I have everyone. It's too scary. And welcome to the North podcast. It's a very podcast and it's hosted by Northern nerds.
Ah yeah, I'm one of your hosts Sam. And I am the other host Paul. And as you're probably noticed, we are joined. I would probably say a coven of ladies this evening.
Oh my gosh. I am not alone. Yes, it's me. That's the old one out tonight.
So we have got a lovely lovely, lovely, lovely team. We have got a lot of lovely members with us. We've got the lovely Patres and Scream. We've got the other Patres, which is Sarah.
So we're going to be on her Saturday night. She's up and I'll spoot Ian and stuff. Sarah, Sarah, Sarah. Sorry.
I've got the emirs and Sonia and like normally she's playing the scary game. So she'll be telling us all about them. And finally, last but not least, we've got the emirs and Phoenix spider. And she is looking all spooky and scary tonight as well.
Oh. So yes, today is our special day. We do this once a year. It's been over here previously.
So it's always went well, I guess. We are doing our Halloween special where we tell ghost stories and try and spoot each other and find out some might be true, some might be made up and some might be local history as well. So it's going to be quite entertaining. So yes, something.
It's going to be something. Absolutely something. So I'll tell you what, I'll get the disclaimer out of the way away with and then we'll just crack into all these spookiness because I'm excited because I have nothing this year. Nothing's happened.
So everything discussed in today's episode is our opinions and our opinions alone. If you'd like to discuss anything from today's episode, please come and join us in the Facebook group, the discord or the comments section where we can have an open discussion. But what we want to have is anyone comment on this? Our opinions are wrong.
We can all agree to disagree and fund them. So let's keep it fun. Keep it kind and give the toxic behavior out of the notism. Well done.
Just to say as well, you've already got a nickname in the chat. There's all the coven chicks apparently. So yes. So the main question to start us off with is I think it would be quite a decent question to ask is do you believe in ghosts?
So we'll go to Sonia first. I know she's the best. Thanks. I am quite the skeptic.
But I'm a skeptic who admits there are things I can't explain and those things do fascinate me. But yeah, I'm not one of these that's massively kind. I definitely have seen a ghost because I don't know if that is what I've seen. I think you're similar also.
Yeah. Yeah. Very much so I want to believe what I've not seen enough or had enough stuff to believe in the thing. I always think it's quite good.
Like when we do go to these types of chats to get the old skeptic and I know Graham was on last year and he had some good questions and good points of you as well. So that was quite interesting. So what about you Phoenix spider? Are you a believer?
So I am a believer. However, I do believe that 95% of the time these hauntings and things like that are not just the same. I do believe in the science. But I like to believe there's a little bit of magic in the world that we just don't know about.
So that's my view is that 95% is rubbish. The 5% is real. Very good. What about you Sarah?
I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah. I think I'm somewhere near you and Sonia cause I'm kind of as I put up on the fence about the whole thing but my legs are down going over the believer side.
Right. I just want that little bit more evidence that I want to believe type of thing thinking like X miles going. I always believe. So yeah, what's skilier?
The one that's like teetmen on the edge and keep looking for the evidence and saying it. I'm pretty sure I'll eventually get to the believer side of it. Is that just when you start mounting David to cough me or anything like that? Yeah.
Sorry. I was just saying something really inappropriate. It's changed for me starting that. Yes.
What about your teachers? Oh, come on. I am fucking. Yeah.
Like actually this, I think my house is haunted. This thing is, I do bring a lot of antiques into the hall. So Sammy, you know, you saw, that was the first. That was well made of the two.
Yeah. So little things actually one of the paintings that I think I brought something back with. It's an antique. You had to say I've got it's behind it.
It's this big oval frame and since I brought that back, it was the night off or the night after. I'll tell you this. I'll get a lot one. Yeah, definitely.
Yeah. The last podcast that we did with teachers was to promote the makeup. And workshop. Yeah.
The workshop you were doing in part way through the podcast. Something just went from one side of the screen to the other and my eyes just followed it. I was like, Oh, I'm just going across just very slowly going across. And I told afterwards, I wish I never did.
I think I spooked her. You did it first, you know, but I mean, I don't know, like this is also a slo. Yeah. So slow moving just going.
And if you really watch it back, you do see my eyes just following and saying going across. But yeah, I've had a cold shiver. Yeah. Like it was like, like, shut away.
I was like an actual like, could you see the shape? Just see a shape. Just something. It's like, it wasn't like, you know, how people say, oh, it wasn't anything like that.
No, it just slowly went across like behind her and I was like, Oh, what are you? I kept me motion while we were recording until we finished. I've got like a full on people and I'm off to do it. It's a, I don't know if you can see it's in the frame.
Oh, wow. And I'm not usually this extra on a fucking Sunday day. I'm not usually this extra on a Sunday. But I thought for you, I would be I love it.
I'm so kind. Let's be honest. You are. Every step, step, signal together.
So Sammy, what about you? Do you believe in things like all better than the night? I am halfway in the yes section and halfway in the north section. I am convinced I saw my husband's grandmother and never met the woman before in my life.
Absolutely convinced I saw her sitting in his mother's living room. But that is the only my only experience I have ever had. And I see the story because I've said it on maybe the last one we did and maybe the first one we did. And so I'm half yes half nor half because I've watched more sounded.
Right. Half of us. Explainable. Yeah.
I'm half yes half nor I want to I want to really believe soul badly. But that's coming on to that as well. I know we're going to talk about like all stories and things that we've heard or things that we might have seen in the past. Like I've been recently, but that does give us a good starting point there, Sammy, though.
Who was a fan of what's told us? Yeah. I love this. I actually love it.
I still watch it. I still quote Mary loves dick. Just being sort of like interesting ones recently, like the ones that weren't sure when I'm living to the quite of like the last few years and they didn't amaze and wanted to eat and camp. Then being a herd of income into World War II recreated museum.
And there is some spooky shit that went on there that is like even I was starting to get convinced there's no way they could have set that up. And that's the answer. I think when I've seen some of the shit that they can come out with, but there's been some more interesting ones. I mean, that house that the days with the, you know, the whole knife thrown in.
That was absolutely bullshit. But that's the thing when it started off, it was very simple and like they have like the psychics on music, like Derrick, or Cora and so. Interesting things that used to happen throughout their episode was people that like were used to get like all the use of excited for orbs or if they got called like or heard a quick noise or a tap and stuff. Like I said, to season 2019 where knives were getting thrown at them and like knives were getting left in pillows and stuff like that.
So the went from like paranormal activity to an entertainment show and I think that they used to have to do like a disclaimer before or after and say that statement. And then things have been manipulated for entertainment purposes, even though I think it was either than I fell of whatever it was called. I've got his name now. You used to call on my call.
Call TV shows and say that they didn't want to put that disclaimer on but that studio was me and doing stuff like that. They don't have to now because everything's distributed through their YouTube channel so they don't have to put the disclaimer anymore. But she's wrote them really, I don't know if the literature is any good, but she's wrote stories and kids books and that and she's made a living off it. So, what about ghosts adventures?
Was that big? I love ghosts. I hear that. I call it ghost jocks.
I absolutely love watching it. Purely edited. I don't believe a thing that's on the show. It's just pure edited.
It's so dramatic. I just love like when the hero back in the morning. It's like Zach's like come on then ghost. I love you.
I'm such a dick. I was a kind of stand the man. I actually didn't mind watching it. Because they did go to some historical places, it was quite interesting but when they capitalised off a gruesome fucking murder that was happening to two of their friends for that.
They capitalised off that so badly. They can go and jump in the fucking scene. I didn't know he was actually in a relationship with Holly Madison from the Play of Oi House. I was like, yeah, I know.
Was that big? I didn't. I haven't watched either of those. But what I do watch is the ghost files on the Watcha YouTube channel, which is really good.
It's like Ryan's a believer and Sean's a skeptic. They go to historic places and you do get to learn about it. They got all the machines and gadgets. Ryan's like, yes, I think.
Oh my God. Did they just speak to him? No. No.
So it's not like Zach being into it. Yes, absolutely. There's a hundred percent. Did anyone watch the demon house documentary he did?
Yeah. I like that. Yeah, that was all right. But the fact that he was like, I am totally blind because of this experience.
I now have to wear tinder glasses because this demon took my side. I'm not a fan. No, Peter's. I'm sorry.
But that the documentary was okay for the side where he's not involved. So that's where the actual like the whole thing started. But when you got involved, it was like, oh, you are just taking this for a ride and it is not fun. Yeah.
Where does that again? Because I knew you were a year ago. I thought it was longer than that. I think that was longer.
I feel like it was longer. No, I'm not a year ago. And where he purchased the demon house because that's what that does with his money. He purchased it.
You see any murder bill yet? He's going to have it. He'll buy it and put it in his fucking museum. Sorry, I can go off and have time.
I apologize in advance. No, it's fine. I know you're sorting sentence out. You're all good.
Hopefully you'll be working. I don't know why it's playing upwards. They're saying it's keep freezing for so often. But I don't know if it's YouTube or I don't think so.
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Well, this was when I was a little girl, so I was somewhere between the age of four and six. And for the level of reason, I couldn't sleep that night. And it was a rare occasion that my mum was like, fine, you can sleep in my bed. So I snuggled up in bed with my mum, fell asleep.
And part way through the night, I thought I could feel something sitting on my chest. So I woke up thinking that it was going to be my dog, because one time the dog had asked my mum I'd accidentally forgot to show the dog away for the night and the dog had joined us in the bedroom. So I just automatically assumed it was our dog's amber. And so I woke up expecting to see this black dog on my chest.
All right. And I didn't. But I could still feel this thing on my chest. I could feel all four cores.
And then suddenly I felt it jump off. And I could hear the pause, the sound of the dog moving around the bed. So I was questioning myself. I was like, did I just not see it?
Did you move so quick that I just didn't see her in time? So with my eyes, I'm following the sound around the room. And as I got to the right hand side, I saw this woman and she walked across the room. All right.
Looked at me and disappeared. Oh, just got goosebumps out as well. I just got called inside. Now, the cynics will say, well, it was probably sleep paralysis.
I was just about to ask if you've got to be paralysis. I was saying, when you have sleep paralysis, you literally can't move. I could move, at least to my memory, I could move. Because I had to listen and I watched the noise move around.
I had to turn my head and sit up slightly to see this woman. So I could move, which means I was not paralysed. So was it sleep paralysis or was it a ghost? I had sleep paralysis once and it wasn't that long ago and it was the most terrifying thing I had ever been through.
So if you say you could move, I don't think it would be sleep paralysis because I physically could not. I was totally aware of everything around this. I just couldn't move. I thought I was gone.
I could move. Mine was hallucination. Like, I woke up on the couch and I could see spiders crawling all over the question and it took me a few minutes to realise they weren't there. And I was like, oh, I was like, this must be sleep paralysis.
And then I got up. So I get my terrors, even a 40 year old, I still get night terrors. And my main one is black spiders with, but it's red dots. It's the red dots I can see.
Oh. And it reminds us of the no things from matrix. Yeah. One way I can describe it is how it actually looks.
But also a little boy in a black cap. Oh, wow. So that's another thing that I can see as well. And yeah, still 40 year old still got night terrors.
Crazy. It should have been knocked out of his when I was a child, but apparently not. Yeah. So if you say in the ghost, have you had any other experiences since then or like?
So another time I think I've seen a ghost was actually when I went around Tamworth Castle. Right. Oh. Yeah.
And so we'd, you know, we're through in the tour and I've just been bought up by the lovely lady and she's like, yes, try on all these Elizabethan clothing and dressed me up as like, Gwen Elizabeth I was like, ooh. That sounds amazing. I've got to say. Well, it was.
And they were like, look how small these clothes were because they fit on a child and this was meant for an adult. And you're like, ooh, they were very small back then. And then I think, I, now bear in mind, this was a very long time ago. I was for some reason in a room, I think maybe I was getting back and dressed, I don't know, but I was in the room on my own and I saw a woman walking in the tour de clothing.
And at first I just thought that she was, you know, someone there for the act. And then she just disappeared. Now, was I hallucinating? Did a woman actually come in and I just didn't see her leave?
Who knows? But I, Of course. It's definitely goes through the ghost. I do have dreams about people who are no longer where there's an even pest and I go with this.
And again, I thought I felt the moving on the bed or on top of my body. Yeah. Yeah. That's another one I've had one with me grandfather where I know he, I mean, he died, when was the January 2nd 2000.
And it wasn't that long ago, it was only a period ago. And we had a conversation where I was sat on the couch next to him and I had me four on me hand and he's going, what's that? And I was, I thought he knew he's dead. And I was like, oh, it's me more about four on.
And I said, God, you wouldn't even know what I'm all about four on is you died in 2000s. And I'm like, showing him me phone and everything. And I'm like catching him up on me life. And then I says, it's me, just out of nowhere, went, is me grandmother here.
And he went, yeah, yeah, just, you know, if you, because I started at one point, I turned around and went, this isn't real. I remember saying to him, this is not real. You want to not hear. I am not having this conversation with you.
And then he went, well, if you're not having this conversation with us, then tell that to your grandmother. And she was standing right next to him and I got a cuddle of her and I could feel her arms around this is a walk up. But that's it. Oh, I was, I was in tears when I woke up because I was like, oh my God, that felt, it felt so real.
And it was so crazy, especially when I'm telling him I'd be phone. Why, why, like, so much has gone on in like the God, like how long he's been dead. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, I've got my phone. But I'm sorry, I'm going to miss one.
I quite regularly have my friend dad as well. And he died two years ago, three years ago. Christopher, yeah. I actually had a horrible dream this week.
And my granddad was there. And again, I kept sort of being like, your dead. He's like, oh, I'm not the one that's dead. It's in and that's right.
And I was like, no, Nan's still alive. He's like, we're about to have you. What? Anyway, when I met up with my mum later, she informed me that my nan's actually quite ill.
Oh, it's nice. That's the last thing I can do. Yeah. Oh, gosh.
Oh, gosh. We don't know what's wrong with my nan yet. So it could be one of those things. It's something of nothing.
It could be something very serious. So fingers crossed from a nan, but you know, she's an erasure. So although Chris's theory is that Nan's going to out live us all and we'll have to put her in our will. They do have a tendency of two of them in that don't.
They do. They do. They do. They do.
They do. So yeah. I remember when we lost back to last year, I willed for ages for him to come, like just in one of me dreams. And it was only until about six months later, he eventually did.
And I was so mad at him. I was so mad. When I woke up, I was like, it took you six months. Like what have you been doing?
We're going to get the passports and regulations on the channel. No. It's a bit of field truth to go by. It does take a while from the get a custom and use the book of er, what's the hand, the handbook of the.
Handbook of the dead. Handbook of the dead. But yes. And it's got a rate.
No. And Baxter definitely couldn't like that. My older cat is very smart. He was not a blessing.
Oh, he's dumb as peant. But he was like. Chat's saying I hope you're not as okay as well. So the chat's very nice.
Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Christ.
Yes. What about your pictures? Oh, are you? We're done.
Well, damn kids. Just you've just reminded us or like, um, obviously, well, Sami and Paul, you know, when you knew my cat or other couple of roofs. He died in this little house. Um, I was told him stuff like that.
And like, you know, he was here, but like things happened like after. And funny enough, my friend Jen, she was staying over last night with Spooky Sleepover. And she said, obviously I've got a cat now. We'll find him.
But she said like, she kept feeling a catful and past Alex. Like, you know, like, but I want some fun. I was like out on the chair. And I said, funny enough, you just say that.
Like, I feel like, but it's not like, bad. Jim, it's the I'm convinced it's Bruce. I come and pass. I'm convinced he's here.
And the lights just like a little bit. I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm joking. God, I have that same, the same thing. Like it was one day I was convinced I could hear Baxter yawn.
And every, every corner, like every other corner of me, I felt like I could see him just like going past his. And then I kind of like, this is when Loki was Bruce, because I messaged you to see this and we thought Loki Bruce, I just wanted you to know. And I was sat on the bed and I'm like crying to myself over Baxter. And I said, I know he's not there.
I'm just, it's just me. It's just in me head. This is all in me head. And then I just went kind of called that cat Bruce.
You just cannot call that Bruce. He does not look like a Bruce. Oh, we changed his name, but it came out. And the minute I had that breakdown, I had a bit of crack, not, not had an instance.
It's crazy. Like I've got like, just before, well, sorry, just after he passed away like the day after, my bedroom door actually opened. And like it's one of those like me doors are the ones where you've got a whole shot. Yeah.
It clicks if you know what I mean. It's not like one of those. Yeah. And the door opened like the day after just little things door opened.
And like, um, I've got, you know, there was like interactive like Halloween decoration things that you switch on, but when you touch it, I will pass it to the go off. That went off and it was switched off as well. Just little crazy things like that. I think the ones like, I honestly, there's so many and that, um, like what Phoenix was saying about the, um, the, the weight on the bed, like the someone actually sat next to us.
I'm convinced it was me now that I've actually passed away, but someone, I was like, you know, like trying to fall asleep. Um, so I was still like, concert like present, if you know what I mean. Yeah. And I was like lying on the side, like facing the window and I felt, I'm getting literally going to, I felt like a way sitting next to us.
Like literally. And I like obviously it wasn't the cat like Bruce because I used to jump in my room because you used to jump in my fucking head on the woman and sit away. So it wasn't the cat. So it literally felt that I was terrified.
I just remember like being like this and I was just, I couldn't like bring myself to like, you know, come around and wake up while I was awake, but like sit up sort of thing. And um, I slept with the lights on after that, but then after that, like um, my mum took ill like a couple of days later and then obviously before she passed away and stuff like that. Honestly, just like crazy shit like that. And like, yeah, some people might think, oh, it's um, we would say so that.
And like, I remember in like, I think it was like two o'clock in the morning or something, some crazy hour and there was a couple of people still online. I was like, I'm scared. Like I wasn't just terrified, which is quite ironic really, but I was legit terrified and I was like, oh, it's probably just a cat. I was like, no, he's like shut out of the room.
So yeah, that was another one. And that just kind of reminded us of that story, what you told well. I've got loads honestly, but I don't want to take over. It's not taking over.
It's just like, that's what we want to hear and stuff as well. Because I know, I mean, Sammy's told that was stories over the last two years. Like I told about my adventures in showing all hospital, all mental as well. As I said, um, do you know what, it still freaks me out of this day, goldfish.
Goldfish. After what you told us about the goldfish, I can't look at goldfish the same way again. Oh my god. They really freaked me out.
I didn't realize that they brought their surroundings. So in my head, when you're talking about these goldfish, I've got like big massive fucking goldfish. Yeah, they're about that big. Like that's a fucking goldfish.
That's because people don't know like the story, basically, but it used to be an old mental asylum next to where I used to grow up. Like being closed down for many years, but I used to house the criminally insane as well. Because so they had paddled padded rooms and everything like that. So as a kid, it was always fun when like, say, going adventures and bring it in.
And there was a swimming pool in and some of the security guards, because they had to be manned 24 seven, but the security guards had put some goldfish in the swimming pool and they grew on to like, like, join on the size because of the surroundings they're in. But that was probably the spookiest place I've ever been in my life. Like, didn't actually say anything. It was more noises and hearing stuff and just having like atmospheres around.
And like, is it the one I know about? Like, do I know about this? Yeah, I was going to say, because I work there now, you know, I know that this was always three days ago. I don't know if I'm down the main building, but like, more to my speaking, I know about this place.
It's like, where did you know about London last time? I think I know. I just don't know. No, there's three clear.
There was three different areas. There was the general hospital up there, knocked down and rebuilt. That was the old prisoner walk up. Yeah, that was originally there.
And I'm not just going to sound horrible. So I do apologize using this phrase, but that's what they used to call it. The suicide watch where it's still there and like, it's still down the bottom. Like, say, go down and people there.
But then they had the old Victorian building where it had the big stable. That's all gone in the build houses on it for some reason. I don't know. That's your shame.
But, well, they had it knocked it down because of the asbestos that was through. It was going to kill people. But literally, the way I could describe it is like, all the surrounding area was busy in like farmland and grass, green area, there's the Dean, but around the whole building, there was just dead grass, dead earth. Like nothing would grow around it.
So it was quite like eerie when you went in. And when you we brought in, literally you could go in the pad itself, because the pad itself and the tables where people used to get strapped on were still there. People like the filing cabinet where people's folders and everything was just spewing all of the floor because they're never been cleaned out properly. And like, as the story goes, there's tunnels underneath it underneath the complex where instead of walking from one building to the other, you used to go in the tunnels to get to the buildings.
And what they used to see, I don't know how true it is because living in local villages and little areas, they always tell you like stories. So people who died because they used to experiment on people, they didn't want to bury them because the families didn't want anything to do with them. They were buried underground in them tunnels. I do remember like, if we were naughty, that's where we were going.
I generally could believe that because the amount of stories I've heard about, what was it, there was quite a famous Catholic sort of orphanage, or I think it was like the unwed mothers as well. They basically just, there were so many children that just weren't registered, they just just buried them in the back. When it all came up, they exhumed everything and tried to do their best to be able to let any living family know about the bodies. I mean, I was absolutely a Catholic orphanage.
Not great that they got there in the best place, but they tried to put something right with that. I love all the stories that we used to come up with and get told as a kid. You're almost like getting told about the bogeyman, you'll go to Jerry Nolosville. But I've never experienced fear of things.
I'm stuck there. Is that why you play your horror video game? Yeah, that's why my dumb time. The way things are now, when we go and talk about these things, like to parents and stuff, because they grew up in the same village that I grew up in, they've never lived, like living in Rybens and all mine in village as well.
So the whole mental asylum part, they used to have like three different bits, these other wards where the previous get kept, used to have the chapel, like proper church mate, and then the community areas. And what the thought was a good idea for kids. I don't know why the thought was a good idea. I've left them now to build a community spirit that had cinematiers on a weekend, and they used to have in the community a bit near the mental asylum, kids coming up to watch movies with the patients.
Okay. I like that. I can say that would be really restorative, but that's just me being like... As long as I'm with the safe limited, you know...
Lots of things, like, yeah, it's the two things that they always going to ensure that it's like safe guarded. So it's something that people do it. And that, but what I do know about that site is that there was a pub, that people who were allowed to leave were allowed to go to, but also the local residents. So a lot of people from Riot will have drank in, and I think obviously really like non-PC, but they used to call it like the Looney Bar.
But you could just go and have a pint with people who were staying the night, because that's where they were staying. Like it was fascinating that it really was like a little community back in the day. It's totally different now, obviously. Oh, no.
Well, it's amazing how, well, since bad, no, because I've been saying like a couple of girls as a kid how far you could get in these buildings before the place came, or before the security of the Nautos doing stuff like that. The idea of you just like sneaking around and just going in around. It's been an interview day, I've not even known to. But that's why they had to pull it down, because people were keeping it set and fired to it, and then like the normal people who, like the homeless people were going there and living in there, and stuff like that.
There was a lot of bad elements, but like as a kid, it was like the best adventure in the world. All you got to do was pull out a few meals that were like where the window was boarded up, and you were like running around it, like a mental asylum, thinking like, thinking you were like, as you were doing now, we're playing air, the mortuary's assistant, or phantasmophobia, but in real life and activities. Just imagine, just imagine that building was still open, we could do a like a live session of phantasmophobia inside of it, that had been amazing, that had been well, like that. I like to use like abandoned places, clips on each of that.
I'm like, why can't I never find those places? And they're like, I don't do, I'm just too scared of like, drinking in there. It's just a very different time now than we grew up. I do think it's funny because during the 90s, it was huge doing like all these paranormal teams that went out into ghost walks and ghost walks.
Cherrynall Hospital was one of the main places that turned people down. They refused to have anyone in that. They wouldn't allow it. They said it was for safety reasons, but again, there's a lot of history and stuff there, but like, I always remember as a kid, like, I think I've been well pictures on my Facebook, I'll try and drag them out and put them on the group, that nothing grew around that building or because it was just weird, the way I described.
Like, say that's probably my like many adventures, anyone had any bad experiences, like, we're ghost, other than like, because like, I'm loving the stories we're saying, meeting your grandparents and stuff like that, was anyone had any ones where you felt unsafe, shall we say? I might have probably just, um, explainable. But when I was a kid, I did a lot of each of the boards, a lot. Yeah.
Like, yeah, my mum was like, you just an idiot, but we've died. He was like the biggest skeptic. I knew. Was like really angry.
Like, you're so angry. But yeah, I had a few sort of things that were said and again, could have just been the people I was doing it with that were making it say that. So I don't know if there's any truth to that. But on one occasion, I did do one.
And it said, it said to me like, run or hide or something. And then there was like a massive clutter by the front door. And I ran at the front door and there was like a pile of umbrellas that are just like, all the golfers and all the fellas are just all down the floor. And I was like, oh, the cattle have probably knocked them.
And my friend was like, I need to get out and get out. And she ran the back door, opened the back door and my cat ran in. And we're like, okay, so it wasn't the cat. And then we went out the front.
And when I went out the front, my dad was walking down the road. And I was like, if my dad had caught us doing this, I would have been like, so fucking grounded. And I was like, I wouldn't have to go to the galler to sell me a run, because my dad was coming home. Yeah, I was at one.
There's a war. And yeah, I used to do them as a kid, but it was like, once I just ripped them down. And it's like, and use a penny to like, for the, the, we used the glass. Yeah, we used the penny because the, sorry, sorry, my cat is, um, no, I just get the shit out of this.
Sorry. It's for these, um, no, just no, no, no, no, we used to use it. And so my friend would say, if we set the paper on fire afterwards and bury the penny, it doesn't matter anymore. Yeah, it's all gone.
We use the next plane. I move down. You have to say goodbye. If you don't take a bite, you're gonna come back and get you, and then you burn the piece of paper and you bury the penny.
And my mum must have hundreds of pennies buried outside of her. She would fucking kill me if she knew even if 40, she's like, you don't mess with shit like that. So I'm just don't want to. Yeah, it's not even as a raging golf.
I won't even have a Ouija board in the house because of the experiences. So he's like, like, you know, so I've like, there's just, I've got like the Ouija board's cushion. That's about it. And I'm like, yeah.
And like, mine's, mine's like, the main centerpiece of my dressing table because it was the main centerpiece of my wedding. Oh, that Ouija board and a mother called the pentagram. The pentagram that you push. No, no, no, no, that's a different thing.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's it. Thank you, that's it. Thank you, peaches. But yes, I've got that as a centerpiece of my what with my cupboard because it was my centerpiece of my wedding table.
Oh, so yes, and that me when I did the, the karma reading, if you remember, peaches, like you told us, yes, yes, absolutely, same alligator and she's so lovely. And she helped me out a bit, went back to past the way. And, but yeah, she told us that I needed to stop looking and facing the Ouija board. It wasn't good for us.
And I do yoga and I face the Ouija board to do yoga. And I still, so now I've, she says, you got such a light side and a dark side. And it's like, yes, because the side I face to do yoga has all of me went and stuff on, which is all like, you know, Halloweeny, but the other side has all my crystals on and she told us that I need to start facing that way. So yeah, crazy.
Wow. That's a good idea. I do enjoy your good market and the good, um, terrible. Then, um, yeah, so Phoenix, you said you had a bad experience.
So it wasn't anything dramatic, but it certainly scared the crap out of me. Right. So I was a teenager, so probably about 15, 16 years old and I came home and of course, you know, school ends a lot earlier than the workday does. I was in the house on my own with the dog.
And in the old house, you used to be able to look through the French windows, the French screen from the living room. So you'd be able to look through the dining room into the garden. And we had a table there in the garden and I swear to God, I saw a parableg, a body, just a parableg, and I could see it walk from one end of the table to the other end of the table. And there was nobody above it.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I got my dog, Cassie, bless our heart. And first of all, we'd be obviously going to have the house together and she'd be just like, going, I'm going, go, go, go. I'm not going to have the house energy, man.
Yeah, I was wanting to make sure that I was safe in the house. And then we checked outside and there was absolutely nothing, no sign, no, and there was no way anybody could jump over the wall because the bushes, the other side of the wall were all thorny. So they would have landed in that. So they could have jumped over it either because of it had to get through the forms.
There was no footprints. There was nothing, no sign of anybody. But I swear to God, I could still picture it in my mind. I could tell you that they were wearing jeans.
I could tell you that they were wearing all like sneakers. There was a red stripe on the sneakers. It's me as when you actually are, when you've got the terrified, when you're that scared, then things do see it in front of it as well. Yeah, massively.
But you could just see the legs and nothing else. Nobody just likes that is crazy. Dead out of my mind. I instantly thought like Wicked Witch of the West vibes at first, which is why I kind of laughed a bit because it's just in my head.
I'm like, just these like legs. The legs are like, no, I was like, no, fuck this. It's like under the table. You know what, though, wait, would you say about the camera, or whatever it was?
That is the only experience I've ever had that this day I still cannot explain. Again, total skeptic. It was a friend's 21st and a moment paid for someone to come to the house. He was going to do us all an individual reading.
And I was like, well, it's paid for. I'll do it. But I was a bit like, yeah, whatever. Yeah.
Went in. The reading was neither here nor there. I actually don't really remember what she said, to be honest. But she then said, oh, have you lost somebody recently?
And like, I was thinking, I had, but I was thinking you would say that to anybody and the answers are going to be yes. So I said, yes. And she said, I'm getting like the kind of the feeling, the energy of a woman, a very elderly woman. And it interestingly was my, my mom's nana who just died like great nanny.
She was 98. It was fantastic. And me as an. And she said, there was someone waiting for her and he'd been waiting a really long time, which again was on the money because her husband had died when she was 50 and she'd never even married.
But again, I wasn't really like responding with like, oh, yeah, wow, like, I was being really quiet. I was letting, and she said, she wants me to tell you she's sending you something green, and you have to keep it. You must say yes. And it was so specific.
And she recorded on a cassette me and I took the cassette home. And about six months later, my nan, so my mom's mom was visiting. And I was playing computer games in my room and my nan, my mom shouted me in my mom's room. And they said, can you come and have a look at this?
And I went in the room and my nan had brought a box of my nanny days, these things with them. And she was given what my mom wanted to keep. And my mom had took like a multi-color tablecloth and like some posh cutlery, that kind of thing. And my nan was like, before we give the rest of charities, there's only anything you would want.
And it was a set of bottle green glasses and a green bars. And I was just like, I have to take these. And I was like, why? And I was like, I don't know why or how would I have to take these.
And I still have them. They're downstairs. I've never used them. I'm terrified to use them.
But you have to have them? Yeah. And then my nan was like, she was like, you still have the cassette? And I said, yeah, we went downstairs.
I played the cassette. And my nan was like, both of us like had goosebumps. Like, well, I mean, I was like, how do you explain it? And I was like, there was no explanation for that.
That's exactly what I like about that. Yeah. I mean, mine when I had mine, there was things that she said to me that I'd never talked about since I was a kid and then had to go and have some very awkward conversations with my husband. And so, but there was some things that I like, it's not she wasn't like so specific in what she was seeing.
Like, as in, this definitely happened to you. Just you had an experience and you need to talk to someone about it. And the minute I sat down, she went, she pushed, she kind of like pushed our arms in front of us and went, you need to back up a bit. The anxiety coming off you is awful.
And she made us, she made us sit back. Well, Mel is absolutely fantastic. But my mom's auntie, she was very much into her spiritualist guidance. But she was one of these people who didn't wait for it to happen.
She made it happen. And she left her husband and two kids, because she was told she was destined for a new life outside of that. And she f***ed off and left them. But that's the dangerous side of things where there's a kind of thing as well.
Because, like, again, I'm not going to show anyone's beliefs or anything like that. There's a lot of people that do play on people's instakurities and play on people's on what they want here as well. Yeah. But you never know what sounds like, I know what sounds like things she might have left them anyway.
I was just looking for an excuse to get out there. It could have been, but it's also, I'm sorry if you do hear her perin as well, I've got a little cat that's decided. How blessed are you? Just hearing all the speaking stories and the things you want to join in.
But yes, what about you Sarah, any experiences with yourself? I, my mum has a friend and she was told by Emmedium that she was going to win the lottery. All right. Did she?
No, she got a friend. Oh my god. She's going to win the lottery. Yeah.
My mum got told she was, she got told by a psychic that she was having a girl with me. Got told she was having a boy with my sister. Oh, it was cool. That's 50-50.
She was Daniel right up until the day she was born. And then when she came out, they were like, oh, shit, we didn't have a fun day. It's what about scare. You've been so quiet.
I mean, I haven't had experiences personally, but like I've had, I've been in the room when when other people have had them. So like, there was one time I met when my granddad was down his end of life there in the hospital. He used to keep talking about the woman with no legs at the end of his bed and the cat was on his bed, which completely freaked me out because it was kind of like it was the middle of the day as well. Um, who's that woman with no legs at the end of the bed?
I don't know. I tell that I leave the room. It was a thing like, it was a meeting Christmas. That was the day.
That's crazy. But you did. That's what you did. Yeah.
That's what people are doing at the end of the life. Yeah, it's the, um, like the sea people like past loved ones and people say that they've come down to like get them. And I've seen like videos like, because I've watched a lot of like, you know, like TikToks and YouTube, like, your Tissons and, you know, like people who went hospitals and all that kind of thing. And they show like them, like looking at someone and smiling and laughing in names.
Yeah. I'm completely working hospices that, and apparently this is true, like globally, that around 80% of people who die in care or in a hospice die with their arms outstretched as if they're reaching someone. Yeah. Which is the fact that it really is too many for it to be a coincidence.
I watched one just as early as this morning. And of this, it wasn't like it was someone explained it was someone showing it was their mother. And she was, and I understand there was a lot of comments saying this is very personal. You shouldn't have shown this sport at the same time.
It just made me feel a bit warm. She was talking about the light. And she was saying, I'm so at peace. I feel the light.
I feel the warmth. I feel the love and I just like, and I'm coming off the back of midnight mass where, you know, Oh God. I know. My heart.