Anyone willing to share paranormal experiences?

[English Bloke]

My Mum, God rest her, was as honest as the day is long and I never had reason to doubt her in every day matters ever but she swore blind that Alnwick Castle in Northumberland is populated by a host of interesting, super-natural folk. To name but one (there are several but none recurring such as this), she described to me an experience she had as a child of seeing a young woman wandering about in flowing robes. 20 years later she saw the same woman who acknowlaged her with a nodding and smiling look. And 30 years later still, she had a conversational experience with the same lady (although no actual words were uttered) relating to husbands away at war and felt a real and tearful, emotional bond to the girl...

I was always a bit of a 'yeah right mother, course you did!' kind of bloke until one day I was out walking with her in the Peak District, strolling along the route of an old Roman road. I saw her stoop and without even looking down, she retrieved a Roman Coin from a crevice between two stones. When I asked her, in stunned amazement I might add, how she could possibly know it was there, she told me hesitantly and quite vacantly, that she'd "dropped it a while ago". Talk about gob-smacked.

My sister still has the coin which was subsequently identified and authenticated at the Castle Museum in York.

I personally have never had any such visions from beyond but I was impressed that day I can tell you. Never have got my head around that...

[haukehaien]

I had an encounter with a pair of normal pants that defies logical explanation.

Were they pale green pants with nobody inside? I met them once in a dark and gloomy snide field...

[Livingston]

Here's another thread you might like to take a look at.

[sathor]

I believe if enough peoples/cultures believe in something, then it has to have existed. I believe in dragons and merfolk. Now, the logic to that.....

Dragons existed in the mythos of Europe, and Asia, with similar creatures in the Americas. The only place is would seem missing is India. But they have another creature, the Naga. Now, they revere snakes, also often called naga, but it seems the Naga are more meant to be intelligent creatures, capable of cursing people that do them wrong. Being a serpent, with supernatural powers, it is a fair link between the European dragon variants, and the Asian. This key point is also where the Merfolk come in.
Often the stories try to refer Columbus seeing them in the Americas, and seem to like making that the focal point. But that legend goes to far back. Supposing that the Naga were real (or are, you're choice. If they were intelligent, they would probably be in hiding.) It stands to reason that like mundane snakes, there would be aquatic and terrestrial variants. (Such differences did exist in Asian dragons.) If you look at a water snake sticking its head above water, it looks strange. But it has a face. As such, a giant intelligent one might look kinda human above the water, and would fit the part fish ideal easily as it would swim away, like a fish. Of course, the hydra is not much different in some ways, but one might argue that the Giant Squid had a part in that, or even the giant squid had a part in creating the Naga myth, but it would be hard to really pinpoint it as a cause, though not unreasonable either. Still, using the Naga to tie the wurms and drakes of Europe to the wise Dragons of China and Japan, and further to the winged serpents (or feathered serpents) of Central America, does not take much imagination. (Heck, link it to the serpent in the Bible if it floats your boat.)

The point is, the myth of the dragon is quite large and interrelated. There is no reason to doubt such creatures may have, or still do, exist.

ON a side note, I once saw a book, that I failed to buy, that made reference to dragon sightings in Europe of the last few decades. Be it true, or some strange story, it was still intriguing.


I do also believe in the Yeti, for my own reasons, as well as the Phoenix. Interesting that the phoenix exist in Egyptian, Chinese, and some Native American mythos. (Ignoring the Thunder Bird. I saw video of one once, just a really giant bird, not that rare in the long run, but there was an incident in PA where a small child was grabbed by one, though if that is a true story or a coverup may never be known for sure. (Like the dingos that eat babies...)

(I had a class on Hinduism in college, I had it as an undergrad, the difference between undergrad and grad level was I just had to write the basic parts of the thesis, the grad students had to write a full paper on their topics. I did a bit more beyond my thesis on the Naga, would love to revisit it and do it in earnest sometime.

[Madd Celt]

Last January I was employed as a draft surveyor and surveyed barges
for Gallatin Steel. After I finished with surveys I would head up to
the farm house to do paperwork. (John A. Gex house -
http://www.carrolltontourism.com/ghent_history.htm)

My encounter occurred on a Sunday. I had finished my work and did the
usual routine. In the middle of my work I noticed I ran out of sheets,
so went into the entry hall to use the copier.

As I crossed the hall to go back into the kitchen I saw, out of the
corner of my eye, an older man, dressed as a farmer (to the best of my
impression) standing in the small stairwell about 15 feet down the hall.

I stopped, backed up, and looked at the stairwell and saw and heard
nothing. I hollered upstairs to see if anyone was there but got no
reply. I know that I was the only person in the house as it was Sunday.

Having watched T.A.P.S. enough times, I tried to duplicate the exp but
was unsuccessful. there were no objects that could have reflected me
in any way (I was dressed in winter coveralls.)

I was quite a bit unnerved. So I called my co-worker who has been in
the house close to every day for the past 6 years and asked him if he
had any odd occurrences there, which he told me he had many times.

Not long after I had to quit that job, so I never got a chance to go
back and investigate.

[cessna152towser]

Yes a few things have happened over the years which have defied logical explanation:-
The stuffed toy scottie dog that was left standing on a chair when I went away overnight and when I came back two days later he had laid down comfortably across the chair.
The time a mystery gust of wind ripped the descent plate for the home airport out of its clip on my kneeboard and blew it out of reach into the furthest corner of the plane, when I was returning alone in bad weather, necessitating a diversion to another airport which had the facility to talk me down on radar - I learned afterwards that at the time this was happening the cloudbase at the home airport had come right down to 400 feet which would have been below safety minima.
The coffee - jar was on its shelf in the cupboard with the lid on so how on earth did the entire contents of the jar come to be poured over the cutlery inside the cutlery drawer at the other end of the kitchen?
I've tried experimenting with telekinesis, usually unsuccessful. On the two or three occasions I succeeded in moving small grains of cereal dust over very small distances this took a lot of time and concentration and left me feeling very very tired.

[Jerry]

As a young boy, 10 or 11, I lived, with my parents, in an old two story house. All of the bed rooms were located on the second floor, as was the only bathroom in the house. My room was near the far end from the bathroom. One night, I awoke, sometime in the dark early AM hours and needed to use the bathroom. I got up and went down the hall to take care of my needs. On returning to my room, I heard footsteps following behind me in the hall. Thinking it was my mom or dad, I turned to look back. There was nothing to be seen, but the footsteps continued past me as I turned and ran into my room to jump in the bed and pull the covers over my head. That was the only time I heard the steps. I found out later that a previous occupant had hanged himself in the room just past mine at the end of the hall.

[Larry124]

Well...It was known in in advance that you were going to ask that.
All that I can say for now is that...we know.

[Bonnie'an'Blue]

I find existence to be paranormal.
*Dodges Atheists*

[BruceBC]

$28,000 for the grilled cheese. That bite in the lower left concern must have been worth at least $2000