O/T The Paranormal...

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  1. Stephen Dawson

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    It's that time of year when I start to run upstairs after I've turned off the downstairs lights. I've been using the torch on my mobile on a morning until I've switched the dining room light on and checking down side of the bed lol. Is it a darkness thing?

    I don't give things that go bump in the night a second thought until the autumn/winter months. I don't think it helped watching that Scotland documentary on ITV last night just before bed :).

    Anybody got any spooky tales?
     
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    It's likely a evolutionary thing for us to fear the dark. I get where you are coming from, I've been downstairs I thebkiddle of the night and find myself frozen with fear at a shadow :D before the rational part of my brain takes over.
     
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    The obvious solution would be to move into a bungalow………..:)
     
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    That's another thing. When I was a kid I was scared of going upstairs to bed. I still don't like being upstairs on my own even now. What is it about upstairs that's scary? Also why is downstairs scary at night but not during the day?
     
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    Can see why baby George is playing up at night, he's inherited your phobia of the dark! I quite like the cosy nights, it's waking up and going out the house in the dark that's depressing!
     
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    That pnew new to me I have to say. What I find is if I'm downstairs on my own watching tv with no lights on I'm fine and I'll happily just turn off the tv and go to bed.
    But if I get up in the night and go down for a drink I can on occasion find myself apprehensive, it makes no rational sense!
     
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    Cost? Cost? Aye, the very word sends shivers down my spine. Scared stiff. :)
     
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    Cosy nights are costly!
     
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    Likewise, 3 things I was very scared of as a young kid, upstairs, the loft and thunder / lightening.
    I love all 3 now. I could live in the loft, by myself, with my books and music. :)

    Even in my late teens / early 20's I hated going upstairs / running back downstairs, but I think that is down to the very bad atmosphere in the house we lived. I always got a sense for places .....
    On my travels with work in recent years I would still choose a modern hotel over an old one where possible.
     
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    After finishing uni I dossed around Europe for 6 months. I often kipped in cemeteries as they were quiet.

    Hardcore me...
     
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    Love hearing spooky tales myself, even though there is no such thing of ghosts.
     
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    I would walk nearly 3 miles home from a favourite pub when younger, than walk through the cemetery which would have been less than a mile.

    Soft as a soft thing, me.
     
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    I used to hop over the cemetery gates on my way back from the Longbow on a Friday night just to feel the heeby jeebies. I was a bit weird back then.
     
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    Funny isn't it that Derek Acorah hasn't been back to let us know what is going on "on the other side"
     
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    There was a thread on here a short while back where I recounted my experiences with the "paranormal" and sleep paralysis. I stopped experiencing it, then almost immediately after I made the post, I've been getting sleep paralysis almost nightly again. ******* terrifying...
     
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    Mary loves Dick
     
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    Fear of the Dark
     
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    I was terrified in the Shoulder of Mutton in York. We stayed for two nights. Laura slept like a baby but I felt the room was eerie. We had an ensuite bathroom but it was along a passage way next to the bed. There was no door to the passage way. That creeped me out too.
     
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    I once walked through Barnsley cemetery late at night but halfway across there was a green light and I saw a skeleton in a grave playing a piano! When I plucked up courage to ask him (her) what he was doing he swivelled his head round to look at me and said 'decomposing'.
     
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