EVP, Ghosts and the Paranormal!!

Sometimes people who feel weird or strange in a certain room, can be explained by high EMF readings. Electromagnetic energy from high voltage sources can make you feel sick or uneasy, if you are sensitive to this sort of thing. But it will not make you see or hear things and will not make you cold, smell strange odors, feel like someone touched you ect. EMF sensitivity will just make you feel uneasy or have a sick feeling.

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Depending on your sensitivity, high EMF readings can make you paranoid. It can make you feel like there is someone watching you, or in the room with you. And when you feel that way, the slightest breeze or cobweb can be misconstrued as something touching you.

Sweets - I shield too. Though a little more then what you're describing. Once you put the shield in place it pretty much stays, but checking never hurts.
Mine aren't so much bubbles as different types - hard to explain how I visualize them, but one is more woven and another I picture almost as a liquid metal mirror. After adding multiple ones I'm finally left alone - no weird little noises or shadows, and I swear that cut down my migraine frequency to the occasional few I now have.
I'm not sure if that would stop anything more persistent, but it keeps the curious away (there's a cemetery right down the road).

I was sitting here at the computer the other day and I saw a shadow pass behind me through the reflection of the monitor.

Originally Posted by luvmycat1

I was sitting here at the computer the other day and I saw a shadow pass behind me through the reflection of the monitor.

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That may have been what is known as "Shadow People". Look up shadow people on the internet, to check if that is what you may have seen. One day, my wife was sitting on the couch watching tv home alone. One of our cats was looking at something behind her and up near the ceiling. When my wife turned around, she saw a dark shadow go across the ceiling to our upstairs bedroom. I have tried to do EVP in our current home, but every time I ask questions, my cats keep talking to me and won't let any spirits speak

Originally Posted by AmberThe Bobcat

That may have been what is known as "Shadow People". Look up shadow people on the internet, to check if that is what you may have seen. One day, my wife was sitting on the couch watching tv home alone. One of our cats was looking at something behind her and up near the ceiling. When my wife turned around, she saw a dark shadow go across the ceiling to our upstairs bedroom. I have tried to do EVP in our current home, but every time I ask questions, my cats keep talking to me and won't let any spirits speak

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I was a little creeped out when I saw it. I only caught a glimpse but it was definitely "humanoid" Ooh, once as a kid, me and a friend were walking through the neighborhood and further up the road I saw a shadow person walk across the road. It was spooky. Now I know some people are more susceptible to spirit contact than others. I was wondering if the more interest you show in the spirit world if it can increase your susceptibility? Also, is it true that if you think about spirits or talk about them it draws them to you?

As I stated in other posts our house is haunted. I saw a dark shadow in the shape of a person come down our stairs and round the corner. I was standing in the kitchen entry way. Both my cats saw it too. It was like it realized that we saw it and it went right back up the stairs with my cats chasing after it. I keep one of our bedroom doors upstairs closed because I get the creeps from this room. That is the room that we keep putting the voice activated tape recorder in with new batteries and they die over night!!!! There is nothing wrong with this recorder! One day my husband and I were in the kitchen eating breakfast and there was a big thump upstairs, which is the haunted room. Next thing that happened was the ceiling fan fell out of the celing and almost hit me in the head!

One night I woke up and was staring at a green aura type thing floating above our bed. It was the prettiest color green. I didn't feel any bad energy from it. What in the world was it?

The day that my soul cat Bubba died we were sitting in the bedroom at the computer and we had a white candle burning for him. We heard a noise on the dresser by Bubbas picture. There was a chinese medicine ball sitting way back on the dresser and it was set up in such a way it would not move. We heard a noise and the medicine ball began to roll off the dresser hitting the floor. This also happened with a flashlight a week or so later. I think this was Bubbas spirit saying good bye or even better yet he is still around visiting us.

I have more to tell about this house. These were the first things that came to mind tonight.

I have a friend that passed away at a young age, 42, and he knew he was dying. He loved his friends and told us that he would always know he was with us. I feel very safe from things that may be bad, because I know George is with us. He was a big guy, 6'6, about 275, not fat. He always protected his friends, particular his female friends. I have been very stressed for the past few weeks, and he keeps doing silly stuff like blowing out my candles, moving stuff around. I have a bunch of artists figures that I put in various poses, usually dance poses, and he will change them, usually into risque' poses, or play my Elvis music box at night. Stuff that my cats can't possibly do, and my SO is either right there with me, or at work.
We believe that he saved another friend's life in a fire. Russell lived in a small trailer with bad wiring, and I always knew it was a matter of time until it shorted out, so I would never sleep inside. I went to visit on my way back to NC, and the place was smoldering. I felt hysteria coming on, and Russell stumbled out from behind a big tree. He said he had been sleeping, and felt someone shaking him, then drag him out of bed and throw him out the door. He was in shock, and all he could say was Where did George go? He was here a minute ago. One of the firemen had seen a tall man walking away into the woods when they got there and put the rest of the fire out. It was amazing some of the things that survived the fire. His dresser with all his pictures, his chaps, and the garage did not burn, which was where most of his most treasured possessions were. Unfortunately his Harley burned up, but I am sure his friends have rounded up enough parts to build him another one by now. He will not be convinced that George did not save him. He was his best friend, why wouldn't George intervene if it was not Russell's time to go? His mom thinks we are all a bunch of Godless heathens for believing it.

Um, this is scary stuff - I get the heebee jeebees whenever I'm alone.

I used to have lots of "people in the room" feelings when there was no one there. Some people interpret them as ghosts, some as angels, other as aliens. Cultural context matters a lot in these.

Interestingly enough, I read an article that argues that when you hear noises, or things fly or whatever, why go to the ghost explanation just because you don't have any other explanation? I thought this made an interesting read -
http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-01/ghost.html

I love reading everyones stories. I get kinda freaked out if I read ghost stories and stuff when I'm alone though.

One time, I went into the kitchen to let the stray kitties in to eat, and I was talking to them..saying hello when I heard a mans voice (sounded like it was behind me) say hello back.

We have had some weird things happen here and there like the lights turning on and off, the tv going on and off repeatedly, the radio changing channels or turning all the way down while I'm in the shower, but I have never seen anyone. I have always had a weird feeling in the kitchen and bathroom part of the house though. Whatever is in there used to like to turn the light off on me when I was still in the kitchen. I hate having to go in there at night!

I have heard my name being called and when I go to ask my mom what she wants she says she didn't say anything. I swear I'm not crazy.

Back in the days before we had any cats living with us... I saw a cat go around the kitchen corner to the laundry area. At the time there were no open windows or doors and I know one didn't get in on its own.

I have a few stories to share.

The first one happened when I was about ten or eleven. I was watching tv in my parents room. It was winter time, everyone else was asleep, my dad was out of town, and my mom was on the couch in the living room. I had the bedroom door open, and out of nowhere it slammed shut. I probably thought it was a draft or something, but the door opened up again and slammed shut! It continued on for a few more seconds. I remember being so scared I couldn't move or call for somebody, so I just hid under the blankets. When my mom woke, I asked her if she had done it, and she said she hadn't. Same with my brothers!

The second story happened when I was thirteen or so. I had a friend over and we were playing on the computer. All of the sudden we heard really, really loud banging coming from the basement. Our dog Butch was upstairs at the same, same with Scratch. I remember freaking out and running to another friends house which is on the corner of my street. When we were there, I tried calling my house because my parents were due home at any second. The phone was acting weird though, and I couldn't get through to my house.

The third one happened in the first week of last June. My auntie had passed away earlier that week. My mom was walking into the kitchen from the living room and heard my auntie call my mom's name. Sure enough, everyone else was either gone or in their bedrooms.

I have a lot of that someone-calling-my-name thing going on. I think it's when someone's thinking of me.

I also occasionally have weird premonitions about plane crashes and such. Fortunately I haven't have one of THOSE since about the time flight 800 (?) crashed over the Atlantic. That was quite a while ago.

I've had similar "problems" with 9/11 - I had a dream the night before that woke me up in a cold sweat, tears and the desire to check on my son. It all made perfect sense when I heard the news.

I had a wonderful premonition this weekend!

I was thinking about a pregnant friend of mine all day Saturday, and when I went to bed I had this extremely vivid dream about the baby, where she was a year old or so, and I was marveling at how much she had grown, even her name popped up as "Genie". This dream would have been Friday night, 24 hours before Eugenie Anne was born on Saturday evening. The daddy was at church the next day and I told him and he was awestruck. I didn't know the baby's name beforehand, nor that they were going to have her that weekend, but I was pretty certain she would be born during the week.

I'm quite mystified by it all, and so happy for the family.

Originally Posted by kluchetta

I also occasionally have weird premonitions about plane crashes and such. Fortunately I haven't have one of THOSE since about the time flight 800 (?) crashed over the Atlantic. That was quite a while ago.

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Ah, that made me remember an event that happened three years ago!

I was at the air show here with my dad and my uncle. The Masters of Disasters were doing a demonstration when two of the planes crashed. Both pilots died immediately. Shortly before the crash happened, I remember getting a bad feeling and telling my dad that I felt something horrible was going to happen. We had to walk home from the air base, and there were lots of cars driving to and from the base. As the cars passed, I'd get a feeling like, 'the next vehicle that will pass will be a blue truck' and sure enough, the next vehicle that went by was a blue truck! That happened a few times as we were walking back.

Since about grade three, I've been able to tell what people are going to say, a few minutes/seconds before they say it. It doesn't happen very often, but it's still interesting.

The night before the Space Shuttle Challenger blew up back in the 80's. I told my Exhusband that some thing awful was going to happen to the space shuttle. He tried to reassure me that they take precautions and checks before the launch. I argued with him that something awful was going to happen. The next day it blew up after launch. All my hairs stood up when I heard the news. My Ex-husband was even more freaked out!! He always listened to me after that!

Took me awhile to read through this thread with all the commotion going on in my house right now (kids) but a lot of very interesting stories here. I was never a big believer in stuff like this, and admit, I am still skeptical and think there is an explanation for a lot of happenings, but here is my story anyway:

We moved into this house nearly 6 years ago. I've never experienced anything paranormal before this... at least nothing notable. Our house is 88 years old and is located across the street from our Catholic Church.

Shorty after moving in, almost every member of the house has experienced different things, a lot of which was shrugged off until eventually we started sharing stories. One day my husband was sitting in the living room watching TV when he seen a Match Box car roll across the wood floor and up onto the area rug. When he told me about it, I told him to stop freaking me out because I had been seeing shadows on the steps out of the corner of my eye. Always on the steps. And when I would look, of course there was nothing ever there.

A bit after that my daughter (12-ish at the time) had a friend staying the night. We have a 5 bedroom house - the attic was remodeled into two bedrooms some time before we bought it and her room is one of them. It goes without saying that my husband and I never said anything to her about the toy car or the shadows. Anyway, the two girls had been up in the room when they came flying down the two flights of stairs in hysterics. They said that the music on the computer in her room came on all by itself, to make matter worse, the mouse wasn't connected to it because the one on our downstairs 'puter had gone bad and we borrowed hers. When the music came on they freaked out and jump on the bed. They said a rubber band then came flying across the room at them.

I spent the rest of the night trying to calm them down, telling them there was no such thing as ghosts... blah blah, and that even if there were, had they ever heard a story of a ghost hurting someone? I told them that the computer was probably frozen or something and decided then to respond.... and that the rubber band was probably caused by them running across the room, that it fell from somewhere...

Anyway... fast forward a couple months and we were coming home from my uncle's funeral. My in-laws were babysitting the boys at my house, at this time they were only babies. Before we even walked into the house my father-in-law came out yelling at my daughter because her room was a mess and she had brought her cousin home to stay the night. LOL

And we were like, "why were you in her room?" Remember her room is in the remodeled attic.

He said they were sitting in the dining room watching the boys when they heard footsteps upstairs. The dog was outside because my MIL was afraid of dogs, and we didnt have a cat at the time. :gasp:

Anyway, he went into the living room and when he looked to the stairs he seen a girl (about 10 years old) on the stairs wearing a pink and blue dress.

Remember the shadows I had been seeing?

Anyway, he followed the girl upstairs, not to any of the second floor rooms, but all the way into the attic, and not into my other daughter's room, but into the room of my oldest daughter, the room of the music and rubber band incident...

It was kind of freaky! Especially considering we never told him about any incidents before and also considering my FIL has bad legs from a triple bypass surgery he had years earlier and is actually consider disabled because if it... but he managed to make it up two flights of stairs following this thing.

It's funny too, because my FIL claims that he sees/talks to his daughter's ghost sometimes. But he says he has never talked to his wife since she passed. He also says he's heard the ghost of the previous owner of his house tell them to get out before. We always thought - yeah right! He said his mother always claimed to see ghosts too.

Anyway... since then, I sometimes feel like someone is watching me. Especially at night. I think I'm probably paranoid at this point, but who knows. One morning I was getting ready for work, sitting at my vanity (in my robe) blow drying my hair on the HOT, when this COLD sensation brushed up against my leg. Freaked me out.

Anyway... that's our story. We named the girl Sara... whenever something strange happens now, we blame it on Sara Hope we arent offending her.

I always thought it would be neat to find out who she really was, or what happened to her. We did find out that there was a fire in our attic once long ago.

The char marks are still on the eaves of our house (on the west side... the same side my daughter's attic room is on...)

Originally Posted by Marianjela

I spent the rest of the night trying to calm them down, telling them there was no such thing as ghosts... blah blah, and that even if there were, had they ever heard a story of a ghost hurting someone? I told them that the computer was probably frozen or something and decided then to respond.... and that the rubber band was probably caused by them running across the room, that it fell from somewhere...

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It sounds like you're listening to them now, but please (and anyone else reading) don't tell your kids it's all their imagination or dismiss what they tell you. If they're all old enough, researching your home's history together may be a good experience for them. Both learning about their home and research techniques.

My parents didn't believe me for many years. So I had no one to go to when things were frightening me because I didn't want to be told I was making things up/lying. At one point it got so bad that I would sneak out into the living room at night to sleep and get up early to go back into my room. If I had to stay in my room I would often stay up all night because it would knock on all the walls and the ceiling (there was a pattern to the knocking, so if anyone suggestions mice then that's even more frightening ).

I found this site years ago http://theshadowlands.net/ghost/ and SJGR founder's personal stories actually really put my mind at ease - because his did have similar factors and made me realize it could have always been worse.

Have you heard of "Ghost Boxes"? I just learned about them recently.
They are somewhat similar to EVP except you get to hear the answers in 'real time' rather than recording and playing it back. I find it really interesting! I haven't seen one myself but I heard about them from Ursula Bielski who is a paranormal researcher.

Originally Posted by Marianjela

I always thought it would be neat to find out who she really was, or what happened to her. We did find out that there was a fire in our attic once long ago.

The char marks are still on the eaves of our house (on the west side... the same side my daughter's attic room is on...)

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Interesting! Did anyone die in the fire?