Back when I was still younger, I have to say at least three years ago (now I’m 14 going on to 15) I would go to my older sister’s house to baby-sit. I would get scared because they have always lived in old and creepy places.
Well, this one night I had my little sister as my company and we were sleeping out on the living room of their two side by side apartment and my older sister was sleeping with her husband in the room (they’ve only got one room with 4 other kids of their own).
I couldn’t fall asleep for some reason. I kept waking up because I knew I wasn’t alone but I also felt as if something was there with me that shouldn’t be there with me. I had to sleep right by the main door and the main door had a lot of locks (at least three or four).
At that time I was afraid of the dark and afraid to even open my eyes to see, but I heard someone at the door. It sounded as if someone tried to come inside the house but couldn’t. That was when I got real scared. At the first moment that I heard this I turned my head around to look at it because I didn’t think of it, until I heard the door knob starting to turn and when I heard as if someone was trying to break in I got scared. I ran up to where the light was and turned it on. I left the light on for at least 10 minutes and I turned it off because if my sister was there I knew she will be lecturing me for leaving it on.
I went back to sleep and felt as if I was really not alone. I felt as if someone was breathing on my back but I thought it was just my imagination.
Now another time, when I was at my house and not at their house (my sister’s house) my little niece that was about two or three years old, she came in and said to my sister, “mommy I see something and I’m scared.” My sister was like, “no, what you saw was probably your imagination.” Now this wasn’t the first time that this happened, it was probably the second or fourth time that my niece had said this.
Also there was this family that lived right next to us. Sometimes when no one is home we will hear footsteps going and down the basement stairs and the attic stairs. Sometimes we will hear talking, but when we try to listen it will suddenly stop.
There was this one time when my sister came out of the bathroom and she bent over and saw a pair of feet that was floating and were clear and see through but when she blinked it disappeared.
After all this it finally convinced her and her husband to move out of the house, thank God for that! After they moved out there was this family that moved in and then moved out also. They said the same things that we have said because they have little kids like us too.
Written by Cendie, Copyright 2008 True Ghost Tales
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Hi AJ,
I really don’t see stigma as a blessing, but rather a symbol of religious zeal. I once watched a tv program about it, where scientific tests have proved that if someone was crucified with nails through the palms, their hands would tear to shreds through their own weight, so the only way they could be supported by nails was through the wrists, in the gap the radius and ulna, and the scientists seemed to agree that the most likely cause of death was suffocation, caused when the person finally could no longer support their own weight at the knees and put extreme pressure on their chest when the sank down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion
Is it a hysterical reaction? In my opinion, and its not a researched one, since I”ve only touched on the subject lightly, I think it is. It usually happens to Christian people, as you said, or someone who knows of Christian people. I have not read of anyone outside the faith, who has no contact with it, that developed this reaction.
The purpose of the experience has to come from something inside the mind of the person, so might vary in each case, but it certainly ‘marks’ them, for all to see, as one of ‘Christ’s’ people.
Is that your painting? It always puzzles me why some people see Jesus as blond and blue eyed. Given that his parents were both Israelites, genetically he was more than likely olive skinned and brown haired. But I remember as a child, the figure in our church was also blond blue eyed. If Jesus had had those colourings, I am sure people would have made comment on that in the bible. It would have been very unusual, given the climate, apart from anything else.
Love & Peace
Ama
Hmm.. just realised the title of this question included Satan.
I don’t really think Satan would want people reminded so clearly of the acts of Jesus Christ, as to mark someone with stigmata .. given what it symbolises, a huge act of love and sacrifice. I was taught that the crucifixion freed us from ‘sin’s’ tyranny, and therefore Satan’s control over humanity. It didn’t free us from demons, however, even Padre Pio, who suffered stigmata most of his church life, suffer also from demons.
Love & Peace
Ama
Hi Ama
I think of Jesus as having tawny hair and pale skin (pale, taking into account the climate where he lived). I struggle to imagine him quite as blonde and fair haired as depicted by most Christians, I must admit. (Unless he was an albino??? LOL!) But people did travel around more than we probably presume they did in those times too – so it is possible that some Jewish people were fairer than others?? I know of quite a few fair haired, blue-eyed Jew’s personally – so, who knows? After all Judism is a religion, not a race.
As far as that picture is concerned, it was commissioned. It had to be done to a remit, so to speak. As most people define Jesus with a ‘Swedish-style’ colouring, that is what I had to work with. The nails were also supposed to be through the hands, but that didn’t quite go to plan – lol!
In any event, I never liked the picture anyway …
AJ
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Extremely interesting question A.J. One in which I am in no way qualified to answer. I do however look forward to seeing what everyone thinks on the subject. Way to keep us on our toes