O/T Orbs and strange goings on...

thing is, you believed it would work therefore it did.

 

sleep paralysis, I've had it a few times.

 

212-897-1964 Ghostbusters

 

my wife as never had it a few times only once that night

 

how do you explain the telly ?

 

Broken?

 

I've had it in the afternoon at my parents. I'd finished the day shift and went home to bed for my afternoon nap. I had this feeling of not being able to move or speak and then felt this slap round the back of my head that made my ear ring. I got up broad daylight and nothing there. The other time was in the same room when we had Arnold (German Shepherd). He had run of the house. I'd just gone to bed and turned the television off. I rolled onto my front and felt what I thought was the dog curling up at the bottom of the bed. After a while I felt uncomfortable so looked down to kick what I thought was Arnold off the bed and nothing was there.

 

Not really. Why would the whole complexion of the house feel differently just by saying a few words. Like I said don't dismiss it until you have experienced it.

 

Same as religion, with "paranormal phenomena" if you are a sceptic then no evidence will ever be enough, if you're a believer, then no evidence will be needed.

Personally, I'm very torn on this subject. I have seen/experienced(still do experience) things that could be described as paranormal and have really scared me over the years. But at the same time, I realise that many of the things our ancestors believed can now be explained away thanks to science.

For example, I have experienced what I now know is called Sleep Paralysis. I first got it(that I can remember) when I was about 5 years old, and barring a spell of 5 or so years in my early 20's, I experience it 3 or 4 times per week. I never talked about it, as I always put it down to a dream and thought I would be called crazy. Then one day when I was older, my mother asked me if I ever "felt" anything bad at the house I grew up in. She then went on to describe the exact same things as I had gone through every few nights. Things like waking up, unable to move or scream. The silhouettes of 3 "people" stood in my room. The middle one's outline had what looked like a trilby hat on and was much taller than the others. they would then fade, and suddenly you could move, and quickly dropped back to sleep(which makes it all feel like a dream). As if two people experiencing the same thing wasn't creepy enough, I then found a documentary called "The Nightmare", where they study this phenomenon, and I found that people all over the world were experiencing/seeing the same 3 "people". I was terrified and still dread going to sleep because of it.

The thing is, my common sense is telling me there must be a real, scientific reason that strangers from all corners of the world are seeing and feeling this phenomena.

 

omg you are Stephen King and I claim my 5 pounds reward,
i got goosebumps reading that, 3 people one tall with a trilby, spooky

 

Doesn't that just suggest that sleep paralysis may have a hereditary element and produces similar hallucinations in people?

 

I'm in this boat. Mostly harmless but I have nothing but contempt for mediums/psychics - conmen exploiting people's grief for profit. Utter scum.

 

Try and get hold of the documentary I mentioned, "The Nightmare". It includes first hand accounts of people all over the world, mostly seeing the same thing,

 

was in Chinese once and Steven Holbrook walked in ,it was late only me in waiting ,old lady had just gone round back to take my order, no one at counter, anyway 5 minutes passed and she not come back, he was pacing up and down, then goes I kid you not "hello is there anybody there", well I was lol inside thought shall I say, you should know pal, but just, sat quiet smiling,anyway old lady appeared with my food and I smiled and nodded at him and left

 

You might be right with me and my mother, and it's something I've thought about a lot.

For a long, long time I always put it down to me dreaming and the paralyzed feeling was all in my head. Then not long ago my (now ex) partner was awake while it happened, and she could see I was wide awake and trying to scream, but nothing was coming out, then suddenly I "snapped" out of it and screamed for about 5 seconds before dropping back to sleep like nothing happened. It scared the **** out of her!

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I would never dismiss anything, I remember when my lad was about 7, he came downstairs and insisted he was being chased by a giant lasagne, he could have just been dreaming though to be fair.

 

Here's another one for you.

A couple moved in over the road and we got quite friendly with them as there daughter was the same age as my eldest daughter and they became friends.

They also had a 3 year old son, both had their own bedrooms. About 6 months after moving in they could hear their son laughing his head off in bed at all times of the night and would then start crying but they couldn't understand why.

Then the little boy told them what was happening that there was a mister in his bedroom pulling faces and making him laugh but would then pinch his cheeks which then made him cry.

It turns out that when the houses were 1st built a gentleman lived in there but was killed one day when walking home from work.

Now back in those days kids would get a cheeky pinch on the cheek off their grandparents and it would seem this is what was happening but the reason it only started that day or so they were told when the local vicar came out was they had blocked the old doorway up. They had essentially blocked this spirits path of leaving the house which is why it was happening every night. They had to unblock it, the vicar did some sort of exorcism or cleansing and the blocked it back up and these strange events never happened again.

Very bizarre

 

I couldn't even begin to start typing what I've experienced and especially in The Manx (ghost wise). I was generally a non believer but over the last few years stopping over I've seen some **** that bent my mind.

Edit * disclaimer * I've had a driving job for last few years. Setting off at 3-4am so alcohol wasn't involved

 

Funnily enough I had a nightmare nearly a month ago about being chased by a plate of spag bol wrapped in tinsel. I think it was the Ghost of Christmas Pasta