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Posted: Mon Jan
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I am gripped by your story
and since being made aware of it I find myself thinking about
you quite often. If you say you are aware of other ghosts
operating online, why don't we have access to them, or are
they just regular users who don't admit to being 'ghosts'?
do you contact them regularly, have any of them similar
stories to you and how have they managed to operate a
computer, surely they don't all have helpful mortal friends
like you. Don't get me wrong, its not that i don't believe you
when you say who (or what )you are, I'm just
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Posted: Mon Jan
19, 2004 5:25 pm Post
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WOW!!!!! not sure if to believe this. There are a
couple of things that dont add up, but I will keep an open
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Posted: Mon Jan
19, 2004 5:35 pm Post
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Thank you
Melanie and Anna for your observations and kind words. I am
beginning to feel that I will be raising more questions than
providing you with answers. I do hope that this is not the
case. Also my thanks to Faeden. It is gratifying that you
devote so much of your valuable time to our cause. To the
guest that reacts as I would have reacted I can only agree
with you. It is only the benefit of hindsight, and a number of
long years in waiting, that has changed the way I think.
Listener – You do have access to spiritual beings
online. You can’t expect them to come straight out and admit
to being ghosts. The internet is full of anonymous and
faceless beings, both human and spirits. Humans far outway the
number of spirits that you are likely to encounter. You have
no way of knowing who you are communicating with. In any
event, if I were to meet you online and tell you that I was a
ghost I would most certainly be dismissed as a nutcase and you
would never chat to me again. There are a few cases of
contacts where the spirit has confessed which have led to
disbelief and ridicule. You are quite correct in your
assumption that they do not have mortal friends. If they did
they would find things much easier. I am so fortunate in that
I have found a connection through Janet to the real world.
Guest – There are many things that do not add up.
There are two Jacks mentioned in my memoirs, a lady named
Janet and myself. I am the only the only one with a first name
that does not begin with a J. Apart from Peter of course.
Hardly mind blowing but I am sure that someone will pick up on
this. It has no relevance of course.
And Pat, at last,
I am so pleased to hear from you. You are the cause of my
postings. You provided the inspiration for me to document my
traumatic past. I am however not an actor. I think I would die
of stage fright if I were to appear in front of an audience.
As for being dishy I really think that you would find my
remains most unappealing. I will continue with my memoirs.
When I explained to Janet what had happened she was
astounded. She was convinced that a presence was haunting the
building next door. This is not an unreasonable assumption. I
also told her about seeing another apparition on the opposite
side of the canal bank. She decided that she would leave work
at the normal time and pay a visit to the company next door.
After all, if she could sense my presence there was every
likelyhood that she would be able to detect something at
another location.
In between breaks and at every
opportunity Janet and I passed each other messages and planned
how we would make contact with the spirit in the next
building. How would she explain to the occupants why she was
calling round? How would she actually make contact with the
presence? Were we leading each other up the garden path? We
discussed in great detail how we would make our first
approach. Much of this would be based on my own experience of
how a spirit can react to its environment. Janet would have to
make a good excuse as to why she was calling and discretely
leave a message for whatever was present in the building next
door. We decided on a message to introduce ourselves to the
presence. The message was printed on an A4 piece of paper, in
bold type, and read as follows:
Important – Please
Read
My name is Janet. I am trying to make contact
with you. Yesterday you were visited by a spirit named Michael
Pennington. I have reason to believe that you are aware of a
supernatural visit yesterday. That presence was Michael
Pennington with whom I am in communication with. He
experienced a violent death in 1971. I am not an experienced
medium. I would just appear to be receptive to sensing the
after life. I do not know how I can establish contact with you
without the use of a computer. I do not even know if you are
aware of what a computer is. I need to know if there is any
way that you can meet up with Michael or find a way of
communicating with him or myself. Michael is in the building
next door. Can you visit this building? Are you able to leave
your building? Michael has found a way of using a computer to
communicate with me. I want to find out if I can help you in
the same way. I hope that we are able to establish contact.
We didn’t know what else to write. The idea was to
leave the note in the building next door so that the presence
could read it. The difficulty would be in actually getting the
occupant to reply and to establish contact. If the presence
was trapped in the same way that I had been trapped and
without the means or knowledge to access a computer then our
plan was flawed. It was all so hit and miss.
Janet
would have to be very careful how she approached the business
owners and what she would say. We agreed that she would be
making an enquiry about getting her brothers motorbike
serviced. The scene was set. We waited with anticipation for
the office to close.
Before I continue with the
results of Janet’s first encounter with Jack it is only right
to comment on certain myths and pre conceptions that appear to
exist with regard to the supernatural. I am no expert on this
but I do have the benefit of being in touch with other spirits
who are all just as confused as I am as to why certain
sightings and photographic evidence just adds to the confusion
with regard to the supernatural.
As I see it. If
spirits have had the same experience as I have had, and are
desperate to make contact, without the means by which to
establish a line of communication, then why would they waste
time making silly ghost noises and appearing as apparitions
with the sole aim of trying to frighten people. This is
assuming that they are even capable of making noises and
appearing to humans. I certainly seem incapable of that. I
would have made myself known long ago if this was possible. If
ghosts and spirits are so lost and confused as to what is
happening to them they would be as desperate as I was to try
and establish a sensible channel or medium of contact. The
whole idea of ghostly wailings and spooky haunted houses does
not appear to make any sense.
I have also contacted
many spirits who you would probably class as poltergeists.
These are not necessary evil people at all. Imagine the
frustration of years of trying to communicate. If you found a
way of moving objects or throwing them around a room to
attract attention then surely this does not sound so
unreasonable considering the circumstances. It merely helps
you to confirm your existence. It is a way of attracting
attention. My friend in Leeds would have been classed as a
poltergeist. He has explained his amazing ability to actually
move and project objects around his environment. This would
appear to work in the same way as I am able to project letters
on to a document on a computer. It must be based on some form
of energy. The other interesting observation is that, the
older the presence, by this I mean the time since death, the
higher the ability to carry out these actions.
Is this
to do with each individual spirit’s energy levels? The method
of death does not appear to have any real significance with
respect to each individual’s abilities. I have yet to meet any
spirit that admits to making wailing noises or confirms that
they are able to be seen in human form haunting a building.
Janet and I are to experiment with this concept. She is going
to attempt to take some photographs of me with a digital
camera. We will try this on Saturday. I doubt anything will
come of it. I cannot see how this will work if she cannot see
me without a camera. I should be more positive about it.
Everything is worth investigating.
This leads us to
another interesting fact. The number of ghost sightings and
paranormal activity would appear to have dropped with the
advance of technology and the introduction of computers. My
friend in Leeds no longer projects objects around a room and
has no wish to frighten the living. He is now in communication
with others and has no need of this method of attracting
attention to himself. He told me of a rather humorous
experience he had when he was visited by an exorcist. Some
vicar from the local church. I cannot say too much or someone
will delve into his situation. Suffice to say that it did not
stop him creating havoc for a number of years. He does admit
to a mischievous side of his personality by occasionally
moving a coffee cup or a book to draw attention to his
existence. That is about the extent of his activities today. I
can understand this. For my part I am now capable of affecting
electrical appliances. More on this later.
If it has
taken me over 30 years to find out that a computer is a tool
that can by used by the after life, and is being used, I can
assure you, then what of the thousands of other lost souls who
have yet to discover this channel of communication. The
resources required to track down every spirit or ghost and
train the lost souls to open a communication channel is beyond
comprehension. Although there are now many of us that are
communicating I feel that we have merely scratched the surface
of what must be one of the most significant breakthroughs in
the history of mankind. Who knows where this will all lead us
and what the future holds. Are we real? We obviously exist.
But what are we? Just what is our purpose. I ask myself this
question over and over again. Someone has to help us. It is
all so frustrating. I digress. On with the details.
The day was drawing to a close. Janet was preparing to
leave the office on her mission. I typed one last message on
the open word document.
Good Luck Janet. “Thank you
Michael”, she said.
I watched as she left. Janet is
perfectly capable of filling you in with all the details of
how she went about her task but she asked me to convey this to
you from my perspective and record exactly what happened when
she returned. I do however feel it necessary to explain what
happened to her so that you can understand what actually took
place and how contact was established. Before I forget I would
like to inform the people that administer the message board
that at some point in the near future Janet will be providing
you with more evidence and has agreed to join the message
board. For the moment there is so much more to tell you before
we reach this point. There is a right time and place for
everything. The full details have not yet been revealed to
you.
By all accounts Janet carried out her mission
with military precision. This is how she explained it to me.
Janet recalls the event – I was nervous. I am not the
best communicator in the world. My personality is much more
suited to research and study than dealing with people. I am an
administrator, a paper shuffler by trade. I prefer the company
of close friends and it takes some time for me to formulate
relationships with others so I was not looking forward to
having to be devious and lying my way through the forthcoming
encounter.
Nevertheless this was an important task and
not something that I could ignore. The premises next door are
operated by two individuals in their thirties. They are a
struggling small business and eke a living from repairing
motorbikes and stocking spares. They are friendly enough and
were eager to help with my enquiry over my imaginary brothers
motorbike.
The moment I entered the open doors I
sensed a presence. It wasn’t something that gradually became
apparent. It was strong and powerful from the start. I just
knew something was watching my every move. There is no other
way of explaining it. Everyone knows the feeling of being
watched. This is the best way I can describe it.
I
whittled on about costs and enquired about a rough price for a
motorbike service. I felt completely stupid when they asked
what make and model my brothers motorbike was. Bad
preparation, but easily overcome by acting in true tradition
like a dumb blonde that was clueless on the subject of
motorcycles.
I sensed the presence was extremely close
to me. I needed to leave my message in a prominent place or
find some way of showing it to the spirit I knew was watching
my every move. I also had to be careful that I didn’t leave it
around so that it could be seen by the two mechanics. After
all, I had signed it with my name and given information that I
was in the building next door. At best, if they found it they
would dismiss me as a lunatic or weirdo and at worst they
would come calling and ask to speak to my boss.
I
asked them if I could use the toilet. They were slightly
embarrassed and one commented that it was not the most tidy
environment and one of them escorted me down a long and dimly
lit corridor to the latrine. You could see he was embarrassed
about the state of the building and its grubby walls and floor
were what you might expect from a working small repair centre.
I have been in worse places. It wasn’t so bad.
After
checking that the light worked and fussing around checking
that the WC had toilet paper, the mechanic shuffled off back
down the corridor to the main work area, leaving me alone
standing by the toilet door on a small wooden landing with an
exposed and poorly lit light bulb with which to see. I knew
that the presence was close to me. I could feel that it must
have been right by my side. I hastily took out the document
and held it up in front of me. I prayed that I wouldn’t be
visited by either of the mechanics and that they would not
find me standing there under the light holding up a notice in
front of me. Men in white coats sprang to mind as I
contemplated the scenario.
I stood there for what
seemed like an age. I particularly remember waiting twice as
long that it would take for someone to read the notice in an
effort to make sure that what I was trying to convey was
understood. I put the notice back in my pocket, entered the
toilet, flushed it and turned off the light.
As I
walked back down the corridor I was aware that I was being
followed. I bid a hasty farewell to the mechanics who had
suspected nothing and walked out through the open door. I
breathed a sigh of relief. It was only when I was half way
back to my office that I felt the presence again. The feeling
of being followed. I looked back but instinctively knew I
would not see anything. I desperately needed to get back into
the office. I needed to communicate with Michael. Was another
spirit following me? Was it friendly? What would happen if it
met Michael and got into my place of work. I was afraid and
yet at the same time excited.
Janet has documented
this encounter in more graphic detail for her own records but
I have relayed the content to you so that you can understand
how what happened actually took place. From my point of view
the results were nothing short of spectacular.
I was
waiting by the door for Janet to return. The minute the door
opened I realised that her visit had been a success. That same
flash of light and gut wrenching experience as an aura of
something past me by and made straight down the office
corridor. Jack had arrived.
There is much more to
tell. How did we get Jack to contact us?. I think you already
know the answer. How did he manage to leave the building so
easily? This is due to Janet and is not a common trait in all
humans. She is a rare individual although there are others
just like her. There are some mediums who are aware of their
gift and some just normal individuals who do not wish to
advertise themselves. The good thing about Janet is that she
has no wish to advertise her services as a medium or to profit
from her experience. She is just pleased to be of assistance
to us and to struggle to understand what is happening and how
these things work. It is a learning curve for all of us.
Nothing is set in concrete. Well, apart from my remains. I
trust Janet implicitly.
Whether you are a sceptic or
an interested reader, no matter. I hope that you will learn
something from this. If you do not then I have wasted my time.
If sometime in the future you feel that you are not alone then
please, do not dismiss this feeling. Experiment. However
stupid you may feel it is worth the effort. Keep your findings
to yourself until you are sure that what you are experiencing
has substance. When you are sure, tread carefully, understand
that many would not believe you and that there is no gain in
making a fool out of yourself. If you do understand, you are a
gifted person. You are one of a small minority of genuine
individuals that has a most wonderful gift and you are of
benefit to others. Always act with respect to your contacts
wishes. Confirm with them any action you may take and consider
the implications from your contacts point of view. This is the
best advice I can give you.
I have things to do. I
will come back later. Thank you for being so understanding. I
wish you nothing but good will. Enjoy your life and live it to
the full. Being alive is a wonderful thing. Breath deep. Press
your hand against your heart. You are alive. This is all that
matters. No matter how depressed you may feel sometimes, the
worries of finance or personal relationships are things that
can be overcome, and, often with regard to material things,
are of little relevance. Live for today. You never know what
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Posted: Mon Jan
19, 2004 5:53 pm Post
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Micheal,
Your story
is very intresting and should be made into a book, just 1
question you type VERY quick !! which makes me think your
human !! prove me wrong  | |
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Posted: Mon Jan
19, 2004 5:58 pm Post
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My dear
friend. I cannot prove you wrong. I can type exceptionally
quick these days. My skills have improved. Hour after hour on
a computer. I can now type as fast as any human.
I
will return but I have a busy schedule. I must watch the news.
It has started now. Then Midlands today. I cannot possibly
miss Emmerdale and Coronation Street. I will be back at 8pm. I
will endeavour to answer your questions.
I must watch
the film tonight. It's called Ghost and it is on Channel Five.
I always make sure I watch anything to do with ghosts. It is
often most amusing.
Your truly
Michael | |
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Posted: Mon Jan
19, 2004 6:01 pm Post
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thanks for that Michael,
that was superhuman quick !! enjoy the news, ill be waiting
for your return x  | |
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Kate76 Guest
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Posted: Mon Jan
19, 2004 6:10 pm Post
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Hi Michael
I must admit to
being sceptical about you being a ghost, but I guess everyone
has their own opinion! I have to say though that this is the
best read I've ever had, you have had me sat here ages reading
through your story and I cannot wait for the next instalment
Take care and keep smiling Love and
wishes Kate xx
PS thanks for reminding me about
the film Ghost, I'll get my tissues ready | |
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Posted: Mon Jan
19, 2004 6:32 pm Post
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I am going now, will be
back tomorrow for next installment. By the way the film
Ghost is rubbish, have a great night with Jack.
Bye
for now  | |
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Posted: Mon Jan
19, 2004 6:44 pm Post
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too many things here just
don't seem to fit. first is the wireless card on the laptop,
the wireless transmission waves are passing through the air
all the time if your clse to a hub, it doens't matter if the
wireless card is turned on or not and the electronics in the
card are no different then those in any other electronic
gadget
also if that was really janet telling her
story, wouldn't she have read the rest of the posts and now
known where the body was? not to mention the fact that the
writing styles of our Mr. Penninton and those of miss janet
sound the same.
i would say the guy has a future in
novels however, don't have to reveal your identity there
either, gotta love penn names
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Posted: Mon Jan
19, 2004 6:51 pm Post
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hi micheal i hope you enjoy
your soaps you should watch eastenders thats even better
ok just for instance sake if you are a ghost
may i ask the question did you believe in god when you where
alive and of you did do you still believe in god now ? if
you do believe in god may i ask arnt you mad your not in
heaven ? all the best faeden | |
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Posted: Mon Jan
19, 2004 7:24 pm Post
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I think Pat has the
foundations of her book set in stone ! | |
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Posted: Mon Jan
19, 2004 8:12 pm Post
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Thank you
Emily. I still feel compelled to watch the film. It may
contain something of interest. Jack sends his regards. Ben,
there are many things that do not make sense to me as well. I
have no idea how or why the wireless transmission enables me
to communicate the way I do. With regard to Janet, it is not
Janet telling the story. I am just relaying to everyone what
she has told me. She does have her own account as I mentioned
but it will be very similar to what I have written which of
course is written in my own words.
Janet has no need
to read the posts although she does actually read them every
day. She already knows the outcome and all the details. She
reads them more for the replies and the comments that you all
post. She already knows where my body is buried. With regard
to a future in novels this is not really of any great
incentive to me. I really would not know how to spend the
money apart from the fact that cashing a cheque would be most
difficult.
Thank you Faeden I have watched Eastenders
before. I have a passion for real life documentaries and
soaps. I am sure you can understand this. The matter of
believing in God is a difficult question to answer. I have to
admit that if you had asked me when I was alive I would have
probably said no. If however you had asked me to fill out a
form which requested my religion I would automatically have
completed it with ‘Church of England’. I am none the wiser in
the affairs of the Church as when I was alive. I have no idea
whether or not he exists. I am sceptical. Still sceptical. I
have no reason to be angry with a God I have not seen or
experienced. My views in this matter have not changed much
since my death.
Badger – There is no book. Pat did not
write my memoirs. She has also quite clearly stated that she
has not written the book. If the book were to be written you
can rest assured that each and every one of you would be given
a free copy. Perhaps I should register my claim now to the
copyright of this material in order to insure that you all get
a free copy if it is ever published. Yes, I think this is a
good idea. I, Michael Pennington, deceased, do hereby register
my copyright and grant full rights to my friend Janet or
future authorised publishers as designated by her, to provide
free copies to all those that are interested in reading my
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Posted: Mon Jan
19, 2004 8:59 pm Post
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what was your occupation if
you dont mind me asking ??and how do you fill your days and
nights apart from watching tv and using the pc .?
Anna  | |
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Forgive the pun but `set in
stone` i thought would be a good name for her book if she
decided to write one along these lines, to this goes my
copyright, lol, I am interested in the fact you have mentioned
your enconters or you have knowledge of many many other spirit
persons. You have touched on the edges of poltergeist and
there conection with naughty behavour. Please can you tell us
if you have encounterd or have any veiws on a more sinister
nature of spirit ( Demon). Or are you a believer that these
sort of enterty are in the minds of humans and are created out
of our own emagination. Please could you also tell me what
your line of work was before your unfortunate events. Forgive
me if you have already said. I feel your story is getting more
and more interest not sure if you wanted this kind of
marketing, but it has worked a gem. As the saying goes
Captivate your audiance. I have many more questions for you,
but as you stated there is a time and place for such things.
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Posted: Mon Jan
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more importantly how did
you fill your nights the 30 years before the tv and pc.
get janet to open an account and then have the money
from the book you would write direct deposited to that account
then have her get a debit or credit card from that account
that you can then use online to buy new electronic gadgets :p
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Posted: Mon Jan
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Hi Has any of your
family visited the building, since the police have now been
informed? I take it that the firm now know of your existance
and would allow the family to visit. Have the police or
the firm now witnessed your typing? Thanks Deb | |
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Posted: Mon Jan
19, 2004 9:41 pm Post
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Hello Jack will you also be
posting ?? i would like to hear your story ,no pressure of
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Posted: Mon Jan
19, 2004 10:15 pm
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Hello again Micheal.
You spoke earlier that Janet is hoping to take
photographs of you, to see if there is any evidence of a
presence. Those of us who are members of the Most Haunted
forum regularly discuss and examine evidence of so called
'ghost' pictures. Normally the pictures seem to show one large
or a number of smaller 'orbs', (round light anomalies), which,
Most Haunted specialists claim to be the first indication of a
spirit attempting to materialise. I would be interesrted to
find out if this is what Janet finds on the pictures she takes
of you. It will probably give sceptics something to think
about! Is there a chance that, if there is anything on the
photo's, we will get the opportunity to see them?
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Posted: Mon Jan
19, 2004 10:18 pm
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Please do carry on with
your story
Anna | |
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Posted: Mon Jan
19, 2004 10:25 pm
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Hi Was the famous
carrying firm Thomas Clayton based at the building you are in?
Deb | |
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Posted: Mon Jan
19, 2004 10:26 pm
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hi micheal thank you for
your reply. there is a ghost photo part of ghosts-uk where
you can upload your photos to for everyone to see and comment
on im sure everyone will be interested in seeing them fakes or
not. all th best faeden | |
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Posted: Mon Jan
19, 2004 10:30 pm
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Hello again
my friends. Anna, my occupation was that of manager of a small
textile firm. There is little else to occupy ourselves other
than watching TV and using the PC. Both Jack and I correspond
with each other by type and appreciate each others company. We
are very limited of course in what we can do and as we do not
eat or drink and cannot travel, there is a very limited range
of options available to us. That having been said, the
internet provides a wide range of activities and the chance to
correspond with others in a similar situation to ourselves. I
am not complaining at all.
Ben is right to ask what I
did for 30 years before the TV and the PC. That was a
miserable existence. I couldn’t really do anything then except
watch out of a window. The nights were awful. Wandering around
in the dark , pacing round and round in the same timeless
circles. I would never wish to return to that. I try to put
those dreadful days aside and not think about them.
Badger – thank you for the title. I doubt that there
will be a book but I thank you for your suggestion. I have met
several poltergeists. I do not really like the term
poltergeist as from my experience I only know that there are
good spirits and bad spirits and that the term poltergeist is
applied to spirits or ghosts that are merely trying to attract
attention to themselves rather than being demons or bad
people. However, as is the case in the real world, there are
good and bad and the nature of the presence or spirit will
very much depend on what type of a person they were in real
life. I suppose that you could say, if someone was evil in
real life and ended up as a spirit, it is unlikely that they
will be any different. By that I mean they would still be
evil. Similarly so, a good person would remain a good spirit.
Much of this is indeed in the mind of humans. The human
imagination manufacturers demons and bad spirits. As an
example, a person will take a walk in the countryside on a hot
summers day and admire their surroundings and be thankful that
they are enjoying such beauty. Take that same person and place
them in the same spot at 2 am at night and they will not be
very happy, they will often be afraid and imagine strange and
creepy happenings when in reality nothing has changed. The
only difference is that the temperature is cooler and the sun
has gone in. Humans should have more fear of fellow humans
and not from the supernatural.
Deb – My family has
visited the building. I will tell you about this tomorrow. The
managing Director of the company that Janet works for is now
aware of the situation. They have been very helpful if not
sceptical. The police or the firm has not actually seen my
typing. This would be hard to justify. But they have
information that is sufficient to convince them that Janet is
telling the truth. They are just very intrigued as to how she
obtained it. I will provide more information tomorrow.
Jack has no wish to post. He has no interest in
posting to the living. He says he has nothing to gain by doing
so and feels that I am wasting my time. He is amused by my
writings. He does understand that things are different for me
and that it was important for me to establish contact with my
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This is a
very time consuming business answering all these questions.
Many of them would be answered if I just continued my story.
Listener I will endeavour to provide photographs, if indeed
they actually show anything. I have seen many examples on the
internet but I am sure that most of them are fakes. They do
not seem to be logical. The orb or images of light does seem
to make more sense. We will find out after Saturday I suppose.
I notice that Faeden has also requested the photographs.
Deb – I do not know is the answer to that. There are
documents to show that a different firm to the one you mention
was at once present in the building but revealing that would
be revealing my whereabouts.
Anna, you are right, the
story is getting lost in a barrage of questions. I should try
and finish it. My energy levels are low tonight. Jack says the
same thing. It happens like that. We have much to do. We have
people calling us. We are neglecting our callers. Here is a
little more information for you to digest.
When Jack
arrived on the scene that evening it was certainly a memorable
experience. He has become a good companion to me and a close
friend of Janet’s too. He has mastered the technique of
communication. His first attempts, like mine, were clumsy and
incredibly slow. He has learned fast though. He is also
capable of moving objects. I find this fascinating. He has no
desire to move back to his old building and is quite settled
and at home here.
I cannot see Jack, save for the aura
that he gives off. To describe it I would say that it is very
much like a shadow but with a tinge of colour. He has
confirmed that he views me the same way. Our shapes are not
clearly defined but barely visible to each other. It does help
us avoid the unpleasant experience of colliding, although
occasionally this still happens. Janet continues to feel our
presence, more strongly now, but finds it impossible to
distinguish between our two spirits or to know which of us is
standing by her side. She has to rely on typed messages in
order to know who is communicating. It is a bit like charades
sometimes. We have to put our name to text each time we type
her a message or she has no idea which one of us is calling
her. Using ICQ does help of course. The user name quickly lets
her know the identity of the caller.
The strange thing
is that I have to communicate with Jack in the very same way
as I do with Janet. The messages typed up on her screen each
day would appear most odd to any onlooker. When you have
nothing else to do except learn and chat it is amazing just
how much information that you absorb and the ingenious way in
which you find out about each other. I have an idea what Jack
looks like. Not because I can see him but because I found an
internet site with pages full of people. I scanned through
them until I found one that looked similar to me. Jack did the
same. It was a source of great amusement for us. Jack of
course does have the benefit of already having seen me alive.
Jack finds it very amusing that I am bothering to
communicate with the living at all. He is happy about Janet
but he has no living family left on this earth and spends his
time looking for their spirits on the internet, in the hope
that they too, are somewhere out there with access to the
world wide web. A long shot, but I can fully understand why he
will not give up.
Before anyone asks, I am already in
contact with my own family. For me the task of catching up on
30 odd years is not as difficult as Jack’s. My daughter and my
wife are fully aware of my existence. They have visited me on
many occasions. They are visiting me again this weekend. I
have to rely on Janet’s hospitality of course, and I know this
is taking up so much of her time, but she assures me that she
is quite happy with the situation.
The hardest part
about meeting up with your loved ones is that whilst you can
see them and hear them talk you are still restricted to having
to type messages in order to be understood. Janet had spent
the best part of a month tracing my wife who had moved twice
and also re married. My daughter now lives in Wales and she
was actually easier to find than my wife. What a shock it was
meeting them again. My beautiful wife was a pensioner and my
lovely daughter is entering middle age. I suppose I should
have known better. I don’t know what I was expecting but it
was a strange re union.
The hardest part was relying
on Janet and her compassion in explaining why she had brought
them here to an office in Birmingham to discuss some details
about me. She refused to tell them anything in any detail in
advance, and insisted that they actually agreed to visit the
office and listen to what she had to say. They took some
convincing and I am sure that it was curiosity that got the
better of them in the end.
Just where do you start to
unravel such a strange and surreal tale to the living. How do
you break it to them gently that you know the details of what
happened to someone who disappeared some 30 years previously.
You can imagine their reaction. Janet was good at giving them
every minute detail in bite sized chunks. She plied them with
strong coffee and delicately spent over two hours going over
the whole story. They listened intently, occasionally looking
at each other and then back to Janet in disbelief and dismay.
At one point I thought my wife, I stand corrected, my ex wife,
was going to leave and dismiss Janet as a disturbed and
dangerous person, but it was down to some of the information
that I had given her previously that kept their interest from
wavering and assured their willingness to continue listening.
After they had been provided with all the necessary
information, Janet announced to them that I was in the room
with them. My ex wife was a pensioner now and this was a
matter that needed some skilful explaining. As usual Janet was
faultless. Her caring nature ensured that when the time was
ready for me to start typing, they were prepared. That is, as
well prepared as anyone can be, considering the circumstances.
I will not bore you with the full details of our
conversation or the intimate details I had to reveal in order
to convince my wife and daughter that the mysterious type
appearing in front of them was indeed their long lost husand
and father. There are things that only a family know. There
are moments only a family share. This ensured that by the end
of the evening they were in absolutely no doubt as to my
identity. From that day forward our relationships have been re
kindled and we have had a lot of catching up to do.
One of the first things that Jack was able to tell me
was regarding the details of my own death. He had seen it all
from the window of the building he was trapped in. He
remembers every detail. He has provided a full description of
the culprits. Not much use you would think after all these
years. Quite the contrary, it has enabled us, with the help of
Janet to build up a very detailed picture of what happened,
the names of the people involved and an exact re construction
of the murder. There is one final piece of evidence that needs
to be recovered in order to satisfy a jury and convict the
culprits of my murder.
Again, I will give you this
account in my own words but based on what Jack has revealed to
us. I will give you this tomorrow. Some 33 years later and we
almost at the point where we can hand the details over to the
police. This is an eventful period in my existence. Until
soon.
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thought i had heard this
name before.
Johnny Vegas (aka Michael Pennington) won
the Festival Critics' Award at the 1997 Edinburgh Festival,
and was the first newcomer to be nominated for the Perrier
Award. He presented The Big Breakfast during its twilight
days, is a regular panellist on Shooting Stars and made a
memorable guest appearance on Room 101, revealing an unhealthy
obsession with chat room pubs. He also got a smile out of Anne
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Posted: Mon Jan
19, 2004 11:04 pm
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It must be very traumatic
for your family to go through this. but in another way it
must also be a fascinating experience. How many grieving
families would love the opportunity to make contact with a
deceased loved one?
They must feel very fortunate. How
does it make you feel (for yourself and for your family)?
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