A request for insights on my experience...from a newbie.

Hello all,

I'm new here and found great interest in many of the forums on the site...

I would like to share a re-occurring paranormal experience that I had and request anyone with more knowledge than I (probably everyone) on the subject for input and interpretation.

(after thought edit: my apologies for length)

I previously lived in an apartment. A very nice apartment. Very new. I wasn't the first resident but the building was only a couple of years old. It had high ceilings and all the amenities...and you're asking why you should care but...one of the amenities was this HUGE bay window in the living room. from nearly floor to ceiling it looked out into a center courtyard. It was a 3rd floor apartment and the only people who could really see in would have been on the opposite side (some distance) of the courtyard.

Because of this feature and the distance away from potential "voyeurs", I kept the blinds on these windows open almost all of the time... Sure, it offered a great view down to the courtyard but only during the day...

Most of my belongings were in storage... I had only the necessities therefore my living room was void of items except a computer desk (with computer) and a chair (i work in tech)...you're still wondering why you care...Anyway, the great view combined with minimal furniture, I placed my desk/computer right in the window... I could compute and look out to the day quite beautifully...

The (now) dreaded night... At night the windows became practical mirrors. If the blinds were up and the light on, I could only see myself/my room in the glass... No big deal...

Being a bay window, the windows to the left and right side are angled in. Approximately 45 degrees or so... and at night this offered a perfect mirrored view into a nearly empty room. I lived alone so it really didn't offer anything to see, not even a distraction...

That was until it scared me...

One night while computing. working on writing some application or on my website, i don't even recall. I was finally distracted from the corner of my eye...to what was normally the empty room.

What I saw so un-perfectly perfect was a child. I believe it was a little girl. Maybe 3 feet tall. Long dark hair... and white... the skin color white, not bleached or pale white.

There she was, suddenly. And as anyone does when they notice someone in their peripheral vision when they absolutely know that no one should be there....they jump. It scared the bejesus outta me.

Jumping and turning my head to look in the glass, instantly she was gone. I turned to the empty room and nothing. Clarity in the side of my vision (as usual) is not clear and I only got those details... But it was a little girl and I thought she had been there. I chalked this up to a mind trick I had inadvertently played on myself...

...only it happened again...a few nights later...and again a few nights after that... in total maybe 8 or 10 times.... the same scenario. At the computer, the blinds up... at night... suddenly a little girls reflection in the glass... a quick startle, a turn to look.. and nothing... the vision always the same, but always too quick to see clearly.

The glass angle would have place the girl either directly or nearly directly behind me.. and as far as I could tell, she would have faced the glass, not me as the vision appeared directly head on.

To my knowledge, there was never a death of anyone at the apartment complex and certainly not a child. The place was built on a long abandoned gold mind (100+ years old) but really nothing else historical for the land. The building was relatively new... I was on the top floor so the image wasn't from someone standing outside my window... it was 50 feet straight down outside the glass. Doors always locked. Lived alone. Empty room.

There was never a warning... no sound.. nothing. Just an instant startle and she was gone.

Please, feel free to provide any insight. GHOST??

Thank You!

If it happened once I'd say mind trick but 8-10 times, wow.

WHat do you mean by "un perfectly perfect child"?

Even though you only get a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of your eye can you remember any other details? I remember reading , I think it was the Celestine Prophecy, that a whole other dimension exists in our peripheral vision. Many people can train themselves to see more clearly using peripheral vision.
As an experiement , maybe you should try and replicate the vision so confirm the little girl "appears" where you think she does. Place a chair our something in the area behind until you see it in your periphery. Maybe you can focus a video camera on the area. Just some ideas. Good luck. SOunds like you have a little ghost

Originally posted by Tuebor
WHat do you mean by "un perfectly perfect child"?

I meant "I saw it unperfectly perfect". Maybe a play on the words, but I knew it was a child, but I couldn't get the detail needed to know much more.

I wish I could continue to see it more but I have since moved from the apartment... and thankfully I wasn't followed by whatever it was...at least not yet..

Scared me for sure but by the last 2 or 3 times I saw it and was more fascinated and interested in it than scared. I even spoke to "it" or the empty room, rather, hoping to evoke a response. No luck.

Thanks for the reply.

that is a creepy experience if I do say so. You say there was no deaths in the place, but mabey there was before the apartments was built on the gold mine. but there is always the posibility that your mind is playing tricks on you which happens at night.

Originally posted by Reneau
that is a creepy experience if I do say so. You say there was no deaths in the place, but mabey there was before the apartments was built on the gold mine. but there is always the posibility that your mind is playing tricks on you which happens at night.

Yes, history has a way of erasing little things... A small child growing ill and dying nearby may have not made any real news or any news at all...

And I agree, each time might have been my crazy head going even crazier... But I would, still, swear I saw a child. Actually, I kind of hope I did... Just for the experience... to rack up with the few other crazy things I have in my memory banks..

what time of night was this?
i know that for me, the later it gets the more my mind lets me see things, especially if i've had a long day
and how long would she be there for? a few seconds? minutes?

Some ghosts are not dead beings from the past, but are premonitions or echoes from the future.

Since the apartment is fairly new, I'd say sometime in the future a little girl will live there, and possibly will have some memorable experiences there.

Or she could live there in another reality, who knows.

Originally posted by BabyChrissy898
what time of night was this?
i know that for me, the later it gets the more my mind lets me see things, especially if i've had a long day
and how long would she be there for? a few seconds? minutes?

There was no specific time. It could be 9 or 10 pm or 3 am.

Her visibility would be minimal. As soon as I'd "notice" her, she'd be gone. Only an instant.

To add to it... The last time I saw her I decided that the next time I wouldn't make an ordeal by jumping or whatever. Hide my surprise and see if I could continue to see her in the side of my vision. Not letting her know I knew. Unfortunately, I never got to see her again before I moved.

She could be a very real, quite alive little girl somewhere in the world today. You were enjoying the equivalent of a very heavy meditative state.
I was once hunting in the Aderondack mountains of Northern NY. I had been sitting under a tree on a hill in a forest for maybe six hours starting an hour before dawn.

Down below I saw quite clearly a Japanese Shinto Monk meditating on a platform staring back at me. We watched each other for over an hour before I needed to get up and move. It was about 20 below Zero and I was starting to harden up, and really needed to get some circulation. Before I could move five steps the magic was gone. And nothing like the monk could be seen below.

What I am getting at is that people in harmony, and in a meditative state can transcend time and space and see one another meditating.

Could you see her eyes? If they were black, she could be one of those horrific "black-eyed" children that I read about on another thread. Gave me the heebie jeebies, whether I actively believe in them or not.

I know about the strange things man seen shadow people multiple times but you know the multiverse might have overlaped and in your state was able to see past the veil.