To ask if anyone has had any paranormal encounters/experiences

[HowlingBitch]

Or do we all need another ? I just find it all fascinating.

We lived in a 1730s cottage, the house rabbit would chase something invisible up the stairs. A few times I felt i was being watched, but it wasn't scary. One BOILING summer day, windows all closed, I went from the hall through the kitchen door and walked through a FREEZING cold spot. Like passing through an ice house. I was so scared I stayed in the kitchen & didn't dare pass through doorway again till had to, then it was normal again. Scared the life out of me. No worldly explanation.

I saw a shadowy Big Cat, too, in London. I was in a taxi, not totally sober, and thought I'd probably misinterpreted something ...

Then the cab driver said ...

"Did you see that lynx just now? There's quite a few roaming around now, but you don't often catch sight of them."

Apparently they were ex-pets, abandoned by rich folk, and are now breeding! So, if you catch a glimpse of a large, shadowy, cat-like creature - you're not seeing a supernatural being, but you are very lucky :)

Love OldMac's story

I used to have 'supernatural' experiences but they stopped after I'd done a few years' therapy. They were tricks of a very stressed mind. One thing I'm still not sure about, though, are the 'past life' memories of very young children. Although it has been extensively investigated, my amateur knowledge leads me to think that we may be born with vestigial memories, through evolutionary processes. Not that it really matters all that much. It does spook you a bit when tots come out with them, though, doesn't it?

something i have never understood is when people are living in a house with DC, and strange things happen, why would you not get the hell out of there asap?

kaka I was single parent with nowhere else to go but i had anyone i could stay over and slept in the car with the kids one night when i kept getting a loud bang on my bedroom door.eventually i moved out but as it was marital hime ended up in 2up2down with no garden and 2 dc's in one room,loved it tho and slept better than had done in years

Kakapo, its not always that easy to just move!

Justa random question, could be reading way to much into this but iv had a really awful time the past few days. I haven't Been eating or sleeping and generally just feeling very low. I was getting dressed this morning when I had this sort of strong tingling in my head ( as if someone was running there fingers trough my hair?) it's happened quite a few times today and I think it might be my grandmother doing it as a way of comforting me?

Am I delusional or mental?

I know it's not always that easy, but it would be a cold day in hell before I let my kids sleep in a room/place where I truly thought there was paranormal activity (extreme skeptic here though).

It seems so odd... I mean, you would have NO IDEA what could happen. Especially the less benign-seeming ones. E.g. the one where the little girl woke up with scratches on her back/bedroom wall (maybe those people did move, just an eg). You wouldn't leave your DC to sleep in a room with a live wolf/angry old man etc.

I was getting dressed this morning when I had this sort of strong tingling in my head ( as if someone was running there fingers trough my hair?) it's happened quite a few times today and I think it might be my grandmother doing it as a way of comforting me?

Static, most probably. Do you wear a lot of nylon?

About people moving - why should they? there is no evidence that anyone has ever been even remotely hurt by "paranormal" activity. Why subject your family to massive upeaval for a load of tosh?

It seems so odd... I mean, you would have NO IDEA what could happen. Especially the less benign-seeming ones. E.g. the one where the little girl woke up with scratches on her back/bedroom wall (maybe those people did move, just an eg). You wouldn't leave your DC to sleep in a room with a live wolf/angry old man etc.

That's actually a very good point. Of course, nobody who truly believed that any sort of "entity" was harming their child would stay put. They'd camp out at relatives houses. They'd buy a tent. They'd do anything rather than put their children in physical danger.

Which rather suggests that they know full well that there is no such thing, and that the children are not being attacked. But people just love the drama of imagining/pretending that their house is haunted or whatever.

An acquaintance of mine, years ago, was a horsey type and had a horse with "issues". She got this witchy-type person out to cleanse its aura/read its bumps/fondle its withers or whatever. Anyway, in this money grabbing nutjobs woman's "conversations" with said horse, it was apparently complaining that it didn't like its name. The woman went to great lengths to explain how much the horse loathed its name. It wanted a new name, apparently and if it was given a new name, it promised to start behaving and stop tossing its owner off or whatever it was that the trauma of having the wrong name was causing it to do.

Now, you'd think that the owner would IMMEDIATELY change its name, wouldn't you?? I mean, how amazing! This horse had communicated that all its problems were due to the wrong name, and if it was changed, all would be well! Brilliant! You'd change its name in a heartbeat, surely.

Well, no. Because she really LIKED its name. Even if the horse itself didn't like it.

But - get this - she STILL goes on about how amazing this woman is, and how she's got marvellous powers.

CLEARLY, deep down, she doesn't believe a word of it. She is an intelligent woman. She knows it is nonsense. It's a lovely IDEA, and having various crystal healings and other such rubbish makes for a lovely conversation piece, and makes her feel all spiritual and whatnot, but when it comes to it, she doesn't ultimately believe it. Quite rightly, of course!

Same principle with the "My Child Got Scratched To Pieces By A Thing In The Night!!!!!!!!!!! But, Erm, Well, Yes, We're Still Living Here....." bods.

My parents are very skeptical types, but both of them, strangely, swear they have had paranormal experiences.

When they were first married they lived in Oxford and my mum worked in an office with three floors. The third floor was basically an attic where the photocopier was kept, and there was no window, and only one door into the room. One day my mum was walking up the stairs to the third floor. In front of her, she says, she could clearly see a woman in a very long, unfashionable skirt. But when she got to the room, there was no one there - although there was no way out of the room other than the door which my mother came through a few seconds after the woman. Later she found out that the cleaners didn't like going to that floor because they also saw 'strange things' up there.

My dad's story also happened in Oxford, but he was there for a weekend at a small hotel. In the middle of the night, he says, he woke up to the sound of a car crash outside his room. It was extremely vivid and he swears it was real. He rushed outside but couldn't see anything so he phoned the police. When the officer turned up they also couldn't find anything - but the officer told him that every year on that particular weekend they get reports of a car crash on that road!

'I know it's not always that easy, but it would be a cold day in hell before I let my kids sleep in a room/place where I truly thought there was paranormal activity (extreme skeptic here though). '

Then I hope you don't wind up a single mum on benefits, unemployed and already in a council house, with credit problems or bankrupcy.

You'd have not much luck finding a landlord willing to take you on.

Nope no nylon Chins. Could have been anything though, like I said probably reading way to much into it :)

Now, I'm a believer, though I haven't had anything massive happen ( though our big whiskey bottle of coppers has been rattled on occasions ) and other bits and bobs.

My DF on the other hand doesn't believe in anything woo woo and calls it mumbo jumbo, but, he has seen an UFO. He wasn't drunk as he was on the way to work, early in the morning.

"Same principle with the "My Child Got Scratched To Pieces By A Thing In The Night!!!!!!!!!!! But, Erm, Well, Yes, We're Still Living Here....."

BECAUSE NOTHING ACTUALLY HAPPENED!!!!!!!!!!!

EXACTLY Seeker.

When I was young, we had a lady who used to come and sit with all the kids when we were going to sleep, and would also tuck us in at night. I remembered it as she would tuck me in really tightly, which my Mum and Nan never did.

My mum and I lived with her parents, my grandparents until I was about 11, and it was in their house.

It happened to my uncle, then to me, and my cousin. It also happened to other visiting relatives, who thought it was my Nan until she told them that it wasn't, and could prove that she had been in another part of the house at the time. She also came to both my elder DS's when they stayed at the house. DS3 was born after we (the family) sold the house after my Nan died. None of us were ever frightened by her at all.

The stange thing is, DS2 now nearly 19 years old, recently met the daughter of the woman who brought the house off of us, and asked her if she had ever had a strange experience in the house. She replied "Oh, you mean the lady that tucks you into bed" . We had never told the people that brought the house about her, and apparently she is still tucking in people at night when they go to sleep.

My dad died when I was 4 and I have always longed to see him/talk/have some kind of sign that he's around. I yearn to hear that he's proud of me, that he's seen his grandson who is the spitting image of him etc. I know that it probably will never happen because I want it to so much, but it's not a longing I can pretend isn't there. If that makes any sense whatsoever.

Last week me and my husband were going to a surprise birthday party, I couldn't find my black handbag anywhere and in the end had to give up on it and use another instead. The kids were staying over at my mum's so there was nobody in the house at all during the time we were out.

Woke up the next morning and said handbag was perched right on top of my dressing table. It most definitely had not been there the night before as I'd searched high and low for it and was obviously using the dressing table to get ready.

Wow.. Ive just wasted my evening reading this thread!!... My Nan, who is still alive but very very ill, told me when I was a little girl on a few occasions that she would come back to haunt me and would follow me everywhere..WTF.. how fcked up is that/she now shitting one after reading these stories.

I just want to thank everyone for this thread which makes excellent reading!

I haven't read it all yet but am very interested in TMDIH's ideas about strange creatures being shape shifting hitch hikers - I also have trouble believing in wearwolves etc but people clearly do see strange things (like the leprechaun on other thread) and this seems like it could be a good explanation.

I would also agree about ouija boards. I did them as a child because we thought it was a game and we also got abusive and foul language coming through. A relative of mine warned me against them at all costs.

I have had various paranormal experiences which were not particularly disturbing. But my advice to anyone who is scared is that if you don't want anything to show itself you can tell it not to. Sometimes if I've ever sensed anything spooky I say in my head 'Not now, please I don't want to see you' and the feeling subsides immediately. I agree with the poster who talked about imagining love around you.

oh and may I also say that the doll stories scared me witless and if any doll in my household moved even once it would be out of the house pronto!

had a few.

dsis died in 2004 and gave ds a message for me 3 weeks after her funeral. made me feel 100x better i have to say.

and when i was 10 i saw a proper, bonafide, ufo. so did a group of workmen and they reported it to police...it was in the local paper next day.

i was laid in bed, i never used to draw the curtains. i saw an orange dot, like a star, moving in the sky. i got up, went to the window, and watched it until it went out of view. it was so far away it took ages to move, but it didnt flash or anything, it wasnt a plane.

then, only mins later, a large orange triangle appeared, it twisted over the tops of some poplar trees over the road. it was silent, and i could see its shape perfectly....a large orange triangle with a column down the middle, and two other columns going off the mid section on both sides....it glowed bright orange, it was completely silent....it hovered for a few seconds before speeding off into the sky, and when i say speeding, i mean speeding.....nothing like ive ever seen before, or since. it was amazing.

next morning i told my mother. she said i must have been dreaming. then that night, in the Yorkshire Evening Press there was a small headline....some workmen from Rowntrees sweet factory had seen it too and reported it to police. so i wasnt dreaming. i saw what i saw.

oh...also did a ouija board with a group of mates when i was about 13 or something....asked what U2 next album would be called....came back with the most odd words....i wrote them down...."humandrattle"...i was baffled.

now work that back wards. Rattle and Hum. That still makes me go cold. that was u2's next album. scary stuff.

the group of friends were doing the board daily, until something went home with one of the group.
her mum had to get an exorcist in....she had to confess all and ive never ever touched a board since. nor would i. madness. messing with things we dont understand.