It is October,let's talk about the supernatural.

[Aris Dragonborn]

I remember one incident that happened when I was five.

Now, at this age, I had a habit of sleeping with the covers over my head. Well, one morning (I think it was Saturday), I woke up but didn't get out of bed right away. I just lay in bed, trying to go back to sleep (and FYI, I have never been a morning person). I heard the bedroom door open, and someone (my mom, I thought) trying to walk quietly across the floor. They lifted the edge of my blanket up, probably trying to see if I was awake. So I pretended to be asleep, thinking to fool my mom.

I felt the blanket being lowered, then the soft footsteps receding, then the door closing. I waited another five minutes, then got up and walked into the living room. I smiled at my mom, and told her that I had 'got' her, that I wasn't really asleep when she came in to check on me. She looked at me, confused, and told me that she hadn't come in to check on me. I told her what had happened, and she told me I must have dreamed it.

Fast-forward about 14 years. My family had moved out of that house, but my parents still owned it and were letting my sister Shelley live there until it was sold (it was also a great place to game, as it had lots of room). I was upstairs, making sure that I hadn't forgotten anything, and two of my friends were with me. After a while, one of my friends, Ray, said he was going downstairs to get something to drink. I and my other friend Josh, heard him start downstairs, then stop. After a few minutes, when Ray didn't continue, Josh and I went to check on him.

He was sitting on the landing, sheet-white (no joke) and shaking badly. We asked what was wrong, and he said that he saw a ghost - a little boy, dressed like one of the pioneers, standing on the lower stair-case. His throat had been slashed.

One thing that needs to be mentioned: The house that I grew up in was one of the first houses built on the Long Beach Peninsula when it was settled (a long time ago).

Draw your own conclusions.

As for UFO's, I believe that I have seen two, though I was by myself at the time, and so have no way to prove it. And I think I've seen bigfoot, but it was long ago, and I have never been sure if it was a dream or not.

I am prone to vivid dreams (as most of us are, I think. That's what happens when you're the creative type), and I've had some dreams that had me going "Wow!", and some nightmares that have left me shaking so badly and so terrified that I could neither move or fall asleep again.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

My grandmother used to spin yarns about a spectral locomotive.

 

[Afrodyte]

I'm sure that there is more supernatural stuff going on around me than I'm willing to spend a lot of time investigating, but that's neither here nor there.

I think a spirit lives in my house. Nothing scary, never saw what it looked like, but the thing likes to toy with me. A couple of times I am sure that it hid things from me, usually something I'm looking for. After I cussed at it a bit, the thing "miraculously" gets found in a place I wouldn't think to put it or drop it, let alone look for it. If I were to guess at its motives, I'd say it's curiosity about us humans and how we have things we "can't live without." I'd love to talk to it, but not on one of those days when I have to get to work.

I have had prophetic dreams and dreams of visiting people I know to be dead. I often have dreams with a movie-like qualities to them. It's like I'm in a movie (not making a movie, actually in it) and I'm watching things as they happen. The strange thing is who is in the movie and what it's about. And while I'm dreaming, I never think that there's anything odd about what's going on. It's all pretty natural. I know that odd dreams in and of themselves aren't supernatural, but I can't explain the feelings that certain events and images give me.

Speaking of animals sensing the supernatural. We have two African Grays at home. A few months ago, I was messing around on the computer, and I hear Bee Bee (the boy) flapping around really hard, a bit too hard to be taking a bath. I go into the dining room, and I notice that his cover hadn't been put on last night. No biggie. But when I look at him, he looks like he'd been in a fight. He's panting really hard, and has a few scrapes on his face (probably from flapping around in his cage), but he's otherwise OK. Mind you, Bee Bee is not the bird who freaks out easily. Since it's almost daytime, I decide to leave the cover off and go back to my room. It happens again: Bee Bee freaks out, and I come to check on him. This time I'm sure something's up, so I either say or think (can't remember which) for whatever it is to leave him alone. I stay with Bee Bee for a little while and then go back to my room. It never happened again. But I make sure Bee Bee gets the blanket over his cage though.

All in all, my encounters with the supernatural have never been visceral. They're more like feelings and impressions about some things being off or not quite routine.

 

[WayneLigon]

What the hell’s I’ll be right back.

And we never saw RangerWickett again...

One of my Aunt's relatives died some years back; she lived in a house across the field from them. She never did like to sleep with the lights off so sometimes she'd just turn on the bedside lamp either before she'd go to bed, or do it in the middle of the night. She's been gone for a few years and no-one rents the house but they keep it up in case they can find a boarder. My Aunt claims she has the only key to the place. My Aunt can see the place outside her kitchen window, and every few nights the bedroom light is on.

I've been trying to search for the old 'encounters with the supernatural' thread with no success.

 

[werk]

Yeah, there she goes again. She just ruffled the pages of her coloring book. Apparently she’s displeased or something.

About the coloring book, after the first few times she spooked me, I left one out on the floor, along with a box of crayons, as sort of a peace offering. .

You need to get a ball. One of those cheap, light, plastic balls you can get at the grocery or department store. Leave it on the floor in that room and ocassionally kick it slowly across the room. If she wants to play, she will

 

[RangerWickett]

That was actually an excerpt from a comic script I wrote. Anyone want to see the rest of it?

 

[Wystan]

yes. Post the reast Ranger Wickett

 

[Einan]

While I myself have never seen much that would qualify as supernatural, save a few small exceptions, my family is noted for its share of strangeness. I should preface this by saying my parents are both deceased. Years ago, my mother woke up to tell my father that her father had died. He told her it was just a dream, go back to sleep. The next morning they got a call saying her father had died in the night. The same thing happened with my father's dad. My mom had a dream, and found out they had died in the night. Before any of us knew my dad was sick my mom had a dream where she saw my father in a hospital bed. A month later, we found out he had cancer. A week later he was dead.

My mother went to live with my sister and her family, and passed away not soon after. Since then my sister has seen the TV turn on several times to the Cooking Channel. Spontaneously. After having been left on other channels. (My mom loved the cooking channel. Passionately. She would watch it all day. My sister, on the other hand, HATES it. Has blocked that channel out of the scan feature. You have to specifically type in the channel to get there.) My father's photo also falls off the shelf, forward onto the floor. Even though the shelf is old and slants backward.

As for UFO's, my sister has seen one. Along with about fifteen other people who pulled off to the side of the road to watch the spectacle. I had a teacher in High School who told of seeing one in the fields with his father on their farm. His dad refused to go back out to that field after dark after that. Not that it mattered, as nothing would grow there for several years afterwards.

Einan

 

[Arnwyn]

Interesting. I thought a thread like this would actually generate some decent replies and discussion of experiences that people had that could be interpreted as supernatural in nature.

Probably because there was huge thread not all that long ago that chronicled quite a number of experiences people had.

Some very disturbing (but good!) experiences in that thread.

 

[The_Universe]

Probably because there was huge thread not all that long ago that chronicled quite a number of experiences people had.

Some very disturbing (but good!) experiences in that thread.

The big thread was from late summer/early fall 2003, and is archived here, somewhere. It's my all-time favorite enworld thread.