SIgns of Spirit?

Hi Psychicsteve, I've had experiences with electronics, especially the smoke alarm. It kept going off even when the batteries were taken out and when it was disconnected. In the end, it had to be buried under a pile of clothes and books!

Hi, and thanks for your reply. The smoke alarm is still going off sometimes when my other half goes to bed, and my mobile phone sometimes switches itself on, especially in the Spiritualist Church, and I know I've turned it off, as they request you to do so. It doesn't bother me atall though, I've just got to be careful who I tell this to or people will think I've lost the plot! A merry Christmas to all Steve

I know what you mean. Some people who you tell have no idea about the spiritual side, so they just assume you need to see a doctor or something! They never admit anything spiritual, even if it's beyond a coincidence. A similar thing with the mobile phone has happened to me in the past. I heard it ring, but when I checked, it was switched off. Or I heard white noise coming from electrical equipment, when they are turned off.

I also noticed that when we examined the smoke alarm, it had a date of manufacture on it, and that date 11/01 is my mum's birthday, and she passed over almost two years ago. I had to play along with my other half saying that it's probably a coincidence, even though I know it's a clear sign from spirit. It's not easy being Spiritual! Digressing a little, I find that now I'm quite psychic, computers go haywire and freeze or shut down often, it's just something I've had to get used to. Steve

That truly is amazing about the date and birthday and definitely not a coincidence. If only there was a way to convince sceptical people about the paranormal. A lot happens with my laptop, eg, logs out of my account by itself and has a mind of its own! (Well to some people it would be, but I know it is a spiritual sign!)

I had a true-story published in F&F (October's issue). Did you happen to read it?

Hi VampyreJolene, yes I would have read it as I read the whole magazine, but can't remember what it was about. I'm expecting a christmas "greeting" tomorrow. Who knows, maybe the tv will turn itself on! Maybe I'll send my own true-life stories into F&F, could do with an extra £200! Steve

The headline of my story was "My Penpal Died In 1821". And yeah, you should go for it and send in your story!

I read in F&F abut the significance of 11:11 and am noticing this more and more myself, in times of receiving e-mails to looking at the time. I think the more you believe in this being a positive sign from spirit, the more you will encounter it.

The thing with 11.11 is always happening to me too...I also get 21.21, 13.13 etc. I always seem to look at the clock when it's on these times...It's very odd but ot's been happening to me for a while now.

The thing with 11.11 is always happening to me too...I also get 21.21, 13.13 etc. I always seem to look at the clock when it's on these times...It's very odd but ot's been happening to me for a while now.

hi this is my first post here, i had an experience recently where i was sitting talking to my ex when his fone rang and it was my name & number that came up, my phone was about 2 foot away from me on the floor, i picked it up & looked at the call log but i had not rang him. I believe spirit is trying to tell me something but i am unsure what it is. i have been told by several mediums that i am a healer & i would like to join a development class but i keep holding off till after i moved. Lisa

As well as my mobile switching itself on, the doorbell also rings and there is nobody there. Infact our doorbell doesn't ring when you press it, you have to knock. I'm glad I can discuss this with like-minded here, as most others think you should be sectioned!

That also happened to me a couple of years ago, my door bell kept going off but when I answered there was no-one there.

Thought I would mention that yesterday 11/01 was my mum's birthday, and she has been in spirit for almost two years. I asked her yesterday to give me a signal that she was around on her birthday, and I got a phone call from a Telesales person asking for her! In the two years since she passed over, we've only had maybe three calls asking for her, so I think yesterday was the proof I had asked for.

hi louisa66, the same exprience happened to me yesterday? door bell goes 20minutes before my son was due to come home from school,so i went to answer it as i thought he,d been sent home early due to the snow conditions,it takes seconds to get to the door,and i have half glass door so i can see whos their,but when i got their no on was about ,i live in a cul-de-sac in the corner,and have just moved to the house in the last 6 months so i dont know anyone.so what could it be,can anyone enlighten me on this.

Hi Don't know whether this is relative or not but I just hate it when my smoke alarm goes off becuase nine time out of ten whithin the next two to three weeks someone in my family either dies or gets very bad news. When I hear it go off I get a feeling of dread in my stomach. A few years ago (maybe this is not relevant) I was just drifting off to sleep when I heard this terrible knocking on our door. I sat bolt upright and turned to my husband (who was still awake) to go and see who it was but he said there was no knocking and if there was someone at the door the dog would bark. Fair point. Tried to get to sleep but couldn't. Two weeks later I got news that my uncle had died. 2nd occasion we were woken up in middle of night by smoke alarm going off - two days later my bosses mother died. Now don't want to hear it unless its a fire! I think someone is trying to warn me about something.

For the past few years I have been seeing colours reflected on the tv screen, especially when there is some sunlight. It's like a thin line of different colours. almost like the sun's rays. I also see,expecially on outdoor broadcasts different coloured (orbs?), different sizes bouncing around the screen, sometimes with all the colours of the rainbow in them, other times light green or white mainly. I don't know who's trying to get in touch with me but as I develop my Spirituality more, I'll no doubt learn! It's still all quite new to me, but perhaps my destiny is to be a medium, who knows?

Hi, just thought I'd share my story. I always read in bed and for weeks i kept feeling very light touches down my cheeks but i just ignord it and thought it was dust or something. anyway it kept happening and one night as i was reading my gordon smith book i put it down as i felt the touches and said aloud......if that is anyone in spirit could you please give me a sign. i then picked up my book to read and the next sentance in the book read.....Wendy knew she was going to get a message that night (she was in the audience at a gordon smith gig) as she felt light touches across her cheeks and down her forehead......i just looked back up and said....THANKS......

Hi Steve

I've not had smoke alarms going off, but I've heard of other people having electrical disturbances.  I don't know if it a sign that spirit is around, but have been told that people who are psychic in some way can affect electrical appliances and machinery.  Can you wear a watch for instance or do you get odd effects when using calculators?  I can't wear a wrist watch, I've ruined so many over the years that I just carry one in my handbag now, and the battery has lasted over a year.  If I wear one the battery is flat within a couple of weeks at most (although I did have a non battery driven one that the hands were just whizzing round on) if it is a digital one I'm told I drain the liquid crystal in the display.  I was sooo embarrassed with that one.  I took it to the jewellers to have a new battery fitted, and it still didn't work so he took it away and had a consultation with some of the others working in the back of the shop and all came up with the conclusion that somehow I had drained the crystal.  I felt a right idiot, and left quickly very red in the face.  I also sometimes affect pocket calculators and end up with some weird displays.  If I walk past someone using one of those industrial sized calculators I can sometimes affect it as well.  I worked in a factory as a teenager, packing pills.  Briefly you filled up a hopper with pills which fed onto a turntable and then passed over an electronic 'eye' which counted them into bottles and sent them down a conveyor belt to have cotton wool, then a screw top put on them.  You could see red lights going round as the pills were being counted, but sometimes if I went near the eye the lights on it would whizz round so fast the funnels would block up.  It only ever happened to me.  I seem to generate a lot of static, no matter what I wear, in the factory we had to wear cotton, but it still didn't stop me getting shocks from machinery despite having earthing rods put on.  I don't know if is the static that does it.  I've got a shock from people as well, I kissed a relative on the cheek and got a crackling noise, and we both jumped back, another time I was helping my husband unload a couple of guitars from the boopt of a friend's car when my hand inadvertently brushed against the hand of one of the other guys who was helping unload.  He shouted out "Oh my God what on earth was that!"  I said "It's just static." He told me that a strange sensation had travelled all the way up his arm into his shoulder.  "He said "Oh it's weird". " It's not, it's just static" I said.  I get really embarrassed when people start thinking I'm odd.

Have you heard about people who affect street lights?  There is a name for them, but I can't remember what it is.  I saw a programme once where they filmed people walking along a street and every light they went past dimmed or flickered or went out altogether momentarily as they passed by. 

Have you seen spirit from childhood or is it something that has come on as an adult?  Or has it been triggered by someone's passing perhaps?

 

Glad you are getting along OK at the Spiritualist Church, I know a lot of people enjoy it.  Friends of mine go quite often, I went with them once but felt it wasn't for me.  The week I went the medium picked out those who hadn't been before and came round to them with a microphone when she got to me she said "She could feel a lot of fear and panic and difficulty speaking" I said  "I know, I hate having to speak in front of a load of people, especially when I don't know them!"  I've always been told I have an odd voice, and I can develop a stutter when I get nervous.  So I'm not doing that one again, thank you very much!  I am a shy person and hate drawing attention to myself, so I could have crawled away under the seats I was so embarrassed.  I've seen spirits since I was about 1 or 2 and although it used to terrrify me then, I'm quite happy seeing my Mum and great and 2 x great grandmothers during meditation or when they choose to appear.

 

Best wishes

Rozanna

 

Hi Rozanna

 

Thanks for your interesting reply. No, I don't have trouble with watches, however computers are a different matter, they freeze, shut down and do all sorts of weird and wonderful things. I have only sensed and seen spirit in my mind for the past five years. I've had an interest in tarot for ten years and bought a pack in 1999, and found it fascinating. The whole Spiritual issue however happened quite by chance. I started seeing flashing lights every morning when I got up, and after ruling out lights from passing cars etc, thought that it might be Spirit. So, I started saying "Good morning" to it, and asking questions just to see if it flashed again, which it did. I then asked Angels and my Spirit Guide to come into my life, and immediately I started to feel a tickling around me, sometimes like a fan blowing on me at regular times throughtout the day. I have seen my Spirit Guide in my mind, and my late Grandfather.

 

 

Hi Steve

 

Glad you found that interesting.  Talking of computer problems, I've just had to contact F&F for the second time in as many weeks as I couldn't reply to some messages, yours included.  I wasn't getting a 'Reply" option,  then it was showing that I'd replied about 4 seconds ago, when I'd tried to yesterday, then it showed that I'd replied but it wouldn't appear amongst the other replies, and was showing that you had 21 replies but I could only read about 4 or 5.  Last week I was replying to everything twice as it was somehow generating a duplicate copy each time.  Computers!  AAAArgh!!!  I get weird stuff at work as well -  more than he others in the same office do.  Don't know if it's me generating too much static again.  I've got a piece of an amethyst geode on my computer at work after reading that it can help  which it does a bit, but I still get an awful lot of weird stuff.

I see people during meditation classes, but don't recognise many of them.   Mum I sometimes see externally.  Although I'm amazed every time it happens, the first time was almost undescribable.  I was in bed, it must have been about 1 or 2 in the morning, my husband was snoring beside me - I couldn't sleep.  Suddenly I saw a shaft of white light on the door of my wardrobe (which happens when a car goes down the road, but it seemed to  be there for a long time instead of moving across the door then across the ceiling before disappearing as the vehicle moved on down the road.)   Instead it got brighter, and started to take on some shape (I thought I'd left a dress or a shirt on the hook on the door because it definitely semed to be wearing something with long sleeves),  then suddenly it formed a column of bright white light and moved itself to stand right beside me in bed, the light by then was so bright but I could look directly at it without it hurting my eyes. Then Mum came out of the light and leaned over the bed and kissed my face.  I wondered if I tried to hug and kiss her back my hands would go straight through, but they didn't - she was solid enough for me to return the hug and kiss.  When I elbowed my husband awake with excited shrieks of "I've just seen Mum!!" he hadn't been aware of anything at all.  I've seen Mum quite a lot since then (in dreams or during meditation though nothing as spectacular as this).  When I had a telephone reading a couple of months after this the medium picked up on this and said it wasn't my imagination, it was her who leaned over the bed and kissed my face.  I have dreams about her as well, sometimes we meet in a room in an old house, it has stone-set windows with pointed arches and scrubbed wooden floors, but there is no furniture.  We walk around arm in arm just chatting until it is time for her to return.  We kiss and hug each other, and one time I asked her if I could see where she is now.  She replied "Well, you can have a look, but you won't be able to come in."  "OK" I said.  So we walked to the far wall of the room where there was a door which Mum opened.  A great shaft of bright white light came out, she held the door open for me and as she crossed the threshold the light cleared and I could see fields and fields full of bluebells and yellow primroses, and woodlands with the trees in full leaf.  It looked really beautiful and I knew she was happy there.  She has told me she is with her grandmother and great grandmother, who brought her up until she was about 7 or 9 years old.  After a while the light came back down and obscured the scenery again and the door closed.  At which point I woke up.  I love seeing her and my 2 x great grandmother who I've only ever seen in spirit.  Also I've sometimes seen Mum in the mirror as I've walked past, I'm sure it was her, although I kept walking past at different speeds and at different angles to see if I could reproduce the effect, but it wasn't me I was seeing, as her hairstyle and clothes were different.  Don't know what it all means, but it is certainly fascinating.

I daily sense spirit around me but never know who it is,despite asking many times. Maybe I'm not meant to know, but to just know someone is there. Some months after my mum passed over we were watching the tv for the local news, and by mistake the studio broadcast the local news of another region, however the name of the Newsreader was Kate which was my mums name. A coincidence maybe, or............

hi steve are you the steve that was my pen pal 2 years ago ? you replied to my pen pal addy? if not sorry just got a feeling it was you. the man I knew lived with his daughter xx

Hi and thanks for your message. It wasn't me who was your penpal. Always good to discuss Spiritual matters with like-minded.

Hi, firstly I thought I would just point out a possible explanation for doorbells going off on their own - ants!! We have had this problem quite a bit in the past where the doorbell goes off by itself on occasion, and after a while it stops working altogether - twice we took the bell apart and found it stuffed to the brim with squashed ants!! (I am not a skeptic by the way - just my experience on that one!)

I would like to know though if other people have experience of light bulbs blowing out frequently? Every house I have lived in, especially the one I am living in now, I have had this problem, particularly when I am having a few days of really thinking deeply about spirtiual stuff. They flicker and dip from time to time aswell; on christmas eve I kept asking for a sign my Mum was with us in my mind and they flickered all evening, was it a sign?

Also electrics tripping when turning on a light etc - I've experience this a lot in different houses too - is that normal? Computers went crazy around me when I was a teenager - in fact I failed IT miserably as a result, as I could never get any work done in the practical lesson time - nothing would work, and the printers would very often print binary code or just a series of random letters/numbers/punctuation marks!! I don't have this problem at all now though, in fact I'm very good with computers now.

I did have a very creepy experience when I was working in a nursing home as a teenager. An old male resident had passed away, he was deeply sad about the loss of his wife and died nearly to the day a year later; he had literally died of a broken heart the poor old soul.

However, very soon after his death (which was rather undignified, and sad - I was unfortunate enough to witness) the room he used to occupy started to take on a uncomfortable atmosphere; the hairs on the back of you neck would stand up, and you would get the feeling of someone watching when you entered. Then, the door would be open when left closed, closed when left open, the TV in the room came on by itself, and I am sure some other things but I can't recall them now.

I was seeing to a resident in the room opposite this one, and when I had finished I came out and heard some noise coming from the empty room. I went inside and found the TV on despite the fact it definitely wasn't on when I first passed the room to see to the other resident, and nobody could have sneaked in the room and turned it on as the door of the room I was in was wide open; I would have most definitely seen and heard them. When I went in the room and turned the TV off, the atmosphere was so heavy I thought I would faint - it felt terrible. The only way I can describe it is like having a head covered in cotton wool, and sensing that any moment I would turn around and see spirit. My heart was beating so fast!

The Matron of the home decided enough was enough and called in a medium a while later. According to her, the man who passed away was troubled as there were rumours amongst the staff (not that I had heard) that his Daughter had helped him to die, and he was concerned as this was not true, and he wanted to make sure the rumours stopped. The activity did certainly stop after the medium visited, and we were told by the Matron not to discuss this outside the home, for fear of damaging the reputation of the place.

It wasn't a great nursing home to say the least, and I had heard other stories from staff members about sightings of spirit and other such activity. The place no longer exists now, and has been replaced by a block of flats, best thing for it I think!

 

As I've mentioned before, computers go haywire when I use them now. I know this is because I'm developing spiritually and am fine with this, I just ask the Angels to calm my energy down so it doesn't adversely affect electronics. This sometimes works. Recently though, shop alarms have gone off both when I've entered and left stores, causing me embarrassment. It's happened in two stores. I would be interested in seeing my own aura now!

Hi Steve

 

You're still having 'fun' with computers then?

I stopped a till from working in a supermarket.  I was stood there with my husband and the scanner wouldn't work.  "I bet that's the wife" he said helpfully to the assistant.  "She makes electronic stuff go wrong."  "Thanks!" I said.  But I moved away from the till and on it came.  I doubt it was me, but it's not happened since, although I have managed to block automatic doors a few times I think.  I was standing outside our local Tesco Express (a mini version of the big store) just chatting to someone I hadn't seen for ages, we were quite a few feet away from the doors when I noticed about half a dozen people standing in front of the doors wating for them to open.  The doors weren't moving, and I thought that can't be me surely, but I moved away and open they came.  I've had it happen a couple of times coming out of a supermarket as well, and had a few people queuing up behind me, I stepped aside and hey presto the doors opened.  I still can't believe it was me.  I don't know much about electronics.  "Is there a certain area you can stand in that would stop whatever electrical fields or something that make the doors function?"  I know I affect computers (when I'm at work I always seem to get more weird problems than anyone else) and calculators (plug in or pocket ones) but supermarket doors?  Nah!  I'm not convinced, there must be a rational explanation.  You're right though, it is very embarrassing.  People were looking at me and I said "Er, sorry!) and moved away quickly, rather pink in the face.

I find it really interesting about the date on your smoke alarm and the tv switching to another regional channel with a presenter called Kate on all coinciding with your mums date of birth and her name.i would take it as a reasurance that she's still there looking out for you in spirit.Its very strange the smoke alarm keeps going off when your partner steps underneath it,could there maybe be something more to that? (or maybe she has a high electro magnetic field?)

I have had a few things happen with electronics playing up in my house involving our mobile phones,our cd player,my pc speakers doing things that they shouldnt and my computer crashes and freezes alot as well but my pc crashing i've always put that down to me having  a slow not so good one lol.im sure however with you thats probably not the case or cause.i would like to comment further on my gadgets going haywire but im currently having an article related to this and other things happening in my home being worked on for the F&F magazine and hope our story facinates the readers,Steve i've also just explained to one of the editors that when you write about such eventful and unusual experiences,theres that sense of fear you get of being branded 'Cream crackers/insane' by more sceptical people who never experience anything paranormal.I've spent what feels like a lifetime being scared to share the things that have happened around me for that very reason so i understand where you're coming from,although i never feel less phased with each experience i have and feel a bit easier talking about them to like-minded people such as the F&F readers :)

Thanks for your interesting words. Yes, it`s not a good idea to tell people about your experiences who haven`t discovered the Spirit World for themselves. Ten years ago I would have said anyone who claimed to have experienced such was loopy, so I know how hard it is, but I can`t deny what I`ve experienced myself. I`m considering attending a Spiritual Development course but am still in two minds about this being the right thing to do.I hope if I do, it`s the right decision. I have been told by a medium that I will read auras in the future, so............

Absolutely on the not telling people who don't realise the spirit world really is there.i was the same as yourself but i started experiencing it myself at a very young age,i was 10 the first time anything happened when i saved from a pretty regular accident by em nothing i could see and then i moved home - in my new home,id had a close call with nearly losing my life but by some miracle i lived.3 years later @ 13 years old in the new home at the time, i was still trying to deny spirit existence one day when our babysitter claimed he'd saw a ghost on my return from high school.i laughed and offered to go and make his cup of tea while he cowered in the livingroom so id laughed and my exact words were "Ghosts!,theres no such thing as ghosts!".as i was filling the kettle i caught movement in the kitchen doorway out my peripheral vision (corner of my eye) and when i stood to face the movement,there it was.A see through figure in the shape of a person this was actually the very first time id actually saw a ghost,it looked like it had showed itself to prove a point i was wrong in saying they were non-existent and i've never doubted spirit again.I didnt like that house,we moved again after a while and found a much more peaceful home with my brothers and sisters and mum where i never experienced anything and then i moved in here.Oddly enough,i've only felt wierd goings on in houses i've lived in in this town where i've stayed nearly all my life in but the home we had peace in was 3 miles away.its now been nearly 15 years since i saw my first ghost and if the spiritual Development course feels right to you Steve then i think go for it (because it probably is).i don't think you have anything to lose by giving it try and seeing how it goes :) Chelle

Chelle, thanks for your reply. I think you`re right about the Course, as my life has been at a stalemate for so long, maybe this is just the thing to make all the difference. If I go ahead I`ll let you know how it was.