First off - I'm a skeptic. I'm also one of the TB guys who in any "ghost thread" will usually explain how the power of the mind and it's perception is far more amazing than a fairy tale about a disembodied person wafting around in desolate places..etc etc that, plus the fact that at one time I found the idea of ghosties to be interesting enough to do the whole ghost-hunting routine for a while. Which ultimately only further cemented my opinion that ghosts do not exist and the power of the mind, especially those who want to believe, is very persuasive indeed.
So with that, this is not a "I now believe in ghosts" thread, but I will admit that I had an unexplainable incident occur to my family and I late Thursday/ early Friday of last week. I'm curious to get input on this one because frankly, I'm at a loss....
Thursday night - the wife and youngest son go upstairs to bed, leaving my two older sons and I watching TV. Around 11 or so I decide to go upstairs as well, the two older sons want to stay up watching a movie.
I get to bed and I'm laying there for about maybe 20 mins or so, when I hear some sort of rustling or feet shuffling near my wife's side of the bed. It's pitch black but I open my eyes just in time to catch a glimpse of someone short near my wife's side of the bed. I even saw a lighter color of where the face and head would be of this person in spite of the fact that I'm as blind as a bat without my contacts or glasses. It was so obvious and "normal looking" that I got annoyed thinking it was my youngest son coming to creep into bed with us, so I sat up about to tell him to go back to bed, when I realized there was no one there...weird...I just wrote it off as some sort of optical illusion/hallucination whatever, I really wasn't overly creeped out or anything. About a minute later I hear my two older sons coming up to bed and I laid down and drift off to sleep after a little while.
The next morning, I hear my wife get up to start getting ready for work and as she was downstairs, I see something AGAIN move in our room. It was still dark with the sun just coming up but I swear that I saw a dark figure or shadow just sort of dart quickly into the corner of the room. Again, it was obvious enough for me to sit up with a start and stare into the corner. Nothing there once again! At this point, I'm still not scared as I really don't believe that every unexplainable thing is a "ghost". I figured that maybe I'm just hallucinating this stuff for whatever reason..?
Now the story doesn't end there, oh no folks, there's more! So I'm laying awake in bed when my wife comes up shortly before she was to leave for work and tells me, "I dont know why but I really have the creeps this morning, I feel almost as though someone is in the house..." So I go on a prowler hunt and in the end no one is there as can be guessed. It's not necessarily unusual for her to get creeped out because she's a big sissy,
but she's used to going downstairs in the dark to get ready for work, so as to why on THIS particular morning of all days she comes upstairs to tell me she has the creeps.. Now bear in mind that at this point I had absolutely not told her about my experiences so... OK, that's weird, but maybe just a wild coincidence.
Off she goes to work, and downstairs come my sons. My oldest son (16) comes into the kitchen and tells me "dad, I had a freaky experience last night..." He proceeds to tell me that just as he was drifting off to sleep out of the corner of his eye, he caught a dark shape of a person moving across their room (he shares a room with my middle son, 12) and whoever it was, was reaching for the TV as though trying to turn it on, or push a button etc. He turned to face it but then it was also gone. It scared him to the point where he ended up staying up all night on his laptop. His brother slept through the entire time.
Now again, this is doubly creepy because I had not told him either about my experiences!! Yikes! So that makes 3 out of 5 people in my house that saw or experienced something freaky overnight and into the morning. Again, I am a skeptic, I'm not going to cry "ghost" but something was up that night, just not sure what.
MAYBE it was one of my sons sleep-walking or something but how the heck could they move so fast, go through doors so silently without the lights from the hallway flooding in and so on...I don't know what the heck it was. Oh the irony of ghost hunting for a few years and seeing NOTHING, only to see something now when I'm not looking, not believing and couldn't care less...
So with that, this is not a "I now believe in ghosts" thread, but I will admit that I had an unexplainable incident occur to my family and I late Thursday/ early Friday of last week. I'm curious to get input on this one because frankly, I'm at a loss....
Thursday night - the wife and youngest son go upstairs to bed, leaving my two older sons and I watching TV. Around 11 or so I decide to go upstairs as well, the two older sons want to stay up watching a movie.
I get to bed and I'm laying there for about maybe 20 mins or so, when I hear some sort of rustling or feet shuffling near my wife's side of the bed. It's pitch black but I open my eyes just in time to catch a glimpse of someone short near my wife's side of the bed. I even saw a lighter color of where the face and head would be of this person in spite of the fact that I'm as blind as a bat without my contacts or glasses. It was so obvious and "normal looking" that I got annoyed thinking it was my youngest son coming to creep into bed with us, so I sat up about to tell him to go back to bed, when I realized there was no one there...weird...I just wrote it off as some sort of optical illusion/hallucination whatever, I really wasn't overly creeped out or anything. About a minute later I hear my two older sons coming up to bed and I laid down and drift off to sleep after a little while.
The next morning, I hear my wife get up to start getting ready for work and as she was downstairs, I see something AGAIN move in our room. It was still dark with the sun just coming up but I swear that I saw a dark figure or shadow just sort of dart quickly into the corner of the room. Again, it was obvious enough for me to sit up with a start and stare into the corner. Nothing there once again! At this point, I'm still not scared as I really don't believe that every unexplainable thing is a "ghost". I figured that maybe I'm just hallucinating this stuff for whatever reason..?
Now the story doesn't end there, oh no folks, there's more! So I'm laying awake in bed when my wife comes up shortly before she was to leave for work and tells me, "I dont know why but I really have the creeps this morning, I feel almost as though someone is in the house..." So I go on a prowler hunt and in the end no one is there as can be guessed. It's not necessarily unusual for her to get creeped out because she's a big sissy,
but she's used to going downstairs in the dark to get ready for work, so as to why on THIS particular morning of all days she comes upstairs to tell me she has the creeps.. Now bear in mind that at this point I had absolutely not told her about my experiences so... OK, that's weird, but maybe just a wild coincidence. Off she goes to work, and downstairs come my sons. My oldest son (16) comes into the kitchen and tells me "dad, I had a freaky experience last night..." He proceeds to tell me that just as he was drifting off to sleep out of the corner of his eye, he caught a dark shape of a person moving across their room (he shares a room with my middle son, 12) and whoever it was, was reaching for the TV as though trying to turn it on, or push a button etc. He turned to face it but then it was also gone. It scared him to the point where he ended up staying up all night on his laptop. His brother slept through the entire time.
Now again, this is doubly creepy because I had not told him either about my experiences!! Yikes! So that makes 3 out of 5 people in my house that saw or experienced something freaky overnight and into the morning. Again, I am a skeptic, I'm not going to cry "ghost" but something was up that night, just not sure what.
MAYBE it was one of my sons sleep-walking or something but how the heck could they move so fast, go through doors so silently without the lights from the hallway flooding in and so on...I don't know what the heck it was. Oh the irony of ghost hunting for a few years and seeing NOTHING, only to see something now when I'm not looking, not believing and couldn't care less...
She figures that if I catch anything creepy she'll never be able to sleep there again.
but still, what are the chances of 3 people in a house of 5 all independent of each other, claiming something weird happening over that one night?? Freaky
