I Don’t Believe in the Paranormal, but. . . .

Jan 23rd 2009
Madeline HunterMadeline Hunter & My Life As A Plebe

49 Responses to “I Don’t Believe in the Paranormal, but. . . .”

1. MizMacgyver on 23 Jan 2009 at 3:59 am #

   I think the best way to answer all of those is I have reason to keep an open mind. Nothing life shattering but strange bits and pieces have left me with a huge question mark.
   I was alone with my daughter when she was a toddler, we heated the house with a wood burning stove. She was asleep and I went out to get more wood. I put one foot between the slats that held the wood so I wouldn’t strain my back when putting it in the wagon. I had loaded a good bit then picked up one log and it all started rolling toward me. I couldn’t move fast enough to get out the way and then it just stopped, like it hit a wall. I got my foot out, went in the house and said a long heartfelt prayer of thanks. That was one of the more extreme occurences.

2. Susan M on 23 Jan 2009 at 6:13 am #

   I love reading paranormal romances. Especially vampire ones with Twilight being my absolute favorite right now.

   I do wonder sometimes if ghosts, vampires werewolves, etc..could possibly exist. How did all these stories and sightings come about if someone didn’t actually witness something? But I’m of the mindset I’ll believe it when I see it but I really don’t want to see it. I did have an experience once when I was a teenager where I saw a bright light come out of my room, move across the wall at the end of the hallway and then disappear into my parents room which was across from mine. At first I thought it was headlights because my room was at the front of the house and a lot of times when a car went past you could see headlights. But then I realized that all the doors were closed in the hallway except the bathroom and there was no window in the bathroom. That made me wonder.

3. PJ on 23 Jan 2009 at 6:15 am #

   I believe that there are many things in this world beyond our understanding. I wouldn’t say my mom was psychic but there were many times when she knew that things would happen…and they did. She woke up in the middle of the night once and said “My aunt’s been in an accident. She’s dead.” The next morning the phone rang and it was my grandmother calling to tell us her sister (in Texas – we lived in Michigan) had been killed in an auto accident during the night. I’ve inherited a bit of that ability. I *know* when I need to call someone or go somewhere. My brothers and I are scattered across several states but as the first anniversary date of our dad’s death approached I *knew* I needed to go to one brother’s house in Michigan. I hadn’t talked to him or had any contact with him for a couple months but I just knew I needed to be there. I made my airline reservations and called to tell them I was coming up. When my brother met me at the airport he hugged me tight and said “I needed you here so much. How did you know?”

4. PJ on 23 Jan 2009 at 6:23 am #

   One more… Last year I was standing in the doorway of a shop downtown talking with the owner when a hit and run accident occurred right in front of us. After talking with police I left to go home but instead I turned left and headed for Walmart. I had no reason to go there and hadn’t planned to go there but, again, *something* was leading me in that direction. I pulled into the parking lot, drove up and down a couple aisles, past several open spaces and finally pulled into a space at the end of the lot…right in front of the car that had been involved in the hit and run. Don’t ask me how I knew. I just *knew*. I called the police and the driver was arrested. Like I said, there are things in this world beyond my understanding.

5. Lisa H on 23 Jan 2009 at 6:40 am #

   I don’t believe in “paranormal” but I do believe in “spiritual”. I believe in Angels. I also believe there is a dark side at war with the good side. The Bible talks about it, spiritual warfare. I also believe there are things happening in the spiritual realm that we might never understand. Some might call them paranormal or other things, but there are many mysteries in our universe that we are not able to understand.

   As for that bright red flash drive, I can’t tell you how many times simaler things have happened to me. I just thought I was losing my mind!

6. Cail on 23 Jan 2009 at 7:10 am #

   Well, here’s the thing, my theory is very complicated. I’ve witnessed ghosts first hand (my great grandfather visited me on his way out to say goodbye shortly after he passed away), and often reach for my cell phone and tell my DH that i thought it rang and that my dad called shortly before the phone does exactly that. I think there are strong connections in this world, and energies are left here that really mess with my moods. I can often tell if something bad happened in a place by the way I feel. However, the things that happen in a lot of paranormal romances are so far beyond my realm of possibility that they seem far too fantastical. Although i do enjoy the occasional paranormal novel, I prefer to stick to historical fiction and welcome the occasional bit of paranormal activity thrown in. (see Hawkins, Karen: the MacLean Curse series. I just love it!)

7. Louisa Edwards on 23 Jan 2009 at 7:31 am #

   I don’t necessarily believe in the paranormal, but I’m not sure I believe in coincidence either. Nothing is random, really, and it all means something, even if you don’t know what yet. I know, very Celestine Prophecy of me, isn’t it? Just to be clear, I also don’t believe in crystals or aromatherapy.

8. Michelle B on 23 Jan 2009 at 7:34 am #

   I have a Guardian Angel, who does a very good job of keeping me safe. I was taught as a young child that I had one and have always believed it was true on faith alone. Over the years things happen that have reinforced that belief.

   When I was pregnant with our first child we lived in an old house with very steep steps going into the basement with no rail. Every time I was on those steps I would hear someone calling my name, like a very loud whisper. I would say, “What?” thinking it was my husband calling me. He would say I didn’t call you. My husband swears that house was haunted.

   I have family members in my house now that have a talent for seeing ghosts and auras. Out of the 5 of us two see, feel, and hear things. One I think may have all this and is in denial, and the last two of us don’t get to experience anything of the sort. So I figure people either have this talent or they don’t.

   We’ve lived in 17 different houses over the last 24 1/2 years so we have lots of ghost stories. There are many military ghost stories, every installation has them.

9. SuzyQ on 23 Jan 2009 at 7:36 am #

   My grandfather used to call my grandmother a gypsy because she could sense when things would happen. I often wonder if it’s been passed on because sometimes things just pop in my head and they end up coming true. The most bizarre was when we were house hunting. We found a house we really wanted to see but the realtor could not get the combination on the lock box open. I blurted out some numbers, she tried them and the box opened. I kind of freaked her out (and my dh too). Now if only I could do that with the lottery numbers!!! LOL! It never seems to work when I want it to.

   I also believe in spirits. I have heard and smelled things, but have never actually seen anything. I believe sometimes we make connections that are not so easily broken. I also believe tragedy can leave behind residual energy. I know after my dog died (my sister accidentally ran her over in the driveway) we always heard her walking in the kitchen in the middle of the night, since it was the only room not carpeted.

10. Sarah T on 23 Jan 2009 at 7:38 am #

    PJ, thank you for sharing you personal experiences. I also believe that something a person just knows or has a feeling about something. Perhaps its some decide to ignore these feelings and others allow themselves to listen. I think its amazing that you listened and helped the police catch the hit and run driver.

    I’m not a big paranormal reader, although I will pick up a few paranormal romances from time to time. In my opinion a good book is a good book and if an author creates well-drawn characters with a strong emotional bond, I’m ok with it if they happen to be vampires.

    I hope you’re all excited for the Tuesday release of The Sins of Lord Easterbrook! It’s one of many great romance novels coming out on Tuesday and I’m planning to go to the bookstore first thing (well after breakfast:) I’m also dying to get a copy of the new Suzanne Brockmann (really, really excited and can’t seem to stop sharing my excitement, much to my poor DH’s dismay.)

11. neva on 23 Jan 2009 at 8:08 am #

    Its an interesting area. I very much believe in intuition and listening to your gut feelings. You may not know why you know something or have to do something but you follow your gut and are correct just as PJ was. Whether or not that’s truly paranormal or just reading signals/engaging a rarely used area of your brain I don’t know. I do know that once upon a time I worked in a high dependency aged care facility that was in a redeveloped old house and several times when I was on night duty some unexplained things (such as walkers appearing in the middle of corridors and residents asking me why I couldn’t see “them”) occured that made me question my rational scientific beliefs. I guess I sit in the not sure camp.

12. Louisa Cornell on 23 Jan 2009 at 8:45 am #

    I do believe in the paranormal, but I think your explanation of the hyper-normal definitely applies. I think you have to be hyper sensitive to the paranormal to be touched by it. Some people are and some people aren’t and some people are only from time to time. It is a sense that I think mankind had a long time ago and basically lost. Animals have it and have never lost it.

    After my husband died I knew when he stopped by because our old dog would run to his chair and bark and then sit down with her tail wagging like crazy.

    My cat often stops and stares at a place on our bed where my late Great Dane used to sleep. She will then go over and rub herself all over the covers.

    We lived in a haunted house in England and discovered the week we moved out that my younger brother’s imaginary friend was actually the owner’s dead brother – the previous owner of the house who actually died in the house.

13. LoriHandeland on 23 Jan 2009 at 8:55 am #

    I believe in spirits and sensitives and such and that there is more out there than we can ever know.

    Babies and young children definitely see things we don’t. My niece would always babble to the corner of her bedroom in the morning. We said she was “talking to the angels.” And my oldest son would talk to the “old guy” in the backyard. The first time he did that, he totally freaked me out. I believe that a lot of imaginary friends are probably ghosts.

    We have some kind of key pooka living in our house. Three sets of keys have totally disappeared. Car keys, which had to have been in the house since the car was driven here. We have torn the place apart, gutted this house over the past ten years and redone it too, and not one key had shown up.

    The night my dad died I had a lovely dream about him where he told me everything was all right and I believe he came to me before he moved on.

    But vamps and werewolves? They’re fun to read and write about, but I don’t think they’re really out there.

14. Madeline Hunter on 23 Jan 2009 at 9:01 am #

    Wow, it is so interesting to read all these experiences.
    My mother was what she called a little witchy. It was her word for the feelings she would get when something was wrong with a loved one. Or a discomfort in her intuition about a situation. I have inherited it somewhat, more than my siblings. My mother also had dreams about people that would herald news of one kind or another.

    A friend just had one of those strings of coincidences. Her husband had a massive stroke while she was out of town. She “just happened” to phone him in the middle of it and was able to get him help. She had “just happened” to look up the phone number of a neighbor earlier that day for another matter, so had access to quick help. There were a whole list of “just happeneds” that day, all of which in hindsight were amazing.

    As for that flash drive, it was not there earlier. I can see myself staring at that desk when it was blank. I freaked when I found it there later.

15. Freshechelle on 23 Jan 2009 at 9:07 am #

    I’m skeptical about paranormal stuff however I believe folks believe they had the experiences they describe. In other words, I don’t assume they’re making it up. Generous of me, eh?

16. Rachel Gibson on 23 Jan 2009 at 9:17 am #

    I believe that after a person dies, their spirit lives on. On occasions of great stress, I have felt the presence of my father who died in 1999. I know that sounds scary, but it is actually comforting.

    rachelg

17. Karen Hawkins on 23 Jan 2009 at 9:18 am #

    Oh, great topic, Madeline! Wow, guys, GREAT stories! I now have the shivers.

    When I was eleven, I kept having a dream that I hurt my foot. In each dream, I’d stumble and fall and either stub a toe or cut it on a rock or something, but it would bleed and bleed and I’d wake up shaking.

    When I was twelve, my mother and my older sister went to return some library books. I was babysitting and a huge storm hit. I ran through the kitchen to shut the back door and keep the rain out. Well . . . water + linoleum + clumsy me = sliiiip and fallll. As I fell, my foot went right through a fish tank that was sitting nearby and it cut my foot between two toes like an ax chop three inches deep.

    My sister told me later that at about this same time, my mother stopped the car in the middle of the road, turned around, and went home. My sister asked why and my mother said it just wasn’t a good day to go to the library. She came home in time to keep me from bleeding to death, but it was close.

    After that accident, I never had that dream again, so . . . I don’t know. Coincidence? Fore warning? I dunno but I’m glad it ended the way it did!

18. Yaya on 23 Jan 2009 at 9:18 am #

    I am a skeptic too, though I know there is things out there that cant be explained. Like in my house, there is a ghost. i hate to admit it but there is. When I am home alone sitting in the living I can hear someone coming in the front door and then slaming it, you hear keys jingle and then your hear a popping noise in the kitchen like someone opening a can or something. I have gotten up many times thinking someone has come home only to check every rm and nothing. Still half the time I explain it away thinking my brain made it up until other family members brought up the topic.

19. SidneyKay on 23 Jan 2009 at 9:35 am #

    When I was younger, I always thought that when my grandmother died, she tapped me on the shoulder and when I turned my head I thought I saw a mist. It startled me at first, but then I felt comforted. I get feelings that things are going to happen, sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t.

    I am famous in my family for scaring myself; there are certain movies that I cannot watch alone or at night. Stephen King’s “It” scares the crap out of me, as well as one of my favorites “The Uninvited”, a really old movie with Ray Milliard…it has it all: ghostly smells, cats running from rooms, cold rooms, séance, a misty ghost, a creepy villainous, a cliff with a tree…great old movie, which I’ve watched tons of times but never by myself at night or with my cat staring up at the ceiling. Then of course, there is the old Bob Hope movie “Ghostbreakers” which has some spooky moments. Or the face in the car window from “Carnival of Souls”. Nothing better than an atmospheric scary movie as opposed to a gore fest.

20. Julia London on 23 Jan 2009 at 9:42 am #

    I once had a psychic tell me that I had a bit of psychic ability, and I could see colors around people. I still laugh about that — I can’t see anything. I don’t feel things, I don’t know things, nothing ever happens to me. I think it would be kind of cool if it did, though. And I don’t think because I don’t feel any of that that it doesn’t exist.

21. Claudia Dain on 23 Jan 2009 at 9:54 am #

    I had something weirdly wonderful happen to me once. I was getting my wisdom teeth out and the x-ray taken the day before the procedure showed that my bottom wisdom teeth had roots that wrapped around the nerves in my jaw. The doctor said that I had to be prepared to experience permanent numbness in my jaw if they damaged the nerve prying the teeth out.

    Scary, huh?

    So I have the surgery, I wake up, and the first words out of my swollen mouth are, “Did the teeth come out okay?” And the doctor said, “They sure did. It was the strangest thing, but your wisdom teeth were just laying on their sides, like a baby in a cradle. All I had to do was lift them out.” On their sides? When the day before they’d been upright and clinging to my jaw like octopus arms?

    How did my teeth move, buried under my gums in 24 hours, and how did I not feel them move?

22. SheridanLA on 23 Jan 2009 at 9:56 am #

    I think there are definitely things that go on outside our belief of “normal”

    When I was a kid, we owned a hotel. It was haunted. Nothing bad, but TVs would go on in rooms that were vacant, there were footsteps, etc all over. I went back there a few years ago and talked to a woman that was there way back when.. still happens.

    I also lived in an apartment near a cemetery in college. I always would see something out of the corner of my eye in that apartment, like someone walking.. but no one was there. Never really freaked me out or was scary, just something that became normal. Very rarely happened after I left there.

    I have met ghost hunters, known people who are really “in touch” with spirits.. people who are not some whacked out persons you would expect. Some of the stories are quite a trip.

23. Courtney Milan on 23 Jan 2009 at 10:32 am #

    On this one, I am a mass of contradictions.

    On the one hand, I was trained as a scientist and a statistician. I agree 100% with Carl Sagan’s “In Defense of Skepticism.” I abhor horoscopes. I think there is a logical and reasonable explanation for just about anything, and I think most of the time things that people think are coincidental and unexplainable are just observer bias. After all, everything that happens is statistically improbable, if defined with sufficient specificity.

    But there are also some things I desperately want that I do not say aloud, not to anyone, not even to my husband, for fear the universe will smite me for hubris. And I have a certain amount of worrying I do, where I just throw huge masses of worry-cycles at something for no good reason, on the strange theory that if I worry enough, somehow it will make the outcome better. Worrying needlessly has done surprisingly well for me, and so I continue to do it.

24. colinfirthfan on 23 Jan 2009 at 11:14 am #

    Madeline, dontcha know? It was The Borrowers!! (I just recently saw this movie again with my kids )

    I like Paranormals. I am sure there are ghosts around but thankfully I am oblivious. I’d give anything to see my mom and dad one last time though.

25. LoriHandeland on 23 Jan 2009 at 12:23 pm #

    The Borrowers!! I read this book (and I think there were sequels) as a kid and loved them. Whenever something’s missing here I always blame The Borrowers and no one knows what I’m talking about.

26. Lisa H on 23 Jan 2009 at 12:32 pm #

    All I can say, is I wish Edward Cullen was real! I’ll settle for Rob Pattinson though!

27. Noelle/Barbra E Noel on 23 Jan 2009 at 12:42 pm #

    For me it’s a want to believe and trying to believe but being a capricorn there is this voice in the back of my mind that says it fun to think that way but…

    Then again, my husband’s Aunt was born knowing how to speak Spanish. She would speak Spanish in her sleep as a kid and no one else in the family knew Spanish or even knew anyone that knew spanish.

    Once when my husband came back from out of town after we were first married I told him how strange it was that I woke up in the middle of the night and the TV I knew I had turned off was turned on and even on a different channel than I was watching when I turned it off. He went white and said that was strange because in his hotel room the TV came on that the same time on that same channel.

    And I’d like to think that when my mother reached up like she was reaching out to or hugging someone right before she died that she really was.

28. LauraR on 23 Jan 2009 at 12:52 pm #

    I love reading paranormal romances. This last summer I found Lori Handeland’s Moon series and loved them. Wish there would be more .

    As far as personal paranormal experiences, haven’t had any that I noticed.

29. Madeline Hunter on 23 Jan 2009 at 12:56 pm #

    I am impressed by how many of you know you have ghosts, and are so calm about it. Didn’t you freak at first by all the evidence? I can see how after a while you would get used to it—-I guess! Sort of a live and let live attitude just sets in?

    Madeline

30. dbrown3400 on 23 Jan 2009 at 12:56 pm #

    >>>Worrying needlessly has done surprisingly well for me, and so I continue to do it.

    Courtney, that was great! Sometimes it is a good tactic when all else fails.

    My grandmother and I always had a psychic bond. We could finish each other’s sentences and know when we were calling on the phone; I could feel her presence after she was gone.

31. Madeline Hunter on 23 Jan 2009 at 12:59 pm #

    I think Lori mentioned surgery. I had an out of body experience during surgery. I was under, for sure, and suddenly I was outside the room where the surgeons scrubbed and I heard their conversation. It was while they were prepping for the next procedure. Anyway, when I was recovering, an intern from the team was checking my incision and I mentioned the conversation I had heard.
    You should have seen the look on his face. Turns out they had that conversation, and it wasn’t anywhere near ME.

    Madeline

32. Margaret on 23 Jan 2009 at 1:44 pm #

    I love today’s topic. Madeline, you just reminded me of a surgery experience I had when I was about 38 or so. I had a hernia and it needed repairing. I heard the doctor and nurses talking about me and assumed it was when I was in recovery. He was surprised to open me up and find a double hernia. When I told him about hearing what they said, he was really shocked. He said they had that discussion when they found it and I was deep under. Or so they thought.
    After my husband died, I would smell him. He wore Chap cologne. He was a stroke victim. His method of putting the cologne on his face was to pour it on his bedside table, get it on his hand and slather it on his face. Always too much, of course. I would smell him even after I moved 2 years later and had none of his things left. He was also an artist. So, I have numerous paintings. I had a photo of him tucked into the frame of one I have back in the bedroom. I can’t tell you how often I would find that photo moved from one end to the other and lying on it’s side. I already told you all that I think he had a hand in my recent family video I made & showed his kids at our family Christmas recently.Just saying hello there.

33. rebyj on 23 Jan 2009 at 1:47 pm #

    I’m too damn old to believe in much of anything anymore. But I like to read paranormal fiction even religious spiritual fiction . Belief of any kind can be a strong component to any story.
    No paranormal stories here, I’m so bored if a ghost showed up I’d sit on it and make it visit for awhile.

34. colinfirthfan on 23 Jan 2009 at 1:58 pm #

    LOL, rebyj. I’d like to hear its stories too.

35. Karen Hawkins on 23 Jan 2009 at 2:28 pm #

    Rebyj, I’m with you. If a ghost came to visit me, I’d catch it by the ankle and hang on, begging to know the lotto numbers. They’d know those, right? I mean, I’d hate to think that when I got to the ghosting stage, I didn’t have extraordinary knowledge of SOME sort.

    I’ve never seen a ghost, but I envy those of you who’ve had those you love stop by for a ‘hello’ now and then. That would be neat.

36. Madeline Hunter on 23 Jan 2009 at 3:02 pm #

    Louisa, your story about your husband and the dog choked me up. And Margaret, now that you mention it, sometimes I “smell” my father.

    Courtney, I had to laugh about your worrying. I have a related situation. Sort of an anti-paranormal paranormal. I have found that is I ever dream about something happening, vividly, it definitely will NOT happen.

    This is somewhat comforting if it is something bad. But sometimes I dream about something I want. In the dream I get it and am all excited. Then I wake up and think “well, drat! So much for that “dream”.”

37. Madeline Hunter on 23 Jan 2009 at 3:07 pm #

    I’m still trying to imagine living in a house where doors open and no one is there, and stuff like that. Or learning my son’s secret friend was a ghost. You guys all sound so calm about it.

    If you live in a house with a ghost, are there ways to know the ghost is NOT in the room? I mean—and I in no way am trying to trivialize this, or make fun of it—but if you are in bed with your significant other and one thing leads to another, do you feel alone, as it were? Or is the ghost’s presence not like that. No a matter of the kind of awareness that we ascribe to a living person?

38. Paula on 23 Jan 2009 at 3:09 pm #

    I’m sitting on the fence about paranormal.
    As most of you know back in september a very dear friend of mine lost her DH in an horrific road traffic accident whilst he was on his way to work in LOndon. In the middle of december I had a plastic carton sitting on the side in the kitchen waiting to go into the recycling bin. My DH had taken the boys out for a walk and I was alone in the house and the window in the kitchen was closed. I came downstairs to fetch something and found this carton in the middle of the floor right way up, I put it back on the side went back upstairs. When I came down a bit later it was once again on the floor right way up. I am convinced that it was my friend’s DH trying to tell me to put the carton in the recycling bin! He was into recycling in a big way. Spooky.

39. Freedom Writer on 23 Jan 2009 at 3:24 pm #

    Vamps and Werewolves no, but they are fun to read about in Paranormal Romances.

    Ghost, angels and other spirits make more sense to me, after all I believe in life after death and I’d like to think that my long dead father and grandparents sometime look in on me. Of course with as dull as my life it must be like watching a bad sit com.

40. Sabrina Jeffries on 23 Jan 2009 at 4:49 pm #

    Like you, Madeline, nothing paranormal ever happens to me. Which is probably a good thing, since I would probably freak out if it did. We do joke that we have a poltergeist whom we blame for everything that goes missing, gets moved, whatever. Hey, why should we blame ourselves?

41. Nicole Jordan on 23 Jan 2009 at 4:56 pm #

    Fun blog, Madeline! I think I feel about the same way that you do. With my engineering background I like to have proof of stuff… but still I wonder sometimes.

    But it’s also fun to read about everyone else’s experiences. Just because I’ve never encountered paranormal phenomenon doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

42. evlqn on 23 Jan 2009 at 6:56 pm #

    I absolutely believe in the paranormal. I have lived in several already occupied houses over the years. In fact I lived in one of them twice, once when I was a kid and then after I was married to my starter husband. Things were always disappearing and then reappearing in that house. The lights would go on and off without anyone touching them.
    My sister was staying with me when her daughter was a toddler and just learning to walk. One day she was coming in from hanging clothes on the line and I was coming from the living room just as her daughter feel forward onto the floor furnace. Neither one of were going to reach her in time to save her from being burned. Suddenly her shirt bunched up in back like someone had grabbed it and she went flying across the room into the sun-porch. We have always been grateful to whoever or whatever saved my niece from severe burns.

43. Janae on 23 Jan 2009 at 7:04 pm #

    Very interesting topic, and I finally have a few minutes after spending the day at my son’s school and running errands.

    When I was 11-12 I was walking with 2 of my sisters on the bike path. All of a sudden I just put my arms up to get them to stop walking. One more step ahead was a baby rattlesnake. I’ve no idea what prompted me to put my arms up, I just did it. We walked around the snake.

    I’m a big believer in trusting my intuition because when I’ve ignored it, I’ve regretted it. Or my dh has regretted not listening to me. He thought I was crazy when I told him I had a bad vibe about this woman his dad was dating. Eventually, my fil and the woman married, and she’s just been bad news. My dh and his sibs have not had a one on one conversation with their dad in over 5 years because the wife’s all control freaky.

44. Madeline Hunter on 23 Jan 2009 at 9:29 pm #

    evlqn, that story about the invisible hand is—well, the hairs on the back of my neck would have stayed up for hours.

    I think I am wondering even more after reading all these posts. Thanks to all of you for sharing them!

45. Madeline Hunter on 23 Jan 2009 at 9:31 pm #

    Janae, I also always regret not following my intuition. I have to hire students for part time work, and whenever I do not go with my gut I get burned. But bad feelings about relationships, etc—- those feelings always seem to be dead on.

46. evlqn on 24 Jan 2009 at 1:11 am #

    Madeline, I live in a sometimes occupied house right now. We are used to spirits coming and going, a psychic friend of ours said our house is on the I-5 of the spirit world.
    Sometimes our dad passes through, we know when daddy has shown up because we can smell him. Usually he wants us to call mom. We flew mom out to see us the last time he made an appearance, she goes back to Mn on the 28th.

47. TinaLouiseF on 24 Jan 2009 at 3:58 pm #

    My mom said that when I was 4, my brother,her and I were at a restaurant.
    I started crying for no apparent reason.
    When mom asked me what was wrong, I said that something was wrong with dad.
    My dad and his brother were up in the mountains camping with horses.
    When dad got home, we found out that dad’s horse had strangled herself with the leadrope on the day that I cried.
    Dad was very sad that day because he had had Flicka since he was 14.

48. irishkay on 24 Jan 2009 at 8:00 pm #

    Wow! Great Blog! I dont know what I experience is real or my imagination. I wake up thinking im hearing my name. My husband was at work one night (3rd shift). I awoke from a dead sleep hearing my name. It was like he had just come in the door and yelled it–looking for me. It wasnt him. I even called him and he was no where near our house. Years later, we moved my son into that bedroom, and He told me one day that it happened to him too! Go figure. We both thought it was something that only happened to us(singlely) and was imagined. How could that happen to both of us?
    I tend to know things too; but it could be intuition. LIttle stuff mostly, I was going down the road one day approaching a stop light. I had a strong feeling to put on my seatbelt (had surgery and the belt rubbed the incision) and to slow down. I did. A semi truck ran that light. If i hadnt slowed down, I would have been hit.
    I can find things too! This always freaks my family out! I just stand still and think hard, it will come to me where it is.
    All of that is just little stuff that can probably be explained some how. I dont know.

49. Jemihal on 28 Jan 2009 at 9:41 pm #

    I have always believed… or at least wanted to believe… in the paranormal. I remember when people in our area told about sightings of Bigfoot, I stayed up all night watching intently out the window looking for one. The Sasquatch, Yeti, Swamp Ape stories have always fascinated me. It always seemed like something had to exist to inspire them. And then, I studied “Beowulf” and realized that it might be the earliest of those stories!
    I do believe in life after death and that the spirit lives on. The morning my mother died, I went walking on the beach by myself just thinking about her and asking “Why?” She came to me speaking in my mind and we had quite a conversation. When I asked her why she died when my aunt and myself were not with her, she replied, “There was too much love. You wouldn’t let me go … and I didn’t love Ilona!” Ilona was the gruff LPN we hired to help her and she definitely didn’t care for her. She was in the room with her when she passed. I would never have imagined these words and I know I was speaking to her. It was a wonderful and very special happening that meant so much to me and really helped me through that sad time.