Have you experience it? I have and very recent but that wasn't the first time.
It's ok to be skeptic but please let's be open minded and not critical of others. I would like to hear from those who has had any experiences with the paranormal.
Have you experience it? I have and very recent but that wasn't the first time.
It's ok to be skeptic but please let's be open minded and not critical of others. I would like to hear from those who has had any experiences with the paranormal.
I've never had any experiences profound enough to change my life, but I do believe that there are some things that science has not yet found an explanation for, and therefore try and keep an open mind.
"I used to be influenced by peer pressure, but my friends talked me out of it."
I personally have not had any direct experience with what falls into the category of the paranormal--but even though I do like science---I don't think science can explain all things and it does get me mad that science automatically seems to discount the notion that things of the paranormal don't exist out of hand.
Just like with the subject of UFOs--most of them can be explained in rational and reasonable ways--so can things of the paranormal---but then there are those cases of both the paranormal and UFO phenomenons that cannot be readily explained away by rational explanations.
If you care to share your experiences you had---I would be glad to hear--for those who are interested in this subject--they do have a board much like this related to the TAPS show from the Sci-Fi Channel.
http://www.the-atlantic-paranormal-society.com/
The site has many links to groups doing paranormal research in places all over the world--it is a very good resource for this topic.
Last edited by 12voltman59; Mar 16, 2008 at 3:22 PM.
"Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere..." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I never have but friends of mine have and have told me about it.
I've many experiences over the course of a lifetime that would probably qualify as paranormal. Many of them were simply disregarded as dreams or the results of an overactive imagination...and perhaps they were but it did open my mind to the possibilities. When I was in my early 20's I had an Out Of Body Experience that did change my life to a large degree in that it sent me on a personal course of investigation to seek out some sort of explanation. That course led me to experience phenomena that would probably be considered of the paranormal and I’ve written quite a bit about it on other forums where people are searching for their own explanations. I can’t explain what they are experiencing and in some cases, feel it’s up to the individual to investigate and to validate that experience for themselves. I can suggest a method of how to proceed but that has become my stopping point.
The subjective nature of their paranormal experiences makes it difficult to explain when you don’t have a shared point of reference to begin with. You either have seen first hand an UFO or you rely on someone else’s experience and I would be hard to convince if, it’s not something I’ve experienced first hand… although I’m free to speculate on the possibilities.
What I have concluded for myself is that I am more than this physical body and that science is a path of investigation pretty much regulated to this physical reality. Perhaps someday science may be able to solve some of those mysteries of the paranormal but it hasn’t yet largely in part largely to the limitations that science must impose upon itself.
I think you could spend years exploring what lies within each one of us and only get a small glimpse some things I believe are simply unobtainable while in this state of being.
I am a breather at present am I’m content with exploring all that’s within my physical world and for the moment I walk a sexual path because I’ve chosen to do so. I would not want to spend this very valuable time negating perhaps the very reason I’m here to begin with. Energy comes in many forms and there is a time and place for everything. Plenty of time to be a ghost lol…but not right now….I’m having too much fun creating in the here and now.
Ambi
the only experiences I have really had are weird things like when I walk or drive under lamp posts the lights will turn off. I heard something on some radio show one time about that... there's a name for it. Like when it happens to people more often than just a few times, it's not coincidence. It has something to do with transferring of energy or something...
so close no matter how far
couldn't be much more from the heart
forever trusting who we are
and nothing else matters
I have had that same thing. Where I live I drive on a four lane highway and I have to turn left and cross over the other 2 lanes. When I'm driving home at night, and this happens everytime, the huge lights that light up that intersection always go off and I turn in total darkness. I have often wondered if it only happens to me....Originally Posted by sometimesitbethatway
That's really interesting about transferring of energy.
I'm convinced there are more things in heaven and earth than dreamed of in our philosophy (I think that's how the saying goes). An atheist says coincidence - -a Christian would say the hand of God. Someone would say a UFO. Others say Angels.
Either way, there is a world beyond our own, it's just a question of what's in it.
*Taylor*
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--Sheryl Crow
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I have had an experiences with the paranormal. Not major ones, but enough to notice. In the same home, my son & my husband have also experience things. Were we crazy? Well, we no longer live in that house and no longer have those experiences... so i think it may have been ghostly.
My son was just scared, but he was real young while we lived there. My husband... well, I get the feeling that whatever was there did not like him because it told him to get out! Me, i just felt like i was being watched, like she was my angel or something.
Now if you want to add wierd experiences, let's talk about the ouji board, I have had a very bad experience with that!!! Will never touch one of those again.
jennessex
I have had a number of paranormal experiences. Most are too lengthy to post, but when we went to Gettysburg for our anniversary, we did the ghost tour and the flash on our camera refused to work (worked before and after the tour had fresh batteries the whole time).
When we got the pictures back, there were some ghost balls in a couple of the pictures.
Is that paranormal enough?
According to wikipedia, paranormal covers quite a bit of turf.
"..telepathy, extra-sensory perception, psychokinesis, ghosts, and hauntings."
I haven't had much with psychokinesis, ghosts, and hauntings.
But I could bore everyone to tears with my experience with the telepathy and extra-sensory perception.
I get the impression Delilah was talking about 'ghosties'.
What about it Darkeyes? Murder, treachery, Vikings, blood drenching wars... if those are fertile grounds for ghosts you've probably seen a few ghosties in a few Scottish castles. Not that Scotland is any more blood drenched than any other place inhabited by people for that long of a time, but there's just so much more romantic (romantic?) literature about it in Scotland!
Vikings, Braveheart, MacBeth...
Last edited by Bluebiyou; Mar 17, 2008 at 1:50 AM.
interesting topic, something i can relate to as ive had many experiences with paranormal activities, as a child i always used to 'sense' whenever there was a presence in our home or wherever i was, family used to think i had an imaginery friend but as i got older i used to go to known haunted homes and places and i have seen and heard things my friends and family cannot see or hear, ive seen my grandmother, who died in 1991 years later and also i recently moved in with friends who told me their house was haunted by a 'man'....whom i saw and before i moved in was known to scare my friend and her children and even hold them down....i saw him once i told the 'man' i wasnt scared and he needed to leave us alone...and nobody has seen him since....and no ive not been watching too many episodes of the x-files or ghost hunters!.
amazing things i have seen would take forever to write down, i thought about actually getting paid to seek out stuff like this but too many people are sceptical about it so i just help people i know.
I am a believer in the 6th sense and have solid experience with it which I won't get into here. Life after death crap ,....no....But there is communication in nature we do not know of.
I demand respect for my journey, but I offer submission to the worthy.
Everyone who has anything to do with the Ouja board says to not use them and not allow your kids to use them---my mother had an incredibly frightening experience with one when she was young--and I have talked to many people over the years who have had negative experiences with them too.
The TAPS people on Ghost Hunters say not to use them--I once saw the Warrens who were the paranormal investigators who worked on the Amityville Horror House and they all say---do not use Ouja boards.
The general story on them---they serve as some sort of conduit for "spirits" to enter our realm from wherever it is they dwell.
If the paranormal is real---better not to bring is something we are not equipped to deal with---actually the way we are today in that we totally dismiss anything that is not something solid we can shoot, wrestle to the ground or whatever---we are not prepared to deal with "other wordly" things---at one time when people were more connected to such things---we were more able to deal with them---we have gotten so in love with our cell phones, computers, Xboxes and the like---we think that is the only reality there is---but I do think that there is more to existence than what we generally consider there is.
Better to leave such things alone since we are not experienced in dealing with them.
"Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere..." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Being on Native American descent, I strongly believe in Spirits and other paranormal happenings. I have had several instances and because of time restraint, cant tell you about them at the moment. We have things in this life that we cannot explain, but just because you cant See something, doesnt mean it isnt there. You believe in a million dollars, right? Just cuz you've never seen it doesnt mean it dont exist..lol
Cat.
I'm tryin' my best to leave a loving foot print on the hearts of the folks who's lives I touch..longly, or briefly..:}
Minx
Women and cats will do as they please, so men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. Heinlein
Other than the aftermath of some psychedelic substances, which depending on the definition could, be considered paranormal (out of body experience, extrasensory perception), I have no personal stories.
One of my best friends told me a couple of weeks ago that she and her twin sister (they are 27 now) would have long conversations in which they "remembered" their lives when they where "older". Without having talked about such stories in advance, they would be the same, details, feelings, everything. I guess this falls into the category of reincarnation, for those who believe in it, and for the more science-oriented people, into the notion of some unknown sort of "genetic memory"? Similarly, I know of people who have no special abilities, and under hypnosis, they play the piano wonderfully, or speak languages they have never heard, or are able to perform the most complex mathematical operations.
I do believe that, in time, we will find rational explanations for the paranormal.
When I was younger and dabbled in Satanism, I thought I heard the voices of demons (Azazel and Asmodeus) but then I learned it was just my sub-concious talking to me through the form of demons. But I'm interested in the paranormal, UFOS and the occult mostly.
...All are done, when "7" are "1."....
Thank you for that link. I have seen that show's preview on occasion and finally watched several episodes. Ever since then, I have my DVR set up to record every show including the spin off Ghost Hunters International.
I have recently started DVR on other shows like Paranormal State. That's an interesting show.
Also, I found them on myspace and joined their networks along with other Paranormal investigators. Very interesting group of people.
UFOs, yeah, I believe, but I've never seen an alien or a (made on another planet) space craft. BUT:
Too many reliable people have reported seeing them,
and
The numbers... at least 100,000,000,000 stars per galaxy and as least 100,000,000,000 galaxies. That makes a minimum of 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (ten billion trillion) solar systems. The probability of life more intelligent or advanced than our own is simply too great to reject on the basis of our egocentric food chain.
They may be looking at us through the bushes like Jane Goodall, not wanting to disturb our natural habitat or natural progression.
Just be careful of those anal probes! :-O
Last edited by Bluebiyou; Mar 20, 2008 at 10:25 AM.
I've had a few.... let's call them "sensations".
After my Mom died I had the overwhelming sensation that she was standing behind my right shoulder... guiding me through my grief at losing her. So much so that I would rapidly turn around and I swore (at the time) that I could FEEL her presence. That went on for a couple years.
She was there again (in spirit only) as I was coming out of a very heavy anaesthetic after surgery, telling me I would be alright.
My Mom was THEE most frighteningly psychic person I have ever known. There was nothing in her experience to make her that way, that even she was aware of.
Couple instances: one day she had her head in the fridge getting some butter out... she stood up, dropped the plate of butter (she told me later that she saw it covered in blood) and screamed "your father has been in a serious accident". I still shiver about this one because not an hour later the military police were at the door telling Mom to go to the hospital with them. He survived but she scared the tar out of me.
another time: in this very house where I still live, we were sitting together watching the evening news when the power went out abruptly. Mom's face went white and she told me that a neighbour had been killed when her car struck a hydro pole just a couple blocks from here. She was right.
There were scads of incidents like these...and even if she DID scare me *LOL*, I still miss her; still shiver when I think of all the neat things she had insight into. I'm not like her in the least actually.
One other odd thing was then whenever my Dad walked in front of the (older) TV sets, it would go all wonky. We told him he had a very active electrical forcefield in his body LOL. He believed us.
Girrrrlfriend, now you are spooking me
That's an interesting story.
A friend of mine at work told me she believe that when the phone ring just one time (no one at the other end of the line... just one short incomplete ring), someone died.
Our belief was if we hear a dog howl at night, someone in the area died.
I believe that's the mistake I made. Maybe or maybe not. But what I am experiencing could be related to my OUIJA board.
I am soooo eager to tell you all my recent experience in this condo. But before I do, I decided to do a EVP and also try to debunk some stuff. I am still confused about the whole thing but I have to think clear and logical. I must try to recreate some things and perhaps I could disprove what had happen here.
I'm aware that the dead time is at 3am. Perhaps I could get some people in this site who happens to live nearby to help me with it. Either way, I'm going to do it and try to make sense out of all this.
I bought a digital recorder and going to do some EVP in and outside of my place. Including by the pool and the wooded area between the back side of my building and the security gate.
I don't have all the other fancy equipments like the Paranormal investigator. I don't have the cash to hire them. I guess I'll have to wing it on my own.
Re: Paranormal
Incase anyone doesn't know what an EVP is:
E.V.P: 'Electronic Voice Phenomena.' Disembodied "voices" and sounds imprinted on audio recording devices.
What you don't hear when you ask questions, you may hear it on audio recording.
I just bought one today. A small digital recorder. I'm going to do a bit more research on how to do an EVP. I managed to be chatting on one of the people from a Paranormal Research. I had joined their website and the forum is great! Lots of information. She is fantastic and gave me some helpful advice. Oh and she is also a Pagan / Wiccan and very informative.
Ghost balls is actually orbs. I just learn that from a paranormal forum I had joined.
Some says that orbs can be debunk as dust particles or bugs. But an entity is also in a form of orbs.
Where you took these photos, was the area cold? Did the temperature dropped all of a sudden?
I have had a number of paranormal experiences. Most are too lengthy to post, but when we went to Gettysburg for our anniversary, we did the ghost tour and the flash on our camera refused to work (worked before and after the tour had fresh batteries the whole time).
When we got the pictures back, there were some ghost balls in a couple of the pictures.
Is that paranormal enough?
Something else that needs to be done to rule any sort of "rational" explanation---you should find someone with an electromagnetic field meter (EMF)----I heard a story on NPR not long ago that some researchers have evidence that indicates a strong link with EMF and "paranormal" experiences---they had a woman who had moved into a place that the previous owner had left some things--one of them being a very old clock radio---she started having visions of God and of God talking to--but only when she was in her bedroom.
They put the woman through a whole series of tests and determined that she did not suffer from any mental defect. One of the researchers took an EMF meter into her room and found that the clock radio was putting out a very strong EM field--and when they put a new one in the room, getting rid of the old one---she no longer had her Godly visits.
The researchers then--using some equipment--replicated the EMF being put out by the clock radio with devices they could control--they then did a controlled study and found they could induce visions, feelings etc in the test subjects of having paranormal experiences simply by exposing them to a reasonably strong EM field.
Now--the one person being interviewed did not say this was something that was "proven" merely that according to scientiific standards---this is what the evidence indcates--and they were publishing their paper in a peer reviewed journal on their findings on this subject.
You do notice that the investigators for TAPS and other paranormal groups do try to determine what sort of EM fields there are present.
They think that spirits do change the EMF readings--that is why they tend to use them----but they should do an EMF sweep as part of due course to eliminate possible effects from excessive EMF.
I don't know where you get one of those devices--I think I am going to get one---it would be nice to know just how much EMF we are exposed to thanks to all of our electronic stuff we have these days and if it helps find a "ghost" sometime--all the better.
I am sure you can find someone with one.
Good luck Delilah
"Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere..." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Heres 1...
Hitch hiking across Canada.
Middle of nowhere northern Ontario a guy lets me off..
No prob.. I'm prepared..
I overnite in the forest.
At breakfast an old old man joins me,, out of nowhere.
He asks to see my palm.
He tells me my name..............He tells me my life right on to that point.
He tell me of the future..which is mine not yours..
I demand respect for my journey, but I offer submission to the worthy.
would you mind sharing your experience about the oiji board, i have been debating on whether or not try it. everyone i talk to says not to.
I am no expert on this subject--but I talked about this in a previous post--from all that I have heard from people ranging from my mother, to friends, to priests, to paranormal investigators----there is one thing all agree on in regards to the ouja board---do not mess with one---use of one can have very negative consequences and they are not simply an innocent children's game as they are marketed as by Parker Brothers Games and don't go and make one up yourself either.
Some information on the Ouja Board:
http://www.ghostresearch.org/articles/ouija.html
http://www.ghostweb.com/ouija.html
http://paranormal.about.com/od/ouija...ija_Boards.htm
http://www.hauntedhamilton.com/ouijadiary.html
Last edited by 12voltman59; Mar 21, 2008 at 1:47 AM.
"Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere..." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
As Pagans, we absolutely do not recommend the use of a Ouija board by anyone who does not know how to set up the proper protections first.
A Ouija board is akin to a bomb.
In the hands of a properly trained specialist, it can be handled safely, but in the hands of the untrained it is a truly dangerous thing.
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