House Ghost?

I remember Uri Geller demonstrating his spoon bending on the TV.
The next morning I asked DS what he had done to his Yale front door key which was lying on his bedside table. He replied 'nothing, why?' The top third had bent right over.

Children do seem to see things that we can't and so do dogs.

I also remember someone demonstrating just how Uri Geller did it, too, rosequartz, so some things are explainable prosaically. UG made a good living out of "spoonbending"

I still don't know what happened to the front door key!

Neither do I, but I don't think it was Yuri Geller's remote psychokinetic abilities. Someone wrote a book called "Gellerism revealed" which is decribed and reviewed at www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=56935&forum=110

There is also an article in Wikipedia. www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=56935&forum=110

James Randi published The Magic of Uri Geller in the early eighties - it's now titled The Truth About Uri Geller and is a complete exposé.

Magic is anything that we can't explain at that given moment. I wonder what someone from the middle ages would make of mobile phones, TV, antibiotics, electric light and all the other things that we take for granted. And stage magicians like Uri Geller have some very clever tricks.

Magic is not what this thread was originally about though, was it?

No, it has wandered off-piste as usual!

DD2's friend's house has a ghost, and her mother has seen her. She is a caring, friendly ghost who appears when there is a new baby in the house.

I might add that DD2's friend's mother is a sensible and down-to-earth person.

We lived in a very old farmhouse in Portugal for a while, it still had the animal stalls in the centre area of the house, on the right side of the house were two bedrooms and a large hall; X and I had one room DD then 10 the other. After 2 nights X was out of the room sleeping on the sofa in the other end of the building, kept asking me why I could'nt see the old man sitting on the bottom of the bed, he was white and shaking, He doesn't drink alchohol at all, so we couldn't blame it on too much to drink, and we even had to move his clothes out of the room. DD and I had no problems but her cat who had always slept at the bottom of her bed would not walk through the area at all, we had to open her bedroom window and he jumped from the sill to the bed.then she would carry him out in the morning. The building dated from the 14th centuary so i suppose there have been a lot of deaths there. X's Grandmother was known to be Fey, but I am afraid it just never affected me.

When my DS was about 3 years old he used to talk about the 'big man' that was in his bedroom at night, who sometimes used to tuck him in. He described him, which sounded like my Father who had died some years before DS was born. There were no photographs of my father in the house, so he wouldn't have known what he looked like. My DS wasn't afraid and would talk about the man quite frequently, until it was forgotten. Now when I remind him it scares him to death!

DN lived in a very old converted farm building and he said there was definitely a presence there. The cat was aware of it, and when someone came to stay with a large dog, the dog was completely spooked, staring, growling and with his hair standing up; afterwards the dog refused to enter that room.