Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

When I was about 14 I began to experience many unexplainable out of this world things. One day my brother found a Ouija board in the back yard of our apartment building. He came in shouting of excitement that he had found one and wanted me and my two other siblings to play with it. My mother heard him and asked to get rid of it as soon as possible.

Days passed and I found that board was under his bunk bed. I confronted him and asked why he didn’t throw it away as our mother had asked. He replied, he simply was curious and wanted to play with it only once. He admitted to me that he had played with it several times. Every since I can remember, my brother Joe has always “seen” ghosts. This explains why he’s so interested in the paranormal and such.

My mother found the board and threw it away. Days passed and I had forgotten about it all. One night as I was sleeping I felt this sensation, the only way I can explain it is by  that when you get an electrical shock, but all over your body, radiating from head to toes over and over again. I did not feel any pressure on my chest or on top of me. I could see my room, and everything in it, but could not move for the life of me. It was terrifying and agonizing. This happened every night, but the worse thing of it all is that sometimes I could feel large hands caressing my body, whatever it was it liked to press and squeeze my breast, and it was very uncomfortable because of that electrical feeling it had when it touched me. I never saw what it was, but I was fully awake and afraid of what I might see if my eyes were open. Minutes felt like hours and this thing kept touching me until I either passed out or when I moved.

Then I started to see things at night and during day time. The first was this floating hand in my room, its flesh was rotting away. It would try to fly across my room towards me but when I screamed for my parents it just disappeared. Or I would see bodiless heads staring down at me while I slept, or when I was watching TV, and doing homework. Those always seem to just hover over me. I would be trying to sleep and suddenly feel someone poking me twice on my back, but when I turned there was no one there, I guess it was to let me know “hey I am here” or turn around! I couldn’t sleep, eat, or concentrate in school at home etc. I talked to my parents about it but they kept telling me to pray and it would go away, or that I was having “vivid dreams”. This was very frustrating to me. I kept seeing shadows, flashes of lights in that apartment for several weeks, it happened everyday and night that it became kind of normal and learned to live with it.

My other siblings never saw or felt anything, so to them I was going out of my mind. My parents got worried when they realized how much weight I had lost and my grades went from A’s to D’s. They ended up taking me to a Catholic priest at their local church, he asked what happened and I told him everything, he did not seem moved or scared by it, all he did was put his hand on top of my head and recited this prayer in Latin, didn’t understand of course. He said that if it happened again to come back and let him know. These things and happenings subsided but I still see, hear, and feel things in different places all the time.

Ever since, I have these visions that at the time don’t pay much attention to, but later find out that it happened. Same thing happens with dreams, or if I want something to happen and think about it hard enough it ends up coming true. For example, I had visions about my marriage to a man of another race (I’m Hispanic) that I would have two children by this man, a boy and a girl. I saw myself going to school and becoming a nurse, my present job. I would sit in my bedroom late at night and think and wish to have a higher salary, or to have a certain co worker fired because he/she had been doing unethical things at work.

I know it seems crazy and maybe stupid but that’s all true. I am used to it and been told by psychics and mediums that I’m a witch but a “natural one” this is one reason why I attract spirits and different entities. I have never practiced witchcraft, nor experienced anything paranormal before all of this happened. All I can say is that my life is a comfortable one. I can bring anything to me, but never wished, done bad or wronged another person. I am 30 now, single mother of a boy and a girl to a Caucasian man. I’m a nurse and live happily and comfortable with my two children.

I don’t know what to make of all of this, I still question if I’m a witch or everything has been a coincidence. I work with a doctor who specializes in sleep disorders, so everything was ruled out like – sleep paralysis, night terrors, sleep apnea, etc. I have been evaluated by psychologists and found me to be normal. I have never smoked, done drugs, I don’t even drink. That’s my story, a tormented part of my life but true. What’s your opinion? Is it because I am a witch or the power of the mind and suggestion doing its work?

Thank you for taking time to read this.

Sent in by Cici Rowland, Copyright 2010