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Sleep Paralysis and Electrical Pulses
I first experienced sleep paralysis a few years ago and found it very scary.
I was aware of electrical pulses, a bit like in the film Ghost when people walk through Patrick Swayze, like that sound. I felt like some thing had entered my body or passed through it, this is usually how my sleep paralysis begins.
This time I went to bed and was aware of my ice skating twirling dream and the fact I could not move. I was awake and it took me ages to be able to call for help. I felt like I could not breathe. My partner calmed me down and I fell right back into deep REM sleep and it happened again.
The third time that night it happened I saw a port hole with the power of a hurricane sucking me in, I decided to blow to counteract it though it was more powerful than me, this is when I returned to …
Read Complete Story Here...The Ouija Board Hat Man and The Dream-Catcher
My last story was about my dream-catcher spinning at night. (The Dream Catcher) But this time it was a smaller dream-catcher pendant that my aunt gave to me. This is what happened:
Last weekend I was with my friends hanging out, like normal teens, and we decided to meet up with each other later that night. So we went our separate ways for an hour or two, I don’t know what my friends did, but I went home. Before I left something told me to take the small dream-catcher with me [when I say something I mean like intuition/a sense of foreboding] so I grabbed it a headed out the door.
We walked around for a while until we ended up at my friends house, and after we sat down my friend john pulled out an Ouija Board, [By the way there were 8 of us Me, John, Claire, Joe, Will, Emily, Cathy and Suzie]. Emily and I …
Read Complete Story Here...Little People on a South Texas Dirt Road
The story I am about to tell is 100% true.This is not a joke or in anyway made up this really did happen to me and my three children.
We moved from Indiana to come and live here in the southern most tip of Texas so we could be close to my husband’s family. We built a beautiful home on a lot that was the last one before the road went into dirt. We have no neighbors on our left side and the road and empty fields go on and on for many miles. So on this day I decided to take my three boys Austin, 13 Julio, 6 and Emanuel, 4 on a walk down the dirt road to just basically be outta the house for awhile.
We began laughing and chasing one another as moms do but about two miles down the road my oldest son Austin let out this scream that made me immediately turn to see …
Read Complete Story Here...Cured of Sleep Paralysis
Okay, it’s not that I haven’t considered it. I have. I do believe in sleep paralysis. Just a plain old ordinary condition… nothing special. But you couldn’t understand. Not unless you lived through it. Everything is vividly real. It is terrifying. Reading about it, and experiencing it are not the same thing.
Some of the things that people have experienced cannot be explained away by those symptoms. Such as the auditory hallucinations. (those admittedly could be explained away by nightmares) And I know, that all the experiences are similar, which seems to indicate a common disease. However, I’ve felt sensations. Such as I was moving, and groping around in the darks, and I could feel things. Like my nightstand etc. And it wasn’t like other dreams, when you “feel” something. It felt like I was actually there.
Now, I’m not trying to convince you that these incidences actually occurred, but I am describing them to you, so that you might …
Read Complete Story Here...Dreaming of Casting Away Evil Spirits
More than a story the following is a question that I am hoping someone will help me understand.
I remember having dreams as a child where I was a priest or someone with the power to cast away evil spirits. I would have these dreams maybe 3 or 4 times a years. My dreams followed the same pattern where someone would be possessed and I would cast away the evil spirit with prayer. I remember not being scared; on the contrary, I would feel courageous enough to cast them away. I still have the dreams; however, I am not a priest, it’s simply me confronting people who are possessed and me saying a prayer to cast it away and a prayer to protect myself.
Can someone please explain what these dreams may mean? Thank you in advance for taking the time to read my entry.
Sent in by Lisa, Copyright 2011 TrueGhostTales.com
Read Complete Story Here...Dogs Do Sense the Paranormal
I am a Police K9 handler. I can say with 99.9% confidence that dogs do see and or sense what most would call a “Ghost”. I have a police K9 and she is a very alert dog. Alert with confidence, not fear. She does not bark or get upset at noises caused by high winds, rain or anything “Normal”that makes noise.
I live in a home that for years has had “Odd” activity in one specific hallway. Before I got my K9 partner, always late at night, we have had activity in this hallway. Not every night, but 4 – 5 times a month. This occurs with no set schedule or time of year. Sometimes 2 nights in a row, sometimes nothing for 2 weeks, sometimes 1 or 2 times a week.
I work until midnight and arrive home, usually at 12:45 am, so I don´t go to sleep until late. Sometimes I am up when she alerts. Her alert …
Read Complete Story Here...They Grew Stronger After She Died
I had a lot of experiences with our old house so many that throughout my childhood I considered these events normal, I had imaginary friends, heard, felt and saw things other people would say unusual, however things got worse after my granny died and I had to live in that house alone.
Let’s start of with a hair raising story, when I was in early college, I had a friend who lives with me in our house, both of us went to different schools at that time so we shared different schedules, I had to sleep early while he stayed up late playing games and watching TV, at around 3am the lights suddenly switched off, it turned on in a sec then turned on and off as if someone was playing with the switch, my friend already had a bad feeling about it, though he was unsure how to react, then when he was about to make his move, all …
Read Complete Story Here...The Girl in My Bathroom
For a while now I have been seeing ghosts and I have had a few bad experiences. This experience however has affected me a lot, to the point where I cant take showers in my own home at night time.
It all started about 3 years ago when I was taking a shower getting ready to go to bed. When I got out I was drying myself down when I couldn’t help the feeling of being watched, I looked in the mirror to see behind me (we have 2 mirrors in the bathroom. So when you look into the big mirror you can see the second mirror in the reflection) when I looked there was a figure in the second mirror. No distinct features just a dark figure. Of course the first thing I did was turn around to see if it was really there and to my surprise it was gone. I thought I have to be seeing things …
Read Complete Story Here...Strange Happenings in My Room
I’ve never told anybody this in fear that no one would believe me, so I’m really glad I found this site. Anyway on with my tale…
I’d say it started when I was about 7 years old. One day when me and my parents got home from just buying me a motorcycle for my Barbie doll, I played with it all day and even put some stickers on it. So then that same night, I was drifting off to sleep until I heard some rustling coming from my toy box. I tried to ignore it but then I heard a slight peeling sound, given that I have sensitive ears I could hear it perfectly, and it was scaring me to death. Then I heard a sound that sounded like someone chewing rubber. I heard a lot of noises that I can not describe very well and eventually they stopped and I laid awake the rest of the night.
When I …
Read Complete Story Here...Our House Built on Old Orchard
Back in the late 1960′s (maybe early 70′s) my husband’s family got a good deal on a piece of property in Mountain View, California. The owner (as I understand it, an old Italian man whose wife had suddenly died) sold the large piece of property to my father-in-law for a ‘steal’. In the late 80′s my father-in-law decided he wanted to build three houses for his three kids and their families.
We built our homes and moved in in 1991. Immediately strange things started happening. Things would disappear and then suddenly reappear in strange places. It became so commonplace that I would say out loud, “ok, that’s funny. Now give (it) back to me”… and sure enough the item would almost immediately reappear in a spot that we had already checked on. You say to yourself that of course, even though you knew you had checked there, you MUST have missed the item. You make excuses and you question yourself.…
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Hunting Weekend and a Haunting in Scotland
The first thing you should know about my story, is that I was not the person who witnessed this event. My godfather told me this story:
When my godfather was young, he and his family were invited to come and spend the weekend at his uncle’s castle in Scotland, hunting.
It was a dark and rather stormy night (I know you hear that a lot, but it was) and the family had just come back from a day of hunting. Everyone was sitting in the drawing room, when suddenly the hounds started barking extremely loudly. After a great amount of persuasion, the dogs finally stopped barking but every single dog’s head turned from one way to the other, as if watching someone or something walking along the floor. Everyone in the room thought this was odd but still continued with the evening.
After awhile the family decided to take some pictures using my godfather’s and his brother’s cameras. So, my …
Read Complete Story Here...My Name Called in the Night
This story happened a while back, so I thought I could share it with you now.
I was around 15 years old at that time and my parents had just left for a trip in Italy around September. School had just restarted and I started to be interested in ghost not so long before.
I woke up that night by a voice that was calling me. It wasn’t a clear voice. It sounded a little bit like the one you hear on radio when you’re not picking the channel correctly. The voice was saying my nickname, “Dave”, and every time it was saying, it was becoming more and more insistent. It really felt like it wanted be heard. The first time I heard my name, I immediately hid under my blankets.
The only thing that I could see was my alarm clock right in front of me and I knew it wasn’t on. Also, the voice was coming from the …
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