Hi Dan No Problems
The story I told Dan, for those interested is as follows.
I was wanting to build a model of the RNLB.TGB which was the ill fated Longhope Lifeboat that in March 1969 was launched to aid the drifting coaster "Irene".
Sadly the TGB was lost with all hands, and is now displayed at the Irvine branch of the Scotish Maritime museum.
I contacted the curator of the museum and arranged to go up to see and photograph the boat whilst on holiday in Largs.
My eldest daughter who has always been interested in "boats" came with me.
We went aboard the TGB and I snapped away with camera and video, NEVER TELLING MY DAUGHTER OF THE LIFEBOAT'S FATE or that of her crew, as I thought it might upset her.
That night back in the flat we were renting, we were woken to her having a full blown nightmare and crying.
I comforted her and then as she quietented her down, she told me that she had been dreaming that she had been on a lifeboat and a man in a yellow mack had put his hand on her shoulder, and he was a friendly man but had then disappeared quickly.
I never told her aboat the boat other than she must have been dreaming about the boat she was on that morning, but not to worry.
At the time she was just 9 years of age.
The other day whilst I was dubbing too DVD from the tape that Dan had kindly sent me, she came in just at the moment when the part about Longhope was coming up , and stopped to watch it. She then said, "that was the boat I stood at the wheel of, wasn't it", and walked out of the room.
The new DVD that I was dubbing went missing from the rack later that day and she said that she had hiden it as it had saddened her about being able to stand where a lifeboat man had been when he had been lost.
She as long since forgotten her night mare, and I didn't bring it up, but ( and I know there will be many sceptics out there) I wonder if certain people are more susceptable to the spirits than others, and feel things more.
I'll leave you all to decide that, but I know what I believe, and no one will sway me from those beliefs.