ghosts !!!

kevars · Member Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 75

Being a newly wed Sad

, ( 2 years ) i am always finding out new things from my thai wife , the latest is ghosts , i never realised how shit scared thai people are of ghosts ! and i mean SCARED ! , we been looking at properties just recently and top of the agenda , the G word , she will not go look at a place let alone go inside if there is a bit of history , i mentioned ghost busters but she was not having none of it Very Happy

, any stories ?

lomuamart · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:58 am Post subject:

I don't claim to fully understand the Thai thinking on this, but a lot of their superstitions evolve from the fact that most of them are animists - spirit worshippers. Thailand may be a Buddhist country, but they have altered the religion to suit their way of life - and in particular to embrace the concept of the spirit world. Hence all the spirit houses here. Most homes and businesses will have one to keep the spirits happy and ensure harmony.
Havn't really got any stories about ghosts, as I don't believe in that sort of stuff, but it always interested me how people went about getting the three numbers for the lottery in Buriram province when I used to visit with my ex.
The belief was that certain trees had a guardian spirit (they're usually banyan trees and you'll see multi coloured cloth tied round the trunks). The family would go to one for anything up to a couple of hours, praying and giving offerings to the spirit in the hope that she would appear - was always a woman - and give them the correct digits. Once the spirit had appeared, a piece of bark was scrapped of the trunk and they'd spend a while looking at the exposed area as patterns revealed would eventually form the numbers. Once these had been decided upon, it was a visit to whoever to put their money down.
When I first heard about this years ago on Samui, I spent an hour or so with a couple of beers staring at a big tree on the bungalow complex - I'd had one or ten. After getting eaten alive by mosquotoes, went back to the bungalow and proceeded to give the ex the first three numbers that came into my head. Despite telling her in the morning that I was only messing around, she put money on them and they came up, but one digit out. She was convinced that I'd seen the spirit, but probably hadn't offered enough so it had only given me two out of the three numbers.
That's my big eperience. Best not to "take the mickey" out of it directly with the Thias. They do fundamentally believe in it. Just look at all the people who won't visit the areas hit by the tsunami.
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jambo · Specialist Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 133

get the blair which progect in thai or subtitled they hate the ghost but they cant but help to watch a movie think she will be close to you for a few nights
cheers
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then tell her you go out at night man in big orange towel with no hair keep askin you for sooooooong baaaaaaaht soooooooong baaaaaaaaaaht this will really freak her out
on secpnd thoughts dont take my advice (i am single)
but they do love to tell ghost storys

Randy Cornhole · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:14 pm Post subject:

Was having a party at my old bungalow last year and took a picture of my mate Martin sitting outside. It just so happened that I had a cigarette in my hand and the smoke from it drifted across the lens, it also helped that Martin was apparently looking at it! When the girls saw it they went crazy 'Pii Pii' came the cries, Cigarette smoke I exclaimed, no Pii. They wouldn't have any of it and kept wai-ing the camera. After that none of them would set foot in the bungalow again.... Shocked

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bj.blackowitz · Specialist Joined: 08 Jan 2006 Posts: 162

That brings an extra dimension to ways to get rid of people who are hassling you,
Just show them a Picture of someone looking at smoke that is blurred and tell them this was taken at you house the night before. They will never visit again...

Perente · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:24 am Post subject:

I can only add that the Thais do take this very seriously. Visit most of the guesthouses and you will see the scrawls the monks leave on the doors, the windows, the fridges, the photos, anything else that didn't move. Check the roof on a lot of taxi's for the same symbols. They are to protect from ghosts, to wipe out previous bad luck, and to introduce new 'good' luck. One of the scariest things I have heard was a BG complaining to day staff that a ghost tried to rape her in the room overnight. The BG was adamant - she left at 5am without payment! - and the staff were horrified. Quick call to the temples, another visit by the monks, and the place was 'clean' again. Something farangs may scoff at, but as I said, the Thais take it very seriously. Dont be afraid of the dark, but be vary alarmed by ghosts !!!!!
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Jim · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:53 am Post subject:

No personal experience, but we did have to have a ceremony to clear the site our house is built on of ghosts before we could begin construction. Certainly not a laughing matter and it was important to make sure that all the workers would be safe from spirits before any work could begin.
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Guess · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:50 am Post subject:

HansMartin · Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 4:45 am Post subject:

My story

About 5 years, I came down with a particularly nasty cold out here in California. I finally went to a doctor who gave me the "go home and take aspirin" routine. That didn't do much, so I went back in a couple of days. I got a perscription for strong aspirin. At this point, I figured it would go away so I went back to work.

A couple of days later my wife called me at work, and said she had another appointment for me. As I had already been to the doctors twice, I figured this would be a waste of time, but i went as she had already made the appointment.

So I go to see a new doctor. He listens to my chest, takes some X-rays, and immediately sends me to the hospital where I am stuck in intensive care for 5 days with antibotics dripping into my systems. Turns out I had a particularly bad form of pnemomia (possibly Legionella).

So why did my wife drag me to the doctor for a third time? Turns out her mother who had been dead for a decade appeared to her in a dream and said, "If you don't get your husband to a doctor immediately, he will die."

Think what you want about the Thai and ghosts and spirituality; but don't ignore the connections. The Thai are spiritual (not religous) and rmake connections that we don't.

jambo · Specialist Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 133

wow thats bizzare

Guess · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 5:54 am Post subject:

The Thai are spiritual (not religous) and rmake connections that we don't.

Hans,

You have at least got an inkling of what I posted. My belief though, along with many orientals is that you have experienced is the Phyche at work.

This sense only worlks in the subconcious either at sleep or im meditation.

It is a vbery powerful sense that if understood can give man an advantage over others and then be ablen to reproduce.

I would love to have converstaion with Charles Darwin on this.

There is no magic in it. It is just an extension of the human thought process that seems only to function when there are no distractions whatsoever.
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Guess · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 3:48 pm Post subject:

I think the story now about me falling asleep in the armchair one night only to wake up to find that every single item in the room had been stolen and that they had all been replaced with exact replicas, is now well know around the globe.

A minor but similar event has just been discovered.

I had a laminated sticker advertising HHAD on my toliet wall just to the right of the urinal. It was metciculously placed butting against the tile joins.

The other night, Matt who is involved in the new radio Station Surf 102.5 came to me and asked if he could display his laminated advertisement in the toliet. Of courser I agreed as it would then, along with the HHAD sticker return my urinla back symettry which I find extremely important.

Anyway lo and behold the HHAD stiicker had vanished. I searched the premises from top to bottom but there was absolutely no sign of the ad.

I then decided to allow Matt to place his radio station sticker in the position that the HHAD sticker had been.

The next day I went to the dunnie and took a leak ony to discover that the HHAD ad had been modified and replaced above and assymetrically abover the Surf Radio sticker and not lined up with the tiles. The casued me a great feeling of discomfort.

I now am convinced that this is the work of the sprits.

In some cases I believe the the spirits actually take of the human body and turn them into puppetes to server particular services.

What is their purpose though. Sure it can not just be to wind me up.

Has anybody any thoughts on this???
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Lev · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:01 pm Post subject:

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DawnHRD · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:26 pm Post subject:

I think the "supernatural" is something you either believe in or don't. I don't think it's a psychosis to help deal with grief. In the week or so after my boyfriend died, I had countless experiences that I know were him communicating with me. He also visited his son. Some of these can be explained "rationally", but others can't. For instance, how did a new item of donated "stock" get into the shop? I was the only person who had the keys at that time & I carried them with me (door is also padlocked, lock bought by me, not Shopping Mall). I was the last person in the shop before his funeral & the first after. In between those times there was a new donation placed squarely in the middle of the desk. Du worked in the shop a lot, opening & closing for me & also covering shifts for me. It makes perfect sense to me that he brought some new stock in. Only time he's been in there, since, though...
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