This topic is to discuss the paranormal and anything related to the paranormal, such as television shows talking about paranormal activity, articles, personal stories and accounts, documentaries, books, etc. Topics are open and can range from ghosts, bigfoot, poltergeists, and hypnosis...to ESP, "white noise", outer body experiences, and mind reading; among a vast array of others.

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ooo very interesting topic El Barto. Speaking of the paranormal, I believe that ghosts are really out there, this is difficult to explain but a few years back in my town, numerous amount of people have sworn that they saw the ghost of an old librarian that used to work at the Public Library herself. In 2001, the current library assistant at the time with the name of Sheryl Talor who would usually clean the library had a real encounter with the ghost.
“I was cleaning the library. I needed to take some boxes into the basement and for some reason I have never really cared for going down there. It is a part of the original Carnegie building and I have always felt when I go downstairs that I am intruding into someone’s aura,” she explains. “On this particular evening, it just seemed that the air felt unsettled in the building. As soon as I placed the boxes on the floor and turned to go upstairs, I thought I saw something in the far basement room. Naturally, the scaredy-cat that I am, I hurriedly turned to the stairs to run. All of a sudden what I thought could be someone was a blur behind me on the stairs and it stopped as if I was supposed to stay. I looked over my shoulder again and saw a matronly woman surrounded by a hazy mist. She was dressed from an older era. I thought ‘okay, get it together, no one will believe this one, that I saw a ghost.’”

Here's how she feels about the ghost.
“I never have the feeling that she, herself, wants to leave or that she wants me to leave the building,” said Taylor. “It’s as if she knows I only want to do the best for the library. There is a mutual respect of our shared space. I feel she wants me to know that she is present.”
Miss Taylor felt a strong presence near her and it's very possible that she easily imagined the situation, but they now have a webcam observing the library.
I myself, have never seen a ghost but I believe that I have been followed by a few ghosts,
many times I find someone whispering things into my ear and there is no one there, also I found boxes moved around my room when I was asleep.
To read about the library ghost look at this website:
http://www.indianaghosts.org/ghoststories/...brary_ghost.htm

I also feel at times that mind reading is in fact real. I may sound crazy but a lot of times I finsih peoples sentences having no clue how I actually knew that is what they were going to say. I often feel like thoughts that enter my mind are definately not mine. I am extremely confused about this situation, but I really think that I could be reading people's minds. This may also sound a tinsy bit nuts, but in sports such as basketball, I believe I can enter my opponent's minds and control them to make them make mistakes in the sports, basketball for instance, I can cause them to miss shots if I want to.
Call me crazy but I really believe I can do such things.

All the credit goes to *dementor*, who suggested it in the suggestions thread.

That was a pretty interesting story hermione rox. If it were me I'd be out of there. But I think its really interesting in that she is interacting with the spirit and doesn't freak out, at least freak out to the point where she'd flee the scene. It would be really weird helping her out and a ghost was following you.

Have you heard about the story, I believe in Houston, Texas, where a while back a school bus was on train tracks and was hit by the train? They say the ghosts of the children will help your car over the train tracks if you stall. One person even put some powder on her car, put the car in neutral and her car went over the tracks. She checked her car and saw a bunch of hand prints on it. But that story makes you think...why was the bus on the train tracks? If it had stalled, surely the kids could have gotten out in time or else the bus would have never dared cross over due to the warning that a train is coming.

About three years ago I was sitting outside in the dark in my backyard...I was really depressed at the time...and all of the sudden I heard the faint sound of singing and it uplifted me (not physically...but I didn't feel depressed anymore). I wonder what that could have been.

One last thing...Also about three years ago I was going on a religious retreat with my senior class's religion class (if that made sense). The night before I decided to go to sleep early. Well, I turned over and saw an apparition of a goat's head just floating next to my bed. I know you probably think I'm making it up or that I'm silly (or what have you). But I'll take the criticism, I know it was a goat's head. I always thought that it was an evil being trying to persuade me from not going on the retreat (even though it was a school requirement). I decided to think nothing of it, or out of fear I just rolled over and fell asleep. Of course, the next day I try to tell the priest who came with us and my religion teacher what I had saw but they brushed it off as a hallucination or they didn't really care.

I have a few other weird stories but I want to hear everyone else's!

Hhmmm... I do not believe in ghosts, poltergeists or aliens, I have to admit.
I'm pretty sure that humans are able to explain everything, maybe not now but later. Two hundred years ago everyone would have told you that is impossible for humans to fly, that only dark magic could do this and today it is pretty normal.

About reading minds: I think that humans (if they are aware of it or not) are able to dedicate from the body languange and facial expression what the other one thinks. Maybe there really is something like telepathy but you need a certain potential in your brain to use it. I recommend the movie 'Phenomenon' for this theme.

Hermione rox, as for the boxes in your room that moved: it may not be possible that you are a sleepwalker? That you yourself moved the boxes while you were asleep? Thus you would not know it, because (as far as I know) sleepwalkers don't remember what they do)...

Maybe we could call ourselves paranormal? Because scientists can (until now) not explain everything about the human boday and brain, nor do they know how life emerged about 4 billion years ago.

I don't mean to nitpick (or what have you) but I think scientists theorize that life began about 250 million years ago, or about that (maybe 500 million years?). I think you might be thinking of how the Earth was formed 4 billion years ago. Correct me if I'm wrong of course.

But speaking of life starting and other possibilities...what if there was a civilization on Earth all those millions of years ago, but was lost due to, for instance, over consumption of natural resources. We would have no trace of it because of various tectonic activities. Just a thought, of course.

Not to turn into Ms. Scientific here or anything but.. the Earth formed approximately 4.5 Billion years ago, no record of any life around 500 million years.. (I'm guessing that one) but there was no way life could've thrived 4.5 billion years ago.
Okay done with those facts...
DoubleD- You may be right.. I am in fact a sleepwalker.. Okay I'm not anymore but I used to be when I was younger.. but I know everytime I would sleepwalk I'd wake up somewhere else.. and remember small flashes of what I did, if I could.. besides those boxes were extremely heavy, theres no way I could've pushed them.
I must admit that mind reading is in fact realistic.. seeing as I'm always saying what others would say.. or was thinking what they said.. but it's not the type of things I'd ever think.. hard to explain.. but believe me if you want.

Paranormal things? Interesting.... I have had a few paranormal experiences in my life. Lets see my Gram's old farmhouse which my mother and I both grew up in was and still is haunted. It used to creep me out when I was younger but as I got older the noises and different things did not bother me as much. Now my son was so scared of that house that he refused to even sleep in it at night, so he would sleep in my Grams camper. Now the "ghosts" did not scare my daughter, they actually "entranced" her. Reading minds is also fascinating. I have what I like to term ESP. I dream of things one day then sometime down the road the events I dreamt of happen.....

Marcey

I am pretty open minded about most things. I do believe that my old house was haunted, but by who I never found out. I didn't come to that decsion easily, I had to exclude all other explanations before I settled on the haunted theory. Saying that though, I scare easily, I'm a complete wuss!

Another avenue of the paranormal that I have explored is that of the psychic. About 10 years ago, my friend and I went to a phychic fair for a laugh. Dotted around the room were a number of people claiming to be able to 'read me'. One particular guy had a long queue at the beginning of the evening and later on when it was quieter, I decided that I would like to have a reading by him.

I was his last 'client' and as time was running out he said that he's just hold my hands and see what he could feel from me. Firstly, let me explain what he told me, then I'll tell you how I interpretted his reading.

He said that my dad was dead and that he was with Eve. Eve gave me a toy when I was younger...a doll.

He said that my brother was a bit of a black sheep and things had not been resolved before my dad had died.

He said that I had no pictures/photos of my dad on display in my house.

He told me that I had a serious stomach problem.

He said that I would have another baby.

He also said some other rather personal things that I'd rather not tell so I'll leave those out!

Initially, although some of the things seemed true, I poo pooed them as utter coincidence, but then things started to happen....

Yes, my dad was dead, he had died 12 years before. I didn't know who Eve was, until I spoke to my mum who told me about an aunt I never knew called Yvonne who had died just before I was born. Yvonne had made me a teddy bear.

My brother had left home to live with someone my dad didn't approve of, I didn't know at the time, but they and argued about this and never resolved it.

I checked my house, indeed I did not have one solitary picture of my dad on display (I have done ever since).

A year later I gave birth to my unplanned 3rd child, and then was diagnosed with a chronic liver virus.

Make of it what you will. I have never returned to another psychic, one was wierd enough for me!

Wow...paranormal is my kind of thing.
I really enjoyed reading your stories. We have all come across with weird phenomena we can't explain, which is what makes this topic so interesting.
Most of you believe in ghosts and in paranormal in general, except from DoubleD. I accept what you are saying, that we call paranormal what we can't explain. And i accept that we should be reasonable enough by now to accept the fact that when we die, we die. But, believing in ghosts eg reflects a deeper human need: the need to believe that we are not completely lost after our death and that our soul doesn't simply vanish. It doesn't matter if one is a religious person or an atheist, everyone has this need. Just my opinion!

Personally, i believe that there must be something left from us after our death. Our soul is some kind of energy and we all know that energy doesn't disappear, but turns itself into something else. Scientists say this, and i accept it. As for ghosts, i don't know if they have a human form, are white and pale. But i think that a dead man's energy is somewhere around. Numerous times have I felt the existence of a discarnate being. It's hard to explain. But i have felt some cold waves of air inside my room at times, something really weird. The house is new, i mean no one has died inside of it, but i believe there are "people" all around us. I will quote something i read in a story. There was this guy who said "You don't believe in ghosts, so they don't appear to you. They may not even appear to people who believe in them. A headless ghost of a muss murderer might have walked right in front of you, but you had not even felt it." Or something like that.

Reading one's mind. Again, scientists believe that our mind, while processing pieces of information, create a magnetic field full of energy. When two fields meet, people might develop the same thoughts. I think this could explain why we finish one's sentence at times or why we say the same thing at the same time with someone else. I don't think this is paranormal. Our brain has amazing abilities and it is really sad that we have explored so little of it. We have been to the moon, but our own brain is as unexplored as foreign galaxies.

I really liked the psychic story Elaine posted. This is so interesting. I always believed these people are a huge fraud who say things that could apply to anyone. You know, just like signs. But wow! I wonder how these people do it. Maybe they are in touch with an inner self or a deeper ability? Maybe their mind is more open to paranormal? Who knows. I wish I could do this as well. I mean, my mum sees prophetic dreams. It is really spooky. I have these dreams as well but very rarely. I have intuition. Not so strong now, but when i was younger, back at school, i could feel when something would happen.

As a conclusion, i want to say that everyone has abilities we could call "paranormal". However, just like with every other ability, if we don't develop it or suppress it, it will eventually fade...
I'll be back soon with some paranormal stories from the internet!

Like I said, I am a complete wuss and am very easily scared. So earlier this evening, I'm reading through some paranormal stories and came across this one......



How freaky is that. Anyway if you want to have nightmares or tell a few ghostly tales around the campfire for Hallowe'en, I recommend this site. I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight...again!

Edit: So I should have logged off of that site hours ago, but I found myself inexplicably drawn to the personal stories. I then listened to the 'Scariest EVP ever'. Yep, it was pretty freaky, I had to have someone listen with me.

What's the deal with this Ouija thing? Is it like a board used to summon spirits? I remember seeing something like that in a movie, What lies beneath i think it was called. This totally freaked me out Elaine. And i want to sleep tonight!
This reminds me of a story I've heard. I am pretty sure it is an Urban Legend, but it is quite creepy. So, ok. There is this game, a dashboard, through which you can summon dead people. If you summon an evil spirit, you must blow inside a glass in order to send it away. So there were these kids who did this and ended up calling a bad spirit. They could hear it getting closer and closer but they freaked out so much that they didn't blow inside the glass and they died.
Fake huh? It certainly creeps you out, no matter how fake it seems!...
I have chills now, and it is past midnight. Oh boy, i might leave a light on.

The paranormal: I'm a believer.

I've been haunted for decades now. Or, perhaps followed is a more precise description of the experience, although it tends to envelope those around me, too.

In his early 20's my mother's older brother was killed in a tragic car accident that also took the life of my mother's grandparents. That makes him my uncle (deceased, of course), but apparently, he didn't move on.

I've not seen him. Friends of mine, my brother (so called as we are close, but not related), and children have seen him. Described what they saw perfectly, yet knew nothing about him. Upon being shown a photo, the adults were shocked, my brother flat fainted, and the kids all giggle...that's him!!!

Things around the houses move. Now, I use the plural here, because I've lived in many houses and he eventually shows up. Sometimes immediately, sometimes we have months.
Things disappear. Car keys are the most prominent. Then, later (minutes, hours or days) they reappear right where they were left. Never does one of the missing key events occur when I don't wonder if we'd have been in some fated accident had we been able to leave when we wanted, rather than be delayed for missing keys.

I could go on for pages telling tales of the events I've witnessed. I have to believe in the paranormal, because I live with it all the time.

Lummy dee! That's freakishly comforting!

I wonder why it is that you have never seen him yourself. Maybe he knows you don't need to.

With Hallowe'en just around the corner, there are allsorts of random spooky shows popping up on TV.

Last night there was one called Ghost Hunting with....and the with is usually a celebrity. This show is hosted by a lady called Yvetee Feilding who is well known here in the UK for a paranormal investigation show called 'Most Haunted' Anyway, the 'with' last night was a band called McFly, anyone who knows me well will know who McFly are.

Well, it was so funny. They were taken to 3 different alleged haunted locations. At various points in the show they were left alone. It just goes to show how when you put take these four friends out of their comfort zone with each other, and place them in a situation which they have no control over, how petrified they became.

The climax of the show was when Yvette took them off one by one and dared them to spend a certain amount of time in areas of a castle where they had already witnessed 'paranormal' activity. It was amazing how two of them agreed under duress and only because they didn't want to appear to be wussies in front of their friends. The other two completely bottled it saying thanks but no thanks.

Hugely entertaining, but I don't think I'd have done it had I been in their shoes!

Dorthy, doesn't all of this scare you? I know that after a while you get used to seeing weird things happening around your house, but still, i could not witness my cereal box flying without being scared to death. I don't remember seeing things like that happen to any of the houses i've lived in. Though i have felt cold waves of air out of nowhere, but this can not be compared at all with what you describe.

Elaine, all this "haunted places" thing reminds me so much of 1408. I have already had two dreams about a haunted hotels that would not let us escape and i actually saw that if you ate the food the hotel offered you, you would be doomed to live there forever. That was Ocreepy...

And speaking of paranormal, have you ever heard the phone ringing and after a while it actually did? It has happened to me a few times. Not ghost-like, but yet paranormal.

Oh and Elaine, i'd like to hear more stories on Ouija!

This story goes for you Darcy!




Maybe your uncle really tries to help you out.

I have heard a number of these 'urban legends' about mysterious phone calls from dead relatives warning about operations, travel plans etc. Still, thry are pretty freaky.

If you find the Ouija tales 'fun' then look at this site.....but I warn you, enter with caution oooooooH

Urban legends are really cool actually. Maybe we should open a topic about them as well. There are so much to say!

I have read a couple of stories and i've got to say they totally freaked me out. And now, it is raining outside which makes it even more scaring. Brrrr...
I just wonder how all of this works. I just can't believe that you use a dashboard and Abra Katabra here's your spirit. And no matter how scared i feel right now and how much of a wuss i am, i would want to give it a try. Though i like sleeping at nights.

I just believe that spirits around us do not want to harm us, or at least harm those who had never been mean to them. They had been once alive and hurting a person doesn't seem to me like their priority. I believe that most spirits are here to help their loved ones and protect them from getting hurt, if they are open enough to paranormal in general. I guess we will never find out..Till then, i will keep my eyes shut to weird shadows against my wall.

Elaine: I've wondered from time to time why others actually see the image of him and I never have; I came to realize that I don't need to see him to know he is present. I've been angered at him, frustrated by him and delighted, too. He's made me cry and made my heart sing with joy (that's an amazing story that I need the right frame of mind to recount.. and I will do it here eventually).

His name is Walter and he is just... a part of our family. My daughter knows of him, about him, believes she's seen him watch her lots of times. She gets spooked from time to time, but I don't.

Walter has saved Cheyenne's life twice that I know of for certain, because I was once there to prevent her death through the action of my cat (that's another story, too), and once because he told me something I must do. Which saved her from being hit by a Jeep. There was NOT a second to spare either. I was shaken for days afterwards. She is my only child and all I will ever have. I was a wreck.

My man gets pranked by him more than anyone. I find that amusing. Things get "lost" and then "reappear" as though they were always there. Things get opened. Sometimes, the dog gets locked somewhere no-one has been? The dog gets pretty ticked, though we just shake our heads. Never has Walter harmed us or anyone that visits us. Walter's just HERE.

Some people come to our house for the first time and spend all their time rubbing their arms and looking over their shoulders; they don't even know about him. I find it funny. People seem to feel him inherently.

Aliski: No, I'm never frightened or scared. For whatever reason he lives with me, he protects us in ways we could not protect ourselves. I do not know why, but I quit questioning it. He just is and he just does. That's what I do know. The rest is a complete mystery to me.

Sometimes months go by and he is gone. We've talked about knowing he's gone, feeling the loss of his presence and wondered where he goes. There have been times I've thought he would be gone for good, and attributed it to the fact my life was good and I was happy. But, when he's needed he's here.
We'd had nothing happen for an entire spring, when he told me to go..go..go... and I kept Chey from being hit by the Jeep. It was phenomenal.
He stayed for a while, we all knew he was "around" and then he left for a bit.

It just is. I just accept it. Truthfully, I hope he needs us, as much as I've needed him all these years.

Oh. Yes. My mom gets irritated that he's here with me and no-one else. My mom has things disappear when he she visits on a regular basis. I laugh. I always tell her I must need him more than anyone else. Even though she got know him and I never did.

Aliski, that's a good idea: an Urban Legend thread!!! I like it.

Wow, Dorthy! I can't believe it's taken me this long to read your post. Being someone who has had no experience at all with the paranormal, even I find your story a bit freaky. I couldn't even imagine what it must be like. I've always attributed the paranormal as something you can explain away to other things, but your story makes me wonder.

You've heard the saying "seeing is believing". I'd still have to see to fully believe, but I don't discredit your story at all. I do believe you, and I'm interested to hear more. This just adds another reason why I need to come for a visit one day! I must admit, I've always wanted to experience something like that. Well, as long as it is a good experience. But I don't think I could handle it long term.

Wow Dorthy, that's amazing....
I was wondering if the reason others see him but not you is because he has attached himself to you in some manner as to be a projection "from" you, emotionally. So others see him externally, while your relationship is somehow internal, if you get my meaning. And I don't mean "projection" in the pejorative, more like how sunrays project from the sun.

I've never encountered that kind of paranormal activity, though I dont doubt it for a minute. What counts as "evidence" is often construed more narrowly than is warranted. For some, only that which is experimentally and repeatedly confirmed in a fairly narrow scientific-method manner is "evidence". But this strikes me as unfortunate. Especially since you cannot investigate emotional and value experiences (especially the latter) in this way.

Someone who has made a life of such things once told me that I had a powerful visible aura. She would not stop smiling at me and looking at me. She was nice enough about it, and the fact that we were in a small brandy-drinking party made it all feel ok It intrigued me, and makes me wonder what it means, how I could find out more.

I now believe that Mind Reading exists. Lately I've been saying things that came true within a few seconds.
For example, a kid named Seth in my Science class was messing with test tubes; I told him, "don't drop one, it will break," literally two seconds later he dropped it and the test tube shattered.
Then last week my friend Amity was talking and she said I really want a -- and I ended the sentence, "a cigarette." and she said "a cigarette." Crazy I know.
It may be possible that these two stories are mere coincidences, but I just have some strange feeling that they aren't.

Mind-reading is to an extent a rather normal fact. It is actually called telepathy what you are describing hermione rox. I have had that many times and I was always amazed. Sometimes I knew what other people were thinking, and others I knew who had called when the phone was ringing. However, this has happened to me only with my friends or my close relatives.

I believe that every person emits energy when they think and that somehow our energy manages to synchronize with the energy of someone else's brain and then, we can see what others are thinking at the moment. I always think of it as a radio station. My brain is a radio station with a certain frequency. When my frequency is the same as someone else's frequency, we are emitting the same "program". I know this sounds rather simplified but this is my way of explaining something so strange.

Our emitting energy is why I also believe that people who die never really leave. The first thing we learn in Physics is that energy is never lost but it is always transformed into a different form of energy. This could explain why people see ghosts who have a blue or white aura; it is their energy transformed into something else.

A week ago or so, I read an article from BBC about some guys who filmed a ghost, and I saw the video as well. It seemed like a blue-white aura which formed the shape of a soldier's body. Whether it was photoshop or not, I believed it.

I don't know if we are ever going to solve this mystery, but until then, I will keep on believing in ghosts. And maybe I will get to meet one of them someday, but one of the good kind!

Hmmmm.... where we go camping at Farragut State Park, well it used to be the fourth Navy bootcamp for the USA during WWII. There is a Brig that is still standing and we took a "ghost tour" through it one night while camping at the park last year.

In the mess hall the park ranger turned out the lights and everyone with cameras took pictures with the flash on. The only pics we could view, of course, were the digital camera pics and the movie cameras. So, we all went outside to the central court yard and viewed what we'd photographed: nearly all the pictures showed glowing orbs dancing in the air overhead in the room. None of the pics were exactly alike, and not all the pics showed the glowing orbs. It is important to note that we took a photo before we were allowed to ... with the flash off and got the orbs in our first photo, thus indicating the orbs were not from the flashes of other cameras. It was incredible. Somewhere, I still have the photos.

The mess hall was located directly next to the solitary confinement, and at least one murder and one suicide occurred within that space. The base held prisoners of war for a great many months during the war, mostly Germans.

Wow, this is so cool Dorthy! Can you please (please) find the pictures and upload them? I'd really like to see them!

I recall the story I'm talking about at my previous post. It seems that ghosts are more like blue-white orbing auras than a white see-through version of us. I believe this is caused by the fact that people leave their energy behind, or that this energy changes forms.

I have never seen an actual ghost. Or I think I've never seen a ghost. I can't really remember. But I'd really like to have such an experience. The paranormal is always interesting, but within limits. I still freak out when I remember certain ouija board stories I've read here and there. I want to try it though.

I'm looking for the pictures, Alkisti. I will edit this post with the links when I find them. They are on the hard drive, but don't seem to be in the listed folders, so I have to peruse all the unlisted photos we have. Just bear in mind, the photos are dark with orbs of light, you can see the people with the orbs overhead. They are very odd, though.

Okay, so here are the best of the shots we took.

One. This is showing the crumbling walls of the solitary confinement cells.

Two. This is me looking back through the camera at solitary, after we'd exited, all but for the little girl.

Three. This is the first in a series of three pictures in succession. You can see the man in the blue tshirt move to the right.

Four.

Five. Notice how the orbs in the air seem to change? It was incredible, because I did not see any of that through the camera.

Wow, Dorthy! Those are some really strange pics. Wish I could go there myself to experience it and take some pics to see if I get the same result. I've never had anything like that happen to me even when I did go to a place that was said to be haunted. Although, it was daylight (it was outdoors instead of indoors), and I didn't take any pics. Maybe I should try going back at night with a camera?

Even though I've never had it happen, I have seen programs that had people with similar experiences of pics coming up with orbs in them. This one kid had three orbs around him in every pic he had ever had taken of him. That was really strange. It was thought they were his guardian angels or something.

Wow, I got scared! Seriously, I have a way of getting really scared when it comes to ghosts. Have you seen a presentation that goes around the internet? It is supposed to show many weird ghostly images, and some of them are really creepy. I have never managed to see all of it. I always stop watching in the middle. I just can't handle it.

If I find it, I will upload it so that everyone can see it.

Thank you for uploading those! It's alright going there with many people, but I'd never do it on my own.

Laura, don't go there at night! I would never manage to get out without a heart attack.

I have always been intrigued by the paranormal..And I do have a few stories to tell...When I was younger I was in our old house with my parents...it was Halloween night but technically it was the morning after Halloween..it was around 3 am. I had just finished trading candy with my cousins... Anyway At home my dad and I were by the front door doing something I can't remember and all of a sudden the door slams shut. There was no wind and it was a very heavy wooden door...It was even difficult for me to open and close it. About a few seconds later my dad picks me up and we run into the living room where my mom was sitting (checking out my candy!) And there was a boom box sitting on a desk in the corner and it just came on all by itself. My dad went to turn it off...but it did itself right before he touched it. The boom box was unpluged the entire time.


A more recent encounter....My husband and I were getting ready for bed. He was in our bedroom and I was in the kitchen getting a bottle of water. Out of the corner of my eye I saw something standing...watching me. I thought it was my husband trying to scare me. So I was about to say something as I turned to face him and what I saw I will never forget! It was a dark black shadow. And when I turned it ran from one part of my kitchen to the next. I jumped so high my feet left the ground for a second. I ran to the bedroom shaking and told my husband. He was shocked. He told me that it was probably my dad. He passed away a year and a half ago.

A few weeks later I noticed that on our weather station (the kind where one part is outside and the other telling you the temp, moon cycles, humidity and all that is inside) The clock was wrong. I showed my husband and he couldn't fix it. So I said "Maybe it's the ghost messing with the time" And my Husband said "Well than it better fix it!" The next morning the time on the weather station was fixed to the correct time!

Yikes! Some of your experiences are quite spooky, Hermione17--especially the dark shadow.

I don't have any experiences that I would classify in the strictly paranormal category, though I do believe in forms of divine intervention--that God is still active in this world and all that goes along with that--but I guess I don't talk about specifics related to that much.

I have heard quite a number of stories that give me the creeps, and I can't discount them, but I always look at the stories and allow that they may be exactly as described and that it's also possible that there are things that have been overlooked that might explain the situation as well or better.

Spooky stories you've got there! I really wonder how I would react if I ever saw something like that. There have been times when I felt cold waves of air go through my body, or had the feeling there was someone else in the room as well, but I've never actually seen a weird shadow. I'd probably freak out and freeze. I'm not very good at handling panic situations.

I found that presentation I was talking about, but I don't know how to upload it. Is there some way?

I wanted to ask...out of curiosity...has anyone tried that Bloody Mary thing? The one you stand in front of a mirror in a bathroom with candles and say that name a few times? (I know it's childish but I've read so many stories and I wondered if anyone has actually tried it.)

Alkisti..I have tried the Bloody Mary thing and Candy Man when I was little and nothing happened... However I did have an experience with the Ouija board. When I was younger a bunch of friends and I (at a sleepover) decided to sit in a circle in the bathroom and in between us we lit a candle...So it created a star (by accident) Anyways...we asked it a bunch of questions...we were all laughing having a good time...no one thought it was real. Then a gust of wind from no where blew out all the candles and slammed the bathroom door from the inside. Naturally we started screaming and ran out to the living room to her parents. The next day I taped up my Ouija board and tried to sell it at our family yard sale...no one bought it! But honestly I don't know how much of that was out of fear....We were young. I have always tried to dismiss what happened for that reason.

Alkisti, I think I've seen the video you are talking about. Maybe you could just paste the link here, and we could click onto it

I live next to a cemetary, and though I've never seen any of those figure-type ghosts, I've seen weird lights hanging around around certain graves. Before you say anything- no they aren't lights, I've checked during the day, there were no lights around. I've always been too nervous to take a picture of the cemetary at night, so maybe someday I will, and just look at the pictures the next day, in the light.

My friend used to live in a haunted house, and she ended up moving out because of it. I slept over once, because my parents were going out, and it was when she was in 7th grade and I in sixth, and I will never step foot back in that house. The entire night we were up, being normal teenage girls, and all we could hear was giggling, footsteps and the phone ringing. The giggling sounded like a young girl, the footsteps were coming from the stairs nobody was on, and the phone never lit up, and it was an old ringing sound, from one of the first phones invented I believe. If you took a picture in certain places of her house, you'd see orbs in them, and once she had a picture on her MySpace with a strange figure behind her faintly, and she deleted the entire picture off her PC.

My mothers house was an old hospital way back in the day, and a frieht train used to go through our backyard. Sometimes, my TV will turn on, then back off, my lights will flicker, and I get that weird feeling someone is standing behind me. (You know, when you know someone is looking at you, and the hairs behind your back stand up, but you're too afraid to turn around? Like when you sit in the front row of a class?) Also, late at night I will wake up to hearing footsteps running around my house. I have younger siblings, but there is a creaky floorboard right next to my door, and I sleep on the main level of my house, while they sleep on the second floor, and I hear it creaking sometimes. Needles to say, I hate staying home alone at night.

I believe in the paranormal, but not neccisarily physcics like Syliva Brown. In an interview with Criss Angel: Mindfreak, he told his secret how to fool people of himself being a physcic. He said that he says the same thing to every person, and they make themselves believe it, to relate themselves to what he is saying, because that's human nature, you want to believe it, so you dig deep inside yourself to relate, even if there is nothing.

Sam

This is so creepy Sam. (Welcome by the way!) I don't know how I'd deal with something like that. All the houses I've lived in were either brand new or slightly old, but not like 50 years old. So, I haven't had the feeling that my house might be haunted. Plus, my house is in the city so I doubt it a ghost would rather stay here than go to a more quiet place.

Despite these, I do have the feeling sometimes that I'm not alone. Sometimes it's a good feeling (and I end up staring at air) sometimes it is a bad feeling, as if someone is chasing after me. However, as you said, we tend to put ourselves in these situations and make us believe these things are real. It is the tendency to feel unique sometimes...

Here is a link to that presentation. Hopefully it will work. But remember what I said about the ending.

Well when my mom and I first moved into our house (which we haven't lived in for about 7 years)....I think it was within the first week of being in the house. My mom and I were in the living room which is connected to the kitchen, anyways we were sitting in the livingroom and the both of us at the same time looked into the kitchen. Along the wall opposite the frig and stove there is a counter and there was a floding chair folded up leaning against the counter and there was a salt shaker on the counter but it was all the way against the wall. Now my mom and I looked into the kitchen, sort of absentmindly, and all of a sudden the salt shaker rose straight up into the air and very slowly floated about a foot from the counter and very slowly floated down to the floor. Just like someone was hanging on to it, but no one was hangning on to it. Heck there wasn't even anyone else in the house besides my mom and I.

Then probably a few years later my mom and I were sleeping. Now our rooms were right across the hall from each other and my room was catty cornered from the bathroom. I woke up one night and saw a very beautiful white light. I sat up to see the source of the light, because I thought my mom was in the bathroom, but I didn't see my mom. I saw a tall, beautiful woman in a long, flowy dress with long, flowy hair and she was the source of the light. When we made I contact she just smiled and nodded and I went right back to sleep.

The salt shaker thing is pretty freaky! And I had an experience similar to yours: I was in second grade and I had woken up from a really terrifying dream. I ran downstairs, because my parents were still down there, and they told me to sit down on the couch. when they went into the kitchen, I saw a beautiful woman's face floating in midair. to this day I beleive it was my guardian angel, comforting me. My mom has had a lot more scary, ghostly experiences, including almost angellic ones. (Though they were more like angels-in-disguise.)

I'm 99.9% certain that my house was haunted, and that it probably still is (although whatever may be in it treads very carefully around my mom now!)

I remember when we first moved in, we were living in a Westie in the backyard. I got the stomach flu, so I ended up sleeping on a cot in the house with my sister, so I could be closer to the bathroom, and she was in there so I wasn't alone (since I was 11 years old and an 11-year-old alone in a house at night is not a good feeling). Well, the cot was right by this very long/tall window that looked into the backyard. One night, I happened to glance out of the blinds and saw a pair of glowing red eyes. They looked so menacing and evil. Maybe because of their shape? I tried, and later my parents tried, to figure out what had caused it. At first, we thought maybe it was a pair of brake lights, since our house backs up to the alley. But the "eyes" were too high up on the window...like it was a very tall person standing there (over six feet tall).

A little while later, my dad and I were working in the basement, probably to shore up the supports. My sister was outside, playing with the dog. And my mom was at work. Well, my dad and I heard footsteps that sounded like they started at the back door. We naturally assumed they were my sister's. Only they soon sounded too definite/strong to be a child's footsteps...and they moved through the walls, all the way to the front room before stopping. We still have no idea what caused that.

Little random things happened off and on for years like random pockets of cold air, things falling off counters for no reason...and then something else happened.

My dad saw a girl walking into the kitchen. She had long brown hair and he thought that she was my sister, so he called out to her. My sister was in the dining room, sitting at the table. The girl kept coming to my dad, and he found out that her name was "Elizabeth." She even touched him once, when he was in bed asleep...he woke up when she touched his back. Apparently, her hands were really cold.

My sister and I slept on a bunk bed, and we both noticed creepy things about when one of us wasn't there, like being able to hear movements (rustling sounds, etc.) and breathing sounds, like someone was there. One time when I was in the bathroom, my sister said she looked over the rail--she had the top bunk--and saw that my bed was indented like someone was lying down there, only no one was. I also remember times when I would wake up in the night, hear my sister in the bed overhead, almost be asleep again...and then see her come back into the room because she had gone to the bathroom.

She would also hear a man's voice outside our bedroom sometimes. It would sound like someone talking, but she wouldn't be able to hear it well enough to discern what all the man was saying. It wasn't the T.V., though. That wasn't even on.

Another time was really scary. My sister is a really good dancer and she dances all the time to songs on the radio. It was kind of ironic in a grim sort of way because the song that was playing went "I can't believe I didn't fall right down on my face" right as it felt like some hand went on the back of her head and shoved her head into the floor. Luckily, she wasn't that far off from the floor anyway, and it was more scary than hurtful. But EEK!

There was another time that I was home alone and sitting on the floor of my room. From the doorway of my room, I can see through the dining room, living room, and into the front room up to the front door. There's a window in the living room that looks into the front room, and it kind of "mirrors" the big front window. We have really filmy curtains. Well, I looked up and I saw this man's shadow go walking right across the curtain. That was SCARY! I couldn't wait until everyone else got home. It made it, actually, so that I was scared to be home alone for quite a while.

Our dog would bark at things no one could see, too. Just look into certain corners or certain areas of the room and growl. He was a German Shepherd, so he was a guard dog, and he acted like someone was actually there, even though you couldn't see anyone.

My mom got fed up and she asked her friend April and April's guy friend to come over and kind of walk through the house and see what he could discern. It was interesting because he said that "something evil was in the basement." Everyone in our family but maybe my dad hates to go into the basement. I still do. It just feels rotten and awful and bad down there. I don't know why, but it seems like very bad things have happened down there.

There's also almost always a sense of "being watched" in our house, too. And of accidents happening. For several years, I was also waking up with random little cuts on my face and bruises in strange places that I have never figured out. My sister also went through a very odd phase of mostly flinging herself out of bed somehow. Which was flat-out dangerous since she was in the top bunk!

Now, it's mostly okay but I keep getting the sense of something...waiting? Waiting for our guard to be down, waiting for us to think it's gone, always watching...it's a VERY frightening feeling.

Ok first and foremost in my opinions and life experiences the paranormal/supernatural does exist.
For cynical people or those with no imagination or people with minds so narrow they can't see past the ends of their own noses without a pair of tweezers to pluck their nose hair that was curled by magic of course the paranormal doesn't exist. Well at least the nose hair in ringlets is a talking point.
Ok, first off, if you're not going to believe in it then you shut yourself off from these things. If you expose yourself to things that might happen then they probably will. But then there are the fanatics who kid themselves into believing that things happen.
Well, things do happen and to prove it to myself I sought out for lasting evidence which I got in the forms of photos and video. I started out as neither nor, rather simply open minded. But life took such turns as to make me a believer. Haha that made me sound like... ahem yes on with the subject.
I'm still skeptic about some things that come along, mostly things that others claim to expeirence or have experienced because most are just out for attention etc etc etc.
But my own very real sixth sense has tuned me into being able to tell whether or not a situation is real.
P.s. (yes I know it's too early for a post script) For all you skeptics who are going to read this, I would normally not bandy this around but for purpose of lending useful (it be proper to my eyes) argument/weight/evidence/sharing-life-experiences with others in this debate I deign to say what I will. And how you take my post is as I say 'each to their own'.
Anyway. There are so many different types of paranormal experiences and senses. For example, there are levels of haunting, all of which are present in the Edinburgh Vaults. And I have recorded each for all you non-believers.
Seriously. Sometimes there is just no doubting the evidence but all too common is a trend in which people select themselves as an elite to claim that they alone can talk to the dead and all that shebang when actually they have no talents of the sort and unfortunately gives us genuine folk a bad name. Which is why those of us who genuinely have these gifts/talents/senses generally tend not to shout it around. But since this is Veritaserum and since you who read this will never meet me or know my true identity it doesn't really matter if you know.

Currently I live with my grandparents in a big old house and my room mate is my great-grandmother who died over 30 years ago before I was born. But I have come to the conclusion that since I am particularly receptive to all that is otherworldly those who linger single people like me out since we are a bridge between the world of the living and the world of the dead. If this theory sounds familiar that's perhaps because you read it in a fictional, perhaps more than one fictional book which is pretty accurate for fiction.

I absolutely love the paranormal. It's fascinating to me. I don't know why it makes some people really uncomfortable, but I've found it does, so I never bring it up as a rule unless someone else does first.

I am a firm believer in ghosts. That's the subject I know most about. I became obsessed with learning about ghosts when I was 7, and that interest never had really died away. Really, I have no choice but to believe in ghosts because I saw one a couple of times when I was little.

All the other stuff... aliens, ESP, bigfoot, and whatnot is the stuff I don't know what to believe in. I'm open to the possibility to all those things, but I only know what I've seen.

I used to be a member of this forum a long time ago and I decided to drop by again just for the heck of it. I came across this thread and I just had to reply so now I've made this account just for the purpose of this one post.

Muslims like myself believe we sort of have an answer to all these paranormal experiences. We believe in "Jinn" that are made from fire. "And the jinn, We created aforetime from the smokeless flame of fire." (Quran)

Iblees was a Jinn that was given special status and lived amongst the angels. When God made Adam and ordered the angels to prostrate before Adam, Iblees refused because he believed he was better. Iblees became Satan.

Now, there are different types of Jinn. There are "good" Jinns and "bad" Jinns to put it simply. They will be judged like humans so there are Muslim, Christian, Hindu and different types of Jinn, and also some Jinn that are considered devils because of what they do to people.

‘The jinn are of three types: a types that has wings, and they fly through the air; a type that looks like snakes and dogs; and a type that stops for a rest then resumes its journey.” (Muhammad)

I think everyone will find this story extremely interesting:

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Some verses from the Quran hurt Jinns and if anyone who has problems with the paranormal and is looking for ways to repel "paranormal forces", I would be more than happy to instruct someone on what and how to read some useful verses of the Quran.

If you have problems with the paranormal and are skeptical about this, I'd be glad to help you also so you can try it for yourself.

I know I must sound like a weirdo because of the way I wrote this, but the concept isn't too different from the one of demons in Christianity.

Mod Edit: I have viewed the site you linked to and don't feel it is a necessary part of this topic. If you wish to discuss this further with me please send me an Owl (PM) and I'll be glad to elaborate on the decision.

My parents are divorced so I live with my mother and sometimes when I go to my fathers on weekends I can't get to sleep so I just wait to fall asleep. On some of those nights I look at the windows a lot. Most of them have plastic over them so you can't see clearly whats outside but on some of those nights I can see lights go past the windows. Usually they flash past each window a couple of times and go all the way around the house. I know that it actually happens because one night my sister was up late enough that she saw it to. I don't know what it is and I'm not sure i want to but it creeps me out.

I believe that E.S.P does exist but I have only seen it in dogs. Sometimes I'm home alone and around fifteen minutes before my parents get home my dogs start watching out the windows. It's like they know my parents are on the way home!

I've never been one to believe in Paranormal stuff but this kinda creeped out me and my friends.

I took my friends to a graveyard near my house and we noticed our skin doing this weird think similar to a phone vibration, thus we called it vibing. We would run our fingertips over everyone elses arms and backs and try and find the vibe. It was like super crazy out in the graveyard. We got back in my car and shut the door and no one could vibe anymore. We went back to my house and nobody could vice... only at the graveyard.

I have a friend that can see and speak with ghosts, and even though I have never had much personal experience with ghosts she has 'introduced me' to a few.

In the cellar of my school she has introduced me to a dead soldier who died in battle a little over three hundred years ago. She told me a lot about him, and I even got to ask him some questions. It was a very interesting experience, mostly because of my great interest in history.

A more 'creepy' tale is one concering a phenomenon which is present by the roadside in a tiny village where my relatives live. There are a few holes present in the ground, some small ones and one large, and they simply will not go away. Fill them up with dirt and the next time you pass it's gone, without a trace. The story concerning these holes, which is written on a plaque beside them, goes something like this:

"There was once a wizard who lived and held land at this place. His neighbour was a grumpy old man, who claimed the land was his. The wizard told him it was not, and asked him to stay away from the land, but the neighbour defied him and walked across the road and would not go back. So the wizard hit his staff in the ground before the neighbour, and the neighbour started to sink and could not move. 'If you claim this land is yours,' said the wizard, 'you will have no objection against staying here for ever.' And the man sunk into the ground. The small holes before you are the marks from where the wizard hit his staff and the large hole is were the man sunk. His soul is here, and those who own this land will not let it leave."

The creepy thing is that I will inherit that land from my relatives (who were not the ones to put up the plaque, no one is entierly certain who did that), and I have a feeling I will mess things up and let it leave. And I know it's there, as my friend has been to that place. She didn't like it at all though, she said it was an awful place. My cousin, who lived there when she was younger, says she has seen animals avoid that place many times, and I've noticed that people who drive there, even if they don't know of the holes, usually speed up a bit when they drive past.

So those are really my only experiences with ghosts, or similar. However, I have abilities that some would classify as paranormal (I don't really classify them as anything, they're just there). I can foretell the future, both the direct future and the distant future. When foretelling more distant events I like to go by some sort of guide, numerology and palmistry being the ones I most frequently use. I wasn't absolutely sure I could do it until about two years ago when an aquintance that I had said to have an accident or difficult disease in her future told me she had cancer. But when it comes to things closer in time, only a few minutes or hours away, I simply know. And it is often as well, that I know things as they happen, over great distances. An example of this is that I live in Sweden, but have relatives in Croatia. Last week I was just rolling along as usual when suddenly I felt a great pressure across my chest. An hour or so later my father told me he had gotten a call from his brother and that one of my cousins had died in an accident where his chest had been crushed. I knew something like that had happen, but I didn't know to whom. I was relieved that it was not someone I knew better though.

Anyway, enough with my ramblings, I'll shut up now:P

Out of curiosity, shouldn't we let spirits leave (if all these ghost stories are true) instead of keeping them trapped here? And how could you mess up? Such a weird story!

I wish I could tell the future. It gives you a sense of security if you know that nothing bad is going to happen to you or your family. However, I don't know if I'd be able to deal with the bad events to come, since I wouldn't be able to stop them or alter them. If you found out that someone you loved would have an accident or something similar, would you let them know? Maybe that's why we are not supposed to see ahead, because we wouldn't be able to deal with the emotional stress.

One phenomenon I want to try is EVP, where you are supposed to record sounds and hear voices of people who have passed by. Argh, I get chills just by thinking about it. I have tried it in my room, but not for long enough, and I didn't use any filters, so all I could hear was the buzzing sound the recording machine makes. I wonder if someone did this experiment in a so-called haunted house or in a graveyard, would they hear voices? It's all so creepy!

I'm not going to write anything more cause I'm getting creeps and it's night here. Brrrr

I'm not sure I want to let that soul leave, because he'd probably be really angry and take it out on me? Because as far as we know our family has owned that land for several hundred years, which makes us the descendants of the supposed wizard. And I'm not sure how I'd mess it up, I just have a feeling that I might (which is a bit foreboding coming from me).

I have found it difficult at times to deal with bad things that I know are coming, but in the end there is nothing to do but let them pass. I feel that no matter what happens there are going to be consequences, and bad things can come from good things and the opposite. It all evens out in the end. I try not to think too much about the future that I know, and sometimes I even plan things even though I know something else will come up and stop it. If I went around worrying and adjusting to the future all the time, I wouldn't have time to live in the now.

I think that if you are getting recorded voices there are probably spirits who wish to be heard, and so even if you did it in a haunted place there might not be spirits that have anything to say.

I just recently had a paranormal experience and I thought I'd share it with you guys.

My husband and I went down to Alabama this weekend to visit his family and so he could go hunting (which I hate!) We were in bed and I wasn't asleep, I just had my eyes closed. For some reason I opened my eyes and there was a dark black shadow in my face. Seconds later it was gone. The shadow just folded in on itself and disappeared. It spooked me so bad that I jumped away from it and woke up my husband.

Obviously...I didn't sleep well that night. I kept looking around the room but nothing else happened. Craziness huh!

Dawn

Oh boy, this sounds creepy.

There is a new movie about paranormal stuff going around. It's a low-budget production, but it's been advertised in a mouth-to-mouth way, like most of these movies. It's called "Paranormal Acitivity" and it revolves around a young couple who experience paranormal incidents inside their house, so they decide to record the house during the night to find out what's going on. The trailer is creepy, I had goosebumps while watching it. We've already made plans to watch the movie as soon as it is released here.

Has anyone watched it?

What's interesting is that this film was made in 2007, but it only came in theaters in 2009. It's amazing how free marketing works.

Anyways, back on topic. My question is...
If you experienced paranormal activities in your house, and you were able to record it (thus have actual proof), what would you do? Would you make it public? Try to make this creature go away? Move?

I'd be absolutely freaked out of my mind.

OH MAN PARANORMAL ACTIVITY WAS SO GOOD! Well, I loved it anyway. Some people think it was ridiculous. But it was so intense and really good. I would recommend it.

If you experienced paranormal activities in your house, and you were able to record it (thus have actual proof), what would you do? Would you make it public? Try to make this creature go away? Move?
Ok, since I've just seen Paranormal Activity, my answers are probably going to be based a lot on that... I think if I were able to record it, I'd only show it to a few people until it was all sorted out. I don't know. I'd feel kind of weird about showing it I think.

About making it go away...I don't really think you can make spirits or demons or whatever go away. Definitely not demons... I'm not sure I'd want to make the spirit mad or whatever. I think I'd have to talk to someone who actually specialized in this kind of stuff (hopefully I could find someone who's not just a nutter) and then see what I should do from there.

Moving...if that would help, yeah, I would move. But apparently with stuff like demons, they're attached to the person, not a location. So sometimes that would be ineffective.

Go see Paranormal Activity!

I have been going on the Paranormal Activity website to demand that it comes to my city...and yay! It's here. I will be watching it hopefully this weekend. The trailer looked awesome, I'm so glad you added your opinion Droobles. Now I really want to see it!


If you experienced paranormal activities in your house, and you were able to record it (thus have actual proof), what would you do? Would you make it public? Try to make this creature go away? Move?

I have had a few paranormal things happen to me but I haven't set up any recorders (Mainly because I don't have one). But if there was a lot of activity going on in my home I would definitely set up a video camera and a voice recorder. There are many things in this world that the human ear can't hear.

If I found evidence of what was going on I don't think I'd make it public, but I do think I would enlist the help of professionals. I'd probably call Ghost Hunters. (I LOVE that show!)

If the entity in my home was harmful then I might try and get rid of it. If that's even possible. I wouldn't want something hurting me or my family. Like Droobles said...moving might not help. Sometimes the entity is attached to the person.

I have heard though that buildings made of lime stone or built on top of lime stone attract spirits. And those places are usually swarming with entities of the good and evil nature.

Dawn

Ever since I was an infant I felt like I knew ghosts or angels...I'm not a weird kid that goes around saying random chants. I'm just a quirky girl and if you were to see me, I wouldn't look like someone to take "nonsense" like ghosts.

But over the summer I was rather...troubled. You see, over the summer ahem:
Michael Jackson Died
Farrah Fawcett Died
Billy Mays Died
My great-grandma Died
& a few others that were dear to me died...

& during that time, whenever I went to sleep, there was always this weird ...noise. I can't describe it. It wasn't just a noise, it was also a feeling. It would scare the sam-heck outta me. And my dreams were really obscure too. The people who died would talk to me in my dreams. And then when I woke up I heard voices that were so loud and clear, I felt they were in my room.

I know, I know, you're thinking I'm just a crazed teenage girl.. but it really spooked me. I'm glad I found this thread...maybe you guys understand where I'm coming from?

I don't think I have some sort of pyschic ability & I'm a necromancer...I think anyone can come in contact with angels or spirits.