Bumps in the Night

[Sai Joshua]

Halloween is almost upon us. Has anyone here had any experience with the paranormal or supenatural? I would love to hear your stories.

[Daghain]

YES!!!

My husband died in 1998. Not long after, when I was bringing in the laundry (it was outside in another building) I walked in, shut the door, and his picture (we had a set of our wedding pics: him, us, and me on the wall) flipped off the wall and landed FACE UP on the floor. Those pics had been there for 2+ years, and had never moved. I remember saying, out loud and without thinking, "What do you want?" to the picture, with no real reason why.

Not long after, I was looking for a new apartment. I had put all my husband's stuff in storage, except for a small wallet pic of him I had leaning against my computer. The rental market was tight; I could find NOTHING, anywhere.

One day I got fed up and looked at his pic and said, "You need to find me a place to live, and then you need to go to the light, or wherever the hell else you're supposed to be, and leave me alone."

THE NEXT DAY, I had a feeling I should call the place I was on the waiting list for. They had a vacant apartment. I felt my husband fulfulled his "job" of taking care of me before he "left" for wherever it was he was supposed to go. I never felt him "around" after that.

And, it was EXACTLY the apartment he would have picked. Top floor, corner unit. Yeah, he totally picked it.

[Sai Joshua]

I guess since I started this, I will go first. When I was a young boy, around 10 or so, my mom moved into an apartment. The previous tenant, an older gentleman, was put in the nursing home because he was talking to someone who wasn't there named Danny(we found this out later). One bedroom was always colder than the rest of the house no matter what time of the year it was. The bathroom had this horrible smell that would come from it sometimes. ( No wise asses, it was not me!) My mom and her roomate heard all kinds of banging and knocking around in the bathroom and when they would go in to investigate, the noise would stop. Funny thing was when they would open the medicine cabinet in there, all the pill bottles in it would be scattered no matter how many times they would be restraightened. i went to stay the night with her one night and I will never forget the feeling of being watched the whole time I was there. The icing on the cake for me was when I was laying on the living room on the sofa and the drop light that she had above the kitchen table started swinging back and forth. I would not go back there to spend the night again. There are several stories I could tell about this presence, but I will stick to 2. My mom's roomate had very long hair. She was watching TV one night and my mom was reading a book when all of the sudden her roomate started screaming. When mom looked up, Debbie's hair was being pulled straight up and something was pulling her out of the chair it was pulling so strongly, although mom could see nothing! Mom called out the name of Jesus and immediately Debbie's hair fell back down. The episode that made mom move was when she went into the apartment by herself one night after a long shift and sat on the sofa. As she was taking off her shoes, she felt like someone was in the room with her. She called out " Is anyone there?" and immediately got a response" Margaret I'm here" from right in front of her. Once again there was noboy there. Mom came and stayed with us that night. Upon researching the situation, there was a guy who lived there right before the old man that I mentionedremember I said he was talking to someone who wasn't there named Danny?) who died of a drug overdose and was put into the bedroom that became the "cold" room in the house. I believe the spirit of the OD victim was the one in the house.Sorry such a long one, but I hope you enjoyed.

[Daghain]

Story #2:

My father died in 2000. I was home to visit, he passed on the day before I was supposed to leave to go back home. It was totally unexpected.

The irony was, the whole week before I had left I had bad feelings about the whole thing. I didn't put two and two together, but I knew it centered around him. I thought I was being irrational, and blew it off. I do remember not wanting to go, and being really upset on the plane on the way out there.

My aunt, after hearing about my dad's death, said to me, "Well, that's why you came home."

She might have been right. I almost burst into tears on the plane ride in, but had no idea why. Now I knew.

ONE YEAR to the day of my dad's death, a firm and final offer came on the house he and my mother shared.

I will never believe he did not have a hand in that. I don't care if everyone thinks I'm crazy, but I believe the pennance of the dead is to make sure their loved ones are okay before they move on.

Just my two cents.

[Erin]

Interesting stories guys. I've got a few myself. I've typed them all out before at another site. I'll go hunt them down and do the 'ole copy/paste because i'm too lazy to type it all out again.

[Jean]

great thread, Sai Joshua!

[Letti]

When my mom and my dad were about to divorce and my dad didn't live at home for some weeks (it was about 8 years ago) my mom my brother and me lived together.
One night my mom wake up because she heard horrible noices from the ground-floor. We used to live in a house with a garden and our bedrooms were on the first floor.
My mom was horrible frightened and she went to the stairs. We had alarm system on the ground floor and there was a panel at the strair on the wall that showed you if there was any movement down there. The alarm system didn't turn on and the panel didn't show any movement but she still was hearing those horrible noices. As if a drunk person had been running up and down kicking the furinture and ruinning the house.
My poor mom was so scared and got a little shock she couldn't move anywhere. It took for some very long minutes and suddenly it quit.
She went back into her room and she tried to sleep but she couldn't manage.

It happened again after some nights (me and my little brother heard nothing we wouldn't wake up for an atomic bomb either) and my mom didn't dare to step out of her room.
After that she told me this little story (I was about 14 then) and she asked me to sleep with her.
She thought it might have been my dead godfather, my dad's brother who died years ago in a car accident, he wanted to tell my mom that she shouldn't leave my dad or divorce. My godfather was the center of my family. We used to celebrate the Chrismas and everything together. When he died our whole family fell apart. He was the roots of our family tree and when he was gone... we like dead leaves fell down from the tree and we let the wind lead us far away from each other.
My mom and my dad often say if he hadn't died it's possible (just very possible) that they would be still together.

My mom was having very hard days at that time and her nerves were weak. She might have dreamt it... anyway she doesn't believe in such things.
We will never know.

[Erin]

Ok...first story:

I'm one who belives in aliens, UFOs, abductions, the whole shabang. I never used to be this way, but i've had several experiences which have totally changed my views. My own personal story happened on a sunday at 10am. It was a really nice, sun-shiny day in June. There wasn't a cloud in the sky. My boyfriend at the time and I were driving to work together. We had just reached the top of a crest of a hill in the road when suddenly ahead of us in the sky was a very strange, shiny object. It seemed to be about 200 feet or so up in the air in front of the car. It was shaped like an egg, and appeared to be about the size of a van. It was incredibly shiny and was just hoovering there in front of us. I slammed on the breaks in the middle of the road (luckily there was no one around) and we just stared at it and did that whole "Oh my god, do you SEE that?" and "what the hell is it" thing. What happened next is hard to describe. After a few seconds, it appeared as if someone reached out from behind the object and just plucked it back into the sky. I've never seen anything move so fast before. It was just there, then it shot backwards up into the sky incredibly fast.

My ex and I immediately called several of our friends and family members and told them about it. When we finally got to work, we also told a bunch of people there. Almost everyone laughed at us (the only person who believed me were my best friend and mom) and said there was a reasonable explaination for what we saw. You know, weather balloon, you were tired, the sun was in your eyes, ect... But none of that was the case. I've never been able to explain what i've seen before. I'm just glad I had someone else in the car with me to see it too, so I know I wasn't just crazy.

[Erin]

Erin Paranormal Event #2.....beware...it's long.

When I was 14 (1998 ), my mom and stepdad owned a beach house in South Carolina (we lived in NC at the time). We used to go nearly every weekend, leaving once school was out Friday and get home late Sunday night. One weekend, my family was planning on leaving like normal, but I had to stay because I had agreed to a babysitting job that Saturday. I didn't want to stay alone, so I was spending the weekend with my friend and her family.

Saturday afternoon, I realized I had forgotten to tell the man I babysat for that I was staying with friends (he would pick me up at my house and drive me over to his). I tried calling his house several times to give him the new directions, but he never answered and didn't have an answering machine. So I just decided to go over to my house a little before he arrived and wait there for him there.

Ok, here is where it gets spooky. My friends mom drops me off at my house. It's dark out and we had a huge house because of the extended step-family (3 story, basement, huge yard, ect...). I go inside and realize I have awhile before he gets there so I sit on the couch in the living room and watch TV. After awhile, I hear a very loud *THUD* coming from upstairs above me. I immediately turned off the TV and just sat and listened. After a few minutes I heard another *THUD* from upstairs. I suddenly got really scared. No one is home, the only light I had turned on in the entire house was the living room lamp. I crept over out of the living room to the stairs and peeked around the corner. Just as I did, I heard another really loud *THUD*. I ran into the kitchen, grabbed a butcher knife(seriously what the hell I planned on doing with it, i have no idea) and the cordless phone and ran back into the living room. The living room was really creeping me out, however, because it was one of those "great rooms" which runs along one entire side of the house and has two entrences into the room, one on the left side and one on the right side. I sat on fireplace, in the middle and across from both doorways, with my butcher knife held out in front of me, eyes darting back and forth between the two doorways. I called my friend and told her how scared I was.

While on the phone, the man I babysat for beeped in to tell me that he wouldn't need me that night because of a death in the family. I immediately told my friend to have her mom come get me.

The next day, when it was bright and sunny out, my friend and I walked back over to my house and went in. We went upstairs and began searching every room (holding hands, creeping about, totally scared, but just glad it wasn't dark). When we got to my bedroom, in the middle of my floor was a large candle and glass holder, several decorative vases, and a few small statues, all the items which had previously been sitting ontop of my 6 foot bookcase against the wall. But there they were, in the middle of the room, not like they had fallen, but arranged the exact way I had them set up on my bookcase. That was the only thing amiss in the entire house. I have no idea how it happened and what the *THUD* noises were. It scared me so badly I slept on the couch in the living room for several weeks after that.

I never saw anything the entire time I lived in that house, nor did anyone else, but one other creepy thing happened to me once more before we moved.

Briefly, I got out of bed in the middle of the night. I have a stuffed monkey doll named Zip that my grandpa made me when I was little. He always sat on my bed when it was made as decoration during the day. At night, when i turned down the bed, I would toss him and some other stuffed animals at the foot of the bed. That was where he was this night. However, when I came back from the bathroom, Zip was PROPPED UP on his stuffed arms in the middle of my bed, LOOKING AT ME. It scared me so badly, I grabbed the first thing I could find off my dresser, which happened to be my deodorant, and threw it at him, knocking him down. I ran and woke up my mom and forced her to take Zip out of my room and lock him in a chest in her room. I didn't take my poor stuffed monkey out of that chest for months, but when I finally did, I tried and tried for hours to prop him up like I had seen him, thinking I had just somehow knocked him into that position while getting out of bed. It was to no avail. I have never been able to get him to "stand up" the way he did that one night, his stuffed arms are just arn't sturdy enough.

[Letti]

Uhhh Erin...
Small wonder you believe in such things.

Anyway... you are a really brave girls. Others would have run out crying but you... you ran into the kitchen for a big knife.

[Darkthoughts]

About 14 years ago my Dad had a heartattack - it was quite serious, but he recovered and all seemed well. 4 Years later I was living about 10 miles away from my parents house - I'd finished work and was walking home with a friend who's house I was going to for dinner. Before we got to his house I felt like I ought to go see my folks, I said to my friend, "Look, I know this is really weird but, I'm going to hop on the bus and goto my parents for the night." Which is what I did. My sisters were quite young back then and my Mum worked nights, so when in the night I heard my Dad calling me, which didn't wake my sisters (and obviously my Mum wasn't there) I got up and found him unable to move and in great pain in bed. He was having another heart attack and the paramedics kept saying how lucky it was I was there or he'd have been in serious trouble.
I always thought that was kinda freaky!

[Storyslinger]

Wow, these are great, I'll have to post mine when i get time

[Erin]

Lisa....something similar to your story happened to my mom. My grandpa was in Canada on a fishing trip leaving my grandma home alone. One day when my mom was driving home from work, she passed my grandma's house (like she had every other day) but this time she said she felt the overwhelming urge to stop and see if she was OK, even though she had no reason to believe things were amiss as they had just talked earlier that morning.

She ended up finding my unconcious grandma who had fallen down the stairs, breaking her skull, numerous facial bones and her shoulder. She was in intensive care for over a month and even though she's fine now, the doctors said she wouldn't have survived a few more hours without medical care if my mom hadn't found her.

[Storyslinger]

I was in the hot tub at my house about a month ago. It was about 1:00 in the morning, and I had just gotten home from work about 3 hours before. I had the radio going and was just relaxing. After about a half hour, the music cut out. Now, most of yo know that 'its not what you hear, but what you don't'. Well, it was dead silent, I mean nothing. No animals, no crickets, no frogs. Then, as i sat up, the light that i have that shines over the yard went out. With only the light in the hot tub to see by, I just sat and listened. After about three minutes, my eyes had adjusted to the dark and I could see things moving just outside of my yard line. I strained my eyes to try and see what it was. Now I shit you not, as I was looking to my yard line, I saw something out of the corner of my eye that was only five feet from the hot tub. For anyone who has ever seen House on Haunted Hill, it looked like something that moved in that crawling on all fours thing. I jerked my head quick, but what ever it was, was gone. Now here is the toppper. Then i started to hear stuff, like shuffling feet and rustling. After about two minutes of this. The radio cut back on and so did the lights. Needless to say, I got out.

[Matt]

These are great!

I lived in a house that was about 100 years old for a while--it had been owned by one family (and still owned by the same one) when we rented it.

As was fashionable back in the 40's--the land lords dad had died in the bedroom. Still there but not mean.

So here I am sitting on the toilet in the tiny bathroom---it got very cold. Then the toilet paper started unraveling at a very fast rate, straight to the floor like a ghost cat was pulling on it. It was freaky as hell.

He also used to take all the shower stuff out of the little basket it hung in from the shower head and line it up in the tub. I had to put it back before Dora went in there because he REALLY freaked her out.

[Storyslinger]

He just likes stuff in order

[funky dredd]

Currently my son will not stay in the house by himself. He keeps complaining of a girls voice and sometimes we have sleepless nights over this (he'll wake up really scared and won't go back to sleep, he's only 6). Now we also have a puppy who will out of the blue start barking and get really scared and run under the bed. When we turn the lights on to see what is going on there is nothing there and we can't find any reason for her to be scared.

A few weeks ago both my wife and I awoke to to what sounded like two utensils being banged against each other. I went to the kitchen to find my utensil drawer open and two forks laying on the counter. The very next night while sitting on the couch I looked at my sliding glass door and the words boo had formed because of the outside temperature and the inside temperature being different.

One day my wife noticed while leaving for work that our neighbors kitchen light was on, so we kindly asked her why (she is a friend of ours). She came right out and said she kept hearing weird noises and some weird things have been happening in her house.

My wife asked me "Do you think it's because of your Stephen King collection?"
I said I didn't think so....We built this house so there was no existing house on this lot. But it's freaking her out more and more, I do alright with it and just chuckle. But she is not doing so well with it

[Storyslinger]

Weird

[Daghain]

Maybe you're built on an ancient Indian burial ground.

[funky dredd]

It would not surprise me at all.

[Ikilledthecrimsonking]

a few months ago in iraq part of my company was patroling through a crowded street and i got this weird felling in the pit of my stomic I stayed on the the other side of the street but the felling kep getting worse and worse. after about five minutes of this i couldnt take it anymore and walked into a shop my company just kept on walking without me (i said i had diarea) the rest i can say is a car bomb went off about 100 feet infront of them only one died.

and i thought it was just diarea

[Letti]

Maybe you're built on an ancient Indian burial ground.

Hope not.

[Darkthoughts]

But it's freaking her out more and more, I do alright with it and just chuckle. But she is not doing so well with it

To be honest, I'm not sure I could laugh it off either - I think I'd be more of the "shitting my pants" camp Have you considered having an exorcism? I don't know if you're religious or not - but you can have non religious exorcisms performed too.

[Brice]

But it's freaking her out more and more, I do alright with it and just chuckle. But she is not doing so well with it

To be honest, I'm not sure I could laugh it off either - I think I'd be more of the "shitting my pants" camp Have you considered having an exorcism? I don't know if you're religious or not - but you can have non religious exorcisms performed too.

How does a nonreligious exorcism work???


"Leave demons in the name of.....science."


Seriously I'd never heard of one.

[Darkthoughts]

Ok, maybe it should have a different name...it probably does...but someone like a clairvoyant comes and communes with them - finds out why they're still there and helps them move on. There are also wiccan banishing spells I believe.