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What Was that Growling and Clawing Under Our Bed?

Last night I was asleep my wife reached over and tapped me twice square on the tip of my nose and then lowered her arm. I assumed she heard something outside. The wind was blowing wildly and the wind chimes were rattling around. As soon as my eyes opened I said, “oh that’s just the wind.” When I looked at her to say it again to reassure her is where this gets all weird…

I turned over to look at her and what I saw was 2 images of her at the same time, one she was sound asleep eyes closed no facial expression, but at the same time it looked as if she had an expression on fear on her face with her eyes wide open. This vision seemed to have had a “flickering effect” much like drawing on several pieces on paper to make a animation effect, like a stick figure animation etc. but imagine putting the same stamp in the same place on every other page “the stamp being her sleeping face” the animation of the fearful face.

I looked her over very closely (yes it was still dark in the room). I looked closer still and I asked her, “Are your eyes open or closed?” no response… then she grabbed my shoulder and at the same time… I heard a grumbly growl and clawing on her side of the bed – but also underneath us – as if the dog was trying to crawl under our bed but it would not fit. I said, “Oh that’s the dog.” But I looked and then I noticed that the dog was on the other side of the room laying on her bed asleep. So I concluded that this is way too weird so I must be dreaming this. I then slapped my own face “hard” to confirm to myself that this was all just a vivid dream and not reality. I felt the slap and then what I feared most was confirmed. It was not just a dream. I was fully awake! As I realized this, I heard a low tone of voice grumbling and speaking/ whispering from the baby monitor.

Dream or not, I ran up stairs to my toddler’s room, it was freezing cold in his room, I pulled him out of his bed and carried him downstairs to our bedroom. I grabbed the bible and placed it over my chest, his chest, and my wife’s chest and I said a silent prayer.

Next I got up again and went to the kitchen to get something to drink since I was awake and a little bit thirsty, I noticed the time was very close to 3 am (the witching hour) than I grabbed our cat and placed him on our bed… this had spooked me so I felt like reading some of the bible. I read a page or two flipping around looking for some kind of connection in a passage, but nothing really stood out. I prayed again during this time… when I finished reading, and searching, I closed my bible and I noticed that the wind had stopped, and the wind chimes where no longer clacking around. All had become still. So I went back to bed.

Now I can justify maybe the sound on the monitor was some kind of cb interference… it has happened once before, but never at this new house. And maybe the whole wind thing was just coincidental timing, because it did rain last night. But I cannot explain what I saw when I looked at my wife (the flickering faces), nor the growling and clawing from under the bed… it is not possible, that the dog was able to do that and somehow get across the room and be sound asleep faster than I could turn my head and see her there. Within a millisecond, without having to pass by me. Also I know it wasn’t the cat first of all because the cat has no claws, secondly because this was a much larger animal clawing, and a much deeper growl sound, and third because the cat was not even near our room, when this all occurred. I placed the cat in our room just to have everyone of us together.

I don’t know why maybe it would be better so that I could evac us all at once should things become accelerated. I’m frustrated because everyone I talked to just blows this off and tells me it was all just a dream, my dad told me not to tell anyone because they would thing I’m a loony or something. And I talked to a pastor and he said it could have just been something I ate before bed, and to talk to a dream interpreter / counselor there, but it also wouldn’t hurt to have our house blessed. I know what I heard, and what I saw, and everyone just pooh poohs it… no one believes me, and I’m telling the truth… it’s so frustrating what do I do? I don’t think it’s healthy to hold it in, and to doubt my own hold on Reality. I can’t explain it, it is what it is… maybe I better off just dismissing it… but I know what I had heard and seen really happened, and I just can’t explain it..

Asked by Mark

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How Do I Change the Avatar in My Comments?

Every now and then I receive a message asking me how to change the avatar which is shown with the comments. I decided that I need to post the question here so I can explain it and have the information in one spot where folks can access it easily.

This website is running on a software platform called WordPress. The avatars shown here in these comments are actually located on WordPress.com’s servers. So, if you want to have a custom avatar on trueghosttales.com and all other wordpress operated websites where avatars are enabled all you need do is go to http://wordpress.com and create an account and upload an avatar.

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Whenever you want to change your avatar just go back to wordpress.com login and edit your profile there.

Alternately you may use a service offered by http://gravatar.com which works the same way as I just described (Gravatar and WordPress work in partnership)

If anyone has any questions about this or additional info to share feel free.

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Being Made of a Weird Bluish Light?

I have had many paranormal experiences in the last 2 years. I was an Atheist until these things occurred.

But, one night I was awakened with a presence at the end of the bed and I started screaming filled with terror. Then just as fast as this happened I was not afraid any more. I knew what ever it was did not mean to scare me. I just knew this and it did not say it I just knew.

Usually when you have been scared really bad you gradually lose that feeling, or the adrenaline has to run its course but, it did not happen like that the fear immediately stopped and I knew he did not mean to scare me it was strange. I am going to try and explain what I saw, and I am wanting to know if others have ever saw what I did. It is hard to explain because I have no frame of reference, because I have never seen something like this. And I am sure there has to be others who have seen something similar.

The being at the end of my bed was tall and I even knew he was decent looking without being able to see the details of him I knew it, or he, was male. His hair was slicked back and he was like a solid black shadow but not. He also had like blue shimmery light about him but he still black at the same time. I know he had to be made from some sort of light that I have never seen before and I could have not even imagined something like this. He was all black and dark and the bluish light did not glow at all and he was dark at the same time. I just can not put it into words what he was like.

I am sure that I am not the only one to have experienced something like this. It was just strange and only someone else who has saw something like this can ever understand. That is why I am wanting to know what they think these beings are made from. Or has anyone one ever heard of this kind of being. I know it sounds crazy to say he was made of light but was completely dark but, that is the closest way I can explain what he was made from.

I was not dreaming either because my 18 year old daughter came to my room because she said I was screaming in the strangest voice she had ever heard and I said to her do you see him? I remember screaming but I do not remember anything strange about my voice other than I was terrified, and then the next second my fear was totally gone like I had never been scared at all.

Asked by HauntedAtheist

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My Wife is Being Followed by a Spirit

My wife is being followed by a spirit. It is attacking her in her sleep.

She told me that this has happened to her mother when her mother was in her twenties. Her mother solved this with prayer. We are Christian and have tried the same.

My wife has, on multiple occasions, lost control of her body, had something shake her head back and forth, blurred vision, very bad headaches, body shaking, anger spells, etc. This thing changes the radio stations, and this morning turned on the heating pad. It is scaring both of us.

We need help now! What can We do?

Asked by doug

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Am I Possibly a Demigod?

Visiting Entities

This is not a single account. This is over my life time. I have been visited time and time again by a female and male entity. To my beliefs, Wicca, this are the main god and goddess. But what they want, I don’t know.

One memory I have is them chanting at my window, then I heard something run away and hit what sounded like metal trash cans. There were never any metal cans, nor footsteps.

Also, a more recent one, I was in my bed when I heard a male and female say “He’s the biggest of his kind!” and “How does he not fall off that wall?” (I sleep pressed against the wall, and I was trying to sleep).

Then, finally, there’s today’s account. Small lightning within my home in my room and a buzzing noise, along with visions of people floating sitting in meditation pose saying that I’ll be ok, that I have nothing to fear.

Earlier today I was wondering about the 2012 prophecies, and my role in them. Am I possibly a demigod? Or favored by the gods? And if so, why? What is my purpose?

Sent in by Steven Kinsey

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Can I Prevent Spirits – Demons – Other Entities From Making Themselves Present?

When I was a child, I heard strange noises like knocks or beats on the walls of my room or on a small table that was also in my room, those I heard only at night, I woke up my mom once and asked hear if she could hear them too, but she couldn’t… she told me that when I was a baby some person cast some sort of spell on me, however my mom went to our local priest and since then nothing really happened, no knocks, no fear no nothing.

My question is, can I prevent spirits/demons/other entities from making themselves present? I really don’t want to deal with this again, I think I may be sensitive to this sort of things, but I really don’t want to see them or deal with them.

Thank you

Asked by verygalpike

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What is Astral Traveling?

A question I have is what is astral traveling for and why does it happen?

Asked by John

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Was it Paranormal or was I Insane?

I want to know whether my life experiences were really the paranormal or if I was just insane.

As a child my mom used to tell me that I would see things at night and jump out of bed and say that there are snakes in my bed. My first major experience that I remember was when I was quite young, maybe 3 years old, I saw a door swing around on it’s own and I asked if it was my Mom but there was no response.Basically I felt a presence. I checked, no one was there. Then I saw a huge shadow in front of my door, I was terrified and hid under my bed sheets. I got up and ran downstairs. Since that day I have had disturbing dreams, very disturbing dreams. Dreams of people dying, violent painful dreams that I would wake up to and be crying and actually see everything just spinning in my vision. I also had a certain strange dream about religious gatherings at shrines with smoke and Buddhist practices. Which I actually have never seen before in my life but I still dreamed of it when I was little, and I remember seeing dolls getting thrown into the ashes in that dream. I don’t understand it but it was strange.

This happened for a very long time and it started calming down later on. Plus I did not watch horror movies at that time when I was a child so I had no idea where I would have this influence. My mom said as a kid I would notice random things, like saying things moving, things disappearing to different places without touching it. I even remembered as a kid telling my stuff to stay put and don’t run away. Funny but true.

Another major event was when I came back from a trip to Thailand in grade 4. This is very confusing, I was sleeping but I started hearing noises in my head, couldn’t define what the voices in my head were almost like screaming or begging for help. I didn’t know what was being said but I felt pain and fear. I even prayed and said please God, let this stop I don’t know what is happening. Then I don’t know why I hesitated but I tried to walk out of my room to the room where everyone was watching TV, I couldn’t but I remember getting there and seeing what they were watching, I yelled for help no one heard. Then the last thing I remember was getting up from my bed and telling my parents I heard some crazy things just now and crying. I even asked what my parents were watching and I got it right. That was something I couldn’t have known which was quite strange. In fact my parents said I never even got to the family room and just now was the first time I exited that room.

Another time I saw a lady at church, but surprisingly she passed away that day. Which meant it was impossible for me to see her, I hope I wasn’t hallucinating…

After that event not much happened, I lived a normal life. Except I saw things move a few times without anything making it move and heard noises with no explanation on where they come from.

I still wonder, what if I was schizophrenic or still am? I hope someone on here can hopefully recognize whether I am insane or whether I really do have a feel for things that are not on this earth. There is little I understand but I only want to know the truth and nothing else.

Whoever responds to this I give a thank you in advance, your advice will be appreciated.

Asked by John

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Is Life After Death a Matter of Choice?

I first saw it on an episode from “A Haunting”. It spoke about a haunted nightclub and the ghosts were spirits of killers which refused to leave our realm out of fear they might be condemned to hell. So, they remained behind and terrorized the living.

Now, I read that you can choose to reincarnate or not. Is this a matter of choice or a matter of divine order (God decides whether we reincarnate or not)?

Thanks for answering!

Asked by blacktiti89

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Why Hasnt My Story Been Posted Yet?

OK, this question is about the website in general. I get a lot of emails from people asking where their story is or “why hasn’t my story been posted yet?” and the like.

I am just one person. So it might take a little while before I can get to your story. I always try to send out an email to let the author know when their story is published.

Here are some reasons why a story may be delayed in publishing or not be used:

1. If your story requires a lot of editing then it might get pushed back in favor of those which are less work for me to prepare for publishing. If you send in a story typed in all caps it cannot be used. I would have to sit down and completely retype it by hand. I just don’t have the time. I also have a lot stories in the que that have no punctuation, no capitalization, no separation of paragraphs just a continuous string of letters and words. I just don’t have the time.

2. I have stories submitted that are full pf profanity. When you send in your story or question there is no need to use profanity. When it is moderate I will sometimes edit the story but if every other sentence includes profanity it WILL NOT be used.

3. If you send in a question asking “Why Doesn’t My Boy Friend Trust Me?” or “Is My Husband Cheating on me?” It will NOT be used. Yes, I do get those and even worse.

4. Please don’t use lol, bf, omg smilies and all that, it just makes my job more difficult or it puts your story in the back of the line.

I do not ask or even expect those who send in their stories and questions to be professional writers. I do not expect perfect grammar, spelling or sentence and paragraph structure, but it would be great if you could actually capitalize the first word in a sentence. I have stories that are over 1,000 words that would be a nightmare to edit.

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