@Snowpuppy wrote:
@Carmie wrote:
I do not like to visit antique shops or purchase things from estates. If the original owner was fond of something, they sometimes watch over their possessions. There are many spirits in antique stores, that's for sure and I don't want them to follow me home.
This is true for me, too. People judge me as a snob for not scouring various sales but I usually say I have to work instead of the real reason I dont acquire the posessions of others.
There are a lot of people who feel this way. I was an antique dealer for quite a long time and still sell antiques on eBay. But I've always had an ultra sensitivity to whatever energy is out there. I've not bought items because of the "feel" I perceived from it. And there are certain type of items I will never buy, hospital items such as wheelchairs, etc.
The strongest feeling I've ever received was at a garage sale with a black Victorian baby stroller out front and center. DH & I stopped and I was hurrying towards it when I got about ten feet from it and stopped short because I got the strongest feeling of sadness and grief from it. It was so strong that I turned around and went back to the car without talking to anyone about it!!
Another was a huge metal cauldron that I bought at an estate sale. Did not talk to anyone and took it home. Put it on the kitchen table so I could clean it the next day. I got up in the middle of the night to get a drink and felt someting pecular as I passed it. It was a feeling of anguish, confusion, sadness and it made me very uncomfortable. The next day I went back to the estate sale to talk to someone regarding it. I was told that it was from an 1800's Mental Facility that was once in the area!! I cleaned it up, and it went right down to the Antique Mall that very day....
I've also "felt" uncomfortable in some houses that we have gone to look at (when moving). One was a very old Victorian (originally belonged to a Cattle Baron), and it was a fascinating home, beautiful appointments but I felt two very cold spots on the stairs on a hot day with no air conditioning. And for some reason I was NOT going down into the basement.... and neither would our real estate agent. I think real estate agents must have some interesting stories to tell.....
So, for me, even though I love antiques and have quite a few in my own home, I agree wholeheartedly that there is something to this....
OH, one more, LOL! At one of the antique malls I sold my items at, there was a cabinet for sale and the owner of the Mall said that it "sang" at night. I never heard it, but I understand that it made high pitched sing song type noises at night. I thought that it was probably the barometic pressure or something along those lines but never stayed late enough to hear it myself. One day the cabinet sold and the new owner (was disclosed when she bought it) came back into the store and said it was true.... she said it carries on off and on all night, not disturbingly so, and not loud but she was thrilled~! Could it be the pressure out there when it was taken to a new environment with air conditioning?? LOL.... don't know....
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