Comments on: I Don’t Believe in the Paranormal, but. . . .

By: Jemihal

Jemihal — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:41:09 +0000

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.

By: irishkay

irishkay — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:00:20 +0000

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.

By: TinaLouiseF

TinaLouiseF — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:58:26 +0000

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.

By: evlqn

evlqn — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:11:48 +0000

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.

By: Madeline Hunter

Madeline Hunter — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:31:54 +0000

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.

By: Madeline Hunter

Madeline Hunter — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:29:54 +0000

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!

By: Janae

Janae — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:04:00 +0000

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.

By: evlqn

evlqn — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:56:12 +0000

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.

By: Nicole Jordan

Nicole Jordan — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:56:39 +0000

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.

By: Sabrina Jeffries

Sabrina Jeffries — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:49:37 +0000

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?