Have you ever experienced paranormal activity?

AngInCanada
AngInCanada Posts: 947 Member
edited November 2024 in Chit-Chat
The ask a mortician post had a couple people ask about paranormal activity so now I'm curious. Have you ever experienced it before?

I work in a nursing home with two floors. First floor is urgent care lab and offices, basement is nursing home, morgue, cafeteria (super weird combo). Hospital closes at 8 pm, all stairwells and elevators are completely locked out. It was about 3 am and we were sitting charting. All of the sudden we hear the ding of the elevator upstairs and hear the elevator come down to our floor and the ding that the elevator is at our floor. The door never opened because everything was locked out but we felt a whoosh of cold air.

Another situation was when I worked at a home for individuals with physical impairments. There was only 6 residents and no one could walk. All had to be lifted out of bed and into their wheelchairs with a mechanical lift. It was around 4 in the morning and the other worker and myself were sleeping in the living room. I never slept deep, just "rested my eyes". Anyway I was laying there with my eyes closed and I heard a voice say quite loud "your not supposed to be sleeping!!!". Freaked out I opened my eyes and sat right up. There was nobody there. I checked the house and everyone was sound asleep, doors were locked etc. I was completely freaked so I woke the other worker up and told her. As soon as I told her what I heard, her face went completely white. Apparently before I worked there, there was a woman who lived there. She was able to walk around and she would sneak out on the middle of the night and catch workers sleeping and she would yell at them "you're not supposed to be sleeping!!!". She died in her sleep about 6 months before I got hired.

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  • Gimsteinn
    Gimsteinn Posts: 7,678 Member
    I have a grandma who's very annoying.
    When I was pregnant with my first she showed up in my dream along with all the ladies in the family who share a name with my grandma, Anna... (we have many Anna's). She told me I would have a baby girl and the girl would be with her, not me.. then she told me that she was supposed to be named Anna like all of them..
    Ok freaky enough right? Well turns out she was right. That baby girl was stillborn but she shares a name with my grandma.

    Then I had my second born. Grandma didn't feel like leaving me alone but she woke me up every time I fell a sleep with the baby girl in my bed. She hated it when people shared a bed with their newborns, she was terrified of the infant cause apparently people can roll over in their sleep and suffocate the infants by lying on top of them.

    Then my third came... and old grandma showed up yet again. She kept showing up in my dreams telling me to have him checked out by a doctor cause the kid just wouldn't sleep for more then an hour at a time. Grandma was right again. The little guy had a very bad case of heartburn.

    If it was my Grandma interrupting my sleeps or not.. I don't know. Might as well have been my instinct breaking through in dreams but the first dream I had about her was by far the freakiest..
  • crackpotbaby
    crackpotbaby Posts: 1,297 Member
    edited January 2017
    I don't think so.

    I've *thought* I did but then I *KNOW* I am prone to psychosis and have the odd acid flashback in there. So who knows.

    Logic tells me no.

  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    Yes, more than I should.

    No I'm not a Winchester. :tongue:
  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
    Does this count?

    I was laying in bed on my front, trying to get to sleep.
    I hear my dog enter my room, walk around my bed to near my face, I can even feel the ground/bed frame shake a little with each steep, I feel his breath on my neck, except my door was shut and there was no dog in my room.

    Same thing happened a second time, except this time the "dog" climbed up onto my bed with its front two legs on my back, with its back two still on the ground, I could feel the weight of the "dog" pushing down on me but again, my door was closed and no dog was in my room.

    I felt like I was awake both times, but couldn't move, or look, I was facing away towards the centre of the bed.
  • Taylor076097
    Taylor076097 Posts: 265 Member
    Sleep paralysis. Freaky right. I've had too many to count.
  • twobirdperch
    twobirdperch Posts: 33 Member
    In college, my now-husband lived with a group of guys in a house that they described themselves as "haunted" everyone knew that the basement was definitely a creepy place to be and most everyone that lived there had had an "experience" of some kind.. There were a few times that I would come over and if I'd arrived early, I would be alone in the house.. once there was a soccer ball laying in the hallway.. about 30 minutes later it was on the opposite end of the hallway (no one else was home at this time). Another time I was alone in my husband's room and his guitar string plucked by itself (nothing even near it). Some of the guys reported hearing a little girl's laugh at times (I never heard that one) but the kitchen lights would go off/on while I was there alone. It got to the point that I would kill time another way before arriving at the house to be alone or if I arrived early I'd sit in the car.
  • LittleLionHeart1
    LittleLionHeart1 Posts: 3,655 Member
    I used to pass by this place on Sundays, when my Dad would take us to our grandparent house to visit. Everytime we would drive by in the 70's & 80's I would tell everyone in the car, "Theres the haunted house." I would have a terrible feeling of dread as we were passing by, each and everytime. It was a hospital. They called it a sanitarium. Part of why I don't want my mother in a long term facility. I know theres lots of good people who work in facilities, but theres bad people too. And lots of suffering in these places.They eventually tore this place down.
    https://youtu.be/sbPbbSGZ9DI

    But besides this. After my grandpa passed, he opened my bedroom door, stuck his head in, and looked in my room to check on me. I was like "What the *kitten*?"

    And after my Dad passed. He opened the bathroom door. Not much. But it scared me. I called my sister right away. But my sister and I believe my Dad was telling me to check on your sister right then. Because right at that moment that the door opened, my sister was envolved in a near death incident at work. She did not answer her ph when I called her. I had left her a voicemail saying, "I think Dad wanted me to check on you. Are you okay right now?"

    One more little tidbit. My old bedroom. I had a very neat cylinder shape crystal, and had made a beaded string to hang it from my ceiling light over me bed. Was talking on the ph with my then boyfriend. Was crying about missing my Dad after he died. Well, that crystal started swinging back and forth so severly. I video taped it. At first I thought I was just imagining it. But no.
  • LittleLionHeart1
    LittleLionHeart1 Posts: 3,655 Member
    @HyeKarma
    I wish my father would check on me like that. Perhaps he is still angry with me. Lucky you.

    Maybe hes not mad. Maybe he has been looking out for you, and understands now. Consider that possibility. :)
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  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    Not really.
    I live in a 106 year old house and we have had guests eagerly ask if it was haunted. My family has never experienced anything paranormal in the 10 years we have been here.
    I've had dreams of people I knew who died that were very vivid. There were no dramatic warnings or messages. I don't believe it was their spirits.


  • AngInCanada
    AngInCanada Posts: 947 Member
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  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Yea
  • ChrissyDomer
    ChrissyDomer Posts: 1,064 Member
    chrissyw30 wrote: »
    Way too many to count!...

    I just right it off as a lot of coincidences. There's a lot of coincidences for my grandparents house though.
    Everyone in my family said my grandparents house was haunted and I can remember very strange things happening there since I was very young.

    My grandfather built the house himself...some of the windows, wood, doors, etc came from an abandoned hospital they tore down to build a new one. I used to stay there when I was younger and I would sleep in my dads old room. It had an eerie feel to it and I would have nonstop nightmares while I was there about angels, demons, and a little boy who would always whisper "shh!! he's coming."

    At night it would sound like someone was running through the house on the hard floors but I knew it wasn't my grandparents because they were asleep. I also wasn't allowed to leave the room after bedtime and had to sleep with the lights off and a night light of two siamese cats with green eyes that would flicker.

    Early in the mornings I would always get woken up with things hitting the windows. It was crows, they would hang out outside that window and my grandparents could never get rid of them. The screens of the windows were always covered in blood, no matter how many times they rinsed them off. The crows would rip to shreds anything that came near the house.. I watched them tear to bits numerous hummingbirds that came into the yard, it wasn't pleasant, and outside that window was nothing but carcasses of dead birds.


    Also, there was a small concrete hole in the front yard they built to fill with water. I'm not sure what it was, maybe a homemade birdbath lol. They used to joke about it being "the devils pond" because after a day or so of filling it up the water would turn red. The neighbors used to say there would be red lights flashing throughout the house at night and what looked like images in the window.

    The yard was ridden with bones, my cousins and I would go outside to play in the orange groves and find bones everywhere. When I was about 15, I went over with my cousin to visit my grandparents, being bored outta our minds we went into the grove to to pick oranges. Just like something out of a horror movie the shed door was hitting like something was inside trying to get out. We thought maybe our grandpa stuck a dog or something in there and padlocked it, you could hear it jumping on the door, pawing at it and sniffing(kinda like a bull) under the door. We went inside and snuck the key to open it but nothing was in there.

    People say my grandmother lost her mind as soon as this place was built and they moved in. After my grandfather died I wouldn't stay over there anymore. It was too creepy, at night I would hear coughing, just like his, he was a heavy smoker.

    After a while my grandma got a new boyfriend who when moved in had a freak accident where he was caught on fire. She eventually got another boyfriend who said someone was trying to choke him in the middle of the night and ended up dying in his sleep.

    So after those two incidents we go over to board up the windows for a storm and a few days later the cops call us with news that my grandmother has called them 15 times in the past week saying someone's in her house with her, maybe a guy in the attic, and that she keeps seeing flashes of light and thinks the neighbors are shining lights into her windows and that if she calls anymore they are going to either arrest or baker act her.

    Sooo, I go over and have a talk with her, tell her the neighbors aren't trying to break in and steal something and I end up staying pretty late.

    It's about midnight and she's sleeping on the couch, I'm playing on my phone in the chair and the tv starts flickering and I start seeing these super speedy orb like flashes of light around the room and the hairs on the back of my neck are at attention.

    Trying to find an explanation I jumped outta my chair and started looking around. There's no way someone could be shining a light through the window, it's still boarded up from the hurricane and there's definitely not anything in the room that could cause flashes of light like that.

    So it stops and I sit back down, a little rattled and catching things outta the corner of my eye, and all of a sudden it sounds like someone just dropped box in the attic.

    I didn't go up there, I said eff that noise maybe another day during the daytime. Too many people are dying around here for me to crawl my happy *kitten* up in that attic in the dark.

    I ended up going home and trying to talk my grandmother into coming to live with me at my house but she wouldn't go.

    A few weeks later I one of those crazy dreams with her in it and woke up to the phone ringing and knew right away she had passed.

    They couldn't rent the house afterwards for all the crazy things that went on inside, people were just as quick to move out, so they basically sold it for pennies, a fifth of what I think it's worth, no one wanted it..and these are just the things I saw.

    My dad, uncles, etc could tell you even creepier because they lived there. But whatever's there, it isn't good..

    This gives me goosebumps!


    Me too! Soooo many people died there. Two of my cousins, my dads sibling, a guy mowing the yard and my grandmas "boyfriends"
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  • ChrissyDomer
    ChrissyDomer Posts: 1,064 Member
    Omg sounds so creepy! Hopefully it isn't the bad type of experiences like that was. I almost wondered if my grandparents built over something because there was a ton of mounds and bones in the groves and sometimes we would find really old stuff and my brother used to find arrowheads..although I don't think the windows outta the death hospital helped either.
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  • ChrissyDomer
    ChrissyDomer Posts: 1,064 Member
    chrissyw30 wrote: »
    Omg sounds so creepy! Hopefully it isn't the bad type of experiences like that was. I almost wondered if my grandparents built over something because there was a ton of mounds and bones in the groves and sometimes we would find really old stuff and my brother used to find arrowheads..although I don't think the windows outta the death hospital helped either.

    I've been freaked out a couple of times but have never felt in danger. We have found arrow heads too but no bones. We do have a cemetery on the property but it is a family cemetery, the soldiers are buried in the confederate cemetery in town. Most days it's like living in a B&B. Some nights though, I am woken up and it's not so serene.


    My house growing up was like that. Things come off and on and you'll hear things but never felt like I was in any danger. Just hearing your name all the time, running around saying what and realizing you're the only one home lol.

    Now grandparents that's a different story. I may have to go put on some Care Bears or something just to be able to fall asleep. You immediately had an overwhelming feeling of panic when you walked inside.
  • Racouol
    Racouol Posts: 53 Member
    Have had more than a few. Most interesting one I am willing to share would be an incident I had was when I lived in South Carolina. I was laying in bed getting ready to sleep. Immediately upon closing my eyes I saw an image of a movie theater. The curtains in front of the screen opened and the letter v appeared. When I rolled onto my stomach the image was gone. Instead I felt someone tapping my back. I opened my eyes and looked around but no one was around. So I flipped back onto my back and when I closed my eyes I immediately saw that movie theater screen again it looked as if more a word was trying to form but only the letter v was focused enough to read it. I rolled back onto my stomach. Once again that image disappeared and once I could feel the tapping on my back. This time the tapping seemed more urgent. I got out of bed and looked around my room and found no one. I then said " whoever or whatever you are, if you want to speak with me then appear now and speak with me.". I waited for a few minutes and when nothing happened went back to bed. I layed down on my back and when I closed my eyes the image didn't appear. Instead I felt hands grab my shoulders and I then felt myself pushed. It was weird because I could feel the bed under my body but at the same time it felt as if I left my body. I passed out around the area a should have hit the wall.
  • joemac1988
    joemac1988 Posts: 1,021 Member
    I pooped once and when I wiped there was nothing to wipe off! I have no recollection of anyone cleaning up for me...
  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    I have had a few but this one sticks with me most and I have never really talked about it except amongst those that experienced it with me. This will be hard to type, I will be crying by the end.

    My first pregnancy ended tragically, almost 17 years ago. She passed during childbirth a few weeks before her due date. My cousin is a brilliant musician and had written a song about his autistic son. He had just recorded it the night before and was excited to share it. He came to the hospital later in the afternoon, the day of my Caylen's passing. She was still in the room with us. She had been for hours. I couldn't bring myself to let her go. I was distraught and not thinking clearly at all. I couldn't even fathom sending her down to the cold morgue, alone. My cousin being the shining soul that he is tried lightening the mood. He played his song for us. It was myself, my husband, his parents, my parents, my grandmother, my cousin and his wife in the room. At the end of the song we all hear a tiny girl's voice saying "I'm ok, goodbye." The room was quite for a few minutes before my husband starts crying and asks if anyone else heard it. We all heard it. My cousin verified it was not part of the song we wrote and sang. We replayed the song and replayed the song. No one heard it again.

    Fast forward few days. I am at the funeral home with her, next to her tiny casket where I stayed from the moment they opened until they closed for 2 days. The night of her visitation, after everyone had left, my parents, in-laws and husband had gone to get some dinner, I didn't want to go. I was sitting there holding her tiny hand, my mom and husband come back in to take me home. I was crying hysterically and didn't want to leave. I knew the next day she would be buried and that would be the last time I see her, again we all 3 hear "I'm ok, goodbye." In a tiny girl's voice. I have not heard those words since.
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  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    I'm a soothsayer, I damn sure am.
  • fitin50s2
    fitin50s2 Posts: 111 Member
    I have had a few but this one sticks with me most and I have never really talked about it except amongst those that experienced it with me. This will be hard to type, I will be crying by the end.

    My first pregnancy ended tragically, almost 17 years ago. She passed during childbirth a few weeks before her due date. My cousin is a brilliant musician and had written a song about his autistic son. He had just recorded it the night before and was excited to share it. He came to the hospital later in the afternoon, the day of my Caylen's passing. She was still in the room with us. She had been for hours. I couldn't bring myself to let her go. I was distraught and not thinking clearly at all. I couldn't even fathom sending her down to the cold morgue, alone. My cousin being the shining soul that he is tried lightening the mood. He played his song for us. It was myself, my husband, his parents, my parents, my grandmother, my cousin and his wife in the room. At the end of the song we all hear a tiny girl's voice saying "I'm ok, goodbye." The room was quite for a few minutes before my husband starts crying and asks if anyone else heard it. We all heard it. My cousin verified it was not part of the song we wrote and sang. We replayed the song and replayed the song. No one heard it again.

    Fast forward few days. I am at the funeral home with her, next to her tiny casket where I stayed from the moment they opened until they closed for 2 days. The night of her visitation, after everyone had left, my parents, in-laws and husband had gone to get some dinner, I didn't want to go. I was sitting there holding her tiny hand, my mom and husband come back in to take me home. I was crying hysterically and didn't want to leave. I knew the next day she would be buried and that would be the last time I see her, again we all 3 hear "I'm ok, goodbye." In a tiny girl's voice. I have not heard those words since.

    Wow... Speechless and humbled by your strength.
  • yayamom3
    yayamom3 Posts: 939 Member
    I have had a few but this one sticks with me most and I have never really talked about it except amongst those that experienced it with me. This will be hard to type, I will be crying by the end.

    My first pregnancy ended tragically, almost 17 years ago. She passed during childbirth a few weeks before her due date. My cousin is a brilliant musician and had written a song about his autistic son. He had just recorded it the night before and was excited to share it. He came to the hospital later in the afternoon, the day of my Caylen's passing. She was still in the room with us. She had been for hours. I couldn't bring myself to let her go. I was distraught and not thinking clearly at all. I couldn't even fathom sending her down to the cold morgue, alone. My cousin being the shining soul that he is tried lightening the mood. He played his song for us. It was myself, my husband, his parents, my parents, my grandmother, my cousin and his wife in the room. At the end of the song we all hear a tiny girl's voice saying "I'm ok, goodbye." The room was quite for a few minutes before my husband starts crying and asks if anyone else heard it. We all heard it. My cousin verified it was not part of the song we wrote and sang. We replayed the song and replayed the song. No one heard it again.

    Fast forward few days. I am at the funeral home with her, next to her tiny casket where I stayed from the moment they opened until they closed for 2 days. The night of her visitation, after everyone had left, my parents, in-laws and husband had gone to get some dinner, I didn't want to go. I was sitting there holding her tiny hand, my mom and husband come back in to take me home. I was crying hysterically and didn't want to leave. I knew the next day she would be buried and that would be the last time I see her, again we all 3 hear "I'm ok, goodbye." In a tiny girl's voice. I have not heard those words since.

    That is the most beautiful story. Thank you for sharing your precious experience with your little angel. I am so very sorry for your loss.
  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    I have had a few but this one sticks with me most and I have never really talked about it except amongst those that experienced it with me. This will be hard to type, I will be crying by the end.

    My first pregnancy ended tragically, almost 17 years ago. She passed during childbirth a few weeks before her due date. My cousin is a brilliant musician and had written a song about his autistic son. He had just recorded it the night before and was excited to share it. He came to the hospital later in the afternoon, the day of my Caylen's passing. She was still in the room with us. She had been for hours. I couldn't bring myself to let her go. I was distraught and not thinking clearly at all. I couldn't even fathom sending her down to the cold morgue, alone. My cousin being the shining soul that he is tried lightening the mood. He played his song for us. It was myself, my husband, his parents, my parents, my grandmother, my cousin and his wife in the room. At the end of the song we all hear a tiny girl's voice saying "I'm ok, goodbye." The room was quite for a few minutes before my husband starts crying and asks if anyone else heard it. We all heard it. My cousin verified it was not part of the song we wrote and sang. We replayed the song and replayed the song. No one heard it again.

    Fast forward few days. I am at the funeral home with her, next to her tiny casket where I stayed from the moment they opened until they closed for 2 days. The night of her visitation, after everyone had left, my parents, in-laws and husband had gone to get some dinner, I didn't want to go. I was sitting there holding her tiny hand, my mom and husband come back in to take me home. I was crying hysterically and didn't want to leave. I knew the next day she would be buried and that would be the last time I see her, again we all 3 hear "I'm ok, goodbye." In a tiny girl's voice. I have not heard those words since.

    I have chills up my spine. I'm so sorry sweetness. I understand.
    fitin50s2 wrote: »
    I have had a few but this one sticks with me most and I have never really talked about it except amongst those that experienced it with me. This will be hard to type, I will be crying by the end.

    My first pregnancy ended tragically, almost 17 years ago. She passed during childbirth a few weeks before her due date. My cousin is a brilliant musician and had written a song about his autistic son. He had just recorded it the night before and was excited to share it. He came to the hospital later in the afternoon, the day of my Caylen's passing. She was still in the room with us. She had been for hours. I couldn't bring myself to let her go. I was distraught and not thinking clearly at all. I couldn't even fathom sending her down to the cold morgue, alone. My cousin being the shining soul that he is tried lightening the mood. He played his song for us. It was myself, my husband, his parents, my parents, my grandmother, my cousin and his wife in the room. At the end of the song we all hear a tiny girl's voice saying "I'm ok, goodbye." The room was quite for a few minutes before my husband starts crying and asks if anyone else heard it. We all heard it. My cousin verified it was not part of the song we wrote and sang. We replayed the song and replayed the song. No one heard it again.

    Fast forward few days. I am at the funeral home with her, next to her tiny casket where I stayed from the moment they opened until they closed for 2 days. The night of her visitation, after everyone had left, my parents, in-laws and husband had gone to get some dinner, I didn't want to go. I was sitting there holding her tiny hand, my mom and husband come back in to take me home. I was crying hysterically and didn't want to leave. I knew the next day she would be buried and that would be the last time I see her, again we all 3 hear "I'm ok, goodbye." In a tiny girl's voice. I have not heard those words since.

    Wow... Speechless and humbled by your strength.
    yayamom3 wrote: »
    I have had a few but this one sticks with me most and I have never really talked about it except amongst those that experienced it with me. This will be hard to type, I will be crying by the end.

    My first pregnancy ended tragically, almost 17 years ago. She passed during childbirth a few weeks before her due date. My cousin is a brilliant musician and had written a song about his autistic son. He had just recorded it the night before and was excited to share it. He came to the hospital later in the afternoon, the day of my Caylen's passing. She was still in the room with us. She had been for hours. I couldn't bring myself to let her go. I was distraught and not thinking clearly at all. I couldn't even fathom sending her down to the cold morgue, alone. My cousin being the shining soul that he is tried lightening the mood. He played his song for us. It was myself, my husband, his parents, my parents, my grandmother, my cousin and his wife in the room. At the end of the song we all hear a tiny girl's voice saying "I'm ok, goodbye." The room was quite for a few minutes before my husband starts crying and asks if anyone else heard it. We all heard it. My cousin verified it was not part of the song we wrote and sang. We replayed the song and replayed the song. No one heard it again.

    Fast forward few days. I am at the funeral home with her, next to her tiny casket where I stayed from the moment they opened until they closed for 2 days. The night of her visitation, after everyone had left, my parents, in-laws and husband had gone to get some dinner, I didn't want to go. I was sitting there holding her tiny hand, my mom and husband come back in to take me home. I was crying hysterically and didn't want to leave. I knew the next day she would be buried and that would be the last time I see her, again we all 3 hear "I'm ok, goodbye." In a tiny girl's voice. I have not heard those words since.

    That is the most beautiful story. Thank you for sharing your precious experience with your little angel. I am so very sorry for your loss.

    Thank you, I didn't expect responses but thank you. Sometimes I just need to talk about her.
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