Have you ever seen a ghost or witnessed something supernatural?

[noenoh]

What happens with most of people lack understanding that they are also surrounde or affected by spirits a well, but not so many has the ability to see them on daily basis and its actually a "normal" thing in their lives but that cant openly talk because they are called crazy/mentally ill and send to doctors taht also dont understand whats going on most of the time (unless they are good doctors they will not prescribe you drugs and make things worse).

The fact you see a spirit of any kind actually doesnt have any direct effect in your life or routine its like "oh, I saw a bluejay this morning" = " I saw a demon running over my neighbor roof last night" and you continue baking/drawing/working/drinking your tea/etc unless it interacts with you.

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Like in my job's building. lol it was built in a lot where was previously an orpahage but destroyed in an earthquake and everyone died there T_T. I didnt know that when I began working there when then I saw 2 kids running in the aie of my office storie and I was LOL then later I saw a man standing at the end of the stairs like protecting the place, in another occasion I was falling asleep when making extra hours and a man told me "wake up, kiddo" but I was alone, and the other time I was searching like crazy for an item in the storage room and another man was trying to help me to search but I knew he was a spirit with good intentions but it was bothering me so I politely declined his help adusing I knew he was an spirit and his presence actually distracted me but Thank you so much and he dissapeared.

Like, none of them made any different in my life as if I had talked with you or my co-worker.

Demons its a different thing tho. They can actually mess with your life in different levels, not only with possesions or vexations. They are messing with you (and with everyone) as we speak/read this post and you dont notice. Its not something that people "who sees them" suffer and that you are safe. No.

I think that weird idea about us comes from these B movies that knows nothing about this topic and just exagerate things for scares.
I think its time to listen people's real life experiences more than hollywood.

[sevenstarsofeightIam]

When I was young, I used to see a man standing in my bedroom doorway at night. He was a dark figure at night, and I only saw him from the corner of my eye. When I looked directly at him, he was not there.

Home from the Navy, I was babysitting my half-sister. She was in the crib, and I was pacing because I had no cigarettes. Then, I smelled cigar smoke. I raced to the balcony and looked down on the street but no one had passed by. I remembered an old tale that the devil smokes a cheroot.

I saw the devil as a child, and we scared the hell out of each other.

A snake crawled in my window when I was three, stuck its head up above the edge of the bed, and talked to me until I went to sleep.

[MeltingCORE]

I'm really into paranormal stuff. But funnily enough, I've never seen a spirit/demon/entity/etc! However, I have had an experience with an entity in a dream (will explain in a sec) and I have seen a few UFOs.

When I was born, my mom got a tabby kitten she named Prince. (Yes, after the singer.) Prince grew up with me and was the same age as me. He was my buddy and always knew when I was sad - always there to comfort me. As a kid, I was unfortunately very sickly and Prince never left my side. No matter how bad it got. I was devastated when he passed away from cancer at 14. I will never forget my boy but in the end, I think he's okay. A few years ago I had a dream with him. It was unlike any dream I ever had. I was in an endless field of rolling green hills. The sky was so blue, more blue than I've ever seen anywhere. (And I'm from Florida! That tells you how blue this sky was.) There was a big tree in the middle and animals of all kinds were clustered around it. Prince came running to me from the animals and the rest of the dream was me holding and petting him. I truly believe that was him letting me know he was ok. Before this dream, my mom and I kept feeling our beds depress at our feet. Like a cat was there. But our current cat, Lia, wouldn't be there. After I had this dream, it stopped.

I painted the dream shortly after I had it. I kinda forgot the tree but hey, I still like this one because of it's meaning to me.

As for the UFOs, I saw one when I was 10. I was with my grandparents on I-95 (very long, boring highway for the non-Americans) and I saw it at around 1 AM. I was laying on my back looking at the stars and whoo boy, that made me jolt up. It was quick, green, and gone in a flash before I could scream at grandma (who wasn't driving but sleeping) to look. Grandpa, who does not believe in anything like that, told me it was nothing. But I know it was heh. The other two I saw in the past few years. Both times I attempted to record them and was met with my phone shutting down. Point taken. Clearly. I will not sit here and say it was 100% aliens as I can not prove it (I'm not dumb lol)... But yeah. That's where my super obsession with aliens came from lol.

[SuperRazz]

Years ago in college I had a night class on the 7th floor of this building. This building had balconies at the end of the hallways and if your class is near them, you can see people in the balconies from your window.

The professor was gone for a bit and almost every one was done with lab work so the class was just doing whatever. 2 of my classmates and I were chatting when they noticed a girl outside the window. She was wearing a nursing student uniform and her back was facing towards us. We were sitting down so we can only see her from the chest up.

One of my classmates remarked , " I wanna go to that balcony where she is and breathe some fresh air" and the other said "me too, lets go" and they both went out of the room while I remained.

Seconds later they both came running to me cursing " Razz! There is no balcony on this floor!!!"

The girl outside the window vanished. Turns out the building we were at only had balconies at the lower floors. That "girl" was just floating outside our window.

[SuperRazz]

How were you able to make sure that what you see is supernatural and not mental? I ask because I know someone who may be in a similar situation.

If someone in the area recently died, their spirits will try to bug her to talk to their families and say their "goodbyes" and "i love you's". If she wouldnt comply, they'd try possessing her. The stubborn ones at least. Some succeed, some don't but when they do they couldnt fully regain control of her body.

She's currently struggling to make sense of it all and often wonders if she's going mad

[crowstories]

No, but I think my dog might have.... there's a hallway in my house that for years he was reluctant to walk through, and once I caught him growling at it with the hair on his back standing on end.

I live in my grandparents' old house, so I'd like to think that if there are any ghosts here, they're family.

[bakasama25]

I'm sure if it's supernatural. I've had some street lights just turn off as I approach them and only then they turn turn back on when I walk or drive away. Now that can be simply coincidence if it's a random street lamp but if it's the same lights that keeps doing that when pass by it. That's hard to pass that off an a coincidence.

[NickRowler]

When I was a child, I used to hear voices from time to time of someone who was upstairs talking (like on a phone). I would go up stairs, thinking it was my mom, however I quickly discovered that no one was upstairs. I also sometimes heard doorbells ringing.

I never had any experience like that once I moved out of the house. We were the first homeowners of the house so no, no one "died" in the house.

I did once hear a voice as a teen. It told me to "Listen".

I am prone to hallucinations due to my insomnia if I go without sleep for several days, but most of them tend to be visual, like seeing rainbows come out of a faucet.

[thel3tterm]

I personally am more of a skeptic, though I have had a few bizarre experiences that friends and family believe are supernatural.

1: I grew up in a small, historic town in South Georgia. There are claims that several of the buildings in the downtown area are haunted, one of the most unusual being a ghost which supposedly lives in the upstairs part of a café. On an afternoon while my mother was chatting with the owner, we randomly heard stomping, followed by what could best be described as the sound of a bowling ball falling down the stairs. Everyone was a bit alarmed, especially considering we were the only ones in the building. Apparently that was a semi-regular occurrence in that café.

2: I've only ever had a single instance of sleep paralysis, but it was extremely vivid, unsettling, and led to many sleepless nights in the months following the incident.
In the middle of an ordinary nonsense dream I can no longer recall the details of, I saw a window. A moment later, I saw the silhouette of a man in a wide brimmed hat pop up and turn to look at me. I jolted awake and couldn't move, but saw a formless and hunched over shadowy figure in a wide-brimmed hat step through the closed door of my bedroom and slide toward me. I can't fully explain the feeling, but I knew it wanted to hurt me. It's as if I could feel malice radiating off of it in waves. It was a bizarre sensation, and unlike anything else I've experienced.
When it got to my bed it put its face right next to mine and made a broken noise like it was trying to speak, but got cut off in the middle of the first word. Then it reached one of its hands over and touched me in the middle of my forehead. I heard a high pitched ringing noise, saw TV static, and then it was over, I could move again, and the thing was gone.
I'm inclined to believe that this was something of a freak psychological occurrence caused by a period of extreme stress in my life mixed with years of poor sleep habits, but my mother and several of my friends insist that I was visited by some sort of real entity. Whatever the case, I'm glad it hasn't happened since.

[Aims]

When I was little I went to the kitchen to get some water, I was too lazy to turn the lights on so I just poured myself a glass of water in the dark, that's when I heard a men chuckling and I looked to the side and just saw a dark figure standing by the window. I ran to my mom's room screaming, and to this day I still can't sleep with the door open or the TV turned off...
My parents say that I was just probably seeing stuff since the room was basically pitch black, but I still think it was a vampire or something of the sort!

[lynestjules]

From what I've experienced, it almost feels like they know you can either see them, hear them, feel them or all of the above. I've woken up in the middle of the night to go pee and there's someone at the foot of my bed staring at me. Except for that one night my roommate woke me up because someone was at the foot of my bed staring at me. I went to sleep again after I realized what she pointing at.

If that person is struggling to keep dead people or demons possessing her, I find meditation helps a lot. A medium suggested years ago to build an imaginary safe house in my head. You reinforce it by keeping it as consistent as possible while meditating, I know it sounds crazy. It's basically a place you retreat to if you get into a situation where you're fighting for control. It's supposed to give you a footing to push whatever it is out. I don't know if it works for everybody, but I haven't been possessed since 2003.

I'm no doctor or expert in this type of thing. I just go with what I've gathered through my own experiences. I've lived with all of this for over 30 years and it doesn't affect my daily life at all. Although, I do sometimes freak out the occasional person with last minute premonitions.

[SuperRazz]

How do you sleep . If I were in your shoes I'd be peeing my bed every night like the scared baby I am.

I'll tell her about meditating and your technique. At this point, She'll try anything safe because the offered alternatives are wack. There are quacks around here and their suggestions are rather crazy.

And It's funny you mention premonitions coz she sometimes she gets those too. They're fun to hear about unless they're about me

[TheOddFungi]

I haven't personally encountered anything, but I know a few people who have.

First, was my BFFs mom. She felt uneasy one night and had my BFF sleep in her room (she was around 5 at the time). Later she got up to use the restroom and from the hallway she could see into the kitchen, and standing right by the table was a little girl. Her mom said she could feel that the little girl was angry because my BFF wasn't in her room. They promptly moved out of that house.

Second, was at my BFFs workplace. She used to work at a state facility that takes care of mentally handicapped individuals and one night she was assigned to watch one particular individual, which meant staying in the room with them. Well, at some point through the night while the individual was sleeping my friend dozed off and woke up to a shadow being standing in the room, staring at the individual. She said the shadow being turned its head and looked at her and she just pretended to be asleep hoping it would go away. There have been many other sightings of this shadow being at the facility.

My brother was driving home one night a couple years ago. We live in a rural area so he was alone on the road. He said he saw what looked like a green fireball streak across the sky with a long tail, super close to the ground. He said it lit up the cotton fields like it was daylight and in the blink of an eye it was gone. What's even crazier is that a couple of his friends had been saying they had seen something exactly like that a week before.

[sterkiherz]

All of this stories are really interesting!

Mine happened when I was little. I don't remember why but apparently I was alone and was sleeping next to my father. I was in my parents room, probably didn't want to be alone in mine.

And I remember I suddenly heard a woman's voice coming form the corridor, which I could see clearly since the door was open. Btw, it was morning. So there was sunlight and stuff
I didn't see anything, but I could literally hear her really close like there was someone standing right by he door.

The voice was like an adult female voice and it was rather annoyed. It kept saying "come here" and it kept repeating that over and over, louder and even angrier.

I remember I was so scared I put my hands covering my ears to stop hearing her. And apparently I moved so much that my dad woke up and as soon as he asked me what's wrong the voice stopped.

I haven't witnessed anything else since that day but this still gets me to this day haha

I did go to the corridor later that day because I was curious but nothing really happened.

Something interesting is that my mom told me I used to hear or see things when I was a baby. I don't really remember that but she did mention one time when she was changing my clothes that I started to cover my ears and cried: "He's shouting at me, can't you hear him!?" And I would point to a corner of the room.

[allenT]

This encounters of mine are not paranormal but more ufo oriented.

Years ago outside my house, I've noticed something very fast that zipped across my vision (a thin gray cone of blur, on air) less than a blink of an eye. The size is clearly smaller than an average bird, but definitely faster than any birds/ insects. My position is around 10~15 meter away from the flying object (when on front). I have good eyesight but can only see it as a fast white/gray blur.

I've encountered that twice (first time i only noticed it & 2nd time i wrote down my discovery so can't be just imagination or dream)

I still don't know what that was. It could be sky-rod/sky-fish (just a theory). Most YT videos that showing "sky rods" at night or near caves are not but insects flying at slow camera-shutter speed. What i saw as much larger, on sundown time, with my naked eyes. Here's a video briefly about these phenomenon. Relax, you don't have to believe anything~

[lynestjules]

Well, the first few times scared the crap out of me and used to call out for my mom and dad. But, after a while I just got used to the fact that this is just something that happens. The house I grew up in had 3 ghosts. One would keep to himself, the 2nd one made me very uncomfortable and hung around only on the 1st floor. It would leave me alone, unless the 3rd one wasn't hanging around me. Because, you see, the 3rd one would follow me around almost constantly. So, when the 2nd one would come after me, I'd run away to the 2nd floor or the basement and stay there until the 3rd one would be back.
My parents sold the house over a decade ago and I was really sad when I didn't get a chance to come a visit one last time. I wanted to say goodbye and thank you to the one that followed me a lot. He never spoke to me, just followed me around and watched me sleep. I miss him.

[pilot-obvious]

In high school, we would sometimes have cross country practice at a park that used to be a fort during the Northwest Indian War. There is a tree in this park known as the Whispering Oak and it's said that if you go near it, you can hear whispering voices of those who fought in the battle.

I don't find myself to believe in ghosts or supernatural entities... but oh my god I ran near that tree by myself and heard a ton of aggressive, whispering voices. They got increasingly more intense as I got closer to the tree. Needless to say, I sprinted in the opposite direction and stopped running around that tree by myself!

[Puck]

An invisible horse was riding through my ex girlfriend and me.
We were sitting on a park bench in the fields, there were no forrests or houses near
by, just fields and it was night, we had a clear view to all sides.
We drove there to chill, not far from the place I was living. We were talking, suddenly
we heard horse steps coming nearer, very quietly but we both stopped talking, looked
around and there was no horse near by. We listened and the horse was coming nearer,
there was no way that it was an echo because there were just open fields around us.
The horse steps were getting super loud as if the horse was just riding through us,
then it got more quiet as if the horse was riding away from us.
When I tell it to people, they don´t believe me or have an explaination for it like
we were hearing a horse from far away and it was an echo but we both knew
what we heard and how loud it was.
Good thing is I can call her anytime and ask her "do you remember the invisible
horse?" and she will instantly know what I´m talking about. The story happened
27 years ago. I had a different even more bizzare encounter when she was around
which I can´t talk about. Nothing like that ever happened to me again after the
2 situations

[arbiterswake]

When I was growing up in Germany, my house was built where an old WW2 hospital was bombed. All the doors in the house had this weird fogged glass inside of the door frame so you could kind of see outside your room into the hall way but it was very distorted.

There were several times that I clearly remember seeing a figure walk past my room door when either everyone else was sleeping or when I was alone in the house. I still break out in a cold sweat thinking about it.

Another instance was when I was much younger. German graveyards are old as dirt but they're very well preserved and have that creepy gothic vibe to them since there are quite a few crypts and catacombs.

My friends and I had the bright idea to play hide and seek inside of the graveyard at night like idiots. I was already scared and apprehensive but gave into peer pressure. I always get this knotted up feeling in my stomach near graveyards, I really dislike them. Anyway, there I was crouched behind a gravestone when suddenly I could feel the dirt moving beneath my feet. I let out such a bone-chilling shriek as I ran from the graveyard that all the surrounding house lights flicked on. Turns out it was a mole trying to burrow through the ground but I legit thought a zombie was trying to grab me.

You might be thinking.. "C'mon didn't you know zombies weren't real?" To which my poor irrational little kid brain would tell you to be quiet or the zombies will hear you. But no, my grandpa, in good old fashion German Grimm's fairy tale style, used to love to tell me that if I didn't go to sleep that the zombies would get me, then would proceed to go outside to where my window was and groan loudly while clawing at the window.

Yay for child-hood trauma!

[An_Alias]

I don’t believe in ghosts so much as I think time just messes up every now and then. Also I might hallucinate when stressed, so could be that.

When I was 16 and home alone I saw a man in an all-black suit walk in through the front door of the house. He turned down the hall out of view. This by itself wasn’t terribly concerning since I figured it was someone I knew, but couldn’t see very well since I was in the backroom. The dog was with me and she would always bark when people came in. I sent her out to greet him and she looked up at me like “???” No barking. So I walk out to the front room. The front door is still wide open. I send the dog down the hall. Nothing. I turn back to the door and it’s closed.

While alone in that house I also had pencils thrown at me from across the room, sheets pulled off of me, and heard inhuman screaming (kinda like a fox, but it was the middle of the day and inside). That house was only like 10yo so I’m not sure what the deal was.

I also saw a bloated corpse in my backseat while driving once. It was sat up and staring into the rear view mirror. It was daytime too. I kinda knew it wasn’t real because my roommate was in the passenger seat and she would have noticed if we’d gotten in the car with a corpse.