posted December 27, 2009 07:27 PM         

My brother is no liar - he said that he saw two black short gremlin-like creatures run across his yard one day. After 911 he claims he saw two white gremlin like creatures run the other way. I immediately said it was his pain medication. That ticked him off. He claims he was not on an medication at that time. I then said his brain was playing tricks on him, he was hallucinating and did not realize it.

posted January 15, 2010 12:06 AM         

It was about.....16 years ago. I saw the black kind. I was living in this very strange apartment. This is the first place that I ever saw an angel, btw. But, my bed faced the bathroom, and it troubled me, because at night when my child was asleep and I was alone, I would see things in the bathroom mirror, down the hall, from my bed.
So, I turned my bed sideways, so that I could not see into that bathroom.
Anyway, shortly after that, I had gone to bed, and I was having trouble falling asleep, tossing and turning, the whole bit.
I then turned my body to where my face was aiming toward the bedroom door (down the hall from that creepy bathroom) and suddenly, while my eyes were closed, I got the INTENSE sensation that someone was watching me. My brain urged me to NOT open my eyes, but I couldn't resist. I sort of wished I didn't.
Anyway, when I did, "it" was standing by my bed, just looking right at me. Lord, I can't believe I'm telling anyone this. It is so hard to describe and it happened so fast! I was so terrified, that I closed my eyes. when I opened them a few seconds later, it was gone. But, yeah, they are real, I wasn't on any pain medication, and I was completely awake.

posted January 16, 2010 05:00 PM         

Some people have the ability to "bi-locate", my Grandpa was one of them. But he got WAAAAY into the dark arts and one point in time, and it nearly made him lose his mind.

posted January 17, 2010 01:10 AM         

the first ghost i ever saw was when i was ten. a warm summer day. it was a dog! a family dog who had disappeared during hunting season ...missing presumed dead so to speak. one instant the road was empty. the next she was there, frolicking alongside the road a few yards ahead of me; alongside her a german shepherd puppy, and they were leashed together collar to collar.

when we got our next dog, it was a german shepherd pup..i had NO say in what dog my dad went out and chose and it was not a breed the family had ever been partial to.

this has always seemed to me an "initiation" of sorts, a demonstration that "apparitions" are NOT hallucinations, figments of disturbed minds, or made up rubbish at all.

aka i respect your skepticism but such things do exist. apart from my own history, i know too many people here and elsewhere whom i respect as intelligent and grounded who have also experienced these things to doubt. which is not the same as believing hokey tv shows or EVERY story i hear about them.

posted January 18, 2010 02:20 AM         

Mirrors have also been alot of trouble for me. Since I was a child.
My Grandma raised me, and she had this very ornate looking dinette set (?) I guess that is what you call it. It had a huge table and many chairs for our large family get togethers. It had a sideboard thingy with a huge mirror.
When I would come down the stairs from my bedroom, I could see into that mirror with my perphiral (sp?) vision.
Anyway, I would see a huge party going on at the table relflected in the mirror!!!
The people were wearing I guess you call them "Powder wigs?"
Any way, I would just screech when I saw them, even though they weren't looking at me, just having a grand old time.
Finally, I just trained myself to avert my eyes.
When I looked in that mirror straight on, I saw nothing.
When my Grandma relocated from NJ to FLA, she asked me if I would like to have that dining set, I firmly declined.

posted January 18, 2010 05:24 PM         

I don't think you should squelch that sort of thing in kids. I mean, when they told me I wasn't seeing what I knew I saw, it made me feel like I was crazy, and THAT is a scarier feeling.
The only person that believed me was my Grandpa, and that is cause he saw stuff too.

My son sees stuff as well. He is so cooly non-chalant about it. One day we were lying in my bed, in my last house. This house was good, it had a nice vibe, but I did see a man in there a few times, yet I felt no fear. Anyway, he was playing his gameboy thingy and I just blurted out without thinking, "I think I just saw a ghost!" And he said, "yeah, right there wearing a black shirt and a hat." He was pointing to the exact spot in another room under a window. He sees stuff, but does not dream, or I mean, does not really remember his dreams.

My Pisces daughter is all about her dreams. She sees ancestors and she even saw my stillborn son (grown) in her dreams.

Then my youngest is just, how to describe her....she is just highly perceptive, you cannot b.s. this child. She usually knows what you will say before she asks you.

So, we all have different gifts, pretty cool.