I started reading this thread fairly late last night. It felt a bit like reading a ghost story at bed time (rather perfect if you want to spook yourself! - which I didn't!)
As i was reading i heard something in my kitchen. Some sort of movement. I ignored it.
I continued reading on and found myself getting more spooked by the thought of people hiding out in attics and ghosts standing at ends of beds, or tucking people in. Waiting for those soon to pass, hearing random voices. Then i jumped out my skin as a loud noise came from the kitchen!
I went to see; it was quite late by this point, dark, and all were in their beds. Ibwas creeping around the house on my own in the dark (the movies tell you you shouldn't do this [i was thinking]).
I opened my kitchen door to see my ice box that had just been cleaned out ready for action today, which had previously been stacked with cleaned lid and ice packs, all across the kitchen floor. I also then noticed a pile of sodden cleaning pads that had been drying on the side also in the middle of the kitchen floor.
I immediately thought, 'bloody dogs'! I went through to the utility where the dogs sleep in their beds. They were all laid comfortably nestled in their beds. Although eyes open watching me, but not sitting up or heads raised like theyd just leapt back into bed after some antics (or somehow knowing they had to look 'asleep' and therefore not guilty of anything).
However, when the automatic soft glow night light came on i noticed something i one of the beds....one dog was lying on my silicon popcorn bowl/lid. We had had popcorn and left the empty bowl on the side near the sink, coincidentally where the pads were drying and above where the balanced ice-box lid and ice packs had been sitting.
Tbh though, even if i hadnt discovered the evidence, i still wouldn't have put it down to something other-worldly.
Real people can be terrifying, and real people really do try to make others doubt themselves (gaslighting), do keep keys to get into previous homes, etc.
I can't say i know anything about the other-worldly ghosts/demons/entities referenced on here, but i do seriously wonder how anyone 'knows' x & y about their presence, and motivations in being there, or intentions, and how they 'work', or what makes them dangerous.
I have had experiences that I can't explain, having 'seen' a couple of 'figures', but I also know how the 'fast/dirty' neuronal pathway in the brain draws instant and instinctive conclusions 'on our behalf' as it were, without our frontal lobe 'thinking and processing' brain involvement.
It certainly captures the imagination reading others experiences and conclusions.
I do wonder at such times of hearing these things of why, say, if I were a ghost would i, or anyone who loved their family, come back and scared their loved ones shitless!
I mean, it truly is the stuff of everyones nightmares, when at most vulnerable and prone, sleeping in bed, to be woken to someone standing at your bedside, or worse somehow at the foot of the bed, just watching you!
If i were a ghost i couldnt imagine any possible reason/motivation to visit such a terrifying experience upon my children or any other family and friends!
What possible reason would a ghost have to move furniture around?!
I do know of experiences of others where actual people get their kicks from doing that to make others scared or worry they are losing their minds!
...well if they do this then then they are a seriously dangerous demon, etc, type stuff...just who told you this or how do you know?
Where does anyone 'learn' about this stuff?!