Hi all,

First of all, some backstory. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 30 years old with no previous history, although I do see now that I have a few traits. In 2015 I was sectioned and after a manic high I experienced lots of terrifying feelings that I'd hurt my partner/had cancer/had died/was in an alternate reality, and nothing anyone could say was reassuring or put my mind at ease. I was started on meds and after a long battle to get back to a "functional" place where I can go to work and do a job, I thought all was well.

However, I have noticed that I seem to experience things in cycles. Similar things have happened to me again recently. Sometimes, time seems to slow right down, and I experienced a lack of sleep for a few months before this. I had an outpouring of emotion and from there, experienced similar thoughts and feelings to when I was sectioned, although much more nullified and less terrifying, but still unpleasant.

I have read around the occult previously and the nature of existence, and my mind has gone to some pretty wild places. During this recent episode I felt like members of my family had either dual or switched consciousnesses with dead relatives, I felt that I was playing out some kind of Satan/Lucifer archetype (please keep an open mind on this if you haven't looked into left hand path studies) and have experienced synchronicity which seemed to be leading me to either financial gain or spiritual enlightenment, although this seems to have been a false dawn. I also seemed to have some kind of telepathic communication with my wife, and while I know this can be common in couples, I felt like I was playing out a role in which she was my goddess and I was compelled to do as she asked as she knew best for me.

I know a lot of this sounds strange or whatever. The flip side of this coin is that my behaviour could be justified as bipolar - I recently spent the last of our money on something which I knew to be a scam, but was conscious throughout the process and simply wanted to explore the thing to find out what was "over there", if that makes sense. So I did this knowingly. Everything is fine now on that front but it understandably terrified my wife at the time.

I guess my question is..... Has anyone experienced anything like this themselves and can they offer any advice or signpost me to someone who does? I have looked into ideas around the personal unconscious, lucid dreams, the Jungian self and shadow, and have my own ideas regarding existence in terms of "as above, so below", but accept that these may be wrong.

Any input would be greatly appreciated to help me try to answer this question!

Last night when I was getting in bed I saw the shadow man again and he was right in front of my closed closet that had seemed to be opened slightly and I just could not sleep last night because I was hearing taps on my window and knocks on my door I only slept for one hour and I’m still getting chest pains

Hey y’all I think I have an attachment because I’ve been seeing a shadow man and some shadow people and I’ve seen the shadow man since kindergarten because sometimes at night I would go to the bathroom and just see this one shadowy guy and he would just be chilling in my older brothers doorway and I approached him once and you know I couldn’t sleep for the rest of the night and now I’ve been seeing many shadow people roaming in my room and today I thought my cat was in my room and messing with a grocery bag that’s in my room but when I went to look I saw nothing and it was still moving. So if anyone has an idea on what I should do I’m all ears because my therapist tried getting rid of him when I was twelve I thought he was gone but nope he wasn’t

Considering that cryptozoology is ostensibly the most scientific of all of the studies of the weird, its frustrating whenever you encounter someone calling a Skinwalker a cryptid. If we see the term being used incorrectly, we should use that opportunity to educate.

This is what I’ll be using in the future. https://youtube.com/shorts/wJnXccu_qnc

Are there any other terms in the paranormal weirdscape that you see used incorrectly?

I had a lot of religious fear & anxiety as a child, due to my family going to a church with a pastor who taught a message focusing heavily on hell, original sin, etc.

As an adult this led me to wonder if such pastors are under a state of spirit obsession. This is the same theory that the paranormal researcher and writer Carl Wickland had.

I found this section from his book The Gateway of Understanding to be especially interesting:

"Myriads of spirits, intense devotees, who on earth were abnormally religious, and whose natures were absorbed in devotion to fanatical religious ideas, are the monomaniacs who often fill people on earth with extravagant fancies concerning God, Jesus, the Virgin, or the Saints in the Calendar, and cause their victims to manifest the strange forms of religious fanaticism. Nearly all revivalists are influenced by this class of spirits, and the superstition and ignorance of their congregations afford congenial soil for the work of their invisible assistants."

I theorize that an excessive focus on death, Satan, The Mark of the Beast, etc. are common among earthbound spirits that were radical Christians in life. They would naturally gravitate to modern church leaders who think similarly and would have an easier time attaching to those who try to 'open themselves up to the spirit' (essentially, certain non-denominational evangelicals who greatly desire paranormal experiences).

Such spirits could also cause or amplify certain forms of religious OCD. An obsessive fear of going to hell, a fear that one will accidentally 'sell one's soul to the Devil', an excessive focus on the Biblical End Times, etc.

Anyways just thought it was worth a share.

Hello, first time posting on Reddit, but I’ve always been drawn to energies and entities that others don’t seem to see, though I can’t put it into words. I’ve had many experiences since I was a child, up until I was 17 years old when I told myself and the universe that I didn’t ever want to experience such things again.

But... when I was 21 (I’m 24 now), I experienced something that I’ve never encountered before. It was a Friday, and I was having two ciders with my colleagues after work. Afterward, I wanted to go home, relax, and play some games. Around 19:00, I was waiting for the train when one of my colleagues called me, saying they were going out and that it would be really fun if I joined. I told them I just wanted to go home and chill and wished them a good time.

When the train arrived, I sat down in a 4-seater space, and there weren’t many people on board, so there was plenty of room. Just before the doors closed, a woman walked in and sat diagonally across from me. I didn’t see her face, but I noticed she had darker skin and wore a pink winter coat. I tried to look up to see her face, and that’s when I suddenly fell into a deep sleep. I’ve never fallen asleep that quickly or deeply on a train or bus before, and I wasn’t drunk or really tired.

There were about six stops before I reached home, and during the second stop, I tried to open my eyes, but it felt like something was keeping them shut. I saw a man looking at me, and then I tried again to look up at the woman—only to fall asleep again. The same thing happened once more, but when my train finally reached my station, I felt my body jolt awake, and it felt like my legs were walking on their own, really fast. That’s when I noticed the woman was also getting off the train.

It’s not a big station, and I live in Europe, so you can easily see everyone getting off. I walked out, trying to turn around to see where she was, but I couldn’t find her. All I felt was my brain telling me, “You need to go home fast.” It felt like my legs were almost running on their own. When I got home, I just started crying.

I’ve been thinking about this experience for a long time because I can’t explain what happened. Nothing like it has happened again. My previous experiences involved seeing shadows, hearing footsteps, and seeing faces, which I can somewhat understand, but this... I have no clue about it.

Has anyone had similar experiences or maybe the same thing happen to them?

Hi guys,

I've done a lot of research lately on the topic of spirit attachments and spirit releasement therapy. I think it's one of the most fascinating forms of paranormal science.

Carl Wickland was an early pioneer in this field. He came to believe that deceased human spirits sometimes attach to the living. Oftentimes this takes place during a moment of physical or emotional crisis for the host. Drinking to the point of blacking out can also act as an opening. Once the spirit is attached, it influences the host and causes altered thinking.

In his books, 30 Years Among the Dead and The Gateway of Understanding, he argued that this can range from greatly amplifying addictions to causing religious mania. In his day it was common for people to be hyper religious and he believed that such spirits could become confused and negative due to their expectations of the afterlife not being met. A person who constantly feels a fear of going to Hell might actually be feeling the emotions of an imbalanced spirit that had attached to them.

William J. Baldwin & Joe Fisher are more recent researchers who came to similar conclusions regarding spirit attachments. Baldwin's book is available here. He delved into the connection between spirit attachments and gender dysphoria. He reported several cases in which a person felt long term relief after undergoing spirit releasement therapy.

Joe Fisher's focus was on the nature of the spirits that mediums channel. His book Hungry Ghosts is available here. He came to the conclusion that manipulative spirits often masquerade as great teachers or luminaries in order to gain permission to possess a living body. He argued that they are similar to the pretas or 'hungry ghosts' of Hindu and Buddhist tradition.

Anyways just wanted to share & see what folks think! Would be super interested if anyone has case studies or other info on spirit releasement therapy.

A few days ago, I was sitting with my parents in their house. Suddenly, the topic turned to paranormal things because recently, something strange has been happening to my mother. My mother began reminding my father of the time when we were walking to my grandmother’s house one evening (my father, mother, sister, and me). I was the youngest then, only six years old. A woman dressed in white, holding a bowl in her hands, appeared in front of the four of us. We all froze in that moment. The woman, in her white dress, was floating in the air, and her legs weren’t visible beneath the dress. She quickly turned toward the wheat field beside us, and we could see the waves in the wheat as she moved through it. My father began to follow her while we, in my mother’s arms, waited to see what would happen. Beyond the wheat field was a river. My father reached the river, but the woman was nowhere to be seen. She couldn’t have crossed the river, so where did she disappear? My father returned, pale, looked at my mother, and simply told us to keep walking. While my mother was telling this story, I jumped out of my chair and said that I had always thought I had dreamed it, and that this dream had haunted me for years, because I still remember it as clearly as day. My mother said that it really did happen, and from that day, she no longer looked at the world the same way. My father was as pale as he was that day, terrified by the mere thought of the event.

I played this game multiple times before. And the first five times nothing happened. I got annoyed and stopped playing Charlie Charlie. About 2 months later, I came across something on Youtube about this game. I decided to give the game one more try. I didn't expect anything to happen. I played it and the pencil moved. I freaked out at first but then I was like, "okay. I'm playing righting above a vent. It could just be the air moving the pencil." I then decided to test something. I asked a question but this time the pencil didn't move at all. It was clear that it was just air moving the pencil. So, I ended the game and went about my day. Later that night, I fell asleep and something unexpected and scary happened. I had a nightmare, but it felt like I was awake. This creepy figure, which I'm not even going to describe it because it still haunts me to this day. Anyways, the figure crawls up to me and say's "Don't play this game ever again or you will die." I woke up screaming. I decided to test the game, but before I even started the game, I got this cold chill up my spine. My mind flashed back to the night before, the figures warning was stuck in my mind. "Don't play the game." I wanted to play the game. I had to. But something was keeping me from playing the game. I refuse to play any paranormal games now thanks to my experience with this one. Don't play this game. It's nothing but bad luck. I also really need an explanation on why this happened.

Me and my friends talked to a ghost on a pendulum, before switching to using a Ouija board, supposedly was the same spirit both times. Died in 2020 at age 13, was very sad. This ghost introduced himself to us twice as 17, and stated his birthday was soon too. Before this, I'd only ever "talked to" or heard of spirits who stay the age they were when they died. So does anyone know what this is about? It could also possibly be since me and my friends using the board were two of us being 18 and one of us being 15, nearly 16, that they wanted to fit in with us better age wise, I guess. He was a very friendly spirit and was joking around with us, so I could see that being likely, in a similar way to how I used to lie about my age on the internet to online friends. But I don't think he was entirely lying either?? Maybe he self identifies as aging or hasn't moved on? Or can ghosts ACTUALLY age? Would love to know y'alls thoughts and experiences. Thx

I had a strange dream a few nights ago.

My father, who died last year refused to leave my house and move on. Half of his part of the conversation, I realized, even in the moment in my dream, happened but is almost as if it was deleted. I replied in our conversation, we had a full conversation, and even though most of it, never happened, it was terrifyingly emotional, and real.

(Just so we get ahead of the question, no, it's not the same as having a dream and being unable to recall it a moment after waking/when trying to talk about it)

Has anyone experienced the deletion phenomenon specifically? Or does anyone know why that might happen, if it was a real conversation I had with my dead dad in my sleep? Does anyone know how I can figure out what he said? I was leaning heavy on tarot but the only person I trust with that, is unavailable.

Please help!?

So me, my brother and my cousin have had some communications and we cannot figure what this one thing means. About six months ago we were talking to something and it mentioned a purple tower and 3 months later me and my brother did another one and it mentions the “purple tower” again along with a lot of personal family stuff. We’ve been stressing for months about this and I was wondering if anyone could give us some answers.

It’s currently 1:17 am as I’m writing this. I couldn’t sleep, and I was just trying to find ways to go to sleep. But when I went back upstairs after using the bathroom, I noticed my brother’s door left closed. I know he hates it closed, so I opened it back for him. But right when I did that, something mimicked his voice. It sounded like him, but more like a recording. It’s still going. Idk what I should do. It keeps repeating the same thing: “take a look.” I’m scared bro. I’ve experienced shit before, but it all stopped when I had the priest come over here. No joke, I’m actually worried here. Can someone tell me what even is this?

(Haven’t posted it yet.)

1:43 am. It’s now mimicking my father. I left the door to my room open.

UPDATE

Good morning,afternoon,evening night everyone. I’m so grateful for all the help I’ve received. The voices kept going on for quite some time before they finally stopped. I’m happy I didn’t respond to it. I just spent most of my night praying

However, I think I’m gonna have to get a priest to come over again. Idk if it had anything to do with it, but this morning, I found my mother’s ouija board with the planchette still on it. (She bought that thing after my grandfather’s passing)

I wasn’t sure if it had anything to do with it, but I’d rather be safe than sorry. So I grabbed it and properly ended the communication and stored it separately from the planchette.

I’m a pretty religious person, and although I’m usually skeptical about ouija boards, something just told me that it would be best to close it off properly this time. I don’t know much about ouija boards, just that they open up communication with spirits, so I’m really not sure if this was even related to it but I hope this ended now.

Again, thank you for your advice and help!

I am from southamerica ,i usted to work in a mall as a security agente(nothing special). I remember everybody told me about spooky entity, and i was for sure My co workwers wanna Anyway, one time some colleagues from other areas called me during the night shift because of some noises. I went to the warehouse where those noises were coming from and decided that instead of being afraid I presented myself to the entity as someone who just does his job without any need to bother. My interaction with the entity was from hearing voices of children playing, noises on the stairs, movement of objects, but somehow it was never to harm me but like a child playing and It makes noise. It was very interesting and fun at the same time.

My last day of job ,i Say goodbye to the entity..minutes later i saw red eyes and a traslucent figure of a child with long hair in a white old dress He appeared before me, looked at me and vanished....it was incredible.

I hope You like My experience.👍

I’d like to know names of books about helping ghosts or spirits, or how to help them.

There was a strange phenomenon. I was watching a video in my bed late at night when I heard a noise outside, like a plane flying very close to the ground. I got scared, as I usually do, thinking it might be a plane crash. Once the noise passed, I relaxed, thinking it was nothing, and continued watching my video. Then I realized I was seeing the same part of the video again. I hadn’t touched anything, which surprised me. I wondered if I had accidentally done something, but I hadn’t touched the timeline of the video. I checked to see if it was a editing error, but the video had no duplicates. How is it possible that I saw the same part of the video twice? There must be a simple explanation that I’m missing, and I should probably relax instead of overthinking it.

Please remove if this isn’t allowed because I’m unsure if it will be. I’m really close with my cousin she’s like my sister really, but for the past couple of months my almost 3 year old cousin ( who is her daughter) will not sleep with the bedroom door open & has been saying there’s people watching her, her dad ( my cousins husband) asks them to leave and she settles for bed. But last night my cousin contacted me ( the babies mother) as she knows I’m into this sort of stuff, but honestly I think it’s even too much for me. She said the baby has said a woman was watching her and her dad asked them to leave she relaxed for about 2 minutes she then said oh no they’ve came back and hid under the quilt. Again her dad asked them to leave then she was pointing in the corner near the door. My cousins husband got his phone on record and they eventually saw what she was pointing at, and there was a red light on the right of the room. At that point they went downstairs to try to get her to sleep. They have a baby monitor downstairs that shows the upstairs camera my cousins husband saw a baby in the mirror and said the baby was waving and then throwing around their arms as though in a tantrum. He then recorded the baby standing in the mirror from the baby camera monitor and they’ve sent me the video and it’s clear as day but only in the mirror it looks a child about 2 or 3 years old. I’ve told them to just leave it and they want to get a priest out but are scared it will anger the spirit, they’re also really sad because it’s just a baby. They’ve had things happen for months like toys moving and so on. I’m usually quite knowledgeable on stuff but I think this is a little out of my depth, if any one has any ideas or advice I’d be grateful. They’ve consented to me mentioning their story but like I said if it isn’t allowed that’s totally fine feel free to remove my post thank you❤️

So, for a quick back story, my childhood house was build on top of an old monestry - it still had the moats and the old house etc,. Throughout my family's time in this house we experienced a huge number of paranormal or unexplainable events, a few years ago I had a truly terrifying experience which has left me changing my sleeping habits even 4 years later. When I was 13, I was sleeping in my room when I heard a deep growl in my ear, I proceeded to turn around in my bed to see a creature on all fours growling in my ear. I tried to hit it but before I could it slinked out the room like it was liquid at a fast pace, before this even we had had a number of dark experiences between the family in the same room, for example my older sister (18 at the time) had also seen a tall, monk-like figure standing in the corner of the room. My mother had also seen a monk at the bottom of our garden walking back and forth at around 11 at night, I later saw this during covid via my phone when I was showing a family member our back garden, through the camera I saw a pair of black legs walking back and forth at the bottom of our garden. Shortly before we moved house the activity ramped up even more - banging and clanking continued upstairs and downstairs at a louder and higher rate, sighting of black mists/ heads around the corners continued. After stepping back into the house after clearing everything out, we realised what a heavy atmosphere it truly was, however theses events continued at the new house as it turns out the spring water from the old house ran to the new house which was 5 miles up the road! However we have since moved from here, a noticeable experience from the old house we moved to was a recurring little girls voice, however it was quite an uncomfortable presence, we have since moved 30 miles away into a new build and have had no problems (well...) however I'm still curious what this could have been. We did hear beezlebub one time at both houses but I'd like to think it wouldn't gibe it's name if it was truly this?

My grandfather was 89 when he died. He was in bed and really sick with cancer but his mind wasn't affected at all. He was able to make jokes, calculations, discuss everything and didn't want to leave any unfinished business. So a few weeks before he died, he called my mother to ask her who are these kids in the room with him. He said that they were three and they were singing songs with beautiful voices. My mom freaked out but didn't really say anything. He would also see some of his old friends who had already passed away. Any ideas of who these kids might be?

I am a death in religion and culture researcher and am looking to compile an exhaustive list of the tools that are currently used to trace paranormal activity. I am a skeptic, but also realize that I don't know everything there is to know in the universe. I want to learn more through qualitative and anecdotal evidence-based science. Happy to have all the info you'd like to share.

necesito su ayuda, tuve una experiencia horrible con un incubus, quisiera saber si hay alguna forma de alejarlo o de hacer que deje de aparecer en mis parálisis de sueño, alguien sabe sobre el tema?

I need your help, I had a horrible experience with an incubus, I would like to know if there is any way to get rid of it or make it stop appearing in my sleep paralysis, does anyone know about this?

Últimamente estuve jugando juegos relaciónados a los viajes a otras dimensiones (hl, hl2) y me puse a ver la serie dark. Y la vdd no soy tan inteligente como ustedes ,para comprender el uso de uranio u otros elementos radioactivos como fuente de alimentación de las máquinas del tiempo y así ,¿Alguien puede explicarme maso el porque el uso de estos elementos? Gracias

Does a strong sulfur smell have anything to do? With any paranormal activities? My gfs son is asleep in the guest bedroom and she went to check on him he’s dead asleep and she shut and latched the s door as she came into the room we smelled a strong sulfur smell coming from the back hallway and we saw that the door she just closed was wide open but baby still sleep . And we heard banging inside the walls. I still can’t stop shaking I’m so freaked out. What y’all think ( snd neither one of us farted lol)