Posted on 10/27/2009 11:10:27 AM PDT by Debacled
With Halloween only a few days away, discussion of the paranormal is a staple of the creepy holiday each year.
Anybody have any interesting anecdotes about their experiences with hauntings, Ouija boards, and ghosts? Even aside from the typical Halloween characters, have you encountered situations that you think were direct interventions from God?
Anyone want to share their paranormal stories?
That's correct.
Anybody messing around with occult stuff is remarkably foolish, and would be well advised:
a) to quit. NOW.
b) to repent and seek God's forgiveness and protection.
Read my long post above, it recounts the true story of the excorcist and how it all started with the Ouija board. Absolutely forbid them in your home ...
whoops, that’s just 2 stories for now.
“The impact made a loud bang, people screamed...”
“But the sidewalk on my block was eerily, deliberately vacant. Not a soul.”
Who screamed? Glad you’re alright though.
You got that right! People don’t realize what danger they are innocently getting themselves into.
Mostly the people on the hotel-side of the street, the ones who had gotten off the bus just before I did.
Those are weird stories indeed.
My parents taught me to have NO dealings with ouija boards or similar stuff ... and I have passed those lessons on.
Can let evil into this world
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Pretty sure it’s already here.
Oh yeah, now I remember the other one.
I was like a young teen, I was walking with my brother outside, not really close to any structure or anything, and then a bunch of this slime, kind of like egg white splattered all over him.
A couple minutes later it evaporated. No idea what that was either.
The picture is at the bottom of Roaring Brook Falls which is a 325 foot waterfall though it is frozen solid at the time of the pic, and there have been numerous deaths of hikers and hunters in the area, many from getting too close to the edge on top and falling to their deaths.
I don't know what that thing is, looks like a guy with an axe or a hiking stick.
He stood up and yelled that he was Jesus Christ and about 10 guys tackled him and tried to cast the demon out and failed so they made him leave the church where he took all his clothes off and walked around naked until the police showed up and brought him to the psych ward.
He said the demon entered into him when he played with a ouija board when he was 8 years old.
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This happened about 40 years ago. My parents had gone to a dinner party across the street. My oldest sister, Laurie, was in the living room & noticed a shadow moving at the end of the room. What was odd was that it was moving back & forth behind our KLH-9 speakers (which were about 6 feet tall). If the shadow was from something in the room it would have fallen on the front of the speakers. She had the distinct feeling this was my grandfather, who had passed away several years before. (He was a francophile & we were not allowed to call him Grandpa - he preferred the french ‘Granpere.’)
Another sister, also had a similar sighting of an odd shadow moving in another room of the house.
My parents came home very late & my sisters couldn’t tell my mother until the next morning. They each told my mother about their experience separately. They had not told each other. My mother was really upset about this & thought they were lying. She told my father about it, who gave her a funny look. Finally, he said, “I wasn’t going to tell you this, but I woke up last night at & there was Grandpere standing at the end of the bed. He was there a moment & then gone.”
My mother had been grieving about my grandfather’s death, wishing he could’ve lived long enough to visit us in Hawaii where we lived at the time. She believes this was his way of saying, “I’m here. Don’t grieve.”
Probably because the Lord never told them to do it.
Ping so I can track this and read as it grows. Good fun.
This one is unexplained. We lived in a house built in 1925 in NJ back in the early ‘90’s. Nothing strange ever happened in the house except an incident when my young daughter was old enough to have conversations but had absolutely no exposure to ghost stories at all (nothing on TV like Casper, etc.). She told us one night in her bedroom she was talking to the little boy. We asked “what little boy?”. She said a little boy floated up the stairs and into her room and began speaking to her. Very strange. She was very young so maybe she made it up but at the time it was uncharacteristic for her to make up floating boy stories. We laughed it off with her and it never happened again.
My interpretation of such stories (not that you should care) is that they aren’t at all good. I am not saying it didn’t happen, only that I think it has nothing to do with heaven, or a heavenly spirit, or God. Somehow people tell stories like this (true or not) and feel comforted, I would feel no comfort at all from such an event.
I guess it all depends on one’s frame of reference. We were not raised in a church. My parents felt that such beliefs are best decided on in adulthood. They both had unhappy memories of being dragged to the Methodist church. So we basically believe in God & an afterlife, but are ‘open’ to what else is there. So this experience does tend to validate at least part of our beliefs.
My mother had her own peculiar experience as a young woman. For a series of weeks (like ten?) she would have a dream of a horrible death - like a child suffocated in a refrigerator. Then some days after there would be a story in the newspaper with identical circumstances she’d dreamed. No clue as to why the dreams started or stopped. No comfort in that sort of thing at all!
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