To ask if anyone has had any paranormal encounters/experiences

[HowlingBitch]

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

[TakeMeDrunkImHome]

ok but they will say the same about you if you play with the crazy one...!

I would say it was something, not a dead loved one, ghost, etc, one of the aforementioned "hitchikers", they tend to play on common fears, and can appear in different ways. I can't possibly believe that werewolves exist. I do believe that there are horrible things, uusally the ones that come through on ouija boards, that can change in appearance to scare us.

[TakeMeDrunkImHome]

I have just realised I have drunk almost a full bottle of wine on this thread.

[expatinscotland]

When I worked in a hospice, it was an old building that had been a hospital in both WWI and WWII.

About the second day I was there (I was the medical secretary), the nurses all told me it was haunted. Also that the last room on the corridor was very haunted so don't put patients in there unless we're full.

The fucking call light would go off all the time when there was no one in there, and yes we had it checked by sparks and everyone else loads of times.

One time we had a patient in there who was blind, and she was forever complaining, 'Get these people out of my room!'

[devientenigma]

tmdih distorted to the point of about 20ft and inches wide. It was live and within seconds when I got to the window no one was there.
Meant to say about the ouija boards, I also sat out and wrote my answers but they still came through.

[TakeMeDrunkImHome]

(see above post and use that as an apology for my spelling )

[TakeMeDrunkImHome]

I don't mean that the camera is distorting the image I mean that "they" are distorting your perception of the image.

[VivaLeBeaver]

Ok, I can believe that. Not sure I feel any better. I go camping quite a bit and always remember that fucking werewolf thread when going to the loo block at night.

[devientenigma]

so what do you think "they" were??

[TakeMeDrunkImHome]

How do you mean that you wrote out your answers? Sorry if I am being thick.

[junecarter]

first time I can vividly recall it was aged 18. My mother and I were sitting at the kitchen table; reeling from the news that my nanny had suffered the stroke which would prove fatal. I suddenly became aware that I was sort of leaving conciousness ;like I was beginning to faint but not ;everything was rushing but I was still and a very heavy presence was pushing me down very quickly; I could hear myself speaking and yet I knew I wasnt. All this took only a split second to me, then I came around quickly and heard my mother call to her mum but she was talking to me...my mother said to me, obviously distressed; 'Whhere did you go?' She was taking to her mother, who would never come to from her illness...

[Terraviva]

Good thread! Yep I've had a fair few experiences as well.

Someone (think it was you kanger... and I am so sorry by the way...) said that this life is the dream and what comes after is reality. For what it's worth, that's what I believe. Don't get me wrong, of course this - our bodies, houses, family, jobs, roses in the garden, cornflakes for breakfast, planet earth, the milky way etc - is all 'real' too, but it's just a teeny tiny part of the whole big picture. These spiritual or spooky experiences are but mini glimpses of there being something else going. I think spiritualists describe it as a veil... as in on earth we are living under a veil, and there is a limited amount of interaction between this side of the veil and the other side, but until we pass through to the other side ourselves, we can never truly know what is there / how it works / what is going on. And that is the mystery of life!

Warning: This next bit of advice might be a bit too 'woo' and hippy-like for many, but sod it, it's what I think so I'm going to share it :)

The biggest force in the universe is love. If you ever get spooked by something that you don't understand or that scares you, just think about love & imagine light - surround yourself with it - feel it in your heart. (And even if you think this is all bollocks, it still works even if it's just the psychological effect of calming and soothing yourself.)

[devientenigma]

I sat with a pad and pen and as the q's were asked I wrote my answer. I obviously finished well before they were spelling what I wrote. Hope that makes sense.

[expatinscotland]

Okay, and in hospice, it was on the first floor. But the doors were all alarmed so if the patients went to the stair doors - some had dementia - the alarm would go off.

This was so that everyone had to use the lift, which was right by the nurses' desk and they could see who was coming and going (also from the CCTV downstairs outside).

One night two nurses decided to go to the basement to get some junk food from the snack machines. We all sent our orders with them.

Now you couldn't get two more skeptical people - a former ER nurse with 25 years experience and an onco nurse who could pin people to the wall with her eyes.

They left in the lift and didn't come back and didn't come back.

Then they did. With no snacks. Totally freaked out.

Apparently, when teh lift doors opened to the basement, they were met with a hospital scene out of WWII - a burns unit. Complete with all horrifying detail. And they couldn't get the fecking door to shut.

Finally, one nurse looked at them and her eyes bored into them and then the door shut.

[TakeMeDrunkImHome]

I don't really know the words to explain what I think. Sometimes I think it is people who were just beyond awful in life and have become something worse, something worse, something very distorted in death. Other times I think that they are perhaps the very definition of evil. Simple purpose to draw people in and have them believe it. I really don't know. I am not a particularly religious person and I don't pretend to be an expert in this field. I just know what I see/feel and what I make of it.

[TakeMeDrunkImHome]

Yes, makes sense, it is just me being a little slow. Who did you do the board with and what were the circumstances? If that isn't too nosey.

[devientenigma]

At first it was just me, hubby and my nanna. Done to cheer me up, finding it hard to cope etc after loosing my baby. It ended up where they done it and I sat out in hopes my feelings wouldn't come through.

[HowlingBitch]

TMDIH That's a horrifying thought and I've always felt the same but have never been able to word it like that. Can I ask what you mean by hitchhikers?

[junecarter]

ooh ex pat ;my sister is a nurse and I've heard that story or similar from her before

[expatinscotland]

Call lights going on when no one's there is a really common one, june. Was she in Denver by any chance? At the old Metro hospice?

[expatinscotland]

We had an Irish nurse who would go and open a window whenever someone died, which was often when you work in hospice.

[kangers]

this is scaring me now.......

[expatinscotland]

Denver sits on a lot of electromagnetic fields and that's apparently why it has so much paranormal activity.

[HowlingBitch]

Oh kangers don't be frightened you're fine. We are all here!

[TakeMeDrunkImHome]

Howling - it was a term my mum used years and years ago. Her mum, my gran, was the same as "us", always had feelings saw things etc. She persuaded my mum to do a ouija board when my mum was perhaps ten or eleven, so it would have been in the late 50's.

Gran was trying to contact her husband (my grandad who i never met). They got something through the board that was incredibly sexually abusive, language my mum could only write down to tell me, told them to fuck off, and other horrible things that I dont want to say. It wasn't my grandad, it wasn't a misguided someone elses grandad, it was what they called a hitchiker.

Something using that "open channel" to get through. It stayed in my grannys house for a year until she had the local vicar in to get "rid".

[TakeMeDrunkImHome]

kangers - don't be scared, we are all here.