My childhood spectre. 'Mother'.

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>>19105504
I've managed over the years to find a few scattered stories across the UK about ghost-women trying to lure young children, before they hit a certain age, which fit. I also looked into the history of the area, and aside from a bloody battle (before classical dress), I couldn't dig up much.

I'm hoping /x/ might have sources or experiances that might help me dig up more on this. I've never been able to find much on this, and it can't have just been me, and from the vague stories I recall finding it wasn't.

I thought here I might actually get some leads, as I'd occasionally looked in the past, but it always makes me feel vaguely uncomfortable. I think in the end I was told to tell her to go away, and it worked, aside from a few rare and distant (as in she would stand further away) and there is always this tiny fear that to dig too deep would be like an invite.

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No one? This isn't exactly something I regularly share, or even think about.

>>19105683
no answers for you, but it's interesting. Go into more detail about your father's experiences and yours.

>>19105504
What's with all the beckoning these entities do? What's it mean? Does it tell us anything about the entity?

>t. similar experience but in usa, equally curious

>>19106094
They can't actually get further into your life with an invite, belief is a window. Like the vampire rule

>>19105504
Why do ghosts wear clothes? Did their clothes die too?

Protip: Either you're roleplaying or you're schizophrenic

It's the old hag phenomena. My brother used to see her. I think it's something related to the ayys.

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Ah good, thought the thread was going to die.

>>19105843

It's tough due to how young I was; what I green-texted is pretty much the solid details that stuck with me. My dad and mum had divorced by the time I started seeing it, and my mum used to take sleeping pills due to said issues that started while she was sleeping in the other house.

I actually have to wonder if whatever it was followed from my granmothers house, as those bedrooms creeped the hell out of me into adolesence, and we sold the house after my grandad died. In fact, I just remembered; mum and gran did a Ouija board in that house and creeped out as shit. Imagine that was the 'opening'.

The only other details I can give is (up until recently, as in the last ten years) to add on is that like my dad was, I seemed to be sensative to this sort of thing. On swearing myself to God, and my baptism, it was like I became a creepy-shit null. Not seen hide or hair of even a shadow moving out the corner of my eyes in the dead of night

My mum had a period as a Wiccan, in my mid-teens and long after the OP, and the shit i experianced not only turned me agnostic, eventually convinced me that if there are demons that react to the holy, that means the big G is real too. Shadows dancing on the edge of the perception. The intense feeling of being stared at, by something not too friendly, behind you as sit on the comptuer. Animals going nuts and feels of dread.

These are shit I experianced as a teen, and the last experiance that is worth a mention,
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>>19106188
It is interesting how there are common thinsg to most /x/. There are even stories of ayyy being driven off my certain words or commands, which would make no sense if they were just spare faring aliens interested in us.

>>19106250
Fuck knows anon. Why do you hang out on /x/ when you clearly don't beilieve in /x/? Some things we just don't understand.

I know what I, and others, experianced.

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>>19106276
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I'll look into that, thanks anon. Thing is, while I always knew she was a woman, I never got the sense she was old, or a 'hag'.

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>>19107654
>>>1031201
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Ahem.

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>>19107659

Damnit, they aren't important. Check the /out/ creepy experiances thread and look for ones with lava images if you anyone is really curious.

>>19107654
>I know what I, and others, experianced.
You hallucinated.

Protip:If you're seeing old women walking around you should go to the doctor and tell them.

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>>19107682

Sure random skeptic anon. But can you go condescend elsewhere? This isn't /adv/.

>>19106188
So is it as easy to get rid of them by not following or telling them to get out?

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>>19105504
Historian here. Apologies if this is telling you something that you already know, but 'Mother' was an honourific commonly used as a polite way of addressing an older woman in Northern England. (A bit like the way that in childhood, your mum's female friends might be known to you as 'aunty', despite having no biological relationship to you.) In the case of the appellation 'Mother', it was used by anyone younger than the older woman in question — not just children would call an older woman 'Mother'. One of the most famous examples of this appellation was 'Mother Shipton', the 17th Century Yorkshire (self-declared) prophetess. (Her cave home is about a half hour drive from Leeds city centre. It's aninteresting place to visit.)

This linguistic curiosity dates back to at least Anglo Saxon times in the British Isles, and probably earlier. I was intrigued to see that some sub-Saharan African tribes use 'Mother' in exactly the same way. Etymologically, 'Mother' may be a 'root' term, common to Indo-European lnguages.

I.e., it's part of our collective unconscious. If you believe in that sort of thing ;-)

Maybe your spoop was called 'Mother' in her community...

>>19109270

Thanks, that's another little piece of the puzzle, as I never actually realised that, despite living here all my life. Makes sense.

>>19105504
Interesting story, man. Oddly enough I had some strange, ghostly experiences when I was in Leeds too. In my second year of uni I lived in an old terraced house in Hyde park with just one other guy who was never there as he'd always just stay over at his girlfriends'. I never liked the feeling of that house and wouldn't have agreed to rent it, but an earlier contract fell through and we had run out of options. I'd often get the feeling that there was someone else with me in the room, watching broodingly from the corner. I'd hear full conversations from the kitchen when I was upstairs that were too loud and clear to have been from an adjacent house, but the moment I touched the door handle to enter the room they would instantly stop, and there'd be no one there. On a couple of occasions I'd wake up in the night and see a girl at the end of my bed dressed in white, with what looked like weird patchy skin (kind of textured like bark on a tree) or something, but I could never really tell. She'd just stand there and point at me until I hid away and shut my eyes, and when I looked back she'd be gone. Very creepy.

I will say that I was very depressed at the time and probably wasn't in the most stable mindset, but also I kind of think that that's the sort of thing that draws out a lot of paranormal phenomenon. Either way, Leeds is a very old city with a lot of history, and I think that there's a lot of latent energy or something still present there.

>>19109302
Eh. You were probably too busy saying 'Can't, Won't, No' to think about it. Or guarding your bacon flitch.

...Yorkshire jokes. Forgive me. No-one here but you and I will get them. Think on't ;-)

>>19107654
I'm from the US, but my family has had similar experience with a woman-like entity that started with my mom (her family life was very volatile as a teen and she also experimented with the occult) and still continues as far as I know. It seems to become most active when someone is going through adolescence. I had my own trouble with it during my teenage years until I became saved and baptized.

>>19109270
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