Paranormal

I've had paranormal experiences from time to time all of my life. I'm a very logical person by nature, so I always studied the details, and sought every possible explanation each time these things happened. Only the ones that seemed completley unexplainable by ordinary means were logged in my internal parnormal file.

Realizing that most people have a hard time accepting anything very unusual, I kept most of these experiences to myself, or only shared them with my closest friends. I've recently decided that it is for everyone's benefit if more people speak openly about their paranormal experiences, so I'm doing it myself. I've written a couple of recent experiences, and I'll be adding some past experiences over time.

Halloween, or Hallowe’en, is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses", carving Jack-o'-lanterns, reading scary stories and watching horror movies. Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twenty first century.

Here's an interesting article I came across on our Paranormal News Feed:

Pseudoskeptics and debunkers are usually quick to smirk and scoff at reports that spirits wear clothes. Indeed, it even exceeds the boggle threshold of many who believe in a spirit world.

"When the soul leaves the body it is at the first moment quite unclothed as at birth," Julia Ames communicated to William T. Stead, the prominent British journalist and automatist who went down with the Titanic, after her physical death. "I awoke standing by my dead body, thinking I was still alive and in my ordinary physical frame. It was only when I saw the corpse in the bed that I knew that something had happened. When the thought of nakedness crosses the spirit there comes the clothing which you need. The idea with us is creative. We think, and the thing is. I do not remember putting on any garments. There is just the sense of need, and the need is supplied."

Julia went on to say that once the spirit has fully awakened and adapted to the new environment, it has the ability to make itself appear in different ways, e.g., to appear as a child to someone who knew the spirit, when in the flesh, only as a child. "We have no need to do so for our own purposes, but when a newcomer arrives, or when we have to manifest ourselves to you who are still in the body, then we need to use this thought-creation, and body forth the visual tangible appearances with which you are familiar."

In effect, Julia said what many other spirits have communicated: that they project an image of themselves as they remember having looked in the flesh to the newcomer on that side as well as to the person still in the earthly life so that they are recognized.

Last night, in the middle of the night, during one of my deep-sleep cycles, I awoke just enough to see a black shape hovering over my chest. It could have been on my chest, but I say hovering because I felt no sensation of it physically contacting me. It was fairly dark in the room, with some light coming in from the window and my open bedroom door. I was still partially asleep, but I immediately realized this was something that shouldn't be there. It was completely black, and obscuring more than a third (maybe half) of my field of view.