Paranormal stuff

[Ammoka]

Do you believe in paranormal things? like this?

So when I was around the age of 1, my mother had a vision or dream, or it was reality, that a man stood before her bedroom door saying that she had to watch out next day. What happened the following day? I had a very low blood sugar ratio so I almost died.

Also interesting, the man who stood before the door looked like my fathers grandfather (he was in Bosnia because of the civil war when this 'dream' happened).

So was it a dream, a vision or reality? And is he good or evil? Will he speak to me because I am older now (15) or will he keep speeking to my mother?

Yes, it was me, can you maybe explain it?

[Rambhutan]

No I don't believe in anything paranormal.

[Siorafrica]

I dunno about paranormal stuff.

[Yuktova]

I don't believe in the paranormal, I do however believe in other lifeforms in the Universe, however.

[Gallade]

Yes, I believe in certain paranormal things.

Spirits, for one yes.

Prophesies, psychics, mediums etc, im pretty skeptical about.

[Shanix]

I believe in paranormal things, because when I was 13, I woke up at 3AM to the sound of a little girl's giggling and saying hello. My brother and parents were asleep. So I think that there could be something.

[Unhealthy2]

A hypnopompic hallucination that happened to be vague enough that she could find something to attach it to? Yeah, that's supernatural.

[Alevuss]

Yes I do believe in paranormal stuff, including that. I don't get why everyone thinks that Ghost Hunters is real. It seems so fake or easy to debunk.

[Oterro]

Nah.

[Unhealthy2]

I believe in paranormal things, because when I was 13, I woke up at 3AM to the sound of a little girl's giggling and saying hello. My brother and parents were asleep. So I think that there could be something.

It couldn't just be a dream, or some other sort of hallucination occurring in the time between sleep and genuine awakened awareness?

[Mike the Progressive]

Yes, you were delusional. Smoking pot can do that to you.

[Unhealthy2]

Spirits, for one yes.

What is a "spirit"?

[Phing Phong]

I don't believe specifically in the paranormal such as the existence of fate, fortune-telling or supernatural demons, but do not outright disbelieve in things like spirits of the land.

[Gallade]

Yes I do believe in paranormal stuff, including that. I don't get why everyone thinks that Ghost Hunters is real. It seems so fake or easy to debunk.

Ghost Hunters is hilarious.

"Did you hear that? DID YOU SEE THAT?!!"

....No? Maybe if you zoomed to the area where it happened instead of your terrified faces whenever anything happens, or even just replay or show even a scrap of evidence of all this stuff you "found" i'd have an easier time believing you.

[Mike the Progressive]

Yes I do believe in paranormal stuff, including that. I don't get why everyone thinks that Ghost Hunters is real. It seems so fake or easy to debunk.

Ghost Hunters is hilarious.

Eh, I enjoyed the SP spoof.

[Gallade]

Spirits, for one yes.

What is a "spirit"?

When I say spirit i dont mean ghost, dont get me wrong. I take it more as an imprint on a location or an old memory that rears its head every now and again.

[Unhealthy2]

I take it more as an imprint on a location or an old memory that rears its head every now and again.

What do you mean by an "imprint" on a location? I take it you're not just talking about leftover thermodynamic information in an isolated system?

[Call to power]

No I do not believe that a little girl hanging out in a creepy nutters cellar ends the way it is often claimed.

I do however believe in the boogyman

[Vetalia]

It couldn't just be a dream, or some other sort of hallucination occurring in the time between sleep and genuine awakened awareness?

Could be sleep paralysis. I've experienced it myself, although honestly I've gotten to the point where I can almost induce it by laying a certain way; it produces all kinds of effects including hearing clear and distinct voices, feeling the sensation of being touched or moving, etc...I don't open my eyes of course because I'm aware enough to know it can produce some pretty frightening hallucinations.

That being said, I do believe in paranormal phenomena; there are just so many cases everywhere in the world in every time period and so many things about the natural world we don't yet know or understand that to dismiss a major component of human experience is probably unwise. After all, paranormal simply means "outside the normal"...it doesn't mean beyond our capability to one day test, understand, or prove/disprove.

After all, ball lightning was considered paranormal until pretty recently; now, there is much stronger ground to explain it based upon new knowledge about lightning, and IIRC scientists in Brazil succeeded in creating it on a small scale.

[Slothtonia]

I have never experienced anything paranormal... not even a UFO and I envy those that have found a little crack in our mundane reality.

[Farnhamia]

It couldn't just be a dream, or some other sort of hallucination occurring in the time between sleep and genuine awakened awareness?

Could be sleep paralysis. I've experienced it myself, although honestly I've gotten to the point where I can almost induce it by laying a certain way; it produces all kinds of effects including hearing clear and distinct voices, feeling the sensation of being touched or moving, etc...I don't open my eyes of course because I'm aware enough to know it can produce some pretty frightening hallucinations.

That being said, I do believe in paranormal phenomena; there are just so many cases everywhere in the world in every time period and so many things about the natural world we don't yet know or understand that to dismiss a major component of human experience is probably unwise. After all, paranormal simply means "outside the normal"...it doesn't mean beyond our capability to one day test, understand, or prove/disprove.

After all, ball lightning was considered paranormal until pretty recently; now, there is much stronger ground to explain it based upon new knowledge about lightning, and IIRC scientists in Brazil succeeded in creating it on a small scale.

No one is dismissing undocumented natural phenomena. We are - well, I am, anyway - dismissing the claims that these unexplained or poorly documented phenomena are caused by or are evidence of the spirits of people who are dead, discorporated entities, spacecraft from outer space, unknown animals that suck the blood out of livestock, or other such things. It's like we say around the Internet, pics or it never happened. For "pics" read "evidence." There's a difference between keeping an open mind and opening your mind so much that your brains fall out.

[Slovitrea]

I have had a personal experience that has solidified my belief in the paranormal. A friend and I walked out into some woods behind our campsite (in a secluded area), and as soon as we had exited the site, the forest became eerily quiet. Then, randomly, the rain started pouring (more on that later). We kept walking in, and heard a tapping sound on a tree right behind us. There were no swinging branches, woodpeckers, or other people to make that sound. I asked if anyone was there, and there was the tapping again. I asked if they were doing the tapping, to no response. We kept walking in, and all of a sudden I saw a little pinprick of light move from right to left about 1 foot off the ground, in front of me. It wasn't dust, and it wasn't rain. Then, my friend saw another pinprick of light, about ten yards behind us. We asked again if anyone was there, and the rain picked up a lot. We asked if we were trespassing, and the rain slowed to a stop. We started advancing again, and the rain picked up again. We then decided to leave, as we didn't bring rain gear and were soaked. As we returned, I saw some things scratched into the dirt at my feet. They were my initials, and the initials of my friend. No one was in the woods with us, and I had eyes on my friend the whole time. The initials were defined and clear, and in no way seemed natural. So, as we walked out, I turned around to look at the forest one last time, and saw a hazy shape of a man standing in the forest, a few feet from me. We got the hell out after that.

Alone, those things could be chalked up to imagination, but together, they mean only one thing. There was something in that forest.

[Wilgrove]

I do believe in stuff like ghosts, UFOs, land and house wights.

[Oterro]

I have had a personal experience that has solidified my belief in the paranormal. A friend and I walked out into some woods behind our campsite (in a secluded area), and as soon as we had exited the site, the forest became eerily quiet. Then, randomly, the rain started pouring (more on that later). We kept walking in, and heard a tapping sound on a tree right behind us. There were no swinging branches, woodpeckers, or other people to make that sound. I asked if anyone was there, and there was the tapping again. I asked if they were doing the tapping, to no response. We kept walking in, and all of a sudden I saw a little pinprick of light move from right to left about 1 foot off the ground, in front of me. It wasn't dust, and it wasn't rain. Then, my friend saw another pinprick of light, about ten yards behind us. We asked again if anyone was there, and the rain picked up a lot. We asked if we were trespassing, and the rain slowed to a stop. We started advancing again, and the rain picked up again. We then decided to leave, as we didn't bring rain gear and were soaked. As we returned, I saw some things scratched into the dirt at my feet. They were my initials, and the initials of my friend. No one was in the woods with us, and I had eyes on my friend the whole time. The initials were defined and clear, and in no way seemed natural. So, as we walked out, I turned around to look at the forest one last time, and saw a hazy shape of a man standing in the forest, a few feet from me. We got the hell out after that.

Alone, those things could be chalked up to imagination, but together, they mean only one thing. There was something in that forest.

go back.

burn it to the ground.

the fucker knows your initials, he probably followed you home.

[Call to power]

Alone, those things could be chalked up to imagination, but together, they mean only one thing. There was something in that forest.

I was once alone in the woods when I heard a coughing coming from behind a stone wall so being a perfectly rational person who tends to not let his imagination run wild I went and investigated.

turns out sheep can cough thus by the powers vested in me by anecdotal evidence I dub all ghosts to be sheep and the government has an elaborate conspiracy to cover up this fact