Paranormal Supernatural Mysterious and Unexplained Phenomena?

Many people believe that we are surrounded by paranormal, supernatural, mysterious, and unexplained phenomena. The majority of Americans believes in ghosts, psychic powers, clairvoyance, and an immaterial afterlife. We often hear in the news, on television, or elsewhere that a group of church goers have witnessed an apparition of the blessed virgin Mary, that a local house is haunted, that someone was saved from a horrible accident by the providence of a guardian angel, or that someone possesses psychic abilities.

In Elk Grove in 2005, members of a local church found what appeared to be blood dripping from the eyes of a stature of the Virgin Mary. The tears reappeared for several days. Many enthusiastic and faithful believers flocked to the site, placing flowers and observing religious rituals in deference to the event. The prevalence, popularity, and frequency of these stories about paranormal events seem to lend some credibility to them; how or why would so many people be lying about such a thing? And when so many normal people believe with such conviction it is difficult to see how they could be mistaken or deceived.

What we often do not hear about in these paranormal cases is what is revealed in the follow up or additional investigation of the phenomena. Finding out that one of these spectacular stories is in fact a hoax does not capture the hearts or minds of viewers and readers, and the media have much less interest in reporting that there was actually nothing exciting, unusual, or inexplicable about a phenomena that was alleged to be extraordinary.

But in fact, a number of the most famous cases of alleged paranormal or supernatural events have been demonstrated to be hoaxes, and we can learn some valuable lessons from the follow up on those stories. As appealing as stories of the paranormal are, there is a natural explanation to be found for those with clear, careful minds.

First the Loch Ness Monster, the famous legend so many people claim to have seen was a hoax, it was done in anger towards a newspaper.

In 1993, two Loch Ness researchers, David Martin and Alastair Boyd tracked down a lead on the picture to Christian Spurling, who was now 90 years old and dying. Spurling admitted that he had collaborated with Duke Wetherall 60 years earlier to construct a plastic and wood head over the body of a toy submarine. Wetherall was pursuing a vendetta to embarrass the British newspaper, The Daily Mail. The neck on the toy monster was a mere 8 inches long, even though other Nessie investigators had insisted that it must be over three feet long. They also discovered that Wetherall was responsible for stamping fake Nessie foot prints in the mud on the bank of the Loch with a baby hippo foot that was probably part of an umbrella stand. One of the most celebrated and allegedly sound pieces of evidence for the existence of the Loch Ness Monster was also a hoax.

While I point this out, this also happens with other legends, and haunted sites. A story is made up and a legend is born, as the legend gets retold it grows. Now as it grows a seed is planted in other people and now they THINK they experience the legend and it continues to grow.

This is where Bigfoot was born through an elaborate hoax. Its documented, and people have came forward to admit it. Now the sad part is people want to believe in the unknown so much they don't believe the people that do the hoax.

Most of the famous haunted sites are examples of this. Someone makes up something or THINKs they saw something and a seed is planted. It now grows and other people expecting to see it now do. Once again people are influenced to see what people want them to see.

Originally published at TalkParanormal.com

National Geographic March 9, 2006 - Throwing a bit of cold water onto the legend of Loch Ness, paleontologist and painter Neil Clark says the monster was perhaps a paddling pachyderm. 

Clark noticed similarities in the hump-and-trunk silhouettes of swimming Indian elephants and the serpentine shapes of 1930s Nessie descriptions and photographs, such as the famous 1934 image shown as an inset above. 

Why would an elephant be swimming in a chilly Scottish lake? "The reason why we see elephants in Loch Ness is that circuses used to go along the road to Inverness and have a little rest at the side of the loch and allow the animals to go and have a little swim around," Clark told CBS News. 

And there's one more wrinkle in this elephantine mystery. In 1933 a circus promoter in the area—acting perhaps on inside information that the monster was really a big top beast—offered a rich reward for Nessie's capture, says Clark, a curator at the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery in Glasgow.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0309_0603009_loch_ness.html 

References & Related Information:

Famous Paranormal Hoaxes:  Crop Circles, Loch Ness, and Bigfoot

http://www.csus.edu/indiv/m/mccormickm/paranormalarticles.htm

Ghost Hunters?

Ya know, I’m at a crossroad in my life. I want to believe in ghosts and the afterlife in the worst way. I follow all the latest research and watch Ghost hunters and all those things wanting to believe and be shown. But at the end of the day I have to agree with James Randi…most of it is bullshit. The rest is that which I cannot prove to be bullshit.

I get drawn into all these programs about ghosts and hauntings, and every time it seems like they’re going to come up with something solid, phfft! They let you down. No more solid than a good fart. It’s like bigfoot, if there was proof positive, we’d have found it by now. They say “Well the African gorilla was a legend until discovered in 1895,” or whatever, I don’t know the exact year. But, they never tell you that the investigation only took a few months of active investigation before they actually discovered these things and had proof.

You watch these ghost shows and they are always having “PERSONAL EXPERIENCES”. Well WE never see them because for some inexplicable reason, while the protagonists are having these harrowing experiences, the dumb-fuck camera-man is focusing on the guy that is supposedly having this experience instead of pointing the camera in the direction of the action supposedly taking place.

Then there are the EVP’s ( electric voice phenomenon). This is really a winner.
OK… Investigator: "What do you hear?
Recording : CCHHKIZZZHHIIIZZZ!!!
Person: "Well it sounded like…I dunno…ged a cha?
Investigator: "Well, we thought it sounded like ‘get out’, what do you think?
Person: “Yes, ‘get out’ definitely ‘get out’”.
Then there is the EM (electro magnetic reading). They go through a place and take EM readings, and if they get high readings..WHOA… ghosts! Might I remind you that these devices were developed by electricians to detect high electro-magnetic radiation due to questionable wiring? Yet if a ghost hunter carries one into a building and picks up a reading…it’s a ghost.

Why is all the quasi- indisputable ghost footage, fuzzy, unclear viewings of anomalous blobs taken by people with what can only be the ravages of Parkinson’s disease? My Dad could catch me on the loop-de-loop flawlessly with his super 8, but modern well trained photogs with state of the art equipment can’t get a clear picture of a ghost?

With the ability for the common individual to produce Digitally Produced Effects today, why should we believe any of this shit anyway?

Here’s another thing that annoys the piss out of me. The guys are standing in a room and they have a “personal experience”. How do they describe it? “It ALMOST sounded like footsteps”…“It ALMOST looked like a shadow going from here to there.”

Was it these things, or did it just SEEM to be these things? What kind of investigators are these people anyway? Ah, well. You know what I mean.

Written by George Yesthal 

Brodheadsville, United States

Ghost Hunters? has been published here with the author's permission. It was originally published at: https://www.redbubble.com/people/yesman/writing/7263923-ghost-hunters

Two Demons And A Succubus

Ok...it all started about 7 months ago I was watching my 4 yr old niece at my moms house which she has lived there for 23 yrs we knew it was haunted but nothing never hurt us. But anyway I was babysitting my niece and she just starts screaming saying aunt Nina there's a monster make it go away. I mean she was terrified and crying you can see the hallway from living room thats where we was the living room.

Well I didnt think much about it and about 1 to 2 months later me and my boyfriend of 8 yrs stayed the weekend up there house sitting while my mom went camping we went up there on a Friday afternoon well about 11:30 that night I found pornographic on my boyfriends phone so we ended up arguing that night.

Well about 2 weeks later while we were home at bedtime my boyfriend starts moaning and his body was moving like he was having physical sex I woke him up and he told me he wasn't dreaming ok its now been over 5 months he has been doing it every night he says he isnt dreaming well my mom was telling me about the succubus I had no idea bout either of them and the thing is he dont believe in demons.

Well the 7th of last month my boyfriend was doing that at bedtime well I felt this horny urge run thru my body I wasnt thinking about it well I ended up making myself orgasm that night 3 nights after that I was waking up to being swollen down there and fluid coming out of me so now I have a incubus.

The thing is I'm goin up against 2 demons by myself I dont know what to do mine is attached to me I have prayed every single day and hes still here I'm scared also to sleep with my boyfriend which I woke up to the incubus flipping my boyfriend in the bed I need help plz!

Nina Edgar

The CD That Saved My Life

I had a really good friend named Annie. She had a band she sung in and she was one of the greatest and one of the most protective people I knew. Her band wasn't famous but her dad had a recording studio in their basement. So she recorded their first cd with the band there. Her very first cd was a gift for me on my birthday and I hadn't listened to it yet. 3 days after my birthday, Annie was raped by her older brother who's 17. He left the city supposedly and they didn't catch him. He always scared me but I never said anything. She was only 13 when she died.

The next day in the hospital when I was sitting with her, she tried to speak and tell me something. But when she was raped, he choked her and damaged her throat so much she wouldn't be able to talk for a while. Before I left the hospital, a nurse had come up to me in the parking lot and told me she died and gave me a note she wrote before she died.

I was so depressed about it, I refused to touch her cd and note, which I left in my room. One night when I was home alone, I was thinking about her so I decided to finally listen to the cd. There was a song on there called "Painful memory", a song she wrote about rape when a friend of hers was raped. Some of the chorus goes "He tried to find you, he's upstairs." All of a sudden, the cd starts skipping and continuously repeats "He's upstairs, he's upstairs, he's upstairs." I thought it was kind of weird because I never listened to the cd and it didn't have any scratches. So I just put it back in and played the song again. When it came to the chorus, it skipped and repeated the same words again. I cleaned the cd and tried again. It still played the same words.

I was scared now so I locked my door and listened to the silence. I could hear boots walking down the hall. I looked in the key hole and saw someone walking down the hall. I quickly called the police and they came. They found her 17 year old brother hiding in the bathroom. He said he was waiting for me when they questioned him.

The next day I found the note in the cd case when I put it. I opened it and read. "When my brother raped me he told me he would rape you next. I promise no matter what I wont let that happen. Love, Annie." And I think she kept the promise.

Sent in by Becky

Is This Ghost My Great Grandma Or Someone Else?

I'm going to say right now that this isn't a scary so sorry to bum anyone out. I lost my great grandma a couple of years ago and it hit my mom, brother, and I pretty hard. About a year after her passing I was using the computer when I notice my kitchen get darker (only had the light above the sink on and the light about the computer on) I looked into the kitchen and saw the sink light off. Confused I got up and switched it in the off position then turned it back on and it worked! I sat down again and noticed the light off again.

Annoyed I said, "if someone is there and is turning the light off please turn it back on" just as I said that it did. I was curious now so I decided to test it.

"can you please turn it off?" it turned off.

"have you been here a while? Turn it on for yes turn it off for no" it turned on. I was now excited. It didn't feel anything bad and my house was built by my parents a year before I was born.

"do you know me?" it turned of then back on to show it's answer was yes. My brother walked in to see the light respond to me and just stared from the light to me.

"are you going to hurt me or my brother?" a NO

"my mom?" still no

"well it's nice talking to you so can you please turn the light back on and leave it please?" it turned on and stayed that way for the rest of the night but I think it still wants to talk because the security system beeps when a door or window opens and I kept checking everything every time it beeped before finally leaving it alone.

I also think it might be my great grandpa because he died before my mom was a teen but my great grandma had told my mom when I was born and as a kid I looked just like my great grandpa only in girl form.

Every time I put something up in the pantry in can stay there for months without falling. It only happens to me and normally when I'm by myself. I walked in from school the other week and a can that had been in there for ameboid suddenly fell out. I was used to this by now so I said "alright let me get changed and put my bag down then I'll pick it up."

I told my mom about it every time it happened and she smiled or laughed sometimes but took me seriously and said " maybe your great grandma is trying to tell you to clean something or someone clearly wants you attention."

A few last things to mention: I found out a while ago that I'm a empathist (?) and just a few weeks ago I found out that I'm starting to become a Slider. When my mom's heart hurts I feel it as if it were my own and the distance doesn't matter.

I thank you for reading and look forward to comments

~KAM

Strange Feelings And Sightings

Okay, so this story might not be as creepy as any of the others but it really happened. I was quite young when this happened.

I was home alone for a little while and I went to the bathroom to run some water so I could bath and as I bent over I felt some one grab my waist (in the way that most people would use to give others a fright) and I jumped up and swung my arm around hoping to hit the person, but as I fully turned I realized there was no one there but I could still feel something touching me.

I ran to my room and it felt as if I was being watched, I could feel that I wasn't alone and I walked into the corner of my room and calmly said " please go away" it immediately stopped and I felt much better so I walked around the house trying to find this thing but I didn't feel anything in any of the rooms so I left it for a while.

A couple days afterwards I had trouble sleeping so I sat in bed and played on my cellphone and I suddenly heard the latch on my backdoor open, and I heard door close and open along with the door handles moving, but I left it because I knew it couldn't hurt me.

The strange things kept coming, until I started hearing things, I heard people, and a little girl call my name, it was weird but I still knew it couldn't hurt me mentally or physically but then I started seeing things in my head that felt very real. I would see something next to me in my room or in the bathroom but I was able to stop them from touching me, for some reason some of these things were afraid of me when I looked them in the eyes which I found really weird.

I knew how to get rid of the seeing and hearing things and I done what I had to and the seeing and hearing things stopped. I was told that from a very young age I've been surrounded by many supernatural things which explains why I wasn't afraid of these things and I have many more stories including the time I played Bloody Mary to prove to my friends that I wasn't afraid of anything living or dead, to be honest I didn't see anything the night I done that while my cousin said she saw something, thanks for reading I know some of this might be confusing and I'm sorry if it is.

Sent in by bee

Thumping From The Bedroom

I was pregnant with my third child. My oldest daughter was living with her boyfriend my second child was away for the night only myself an my boyfriend was at home when around 1 am I woke to the sounds of very loud banging and thumping as if someone was jumping off my daughters bed onto the floor but not like you would hear a child playing jumping from their bed to the floor, this was heavy.

I woke my boyfriend. He was half asleep and said to me that's just Lisa. I told him remember she is not home. He jumped out of bed and I followed. The noise was so loud, so demanding like. As we reached to open the bedroom door the thumping stopped. We enter, nothing, completely nothing.
Just as my boyfriend went to close the door it started straight up again. He flung the door open, it stopped but the room was feeling colder. I started to freak. I got my bible and as we walked through the room I said demanding that whatever was here was to leave. Then we walked out and closed the door.

Again the thumping began to go off. My boyfriend, a very sensible practical guy, looked at me and said, "look whatever it is it can't seem to come out of the room so just don't panic, it will stop."

I sat up all night listening to that sound, it scared me. It finally did stop just as the sun was coming up. It never happened again.

This is a true story through out my family from my grandmother there has been many unexplained things that has happen within our family but I seem to have gotten a bigger dose of it then some of my cousins or brothers and sisters. I have experienced things since I was five years old.

Sent in by Donna

My Parents Haunted House In Santa Cruz

Well my parents were just about to buy a house in Santa Cruz CA and they found out that on the joining wall that there was a murderer and the husband and wife were getting in a divorce and the husband shot the wife then his daughter then himself.

WELL oddly my parents bought it! and years into buying it weird stuff started happening. The TV would always change channels and land on a kids channel. Then they had this old clock full of mercury and it ran on batteries and one day my parents took the batteries out but it ended up ticking. We still have that clock it doesn't do that anymore.

My parents also had a waterbed and my dad was home by himself when he was about to fall asleep when it felt like someone pushed the waterbed down and he bounced up.

A housekeeper was taking a nap when she woke up to see a dark figure standing over her. She immediately got her stuff and left.

My mom was home alone when she was sitting on the can (toilet) when a man screamed in her ear she said go away.

Nothing ever happened again but I saved the scariest thing that happened in that house for last. My dad had a collection of antique steak knifes that his mom gave him hanging over the door and once she opened the door one fell right in front of her it didn't hit her thank goodness.

After hearing my parents tell these experiences I will never buy a house were a murder happened.

Sent in by Bryce

Drone Images

Viewing Nova's "Rise of the Drones" perked my interest and caused me to do a little extended research.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or drones come in various shapes and sizes. Although generally controlled by someone on the ground, they can also be operated by on board computers.

The Robobee

The Robobee weighing less than a tenth of a gram and half the size of a paper clip - was designed to help with the declining bee population. These robot bees would be capable of flower pollination, climate mapping, traffic monitoring and surveillance.

The Robobee

The Dragonfly DelFly

(another very small drone) has a vision system consisting of a tiny computer and two cameras. The computer processes the images from those cameras in much the same way humans do, essentially giving it 3D vision. Intended uses include everything from detecting ripe fruit in greenhouses, mapping abandoned buildings to masquerading as fairies at a theme park.

The Dragonfly DelFly

The Predator

 The most recognizable and combat-proven Unmanned Aircraft System is the Predator. It is the first weaponized UAS, features precision air-to-ground weapons delivery capability and is extremely reliable. Its performance is greatly enhanced by its Electro-optical/Infrared video cameras. However, those cameras have a limited field of view and details of key objects can be lost when objects get out of range.

Predator Drone

The Argus-IS

 The Argus-IS (Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System) moves several steps forward. Its highly defined camera - developed by combining 368 imagining chips (like those in a cell phone camera) - results in a 1.8 billion pixel image stream. It can be attached to the belly of an UAV like the Predator resulting in an incredibly detailed view of a large area such as a medium size city. From 17,500 feet up (roughly equal to 3-½ miles), objects as small as 6″ can be seen. On display, it is possible to open a window showing a detailed area while still maintaining the broader context.

Scientists will continue to develop highly refined cameras that can see smaller objects from longer distances with clarity. Regardless of one's opinion of the desirability of this kind of surveillance, it is here and will inevitably be used for good and for bad.

I try to remember that what I see is just part of the picture. There is a broader context to my life and yours. God sees everything - big and small. We are never out of range. His perspective is unique. At the same time, He knows every detail and the whole story - the beginning and the end. His purposes are pure and good. I'm grateful He is in control.

"Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to who we must give account" (Heb. 4:13, NIV).

Rise of The Drones

Drones. These unmanned flying robots–some as large as jumbo jets, others as small as birds–do things straight out of science fiction. Much of what it takes to get these robotic airplanes to fly, sense, and kill has remained secret. But now, with rare access to drone engineers and those who fly them for the U.S. military, NOVA reveals the amazing technologies that make drones so powerful as we see how a remotely-piloted drone strike looks and feels from inside the command center. From cameras that can capture every detail of an entire city at a glance to swarming robots that can make decisions on their own to giant air frames that can stay aloft for days on end, drones are changing our relationship to war, surveillance, and each other. And it's just the beginning. Discover the cutting edge technologies that are propelling us toward a new chapter in aviation history as NOVA gets ready for "Rise of the Drones."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/rise-of-the-drones.html

About the Author

Stephanie B. Blake is an international Bible teacher, serving the Lord through Xtend Ministries International. To download free Bible studies or devotionals for personal or group study, or to find out more about her ministry and other writing, please visit http://www.onefocusministries.com

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They Came Back From My Childhood

When I was a child I had a Best Friend of the name September a.k.a. Autumn. I was Born in Oct. so we made her name September since her real name was Autumn. At the time I was around 6 or 7 years old and we would go sit on the fence, play in the tree's, talk a lot, go out and play in the back yard but one thing I do know is she always had on a Nighty (white) and she told me she was sick.

I would go to a house down the street and she was always there but nobody else was. It was empty! She said she was waiting for her family to move in, I didn't think anything of it as we would play down stairs in her empty room. I saw her, heard her, touched her, she was my best friend!

Looking back I know she was a ghost as my mother told me that the family down the street had a daughter that passed away and that the house was for sale. That would explain why it was empty. At that time I would go across the street where there were old grave's and there was this lady standing yet she had no shoes on and her feet not touching land, she then sat down with me and I asked her why she was there. She then told me how much she missed her husband. She had on a long grieving dress with a veil (She was waiting for him or something as I saw her Wait! We talked then she walked back to the tree's then to the wood's without shoes on. She was waiting for him or she couldn't let go of his death.

Then there was a man in an army coat he had blood on it and told me he had gotten shot down in his plane. He told me not to be afraid of him but I kinda was. I ran down to tell my dad we ran back and the man was gone and so was the blood that fell to the floor. He was in the war and I did feel bad for him.

My father believed me and told me that I was special and that things I cant figure out were just un-answerd problems (telling me it's Okay).

As a child my sister and I saw a spirit of a man with a dear head at our bed's but did not talk about it till we were grown up. We now know it was a guide. I had a Near Death Experience about 3 month's ago saw my father then woke in the hospital and ever since I have heard and felt them once again. They call my name, I hear a child say things, lots of sounds. I am not alone but I'm not in fear as I think they are guiding me to my right path! So it will be! So might it be by Father God the Father of Mother Earth Amen!

Sent in by Stacy R

Ghost Hunting at The Manor House Hotel

Ghost Hunting at The Manor House Hotel, West Auckland, County Durham, with Simply Ghost Nights - 6th May 2011

As the team enjoyed the delights of this 3* hotel prior to the nights paranormal activity commencing, none of us could anticipate what would happen when the spirit world would come out to play later that evening. The Manor House Hotel is truly a quintessential old hall, with a chequered history to say the least, with numerous sightings of figures dressed in clothing from a time long gone, monks are said to haunt the hotel and spectral children are also seen on a regular basis by staff and hotel guests a like.

The team had experienced numerous paranormal events on our previous visit to this location and were so excited to return. After a brief chat with our ghost hunters, we attempted spirit communication in a group vigil in the Knights hall. First time ghost hunter Michael was literally shaking in his boots as we called out for any sign of spirit activity, Michael screamed as he first heard one significant tap and then two more louder taps on the table. After some K2 spikes Shelly exclaimed that she could see the fleeting footwork of some ghostly shadows in the corner of the room, Michael now stated that he would sit in the corner where the shadow movement had now been seen by more ghost hunters. Michael gamely took his seat and sat where the shadows had been seen, after a few minutes Michael screamed again, as he swore something had grabbed his neck, he ran quickly to the group swearing that he would not return to the corner by himself.

As Stuart and Jan walked in the knights room, they heard the noticeable sound of footsteps behind them on the wooden dance floor, as they spun around in unison half expecting someone to be behind them, they realised no one was there they were alone in the room by themselves, and however they tried to recreate the footsteps they could not. Were these the footsteps of the lady who haunts the Knights hall, or the spirit of some former Knight , we then attempted a table tipping experiment where eventually tipped so alarmingly that Sarah stood in disbelief as she stared at the table.

We then moved onto the Eden room where the activity was less intense, but we were stunned when the majority of the group saw what resembled a bolt of light just around the table, this shocked all those that were fortunate to see this. However we were amazed when the glass divination experiment brought forward a woman from the other side, who only communicated briefly with our courageous ghost hunters. As we broke for a drink and a lavish buffet our ghost hunters exchanged their experiences of the night so far, we then moved onto the dining area where we experienced some strange scratching and tapping that we could not account for, or explain, as Rosey always states, “once you can explain the unexplainable then it all becomes boring.”

Another vigil in the Eden room reported some aggressive table tipping and in the Knights room another vigil witnessed a burst of light phenomena inside the Knights room, about eight feet away from them, this episode delighted and staggered the group that saw it.As the night drew to a close we all said our goodbyes to our intrepid ghost hunters and to the spirit world too, we agreed that The Manor House Hotel was abound with paranormal activity and it had been well worth the journey. However our thoughts turned to our next ghost hunting event the following night at Newcastle Keep, and who or what awaited us there.

Sent in by Simply Ghost Nights

Ghost Hunt at Doncaster Air Museum

23rd Apr 2011

As we arrived at The Doncaster air Museum we were greeted by the ever amiable Alan, who is always the perfect host on a ghost hunting event at this great location. As the team aired their views prior to the event commencing, we could not envisage the amount paranormal activity the spirit world would provide our ghost hunters.As with all our ghost hunting events we have found that positive energy, and laughter bring out the best results from the ghostly inhabitants of any location, and again we had a group of positive ghost hunters who could have literally boiled a kettle with the energy they created.

The ghostly activity actually started before the event had begun as Mark one of our fantastic team leaders walked around to hangar 21, to set up the meet and greet room we were to hold there he apparently saw the shadowy eerie figure of a cat walk approximately five yards in front of him and then disappear as quickly as it appeared he then proceeded to look all over for the mystery sighting of this ghoulish feline but to no avail, however the phantom cat would come back later on to haunt one of our groups in a vigil in hangar 21 with frightening consequences.

After the meet and greet we held a group vigil in hangar 21, the energies in the room were at fever pitch as we all heard tapping and banging on request, and in one incident the sound of footsteps walking the corridors were heard, as Mark and Philip our intrepid investigators rushed out to investigate the corridor, they found nobody at all and no reason for the audible footsteps we all heard.

As we then went our separate ways our feelings were that the nights activity was just about to take off literally, at The Doncaster Air Museum. In one vigil in hangar 21 Steve a veteran ghost hunter saw what appeared to be someone walk past a window, however when he and team leader Rosey immediately ran outside to see if it was anyone walking about, however Steve whooped with delight as he and Rosey agreed there was no where for this figure to go as it was a dead end that was surrounded by an 8ft high fence, this could only mean one thing that Steve may have seen an apparition, once he had calmed down he was staggered to realise that when he first saw the figure walk by one window, he never saw it continue to the next window along the building, this confirmed his view he had in fact seen a ghostly apparition.

This would not be the only amazing incident in hangar 21, a group were attempting table tipping in the main display room, when the K2 suddenly spiked into the red zone and repeated this for almost a minute on request, but what happened next neither Jamie or Mark an experienced ghost hunter could explain, when out of the blue a large flash of light lit up the room, as though someone had taken a flash photograph, but no one had taken a photo and the flash was only a couple of metres from the group. With no obvious explanation of how, why or what had caused the light phenomena we continued the remainder of the vigil in a state of excitement. In the same vigil Sam and Stu both turned around to look at the main door of hangar 21, after seeing a dark shadow at the door, half expecting to see the door open due to the imminent arrival of a ghost hunter. But no one arrived to open the door, however this was not the only recorded sighting of a dark shadow to be seen at the Doncaster Air Museum.

One episode will remain in the memory of many a ghost hunter who heard the heart rending cat crying in hangar 21, the group investigated thoroughly for any sign of the mystery feline but could not find no sign of a cat, was this the same ghostly apparition Mark had seen in the same area only hours before, and shockingly both Wendy and Dee had unexplained scratches on their arms after their vigils in hangar 21. Can these mystical scratches be attributed to the ghostlike cat that haunts the other side at Doncaster Air Museum?

In the main hangar a French pilot made his presence known in a glass divination experiment, he called himself Jacques and responded when the energetic Philip said Viva Le France, and the glass proceeded to increase speed and ferocity. In the same vigil the group were staggered when a German mechanic made contact through the glass divination experiment he claimed to be called Heinrich and was said to be attached to a German plane part from the Second world war that is in the museum. As the group said their goodbyes to Jacques the infra red motion detectors both Mark and Philip had set up inexplicably went off. Philip said he considered this was how Jacques would say goodbye to the group.

The groups experienced some fantastic results from the Franks box, such as names in the vigil group been called out and the most crude of industrial language ever used was also heard from the Franks box to the alarm of all who were in earshot. However the most fascinating incident was when Mel one of our mediums said in German “you are my darling I love you” and the Frank’s box immediately stopped on a love song. Coincidence or the results of spectral white noise, the evidence we have correlated using the Frank’s box in the last four months is in our view that they are an instrument of communication from the spirit world.

All our groups experienced some aggressive table tipping even to the point that the table tipped on command to each of the ghost hunters in turn. Mandy, Jo and Tony were in shock at the sight of this spectacle and also they were amazed at the banging on request they all heard in the Main Hangar. However Marie was left speechles as she and Brenda, Shelley, Sam, Dee and Tony all witnessed the table rock to and fro as they held their hands hovering above the table, with nobody making contact with the table at all.

As we were beaten by the clock yet again and the time had flew past once more, the Simply Ghost Nights team could only be in awe at the amount of activity we had all seen, this again affirmed our belief that with positive energy, laughter, and fun the spirit world will entertain, however if you are stoic and languid the spirit world will not come out to play.

Sent in by Simply Ghost Nights

Talking Ernie Doll Scare

Thank you for reading my story. In April of this year, it was a cold night night and my father and his wife were out and I don't like being alone, so I decided to call one of my friends to keep my mind off of being alone.

Since it is warmer down in their area of the house, I walked into their living room. When you go down into that area of our house, you have to walk through an office room and there are two doorways that go from that room into two other rooms. One doorway leads into the living room and the other leads into the other kids' bedroom (the kids were with my dad and his wife).

While I was sitting in the living room talking on the phone, I heard someone say "I feel great!"! My body froze for what felt like 10 or 15 minutes but was probably only 10 seconds. I snapped out of my trance when I heard it again and while I was trying to remain as calm as I could, inside I was freaking out.

My friend asked if I was ok and I asked her to please stay on the phone with me while I checked the house. As I stood up, I heard a loud snoring sound! I took 5 steps and then I heard "I feel great!" again. This time, my friend on the other line heard it too and asked what that noise was, but I didn't say anything yet.

I was trying to be quiet in case somebody was in my house. I walked into the office room, and didn't see anything that could possibly be making that sound. The second I turned by back so that I could look into the playroom, I heard "I feel great!" right behind me! I turned and saw my brothers' sleep and snore Ernie doll propped up in a corner facing me. It started snoring while I was staring at it. I ran out of that room and into the main living room, slamming the door shut. About 5 minutes later, I heard Ernie say he felt great about three more times, even through the shut door.

The next morning, I told my father about it and he said maybe the battery was dying or it's motion activated but his wife tried everything she could think of and the doll was silent. Then, she pressed her fingers into its' stomach and he announced that he felt great. I have heard that there was a child that died in our house before we lived there, and we have had previous experiences with its' spirit and other spirits before.

Please comment and tell me what you think!

Sent in by kmarie

Paranormal Activity In Abilene Texas Duplex

I'm back again with another story it would seem,this story takes place right now.

I didn't move to Abilene Texas until December of 09, I was moving as my relationship with my parents is sometimes not to grand and to be closer to my fiancé at the time, well for about a month we lived in Clyde but soon moved to Abilene some time in February.

The place we found and rented is in an alley way and is kind of small, but big enough for us as it has 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom, it was also affordable for us at the time. Well when we moved in we didn't have anything out of the ordinary happen, but after about a month of living there it soon became active. At the time I was very depressed about having to let my parents take my cat back with them, as he got sick at the other place and this place didn't allow pets. Well I would be in the kitchen cleaning and out of the corner of my eyes I would see black or white shadows in the shape of cats. I didn't really mind, it did creep me out a little, but not to much.

Some times when I was sitting on the couch in the living room and my fiancé was in the other room, I would feel a cat jump upon the couch next to me and sit down, again that didn't bother me as animal spirits bring me comfort when I'm in a room by myself, this happened only twice.

One night when we were coming home from the university he goes to, I went to put something in our room and he went to the bathroom witch was right across from our room, well when we both came out I looked over at our office and saw a grayish shadow of a little boy standing close to me and watching us, the office is also next to our room and bathroom. When I looked back at my fiancé and then back at the office the boy was gone. In my minds eye the little boy is about 6 or 7 years old, he has tannish dark colored skin with short black hair, I cant really tell what he is wearing though.

A few mornings later we both woke up and heard the sound of a door slamming, however the doors in our house don't latch right except the closet doors and the front and back door, so it made me think it was office closet door by how close it sounded. Nothing else happened that day.

Sometime in the spring we had more activity, but it all was in the office and still is. We couldn't figure out why, but the office was the only room that had strange things happen in it. At this time we convinced the realtor's and owner of the duplex's to let us have my cat Yukito, we just had to pay a deposit.

Well for a few weeks we kept him in the house as we had to so he got use to the new place as he is an outdoor and indoor cat. Well we would open the window in the office at times to help air out the room as our place gets to be hot and stuffy, well when we did that we soon realized things moved on us in the office and then reappear some where else in the house or some other place in he office.

Well one day while we were out doing some errands, we came home and found one of the pieces of the blinds was broken and we don't really know how it was broken either, as the door to the office is always shut as we also have a hamster, we shut it so the cat cant mess with the hamster. We were also both in the office earlier that day, but no where near the window, so we just find that it is odd.

Eventually we put a small testament book on the window sill and things stopped, so we figure it had something to do with the window in that room and found that to be odd.

Well one day before he got out for summer we were going to meet this person at the grocery store to sell him a aquarium we didn't want anymore, well we used the money we got for the aquarium to go get some things from the store, on our way out of the store it was raining pretty heavy, so we were trying to get back to the car as fast as we could.

When we got home we had forgotten we left the window open, so the window sill was wet as was the testament book, we shut it and then moved the book across the room so it could dry and so we could dry the window sill. Well the night before my fiancé had emptied my bag as it had all of my Pokemon games and game boy advanced and Ds in it, well he put crystal and sapphire on the computer desk right next to each other. I cant really remember when it happened, but right after we moved the book my Pokemon Sapphire game disappeared off of the desk, all that was on the desk was crystal. We couldn't figure out what happened to it, but both decided it disappeared when we moved the book from the window, to this day we still can not find it, that is one thing that has yet to be found.

Well after we put the testament book back nothing else happened. This June we got married and spent 1 week and a half at my moms as my car was being fixed. When we got my car back finally we headed home. Took us an hour and half to get back to Abilene, but we were happy to be home. When got into the house it was very hot as usual and we had a lot of wedding gifts that cluttered it up for a while. I also had to go on a killing spree of flies as our kitchen window was covered in horse flies.

Now its late July and we are still in the same place, we recently got a new kitten as the cat I fell in love with at the school had kittens. My husband wouldn't let me have the mama as we don't have money to spay her so we took one of her kittens. Well when we brought him home, the activity started back up, but its nothing to bad. Occasionally I will see white sheets out of the corner of my eyes in random places and then just disappear where I saw them. I was in the office with both of the cats sleeping at my feet when I heard some one behind me messing with the many things that clutter the office as we threw most of the stuff in there. I first thought it was the cats but looked and they were a sleep so I just went on to believe it was the little boy saying he was still around.

Last night I had a problem with flies appearing out of no where, I would kill one and then more showed up. Eventually I killed them all too. I also was walking in to the kitchen to get a drink when I thought I saw a black and white face on the wall above the fridge, but I don't know if it was the tea kettles shadow I saw or what, but what I saw didn't look like the tea kettles shadow and I tried to explain that to my husband.

So far nothing has hurt us and the spirit in the place doesn't seem to mind us being there, I guess every now and then he likes to tell us he is still there so we don't forget.

Sent in by Rayen Lanham

Bride To Be

I'm Sarah a normal 13 year old girl, a while back about last year, sounds daft but I went to go to the toilet. As I was on the toilet I felt a super cold draft hit me but my hair didn't move it was like stepping in a freezer. I looked at the door it was closed then I looked up at the window it was closed. Suddenly in the mirror something caught my eye I looked at it. It was a young woman, about in her 40's she had big glass's on like jam jars they were like brown coloured on the outside. She had short curly hair in an updo and was dressed in pink and white like a wedding dress. I forgot what happened but it just vanished another cold shiver went down my spine. I flushed the chain and ran as fast as I could down stairs thinking something was watching me I flicked the lights of and burst the living room door open. "What's wrong Sarah" my mam said to me as my dad looked at me I said nothing happened. as we were watching TV I was thinking about it, not wanting to tell my mam. I got my mam to walk me to my bed.

About one month had past now I had told my mam and dad the other week they just thought I was stupid. I was in the shower for 10 minutes. As I got out I felt that shiver again I thought what it was I looked straight at my mirror but she wasn't there. I flicked my hair forward then wrapped it up in a towel then stood up straight again. I froze as I seen her in the mirror again this time she was holding a big bunch of roses. I knew I wasn't imagining it because I started to cry then she went sad. I wiped my eyes with my hand then put a towel round my body still looking at the lady in the mirror. I stepped back she smiled I gasped and ran into my room. Not wanting to see her again I let my hair dry naturally so I didn't look in the mirror.

I hadn't seen her ever since but I think I was imagining this at night I could hear ring a ring a roses like some one was humming it. I looked around I seen a black figure at my window it looked like a little girl so I sat up and blinked it was gone? Then I seen something black in my mirror like a head then I looked at it it stopped then was gone then I seen something white drop down on my floor but it dropped slowly like an orb.

I told my mam again what I saw in the bathroom but she never believed me. We looked at some really old photo's of my mam and dad's old house and when they were little. My mam told me that her mam died in a car crash on the way to her wedding when she was 4. I started to cry and my mam asked what's wrong and I said that "it must of been terrible for you" but I was more crying over the woman was holding a bunch of roses and was dressed in a wedding dress. I asked my mam if she had any photos of her. She did but she said there in the loft I'll get dad to get them for you so he did, I had a lump in my throat as I seen her brown glasses and her curly updo hair. I told my mam about it I think its that she believes me but she doesn't want to RIP my grandmother.

Sent in by Sarah Richardson

Very Haunting Dreams And A Visit From A Presence

Hello, now I want to let you know that this is a true story and I'm not just making it up to get attention.

When I was a little kid I had a dream, and in that dream I was running around on the highway with my friends (there were no cars) and we were all having a good time until everyone disappeared. I looked around everything was silent until I heard I frightening scream, then all of a sudden I could hear footsteps coming my way and when I tried to move my dream went completely white.

Now this exact dream has happened twice in a row, when I woke up I was under my blankets. Now I was very frightened of the dark and even more frightened from the dream, I had slowly lifted my blanket up to look around, there was little looking space then I dropped it. I had seen a dark figure of some sort, it was wearing a torn dark black suit (like a grim reapers suit) I was very frightened.

The next week I was staying over a friends house, we had all stayed up late and decided to go to bed nothing unusual had happened until midnight. I had woken up, I was laying under my friends bed because that's where I wanted to sleep. I had a look around but I couldn't move for some reason. I could see out under the bed and there it was, the dark figure I could see its feet and I could here it growling like it was angry. I didn't make a noise it knew I was there then everything went white (like in the dream).

The very next morning I got out from under the bed and there was a patch of black fabric, I was freaking out I knew it wasn't a dream. Nothing had happened for the next couple of months until midnight again. But this time it was a dream. I was driving with a friend of mine out into a dark forest with fog and there was an old abandoned house. The lights were on we went inside. Inside it was my family and my friends (it must of been a party or something) then we all herd a loud growl. We all went to the window and my friend went outside, everyone said no don't go there... then he turned around and he was bleeding from his eyes and he said He's coming, why not go and die. He went out there and about five seconds later blood went spilling on the window then my dream went white.

A couple of years later when I was 14 mum had asked me to go and get something from the shed. The shed was right next to the house and none of the family ever went in there much. I went there and I thought I saw a dark figure go into the corner (we had a big shed) I didn't know if my mind was playing tricks or not until I felt someone breathing on me. I was frightened but I knew not to run or something could happen. I stood there and said I know you're there, the breathing got louder and heavier and I could hear some growling I kept asking why has it been near me and is it linked in my dreams the breathing stopped I thought I was safe so I went back to the house because I thought it was gone. As I walked through the house door I herd a loud growl coming from the shed and that was the last I had seen him or had those dreams

Sent in by Mitchell Smith

Demons And Claw Prints

It was just like any other afternoon. The sun had already gone down and the nightfall had arrived. It was my friend and I at my historical, creaky, two-story house right by a yard where a school once stood. Not to mention, we lived right down the road from a funeral home. There was a lot of hidden history we could get in search for but… some things just came to us. Those creeping noises from the old wood floor that made my bones tighten and my body shiver. The weird noises, the windows crackling, door slamming “by itself,” and when the wind blows it almost sounds like soft whispers- but coming from where? Could it be the family of four who died here in the past? Were these assumptions coming from my head or is this real? The conflict was I didn’t know what to believe, myself or the noises.

I sat in my room with my friend; everything was peace and quiet. There was always a thought in the back of my mind - I could just feel something bad around me like evil waiting for a seamless time to attack. Then it happened. All I heard was my friend yelp, her hand close to her shoulder like it was in some kind of pain. Immediately after I could tell whatever had happened wasn’t right - I rushed us into the bathroom, lifted up her shirt and saw the most horrifying mark. It was just us in the room. How could something smack her and leave a handprint? I held my hand up to the print to see the difference. I discovered that hand was no hand… it was a claw. I couldn’t even say the word, still to this day I can’t. But I guess its okay to just write it down. Maybe it won’t affect “it”… or needless to say, the demon.

Now the problem wasn’t to believe it or not, but can we, can I make it through this situation okay? I knew there was no way my parents would believe this had happened. I called my sister, thinking she’s an expert on supernatural things. Maybe she could help me. With a rosary she gave me to keep me safe, I wore it around my neck constantly. There was no doubt that I was more frightened than my friend. I was once told that if a demon attacks somebody around you (like a friend), what it really wants is you. You - that word echoed in my head. “You, you, you, you, you…ME.”

I couldn’t sleep in my room for days, I didn’t even want to be alone In my own house. I had to fix this. There is no way I could live the rest of my life afraid of a demon, but it’s possible for a demon to live theirs with me. I called a youth pastor I had known about and told him the situation. My friend and I met with him immediately after to talk about “what to do, and what not to do.” We learned that the only thing we’re doing wrong is not being with God. Since I didn’t have God in my life, it gave full power to anything and everything that wanted to steal my soul: the demons. All I had to do was believe in God, accept him in my heart, and that day - I did. I would not lie; ever since that day I have felt nothing but love around me.

Sent in by Jenna

Temporary Enlightenment And Gold Colored Aura

Years ago, I was visiting at my Grandmother's house for the weekend along with 2 of my little cousins. So it was just a regular Saturday afternoon, and the youngest, Dylan, was using the computer. He was searching for videos of demons, which I thought was creepy, even though they where just dumb and fake. Now, he was not doing this on his own. I myself have always been interested with paranormal things, and that is where he got it from. However, it is just a small interest for me. I only enjoy reading ghost stories, and frankly, would like nothing more to do with them.

So anyway, he was surfing the web for said videos, and for some reason, I completely freaked out. I began running through the house yelling things like; "QUIT WATCHING THOSE VIDEOS!" or "SOMEONE DO SOMETHING!" I would do something, but I was to freaked out to even be in the presence of the computer room. So I gave up and went into the spare bedroom where I usually stayed when I went to my Grandmas house.

Now keep in mind that my Grandma is a very religious person, and the spare room where I was had all sorts of decorations involving religion, such as pictures of biblical events and angels, crosses, little toys that played bible verses, and figurines of angels. Anyway, I was freaking out in the side room bed when my other cousin, Autumn, came in to check on me.I didn't say anything and she didn't say anything, but she began walking around the room and looking at all the little trinkets.

At one point, she played this little lamb that recited the 23rd Psalm, AKA The Lord is my Shepard prayer. I have never been that much of a religious person, but when the lamb was played, I felt all my fears melt away. It literally felt like a warm melting sensation. After I was over, I began saying slowly and evenly "I fear no evil", like what the lamb said in the Psalm, over and over again. Autumn looked at me like I was crazy, and then I got up and took her hand. I led her to the little plaque on the wall that had the same prayer the lamb and began reading it flawlessly.

Later, I went outside and barefoot, I walking on the rocks that normally hurt really bad unless you had shoes on. I skipped around and jumped up and down but I still did not get hurt. Autumn was standing there in awe and I asked her to try barefoot like me. She limped around and could not even come close to duplicating my actions. Then I banged my fist several times on a large metal platform, but my hand only barely got red! Again, I asked Autumn to try, but she got hurt on her first try.

Later on these things began to hurt again, and I felt very confused. Autumn reported that she had seen a gold-ish glow around me, and I searched it online. I found out that this means, and I quote from a website: GOLD AURA COLOR: The color of enlightenment and divine protection. When seen within the aura, it says that the person is being guided by their highest good. It is divine guidance. Protection, wisdom, inner knowledge, spiritual mind, intuitive thinker.

I swear these are all true events. I am not quite sure if it has anything to do with this website, but thought it fit in. I posted it to get feedback on what other people think, and could have possibly have had similar experiences.

Thank you for your time.

Sent in by Domestic_Goddess

Randal In My Room Who Is He?

I am 15 years old and I live in South Africa. As a child I would see things that would scare me and my mom would say I just had an overactive imagination until a complete stranger confirmed it. I'm like a paranormal magnet. Wherever I go I always have some sort of encounter, but the 1st violent one happened last night.

It was about 11:30 pm and I was unusually still awake. I began to feel my blood pressure rise which usually happens when ever a close encounter is near, but I didn't suspect anything, because for the past 3 years I have had something sit on my bed alongside me at exactly 03:00 am every night. Never has it attacked, I liked to think of it as my grandmother whom I was very close to and it the time never occurred to me. But anyway the only people who were in the house at the time was my mother, my sister (who is only 2) and me, and I heard footsteps in the tiled passage that runs along our bedrooms and from the sound of it the feet were bare.

I then heard whispers as though this person was struggling to breath, at that moment a tremendous wind rushed through the house which was unusual because the trees outside were still. This wind was so strong it blew my hair in all different directions, now I was scared. My mothers room door began banging which shows how strong the wind was because it pushed the rusted handle of my mothers room door down.

I got up to see if my mum and sis were fine but I couldn't move my legs from the standing position another wind then blew me over and threw me on my bed. My body then became paralyzed. I couldn't breathe. My body began burning like I was on fire and I heard laughing, I began to cry terribly in silence.

I then felt like something was trying to pull my body apart and I was in excruciating pain. I then heard a voice (a female voice, which did not sound like my mothers) say "enough Randal, I'm going to tell mummy" I then began to convulse and saliva poured from my mouth (I do not have any medical condition besides asthma) I was painfully aware of what was happening but couldn't do anything about it.

Then another wind came and all the torture stopped and I heard laughing and the footsteps again and then nothing- silence. My body is in terrible pain. My mother did not hear or see anything and my mum says my sister slept soundly the whole night through for the first time in ages. My mum thinks I just slept in the wrong position, but I know I didn't and I wasn't dreaming.

It was a frightening event but I would like to conquer this demon and I'm not scared of it. Please tell me how I can contact this demon or what I can do to stop this. Please.

Sent in by Brent dos Santos

I'm Not Alone Voices And Footsteps In the Attic

This story begins near the end of summer 2011. The last week. Me, my mother and my sister went to England for a week to visit our cousins. We had a great time. But throughout the whole week, I felt as if I was not alone when I was. Like I was being watched but nobody else was there.

The weirdest thing happened on the last night. I was sleeping my two of 3 of my cousins. One of my cousins was on the bed, the other lay beside me on a bed on the floor. We had to leave earlier in the morning to catch our flight. My cousins in my room wanted me to wake them before I left to say one final goodbye and I did. I woke them at 4:30 and we were leaving at 5:00am. I lay back down to get some more sleep. I was on the floor right next to a drawer. 2 minutes trying to get more sleep, I heard what sounded like a drawer opening very slowly. I looked up to see the drawer slightly ajar, in fact, quite open a bit. I got up and shut it. Then, a low droning sound raged throughout the house. It was not that loud, but very clear to hear. I thought surely my cousins would complain, but not a word, probably too tired. I was awake and began to get a bit scared.

I heard footsteps up in there attic, back and forth, sounding like it was directly above me up the next floor. The droning continued, and someone went downstairs. Soon, they came back up, with what I think was a cup of tea, I could not see, but I think it was because as they went back into there room, the sound of a cup being placed down shivered throughout the house. The droning sound stopped for awhile after that. I was now very scared and wanting my mother to come through and say it was time to get up. The noise started again...then...a noise was coming from downstairs. Two men talking. I could not make out what they were saying, but they were talking, using a whispering tone. Mumbling... the problem is, there was only one male adult in the house. And the other male was upstairs. One of the voices sounded like my father, which was impossible because he was back in Scotland. The voices stopped. My mother came and got me, and got ready. Got to the airport...got on the plane...and got back to Scotland!

The story does not end there. I have never felt alone since. Weird things have been happening. When I was in my room, I never felt alone and always felt some sort of tension rise up in me, reaching so high I wanted to scream in fear. I found a fingerprint on my door, blood. It was blood and It was not of my mother or my sister. I keep seeing huge black figures out of the corner of my eye. That ends it so far... but something is haunting me. I don't know what.

Sent in by Matthew