Symbolic Forest : ghosts

On the road

A summer ghost story

Published at 9:45 pm on July 5th, 2022

This post is subtitled A summer ghost story, but it’s not a story, in that it’s true, it’s something that happened to me a few days ago.

Keyword noise: ghosts, ghost story, driving, Lincolnshire, supernatural.

The haunted house

If you believe in that sort of thing

Published at 10:18 pm on February 18th, 2021

Filed under: Dear Diary, Unbelievable, The Family.

It being a couple of weeks now since the house move, I feel surprisingly settled-in already, and a big proportion of stuff has now been unpacked and sorted out. At some stage I will write a fuller account of what happened on move day itself, and all the stresses that had to be overcome, but today is not that day.

Keyword noise: paranormal, ghosts, ghost stories, The Children.

Winter chills

Or, what makes a ghost story frightening

Published at 9:17 pm on December 6th, 2020

Filed under: Artistic.

With winter starting to approach, it’s time to start thinking about traditional Yuletide activities. Putting up the tree, sticking tinsel around the mantlepiece, lighting the candles; and settling down in an armchair to read a scary story.

Lights And Action

In which we spot some filming going on, so talk about something completely different

Published at 7:12 am on January 20th, 2010

Filed under: Media Addict.

On my way home, last night and the night before, I noticed something going on along Ashton Road. Big floodlights, lighting up the whole street: some sort of night filming was going on.

Ghost story non-update

In which we try to double-check a psychic’s work

Published at 9:15 pm on January 8th, 2006

Filed under: The Family, Unbelievable, In With The Old, The Old Office.

If you’re not just a regular reader, but the sort of regular reader who reads all the comments too, then you’ll have noticed that Colleague M dropped by the site the other day to let me know that her sister Lydia had been asking for its address. “I think she’ll be upset,” said M, though, “to find you haven’t written about her for some time.”

Keyword noise: census, Colleague M, genealogy, ghosts, psychic, history, research.

If I told you what you were thinking, would you believe me?

In which we consider being evil

Published at 9:58 pm on December 19th, 2005

Filed under: Unbelievable, The Old Office.

The other day, Tim Boucher linked to Colleague M’s ghost story, in which M’s sister Lydia had a bit of trouble with a pair of argumentative ghosts apparently haunting her house. When I first heard about the ghosts, I was hoping I’d be able to post regular updates on the story; but there don’t seem to have been any updates recently. I asked M if anything had happened, and was told that everything has settled down quietly again. No more ghostly voices on the phone, no more things going missing, no more possibly-possessed cats. So, Lydia is able to sleep at night again.

Keyword noise: Colleague M, fraud, ghosts, ghost stories, gullible, misleading, psychic.