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I Think I Saw My Nana’s Spirit

Hello everyone! Here is my second post in this subreddit. Like i said in my first post if you saw it, I have had many experiences, but I am sharing them all separately. This is another experience that I had years ago. Here’s the story:

About a year after my nana passed away, I was at her house, and my mom and my pappy were on the porch talking. I walked down the steps and onto the sidewalk, and across the street I saw this wispy, shadow figure appear, glide right passed me, and disappear. I was in total shock when I saw this. I believe it was my nana letting me know she loves me and is in Heaven. I would love to know what your opinions are of this. Have a great day/night everyone!😊

1 Comment
2024/04/04
05:27 UTC

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St. Nicholas Day Experience

Hello everyone! I have some experiences that I would like to share with everyone, but I’m going to do it in separate posts. I have been trying to post these, but I keep having to delete the posts because I can’t tell if they are showing up in people’s feeds or not. Hopefully this will show up in the feed. Anyways, I wanted to share an experience that happened back on December 6th, 2023 (St. Nicholas Day). Here’s the story:

So to start, I want to say that there was this light in our bathroom that didn’t work for months. It just stopped working someday for some reason, and it would never turn on. This is important to know for later. Well on St. Nicholas Day Eve (St. Nicholas is the real saint who inspired Santa Claus), I prayed to God and asked him to please let St. Nicholas come to my house while I was sleeping to leave the gift of his spirit. I also asked God for a St. Nicholas Day experience. St. Nicholas is always depicted as coming to children’s houses on St. Nicholas Day Eve to leave a small gift in their shoe. Anyways, I woke up the next morning on St. Nicholas Day, and my mom’s boyfriend went in the bathroom, and he accidentally flipped the light switch that hadn’t worked for a long time, but it actually started working on its own again. I wanted a St. Nicholas Day experience, and I believe that was my experience because it was a little miracle that the light just started working again on its own, and out of all days on St. Nicholas Day, the day after I prayed for St. Nicholas to come to my house while I was sleeping. I believe the light getting fixed was St. Nicholas’ gift to us. I just thought I would share this. Let me know your opinions. I hope everyone has a great day/night!

3 Comments
2024/04/04
04:58 UTC

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What was the moment when you learnt that ghosts aren't a fiction?

50 Comments
2024/04/04
04:45 UTC

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Egregor, what qualifies?

Could an archetype of a human role be an egregor? Could a family scapegoat be an egregor?

5 Comments
2024/04/04
04:39 UTC

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Gray cloaked being standing in my staircase

It was Tuesday March 12th 2024 at 2am sharp. Before this I was dreaming about some aggressive cats attacking me around a house that I could only enter through a balcony ladder, anyways, I woke up out of that dream and look over towards my open bedroom door where my stairwell is located, I saw a gray ruffled cloaked 3 foot tall being standing at the top of the stairwell, when I first saw it I blinked my eyes a few times thinking I was hallucinating, it was still there after clearing my vision, it seemed to just be staring there frozen, observing me. My first instinct was to jump out of bed and rush right towards it, that’s exactly what I did, as I marched towards the being, it smoothly and without any sound or panic, glided down the stairs and disappeared. Has anyone experienced this before. I never in my life saw anything like this.

5 Comments
2024/04/04
02:20 UTC

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Hi! So my cat currently alive

So I’ve been seeing things out of the corner of my eye. I’m hard of hearing but will hear a tv like thing upstairs. Today I panicked I pulled up and my cat is at the window normally he wasn’t. When I pulled in more, I saw the same exact cat I have run off and I panicked. Then saw him inside. I am so confused

7 Comments
2024/04/04
02:00 UTC

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Sleep recording

Has anyone ever recorded themselves during sleep either video or audio, and found paranormal activity? I’m nervous to do it because I feel like I’m going to hear or see something I don’t want to. I’ve had paranormal experiences before but idk something like that would creep me out on another level

7 Comments
2024/04/04
01:33 UTC

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My friend said there is a ghost in her window, but all I see is a Hag? Please tell me she’s crazy?

My friend Jessica says theirs a ghost in her window, she’s 45 so she’s not joking. Please tell me you agree, that can’t be a ghost in that window right?

36 Comments
2024/04/04
01:08 UTC

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terrified after ouija board experience

TLDR: Paranoia after ouija board experience. Can’t stop thinking about it terrified of demon attachment.

Someone please help ease my mind!!! Me and my friends were messing around with a homemade cardboard ouija board and it spelled out zozo (we cut the connection when it started spelling zozo) and my friend let it count down to 1 and then say goodbye. This has given me fear the past few days after this and I cannot ease my mind. I am a Christian and I do believe in jesus and god and everything surrounding that and I do know I was silly by messing with a ouija board but after this I cannot rid the thought of ouija board and demons out of my mind. Nothing paranormal has happened to me and I am not seeing things but this may sound silly but I’m terrified that a demon possibly attached to me. I have horrible OCD so this may be the reason of my never ending thoughts about it and a little easing of the mind would be much appreciated.. never touching an ouija board again in my life ever!!

20 Comments
2024/04/04
00:35 UTC

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South Carolina Plantation

Snapped this photo at Middleton Plantation in South Carolina. There’s a mysterious glow tucked away in the tree line but there was nothing there that was visible in person.

38 Comments
2024/04/04
00:14 UTC

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Most paranormal happens while we are falling asleep or waking up.

Why is it that most paranormal instances happen during these 2 state of mind? I’ve had 2 occurrences that could be considered paranormal, except I cannot say for certain that it happened, as I was half asleep. Could it be that it is just our half asleep brain dreaming these instances and our half awake brain thinking that it really happened?

9 Comments
2024/04/03
23:41 UTC

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Minnesota Iceman

I am researching claims of people encountering unidentified creatures in the Superior National Forest near Whiteface Reservoir. Some have claimed to see and hear strange things while they stayed at the campgrounds and others even reported waking up to finding things other than food missing from their camp, like tools. I know this local lore goes back decades and is even the same location where Frank D. Hansen reported to shoot an unknown Ape-faced creature that he later dubbed the "Minnesota Iceman" later freezing the specimen in a block of ice and touring the country with this exhibit. Would love to hear any recent accounts like these from anyone who has visited the area.

https://preview.redd.it/k1pe9u7swcsc1.jpg?width=670&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa5507a4740fc4c1b848c9a3c585ded1d9b19c68

6 Comments
2024/04/03
21:59 UTC

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Does anyone else have a mix up with oujia board occurrences?

Anytime me or my friends have had oujia board experiences, with each other or other friends. We all remember it completely differently and don't remember each other's experiences.

This is weird to me because we all remember our individual experiences like they were yesterday. At first I thought they were joking because it scared them so bad.

This happen to anybody else?

4 Comments
2024/04/03
21:51 UTC

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Where is the best place to put my haunted raggedy Anne up for sale besides eBay?

Already listed on eBay, just wondering where else there would be someone willing to purchase it. I don’t want the damn thing.

13 Comments
2024/04/03
21:00 UTC

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Edinburgh Photo Mystery - Unexplained Figure in Polaroid

Hey everyone,

This past year, while visiting Edinburgh, Scotland, my girlfriend and I had an unsettling experience that's left us spooked. We were posing for a photo in front of the National Monument of Scotland and specifically remember there being no one else around. Climbing the monument isn't exactly easy, so it would have been very noticeable if someone else was there.

We asked a stranger to snap a picture of us with a polaroid camera. A few minutes later, when the photo developed, we were both shocked. In the picture, you can clearly see my girlfriend and me standing on the left side of the frame. But on the right… well, there's something else entirely.

It's difficult to make out many details, thanks to the polaroid format, but there's definitely a figure standing right next to me, possibly even slightly in front. We can't explain it. We're certain no one was there when the photo was taken.

This whole thing has us freaked out a bit, so any insight from the community would be greatly appreciated.

119 Comments
2024/04/03
18:45 UTC

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How do I cleanse

So I know the traditional holy water and burning sage but I have problems with both of those. I have a problem with the sage because my girlfriend is extremely allergic to it and she's mainly the one that needs to be cleaned, and I have a problem with the water simply because idk if it's real. I mean I guess I could just take water to a priest and have him bless it, but the only one I knew I can't find anymore. It was kinda strange how he showed up too. So I work at a lumberyard and this priest would always come in and get 2 6x6x12 treated posts and nothing else and then just bless someone and give them a crucifix while he was here, and once he had given everybody one he justed disappeared with no trace. So if you guys could help me find alternate cleansing methods I'd appreciate it.

5 Comments
2024/04/03
18:40 UTC

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Tapping on my car seat

So, yesterday morning I was sitting in my car before work. I had some pretty rough days at my job, I was having some nasty thoughts about my life. All of a sudden I felt someone knocking firmly on the seat of my car. It felt so real, it literally pushed me. I turned around and no one was there. Some thoughts on this?

2 Comments
2024/04/03
18:10 UTC

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what is this? is it anything paranormal?

okay so for context this was on the 29th of august 2020 and me and my sister were on the train on our way home from the cinema. i was sending a picture of just the background for a snap streak and then when i looked at the picture i saw that, when i looked out of the window i couldnt see anything. i literally have no clue what it could be because obviously the train moves fast and stuff can look distorted. if anyone has any idea what this is please give your opinions!!!🩷

33 Comments
2024/04/03
16:59 UTC

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was i hallucinating?

this happened just the other day. i was doing some of my overdue school in my grandmas room. i was sitting on the floor because the distance between her bed and my school laptop charger (i’m homeschooled) is too long for my laptop so i had to either go on the very edge of her bed or on the floor, and chose the ladder. i was nearing the end of my assignment when grandma was in the bathroom dancing. since she was doing her thing, i decided to go in her closet to just to take a break from my assignment. i went to the very end of her closet; because that’s where i hide in her closet just to prank her. her closet is rectangular shape and kinda medium size; it’s big enough of atleast me, my sister, her, and my mom to fit inside side by side together. i was sitting in her closet when i hear something that sounded like breathing. now it’s important to note that my grandma has a lot of clothes and other stuff in her closet. i was sitting behind of what i assumed was some of her dresses. so i was sitting down behind a few of her dresses when i heard something similar to breathing. yes, breathing. it sounded like someone was taking a deep exhale in her closet. i was the ONLY one in her closet. when i heard that, i immediately got uncomfortable. i moved some of the clothes infront of me to see what could’ve possibly made that sound. nothing. there was nothing that could’ve made that sound that was soo similar to someone breathing. so i got out of her closet and continued my work. she got out of the bathroom a few minutes later. i didn’t bring it up to her because i knew what i heard could’ve been something else. your mind could play tricks on you but not like that. now it’s important to note that a few minutes before this, i asked her “is it just or are you feeling tired? my eyes feel a little tired.”. i was feeling a little tired before this, and went to bed after i had gotten done with my assignment.

idek if i was hallucinating due to sleep deprivation or if i actually heard a breathing like sound in her closet. what do you guys think?

3 Comments
2024/04/03
15:42 UTC

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Lady in purple

I'm pretty sure I saw a ghost. Just for a little bit of context I live and was born in England but am Italian . My family own property in Italy. We used to drive over from England to Italy for the summer school holidays. One of these years we went to Emilia-Romagna which is where my granddad's village is situated. Whilst driving thought we decided to visit the local castle . The Castle of Bardi. I must have been anything from around 6 or 7 years . The castle from what I remember has staff and is more of a museum.

I'm not going to go in and out of the details I'm just going to keep it really brief. Whilst in the castle we walked around all the halls. We saw all the normal castle stuff like torture equipment, old paintings and museum curiosities from the era. My mum read the little information bords to me about the castle which I didn't really listen to. As a kid I only wanted to see Knights armor and weapons. I wondered off a little bit from my mum but no more than round the corner of one of the corridors. From what I remember the corridor was bright and well lit. I was just in a normal corridor nothing special. Not like a bedroom or creepy sella. Just a long fancy corridor. This is when I saw a woman walking towards me. She wasn't directly heading towards me, she was just walking down the corridor towards where I just came. She was walking at some pace as if she was late to something. For a split second I saw nothing wrong with this until I really looked at her. She wasn't see-through or smoky or anything like that. If that would have been the case I would have definitely run off screaming . Her skin was super white with a yellow tinge and big dark purple bags under her eyes. Her eye bags looked more like bruises, purple and black in colour. She looked really sick. It was like how old horror movies depict people raising from the dead. She was wearing really strange attire. She was dressed in a medieval style purple dress with a high collar. There was nothing modern about the dress. Her clothes weren't like goth clothes or some eccentric style she was definitely in period clothes. As she went to almost pass me she stared directly at me. She looked annoyed but not at me. Just like she was pissed off and happened to see me. She held her gaze for longer than you would look at a stranger as if she was shocked that I could see her or was gobsmacked by how rude I was being. Of course I don't know why she looked at me like that but it did seem she was not happy. She then walked off down the corridor and out of sight.

I then went to find my mum and told her about the whole situation. She just said "it must of been an actor". She then just carried on walking. The woman in the purple dress must of had to pass her. The fact that she didn't seem spooked at all made me just forget about it.

I didn't think anything of this situation for years. It was about five years ago (15 years ago from the event) I was talking about what happened . I wasn't necessarily saying I saw a ghost just retelling what I saw. My mum just stopped and looked really uncomfortable. I said "what?" she went on to explain her what she remembered from that day. She said I came to her really upset and scared of a lady in purple that I saw . She then said just as I rememberd that she belived there must have been actors. My mum then went on to explain as we were leaving she spoke to the reception staff. She asked if there was any actors or some kind of show on, and they said "no". She then mentioned what I had just seen to the staff.the staff member then replied with something like "yeah people see stuff here" in a really casual manor.

She never mentioned this to me as she new it would freak me out. She didn't bother mentioning it to my dad as he is super cynical. She also didn't tell any of my siblings as she didn't want to upset them.

Years later I'm thinking about it now. I keep listening to supernatural and paranormal audiobooks on YouTuber like the ones from Lets Read. I still don't know what I saw. I never had that type of imagination as a kid. I never had imaginary friends or suffered a hallucination. I have a good imagination but never anything like this. Looking into the castle's history there has been ghost sightings there before but who knows. The ghost that wonders is apparently a male in armour.

I don't really believe in ghost or spirits but what I saw was weird and just wanted to know if anyone has had a similar experience of just seeing a person . Also apologies for my bad spelling or grammar.

2 Comments
2024/04/03
16:00 UTC

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He said that if I leave the sect there will be consequences, the paranormal kind

It's been a few years since I joined this group, and lately I really don't want to continue this path, it just doesn't feel right for me anymore and I want to follow my heart. I want to start by saying that English is not my first language, I will try my best to explain what's been happening.

Since a few months ago I had a lot of changes in my personal life and I've been reflecting on where I want to be spiritually and how being a part of this organization felt like the right thing for me and my spiritual path back then, but it's not the case anymore. Some situations over the last few months have made me really put in perspective everything inside the order, and I see a lot of inconsistencies and honestly I am disappointed because everything really seems to be about money.

I expressed my desire to no longer be a part of this to my close friend who introduced me to the order, and he said that I should be careful with that because there's been a lot of cases of people suffering some extreme weird situations (paranormal and psychical accidents) once they leave. Whether he said it to scare me or not, I do feel scared and I don't know what to do. I really don't want to put my life at risk. How can I even protect myself if this is a lot of people dealing with magic.

30 Comments
2024/04/03
15:34 UTC

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Crazy experience from when I was 6

when I was 6 my sister and my cousin were making me play dress up as a male I was mad and when I looked to the hallway my dog started to bark as soon as I looked my cousins brother ran to the bathroom and when he ran past me I saw me from what I think was 7 feet in the air for like 19 seconds straight and thats when I stared into my own eyes , its never happened again but if anyone has awnsers please let me know

11 Comments
2024/04/03
14:50 UTC

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So something happened to me while I was playing a game

I had my headset on playing a competitive counter strike game, on the left side of my headset there was a heavy tap, like I felt it press in a little on the side of my face. The first thing I did was turn on my light to look around to see if anything hit it. There was nothing on the ground anywhere nearby. Then I thought maybe it was the speaker in the headset but there’s no way because it works just fine still and it definitely came from the outside of the headset. There is nothing in the vicinity that could’ve even flew off and hit it, at least with a logical explanation(being something below my head.) So yeah I have no idea what happened, my roommate has had an experience. And this happened within the week of him telling me what happened to him, so that’s kinda weird.

6 Comments
2024/04/03
13:05 UTC

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I feel like someone is playing with or caressing my hair while trying to sleep.

Hi, 18f here. I try to keep it short.

I’ve noticed that most of the times I’m going to sleep I start to feel as if someone is playing with my hair or caressing it very slowly. It never hurts, it actually feels kinda nice and comforting. It doesn’t bother me but the first couple of times I got chills. This feeling is really clear.

And no, I don’t think it’s because of wind. Sometimes I fall asleep on the couch, sometimes in my own room, and this also happens when I live with my father. (My parents are divorced)

28 Comments
2024/04/03
13:01 UTC

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Finally caught the ghost on camera!!

I've been experiencing things for the past few months in our rental home. Finally got some cameras in hopes of capturing something. Well, I had captured some very interesting orbs, lots of them. That was it though. But just this morning I captured it. With everything that I've been experiencing, it just has to be. I dont know what else this could be. You can see it fade in like its trying to manifest. Then goes back the way it came and turns into a smoke. Very strange.

30 Comments
2024/04/03
12:15 UTC

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real or fake? for the longest time i’ve loved to watch, listen and read paranormal stuff but the thing

is i just don’t think any of it is real tbh. so i just want to talk and maybe people can send me like videos of their evidence? cause i love all things scary i just don’t believe in any of it, i am not sure if i just think the worst of people but i just think any video i see is like “fake” yk like it’s gotta be staged but i want to talk to people and genuinely listen to what you guys think about ghost and such. cause ive played with oujia boards like so many times and nothing happens and people just tell me “oh its not a good time” and i just want to know if anyone has any evidence in their camera roll like if you wanted to convince me what would you show me to help me along.

8 Comments
2024/04/03
07:04 UTC

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My Grandad sees his Grandmother (my Great Great Grandmother) sometimes

Apparently she’s there sometimes and says Hello (My Grandad‘s name) and disappears after a while. This started happening last October and it stopped up until this week. I’m not usually a believer in the supernatural but this is some weird stuff. What could this be a sign of?

4 Comments
2024/04/03
08:38 UTC

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Family members buy 100 year old house. This picture was taken in the attic by 12 yr old niece.

If you blow up pic. and look beside boxes in the mirror.. looks like a little sitting on something work his knees drawn up. Is this real?

50 Comments
2024/04/03
06:58 UTC

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I’ve only received signs from a dead uncle and my childhood cat, but not my biological parent

Growing up, I had an uncle that I seen occasionally at family reunions. I barely interacted with him, but we had one moment where we had a shared interest of the paranormal. Over time, he eventually passed away. When I was 16, I had a dream that I was getting stoned with some friends when there was a knock at the door. Everything was super bright. When I answered the door, it was him. He never said a word, but I think he hugged me? We never very close, but as I grew older, I felt like that his way of telling me that “the other side” is real. Our only real interaction ever was a brief discussion on him being a ghost hunter.

When I was in a delusional episode, I believed I was psychic and that source had told me that my childhood cat was angry with me for the circumstances around his death. I felt guilt and it ate away at me. After days of this, I had a dream of my cat being alive again. He was letting me stroke him and the dream ended with me hugging him. I woke up covered in tears - and I hadn’t seen or thought much about this cat since I was a teenager. I felt as though it was his way of correcting my delusion.

But my father passed away in 2019. We had a very rocky, difficult relationship. I’ve never gotten a true hint or idea he is still around.

2 Comments
2024/04/03
06:16 UTC

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