Things you can’t explain/paranormal?

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Wasn’t exactly sure what to word the thread title. Some of you may think I’m nuts, that’s fine. I’m not a religious person but I’ve had some weird things happen that have made me wonder or go WTH?

For me these have been things after somebody has passed in my case.

Years ago I dated a gal and her uncle passed, I never met the guy but went to the funeral ect. I ended up buying his Harley shortly after and his wife wanting it out of the shed. I rode the bike over to the GF’s house one night to grab something for her while she was working or whatever. I went inside and sat my keys on the kitchen hutch, nobody else was home. Went in her room for a few minutes and came back out and the keys had been moved to the kitchen table.

Not long after I went to the GF’s house for dinner one night. We were all sitting around and the whole house smelled like somebody lit a box of cigars. Not some faint smell but an over powering smell. Her dad started laughing and said he’s here someone. I said who’s here? He mentioned the GF’s uncle and said he smoked cigars and that smelled just like his. Round two of me getting weirded out by this situation.

I lost a grandma suddenly about fifteen years ago, we never really got along. While I’d say she loved me and I loved her as well it wasn’t the normal practice per se. I was grandchild number 8 or so on the list so I wasn’t anything special. Her approach to how she treated all of us which wasn’t abusive or anything made us bump heads. Well after she passed there was a couple weeks of me fighting trying to sleep. I had this constant weird feeling of being watched, laying in bed, everywhere I went ect. It really started to affect me then the feeling quickly went away shortly after. No things missing, moving or smells though.


I haven’t had anything happen until fast forwarding the last few weeks losing my other grandma as I’ve mentioned recently. The day she passed I went up mid morning after finding out. It had snowed that afternoon. I eventually left later in the evening to go back home and let the dogs out. Nobody else here all day, just me. I have a privacy fence but you can’t access my patio from it, I’ve got it locked up unless you climb it. I open the side door to the patio and let my boy out and happened to glance down and there was one small footprint from a right shoe in the snow. Not a left foot print, not a trail of prints just one in the middle of the patio. It was an emotional roller coaster of a day and I just thought that’s weird!

Next up…. So I talked to my mom last week. She told me this is weird!! She said she had went into her bedroom one evening and there was a broken owl decoration laying in the middle of the floor. When she picked it up a note fell out. When she opened it, it was a poem written to her from my grandma dated from the mid 80’s by this point I have questions! I said did you take that home since you’ve been taking other stuff recently? Do you remember seeing that before?

She said she had seen it before but it’s been ages and certain she didn’t bring it home. She’s since shown me the little owl and it has a tiny hole in the bottom with a plug but you’d never know anything would have been inside it, yet it randomly ended up broken in the middle of her bedroom floor!


Last one but not least. Sunday night I was cooking chicken on the stove in a pot, flat top electric stove everything is level. I go check on it and toss some trash away. Dogs are always put up when I’m cooking. Few minutes later sitting on the couch watching tv I hear a crash sound and a pot dancing on the floor. I go back in the kitchen and the pot is sitting up right, right in front of the stove. Two pieces of chicken still in the pot and two pieces on the floor. None of the grease or juice had spilled anywhere. By this point I’m not sure what to say.
 

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I once spent a decade traveling for the government. I stayed at a hotel in Altus, Oklahoma. The third night I was there I was sleeping soundly when I became *instantly* wide-awake. Now think about that for a moment...the only time we ever go from deep sleep to wide-awake is with a loud sound or a strong shake.

I was instantly awake, and became aware that the air inside the room seemed to swirling--the window blinds that overlooked the indoor pool were moving and the air seemed to be "swooshing". I instinctively reached for the nightstand lamp and turned it on as I sat straight up. The "swooshing" stopped.

Instead of being motivated to get up and look around (a natural human reaction, right?), my response was to reach for the lamp again and turn it off. I fell back into a hard sleep and didn't wake again until the alarm went off at 6:30 that morning.

I awoke and went to the bath room, and brushed my teeth. It was only halfway through shaving that I even remembered what had took place in the middle of the night. I went on with my day and didn't really think of it again.

TWO YEARS later I received the same assignment, Altus, Oklahoma. I stayed at the same hotel. One night that week I took advantage of the indoor hottub. I met two local girls in the hottub who confessed that they had snuck in to use the tub--they weren't staying there. As we were talking, they mentioned that allegedly the hotel had been built on a Indian burial ground. They went on to say that there were rumors that hotel staff had heard un-explained and strange noises eminating from the kitchen, usually in the middle of the night when it was far past closing. The rumors were that the hotel was haunted.

I still don't really know what happened that night.
 

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I once spent a decade traveling for the government. I stayed at a hotel in Altus, Oklahoma. The third night I was there I was sleeping soundly when I became *instantly* wide-awake. Now think about that for a moment...the only time we ever go from deep sleep to wide-awake is with a loud sound or a strong shake.

I was instantly awake, and became aware that the air inside the room seemed to swirling--the window blinds that overlooked the indoor pool were moving and the air seemed to be "swooshing". I instinctively reached for the nightstand lamp and turned it on as I sat straight up. The "swooshing" stopped.

Instead of being motivated to get up and look around (a natural human reaction, right?), my response was to reach for the lamp again and turn it off. I fell back into a hard sleep and didn't wake again until the alarm went off at 6:30 that morning.

I awoke and went to the bath room, and brushed my teeth. It was only halfway through shaving that I even remembered what had took place in the middle of the night. I went on with my day and didn't really think of it again.

TWO YEARS later I received the same assignment, Altus, Oklahoma. I stayed at the same hotel. One night that week I took advantage of the indoor hottub. I met two local girls in the hottub who confessed that they had snuck in to use the tub--they weren't staying there. As we were talking, they mentioned that allegedly the hotel had been built on a Indian burial ground. They went on to say that there were rumors that hotel staff had heard un-explained and strange noises eminating from the kitchen, usually in the middle of the night when it was far past closing. The rumors were that the hotel was haunted.

I still don't really know what happened that night.

Some stuff makes you wonder! I personally haven’t seen anything just these weird instances. I have another one not related to me but maybe we will get there if this thread continues.
 

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I work in facility that was built in the 50's. Lots of bad men, who have done some incredibly evil things, have lived and died within those walls. Two of the most down to earth grounded, sane men that I have ever know have some hair raising stories of working nights in there. I had a pretty crazy one too. Funny thing is it didn't really scare me. When I'm working I'm more focused on what the living might be doing rather than the dead.
 

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I work in facility that was built in the 50's. Lots of bad men, who have done some incredibly evil things, have lived and died within those walls. Two of the most down to earth grounded, sane men that I have ever know have some hair raising stories of working nights in there. I had a pretty crazy one too. Funny thing is it didn't really scare me. When I'm working I'm more focused on what the living might be doing rather than the dead.

I worked in a prison but never got those vibes, was too busy dealing with idiots and guys wanting to fight me.
 

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Well, here’s my only tale of the unknown:

One cold night, my wife and I were stargazing way out in the boonies. It was one of those nights when you could see the Milky Way. I spotted something way up high, a tiny white dot, moving across the sky on a straight course - - a satellite of course. As we watched, we were quite surprised to see it come to an abrupt halt. Because it was no longer moving, it was hard to see it against the stars - - until it shot off like a meteor, leaving a brief tail behind it. We were pretty weirded out and were glad we’d both seen it.

Many years later, I told this to a retired Navy jet pilot and asked whether he had any idea what could do that. He said “no” and nothing more.
 

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Was madly in love with a girl when I was 19; we were engaged and then she ended it and I was devastated. Literally tore me apart mentally. I joined the Army to get my life back together.

40 years later - This last June I spent a week extremely depressed, even cried once (which has happened like three times since I've been an adult). Told my SO that it felt like I'd lost a family member, even though everything in my life was totally fine. Found out about a month later that my old fiance had been dying of cancer, and the day my depression ended was the day she actually passed.
 

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When my Grandfather passed away it was devastating. He was a remarkable man. When he and Grandma were maybe 30 and 28, (1932 depression times), and had five kids of their own the neighbors house burned down killing the parents. They took in the two surviving children and raised them to adulthood. He usually worked two or three jobs at the same time and still made time to deliver the daily meals to a convent of cloistered nuns known locally as the Pink Sisters as a daily duty to his church. In his late 50s the two main jobs he'd spent years working at both filed bankruptcy and he was denied his pension from both. He still held his head up, attended church and did whatever he could to make ends meet. He spent the last year of his life blind. He still led the family. Any questions ... he had the answers. Any problem .... he had a solution. And then he passed. It felt like the end times. More than losing someone important to you. More like the end of an age. I was a pallbearer at his funeral. That day remains mostly a blur. So many lost faces filled the pews.

That night I couldn't fall asleep. I felt scared about the future. He had been the rock for all of us. At some point I sat up in bed to find him sitting on the bottom edge by my feet. He was smiling. He looked so at peace. I just stared with my mouth hanging open. He looked directly into my eyes a just said "Everything's going to be alright Ricky". "Everything's going to be fine". I laid down and instantly fell asleep. I never told a living soul. I thought maybe I'd had a crazy spell. Maybe a dozen years later, when my younger sister was going through some really tough times, I sat with her. I was surprised but pleased at how well she was handling her trouble. At some point when I tried to compliment her on her strength she cut me off to silence and said "I'm not worried. I never told you, or anyone else . The night after we buried Grandpa I was crying in bed. Then it felt like someone had sat down at the foot of the bed. When I sat up to look Grandpa was sitting there smiling. He seemed to look deep inside me and said "Everything's going to be alright Antoinette". "Everything's going to be just fine".
 

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I've had some weird coincidences in my life but I don't know if they'd be classed as paranormal.
I'm of the opinion that they're just nudges/confirmations that I'm making the right decisions from time to time.
The fact that they occur when I'm going through extensive periods of meditation practice probably means I'm more relaxed, less stressed and able to quieten the overwhelm to make informed decisions.

However, in April 99, I had an NDE (near death experience). I was revived by some quick thinking emergency services people but I remember a very long and significant 'dream' that seemed to last for days.
I can't think of anything that had came close to spooking me as much as that.
 

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I took a week off work during Easter 1996 to finish off insulating an addition to our home. My wife had taken our three young boys shopping and I was alone upstairs. There were two sliding mirrored closet doors propped up against some studs, and in my peripheral vision I could see a little boy sneaking up behind me giggling. I waited a few seconds to allow him to play his prank, but by the time I remembered I was home alone and turned around there was no one there. My mind playing tricks, but I did feel the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

I’ve never experienced ghosts or spirits personally, but I worked in a trauma center for 30 years. Been in the room many times when a person is dying and actively looking at and talking to someone who is not in the room. My mother in law did the same thing. Logically I figured the dying brain is hallucinating, neurons firing like crazy. I’m certain of it, but I guess I could be wrong.
 

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I took a week off work during Easter 1996 to finish off insulating an addition to our home. My wife had taken our three young boys shopping and I was alone upstairs. There were two sliding mirrored closet doors propped up against some studs, and in my peripheral vision I could see a little boy sneaking up behind me giggling. I waited a few seconds to allow him to play his prank, but by the time I remembered I was home alone and turned around there was no one there. My mind playing tricks, but I did feel the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

I’ve never experienced ghosts or spirits personally, but I worked in a trauma center for 30 years. Been in the room many times when a person is dying and actively looking at and talking to someone who is not in the room. My mother in law did the same thing. Logically I figured the dying brain is hallucinating, neurons firing like crazy. I’m certain of it, but I guess I could be wrong.
That is what i read. To make the death experience easier, you brain makes you feel sort of good, relax, or at peace. I don't know, and when i know i will tell you guys. Don't wait on it though.
 




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