Supernatural experiences

Have you ever had an experience that you suspected was an encounter with a ghost of some kind? If you were afraid, what exactly were you afraid of?

Ohhhhh this is way creepy Erik. A few months before my daddy died, I was alone at my mothers with my daughter & Moms dog. My daughter was VERY young.
I heard the most ....I cannot think of the word I want to describe it....SAD gut wretching devestating sobbing imaginable. I thought someone was in the house. My daughter asked, "Who is crying Mommy?"

My moms bloodhound threw back her head & howled , all the hairs standing on her back. I felt engulfed by sadness. It made me want to die. I can never explain the horrible feeling it gave me. There are no words to describe this.

I had to get out of the house, not out of fear. But because the despair the crying made me feel. I couldn't breath.....*shivers*

My father died 4 months later. I in my heart believe it was my grandma. I think she knew Daddy had cancer and was dying.

I NEVER want to hear that sound again.

Those who have had no confirmed supernatural experiences: Have you ever watched a supernatural show and felt the "energies", whether or not you believed they were actually ghosts? How did these energies feel to you?

I've been wondering what those who have strong empathic sensations feel when they watch shows where there are strong energies like ghosts and stuff. I suspect that a few of the ghost shows I've been watching recently would have created some strong reactions in a few people here.

I haven't seen it. What channel?

They're scattered on a number of channels. One that looked like it had particularly creepy stuff was the one that has that creepy high-pitched narrator voice, what's that called, anyone know?

Ohhh I know one....I cannot think of its name. It has that chick from Polterguist narrating it. is that who you mean?

Maybe, I'm not sure.

Ummm.... all the time... I would not even know where to start. I usually don't talk about them with most folks...

Welcome resplendent. Here, people won't judge you for your unusual experiences. This is very different from most of society.

melodiccolor wrote:Welcome resplendent. Here, people won't judge you for your unusual experiences. This is very different from most of society.

Thank you... I have had numerous experiences from youth through adulthood. Some benevolent, some caustic. I'll share the most caustic and the most benevolent extremes here - that way I am limiting what I am sharing.

Benevolent:

I have had a couple experiences where my departed loved one showed up spoke to me - telling me his perspective on an issue. My attention was elsewhere and suddenly got yanked toward a soft presence. Kind of hard to explain. Kind of like a warm glow... and information that I could not have generated myself was shared with me.

Caustic:
I was reading in my living room in a cottage that dated from the late 1800s and had my cat sitting next to me. I felt icy breeze go across my face, and when I looked up the cat's head turned as if he was seeing something rushing past. He got up and left the room in a hurry. I figured if he was disturbed that I should be disturbed too.

I think that there are all forms of energy out there and some are embodied and some are not...

Without prattling on, that is the kind of experiences I have - I also saw a woman get thrown out of a chair once, but that was not me personally...

Perhaps if people respond and say things the conversation can progress as people are interested.

There are times when I have felt that people who have passed were thinking about me. They were more feelings and intuition than anything else, but they have happened (and I attribute them to certain important people in my life).

In my own experience, I usually don't have dreams or anything like that after someone close has died. Instead, I usually learn some of the most important life lessons that can be learned (or I relearn them in some cases!)

In a way, you could say that the lessons we learn are the departed's gift to us before passing on. It's up to us to use those lessons and change our lives for the better.

I sometimes have experiences that have little to do with my history. Once I attended a religious ceremony as an observer for a class assignment in comparative religion in university. I was seated in the congregation. I felt nothing until about 3/4 of the way through the service. Suddenly I became aware of a pressure around my face and neck, as if something was pushing me back - it felt altogether unwelcoming. It seemed relatively hostile. I started to mentally "talk to it" asking it to leave. At one point I told it that it did not have a right to hassle me and it backed off, but I could sense that it was not gone until I left the facility.

I have no idea why it was hostile toward me. Of course I NEVER brought it up in my class.

In the house where I grew up, apparently there was some spirit or someone who had died or something there, according to a clairvoyant that my mum saw. He was unhappy and used to haunt the hill which our house was on. It often scared the shit out of me as a kid, just walking into my room in darkness... like there was this oppressive feeling coming from my window which overlooks the hill. I couldn't really analyse my feelings about it... the fear was very strong. Anything supernatural like that (real or on TV) still has a strong effect on me.

Anyway, eventually mum did some kind of ceremony that the clairvoyant told her to do, and then things cleared up... I didn't feel so afraid in my room at night after that.

I don't really have an opinion about spirits and things... I'm sure they exist, but I'm not comfortable exploring those ideas, so I don't think about it.