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Have you ever had a paranormal experience??

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The building I work in is haunted. There is no doubt in my mind. Too much shiat goes on in there for me to think otherwise.

I love old battle fields and stuff for haunting activity. Antietem, Gettysburg, The Ardennes. Great places for ghost hunting and paranormal activity.

I was in a Castle in Europe that had rooms that were freezing cold, despite it being in the upper 80's and down right hot in the next room. I've seen dogs just snap, start barking and trying to attack something I couldn't see.

My oldest daughter has seen her great grandmother, my grand father and her deceased sister. My mother was visited by her father after he died. My stepfather was visited by a presence and he could smell the lavender bushes from his sister's garden. 25 minutes later he received a call from his brother. His sister Moyna had passed away in the last hour. She just stopped by on the way to where ever she was going.

Many paranormal experiences can be logically explained away with some research. Some are simply too real to classify as faked or a figment of a person's imagination. Some can be nothing other than spirits/ghosts/poltergeists whatever you want to call them.

I talked to a guy recently who is part of a team that does paranomal research, i.e. Ghost Hunting, around Ohio.

His name is Chris Barnes. Check out his site here
 
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I was just awoken by something sniffing the side of my head. I couldn't move. I have no animals, and my girlfriend is sleeping in the other room.

Needs to not happen anymore. I guess it could've been a dream, but if it was, it was the fucking weirdest/most realistic dream ever.
 
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3074326;1109250; said:
I was just awoken by something sniffing the side of my head. I couldn't move. I have no animals, and my girlfriend is sleeping in the other room.

Needs to not happen anymore. I guess it could've been a dream, but if it was, it was the fucking weirdest/most realistic dream ever.
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That was just a BP ghost , happens all the time
 
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3074326;1109250; said:
I was just awoken by something sniffing the side of my head. I couldn't move. I have no animals, and my girlfriend is sleeping in the other room.

Needs to not happen anymore. I guess it could've been a dream, but if it was, it was the fucking weirdest/most realistic dream ever.
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It's possible you could have been experiencing something called "sleep paralysis." It happens in a small but significant percentage of the population, and sometimes is accompanied by some minor hallucinations. I experienced it once, it can be freaky as your body feels paralyzed but you are either awake or half awake for several minutes. Never had hallucination type stuff though. Basically your mind partially wakes up and you are aware of some surrounding stimuli but your body is still "locked down" as it is when you are sleeping (so that you don't act out your dreams physically).

There's some interesting facts such as that a high percentage of people who report alien encounters around sleep time have been tested and found to suffer from sleep paralysis, so these type of hallucinations are a possible explanation (and I imagine for similar ghost, etc encounters). For instance, people with sleep paralysis will report things like little gray figures and lights, which obviously could be interpreted by someone as aliens. In earlier times, I think the middle ages, people talked about witches sitting on people's chests as they slept, and it likely was another description of this same phenomenon.
 
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bluechillj;1109403; said:
It's possible you could have been experiencing something called "sleep paralysis." It happens in a small but significant percentage of the population, and sometimes is accompanied by some minor hallucinations. I experienced it once, it can be freaky as your body feels paralyzed but you are either awake or half awake for several minutes. Never had hallucination type stuff though. Basically your mind partially wakes up and you are aware of some surrounding stimuli but your body is still "locked down" as it is when you are sleeping (so that you don't act out your dreams physically).

There's some interesting facts such as that a high percentage of people who report alien encounters around sleep time have been tested and found to suffer from sleep paralysis, so these type of hallucinations are a possible explanation (and I imagine for similar ghost, etc encounters). For instance, people with sleep paralysis will report things like little gray figures and lights, which obviously could be interpreted by someone as aliens. In earlier times, I think the middle ages, people talked about witches sitting on people's chests as they slept, and it likely was another description of this same phenomenon.
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I've heard of sleep paralysis, and I thought that may have been what it was. I just didn't realize that it was possible to be as awake/conscious as I was while experiencing some hallucination. I'm very skeptical about most of the paranormal stuff, so it was pretty shocking when whatever happened was actually happening.

It was probably the strangest thing that has ever happened to me, and it needs to not happen again. Haha
 
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bluechillj;1109403; said:
It's possible you could have been experiencing something called "sleep paralysis." It happens in a small but significant percentage of the population, and sometimes is accompanied by some minor hallucinations. I experienced it once, it can be freaky as your body feels paralyzed but you are either awake or half awake for several minutes. Never had hallucination type stuff though. Basically your mind partially wakes up and you are aware of some surrounding stimuli but your body is still "locked down" as it is when you are sleeping (so that you don't act out your dreams physically).

There's some interesting facts such as that a high percentage of people who report alien encounters around sleep time have been tested and found to suffer from sleep paralysis, so these type of hallucinations are a possible explanation (and I imagine for similar ghost, etc encounters). For instance, people with sleep paralysis will report things like little gray figures and lights, which obviously could be interpreted by someone as aliens. In earlier times, I think the middle ages, people talked about witches sitting on people's chests as they slept, and it likely was another description of this same phenomenon.
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I've had a similar experience to this but it didn't occur to me it might be called "paranormal." I hadn't looked sleep paralysis specifically, but it does seem to fit. I likened it, at the time, to being under anesthesia but being alert and aware, not that I would know about that, but it was the only way I could describe it to someone else and have it make sense to them.

I heard someone calling my name which is what brought me out of "sleep" but found myself unable to move. Felt as though a person was touching me around my head, and the "voice" moved within the room. Then, I heard the meowing of a cat and my brain immediately associated it with a missing pet that meant a lot to me. I KNEW it was that particular cat. At the end, after struggling repeatedly to move, feeling as though for a second or two I was asleep again, then being alert again, I swear I felt a cat jump up onto my bed and begin to walk toward my head. The sensation of sudden weight and the sound of paws on my cover was unmistakable. Apparently, this was enough to FULLY AND COMPLETELY wake me up as I suddenly felt "released' and shot to a sitting position, almost hyperventilating from the effort. Scary, freaky feeling to not be in control of one's own body.
 
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While my family has experienced something, I personally have never experienced anything I would classify as paranormal. I have had a few episodes of sleep paralysis...scary for sure, but by no means paranormal.

I believe most instances of "paranormal" events can be traced to a logical explanation fed by stories, overactive imaginations, irrational fears, the desire to believe or any combination of the above.

That being said, I don't see any reason not to believe that people experience events that cannot be explained by our limited knowledge. Whether the cause is lingering spirits, imprinted/transferred energy or something else beyond our understanding I can't say.

Anyway, on to the story. The house my parents lived in when I was born was built over the location of an old farmhouse. To my knowledge no men ever experienced anything, however several women did. My mom and two aunts (my moms sister and one of my dads sisters) all swear up and down the house was haunted by something that did not like women. At the time my dad was traveling from near Marion down to Columbus on a daily basis for work, leaving my mom home alone long hours, which is when most of this occurred. Lights turned on and off, lamps (like this) would swing at people and fall over as they walked by. Mostly it was just a threatening presence or feeling that people got. My mom moved the washer and dryer from the basement because she was she felt threatened whenever down there. She swears something would watch her from the house when she was out mowing or working in the yard. Both aunts spent less than one night in the guest room and refused to sleep in that room again. There were SURE there was someone in the room whenever the light went off.

They moved out before I was a year old, so I never experienced any of that, or I don't remember at any rate. Even though my dad and both uncles spent significant time traveling for jobs in the intervening years, none of the women have since experienced anything like this in any of multiple houses in several states they've lived in.
 
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G.O.B. Bluth;1118492; said:
While my family has experienced something, I personally have never experienced anything I would classify as paranormal. I have had a few episodes of sleep paralysis...scary for sure, but by no means paranormal.

I believe most instances of "paranormal" events can be traced to a logical explanation fed by stories, overactive imaginations, irrational fears, the desire to believe or any combination of the above.

That being said, I don't see any reason not to believe that people experience events that cannot be explained by our limited knowledge. Whether the cause is lingering spirits, imprinted/transferred energy or something else beyond our understanding I can't say.

Anyway, on to the story. The house my parents lived in when I was born was built over the location of an old farmhouse. To my knowledge no men ever experienced anything, however several women did. My mom and two aunts (my moms sister and one of my dads sisters) all swear up and down the house was haunted by something that did not like women. At the time my dad was traveling from near Marion down to Columbus on a daily basis for work, leaving my mom home alone long hours, which is when most of this occurred. Lights turned on and off, lamps (like this) would swing at people and fall over as they walked by. Mostly it was just a threatening presence or feeling that people got. My mom moved the washer and dryer from the basement because she was she felt threatened whenever down there. She swears something would watch her from the house when she was out mowing or working in the yard. Both aunts spent less than one night in the guest room and refused to sleep in that room again. There were SURE there was someone in the room whenever the light went off.

They moved out before I was a year old, so I never experienced any of that, or I don't remember at any rate. Even though my dad and both uncles spent significant time traveling for jobs in the intervening years, none of the women have since experienced anything like this in any of multiple houses in several states they've lived in.
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Was the Sword of Destiny involved?
 
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I'm actually a "member" of a "ghost hunting" group. We frequent Gettysburg, however plan on going to some other places in the near future. Though I have not actually "seen" any type of a figure myself, I have seen video/pics and heard audio that other members of the group have captured. I've also watched doors open and close by themselves (fully swing open and close with no one there) while in Gettysburg.

Pretty much everyone in my family has experienced some type of "paranormal" event. We all believed that my grandparent's old house was haunted...lights going off and on, remote control cars turning on and running while wrapped in a box, the sound of a kid running up and down a fence line with a stick, etc. My great grandmother saw my great grandfather after he passed. She was up making breakfast one morning, looked to her left and there he was standing in the door way. She wanted to run towards him, but felt like she couldn't move.

Anyway....I'm a firm believer in the 'paranormal' and once we launch our website, I'll post the link for you guys.
 
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