Unexplained things/paranormal stuff….

[glowe]

There are spots all over the world that people have seen unexplained lights, most of them were fuzzy and out of focus just like about every ET sighting photo. One of them just a bout 40 miles away, called the Paulding Light. One image was recorded over the last 50 years of people sitting around in the dark waiting for the light to return. This one was researched and the findings were published in Wikipedia.

Paulding Light - Wikipedia

If you magnify the light, all of a sudden a line of power poles come into view???????????

 

[jeffrefrig]

I´ve read that not only kids can do that, see and hear things, but also dogs. It´s a well known fact, experencied by many, of dogs pointing to a corner and barking hysterically.
We are limited by our hearing and seeing ability to a very small fraction of light wave lenghts and audible frequencies, so the world as we perceive it is not the whole.
Regards, Ray

When our past dog was still about 1/2 grown would get up on the corner of the couch and bark at the ceiling. Of course wife said See the ghost, Daisy? Ghost? So, for years after that if we said ghost, dog would look up there. Occasionally would bark at it for no reason. It was probably a cobweb that was bugging her!

 

[Rich Richardson]

20% of the population have mental disorders according to the NIMH.

 

[snubbyfan]

We live near the Paw Paw Tunnel and hike the trails on the ridge that the tunnel goes through often.
I have heard that the tunnel's haunted.
Anyway, one fine summer day, I was hiking the trail that goes over the tunnel and on my way back it got completely silent. No wind, no birds, no insects, nothing. All I could hear was my own footsteps. After a short while I started hearing whispering around me. I stopped and listened but I couldn't understand what they were saying.
After a little while the other sounds came back and I went on my way.
Ghosts? Spirits of my Ancestors? Dunno.

 

[Old Arkansawyer]

I've had a few things happen, can't say I'm completely sold on the idea of it all one thing some people have told me is kids see things.

Talking to my mom tonight she's told me about a gal she works with and what's happened with her now 2 1/2 year old. They bought a new to them house last year, it's a older place. The kid was about a year younger or so. There is a play room in the basement, and about a week after they moved in she put the kid down there with some toys to play with. The husband was at work, she ran upstairs for a couple minutes and came back down to check on the kid and the words LEAVE NOW were written on the wall with chalk. I guess the kid was sitting up giggling like he was looking at somebody.

Fast forward to last week, I guess they've been re painting their living room so it's empty. She decided to get a soccer ball and roll it around the floor with the kid. Now that he's older he's getting some vocabulary and able to talk. A few minutes in he stone cold stopped, looked at his mom did the shhhhh on his lips and said mommy the ghosts are coming back.

I guess she lost her stuff, after that and I probably would have as well. Another story I have involves a buddy of mines kid as well. So any of you have any story's? Do you think kids actually are able to see things? I find it hard to believe a two and a half year old would just come up with this stuff without any knowledge of ghosts ect

First where did she learn the word ghost, watching TV maybe?
Or listening to adults talk about them, little elephants have big
ears.

 

[alwslate]

20% of the population have mental disorders according to the NIMH.

20% ?, are you sure it's that low? Maybe it's 20% that don't have mental disorders The most common mental disorder in society is undoubtedly paranoia. Today a person is judged to be sane if they are able to work and live independently. Paranoia is a disorder that affects many people in society to some degree but they are still able to carry on with life.

 

[Old Arkansawyer]

What I am amazed by is the grifters on TV who talk to the dear departed
ones of the people in the audience. I've forgotten the guy who use to
have his own show and took advantage of grieving people all the time.
Much the same as some of the scamvanglest are still doing.
Another puzzling thing is the number of people that can't start their day
without first reading their horoscope. As if stars thousands of light years
away have some control over their lives.
Of course if it is on space book or the www it has to be true. It seems the
more irrational things are the more likely people believe it. Even some
people who claim to be learned.
I want to pity these types but on the other hand.

 

[Onomea]

...Of course if it is on space book or the www it has to be true. It seems the more irrational things are the more likely people believe it. Even some people who claim to be learned. I want to pity these types but on the other hand.

This is a fun read:

In Pittsburgh, Memphis and Los Angeles, massive billboards recently popped up declaring, "Birds Aren't Real."

On Instagram and TikTok, Birds Aren't Real accounts have racked up hundreds of thousands of followers, and YouTube videos about it have gone viral.

Last month, Birds Aren't Real adherents even protested outside Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco to demand that the company change its bird logo.

The events were all connected by a Gen Z-fueled conspiracy theory, which posits that birds don't exist and are really drone replicas installed by the U.S. government to spy on Americans. Hundreds of thousands of young people have joined the movement, wearing Birds Aren't Real T-shirts, swarming rallies and spreading the slogan...


Birds Aren't Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory.
Birds Aren't Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory. - The New York Times

 

[SupportTheSecond]

Our new to us home in Arizona was built in 2002 but is in an area where there were likely many indignant people back in the day. The following things have on our property and I'll let you decide what they could have been.

1. Pair of jeans placed on the shelve in a walk in closet. Same pair I wear pretty much every day. The next day they were completely buttoned, zipped and the belt done like someone was wearing them.

2. Car in garage closed up tight. Come back out hours later and passanger door is open. Both wife and I know it was closed.

3. Sitting out at the fire table in the top patio with two other people across from each other. Both my cushion and my wife's go spinning off the chair backs. Friends across of us both witness this and are shocked.

4. Same time frame my SIL and her friend are staying over. Her friend wakes up shouting in the middle of the night saying someone was tugging at his arm. This happened more then once while they were here and one time while he was wide awake reading in bed. He's so rattled that from then on he would sleep with a light on.

So far it seems to be a non violent entity since we haven't been told to "get out" or any other hurtful actions. Mainly pranks.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Not just birds.

 

[Autonomous]

IMO the majority of ghost stories are nonsense and people with real encounters often stay silent to avoid being mocked.
The stories are especially hard to believe for someone that has never seen a ghost. Skeptics may want to ask themselves why almost every culture, no matter how remote, has ghost stories though.
Yes, dogs can see them too.

 

[DWalt]

I can't comment as I have had no personal Ghost experiences, but in the house where I grew up, my paternal grandmother fell down the basement stairs and died instantly. Both my mother and father claimed to have seen her "spirit" for years afterward. Apparently it was very kindly and spoke to them. I never saw it. But I was hardly more than an infant at the time.

 

[GypsmJim]

There's a whole lot more to this world than we understand.

I think we know most there is about this world. It's the things that are not of this world that we need to worry about.

 

[Onomea]

...Skeptics may want to ask themselves why almost every culture, no matter how remote, has ghost stories though...

I think this is because humans universally fear death. (If we didn't, we would not have made it this far as a species.) People everywhere also enjoy ghost stories as scary entertainment.

 

[Jinglebob]

I believe my house is haunted. Every time I look in my mirror, a crazy old man stands in front of me so I can't see my reflection!

 

[NYlakesider]

IMO the majority of ghost stories are nonsense and people with real encounters often stay silent to avoid being mocked.
The stories are especially hard to believe for someone that has never seen a ghost. Skeptics may want to ask themselves why almost every culture, no matter how remote, has ghost stories though.
Yes, dogs can see them too.

Never saw one but I heard it. Many decades back when I was 12, was at a friends house. It was a old farm house now in the city proper due to the city getting much bigger.

Was with my close friends, 3 brothers only a year apart. We were on the second floor playing a card game and we heard very distinctly someone walking in the attic above us. it went back and forth twice. It was a funny shaped attic no windows, hatches, no in or out except by the stairs we were sitting by.

Their very large and rather very protective GSD heard the walking also and he went to the door to the stairs and starting growling very menacingly. My buddy opened the door and the GSD went upstairs real fast. A couple seconds later we heard him whimper and cry and he came down the stairs super fast tail between his legs. Then he went down another set of stairs to the first floor and went behind the large coach still whimpering.

That brought my friends father up the stairs yelling what the hell did you kids do to that dog. We told him what we knew and he went upstairs with a hammer in hand. Then told us to come up.
Absolutely nothing to be scene. There had been some funny things happening in that room for years but that day was the worse.

The rather mean dog from that day on would never go up the stairs even to the second floor. Also after that no more funny things happened in that attic space.

If any of you ghost doubters have a explanation for this I would be happy to hear it. We were told by a city historian at one time there were 6 people buried out behind the house and they were exhumed in about 1920.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I grew up in a country steeped in ghost belief. If you didn't have at least one encounter story you couldn't hang with the cool kids. We played along. Truth was that no member of my bloodline had ever actually seen one and haven't yet. I can't explain what I don't know. I'm sure I'll find out when I cross over.

BTW I believe pubs are haunted because every time I have gotten up and visited the loo, upon returning to my barstool my beer would be gone. Eerie.

 

[ACORN]

I've told this before, a second hand story.
A coworkers father drove from the Pittsburgh area to visit his elderly mother in South Carolina. Stopping only for gas and nature breaks. I don't know how long it took but I'm guessing 8-10 hours.
His father and his grandmother went into the kitchen after a little while and were having coffee.
Suddenly his father got up and said I'll see you and started to leave.
The grandma said "you saw him didn't you?"
His father answered "Yes"
What he claims to have seen was a Confederate soldier in battle gear walk past the door behind her.
I guess they were right. The is going to rise again.

 

[Chubbo]

Our experiences

I won't belabor you, folks, with the details of our assortment of unexplainable things. Even so, my wife, and I have a significant list of 'em. We've amassed them during our 90+ years on this earth.

Folks that have experienced unexplainable things, would accept our, unexplainable experiences as the truth. Folks that haven't experienced or accepted unexplainable things wouldn't believe us, regardless of what we said.

My candid opinion is; unexplainable things do happen and exist.

Chubbo

 

[Rustyt1953]