Why is it there?

This experience was sent to me shortly after the blog about the old hag/shadow man. I will not be sharing the identity of the individual who shared this story with me as they have not given me consent to release their identity. I will respect their privacy but still share their experience as they have been quite happy to know that they are not alone with their experiences and have been happy to hear from others about experiences that have also been experienced.

I used to live in a home where I’d get that old hag on a regular basis. In this home many strange things happened besides that and even guests in my home would tell me things that they were afraid I wouldn’t believe.

One morning I opened my eyes from a horrible dream that was filled with hatred towards someone who gave me a hard time often. When I opened my eyes, there was a figure standing beside my bed. He was detailed, without color, except different shadows of gray. I would see him clear as day, he wasn’t translucent.

The thing that scared me most was his pupils were fully dilated, his mouth was closed, but somehow I had a feeling almost like a certainty that his mouth was blood filled with razor sharp teeth. He had a human appearance besides his dark vibe. He looked like pure evil.

I was terrified. This was not during an old hag episode. My new baby was sleeping beside me on my bed and I was terrified for us both. I closed my eyes and prayed to God with all I had to take that evil being away.

Then all of a sudden I felt a release that left me feeling calm enough to grab my baby and get the heck out of there.

Without my husband I would not sleep in that room, when he got up at 5 in the morning, so did I. As my daughter got older, she would refer to a man as “boy” and a woman as “girl.” She would be playing in the hallway that led to my room, while I was in the kitchen. Often, she would freeze and stare into the hallway, which was right out of my view and she would say “mommy...boy” and she would sound terrified. I would run to grab her and she would say “gone.”

Long story short and many creepy happenings there later, we sold the place. I have seen that home on the market quite a few times in my opinion, always vacant when it is being sold. I will refuse to show the place to prospective buyers or get someone else too, as I will never step foot in that home again.

What would you do in this situation? Having a baby involved would be so much more complicated. Tweet me your thoughts @Vijayp1982 or comment below.

What was it?

Strange occurrences are a part of life. Sometimes even though they are odd, they are easy to explain. There are those mysterious occurences that happen where you just have no idea what happened. I have had such experiences where I don’t know what happened and could never figure it out. This one in particular I will always remember.
When I was young, I was playing pass with 2 of my cousins. For anyone out there who knows what an oup-ee is, that is what we were using. An oup-ee was a beach ball from KFC that had a place to put water in so the ball moved around instead of just moving in a normal straight direction when you threw it.

On a ledge by where we were playing was a small figurine of Jesus. The ball knocked the figurine off the ledge and it hit the ground and broke. The head of the figure snapped off. I was in a huge panic as most kids would be when they break something. I was thinking about how much trouble I would be in when my parents found it. Being the brave and intelligent kid I was, I figured that they would never notice if it was not there anymore.  So I took it and hid it so they wouldn’t find it.

Obviously my mom knew it was missing. I wasn’t as smart as I thought. For a few days she made a few attempts at finding it but didn’t seem too concerned from what I could tell. When I finally saw that she didn’t really seem to mind, I pretty much thought that I could come clean about breaking it and not be in that much trouble. This is where the unexplainable part comes in.  As small and insignificant a thing as it is, it is still something I always think about.

I went to get the figure from where I hid it. I picked the little blanket that I put the pieces in up from the hiding spot and unwrapped it.  The head was on. Not glued back on, but actually on. There was no breakage on the neck line, there was no seam. It was one solid piece. It was as though it had never broken in the first place.

I am not at all in this case saying this was some sort of spiritual occurrence. What I am saying is that this figure of Jesus that I had broken was no longer broken at all. Not fixed, but just normal.  It was not found by anyone and put back together, it was not broken in any way.  Whatever happened is still a mystery but I will never forget it.

Ultimately I just took the figure and put it back. When asked about why I moved it, I just told my mom I was playing with it forgot to put it back. Nothing else was ever said about it. Some people out there may want to say “maybe because you were young you just don’t remember seeing the cracks from where it broke.” That could have been possible except for one small issue. My mother still has the figure and it looks just as whole today as it always did before I broke it.

Any ideas anyone wants to share? Tweet me @Vijayp1982 or comment below.

Visitors

Have you ever had an experience where you think you saw a paranormal entity but after that one time, they were gone? Maybe a situation where a string of odd potentially paranormal occurrences happen, but then all of a sudden stop completely never to happen again?

A visitor may have popped in uninvited. A guest entity that for whatever reason has crossed your path for a short duration of time and just as quickly it vanishes from your life because it is continuing on its journey. If you have had any of those circumstances, you may have had a visitor. There are many more signs that could lead to it but these ones are the most obvious. The other question is, if you did have a visitor would you have known it?

You see something out of the corner of your eye, but then it is gone. You put something down in a spot. When you go back to get it, it isn’t there and no one has moved it. Just the same, it is not where you put it. Then out of the blue it shows up somewhere else and you shrug it off thinking that you obviously must have put it where you ended up finding it but just forgot?  Let’s not forget one of the most common examples.  Did you leave that light on when you left that room? You were sure you turned it off, but obviously you must have left it on because it is on right?

Do I believe that a visitor is the same as a haunting? No I do not. A visitor is just passing through and very harmless as far as I am concerned. You may not even know you have one unless you are really paying attention. Do I believe that all visitors are benign? Not necessarily but I would assume mostly. I say that because I also believe that at all times we are surrounded by entities whose lives have been long over. We just don’t sense them. I think they are always around though. If they were dangerous I would think there would be a lot more complaints of random attacks. For the most part I believe that the visitor will just come and go leaving you to wonder what happened. One really good question is do I believe that a visitation can turn into a haunting? Yes I do. Put it this way. If you leave food out for a stray animal, it will keep coming back. Eventually it is just going to stay there. In other words if you know it is there and keep trying to interact with it in your home, you may end up with a new roommate.

In what I believe, we are always surrounded by the paranormal. Some linger while others come and go. I feel that they are always out there. Some of them are not aware of us any more than we are of them, just as some have a need to be noticed. They can be negative, positive, and even both.  I truly think that even when we think we are, we are never alone.

What do you think about visitors? Do you think as I do? Maybe you have other beliefs or opinions.  Share them with me below or tweet me @Vijayp1982.

When are dreams more than dreams?

When I was younger, like most kids my imagination was active. The sky was the limit and nothing was impossible. I always wanted to be the strongest warrior in the world. My favorite games were always where I got to rescue the damsel in distress. The monsters were whatever I could think about at the time.

If any of you have read my previous post about my psychic experience with Madam Vera, this is a continuation of her reading. My focus prior was addressing people’s belief in psychics. This is another reason why she made me a believer that day.

My fantasy world as a child slowly faded as I grew older but the underlying notion is a part of my life still. It is for most of us. Our fantasies as kids are a major part of the choices we make when we grow older. Sometimes the obstacles that we face turn us from the path we used to follow. Other times those obstacles drive us to be what we always dreamt of. To be quite clear, I dreamt of the being the hero just as much I played being the hero as a child. As I grew up I wanted to be the hero, and honestly still do. However, what does it mean when the monsters you fight when you are playing are more dangerous when you sleep? What happens when these monsters are quite vivid and the dreams are far more vulgar than a child’s mind can conceive? Then as time goes by, these same dreams don’t stop. They continue and get that much more intense. The repetitive dream is common but what about the feelings like you have bruises that you didn’t have before you went to sleep.

This even still could possibly be determined scientifically. A medical explanation for how the mind transfers the images from you dream in to a real manifestation of pain in your physical body. Well how about we re-introduce the psychic connection.  This is what makes the dream more than a dream for me. My dreams were not something I brought up to her in our conversation.  It wasn’t even really a focus of the reading at all. The twisted monsters I saw in my head while I slept were described to me by someone who I never met. Madam Vera in a very direct way said after describing my very personal images “these are not dreams, they are very real. You are really fighting. The reason why you see them is because they know you. They don’t like you because you won’t fear them. Whereas most people run from the darkness you run towards it. They fear you, and so they must beat you.”

Needless to say, this was unnerving in the sense of her knowing such details. At the same time it was inspiring because I knew it to be true. I will not run in fear, I will not stand idly by. I may be afraid but courage is action in the face of fear. What would you do if your dreams were more than just a thought in your head?

Tweet me @Vijayp1982 or comment below and tell me what you would do.

Are Demonic Hauntings Common?

So many times we hear on some reality paranormal research shows that Demons are the cause of an unfortunate victims problems,but how often is it true?  Looking at the haunting phenomenon as a whole, the majority of cases investigators are called upon for assistance are usually not paranormal in nature.  To be generous one may get away with saying that out of 100% of the calls they get, 80% are not paranormal in nature.  That leaves a slim margin of 20%. Again to restate, that this is being generous.  On average though, the number is half of that. It is estimated that maybe 10% of investigations are actually paranormal in nature.  Using that statistic though, exactly what is the average for paranormal activity involving Demonic entities?

The fact of the matter is that Demonic activity, though allegedly on the rise in recent years, is still so rare, that it is highly unlikely that many of the claims of Demonic activity actually have true merit.  This does not mean the victims are not experiencing activity of some sort. It just seems that people are so quick to jump to the extreme end of the spectrum after any negative activity occurs. The common one which such groups as the South Eastern Paranormal Society completely denote is that just because a person gets scratched and sees 3 claw marks doesn’t mean it is a Demon.  The phrase used is that when they see the 3 claws the pop culture belief is that it is mocking the holy trinity. Just like SEPS, I also do not believe this.

I am of the opinion that if you have a non human entity that comes from the pits of hell, it would do far more damage than mere scratches.  If these creatures truly come from such a place, simple knocks and bangs just seem beneath such a being. 

I recently saw a picture someone had posted that supposedly has gone viral. It was titled Demon in the couch.  The name alone sounded ridiculous and the picture was that much worse. You clearly saw something behind the pillow on the couch. Whether the picture was altered to fit this image I do not know. I’m just saying that the thought of such a creature rising up from the abyss just to hide under the pillow in somebody’s living room seems utterly foolish.

I posted the picture below.  Tell me what your thoughts are in the comment box or tweet me @Vijayp1982. What do you think of this?

A Picture is worth a thousand words.

My wife and I were out for a walk this evening. As one might expect from the title of this blog, I had my camera. I was snapping pictures along the bow river. I was under the center street bridge. I had something that was a little strange occur two times.  The camera battery was ok. I checked it before we went on the walk. In about 20 minutes from when we started our walk the battery dropped to red zone showing that it was about to die. This was obviously odd, but my wife said maybe it is just the camera. On its own a battery dying isn’t really saying much.  I kept snapping pictures while we were walking expecting that at any moment it was going to power down. The odd thing was that it didn’t power down. Actually it had gone back to normal. Still something to shrug off at the time as it didn’t really seem to mean much. However, after we had begun our loop to go back to our starting point, it happened a second time. Exactly the same as the first time where it had dropped to red and about to die, but then just like that it went back to full battery after a few moments. Just to clarify, I am not saying that this is paranormal. I am saying that my camera has not done this before. So I have included 3 pictures that are of interest. This is because two of the pictures are completely normal. The flash went off normal for all of them, but the one in the middle is a bit strange. First of all it is extremely dark which it should not have been due to the flash going off. Second of all as you look to the top of the picture, there is a face clear as day. You can see 2 eyes, a nose, a mouth, a moustache, a neck, and funny enough the face has a bum chin.  Depending on the size of screen you are looking at, you may need to enlarge it. On a normal monitor it is very clear. What do you think this could be? To keep objective, there is no definite way to answer this. It may not be paranormal in nature at all. However, I am not at all sure how I got such a detailed face from a picture that shouldn’t have turned out as it did. Tweet me your thoughts @Vijayp1982 or comment below.

Popularity and Paranormal Reality Shows

The popularity of paranormal subculture has been growing by leaps and bounds.  With such shows as Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures, Paranormal State, and many others the trend will likely continue. What about these different shows makes them a success?

When I watch Ghost Hunters I always find myself drawn into the show because they have a very scientific approach. Some hunters go in expecting a haunting and tend to find one because they are expecting it. Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson go at it with the intent of debunking the haunting. They do everything they can to find other reasons for the occurrences. I like this because it reminds me that for all the stories that come through the line up, about 80% of them will not be paranormal at all. They keep grounded. Even during the shows they record. It isn’t about showing the scariest thing they get on film, but to show that even though there is activity out there not all of it is true. They show investigations where nothing at all is going on. I call this my number one favorite because they keep us all honest when we experience what we go through.  I, as a paranormal enthusiast, always wish to determine any other factors before believing what I am told. I think that for all hunters out there, this is a true sign of professionalism and respect for the job. For all those who follow this method, I very much salute you. You are doing the field justice and representing all hunters with pride. All these reasons are why they are my first choice.

Now the other side of the coin in regards to entertainment how can we not talk about Zak Baggins, Aaron Goodwin, and Nick Groff.  You know them as the Ghost Adventures Crew. These guys are crazy. It is no wonder they get results because their method is to go in and provoke until something happens. You poke a bear enough times it is going to show its teeth.  They show the creepiest of their adventures and keep the stories coming.  Some of the footage they show is remarkable and frightening. Truly something every hunter loves to come across I have no doubt. My favorite episode was at Bobby Mackey’s. They had a static x camera set up and you clearly saw a full sized figure towards the back of the room move across. It was definitely hard to ignore.  They have time and time again captured some of the most ground breaking footage I have seen and until anything ever comes up to show that they have in some way faked what they have caught, I am definitely a Ghost Adventures Crew fan. These guys know how to get the job done. That is what makes them number 2 on my list.

Now for my third pick, I would have to go with Ryan Buell and the Paranormal State team, PRS. What I find intriguing about their show is the way they show the systematic break down of their investigation. They show you their entire approach to the investigation. They give you interviews from all the members, they show you what they are researching and why, they show you the walk through, they also bring in their selected psychic for the show. I really enjoy Chip Coffey, but I like Michelle Belanger as well. Also no matter what anyone says, Lorraine Warren looks like the sweetest little old lady. If you didn’t know who she was you would never think she was a highly renowned demonologist and sensitive. The show is great because they do a good job of showing the struggle that the people they are trying to help are going through which makes you really empathize with the victims. You feel like you are going through it with them and actually can connect.  This is why I would place them as number 3.

I have only listed my top 3 favorites but in all fairness, I really enjoy all paranormal shows. I enjoy some quite a bit more than others I admit. They all bring something to the table in terms of knowledge and entertainment.  The recreation method of A Haunting is always wonderful because they make it almost like watching a movie. Ghostly Encounters also for their method of recreation but also with the narration that gives added life to the story. They all have their appeal in one way or another. They are also good for information for hunters out there who are still getting their feet wet, but also for veterans who are looking for ideas they have not yet tried. There is something for everyone out there and for this reason I will always be a fan. One of the best things they do is that they bring light to a subject that has far too long been taboo. They help bring awareness to a major subject and also show people out there that these things are happening and nobody who thinks they are alone are actually alone. Others out there are also experiencing things and there is help out there for them. Keep those shows coming, and we could use more of them. They bring a unity to the paranormal community and they bring peace of mind to the scared and confused.