Family ghosts
Having grown up in Africa we would regularly go and visit the farm, still inhabited by my grandma, that had been in the family since 1700 and something. So there's a lot of history on the farm... you can see where this is going right?
The stories she told included (but weren't limited to):
1) Seeing a phantom portuguese sailor, complete in stripey stockings etc. (she dated him from his clothes) being run down by an ox wagon on the farm
2) When my grandmother's father died she was visited by a coffin sliding in and out of the bedroom. My mum was there as a little girl, sleeping in bed behind her mum, and so also claims to have seen this
3) The farmhouse had some additions made in the past 80 years and, what used to be the boys' bedroom, had now become an indoor bathroom. With a big crack running from ceiling to floor at the one end of the room. The story goes that the boys were in bed one night when this big, slathering black dog with red eyes (I always pictured a hounds of the baskerville type thing) appeared out of that wall and ran to the other side of the room, out the door. Next morning, of course, the crack had appeared in the wall. This did not bode well for me ever using the toilet there as i was so fixated on that demon dog reappearing, that i think i must have been constipated by the end of each farm visit.
4) As a little girl used to going to sleep with the city's street lights providing background luminescence, the pitch blackness of the farm would often scare me. My mum's advice, "Don't worry, all the ghosts here are old family ghosts, they won't hurt you". Well, they certainly did not help me sleep.

Of course today I can't believe the crap they told us little girls - if these were things they really believed, it shouldn't have been told to impressionable, scared little girls who couldn't then use the toilet with the door shut.
( Tiffany Aching 's bowl of oatmeal tried to stare her down and won, Fri 14 Sep 2012, 10:13, 4 replies)

So what you're saying is, your family are highly susceptible to hallucinations.
Best get that water supply checked out.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Fri 14 Sep 2012, 10:37, closed)

typical paedo tactics

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 14 Sep 2012, 10:46, closed)

I like this.
But only for "Don't be frightened of the enormous hell-hound, he's been in the family for years and is only interested in property damage."
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 14 Sep 2012, 14:13, closed)

He's just an old softy really
the glowing eyes means he likes you.
(richardm, Fri 14 Sep 2012, 18:29, closed)