Paranormal.

I think it is sad that people can't realize how dangerous Ouija boards are.

^ I think it's sad people are scared of them. I don't believe that anything you can contact through an ouija board is strong enough to harm you if you don't believe it can.

With the possible exception of using ouija boards in places known to be haunted by negative energies.

I posted this in the Health thread and got told to come here...

N.Syko:

I didn't really know where else to post this, but I thought this would be best, even though it might not totally fit.

I'm only posting this because I've tried telling my parents and they think I'm making it up, my friends laugh at me or think I'm crazy and I don't really know who else to tell. But basically I'm freaking out, and I need some one else's opinion who will at least try to take me seriously.

I can't really put it any other way: I'm hearing voices. I don't know if they're in my head, or I'm actually hearing them.

Thing is, I've only heard them a couple of times. The first few times, they were just like breaths, and I put it off as something more logical: the wind, the heating pipes, a noise from somewhere else in the house.

But then, maybe a few months ago, I heard a definite sigh. There was no doubt about it that I heard it and what it was. I was alone in the house, no music on, no TV. Just sat in my room, straightening my hair. It wasn't my straighteners. It wasn't me....I'm 100% sure what the noise was. Just not where it came from.

Then tonight I heard my name. I know, I know how ridiculous and impossible and crazy it sounds, but I know I heard it. It scared me, real bad. I've never been so shaken in all my life, nothing this real has ever happened.

I've been hearing things for a while now, but nothings ever been so certain as this. And I really don't know what to do. I'm scared to tell anyone, because I've tried before and they won't believe me. And if they do, then they might think I'm insane...

Please, if anyone has any advice... it'd help me out a lot

The 'other' things that I've heard is what sounded like someone crying my name - as in sobs - from the end of my corridor. I thought it was my sister, but she claimed it wasn't and that she hadn't heard anything. It could have been her playing a trick on me, but when more things started happening, I asked her again and she swore it wasn't.

There was a spell a couple of months ago, when a two or three nights a week I'd hear what I can only describe as someone running across my ceiling, drop something and then that something roll back across where the running had occured. I told my parents, and of course they didn't believe me, but because I was in hysterics they told me to wake them up next time I heard it. It happened once more and...I don't know, I guess I just tried to ignore it. The next morning I told my parents it had happened again. They I was probably dreaming or something. For whatever reason, it never happened again after that.

But what was weirdest to me, was the running and what to me sounded like a ball rolling, whenever I heard it, sounded exactly the same. Like it was a recording or something, being played over. But the 'footsteps' were so heavy but nobody else could hear it.

(If you're wondering why I didn't post this in the other thread, it's because it was really off-topic, and I thought the voices made me seem crazy enough. When someone suggested something paranormal, I thought I may as well explain everything.)

There's been a few things happen over the years, but I've always disregarded them, especially as I was quite young when most of them happened. But I still remember them. Just things like the TV turning on by itself, doors closing.

The voices only started about a year or two ago, but never as clear as it was today.

So, yeah...anyone got any advice?

N. Syko:

For one thing, you're definitely not crazy.There may be some explanations for some of the noises like maybe a mouse caught in the wall, electrical disturbances, and maybe your sister messing with you, but some of those things sound a bit...odd. There could be a spirit trying to get your attention, either because it needs guidance to cross over to its realm, or it could be just lonely. Does the presence feel malicious? Or does it just scare you because you don't know exactly what's happening?
I've been hearing voices and experiencing phenomena like you for years in my house, and our spirits seem to just want attention. They've never done anything to harm my family or scare us (intentionally.) What I would try first is answering the voices, maybe with a tape recorder, and seeing if you get any EVPs. It might help you find out a little bit more about whatever is in your home. I wouldn't try using a Ouija board, though. If you feel afraid, try saying a few prayers. If the spirit just wants attention, it might understand you're afraid and leave you alone for a while. I always get a little scared when I hear voices, footsteps, and things like that happening, but there is most likely nothing to be afraid of.
The best thing to do right now is to try living alongside the spirit and trying to find out what it wants through EVPs and things like that, but if it starts lashing out at you, I would try doing a cleansing ceremony. (Sprinkling Holy Water around your home and reading Bible passages, asking the spirit to leave in the name of the Lord.) This usually works with a benevolent spirit. But I would use that only if you can't take having a spirit in your house, though.

I never really believed in ghosts until my mum said that when I saw two, I had an experience with the paranormal.
My grandpa died before I was born. Six months before, actually. Obviously, I have never met him. While my mum was cooking one day, I apparently ran into the kitchen and said "Ma, Papa says he loves you."

I had to resurrect this thread, because strange things have been happening in my house.
There's several ghosts in the house, a man and a woman, but they don't bother with my family much and...I actually quite like them. I think they might be the couple who owned this house when it was first built, because they died about fifteen years ago and this is when the hauntings started. But enough about them.

I read somewhere that if an individual is depressed, spirits can feed off of that. I suffer from clinical depression, and although I'm being treated, the paranormal activity in my house has been increasing since it got worse.

What I'm worried about is another spirit that has appeared recently. The man and woman do not physically move objects, but this one opens doors and turns things on and off, and once took a photo off the wall and threw it on my bed. I saw it happen. The activity with this one seems to be centered in my bedroom and the attic, while the other spirits are content to stay in the living area and basement. My cats have growled at nothing in my room and one of them actually tried attacking my closet door the other day, then ran out of the room like something kicked it. I looked away, heard something like a grunt or moan, and then the closet door was wide open and the room was freezing. That door is very heavy, so the cat couldn't have done it. Doorknobs have also been shaken violently from the outside, and we have a security system in our house and there was no sign that anyone had tried to break in. I've woken up because I've felt myself being scratched or slapped lightly and I always see a dark shape in my room, then it leaves. I hear knocking on the wall next to my bed and hear someone running around in my room. It seems to enjoy being around me.
Also, the attic gives people a very uneasy feeling and I've heard something walking around up there and moving things around, and the only way to get up there is a putting a ladder up. And this has been in the middle of the night, when I've been fully awake. The attic is right above my room, so this makes sense.

Could this be a poltergeist? I just need an answer, because I'd like to know whether this entity is just trying to get my attention or if it has darker motives. I used to shrug it off, but now it's really starting to scare me.

A lot of strange stuff has happened to me. In the third house I ever lived in, I slept in my 'bedroom' maybe once or twice a week, if even that. That room was so...I don't know how to explain it. There was just something bad in the room. One night I woke up, and there was like, a spirit or something hovering over me with an axe. After that incident, I didn't sleep in my room for a good month; I slept in the bath tub because my parents didn't believe me.

Then when we moved to a different house from that one, the room I chose (by that time I loved the paranormal) had three different people die in it. A baby in the '20s, a woman in the '60s, and the owner who had it before we did. And every night as I would go to sleep in that room, I felt like someone was watching me...but not in a good way. The lady who had it before us (she was old and died in my room) was mean, and beat her son when he was a kid. So I was always feeling like I was being watched, and intruding on her space.

The house I live in now has had a couple of different things happen. The day I moved in, one of the cupboard doors opened itself. Then it shut itself. A man died in my mom's room (my great grandmother's husband is the man who died in there), and she says she sometimes feels him in there. My room is weird. The air is always heavy, and no matter how high I turn the heat, it's freezing in here. I always feel like I'm being watched if I'm trying to sleep, and a couple of different times I've heard voices. The lights flicker, things end up moving around...The normal. Last night, I specifically remember putting it on an Avenged Sevenfold playlist to sleep to, and at 3:14 in the morning, I woke up to Simple Plan. I didn't think anything of it, and then when I woke up this morning at 6:30, it was an Avenged Sevenfold playlist again. ^__^

mindflower.:

Could this be a poltergeist? I just need an answer, because I'd like to know whether this entity is just trying to get my attention or if it has darker motives. I used to shrug it off, but now it's really starting to scare me.

I'd be careful, because it sounds like poltergeist activity to me. I'm not an expert or anything, so I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure that kicking your cat, shaking doorknobs, throwing pictures, dark shapes in your room, etc. etc. are pretty poltergeist-like. I hope things get better for you.

Kiss Me Deadly.:

I've never tried to make contact with this thing, which I think is a good thing seeing as though it might be quite nasty.

I keep telling my mother about this (she is very religious) and she either gets mad or doesn't believe, but she finally took it into consideration. I went to Sunday school for 8 years and was raised Roman Catholic, but consider myself agnostic/atheist because I don't agree with religion because of the trouble it starts. I just don't, sorry if I offend anyone. I had a crucifix in my room but took it down some time ago and hid it because...well, I didn't want a Catholic idol in my room if I don't belong to that religion.

A few weeks after I took it down is when things started getting worse, and then after I tried self-harming, this entity appeared. If there is a God, I think He/She/It might be vengeful towards me.

^^I know exactly what you mean by God being vengeful. I feel the same way, especially with some of the paranormal stuff that's happened to me. The things I mentioned don't even come close to half of the encounters I have had.

mindflower.:

I've never tried to make contact with this thing, which I think is a good thing seeing as though it might be quite nasty.

I keep telling my mother about this (she is very religious) and she either gets mad or doesn't believe, but she finally took it into consideration. I went to Sunday school for 8 years and was raised Roman Catholic, but consider myself agnostic/atheist because I don't agree with religion because of the trouble it starts. I just don't, sorry if I offend anyone. I had a crucifix in my room but took it down some time ago and hid it because...well, I didn't want a Catholic idol in my room if I don't belong to that religion.

A few weeks after I took it down is when things started getting worse, and then after I tried self-harming, this entity appeared. If there is a God, I think He/She/It might be vengeful towards me.

No. God wouldn't do those things. He is loving. That would be more the Devil feeding off the fact that you believe that if God exists He would be vengeful.

^ Um... murdering all firstborns?

It's In The Blood.:

^ Um... murdering all firstborns?

Your point?

^ I think she meant to ask what kind of loving God would murder people's firstborn child like in the stories of Moses, but wasn't that to teach the Egyptians a lesson? And he did tell the Jews how to protect themselves, didn't he?

Anyway, back on topic. It's close to midnight here and everyone is asleep except me, and the cats are freaking out. There's thudding and banging in the hall that's too loud to be them. And I heard a noise like a snort, and my bedroom door opened. One of my cats ran in and tried attacking the closet again, then ran back out and made this noise like it was really angry or hurt. I think it might the poltergeist acting up.
There is no way I'm making this up, if there was a way to record sound, I would, and post it here.

EDIT: It might've been one of the cats, but something just grunted. Loud.

mindflower.:

^ I think she meant to ask what kind of loving God would murder people's firstborn child like in the stories of Moses, but wasn't that to teach the Egyptians a lesson? And he did tell the Jews how to protect themselves, didn't he?

Yes, that is what I meant. I don't think it's particularly loving to murder innocent children - particularly when many of the Egyptians probably had little to do with the enslavement of the Jews.

And Sing:

No. God wouldn't do those things. He is loving. That would be more the Devil feeding off the fact that you believe that if God exists He would be vengeful.

What's in it for the devil? I mean, the Christians believe that god will come down to earth, beat the devil and stuff. Why would the devil bother to do anything if in the end, god wins?

Josipa:

What's in it for the devil? I mean, the Christians believe that god will come down to earth, beat the devil and stuff. Why would the devil bother to do anything if in the end, god wins?

I can't answer that. But, the devil is the cause of all evil.

And Sing:

Josipa:

What's in it for the devil? I mean, the Christians believe that god will come down to earth, beat the devil and stuff. Why would the devil bother to do anything if in the end, god wins?

I can't answer that. But, the devil is the cause of all evil.

To me, it's like you said that unicorns exist (:

Josipa:

To me, it's like you said that unicorns exist (:

I wish they did...:)

But, I see what you mean. But then that's like saying that ghosts and all those other paranormal things exist. So, really it's just what people believe.

No, I have never experienced that. But my friend has told me about ghosts in her house. I don't really believe in her, and I don't want to believe in her... really creepy tho, I rarely visit her place anymore. (So she will come over to my place instead)