Trigger Warning - It is Halloween tomorrow can you say yes to the following?

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Haha Caleothats funny
I forgot I know (not friends I must add) two convicted paedophiles one although not a friend was married to a sort of friend and was in my house once to help with my computer He’s now serving 24 years

I suppose the loose very loose connection with Hallowean is gory stuff

I’ve seen a ghost, too. It was a young boy who suicided . He used to visit our house all the time before he died and he visited once more afterwards. I saw him and so did one of my then teenaged daughters. No explanation whatsoever , he was just walking up the corridor as he used to. Until then I thought ghosts were just imaginary things.

One of my poor relatives - a father of 6 children - was transported to Australia for poaching rabbits. But not remotely violent, in fact at his death the local papers in Sydney were full of praise for his philanthropy.

My father swore he saw a ghost as a child - undoubtedly a vivid dream, but he would never say it was a dream, so convinced was he.

Just the one. I have led a sheltered life.

I’ve known someone who committed suicide. A truly dreadful episode.

Not just a case of exposing himself, but when I was many decades younger, a man sitting opposite me on a train (window seats) tried to chat me up, so I pretended to be asleep.
As the train was pulling in to my station, I ‘woke’ to find him having a wank - it went all over my nice new shoes! 🤮.
People across the aisle hadn’t noticed anything. I did ask, once we’d all got off.
TBH what upset me most, was having to throw those shoes out!

Well you told me this weekend Yammy that I had a coven of followers.

Does that count?

I treated as a patient a mass murder
kept that conversation to the point.

My Friends bother committed suicide.

I always convinced my Grandmother was a witch!

A close friend of ours took her own life two months ago.

I know many people who believe they have seen ghosts but I don't believe personally.

A friend of mines, very much ex, husband is a convicted paedophile.

As a paramedic I've sat with many dead bodies waiting for the police to arrive, frequently alone, it doesn't bother me, the living are much more scary.

My son, aged 5, nearly fell into my Mother's grave at her funeral, it would have made her laugh and has become a bit of a family joke now.

Don't think I've ever been flashed at, if I have I havent noticed!

Witzend

I’ve known someone who committed suicide. A truly dreadful episode.

Not just a case of exposing himself, but when I was many decades younger, a man sitting opposite me on a train (window seats) tried to chat me up, so I pretended to be asleep.
As the train was pulling in to my station, I ‘woke’ to find him having a wank - it went all over my nice new shoes! 🤮.
People across the aisle hadn’t noticed anything. I did ask, once we’d all got off.
TBH what upset me most, was having to throw those shoes out!

I shouldn't have read this thread whilst eating breakfast.

I've experienced one of those train flashers - the best thing to do is just get up and move away - even if it means standing for the remainder of your journey. It's not going to 'end well' otherwise.

Yuk.

Halloween is a happy time for us as our son was born on that day. He was due Bonfire Night but was early. He is 44 today.

Sadly we have had two friends commit suicide, one was a very close friend, we all miss him still.
We lived in a haunted house, our ghost we think was a girl of about 14, she was naughty!
One Halloween I had a friend staying with her son, they shared a room, our ghost said goodnight to them!
The school I went to had a skeleton in a coffin, it was some minor saint, the nuns kept it in the cellar😬.
Having been raised as a Catholic, Halloween was the eve of All Saints Day, we never did anything on the 31st but the 1st was always a day off school and a long mass.

Halloween ' celebrates' the dark side of life, why is that a reason to party? I am not religious nor a kill joy, my GC are into Halloween big time! I smile and go along with it.
I recognize it is seen as harmless fun but ..........?
Am I alone with this?

No you’re not alone. We celebrate our son’s birthday, nothing else. Our smallest DGC enjoy their face paints, and like you we smile and go along with it.

BlueBelle

You must be pretty old if you know someone sent to the colonies for crime as that finished in 1868

I ve known a few suicides but no one close to me
I ve known people who thought they saw ghosts
I talked to a woman who told me she was a white witch
I ve had a live (very large ) wild python around my neck ….does that count as a wild animal encounter
I ve stood next to a strangers dead body

Otherwise none

I should have said I had a relative sent on the last ship to Australia his descendants found us in the 70s and still correspond.
That wasn't my point,I made a list of all the horrible and disturbing things that have happened to me some people have suffered much more yet we perpetuate and escalate Halloween, why? Perhaps you see nothing wrong with it?If your answer is none you are very lucky.

Just 2 for me. I obviously haven't lived.

Definitely three. Possibly a fourth too.

Yammy, I don’t understand the connection between your list and Halloween can you explain ?

Halloween (All Hallow's Eve) is a Christian festival. The older version is Samhain, one of the so-called Celtic festivals, symbolising the end of harvest and the beginning of winter.
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain.
It is one of those liminal festivals when the walls between the worlds are thin.
As migh be expected, the USA version was intended to increase the sales of candy

3 yeses for me

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AnitaNixon
What?

What??? from me too!

I think she has been smoking too much of the weed She's advertising.