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Tales of the Paranormal
I am making this thread for the sole reason that those of us who believe in all things paranormal may share experiances.
Please, no arguing or serious debates of beliefs.
This is not just limited of ghosts.
It can be about any experiance that you or someone you know may have had.
I will start off.
I have had a few things happen in my life that terrified me greatly.
I am going to start off light, with something that happened to me during the summer of 2005.
Me, my wife, and kids were renting an apartment in Virginia.
The apartments were two-story, and nobody lived in the one we were moving into.
The folks who lived down below this told us how they heard the toilet flush up there long before we moved in.
Well, after a few nights there; I began to hear footsteps that walked the hall, and stopped in the kitchen.
I heard this many times whle being the only one awake.
My wife seen shadows pass across doorways alot, and I heard the dishes clattering late at night.
I went in the kitchen one night during this, and heard the giggling of a small child.
I never seen anything, and we only stayed there a few months.
It never scared me, because I felt the presence was a child just having fun.
I am making this thread for the sole reason that those of us who believe in all things paranormal may share experiances.
Please, no arguing or serious debates of beliefs.
This is not just limited of ghosts.
It can be about any experiance that you or someone you know may have had.
I will start off.
I have had a few things happen in my life that terrified me greatly.
I am going to start off light, with something that happened to me during the summer of 2005.
Me, my wife, and kids were renting an apartment in Virginia.
The apartments were two-story, and nobody lived in the one we were moving into.
The folks who lived down below this told us how they heard the toilet flush up there long before we moved in.
Well, after a few nights there; I began to hear footsteps that walked the hall, and stopped in the kitchen.
I heard this many times whle being the only one awake.
My wife seen shadows pass across doorways alot, and I heard the dishes clattering late at night.
I went in the kitchen one night during this, and heard the giggling of a small child.
I never seen anything, and we only stayed there a few months.
It never scared me, because I felt the presence was a child just having fun.
That's creepy and yet awesome.
By the way, if you're interesting in that stuff, check out this website. It's basic but pretty good.
I've had a few personal experiences that happened to me. Though I don't know if it's considered "Paranormal" or just faith. Though, take it I'm not a very religious person anymore...at all.
My mother and I were really close to my Uncle. He passed away 2 years ago. A few days after he died my Aunt called and said she was playing scrabble with a few friends and all of the letters she happened to get spelled his first name in order.
My Uncle smoked like a chimney. Camels were his preferred taste. A few days after he died, my mother and I went to a local restaurant. A waitress was cleaning the booth across from us and when she finished she walked away. We took a quick glance at the table and noticed a single Camel cigarette lying in the middle of the table. It stayed there until we left.
A few months ago, my mother prayed to my Uncle to watch me and help me. Just made sure I was safe driving and what not. That same night I had a dream where I was outside of my house and my Uncle came up my driveway. I cried and told him how much I missed him. He said he was fine and don't worry about him. He talked to me and asked my how school was going. Apparently I "caught up" with a deceased person. My mother told me he came to her in a dream and did the same thing.
My grandmother had a dream after my great grandmother died. She came to her and told her that she's fine, but she has to stop the crying. That the babies won't stop crying. Confused, we visited the cemetery a few days later. We went to my great grandmother's tombstone. We walked 2 graves down and noticed the tombstone of 2 buried boys that died at the age of 2. We said a pray in their name. And apparently....problem solved.
I'll start with the place where I lived until I was 8. Every place has history, good and bad. The places where history getts the most attention is usually the American East coast or Europe but the reallity is that there is history everywhere.
Where I grew up it was said there had been a U.S./Native American war (I don't know the year but I would asume somewhere around 1860-1880 perhaps and it has not been proven as far as I know)very close in which the U.S. came in and faught and took over the natives and their land. I believe that it was haunted by the people who lost their lives and they had experienced so much trama that they couldn't move on or their negitive energy clings to the area, either way I and the rest of my family experienced many things in that house.
for starts, one day while my parents had friends over they moved into the kitchen and had a chair shoved at them. Another time we watched a strange 'light anomally' move across the walls several times over where my sister was in her cradle. Two of the most memimorable experiences were one, when I saw the figure of a woman in the kitchen whom I assume was once a Native American (on acount of her dressing). She was heavy set with long black hair and she did not give off a bad vibe. She had what looked like a crystal ball which she was seemed to be using.
The next day however I was alone in the living room and saw the figure of a tall, darkly dressed man with a very wide brimed hat, almost like that of a Pilgrims. His hat was shifted down over his face and he was standing there, swaying his arms. This one actually scared me and I ran to my room, which made me have to run passed him to get to the hall way.
Well, we moved and ended up living with some friends in their house. This house was haunted by 'negitive energy' as my mom calls it, although my parents didn't tell my sister or I at the time (I was only 9 turning 10 and my sister was 6 going on 7, they didn't want to scare us) but we eventually found out for ourselves. We never saw a full body appearition there but it was a nasty ghost and tried to frighten everyone. We eventually got a place of our own in a completely different town and found that once again we got a haunted house, but this time it was enhabeted by a friendly spirit who we came to call "Samuel".
Samuel showed himself fricuintly, usually as a shodowed siluet and once as a full body appearition. When we got our dog, however, he moved on (apparently didn't like dogs). The house stayed quiet for a few months and then we started to notice another shadowy figure lurking around. At first we thought it was Samuel but we soon relized it wasn't. We came to call this one the "Shadow Man" and he was as mysterious and unsetling as his name. We would always see him peeking out at us from behind something, as if he didn't want us to see him because whenever we'd look straight at him he would jerk behind what ever his cover was and 'dematerialize'. He never really seemed a threat but we didn't like him being there. After a while he seemed to have left.
A few months later he returned or perhaps this wasn't the same one, maybe this was another 'Shadow Man', I'm not sure. This time he/this one made himself very unliked. He was plain creepy. One morning my sister woke up to a sound she heard coming from the kitchen. She got up to see what it was and when she got there she found it was our cat playing with is string toy. She turned to go back to bed for the hour of sleep before school and when she did she saw the Shadow Man leaning out from the bedroom door way looking down the hallway at her. She said he was very tall and dark. Needless to say she couldn't sleep after that. Some weeks later she was in bed trying to fall asleep when she sudenly felt that she needed to open her eyes. When she did she saw a black, boiling cloud hanging over the foot of her bed near the ceiling which began to slowly disapear. My mom came in and told it to get out of our house and it did. But every once in a while one of us would see something out the corner of our eye, but he never actually came back.
In my life I have seen two U.F.O.s. The arguement with most people is "We see U.F.O.s quite often. An Unidentified Flying Object does not mean its a saucer from planet X" and their absolutely right. But, there is a percentage of incidences that are truely paranormal. What I saw were actaul U.F.O.s. What I saw were not conventional crafts.
The first was when I was 11. It was Martin Luther King Jr. day and there was no school so we went to the local fair. As we were coming back mom noticed something in the sky. At first I thought it was a white jet plane or a white "missle" (it had somewhat of a bullet shape)but as I examined it I noticed several things:
- It had un-uniformed 'tiles' covering its body.
- It did not have wings nor was it producing any visable exhaust.
- It was flying too low, that or it was very big. Big as in bigger than a jet plane.
- It had a large cone shaped part at the rear but this too was not giving off any visable exhaust.
and
- It was definanlty moving forward but never seemed to change postition in the sky much even though it was going horizontally to the right and we were headed straight foward.
We watched it until we arrived home and got out of the car. O coarse when we did it started moving away. suddenly it 'ejected' or 'produced' a 'pod' from its side. The 'pod' was smaller than the original and had tiles too but no rear cone though it held the originals shape. The pod shot off going horizontally to the right of the first traveling at about the same speed. Then another 'pod' was 'spawned' from the original on its other side. The new pod, craft, whatever you want to call these did the same as the the first one; shooting off horizontally away from the "mother". The two pods disapeared from view behind houses and trees but the original was still in plain sight. As I watched it it suddenly and rapedly speed up and then disapeared in thin air. As simple as that. No joke. I watched it disapear into thin air as it rapedly excelerated.
I didn't see anything else for three years. Then one summer when I was 14 my dad, sister, and I were in the car driving home. We were on a long straight road in the middle of fields. Clear blue sky, hardly any clouds. I happend to look out the top left hand corner of the windshield and noticed a craft in the sky. I would have thought it to be a personal airplane like the two person flyers rich folk have except it was all matalic and reflected the surroundng sky for the most part. It was not invisable but reflective. The best way I can describe it is that it looked like a Naboo Fighter from Star Wars Episode I except it had a rod on either side exstending out from it where its wings should be and at the end of each was a large metalic sphere. I watched it with bewilderment for about... 15 seconds I'd say but we past three tall thin trees which blocked my sight on it. When we past them it was gone. No longer in the sky.
For those who believe I was merly mistaken I may very well have been BUT here are several reasons why I think not:
- At the time and for the 2 and a half years before this incident and the remaining 2 years after I lived literally right next to an air port for 'rich folk' with two person flyers. Literally, right next to it.I saw airplanes EVERY SINGLE DAY for FOUR AND A HALF YEARS.
- The craft I saw was not traveling through any clouds and no, it was not bird poop.
- Like I said, I lived next to an air port. Never did I see an aircraft which was entirely metalic, in fact, I cant remember seeing any metalic aircraft. The closesed to that was the recreation WWII fighter plane... which was distincly GREY.
- Also, a metalic airplane which reflects light is a hazard. They would not allow it.
I do not believe these U.F.O.s were extraterestrial, not that I don't believe in the exsistance of aliens, but they looked humaniod. I believe these were of Earthly origin and were government crafts.
If you do not believe me on these acounts that is your opinion but I am not lying.
