Ghost, Spirits, Hauntings

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Ok I want to know other peoples views on this subject. I am a firm believer in the paranormal. As I have experianced it my whole life, from preminitions to actual spirit sightings. I have been touched, grabbed and even fondeld(sp?) by spirits in the past. Here are a few stories I have to share:


When I was about 8 or 9 my mom would not let me watch any horror movies and I so wanted to know what demons looked like. So I layed in my bed and begged for a demon to come to me. Bad choice, something a shadow type thingy grabbed my foot and tried to pull me off the bed. I was able to get away from it and the next day I had bruises on my ancles where it had grabbed me. I was in my room alone with no animals or anything. Ever since that day I had seen them and heared them.

Not too long after that, mabye a few months after that happened me and my brother were out in the back yard near a shed that was falling down, and something told us to stay away from it. The next day it fell down after a heavy rain.

I would hear foot steps where no one was there. I would hear what sounded like a pig squilling and scratching noises in my pillow and in the room. I have had a shadow like figure hovering over me face to face.

Not too long ago I was attacked again by something I could not see. It had me pinned down and it violated me while I was trying to go to sleep. lol, it drove me to near insanity, scared the living daylights out of me. Now I smell a horrable smell in my home. I am picking up on the smell from my mom in laws lab in my dining room. Where I had seen a spirit go from my room to my daughters room through the wall is some sort of ooze like stuff on the wall. Also some in my bathroom.

I put my cat out side last night and my family started to complaine that it was cold. I let the cat back in and they got warmer and stoped shivering. As God is my witness it is the oddest thing.

Any body else have anything to share

Wow, no way to top those stories. Seems you live in a haunted house.

I once lived in a haunted house during college. One of the people that lived upstairs one time asked if we'd ever seen shadows in the house. We all laughed and said no. Then a few weeks later I was studying and thought I saw a shadow go by the door....no one else was in the house. Strangely, the afterimage of the shadow was of a white lace dress.

There was one place in the house that was always cold, even in the middle of summer. It was near the cellar, which was cooler anyway. But there was this latch on the door at the bottom of the cellar stairs, which would be unlatched after it had been previously latched. I was sitting in the kitchen (near the stairs) one day, and felt the hair on the back of my neck raise up, and it got very cold. Now, some of the people in the house were history majors, and they had looked up that a family had lived there in the 1800s, and their daughter, Anna, had died in the house. I said, "Hello Anna" and it got warm again.

The history majors found a picture of the three girls that had been in the house and put it on the mantle over the fireplace. One day, we found the picture on the floor, with a single crack in the glass -- which went through only Anna's picture.

All this could have been BS, but one day when I was alone in the house I heard a thump in the kitchen - waBANG. I went in and found the oven open. Now I tested the door, and the spring was strong and there was no way it could just fall open by itself. I closed it, tested it again, closed it securely and went back to what I'd been doing. A couple minutes later waBANG again...the oven door was open again, and it was cold in the kitchen.

Karma you are describing night terrors - the first time it happened to me a demon was standing over my bed smothering me, I couldn't breathe and I couldn't move a muscle - when I tried to yell for help all I could get out was a weak huhhhhh sound. It happened three nights in a row and I was convinced I had some crazy link to the afterlife and I was foreseeing my own death.

Then I read about adult night terrors (also known as sleep paralysis). It happens to a lot of people.

What is night terrors? Simply put - it is a combination dream/hallucination. You are sleeping in REM and your brain wakes up but your body is still in sleep-mode. Your heart is beating REALLY slow and you can't move or breath well - that's why you felt "pinned down".

Everyone I have talked to who has experienced this also experienced hallucinations - usually involving demons or spirits. It freaked me out when it first started happening but now that I know what it is it's almost enjoyable - like watching an extremely scary movie - and there's an incredible adrenaline rush when you finally wake out of it.

awww..... don't ruin their fantasies....

awww..... don't ruin their fantasies....

Hey man, I saw what I saw. I've had scary dreams too.....

My father passed away in 1987.He spent a lot of time in the basement working on things, repairing old broken items, etc. Within a week after his passing the 3 clocks that are in the basement stopped working normally. One stopped altoghether for no reason, one slowed right down and couldn't keep time, and the other one did different things at different times such as stopping for awhile, then starting up again suddenly. Over the years I have replaced the clocks with brand new ones, and within a week they too stop working. I also find things moved around ,( I am the only one who goes in our basement.)
What really made me wonder about ghosts was something that happened the other day. But first a little history; Back in 1982 my father needed to replace our sump pump. He was from the "old school" and was skeptical of "new technology". My neighbor up the street ran a well drilling business and told him to get a new submersible pump. He was reluctant as he thought they weren't reliable and was afraid water would get in and ruin the pump. He always bought pedestal pumps where the motor remains above water. He finally purchased a submersible pump at that time and it failed within a week. It was found that the pump was made at a factory that was experiencing a labor strike and either the pump was sabotaged or was made by a unexperienced worker. Well my neighbor talked my father into trying another one and he did, but he modified it by putting a homemde switch on it externally operated by a float that slid up and down a rod according to the water level, operating a switch to turn on the pump.
Over the years this pump worked fine, until the past few years when for some unknown reason the rod that the float slid on developed a small bend in it which caused the float to stick sometimes when it came to the bend, causing the basement to flood. The problem was made worse by the snow melt in the Spring or after a sudden downpour and influx of water into the basement. I finally made the decision to replace the pump last week along with new drain pipes to the outside. I had a contractor who was remodeling my bathroom to do the work of replacing the pump. Two days after the installation I went in the basement and heard an odd sound. The new sump pump was running and the sump was completely drained. The pump did not turn itself off. I immediately thought of my father and jokingly said to myself that he was probably mad that I had replaced the pump and not adopted his modifications that he did to the old one. So he decided to make his displeasures known by messing with the new pump. The contractor plugged the unit back in the following day and it worked fine. Yet another "unexplained" happening in my basement.

Karma you are describing night terrors - the first time it happened to me a demon was standing over my bed smothering me, I couldn't breathe and I couldn't move a muscle - when I tried to yell for help all I could get out was a weak huhhhhh sound. It happened three nights in a row and I was convinced I had some crazy link to the afterlife and I was foreseeing my own death.

Then I read about adult night terrors (also known as sleep paralysis). It happens to a lot of people.

What is night terrors? Simply put - it is a combination dream/hallucination. You are sleeping in REM and your brain wakes up but your body is still in sleep-mode. Your heart is beating REALLY slow and you can't move or breath well - that's why you felt "pinned down".

Everyone I have talked to who has experienced this also experienced hallucinations - usually involving demons or spirits. It freaked me out when it first started happening but now that I know what it is it's almost enjoyable - like watching an extremely scary movie - and there's an incredible adrenaline rush when you finally wake out of it.


lol, Yeah I know about all that stuff. I have read up on all of it, I get the night terror stuff and all. Yet what I don't get is how something can touch you or pull your hair and nothing be there. How something can grab your ankle and try to pull you, you know stuff like that. I have seen ball lighting in the clouds, yet I have seen blue balls shoot across my old bed room. I have seen them in my now home. What the heck is that mess. Hubby just laughs at me and blows it off and talks about commiting me and all....lol, I am not crazy.

I've had a few things happen personally, and a few stories from family members that don't "tell stories".

When I bought my house, the basement walls were entirely covered in extruded polystyrene panels, which had claw marks up them (cat or small dog height), all the way around the basement. I hadn't thought about it for months, then one night I was about to go to bed and I was absolutely sure I heard small animals running up the stairs. So I'm sitting on the edge of my recliner, about to stand up and I froze when I heard the noise. There was a noise (my dog turned his head at the wall that the stairs are behind), and it was coming from below me. So I run and grab my .45, flashlight, and knife and go to the basement. Empty. Checked between the floor joists, everywhere anything could be. Empty. So I go upstairs and clear each room one at a time. The only living things in the house were my dog and I. I double checked that I locked the doors, I put him in his kennel and went to bed. A few minutes later I heard a creak, a thump, and my dog yelp/whine. He barks at unfamiliar noises, but not like this. So I grab my "security system" again and I'm just about to kill the light and open the hallway door when I hear a scratch on my door. I jump behind my bed, flashlight in in one hand, .45 in the other. I hear the door creak open and see a shadow come in, I turn on the flashlight, and it was my dog. Now there is NO way that he can open the door on his kennel, and I'm 99.99% sure that I closed the kennel door. Because of what happened earlier, and just a weird feeling I had, I once again went through the whole house room-by-room. The side door was unlocked, both doors get locked every time the door gets closed, plus I actually took a second look 10 minutes earlier. My dog would not go back in his kennel that night, and he loves it in there.

Another time I was driving a bit recklessly and I started to skid off the road. I slid a bit and then my car hit something sideways and straightened out on the edge of the road. I thought I hit the guardrail, but after checking, there was no guardrail. It was a hard stop, and there was no damage to my car.

One of my relative's dad died years back, and every night there's a shadow that moves down the hallway at exactly the same time... I forget what time, but it's whatever time her dad used to go to bed. She said you don't see it if you're in the hallway, but if you're in a room off the hallway and the hall light's on, you see the shadow under the door.

When my grandpa died, he and my grandma were driving home from visiting us. He had a heart attack while driving. My grandma falls asleep 2 minutes after getting in a car, and all she remembers is waking up in the bottom of a deep ditch. A man was right there when she woke up and helped her out of the car and up to the road. I went to where their car went in, and there is no way she could have walked out, not only was the hill incredibly steep, but it had been raining and was slippery. So she flags down a car, and they ask if she's ok. She said something like "yes, this nice man was there to help me out", and when she turned toward him, no one was there. 14 years later she's still "all there", it may take 5 tries at someone's name before she gets it, but still sharp.

Plus quite a few small things that were most likely just unlikely coincidences.

I got chills from the Dad/hallway/shadow one.

I believe that some people are more "in-tune" with these kinds of things. I haven't ever personally experienced things of the paranormal sort, but I know plenty of people that have. My brother swore up and down when we were little that he saw things in my parents house that I could never see. My mother in law swears that her current house is haunted. I am so in to watching the show My Ghost Story on the biography channel. They usually have pictures or video evidence and its pretty cool.