OOoooOoo Creepy ghost story from a skeptic..

[McHaven]

Do you have neurological issues?

Not that I'm aware of.

 

[thumpbass1]

I'm pretty much a skeptic when it comes to claims of the paranormal, especially as portrayed on all of those tiresome ghost hunting television shows. I have had a few odd experiences in my life, and one in particular that I posted about on TB in a similar thread that my brother and I were witness to, that did generate the good old fashioned creeps to say the least. As for folks claiming to have had odd or paranormal experiences, they come from all walks of life, believers and skeptics, religous people and atheists, educated and uneducated, etc. No one has produced smoking gun evidence to prove that ghosts exsist, and even if the phenomana is real enough, then comes the debate as to the many other particulars involved. Are they the classic disincarnate soul/spirit of the dead, or something else entirely natural as a phenomana? The subject makes for many interesting conversations.

 

[BurningSkies]

and THAT is what's getting to me. My wife feels all creeped out in the morning, totally unaware of what happened to me, then my oldest son comes to me to tell me about a creepy experience he had that night...
Just too many people experiencing things independently for me to be able to somehow attribute it to sleep paralysis.

I think I may have had sleep paralysis 2x in my entire life, then suddenly I have two in one night? (remember I saw something in the morning as well), then my oldest son who has never had sleep paralysis has an episode too??
Then the wife who's not asleep gets a creepy feeling.
If this is all coincidence, then I no longer believe that coincidence is a random thing.

If I were to be forced into a corner to give an explanation at all costs, the only thing I can think of other than actual spirit presence, is that something generated sleep paralysis and feelings of "being watched" - electro-magnetic radiation? Sun spots? I dunno, that explanation is about as freaky as it being ghosts..

That's the thing. I had people notice it even when we didn't say anything. My roommate and I each came to the conclusion separately. And we witnessed stuff together, and along with friends.

I can buy the sunspots/electromagnetic energy thing...but not as a root cause, as a way for energy to be present for 'something' to use or focus.

But who knows the hows or whys...it is the unknown.

 

[Noseferatu]

You can use whatever means to disprove it that you like: electromagnetic fields, mental issues, etc, but you sing a whole different tune when you're on the business end of it, trust me.

 

[MEKer]

You can use whatever means to disprove it that you like: electromagnetic fields, mental issues, etc, but you sing a whole different tune when you're on the business end of it, trust me.

LMAO---Quite Right! Especially when a discriminatory intelligence is shown.

 

[MakiSupaStar]

Anything new to report Relic?

 

[Third Basser]

Sleep paralysis is the scariest one though. It's like your mind wakes up before your body. What happens to me is typically my eyes are open, my mind is alert, but my body doesn't respond without tremendous exertion for a minute or two. Often, I can't speak, open my mouth, move my arms or legs. That is scary as hell the first time it happens.

uggh, that happens to me a lot. it sucks. usually I'm dreaming that I'm just waking up and someone is lurking around in my home, and then the person tries to attack me but I can't do anything about it - can't fight back or scream or anything. then I really wake up. I don't have any mental problems or history of trauma either, it just happens. (wasn't there a scene in American werewolf in london like that, where it's a dream within a dream within a dream...?)

 

[Sam Hain]

Relic...

Your story sounds so familiar to me. We were seeing things at night one time over a period of a week or two, but we found an explanation. I'm not saying this is what your problem is but have you checked your attic for bats?

The way I describe what we were seeing would be shadows,faces,images out of the corners of our eyes and sounds that we could not find a source of. Sound familiar?

Finally I was watching TV and looked at a curtain and saw a "mouse"...looked like a mouse anyways. Turned out a large family of bats lived in our attic.

That said...this thread is pretty cool, kinda freaky really.

 

[Relic]

Not bats Sam, though I did find one inside last winter. It scared the living shite out of me too!

Nothing new to report though guys, whatever it was - normal or paranormal, seems to be completely gone at this point.
My wife said yesterday that is was almost as though something came into the house to look and snoop around, and once "it" was satisfied, just left..

 

[BurningSkies]

Not bats Sam, though I did find one inside last winter. It scared the living shite out of me too!

Nothing new to report though guys, whatever it was - normal or paranormal, seems to be completely gone at this point.
My wife said yesterday that is was almost as though something came into the house to look and snoop around, and once "it" was satisfied, just left..

A transient...

 

[machine gewehr]

Probably not. My wife has episodes of sleep paralysis about once every two month or so. It's not so uncommon.
They say that if you can accept it for what it is, and really concentrate, you can end up controlling it so that when it does happen it can actually be turned into something pleasant. Not sure how true that is but the wife's been working on it.

I had a few things to say about this topic as it really interests me.I've been raised next to wall where the other side is a cemetery.But I'm a bit drunk I'll cut it short.

I simply Do Not Believe,but there's been things that I couldn't walk home with ease...

Still,the most scary stuff I ever experienced was sleep paralysis,man the horror...

Once I stood up and had to talk to a white robot.
Then I found a huge black cloud all over me,I couldn't move or breathe,it hurt so bad hope I never have that again.

Rest,I'll tell when I'm sober...atleast when its not this hard to write.

 

[Noseferatu]

LMAO---Quite Right! Especially when a discriminatory intelligence is shown.

The presence of intelligence in those situations is what really makes it creepy.

 

[jordie65]

i started reading this thread last night but had to stop as i was getting too freaked out, just finished reading through it all now in the safety of daylight, really intriguing stories! im not a believer or a skeptic, i feel there is so much we don't understand about how the universe works that it would be rash and maybe even arrogant of me to assume that these energies can't exert themselves in the ways people are describing.