Have you ever seen a ghost or witnessed something supernatural?

[AdrenalineShots]

Hi All

Have any of you ever seen a ghost or witnessed something supernatural?

Personally I haven't seen a ghost (and not sure if overall I would ultimately want to!) but just wondered what others experiences have been? I often write about spooky stuff and there is a ghost character in Saturday Night Seance so I'm always interested in hearing about "real life" experiences.

This has been triggered by a catch up with an old childhood friend recently. She's super nice, kind and thoughtful and ought of the blue she told me about something that happened to her back when we were kids.

There had been an accident the night previously out on the water and a couple of people had lost their lives on a private vessel. I cant remember all of the details but I think it may just have been a drunken party that got a bit out of hand. The weather has also been really bad / stormy. What I didn't know was that my friend was also on the beach that night near where it happened, at a time that could have been after the accident happened. Apparently she was alone and walking home after a pretty big wild party (she was a little rebellious back then and in her "bad girl" phase) when according to her a figure literally floated in from the sea amongst the fog and spoke to her, just constantly repeating "I don't know who I am or where I'm going". Apparently she has kept that to herself for all these years, apart from telling her direct family. Now, it could be that she was simply drunk and this could all have been the figment of some intoxicated fun however I do know that she could definitely hold her drink (even back then) and also that she has never, ever been prone to exaggeration.

Just made me think.

Has anyone else had an encounter with a sprit or know someone that has?

All Best

Danny

Danny Richard
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[surenlicious]

When I was a child, I was crying in the middle of the night when I saw a black shadow suddenly looming at me from beyond the wall. The creature was lanky and...I don't know, but I knew that thing was no living human.

[Eiranyx]

One time when I was alone in my room, when I was about to sleep, I suddenly felt the bed I'm lying in sink as if someone sat on it and laid down beside me, and then someone embraced me from behind, I kept my eyes shut, then it spoke, I cannot really remember what did it say, it was really long and it does sound a bit inhuman at some point when it told me something like "why did you suddenly to leave?" I don't know how I managed to fall asleep or if I ever did sleep that night. And then morning came, I suddenly received a message from a sister of an old friend, he's someone I am close with, a junior of mine in my old school -- here's the scary part: the sister, told me that morning, that his brother ( which is the said old friend) has died on that night.

[KhanSpring]

When I was a kid, I was sitting on the stairs in front of my house, playing by myself and upset became my grandfather didn't take me out with him (he probably had to go somewhere where he couldn't bring me). And all of a sudden I hear this unnaturally deep male voice:
"Why are you crying?"
And one that my mother had. My grandfather from the story above was sent to hospital on my 7th birthday and he was there for roughly three months until his passing. One night my mother wakes up and goes to get some water. And in the corridor, right between the kitchen and the living room stands my grandfather, smiling at her.

[Maps]

When I was little I woke up in the middle of the night and heard classical music playing from our living room. It was really late at night and all the lights were off so I knew everyone went to bed. I assumed my parents forgot to turn off our entertainment set, so I got up and began making my way down the hall. Right when I turned the corner to the living room, the music stopped abruptly enough that it seemed to echo for a second.

I just remember bolting straight back to bed and hiding under my sheets, waiting for morning to come.

[lynestjules]

To be completely honest, It's almost a daily occurrence.
My very first experience that I can remember was when I was 5 or 6 years old. My great-grandmother came to visit me in my bedroom. I had a rocking chair and suddenly out of nowhere, it started to rock and this figure appeared and it was her. She didn't say anything, I said something to her and she just rocked in the chair while looking at me and she smiled and then faded away. The rocking chair then stopped rocking suddenly. The next morning, my parents told me that she died in her sleep.
It scared the crap out of me and remember screaming for my mom and dad when she disappeared from the chair and then it just stopped moving.

After that, I started to see the ghosts a lot more and eventually years later, it was almost a daily thing. They look like people and unless their dressed in a different time period, I don't know they're dead. So, I can talk to someone about the weather just randomly on the sidewalk because that's what we do here. My friends just see me talking to nothing.

There's this cat on my street and it always crosses the street every single day around the same time. If I'm out and about around that time of day, I will actually take the long way home. I've braked to much for ghost cat and I'm afraid that if I don't break, it might be a real live cat that time. So, I just avoid that area at that time of day.

I'm in my thirties now, I have ghost stories coming out of my ears.

[noenoh]

Me, all my life been able to see the preternatural stuff, thats why Im strong advocate of "dont play whit that" and respect the spirit world person. I also bottled all these things for years because nobody believed in me except for my other 2 sisters (but we had no one to understand us or take us seriously) so I kind of believe in your friend's experience is real since she bottled that up for so long. Is hard specially when you dont undrstand what happened either.

Summary

My first encounter with a ghost was when I was 4 and enterd a room I wasnt allowed to enter if someone was renting it at my grandma house. But that day was ok since the last tenant leave and we will clean for next tenant. But I went alone and saw a man, he looked back at me and he got mad at me for being in his room, suddenly a lady with long dress told me to leave. I was scared so I ran and told my grandma. She kept silent for some minutes after asking mw how they looked and I described them and she said they were her parents, my grandgrandparents that was their room.
Thorough all my experiences in life, I began to differentiate people souls, demons and their subalterns, bad spirits, nature spirits, angels, God.

My siblings, mother and I are prone to see these stuff but I guess im the stronger here and the only who has seek professional help (no witches or other weird stuff that only steals your money, for that Im able to do a better job than them) and I took that from my dad's scientific mind, to check out things first before coming to a conclusion.
I cant always see them, but I can sense or hear them. So, its not exactly as in "Six Sense" but more natural???

In that matter, one of the scariest situations I was involved was when one of my ex-friends father's house was getting more haunted that the usual. She gave me permission to go to explore the house and see what was there. Man, his dad's room was the worst place in the house of how infested it was. I even saw the demon that took possesion of the hoouse I knew that he allowed taht from the person he works for. In other words, he made a contract. The demon did an attempt to made me fall from the stairs. I also found his step-son was playing the oujia and drugging hard. My ex-friend had to move after that cause it was begginign to attack her as well.

Other of my scariest expreiences was when I went with some friends as improntu tourists to another city but we wasnt plannign on staying the night but we lost our last bus so we ended on a strange hostal. I noticed the owners were former communist army people but said nothing. We were asigned to the last room in the aile, closer to a empty lot it took my interest. That night I was having nightmares that the owners wanted to sell my soul to the evil (wtf) and I woke up to a sipirit floating all over me (I moved my hand kinda to slap it lol and with a go away mtf) and noticed a ton of other spirits were also floating over my sleeping friends. For that moment I was like oh Jesus. I had to leave silently the room, it was 3 am. I phone called my ex to calm down and kept awake till 6 am in a chair outside until the janitor ladies came. I told my friends why I did that but they looked at me as if I was a weirdo. When we checked out, I asked the ladies to tell us what happened in that lot because I saw a lot spirits, she were so nervous, looked each other and made us promise not to say a thing to anyone or they could be fired or worse... in that lot were the bodies of a lot of young men that opposed to the communsit regime and they made them dissapear and buried them there... well, fuck. Like that are more young ppl disappeared here thanks commies. My friends finally believed me. I promised not to tell anyone (at least in the country)

When we were younger, my family and I moved a lot. in one of these houses we lived, my sisters and I couldnt sleep a single night cause a demon was always watching us (we decided to sleep all together because we were really scared) till we couldnt have it anymore and begged in tears to our parents to move. next day we moved, the neighbours house was on TV because the daugther went crazy and posseded by a demon and tried to kill her parents.

and so on, i have more stories

Gladly, the firt person that heard me out and believed me began to help me when I was 18, even tho I only met that old man once. I wish he could have thaught me more. Later, the second person who believed me even tho they dont believe on the supernatural is my BFF, she knows if I say something about it its true.I even went to therapy to show I wasnt crazy, yeah and the doc said Im not crazy lol so Im more compfortable now telling people about this and now using my experiences to write some stuff on my story "Die Instrumente Gottes"

[cookieroach]

I've seen the devil once. It was when I was a kid and woke up in the middle of the night. I could see a silhouette standing at the doorway, looking at me. I could see one of his horns, and for some reason he was wearing rain boots and a coat. He didn't move and just watched me silently. I wasn't afraid, because I knew that he wouldn't enter the room.

Now I always sleep with the door closed, and haven't seen him since.

[lynestjules]

It's actually nice to have someone else here that has had so many years of living with this ability. I absolutely hate the fact that you've had to deal with demons as well. I've also been pushed down the stairs by one multiple times. Having them stare at me while I'm trying to sleep, been there too. One touched my shoulder and it shook me to the core. I can't describe the feeling of having one trying to possess you. It's the worst thing I've ever been through in my life. I fought so hard and managed to escape it, but it wiped me out and I ended up collapsing in the middle of the floor unconscious in front of 3 of my friends. They describe their experience of seeing me fighting to save myself as their scariest moment. Can't call 911 for that, they didn't know what to do.

[noenoh]

Im happy when Im meet people who has this as well, so you feel supported or less alone, I think.
Yeah, these losers are always there. At first I didnt know what to do till a few years ago even tho that doesnt stop them to still trying to be nuisance for everyone. Im worried for the huge level of vexation they have made you go through tho. OH I know how it feels, they have tried as well but the msot they can do is to giving me nightmares and physical attacks but Im kind of "GTFO" first instinct with them but of course its scary to KNOW what they can do. But as long as you reject them in your heart, you will be ok.
Its sad to see people who actually believes these are not dangerous, that they can dominate a demon or the demons are misunderstood and deserve pity. nopes, tahts not how the spiritual world works my dudes.

[therosesword]

Had an apartment for years with someone "extra" there. Just a whiff of perfume most of the time, although sometimes very strong, and occasionally something moved slightly (I never saw it move it was just in one spot on the desk then another later).

I called her Lucille and we left each other alone. Went on for about 20 years.

I've also had this weird experience several times where I've heard my family nickname called out and usually within three days I'll find out someone has died.

Such is life.

[indagold]

uhhh i'd see a doctor about that. That sounds like it could be a sign of a medical condition if this is happening constantly. I have a psychotic disorder and that shit can mess you the fuck up if you don't get help.

[SpavVy]

I've had many but I'd rather not talk about them out in the open because they are kinda personal, if you want to read about my experiences feel free to DM me

[HippieGhost]

My house used to be a doctor's office back when hospitals weren't a thing yet. This was back in the late 1800's - early 1900's. Back then, if you were injured or gravely ill, you went to your family doctor for treatment, and as such there were plenty of patients who spent their last days under this very roof.

Paranormal activity in my house varies by time of year, but the ghosts are always around to some extent. The most haunted rooms are my downstairs living and dining rooms, but the third floor has a very mischievous ghost that likes to screw with people.

In the living room, if the lights are off you can feel a presence watching, and waiting to approach. Family members have seen glimpses of an elegant lady occasionally watching them from the living room while they're in the parlor or kitchen as well.

The ghost in my personal bedroom is friendly, shy, and a little bit curious. This one is a child of some sort, and used to make game consoles turn on by themselves.

I've also had poltergeist activity in times of high stress. I've had a toy wooden sword thrown at me, and at one point when getting yelled at by my father a picture went flying off the wall in the parlor. Poltergeists and ghosts are much different from each other, so I think this was my own energy lashing out to create it.

[hjpetersonauthor]

A couple times. I'm a bit sensitive to that sort of thing. I used to see my grandma and my grandpa a lot in our house growing up - my mom was really close to them, and we had a lot of their old things spread between a couple curio cabinets in the house. My husband and I enjoy going to places that are supposed to be haunted, and I've seen things at a couple of the places we've been. We both heard something at the old Idaho penitentiary last time we were there, and I usually have an experience or two on the Queen Mary whenever I go.

[R.n.P]

When I was in highschool i woke up on a saturday morning in our school dormitories, it was bright like 7-8amish and since its Nigeria its usually sunny at that time of the year, I saw a weird black and ash image standing at the end of the room and it was looking at me since the only thing i could see were the white eyes on what seemed to be its face. I closed my eyes trying to fall back asleep since i was drowsy at the time n still wanted to sleep some more and since classmates stay together in the same dorm i just i just ignored it, maybe it was a classmate of mine. After like 2 seconds i then felt something yank me from my head and flipped me over to facing the other side of the bed, I got up from the bed swinging punches like a madman.

[lynestjules]

I already went to get help decades ago. I thought I was losing my mind. I've been tested quite a bit. My health is great! I suffer from a couple mental health issues that are not related. Knowing I wasn't going crazy, helped me to cope with it and I've been doing great. It's not like I see 50 a day. Maybe 1 if I leave my apt.

[TheGentleArtist]

I have a couple. When I was young, my sister told me about how there were footsteps happening around the house; another was when I was napping and I felt one hand go on my left shoulder and another had pat my right arm twice the rub. Of course I woke up and looked around the house since I was by myself; this happened a second and I was by myself again. I couldn't figure out the correlation on how this happened twice.

Fast forward where I'm older, I was super focused on playing Uncharted 3 multiplayer and my guitar, for no reason, just fell over. It made me jump and run from my room. Then there was a time where my bulb was out and I was just looking up at the ceiling, lost in my thoughts, sorta in the dark, the other light was coming from the kitchen that was right next to my room, and randomly recited the beginning verses in the first chapter of Genisis in my head; after finishing the reciting with "...then there was light," the bulb just worked instantly.

[rajillustration]

I have never seen a ghost, but I grew up in an area in the hills that used to be a really old logging town so it's full of ghost stories. There were a bunch of massive older houses, and a friend of mine's Dad was renting one that used to be owned by a guy who owned half the land in the area in the 1920's. Anyway, the house was HELLA offputting, I hated visiting her there because the vibes were just--no bueno--and the weirdest part was that there was this window on the top story behind the master bedroom that had no room it went to. There was no door to where that window lay so clearly at some point someone paved it over.

Her Dad had recently married a woman from Argentina who knew no English, wasn't from the area, and had no driver's license, so she was in this house literally alllll the time. And when she was alone in the master bedroom, she could hear knocking from the wall behind her bed. Like someone trying to get out.

Was it an animal? Was it a ghost? They never decided to find out if there was a nasty skeleton in that secret room. They had seen enough movies to know not to do that.

Anyway, this haunted mansion was really impressively cheap to rent for what it was, and the moment they moved out the house was torn down.

[indagold]

huh sounds kinda like cartoonist Jim Woodring's situation. He sees apparitions that don't have an effect on his life.