Your weird and paranormal experiences

[Suzette]

Have you ever had an experience you can't quite explain?
Tell us about your experience. It can be a simply weird coincidence, a meeting someone strange or even a ghostly encounter.

I am going to tell you about my grandmother. I have felt connected to her in an inexplicable way sll my life even though she died when I was a baby. These events have been on my mind a lot lately.

I first encountered my grand motbers spirit when I was about 3. My parents had divorced and my mom moved us back into the house she grew up in with my grand pa. As I said, my grandmother died when I was just a baby.

One time I was in my grandmas bedroom and looking at her things that my grandpa had not parted with. A pretty, older woman, with very dark hair in a bun, entered the room. I asked who she was and she told me that she was my grandma. She invited me to play in her jewelry box and set me on her bed with the box. My mother found me there and I had tangled some of the chains. She was upset and couldn't figure out how I got the jewelry box because it had been in the dresser and too high for me to reach and she didn't know how I got onto the bed either. She did not believe that her mother had gotten the box for me.

Another time I saw my grandmother had come to visit and I followed her through the house to the kitchen. I could see her with my mom and aunt cooking dinner. But when I went back into the room she was gone. And another time she helped me into my high chair but mom still didn't believe it was her mother. She insisted it was my aunt who wasn't there.

I have more stories about my grand mother but that is enough for now.

 

[Luca]

That is so cool!!
You can talk to me about the paranormal anytime

Ghosts and cryptozoology are a special interest. I don’t discuss it often because sometimes people don’t believe me and think I’m hallucinating or making stuff up

I feel connected to spirits and angels in a similar way to how I feel connected to animals and the natural world.

But I’m Hispanic, and religious, and a bit superstitious, so I don’t mess with demons. Lol

I will post a picture at some point… I have a cross above most of the doorways in my house and I have rosary beads on my bedroom doorknobs. I don’t do demons or evil spirits

Someone remind me tomorrow and I will post a picture of my ghost hunting equipment too.

 

[Raggamuffin]

Smell of cigarette smoke in our old house. Judging by the wallpaper in the master bedroom before we redecorated, the previous owner was a smoker. She had lived in the house her entire life.

Me and Kristy also saw a cat. Of course, we had our own cat - but this was both before, and during our ownership of Kes. Plus, at the times when we saw said shadowy figure, we knew Kes wasn't in the room.

I go to a spiritualist evening with my mum now and then. The mediums ask for "yes" and "no" answers only. Yet they come out with such specific information that they couldn't possibly know. Quite impressive. I'm personally not religious myself, but I believe what religion got correct was that there is life after death, and that there is likely to be some form of sentience behind the universe we inhabit.

Ed

 

[Storm Hess]

In our previous house, we had a large enclosed shower with a tub adjacent to it. The glass walls of the shower are at least 6'6" tall, with a flat, sunken, tile floor.

After washing up, I started shaving my face...I dropped the razor. I picked up the razor and was about to start shaving again, but noticed that the head of the razor was no long on the handle. The was not a large walk-in shower, it was about 4 feet in width and 5 feet in depth, so the search didn't take long. No razor head. "Must of gone down the drain." Had another razor in the shower, so I finished up with that one.

I get out, put my foot up on the side of the tub, and there inside the tub was the head of the razor.

After I got dressed, I grabbed 4 razors and I proceeded to test dropping razors in the shower to see how this was possible. The 4th razor I threw to the tile floor to verify whether it would bounce out by throwing it. 3 razors had the head of the razor remain intact. The 4th was the only one that lost its head and was nowhere near to bouncing over the 6'6" enclosure. I did not make any movements above my head with the razor in my hand to cause it to disconnect from the handle and land outside of the shower enclosure.

Still has me baffled to this day.

 

[Misery]

Okay OF COURSE I'm going to be the odd one out (so far) and not go with a normal ghost story, but instead get really weird, because of course. As if it'd be any different.

So far I've only explained any of this to a couple of specific members of this forum (you know who you are), so just saying any of it outright is a first. But... eh. May as well.

This happened in the summer of 2019, middle of the day.

I'm in my room, lying on my back on the bed. I'm in there doing this because stuff was hurting, yet again, so stretching out can relieve some of the spinal pressure or whatever it is. While doing this, I generally look at memes and such on my iPad. May as well have a laugh while doing it, yeah? So I'm doing that, giggling at whatever memes I'd found that time and saving the ones I liked.

Until, very abruptly, I wasnt.

The iPad now lay to my side. I'm simply staring forward now. I've no recollection of putting the thing down. But I sure have recollection of what happened next.

I'm not just staring into space. I'm staring AT something. It was... like an amoeba shape. Inky black... so dark that it was more like a void existed within that shape, or perhaps it simply presented an area where light mostly stopped working. Hard to explain. Though it had 3 or so bright yellow spots at various points.

Its position in the room was indistinct. It's hard to explain what that means. It was standing on the far side of the room / on the foot of the bed / on my chest. All at once. It is tall, and while the position it stands in made little sense, its shape was crystal clear. I dont think I could truly describe what that effect looked like, not in words... the best I can give is sort of an approximation. There is one, and only one, other place where I have seen a visual effect like that, and that's in VR, and a very specific and very rare type of glitch must occur for this visual effect to happen. And when it does, well... it really is best not to look at it. Your eyes REALLY dont want to process that and the resulting headache will come on instantly.

But that wasnt the worst part. The worst part was the very abrupt realization that I'd been staring at it for at least 5-10 minutes without realizing I'd been doing so. Just... staring.

Upon realizing this rather unpleasant fact, that's when the fear set in. I threw the iPad at it, which had about the effect you'd expect (AKA, nothing), and then jumped up out of the bed and sprinted out of the room. I got some distance and turned around. Nothing.

After some time I went back into the room, slowly. Nothing there, of course, as per protocol.

Now, I know that some will say "well it was just sleep paralysis", but there's two major points against that. Firstly, I cant fall asleep on my back. Never could. Trying to do so just leads to ever increasing frustration, and I only attempt it if my neck has gone bad (and of course, it then accomplishes nothing other than getting me even more irritated). I always sleep on my stomach. Though also my mind was totally engaged, laughing at, I dunno, cats or something, so that's another point.

But also, I was able to move just fine... I simply DIDNT BOTHER, until the effect popped. Which was the scariest part of... whatever the heck that was.

So... that's whatever that was. Oddly it wasnt the strangest thing that happened that year, but I wont explain the other one, not here.

So... yeah. You can probably see why I tend to be reluctant in talking about this sort of stuff. Sounds like the ravings of a maniac, devoid of reason. Sometimes even I dont believe me.

Feh.

 

[Luca]

Okay OF COURSE I'm going to be the odd one out (so far) and not go with a normal ghost story, but instead get really weird, because of course. As if it'd be any different.

So far I've only explained any of this to a couple of specific members of this forum (you know who you are), so just saying any of it outright is a first. But... eh. May as well.

This happened in the summer of 2019, middle of the day.

I'm in my room, lying on my back on the bed. I'm in there doing this because stuff was hurting, yet again, so stretching out can relieve some of the spinal pressure or whatever it is. While doing this, I generally look at memes and such on my iPad. May as well have a laugh while doing it, yeah? So I'm doing that, giggling at whatever memes I'd found that time and saving the ones I liked.

Until, very abruptly, I wasnt.

The iPad now lay to my side. I'm simply staring forward now. I've no recollection of putting the thing down. But I sure have recollection of what happened next.

I'm not just staring into space. I'm staring AT something. It was... like an amoeba shape. Inky black... so dark that it was more like a void existed within that shape, or perhaps it simply presented an area where light mostly stopped working. Hard to explain. Though it had 3 or so bright yellow spots at various points.

Its position in the room was indistinct. It's hard to explain what that means. It was standing on the far side of the room / on the foot of the bed / on my chest. All at once. It is tall, and while the position it stands in made little sense, its shape was crystal clear. I dont think I could truly describe what that effect looked like, not in words... the best I can give is sort of an approximation. There is one, and only one, other place where I have seen a visual effect like that, and that's in VR, and a very specific and very rare type of glitch must occur for this visual effect to happen. And when it does, well... it really is best not to look at it. Your eyes REALLY dont want to process that and the resulting headache will come on instantly.

But that wasnt the worst part. The worst part was the very abrupt realization that I'd been staring at it for at least 5-10 minutes without realizing I'd been doing so. Just... staring.

Upon realizing this rather unpleasant fact, that's when the fear set in. I threw the iPad at it, which had about the effect you'd expect (AKA, nothing), and then jumped up out of the bed and sprinted out of the room. I got some distance and turned around. Nothing.

After some time I went back into the room, slowly. Nothing there, of course, as per protocol.

Now, I know that some will say "well it was just sleep paralysis", but there's two major points against that. Firstly, I cant fall asleep on my back. Never could. Trying to do so just leads to ever increasing frustration, and I only attempt it if my neck has gone bad (and of course, it then accomplishes nothing other than getting me even more irritated). I always sleep on my stomach. Though also my mind was totally engaged, laughing at, I dunno, cats or something, so that's another point.

But also, I was able to move just fine... I simply DIDNT BOTHER, until the effect popped. Which was the scariest part of... whatever the heck that was.

So... that's whatever that was. Oddly it wasnt the strangest thing that happened that year, but I wont explain the other one, not here.

So... yeah. You can probably see why I tend to be reluctant in talking about this sort of stuff. Sounds like the ravings of a maniac, devoid of reason. Sometimes even I dont believe me.

Feh.

I believe you
That is extremely creepy though… sounds worse than sleep paralysis actually
I have been trying to sleep, but probably won’t, with that image in my head.

My house was built in 2019, so it’s very unlikely that it’s haunted… but I’ve seen and heard things outdoors in my neighborhood at night and my dogs hate going out at night. It’s hard to explain but my entire neighborhood has a very creepy vibe after dark. You can definitely sense that something is weird and the whole feeling of the place changes at night.

Taking my dogs out past 10pm really gives me the creeps and I try to avoid it as much as possible.

It doesn’t feel like ghosts. It feels like bad energy. Which is another reason I don’t want to live here permanently.

Sometimes all my dogs will just get fixed on a certain spot for a few seconds, then go running back inside.

I don’t think it necessarily comes across as demonic energy either… just bad. Creepy. And it’s only outdoors, not inside the house.

I don’t live in a city or in a particularly bad area, but I get the feeling that there might be people around here who are into really bad stuff… like messing with things that they shouldn’t It’s hard to explain what I’m talking about unless you experience it for yourself. And I’ve been exposed to some pretty weird stuff in my life. I don’t want to say exactly what I’m talking about because it’s superstitious in my culture. But if you know, you know.

 

[Suzette]

@Misery You do not sound like a lunatic. But I can not imagine what thst thing was! Maybe an energy vampire?

 

[Streetwise]

I've had some but this one isn't scary I was reading my mothers copy of the old KJV bible specifically the new covenant and I got the distinct feeling that a completely blank area of the page was alive seemed a small living being never had it again

 

[maycontainthunder]

I was 16 when this happened.

Mum and I were tidying my room when a shadow walked in the door then faded. I know who is was... Dog V1 who had been PTS a couple of weeks before at the age of 10 1/2. Her liver had failed and her kidneys were failing.

The shape of that shadow and the way it moved... there is no way it could've been anything else.

 

[Neonatal RRT]

When I was a child and into my teens, I frequently had episodes of deja vu,...like about once a week or so. Flashes of this or that,...nothing I could predict or react to,...but it was almost bothersome.

However, there was one event that really shook me,...and I was able to react to. I was a young student in respiratory care. I had a dream the night before that I was in the intensive care unit at a local hospital where I was doing my clinical training. Specifically, at 11:00, I looked up at the clock and the electrical power went out, and the back-up generators did not turn on. I ran to a bedside where someone was on a mechanical ventilator,...the lights, the pumps, the monitors, all off. I quickly grabbed the manual resuscitation bag and had to ventilate my patient until the power turned back on a few minutes later. That was the dream.

Sure enough, the next day,...everything played out. I was in the intensive care unit, I looked up at the clock at 10:57. Remembering the dream, I stood up from my chair, calmly walked over the the room, waited the minute, or so,...just in case,...and 11:00, the power went out. I calmly walked into the room, took the patient off the ventilator, and used the manual resuscitator to keep him breathing until the power came back on about a minute later. That was the strangest paranormal thing I've ever experienced.

Keep in mind this was 1989 when most hospital equipment did not have back-up battery systems like they do now. We have had delays in the back-up generators delivering power,...the hospital engineers check these things about once a month,...but now-a-days, the equipment just keeps running.

The next paranormal thing I experienced was when I was about 18 years old, I was a young phlebotomist working in the hospital. I drew blood,...entry-level position. I had this one patient,...an older diabetic lady,...a "frequent flyer",...a history of multiple admissions. I was frequently drawing her blood sugars. My fiancé (now my wife) was a nursing assistant on the floor where this lady was rooming in. We were young, and worked the night shift,...she was working, and I was home asleep. I had a dream about this lady, I sensed something was wrong, I was just starting to wake from the dream when I felt a mild electrical shock move through me and I knew this lady had died. I looked at the clock,...04:00am. I couldn't get that sense out of my head for hours. My fiancé came home, I could tell something was off, and before I could ask her about her night at work, I said "Mrs. ***** died at 4am this morning didn't she?" My fiancé looked at me, confused and a little "weirded out",...she said that she was the one doing the chest compressions during CPR on this lady. It was 4am.

 

[Gerontius]

Yesterday I was talking with a friend about someone who had died some years ago after a very interesting life. He was a Catholic priest who founded a religious order (society of priests & brothers who are working on some particular goal--in this case, mission related--devotes his life to charity, gave away all his possessions and owned literally nothing, died somewhere in Peru or something.)

So anyway we were looking at the pictures & kind of decided: "I think Fr. X might've been a saint."
"Yes," he says. "I am pretty well convinced he is in heaven."
"Not only that," I said for some reason, "I am starting to wonder if he is hanging around."

Well later on that day another guy comes in and we're talking, so the conversation goes creepy, and then he mentioned out of the blue that he thinks Fr. X. had come into the room and spoken to him, a few years ago--and to some other guys who were here. He is not exactly gone yet, is the odd part, and I could go further into this but some people are weirded out when too much religion gets in their paranormal stuff.

Things got weird that evening. Nothing was malevolent or what-not but still the whole deal was odd especially since I am about the furthest thing from spiritual, and both my friends who also dealt with this were grave and honest men of good reputation who aren't into ghosts and that sort of thing. We're not into spookmongering. One of them says that he's always been sensitive to that sort of thing but it was odd that it happened to all of us. I am just going to say this though--Fr X is dead but he hasn't decided to go yet; he must be some kind of a workaholic to be checking in from beyond the grave.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

While I remain firmly grounded in the idea that the Cosmos is Natural and material, there are supernatural beliefs that still inhabit my mind. Primarily it is the folk Shinto idea of Kami, that spirits inhabit our natural world.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

I have quite a few.

First occurrence happened several times when I was six. I’d wake up in the morning to find this blinding pure white light shining directly in my eyes for a few second before suddenly vanishing. My entire body was engulfed by this light. I tried to tell my sister about this and she claimed it was caused by large trucks’ headlights driving during the night. But the thing is this was happening during the summer at six in the morning when the sun is already up. It wasn’t the sun either as it wasn’t on that side of the house until the afternoon. Years later I told my sister that detail and she admitted that she couldn’t explain it.

Then there was this wall in the basement of the restaurant my dad’s friend owned that had this drawing of a soldier’s face and some writing in some sort of yellow material on a brick wall. It made straight even lines as if it were a marker or paint but there were dots in the lines as if it was crayon but it didn’t feel waxy. I later learned that this was created by some type of acid. That isn’t the creepy part. The scary part is that I kept becoming entranced by the drawing and staring at it mostly wondering why and how it got there while I felt this presence staring back at me. The restaurant eventually closed after two years and then two more opened up only to close a couple years later. I told an acquaintance of mine about this weird drawing and he was an expert of the paranormal and he somehow got into the abandoned restaurant (as nothing opened up there in six years) and he did some ritual to cleanse it and he told me that there was this ghost boy who looked like the solider in the drawing. After he cleansed the place, a new restaurant opened up there and has been open for almost ten years which is a record as nothing stayed open in that place for more than three years.

I also occasionally get messages from those who have died in the form of vivid dreams or them talking to me directly. I’m not a psychic but I just seem to be more sensitive to this type of thing.

 

[LadyS]

I've never had memorable paranormal experiences, sadly, because it's one of my lifelong special interests as well. So ..very jealous.

But I keep having these weird coincidences all through life that are hard to explain. I'll randomly think of something, it'll just pop into my head, and it's almost always something arbitrary and uncommon that I never think about and then within minutes I'll see or hear that thing somewhere, like on TV or the radio, or I'll hear it in a song or hear someone mention it, etc. Or I'll see or hear about it in one spot and then it'll appear again in another medium. But it's always something that's not part of the everyday.

Example, an aardvark will randomly pop into my head and then a few minutes later I'll see a commercial with an aardvark in it or I'll see a street sign with an aardvark in it (kinda bad example but hopefully you get the picture). Or I'll randomly think of a song or movie scene that I haven't heard or seen in years and then it'll suddenly appear.

I've had this happen with people too, as in I'll mention something to a friend and they'll say that someone else said the same exact thing to them earlier in the day. It's just weird and I don't know what it means.

It's similar to when I was younger and every time I'd look at the clock it would be 11:11 or 12:34. I've heard this phenomenon occurs to a lot of people, but it hasn't happened in years.

With my babies, in the middle of the night I'd also wake up a minute before they wake up crying. Or if I'm having trouble sleeping, they do too. Motherly bond? I don't know.

A few years back, I saw this ghost detecting app and thought I'd download it for laughs. It's mostly just white noise and then supposedly it'll randomly pick up words that "ghosts" have spoken and before that happens the bars on the meter go higher and higher into the red zone. I mean it's just an app, not some scientific device so I know it's just bogus. But then I started concentrating really hard, going deeper and deeper within my head, like in meditation, and as I did that, the bars would keep going higher and higher. And then when I would stop they'd go down again. Happened every time. But it would never pick up on a word like it usually did. All weird.

 

[Judge]

Who’s seen a ghost or had a paranormal experience?

 

[Suzette]

Another story about my grandmother.

When I was about 13 my grandmother visited me in a dream. In that dream we were in a space full of odd, translucent, intersecting planes. It was sort of like being inside of a crystal.

Anyway my grandmother was was wearing a long red dress abd she binked in and out of my vision as she passed through those crystal planes. We had a long chat but later I could only remember one part of it. As we werecwalking my grandmother suddenly said she had to go but to tell my mom
"Everything will be o.k. Kathy. I am watching over you and bouncing on the clouds like I always wanted."

I woke up happy but sad and a clear sense that I had talked to my grandmother. When I told my mom about the dream she was amazed because she one of the last things her mother had said to her before she passed was "Don't be sad Kathy. I will just be bouncing on the clouds." And red was her moms favorite color.

I would dream about my granmother several more times over the years but I always soke unable to recall what we talked out. Except once.

In the lasg dream I had about my grand mother I was on a large, beautiful estate surrounded by gardens. There was a large house on the estate and I wandered in. I saw several people and asked each if they had seen my grandmother but no one wanted to pay any attention to me. Finally a kind lady said she would fetch my grandma and urged me to sit on the front porch.

Soon my grandmother arrived dressed in high fashion like a lady of leisure from 30s. She wore a hat with a long peacock feather and coat with a great fur collar. She was a little putout and impatient with me. I had imagined that we would have a long chat as we had done before, but she demanded I tell her what I wanted and "Hurry up girl! You simply must get used to figuring these thing out on your own. I am far too busy to do this all the time. There is horseback riding, dances and classes.."

I awoke feeling hurt that grandma was so impatient with me but I knew she wasn't being unkind. There would be other forms of communication with her over the years. But I never directly dreamed about her again.

 

[Roxiee]

Have you ever had an experience you can't quite explain?
Tell us about your experience. It can be a simply weird coincidence, a meeting someone strange or even a ghostly encounter.

I am going to tell you about my grandmother. I have felt connected to her in an inexplicable way sll my life even though she died when I was a baby. These events have been on my mind a lot lately.

I first encountered my grand motbers spirit when I was about 3. My parents had divorced and my mom moved us back into the house she grew up in with my grand pa. As I said, my grandmother died when I was just a baby.

One time I was in my grandmas bedroom and looking at her things that my grandpa had not parted with. A pretty, older woman, with very dark hair in a bun, entered the room. I asked who she was and she told me that she was my grandma. She invited me to play in her jewelry box and set me on her bed with the box. My mother found me there and I had tangled some of the chains. She was upset and couldn't figure out how I got the jewelry box because it had been in the dresser and too high for me to reach and she didn't know how I got onto the bed either. She did not believe that her mother had gotten the box for me.

Another time I saw my grandmother had come to visit and I followed her through the house to the kitchen. I could see her with my mom and aunt cooking dinner. But when I went back into the room she was gone. And another time she helped me into my high chair but mom still didn't believe it was her mother. She insisted it was my aunt who wasn't there.

I have more stories about my grand mother but that is enough for now.

So, it's a bit confusing even for me but here ya go!

My nan died back in 2012, me and my sisters and brothers only a bunch of us was doing scary things before her death like calling out for ghosts and we put cones out so that of a spirit was there it would kick it over or such, but after a whole year and half after she passed we got banging noices coming from the room she passed away in, which was scary but we just laughed it off, until it moved from her room to the kitchen where she used to cook, things used to get thrown from the kitchen counter we used to be eating and a door near by would slam, so it was pretty scary but I think it was her telling us I am not on earth but I'm here watching over you all!

 

[1ForAll]

Our son about two years ago sang the song "On Eagle's Wings," which is a religious song that he thought sounded well for his style, though none of us are religious and so we did not choose it for this reason. Nevertheless, I decided to have him try sing it, because of the "shining sun" lyric part, when the actual sun was rising through the trees, hoping when he sang that part of the song about the shining sun the sun would shine brighter then. Anyway, although that worked out pretty fine, the timing for such, I did not consider that some mystic occurrence, as it was planned, and just resulted with some luck.

But, when I replayed the video back, I noticed throughout the song on his left shoulder (on his right from my point of view) an image that seemed like a transparent shining angel wing there, at least once near the time when the lyrics mention the word "angels wings," and a few other times during the song. As well, also not preplanned was the continual lifting up images behind him against the wall throughout the entire song, which tied in with the "raise you up" lyrics too. In no way, did we plan the last two things mentioned, as we would have no way to know how to do that, but they occurred naturally without any editing.

If anyone here wants to view that video, private message me and I would give a private link showing that.

 

[Shamar]

Have you ever had an experience you can't quite explain?
Tell us about your experience. It can be a simply weird coincidence, a meeting someone strange or even a ghostly encounter.

On a winter project in Canada, we were having a day off. There was a reading room and two of settled down with books. Mike came in and said it was a nice day, and was going to take a walk with the camp dog. After about fifteen minutes, I threw the book down and said "Mike's in trouble!" I was internally DRIVEN to go look for him. I followed his footprints in the snow , but after a while the feeling stopped. I went back to camp, and found Mike in the shower with a blanket and several people trying to get him warm. It turned out he had fallen through the ice, fortunately close enough to shore to barely get himself out. He was found on the road leading back to camp. This is the closest I have ever come to actually losing a crew member (although there were times I came close to murdering one of them).

 

[Suzette]

On a winter project in Canada, we were having a day off. There was a reading room and two of settled down with books. Mike came in and said it was a nice day, and was going to take a walk with the camp dog. After about fifteen minutes, I threw the book down and said "Mike's in trouble!" I was internally DRIVEN to go look for him. I followed his footprints in the snow , but after a while the feeling stopped. I went back to camp, and found Mike in the shower with a blanket and several people trying to get him warm. It turned out he had fallen through the ice, fortunately close enough to shore to barely get himself out. He was found on the road leading back to camp. This is the closest I have ever come to actually losing a crew member (although there were times I came close to murdering one of them).

Wonderful! But I have to ask, how was the camp dog?