Anonymous

I went to the cemetery with my wife, we were looking for her great aunt's grave -- she died at the age of 5. I asked the ghosts there that we were looking for her great aunt by name, then I felt a tingling sensation in my hand and felt like I was being pulled to certain location which lead me to my wife's great aunt's grave. Now the tingling sensation can easily be a case of the heebie jeebies, and the pulling sensation could be a trick of the mind. But never being to that cemetary before, how did I zero in on her grave? Getting a bearing can be a lucky guess, but bearing and distance?

Anonymous

I did once on a ghost tour. Strange camera phenomenon and blank picture that I still can’t explain.

Anonymous

Yes. While working overnight in my bakery one night. I was working alone, no one else in the entire building. Across the length of my backroom (around 40 feet), was a long metal table used for prep work. I took a rack out of my oven, and took one of the trays off and set it on the end of the metal counter, and turned to grab something from a shelf. When I turned back, the tray was clear on the other side, 40 feet down from where I had set it a few moments before. Also, one day I was reviewing store security footage from a night when my baker injured themselves, was trying to see what happened. They were the only one in the cafe, and were in the front of house. In the back office (which was closed and locked) the desk chair started spinning around by itself.

Anonymous

The only options are trick of the eye, hallucinations, or paranormal? That’s poor framing. I used to have night terrors of a pirate attacking me. I lived in Boston at the time where there were plenty of portraits and people dressed in old time seafaring garb, something a 4 year old might see as a pirate. The dreams stopped when I moved out of Boston. I don’t think it was a ghost harassing me, but rather a manifestation of my subconscious and its fears. My aunt in law (my aunt’s husband’s sister) was a very gullible person. She was convinced her house was haunted because she saw orbs and flashes of light. Turns out she lived on a relatively busy road, on the corner. Light can do funny things at speed and when turning. Especially in a very Brady Bunch house with mirrors and glass. I don’t not believe, but I also think that 99% of paranormal things can be explained by bad wiring, waking dreams, physics, and anomalies we don’t see in our everyday lives. Watching any ghost show with a skeptical physics major was an eye opener.

Anonymous

I had moved to a new town (pop 10000) and I'd only lived there for 6 or 7 weeks so the only people who knew me by name were my next door neighbours. I was walking down the road on the other side of the town at just before 10 in the morning and this woman I'm guessing in her mid 70s, silver hair just over her shoulders called over to me looked at me straight in the face and said "Hello *my name here* as if I'd known her for 20 years. She continued walking in the opposite direction and never looked back. I stopped dead and looked at her as she walked by. I had never seen her before and there is literally no way she could have known my name. I lived in that town for 8 years and neither I nor my ex ever saw the elusive woman again. I don't have a fantasy prone personality, nor am I a firm believer of ghosts and ghouls. But what I try to do is keep an open mind.

Anonymous

Yes. I have a friend who is aerokinetic. He can actually control air currents around him.

Anonymous

That's kind of a false trichotomy. Hallucinations and optical illusions are two possible explanations for seeing something odd, but there are many. I've never witnessed anything paranormal, noting that unexplained does not necessarily equal paranormal. If I do see or hear something odd, I go investigating and more often than not find a likely explanation.

Anonymous

Yes. In a physics lab, I sent electrons one at a time thru a double slit to a screen. To my amazement, an interference pattern emerged! Each electron must have gone thru both slits and interfered with itself. Nothing can explain how this can happen. Yet it happens every time. Quantum mechanics is paranormal and scientifically repeatable.

Anonymous

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Anonymous

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Anonymous

Yes and quite often. What I see is quite detailed so is fairly easy to research properly. One example I was sitting in a coffee shop drinking coffee when I saw a scene of a man wearing an apron pulling teeth from people sat in a heavy chair bolted the the ground. Behind them was a large man holding their heads still while they screamed as their teeth were pulled out or operated on in other ways. There was a tall lady with hear done up in rolls removing wide white bowls of blood and rags - and buckets of blood the same. She took them out of a side door beside me and down outside steps. In reality there was no side door - or outside steps and just another room. I researched it at th elocal library and found it was the workplace of a surgeon dentist in 1850-53, and a town map of that time showed that all along that row of buildings had outside steps at the rear as I had seen it. Also at that time anaesthetics were not in use so all operations were done without it - hence the screaming. I also found that he as a cupper - someone who used to let blood as a cure for all ills, and as such would bleed his patients of several pints at a time. This also explains the buckets of blood I saw. I asked the present owners if they knew of the history of the place but they did not. Nor is it published anywhere it can be read easily. The only record is in original tax books of 1850 in the towns central library - hardly something to stumble across. As I witnessed the event as accurately recorded in history I do not believe it was a hallucination.