my mum has cancer, She was diagnosed 4 years ago. The past week there is a very strong smell coming from her, even after she’s showered and brushed her teeth. It’s pungent, sweet like rotting fruit. Nobody else can smell it on her. It’s so strong it fills the house and makes me want to throw up! I’ve read that some people can smell a particular smell when someone is dying which is often described as how I’ve described it- sweet/rotting fruit. She said she’s feeling absolutely fine, but I’m scared and I don’t know what to do.

NOTE: I understand and know that animals are able to detect such things, but I’m wondering about human experiences of this.

Paranormal Sceptics, please help me! This ghost likes Collingwood…

First off, I honestly don’t believe in the paranormal or ghosts, however I’m happy for people to believe in that to join into the post (I am posting this to a paranormal subreddit for help after all) and promise I’m not coming from an invalidating standpoint. I just want to be upfront that I’m an agnostic athiest on this stuff. At the end of the day the world does observe things it can’t explain, and even paranormal believers can have a scientific methodology and approach to the paranormal to collect useful information and data to assist others. The intent for my post is to find a logical and rational explanation for something, or if it can’t be explained hopefully offer more data and information to sceptics, scientists, paranormal believers, and everyone else.

Anyway to get into my story and what I’m looking for a logical explanation on, is I’ve had really weird weird things happen in a place I used to rent, am in contact with the new renters as I helped find them, and they have experienced the exact same weirdness but never told me… until now, after they have moved out, new tenants are in, and they experienced the same thing and told the old tenants who told me, the tenant before them. I also told the new tenant of the weird things I experienced which I’ll get into, but just be rest assured the weird stuff is harmless and kind of funny, we just can’t find any logical explanation, but we can come to an Occam’s razor explanation quite simply if the paranormal and ghosts happened to be real. But we are all also sceptics and just trying to find any logical explanation lol.

Anyway, to get into my story and the weird stuff that happens…

A few years ago I moved into a second story apartment that had a floor above and below me. The floor plans for this place suggest that there are no unknown places for squatters to hide in in our apartments unless they get into the top floor roof or hide in our built in wardrobes and cabinets (I’m an architect with experience in commercial real estate and my landlord gave me lots of info on the place). When I inspected the place prior to moving in, obviously there were lots of people also inspecting, and nothing seemed “off”.

When I did move in and something I wouldn’t realise when I moved in because it was the first time I was alone in the place, was I had the weirdest feeling someone else or something else like an animal was in the apartment with me, but to explain the feeling it didn’t seem dark or menacing and didn’t raise my anxiety, I was more just curious and confused why I had this strong feeling, but my strong feeling told me it was safe. There definitely were no people or animals in my apartment. I also didn’t specifically feel “watched”, just that someone or something was present. I tried to logically put it down to my own anxiety.

Nothing much changed from that feeling except a few doors closing shut which I tried to logically put down to open windows… until the other weird stuff I mention below happened and I started documenting “patterns” of how they shut.

Anyway, to get into the third weird thing that happened and this is what I can’t find a logical explanation for, but the above may be relevant or connected to this third weird thing…

The third weird thing that happened during my time living there is that during Australian Football League (AFL) Season, and only during this season, the television would randomly turn on or change channels, and flick to AFL. This happened a few times during football season and being really confused I tried to note down any details I could. It didn’t take me long to workout that only the games with the team Collingwood playing, were the times the television would randomly turn on or change channels. If I turned it off or try to change the channel it would flick back to football, but only while Collingwood were playing. I’ve tried changing the televisions around (I had one in living room and bedroom) and swapping power points and such, even chucking a television in the kitchen, two in the same room, etc, during Collingwood games and I identified this pattern: the television and PowerPoints are irrelevant, but only the biggest television in a living space, not bedroom, would turn on to the Collingwood game. If both televisions were in the bedroom (the only time I seemed to make this thing “mad” but not “scary mad”, more “I did something wrong” mad because both televisions would be turned off and on a few times and then both shut off, like the televisions were in the wrong place, and despite the temporary flick on and off thing it was the only time the televisions would be off for a Collingwood game). I only did it twice though to confirm and put one back in the living spaces afterwards. While I don’t have camera footage (I was collecting evidence for myself, not to convince people of paranormal activity) I did do audio recordings when I knew I would be out of the house and Collingwood had a game and I would leave the apartment with the televisions off, return home with the televisions off, and my audio recording of both televisions confirmed the largest television in the living room played the Collingwood game and the recording started a little bit before the game but after the program started, and ends a little bit after the game is ended but the program isn’t finished yet.

I checked all my televisions settings and there’s absolutely nothing set up on the afl programs nor would anyone with access to my television support Collingwood as a team.

Anyway, after this television thing I decided I would test this door shutting thing since they appeared to shut on their own when the windows were closed, just to dismiss this had anything to do with the televisions and confirm it’s swelling or shrinking of doors. Anyway this method is usually used by engineers, architects, builders, etc, and you can tell if doors are affected by shrinking or swelling because the physics are always a “push”, while humans use both push and pull they tend to pull doors shut. There’s a few tricks you can do to work it out but it essentially revolves around setting something up on both for knobs or the top of the door to work out where the force is coming from. Anyway, after the bells on the doorknob method and doing control experiments, the doors were being pulled, not pushed shut. I thought something must be wrong with how the experiment was set up, but I’ve had an independent check with our usual handyman (who used a different method to do with fixing swelling or shrinking doors) and he said the doors were being pulled and it won’t be the windows, but he did say it was common to find this and he wasn’t sure why they were pulled shut. The other peculiar thing is when it’s the windows, they slam shut, but this seemed like something was shutting it behind them normally like a person, and during my bell on the doorknob method it seemed like the door knob of the room across from me, not the side I share, got turned as the bell turned around the knob, like someone left the room I remained in.

I started documenting when the doors shut when the windows weren’t open and what was happening at the time, and it didn’t take me long to realise it was only when I, who lived alone and didn’t bother closing doors, was doing something that kind of needed social privacy (like going to the toilet, showering or getting changed), and it was always being pulled shut from the room away from me, like whatever it was was a prude lol.

Anyway none of this “scared” me, it just made me laugh because it didn’t suggest anything sinister. That said, I can’t find any logical explanation and neither can the two sets of new tenants, but none of us are alarmed and we think it’s funny.

Our Occam’s razor explanation is that ghosts are real and we have some regular person as a ghost who is not a pervert, gives us privacy and happens to like Collingwood.

We can’t find a logical explanation for the televisions or the doors, but it all makes complete sense if you assume ghosts are real and apply social normality (eg. Lots of people watch football and it’s perverted to watch people dress themselves or go to the toilet). It would also make sense on why it’s not timed to the program but watched the whole game, like someone was considerate I pay for an electricity bill and didn’t like overtimed programs.

Anyway, what are your thoughts? We are all sceptics but can’t find a logical explanation. We all (new tenants too) also say we felt someone or something is there with us, but not in a dark or “being watched” way, but it’s not like we can prove that. If anything it’s more a reassuring feeling because we feel like a dad like figure is there.

We are happy to take a gas leak making us crazy as a logical explanation, we are sceptics after all, but unfortunately the complex does not use gas not connected to gas so no apartments could have a gas leak.

Thoughts?

This is about my childhood when I was in 8th class. One day I heard the sound of footsteps when i was going to my school...it seemed as if someone was walking behind me. But whenever I looked back, no one was there. The next day same happened to me.... and it continuous.....wherever i go. At my bedtime, i heard that voice again and again…that someone was walking near my bed.

Then one day I was worshiping in the temple outside my city when suddenly the Pandita of the temple called me whom I had met for the first time. She asked me that are you experiencing some kind of trouble or the sound of footsteps where ever you go. Color of my face turned pale after hearing her words. In extreme nervousness, i said to her no no.....all is well. Then she chanted a mantra and told me that this experience would not happen after today which is true.
Can anyone explain me what was this??

I have lurked in this sub for answers for a long time. I have never had an interest in the paranormal until it happened to me. After that it happened over and over no matter where I lived. Do personal experiences count (with several witnesses)? Or do I require an investigation to confirm what I have experienced?

So today my cousin(16) and I(16) live together and we were both out cutting down trees to allow some more sunlight to get into our garden and it was darkish outside but still bright enough to cut down another tree or two. While I was about to swing the axe, I see multiple white dots of light shining through the trees and then a few of them disappear but three of them still stayed there. While we were trying walk towards the dots of light we take a few steps forward and then my cousin and I both start hallucinating houses and the houses we were seeing we could both describe to the smallest detail to each other and they got more and more distinct the more we stared at them. I looked to my far left and then saw a massive log cabin and when he looked he saw it too and we could both could describe it perfectly. Him and I both felt like we were in a dream the entire time and felt very drawn towards the houses we saw but didn’t feel scared at all, as a matter of fact we got an eerie sense of comfort from these houses which was super weird. We decided to come inside and just not talk about it and now we are both playing call of duty in his room. An important thing to add is that we live in the middle of the woods in Virginia and we have lived here for six years and we have been through every inch of those woods and we know for a fact there aren’t any houses anywhere close to the woods where were seeing the houses. We double checked on google earth and there was absolutely nothing. Sorry if this was hard to read, I’m typing a lil fast.

Ok so a Family member and thier family have been experiencing wierd stuff in thier house mostly the kids they say they here footsteps and knocks at night and see things as well like in the closet everything started when they rented a room to some friends before that nothing. But the neighbor believes and worship to La santa muerte and me and my parents are Christians. could la muerte or something else use the friends they rented to get in the house or something because they spent time with the neighbors a lot. I mean that's what makes the most sense or dose it not work like that?

Don't even know where to go about this and no this isn't a troll post. But my family has had some weird happenings to us living at the grandparents house. I'm a big skeptic of paranormal stuff I think a lot of it is people's minds playing tricks but I've had far too many paranormal experiences in there house to deny something isn't going on. I've brought friends over that end up having experiences, then end up spending the next day talking about what all has gone on here. Now not to get too into things but I'm starting to think whatever it is feeds off of negative energy and picks weak minded family members to put through pain when there in the house to generate this negative energy. And I'm curious if there's anyone I can reach out to who is experienced in these things to talk to in Colorado.

There’s people that can read our minds and know what we’re thinking/ hear our thoughts

My electromagnetic retriever (EMR) works like a normal EMP but instead of pulsating energy, it sucks it. In theory, it would take the power out from the ghost.

(If I’m not the first person to say this please tell me)

Ghost shadow or Dark Entity at Bribie Island Sunshine Coast Qld https://www.reddit.com/r/Truehorrorencounter/comments/18ybwin/ghost_shadow_at_bribie_island_sunshine_coast_qld/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Ghost shadow or Dark Entity at Bribie Island Sunshine Coast Qld

This is a SubReddit I created to write about something that happened to my siblings cousins and myself at night (December 2023)

I’m not an avid believer of poltergeists or spirits disrupting people’s homes, although my husband and his family have always sworn by it. We moved into a different home about 2 1/2 yrs ago & there have been a few strange things which have occurred within that time, but honestly, I’ve chalked it up to chance or other people’s superstition, and it’s been amusing to me. But recently, there has been a lot of action in our home office, particularly. For instance, the printer will shoot out blank paper a lot. No big deal. But now our tv in there turns on and off all the time. Ehh, a little unsettling. Well, now our motion-activated camera keeps following something here in the office, and that’s a bit unnerving. Before moving in, I used a digital 3D scanning app to upload floor plans to CAD by taking videos inside the house, and discovered a strange triangle shaped phenomenon in my bedroom (about 3’ in diameter) that I couldn’t see in person, but the app was picking up. Another thing to note is that we live on a small lake next to a nature preserve where Indian remains were recently discovered from the Bidai tribe. When we were doing renovation in here before moving in, our construction workers swore up and down that there was a spirit in here, but ‘she was friendly’. My husband says that too. No one feels negatively around it, it just seems strange. Anybody have any advice or thoughts they don’t mind sharing? I know it sounds super hokey…

There has long been a tend to lean towards electrical and magnetic "stuff" and I'm looking to find out other theories on what ghosts might be.

I'm a total skeptic, I don't believe in ghosts at all, or God's, or magic, etc, but it occurs to me that things that humans used to consider magic are now simply science because we know how it works.

It follows that if ghosts are real, there has to be a set of physical laws and limits, that will be consistent, and will be able to be tested, or measured in some way.

I want to hear more theories on what they could be, how they could be tested, etc.

People have been flogging the dead horse of EMFs and so on for decades and it has yielded zero hard, irrefutable evidence. Maybe it's time to try a new thing?

Last year I had a very bad experience with what we believe to be a demon, and ever since then I haven’t been able to sleep the same in the same bed (slept with the lights on every night) a big lamp that illuminates the whole room. I’ve noticed that I haven’t been sleeping well only when it’s In a dark place so I tried it, and I took an hour nap and realized it was the BEST nap I’ve taken in months. What is the cause of that good sleep and should I keep sleeping with the light on? It’s been causing me to also need naps during the day. What should I do to soothe my paranoia

do you believe if some one was to pass on any giving day came effect a family member about 10 miles away....

im currently living in san diego but i may be moving soon i just dont know where.

Ok so my 10 yr old daughter has been telling us for almost a yr now that she's been having dreams of myself, her step dad, her lol little brother and herself getting sucked into a black hole, I didn't think anything of it at first but now it's every single night (we moved too, back to a house that we had lived in before with no issues ... It to started at our house out country) , but now it's happening here too it's everynight and now there also a blue and pink hole. She has also said (lastnight was the first we heard about it) that she has 51 ghost that are around her /talk to her ...mostly just calling her name. One she said was near the black hole smiling. Lastnight when we were talking to her she didn't sound like herself not even like a 10yr old girl, she sounded like maybe a 30- 40 yr old man and was being veryshort and to the point with her answers. I later asked her to watch something on the stove while I did something and she turned around said yup and started talking to the stove but she wasn't walking like herself....I honestly feel like I'm going crazy or losing it...but then today she made a picture of myself, her stepdad and little brother by this pink whole the and at the top of the picture it says "it's coming" ...now I wouldn't think anything of it but my daughter is dyslexic and has a hard time writing and reading and will put letter and numbers backwards ...not one letter is backwards ..when I asked her about the picture she just kept saying it's coming the pink hole is coming. I asked her what it ment and she said hurt and/or pain ...and once again it didn't sound like her, she wasn't blinking and her eyes were very wide and she would not make eye contact at all. And tonight our senior dog is laying in our door frame staring down the hall ( out room is at the end of the house ) she never lays here as she's always in bed with our youngest son. And our cat started walkiing down the hall and growling. I'm starting to have a very uneasy feeling about this. So any advice or thoughts on what this could mean Could do be greatly appreciated .

Also just want to add in that my daughter has had a lot of trauma within the past 2 years.

Thanks in advance

Hola, creo este post porque quiero saber si a alguien más le ha pasado, últimamente vengo teniendo episodios donde veo las cosas como si tuvieran cuadrícula, es decir como si fueran dibujadas o enmarcadas en algún tipo de rejilla o cuadricula. La última vez tuve una visión muy extraña. Estaba con un poco de cansancio y sueño, estaba con los ojos cerrados, de repente los abrí y vi como se formaba la realidad frente a mis ojos, no estaba bajo el uso de ninguna sustancia y vi como si se tratara de una forma en la que el cerebro percibe la realidad pero fue algo muy rápido. Vi como se dibujaban las líneas de las cosas que tenía en frente, cual si fuera un juego de video donde el escenario se dibuja cuando uno avanza, en este caso juro que estaba muy sobrio pero algo cansado. Dicen que la realidad de nuestra conciencia es elaborada con entrelazamiento cuántico entonces quería saber si a alguien algún momento le ha pasado lo mismo, este es un post serio y agradezco mucho sus experiencias, no he venido a burlarme de nadie, solo necesito respuestas a esto que me ha dejado completamente sorprendido. Agradezco de antemano. Saludos desde Ecuador.