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Ghost or Something Else?
I’ve had much experience in the paranormal in my life not necessarily by choice. Although, once it became apparent that things were not going to be isolated one time episodes I started invoking it. The first thing that “jumped out at me” (sorry pun intended and you’ll see why)was when I was about 14.
A friend and I were sitting in my room on the floor and I was learning how to play some Pink Floyd songs on the guitar. We were sitting Indian Style facing each other trading off the guitar. Now, I know this is going to sound weird, and it does make some sense in the end. However, most things these things do don’t seem to have any rhyme or reason to them. Things like overturning cat bowls and throwing loafs of bread across the kitchen! I mean, like what the heck is that trying to communicate?
Now keep in mind this is the very first time …
Read Complete Story Here...Terrified Email Ramblings to My Husband
My husband and I moved into a 100+ year old home a few months ago and have been experiencing what he has researched to be “sleep paralysis” along with terrifying dreams – most recently which have become impossible to distinguish between a nightmare and something experienced while fully awake (for example, I’ve gotten up, went to the bathroom and “experienced”/saw something while I was fully awake).
My husband was at a friend’s a few hours away for a bachelor party and we’ve been having “issues” so I’ve been under a lot of stress; so factor that in if you feel you must. I feel confident that I did wake from my dream when I fell to the floor and actually saw/experienced what happened afterwards.
While I’m sure that if I were to take the time to fine tune this into a “story” quite frankly I want to try to not give any more “energy” into this whole thing so I’ll …
Read Complete Story Here...Very Strange Dreams
Well my name is Carry and I have been having these very strange dreams. Some dreams were terrifying though and I can’t understand what they mean.
Well in one dream that I had was where I thought I was awake but I was asleep and I saw a black dog in the corner of my room just staring at me.
Another dream was when a cat was attacking me and it kept biting me.
The worst of the dreams I have had was when I dreamed that my brother-in-law was chasing me and my other 2 sisters with an ax. We were trying to run away from him, but at some point he caught up to me and he was about to slash me when I woke up. I don’t know what it meant and me and my brother-in-law get along fine so I am very confused.
Also this dream that I had was strange because it wasn’t like the …
Read Complete Story Here...The Phone Ghost Legend
This story is very popular in the town where we used to live in; it might have been an internet phenomenon if it was known today, there are a few versions of the story made by people based on how they were able to relate to it, I don’t know much about them but here’s how I knew the story as to how I experienced it.
My relation with the story began when my younger sister told me about the phone ghost story, it’s about a certain phone number, the phone number to hell they say, when you call that number around 12 midnight you’ll hear the devil’s voice mumbling, saying all sorts of mumbo jumbos, if you listen long enough or until the devil hangs up, you’ll be doomed before 12:01, sounds like your old fashioned school viral story right? But as I grew familiar with the events I found out that there was more to it.
Of course …
Read Complete Story Here...It is Always Watching
Hi, my name is Kyra. Ever since I was young I could see things that cannot be explained, but yet I wasn’t interested. I have experienced many things, including when I was little (I have a heart problem) I felt the air from angels wings and heard a prayer that hushed me to sleep, but also I have seen many evil things in my life. This is one of those stories it is completely true.
I was 12 at the time when this happened to me. My room was very, very, very messy. My bed was unmade, my closet over spewing clothes and knick-knacks. My dresser was completely, well disgusting. And mind you there was tons of clothes all over my floor, but I had a small room so it wasn’t hard to make it look like it did.
Anyways, I had one of my friends over, Alle, we were about to leave to go get some candy when we …
Read Complete Story Here...Spirit Keeping Me Awake
This is a really good one. I have been followed around by these things for years and years. However, I will share a single truly weird event. After re-marrying of only about a month my wife started to see and hear weird things like the cat bowl flying up into the air spilling all the contents all over the floor. I told her to get used to it as its been happening for years.
I was just about asleep in bed when I was startled by this constant bang bang bang bang from somewhere in the house. I got up and heard it loudly coming from the bathroom. I turned on the light and saw the cat pawing the toilet seat smacking it against the back of the toilet. So, I put the cat out and went back to bed.
Again… bang bang bang bang bang.
So I got up thinking the cat got back in and started it up …
Read Complete Story Here...Evil Imaginary Friend Turned Out to be a Poltergeist
It was the first time I experienced being around a ghost. At the time I didn’t realize it was a ghost but after a while I got onto it when strange things started happening and my so called imaginary friend started hurting me. So here it goes.
Being an only child was pretty lonely at times. Having nobody to play with but your toys and your self. I remember it very clear, a lot of it disturbed my education.
Well I had just turned four years old and my mother and father decided to move house. We moved in this big mansion, my mother and father were rather well off. After 6 months it was up and running with 2 Servants 2 Maids, a cleaner, Guards, it was a wish come true
Anyways when the mansion was decorated and all fixed up and done I started playing in my room alone. Of course with my new Teddy Bear. I heard …
Read Complete Story Here...Demon’s Secret the Warning was False
When I was around age 10, I was just learning about god. I wasn’t a psycho about it, I was just a god follower.
Me and my friend Faith were playing around in her mother’s house. She lived with her mother and her grandfather. Even though she’d rather pick her father. Which was a drug addict. Her mother’s house was built in the late 1800′s. Her mother bought it around when me and Faith were about 3 years old. There was 4 floors, and 7 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. I always wondered why her mother would choose this instead of a modern mansion. Well, I soon found out.
So, me and Faith were playing in one of the back hallway bedrooms. We were playing truth or dare. When it was faith’s turn, she declared that she dares me to try and contact demons. Truth is, Faith always had a bad vibe. Even though how many times she had told her …
Read Complete Story Here...Who Do We make Contact With When Using a Ouija Board?
We were talking about the nature of devices such as Ouija Boards and just who, or what, the entities that are encountered by users are. Are they the spirits or souls of the dead? Are they demons? Perhaps they are interdimensional beings?
Jeff made the following comment after which I requested that he expand a bit:
“I have extensive experience in communication devices. Ouija, Ziriya, pendulum boards etc.
I have gained some degree of trust with a couple of these things and they informed me that they are not dead people. They were never people. They were always what they are. And, somehow they have the ability to know intimate things about people thereby convincing them that they are dead relatives or passed friends and such. I shun away from the word demon because they aren’t all so bad but many of them are quite mischievous and will lie in order to convince you of their false identity. And, yes… …
Read Complete Story Here...Changes in My Mother and the Evil Looking Creature
You can’t even trust someone as close to you as your mother
Hello, I’m 17 but this activity happened to my dad, brother, and I before my parents divorced when I was 12 my brother was 10. Not many people believe what I’m about to tell you but heck I’m not even sure how to explain what happened, but it did. We all experienced the same thing well here goes…
When I was 12 years old my grandpa was very ill so my dad took him to his doctors appointments in San Antonio, Texas at least once a week. My parent’s marriage was going downhill. My mom had a deep rage for my dad, who knows why but my mom didn’t feel like my mom anymore she seemed darker and distant so I didn’t want to stay alone with her and my little brother so on this particular day my brother and I decided to go to San Antonio with …
Read Complete Story Here...Our Ghostly Helper
The story I am about to tell you is completely true, and though you may not believe it, I am still confused and scared over what happened.
I went over to my best friend Leena’s house in early evening. It only started happening when it got dark. Leena’s parents were currently in town, coming home in a few hours. I was with Leena and her sister, Amanda. Amanda is sixteen (now and then) years old. Though Amanda is older, she likes to hang out with us sometimes.
We decided to do some crazy makeovers on each other. When we were done, Leena and I went to the upstairs bathroom to wash it off, Leena gave a bright purple washcloth that she only had one of (that detail will make sense later). We washed off the makeup and watched half an hour or so of television. Then Amanda attacked me with whip cream, spraying it all over my face, and I …
Read Complete Story Here...The Bizarre Black Hand
Years ago, me and my family were celebrating the long holidays at my family’s holiday house in St Francis Bay, in a complex near the Kromme River called Riverglades. I was quite young and had no knowledge of the supernatural at the time, all I cared about was Dennis the Menace and trash like that. I was upstairs with my cousin in the “man cave” as I call it. The only way into the man cave is up the stairs that were behind me. In the corner of the man cave were three rooms separated by a small space.
It was quite dark upstairs and me and my cousin were watching something on the TV. Suddenly, for some unknown reason, I glanced at the doorway to my grandparents’ bedroom, on the side of the doorway was the light switch. A black, bizarre arm outreached, I could not see the rest of the figure because it was behind the open door, …
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