spiritual dreams , unexplainable happenings

[ghost recon]

Originally Posted by Scotto

Hot damn Ghost, that's gotta be the creepiest one yet. She-yit!

The house I grew up in was mildly haunted, I guess. I lived there from the time I was born, until I got married at age 20. We had carpet in the living room, but underneath was hardwood floors. Being in the basement, you could hear clearly someone walking from the bedroom to the kitchen thru the living room, as certain boards would creek. Heard it hundreds of times, my mom, sister and I. Always figured my dad did, but he worked a lot and wasn't home too much. Well one day we were gone and my dad stayed home, when we got back he was tearing the house up and madder'n a hornet. He said he kept hearing someone walking around upstairs and couldn't find anyone. We all laughed and said "You just NOW are hearing that?!?!" LOL Man, he was mad and thought we were crazy.

Lots of other stories too, stuff would flatly vanish then show up out of the blue a week or two later. Drove my mom nuts. Doorknobs would turn by themselves, and you could feel 'something' holding doors shut, blocking you from coming in the house. They had that spongy give to them, you could feel it like someone funning with you. And at those times the dogs would REFUSE to go in the house. Weirdness like that.

That sounds alot like some of the occurrences that I experienced in that old cabin I lived in. The day I moved in the former resident told me " the place is haunted ". I kind of laughed and said why did you see a ghost? He said he never saw one but some nights he heard something walking around upstairs when he was alone inside. He also told me that his dog would sometimes start barking for no reason beside the upstairs bathroom door, but the dog would never enter that bathroom. I heard some strange noises while living there, creaking wood, and doors moving. I always told myself that old houses and wind will do that. I never saw any thing strange the entire time I was there but there was something about that upstairs bathroom, I'd get a bad vibe in there, and the feeling of claustrophobia even though it was a large room. It was always cold in there even in the summer.

[paleo_joe]

Once about 20 years ago I had an Ouija (sp?) board and we were fooling with it. I tried to contact my dad. The little slider thing went to Go Away so quickly that it freaked us out. It reminded me of how pissed he got when us kids woke him from a Saturday nap.

I put the board up and have never touched it since. I don't think there is much good that can come out of opening yourself up to the spirit world. For every 'good' spirit there is a bad spirit. Leave well enough alone.

[longtimefree]

Originally Posted by paleo_joe

Once about 20 years ago I had an Ouija (sp?) board and we were fooling with it. I tried to contact my dad. The little slider thing went to Go Away so quickly that it freaked us out. It reminded me of how pissed he got when us kids woke him from a Saturday nap.

I put the board up and have never touched it since. I don't think there is much good that can come out of opening yourself up to the spirit world. For every 'good' spirit there is a bad spirit. Leave well enough alone.

yes, i dont know if seeking to contact spirits is a good idea, trying to understand the glimpses, the unintentional interactions, the unexplainable things that happen that make us wonder at the things that we cant explain are not things we can just shut up inside and leave alone, its good to try and understand , thanks for sharing your memory and opinion

[neralich]

When i was about 6 years old on xmas i recall seeing an arm waving back and forth, back and forth behind the tv in our family room at a distance of about 20 ft. At first i thought it was my brothers messin with me, so i really wasn't scared... I yelled a few things and continued to see the arm wave back and forth... so, i ran behind the tv to catch my brothers messin with me, and nothing was there!!... And, my brothers were in their rooms!! Another time when i was about ten(this is explainable, i guess).. i had just got done watching leave it to beaver,lol, and it was getting late and one of my other favorite shows just came on... The fugitive with david janssen (as DR.Richard Kimball)...anyways, i heard noises out of my window that sounded like a cat was out their or something.. but, i had the cat with me.. I kinda ignored it for a bit.. Then started hearing shuffling noises?!!?... ok, gettin kinda freaked out now, big ole cat i'm thinking... So, i decide to look out my curtains and i about had a heart attack!! Their was a guy staring directly into my face.. he had one of those 70's style thick mustache's.. we were eye to eye, both frozen stiff with paranoia... I was freaked out beyond words and felt like i couldn't move (and my dad was directly across the room from me!!)... I don't know why, but i somehow managed to mutter the words who are you?? his eyes got wider... Somehow i felt like if i don't do something, i could end up dead as a doornail, so i somehow managed to break myself free... I ran yelling and screaming for my dad, who quickly and suddenly, took me serious and ran outside and the guy had run off apparently.. Their was a beercan alongside the street directly in front of my bedroom!! Freakin weirdo stuff!! Needless to say, i had a very difficult time sleeping for the next couple of weeks!

[Wichita]

Originally Posted by ghost recon

Some interesting stories and experiences here, I'll have to go back and read the whole thread.

Eleven years ago some friends and I drove up into the mountains of southeast West Virginia to do some camping and fishing and just take it easy for a weekend in the wilderness. We set up camp in a remote area on a hill above a nice trout stream in the valley below. Then we hiked into a wooded path along the creek to get up to some bigger holes to start fishing. We we're having a good day, everyone was catching fish and enjoying themselves and we hiked back into our campsite around dark to make dinner and knock back a few cold ones. We finally went to bed around two am or so and here's where things started getting creepy.

After about a two hour sleep my girlfriend at the time wakes me up and says she hears dogs barking and men talking on the top of the ridge above us. I head out of the tent and towards my friend and his girlfriend in the other tent. Sure enough I hear the dogs and can see several lights and dark figures coming down through the woods towards us. I remember shaking my buddies tent to wake him up and I said, wake up, we're about to have company. As I'm walking to my truck to grab a flashlight I was starting to think what was going on here at four in the morning in the middle of nowhere WV, the nearest town was thirty or forty miles away.

I look back up towards the ridge and these figures are getting closer, probably two hundred yards away, dogs still barking. I grabbed my light and heard a loud scream from my girlfriend, I pointed my flashlight towards the tents and watched a huge man walk into our campsite and in between the tents. I'd say he was well over seven feet tall. He didn't stop or say anything he just casually walked in between our tents and continued down the hill. My girlfriend said he was wearing makeup and lipstick and was smiling as he walked past. About that time three other men walked in wearing security uniforms and two dogs on leashes.

They asked if we were alright and said they were after a patient that had escaped from a mental asylum nearby. I told them a large man wearing lipstick just walked by and went down the hill. They told us that we should probably leave and they went into the woods after him. My friend and his girlfriend said they watched the whole thing through the window of their tent and were too scared to move when they saw that man walking towards them. We packed up everything real fast and left. It was a strange, surreal experience that none of us will forget, like out of a dream or movie or something.

But it gets even creepier. The next day my friend who was in the other tent comes over and says there's something you have to see. I knew something was wrong by the look on his face, he pulls his camera out of his pocket and starts scrolling through the pictures he took of the camping trip, and after seeing a couple pictures of the creek and trout he shows me a picture he took of his girlfriend standing on the bank. He zoomed into the woods behind her and pointed to the face of a man hiding behind a tree in the forest that was watching us.

I've seen and heard some strange and scary unexplained things in my life, ufos, an earth grazing fireball, our current economic situation, lived in a late 1800's cabin that was known to be haunted, but nothing was more creepy and disturbing than seeing that face in the woods looking at us and what happened the day before. Still gives me the chills.

Daaaaaaaaaaaaang! Ghost that is creepy.

[TurtleMan]

HOLY BLEEP!!! Was there a hook dangleing from the car door the next day?!lol Think I'd still be clean'n my shorts out!!

[longtimefree]

looking back on my life ,, i can see that strange unexplainable things have happened throughout it,( at pretty consistant intervals,) as i got older and i had the education and experience to finally become aware of the significance of some of these events, i became obsessed with understanding ,with finding the answer as to why these things happened in my life ,they were things that i couldnt explain, that somehow reaffirmed the things i could explain and emagine. i needed to understand what it all meant, what life meant and it seemed that no matter how much i learned from people or books or life as i lived it , these little things that had happened to me, for whatever reason, (that i couldnt explain), were the clues to the answers that i sought. i sought to unravel these clues with the worldly things at my disposal, books and people, everything i learned in my attempts to understand made me alot smarter, but i soon realised that i wasnt getting any closer to answering my questions, it seemed the more i learned the less i was sure i knew for sure. i did transindental meditation and was taught by the maharishi himself, i tryed all the trippy 70s cult type things , ie pyramid power , astro projection, dream and scream therapy,lol, i started mixing them ,if you can emagine , kinda twisting them all togather in a new understanding that no one else could ever replicate in there quest to find the answer to life like i did, if any one who reads this ever learned transindental meditation (TM) you know how big a rush it is , well one fine day while mixing my many mental tecniques togather while meditating, the answer to life came to me in a blindingly simple flash, i got the nervana rush with the enlightenment i had been seeking for so long, (all at once). it was so simple that i didnt bother with the blind writing teccnique i had learned to use in dream therapy to capture thoughts that would disapear as soon as i opened my eyes and all my senses kicked in, i didnt need to, it was so simple ... well you know what happened right ? yep when the rush went away so did the answer. i was beside myself with anger at everything , life in general , i could not beleive that the answer to life was gone , that it could be so simple to my mind and that now i could not remember that simple thing that would make all the questions that i had about life understood, that lasted about a month and i finally came to the conclusion that that episode was just the last one in a life long string of events that has left me seeking an answer, but at the same time its proof that there is an answer ( and im still looking for it,) i know the answer surrounds me its within my reach, im waiting for it ....read this acouple times and try and get by my inability to write correctly and let me know if you know the answer or where its hiding

[kirby]

longtimefree,

You could have been writing my own experience in life, with the exception of the 70's experience. I am probably not the only one.

I have had experiences as you describe and been left with frustration as well. It's like; what do you want me to do with this knowledge/experience? Nobody but me cares.

And I think that's perhaps the point. We all have our own questions answered if we are paying attention. But "the answer" remains illusive to us all except for an occasional snippet that only makes us need/want to know more.

[longtimefree]

aint that the truth, i wonder how many people will respond to this, i know everyone knows what were talking about , i just wonder how many will share how they feel or think, or better yet the answer we seek, thanks kirby ,,, vince