At a very young age, I was always open to the fact that ghosts and the paranormal of the after life indeed exist. I was always incredibly spooked out by that thought and because of that thought, I was always an open minded believer.
Even though the certain kind of skepticism is there due to the unexplained, the very thought of life after death is one of the most fascinating aspects to deep thought and the possibility of the after world.
With that said, it wasn't too long ago, to maybe around a year/ year 1/2 ago to where I experienced some unseen figure in my bedroom, staring down on me. I could not see anyone present as my room is small, but for one of the first times in my life, I KNEW someone was in the room and was creeped out by knowing something was indeed standing in front to the left of my bed watching me sleep. It's unexplained, but this presence was so powerful, that it kept me up for several upon several of hours and it made me feel very uncomfortable and petrified. The only thing I could really do was stare wide eyes in the direction to where I felt being watched. It literally felt like someone standing there as if you would be standing next to someone at a bank or so. The feeling of being watched was truly unbearable and felt the urge that if you turned around, someone would be standing there.
I've had maybe one of two, maybe three of those nights to where I've felt an unknown feeling I was being watched to where I wanted to get up only to want to look over my shoulder, but none of it happened recently.
Around the same time, one morning maybe around 6:00 A.M I woke up which felt to be a sense of being paralyzed. I couldn't move an ounce of my muscles and felt as if someone was laying on top of me so to speak. I tried moving my body but was unsuccessful. I could barely even open my eyes or talk but I was alert and knew I was scared and very much felt it. It lasted maybe about 40-50 seconds and it disappeared leaving me in an unexplained state of fear.
This happened once or twice after that but none recently or ever again. Due to my open mindless to the dead, there is no doubt in my mind that someone from the afterworld was present in my bedroom that night and morning.
I recently (literally 30 min ago) finished a book by Elaine Mercado named "Grave's End." I couldn't put the book down and found that she talks of many experiences where she felt someone on top of her within her sleep, feeling paralyzed and sometimes violated, something she called "smothering."
She described it to be very similiar to my small experience and I instantly made the terrifying connection and then came across other peoples experiences
About a year and a half ago, I was awoken in the night by a strong, warm breeze. I could not move and could not scream. It lasted about 30 seconds and was gone. I saw nothing. Last week it happened again. I was lying in bed and again was awoken. I felt a very strong force holding me down. I could not sit up. I tried to scream for my daughter and could not get any noise to come out. I tried to hit the wall with my arm and this force would not let me. It again lasted about 30 seconds and was over. I really don't believe in ghosts and didn't see anything at all. I am just really scared and confused.
Have you ever had a similar experience? The above incident is a classic example of what has become known as the "old hag" syndrome and is one of many such letters I receive from readers each month. The victims awake to find that they cannot move, even though they can see, hear, feel and smell. There is sometimes the feeling of a great weight on the chest and the sense that there is a sinister or evil presence in the room. And like the above reader, they are often quite frightened about what is happening to them.
The name of the phenomenon comes from the superstitious belief that a witch - or an old hag - sits or "rides" the chest of the victims, rendering them immobile. Although that explanation isn't taken very seriously nowadays, the perplexing and often very frightening nature of the phenomenon leads many people to believe that there are supernatural forces at work - ghosts or demons.
The experience is so frightening because the victims, although paralyzed, seem to have full use of their senses. In fact, it is often accompanied by strange smells, the sound of approaching footsteps, apparitions of weird shadows or glowing eyes, and the oppressive weight on the chest, making breathing difficult if not impossible. All of the body's senses are telling the victims that something real and unusual is happening to them. The spell is broken and the victims recover often on the point of losing consciousness. Fully awake and well, they sit up, completely baffled by what just happened to them since now the room is entirely normal.
http://paranormal.about.com/library/wee ... 12000a.htm
About 5 months ago I experienced my touch light right next to me on my dresser turn on by itself. I saw it flick on through my eyelids and it actually woke me up. I looked at the clock and it was around 2:05 A.M. This never happened before, so I figured it was a malfunction with electricity of the touch light.
Around 2:15 that next night, it flicked on once more, but turning off, then turning RIGHT back on.
I was def. spooked and ran downstairs to tell my brother about what happened. I didn't turn it off or anything and when I returned upstairs the light was still on.
I took a pic of the light and sent it to my GF explaining what happened. It didn't flick on again until around 2 weeks later, while my gf slept over. Again, it was around the time of 2:00-2:30 A.M and woke me up. I actually had to wake up my girlfriend as well and show her that I wasn't crazy. She gasped and was freaked out, so I unplugged it. It didn't happen since. The time of occurrence to where it happened made me suspicious of the coincidence of timing of the light flickering. I had that lamp for 3 years and never experienced it to turn on and off like that on the dime or at the same time nightly.
I heard things like flickering of lights are family members of the deceased just saying hello. Many people who feel STRONGLY about ghosts and who had countless of run ins with them say spirits are energies of the dead that either haven't accepted the fact that they passed away, or are not aware that they are even dead.
My aunt will not SPEAK of Ouija Boards and won't allow one in her home. My mom always tells me stories about some crazy stuff that happened with her sister and the Oujia. They always said my aunt could channel spirits and always had a knack to have something happen in the house during anytime (things shaking, breaking, accessories being move, etc.)
Her daughter just gave birth to a new baby boy, and her 3 year old says he sees "the ghost man sitting the end of the bed" at night. I couldn't imagine a 3 year old even smart enough to know what a ghost man looks like. My aunt always asks him what the ghost man looks like and he never responds. Ironically, my other cousin when he was little (he's now 27) would always speak of a man sitting at the end of the bed with a hat and looking out the window. Friends claimed to see this as well if they slept over. My aunt strongly gets the presence that it's our grandfathers watching over the newborns in the family.
There was also an incident, where me, my brother and his gf were in the kitchen and heard my dog barking in the family room. We went to calm him down and he was sitting in front of my computer chair with noone in it, barking like someone was indeed sitting there. We all looked at each other and couldn't move the first thought that entered all of our heads was the unforeseeable.
I'll post some EVP's (Electric Voice Phenomena) of what some people captured of unexplained voices channeling from the other side tomorrow.