Have you ever had any paranormal experiences or ghost encounters?
I've had a couple of strange occurrences with what I think was the supernatural...freeky stuff.
Plus whenever I have a height of a specific emotion and I walk past a light (no matter where it is) It tends to turn off. Then when I'm away from it it turns back on...
I've even had friends with me on occasions when the light stuff has happened and it freaked them out a lot! Weird...
So people tell me stories, I want to hear yours
no, but from what I've seen of men, there are times it has seemed like a rational option. I guess. Can women be gay? Is that a politically correct term? I thought we were supposed to say lesbian.
If I have offended any lesbians with this post I will hold you accountable.In all the posts I've read of yours, I don't think you've ever revealed your gender, perhaps I'm wrong.
Yes, it's quite amazing the answers some seek to "strange occurrences" are found in their imaginations.
Yeah, sure. LOL!
You work in a nursing home, so it's highly likely the patients will know who you are even though you never met them. The fact that the patient said their dad told them was probably meant as a joke or to enable the exact reaction you had. No biggie.
Oh well, then obviously it was a ghost. Clearly, no other alternative explanations were possible other than a boogieman.
- Stevennix2001posted 14 years ago
0- Yes.
Yes, I didn't either, so I do understand where you are coming from. I could, of course, consider that I'm seriously delusional, and I have. It has only been the occasional witnessing by some others that has led me to think that maybe I'm not delusional.
Interesting, after watching the Lily Dale documentary, I was convinced mediums and psychics were walking fence posts. Certainly, they were.
- Sophia Angeliqueposted 14 years ago0
Seems like some frequency of sound possibly coming in through the upstairs window was bothering the dog.
Of course, the boy was 2-1/2, have his eyes checked.
- Nelle Hoxieposted 14 years ago0
Honestly? No, I've never had any paranormal experiences.
But once, when I was little and on a school trip, my whole room was kept up by this strange noise outside. It sounded like singing. And it was the middle of the night, and we'd already circulated rumors that the house we were staying in was haunted, so we all freaked out. Eventually our teacher came to ask why our room's light was still on, and we explained we could hear a strange eerie singing outside.
And she rolled her eyes and said, "That's the caretaker, you stupid boys. He's humming to himself."
- Nelle Hoxieposted 14 years ago0
Geez, I thought this was going to be a fun thread???? Figures...
I don't have any stories to tell, but I do love to watch all the paranormal shows that are on TV these days...You mean, negative and belittling like this fine example:
My father always told me "Two wrongs don't make a right"...it'd be nice if everyone would just let up, and let the thread go in the direction it was meant to...for once...
OHHHHH....you said "pray".........
The direction? Well, the question was if anyone had had any paranormal experiences or encounters--I think it's a fun thing to talk about, so do many others, so what's wrong with having a light-hearted topic????Oh, I see, my apologies, this thread was created in order for those who wish to pretend to share their fantasies with others. Sorry, I was under the impression this was an adult forum.
Are we holding your hands so that you're not able to type the words on your computer screen and hit the "Submit" button? No, we are not, hence no one is stopping anyone else from discussing the paranormal.
In fact, whether you believe in the paranormal or are just attempting to find rational explanations for the claims to the paranormal still amounts to discussion.
Of course, who called you a name? Report them if you feel compelled to do so.
It's not difficult to understand that a spiritual world cannot exist and that the evidence of such a realm exists only in the minds of believers. Obviously, no one can "see" into such a realm unless it does in fact exist and can enter our realm. At that point, it will in fact be violating our physical laws.
These are contradictions that no believer has ever explained, other than their gods are all-powerful, hence they can do whatever they want.
There are many believers who make the exact same claims about their own gods.
- Neville Walkposted 14 years ago0
- klarawieckposted 14 years ago0
I've had plenty of paranormal experiences, ever since I was a little girl. They vary from foretelling dreams to full body apparitions. Easy, Beelyboy... I am not pretending that there is a rational explanation to what I've experienced, and I understand how someone who has never had a similar experience could easily think I'm delusional.
It's not my problem what they think. I just know that TO ME these are real events and I don't take them for granted.Yes, I know Klara, those events are always 'real' to the believer despite the fact that reality prohibits them from occurring.
During my last paranormal experience, I had an out of body experience... I went on a spiritual journey all the way to Canada where I met this good looking man, who looked like Jackson Browne but with short hair! Do you believe me now?!
Awww that's very sweet,
Maybe It was her and she was checking up on her daughter. The anniversary part seems a little too coincidental.
Your claim clearly violates the physical laws of the universe and completely ignores the biology of the human body, specifically the brain.
You are free to contact James Randi and show him your remarkable talents. He will hand over one million dollars to you if you can.
Of course, the round of excuses as to why you won't contact him is forthcoming.I this addressed to me? Well my amazing magical powers occur very rarely and only when I have a spike of a certain emotion...Like for example when Im sad due to somebody I love passing away or when I'm sad having been broken up with...so i'f you'd like to introduce me to this Randi fellow and then kill everyone I love and get my my lover to brake up with me then maybe lights may start turning off.
If this stuff really bugs you then why don't you read through another forum, bring your negativity elsewhere.
CheersReally? You actually claim to have "amazing magical powers"?
"the Foundation offers a $1,000,000 prize to any person or persons who can demonstrate any psychic, supernatural or paranormal ability of any kind..."
http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/abo … ation.html
No worries, I will continue to point out hypocrisy and contradictions. You need not respond if you are frightened or feel you don't have the intellectual capacity to explain the hypocrisy and contradictions. I am your servant, sir/madam.
Well if you have nothing better to do than being one dimensional with the personality of a block of wood then feel free to waste your precious time on my hypocritical forum post . Sweetheart be my servant any day.
Cheers,
Sir/madamThank you for the personal insult. Clearly, I touched a nerve, and I suspect that nerve was intellectual honesty, or the lack thereof.
Here's my supernatural experience:
I saw this thread and thought "Cool....something unusual and different. This ought to be interesting". But by page 2, it's already started. What started as a fun and interesting thread ended up with that good ole pompous, domineering, perfection dart from the same forum admirals who grace us with their most intelligent 'better than you' swipes....those that spoil the animation and fun with their supposed superiority.
The daring admirals feel a need to creep from the crevices to haunt those who don't hold the high intelligence of the superiority of the forum admirals. Beware those with differing levels of knowledge! Beware those with a form of belief other than what the admirals promote, for you are banished to the dungeon of dolts from their book of correction
As I was left with a bitter taste of spoiled milk
, I vomited and cringed in horror to realize it had come to this crisis. And I'm left in awe in the shadow of arrogance from the forum admirals. Tut-tut.
As well, it is well known that folks with your blood sugar issues do experience delusions, dementia and hallucinations. Are you not taking this into consideration?
LOL! You're kidding, right? The direct symptoms of Hypoglycemia are blurred or double vision, seizures, convulsions, hallucinations, confusion and a whole lot more, up to and including personality disorders.
These are indeed on the Mayo Clinics website:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hypogl … N=symptoms
Seems like you never really did learn anything about your own medical condition or else you're not telling us the truth. If so, is that because you need to defend your ghost story?
- JASON NICHOLSposted 14 years ago0
My mother always taught me to fear the living, not the dead.
I was taught to fear nothing.
- just_curiousposted 14 years ago0
I'm a skeptical believer, and yes we do exist...or at least I do. Frankly I feel that we are still in the "baby steps" of scientific knowledge. I believe that as technology advances, things that are currently thought of as paranormal occurrences will in fact become another facet of the known physical world. Some physicist will exponentially prove some phenomena to be empirically true. Others, not so much…
Currently in my mid-thirties, I have experienced numerous “paranormal” and psychic instances. The first at the age of 12, and before any skeptics type it, no I DO NOT have large memory degradation.
My grandmother and great grandparents lived in the same house and I was visiting. I awoke at 6:08 am to what sounded like a herd of elephants running down the hall. (Yes I remember the exact time.) I got up and found my grandmother and great grandmother crying at the phone as they spoke to someone. (I didn’t know who at the time.) Not seeing my great grandfather I turned around and went to his room, where I found him lying on his bed, dead. (I had never faced death before so I didn’t know what was wrong with him.) I tried to wake him and when that didn’t work I cupped his face and kissed him goodbye, then left the room to join my grandmothers. They never let me go back into the room and frankly they wouldn’t have let me go in the first time if they had known…
That night I slept in my great grandfather’s bed. No one told me how he had died, just that he had gone to heaven and it was his time. Back then adults kept knowledge like that away from kids, for the most part. I woke up in the middle of the night with my chest hurting and having extreme trouble breathing. Just a nightmare you’d think, especially after what had happened that day. The problem with that theory was that the symptoms didn’t ease. I finally had to get up and go onto the screen enclosed front porch to stop the pain and shortness of breath. As I turned to face the back of the house I saw a shadow hunched over my great grandfathers tomato plants. As I stood there staring, the shadow stood up and faced me. It was my grandfather. He lifted his right arm and waved at me and then he just disappeared. I never had another problem sleeping in his bed… I found out years later that he had died of a heart attack.
That was my first experience with the paranormal. I’ve had many more instances since then. If anyone would like to know more, just let me know. (I’m new to Hubpages so I’m just learning my way around, please bare with me.)That is highly unlikely considering all physicists know quite well that the paranormal violates several physical laws of the universe. Sorry, it ain't gonna happen.
Ooh the sarcasm.
Science in general is filled with loop holes. (Ask any researcher being driven insane trying to prove it.) How can there be an absolute rule when the very foundation of life changes systematically due to external and internal pressures?
The last I heard Einstein tried his whole life to create an algorithm that concisely combined the macro and micro. (His hair stood on end for a reason. Jk) It was one of the very few things he left incomplete. Steven Hawkings is working on it, and I’m sure most people have heard about the outcry he engendered a short time ago… No one has come out with an E=MC2 that has combined both. If I am wrong in this please let me know where I can research the relative :-) information.
Hmmm, to name a few oldy but goodies: The sun circles the earth, the earth is flat and if someone sailed to the horizon they’d fall off the planet. Black holes are impossible. (How can physical matter (interpret whole planets here) be spaghettified and just disappear? Where would the matter go? Matter = matter!)
Consider ley lines or even my personal favorites the Bermuda Triangle and the Dragon Triangle. Unexplained disappearances, magnetic fluctuations, energy lines criss crossing the earth, chaos theory…. My point is that everyone INCLUDING physicists believes in things on faith. Numbers cannot be touched, breathed or seen unless someone writes them down. (I can already feel the fingers twitching to reply to that one!) The physical laws were created by man based upon what they believed they observed around them, and then taken to be absolute truths. Who can be so omnipotent to state unequivocally that they know all the factors that exist in this universe at this stage of our evolution and knowledge? Can you truly state there is no such thing as “paranormal” phenomena without it being your belief based on the facts, that to you are complete truths?
Sorry for the book everyone.No, it isn't. Science is a method of understanding the world around us. (
Please explain what you're talking about, what external and internal pressures are you referring?
No idea what you're talking about, please explain. It looks like a strawman.
Is there some point to that babble?
That looks mostly like nonsense.
No, physicists use the Scientific Method and evidence.
Strawman.
Pure nonsense. Clearly, you have no idea how science works.
Believers, of course. Certainly, science does not make such claims.
If course, the claims presented by believers of the paranormal are easily refuted by the laws of physics.
The question is, can you show any hard evidence to support the paranormal? Anything? Of course, not. If there were, we would all know about it.
Youch, I think you hurt my feelings.
Not much into philosophy huh?
Short and sweet, relatively: For the most part, most scientists would refute ANY "supernatural" evidence in this day and age because it is not measureable and repeatable within a strictly regulated laboratory setting where control and test groups are carefully monitored. How can something be measured for accuracy and variation, if no standard measuring system even exists? Nor do we truly have creditable technology (that we know of) to ensure accurate recording of results. Until then, the "paranormal" will continue to seem as if it breaks the laws of physics as we know them. It will be considered idiocy by the scientific community by and large while those people who have actually experienced it will know it exists and continue to believe.
And yeah I do.Or, the fact that the supernatural, as claimed by those who believe in it, violates the physical laws of the universe. Refutation is a foregone conclusion, that is, unless the believers can bring forth an explanation rather than just pretending.
Do you really know and understand those laws, or do you just pretend to know them?
Yes, I'm sure those who believe will continue to believe despite the facts of reality. They will pretend to have "special powers" just like a little kiddie.I am not an expert by any stretch of the imagination. However I do try to keep up to date. To be able to even read some of those research papers you have to be a little bit above pretending. Especially when you get into theoretics. To try and prove a theory theoretically correct with just equations...Yeah I'd just rather read the theory itself.
Frankly I think most occurences can be explained scientifically, but there are those few that are just different enough to take me into the what if??? Plus I like philosophy a lot to, so that just keeps it going for me.
Thanks for the debate, it was fun.Mathematics is the language of physics, without it, there is not much one can gain in understanding of physics. Of course, the violations of physical laws in regards to the paranormal is not theoretical, it is very well understood and shows that anything claimed thus far is entirely impossible to occur. In other words, it isn't possible for ghosts and goblins to exist, as claimed by paranormal believers.
Whatever so-called occurrences you refer most likely have quite innocuous explanations. Most of it I find, is folks who are just pretending to have "special powers" and are for the most part, peddling snakeoil.
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Okay, so I've just totally blown my credibility!
When one writes about the paranormal, particularly in one's own life, how many people take one seriously, and how many take one as a crank.I'd value your responses. If it's too negative, I'm taking my article down. I don't want to make an idiot of myself.