Hey... i guess seeing them really got me interested... just a thought though... lol


>>>Lydia

Hmm, what got me interested in the paranormal?
I feel like I have just always known about ghosts. The word "paranormal" wasn't in my vocabulary then, but I grew up in a house that had an active ghost. We moved in the house when I was about 3-4 years old. Everyone in my family has always heard noises, footsteps, and seen shadows in our house. Even visitors have heard things.

We were never afraid though. We felt like the ghost was a man named Rufolph M. who had lived in the house before we bought it. He had killed himself in the bathroom when he was dying of cancer. My dad grew up in the same community and had known him for years. In fact, my dad was one of the men who went and cleaned up the bathroom for the family.

So when we heard noises or saw things, we just said that it was Rudolph.

Paranormal experiences run in our family.
So trying to figure out why made it more interesting. I thought everyone was like that for a long time.
We see ghosts, spirits, have feeling of things to come, and just say things without knowing anything about the situation(just blurt it out and wonder why we even said it).
Just normal for me. There is no logical reason, we have just accepted it and listen when feeling come. You learn to do that one!

There isn't one thing that got me started. I've always known theres something else than the things we actually see. The house I grew up in was creepy to say the least.I didn't(and still don't) like being in a room there on my own. When I was a kid in bed at night with my head shoved firmly under the covers, the left hand corner of my bed would go down as if someone sat on the end !That happened to my brothers as well. Strange shadows appear.....I remember one time when I was about 7, my mum and me came out of the kitchen and was walking up the hallway when I saw a shadow, I shouted to my brother, (thinking it was him trying to scare me), to stop it. But then we went into the living room and saw the everyone in there. Me and Mum just looked at each other, not saying a word, we couldn't , we were both too stocked .
One other little thing that makes me think there really are ghosts is that, My mum was asked afew years ago how my dad was by one of his friends he hadn't seen for some time, when my mum told him he had died a couple of year ago, he looked alittle confused as he had seen and spoke to my dad a couple of weeks previous.The funny thing was he remarked on how well my dad looked.

Gosh all sorts of interesting experiences, can certainly understand why everyone became interested in the paranormal.

Would love to hear more about some of the occurrences peeps have posted here, along with other experiences you've had. If your open to sharing more please start a new thread, it will be easier for others to comment and ask questions that way. I know I have a few questions after reading some of the entries, and definitely want to know more. If you like you can even copy and paste some of what you've written here and just add on to it. I hope you do.

Looking forward to it. =)

Hey Pac-Man was my favorite too, until Ms. Pac-Man came along.
When I was little I had a best friend named Margaret who lived in a big old house. When I would spend the night with her, we would sit at the top of the staircase and listen to footsteps come up the stairs and walk past us. We weren't afraid, it kind of gave us a thrill.
When I told my mom about it, her reaction was so negative that I've been hooked ever since. I guess I couldn't figure out why she would be afraid and so I just kept looking for more.

I have always been interested in paranormal, hauntings and all the unexplained. I have had strange things happen, when I was growing up. A thing just happened, a very close friend died in her sleep from a heart attack. She had a cell phone that has been shut off for 3 months. 2 days after she passed away, the phone rang....HER PHONE, it was her number showing on the caller ID. Explain that, please. That has really made a believer out of me. I know she was trying to contact her husband, but how could this happen when there is no service on that cell phone?

My family has always been interested in the paranormal of anything. My mother, her sister and two of my sister all read Tarot cards, crystal balls, trumpets. I was never interested in any of these.
My mother had countless books on "The Unknown" and I would read these book's and it would really hold my attention. I would read her Fate magazine and I, would be so facinated that I couldnt wait till the nexted issue.
I lived in a haunted farm house for 10 yrs.. got some interesting photos... Plus when my father died at the farm house, we got some strange photos a month after his death.
I house I live in now is loaded with strange vibes and a interesting past that I'm still working on gathering notes. So that's my start in the paranormal. The need to know!

cyqe, your interest in the paranormal started when you were a child. That is so interesting that your friend's mother was upset about it. Children know what they see and experience, and they haven't been taught yet about those things that "it isn't right" to experience or believe in. It's crazy. I am sure that those were footsteps you girls heard, just as I am sure I am typing on this keyboard. I had two ghost friends when I was about 3 yo, and they were named Deedee and Dahdah. My mother always laughed at my "pretend playmates", but she didn't realize that I saw them all the time, and to this day remember sitting on the couch with them. I remember their clothing, especially the scuffed high top brown shoes they wore, and that their legs were just long enough for the shoes to hang out in space at the edge of the couch cushions when they were leaning back. We played together alot, even though my mother often spoke of my "vivid imagination"!! LMAO

Gosh, lilbit, that is really a piece of paranormal activity if I ever saw one with that cell phone! That would have to make people sit up and take notice. Perhaps she just wanted people to know that she was still around, but just in a different form. =)

HH, it sounds like you have had an interesting and varied life around the paranormal. I'll bet you do have some great pics!!! We would lovew it if you could share some of those with us sometime! =)

Mare

[ July 02, 2006, 02:55 PM: Message edited by: azspirit ]

I guess my first experience was back in like 1980 something,I was about 5-6 yrs. old and my grandfather had just passed away. Him and I were really close so his passing was not only hard for me to understand but hard on my heart, really hard on my heart.Anyway, I remember waking up one night right after he died and I heard him calling my name so I went to the steps (I slept upstairs in my childhood home)and began to walk down but I only walked down maybe 2 steps before I felt as if I was being carried,kind of like going down an escalator, that kind of feeling.I felt like I was carried almost to the bottom step before I was dropped because I can remember losing my balance and hitting the floor with my knees.I then walked into our living room and sat in grandpa's chair and that's were my mom found me in the morning.To this day my mom says that I was sleeo walking but believe me, I know he was there, I felt him!

I have had quite a few experiences throughout my life even now as an adult. My house now is quite active! I could tell you lots of stories so if your interested feel free to ask. It feels good to be able to share stories with other believers and not be laughed at!!

That's amazing ms.spiritseeker! I too had a visit from my grandfather when he died. I was only 6 years old at the time too!

ms.spiritseeker, that is one of those kinds of encounters that is so strongly felt, I refer to them as a soul-jarring experience. The same happens with some dreams that seem to jolt you so hard, when you awaken, you feel like your consciousness has been on the wildest ride at the carnival, and you feel like you need to kind of shake your head to clear it and allow reality to settle back in. It is not uncommon for children to encounter ghosts, and it is sad when they tell an adult, they are told that they didn't see that person, because they don't believe that person's ghost was there at all, and it was explained by some other method that they are more familiar with or more comfortable with. Maybe it is because they don't want the child to believe in ghosts, for fear of scaring them. Who knows? But, if you experienced it as a child, you know in your heart of hearts that it was real. It is great that your grandfather came back to visit you. He probably was just checking on you, to make sure you were OK. If you haven't seen him since then, perhaps he just wanted to say goodbye to you.

My husband's mother passed away when he was 7 years old. She had leukemia, and died young, leaving 3 children and a husband behind. My husband was the youngest of the three. A few days later, he saw her standing at the foot of his bed, He doesn't recall exactly what she said, but she was evidently checking up on her "baby", to make sure he was alright. We still own the cedar bed that he was sleeping in at the time, and that happened nearly 70 years ago.

It is great to hear how people come to be interested in and to believe in ghosts.

Mare

For the past four or five years, I have been working 3rd Shift. As such, I have been able to listen to a show called Cast To Coast AM with George Noory & Art Bell. They talk about everything paranormal and UFOs and the like. I really devour everything they talk about. But also I have always had a 6th sense about these things and will "know" if there is a presence in the room.

You know, I have never had the pleasure of listening to Coast to Coast. I have heard that it's a great show with some very interesting stories and experiences. My husband used to listen to it years and years ago. Something I'm definitely going to have to eventually check out. =)

Jeremy, I think it's great that you have are sensitive. I have always wished that I would experience more then I have. Of course, I'm not sure how I would really react, I can be a bit of a scaredy cat. I would love to hear about some of your experiences if you'd care to share.

Heyyy, wow i havent been around for a long time!

I dont think any one thing got me interested in the paranormal. I just got interested in it. I watched the movies, read the stories, and i just thought it was really interesting. However, i always had a strong beliefe stuff like this was real. I have had a few odd experiences, were i want to attribute stuff to the paranormal, but nothing really convincing.

I moved this post for Ravenheart.

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Ravenheart
Intuitive Empath
Member # 2462

posted 08-14-2006 11:12 AM
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My mother is a mystery buff and as a child she would allow me to watch some horror movies, mysteries of the unknown, the dark shadows tv series etc. I saw a program on Kreskin once and the movie the Exorcist came out in the 70's as well, so that I became interested in ESP, ghosts, witches, werewolves, gargoyles, vampires, murder mysteries, religious and spiritual beliefs.
My mother taught me how to make a "witches bottle" when I was 6 yrs old and didn't even know that what she was doing was called a wotch's bottle. She found four-leaf clovers a lot and taught me how to find them by not teaching me that I couldn't. She would play ESP testing games with Zenner cards with me and generally encouraged me to seek these things out, to question them and to form my own opinions and beliefs. So there you go.

Ravenheart

Like so many...I too got interested as a child...I can remember when I was about 8 years old and we had went to church one Sunday and I can remember looking out into the church cemetary and seeing a figure of a woman crying, she turned and looked at me they vanished. You know as a child that is sure enough scary.

Well, as I grew older I became more and more interested and as my experiences became more ofter...I decided to read into it and find out some very exciting information.

Well, i cannot say that I have any sort of ability, but just tend to find the paranormal truly fascinating. I had my first experiece only just recently, which caused me to take interest in it. Ive done a little reading, and studying so that Id know more about ghosts, and also have done alot of reading on line, and looking at photos ,and then discovering ghost cams. Its cool when I can see them on line as well, its such a rush! anyways, id love to go on a ghost hunt here in Dallas, but havent heard anything about that occuring here.

Always been interested in Paranormal since a young age but never really seen things like some youngstars who are born with a Gift who see everything Paranormal form only seen 1 or 2 Ghosts when i was a child! I find the Spirit world interesting like to know more but you dont know until you die yourself.