I’ve never seen anyone sparkle in the sunlight, nor have I watched brains being devoured by some glassy eyed freak. These popular, yet, extreme forms of the paranormal seem to attract a lot of attention and I’m sure if they actually manifested themselves in our lives, the attention would be worthwhile. What I want to know is, if you have ever had what most consider a NORMAL paranormal experience? I know, it’s hard to put normal and paranormal into the same light, being that by definition, paranormal is not…well…normal. Here’s one definition:
Denoting events or phenomena such as telekinesis or clairvoyance that are beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding.
What I mean is have you ever seen a ghost or what you thought was a ghost? Had creepy cold fingers touch you in the middle of the night and no one was there? Seen lights or glowing eyes staring back at you from the darkness? Heard noises or music you could not explain?
I had an experience once, early in my marriage, where we were staying with the wife’s family sleeping on the pullout bed. Everyone was asleep except me and I lay awake listening to the sounds of the strange house. It made weird noises. Slowly, as I drifted off to sleep, right in the place where la la land is almost there, yet you are still barely hanging onto consciousness, something shook the bed and startled me back to alertness. Nothing was there. I dismissed it as my imagination and started to drift off again. Silence in the house now, and then I was startled awake again by the quick jolting of the sofa-bed. I sat up and stared into the gloom. I could see nothing out of the ordinary and my wife softly snoozed next to me, undisturbed. I thought maybe she had jostled the bed in her sleep so I lay back down trying to get comfortable. Drifting off once again, the bed shook more violently and I was fully awake in an instant and could actually here the springs of the bed creak. My wife mumbled but did not wake. Now, I thought maybe the kids were goofing off and were under the bed trying to mess with me. I leaned over and looked, but it was empty. No one was in the room but the wife and I. It took me a little longer to drift off again, but when I finally did, the bed shaking returned. I sat up and said loudly into the dark, “What?!” My wife woke up and asked what I said, and I asked her if she had felt the bed shaking. She said no, but she heard me talking. I lay awake for a while after that and don’t remember when I finally fell asleep. The bed traumatizations did not return. In the light of the morning, everything seemed trivial and unimportant, and it never happened again in all the years we slept on that bed when visiting.
My imagination or something else? Maybe I’ll never know.
If you’ve got a story or an event that happened to you that you could not explain or seemed just a little bit creepy, I’d love to hear about it. Leave a comment and tell us the tale.
As always in creepiness,
Rich
My husband and I were on our honeymoon in San Antonio where we stayed at “The Menger” hotel. We were standing at the Reservation Desk when I told hubby that I needed to use the restroom. The Clerk told me where the restroom was.
Now everyone knows that when you enter a restroom all of the empty stall doors are open. When I entered that was the case with the doors. I went to the last stall in front of the mirror and sat down. I heard the door open, peeking through the slit in the door I could see everything. There was a cleaning lady that came in and no one else. After a few minutes I watched her leave and all of the stall doors were open. I commenced to using the restroom when I heard a toilet flush. Being married to a Master Plumber I just figured the toilet was hung up, but then it got eerily quiet and the room got cold. Then the toilet flushed again! I got up as quietly as I could and opened my stall door only to see that the stall door that was 2 doors down from me was closed. Funny I never saw anyone come in so I bent down to look under the door. There was no one in there and then the toilet flushed again! I high-tailed it out of there and went told my hubby what happened. He had the Clerk explain to me about a cleaning lady who haunts that restroom. Apparently there are more spirits all over the hotel and bar. I know it scared me royally!!! This is absolutely true…
Patricia that is Awesome! What a creepy story. Thanks for sharing.
Rich: Greetings. I’ve had several, some mundane some quite interesting. I’ve had a black mass shadow fly/zoom at me and penetrate right through my chest…enough so that I made a “yelping” sound as it hit me. No damage, nothing negative. I’ve had two family friends and one relative wake me bedside, the relative hours before I heard from my father that his uncle had passed. I’ve “seen” and felt the effects of a HS alumni/classmate son’s murder, been touched, poked and brushed by those on the other side.
The veil is thin, indeed…
Dean man some of that was pretty creepy. I don’t know how I would have handled some black mass passing through me. I might have done a little more than ‘yelp’. Good stuff!
I have had many paranormal encounters, to be honest I don’t think you have enough space here for me to write them all down. But I can say, I know they are real, I know they want you to know they are there.
Ooohh. Sherri, you would be fun to talk to:) Sounds like you’ve had some interesting experiences. Love to hear one of them.
Working long term care can be rewarding work. One our our patients shared with us that her husband
had died on this same date, 13 years ago. She then told us she was going to die today. I told her okay,
if she insists on leaving, we can’t stop her. She laughed and went about finishing her breakfast.
In hindsight, we should have checked her code status. For those not in the medical field, ” do you want us to start your heart if it stops? do you want us to breathe for you?”
After lunch our sweet lady was found passed away. CPR was started, the team was lead by a brand new doctor, it was her first cardiac arrest. We didn’t get her heart started. The team gathered in the kitchen behind the nurses station. Everyone was having a good cry, she had been one of our nicest patients. It had been raining all morning, the sun came out, a rainbow appeared in the sky. Our new doctor told us in the south Pacific if a rainbow comes after a death, it’s their bridge to heaven. Suddenly a 2nd rainbow joined the first. Tears turned to smiles, “it’s her husband’s bridge, he’s been waiting for 13 years”.
Awesome story Jan. Care givers always have stories like this and I love to hear them. Thanks for sharing! Be well!
Rich
Hi Rich,
Happy Respiratory Care Week. With Halloween coming, you need to blog us something scarey.
And to you too Jan. True. I’m on it:)
I’ve not had anything major but a couple years ago, shortly after my oldest brother had passed away from esophageal cancer, one of my dogs got sick and needed to be put down. I was in the shower, preparing to take Damien (dog) in and having a good cry, I heard my brother’s voice. He said, “Don’t worry, I’ll take care of him.”
There have been many times I’ve felt my brother’s presence, usually when I’m going through a difficult situation. He always was a good big brother.