Ghosts - My Experiences of the Paranormal
As defined by www.dictionary.com:
- the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
Synonyms:
- apparition, phantom, phantasm, wraith, revenant; shade, spook.
On the morning of April 6, 2008, my dad walked into my room at 8 a.m. and woke me up. He told me he was going out of town for the day and asked me if I wanted to come. I said no and went back to sleep. About half an hour later, my friend Ashley called me; I had left my jacket at her house. I laid back down, but I didn't feel comfortable. I felt like someone was watching me. For about half an hour, I drifted in and out of sleep. I finally woke up fully at about 9, but I didn't want to get up. So, I just laid in bed. I turned to my left and I saw a person. I didn't comprehend that I had seen someone, until I had turned back over. I twisted my head back to my left, but no one was there.
Who was this person? Why were they in my room? What did they want?
The person I saw was a bit blurry, but I could tell it was a man, teenage to young adult years. He had a very dominant face and a dominant nose. He had sturdy bone structure and bright red hair. He was sitting in a chair that wasn't there, just staring: at me? Could this have been a ghost? I'm a strong believer in the paranormal, and I've had my fair share of experiences but I've never seen what I saw this morning.
Other experiences:
- We've all had those times where we were home alone and we heard someone in the other room. This happens to me numerous times, basically every time I'm home alone.
- One specific time, I was on the computer and I turned and looked out in the hallway, and saw a black figure. I thought it was my brother, so I yelled his name, but it went back down the hallway out of my view. I got up to see why he didn't talk back, but no one was home.
My question is, what is your view on the paranormal?
- the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
Synonyms:
- apparition, phantom, phantasm, wraith, revenant; shade, spook.
On the morning of April 6, 2008, my dad walked into my room at 8 a.m. and woke me up. He told me he was going out of town for the day and asked me if I wanted to come. I said no and went back to sleep. About half an hour later, my friend Ashley called me; I had left my jacket at her house. I laid back down, but I didn't feel comfortable. I felt like someone was watching me. For about half an hour, I drifted in and out of sleep. I finally woke up fully at about 9, but I didn't want to get up. So, I just laid in bed. I turned to my left and I saw a person. I didn't comprehend that I had seen someone, until I had turned back over. I twisted my head back to my left, but no one was there.
Who was this person? Why were they in my room? What did they want?
The person I saw was a bit blurry, but I could tell it was a man, teenage to young adult years. He had a very dominant face and a dominant nose. He had sturdy bone structure and bright red hair. He was sitting in a chair that wasn't there, just staring: at me? Could this have been a ghost? I'm a strong believer in the paranormal, and I've had my fair share of experiences but I've never seen what I saw this morning.
Other experiences:
- We've all had those times where we were home alone and we heard someone in the other room. This happens to me numerous times, basically every time I'm home alone.
- One specific time, I was on the computer and I turned and looked out in the hallway, and saw a black figure. I thought it was my brother, so I yelled his name, but it went back down the hallway out of my view. I got up to see why he didn't talk back, but no one was home.
My question is, what is your view on the paranormal?
I do believe in spirits and ghosts- but at the same time I'm sceptical about it. that most likely won't make sense.
schooldropout, April 10th, 2008 at 11:15:32am
ROFL @ dictionary.com .. Good times.
I believe. But I never want to see anything.
Skippy., April 10th, 2008 at 07:22:56am
i believe in ghosts... but not like ~dress up in sheets~ type ghosts... more of just a presence of something that we can't understand or see or something... if you get what I mean.
When i was little i was convinced there was a vampire in my room but it turned out to be a shadow of a coat (y) :tehe:
wfougoafoihqfe, April 9th, 2008 at 01:10:09pm
oh my...
I just got shivers.
I really believe in ghosts and your story is scary =|
Bubble Wrap., April 8th, 2008 at 05:55:12pm
i believe in ghosts
Cheechoo, April 7th, 2008 at 05:21:53pm
I'm pretty sure you know my view XD
Shorty of Suburbia, April 7th, 2008 at 04:49:02pm
I'm not sure science will be able to explain the paranormal any time soon. But I have had my own experience which is enough to convince me there is more than we know and understand. Mine concerned some work I was doing on an old archaeological site. I had some material I was sorting at home and I turned to look out the glass door only to see the fully body apparition of a Maori Chief walking across my yard. It wasn't threatening at all and tbh I felt somewhat calmed by it. I think it was just there to remind me to take care of the taonga (treasures or something of significance) of the ancestors. I have never seen it since so I really feel it was tied to the work I was doing at the time and not the place. Maori spirituality is exceedingly strong so it doesn't surprise me.
At another site in Taranaki near a burial site a fellow archaeologist made a flax kite (bag) and decorated it, but the decorations made the bag appear to have a face. That night the tribal members who were there sensed and saw 'someone'. It was pretty serious to them although I saw nothing. But the whole property had an eerie feeling to it. The elder then took us down to the local stream for a cleansing blessing. All was quiet after that.
So yeah I believe.
Grandma, April 6th, 2008 at 10:56:10pm
Once when I was younger, I saw an old lady with gray hair in a bun, round glasses, a long dress, and she was knitting. She looked up and smiled at me and was gone. I told my dad and he said it reminded him of his grandmother.
It was really creepy.
Course, he could have been humouring me and I was just imagnining things.
Never-the-less, I still remember it exactly from when I was 6.
Tyler Durden, April 6th, 2008 at 05:16:22pm
Out of curiosity have you done any research on your home's history? Did anything happen there that would result in a haunting?
As for my views I really don't think your soul can be "left behind" as a ghost. since ghosts and hauntings are most typically a result of traumatic deaths and such I think they could just be an impression, something somebody left behind when they died, but not necessarily their soul. Thats what a residual haunting is anyway, something that just appears and replays itself regaurldess of any one or thing around. Ones that interact I have absolutely no idea about but my religious beliefs do not let me think that we can just get stuck here with no way out ar anywhere to go.
nyeh., April 6th, 2008 at 04:11:50pm
I, being an Orthodox, believe that ghosts exist cause that's what my religion tells me.
Plus, I have had many experiences.
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brompton cocktail., April 6th, 2008 at 04:04:53pm