Experiences With The Paranormal?

Off Topic
41

[quote]legendaryblaze wrote:
Professor X wrote:
When I was 8 years old we lived in a house that was pretty old. It was built in the late 1950’s and was pretty small. There was one spot in the hallway that led to my room that always made me feel the same as when someone turns on one of those big tv’s from back then…an electrical feeling, only in that one spot. My room was to the right of that spot.

One morning I woke up and there was this older guy I didn’t know standing there in a green sweater over me. He didn’t say anything or do anything and it was too dark to make out his face or any facial expressions. I started screaming and my dad ran into the room and turned the light on. He was gone by then.

I don’t really believe in the literal concept of “ghosts” but I do believe that energy can be left behind to some degree and that our own emotions and actions can be influenced by things we don’t understand yet. The entire idea of pheromones used to be science fiction before it was proven that something unseen can have an effect on behavior. I was also likely half dreaming that night and simply connected that feeling in the hallway with whatever image I conjured up in half-sleep.

…but there was that spot in the hallway that just didn’t feel right.

I am the type of person who would like to explore ideas like this. I grew up reading everything about supernatural happenings from ESP to dopplegangers to the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. Because of that, I think that anyone who simply writes all of this off as impossible is extremely closed minded and not someone I would get along with.

Strange things happen…and I doubt we are anywhere near advanced enough just yet to explain it all away.

They’re called nightmares.
I just solved it for you. No need to thank me.
[/quote]

What the Bermuda triangle is a nightmare? lol

Maybe some of them are just nightmares but perhaps they are caused by spirits, although i’m pretty sure that mine wasnt a nightmare as even my parents heard the heavy breathing and felt something strange and i’m damn sure they weren’t a sleep lol

42

[quote]Fuzzyapple wrote:
I wonder if you believe in it more does it happen to you more? Cause I personally do not believe in the paranormal. However, watching videos and hearing stories makes one wonder.

My father has the ability to for see things that are going to happen in dreams he has and can tell when something bad is going to happen or something is coming on to him.[/quote]

It’s called confirmation bias. For example, suppose you believe that you always “feel” someone looking at you from behind. Then every time you turn round and see someone looking at you, you will think that it was significant, ignoring all of the times you turned round and no one was looking at you.

[quote]Vegita wrote:
Secondly, I can spin a PSI wheel. Youtube it I don’t feel like explaining it, and yes I beleive it is real, anyone can claim other people are doing it as a hoax, but when you try it yourself and it works, there is something to it.[/quote]

Well, I could easily duplicate the psi wheel effect with convection, but that would not prove anything. There is absolutely no evidence of anything paranormal.

43

[quote]krayon wrote:

Someone explain this to me.[/quote]

Incredibly bad editing, and artifacts from video compression.

44

I’ve seen the lights at Gurdon, Arkansas while walking the tracks. I went out there with a professor from Henderson St. and 2 of his students. We parked near the tracks a couple of miles from the crossing and started walking toward Gurdon. You could see the lights of the towm. No moon just stars. Had a couple of flashlights.

As we walked toward the crossing we saw a light on the tracks that looked like a train. It was on the other side of the crossing as we could see cars pass between us and the light. It kept coming closer but you couldn’t hear any train noises and I saw a car pass behind it.

It got about about 30 or 40 yards away and disappeared. They told me to turn around and I saw it going away from us. Watched it for a few minutes and it just disappeared.

Used to go to a bridge near my house and get stoned with friends and watch the swamp lights, also called will o’ the wisps at night. It was near an old sanatorium that was burned down for a movie. They said that once in a while some of the inmates would escape and jump off the bridge and try to get away through the swampy edges of Faulkner Lake and on to North Little Rock.

The swamp lights led then to their deaths and they say the ghosts are still chasing them. It could get weird looking if the lights were really active. Some people that came to see them would never go back to the bridge.

Went to Loch Ness at night. Didn’t see Nessie but got the shit scared out of me by a loud scream. It was a local bird. I was taken to the Old Water Tower in Glasgow by some people I met in a bar. I didn’t see anything but I heard noises. Don’t know if it was ghosts or locals getting a laugh but it was pretty weird.

While hiking from Holy Loch to Loch Eck to eat at the Coylet Inn I saw a witches broom rack. It was made of wood and had a bunch of brooms lined up in it like bikes in a bike rack. Some locals said it was for fighting brush fires but I think they were just trying to keep rumors down to keep from scaring the tourists off.

I like weird and spooky and the unexplained. If you’re looking for someplace near you to visit check out this site.

45

[quote]Getting Closer wrote:
legendaryblaze wrote:
Professor X wrote:
When I was 8 years old we lived in a house that was pretty old. It was built in the late 1950’s and was pretty small. There was one spot in the hallway that led to my room that always made me feel the same as when someone turns on one of those big tv’s from back then…an electrical feeling, only in that one spot. My room was to the right of that spot.

One morning I woke up and there was this older guy I didn’t know standing there in a green sweater over me. He didn’t say anything or do anything and it was too dark to make out his face or any facial expressions. I started screaming and my dad ran into the room and turned the light on. He was gone by then.

I don’t really believe in the literal concept of “ghosts” but I do believe that energy can be left behind to some degree and that our own emotions and actions can be influenced by things we don’t understand yet. The entire idea of pheromones used to be science fiction before it was proven that something unseen can have an effect on behavior. I was also likely half dreaming that night and simply connected that feeling in the hallway with whatever image I conjured up in half-sleep.

…but there was that spot in the hallway that just didn’t feel right.

I am the type of person who would like to explore ideas like this. I grew up reading everything about supernatural happenings from ESP to dopplegangers to the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. Because of that, I think that anyone who simply writes all of this off as impossible is extremely closed minded and not someone I would get along with.

Strange things happen…and I doubt we are anywhere near advanced enough just yet to explain it all away.

They’re called nightmares.
I just solved it for you. No need to thank me.

What the Bermuda triangle is a nightmare? lol

Maybe some of them are just nightmares but perhaps they are caused by spirits, although i’m pretty sure that mine wasnt a nightmare as even my parents heard the heavy breathing and felt something strange and i’m damn sure they weren’t a sleep lol[/quote]

Lucid dreams do exist.
I went camping in the 3rd grade with my class.

I was with 3 buddies of mine in a tent. We all remember having the tent flipped over by a bear in the middle of the night and being scared to death but when we woke up in the morning there wasn’t a scratch on anything.
Sure, i could prolong the story and make it sound more frightening but it doesn’t mean it happened…even if we all believed it.
If it was real and there was a bear…it was my fault. We were told to not bring food in our tents. Of course, i didn’t listen.

The Bermuda triangle is due to methane trapped in the underwater soil.
Methane escapes and causes the water it is in (think of a bubble coming out of the ground) to become less dense. This could cause a ship to sink due to the less dense water.
Same goes for airplanes. They require air intake function properly and a few splutters from the engine with some human error could cause an accident. Think of like dropping one of those vitamin C tablets in water. Same thing.

However most of the vessels+planes that have disappeared were actually not in the bermuda triangle.
You can check google to find some interesting stuff on it.
Try this website:

I find it funny that professor X (who is dentist allegedly) thinks that people who don’t believe in paranormal stuff are close minded.
Next he’ll tell us the tooth fairy exists.

46

I don’t know if I believe in paranormal stuff. Yet I believe in UFO’s. I remember being 13 or so playing basketball with some buddies. It was a nice cool night, clear skies. No planes or airport nearby whatsoever. I vividly remember seeing a triangular shaped object. Small lights lining every side, the body was a weird black velvet-like or dark colored silky material. It was no higher then then say 60-70 ft off the ground at least.

It was right above me. This thing hovered, not making one fuckin’ sound. Like it was just observing what was going on. I turn to say something to my friends and look back, thing was gone! I didn’t know what to do, I didn’t say shit to my friends cause I probably thought at the time they would think I was crazy/seeing things. It looked small to, like you could probably fit 2 people in it maybe 3.

To this day I remember this and it still baffles me. Yet I saw a documentary recently this year where some people described ufo’s they saw. Mind you one of these persons used to be governor of a city (Phoenix I believe). Who even during his time serving, said ufos didn’t exist when people ask him to investigate some eye witness reports. He even mocked the people who believed in it all. Yet after he was retired for many years, he came out of the wood works and admitted he saw a UFO one night also. One other person was a doctor (pyschologist I believe). THey described the same thing I saw that night (except what they saw was bigger I believe). I got some chills when I listened to them describe it word for word.

47

I was sleeping one time and was woken by what felt like someone sitting on the foot of the bed. I looked and I saw what looked like the black figure of a person sitting on the end of the bed right next to my feet. All I remember after I looked at it was instantly falling to sleep.

48

[quote]sandbagger wrote:
I don’t know why most of these experiences in this thread happen at night when someone’s in bed, but maybe we are just more alert at night and can assess sounds and other things that we might not pay attention to during the day.
[/quote]

It’s because that’s when your imagination is most active.

I stay over at my friends “haunted” house a while back when he told me there was a ghost there and,fuck me, I experienced one of the freakiest nights of my life. Little did I know the extremes he went to, to plan all of it. He dragged the story out for 2 years before he told me the truth, the rest of our friends still think it (was) real.

An over-active imagination at night when you’ve just woken up will turn simple shadows and creaks into the most fantastic things.

49

[quote]trav123456 wrote:
found a clearer video of that car chase
http://www.trutv.com/video/hot-pursuit/infamous-ghost-car.html?link=truTVshlk�¯�»�¿

that story of the photos is spooky[/quote]

The car was not a ghost car, come on.

Either a hole in the fence the cops missed, or the fence was in actual fact loose, and flaps up when the car drives through it. Pause the video at 23:37:58 and pay attention to the fence on the left - it’s swaying so he’s clearly hit it at some point.

50

[quote]RSGZ wrote:
trav123456 wrote:
found a clearer video of that car chase
http://www.trutv.com/video/hot-pursuit/infamous-ghost-car.html?link=truTVshlk�?�¯�?�»�?�¿

that story of the photos is spooky

The car was not a ghost car, come on.

Either a hole in the fence the cops missed, or the fence was in actual fact loose, and flaps up when the car drives through it. Pause the video at 23:37:58 and pay attention to the fence on the left - it’s swaying so he’s clearly hit it at some point.[/quote]

Yeah I noticed the fence was moving. It’s especially noticable if you look at the left of the top bar of the fence, which makes me think that it was run over and then bounced back up.

51

I really wish something like this would happen to me sometime (preferably not one of the freaky scary type things), because I CANNOT believe in paranormal stuff unless I am a witness myself. All of the stories here sounds very weird and unexplainable, but it’s just not enough for me to except them as evidence for ghosts, afterlife, etc. It’s just the way I am.

I studied psychology so I know our minds can trick us. A lot of these stories happen at night, when you are either just falling asleep or waking up. You’re just entering a dream or waking up from one and there is little light. It doesn’t take much for you to see stuff that really isn’t there in such a condition and like a dream, it can seem as real as anyting else.
As for the other stories - during the day - that seem unexplainable, well I don’t know about those. It might still be the mind playing tricks or it might be something else. Anyway, I really need to experience something myself one day to be really open to paranormal stuff.

52

[quote]HerbertNL wrote:
I studied psychology so I know our minds can trick us. A lot of these stories happen at night, when you are either just falling asleep or waking up. You’re just entering a dream or waking up from one and there is little light. It doesn’t take much for you to see stuff that really isn’t there in such a condition and like a dream, it can seem as real as anyting else.
As for the other stories - during the day - that seem unexplainable, well I don’t know about those. It might still be the mind playing tricks or it might be something else. Anyway, I really need to experience something myself one day to be really open to paranormal stuff.[/quote]

That’s as may be, but the story aqbout the woman hiking and the photos is still freaky as hell though

53

[quote]Jereth127 wrote:
HerbertNL wrote:
I studied psychology so I know our minds can trick us. A lot of these stories happen at night, when you are either just falling asleep or waking up. You’re just entering a dream or waking up from one and there is little light. It doesn’t take much for you to see stuff that really isn’t there in such a condition and like a dream, it can seem as real as anyting else.
As for the other stories - during the day - that seem unexplainable, well I don’t know about those. It might still be the mind playing tricks or it might be something else. Anyway, I really need to experience something myself one day to be really open to paranormal stuff.

That’s as may be, but the story aqbout the woman hiking and the photos is still freaky as hell though[/quote]

Sorry to break it to you, but its just a variation on the old toothbrushes up the bum urban myth…

example

A couple from Des Moines were vacationing in Jamaica. One day, upon returning to the rented condo they had been staying at, they found that they had been robbed. The thieves had made off with most of their possessions, but the couple were please to discover that their camerea was still there. When they got home a few days laters, and developed the roll of film still in the camerea, there was an extra picture of two black strangers in the condo in Jamaica, each with a toothbrush up their bums. The coulpe was horrified when they realized those were their toothbrushes.

54

[quote]You_Fail wrote:
Jereth127 wrote:
HerbertNL wrote:
I studied psychology so I know our minds can trick us. A lot of these stories happen at night, when you are either just falling asleep or waking up. You’re just entering a dream or waking up from one and there is little light. It doesn’t take much for you to see stuff that really isn’t there in such a condition and like a dream, it can seem as real as anyting else.
As for the other stories - during the day - that seem unexplainable, well I don’t know about those. It might still be the mind playing tricks or it might be something else. Anyway, I really need to experience something myself one day to be really open to paranormal stuff.

That’s as may be, but the story aqbout the woman hiking and the photos is still freaky as hell though

Sorry to break it to you, but its just a variation on the old toothbrushes up the bum urban myth…

example

A couple from Des Moines were vacationing in Jamaica. One day, upon returning to the rented condo they had been staying at, they found that they had been robbed. The thieves had made off with most of their possessions, but the couple were please to discover that their camerea was still there. When they got home a few days laters, and developed the roll of film still in the camerea, there was an extra picture of two black strangers in the condo in Jamaica, each with a toothbrush up their bums. The coulpe was horrified when they realized those were their toothbrushes.[/quote]

Lol can’t help but laugh at that one

55

[quote]Jereth127 wrote:
TDub301 wrote:
My baby’s mother thinks her apartments is haunted. Apparently, she twice had a bad dream (didn’t describe what happened in the dream, just said it was bad) and woke up with a black tongue. She also said sometimes my son will come out of her room screaming, saying there is a man in there (which there isn’t). I don’t know, best I can come up with.

Don’t remember any personal experiences with anything like that myself, but I wouldn’t be that guy going around saying there’s no such thing as ghosts or something. As far as aliens go, I would just find it very hard to believe that there isn’t life on other planets somewhere, just isn’t logical. I could see us many years from now being the aliens on other planets.

Wow, scary stuff. What age is your son…? Small children generally don’t tend to lie about things like that, especially if they are scared.

I agree about the Aliens also. I don’t consider them to e ‘paranormal’. The chances of us being the only intelligent life in the universe are rather slim.

My sister used to hear voices that scared the bejesus outta her for many years(she won’t elaborate). Long story short she was eventually told she had quite powerful medium abilities. She had to go through many ‘rituals’ and processes to get it ‘turned off’. Apparently my other sister also has the abilities, but not nearly as powerful.
My brother also swears that when he lived at home, when he was in bed would regulalry hear someone open his door, take a step or two inside, stand there breathing for about 7/8 seconds and then simply walk away again. He said he eventually stopped paying attention to it as it became so frequent.

This one really unsettles me, however. There’s a marsh next to the sea around my area and one of my best friends lives rather close to it.
Anyways she went down there for a walk with her ex-BF one day and swore she heard a girl talking, even though they were the only ones there. Then about two nights later, she was having trouble sleeping. She opened her eyes and swears there was a girl sitting on the chair by her wardrobe with her feet in the chair and her hands clasped around her shins. She was soaking wet with leaves and mud in her hair and was shaking vigoursly.
My friend swears the girl looked right into her eyes and mouthed ‘Help Me’. My friend said she just closed her eyes and said ‘go away’ several times and by the time she opened her eyes again, the girl was gone.

Then, it transpired that a long time ago, a girl was murdered down there. All the people where I live around my parents age knew about it but seemingly my generation didn’t.

I have a pretty good BS detector and I know my friend was 100% trustworthy(even though we don’t talk anymore).
I felt uneasy even typing that out.[/quote]

My son just turned 4 on saturday. It doesn’t seem very likely that he would lie about something like that, however, kids also imitate what they see and he is no exception. If he saw his mom or someone else run out of a room saying there was a man in there a few times, he’d probably do it too. So I don’t know.

Either way, I don’t think ghosts will do anything regardless (if they are real). Every story here is about seeing one, but nothing else actually happens. I haven’t had any experiences like many of the people here supposedly have but will remain open minded and non-judgemental about it at least, I don’t want to be in the elitist “I know everything” group that tells people what they saw like they were there.

56

[quote]MaximusB wrote:
I have had 2 out of body experiences from coding (heart stops beating) while on an operating table. I will probably scare the ever living shit out of some of you, and give the rest shivers up your spine. We all think as we do, but personally speaking, there is another side, and I got a glimpse. It is a truly beautiful thing, it will humble the toughest of us all. [/quote]

Yous a tease

57

I was always very close to my mother and father. Dad died back in 1986 and my mom passed five years ago. Four years ago I was talking with a co-worker, in the break room, about how it bothered me that as close as I was to my father he never sent me a message from the other side. He was a real social bunny and probably too busy throwing parties, I joked. But I was kind of tearing up thinking about him when we went back to work. So I was busy keying packages, moving pretty quickly, when something caught my eye. I hit the “stop” button and walked over to pick up a package I’d just keyed to see a scribbled signature. It was my dad’s utterly illegible handwriting. Nobody, I mean NOBODY, wrote like my dad. That was all I needed to know he was okay.

Four years ago, my mother passed after having been in a nursing facility for about four months. She’d smoked cigarettes all her life, ultimately choking off the blood to her extremities, including her brain, causing mini strokes and bringing on a kind of sudden irreversible dementia. But, before she got sick, I told her the story of the package. My mother was agnostic to the core but she surprised me but not rolling her eyes this time. I told her how it upset me that Dad took so long to let me know he’d made it over okay and I asked her to please not do that when she passes. She smirked a bit but she didn’t jump on me about the stupidity of what I’d said, God bless her.

I live in a house built in 1905, over top a civil war camp, near a confederate cemetery. I’ve never encountered a ghost (though my cat, Tangerine, often stars at “nothing” and hisses… but he’s nuts). The day after Mom died I saw something coming down my dark stairs. There are 4 steps pointing north, then a landing with a window view of the neighbor’s house 9 feet away, then the remaining stairs point east. I was heading down the steps, going toward the landing, when I saw a bright pinpoint light outside the window, in the darkness. I wasn’t really paying attention and continued heading down when I stopped and went back. The light was gone. There was no source, it just appeared. And again, I knew. Mom was just letting me know she’d made it over.

58

[quote]Rational Gaze wrote:
Fuzzyapple wrote:
I wonder if you believe in it more does it happen to you more? Cause I personally do not believe in the paranormal. However, watching videos and hearing stories makes one wonder.

My father has the ability to for see things that are going to happen in dreams he has and can tell when something bad is going to happen or something is coming on to him.

It’s called confirmation bias. For example, suppose you believe that you always “feel” someone looking at you from behind. Then every time you turn round and see someone looking at you, you will think that it was significant, ignoring all of the times you turned round and no one was looking at you.

Vegita wrote:
Secondly, I can spin a PSI wheel. Youtube it I don’t feel like explaining it, and yes I beleive it is real, anyone can claim other people are doing it as a hoax, but when you try it yourself and it works, there is something to it.

Well, I could easily duplicate the psi wheel effect with convection, but that would not prove anything. There is absolutely no evidence of anything paranormal.[/quote]

Yea, Yea, Like I said, there are hundreds of know it alls who will explain away anything. First off I didn’t even explain my setup so what you assume I have my hand right next to it? Well I don’t I can sit 5 Ft away from it with something covering my mouth and nose and arms crossed in front of me. And get it to spin both directions. Yet if left alone the setup doesn’t spin at all let alone flutter. Like I said, I was skeptical, but it’s as real as it gets, I don’t care if you believe me or not, i’m just pointing out to others here that there are people who will simply make any attempt to discredit paranormal things, even if they have to make baseless assumptions. AND to further discredit the convection theory, I routinely held a lighter flame the same distance as I would hold my hand (when I first started and had my hand next to it) and the flame would do no more than flutter the wheel. Also if it were convection, the movement would be somewhat consistant, like air moving over a fan blade. It is n ot, it wobbles, jumps to a spin and then stops abruptly, spins smoothly for numerous rotations only to change directions. Convection is not responsible for these movements.

V

59

[quote]ironmaniac508 wrote:
I was sleeping one time and was woken by what felt like someone sitting on the foot of the bed. I looked and I saw what looked like the black figure of a person sitting on the end of the bed right next to my feet. All I remember after I looked at it was instantly falling to sleep. [/quote]

This is another I have experienced. There is a streetlight outside my old room where it occured, the light makes some big shadows where the bed and dressers are. I woke up uneasy one night and I could feel and hear my then girlfriend, now wife tossing and muttering in a nightmare. I could make out little nos and whatnot in her mutterings. So i’m laying there and I’m basically paralyzed with fear as I realize there is something in the room, I scan over the room and see dark shadows moving from one shady area of the room to another. In my past dealings with the paranormal I had read about astral shadow creatures. They are basically a negative astral energy. In the astral realm, like attracts like is one of the main laws, so they are attracted to and you could say almost feed off negativity, negative emotions and whatnot. Humans create emotions so it is one of my theories that these low astral entities are responsible for some if not most or all of the nightmares people experience.

Anyways, I had previously learned how to make shielding and how to create an environment that they would not like so I visualised pulsing gold light eminating from my body and engulfing the room, I concentrated really hard and in a matter of a few seconds the heavy feeling I had was gone and my girlfriend startled awake. She instantly told me of a bad nightmare she was having of being chased by vampires or some other type of creatures that were trying to consume her. It was enough validation for me that what I did percieve in the room was in fact real.

V

60

[quote]Vegita wrote:
Yea, Yea, Like I said, there are hundreds of know it alls who will explain away anything. First off I didn’t even explain my setup so what you assume I have my hand right next to it?[/quote]

Well, if you read what I said, I made no assumptions about your “setup.” What I said was that you could easily duplicate the results without inventing some explanation relying on psychic powers. And I don’t know why you think convection would produce regular perturbations of the wheel, heat convection is highly non-linear.

I don’t have to go out of my way to discredit paranormal phenomena, the people making the claims usually do a good job of that themselves by drawing conclusions that have no basis in the available evidence, or by appealing to theories that are completely untestable. A good example would be “negative energy.” Since there is no definition of negative energy, and it cannot be measured, it’s very easy to give it any properties you like.