I am not part of any religion although I was born into Christianity. I know now that merely being part of a religion and attending services does not make you a true believer in Christ. You must truly be thirsty for knowledge and for acquiring a real relationship with God through prayer and through living a righteous life.
I have doubted the existence of God many times in my life. Had it not been for a certain experience I went through when I was 19, or 20 years old; I would probably have become an atheist, or something of the like.
At that age I started becoming interested in the occult. I bought books on witchcraft and occult tools to be able to conjure up demonic spirits in an attempt to have them work to make my life better. I wanted money, cars, power, etc.
I also used the Ouija board (which is not a game by the way, but a dangerous tool) to contact different demons. I knew this was wrong, and I knew this was a great sin against God, but at the time I didn’t care as I was just a casual believer, but not a true believer in God.
With time, I started to feel a variety of unusual things happening. I would constantly feel something pull the back of my shirt but when I turned around there was nothing. I started to feel like someone was always watching me and a sense of fear started to develop around me all the time. I immediately thought to myself that the demons were causing all this because prior to meddling in the occult, I never had these feelings or unusual things happen.
Things began to get worse. When I would go to sleep I would wake up feeling something on top of me holding me down and I couldn’t open my eyes or speak. At the same time I felt the horrible sensation of my life being sucked out of me, almost as if I was fading away into death. I don’t know how else to explain it but its the most horrible thing I have ever felt. Minutes after that the entity would stop the attack and I would be able to get up and be in my five senses. I was terrified and I knew a demon had attacked me. I told my family about this but they didn’t believe me. I didn’t tell them that I was into the occult though, so they thought I was going crazy or something.
The attacks would happen every time I would go to sleep. I was afraid of going to sleep! On one attack, I actually felt my body rise into the air and I felt my feet touch the ceiling of my house which is 9 feet high. On a different attack I heard the demon whispering in my ear some crazy language that I did not recognize.
I got to the point to where I knew I needed to do something before things got worse. I remembered that in the bible, the disciples would cast out demons in the name of Jesus.
On this occasion, I was in my room with the lights turned off and I was in bed and getting ready to go to sleep. My computer screen was off but the pc speaker has a small green light that stays on when it is powered on. So there was a little visibility in my room, very little though. Against the wall in my room I could see what looked like shadows flying wildly back and forth. Seconds after I saw that, a dark, dark shadow, darker than the other shadows and darker than the darkness in my room, zoomed into the corner of my room and was just hovering there. I said to my self what the heck is that! I started getting scared at this point. The shadow flew directly over on top of my head and hovered there for a while and then I couldn’t see it anymore. Immediately after that, I heard footsteps coming from the hallway towards my room and then in my room walking directly towards me. My legs were separated about a foot from each other and I actually felt when this demon stepped in between my legs because the bed in that spot caved in! I was terrified and I covered my face with my blanket. I didn’t know what to do but I was petrified and didn’t move a muscle. I started praying to God and asked him to forgive me for my sins and for contacting these demons in the first place. I promised that If he stopped this demon for good, that I would never again have anything to do with the occult. I literally prayed myself to sleep.
The next morning I woke up feeling a sense of peace, and the fear that was always present was suddenly gone. I thanked God for this and I burned all the witchcraft books and Ouija boards, as well as all the other things I had from the occult. I have never to this day, been attacked by any demons or seen anything unusual since I asked god for forgiveness and asked him to stop the demons.
These demons would later attack three of my family members who didn’t believe me when I told them about what happened to me. They were terrified as well. I wont tell you the specifics of what happened to them because then it will make this email too long for you to read but, this rules out any possibility that it was all in my head or that I was suffering from some disease or mental disorder because it happened to 3 other people. We completely rid ourselves from these demons by going around our home room for room, and rebuking these demons in the name of Jesus Christ. They have never bothered us again to this day.
This experience has completely shattered in my life any doubt that God and Satan do really exist and I have witnessed it first hand.
You can keep believing that God is made up and even rule me out as a liar or someone with mental problems but what I have told you is 100% true my friends. There is a God and if you would truly try and seek him, not religion, you will find him.
Sent in by John, Copyright 2009 TrueGhostTales.com
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Maybe this event happened with a cause. So that you would believe in God and have faith in Him. And be a better person.
That’s for sure, better put your faith in God, then some lying demon, I hope you didn’t make a pact with a grand entity!
I want to learn the Christian arts of Exorcism
wow, my dad went through almost the same thing.. he dabbled in witchcraft, and would actually be able to say what another person was going to say, at the same time they said it, and it would scare people and make them freak out. Anyway, so one night, he was laying in bed, and downstairs he could hear his best friend and his best friend’s gf fighting… he got annoyed and rolled over onto his back and saw a huge demon at the foot of his bed that told him “ask for anything, and you shall receive it”.. my dad flipped out and prayed to god to take him away from all he had done.. the next morning all his spell books were gone, and only ashes were there… his mother was so happy LOL
The experiences you listed while waking up, whether you want to believe it or not, were sleep paralysis. I’m sure you’ll jump through all kinds of hoops to convince yourself (and possibly others) that it was a paranormal experience, but I’ve been experiencing sleep paralysis since I was eight years old. I have never dabbled in the occult, and I am a practicing christian. Waking up to feel pinned down or like you cannot breathe are common symptoms – other symptoms include hallucinations of sight and sound, feeling people sitting on your back, etc…
I really encourage all people to do even a little bit of research before calling every weird experience supernatural or prenatural, but unfortunately willful ignorance plays a large part in most paranormal communities. Everyone will want to believe they had an experience, whether it can be explained away or not.
emi Do you believe that every event has the same exact cause? I don’t. While I am perfectly willing to accept that many cases of sleep paralysis are caused by “normal” body functions I am NOT willing to accept that it is the all inclusive and only cause. I have had an experience with this only once during my life. I was wide awake when it happened so “sleep paralysis” isnt the best term to use to describe it.
i agree with you caretaker as well yes emi, you suffer sleep paralysis it has occured your whole life….what if it doesnt occure your whole life….can you honestly say without a shadow of a doubt that your conclusions are true???? that science is always right?? you do realise that scientist will try to rationalise any thought or experience they find irrational, and who are you to say that this person or the rest of us have not researched sleep paralisis?? as I experienced this 4 times in one night…… i did research what it could be, but my experience just didnt fit the description…so before you get all scientific on ppl you should learn to not be so close minded as many people who have had experiences are practicing christians as i am, and do believe in the scientific aspects as well….but when science fails….all we have is faith.
You know that happened to me a few times, I was lying in bed and I suddenly woke cause I couldnt breath, and there was like a heavy sensation on my chest, I think it sleep apenea in medical terms, where you stop breathing at night and suddenly wake up!
emi
I agree with you (sorry CT). I think sleep paralysis has a normal mundane explanation. I’ve had it many times, infact i might have had it this morning but i’m not sure. I’ve seen some strange things some of the times but i see nothing supernatural about it.
No apology needed Bracket – But I dont understand the logic of lumping all these experiences together and thinking it is the same thing that causes every one of them (Very few things in this world are so simple that they can be lumped into one all inclusive ‘group’). I also feel like you have a bit of a problem listening to what people actually say (Sorry).
As per our previous discussion about my experience no matter how many times I said that I was not asleep you didnt seem to believe me. Perhaps you thought I was delusional, or somehow not aware of what was going on.
In another discussion about a photograph you continued to insist that it was a camera strap even though the person stated that the camera had no strap. Being a skeptic is healthy and by far the best way to be but you cant get too carried away with your skepticism to where you dont listen to what is actually said.
Caretaker
If you think about it, many things with the body are caused by the same thing. The outside source may be different but the bodily function is the same, like headaches, many things can cause them but what is actually hurting is always the same. In the instance of hollucinations, they always come from the same part of the brain, but many things can cause them, tumors, mental problems, even headaches, but they’re always in the same part of the brain.
On your experience, if you go back and look, you said you think it might not have been sleep paralysis and i agreed.
On the thread about the “ghost pictures” i said, early on, that it may not be a camera strap but that doesn’t mean it’s not some other sort of string or strap. It was UNR that kept saying it was a camera strap.
Actually that isnt true about the headaches. I have severe migraines and have been to the doctor several times for them. Headaches occur in different parts of the brain and that is a fact.
A hallucination is when you see something that is NOT there.
but yes they would be expected to happen in that part of the brain which deals with vision.
I think it is unfortunate that we always call this phenomenon “sleep paralysis” as I do not believe that all who experience it are actually asleep. It’s just terminology. What I meant was that since it is called “sleep paralysis” and I wasnt asleep then that really isnt the proper term for it.
You are right about the photo comments/discussion sorry about that.
I think you are a very knowledgable and intelligent person but I think you should be a little slower to accept anything as an absolute fact.
Caretaker
I don’t just follow things as an absolute fact. Like i’ve said many times, i follow Occams Razor. If it can have a much more simpler explanation, that’s most likely it. The supernatural is not the answer to every questionable event. I’m not saying that’s what you do but many people do it. I think we’ve gotten away from blaming every mystery, disease and death on ghosts, vampires, werewolves, gremlins and demons. Way back when, they’d blame a brutal murder on werewolves because they couldn’t conceive the fact that a person could do such a thing. Some times, a person would eventually confess to the murder but this continued. Another one is witches, look at the witch trials in the middle ages and early America. They were blaming events like disease and deaths of crops and cattle on witches. We eventually got past that. I’m not saying that there is no supernatural, if i believed that i wouldn’t be here, but i believe it’s extremely rare, maybe 1% of supposed supernatural events are legit. In the end, paranormal means unexplainable and if there’s a possible explanation, chances are it’s nothing paranormal.
You just stated that all headaches occur in the same part of the brain “but they’re always in the same part of the brain” you accept that as an absolute fact when it is incorrect. Just an example. You say that all cases of sleep paralysis are caused by the same thing as though that were a fact. If you read and research the topic you will find that even the experts in the field disagree with each other so how can you know with such certainty?
Other quick examples – its been proven that all animals dream, the Sphinx is weathered by flowing sand………. the first not true at all and the second just one of many theories (and hardly even accepted as a possibility among many experts – how can sand flow when it is covered with thousands of tons of more sand?) but not proven.
I am not saying anything similar to all strange events are paranormal nor do I believe that. I am just saying you shouldnt be too quick to accept anything (anything) as an absolute fact. Also I do not want to start a discussion here about the sphinx or dreaming – those are just quick examples.
I do agree completely with your comment above by the way.
Concerning using a witchboard and contacting demons, I have found, in my years of being a practicing Wiccan, that just about everytime someone talks about that they contacted demons or evil sprirts through a witchboard, or have been attacked by demons due to using a witchboard, they have always made the same and most common no-no mistakes of using one.
1. Never use a witchboard by yourself
2. Don’t ever go messing with something like that where you do not fully understand it.
Using a witchboard can be a very enlightening experience and a way to get guidence and messeges from the spirit world, but you must use it correctly and take the proper percautions, otherwise you’re just asking for trouble. I was a practicing witch for more than 4 years before I used a witchboard for the first time. I spent many hours reading about it, reseaching it, and talking to people before I ever tried.
Those who do not take the proper percautions, or reseach it completely and decide to use a witchboard anyways is just asking for trouble, and 95% of the time they find it.
CT
I never said that i completely believe those. Give me one quote where i say that i believe any of those without a doubt in my mind. Just because i may agree with them it doesn’t mean i think they are the only explanation but i do think that they are a good explanation.
Headaches are felt at parts of the brain but much evidence points to the fact that it has a centralized cause.
The animal dreams one was a typo. I mistakingly typed “all” out of habit.
Also, the sand flows like a river, i have seen sped up footage of sand in Egypt flowing. Sand does flow, is that the answer to the erosion of the Sphinx? I don’t know but it seems like a good explanation to me. It doesn’t flow quickly like water but it does move. Do you believe that the sand just stands still?
Actually what I gave in quotations was a direct quote although you didnt say “i believe any of those without a doubt in my mind”
“Headaches are felt at parts of the brain but much evidence points to the fact that it has a centralized cause.” That is a quite different statement whith a completely different meaning than “but they’re always in the same part of the brain” and as I said I have spoken with several doctors over the years about my headaches and it is a FACT that they happen in different parts of the brain and that is precisely how they try to determine whether or not it is a migraine, or other type. Also here you throw in the word “cause” which is not the same as location. But this too is wrong. Headaches do have different causes, such as sinus pressure caused by sinusitus; blockages, tumors, etc. In fact ‘they’ know very little about headaches.
How can you ask me if I believe that sand just stands still?
Only the top layer of sand flows like a river. Geologists discovered (in the 1970s) that the Sphinx was eroded by water not by sand, the two ‘materials’ leave completely different marks on rock. Yeah sand can flow but the sand particles do not leave markings the same way as water. I have watched a lot of programs about Egypt over the past few decades and I have read a lot of books. Guess what? Nearly all of them disagree about the details and contradict each other on a lot of major issues.
I didnt want this to turn into a discussion about headaches and the Sphinx. Those are just some examples of the point I was originally trying to make and now they have become almost like a smoke screen and the original issue almost forgotten.
It is fine to be a skeptic and I consider myself to be one of the biggest but you should be skeptical about everything not just the paranormal stuff. Be skeptical about what the news tells you, what the ‘experts’ say, and even what your parents and teachers tell you.
This is the last time i’m commenting on here.
On the headaches topic, i was more talking about the migrain or random headache.
On the sand topic, actually thick layers of sand can move, it’s called something like “granular migration”. It happens in desert locations with fine sand. And it can, and sometimes does, cause water-like erosion.
Also, i am skeptical about what the news and my peers tell me. That’s why i was suspended from middle school for a week.
OK Bracket
“Also, i am skeptical about what the news and my peers tell me.” That is great, thats what we need more of in this world!
Lady Chantie, What is the difference between a witchboard and a ouija board? Or is it the same thing?
From what i have been told they are the same thing sometimes referred to as spirit boards also. This man is SO lucky that prayer alone worked… usually it clears it up for a time but usually more help is needed. I personally have great faith in Christ and know He took care of this family.
Hi John,
Well, I can definitely believe how evil/darkness/negativity allow doors to be opened. I haven’t experienced this myself but my brother did and I have no doubt he experienced what he did.
At the age of 12 he was introduced to the gang life and was involved in drugs, assaults and many things I will not go into detail about. We were the youngest of six, he being the youngest of the boys and me being the youngest of the girls, and are less than 2 years apart in age. I was his confindant and he shared many things with me. As time went on, he himself started being more tempermental and at his worst, he told me that he got exicted at the sight of blood when fighting/stabbing, etc.
During the ‘height’ of his criminal activites and evil acts he did get a visit he would not soon forget. As he was laying in bed one evening, he noticed dark globs and such hovering above in. Nothing distinguishable about them, just the fact that they were darker than dark and noticeable. These globs continued to swirl around and above him and before he could react, they swarmed down and entered him. He said he felt a jolt/twinge……scared him a bit and then he just proceeded to go to sleep.
Eventually, he abandoned the lifestyle due to circusmtances and having to be a responsible dad (before he was 18, mind you), and he became a Christian. He got his life together and changed his life around. However, some’thing’ was not happy with this new direction and paid him a visit. Again, he was in bed and lo’ and behold there stands Mr. Darkness appearing as the horned one with a tail and all and RED to boot! He tells my brother that he is his child and is his……….my brother is scared but replies that he is now a child of God and he rebukes him……..Mr. D laughs and says ‘no’ and at this time my brother feels a weight on his chest and is having trouble breathing…..my borther continues to rebuke the bad guy and eventually, he disappears into the night.
i am so glad to hear your story..i was browsing to read about ouija boards and the effect they have on people…it’s amazing how bad the experiences are…i too am a born again christian…i was born into a christian home but like you grew up to be nominal at best…my story is of addiction and stuff but i messed with a board at a slumber party once when i was around 11 at a slumber party…nothing came of it because i had praying parents that were on fire for God…i never messed with it again but i did other things and now am a fierce warrior for the Lord…we deal in a very spiritual world and our dealings are not flesh and blood and where there is evil…there is holiness…and the answer is God…thanx for your comment and soldier on and let the people know that Satan is out to destroy them but Jesus came that we could live…carry on…
You present life is linked to your past life. What you do is a continuation of the past.
I wonder how many people with “sleep paralysis” would never have another “episode” again, if they would at least try, with faith of course, to rebuke it in the name of Jesus. But I also wonder how many people in mental hospitals, or who are on medicine for a mental condition, would be set free of their conditions if an exorcism were to be performed on them. This is only my opinion, but I’ve got a feeling that it would be a large percentage.
I’ve never had anything like this happen to me and I am so glad for it. My cousins told me they had, though. That was the first time I had ever heard of it. One said the medical term for it is ‘sleep paralysis’ but many of the symptoms cannot be explained. They said when you get it, you can’t move or do anything. But once you tell the demons to leave and cast the demons out in the name of the LORD, Jesus Christ, you can move. One said that he had left a window open to allow the demons to come in. He had been a member of a prominent fraternity in college and this fraternity had it’s roots in the occult. Even though it used certain Bible scriptures in the ritual, these verses were twisted by the fraternity to mean things they didn’t. Once he realized what the window was he cut all ties with the fraternity, sent his letters and pins back and wrote3 a letter to the president saying why he did this. After he cut ties with the occult, this quit happening. I encourage people who are having these problems to pray! Identify what ties you have with evil and the occult and cut those ties! If this doesn’t work then speak talk to someone such as a trusted pastor to help. Don’t stop praying!
A witchboard talking bord and ouija are all the same thing karen M ..
Yes, thank you I looked it up on the internet, I guess it’s just a preference on how you would like to call them!
apparantly you only get sleep paralysis when you sleep on your back.i had something happen to me before but i know it was sleep paralysis cus i dont sleep on my back i always slept in the recovery position dont know why lol. but what happened to me scared me half to death i never want it to happen again.if you havent read my experience then read NIGHT TERROR OR DEMON POSSESSION? http://www.trueghosttales.com/paranormal/night-terror-or-demon-possession/
Wow man, thats messed. I’m glad things worked out. I’m a Mormon, and I believe God/Heavenly Father truly came to your aid. Sweeeeet.
Hey if ur seeking God it couldnt hurt to look there. 
God bless, an happy trails! Kuva \|/
Kuva, I am requesting that you stop posting that link in your comments. I have approved it a few times but that is enough. I have to edit your comments to remove the link as we rarely allow links to be posted.
Kuva, I am curious – what is that symbol that you put at the end of most of your comments \|/ ???
This all sounds like a Christian just trying to convert people on this site. I don’t think its a bad thing, but the story sounds a bit made up and there is a lot of preaching in it. I realize that religion can play apart in these stories, but I read them for fun, not for church education.
i completely relate to your story, almost word for word.
i got to a high point of ‘playing’ with ouija board, dungeons and dragons, dark rock music, dark-minded prose writing in notebooks, etc. until a non-’by the rules’ religious born again experience where i actually received what i have to call the holy spirit.
nothings been the same since (thank goodness
and yes it got to the point where i could feel or almost *see*, sense, somehow like a darkness in my familys house i knew it had something to do with me and i had an overwhelming sense of doom, like something bad was going to happen.
but that all was cleared upon my religious awakening.
ironically i get that ‘sleep paralysis’ thing… although i never attributed it to anything demonic… but reading this, maybe it is?? even tho i consider myself free from that nonsense since way back when. perhaps there is something to this? i assumed it was normal for this to happen, but i guess i didn’t really know anyone else it happened to when i mentioned it.