At 5 years old (I was in kindergarten) I was asleep in my bed and it was very late - around midnight. While asleep, I found myself outside of my house hovering about 60-80 feet above our street. As I looked out, I could see my house and then I looked down my street. There was something around me. It was like a cloud but yet there were no clouds - certainly not this low anyway. It was more like a mist but thicker and very white and I knew it was "someone". Weird to say that but that's the feeling that I was given, which was that this thing I was looking at and feeling around me was a living being.
While I hung there in the sky, I saw a truck coming down our street and a car pulled up to the corner by our house (station wagon). Suddenly the car pulled out and crashed into the truck. My dad was on his ham radio in the basement. The dream I was having was a major REM sleep dream with all of the vivid descriptions of an OBE.
In the blink of an eye I was in the basement of my house looking at my dad and then suddenly I was looking through his eyes at a set of headlights coming toward the window in the basement. Also, I looked back toward the stairs (because my dad turned to run toward the stairs) and I saw a woman I had never seen before standing on the bottom step. I saw more but Iʼll explain later below.
Suddenly I hear a crash and it wakes me up. I go downstairs crying and my momʼs on the phone and my dad ran out into the backyard. My mom was on the phone talking to the police about the car crash. Nobody was saying anything to us for what seemed like a long time and we started to all cry. After a while I heard police sirens and shortly afterwards I heard a fire truck coming. By now my two sisters are crying a lot because nobody will tell us what happened. I then said to my mom that I saw the truck crash into the car at Peggyʼs house (my friend across the street). The car hit the house and they her mom and dad were on the sofa watching Lawrence Welk. Well she knew I was in bed when it happened and so she asked me what I was talking about. I told her that when I was sleeping I saw a truck coming down the street and a station wagon crashed into it. There is no way in the world I could have seen that since I was in bed and she certainly wouldnʼt let us go outside to see what happened. It was here that she knew that I was just like her and could see things that other people couldnʼt see.
I told my mom (in my 5-year-old voice) that after the truck hit the station wagon that it came toward our house and it hit the corner of the house and then went toward our new garage (just skimming it) and then hit our old garage. It crushed my bicycle sitting outside of the garage. The truck didnʼt stop there though because it kept on going another 50 feet or so and went down an embankment and crashed nose first. The man in the truck died and his ear was cut off. I donʼt know what happened to the driver of the station wagon.
I saw all of that before I had woken up out of this sleep I was in.
There was one moment when my mom let us go to the screen door at the back of the house to watch the commotion. There was the local television news crew back there and my dad was mad because they wouldn't get off of our property and just wanted to film the ugly stuff. My dad got in an argument with a camera man and my dad punched him in the face. Luckily this was a time when the police didn't take you to jail for such things. This event is a true experience of mine and it took place in 1957 in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
By Atrueoriginall
Monday, February 23, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
What About Skeptics of the Paranormal
Have you ever had a run in with someone that was so closed to the idea of the paranormal; it almost felt like that walked around with blinders on?
I know how this feels because my significant other is so closed to the idea of the paranormal that some of the explanations he comes up with or more bizarre than a paranormal explanation. The experience is extremely frustrating to say the least.
Having an open mind and being skeptical is a must, as there are a lot of things that can appear to be paranormal in nature but still have a natural explanation, but there are still many things that are not easily explained away.
Someone with a closed mind just cannot grasp this, so they are not just skeptical, they close their mind completely. They absolutely refuse to accept any type of paranormal explanation, no matter how much sense it makes.
So how do you deal with this? The fact is you really can’t do anything to change someone’s mind about this. They either have to experience something so extraordinary that they have no choice but to take a second look at their beliefs, or they will never believe. Sadly, often even when they do experience something like this, they will explain it away, no matter what it takes, or how ridiculous the explanation is.
Unfortunately, the very nature of the paranormal makes it nearly impossible to prove and so if you believe or not is up to you.
Though it probably will do no good, the next time a skeptic gives you a bad time about what you believe, here are some things you can combat the argument with.
Some of the common explanations for the paranormal include,
Alien Abduction: Sleep paralysis seems to be the most frequent explanation for this phenomenon, and to be fair it probably does account for a great many of these occurrences, but there’s only one problem. A large number of them do not occur while the person is asleep, and many are not even in bed. Of course there are always those abduction cases where more than one person is involved. The sleep paralysis argument just doesn’t fly, at least not with a large percentage of cases.
The Near Death Experience: The common explanation for this is that the whole experience is a chemical reaction in the brain, a reaction to the dying process. The problem with this explanation is that there are some cases where the person who experiences the NDE, has no heartbeat, or brain waves. In other words, the whole body I completely dead, including the brain, there is no function. If there is no brain function, there can be no experience, no memory, no anything. But still, during the time there is no heartbeat or brain activity, the person is still seeing what’s happening in the room. The only possible way this could happen is if they are outside of their body, and their memories and consciousness exists separate from the brain.
If these provable cases are similar to others, how can you be sure that they are not all real?
Ghosts: Refer to the information on NDE. If someone is experiencing something outside of their body when they are clinically dead, including having no brain waves, then they are a ghost, and if they are a ghost, why couldn’t those who do not return be ghosts as well?
This is aside from the countless witnesses of apparitions or the presence of invisible entities. This is something I have encountered first hand so I know this is real, but if someone has never experienced this directly it’s easy to see how they would be skeptical. I would be if I hadn’t have witnessed it with my own eyes.
If you do your research, for many aspects of the paranormal, you can counter the “logical explanations”
What it really comes down to is that as long as you know, that’s what counts. You are fortunately to have an insight into a reality that others simply can’t see, and in a sense this is a gift. Keep that in mind whenever a skeptic begins telling you how foolish your beliefs are.
I know how this feels because my significant other is so closed to the idea of the paranormal that some of the explanations he comes up with or more bizarre than a paranormal explanation. The experience is extremely frustrating to say the least.
Having an open mind and being skeptical is a must, as there are a lot of things that can appear to be paranormal in nature but still have a natural explanation, but there are still many things that are not easily explained away.
Someone with a closed mind just cannot grasp this, so they are not just skeptical, they close their mind completely. They absolutely refuse to accept any type of paranormal explanation, no matter how much sense it makes.
So how do you deal with this? The fact is you really can’t do anything to change someone’s mind about this. They either have to experience something so extraordinary that they have no choice but to take a second look at their beliefs, or they will never believe. Sadly, often even when they do experience something like this, they will explain it away, no matter what it takes, or how ridiculous the explanation is.
Unfortunately, the very nature of the paranormal makes it nearly impossible to prove and so if you believe or not is up to you.
Though it probably will do no good, the next time a skeptic gives you a bad time about what you believe, here are some things you can combat the argument with.
Some of the common explanations for the paranormal include,
Alien Abduction: Sleep paralysis seems to be the most frequent explanation for this phenomenon, and to be fair it probably does account for a great many of these occurrences, but there’s only one problem. A large number of them do not occur while the person is asleep, and many are not even in bed. Of course there are always those abduction cases where more than one person is involved. The sleep paralysis argument just doesn’t fly, at least not with a large percentage of cases.
The Near Death Experience: The common explanation for this is that the whole experience is a chemical reaction in the brain, a reaction to the dying process. The problem with this explanation is that there are some cases where the person who experiences the NDE, has no heartbeat, or brain waves. In other words, the whole body I completely dead, including the brain, there is no function. If there is no brain function, there can be no experience, no memory, no anything. But still, during the time there is no heartbeat or brain activity, the person is still seeing what’s happening in the room. The only possible way this could happen is if they are outside of their body, and their memories and consciousness exists separate from the brain.
If these provable cases are similar to others, how can you be sure that they are not all real?
Ghosts: Refer to the information on NDE. If someone is experiencing something outside of their body when they are clinically dead, including having no brain waves, then they are a ghost, and if they are a ghost, why couldn’t those who do not return be ghosts as well?
This is aside from the countless witnesses of apparitions or the presence of invisible entities. This is something I have encountered first hand so I know this is real, but if someone has never experienced this directly it’s easy to see how they would be skeptical. I would be if I hadn’t have witnessed it with my own eyes.
If you do your research, for many aspects of the paranormal, you can counter the “logical explanations”
What it really comes down to is that as long as you know, that’s what counts. You are fortunately to have an insight into a reality that others simply can’t see, and in a sense this is a gift. Keep that in mind whenever a skeptic begins telling you how foolish your beliefs are.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Possible Demonic EVP
Sometimes the EVP that people catch is not only strange, but sounds downright evil. Here is a recording that may be a demonic EVP.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Medium / Clairvoyant Lisa Williams
I recently had the opportunity to see Lisa Williams live. I had watched her shows on TV, and although she seemed to be extraordinarily good at what she does, I decided to reserve judgment until I’d watched her live.
For those who are unfamiliar with Lisa Williams, she is a medium/clairvoyant who allegedly has the ability of communicating with the dead.
If you have done any research at all on mediums, you have probably heard the term cold read, etc. This is where they get the person to reveal details without the person realizing it.
When I went to this show I was watching carefully for this technique, and I have to say I just didn’t see it. Lisa Williams was amazing, and gave these people details, not just any details, but such personal and minute details, there is simply no way she could have known.
Lisa Williams is definitely someone worth checking out. Not only does she seem to be very good at what she does, but she has an extremely likable personality.
For those who are unfamiliar with Lisa Williams, she is a medium/clairvoyant who allegedly has the ability of communicating with the dead.
If you have done any research at all on mediums, you have probably heard the term cold read, etc. This is where they get the person to reveal details without the person realizing it.
When I went to this show I was watching carefully for this technique, and I have to say I just didn’t see it. Lisa Williams was amazing, and gave these people details, not just any details, but such personal and minute details, there is simply no way she could have known.
Lisa Williams is definitely someone worth checking out. Not only does she seem to be very good at what she does, but she has an extremely likable personality.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
After Death Communications
A large percentage of those who lose a loved one tend to have what is known today as, After Death Communications. One of the most common methods that those who have passed tend to communication is through dreams, although there are other methods that are also used.
Some researchers theorize that the reason that dreams are the most common form of after death communication is that the dreamer is in an altered state of consciousness, enabling the spirit to make contact.
Another method of the dead communicating with the living is through an actual physical manifestation where they appear to their loved ones, often telling them that they are happy where they are and that their loved one should grieve no more.
Some people have even reported phone calls from their deceased friends or family. Though phone communication with the dead is rare, it has been reported. When on the phone the voice is usually unmistakably as belonging to the person who has passed. They may just say hello, ask for someone, or actually tell the person on the other end that they are fine.
In addition to these forms of after death communication there are some more subtle communications, such as an odor or scent that you may easily associate with a passed loved one. This could be a perfume, cigar smoke, etc. The scent often has no source and disappears as quickly as it appeared.
Other signs of communication could include pictures of your loved one falling, or other mementos showing up continuously. All of these things could be attempts at communication.
Some researchers theorize that the reason that dreams are the most common form of after death communication is that the dreamer is in an altered state of consciousness, enabling the spirit to make contact.
Another method of the dead communicating with the living is through an actual physical manifestation where they appear to their loved ones, often telling them that they are happy where they are and that their loved one should grieve no more.
Some people have even reported phone calls from their deceased friends or family. Though phone communication with the dead is rare, it has been reported. When on the phone the voice is usually unmistakably as belonging to the person who has passed. They may just say hello, ask for someone, or actually tell the person on the other end that they are fine.
In addition to these forms of after death communication there are some more subtle communications, such as an odor or scent that you may easily associate with a passed loved one. This could be a perfume, cigar smoke, etc. The scent often has no source and disappears as quickly as it appeared.
Other signs of communication could include pictures of your loved one falling, or other mementos showing up continuously. All of these things could be attempts at communication.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Haunted Cemeteries
There are several graveyards across the country that has the dark reputation for being haunted. A cemetery may be haunted for several different reasons, some theory of why a graveyard may be haunted include, improper burials, unmarked graves, or the graves being disturbed for some reason.
One of the most ominous of these famous haunted cemeteries is the St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 - New Orleans. At this cemetery there are several legends of ghostly residence but perhaps the most famous is that of the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, Marie Laveau. It is the oldest cemetery in New Orleans and quite possibly the creepiest graveyard in the United States. At the St. Louis Cemetery you’ll find aboveground tombs and mausoleums, dark paths and memorials.
Another haunted graveyard is the Old Western Burial Ground in Baltimore. Here you will find the final resting place of several generals of the Revolutionary War, along with Edgar Allan Poe. A section of the cemetery can only be reached through catacombs below Westminster Presbyterian Church, where many ghosts are said to linger.
Probably one of the most famous haunted cemeteries is the Resurrection Cemetery in Chicago. This graveyard is supposed to be home to one of the most notorious ghosts in Illinois, Resurrection Mary. This is a ghost of a young woman who died on her way home from a dance, and often asks people for a ride home, but disappears while in the car. There are several versions of this story, but that is the basics.
These are only a few of the many cemeteries around the world that have a reputation for being haunted from the most high profile cemeteries of Victorian London, to hometown graveyards. If you are interesting in investigating a haunting you may want to consider looking for the legends of ghosts in your local cemetery.
One of the most ominous of these famous haunted cemeteries is the St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 - New Orleans. At this cemetery there are several legends of ghostly residence but perhaps the most famous is that of the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, Marie Laveau. It is the oldest cemetery in New Orleans and quite possibly the creepiest graveyard in the United States. At the St. Louis Cemetery you’ll find aboveground tombs and mausoleums, dark paths and memorials.
Another haunted graveyard is the Old Western Burial Ground in Baltimore. Here you will find the final resting place of several generals of the Revolutionary War, along with Edgar Allan Poe. A section of the cemetery can only be reached through catacombs below Westminster Presbyterian Church, where many ghosts are said to linger.
Probably one of the most famous haunted cemeteries is the Resurrection Cemetery in Chicago. This graveyard is supposed to be home to one of the most notorious ghosts in Illinois, Resurrection Mary. This is a ghost of a young woman who died on her way home from a dance, and often asks people for a ride home, but disappears while in the car. There are several versions of this story, but that is the basics.
These are only a few of the many cemeteries around the world that have a reputation for being haunted from the most high profile cemeteries of Victorian London, to hometown graveyards. If you are interesting in investigating a haunting you may want to consider looking for the legends of ghosts in your local cemetery.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Angels in Disguise
Throughout the ages people have reported strange encounters with strangers that were so strange and unsettling that they become convinced that they have been in the company of an angel.
Although there have been some reports of people seeing the traditional version of an angel, with the white robe, wings etc, far more often these angelic beings tend to appear in times of need in the form of a stranger who shows up out of nowhere to help you, disappearing just as fast.
Angels tend to appear during times of stress, danger, as well as during a near death experience. Approximately 50% of children who have a near death experience mention an angel encounter during their experience. This percentage is far lower with adults, though it does happen.
Angels have appeared as normal looking people, with long white robes and wings, as they are depicted in Christian art. Some people believe that their loved ones can become their guardian angels after they have passed on.
No matter what your personal belief about angels is, it’s difficult to completely dismiss the millions of stories people from all over the world tell about their encounters with angels.
"Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it." - Hebrews 13:2 of the Bible
Although there have been some reports of people seeing the traditional version of an angel, with the white robe, wings etc, far more often these angelic beings tend to appear in times of need in the form of a stranger who shows up out of nowhere to help you, disappearing just as fast.
Angels tend to appear during times of stress, danger, as well as during a near death experience. Approximately 50% of children who have a near death experience mention an angel encounter during their experience. This percentage is far lower with adults, though it does happen.
Angels have appeared as normal looking people, with long white robes and wings, as they are depicted in Christian art. Some people believe that their loved ones can become their guardian angels after they have passed on.
No matter what your personal belief about angels is, it’s difficult to completely dismiss the millions of stories people from all over the world tell about their encounters with angels.
"Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it." - Hebrews 13:2 of the Bible
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