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[Airbus Jr]

 

[Master Of Illusion]

Aren't yallz too old to believe in anything other than the dreamless void of eternity for which we will all return?

 

[Maiden Voyage]

The closest thing I've ever had to a "paranormal" experience is sleep paralysis, but that's pretty much the brain hallucinating during REM sleep and being awake.
I had several episodes but it's been years since my last one.

Same here. Scary at first, but if you’re lucid it can be manageable.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

I had a sleepover at a friend's house when I was a boy. After a fun day of videogames and playing in the woods behind their house, we tucked in for the night. He only had a twin bed, so I slept on a sleeping bag on his bedroom floor. When I woke up I discovered some ghost or something had taken off my pajama pants and underwear. It was spooky.

Who hasn’t stayed at haxan7 ’s place?

It's full name, according to to the person who gave me the picture in 2008 and was involved with it before my encounter, spelt it V _ G E R _ _ . A co-incidence, perhaps.

You should play Wordle.

 

[Kraz]

You should play Wordle.

Definitely. Train up the intuition.

 

[Airbus Jr]

 

[Crayon]

I saw a thing aggressively scoot off a table once.

 

[Batiman]

I once took a massive shit, but when I looked in the toilet there was nothing there.

 

[nush]

I once took a massive shit, but when I looked in the toilet there was nothing there.

Was it the elusive phantom poop and clean wipe combo?

 

[Grildon Tundy]

A relative of mine was the victim of a home invasion back in the 90's. She was home alone during the day, house in the boonies, and the guy barged his way in. He had her sitting at the kitchen table, gun in his hand. I was young, so maybe some details of the story were left out for me, but it wasn't clear to me what he actually wanted--He just barged in, and raved at her and made her listen to his spiel. He stuck around long enough that her husband came home, and the invader got scared off. Cops found him not too far away.

This relative said that she both felt and saw a literal storybook angel standing over her the entire time. That she was calm when she knew she should've been scared, and that she was protected no matter what happened.

I've never personally experienced anything that couldn't be explained by a proven, rational explanation. But I won't discount people's stories like this. I wasn't there. I'm not them. And who knows--could have actually been the case. I can't disprove it.

 

[Mr1999]

I don't believe in ghosts but something strange did happen where 3 people witnessed it, my mother, my aunt and me all heard it. My aunts husband had passed away, she was at our house crying about two weeks after his death. She was crying uncontrollably saying how he had left her and her kids nothing. While this was going on I was maybe 15 feet away from the living room in my room on the computer, and as she was crying I heard the unmistakable cry of a man, it was loud and enough for me to stop doing what I was doing and to go out in the living room, as I walk out I see my mom with the front door already open, they were trying to see where that sound came from. I will never forget the look on their faces, they heard it, I heard it, and since that day I've never figured out what that was. I try to chalk it up to someone walking by our house and hearing her cry and mocking her but that just doesn't make any sense, no one was walking or near by at the time. It was a male voice crying I know that for sure.

 

[Guy_who_thinks_hes_cool]

Im pretty sure my dad has, hes already gone tho

 

[IDKFA]

This one is probably a huge coincidence, but thought I'd share anyway.

Last Sunday my sister went to see a medium with two of our aunties. I should point out that neither myself or my sister believe in mediums or believe it's possible to "talk" to the dead, but one of my aunties is a huge believer.

Anyway, during the session, the medium tells my sister that she has a message from a Mary, which was the name of my grandmother who died well before either myself or my sister was born. The message was "congratulations to your brother (insert my name) on his new role".

My sister then text me that night to ask if I had a promotion at work or went for another internal role. I told her that I hadn't and had no plans to leave my current role. We then both laughed at how woefully wrong this medium was.

Fast forward to Friday just gone. It's my 121 with my manager and I'm expecting the usual stuff, but he then comes out and says that he has some great news and wants to offer me a new position within the team. It's a promotion and I'll be leading a new project, plus comes with a substantial pay increase!

Some coincidence....... right?

 

[Kamina]

I once took a massive shit, but when I looked in the toilet there was nothing there.

*X-files theme playing*

 

[MHubert]

I considered the encounter with V'ger one I could have done without for some time.
Over the years taking a few chosen opportunities to risk talking about it publicly has helped with getting context and understanding it. History, new ideas and cross-examinations bringing sparks of realization to light fires of inspiration.

Fallibilism helps contextualize to avoid the Scylla and Charybdis of believing everything and debunking everything during this odyssey.

This is true. When you´ve had an experience like that, comments like its only your brain playing tricks on you because you want to feel special can seem almost tearfully blissfull.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

astral projection (srs)

 

[kurisu_1974]

It's all in the mind dudes. I'm pretty sure no one ever has had a paranormal experience, but I would be very happy to be proven wrong. Unexplained, yes. Paranormal, no. People just are into assigning meaning to stuff that happens at a particular meaningful time, which they otherwise wouldn't have noticed.

 

[Ballthyrm]

I once went into my local DMV and got my paperwork sorted in 5 minutes.

 

[Jada_Li]

I have a few stories to share, there's more but these will do.

1. Back then, my mother loved amusement parks and we went on this one ride where it's shaped like a giant pirate ship that goes forward and backward in the air. The one that goes around at 180 degrees more or less. We sat next to each other on one end of the ship...just the two of us while everyone else chose to sit on the other side. That day, or at least for that particular ride wasn't full house. I wasn't as brave as my mother and while we were waiting for the ride to start, I turned to look backwards and then forward again. Across from and in front of me was a woman looking right at me smiling. I thought to myself, when did she get here and I didn't even hear her. She sat with her legs crossed and her hands resting on her lap. The ride started up and this woman and I just continued to look at each other during the whole ride as she was still smiling. During the ride my mother kept trying to get me to put my hands in the air but as I've said before, I wasn't as brave as her. At some point I remember my mother asking what was I staring at but I couldn't answer because of that tickly feeling in my stomach. When the ride ended and we were getting out of the ship, I turned around to see if the woman was coming behind me since our exit was closest. But she was gone. And I looked more intently and longer to see if she was heading to the other exit but I never found her. After catching up with my mother who was already way ahead of me, I asked her why did she ask what I was looking at during the ride and proceeded to tell her there was a woman sitting across from me. She told me there wasn't any woman or anybody there, just us two and all the other people on the other side.

2. When I was at a vocational school living there temporarily, I had a racist experience. I've dealt with prejudice and a bit of racism before in my life, but this particular experience was something I've never felt before. It left me feeling like I was lower than dirt, that I didn't matter, I was worthless...just too many negative emotions all at once that I immediately became depressed in that moment just walking around aimlessly. I had my head down low just slowly walking and staring at the floor but had this supernatural nudge to just look up and when I did, I saw the same woman from the amusement park ride walking towards me on the other side and looking and smiling at me. I smiled back and kept walking and then stopped when I noticed an immediate mood change. How I went from feeling unloved and uncared for to feeling the most loved, happy and at peace. Again, I tried to find this woman but she was no where to be found.

3. My mother was/is very special to me, so when she got ill it didn't bother me to quit my job and eventually terminate myself from school so I could take care of her full-time. As time went on, it got hard because it sucks to see someone you love in pain and suffering and there's nothing you can do to take it away and make it better. Then it was revealed that she was dying and that hurt a lot. I remember seeing her in the hospital often, mostly everyday if not everyday. One time she awoke from her coma and I told her that I loved her, even though I had been telling her that while she was in her coma. When my family left the hospital she was up but an emergency happened and everything just went downhill fast. So the family came together and I made the call to take her off of life support. It's funny how something she mentioned so many years ago came into existence. I knew, everyone knew that she made it very clear that if there was nothing else the doctors could do, then don't keep her alive. She didn't ever want to live like that. I've tried spending so much time preparing for this moment but the truth is I was never prepared. But I understand that death is a part of life and that is how the world works...at least for now. My family and I left the hospital and I was the last one behind all of them dragging behind. I kept thinking to myself, there's no coming back here anymore because she's no longer here and I just lost my mother and my best friend and how different life would be. I was so lost and deep in my thoughts that I literally started to feel heavy. My feet, my legs, my chest, it was getting hard to breathe and I thought maybe this is good because I can die right here and join her, as I didn't want to be left alone without her. But then I saw a flash of bright light out of the left hand corner of my peripheral vision. Everything from that point on went in slow motion or so it seemed to me like I was almost frozen in time in that moment. I saw a white butterfly flutter across my eyes really close and then as the butterfly started to go out of my peripheral vision on my right side, I watched as the butterfly fluttered towards the sky and eventually disappeared in the moon. I sat there staring at the night sky and the moon until my sibling came looking for me asking me what am I doing let's go. Again, I noticed a complete change in my mood and I felt happy and tranquil. I know my mother wouldn't want me to be so sad and I believe in my heart she was allowed that moment to cheer me up and let me know she's happy and fine where she is and she wants me to be too. I actually enjoyed the rain that evening even more...oh how fitting.

A quick history of me: I have known of supernatural happenings since I was a child and having the close bond with my mother revealed that she too had/has this strong spiritual connection. One time I saw her talking to someone who I couldn't see. I've since put the pieces together that these experiences are most likely angels who enjoy talking to those who are spiritually attuned and/or even guardians of us. They look like everyday people, you see them like you would any other person in your life but to everyone else, they won't be seen. Some people on this earth have spiritual gifts, and there are many. My mother could actually see spirits and even detect whether they meant harm or were harmless. Once she told me she saw the spirit of a woman murdered in one of the houses we were living at and said I walked right through her when coming down the stairs.

This world is more than meets the eye. If only you knew, you would see the world and the life in it and beyond for what it really is. When you seek the truth, the truth will find you. When you seek lies, deception will find you. Isn't it odd? The truth is stranger than fiction. How can fiction be so believable but the truth be so unbelievable? Topsy-turvy (What's right is wrong and what's wrong is right), up and down, day and night, black and white....

 

[Chronicle]

Of all the things it could be... of all the rational, even science-based explanations, it could be.... let's go with a ghost.

Smh

 

[Ash Sparrow]

I have a ton, but one that stands out at the moment is. We are were laying some grass in the front yard of the building we lived. I was watering the grass for the landlord. I went down to the basement to hook up the hose, but the water pressure was bad and I worked with it, but decided to give up that day. I stayed down there a long time, when I returned to our apartment my mom who had been sleep said did you get the water pressure to work, I said huh how did you know, she said you came up here and told me, I said no i didnt. I wanted to tell you, but did not.That was the first time we ever had an issue with the water pressure. I said I'm just coming to tell you now. She said you already came up here, then proceeded to tell me everything I had planned to say.

 

[synchronicity]

This one is probably a huge coincidence, but thought I'd share anyway.

Last Sunday my sister went to see a medium with two of our aunties. I should point out that neither myself or my sister believe in mediums or believe it's possible to "talk" to the dead, but one of my aunties is a huge believer.

Anyway, during the session, the medium tells my sister that she has a message from a Mary, which was the name of my grandmother who died well before either myself or my sister was born. The message was "congratulations to your brother (insert my name) on his new role".

My sister then text me that night to ask if I had a promotion at work or went for another internal role. I told her that I hadn't and had no plans to leave my current role. We then both laughed at how woefully wrong this medium was.

Fast forward to Friday just gone. It's my 121 with my manager and I'm expecting the usual stuff, but he then comes out and says that he has some great news and wants to offer me a new position within the team. It's a promotion and I'll be leading a new project, plus comes with a substantial pay increase!

Some coincidence....... right?

There are no coincidences.

 

[synchronicity]

I have a ton, but one that stands out at the moment is. We are were laying some grass in the front yard of the building we lived. I was watering the grass for the landlord. I went down to the basement to hook up the hose, but the water pressure was bad and I worked with it, but decided to give up that day. I stayed down there a long time, when I returned to our apartment my mom who had been sleep said did you get the water pressure to work, I said huh how did you know, she said you came up here and told me, I said no i didnt. I wanted to tell you, but did not.That was the first time we ever had an issue with the water pressure. I said I'm just coming to tell you now. She said you already came up here, then proceeded to tell me everything I had planned to say.

For some reason that reminds me of a strange experience I had when riding in a car with a group of friends when I was in my teen years. I had this sudden awareness of the coming conversation, and I knew what was going to be said by several people...exactly. And sure enough, right after having this strange jolt of prescience, the conversation unfolded word for word as I had seen. It wasn't a particularly noteworthy conversation, and it seemed so random to have this glimpse of what was to come. But it was surely weird. It was the only time I've had this particular phenomenon happen to me.

 

[Kraz]

Don't Forget The Bones!

 

[Drizzlehell]

Thanks to talking about the V'ger experience on Gaf last year it's helped with resolving it in a celestial order.
Work in last month has been very productive.

Intergalactic...

GRB221009A in Sagitta synchronicity.

There probably won't be another update here so here's the original with all the sigils.

Don't Forget The Bones!

 

[Romulus]

My current girlfriend swore to me that they took a dozen candid family reunion pics in like 1997. Standing in the background in one of them is some white dude in WW1 outfit just standing in the foreground clear as day take with a polaroid. That's important because there are no white people here. Anyway, the person who took it is still alive and very old but the pic is in storage. We've been given permission to go dig it out, but it's a four hour drive from here.

Anyway, the strangest part is I've talked to at least a dozen people that saw the pic back then and every last one of them swear up and down it's real. My gf's mom gets goosebumps just thinking about it, because the man is making this face full of despair and loss unlike anything she's seen before. She said it freaked everyone out so bad that day and people left and some never came back to the house lol

 

[Harlock]

A couple of friends had saw ghosts. And are normal people. But I never see anything. So for me is a 50/50 chance of ghost be real.

But if ghost is real, the after life don´t look to be nice, otherwise those ghost would not be around showing up to people that can see them.

 

[Spaceman292]

My current girlfriend swore to me that they took a dozen candid family reunion pics in like 1997. Standing in the background in one of them is some white dude in WW1 outfit just standing in the foreground clear as day take with a polaroid. That's important because there are no white people here. Anyway, the person who took it is still alive and very old but the pic is in storage. We've been given permission to go dig it out, but it's a four hour drive from here.

Anyway, the strangest part is I've talked to at least a dozen people that saw the pic back then and every last one of them swear up and down it's real. My gf's mom gets goosebumps just thinking about it, because the man is making this face full of despair and loss unlike anything she's seen before. She said it freaked everyone out so bad that day and people left and some never came back to the house lol

pics.

 

[Bragr]

Thanks to talking about the V'ger experience on Gaf last year it's helped with resolving it in a celestial order.
Work in last month has been very productive.

Intergalactic...

GRB221009A in Sagitta synchronicity.

There probably won't be another update here so here's the original with all the sigils.

Don't Forget The Bones!

What bones?

 

[nush]

What bones?

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Sometimes I go #2 but when I get up to flush the toilet, there is no evidence of #2 happening. Phantom turds are terrifying.

 

[OZ9000]

Yeah I visited some aliens and had lunch with them.

We feasted on human flesh.

Was pretty cool. Would try again, 10/10 experience.

 

[Josemayuste]

Yeah, I had one pretty shocking to me when I was around 7 years old or something, my mind erased any traces of it until I was a teenager and I was told about it, when I found out and thoughts started coming back I found myself crying for no reason, I think that it might have hurted my young self so much to end up that way, when I grew up older and more mature I tried to search about it, in order to find some rational explanation or something that backed that stuff with some coherent facts, then I was in awe again, what I found was:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_person

That many people around the world have had similar experiences, even a Google image search it's a carbon copy of what I saw, nowadays I can talk about it, but there was a large portion of my life where only to talk about it gave me goosebumps, anxiety, and in some cases I started crying too..

I even found that there is a woman that's gathering and classifying info with people which have had these types of 'interactions' like mine, shady stuff..

I choose to think that it only was a sleep paralysis for the better.

 

[Spaceman292]

Yeah, I had one pretty shocking to me when I was around 7 years old or something, my mind erased any traces of it until I was a teenager and I was told about it, when I found out and thoughts started coming back I found myself crying for no reason, I think that it might have hurted my young self so much to end up that way, when I grew up older and more mature I tried to search about it, in order to find some rational explanation or something that backed that stuff with some coherent facts, then I was in awe again, what I found was:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_person

That many people around the world have had similar experiences, even a Google image search it's a carbon copy of what I saw, nowadays I can talk about it, but there was a large portion of my life where only to talk about it gave me goosebumps, anxiety, and in some cases I started crying too..

I even found that there is a woman that's gathering and classifying info with people which have had these types of 'interactions' like mine, shady stuff..

I choose to think that it only was a sleep paralysis for the better.

Are you sure you weren't just molested by some guy with dark clothes?

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

Are you sure you weren't just molested by some guy with dark clothes?

That's a nice alternative /s.

My little brother had a couple year period in which he had entities (ghosts) visit him at night when he was around 10 years old.

 

[jufonuk]

I swear once I was out walking one night and the poeple across the street from me had no faces they were walking a dog I could see the dog but not their faces
they were standing under street lights and just "looked" at me. I looked back all confused.

I could have imagined it but I was really confused by it, I could also make out the detail on the dog.

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

We had some family acquaintances, a couple, pretty young, late 20's perhaps. At one point the man died from something in his sleep (can't remember) and my brother saw him in the mirror standing behind him. That mirror was removed the same day (it was in his bedroom)

I've had some sleep paralysis stuff happen without visitor. And I've veen touched/groped subtlety in those moments before falling asleep.

Doesn't come close to my little brother's experiences though, luckily..

 

[Josemayuste]

Are you sure you weren't just molested by some guy with dark clothes?

No, but I don't know what's worse LOL

 

[deathsaber]

I'm pretty sure just sleep paralysis stuff. I'm sleeping in bed. Then I'm "awake", lying there in bed. Except I see someone just standing there looking at me. Maybe my kid? (anyone with kids knows all about them waking up at all kinds of odd hours and coming into your room with 'i can't sleep/i feel sick issues'. It happens.

I'm unsure, though, I just woke and I'm groggy, and vision is kind of foggy. Then the person sudden charges me, full speed, clearly with some ill intent. Right as they would reach me, I jolt, and there's this sudden wrestling with my body, as I can't fucking move, but I'm struggling to do so (in my mind) and regain control of myself. Eventually you do get a grip, full control, look around, and realize you simply dreamed yourself lying in bed with a person charging towards you. You then proceed to lay in bed, deeply unsettled, still tired, yet awake and paranoid you will unknowingly doze and cross back into that other layer where the "person" was being menacing.

 

[Kraz]

What bones?

 

[Romulus]

pics.

Four hour drive and there's no guarantee I would find it.

 

[Bragr]

Four hour drive and there's no guarantee I would find it.

Excuses! If it's really that shocking of a picture, you would take that drive.

 

[Romulus]

Excuses! If it's really that shocking of a picture, you would take that drive.

Right? The thing is the lady that owns it is like 98 and in bad health. We'll need to clean out that storage anyway when she passes. No need to drive 4 hours(8 back and forth) just to turn around and do it again.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

One time I was tripping on mushrooms. Suddenly I start hearing this voice and sense a presence. It sounds like my voice, but it isn't. It's way more commanding and authorities.

It tells me it loves me, and how I'm such a great person that people look to for strength. And that it will take care of me and protect me.

I ask who the presence is. Suddenly I feel this knowing coyness.

A time later, I see the veil of reality appear. And I'm staring at it. Suddenly the presence emerges again. "Do you really think I'd share the Secrets with You?" In a tone like "who do you think you are?" I then having sort of like a seizure. And then woke up sober.

 

[Spaceman292]

Four hour drive and there's no guarantee I would find it.

Small price to pay for evidence of life after death

 

[Romulus]

Small price to pay for evidence of life after death

Easy for someone else to say. Either way, I have to go there anyway when she passes. Almost 100 years old and in bad health. No rush to drive there twice.

 

[Brazen]

I'm pretty sure just sleep paralysis stuff. I'm sleeping in bed. Then I'm "awake", lying there in bed. Except I see someone just standing there looking at me. Maybe my kid? (anyone with kids knows all about them waking up at all kinds of odd hours and coming into your room with 'i can't sleep/i feel sick issues'. It happens.

I'm unsure, though, I just woke and I'm groggy, and vision is kind of foggy. Then the person sudden charges me, full speed, clearly with some ill intent. Right as they would reach me, I jolt, and there's like this jolt, and there's this sudden wrestling with my body, as I can't fucking move, but I'm struggling to do so (in my mind) and regain control of myself. Eventually you do get a grip, full control, look around, and realize you simply dreamed yourself lying in bed with a person charging towards you. You then proceed to lay in bed, deeply unsettled, still tired, yet awake and paranoid you will unknowingly doze and cross back into that other layer where the "person" was being menacing.

Been years ago but I use to have this stuff happen all the time coinciding with nightmares. While dreaming I keep trying to move but can't and/or wake myself up and while I think I've woken myself up I'm still sleeping/dreaming. This goes on for layers and layers and with a feeling that there is an ominous presence with me in bed or in my room keeping me in this nightmare. After I finally do wake up for real it's hard to go back to sleep. Worse experience ever. Happened a lot in my late 20s, early 30s. Not had that experience close to a decade now. Thank god.

 

[synchronicity]

I swear once I was out walking one night and the poeple across the street from me had no faces they were walking a dog I could see the dog but not their faces
they were standing under street lights and just "looked" at me. I looked back all confused.

I could have imagined it but I was really confused by it, I could also make out the detail on the dog.

It's a strange thing, this place.

 

[Spaceman292]

Easy for someone else to say. Either way, I have to go there anyway when she passes. Almost 100 years old and in bad health. No rush to drive there twice.

well thats morbid

 

[Romulus]

well thats morbid

Death is a thing