Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

I don’t really have a long story like some of the tales I have read, mine is more scattered through out the course of my life. Lets start at the beginning.

I was always interested in the paranormal and have done countless searches and readings on ghosts, other factual characters such as Elizabeth Bathory, exorcisms, possessions and Ouija boards… but never had a true experience that I considered unexplainable until I reached my 20′s.

I’m 21 now, at the age of 20 I began seeing this man, whom I shall not name, who had visitation with his then 2 year old son. His son would lay in his crib and seemingly speak to someone, but no one was ever there… now being he was only two I thought nothing of it. shortly after we would hear a loud thump at 3 am on several occasions, it would sound as though the child’s crib had fell, or broken, we would go into see and nothing was any different and the child was still sleeping soundly.

After those experiences I became fearful of the room and would only go in to do laundry, or take the child out in the mornings we would have him, and all the while I would feel something staring at me. I began to keep the door shut when I was alone in the house, but the activity seemed to stay concealed in the one room, fascinated only with the child. I became pregnant shortly after we started dating, and that is when things began to change.

It started with the television turning to fuzzy every morning at around 4:30, then the lights would turn on and off, on several occasions while sitting on the computer I would see a shadow dart past me but was never quick enough to see it dead on. NO ONE seemed to believe me.

Sadly I lost the baby at nearly 4 months pregnant, and all the activity seemed to stop for a while. I moved back in with my mother as the relationship had failed, and would be awakened by soft inaudible voices in my room, I just thought perhaps the neighbors, but after countless nights of this… I was sure the voices were in my room rather then above me. And on a few occasions I would wake to the sound of a baby crying, my mother chalked it up to my recent loss and stress.

Months went by, I was staying with a friend, on her couch, and woke up from a quite disturbing dream of a man in the room with me, it seemed so real, I felt hand touching me, when I woke up however I couldn’t move, I felt as though something was in control rather then me, like my brain was unable to tell my body to move… finally I jolted awake… this happened 4 more times, but the other times I could hear my friend in the room, sitting at her computer, I heard the computer chair move and she spoke to me, but each time I was alone and unable to move. The last time I bolted for her room and spent the night there, and it didn’t occur again.

That was the first and only experience I ever had with being unable to move… I looked it up and saw sleep paralysis and all those studies but it just didn’t feel like that was the answer, and it scared me.

The final encounter to date and now I am hoping the last as I no longer have that childhood desire to experience matters of the occult occurred while camping. No one knows this as I feel like I will just be ridiculed as I was in the past. I was in Kingston, Ontario where I now reside, camping with some friends and my at the time new love interest. we all decided to turn in for the night, and as I cuddled with my boyfriend I opened my eyes and saw the face of an old man staring at me, I quickly shut my eyes and clung to my sleeping boyfriend, when I opened them there was no one there…. but the fear of that had me shaking.

Now as I said my experiences are scattered… I don’t think I have any sort of gift, perhaps I am sensitive to this, or perhaps it has to do with my once open attitude of welcoming these experiences, but either way I know what I know, I saw and felt what I did… and no one will tell me otherwise.

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