To ask if anyone has had any paranormal encounters/experiences

[HowlingBitch]

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

[runs in to keep my place so I can find thread again once dh is back home and I can actually read the rest of it without scaring myself to death while I'm on my own!]

I will return at the end of the week....

Shadow men

Scary!

A lady who was training me to do her job (brand new job for me, she was retiring) told me that a new woman who had once worked in the same office, kept staring at her, it went on for most of the day, she was just going to ask her why she kept staring when the new woman asked her if she had lost a little girl, to which she replied yes, the new woman told her that her little girl had been with her all day and was holding balloons. She said she was absolutely gobsmacked because it was her DD's birthday that day.

She had never met the new woman before that day.

I disagree that reason trumps love because

Humans are more motivated by love than they are by reason

When people lose the ability to reason they may still feel the positive influence of love

True, electra.

But in the case of every single "paranormal" experience anyone has you can choose between "surrounding yourself with thoughts of love" and maybe feelling better, but still being shit-scared and vulnerable to being shit-scared again the following night, or you can apply your reason and intellect and go and find the piece of dangling guttering that's making realistic tapping noises on your front door and free yourself from fear.

I can't believe this thread is still going... It's been giving me the heebie jeebies for days now!

Enjoying this thread - although like a lot of people felt a bit of a scaredy cat last night as my dp was away....!

The shadow men/stick men stories always intrigue me...if you go onto fortean times site they have a lot of posts about them...really interesting info on there and people are looking for a rational explanation etc..
I do tend to listen to my "6th sense"

The only really spooky thing that has happened to me was at a well known mediums night out..
I went with two friends; one friend had booked the tickets as she had lost a close family member a few years ago and wanted to see if anything came up..
We sat down in a giggly mood; expecting the usual "there is someone begining with a b no c " type thing ready to have a good laugh really; only it wasn't funny in the slightest. The medium was very accurate with other people and we were soon feeling quite sombre...
I had also lost a close family member; when we first sat down she said "someone has followed me here and is quite insistent they want to speak" looking more or less where I was sitting.......about a quarter of the way through she said this person is here he is called xxxx (my relatives name) and is looking for xxxxx (my name) I couldn't answer she kept repeating it and my two friends had their mouths hanging open staring at me.....after a couple of minutes of her insisting I put my hand up and all I said was "I think it is my xxxx" She then asked if she could carry on I said yes that was all; she described exactly how my relative had died and things that were true without a single prompting from me...
I was so shocked as somebody else said you had to be there....seeker you may scoff ...
It did bring me peace of sorts...

Don;t worry, chubbly - read my posts and you'll be fine!

The stick man story!

Marking, in case anyone else has any spooky stories.

My only really spooky story is probably too long to tell so it makes sense, but involves a Mexican witchdoctor, a ritual in a darkened room in Chiapas, and levitating objects which I saw with my own eyes, and which could not have been a trick.

I am NOT a believer in ghosts.......but a few things have happened that I cannot explain.

Ds 1 - when he was 3. We were in BurgerKing in Windsor which has been refurbed to modern standards but has an original feature staircase left running up the side. It was REALLY busy and we were squeezed into a tiny space by the staircase sharing a table with a chatty american couple. We were chatting away about their trip and ds 2 who was about 8mnths was in his buggy at the bottom of the stairs giggling and giggling away. I said to Ds 1 what is your brother laughing at? and he said that lady pulling faces at him..so I looked and said puzzled which lady?He pointed at the stairs and said that one....he then went on to give a detailled explanation (as much as a 3yr old can) of the lady that none of us could see who was pulling faces!! Was a very strange experience!

Ds 2 - We stayed in a little thatched cottage in Devon when ds 2 was 4. He spent the entire week telling us tales about the old lady in the rocking chair who gave him sweets and the old man who was grumpy as he had to do all the work. One evening a mighty draught blew through the house and the inner door slammed, ds said "the old man has to go and get the cows in the barn as its going to snow" a bit later it snowed! He also said that the old lady would die soon as she couldn't get up the stairs anymore and the old man was too weak to carry her :-( He was really sad about it. When we left he cried as he was 'sad' to leave the old people and we should stay and look after them.

Not even going to try and explain them!

The week we moved into our (1950s) house (where no children have previously lived as far as we know) DD1 (then 2.5) kept chattering to thin air, saying "hello, come in, come in and play!" and beckoning, peeking round the living room door and out to the hall. She was disappointed because "the little ones won't come to play".

Probably just imaginary friends (we'd just moved areas), but a bit spooky nonetheless.

On one of these threads a while back a Mner had a good story - freaked me out. Apparently as a child she had known a girl who was older than her, then later she moved to another town and came across this girl again (knew her name as soon as she saw her) but this time the girl was younger than her! Very odd anyone remember that?

Don't suppose the girl could have been a younger sister or cousin? Or perhaps she had one of those rare progeria-related conditions that cause very slow development?

I remember that, electra. Wasn't it something to do with Brownies or Guides or something similar? IIRC, the poster did ask the girl but the girl said she wasn't the same person.

Ahh, Hope! Never mind, electra's summary set me on a very interesting (if pointless) wikipedia journey!

Another thing to remember is that if there is a one in a million chance of something happening to someone (a co-incidence, or whatever) then it could actually happen to 60 people in the UK every day.

Yes, the girl apparently denied that she'd ever lived in the previous town but had the very same (distinctive) name and the mner said she knew who she was as soon as she saw her. It raised questions about whether some people among us are not human. I think it'd be quite arrogant to assume we are the only living, thinking beings in the entire universe.........and actually quite unlikely.

Although, garlic - I've had situations where I've seen someone in my town and thought 'how can he still look about 18, he's my age' before realising it's his brother who's about 10 years younger. But the Mner who posted about the Brownie clearly had a situation that was different from that.

I think it'd be quite arrogant to assume we are the only living, thinking beings in the entire universe

I do agree with this, electra. But, to me, it doesn't even follow in the slightest way that there are inhuman doppelgängers shopping at Boots!

I've met my doppelgänger. We look alike, have the same (unusual) name, the same voice & laugh, and knew some of the same people. It's a long story and, as things turned out, her existence damaged my career. It's 100% explainable in ordinary terms, though.

Yes I see what you mean - some coincidences are almost unbelievable but none the less explainable. Your story sounds interesting though, whether explainable in ordinary terms or not!

Three and a half years ago on New Years Eve 2007 we lost my beloved Dad to cancer. He died at my brother's house with all his children at his side and although in horrendous pain managed to say goodbye to all of us. We stayed at my brother's house late into the night hugging each other and comforting each other and at about midnight my DH and I took my sister to her home and then went home ourselves. As I fell into bed exhausted with my DH I noticed an orange light - oblong about 6 inches long - hovering in the corner of the room near the ceiling. DH saw it too - when I said "Can you see?"..........He said "yes I see it...I think it's him" ( My DH had always been a bit of a cynic and if he hadn't seen it too I would have put it down to the grief). The light faded as we watched to a pale yellow and then flickered and faded away. I am convinced this was some sign from my Dad that he was watching over us, and as I was the last of his children to get home that night he was waiting until we were safely in before he departed this earth.

Vicar I have seen something very similar to what you describe!

I was sitting on a beach at night in Australia. I was with my BF [now ex] and we were star gazing. Neither of us had been drinking or taking drugs...!

As I was looking up at the sky I suddenly saw four orange lights only slightly bigger than the stars. They were in a line and appeared to be moving in formation, quite slowly. They were too far away from each other to be lights on a plane -initially I had thought this was what they might be but they weren't blinking or flashing and they weren't as bright. They were a dull orange colour.

I pointed them out to BF and he saw them too. Both of us started to ask what they could be and then the lights started darting everywhere really quickly before all zooming off in one direction, leaving a trail of light and then disappearing. It seemed as if they knew they had been spotted somehow and decided to get moving. When they zoomed off it looked like when a spaceship goes into hyperspace [I think that's what it's called?] in Star Trek or Star Wars.

Also when they were darting all over the sky it looked like a scenario in the X-Files. I am not an X-Files fan but did see this one particular episode a while after my UFO experience. In the episode [I think it may have been the very first episode after the pilot] Scully and Mulder go to a remote air force base in the desert where they are experimenting with UFO technology. They are flying UFOs in the sky and these orange lights are darting all over the sky at incredible speeds. I saw this episode and was thought wow that's almost exactly what I saw...

I have always wondered what the orange lights were and whether this could have been UFOs... Does anyone have any suggestions?

There is a famous account of a UFO which appears around Israel and apparently changes it's formation - it looks like several slightly varying shapes. I'll see if I can find a link.

I would expect any Unidentified flying object in Iseael ia much more likely to be some sort of secret military research than visitors from another planet......