>Inb4 'Ghosts arent real u fuckin pleb!!!11!'

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Hey everyone, there was a small conversation that got going a bit on another thread in here called 'R U scared of' and it sparked a little convo about the paranormal and weird experiences like that. I've never really experienced anything properly weird so I always love hearing others experiences!

Ouija board experiences, apperitions, EVP, urban legends...post em all here !

Seen as I have never experienced anything personally (I really want to!) I can only retell others experiences of the paranormal. My dad has seen a ghost and I really believe his story because he used to be hardcore skeptic beforehand. He used to work in a pretty high security factory because the nature of his work was dealing with money. Anyway, he used to work night shifts in this old factory in the village I live in before it moved to another site and basically there was him and another guy working that night. So there was only two people in the immediate factory vercinity (securtity outside and stuff), and the room he worked in was a big area where the machine he worked on was, and then a smaller storage room with no other windows or doors where they kept the stuff they used on the machines. So anyways my dad needs to go get something for the machine, so he walks in and closes the door. So he gets what he needs, and turns around to see a man standing there in full Victorian era clothing! He said he saw him clear as day and was weirded out obviously because there was technically an intruder in a high security factory, so he had to go call his workmate. He said he didn't say anything to the man, just ran out with his stuff to go alert security. When he and his work mate went back in he was gone. Pretty cool imo.

Not mine exactly but a week after my father passed away, both my mother and another lady said they saw him walking around their neighborhood.

when i was young i saw my grandfather sitting in a chair reading; he'd passed years before.

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my mom the nurse woke up suddenly in the middle of the night when her patient 'visited' her one night at 3:00 a.m. to say goodbye; mom later found out her patient had passed at that time

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family friend was grieving over the death of her grandmother, grandmother came to her in a dream and told her not to be sorry and said 'tell your mom that Jimmy is okay'. when she asked later, friend found out her mother had given birth to a boy named jimmy who'd passed two days after being born.

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last place i rented had weird shadowy patches that shifted, even though the lighting never did; in that same apartment i distinctly felt something touch my shoulder more than once, and i saw an apparition? (clear person shape) that walked down the hall and scared my birds. moved out of there ten months later because that entire building just felt...crowded even when noone was around.

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sometimes have dreams that happen later.

Superfan1984 said:

I posted a few months ago in the thread "my bed shakes at night" on here, after my grandmother died I kept waking to my bed seriously SHAKING. I don't know for sure it was her or what but it lasted for six months and has only recently stopped, thank God. Pretty terrifying. I dont' want any part of ghost stuff ever again for sure.

Have you ever touched a ouija board? I highly doubt your grandmother would try to scare you in such a way. Shaking beds is a very common occurance after ouija sessions.

Superfan1984 said:

no, I would NEVER touch a Ouija board or go to a psychic or anything like that! Which is why I was so confused when this started happening. I'm not into the occult in any kind of way and am a very clean living person! no drugs, I never drink- nothing. I really cannot figure why this would have happened to me. I did live on an old battlefield when this started so I thought maybe it had something to do with that. Everyone kept saying, "did someone close to you die recently?" when this began and my grandmother HAD just passed so , it was the only explanation I could come up with. Honestly, I don't know but I agree, I can't see her trying to terrify me. As for you wanting a paranormal occurence. I don't think you do. It sounds fun but when it happens it can be traumatizing.

I think the fact you lived on an old battlefield was the reasoning. Often times when bad things have happened on a sites past you can get stuff happening. It may have just been your grandmothers passing that triggered it?

I still do want a paranormal experience, just a nice one. I don't think all paranormal experiences are inherintly 'bad', just scary for some. I mean for example, one of my uncles (not real uncle just a close family friend lol) woke up to feeling children tickling his feet, but he felt nothing bad. He just felt like it was a micheivous child spirit playing about so he simply said 'okay you've had your fun I need to sleep now, please stop' and it did. Another person actually saw a young girl stood next to him when he was sat at the table in the room where they had toys for a grandchild they have (the ghost liked to play with the toys, they would hear stuff go off on it's own etc). So no, I really don't think all hauntings are bad which is why I want to experience a ghost.

Superfan1984 said:

I guess you should try and go where ghosts would be- battlefields, hospitals (I'm sure are laden with ghosts!) old houses- maybe then you would have something. I used to have a friend who sold real estate and she said that almost all chinese people she would show houses, only wanted to see the new houses, never old ones because they felt they had ghosts. I believe they may be right. It seems to happen a lot in old homes. That's why I've now moved to a house that's only five years old! After my experience I am happy to now live in a home with no history! Less charming home but I sleep better! good luck...

Yeah, my boyfriends sister is dating a chinese guy and he's really superstitious. She accidentally poured away this water that was like...god knows how old and was supposedly holy or something and she poured it down the drain thinking it was nothing and refilled it with tap water. Apparently he came home that night and told her it was something important and she hasn't said anything because he would probably dump her over it!

And yeah! Hospitals and stuff are laden with them! I live in England so ghosts are never too far away from me. My boyfriends house is haunted but I've never seen anything, but he's seen fuck tons! His mum had a medium around in the early '90s and she said it was haunted.

I think the creepiest thing that he's ever told me is that a few years ago they had a mirror on the wall in the living room and it fell off in the night and smashed, the nail in the wall was still in tact and the rope holding it up was in tact also. Spooky as!

And wow, really? You woke up to someone speaking?! Did anything else happen?

[Edited 4/14/15 14:02pm]

Superfan1984 said:

Very interesting, Angelsoncrack- some scary stuff for sure!Ok, with where I lived, like I said it was on an old battleground and the main house was on the registar of Historic Places- A wealthy Dr. lived in the main house and I was renting the guest cottage. Anyway, Like I said, 13 men died on the grounds during the Civil War but I LOVED my little cottage! It was so sweet and had such a great feel to it that it never FELT haunted but I did have a lot of things happen. For instance, my first night in the cottage I could hear in the attic, what sounded, not like footsteps but like MOVEMENT, like someone was moving around. I kept hearing plaster and debris falling and crumbling from the attic ceiling, like some tall person was moving around up there. And then my first morning in the cottage I heard a man's footsteps up in the cottage, come walking from the middle of the house to stop right above my head where I was down below in my bed. I shook it off as I must have been dreaming, as I WAS just waking up. And then I lived there for two and half years and all was relatively fine. I did have a minor thing here and there; one being that my dog would look into the hallway and begin shaking so bad and would run to the living room and refuse to go back to my room. But I didn't see anything so I didn't know what was wrong with her. Also, once my mother house sat when I was out of town and she said my bedroom door slammed once at night when she was alone in the house and then, like I said , the man in my ear. I guess all of this should have been enough for me to know something was up but the house always FELT like such good energy and I wasn't ready to scream Ghost. Not until my bed started shaking. And then it was like, Bitch, I am Audi 5000!!!! Scary shit.

Ah spoopy shit! Dogs and animals are really in tune with that sort of stuff, my boyfriend has a dog (he used to have two but the older one had to be put down recently, RIP) and sometimes they would refuse to go into the hall and other times they would just stare at nothing intensely.

In regards to site hauntings, in my village there used to be a morgue thing where they froze bodies until they were ready for burial, and basically that place was demolished in the 70's and some new houses were built on top. Apparently those houses they built on top became haunted too and some people had to move out because it was so bad. So yeah, if I was to move house I'd defo be checking the site history before hand lmao

As I've mentioned before, a few of my family members have had paranormal experiences.

My uncle had a experience where his roommates were playing with a Ouija board(in the living room) and supposedly contacted the spirit of a little boy. He (my uncle) was in his bedroom(after coming home from work), and swears that he saw the shadow of a small figure, moving around in his room. He saw the shadow not once, but twice( the same night). The thing that makes this bizarre, is that he wasn't told about the little boy contact until the next day. The night of the incident, he knew nothing about them contacting anyone, or anything. As i mentioned, they didn't tell him until the next day.

The other experience was with one of my other relatives. I told this story before, but i said it was a friend of the family. It was not a friend of the family. It was a family member.

What happened was one of my relatives brought a Ouija board, and started playing with it, with two of her young kids. The kids were about 8 and 10 at the time(around 1980). So, they would play with it, and after a while, my relative's daughter(10 yo) started saying that this old lady, in a black dress, would come in her room and try to get her to go outside (with her). First it started off fairly benign, but as time went on, the lady started saying negative things to her, and basically started harassing her.

So then the daughter started acting weird. She would do things like sleepwalk, stare into space, rock back in forth(in a zone), and if i remember correctly, she started cursing a lot.

Anyway, one time, my mom went to visit our relative, and went into the daughter's room to check on her. She said that the daughter was laying in her bed, with her eyes closed, and as my mom approached her, she jumped out of the bed(with her eyes still closed) and punched my mom real hard, in the stomach. My mom said that she was surprised(and scared) that my relative did that, and that she hit her extremely hard.

Another incident. My aunt(mom's younger sister) was spending the night at the relative's house, and her and the daughter were both sleeping in the same bed. My aunt told me that the daughter was just laying there asleep, while she(my aunt) was just laying there, with her eyes closed. My aunt then says that she felt odd, so she opened her eyes, and the daughter was standing straight up in the bed(just like that), just starring at her. My aunt swears that she felt no movement at all, in the bed. She said that it was like one minute the daughter was laying flat, in the bed, and the next minute, she was standing straight up.

So i ask my aunt, 'Do you think you could have dozed off for a minute and not felt her moving around' ? My aunt said no, i had just laid down, and wasn't really tired.

Whatever happened, it bothered my aunt so much that she never spent the night at our relatives house, again.

So what they did was get rid of the Ouija board, and have this pastor(Rev Wyatt)come and bless and pray over the house....And my relative.

Pretty much after that, things stopped. But my other relative(female relative's brother)would say that, sometimes, his bed would shake, for no reason. He also saw some stuff that his sister did, but he doesn't ever talk about it though.

Also, my mom said that when she was about 17, she swore she saw this person fall into a canal(from the sky !).

What she said was one of her friends had come to visit her, and that her friend knocked on the front door. She then said that she opened it, and as they were talking, my mom swears that she saw a female figure, fall, from about 25 feet in the air, head first, into this canal that was next to her house. My mom was inside the front door, looking out towards the canal, while her friend was directly outside the door, facing my mother. My mom said that she saw the splash and everything. She was so adamant that she saw a women go into the canal, that they called the Firebaugh CA, police department, to come out and take a look. And they found nothing. Also there was no bridge or anything high up, that someone could have jumped from. I asked my mom 'could it have been a bird' ? She said no, it was a woman. She said, i even saw her hair moving(in the wind)... So go figure.

So for me, i believe 100% in what my mom, my aunts, and what my uncle said. They aren't the type of people who imagine, and most definitely, make up, stuff. And as far as my female relative? She definitely had something going on with her. And i believe it was paranormal.

Ive had two odd thing happen to me, but ill type that stuff tomorrow.

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Superfan1984 said:

JoeyC- HolyShit! that is some scary stuff! And I believe it. Because, why would people make this stuff up? I know a lot of people on this site would not agree with me but, I believe that the Ouija board is absolute evil. I have heard so many scary things about them. Even when someone "contacts" a child- I don't believe that is REALLY a child, just a demon masquerading as one. Oh hell no, not okay. This thread makes me want to break out my bible, for real. When my bed shook, I cannot express the chill that would go right to my bone as it happened, so scary, so nasty- just awful.

I agree, they are awful tools. If you want to become more spiritually aware it begins within. Taking shortcuts like ouija is a recipee for disaster if you are spiritually immature. Even most mediums are relluctant to use them because of how dangerous they are when it comes to demons masquerading as spirits, it can seriously fuck you up.

I always cringe when people tell me they dispose of their ouija boards by burning, you should NEVER do that. I believe the proper way to dispose of a ouija board is to cut it into 7 pieces, bury it at least a mile away from your house and sprinkle holy water on it.

Superfan1984 said:

Angelsoncrack- I think it is disgusting that Ouija boards are being marketed to children. I recently saw a fb post where someone was showing a Ouija board made for little girls, pinks with flowers on it and the ad having smiling children seeming to have loads of fun. Not right. Children should never think it's okay to play with something like that, even if Mattel makes it. :/

Oh god, same. I saw that. It's downright disgusting. Even if people think it's a game there should be a warning on the front I think. Then people will stop to think about what they are actually buying.

The only time I want to be involved with a ouija board is if its a tiny minature version hanging from my neck haha, I thought this was pretty cute in a twisted, alternative fashion sort of way

when i was about six years old my best friend and i played with an ouija board. just, fooled around with it. maybe played jacks on it too. got bored and left it alone after that. nothing happened... i think

Superfan1984 said:

Angelsoncrack- I think it is disgusting that Ouija boards are being marketed to children. I recently saw a fb post where someone was showing a Ouija board made for little girls, pinks with flowers on it and the ad having smiling children seeming to have loads of fun. Not right. Children should never think it's okay to play with something like that, even if Mattel makes it. :/

It's made by Mattel and marketed to children for the simple reason that it's a board game. It's exactly as paranormal as Trivial Pursuit or Monopoly. Up until the first world war, nobody ever claimed otherwise.

Lianachan said:

Superfan1984 said:

Angelsoncrack- I think it is disgusting that Ouija boards are being marketed to children. I recently saw a fb post where someone was showing a Ouija board made for little girls, pinks with flowers on it and the ad having smiling children seeming to have loads of fun. Not right. Children should never think it's okay to play with something like that, even if Mattel makes it. :/

It's made by Mattel and marketed to children for the simple reason that it's a board game. It's exactly as paranormal as Trivial Pursuit or Monopoly. Up until the first world war, nobody ever claimed otherwise.

Someone didn't read the prefix of the thread

XxAxX said:

when i was about six years old my best friend and i played with an ouija board. just, fooled around with it. maybe played jacks on it too. got bored and left it alone after that. nothing happened... i think

When I was a kid, we found an old ouija board in my Grandparents' attic and us kids tried asking spirits questions by candle light. It was fun but really it was just kids pushing the pointer around the board attempting to appear as if they weren't. We had seances, too, and tried to cast spells. We really wanted to have paranormal experiences...but never did. Not real ones.

I've never seen anything.

I'm convinced I sense things, but I also am aware that I can't validate that.


And my nightmare of a few years back, still comes back in my mind now and the. It was about a nuclear bomb that opened up the sky. I was told I would be allright, just like my mom. I remember that I thought it was so weird that it was a Russian bomb, because at that time, there were no tensions at all. No US ambassy person started a anti-Russia campaign yet.

someone sent me a succubus..who tried to have sex with me and i wished them away...they're demons

purplethunder3121 said:

XxAxX said:

when i was about six years old my best friend and i played with an ouija board. just, fooled around with it. maybe played jacks on it too. got bored and left it alone after that. nothing happened... i think

When I was a kid, we found an old ouija board in my Grandparents' attic and us kids tried asking spirits questions by candle light. It was fun but really it was just kids pushing the pointer around the board attempting to appear as if they weren't. We had seances, too, and tried to cast spells. We really wanted to have paranormal experiences...but never did. Not real ones.

i was at the thrift store this afternoon and the man behind me in line bought a snowglobe of gilded joseph and mary and little baby jesus along with an ouija board in a box. perhaps his purchases will cancel each other out? me, i got a solid glass faceted crystal ball. i think i got the best deal.

Angelsoncrack said:

Lianachan said:

It's made by Mattel and marketed to children for the simple reason that it's a board game. It's exactly as paranormal as Trivial Pursuit or Monopoly. Up until the first world war, nobody ever claimed otherwise.

Someone didn't read the prefix of the thread

Nonsense. I was replying to a specific point.