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Hi All,
This is my first significant experience of spirit to date. I thought I'd share the excitement of it all with you!!
I was on a ghost tour in Mary King's Close, Edinburgh, with a friend. There is a certain room in that close where the energy of a little girl is supposed to relish. People are supposed to have had feelings of great sadness, close to tears there, and one psychic claimed the girl asked her to bring her a doll to keep her company which lead other people to do the same.
I didn't experience anything in the close until we were just outside the girl's room, where I felt difficulty breathing or swallowing. I keep on wondering if I imagined it now but I couldn't have if it stuck in my mind. I then read up about the place and found out more about it. I had several readings online about it and was told what I sensed was the girl's death. The girl is called Annie, and is a blond haired child of about 8. I've been thinking about it and the girl a lot and one week when I was very upset a few nights in a row getting over a girl I fancied, my mind went very blank just before I went to sleep, as sometimes happens when you've been upset a lot, and I had an image of the place and the girl in my mind. I don't know where it came from. I asked the girl if she was ok, and she didn't respond verbally but I got the impression she was really happy that I spoke to her.
Having not experienced anything like that before, I was so sure it was real, and not just a "movie playing in my mind," as someone I spoke to in Mary King's Close later suggested. I'm a bit puzzled how I can talk to spirit without actually seeing something... but I guess it can be done with feelings as well!
I went back to Mary King's Close as soon as I could when I came home from university for the holidays, and had a couple of very interesting experiences. I was feeling sensitive throughout, but these two bits really interested me.
In the room where the guide talked about the plague victims, which as you probably know was emphasised by the statues of the people there, while the guide was talking I suddenly got a feverish feeling, the type of thing you feel when you wake up in the middle of the night when you've got a cold. I thought it was very interesting as it only occured in that room.
The next interesting bit occured in Annie's room. As I said I didn't feel anything there the first time, but this time I felt a cold chill go through me for a second, and it was the room where I felt the saddest in the close. And I know now I wasn't imagining it!
Before the tour I spoke to someone there about my experience last time, and he was very supportive. After the tour I spoke to the guide and told her that I've been reading a lot about Mary King's Close online, and I would like to bring a gift for wee Annie next time, and the guide was very pleased and said to the people at the desk so we could arrange a time. The girl at the desk said they could put the gift down for me, but the guide said she thought I would rather take it down myself, which was very nice of her. So they said I should phone them and we could arrange a time to go down on a 1 to 1 basis, and that we could spend as long as I wanted down there.
It was such a great day! Amazingly I felt quite tired afterwords for the rest of the afternoon until I went for a pint later!
I am quite confused and still trying to find answers about a number of things. People you talk to offline can be a bit funny about you telling them things you experienced, I guess in Mary King's Close case I don't want to say anything so as they don't just laugh at me, but the next bit I am going to tell you is very interesting.
I am part of quite a few spiritual MSN Communities, and one particular medium whom I talked to about Annie connected to her for me and was very accurate, the most accurate reading I've had about her. The medium said Annie trusts me, and finds comfort with me, and she doesn't want to go back to her relatives, and I may be the closest thing to a family she has. Regarding my experience of communicating with her while I was upset over girl problems, the medium said (I haden't told her this bit) that what I saw Annie wearing was a tartan dress, but said that Annie said that was too posh, and showed her a rugged sack sort of dress, which is the image I saw of her when the guide showed us her picture on the tour. And the other thing that the medium said Annie said was that her room was originally a shop, and that bit is definatley right, as there are shelves in the room like there would be in a shop, and the guide said they weren't exactly sure wheither it was a shop or just a room (I didn't say anything to the medium about the shelves in the room or what sort of dress I had seen Annie in in my mind, so I believe it's all true now!). The medium said it's because of me that Annie is finding it difficult to go to the light, and that I'm the one that's been chosen to help her go to the light.
So that night before I went to sleep I took time to talk to Annie in my mind and told her I'll always be there for her but she will be much happier in the light with the angels. While talking to her I called her "babe" and "darling" to try and ease her sadness, and made a few jokes with her as well. Afterwords, I felt the most at calm and at peace with myself than I'd felt for ages, and even my room felt lighter! I'm so sure there was an angel with me that night!
I'd really appreciate any thoughts and advice on this that you guys can offer. It's quite an experience for me and no matter what skeptics say it just feels right to me!
Dug
This is my first significant experience of spirit to date. I thought I'd share the excitement of it all with you!!
I was on a ghost tour in Mary King's Close, Edinburgh, with a friend. There is a certain room in that close where the energy of a little girl is supposed to relish. People are supposed to have had feelings of great sadness, close to tears there, and one psychic claimed the girl asked her to bring her a doll to keep her company which lead other people to do the same.
I didn't experience anything in the close until we were just outside the girl's room, where I felt difficulty breathing or swallowing. I keep on wondering if I imagined it now but I couldn't have if it stuck in my mind. I then read up about the place and found out more about it. I had several readings online about it and was told what I sensed was the girl's death. The girl is called Annie, and is a blond haired child of about 8. I've been thinking about it and the girl a lot and one week when I was very upset a few nights in a row getting over a girl I fancied, my mind went very blank just before I went to sleep, as sometimes happens when you've been upset a lot, and I had an image of the place and the girl in my mind. I don't know where it came from. I asked the girl if she was ok, and she didn't respond verbally but I got the impression she was really happy that I spoke to her.
Having not experienced anything like that before, I was so sure it was real, and not just a "movie playing in my mind," as someone I spoke to in Mary King's Close later suggested. I'm a bit puzzled how I can talk to spirit without actually seeing something... but I guess it can be done with feelings as well!
I went back to Mary King's Close as soon as I could when I came home from university for the holidays, and had a couple of very interesting experiences. I was feeling sensitive throughout, but these two bits really interested me.
In the room where the guide talked about the plague victims, which as you probably know was emphasised by the statues of the people there, while the guide was talking I suddenly got a feverish feeling, the type of thing you feel when you wake up in the middle of the night when you've got a cold. I thought it was very interesting as it only occured in that room.
The next interesting bit occured in Annie's room. As I said I didn't feel anything there the first time, but this time I felt a cold chill go through me for a second, and it was the room where I felt the saddest in the close. And I know now I wasn't imagining it!
Before the tour I spoke to someone there about my experience last time, and he was very supportive. After the tour I spoke to the guide and told her that I've been reading a lot about Mary King's Close online, and I would like to bring a gift for wee Annie next time, and the guide was very pleased and said to the people at the desk so we could arrange a time. The girl at the desk said they could put the gift down for me, but the guide said she thought I would rather take it down myself, which was very nice of her. So they said I should phone them and we could arrange a time to go down on a 1 to 1 basis, and that we could spend as long as I wanted down there.
It was such a great day! Amazingly I felt quite tired afterwords for the rest of the afternoon until I went for a pint later!
I am quite confused and still trying to find answers about a number of things. People you talk to offline can be a bit funny about you telling them things you experienced, I guess in Mary King's Close case I don't want to say anything so as they don't just laugh at me, but the next bit I am going to tell you is very interesting.
I am part of quite a few spiritual MSN Communities, and one particular medium whom I talked to about Annie connected to her for me and was very accurate, the most accurate reading I've had about her. The medium said Annie trusts me, and finds comfort with me, and she doesn't want to go back to her relatives, and I may be the closest thing to a family she has. Regarding my experience of communicating with her while I was upset over girl problems, the medium said (I haden't told her this bit) that what I saw Annie wearing was a tartan dress, but said that Annie said that was too posh, and showed her a rugged sack sort of dress, which is the image I saw of her when the guide showed us her picture on the tour. And the other thing that the medium said Annie said was that her room was originally a shop, and that bit is definatley right, as there are shelves in the room like there would be in a shop, and the guide said they weren't exactly sure wheither it was a shop or just a room (I didn't say anything to the medium about the shelves in the room or what sort of dress I had seen Annie in in my mind, so I believe it's all true now!). The medium said it's because of me that Annie is finding it difficult to go to the light, and that I'm the one that's been chosen to help her go to the light.
So that night before I went to sleep I took time to talk to Annie in my mind and told her I'll always be there for her but she will be much happier in the light with the angels. While talking to her I called her "babe" and "darling" to try and ease her sadness, and made a few jokes with her as well. Afterwords, I felt the most at calm and at peace with myself than I'd felt for ages, and even my room felt lighter! I'm so sure there was an angel with me that night!
I'd really appreciate any thoughts and advice on this that you guys can offer. It's quite an experience for me and no matter what skeptics say it just feels right to me!
Dug
Hi Dug,
Interesting experience is right. But you said it best when you said it feels right to me.
Mary King's Close sounds like a really neat place. I'm glad that you were able to help/connect with Annie. Who knows maybe you had a connection in a former life which is why you were drawn there and she to you? Sad that Annie did not want to go with her family. I feel Angels are with us always, there to help, guide and support us. Those little nudges or whispers or thoughts we suddenly have our angels and/or guides are there helping us along.
Did your friend have any of the same sensations or feelings while on the tour?
Well as we make our way around and in this world we never know what experience waits around the next corner that will have a dramatic affect on us as this experience sounds like it has for you.
Cat =)
Interesting experience is right. But you said it best when you said it feels right to me.
Mary King's Close sounds like a really neat place. I'm glad that you were able to help/connect with Annie. Who knows maybe you had a connection in a former life which is why you were drawn there and she to you? Sad that Annie did not want to go with her family. I feel Angels are with us always, there to help, guide and support us. Those little nudges or whispers or thoughts we suddenly have our angels and/or guides are there helping us along.
Did your friend have any of the same sensations or feelings while on the tour?
Well as we make our way around and in this world we never know what experience waits around the next corner that will have a dramatic affect on us as this experience sounds like it has for you.
Cat =)