Ever seen a ghost?

[EmotionallyUnstable]

I don’t see them as much as a “feel” their presence. Yes, I am afraid of the dark. 
 

hbu

Edited October 9, 2020 by EmotionallyUnstable

[Punching Bag]

Every time I look in the mirror,  I used to post using first initial and last name: G. Host.  ghost is my login on a lot of machines.

[Uncle Joe]

All the time. Usually on the Sabbath.
Signed,
Sam Darnold

Edited October 10, 2020 by Uncle Joe

[SinceThe70s]

Nope, but one time I was nearly convinced.

 

When my first was in the crib we had a black & white video monitor. Picture was very grainy. Woke up one night and wifey was transfixed on it. Wondering what was up I took a look and saw what looked for all the world like ghosts flying back and forth above the crib. White wispy apparitions flying randomly over the crib. Not gonna lie, it freaked me out. Started doubting my doubt of ghosts. Actually pissed me off that anything was messing with my son so I went to take a look.

 

Absolutely nothing to see in his room. Just a baby enjoying a good nights sleep in a calm ghost-free room. Which made no sense so I went back to check on the video and sure enough the 'ghosts' were still there.

 

Turns out there was an oscillating fan in my sons room blowing a huge cobweb that was hanging in front of the video camera.

 

Good times.

[qwksilver]

I haven't see one. But at least one has tried to get my attention several times. Just wish I could see one.

Edited October 10, 2020 by qwksilver

[UConn James]

I have never seen a ghost, myself. So I’m firmly in the ‘maybe’ camp on whether they are real.

 

My uncle, a post-WW2 vet, swears he saw one when he was installing phone lines in the late ‘70s iirc in the Mark Twain house in Hartford. This seems to be a reported thing with the ghost of a young woman in a flowing white dress. Mark Twain’s 24-year-old daughter died in the house from meningitis.

And my dad says he met one in Colorado, where he was stationed at Ft. Carson for basic training and specialty school for helicopter maintenance/ supply & warehouse side. He was talking to a gal before his company shipped out to Vietnam, she said she had to go and asked if he would walk her home. On the way she said he would be all right during the war. He then went back to the party. A guy came up to him a bit later and said he’d seen him talking before he left. But... he wasn’t talking to anyone who was visible to this man. He then shared that there was a well-known ghost in the house and that this (getting a person to walk her there) basically was her MO. My dad was injured when a box fell on his foot and then with an eye condition and did his two years of draft duty but didn’t go to the war.

 

There’s stuff that we don’t have explanations for, and whether that is energy that gets left behind or different dimensions or what-have-you....

[PromoTheRobot]

No. But I have had a premonition once that was too close to just be a coincidence.

[UConn James]

23 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

No. But I have had a premonition once that was too close to just be a coincidence.

Mine is more vivid details from dreams that literally came true months later, about environmental / physical features and things not in my control and far too random to be coincidence. As I was living it, I was like “Holy wow. I’ve seen this before!” Happened a few times. Freaky.

Edited October 12, 2020 by UConn James

[Captain Caveman]

Last year for my 40th birthday my wife and I took a trip to Colorado without the kids (our first trip without them since my eldest was born.). The first night we stayed at the Stanley hotel, and heard kids playing in the hall much of the night, which is supposed to be one of the most common experiences there.  Apparently when the hotel was built the top floor was the children's quarters.  Rich families would stay the whole summer, they would drop their kids off with the servants at the beginning of the summer and not see them again until it was time to leave in September.

 

My dad said the kid noise is probably piped in through speakers, and sigh, he's probably right.  It was a beautiful place though and I hope to go back one day.

 

 

Edited October 12, 2020 by Captain Caveman

[TBBills]

I worked security for a very old courthouse built in the late 1800's. They added on to the old courthouse but the center is the original building. Things happened all the time. You walk by a vending machine and candy or soda would just fall out... I was afraid to eat to it at first b.c the sheriff's officers said they get angry if you touch their food.

 

Theyhad an office in the building and they always talk about hearing things. Walking around and the elevator doors would just open and close as you walked by. Hearing footsteps and not knowing if it's a sheriff's officer or... Nothing around the corner, wtf.

 

So creepy I still think about it every time someone mentions ghosts. I hated that job for that and the spiders everywhere you had to punch a punch card to make sure you were at that area.

Edited October 12, 2020 by TBBills

[Augie]

I swore to myself I wasn’t going to go here but........I firmly believe there is something beyond what we experience every day. In HS at St Joe’s we were required to read several books about near death experiences and life after life. That made me curious and I’ve read many more over the decades. I have one in my pending pile now.  I don’t know what I believe, but I know how little I know. I believe there are other dimensions/realms we know nothing about. Physicists tell us that is true. 

 

After we moved to Atlanta someone told my (very conservative, professional, buttoned up) wife about an amazing medium/psychic. I never went, but she checked her out and was amazed. Talked about it forever to me, the full blown skeptic.

 

We had two sons.  The oldest was awesome in so many ways, but also troubled with anxiety and depression. We lived a VERY difficult life as a family for about a decade, but our love and the boys’ love for each other never wavered.   He passed away almost 3 years ago (after almost 3 wonderful years of sobriety).  My distraught wife decided to go back to the medium a few months later. She was asked if we had recently made a big purchase. No, not really.....wait, his brother (the straight arrow) recently bought a new car. Well, you are getting something that will be a little joke to you, a haha from Michael. Michael was possibly the funniest person I’ve ever known. SERIOUSLY funny! What’s the tag # on the car?  “It will be clear when you see it”. We still had the temp tags. I had to text them when I got the tags from the DMV. Nope! There was a message coming, but it wasn’t the tags. Random tags. 

 

We sold the condo in Nashville after Michael died and decided to buy one in Atlanta for the straight arrow son and his now wife to rent from us. We looked all over. I had been in real estate here and worked with a great former co-worker. Reviewed a hundred plus units, visited over a dozen and one was clearly the best. HANDS DOWN. Best unit, best location, right on the fabulous Beltline making it the best investment. If we charged them full market rent now it would pay for the townhouse AND our house! The guy didn’t want to sell, but he got married and his bride refused to live where he had lived with his last girlfriend. Odd situation. He didn’t want to sell, so he made it hard to show saying he worked at home and nobody could come in. Best option, so we stayed patient and made it happen. We made “the big purchase”. 

 

The Townhouse is on Goodson Way. 

 

 

“It will be clear when you see it.” 

 

 

HAHA! 

 

 

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Edited October 13, 2020 by Augie

[ExiledInIllinois]

Supposedly the cemetery behind our house is haunted by a girl who died in the early 1900s.  One time, when my daughter was young, we were walking through it and she claimed to have seen a girl in a flowing white gown move off in the distance behinda few gravestones.  Broad daylight, Sunday afternoon... My daughter knew nothing of the haunted story.   We were walking, cutting through to help a friend that got their  car stuck at the back of the cemetery, just beneath a small hill.  Upon entering,  my daughter looks and points: "There's Katharine (our friend's name)."  I laughed and said: " Come on, why would she be here?  They are at the bottom of the hill."  My daughter claimed  a girl ran off in distance.  When I researched the cemetery,  there were claims of people seeing a girl who died and was buried there around 1914.  Could my daughter have seen her ghost?  Of was it just flare from the sun? Her imagination...

[Royale with Cheese]

No I haven't but I do look for them.  

[Another Fan]

0:37 has in this video has been up for questions for years 
 

 

[Captain Caveman]

19 minutes ago, Another Fan said:

0:37 has in this video has been up for questions for years 
 

 

that's been pretty thoroughly debunked

 

it's a cardboard cutout of Danson, which also is seen in another scene in the movie

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/three-men-and-a-ghost/

 

 

 

 

 

[thebandit27]

21 minutes ago, Another Fan said:

0:37 has in this video has been up for questions for years 
 

 

that’s a cutout of young Ted Danson from a commercial; not a ghost

[Royale with Cheese]

 

[teef]

31 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:

 

it's just time to take this kid out of his crib.

[Nextmanup]

There used to be a TV show called  "Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World."

 

He would investigate various mysteries in each episode and form a conclusion at the end.  

 

One was dedicated to ghosts.  His conclusion was that ghosts do in fact exist.

 

He suggested that to the person who thinks he/she saw the ghost, the ghost is very much real, so in that sense, ghosts do exist.

 

Ghosts, like a lot of other things (alien abductions to name one), amount to a human psychological phenomenon.

 

Measured by that standard, I agree they are "real."  

Edited October 13, 2020 by Nextmanup

[4_kidd_4]

Not myself personally, but one of my best friends dated a girl who could “see”.

 

I am by nature cynical and as skeptical as a person can be, but I never once doubted her sincerity. She was not a bullspitter, or attention seeking type. Was actually quite reserved about her ‘ability’, and didn’t broadcast it or really ever throw it out there for discussion. 

 

It obviously would come up time to time and she definitely had a story or two that would give you the creeps. She worked in an L-shaped restaurant, and when she’d be cleaning the one dining room, presumably alone room she’d see a man out of the corner of her eye...turn to look, gone.

 

Started to get to her, so she reluctantly told the owner, who took her aside, pulled out an old map and showed her that the restaurant was built on a corner where three houses used to stand. The dining room at the end was basically over the site of a brutal murder some years prior.  

 

Yeah, she didn’t stay at that job much longer.

[4merper4mer]

I do not believe ghosts exist but, unlike aliens, they cannot be disproven.

 

I should clarify that I don't believe ghosts can be seen/detected by humans, which is technically different than existence in general.  I have no opinion either way on existence.

Edited October 13, 2020 by 4merper4mer

[Augie]

1 minute ago, 4merper4mer said:

I do not believe ghosts exist but, unlike aliens, they cannot be disproven.

 

I should clarify that I don't believe ghosts can be seen/detected by humans, which is technically different than existence in general.  I have no opinion either way on existence.

 

So......there is no “sitcom math” for ghosts? 

 

You have yet to show your work on that math, but that’s another topic entirely.  

 

Back to ghosts.....Casper was cool, but I had a little thing for Wendy the little blonde witch in her red cape. I think she grew up to be Samantha, but I can’t confirm that.  

[JohnC]

The Gettysburg battlefield is reported to have many sightings. I have a good friend who is involved with the battlefield as a volunteer tell me that he has had an interaction with a ghost at the copse of trees. He is a stand up guy I have known for a long time and is not the type to create stories. 

 

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=ghosts+gettysburg+&view=detail&mid=0B5339EDCE02045B33680B5339EDCE02045B3368&FORM=VIRE

[CLTbills]

Personally, no, although I wish I had. 

 

I have an Great Aunt and Uncle back home in NY (my dad’s aunt and uncle), who live in a house, that is supposedly inhabited by spirits. Basically anybody that’s ever spent the night in that house claims to have seen them, including my Dad himself, and his cousins (my 2nd cousins) Kevin and Jacquie. My Aunt and Uncle still see them to this day and are so immune to it, it’s no big deal. My Aunt has actually told me that they’ve lived with them for so long (40-plus years) that they actually make her feel comfortable, like they are protecting her. 

 

It’s a man and a woman that they see, always the same. Years ago, they did a bunch of research on the house and found some previous owners of the house, with late 1800’s through early 1900’s photos - and apparently that’s who they see. They know their names and everything. Supposedly the ghosts interact with them, or at least acknowledge that they are there. When they put in their in-ground pool in the early 90’s, apparently that REALLY stirred things up.

 

And I know this sounds weird after that damn story, but these particular family members are not the “eclectic” type... just normal people. Definitely not the kind of people that you take what they say with a grain of salt. And there have been so many stories within the family about family members that have seen them, again, including my Dad, that I absolutely have to believe that it’s true, although again, I haven’t seen it with my own eyes.

[Not at the table Karlos]

One of our rental properties were pretty sure is haunted. It was built in the 1800s and was a bar with rooms or apartments above and behind, two very large attics, Large basement and parts of it are sealed off. Opened a hole in one part and there was two shoes sticking out of a large pile of dirt(never figured out why. Relative is a police officer he’s creeped out by it but didn’t think there’s a reason to investigate further) 

Multiple Tenants(4 unit apt building) would report weird things and noises pretty often. Small hand prints would sometimes appear on the bathroom mirror, window or wall after a shower in the lower rear apt. Never in the same place twice. You’ll hear someone run by from time to time and youre the only person in the house. Sounds like people preparing thanksgiving dinner in kitchen of the front upper apt(assuming it’s the house settling and stuff rattles). One tenant said they saw a lady standing over the sink another said a small child ran into a bedroom. Motion detectors in the hallways and on stairs go off a lot at night. Cameras show no movement. 

 

Had a guy stop as he was riding by when I was outside painting and ask if I lived here. He said his ex used to live here and he would never set foot in the house again. Brought up a sound proof room in one of the attics, shook his head, said good luck and left. Guests of tenants rarely stayed the entire night.  There’s a few other things as well.
 

I love that house but a lot of bad luck and weird things happen there 

 

[Figster]

I'm not sure If it was a ghost. My nephew and I while metal detecting my late granfathers property both seen what I would describe as a distortion of space on my grandfathers front porch. It looked like heat waves coming off of hot pavement in the shape of a person. It happened in the day time. 

 

When it happened I asked my nephew did you see that? He said an invisible man was on the porch looking at us. I said invisible, how do you mean. He said the air was wiggling around like a bunch of worms. He was only 10.

 

I think its note worthy to know my late grandfather would never have let us dig holes in his yard looking for lost treasure.

 

I'm just saying...

[UConn James]

In String Theory physics, they theorize that there are 11 dimensions. And some think that there could be many more than 11. As you get up in number, there are dimensions that operate independently from space and time.

 

Could it be a shadow of one of these dimensions or the multiverse or traces of / leftover electromagnetic energy?

 

These are things to think about at 3 a.m. instead of sleeping.

[BritBill]

I live in a city which is arguably the most haunted in the world - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/intelligent-travel/2008/10/30/york_england_most_haunted_city/

 

The history in the city is so deep it opens itself up to haunting stories. 

 

I personally have only seen one thing which I can't explain. A friend and I were walking home from the local pub late one night (I know, I know). Part of the journey takes us through the original and old part of the village we lived in. A lovely green space with trees which has the village church which was built from the left over stone of York Minster (https://yorkminster.org/). As we approached a road which ran left to right in front of us we both saw a white object, around waist height float by at human running speed and head over the greens towards the church. We saw this from about 60 ft away. We looked at each other and ran towards the direction it travelled towards but lost sight of it. 

 

I'd say the thing was the size of a regular trash can in height and width but it had no obvious features like body parts. It wasn't glowing or partly transparent either. Almost like a fat golden retriever on its hind legs but you couldn't see any legs or face. 

 

We had a good look around the greens and the churchyard but didn't see anything again. Now if I'd have been on my own I'd have just put it down to drink, the location, trick of the light and my imagination. For us both to see the same thing and recognise its path at the same time leads me to believe it was something unexplained which wanted to be seen. 

 

And no, it wasn't a fat golden retriever running on its hind legs. 

[Nextmanup]

15 hours ago, CLTbills said:

Personally, no, although I wish I had. 

 

I have an Great Aunt and Uncle back home in NY (my dad’s aunt and uncle), who live in a house, that is supposedly inhabited by spirits. Basically anybody that’s ever spent the night in that house claims to have seen them, including my Dad himself, and his cousins (my 2nd cousins) Kevin and Jacquie. My Aunt and Uncle still see them to this day and are so immune to it, it’s no big deal. My Aunt has actually told me that they’ve lived with them for so long (40-plus years) that they actually make her feel comfortable, like they are protecting her. 

 

It’s a man and a woman that they see, always the same. Years ago, they did a bunch of research on the house and found some previous owners of the house, with late 1800’s through early 1900’s photos - and apparently that’s who they see. They know their names and everything. Supposedly the ghosts interact with them, or at least acknowledge that they are there. When they put in their in-ground pool in the early 90’s, apparently that REALLY stirred things up.

 

And I know this sounds weird after that damn story, but these particular family members are not the “eclectic” type... just normal people. Definitely not the kind of people that you take what they say with a grain of salt. And there have been so many stories within the family about family members that have seen them, again, including my Dad, that I absolutely have to believe that it’s true, although again, I haven’t seen it with my own eyes.

I suspect if I spent a week in the house, I would see no ghosts whatsoever.

 

I have heard these sorts of stories before, and find them interesting.  I genuinely believe your great aunt and uncle (and dad, etc.) think they have seen ghosts in the house.  So that makes these types of stories really interesting to me.

 

I have a colleague at work who is the nicest, most down to earth guy from Iowa!  Intelligent, reasonable...he insists a former house he and his wife owned was somehow "inhabited" and has told me stories of very specific things that happened in the house for which there is no explanation.

 

One time he and his wife left the house, with only the dog at home.  They came home, opened a closet door to hang up their coats, and noted that all the shoes and stuff on the floor of the closet were arranged in a very specific circular pattern that the dog could not have done himself.

 

He swears this happened and offers no real explanation for it.  There were other similar stories.

 

I find this stuff fascinating because I'm pretty sure there weren't any ghosts re-arranging shoes in the closet, but I don't think my colleague made this up to get a rise out of people, etc.

 

So then, what's going on?  There's the rub.

 

 

[707BillsFan]

No (but maybe...see below), but I have lived in a "haunted" house. We had many experiences in a family rental when we moved back to our home town for jobs after college. We didn't tell anyone about any of them. After we moved out, my FIL approached us one day. He asked us if we had experienced anything while living there, because the current tenant was having serious issues w/ something "paranormal." The hair on my arms stood up after he asked us that. Our experiences were mild compared to the couple who moved in after us. They had doorknobs turn on their own...an old fashion, pedal sewing machine, start pedaling on its own to name a couple things. We now own the house and rent it out. There has been no further mention of anything paranormal. One of my daughters will be moving into the house soon, I'm sure I'll hear something if there is....

 

A couple weeks back, I spent a week in Reno for a golf trip. I stayed at one of the large casino/hotels downtown. I had a water bottle get batted off the dresser at some point during the night. It wasn't anywhere near the edge or near anything that could have caused it to end up across the room. Then while sitting, enjoying a cup of coffee one morning, I was startled by a loud noise coming from the closet. 4 or 5 of the wooden hangers were pushed to the center of the closet and were still swinging. A handful remained in their original place and were still. That kind of freaked me out. I also had some bizarre death dreams during that stay that freaked me the F out. Weirdly enough, there was some graffiti on the nightstand,  RIP to some guy written in a few spots. Coincidence? I have no idea, but there was something going on in that room. 

 

I also hike at this certain park regularly. On two occasions I had some weird experiences. One day, I saw someone walking toward me. Clear as day someone was there. Frustrated, I looked down to grab my mask, to put on. When I looked up, nobody was there. There was nowhere for anyone to go. I walked around that area for a good couple of minutes, looking for that individual. Nope...nobody around. On another day, I started walking down the main trail. I saw a large dark, black "mass" hovering ahead. It just hovered, then vanished. I walked ahead and nobody was walking ahead of me. Later I looked up "haunted" areas of our county and noticed park was on the list. Could I have seen a couple of different "ghosts," I have no idea. 

 

I've also had some other experiences during my life. While I haven't seen anything "per se," I have had a few things happen around me to say there is something going on that I can't explain.  

Edited October 14, 2020 by 707BillsFan

[aristocrat]

my dad was drinking at the bloody bucket in lewiston when a guy walked to the end of the bar in strange older clothes.   they didnt hear him come in and it was just my dad and the bartender.  bartender starts walking over to him when the guy turns around and walks out and walks straight through all the tables and door.  there have been tons of sightings there apparently.  

 

my cousin worked at an old hotel in the falls and she said her chair would get moved often along with other things. i think it was hotel niagara.

[Gugny]

I have never seen a ghost.

 

My sister and my dad have both seen ghosts in my parents' house, which is the house I grew up in.  My brother, mother and I have never seen one.  My sister saw our deceased great Aunt Elaine.  She also saw a little girl.  My dad did not see anything clearly, but saw someone walk from my old bedroom into my parents' current bedroom.  He thought it was my mom, but soon realized that she was in the kitchen.

 

My mother and I have both felt someone gently sitting down in at the foot our beds when no one is there.  I never felt anything like that in their house, but I have in the house I live in now.  We both think it's my father's mother from Heaven.

 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

A grandchild of a friend awoke from a nap in my living room, whimpering that a lady watching her caused her to awake.  As it is the room where Bride the First passed away under hospice care, I have always wondered.  'Second sight' was said to have been in that family.

[4merper4mer]

On October 13, 2020 at 12:11 PM, Nextmanup said:

I suspect if I spent a week in the house, I would see no ghosts whatsoever.

 

I have heard these sorts of stories before, and find them interesting.  I genuinely believe your great aunt and uncle (and dad, etc.) think they have seen ghosts in the house.  So that makes these types of stories really interesting to me.

 

I have a colleague at work who is the nicest, most down to earth guy from Iowa!  Intelligent, reasonable...he insists a former house he and his wife owned was somehow "inhabited" and has told me stories of very specific things that happened in the house for which there is no explanation.

 

One time he and his wife left the house, with only the dog at home.  They came home, opened a closet door to hang up their coats, and noted that all the shoes and stuff on the floor of the closet were arranged in a very specific circular pattern that the dog could not have done himself.

 

He swears this happened and offers no real explanation for it.  There were other similar stories.

 

I find this stuff fascinating because I'm pretty sure there weren't any ghosts re-arranging shoes in the closet, but I don't think my colleague made this up to get a rise out of people, etc.

 

So then, what's going on?  There's the rub.

 

 

It was probably the dog.  My hamster Sammy does crap like that all the time.

[Augie]

5 hours ago, Gugny said:

I have never seen a ghost.

 

My sister and my dad have both seen ghosts in my parents' house, which is the house I grew up in.  My brother, mother and I have never seen one.  My sister saw our deceased great Aunt Elaine.  She also saw a little girl.  My dad did not see anything clearly, but saw someone walk from my old bedroom into my parents' current bedroom.  He thought it was my mom, but soon realized that she was in the kitchen.

 

My mother and I have both felt someone gently sitting down in at the foot our beds when no one is there.  I never felt anything like that in their house, but I have in the house I live in now.  We both think it's my father's mother from Heaven.

 

 

Nor have I seen a ghost. 

 

The foot of the bed comment struck a chord, however. I had this crazy dream! In it I was lying in bed and a stream of black something (smoke?) was circling above me. I was panicking and trying to touch it with my hands or feet, thrashing all over the bed like crazy. It FREAKED my wife out. She didn’t know what to do but was afraid to wake me. 

 

In the dream a scene kept playing out before me with some old man unable to speak, but replaying this scene over and over. It involved our deceased son, and was a charade style explanation of what happened to him. (Way too complicated for here, but it made so much sense!) I’m freaking in my sleep, and the old man keeps trying to calm me. First with a reliving of my sister getting in the shower on a cold dark winter morning in WNY when I had to be at the bus by 6:30 am in HS. It was added as an element of the charade story.  As long as she had the water running, I was calm and at peace. I didn’t have to venture out of my warm bed into single digits waiting for the bus alone in the dark. 

 

When my panic ramped back up I felt a right hand on my left foot as though at the foot of my bed, calming as they will often do before or after a massage. In a strange way I can still feel that. I finally calmed to the point where I could ask “what is your name?” just as I woke up. I was “awake” when I heard “that was a Bill”. The words were not in order, they all came at once, like a stamp. Strange, but I’ll say maybe at the semi end of the dream. 

 

OK, now I’m fully awake and trying to explain to my wife. It was JUST A DREAM. Dreams can be crazy! They can seem so real, so the dream didn’t freak me out too bad. What happened next did. My wife goes off to get ready and I lay alone in bed for about 30 minutes. During that half hour I have about 20 “warm shivers”. I can’t explain it, but they were awesome! Imagine 20 orgasms in 30 minutes. Sorry, but that’s what it was like! 

 

I have no explanation for that half hour, but I wish it had never ended. It could very well have been some sort of adrenaline rush overflow. It was amazing! I spoke with our son’s therapist (CNN calls her for interviews, her book has turned into a movie deal, she’s friggin’ amazing!) and she calmly said “that’s the energy leaving the body after a visitation dream”. Whatever it was, feel free to sign me up again!

 

A few months later I was at my sister’s in Wisconsin for the Green Bay game. I asked our family historian to pull out old photos of our Uncle Bill, the only aunt or uncle we had. We only knew him when we were very little, but he looked very familiar. 

 

Again, it was just a dream, one of millions, but the next part was a once in a lifetime thing.  

 

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Edited October 14, 2020 by Augie

[Bad Things]

I never had a ghost experience before, but I was sure freaked out by a Ouija Board experience that I had in college.  

 

Those Ouija boards are Bad Things man, Bad Things.

[Sherlock Holmes]

1 hour ago, Augie said:

 

Nor have I seen a ghost. 

 

The foot of the bed comment struck a chord, however. I had this crazy dream! In it I was lying in bed and a stream of black something (smoke?) was circling above me. I was panicking and trying to touch it with my hands or feet, thrashing all over the bed like crazy. It FREAKED my wife out. She didn’t know what to do but was afraid to wake me. 

 

In the dream a scene kept playing out before me with some old man unable to speak, but replaying this scene over and over. It involved our deceased son, and was a charade style explanation of what happened to him. (Way too complicated for here, but it made so much sense!) I’m freaking in my sleep, and the old man keeps trying to calm me. First with a reliving of my sister getting in the shower on a cold dark winter morning in WNY when I had to be at the bus by 6:30 am in HS. It was added as an element of the charade story.  As long as she had the water running, I was calm and at peace. I didn’t have to venture out of my warm bed into single digits waiting for the bus alone in the dark. 

 

When my panic ramped back up I felt a right hand on my left foot as though at the foot of my bed, calming as they will often do before or after a massage. In a strange way I can still feel that. I finally calmed to the point where I could ask “what is your name?” just as I woke up. I was “awake” when I heard “that was a Bill”. The words were not in order, they all came at once, like a stamp. Strange, but I’ll say maybe at the semi end of the dream. 

 

OK, now I’m fully awake and trying to explain to my wife. It was JUST A DREAM. Dreams can be crazy! They can seem so real, so the dream didn’t freak me out too bad. What happened next did. My wife goes off to get ready and I lay alone in bed for about 30 minutes. During that half hour I have about 20 “warm shivers”. I can’t explain it, but they were awesome! Imagine 20 orgasms in 30 minutes. Sorry, but that’s what it was like! 

 

I have no explanation for that half hour, but I wish it had never ended. It could very well have been some sort of adrenaline rush overflow. It was amazing! I spoke with our son’s therapist (CNN calls her for interviews, her book has turned into a movie deal, she’s friggin’ amazing!) and she calmly said “that’s the energy leaving the body after a visitation dream”. Whatever it was, feel free to sign me up again!

 

A few months later I was at my sister’s in Wisconsin for the Green Bay game. I asked our family historian to pull out old photos of our Uncle Bill, the only aunt or uncle we had. We only knew him when we were very little, but he looked very familiar. 

 

Again, it was just a dream, one of millions, but the next part was a once in a lifetime thing.  

 

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I often have this happen when I fall asleep watching videos of Kuechly tackling McCaffrey in their old practices...

 

Seriously though, whatever dimensions the afterlife dwells in seems to be the same ones our consciousness can visit in our dream states...

 

Also, I have a challenge for those that doubt the power poor digestion has on our health and sleep which is directly linked to our health via recovery...

 

Those brave souls that want  to experience sleep paralysis or the paranormal, eat a heavy meal of poorly combined food for digestion, ala lots of meat and potatoes or pasta and meatballs with heavily cooked tomato sauce and cheese. Basically any protein and starch combination will do...

 

Go to bed directly after eating, the more heartburn the better... Document what kind of "dreams" or sleep paralysis/apnea you experience and report back to us

 

 

Edited October 15, 2020 by Sherlock Holmes

[Augie]

14 minutes ago, Sherlock Holmes said:

I often have this happen when I fall asleep watching videos of Kuechly tackling McCaffrey in their old practices...

 

Seriously though, whatever dimensions the afterlife dwells in seems to be the same ones our consciousness can visit in our dream states...

 

Also, I have a challenge for those that doubt the power poor digestion has on our health and sleep which is directly linked to our health via recovery...

 

Those brave souls that want  to experience sleep paralysis or the paranormal, eat a heavy meal of poorly combined food for digestion, ala lots of meat and potatoes or pasta and meatballs with heavily cooked tomato sauce and cheese. Basically any protein and starch combination will do...

 

Go to bed directly after eating, the more heartburn the better... Document what kind of "dreams" or sleep paralysis/apnea you experience and report back to us

 

 

 

I’d rather go to bed hungry than eat too late at night.

[4merper4mer]

28 minutes ago, Bad Things said:

I never had a ghost experience before, but I was sure freaked out by a Ouija Board experience that I had in college.  

 

Those Ouija boards are Bad Things man, Bad Things.

Is all plastic and cardboard bad or just stuff marketed as magical?

[Augie]

15 minutes ago, 4merper4mer said:

Is all plastic and cardboard bad or just stuff marketed as magical?

 

Come on, don’t be silly!  Everyone knows there’s nothing wrong with plastic. Cardboard, however..........