Share your paranormal stories.

I've always been really skeptical of this stuff and I still am to a certain extent, but a few years ago a few things happened in the same general time frame that made me a bit less skeptical. Its nothing as specific as hearing footsteps on the stairs, but just some weird creepy occurrences.

I moved into this house I lived in for a while and within a week of moving in I started having hypnogagic (spelling?) hallucinations, which for those who dont know is basically sleep paralysis coupled with hallucinations (not quite dreams, because you're not quite asleep but you're not quite awake) that there is a dark or threatening presence in the room. I had these almost every night for the entire year and a half I lived there. After I moved out I learned from the owner of the house that he had felt a presence several times in that same bedroom and seen things like orbs and lights flickering. The room was also always freezing but that was probably just a draft, says my skeptical mind. I've never had a hypnogagic hallucination again since moving out, they stopped immediately.

Around the same time I was spending a lot of time camping and hiking around this old Revolutionary War battle site. Nothing really specific ever happened there but I just always had a sense of being very close to another plane, if that makes sense. The place always left me with a really creepy feeling. I never really saw anything but my friends dog would frequently stop and bark or growl at nothing but air. I also had a somewhat-near-death experience there, which really turned me off to the place.

My boyfriend and I were talking the the other night about our last experience there. We had only been dating a few months and decided to go camping. It ended up raining the whole time, which shouldn't have been a big deal, we should have had sex all night in the tent instead of being bummed about it, but for some reason my boyfriend turned into a real bastard that night. He was such a dick and such a debbie downer about it all I almost broke up with him the next day. It was a huge disappointment to me because up to that point I thought he was the most laid back and easy going guy ever. We were talking about it the other day because after years of being together, it turns out that was a completely anomaly and he actually is the easiest going, most laid back guy ever. We have a theory that something about that place made him act like that.

The third thing didn't happen to me, it happened to a friend but I saw the evidence and it really made me stop being so skeptical about it all. My friend lived next to an old Civil War era graveyard. He showed me a picture his dad had taken of him and a girl he briefly dated.They were standing next to the graveyard. In the picture you can very clearly see a face right next to the girl, turned towards her with this horrific ghoulish expression on its face. Its really creepy. The skeptic in me generally things pictures like that are photo shopped, but I really don't think his dad is the type to do something like that and try to fool so many people.

The girl was actually pronounced clinically dead a couple of months before the picture was taken and brought back to life, which may or may not be relevant to the story.

 

I'm an alien from Outer space.
:alien:

 

I was standing at the west entrance to the Boston public gardens on a spring day back in 1989 when an apparition appeared then vanished. The figure was a portly white male with a gray beard dressed in Victorian era clothing.

I know what I saw and if there’s a logical explanation other than a ghostly presence I'm all ears :ears:


Hotwater

 

I agree about the power of suggestion. That's an interesting story, regardless.

Wow! Graveyards are bittersweet to me. I find them beautiful and peaceful. I think we've all been conditioned to be afraid of death, and therefore creeped out by graves. There's a lot of people who have seen an apparition dressed in white that hovers over the graves in the graveyard in the air force base where I'm from. There's a museum with a lot of paranormal activity there as well.

Nice! I kinda feel that way about my experiences as well. If there was a way to debunk them, if love to hear it.

 

I absolutely love graveyards. My mom is a geneologist so I spent a lot of time growing up hanging out in graveyards while she searched for dead relatives. I can't resist a good graveyard, if I drive by an old or interesting looking graveyard I always have to stop. I actually spent one wonderful drunk night wandering around the old graveyard I mentioned and it didn't really creep me out at all but this was also before I saw that picture!

 

I'm out at happy hour with the boys right now. I'll try to remember to post them when I get home later.

 

For as long as I can remember I have always just felt things and it has just been a normal part of my life. It just happens.

As a child it was not something I could control as in block it but with time I have been able to block what I do not want around me. Learning to protect my space was probably the most difficult part.

Maybe it is only intuition.

 

More than likely radio interference expedites already dying light bulbs. Your cell phone is a likely cause.

Here's a a guy whose skyscraper is getting fined 16,000 a day because of his lights.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2095...interfere-with-cellular-network-fcc-says.html

 

That's awesome! I love graveyards too. The last house I owned was two blocks from one. One of my favorite things to do was to go on an early morning run through the misty graveyard.

Interesting . I've never tried to block anything before. I've always just kind of co-existed with whatever presence I felt. Then again, I've never encountered anything negative or menacing.

 

HOLY CREEPS.Do any of you know about the chat room ghost?

 

Do tell!

 

Not much to tell really.I just find it a really creepy place.Whenever I go in there my room goes cold and I feel an inexplicable presence beside me...

 

Yikes....can't say that's ever happened to me. D:

 

Seriously I was in there with wrestles one time and this text with no name started playing games with me.Weeatoes told me it was the Hip Forums ghost.I eventually figured it was Doc Bonzai in invisible mode.

 

Haha! Did doc turn down the heat and invisibly sit next to you too though?

 

I'm a skeptic, and I'm not interpreting the meaning of this, it's up to you. This is one that happened to me at age 12.

Nevermind

 

YFM, that gave me chills! Eeeeeks.

 

Oh dear god that was the creepiest thing I've ever heard, youfreeme

 

I have sooo many experiences. I think some people are more in tune / receptive to it than others. I have some friends who totally think its impossible but I will tell you the following is just one of my true experiences.

My girlfriend and her brother are 8th generation descendants of Thomas Jefferson. They lived in TJ's sisters mansion (I won't say the name of it for privacy reasons) in Va. TJ actually lived there for a period while Monticello was being built. Anyway this home has been in the family for years and years, hasn't always been in the best repair but nearly everything in it is original. They have some rooms closed off, they don't even use them for preservation reasons (original furniture etc).

Anyway, upstairs there is a jack and jill bedroom for the girls. My girlfriend shared a room with her older sister (who was away the night I stayed), as well as an adjoining bathroom with her two younger sisters (very young little girls about 5 and 6 years old). When I stayed, I slept in my girlfriends older sisters bed, which was right next to the bathroom door I mentioned. Anyway, all throughout the night I heard the little girls laughing and playing in the bathroom / banging around etc. It woke me up several times. In the morning I mentioned something to my friend, to let her know the girls had been up all night. I was taken aback when she said the girls were at their dads house all night, and it was just my friend, me and her mother at the home sleeping. She told me stuff like that happens all the time in their house.

 

It really disturbed me at the time. 12 is a weird age.

Also, I have had sleep paralysis, too. It is sooo uncomfortable.