My dad is deathly afraid of ghosts.
He watches scary movies and excuses himself to the bathroom. You can see his hair poking around the corner as he peers at the TV from a safe distance. He sits ridiculously close to people.
In the middle of the night, we had an earthquake a few years ago. He ran to find my mother, woke her up, and told her his bed was shaking. A ghost was in there. lol.
He will not buy a house without asking if someone died in it first.
Do you have any family members with serious supernatural or superstitions?
I just want to say that your father sounds delightful. That's adorable.
Many family membrs are still Mormon, so yes. They all wear the "sacred" underwear (although they refer to them as "temple garments" )
sacred underwear .. LOL
My mother thinks Bigfoot is real. She also believes eating soup on New Year's Eve will bring her money. It's been decades and still counting.....her pennies lol
All the religious stuff too like the ash on her forehead etc.
I am not really in contact with the majority of my blood relatives. I didn't grow up with them and don't really know them but many of them are either thumperZ or TrumperZ and they all live in the south so it's possible that they don't like me just for being from the Left coast.
My grandmother had one that I found endearing. She was afraid to fly and never traveled on an airplane, until one day she had to and she was convinced the plane didn't crash because of the shirt she was wearing. So, every time she flew, she'd wear her "lucky shirt." When she passed away, we made sure to include it in the casket.
My Dad and his family did have a couple. An uncle from Oklahoma was driving us kids some place in Imperial Beach in the mid 1950s. A black cat ran across the road and he hut the brakes and did a u-turn and went back and up and way around so as to not cross it's path. Now that was hilarious to us kids.
My dad is just deathly afraid of bears. For some reason.. But my mom is absolutely terrified of the exorcist. According to her she was reading the book over night and her window slammed shut. she took it as a sign or whatever and refuses to ever read or watch it
Nope.
My siblings, and wealthy relatives on my mom's side are mostly liberal, non-practicing United Methodists.
I have some religious conservative cousins on my dad's side, but I mostly avoid them.
None of them are superstitious in the "knock on wood" sense and most of them consider ME the wild eyed eccentric for going to Thailand and wasting my time photographing birds.
My neighbors have had both a mother and a brother die inside their house. Not long ago Peggy was going to have repair work done in her bedroom and told me she didn't know where she would sleep. I told her to sleep in Jimmie's room. He's the brother that died there. She says she just couldn't do that as it was his room. I asked her if she thought her brother would ever hurt her. "Of course not," she said. Then I replied that she could sleep in his room after all. She just started a slow, wide grin as though her problem was solved.
My mother believes in god. Okay, she believes in ghosts too.
When my brother and I were 10 & 11 we played an elaborate prank on a cousin to convince him that our house was haunted. My mother, who was aware of the prank in general, still insists that we couldn't have caused everything she remembers having happened. We didn't, a lot of that shit didn't happen.
My grandfather as vey superstitious. I only know this from the stories my father told me. After the family came home qafter an exausting day, my grandfather saw the cat washing itself (a sign your getting company) He abruptly threw the cat out of the house. lol
A nephew accompanied me to a tattoo shop to get my tattoo. With all the depictions of the devil on the walls he made the sign of the cross with a crucifix hanging around his neck. He must have gone to a "religious" tattoo artist for his tats.
Have a brother who is a pastor. That is as superstition as you get.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain..????????
My family: My aunt is a ghost hunter. My mom was a wiccan, now she's agnostic (I think). My dad believed he was visited by aliens. ... but you were asking about superstititons. Both my aunt and mom wipe down shopping cart handles with wet wipes for fear that there may be fentanyl on them. I count taking mega doses as Vitamin C as superstitious, so everyone.