Please share your paranormal & ghost experiences!!

a reply to: RAY1990

When it's ultimate goal is no thought and no reaction in order to experience mind in it's bare bones quality? It sort of does as: When all things are returnable to one; To what is the one returnable?

Mind made structures real or imagined are the source and cause of suffering... See the point? Understand what creationists do?

a reply to: wutzizname

Do you have a younger relative that arrived(born) about 9 to 10 months after this incident?

I keep trying to post. If this doesn't lock up I'll share a story.

Cool posts are working on this phone.

So I saw a ghost very clearly one night in 2002. I was not sober, can I say that on here? Anyway, I was sitting on the floor in my bedroom in a house in Slidell, Louisiana that was over 100 years old. A bright, bubbling like a cauldron, dark blue-purple puddle slid under the door and crossed the room towards me.

When it was right in front of me, the shape of a young boy, 7 or 8 years old, rose up out of the puddle. He had a vintage bowl butt-cut haircut parted down the middle. He was made of the same material as the puddle. He was eye to eye with me.

I cheerfully greeted him "What's up!" After I acknowledged him, he reversed the process, went back down into the puddle, then left the room the same way he entered. It was such an incredible experience, it was amazingly beautiful. I could sense his consciousness, he felt so real. The color was so vibrant and pretty.

The next day, I told my aunt I thought I had seen a ghost. She said that his name was Thomas and that he had died as a boy in that house of pneumonia 100 years ago. The hair stood up on the back of my neck. It was real. She said there was also a girl with pigtails, though I never saw her. My other aunt living there said she saw shadows dancing in the foyer as well as a couple of adult ghosts, male and female, dancing in black suits and dresses, respectively.

I recently lived in a house in New Orleans that was 163 years old. I would see adult and cat ghosts there from time to time. One seemed so real I asked my roommate if he had just crossed the living room, which he hadn't.

I saw my dead sister floating over me when I almost got arrested decades ago. It felt like she intervened and stopped it from happening. I'm also pretty sure I got abducted by aliens as a child, but that's a different story. What do y'all think?

a reply to: crowf00t

Yeah... Interpretations usually end up the same.

From a young age I figured humans were born to die. I had no knowledge of any religion back then. I had very little emotion either as they weren't developed. If I never developed them would I have been a psychopath? It's that lingering fact that has me question the route to perfection being a desireless one.

Going by memory alone I'd say that thought and emotion are nearly the same thing. Maybe Buddhism is as irrelevant as any other religion because with or without their "scaffolding" doesn't the individual temples share a similar design?

One step in that path might be looking for the creator of the creator. My opinion on that is it's the equivalence of a dog chasing it's tail. They'd be better served peeing on things and sniffing butts.

originally posted by: crowf00t
a reply to: wutzizname

Do you have a younger relative that arrived(born) about 9 to 10 months after this incident?

Interesting --- What makes you ask this question ?

I think I (might) know where you are going with this -- but I'm not 100% certain.

If you could elaborate as to what you are alluding to, I will reciprocate.

Here's one of my experiences that I shared on Sled's famous thread:

One night me and a couple of others were having a chilled relaxed night just shooting the breeze so to speak, I can't remember how the conversation turned to things that go bump (or bang) in the night but it did and since we were a bunch of lads having a laugh I did my best Derek Acorah impression, he was a bit if an acentric medium who was on a popular UK TV show called Most Haunted.

It started with asking "is anyone there, if there's anyone there please show us a sign" and to our suprise their was a noise at the window which could've been the wind. So I asked again...
At that point their was a tap on the window which was rather strange since we were on the second floor of the building, by now I'm starting to get a little excited and whilst keeping the act on I encouraged it to confirm I'm communicating with a spirit... Multiple taps.

I then said something along the lines of "these signs could be misconstrued, could you show us a stronger sign" and then multiple taps, still not convinced enough I asked for more and then a loud bang as if someone kicked the outside wall that put a shock factor into the experience. Me being a daft headed youth decided to egg on a little more and I said something along the lines of this.

"These signs are not good enough, is there any way you can show us or make us feel your presence" At that moment the jovial and energetic feel if the room was drained. What was left was the most heart wrenching intense feeling of despair I've felt and as I looked to my best friend and brother I noticed they too were crying. The End.... Or was it?

To add: I promised Sled a picture of something in my loft I always suspected was connected to this experience, it's an epitaph of sorts. Uploads isn't working properly but if I can get it working I'll upload here.

I just remembered two other experiences.

We decided to do a tour of an old fort because the word on the street was that people had seen ghostly soldiers there. It was a gloomy, rainy day and I had my Gortex rain coat on, where if you know Gortex material it gets shiny wet outside while you remain oh so dry inside (from my hiking days). So I got separated from my companion and went into the main gift shop where a video of how life was at that era. I just stopped in the gift shop and starting watching the video which was in the other room, all of a sudden this shortish soldier appeared in my peripheral vision, or maybe in my third eye's vision (?), but it was if I could see him as if he were standing in front of me, very strange. He was studying me and my coat and seemed to be amazed at it's properties - at least that's what it appeared to be to me. After what seemed to be less than a minute, I mustered up the courage to turn around and when I did he disappeared.

It was during my psychic/shaman/tarot exploration phase when I asked a friend of mine to join me in our city's ghost hunter's yearly conjuring/seance/scary book reading event as what was described as the oldest haunted pub in the city. I thought it would be good for a Halloween scare or a laugh.

When we arrived, we went upstairs and as soon as I entered the room where the seance was to be held, I saw or I saw in my mind's eye a swirling mass of energy in the room's top righthand corner, but I said nothing. Just before the seance was to begin the ghost hunter organizer stated that there is a swirling mass of energy in the top righthand corner of the room, of which I then got scared and confirmation of reality of my gift of intuition. We all performed the seance but it was unsuccessful as nothing came through. I now think that swirling energy was a portal and with so many of us having strong gifts, I think the entities that we were calling (those that haunted the pub) were too afraid to face us all. Could be wrong.

a reply to: sugarmonkey
Excellent post!

originally posted by: RAY1990
a reply to: crowf00t


From a young age I figured humans were born to die. I had no knowledge of any religion back then. I had very little emotion either as they weren't developed. If I never developed them would I have been a psychopath? It's that lingering fact that has me question the route to perfection being a desireless one.

Going by memory alone I'd say that thought and emotion are nearly the same thing. Maybe Buddhism is as irrelevant as any other religion because with or without their "scaffolding" doesn't the individual temples share a similar design?

Emotions are by far the toughest aspect of themselves for a child to comprehend, and ultimately, manage. Specifically, the emotions that they feel when things don't go 'their way'.

For a child, emotional maturity is attained from several sources. One primary source is through observation of siblings / peers -- and the other primary source is from parents / educators. This touches on 'similar design'. We are designed to learn through our environment. Whether or not the childs environment is conducive to emotional development and ultimately emotional maturity --- is, for the most part, completely out of the childs hands.

So, to answer as to whether or not you'd be a psychopath had you NOT developed your emotions. --- It's more of a question of; when you DID develop your emotions, were you in an environment where you were provided with the proper tools and methods in order to manage your emotions and gain some sort of emotional maturity.

The inability to manage emotions is prone to manifest into irrational thoughts and/or reactions. However, emotional development doesn't need to be 'perfection' --- it only, at the very least, needs to be such that you're not overwhelmed with the need to bash someone's head in with a hammer when you don't get 'your way'... metaphorically speaking...

a reply to: wutzizname

Good post, I agree. The timing of emotional maturity is the difference between surviving and thriving. There's clearly more than 1 way to understand concepts that work when it comes to humans and psychology.

Paranormal experiences are interesting when it comes to psychology of which I'm not exactly educated in. I can understand my own experiences though whilst attempting to understand others. When it's all broke down though Buddhism isn't exactly wrong either because one thing that does assist me is the thought that stress=emotions=mood in a way akin to the fire triangle.

I'm fully aware that fight or flight has a third leg called inaction. I usually opted for the path of least resistance when it comes to emotional maturity. I was a late bloomer and had a lot of luck along the way. There's a link between emotions and paranormal experiences that I can't quite put my tongue on... Can you?

a reply to: ThePsycheaux

That was remembering commercials on the TV as they had that louder than the program factor for people asleep when it was "on" their ears sorta go back like a cat and a sort of Toby(Spiderman) meme smile and the eyes part a little catching the light and bits and pieces of the commercials but the volume not at a normal which closed the ears to what they were selling writing you a really weird dream.

A real ghost looks like someone dressed in white running on the bottom of a swimming pool with water in it in a dash sort of way(males) as for females I don't know what real ghosts they see looks like. But no real loss as it is like a sex dream succubus not in the right "room".

originally posted by: RAY1990
a reply to: wutzizname

Good post, I agree. The timing of emotional maturity is the difference between surviving and thriving. There's clearly more than 1 way to understand concepts that work when it comes to humans and psychology.

Paranormal experiences are interesting when it comes to psychology of which I'm not exactly educated in. I can understand my own experiences though whilst attempting to understand others. When it's all broke down though Buddhism isn't exactly wrong either because one thing that does assist me is the thought that stress=emotions=mood in a way akin to the fire triangle.

I'm fully aware that fight or flight has a third leg called inaction. I usually opted for the path of least resistance when it comes to emotional maturity. I was a late bloomer and had a lot of luck along the way. There's a link between emotions and paranormal experiences that I can't quite put my tongue on... Can you?

The only link I can make between emotions and paranormal experiences is how the memory of the event is retained --- the hierachy of the memory (which has a direct affect on the clarity of the memory) seems to be governed by the level of emotion that was sensed during the event. One's emotional state prior to the event seems, at least in my experience, to have no bearing what-so-ever on whether or not the event will in fact take place.

Fear is perhaps unique, because (as you mentioned) it's the emotion that can manifest into either of the 3 responses ---fight, flight or freeze (inaction)... sometimes more than one response will manifest as an event unfolds...

I say this because from the experiences that I have had, all have at least STARTED as 'fight' responses -- which enabled me to be super focused and take it all in --- wide-eyed, heart pumping, adrenalin surge..etc... But at some point, the 'weirdness' of it all is just so bewildering... and almost like clockwork, the mind just seems to say; " STOP --- we need to process this --it's just too much right now...".

I can't decide whether that is a Flight or Freeze response, but for certain, it is NOT the wide-eyed focused awareness of before.

That processing time is undoubtedly enough to cause a lapse in memory retention, but my stamina to handle fear is pretty good before my mind invariably goes into shutdown/processing mode.... I think.

Good to see folk sharing their ghost and paranormal experiences. Also good to see that folk are looking deeper into the phenomenon.

I'll share another.

One time I was in the city. The street between the buildings was closed to traffic and it was a place for pedestrians, and to sit.

A procession of Hare Khrishna devotees came dancing and singing as they snaked through the crowd.

What surprised me was to 'see' the dead walk out of the crowd of onlookers, and join the procession. Some singing and dancing and others following.

The Hare Krishna procession was collecting the dead and presumably took them back to the ashram.

They were cleaning the streets of the dead. A service to the city.

My father used to play the grand piano once a week in a very old church in that city. He would play jazz piano and the classics.

Perhaps a dozen or so people would come into the church, and sit in the pews to listen.

However, if one 'looked the church was full of (deceased) well to do people and dignitaries. Governers and arch bishops were there too. They all came to listen and not a spare seat anywhere.

Live classical music is very rare now, and you don't see the crowds when recorded music is played.

Sad in a way.

a reply to: NobodySpecial268

It used to be a Zen tradition in Shin-to to make fun of those Hari Krisna meaning; Nude/Naked Goat rider or initiate of: Deer park not knowing where they were to follow you(the one making fun of a guy trying to be a naked female riding a goat) to real Zen instead; Theyd mst times get really angry; Missing the Cao Dung(mahayana elder Ch'an) of a hair cut real Zen Chans(in the world) had since the Hari-Krisnas were typically; Christians and when begged by the "old man" of that path said "no" or nah which he cursed them with "Baah" or naked on the back of a goat, making them a sacrifice on Ramadan(Ramanist(followers of Rama(Ananda in Buddhism) Muslim Halloween.

Most of them as a group call themselves goyim(which is like saying "shalom" or meaning came before him(over the land of sheol); Still claiming to be Jews(spiritual purity intact of the flesh) and wearing white; When in actuality they are closer to being Jains; Which is the female path in Hinduism as the Bodhisattva path is in Buddhism.

(sigh)
To make natters worse the first dead thing both those path founders made together was a dead bird Gotama decided to just call it god and his cousin ran to get his mother to come and see it; When it was a royal bird on a kings land... meaning death for killing it when not requested by the royal family. So Gautama's path was to be trying to find his way out of death to the deathless bird; and Ananda out of the pride of having killed it... Whats worse is the village shaman called it a peacock to spare both of the boys knowing the king hated that kind of bird.

Many people forget the oldest religion in the world refutes all gods and points to reality that anything other than that is delusion such as the peacock greed as the king thinking all life was his and hate that perhaps a boy didn't take pride in his arrow meeting the bird at the same time as another in equal marksmanship.

The end

Look at the trope of all of that and how has any life ever been any different such as that?

a reply to: wutzizname

No need too I think you have it.

a reply to: crowf00t

Well now Crowf00t, this is why I have such disdain for the superior people:

It used to be a Zen tradition in Shin-to to make fun of those Hari Krisna meaning; Nude/Naked Goat rider or initiate of: Deer park not knowing where they were to follow you(the one making fun of a guy trying to be a naked female riding a goat) to real Zen instead;

Those young Hare Krishna fellas provide a very worthwhile civic service in what they do. The miserable dead are taken off the streets.

I knew a European Seer who told me of the slums in the cities there. She said the miserable dead are packed like sardines in some places, and those places become slums as a consequence. It is not difficult to verify that as so.

Those young fellas get off their arses and do something to help people, both living and deceased. While (apparently) the Zen masters sit back and make fun of them.

a reply to: RAY1990

The taps nonsense has no idea if they(the receiver) know Samuel Morse's code or not... If so? Then they can get the so called message. Some spiritualist bank on people not knowing that to try to cast those haunting them at those people instead that do not know it... That that do? Can write it down and repel or exorcise whatever it is that the spiritualist/exorcist has cast at them.

a reply to: NobodySpecial268

The lesser vehicle is what you are really pitying as they are new and not really empty enough to see what fourth season elders have went in search for some say god in a division and some say source in avoiding that god word.

Such a thing is rife on some forums with cite the source as if they were imputing their experience of that topic on Wikipedia or using such a topic and want the source for an academic paper at some learning institution that requires sources to be cited.

The worst thing anyone could ever owe another in their belief is: Nothing

a reply to: crowf00t

I don't know morse code if that's what you're asking but morse code wasn't used. I'd have to do some memory work to give you a full account, my story was condensed and there's probably a fuller version written years ago in Sled's thread. If I remember correctly I asked for a 1 for no and 2 for yes.

Some spiritualist bank on people not knowing that to try to cast those haunting them at those people instead that do not know it... That that do?

Can you rephrase that?

I think you're saying a haunted spiritualist can cast his/her haunting at unsuspecting individuals that don't know morse code. Morse code being literal or a metaphor?

Anyways I always thought it had something to do with this:

A picture I promised Sled and never got round to taking :/ it's of the chimney breast directly above the room I had that experience. The emotion at the end of the experience was one of utter despair. Hardly evil unless of course someone wished that experience onto others... I know a few people who went with that emotion in their head and heart.

Anyways we called him Larry the loft monster! Something to do with taking life too seriously... Or literally?