A Third Of British Homes Are Haunted

Statistics are often a bit dodgy but here are some thought up, sorry researched, by the AA's Home Emergency Response Service. They are about the paranormal and strange goings on in Britain. Not too sure why they would want to carry out such a survey, but there we go.  All they are quoted as saying is, "Millions of Britons have encountered strange goings on in their home they couldn't explain."

What have the AA discovered:

33% of Brits reported haunting paranormal activity in their home.

People living in the West Midlands, are top for ghosts. 38% believe their home has been haunted. But in the South East only 25% experienced such goings on.

10% of British people say they have had the feeling of being watched.

8% Have felt scared on noticing a room suddenly getting cold.

6% have had electrical appliances turn on and off on their own.

3% say their lights have switched on and off by themselves.

12.5% have heard spooky noises such as footsteps.

Another 12.5% reported that their pets have behaved strangely at times for no apparent reason.

14% of British people have felt a 'supernatural presence'.

Other unexplained activities found by the survey included:

A music box playing on the anniversary of the owner's death.

Newspaper pages turning over by themselves.

People not present when a photo was taken appearing on the negatives.

... and so on.

Not sure what use such statistics are but I suppose it does emphasise that perhaps 'we are not alone ...'

P.S. I'd better point out that the AA stands for Automobile Association as opposed to Alcoholics Anonymous!

Ghostly Stories:
Kate Thinks The Ghost Who Wants Sex With Her May Be An Incubus
The Ghostly Ghost Photo Of The Brown Lady
Daisy The Gentle Ghost Who Loves Dogs

Microscopic Photos Of Moths: Gracillariidae and Pyralidae

These strange fellows are moths, microscopic photos of moths. The picture above is of a Gracillariidae moth and below is a Pyralidae moth, with a view of its tongue.

There's no coincidence, synchronicity or paranormal attachments to the pics that I'm aware of - I just found them interesting and it's okay for me to publish them, so I have.

Like with the photos in my post The Hidden Alien World Of The Demodex Folliculorum (eye lash mites) it shows some of the strangeness we have right here on earth, without having to wonder what any aliens from other planets may look like.

If we do come across any of those aliens they could well appear in formats that we find difficult to comprehend - 'life, but not as we know it.'

Coincidence Of The Stabbing From 21 Years Ago

In 1991 David Jolly, now 41, received a jail sentence for stabbing Christopher Harrington.

In December 2010, by a bizarre coincidence, Jolly moved into a flat (apartment) above where Harrington lived in Folkestone, England. Neither lived in the area when the original assault occurred.

Folkestone Magistrates Court were told how, after Jolly had moved in ... "The two were talking out of the window of their flat and one said he had grown up in Ealing and the other said he had as well. They exchanged names and Mr Harrington realised who his new neighbour was and felt nervous when the defendant said: 'Hold on, I'm coming up'."

"But Jolly apologised telling Mr Harrington that he was young and stupid, and they had a drink together."

The two men became friends, but this isn't the end of the story.

The This Is Kent website reports that the friendship only lasted until April of this year when, "Jolly began a campaign against Mr Harrington and in a torrent of text messages told him 'I should have finished you off in 1991', and made a series of threats making it clear he wanted to kill Mr Harrington."

This was the reason why Jolly was in the Magistrates Court.

Jolly faces five charges: threatening to kill Christopher Harrington between September 4 and September 11 in more than 30 text messages, harassment over the same period of Mr Harrington, two charges of sending false messages on e-mail with intent to cause anxiety and conveying a message to Kent Police for the purpose of causing annoyance or needless anxiety. It is alleged that he sent a message to police that he was planning to carry out a worse attack than Britain's three most notorious gun massacres.

It's strange how Jolly and Harrington were drawn together again by 'coincidence' following their first problem of 21 years ago. Perhaps the two have something to overcome going back to previous incarnations. Some links aren't easily broken.

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Coincidence Of The Free Lego Hawkeye

Here's a personal strange coincidence.

On Sunday we went to buy our normal newspaper and on offer, with another (down-market) paper, was a free Lego toy.

Our two year old grandson loves Lego so we hummed and harred if we should buy the Sun as well. As the figure had a weapon we decided we wouldn't.

Here's the weird bit though that I can't explain. When we got home there was a Sun newspaper - with the free toy - in our letter box. No idea how it got there.

Later that day our grandson arrived for a visit so we gave him the Lego (after his mum had removed the weapon. She thinks like I do about such things).

We're still puzzled where the newspaper and toy came from but it looks like Samuel was meant to have Hawkeye, a Marvel Superhero.

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White Feathers From The Spirit World Stories

A white feather I recieved

I have published quite a few posts (some links below) about white feathers and how I feel they can be messages or symbols from loved ones who have died.

Here are a selection of recent white feather stories I have received from from 67 Not Out readers. Most do not want their names published, but they are all genuine.

My dear husband, Gene, passed away December 2010,ever since then I have found white feathers.

My grandson and I were sitting in the same place my Gene and I would sit in Church and a white fluffy feather landed between us. In the Spring my son took me to a major league ball game and down came a white feather. And it goes on and on. I'm making a collection of them.

Just when I need a feather from Gene, down it comes. In my heart I know its the Lord and my Gene saying every things alright!

My wife's elderly father died last Thursday evening.

The funeral was this morning (Sunday). After the service, we proceeded to a nearby restaurant for a lunch get together for about twenty family members.

We parked the car, my wife and I were walking across an open air plaza to the restaurant. Half way there, a soft downy white feather came floating down right in front of us! It nearly landed on my nose! I commented to the wife, "Isn't that odd?" ... for it is rainy and blustery today (hurricane approaching) ... not a bird to be seen in the sky!

I thought about it afterwards so I Googled it and came to this site. I saw it with my own eyes, can offer no 'rational explanation' ... I am now sort of a believer!

John S

My father passed away unexpectedly while on holidays in New Zealand. My mother and both my sisters received white feathers within a two week period. I was devastated as I didn't then. Eight months and one day after dad passed, my feather arrived to me while I was at work. I found it sitting on a clients bed in the nursing home where I work and no, there aren't feather pillows or blankets in the place.

Love you dad and miss you.

Lisa

My mother died yesterday. She always believed in synchronicity.

She died in St Michael's Hospice but for many years St Michael had been significant to her.

I was trying to remember why this was and found your post regarding St Michael's chapel in Roche - a significant village for our family - and it's connection with Ley Lines. It fell into place and then I saw the link to white feathers, something she again always referred to as an indication of an angel. I wonder if I will come across one to let me know she is thinking of me.

Going through a rough time at the moment, and a few family deaths. Mum mentioned finding a white feather, "Auntie Phoe telling us it'll be all right". I smiled and said nothing.

I now keep finding one or two white feathers on a regular basis. Even looking after a neighbours house, on a repeat visit, two white feathers on the stairs, which I certainly hadn't seen before. They are a little comfort when I need it.

I have seen endless white feathers around me since my brothers passing 15 years ago. I didn't know why until I recently heard about it from other people claiming it could be from the spirit world.

Haven't seen one for a while until this morning. Having a few family health problems at the moment, and I drove into work this morning feeling very low and sad, and just as I opened my car door, a white feather floated onto my windscreen. It made me smile and helped me to get through my day.

Thanks bro x

Other White Feather Posts:
White Feathers Comfort The Bereaved
The Meaning Of White Feathers As Messages From The Dead
White Feathers After Someone Dies
White Feathers And A Special Beach

Little Coincidences Make Up A Day

Sometimes it's easy to overlook the small coincidences of our daily lives or to write off such things as being unimportant. But maybe they are indications that everything is ticking over nicely. Take last Friday, for instance.

As we set out for a walk Karin said that it didn't look like a certain neighbour was going to give us any apples from her trees this year. We normally freeze the apples, after being blanched, and use them in Karin's special (secret recipe!) German apple cake, in apple pies, as apple sauce and so on. "Never mind," I said, "Perhaps we'll get some from someone else."

We went about 200 yards and met 'the couple with the small dogs', as we call them. We're not certain exactly where they live but often stop to talk to them. The usual chat followed and they told us they had loads of apples on their tree this year and asked, "Don't suppose you want any? We don't know what to do with them all."

"Yes please!"

We carried on walking to our local town and as we approached the centre a woman was on her mobile and here final words as we passed her were, "We must tell Karin and Mike about that."

We didn't know the woman and she wasn't referring to us. We headed into WH Smith's to buy a newspaper. Inside the shop was the couple who live two houses down from us. "Glad we saw you as we had to tell you that ..." and they went on to describe what had happened after they had dropped in to see us the day before.

A man's dog had fallen into the river opposite our houses and he was trying to rescue him - an elderly chow. The man couldn't get out again as the river bank is quite steep. It also turned out the man had a heart problem and was having difficulties holding on to his dog.

As our neighbours told us, "If we hadn't have decided to drop in and see you yesterday we would never have seen the man and his dog and been able to help them." Quite a coincidence they thought.

 When we got home from our walk there was a huge bag full of apples on our doorstep.

That same afternoon I wanted to do a few things on the computer but after less than an hour decided I'd had enough. Wasn't sure why, but shut down the computer.  Five minutes later our door bell chimed it was our daughter-in-law and grandson on an unexpected visit. Perhaps I sensed their near arrival, who knows how such things work.

So little coincidences happen all the time and perhaps indicate that we are all a little psychic, telepathic and creators of our individual worlds - or you might, of course, mutter that such things are bound to happen purely by chance and are meaningless. But I know what I believe.

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The Frightening Comet As An Orion Inspired UFO

I was reading about a comet sighting from October 1527, seen in Germany, that has been described as frightening and memorable. People continued to write about it for the best part of a hundred years.

I then came across the above image on Chronicon Mirabilium. What struck me was how the picture matched up with the description written in 1678 I had been reading. I also began to wonder if it was a comet - could it have actually been a UFO?

This is part of what I had read:

"... We pass on to its horrible figure. A form of arm that emerged from a flaming cloud, dull rather than bright in colour, half curved, was holding a great sword in its hand; it was bare and menacing, with its point down as though it wanted to strike or pierce not with the blade but with the point; there was a star at its tip, whose glare was terribly bright, and two other, less bright stars appeared beside this one, one on each side of it and slightly above it.

Even more terrifying was that one could see a large number of men's heads, as if they had been cut off, whose appearance was extremely hideous; they had long black beards and long hair standing on end: they appeared on both sides of this bare sword over quite a large area ...

... And indeed this comet was followed by several calamities, and the whole of Europe felts its effects intensely, as it was almost bathed in human blood ..."

It then goes on to list those 'calamities' which followed in various European countries.

There is a further description of the 1572 comet:

"In the year 1527 the comet was seen with many streaks like long spears, and in among them, many visages and daggers, all coloured in pale red, and in between many enormous flames of bright and fiery hue, and here and there the visages appeared, bearded and hairy in grey as of clouds and as if in flowing water streaked with blood, glittering and sparkling, as if everything were in confusion – the whole hideous of appearance, so that some who had seen it died thereof."

As we look into the past there are numerous examples of 'comets', but because of limited knowledge at the time these would likely have been attributed to a God or something understandable to that age.

What does strike me about the picture are the three stars in a row and the sword. Immediately what springs to mind is Orion's belt and his weapon, picture right.

The ancients from thousands of years ago may have had links with Orion. See:

Mysterious Links Of The Ancients To Orion And The Afterlife
The Mystery Of The Three Hurlers Stone Circles

Perhaps much of what has been recorded as comets and the like, previous to the 1500s, were in fact much more than this. Could they have been UFOs and aliens? All things are possible if we give our imagination free reign!