Has anyone experienced any unexplained or paranormal/déjà vu events?

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Shalimar

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Who among us has encountered experiences outside the realm of science/logic? Deja vu, extreme empathy, patterns that seem to defy coincidence, unexpected healing, paranormal events etc. Non believers, please be respectful of those who feel otherwise.:love_heart:
 

I'm convinced that I lived in a house that was "haunted" by the previous inhabitant who died shortly before we moved in. It took about three weeks for the strange things to stop happening.....THEN we found out from the neighbors about him. The landlady didn't see fit to inform us that the man had died in his sleep only a week before we rented the house from her. She moved his stuff out and had it up for rent two days after he died. I'm not big on the woo-woo stuff, but I know there was something really, really strange going on in that house. I think he finally realized that he was dead and moved on. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.
 
In our family we have had quite a few things that we refer to as "unusual incidents" but we normally do not discuss them outside the family. Although when we have it's interesting how many other people will say the same things or similar happened to them but they were afraid to tell anyone. I have company coming over in a few minutes but later I might think of something I can tell you about without sounding like to much like a mental case.
 

My mom (a very religious person) always listened to what she called the Voice of God. She said that he would warn her about dangers, and also give her suggestions about things that would benefit her in life.
One of the most dramatic times that this happened was when I was a very young girl. It was Memorial Day weekend, and we had the trunk of the car packed with fresh bouquets from Mom's garden to take up to the next town (where we had family buried) and put on the graves.
Besides my mom and dad, we had the neighbor family; so the whole car was also packed with people.

This was in the early Fifties, and the highways (at least in northern Idaho) were always narrow and wind-y, and partway there, you had to go through a Z-shaped underpass beneath the railroad tracks.
You could not see anything that was coming from the other direction because of the sharp corners on both sides of the underpass.

Just as we got to the underpass, my mom suddenly pulled clear off of the road and stopped. Before anyone could even ask her why she did that, a huge car-transport semi came through the underpass.
He was going too fast to safely make the sharp turns through the underpass, and very nearly crashed into the concrete walls along OUR side of the road.
If my mom had not stopped right when she did, we would literally have been crushed between the semi-truck and the concrete wall of the underpass, and probably have all died right then and there.

When we asked her how she knew to stop when she did, she just said that God had told her to stop immediately. Thankfully, my mother was listening to Him.
 
jujube said:
I'm convinced that I lived in a house that was "haunted" by the previous inhabitant who died shortly before we moved in. It took about three weeks for the strange things to stop happening.....THEN we found out from the neighbors about him. The landlady didn't see fit to inform us that the man had died in his sleep only a week before we rented the house from her. She moved his stuff out and had it up for rent two days after he died. I'm not big on the woo-woo stuff, but I know there was something really, really strange going on in that house. I think he finally realized that he was dead and moved on. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.
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Very believable, JuJube. Some believe the person does not completely leave for a period of time, usually 7 days to 2 weeks. In that time frame they can communicate with family, etc. I've often wondered if that isn't how "purgatory" got started?

And why do I believe? Because my mother came to visit me a week after she passed, just to tell me she was okay, but wouldn't be coming again as she was "moving on". And no, this was not a dream. I was wide awake and was startled. But also reassured.

For years I hesitated to mention this, but when I finally did so, I found others who had had the same experiences.
 
In the old house that my great grandfather built, I had several "odd" experiences in my room. I was quite young and isolated from the rest of the house. Several times, I had a large walkin closet, I would close the closet door before going to bed. I was awakened many nights and watched the door open by itself and then close.
Another time I had a brilliant light shine in my dormer window, which was on the second floor. There was no way anyone could climb up there and shine a light in the room. Aliens?:confused:

I imagine this is why I slept most nights with my head covered. That, and the fact there was no heat to my room. Brrr.
 
Yes, but when I tell people they try to explain it rationally.
In one place I was living the previous owner had died recently and the apt we were in had been his special recreational rooms in the basement.
I used to see light shimmering across my dresser mirror that had no known source as the drapes were closed and there were no lamps around.
 
Only after my husband died. It took him about 6 weeks to leave the house.. I know this for certain, because the dog could see him and was half crazy.. I suppose it was because his death was so unexpected and such a shock... both to me and to him. I don't think he believed it himself.
 
I've seen people for a few seconds up to a few minutes here and there (when I was awake) but I've thought they were astral travelers and not people who have died. People who left their bodies sleeping in bed and went off for a bit of travel (Some remember it when they wake up but most don't). I have seen a few that I thought were the spirits of dead people mainly because of the way they were dressed or how curious they were about modern things in my house. I know of 3 people who have had relatives who died show up years later to talk or comfort them for a short time. It's never happened to me. There are 3 of us who are writing down our experiences and plan to make a book or something for our family.
 
Yes, I am convinced we had one living with us for a spell. It was just my daughter and I for a while, we heard unusual but not frightening things. We saw strange reactions from our dog at the time, as well as the odd, unexplainable gentle touch out of nowhere. Then a room mate moved in and she too felt and heard unusual things that nobody could explain. We often shared our stories about what was happening and all 3 of us believed we were visited by something friendly but mysterious. After a number of years our "being" just vanished (interestingly about the time our dog moved away).
 
Linda said:
I've seen people for a few seconds up to a few minutes here and there (when I was awake) but I've thought they were astral travelers and not people who have died. People who left their bodies sleeping in bed and went off for a bit of travel (Some remember it when they wake up but most don't). I have seen a few that I thought were the spirits of dead people mainly because of the way they were dressed or how curious they were about modern things in my house. I know of 3 people who have had relatives who died show up years later to talk or comfort them for a short time. It's never happened to me. There are 3 of us who are writing down our experiences and plan to make a book or something for our family.
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Reading your comment made me remember that movie with Nicole Kidman in it called The Others. It was a great movie with a surprise twist at the end.

As for the astral travelling, I know a guy who had that experience once except he did remember it. Said it was very confusing at the time to look back at the bed and see 'someone' in bed with his wife....only to realize that it was himself.
 
Debby said:
Reading your comment made me remember that movie with Nicole Kidman in it called The Others. It was a great movie with a surprise twist at the end.

As for the astral travelling, I know a guy who had that experience once except he did remember it. Said it was very confusing at the time to look back at the bed and see 'someone' in bed with his wife....only to realize that it was himself.
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I was just thinking about The Others a few days ago. I would like to see that movie again.

I have seen my husband come back and walk to his side of the bed and merge back into his body and last time he had his little dog with him and it was weird to see this as the dog gave me a funny look as he merged into his little doggie body sleeping in our bed but my husband remembers none of it. I always wake him up and ask him if he remembers anything but he never does.

I've enjoyed reading all the experiences people have posted here so far.
 
I experience deja vu fairly frequently but am never sure if it's genuine or the aftermath of survivng the 1960's.
I've seen traces of people, what some might call ghosts. I've felt a "presence" only once and it was scary. While I was in bed, it lifted a strand of my hair then let it fall back in my face then it laughed. I've never experienced anything like that since and this was many years ago.
My cats would frequently stare off into space at nothing or what seems like nothing to humans, but I've heard cats often do that.

Interesting thread.
 
1Gary said:
Got to the end of this cigarette and then I'm done.Tell me........more.,
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I was very depressed and was sitting alone in a room. I felt someone was there (spirit, guardian angel even) letting me know I'd be okay. And I was.

I get very nervous at job interviews. So when walking to one I asked my spirit or whatever it was to help me. Got to the interview room and people kept flowing in - about 8 of them. It was just for a secretarial position! So I got very panicky. Suddenly I felt a 'click' and was as calm as could be. Had a great interview.

I had an online companion ad placed in Ireland. After 11 months I started to think this will not work. Then something/one told me to be positive - positive thinking would work. Ding ding ding. Married the man who answered my ad just before the 12 month subscription had run out.
 
fishfulthinking said:
Yes, I am convinced we had one living with us for a spell. It was just my daughter and I for a while, we heard unusual but not frightening things. We saw strange reactions from our dog at the time, as well as the odd, unexplainable gentle touch out of nowhere. Then a room mate moved in and she too felt and heard unusual things that nobody could explain. We often shared our stories about what was happening and all 3 of us believed we were visited by something friendly but mysterious. After a number of years our "being" just vanished (interestingly about the time our dog moved away).
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Some dogs are VERY much more receptive than others. At the time of my husbands death, we had 3 dogs.. Only one.. a little Sheltie named Dylan could see him.. The poor thing was terrified and I don't understand why because he was used to my husband being there.. but for some reason, the spirit version scared him. He would refuse to go into certain rooms at times or walk up the stairs.. he certainly was seeing something that I or the other two dogs didn't see.
 
My daughter, the one pictured with my mother over in the "Moms" thread, just moved in to an old house with her boyfriend of 8 years (i know, right?). They have experience many odd sounds etc, for instance, it was nighttime and they were in the house. Her car was out in the driveway, LOCKED. They're in a remote spot, wooded, down a long driveway, around a lake, hidden from the main road. All of a sudden they heard her security alarm go off in her car, ran out, and saw the lights were on. They couldn't get in the car until she could find her keys in the bottom of her purse.
 
I get deja vu quite often and did even as a child, and don't think much about it. I don't get paranormal experiences any more, as my life is pretty mundane. I used to get things happen years ago when I was interested in eastern philosophy and parapsychology.
 
I used to get a lot of deja vu moments as a child and occasionally as an adult, but rarely these days. I know they have been explained in a scientific way, but can't recall how. I have had other odd unexplainable experiences, one was when my granddaughter died, both myself and her mother (my daughter) experienced her presence.
I have since rationalised it as some sort of brain delusion created by the effect of extreme grief:dunno:
 
merlin said:
I used to get a lot of deja vu moments as a child and occasionally as an adult, but rarely these days. I know they have been explained in a scientific way, but can't recall how. I have had other odd unexplainable experiences, one was when my granddaughter died, both myself and her mother (my daughter) experienced her presence.
I have since rationalised it as some sort of brain delusion created by the effect of extreme grief:dunno:
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Very interesting, Merlin
My family has had "harbingers of death" experiences which could be just superstition. We're all hyper aware of birds flying into windows. My grandfather believed this foretold of death and when he died a bird flew into OUR window. Just before my beloved grandmother's death a favorite potted plant of hers fell off the mantel in our dining room to the floor (carpeted) and broke. My mom said " Nana died." And we got a call from the hospital confirming this. It's just weird and inexplicable.
 
chic said:
Very interesting, Merlin
My family has had "harbingers of death" experiences which could be just superstition. We're all hyper aware of birds flying into windows. My grandfather believed this foretold of death and when he died a bird flew into OUR window. Just before my beloved grandmother's death a favorite potted plant of hers fell off the mantel in our dining room to the floor (carpeted) and broke. My mom said " Nana died." And we got a call from the hospital confirming this. It's just weird and inexplicable.
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My daughter Caroline wanted to contact her daughter somehow after the death, so I did take her to a couple of clairvoyants, but though she got some comfort, nothing really came from it. I am sceptical of all these happenings being mystical, but grief can affect us in odd ways, and who really knows the truth about life and death anyway :confused:
 
Debby said:
As for the astral travelling, I know a guy who had that experience once except he did remember it. Said it was very confusing at the time to look back at the bed and see 'someone' in bed with his wife....only to realize that it was himself.
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Happened to me once. I was floating at the ceiling of my bedroom, looking down on myself sleeping. Was so startled, I immediately woke up. But I did, still do, remember the experience. I'm not surprised as there have been so many instances of people on the operating table having that same experience.
 

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