Ghost In The Machine
Justified & Ancient
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Relative of mine used to tell this story of a shoving ghost and I wondered how common it is?
Her father died in the 1950s, and she was told she shouldn't go to the funeral because she was heavily pregnant. Not sure what the logic was there but the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there, etc.
So whilst everyone was at dad's funeral, she was doing a bit of light gardening - pruning the roses in her garden. Her father loved the roses, apparently. She was alone. And suddenly felt this powerful shove in her back which nearly pushed her off her feet. No har done to her or baby but she was convinced it was her dad. I was always a bit sceptical about this as this was a particularly, er, florid person. But it always stayed in my mind somewhere, as a sort of ghosty sub-genre.
I am sure I have come across other people's accounts of ghostly shoves. But can't remember where.
Now, this week I went to my friend's funeral. She banned us from wearing black so I wore a nice dress with a vivid, Paisley shawl that I knew she'd liked. Service goes off without a hitch. Going to what my friend had called 'the bunfight' afterwards, as we were walking away from the service, I felt a very strong, distinct tug on my shawl. We were in the middle of a huge open space and there was nothing it could catch on but in any case it didn't feel like catching, it was a definite tug! I looked round and only my husband was close enough to me at all, to reach out and grab me and so I told myself it was him and promptly forgot all about it.
We have been crazily busy the rest of the week with a lot of things going on and it was only yesterday afternoon I suddenly remembered it, and told him what had happened. He said it definitely wasn't him.
It is the sort of playful, daft thing my friend would do. I'd had a hard time not crying throughout the service - I totally failed at not crying - everyone else seemed to be holding it together. It was so bad that more than once I'd thought I might have to slip out of the service. She'd have found that funny.
I'm not sure it was anything supernatural but I am sure it wasn't my imagination. I think I needed a day or two to kind of process it.
Anyone else been shoved or similar? Are funeral/death day shoving ghosts A Thing? I'm curious.
Her father died in the 1950s, and she was told she shouldn't go to the funeral because she was heavily pregnant. Not sure what the logic was there but the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there, etc.
So whilst everyone was at dad's funeral, she was doing a bit of light gardening - pruning the roses in her garden. Her father loved the roses, apparently. She was alone. And suddenly felt this powerful shove in her back which nearly pushed her off her feet. No har done to her or baby but she was convinced it was her dad. I was always a bit sceptical about this as this was a particularly, er, florid person. But it always stayed in my mind somewhere, as a sort of ghosty sub-genre.
I am sure I have come across other people's accounts of ghostly shoves. But can't remember where.
Now, this week I went to my friend's funeral. She banned us from wearing black so I wore a nice dress with a vivid, Paisley shawl that I knew she'd liked. Service goes off without a hitch. Going to what my friend had called 'the bunfight' afterwards, as we were walking away from the service, I felt a very strong, distinct tug on my shawl. We were in the middle of a huge open space and there was nothing it could catch on but in any case it didn't feel like catching, it was a definite tug! I looked round and only my husband was close enough to me at all, to reach out and grab me and so I told myself it was him and promptly forgot all about it.
We have been crazily busy the rest of the week with a lot of things going on and it was only yesterday afternoon I suddenly remembered it, and told him what had happened. He said it definitely wasn't him.
It is the sort of playful, daft thing my friend would do. I'd had a hard time not crying throughout the service - I totally failed at not crying - everyone else seemed to be holding it together. It was so bad that more than once I'd thought I might have to slip out of the service. She'd have found that funny.
I'm not sure it was anything supernatural but I am sure it wasn't my imagination. I think I needed a day or two to kind of process it.
Anyone else been shoved or similar? Are funeral/death day shoving ghosts A Thing? I'm curious.