Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

My name is Laurel-Beth, I am 21 and live in the South of England, UK.

The start of my story does not entirely coincide with ghost stories but I do indeed think that this is chilling, even for me to tell.

I have been having out of body experiences since a very young age. I know this sounds extremely far fetched, even to myself just writing it down.

The first experience I had, that without doubt I can say was an OBE was when I was 6 years old. I had a terrible accident at school. Sounds silly looking back but we had HUGE monkey bars at school. VERY high off of the ground, it was like having to climb a full size adult ladder to get to the top of these monkey bars. I was climbing my way along them from underneath in a crawling type fashion and my back and head was facing the ground (I’m not sure that I’m explaining this quite right, but I hope you can picture it!) So to cut a long story short, my hands slipped and I fell head first down onto the floor. I was extremely unlucky that the bark (supposed to cushion falls) in the place I fell had been kicked away by another kid and I fell straight onto hard concrete and was instantly knocked out.

Instantaneously, upon hitting the ground I had the strangest sensation that I will never forget – I was floating above my body. No sense of pain, feeling (I remember it being very cold that day and I could not feel any cold whatsoever in this strange state) and I remember hovering above my body watching blood spill from the crack in my head. For a 6 year old, this was VERY frightening and I thought that I had died. Genuinely. I watched as the other kids crowded around me shouting and crying. One was even sick. None could see me floating above my body. I shut my eyes and prayed to be back inside my body. And the next thing I knew, I was in hospital.

I never told anyone about my experience in the playground as I fear people may think or have thought that I am mad.

Now, the strange thing about OBE’s (I am finding this more and more hard to explain) is that some can be determined as vivid dreams – so lucid you struggle to believe it was a dream. Before the incident in the playground and countless times since I have dreams that I leave my shell (what I now call it) and go see things. Amazing things. I can even fly in these dreams. The flying sensation is so odd, it’s like I can just bounce myself off of the ground and lift myself up and it feels so real!

The second time it happened was again in school about a year after the accident (I had only been able to walk again for a couple of months as I fractured my back during the fall)… It was a beautiful summers day and I was putting up with a boring math lesson. I remember looking up at a corner up on the ceiling in the classroom. I concentrated on the corner high up on the right and fell into a deep state of relaxation. I could not hear anything around me. Sounds were muffled. All of a sudden before I knew it, I was looking down upon myself from the corner of the classroom! Crazy I know, but True!

I remember floating around the classroom, of course I was completely invisible to the others. I watched my shell still looking up at the same corner, as if frozen. I wanted to look around but for some reason my spirit would not let me stray far away from my body. I did not leave the school grounds as I was too afraid of losing the connection with my physical self. You can move through things, float and almost fly in this state. I know it sounds ridiculous. All I had to do to get back inside my body was to want to be there and that was it, I was there. No traveling back towards my body, I was just there.

Since that time, they mostly come shortly before I go to sleep when I am in a highly relaxed state.

I cannot begin to tell you how many OBE’s I have had since the first two experiences. I rarely go far, perhaps to the end of the road. I just tend to enjoy the sensation of being in the literal spirit form. No pain, bodily desires, i.e. hunger and sexual urges. Just being pure. You can even think of a place you want to be, and be there.

Now, I can also induce an OBE after much practice.

There are various ways, as spoken of above I very often just have to imagine (quite intently and for a while) that I am in another place (usually in the same room or house) and I will be there. Other than that you need to be in a kind of open responsiveness or alert relaxation where the body is in repose but the mind is acutely aware of itself rather than it’s body. Or you can induce them by relaxing the body limb by limb. I’ve even had the sensation that I am shrinking myself so as to make the shell not fit properly anymore…

Really, all I have to do is make myself as relaxed as possible and relieve my mind of external thoughts. Its not as easy as I make it sound and very often it doesn’t work.

Now you must understand that I do not, never have done and never will use my OBE’s for sordid purposes i.e. spying etc. I have no reason to and no wish to.

My final point that is most relevant to this site is that I believe I have seen ghosts in this strange state. They are just like figures in the background, kind of merging into other things. I very often cannot even make out faces and they seem wary of me. REALLY hard to explain.

But anyway, I totally understand if what I have written is hard to understand and if people find it hard to believe (as would I if it wasn’t me) but I would value your opinions regarding my story.

Sent in by Laurel-Beth, Copyright 2010 TrueGhostTales.com