Hey Pandas, Has Anything Paranormal Ever Happened To You? (Closed)

Yes.

(but sereously) One time i was bein lazy in my room (before i had a phone) and i see this shadow move across my room. i always have and always will 100% beleive in the paranormal and spirit worlds but i wasn’t scared because i was like ;why would anything want to hurt me i did nothing wrong… wait… WAS THIS HOUSE BUILT SOMEWHERE LIKE A GRAVEYARD OR SOMETHING??? so yea i got pretty freaked out. But that’s not all! Later that night after i got it out of my head and my eyes were closed (because you know… night.) i suddenly feel something looming over me and i open my eyes to SEE… absolutely nothing. BUT my room had a GIANT window that did not have curtains. You know like those big half-circle windows in attics? well that was in my room. And we lived next to a big street so i was always seeing cars’ headlights along with lampost light. But it was COMPLETELY black in my room i couldn’t see a THING. i was TERRIFIED so (great timing right?) i start thinking of what had happened earlier and then i see a cars headlights shine through the window and shadow guy at the FOOT OF MY FREAKING BED BY MY CLOSET and i hid under the covers until i was in a puddle of my own sweat and i couldn’t breathe and! everything was back to normal. Also i only saw shadow guy for like a split second before it disappeared but that started my immense fear of closets so thats fun! Also i have a ghost cat in one of my houses and she’s so fluffyyy (as far as i can tell, she really only lays on me at night. But i don’t mind she’s nice.)

I saw a tall figure appear at the doorway to my room. It was wearing a long cloak with a hood over its head. It had large white eyes. No arms, legs, mouth or nose were visible. Any ideas on what the strange humanoid figure was?

I was wandering around the basement of an old hotel in Europe with a friend and when we opened some door to see where it went, there was a huge, dark ghost or entity of some sort. We looked at it, looked at each other, back at the ghost, back at each other, then realized we were seeing the same thing and got the heck out of there. Confirmed when we were back upstairs. Another time, when I was staying in another old hotel in Europe, there was a ghost who would come and hang over my bed every night. He didn't give off bad vibes, but he was clearly indignant that I was sleeping in his bed, and it did disturb my sleep. Fortunately, there was a person in the hotel who had the ability to deal with things like that, so I went and told him about it. He said not to worry, that the ghost wouldn't bother me anymore. I went back to my room and the ghost was gone.

This happened to me twice. Yes, I'm ADD; I take meds for it. I had taken my meds both times this happened. Since the stories are identical, I'm only going to tell one of them. The first one happened about 9 years ago, the second one happened about 1 year ago.

The first time it happened, we were at my MIL's house. She has a split-level home, with the upstairs being an open floor plan. If you're in the kitchen, you can see the dining area, which also opens into the living room. I was in the kitchen doing dishes, working on the pots and pans. I was down to the last pan, scrubbing away with the heavy-duty scrubber sponge. Our youngest was still in a highchair and was in the living room with my husband, watching Frozen.

While I'm in the kitchen scrubbing, our daughter cries out for Mommy. I put the pan down on one side of the sink (empty but for the pan) and set the scrubber down in the other side (again, empty except for scrubber). I went into the living room (hands still wet) to see what she needed. I get her situated and go back into the kitchen to finish up. I pick up the pan, reach into the other sink for the scrubber...and it's gone?

What?

I look in both sinks, not there. WTH? I look around the kitchen, thinking I set it down elsewhere. Nope, nothing. I retrace my steps back to our daughter, checking every available surface along the way. Did my ADD-rear end leave it somewhere? Nope. I go back in the kitchen, check everything again. Still nothing. What the...? Where is it?

I tell my husband about it. He gets up and starts looking with me. I'm worried it's dropped on something, because it's wet. We look everywhere, even going into bathrooms (hey, you gotta try!) to see if I just forgot and went in there without thinking about it. It's gone. Can't find it.

I finally get frustrated and just yell out in general, "Ok, this isn't cool! I need the sponge! You can give it back now!"

I stomp into the kitchen to grab a regular sponge and use elbow grease to finish the pan. I turn on the faucet to wet the sponge, look down in the (still) empty sink half...and there's the scrubber, just like I left it. In the middle of the empty sink, where both myself and my husband had checked multiple times.

No one else was home; MIL was at work, other kids at school. My husband never left the living room during the whole time I was away from the sink the first time. Never have been able to explain it.

YES! I shared one before regarding a child drawing on the car window. But this incident happened in Virginia City, NV. My wife, her 3 daughters and myself went to Virginia City for the 4th of July. It, being my first time there, I wanted to do a little ghost hunting while were going to be there all day. I periodically would go off into areas and try and perform EVPs with my phone's recorder, take pics, etc. I got nothing all day.
Time for the fireworks. We went to the cemetery as it is located on a high hill and good for viewing. The girls were a distance ahead of us, my wife probably a good 8-10 ft ahead of me. I'm doing a last ditch effort to catch something paranormal. I literally say: "If there's any spirit or spirit here, please make your presence known." At that exact moment, my wife goes flying forward as if someone (or something) shoved her. She looks back at me with the look of why tf did you just do that?! Seeing that I'm now standing still wide eyed and several feet away from her, she realizes it wasn't me. There was nothing on the ground she could've stepped on or tripped over. I immediately did the proper "closing procedures" when speaking with spirits and added "we do not give you permission to follow us etc". Fortunately, she was able to catch her balance and didn't actually fall fall.

My mother worked at a dentist. One night she got called by a neighbour of the practice because water was running through the ceiling and there was noise from above. We went there and saw the aquarium in the waiting room was broken (nobody knew why) and the furniture of the dollhouse the dentist had made himself and loved a lot had fallen on the floor. The big wooden clock had stopped working.

Later that night we got a call from his wife: the dentist had died that evening at the exact time the aquarium broke and the clock stopped working.
I still remember my parents shocked faces very well.
The dentist was a very friendly man by the way, I still have no idea why he left so dramatically.

I don't come off as someone who's interested in the paranormal or spiritual for some reason, and people are often surprised when I share my experiences. I've had paranormal experiences of various types my entire life, mostly involving death somehow, but not always.
From precognition and telekinesis when I was young, (and I've actually met *many* people who had similar abilities as small children who outgrew them or were basically bullied into not doing them anymore, I'm not unique in this in the least), to out of body experiences, hauntings, possession, encounters with beings clearly not typical of what we consider reality, don't know for sure what they were, but they weren't human, weren't animal, and typically weren't friendly, to visions and dreams that were uncannily real and came true or where simultaneously happening, to memories of other lives, to visitations of dead family members/pets. I hated everything tarot related for no particular reason until I was 16 and fell asleep next to my roommate's tarot deck. Dreamed a series of strange images. When I woke, she came in and read my tarot (in exchange for letting me hide from a creepy roomie in her room) just for practice. She shuffled the deck, cut it, then flipped the first card and it was one that contained every image I'd just dreamed. She gave me the deck on the spot and I've read tarot ever since. When I was 20 my cat gave birth on top of the deck to a single black kitten during the height of a full moon lunar eclipse. Named her Omen and she was my best friend/familiar for 15 years. We did many witchy things together, and she'd send me mental images sometimes. Usually just like, the image of her at the door when she wanted inside. I'd wake up from a dead sleep, go to the door, and she'd just be trotting up from the woods like, "Oh, good, you got my telepathic text! Perfect timing". Her dying broke my heart, but I still wake up and feel her laying on my chest, sometimes even walking across me with her pointy stabby feets. Not just for a moment either, like I'll wake up and feel her there and lay there for a good ten minutes feeling her and listening to her purr and telling her how much I love her and how she's the best cat until she fades. She's died just a few months ago.
I saw a UFO once, which weirded me out more than all my other experiences put together because while I believe there is other life out there, (I'm not self absorbed enough to think there isn't), I highly doubt we'll encounter it before we manage to go extinct. But...I was out camping with a friend and I can't even explain the weird lights we saw that night.
I also saw creatures while camping in the Cascades that lined up with native American folklore from the region.
Funny story, my friend was losing her virginity in the woods behind her high school in Washington, (not to me), and what could only be described as a Sasquatch walked up, was very startled, then ran off. It was broad daylight, so full view for all parties involved. Best Bigfoot sighting I've ever heard. I could literally write novels about everything I've experienced, and even more if I included the experiences of people close to me. Like how my sister would be regularly visited by ravens as a baby. If we left her window open, they'd fly in and sit on the edge of her crib and "talk" to her, them mimicking her noises and her theirs. She basically spent her childhood being a Disney princess. I went to get her for breakfast once and she was twirling and singing (her own made up ballads as usual) as she dressed with literally song birds tweeting along with her from her window sill. I just turned and walked out like, "I'm done. I can't even handle this level of Disney irl rn".
Most hauntings I've seen weren't dead people. They are usually just energy signatures left behind from extremely or long repeated events. Anyway, too many things to list here in detail!

One time, me and my friends were just chilling in the living room. I look over into the mirror that is leaning against the wall and see a 4th kid (There were three of us). I look over at the seat next to me. Empty.

It was this day when I learned that a kid was killed after being hit by a car outside that house.

Not a ghost phenomen, but a strange experience I still have no clue about.

I was about 7-8, and I was laying in bed. I still don’t know exactly how/when, but I was seeing from outside my body, like if I was floating. I « floatted » downstairs, where my parents were watching TV, with our cat laying on their legs. I tried talking to them, but they didn’t reacted. But my cat starred at me. For like 5sec, that felt like eternity. Then I opened my eyes, laying in my bed, but I couldn’t moove immediatly. Next thing I know, my cat was licking me.

I tough it was a dream, until my parents told me next morning that the cat had, effectivly, stared in the void for a moment, then ran into my room, and asked how would I know that…

It has never happened again, but I’m still confused about this.

I'm not much of a believer in paranormal activity. However, I had a recent curious incident. Last fall, our mother was suffering from dementia and living with my sister about 500 miles away. I had visited a week before and saw her decline. We surmised that she was nearing the end. That next week, I awoke from a deep sleep, about 4 a.m., restless, and got up and sat in the living room for about an hour. Then I was sleepy again and returned to bed. My sister called later that morning to tell me our mom had passed. We figured out that her time of death was just about the same time I awoke and got out of bed.

I still look at the cat door some days, and see what looks like something big moving by, one time I started to convince my self it was just my cat right up against the cat door when they went by, except BOTH MY CATS WERE ON THE BED WITH ME.

I once was going to bed and as I was walking up the stairs I looked behind me and my doggy

One night in the early 1970's my friend and I were walking around our suburban neighborhood in NC and we heard a faint sound like whooshing air and looked up and saw 3 blue lights, one front 2 rear on a black triangle something and it looked really close over us. We thought whatever, kinda laughed and never mentioned it again, until now.