Paranormal stories... can you give me some?

Question

I have not heard a good one (or real one) in a while. If you have one true, Great! But if not, tell me it, too!

Answer 1

A few years ago after working a while on the computer doing some photo restoring. My sister had emailed me an old black and white picture of my mother that had faded in places and turned yellow around the edges. around the edges of my mothers outline had turned dark. I had to lighten just around the edge. to do this I had to use an inverted program that would make the picture look like a negative so i could use an fade out brush which seem to work well. I then extrovert the photo so i could finish it and in no time got it the way i wanted it.

all was going well and I checked the photo by checking every section in magnification mode.

I wanted to print the photo before I saved the improvement and shut down for the night. I printed it and saved it shut down then took a look at the picture only to find a faded out face just over my mothers right shoulder in the photo. this section was dark before I repaired the photo.

at first i thought maybe it was some kind of picture that perhaps I faded out the frame and decided to check the picture again in the morning as i saved the original so i could redo it to see if i could save this picture behind her.

I woke up about three in the morning to what seemed like crying. i know the people next door sometimes have their granddaughter stay with them so i got up and got dressed and headed outside to find nothing. I wasn't sleepy so just made coffee and thought i might as well work on the photo. I got set up and looked again at the picture i had printed while my computer was warming up and could not find the face. i worked with the original to try and make it happen again but i could not.

I finally finished the picture and sent it back to sis by this time it was about 8 in the morning. I turn on the tv to catch the news. seems a car stalled on the tracks and a man and his wife and daughter were killed about 3am the pictures of the family were put on the news as their family members had already been notified. the face in the photo on the news looked just like the strange face in the picture the night before.

Honestly i can not lable this paranormal as too many factors it could have been many different things but i thought it was kind of cool and strange

Answer 2

I told a few of my paranormal experiences in my blog at Yahoo 360. But there have been other incidents that have happened in my life; that if I told them some people would call the men in lab coats.

I have seen abd experienced things that would curl most people's hair.

Answer 3

heres a few true ones.......

when my father was off fighting WWII my mother was home alone kinda wondering aloud when the battle now known as D-Day was going to be. she said she heard a voice in the empty room say to her "Why it will be June 6th, Elsie." She turned, but saw noone.

when my kids were little, oftentimes one of them would crawl into bed with me. one night i felt one of them climb into bed, so i turned the light on to see which one it was, and there was noone there. however i could see a depression in the mattress where someone had sat down.

my eldest daughter used to go out spook hunting with some of her friends. one night she came back and told me about this house they saw out in the country while looking for another haunted site. they had missed their road so turned around to come back, and the house was gone. when she told me where this was,  i told her "There was a house there that had been torn down before you were born." she had no way of knowing this

Answer 4

when i was 15 we had a seance in acemetery we tried to summon Frederic parker we asked if he was there and the wind picked up a little we asked him to prove it by knocking on a tree and we heard snap snap snap and a tree limb fell out of the tree at the foot of his grave me and my cousins will never forget that. we all ran all the way home .

Answer 5

MY DIARY OF PARANORMAL EXPERIENCES

This is a record of my own personal first-hand accounts of paranormal activity.  Some of the accounts are not dated because I had originally just blew them off as my mind playing games with me and I did not at the time associate them with the paranormal.  However, in recent years, I have begun to question these events realizing that there has never been a reasonable explanation for them and that maybe there ought to be.  As the number of such events has grown, so has my suspicion that they may be other worldly in nature and worthy of investigation.  I record them here as a personal source of reference and to add additional documentation to the field of paranormal research for what it may be worth.

Account 1

In the seventies I lived in Greensboro, N.C.  The home we lived in was a beautiful, white, three bedroom two story house in a very nice neighborhood.  I would regularly come home from school before my parents would arrive home from work.  This was my favorite time to play our piano in the downstairs den because I could play it loud without disturbing anyone.  Many times I would play it so loud that I couldn’t hear my parents come home until I heard them walking in their bedroom right above where I played the piano.  Hearing them, I knew it was time for me to stop playing for the day.  But on several occasions, I would stop playing upon hearing their footsteps upstairs, only to find that there was nobody home but me.  I would simply go back to playing the piano dismissing it as my imagination.  But now I look back and wonder.

Account 2

I have on several occasions experienced a very potent smell of perfume in the air when I was outside.  This has occurred at my residence in Greensboro, N.C. as well as here in Lynchburg, VA.  The perfume has been so potent that I could even taste it from the air on my tongue and has always been the same fragrance.   I have never experienced this indoors, and the fragrance is not one I recognize as being from any known person.

Account 3

My wife and I rented a small two bedroom home in Lynchburg, Va. In 1997.  It was a fairly old wooden home in a cramped neighborhood and was located at the end of the street.  On at least one occasion we both heard the very faint sound of a man singing which seemed to come from the very center of the home.  Thinking it could have possibly been the neighbor that lived beside us, we asked if he ever sang around the house and the couple said no.  Because this singing was very low in volume and was the sound of a man’s voice, my wife and I from that point on referred to the phenomenon as “Manilow.”  There was another occasion at this residence where my wife heard the sound of a woman crying in the woods beside the home.  I was not home at the time.  And on one more occasion my wife and I watched our dog following something across the ceiling with her eyes as if there was something in the room with us.  This was very eerie and left us a little frightened.

Account 4

Beginning in 2002 (date approximate) I have experienced several unexplained phenomena in our present home in Lynchburg, VA.  The first was the sound of walking in our hallway at 3 AM in the morning.  Originally I was certain that it was my wife getting up to go to the bathroom, but upon checking the room she was in, I was alarmed to find her sound asleep.  I was very shaken by the experience and woke her to make sure she hadn’t done the walking.  She hadn’t!  Moments later, I, myself had gone into the bathroom do some business.  I had been reading the book, Hoyle’s Book of Rules to brush up on my poker game and on this night as I sat down and cracked the book open, my thumb had naturally slid into the middle of the book to pry it open and to my astonishment I had opened the book to a game called of all things, “GHOST!”  As if I hadn’t been shaken up enough by the walking in the hallway, this unnerved me even more!  Just plain eerie!

Account 5

I often hear an occasional “tap” on the wall in our present home.  It sounds like the tap of a finger.  On two occasions I have attempted to capture EVP because of this.  My first attempt captured an audible tap in the room sounding like someone thumped a book.  I asked, “Was that you?” and upon playing the tape back there seems to be the sound of a man’s whisper saying either “Yes sir” or “No sir.”  I have played the tape for several people and most agree there is a whisper on the tape.  On the second EVP attempt, my wife was present.  That tape seems to have captured an extremely faint woman or child possibly whispering, “This gives me goosebumps.”  Due to their faint quality, my wife remains skeptical about the EVP recordings and I, too admit they do leave room for doubt.

Account 6

In the spring of 2006 in our present home (Lynchburg), I was taking a shower.  As I was washing my hair, I definitely felt what seemed to be a boney hand on my shoulder.  Startled, I quickly washed the soap away from my eyes to see what it was and there was nothing!  I then thought maybe a large insect had landed on my shoulder and got washed off, but there was nothing on the drain.  I have found no reasonable explanation for this event.

Account 7

In the fall of 2006 in our present home in Lynchburg, there was an incident late at night when I heard something hit the backside of the house with a loud thud.  My wife was asleep and did not hear it.  This sound was about as loud as I would expect a wrecking ball would be had it hit the house.  It was very forceful.  I went outside and checked thoroughly around the house and found nothing.  This occurred again several months later, only this time I was asleep and it was my wife who had heard it.  She described it just like the one I had heard months before.  We investigated outdoors and found nothing.  There were no neighbors around on either occasion and we cannot explain the phenomena.

Answer 6

i was talking to my girlfriend late one night and i felt a very hot force under my covers. I lifted the cover and choked on what i still believe was the devil's breath. Before i could say anything my girlfriend smelled it too. She said it smelled like a dead dog and spaghetios. creepy, i know. I Later found out that i had temporaraly fallen asleep for about 12 seconds and i let out a f**t that i had been holding in since the night before. Their is still a sacary part, i didnt eat spaghetios.

Answer 7

I used to be more of a skeptic, until one morning I woke up earlier than usual, thinking it was 7am. I looked around, wondering WHY I was awake, only to notice it was actually 5am in the morning. After a while, I noticed my bedroom was strangely cold and got up (without turning the lights on) to check on the heater, which I had turned on the night before going to sleep. It was oddly switched off, so I turned it back on and hopped back into bed. After a few minutes, I couldn't get to sleep because I felt like someone was in my bedroom. Assuming it was either one of my parents, I sat up in bed only to see a dark figure standing over the heater. The bottom half of its body didn't seem to exist - and immediately after noticing this, I panicked. I tried to force myself back to sleep, but was so scared I couldn't. Eventually, I convinced myself it was some sort of 'light trick' and got out from under the bed sheets to switch on my lamp. When I did, the figure was not there. I felt like an idiot, you know, foolish and all - so I turned the light out. Just then, I saw it come back - watch me for a couple of seconds and then disappear. Since then, I haven't been afraid of them and I do believe it them - but I don't think I want to experience that sort of thing again. I almost had a heartattack!

Then again, to really believe in a ghost, you need to experience something unexplainable to yourself. And even then, the only one who will really believe you - is yourself.

Answer 8

This is a good site that has a great collection of true ghost stories.  I'm a member of the forum and great ones have been told there:

http://www.ghosts.org/stories/test/index...