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Title: Ghostly experience ? Post by Jonnycab on Nov 5th, 2010, 6:47am I know it's Halloween season, but this isn't a story. It's something that happened to me late last night, while driving down a dark country lane....Wooooo :o Before I start, if there is anyone reading this that knows the sound of someone slapping the N/S rear of the roof of the car twice in quick succession with the palm of their hand to let you on your way (very annoying to taxi drivers >:(), then you will know what that sound is & there is nothing else that could possibly make that dull palm thudding sound on the roof....apart from maybe the sound of a couple of large lumps of playdoe landing on your roof.... which is highly unlikely in this case ;) Anyway, on to the story :D......Driving down a familiar country lane late last night, there was a car coming in the opposite direction. As the road is quite narrow & uneven, then naturally you tend to slow down to avoid collisions, which both I & the car coming the other way did. There is no kerb at the edge of the road, just a small uneven grass verge about a foot deep before it meets a thicket of small trees & bushes, then open fields. We both got past each other with no problem & just as I was pulling away, there were two dull thuds on the N/S/R roof of the car, exactly like someone hitting it with the palm of their hand ???....there was definately no-one standing on the grass verge when I slowed (almost to a stop) & it wasn't from the passing car (unless inspector gadget was driving), as it had already passed. I pulled up immediately & got out of the car (brandishing my heavy 4xD battery Maglite), but there was no-one to be seen. So got back in the car & drove for a couple of hundred yards, then turned around & went back to have a second look....got out of the car & scoured the area with the Maglite & couldn't find anyone or anything that could have possibly made that noise on the roof.......nothing !!...no branches (fallen or attached) that could have hit the car...no dead birds that could have fallen from the sky in the middle of the night...as if ::).....& no lumps of playdoe on the ground either ;D ....It was the exact same sound & came from the exact same area of the roof (N/S/R door) as though someone had got out & slapped the roof twice with their palm to let me know it was okay to pull away....Woooooo :o Anyone got any other logical explanations that I haven't thought of ? If not, then anyone else got any personal experiences of the unexplained & possible paranormal episodes ? :) |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Simmo on Nov 5th, 2010, 8:24am The only thing to consider is the type of trees in the wood which presumably overhang the road. If they are either Horse Chestnut or Sweet Chestnut then a couple of those falling could be the cause?. Conkers in particular will make a fair 'clump' if you happen to be passing when they are released. ??? :-/ |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Daven aka Cheekyboy3 on Nov 5th, 2010, 9:32am May have been a confused owl ;-) We were driving home late one night from Sister in-laws - got to a dark duel carriage way and heard a knocking coming from what seemed to be behind my head. At first I thought it was one of my nephews who had sneeked in the back before we left. Checked it out - no nephew - carried on a bit further and it happend again. I then realised it was an aerial ball that was knocking on the roof! :-[ :D Did put the wind up Dave |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Jonnycab on Nov 5th, 2010, 10:05am There are no overhanging trees & it defo wasn't the aerial.....had me completely spooked :o |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by PJDavis on Nov 5th, 2010, 6:35pm Roe-Deer. Jumped across the roof of yer car. ;D |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Highlander on Nov 5th, 2010, 7:08pm A young couple were happily driving home well after midnight one night. They had enjoyed a party until the early hours of the morning and were exhausted, both looked forward to getting home and retiring to bed with the sounds of the party still ringing in their ears. The boy, suddenly feeling that the night was still only young, abruptly took a detour off the main road home. It happens that the road they were already on was fairly desolate and surrounded by thick foliage from the dense forest as it was, but now he had chosen a gravel road, one that looked as if nobody had driven down it for quite a long time with even thicker scrub that was occasionally scraping down the sides of the old car they were driving. Waking up and wondering where they were going, the girl inquired as to what their new destination was. The boy admitted he felt like going for a bit of drive and spending some "quality time" alone with his girlfriend. He had in mind somewhere dark and secluded, where no interruptions were going to take place. Although the girl was tired, she agreed to the new plans, knowing that the boy was far too pushy for her to say no. It was a slow drive down the newly chosen dirt road, and the car headlights did nothing to penetrate the thick black night and scrub that surrounded them. Unexpectedly the car hit something on the road. Not knowing what it was the boy stopped immediately and hopped out to investigate. "Oh No!" he exclaimed as he spied a large log wedged underneath. He turned to see that there was also now a large stream of smoke escaping from his old, tired cars engine. The boy kicked at the log, knowing that he would need to do more than kick it to dislodge it from under his car. "Just my luck!" he thought as he got back in the vehicle and told the girl of what had happened. Wincing, he attempted to restart the vehicle, but being an early model from the 1970's the car complained loudly then died before it ever really fired up. The starter lights showed but no amount of persuading would start the car properly. "I'm going to have to walk back to the main road for help" he said, shaking his head and gripping the useless steering wheel in front of him. "Stay in the car and I'll be back soon" was his last words as he climbed out of the vehicle, hunched his shoulders and walked off into the darkness on his own. Although the girl did not like the idea of spending the rest of the night alone, out on a dirt road, god knows where, she was too tired to be bothered to go with him and sleepily thought of how she might nestle down in her passenger seat and dream while he was away getting help. Anyway wasn't it his idea to come way out here?, he should be the one to go find help!. She watched him in the side mirror for as long as she could see him, which wasn't very long at all, he seemed swallowed by the night and she thought in the back of her mind how stupid he was to take this road, and hoped he would take a while so she could get some decent shut eye. While happily drifting off to sleep, she wondered if he'd be back before dawn, and also how on earth he would find help when they had seen no traffic on the main road anyhow. STARTLED, she awoke suddenly. "what was that?!", sleepy confusion was fogging her thoughts as she shook her head with the distinct impression that something had happened while she was asleep, something that woke her but now had passed or stopped. Peering out the windscreen and into the side mirror all she could see was darkness, darkness and more darkness. The night was as quiet as anything, hadn't she heard night noises before? why on earth was it so still and quiet now, surely something must of woken me!. |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Highlander on Nov 5th, 2010, 7:08pm On edge and feeling cold and shaky from being pulled from such a deep sleep, she now wished she had of noted the time when her boyfriend had gone for help. Checking her watch it seemed as though dawn was about to break through the trees at any moment. It was now 4.30am. When did he go? Must of been around 2.00am or 2.30 am surely? her mind started flipping backwards to see if it could conjure up the memory of exactly what time he had left for help. "Well whatever time it was, it was ages ago and he should be coming back pretty soon", she quietly admitted to herself. The night was unbelievably quiet now, need I say, dead quiet, and she had the distinct impression that she wasn't alone. Not being able to see anything in front or behind her she hoped it was her boyfriend returning with help. Goosebumps were beginning to show themselves on her arms and the hair on the back of her neck started to rise up as the blackness outside suddenly seemed to move. "I must be going mad", she said out loud to nobody in particular. She decided that she'd had enough and went for the keys left in the ignition to see if she could get the headlights working. As she stretched over to the drivers seat there was a loud "THUMP" on the roof of the car. Her instant reaction was to jump, nearly hitting her head on the roof and cower back in her seat. Looking madly around, but instinctively not moving a muscle it became apparent to her that she did see something move outside the car, in the darkness. "THUMP, THUMP". The loud noise happened again, and a small scream escaped from her mouth. What do I do, what is it, somebody help me, were all thoughts running madly through her mind. I'm alone out here in the darkness, what on earth do I do? "THUMP!" there it goes again, somebody is up there! Tears of utter fear and horror crawled from her eyes and down her cheeks, there was no help, she was alone, and there was most probably a monster on the roof about to eat her. THUMP.......again..................THUMP THUMP. The fear overcame her, she decided that she wouldn't be a sitting duck, she would open the door and make a run for it. If she couldn't see into the thick darkness of the night, surely the monster couldn't. "THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP" and that was it. Fumbling with the lock (she'd forgotten that she'd locked all the doors earlier) and the door handle, tears now streaming from here eyes and blurring her vision, she threw the door open, nearly dislodging it from it's hinges, being so terrified and confused instead of making a grand exit and run for it she fell head first from the car and landed flat on her face in the dirt. As she was attempting to both crawl and regain her feet and run, bright lights suddenly flooded the area. She could only see the bulbs and dark shadows behind the lights. She was rapidly succumbing to shock as she heard some voice saying something into a loud speaker. Dazed and back on her feet, she could only think to stumble un lady like towards the bright lights. Shading her eyes she could still hear the voice, it sounded like a fairly authoritative voice and it was giving some sort of instructions to her. Again the voice repeated. "Lady, move away from your car towards us and whatever you do, don't look back". Again "Ma'am would you please continue moving towards us do not look back, face us and don't look back". She was now on the brink of fainting and could only fall towards those bright lights. She was caught by a man in uniform which she recognized to be from the local Police Department and could suddenly see past the lights. There were possibly 10 to 15 Squad cars and double that amount of police officers with guns drawn. Before she lost consciousness she decided there was one last thing she had to do. She struggled to flip over and face the car. On the roof of the car was what appeared to be a monster, or it could it be a deformed human? It had a large stick in its hands and was drooling madly as it laughed and banged it's stick on the car roof. At the end of the stick, was her boyfriends head. |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Highlander on Nov 5th, 2010, 7:09pm Tell me you didnt read it all the way through!! ;D |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Highlander on Nov 5th, 2010, 7:12pm Trabiklopfen = Celebratory thump of a cars roof, best known when used as a celebration at the destruction of the Berlin Wall Any Germans wandering around Jonny? |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by rich1 on Nov 5th, 2010, 7:20pm b*****d ;D |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Scorpio_Mike on Nov 5th, 2010, 8:40pm on 11/05/10 at 19:09:48, Highlander wrote:
Sounds like one of those tales Pvt Fraser from Dad's Army would tell - not related are you ;D |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by gozz on Nov 5th, 2010, 11:03pm on 11/05/10 at 19:20:25, rich1 wrote:
Didn't realise you were of a Krautish persuasion Rich :o |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by PJDavis on Nov 5th, 2010, 11:12pm I liked the bit about her wondering what time he'd left. You had me gripped after that bit! 8) |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Jonnycab on Nov 7th, 2010, 3:04am Stuart, a very compelling read ;).....but I don't think it was a dis-embodied head that hit the roof of my taxi ;).......didn't find a head on the verge or in the road when I went back & had a good look around ;D It was like someone invisible had smacked the roof a couple of times....like the Scorp was a young filly & they were encouraging it on it's way... A poltergeist ?....WOOOOO :o |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Mike H on Nov 9th, 2010, 12:08pm Somewhere in North Essex I think there's supposed to be a bit of a main A road with a ghost on it. So it's a fast trunk road type of thing. There was a story some years back of drivers having to swerve to avoid a young woman crossing the road in front of them, in the dark. Always late evening. What brought the story to the forefront was one fellah couldn't manage it and quite expected to prang the woman in spectacular fashion. Instead she passed straight through the car, front to back. The popular explanation was it's the ghost of someone who was killed sometime previously by doing exactly that (crossing the road without looking first) in that exact spot. |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Jonnycab on Nov 21st, 2010, 4:05am Right then, this is getting really weird......I had another strange & unexplained experience in the early hours of Saturday morning ::) Was on the M25 between J28/J27 (Essex) at about 2.30am, windows shut & radio off, thinking how nice & quiet this road is at this time of night (even when it's coned down to one lane), when there was suddenly a loud hand-clap sound directly behind me from the rear seat. It sounded just like someone was sitting behind me & loudly clapped their hands together. My first thought was that there was a passenger that hadn't got out, but obviously there was no-one there ::) The sound was so crystal clear that it couldn't have come from outside the vehicle. There was no outside dullness or distance to it....it was right behind me & had the interior acoustic resonance of someone clapping their hands together in the back of the car...if you know what I mean ;) First banging on the roof & now hand-claps from the back seat.....I'm starting to think this car is haunted :o |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Jeff on Nov 21st, 2010, 9:20am Maybe take your cab down the clinic..... |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by tonyboy on Nov 21st, 2010, 9:27am You havn't got someone in the boot....... :o |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Jonnycab on Nov 22nd, 2010, 2:36am Thanks for the witty suggestions.... gotta expect it I suppose ::) But honestly, this is serious ;).....If anyone believes in ghosts & has had a similar personal experience of any kind of supernatural/unexplained incidences then I'd be very interested :) I must add that these two unexplained incidences aren't the first that have ever happened to me. But they are the first time that it has ever happened in a car. Another such incidence was when me & my wife (before we were married) were renting an old small one bedroom bungalow. One day I was in the kitchen putting stuff away in the cupboard when behind me there was an almighty crash like a load of plates smashing to the floor.....I looked around & there was nothing there !! ??? |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Highlander on Nov 22nd, 2010, 9:26am Maybe you should go back to the "branded" cigarettes Jonny ;D |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Jonnycab on Nov 22nd, 2010, 9:40am on 11/22/10 at 09:26:16, Highlander wrote:
;).......... ;D |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Mike H on Nov 23rd, 2010, 12:29pm Maybe he's receptive to these things. BTW only just worked out where "Jonnycab" comes from |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Highlander on Nov 23rd, 2010, 1:14pm on 11/23/10 at 12:29:40, Mike H wrote:
Essex?? ;D |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Mike H on Nov 23rd, 2010, 3:23pm Well we know that ;D Nah the "'andle". I was thinking in terms of Total Recall. Could be totally barking up the wrong tree of course |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Jonnycab on Nov 24th, 2010, 4:33am You're right Mike....I picked the jonnycab 'andle 'cos I'm a cabbie, Total Recall is a great movie & of course, my name is Jonny....well Jonathan actually ;) As for being receptive....my nan was considered a bit of a psychic in her day & my mum reckons she sences stuff everynow & then......who knows eh ? :-/ |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Mike H on Nov 24th, 2010, 1:04pm http://livinginthepast-audioweb.co.uk/images/misc/clap.gif |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Jonnycab on Nov 25th, 2010, 1:54am Are you sure you're not the receptive one Mike ? ...... ;D |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by gozz on Nov 25th, 2010, 9:08am I believe he may have the clap as well ::) |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by TiberiuS on Dec 3rd, 2010, 8:47pm OK, let me relate one, just so Jonnycab isn't the only one here who people think imagines things ;D Late one night last year, I'm driving home through the country lanes around the area of Mistley, on the Suffolk/Essex border. This was about 2am, at that time of morning those roads are deserted and you're on your own for miles, if you see another car it's unusual and usually there's nobody else around. Sometimes near the coast you get thick mists that come out of nowhere, if you've ever lived on the east coast you might remember those mists suddenly coming from nowhere, like dense rolling fog where you can't see for more than 5 meters or so, like a scene from some corny old 1950's horror movie. All alone on the road, suddenly I'm driving in to one of these patches, and within seconds I'm enveloped within it, no option but to slow down to about 20mph just to stay on the road. All of a sudden I see a figure standing in a field on the left, a guy who looked in his early 20's, dressed in clothes that I can only describe like a farm labourer would've worn over 100 years ago - clean but unshaven, flat cap, white flannel shirt, black trousers, black shoes. This guy was standing right on the edge of the road, I had to swirve to avoid him, inital reaction was that he was drunk and trying to thumb a lift - but he was staring straight ahead at something unseen in the area where I'd come from, didn't take any notice of me at all, like he was in a daze. Half of me wanted to pull over and take pity on this guy and see if he was OK, the other half voted to do the self-respecting English thing to forget it and just go home to get some sleep..that part won the toss ;) Yep, common sense tells me that there was a logical explination (some kind of costume or stag party, dumped in the middle of nowhere by someone as a joke while blitzed on booze), of course there's always that curious thing inside that thinks that what if there was more to it, like those formations of lights people sometimes see in the sky on a clear night.. ;D ;) Bruce. |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Jonnycab on Dec 4th, 2010, 3:37am Bruce, for a minute there, I thought you were gonna say you'd seen 'Black Shuck' :o |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by TiberiuS on Dec 5th, 2010, 2:49pm on 12/04/10 at 03:37:04, Jonnycab wrote:
Ahh yeah, Black Shuck..that story used to scare me to death when I was a kid.. ;D Many years ago when we were here on holiday, I bought some ghost stories from a local book shop. The old guy who ran the shop seemed really chuffed that I was so interested in them and when I bought the final one he asks me if I want him to sign it for me ??? I lets this guy sign it, at the same time trying to work out why on earth I'd want a book signed by the guy who runs the shop I bought it from.. 3 weeks later I finally look at the signature and realise he was the author.. :-/ Now I live in that town and in those 6 years I still haven't seen Black Shuck, or the headless coffin bearers, or the phantom hand on the beach.. ;D |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Highlander on Dec 7th, 2010, 9:45am Ya bunch o big jessies! ;D |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by gozz on Dec 7th, 2010, 9:49pm Essex is full of em Stuart, Ghosts that is ;D it's where all the London criminals go to die :o no doubt it's one of them banging on Jonny's cab roof ;) GOZZ. |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Jonnycab on Dec 8th, 2010, 2:37am on 12/07/10 at 09:45:45, Highlander wrote:
I suppose you've got the Loch Ness Monster on a leash in your back garden ;D |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Highlander on Dec 8th, 2010, 9:26am No thats just a story we made up to attract tourists ;) There should be another sighting early in March next year ;) |
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Title: Re: Ghostly experience ? Post by Jonnycab on Dec 9th, 2010, 2:37am on 12/08/10 at 09:26:30, Highlander wrote:
Wouldn't be a distant/blurred photo of a couple of 225/50/16's poking out of the water would it ? ;D |
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