Ghost Hunters Thread & Personal Ghost Experiences & other Paranormal Talk.

[sha_lyn]

OK so this isn't a ghost story, but I think it fits into the paranormal.
On July 4th the 17DD of a good friend was in a very serious car accident. I didn't find out until late on the evening of the 5. The night of the 4th I had a really weird dream that a phone was ringing but I couldn't answer it before they hung up. Then I had people telling me that the daughter of another friend was trying to call me. The 2 girls names are very similar. In the dream I couldn't figure out why this girl was calling me and the person in my dream said they would have her write the message down. It was like a paper appeared in front of me and the name of the girl in the accident was being written on it like an etch-a-sketch.

So the last 2 weeks have been crazy. I've visited her in the hospital. She has been unconscious in the ICU this entire time. People keep praying, burning candles etc (what ever their faith would have them wanting to do). Several of my "new age" friends were disagreeing on how to send energy, what color it should be etc. I basically prayed to God and Goddess that she would be healed. I mentioned her condition to my coven and they volunteered to have a meditation for her on the full moon.
So Friday was the full moon and my Priest gave me a crystal that was given to him when he almost died in an accident and told me to use it in the meditation and they give it to her. I am not good at meditating. I have never really felt like I've gotten into an altered state or anything. Well Friday night I meditated with the crystal.
During the meditation I really felt the energy in the room change. The focus was to send me the energy and I would sent it to her and the crystal since I know her.
Suddenly I saw a scene playing in my head that took place a couple of yrs ago. She had come up behind me in their kitchen and asked if she could have some of the food that was in front of me (our home school co-op met in their home. She isn't home schooled but her brother is). The scene in my mind played out like it did in real life, but when I looked at the food on the counter in front of me it was glowing energy. She touched the energy and I suddenly felt what she has been feeling. She has been seeing the energy but thought it was "the white light" and she kept pulling away from it because she though it was death/the after life etc. I just started whispering that it was OK to touch the energy and that she needed to let go of all the bad stuff.
Then my entire body started shaking and I had to break off the connection for a couple of mins. When I started again I concentrated on energizing the crystal. The crystal felt like it was on fire. The next day (yesterday) I dropped the crystal of with her dad to take to the hospital. He placed it above her head last night. I haven't received an update from her mother yet, but should get one tonight.

Oh and last night one of my friends that wa at the meditation called me from work (she works at an herb shop). One of her customers that is a psychic came in and started describing to her in detail the girls injuries and said that now she was ready to heal.

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

OK so this isn't a ghost story, but I think it fits into the paranormal.
On July 4th the 17DD of a good friend was in a very serious car accident. I didn't find out until late on the evening of the 5. The night of the 4th I had a really weird dream that a phone was ringing but I couldn't answer it before they hung up. Then I had people telling me that the daughter of another friend was trying to call me. The 2 girls names are very similar. In the dream I couldn't figure out why this girl was calling me and the person in my dream said they would have her write the message down. It was like a paper appeared in front of me and the name of the girl in the accident was being written on it like an etch-a-sketch.

So the last 2 weeks have been crazy. I've visited her in the hospital. She has been unconscious in the ICU this entire time. People keep praying, burning candles etc (what ever their faith would have them wanting to do). Several of my "new age" friends were disagreeing on how to send energy, what color it should be etc. I basically prayed to God and Goddess that she would be healed. I mentioned her condition to my coven and they volunteered to have a meditation for her on the full moon.
So Friday was the full moon and my Priest gave me a crystal that was given to him when he almost died in an accident and told me to use it in the meditation and they give it to her. I am not good at meditating. I have never really felt like I've gotten into an altered state or anything. Well Friday night I meditated with the crystal.
During the meditation I really felt the energy in the room change. The focus was to send me the energy and I would sent it to her and the crystal since I know her.
Suddenly I saw a scene playing in my head that took place a couple of yrs ago. She had come up behind me in their kitchen and asked if she could have some of the food that was in front of me (our home school co-op met in their home. She isn't home schooled but her brother is). The scene in my mind played out like it did in real life, but when I looked at the food on the counter in front of me it was glowing energy. She touched the energy and I suddenly felt what she has been feeling. She has been seeing the energy but thought it was "the white light" and she kept pulling away from it because she though it was death/the after life etc. I just started whispering that it was OK to touch the energy and that she needed to let go of all the bad stuff.
Then my entire body started shaking and I had to break off the connection for a couple of mins. When I started again I concentrated on energizing the crystal. The crystal felt like it was on fire. The next day (yesterday) I dropped the crystal of with her dad to take to the hospital. He placed it above her head last night. I haven't received an update from her mother yet, but should get one tonight.

Oh and last night one of my friends that wa at the meditation called me from work (she works at an herb shop). One of her customers that is a psychic came in and started describing to her in detail the girls injuries and said that now she was ready to heal.

Wow that is interesting. Sha lyn do you know about crystals at all? If so what is the energy of Rose Quartz. I love it and someone told me to wear it once but I do not remember why.

 

[sha_lyn]

Good story. As to the board mine was made of wood it does not matter what it is made from ...you could make you own I bet there is some stupid site on the wb that gives directions. It is that you open yourself up and allow the spirits to come in that creates the freaky-ness.

Don't know why you are saying stupid site, but here is a site with many scrying/dowsing charts


http://pendulumcharts.com/charts.html

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

Don't know why you are saying stupid site, but here is a site with many scrying/dowsing charts


http://pendulumcharts.com/charts.html

Saying stupid site because if people do not know what they are doing they can cause some big problems and on the internet they often give directions to make just about anything but often do not tell what the consequences could be. I think lots of internet sites act irresponsibly and that is what makes me say it is stupid.

 

[sha_lyn]

Wow that is interesting. Sha lyn do you know about crystals at all? If so what is the energy of Rose Quartz. I love it and someone told me to wear it once but I do not remember why.

I don't know any of it by memory or intuition. I looked Rose quartz up in the few books I have and only found that is is often used to represent the Goddess/feminine energy. Then I remembered that there was a section of crystals in the Pagan home school newsletter that we subscribe to

http://www.paganmoonbeams.com/pdfs/MBIssue11.pdf

 

[Corryn]

Sha_Lyn, my prayers go out to your friend

I was sitting here thinking about my first visit with the Shadow People. I was thinking about how I was in the diner and who I was with that night. I was with my ex-boyfriend, Frank; my BF Jennifer and her boyfriend, Neil, and another couple (friends of Neil).
When I first saw the shadow man, I was freaked out, bad. I was shaking, it was very scary. He was a huge man, like I said, I think he was about 6'5" or taller, very wide shoulders. I was so scared that I wanted to sit between my ex and Neil to feel safe. When we left, I didn't feel there was any "safe spot" that I could be in. I kept seeing him over the course of a few days.
Now that I think about it, I think there's a correlation between the Shadow Man and this story:
A few weeks after the diner incident I was at work and I kept smelling Roses. The smell was right in my nose. I asked everyone in the office, did anyone get flowers delivered today? It's a city building so the windows don't open. I was checking everyone's cologne, but I was not satisfied, I could not find the source of the smell and it was just so very strong.
The next morning I was awakened by a phone call from my BF Jennifer's mom. Jennifer was too distraught to talk: Neil was killed in a plane crash the night before. His grandfather owned a small plane and they were on their way to or from their upstate property and the plane crashed in the Kensico Dam Reservoir. I went to work that day and I told Jennifer I would spend the next few days with her at the wake, etc. When I got to work, everyone heard the news. My girlfriend Loretta came up to me and she said, You Smelled the Roses.. I said, yeah, that was yesterday. She said, You Smelled The Funeral Roses, you knew he was going to die.
I had never heard of that before, but a few other ladies in the office confirmed what Loretta had said.
BTW, I was the only one in the office to smell the roses the day before. I was asking everyone, don't you smell the roses? Who's got roses? etc.

So I'm wondering if my seeing the Shadow Man in Neil's presence was a precognition of his death? The Shadow Man, the smelling of the funeral roses? Although I have seen them many many other times without any deaths occurring - I don't know what the answer is.
Let me post this, kiss my girls goodnight and then I'll post another story.....

 

[sha_lyn]

Thanks...

so looks like my friend was updating everyone while I was posting. they took her DD off the the paralytics/coma inducing meds. she isn't breathing 100% on her own yet, but she isn't fighting the respirator like she was when they tried to lower her meds earlier in the week. She is still in a bed that rotates 90 degrees to help everything move around in her lungs. The Drs are hoping to have her in a regular bed and off the respirator by Wed.

 

[Corryn]

As far as people from the same family seeing ghosts, I guess that's true. My mother's family is from Hungary. Even though they're technically not Gypsies, my mother's family often refer to themselves as such because they all move around all over the US from East Coast to West Coast, to Alaska, to the Bahama's and finally most of them have settled down in Florida.
Every single one of my mother's sisters have seen ghosts, many of them. They've even seen ghosts while they were all together. They have so many stories.
Anyway, here's another story about the ghost in my house. Nothing too crazy, but it's still something. I've told you before that there's a ghost in my hallway. We have been hearing him since we've been in there. He walks up and down up and down up and down the hallway. My DH used to work midnights (as a city cop - he's got a couple stories, too!!!) so I was home alone just about every night with my two babies.
Imagine hearing someone walk down your hallway and you're scared *@#$less waiting for them to come into your bedroom, the footsteps stop, you get up to check and there's no one there! It happened All The Time!

Okay, so you know the layout of my house. We're in the house for about eleven years now (we're in it 16 years this year) and we decided to add an addition onto the house. We had an electrician come in and upgrade our electricity and he put in a new box. The new breaker box is directly underneath the hallway in the basement.
Eddie was down in the basement one afternoon while me and the girls were at our Girl Scout meeting. He was finishing up with all the wiring, so all the power in the house was off. It was still light out but he brought down a couple flashlights to help him see.
His story: He was finagling with the wiring and he heard footsteps upstairs. He said to himself, I thought I locked the front door, but maybe someone came in through the back door, let me go check. He comes upstairs - the back door is closed, the front door is locked and there's no one in the whole house. BTW, we didn't have pets back then.
Okay, so back down to the basement he goes.
Again, someone starts walking up and down the hallway. He ignores it. It keeps on walking. Again, he gets his behind upstairs to check the house. This time he checked every single closet in addition to the sweep he conducted a few minutes before that. Absolutely no one in the house.

Okay, goes back down again. Work work work....The Footsteps again.
He is aggravated now. He wants to get this work done. He yells upstairs to whomever is walking up and down the hallway:
You're Not Gonna Make Me Come Up There Again - I Know It's You, Just Knock It Off, I've Got Work To Do......
Well, they did not like that!!!!!
Right after he finished yelling at them they started RUNNING up and down the hallway - he said it was like a bunch of adults running up and down the hallway, that's how heavy the footsteps were.
But what got him was this:
In the light of the flashlights he brought down with him, HE COULD ACTUALLY SEE THE FLOORBOARDS MOVING ABOVE HIM WHERE THE FOOTFALLS STEPPED AND THE DUST WAS COMING DOWN FROM WHERE THE FLOORBOARDS WERE MOVING!!!!!!!
He said he got his #ss upstairs sooooooo fast! There was No One!!!!!!!
He went back down stairs, turned the power back on and decided that work was finished for the day.

 

[Corryn]

Sha_Lyn, that's a start. I believe there's so much more than what we see with our eyes. I read a magazine, Fate Magazine, and there are so many stories in it that refer to healing and energy - I believe anything is possible.

Here's another story:
This happened around the same time as the story above. Eddie was home, I was at work. I get home from teaching before my girls get home from school. Eddie had ordered an oil delivery. Oil man shows up, hooks the hose up to the house...Uh oh - too much oil! Where's it go? You know, it spills out of the oil tank and onto the basement floor. If the EPA finds out something like that everyone involved is in trouble...big money to clean up a spill.
So the oil man panics and begs my husband for forgiveness. Oil man tells DH that he doesn't have a spill kit on the truck, he's got to run to the office to get one. DH tells him, you better clean that up fast before my wife gets home. Oil man leaves and he's back in a flash.
Ed and Oil man go down stairs and Oil man is cleaning up the mess. DH tells oil man that his wife (me) complains right after a regular oil delivery because it smells so bad
That's true. I hate when we get oil delivered because I can smell it for the rest of the day and it's such a bad smell, and that's without spillage!

So Eddie is telling the guy to get this done fast before I get home because he doesn't want me to know that this even occurred. You know, Ed was gonna give me the "Corryn, it's all in your head, there is no oil smell, I don't know what you're talking about, you're just making things up, why do you always have to start a fight about nothing..yaddayaddayadda, you know the deal, right wives?

So a few minutes later, they're both standing there and the footsteps start walking down the hallway.
Oil man says to Eddie, Oh S*@! your wife's home!
Eddie looked at his phone (the time on his phone) and said, Nope, it's too early, that's not my wife.
All the while the footsteps are still going up and down the hallway while they're talking.
Oil Man says, well if it isn't your wife, who is it?
Eddie said, Your guess is as good as mine.
Eddie said the Oil man's face turned white, he didn't move and he just looked up at where the hallway was....He turned around and moved like lightning to clean up the mess. He was done in no time flat and he never mentioned a thing to DH about the footsteps after that.

 

[danalee]

Yawzza!!!!!!!

 

[Corryn]

One more before I go to bed.
I told you before that both DD's have seen kids in the hallway. Kyra used to see a little girl in her bedroom. The little girl would sit on her desk and sometimes she would just sit there and "talk" or laugh or hold something in her hand, like a gift. One time she stood next to Kyra's bed. Another time she held a frog out to give to her. Kyra loved frogs (still does) so I told Kyra she was trying to make friends with you.
As far as the "talking" goes, I've read that sometimes when a ghost appears to be talking to you, their mouths are moving but you can't hear a word they say. That was just what Kyra was talking about.
Whenever Kyra saw the little girl, she would pull the covers over her head and fall asleep.
Kyra saw the girl from the time she was about two until she was about four or five.
When she was really little and she told me about the girl in her room, she was just starting to put sentences together!

Anyway, Tori also saw the little girl She was standing in the hallway with a boy who was about ten. They were dressed like from the early 1900's. She described to me what he was wearing, and that's what it sounded like to me. Tori only had one encounter with them. They never came in her room. That's also the reason why she does not like to sleep with her door open. I guess when she closes it, she can't see them and they can't come in her room. I don't know why the girl went into Kyra's room, though.

Okay, so I used to wake up at 6:30 to get ready for work (still do). The girls would Always get up before me because they had to get on the bus a little after 7:00. So my alarm goes off, I turn it off and I hear the girls in the kitchen. They were talking back and forth. So I figured, good, they're up, they're eating. Let me lay here for another ten minutes and relax. All the while I hear them talking talking talking. After ten minutes I get up out of bed and trek down the hallway to say good morning and to make sure they're finished eating their breakfast. As soon as I got to the end of the hallway, all the talking stopped. It got very quiet.
Wait a minute, how come the kitchen light isn't on?
I go into the kitchen. No One Is There.
I panic. I run down the hallway and into Kyra's room - She's Still Sleeping!
I turn and run into Tori's room - She's still sleeping too!!!!
Now I panic because these bratty kids overslept and I don't want them to miss the bus
They get up and get off to school without a problem. I kept thinking to myself, I KNOW what I heard! I KNOW I definitely heard them talking, the two of them! I couldn't make out what they said, but there was talking, laughing, just like any other morning! I even heard them while I was walking down the hallway! As soon as I entered the livingroom and walked toward the kitchen, everything got quiet. I know what I heard. I'm guessing it was the two kids in the house.

All right, I've got a couple more stories if you want to hear them, but I've got work in the morning and my fingers are cramping up.

I'll be praying for your friend tonight, Sha_Lyn

 

[danalee]

do we want to hear them, oh yeah!!! we do!!

Thanks!

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

I don't know any of it by memory or intuition. I looked Rose quartz up in the few books I have and only found that is is often used to represent the Goddess/feminine energy. Then I remembered that there was a section of crystals in the Pagan home school newsletter that we subscribe to

http://www.paganmoonbeams.com/pdfs/MBIssue11.pdf

Thank you. I checked out the newsletter and found some interesting properties for all the crystals listed. I also have tons of amythist but did not realize how to use it. I wear it when I am especially tense but the newsletter said to hold it in your left hand which I will try.

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

As far as people from the same family seeing ghosts, I guess that's true. My mother's family is from Hungary. Even though they're technically not Gypsies, my mother's family often refer to themselves as such because they all move around all over the US from East Coast to West Coast, to Alaska, to the Bahama's and finally most of them have settled down in Florida.
Every single one of my mother's sisters have seen ghosts, many of them. They've even seen ghosts while they were all together. They have so many stories.
Anyway, here's another story about the ghost in my house. Nothing too crazy, but it's still something. I've told you before that there's a ghost in my hallway. We have been hearing him since we've been in there. He walks up and down up and down up and down the hallway. My DH used to work midnights (as a city cop - he's got a couple stories, too!!!) so I was home alone just about every night with my two babies.
Imagine hearing someone walk down your hallway and you're scared *@#$less waiting for them to come into your bedroom, the footsteps stop, you get up to check and there's no one there! It happened All The Time!

Okay, so you know the layout of my house. We're in the house for about eleven years now (we're in it 16 years this year) and we decided to add an addition onto the house. We had an electrician come in and upgrade our electricity and he put in a new box. The new breaker box is directly underneath the hallway in the basement.
Eddie was down in the basement one afternoon while me and the girls were at our Girl Scout meeting. He was finishing up with all the wiring, so all the power in the house was off. It was still light out but he brought down a couple flashlights to help him see.
His story: He was finagling with the wiring and he heard footsteps upstairs. He said to himself, I thought I locked the front door, but maybe someone came in through the back door, let me go check. He comes upstairs - the back door is closed, the front door is locked and there's no one in the whole house. BTW, we didn't have pets back then.
Okay, so back down to the basement he goes.
Again, someone starts walking up and down the hallway. He ignores it. It keeps on walking. Again, he gets his behind upstairs to check the house. This time he checked every single closet in addition to the sweep he conducted a few minutes before that. Absolutely no one in the house.

Okay, goes back down again. Work work work....The Footsteps again.
He is aggravated now. He wants to get this work done. He yells upstairs to whomever is walking up and down the hallway:
You're Not Gonna Make Me Come Up There Again - I Know It's You, Just Knock It Off, I've Got Work To Do......
Well, they did not like that!!!!!
Right after he finished yelling at them they started RUNNING up and down the hallway - he said it was like a bunch of adults running up and down the hallway, that's how heavy the footsteps were.
But what got him was this:
In the light of the flashlights he brought down with him, HE COULD ACTUALLY SEE THE FLOORBOARDS MOVING ABOVE HIM WHERE THE FOOTFALLS STEPPED AND THE DUST WAS COMING DOWN FROM WHERE THE FLOORBOARDS WERE MOVING!!!!!!!
He said he got his #ss upstairs sooooooo fast! There was No One!!!!!!!
He went back down stairs, turned the power back on and decided that work was finished for the day.

YOu know at first was thinking it might be a residual haunting but then when they reacted to him well....now here is my question could it be a shadow person who does the walking. How do you know it is a ghost or do you feel they might be one in the same.

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

Sha_Lyn, my prayers go out to your friend

I was sitting here thinking about my first visit with the Shadow People. I was thinking about how I was in the diner and who I was with that night. I was with my ex-boyfriend, Frank; my BF Jennifer and her boyfriend, Neil, and another couple (friends of Neil).
When I first saw the shadow man, I was freaked out, bad. I was shaking, it was very scary. He was a huge man, like I said, I think he was about 6'5" or taller, very wide shoulders. I was so scared that I wanted to sit between my ex and Neil to feel safe. When we left, I didn't feel there was any "safe spot" that I could be in. I kept seeing him over the course of a few days.
Now that I think about it, I think there's a correlation between the Shadow Man and this story:
A few weeks after the diner incident I was at work and I kept smelling Roses. The smell was right in my nose. I asked everyone in the office, did anyone get flowers delivered today? It's a city building so the windows don't open. I was checking everyone's cologne, but I was not satisfied, I could not find the source of the smell and it was just so very strong.
The next morning I was awakened by a phone call from my BF Jennifer's mom. Jennifer was too distraught to talk: Neil was killed in a plane crash the night before. His grandfather owned a small plane and they were on their way to or from their upstate property and the plane crashed in the Kensico Dam Reservoir. I went to work that day and I told Jennifer I would spend the next few days with her at the wake, etc. When I got to work, everyone heard the news. My girlfriend Loretta came up to me and she said, You Smelled the Roses.. I said, yeah, that was yesterday. She said, You Smelled The Funeral Roses, you knew he was going to die.
I had never heard of that before, but a few other ladies in the office confirmed what Loretta had said.
BTW, I was the only one in the office to smell the roses the day before. I was asking everyone, don't you smell the roses? Who's got roses? etc.

So I'm wondering if my seeing the Shadow Man in Neil's presence was a precognition of his death? The Shadow Man, the smelling of the funeral roses? Although I have seen them many many other times without any deaths occurring - I don't know what the answer is.
Let me post this, kiss my girls goodnight and then I'll post another story.....

I thought that the smell of roses indicated the Virgin of Guadelupe.

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

Sha_Lyn, that's a start. I believe there's so much more than what we see with our eyes. I read a magazine, Fate Magazine, and there are so many stories in it that refer to healing and energy - I believe anything is possible.

Here's another story:
This happened around the same time as the story above. Eddie was home, I was at work. I get home from teaching before my girls get home from school. Eddie had ordered an oil delivery. Oil man shows up, hooks the hose up to the house...Uh oh - too much oil! Where's it go? You know, it spills out of the oil tank and onto the basement floor. If the EPA finds out something like that everyone involved is in trouble...big money to clean up a spill.
So the oil man panics and begs my husband for forgiveness. Oil man tells DH that he doesn't have a spill kit on the truck, he's got to run to the office to get one. DH tells him, you better clean that up fast before my wife gets home. Oil man leaves and he's back in a flash.
Ed and Oil man go down stairs and Oil man is cleaning up the mess. DH tells oil man that his wife (me) complains right after a regular oil delivery because it smells so bad
That's true. I hate when we get oil delivered because I can smell it for the rest of the day and it's such a bad smell, and that's without spillage!

So Eddie is telling the guy to get this done fast before I get home because he doesn't want me to know that this even occurred. You know, Ed was gonna give me the "Corryn, it's all in your head, there is no oil smell, I don't know what you're talking about, you're just making things up, why do you always have to start a fight about nothing..yaddayaddayadda, you know the deal, right wives?

So a few minutes later, they're both standing there and the footsteps start walking down the hallway.
Oil man says to Eddie, Oh S*@! your wife's home!
Eddie looked at his phone (the time on his phone) and said, Nope, it's too early, that's not my wife.
All the while the footsteps are still going up and down the hallway while they're talking.
Oil Man says, well if it isn't your wife, who is it?
Eddie said, Your guess is as good as mine.
Eddie said the Oil man's face turned white, he didn't move and he just looked up at where the hallway was....He turned around and moved like lightning to clean up the mess. He was done in no time flat and he never mentioned a thing to DH about the footsteps after that.

Did you ever consider putting a tape recorder in the hall and asking them to speak to you? Try it. I bet you will get something. Aslo did you ever try and research your house? How old is it. Not that age of the house makes a differece .

 

[wardfamily1]

Corryn, have you ever thought about contacting TAPS?

As for the shadow man, he sounds more like the angel of death. That was very creepy/scary.

I don't remember if you told us the history of your home. What year was it built?

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

Corryn, have you ever thought about contacting TAPS?

As for the shadow man, he sounds more like the angel of death. That was very creepy/scary.

I don't remember if you told us the history of your home. What year was it built?

OH jeeze WARD, I have seen one too but did not know it...it is not the angel of death oh God that is so scary. Check out shadow people on line they are suppsosed to be timid and mean no harm but what the heck are they doing in my house and are they watching me when I am in the shower??? Shades of Psycho!

 

[pennst8r]

I"m so glad I'm reading all this in the day time, and DH is home until Wed.

Still haven't gotten through DSs EVP tape. I think he's scared there might be something there!

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

I"m so glad I'm reading all this in the day time, and DH is home until Wed.

Still haven't gotten through DSs EVP tape. I think he's scared there might be something there![/QUO


Do you think he found anything. If there is something there trust me it never sounds like Mary Poppins.....it is just scary to the eth degree. See if he got anything.