Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

When I was 16 I did the Ouija alone and I asked it who I was going to marry. It spelled out the last name of the man I ultimately married nearly 10 years later. Was this a spirit? Or was it my own psychic energy? Seeing as I consistently test 11 or better on the Rhine ESP test, I am inclined to think I channeled my own energies.

Three days before 9/11 my girlfriend and I and James of Decker, Michigan had a séance with a Ouija board to call on the spirit of Timothy McVeigh in the very bedroom he slept in while the authorities claim he planned the OKC bombing. This was exactly 3 months after he was executed. We got some interesting answers, most of which we recorded or wrote down. This was on 9/9/2001. For the following two days I unable to sleep or function because I felt a “hounding” on me constantly for 48 hours. It felt as though something was urgently wanting to get me to understand something. Exactly two days later we were attacked on 9/11/2001 and I slept like a baby that morning. I was awoken to the sound of my phone ringing off the hook and was greeted by the horrific images on the screen. Was that a spirit? There is no way anyone can prove it. It may have again been my own psychic energies.

I have had others, most not as exciting as that. I have read numerous books on the spirit world and have always had a fascination with it. The bottom line for me is there is no proof. It is a matter of believing and personal experience. It irks me when people lie in order to frighten other people. It irks me when people try to come off like specialists or ‘know it alls’ regarding the spirit world because none of us can have any comprehension of what it is really like. None of us have died, seen it all and come back to tell the tale. We only have our hunches and our own experiences. People sit here and say “oh don’t burn the Ouija!” – which is such a load of crap. Many people have burned them and they did not “scream” and evil spirits weren’t trapped in their homes.

The Ouija is a tool just like anything else. It isn’t the devil, it isn’t a portal and it isn’t going to lead to anyone’s death. Nobody has ever died because they used a piece of cardboard with a planchette. Is there possibly some strange coincidences where people were stupid enough to ask when they were going to die, got a date and it came true? Possibly. But it is my contention it was probably their own psychic energy and they were going to die anyway. Everyone dies, eventually.

Look, I am just tired of finding this sort of fear mongering on the internet regarding the spirit world. I think people should pursue their interest in it without all of this baggage. There is no scientific proof, but there is enough personal experiences to certainly validate people doing their own experimentation, I don’t discourage that at all. I just draw the line at people saying they know things proof positively and then using their own “stories” as blatant lies to get attention through fear.

Sent in by Karen, Copyright 2010 TrueGhostTales.com