moving away from the fairies, I'm more suprised she didn't pick up or give you any personal reading as proof of her ability as she spent the time with you.

Pip - hi - very interesting. I can understand your fear and wonder if my own fear of ghostlymanifestations in my life have prevented me from experiencing anything like that. I am trying to get to the bottom of my fear, I wonder why I find the thought of ghosts so terrifying?

Your house sounds very interesting - is there any way you can get a history about it?

She did give quite a lot more information thn what i have mentioned , i just tried to get the odd story accross about the fairies.
She did pick up on that my wifes great nan has visited and proceded to say that she was pleased that my wife had kept the stone dog that had belonged to her great nan that we keep in our bedroom, the medium was not told that by us before hand she also said that my wifes grat nan had physic power herself and my wife had the ability if she wanted to use it. So she did tell us a bit more than i mentioned but there is so much to tell it is difficult to pull out the best bits and not make to long and boring to read.
But ,yes you are right in that she sort of lost my faith in her when she mentioned the fairies...

I think i need to improve my spelling. lol

Oh ok then, so she did do her bit in giving a personal reading, that's good. I'm not saying she was wrong or anything about the fairies but I can understand why that would put you off! she hasn't left you with any real concreate explaination as to what is going on and why, otherwise you wouldn't be here posting about it I think for that reason alone that is why you should get a second opinon. Another person on another day may come up with the goods. It does seem the acitivty in your house is hoaching, a hotspot with real naked eye activity going on, I know I would be disapointed to be told it was just fairies and end of. What I'm trying to say is yes maybe the fairies do exist or pop in and out but there is bound to be other entities as well. For one fairies don't exactly match up to the shadow/grey energy forms you have witnessed, it sounds like there is more to be unearthed about it all...

You said the woman said the fairies are protecting and giving off a great energy, but the question is why? why are they doing that, she should be asking these questions and finding out the full story as much as she can.....If she picked up negitive energy from round the corner did she go for a walk about outside to see if she could pin point anything? It is to that extent that i would expect a medium to go to, to try and uncover what they can. You mentioned you live in a semi, have you ever spoken to your neighbours to see if they experience anything similar? the answers may even lie in their house, but I understand if you haven't or can't as it's not exactly an easy conversation to hold with someone. But if you are on talking terms with them, it may be worth trying to drop a few hints and see if they take the bait by asking them if they are having any problems with there power or lights. Just make it a passing coment that your getting power dips and going thru light bulbs like there is no tomorrow. I'm not sure if you are or not! but do you see where i'm coming from? it could be possible to ask them about any weird goings on without mentioning the words paranormal or ghosts

Man I wish I had fairies. I'd have them suckers making cookies all day long.

This message is for Pip. I have been searching for someone who has has seen these lights in their home and your name came up when I did a search so I joined this forum just now. The reason for this is because we have been experiencing the same kind of things as you with the orbs and lights. It is the lights that really mystify us though as they have been appearing in all shapes and sizes in our (mainly) bedroom for the past two years or so. I just wrote an article for a healing magazine about them in the hope someone might tell me that they are seeing the same things. Our home is a small 9 year old housing association house in Shropshire. We are surrounded by other similar houses but have rolling hills behind us.
Basically the lights have come in all sizes, shapes and forms and have been seen by not only my husband and I but this week my daughter also saw a panel of light at her bedroom door. There are points of light, flashes of light, panels of light in A4 size frame-type, door sized shapes and they come in from the bedroom window, through the walls, the ceiling and twice up through the floor. Dowsing rods have revealed that there is a type of energy vortex in the corner of the room where I used to see shadow people gathered when I woke in the night and it is possible that we are on a leyline here although we have not done much about investigating that yet. A medium friend told me that they may be connected to healing and I am a registered healer and trained healers for many years. There is much more to write but dont want to hog the space on here as yet. I just could not wait to write to someone else who has had these experiences too. Sorry everyone to butt in like this. Jan

Me again - sorry about just blurting all that out above. I got carried away. I should have introduced myself. My name is Jan and I live with my husband in Shropshire, UK. We have 7 kids between us - all grown up now although my daughter returns from uni quite a lot. I alaso have two grand daughters aged 8 and 10. I have been a healer for 20 years and have trained healers for many of those. My husband was a UFO investigator when we met and that subject brought us together. Long story! I am looking forward to reading lots of the posts on here about various subjects as I have experienced so many things over the years and love to read about other people's experiences too. I work voluntarily for an animal charity which I love and do past life regressions for people as well as healing. I have sat in several development circles for mediumship though they (spirits) seem to decide mostly when they will visit me! Thanks for your time. Jan

I was also wondering the same thing.

Pip, have you contacted the previous owners to find out any history or looked into local news articles, just to see if you find anything about your particular house?

Hi Jan, wow and double wow, it seems strange that you have an almost identical goings on that we have. The only difference being that the balls of light that we see here are individual ones and don't come in groups. It's really hard to get my head round this one that two almost identical goings on but over a couple of hundred miles from each other.
Thinking about it ,it rules out a haunting by someone or something particular.
Ley lines i think is the answer and i think i have to do some more research on them, yes i think we have spirits comming in and saying HERE I AM and scooting of again and using the ley lines as a path to other vortex energies around the earth.
One question bothers me is, why the bedroom ? and in the corner ? Prehaps your little home is identical to ours and also the houses around it, ours is also a housing association house that has a wooded copse behind us.
Again the shadows that you see also seem the same.
We had shadows last night on the stairs almost as though they were looking through the banisters and watching us and as soon as you glance up they shoot off, but it's been a couple of weeks since we have seen any balls of light and flashes of light.
ARRRHHHH !!! it's so frustrating not having an answer.
We will have to keep in touch and see if we can come up with any anwers between us ,and in the mean time try and enjoy the strange goings on in our houses.
Take care Jan
Pip..

Dear Pip,

I am a TV producer at September Films in London. I would be very interested in having a chat with you about your experiences. Would you be kind enough to give me a call and I will call you straight back on 0208 563 9393.

Kind Regards,
Erika Dodd

Pip. yes I am also amazed at the similarities. The night before last I asked 'them' whether they minded me writing about the lights for the mag/newsletter and the response was very quick although even more confusing. We went to bed as usual and were talking about very ordinary day to day stuff when I started seeing the violet swathes of energy building between Bob and I. This has happened before only sometimes I see this after an event. It is like there is a wall of energy between us when this happens. I told Bob but he could not see this at all and I was sure that a light would come in. Sure enough, within a couple of minutes one shot in from the top of the window. I felt pressure on my head and the violet energy started to move about the room. Also I felt as if there was a sort of light area behind my head which kind of rolled images away from me. This lasted about ten minutes or so and all was back to normal again.So now I dont know whther they mind me writing about them or not, only that they appeared. LOL! This is so hard to explain - the feelings and everything. The orbs we have on photos but both my daughter and I have seen them normally too. We also have begun to see goldeny tiny flashes like sparks too. I have had numerous experience with phenomena but the lights really do make me wonder what is going. I think that there may be some kind of dimensional overlay or something though I am not sure what I mean by that.
Regarding the fairies and what your medium told you - I hate to sound 'fluffy' but I have seen little fairy-type entities (hate that word) when I woke in the middle of the night once but they looked nothing like the fairy folk portrayed in books etc. I have drawn them but could not do justice to them. There were around 7 or 8 of them and of three different types. They resembled very large insects more than anything. All had wings which resembled those of dragon flies but differently shaped but the bodies were different too. Some were kind of scaley and others looked like they were made up of dashes or dots of colour. All were incredibly beautiful and the colours were amazing. I think they appeared pre.lights and only the once. They seemed to flit about soundlessly as if they were fanscinated by me or were perhaps checking me out.
I dont for one minute think they have anything to do with the lights and orbs though.
Pip, I do enjoy seeing the lights and I have never felt they are anything other than benevolent. About ley-lines - we live a very short walk from the ruined walls of an old castle and I believe that the armies may well have gathered in the oak fields where we live now. I have another reason for thinking this also.
As well as that, we are not too far from quite an important stone circle so it is possible we are on a ley-line. I suppose if we do have a vortex in our homes or a portal of some kind, then beings will be able to come in and out. If you would like I could send you a copy of the article I wrote last week which may give you more of an idea of what is going on here in this very ordinary little semi. BTW, do you know your neighbours enough to ask them if they see anything? I think ours would call the white van LOL! Lets keep in touch. Jan.

Me again. About the shadow people. They dont seem to come anymore but I used to wake sometimes to see them gathered in the corner, around five of them. I could not make out who they were except they were dark coloured shapes and they appeared to be discussing me. Since that is all they seemed to do I just relaxed and went back to sleep.
They seem to be worrying you though so I would suggest that you ask them nicely to leave you alone. Have you tried asking them what they want? For some mad reason I did not even think of asking those that I used to see the same question.
My brother who lives in another part of the country used to see darting figures in his house that kind of scuttled around the bedroom. They were small and shadowy. Once he thought one of them was an animal of some kind.
All of us here see quickly moving things out of the corner of our eyes, some bigger than others usually they come from the right to the left.
Have you ever felt that someone unseen is running their fingers through your hair?
We get that all the time especially when there are spirits around. This has been going on for many years. I even though I had nits at one point! No, I didnt though - checked it out.
This fingers-in-the-hair thing is common to people who are sensitive to energies.
Are you or your wife that way inclined? Just interested.
Take care, Jan.

Hi Jan, Since you live near a stone circle and castle ruin I would think that's where the source is coming from with your activity. Stone circles all have strong earth energy lines and often mark ley lines as well, it's part of the mystery as to why and how the people knew and for the purpose they used that energy for.

As for the feeling of fingers running through your hair or more subtly tingling in your hair, that's classically a sign of spirits/guides drawing close to you. That's how it feels to be touched by them or sorrounded by their energy

Thanks Anvil, you know I have only recently made the connection between the historical ruins and circle etc., Sometimes it is easy to overlook the obvious. It is probably because I have lived in this area for nearly 29 years and never been very far from either a castle ruin of some kind or the same stone circle. My springer spaniel dog is actually buried just a short way from the circle and it was his favourite place to run and jump amongst the bracken. My ex. husband has even had a little cross made with his name on. It feels like a very powerful place. I even watched a native Indian marriage ceremony held between the stones a few years ago which was very moving and recently there was a celtic/Pagan binding of wrists marriage ceremony there I believe. Wherever I have moved in this area I have never lived far from the circle. At the moment we are about 6 miles away and the furthest I have ever been. The castle ruin is actually only a wall now but recently I was in a friends house nearby and picked up the spirit of a distressed and terrified soldier who was about to go into battle. I was surprised at how the scene he showed me was so very different to how I imagined it would look - the typical old English/Welsh armies and their uniforms etc. He was not only terrified but really dirty and scruffy and with a starved look. The house we lived in before this one was over the border into Wales but even closer to the stone circle. From the garden of that house we could see the ruin (much bigger than this one) of Montgomery Castle up on a hill. In front of this castle and on the road we were living on was a Roman road which was very straight and led to the village in which I lived previously. It led directly to a church. So I suppose that was on a leyline too. Adjacent to the stone circle is the highest hill in Shropshire and during the Harmonic Convergence in 1987 a 100 year old Hopi Indian was carried to the top for a ceremony. I did not go - I am asthmatic and never could walk to the top as it is far too high. The second cottage I lived in was at the bottom of this hill and my sons used to regularly climb it. It is a custom that every time someone climbs up it, they should lay a stone on the mound at the top.
Anyway, I am rambling now so will sign off. Thanks for your reply. Jan

How interesting. Even if a place such as a castle becomes a ruin or nothing at all the energy still remains, as does its ghosts etc... Like they say about beaches in the UK, you're never more than 50 miles away from a beach, I think the same goes for castles and standing stones the land is seeped with them!

We have similar custom here as well (Scotland) that when you climb a hill/moutain you add a stone to a cairn (organised pile of rocks) or start one.

After taking some time to read the first post and all the others that i left and reading all the replies i feel that i have missed some importent bits out and portrayed the medium that came to see see us in a bad light.
What i failed to mention that when she did come round that she was a very warm and freindly person who you thought you have known for a long time.
The negative energy that she felt round the corner from us could have come from an neighbour who died in a tragic car accident ,who was a very unpleasent man who you avoided at all costs.
And my wife was ill during this time and had been for a long while (this comes relivent later on)
Also i said when she went upstairs she went into our room and felt this energy coming from the cupboard also going into my sons room and into the neigbours house, but she felt the energy coming from upstairs was stronger next door and she wanted to go and check it out. This she did and went along with my wife to knock on our neighbours door and after a little bit of explaining they were let in and made there way upstairs to the bedroom that adjoins ours. The medium was drawn to the cupboard down onto a lower shelf and felt that there was an energy coming from there, she asked our neighbour if he had anything there and he replied yes he had been given these gifts from a freind he then bent down and pulled out two handmade wooden boxes (shoe box size) and handed them to the medium.
On opening they found inside in rows of three and six in each row vials of rare orchid essences and this where this beautiful energy that she was feeling was coming from.

She told us that the energies comming from the essences were nature spirits or elementals and they were beautiful spirits that were attracted to the orchid essences.
Our neighbour did not really know why he was given them but was shortlygiven them after my wife became ill, she then told us that they were given to our neighbour to help in the healing of my wife indirectly.
We asked our neighbour if they had anything going on at the time eg, lights and flashes etc, and they said no, but it was noticed that they had (pentagrams, spelling??) around the house.
The medium also said that others might call the elementals, fairies , we also asked our neighbour if we could borrow the essences and he said yes so we put them under our bed. We did not have any more or less goings on whilst we had these essences under our bed , but my wife has made a full recovery and i belive that the essences like the medium said helped my wife recover, she is now on top of the world and of to university in september.
I also said that lost faith in the medium that came round and on reflection that was not true it was not understanding what was been said and switched off when fairies were mentiond

If the medium was to ever read this i am sorry to have portrayed you in a bad way and you are a very beautful and warm person to whom i would recommend to anybody.
And to everybody that has read this thread and added comments i hope i have not lost your trust in what i am writing as i said in an earlier posting so much has gone on over the years it's hard to remember, but what i will do in the futre is to sit down and think before i write.
If you get chance go to your search engine and type in NATURES SPIRITS AND ELEMENTALS.

PIP...

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Pip,
How lovely of you to write what you did about your medium friend. I am sure you did not mean to put her in a bad light at all. Sometimes we dont put over what we intend but things come out in a rush. Then people naturally respond to different aspects of the post and we go off in tangents and down other roads. This way, the original thread gets lost while the new things we latch on to get enlarged upon. I am guilty of doing this myself - so apologies to anyone who has read my posts. I will try to improve.
Regarding the fairies and the flower essences, what a beautiful thing to happen! I am sure you would have heard of flower essences for healing. The Rescue Remedies are the most well known and the Bach Flower Remedies. There are dozens of flower essences for all kinds of ailments - that work not just on the physical but on the mind, emotions and spirit.
I have used these for years. Your post drew to my attention the association betwen these and the fairy forms/elementals that I saw in my room. So thank you! Sometimes it is easy to overlook the obvious isn't it? Glad to hear your wife is now completely well. I never cease to be amazed at all the help and healing we get from some of these unseen beings.
Jan.

Going back to the original title of this thread - shadow ghosts, I would like to share what came to me last night when I asked who they are. This is not to say that this is the same for everyone so I dont want to mislead anyone. It is only what I was told. As mentioned before, I used to wake in the night and see a group of shadow figures gathered near the corner of our bedroom. I am told they are members of my soul group or guides who have been observing what I am doing discussing my progress. The portal in our room allowed them access. Thinking back, during the time they appeared I was undecided about whether to move forward with something on a spiritual level. Also, there were five of them and this number seems very significant. Around the same time I had a very lucid dream in which a woman went out into our back garden at night and plucked five orbs out of the sky then came into our living room and placed them in front of me in the air. They were the size of tennis balls. The feeling I had about this dream was great. Then I had another dream where five huge orbs came down from the sky at night and hovered in the sky. I was waiting with some other people in great anticipation. A girl around the age of 16 was standing next to me. I thought myself into flying up to the orb on my right with tears of joy in my eyes. It was like a going home feeling. I was absorbed into it, almost like it was a part of me.
Jan

No worries Pip Getting the rest of the story does help fill in the gaps. Glad to hear your wife is doing better