I agree. Like another poster said, there is much more to the 'super-natural' realm than just ghosts. We've all read that the human mind remains largely unused and full of un-tapped potential. I've seen enough incidents with myself and other people that I believe a person's state of mind can affect physical objects sometimes.
I know when I'm very stressed or angry, my computer will have more problems. I've also had days where my radio would behave oddly anytime I walked near it. I've met, though work in computers and otherwise, many people that experience problems with computers and electronics when in a negative mood. I believe, in time, we will find out that these occurances are the result of processes and effects of our brains and it's abilities. There is still so much to learn about the human body and mind.
The idea behind a oija board is that is focuses spiritual energy. A tool for communicating with spirits.
I don't believe in them. I've seen them used and it was always a person pushing it.
Originally posted by: jinduy
another one is that in vietnam or china (or some other closely related country), they have these monks/priests/gypsy or whatever that are supposedly capable of invoking the spirit of your choice to take over the priest's body(but you gotta pay them) so you could communicate with it for a while. For example my vietnamese friend said he had the spirit of his dad summoned into some man and they were talking and everything and all the relatives were crying b/c it was a sad thing.
My point of view? these jabronis are getting away with robbery, but it's still interesting.
My family's visited a priest that can do that. Supposedly they summoned some sort of God (i'm not giving any names, for all you religious people!). Anyways, i asked my mom how she knew that he wasn't just faking it. She told me that it looks like he's actually getting possessed (use your imagination), and that EVERYTHING changes when he's possessed, e.g. his speech patterns, his voice itself, etc. She had tapes of the whole thing, along with a drawing of a picture of buddha (with his eyes closed of course).
And another story, once in Vietnam my mom and her friend were on the beach. Her friend began to walk toward the ocean, very intently focused on something. My mom then called for her, but her friend didn't respond. She kept walking, until my mom eventually got to her to "wake" her up. Her friend said she saw a really beautiful flower in the water, and was walking to it. What this was, as my mom explained to me, was a spirit that had died in the ocean. Spirits that die in the water cannot rise into the afterlife, unless somebody replaces them in their between-lives prison.
Originally posted by: DAGTA
Originally posted by: Pex
I don't share most of the details/stories online because a majority of the people that hear them think I'm partially crazy.
As for the third eye, I feel that most humans have the ability to perceive what we consider super-natural (because we don't understand it, yet). However, as children we are taught that all things super-natural are not real. The brain is amazing. You can block things out of your life by not believing in them. I would guess that the people that have had their 'third-eye' opened are people that have un-learned the mental conditioning of childhood.
-DAGTA
I think we'd like to hear your stories! Anyways, i think you've got a nice explanation of why only such a small number of us can sense the existence of these spirits. The only thing that's sad is that i don't think we'll ever figure out the connection between the living and the dead anytime soon. If anything, those who can actively see spirits would be able to explain, but i don't even think people like my uncle can make any conclusion on why anything is the way that it is.
I don't think its neccesarily our brains, but the electroactivity in our bodies. For instance, how radios will occasionally mess up when we are around them. That is caused by electrical interferance between us and the signals. I think alot of our 'untapped power' has to do with neurotransmitters and unlocking the secrets in those, whether man made or natural.
About 10 years ago I was driving with my mom in Boston. We were going to the mall in Cambridge and I was looking at my watch and it said 12:43Pm. I looked shortly after that and it said 2:03pm. There was nothing wrong with my watch, or my moms watch. It's like an hour out of my life just disappeared.
Very creepy!!
Very creepy!!
One time in this place I used to live in my room always freaked me out. Especially this one closet. It was pure evil I swear. It was a very old house and one night I was laying there in my bed trying to sleep and all of the sudden I heard a typwriter typing. Not like it was in a room but it was in my closet. there wasnt a typewriter in the house.
Sealy
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My sister went into labour with her first child on Thurs. Feb. 19th/04 during the day. She lives 4 hours away from me, so obviously I'd have to wait to go and see the baby when it came. Her husband told me that he would phone when the baby came.
On Friday Feb. 20th during the day, I got a call and they said still nothing had happened, but they'd keep me posted.
I went to bed early as I was tired. At 10:30pm I woke from my sleep, and I said to my husband, my sister had her baby, I can feel it. He said that I'm sure they'll call when the baby actually does come.
At 12:10am my mom phoned, to tell me that my sister had a baby girl 7lbs 11oz., at 10:29 pm.
Needless to say...I freaked my husband out a bit!
On Friday Feb. 20th during the day, I got a call and they said still nothing had happened, but they'd keep me posted.
I went to bed early as I was tired. At 10:30pm I woke from my sleep, and I said to my husband, my sister had her baby, I can feel it. He said that I'm sure they'll call when the baby actually does come.
At 12:10am my mom phoned, to tell me that my sister had a baby girl 7lbs 11oz., at 10:29 pm.
Needless to say...I freaked my husband out a bit!
The only weird thing I can add to this thread is that my father died after my I was born and that his father died after he was born. According to my mother, all 3 of us were the second born sons in the family. :Q
When I was little my aunt told me a scary story that happened to her.
She was sleeping on the couch in the living room of her parents house. (small house, lots of kids.....) She was woken up by the phone. She answered it and some frantic girl was begging for help. She didn't know who it was. Then the phone went dead. She then heard screeming from across the street. (a big lot of land with over grown bushes and grass) She looked out the window. She then heard some strtange deep moaning behind her. She turns around and sees a large black shape (kind of man like but she coldn't really describe it better) that was so tall it was hunched over to not hit the roof. It started coming towards her so she ran around it and into her parents room. They had to smack her a cople times to get her to calm down. They checked out the living room. Nothing there. She later found out that there was a girl murdered in that field across the street a couple months back.
I found out as I got older that she has mental problems and needs medication or else she starts seeing and hearing things. It's still kind of creepy because she had no clue before this that there was a girl killed across the street.
She was sleeping on the couch in the living room of her parents house. (small house, lots of kids.....) She was woken up by the phone. She answered it and some frantic girl was begging for help. She didn't know who it was. Then the phone went dead. She then heard screeming from across the street. (a big lot of land with over grown bushes and grass) She looked out the window. She then heard some strtange deep moaning behind her. She turns around and sees a large black shape (kind of man like but she coldn't really describe it better) that was so tall it was hunched over to not hit the roof. It started coming towards her so she ran around it and into her parents room. They had to smack her a cople times to get her to calm down. They checked out the living room. Nothing there. She later found out that there was a girl murdered in that field across the street a couple months back.
I found out as I got older that she has mental problems and needs medication or else she starts seeing and hearing things. It's still kind of creepy because she had no clue before this that there was a girl killed across the street.
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I've left a couple of incidents in previous threads from when I was younger, and lived in older homes. This incident happend relatively recently:
On occasion, I am asked to house sit for one of my friends. Hes rather rich and owns a large victorian mansion in Barnegat on Long Beach Island, NJ. One winter I was asked to house sit for him for a week in January. There was great weather that week with plenty of sun. There is a large hallway in the upstairs that has windows on one side, and rooms on the other. The sunlight shines through these windows in the morning, and around dinner. A little before dinner, I had heard what sounded like someone talking lowly in the upstairs hall. I had thought I'd left a radio on in the bathroom, so I went up to turn it off. (I hate to leave electrical devices running, because a cousin had burned down her house with a curling iron.) I checked through the rooms looking for the source of the sound, and found nothing. As I walked down the hallway to goto the stairs, I got goosebumps all the sudden. I happend to glance to my side and caught the outline of a shadow behind me on the wall. So I stopped walking and looked directly at it on the wall....next to my own shadow. I quick swung around to see what or who was causing it and there was no one there. I looked back at the wall, and the second shadow had vanished! Never saw the 2nd shadow again, but I would go out to a local restaurant for dinner every night, and would always come back to lights that were turned on that I hadnt turned on, and the widows walk roof door would always be open.
I had mentioned this to my friend, and he told me the spirits of the house were playing with me. Apparently he had been having things happen every so often as well, and he had people who usually rented the house in the summer, tell him about some incidents that had happend to them as well.
~wnied~
On occasion, I am asked to house sit for one of my friends. Hes rather rich and owns a large victorian mansion in Barnegat on Long Beach Island, NJ. One winter I was asked to house sit for him for a week in January. There was great weather that week with plenty of sun. There is a large hallway in the upstairs that has windows on one side, and rooms on the other. The sunlight shines through these windows in the morning, and around dinner. A little before dinner, I had heard what sounded like someone talking lowly in the upstairs hall. I had thought I'd left a radio on in the bathroom, so I went up to turn it off. (I hate to leave electrical devices running, because a cousin had burned down her house with a curling iron.) I checked through the rooms looking for the source of the sound, and found nothing. As I walked down the hallway to goto the stairs, I got goosebumps all the sudden. I happend to glance to my side and caught the outline of a shadow behind me on the wall. So I stopped walking and looked directly at it on the wall....next to my own shadow. I quick swung around to see what or who was causing it and there was no one there. I looked back at the wall, and the second shadow had vanished! Never saw the 2nd shadow again, but I would go out to a local restaurant for dinner every night, and would always come back to lights that were turned on that I hadnt turned on, and the widows walk roof door would always be open.
I had mentioned this to my friend, and he told me the spirits of the house were playing with me. Apparently he had been having things happen every so often as well, and he had people who usually rented the house in the summer, tell him about some incidents that had happend to them as well.
~wnied~
My granddad died at my aunt's house. Almost my entire family was there with him for the last two or three days of his life. I volunteered to watch the clock and his pulse/breathing to call time of death because he started the death rattle before hospice could arrive. After he passed, most of the family dispursed. All of us numb. I sat on the couch across from his chair where he was trying to fathom what life would be like without the greatest man that I've ever known. I was his favorite and, unfortunately, he made sure everybody knew in the last few weeks of his life. My mom was asking me if I was okay, and I said I was fine. We were talking about who was going to do what when hospice would arive which was supposed to be something like 10 minutes away. The room slowly light up and I felt a hand on each shoulder from behind me along with a very warm, calming feeling. I turned to see who turned the lights on and was standing behind me and I saw his face looking down at me... and then he disappeared. It scared the sh|t outta me. I ran out of the house and haven't been able to go back in that house since. Nobody saw it but me.
Every now and then, when I'm trying to fall asleep, I get caught inbetween conciousness and slumber. I think some of you have similar experiences, being completely paralyzed and unable to do anything but breath. I don't have any visions of people, I hear the blood rushing in my ears. I've been having it for several years now, and if I think about it maybe there were a few times it happened when I was a kid. I did some research on it in high school, found the scientific name of it and everything, not much more. My wife, who even when we were in HS together and slept together knows about this and what to do.
Basically, I'll 'wake up', my eyes will be open and i'll be paralyzed. I cannot speak or move at all and i'm deafened by blood pumping in my ears. I just see the plain old unscary dark room. I'm not really terrified at anything but this state - I think it is some sort of disconnect where my mind wakes up but my body is still happily slumbering and my mind has no control. Sometimes I can even push myself into this disconnect in weak slumber... anyway, it IS frightening, not sure why, and so I start to breath as hard as I can. My wife wakes up almost immediately and shakes me and I come to completely.
anyone else have that?
Now, the really good stuff is from my uncle, who is also my financial advisor with merrill lynch, who is a trustworthy guy. He wouldn't bullshit or anything. His completely sane wife commisserates the stories and adds her own too. They moved into an old house in New Orleans and soonafter started to have weird stuff happen.
-His electric razor, which is plug-in only and doesn't run on batteries, started going off in the drawer one morning. Wasn't plugged in, was working on its own and turned off on its own. (I guess that could be caused by a faulty capacitor or something in the power supply... in theory)
-She was in the shower one day having come home for lunch from work. She heard the voices of children playing and a piano playing kids music. She thought nothing of it until she got out of the shower and realized, duh, the kids are at school today. Nobody else in the house. They called an electrician over to check out the old intercom system, there was a panel in the bathroom. the system worked fine. (I suppose the system could have been picking up a cordless phone or a CB or shortwave or something. there is lots of copper wire in a house intercom like that that can pick stuff up I suppose.)
-This is the one I cannot figure out. At the top of a spiral stairwell room there is a chandilier. Very ornate, crystals hanging all over the places and lights everywhere. It hangs way up in the ceiling. You'd need a very, very long to reach it, and even then it would be difficult because the chandilier is not near any walls and hangs low. At the bottom of the fixture is a bigass crystal. The crystal hangs on a fish-hook like hook, one hanging down from the fixture and one embedded in the crystal. So this isn't going to fall off by breeze (there are not nearby AC vents or windows.) So this crystal has been there for 100 years and isn't going anywhere. except that late one night this crystal shatters on the floor underneath the fixture. Both hooks are still intact. Couldn't be the kids, no possible explanation. Explain dem apples!
There was another thing they told me but i forget it.
All these strange events stopped after they asked a neighbor, who confirmed that there have been many stories told by previous residents. they found some engineer who also does ghost stuff (hey, this is New Orleans..). the dude came over and asked the spirits to leave and that was that.
That is the only reason I believe in the supernatural. My sister is into tai chi and auras and karmas and gaia mother earth and all sorts of stuff like that, but I don't buy any of her stuff despite the fact that I believe in ghosts and spirits and stuff.
and after reading this thread I have to say that I can't wait to cuddle up to my wife tonight. I can fear nothing when I'm in bed with her, but when I'm alone my mind does race too...
Basically, I'll 'wake up', my eyes will be open and i'll be paralyzed. I cannot speak or move at all and i'm deafened by blood pumping in my ears. I just see the plain old unscary dark room. I'm not really terrified at anything but this state - I think it is some sort of disconnect where my mind wakes up but my body is still happily slumbering and my mind has no control. Sometimes I can even push myself into this disconnect in weak slumber... anyway, it IS frightening, not sure why, and so I start to breath as hard as I can. My wife wakes up almost immediately and shakes me and I come to completely.
anyone else have that?
Now, the really good stuff is from my uncle, who is also my financial advisor with merrill lynch, who is a trustworthy guy. He wouldn't bullshit or anything. His completely sane wife commisserates the stories and adds her own too. They moved into an old house in New Orleans and soonafter started to have weird stuff happen.
-His electric razor, which is plug-in only and doesn't run on batteries, started going off in the drawer one morning. Wasn't plugged in, was working on its own and turned off on its own. (I guess that could be caused by a faulty capacitor or something in the power supply... in theory)
-She was in the shower one day having come home for lunch from work. She heard the voices of children playing and a piano playing kids music. She thought nothing of it until she got out of the shower and realized, duh, the kids are at school today. Nobody else in the house. They called an electrician over to check out the old intercom system, there was a panel in the bathroom. the system worked fine. (I suppose the system could have been picking up a cordless phone or a CB or shortwave or something. there is lots of copper wire in a house intercom like that that can pick stuff up I suppose.)
-This is the one I cannot figure out. At the top of a spiral stairwell room there is a chandilier. Very ornate, crystals hanging all over the places and lights everywhere. It hangs way up in the ceiling. You'd need a very, very long to reach it, and even then it would be difficult because the chandilier is not near any walls and hangs low. At the bottom of the fixture is a bigass crystal. The crystal hangs on a fish-hook like hook, one hanging down from the fixture and one embedded in the crystal. So this isn't going to fall off by breeze (there are not nearby AC vents or windows.) So this crystal has been there for 100 years and isn't going anywhere. except that late one night this crystal shatters on the floor underneath the fixture. Both hooks are still intact. Couldn't be the kids, no possible explanation. Explain dem apples!
There was another thing they told me but i forget it.
All these strange events stopped after they asked a neighbor, who confirmed that there have been many stories told by previous residents. they found some engineer who also does ghost stuff (hey, this is New Orleans..). the dude came over and asked the spirits to leave and that was that.
That is the only reason I believe in the supernatural. My sister is into tai chi and auras and karmas and gaia mother earth and all sorts of stuff like that, but I don't buy any of her stuff despite the fact that I believe in ghosts and spirits and stuff.
and after reading this thread I have to say that I can't wait to cuddle up to my wife tonight. I can fear nothing when I'm in bed with her, but when I'm alone my mind does race too...
The past two months I've seen things in dreams. I saw my friend Lizzie's mom go to the hospital and she did the next day for galbladder surgery. I had dreams about her still being in pain, going back to the hospital, dreams about Chelsea and things happening, and dreams about Viper GTS and things happening. They've seemed to stop over the past few weeks, but I still get strange feelings at odd times and look over to my phone to see it sitting there quiet... then light up and ring. :-\ The only dream that hasn't been proven true was about Viper GTS going on a road trip to Idaho and dying. He never went on the roadtrip.
Some CanadianP) scientists are experimenting with using electromagnetics to make people sense presences. I suspect that these 'haunted areas' just have strange electromagnetic patterns.
P) scientists are experimenting with using electromagnetics to make people sense presences. I suspect that these 'haunted areas' just have strange electromagnetic patterns.this is pretty common. it's easy to see this. just try to pick up a distant radio station and move around or move yourhand around. eletromagnetic fields caused by your body have nothing to do with the supernatural or science ficiton.
Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox
Some Canadian
sharks can detect distortions in the eletromagnetic field, made easier by the water. kindof a sixth sense of things around them that they can't see
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