Any personal encounters with the paranormal?

[Anonymous]

In 5th grade I was at a sleep over. We played ‘light as a feather, stiff as a board’.
There were 3 girls on each side of my friend. And the 6 of us legit lifted her off the ground (a good foot!) using our thumbs and first finger.

It sounds dumb to write it- but it happened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know if I buy this.

I had many, many people die in my life. Lost parents in childhood and never had any sort of paranormal experience.

So you think things that have not happened to you personally are probably not real or possible?

Interesting criterion to believe in things.

While the PP's logic makes sense to me, I get what you mean. Racism and old age- things you never believe in until they happen to you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In 5th grade I was at a sleep over. We played ‘light as a feather, stiff as a board’.
There were 3 girls on each side of my friend. And the 6 of us legit lifted her off the ground (a good foot!) using our thumbs and first finger.

It sounds dumb to write it- but it happened.

It worked for us too.

[Anonymous]

This isn't a Ouija board story but I guess it's similar. My friend had this crystal thing on the end of a string. I don't remember if a few us us somehow held the string or something but we had a slip of paper with "Yes" and a Slip of paper with "No". You held the string with the crystal dangling in the middle and we would get the stone swing to and from the the Yes and No across from each other. Well my friend asked it a "Yes/No" question and that crystal defied every law of physics and paused above the "No" for a split second. It was probably something like...will Mary marry Robbie or some shit. But when that crystal paused, I almost crapped my pants. I left the room. Others still played with it. I was like screw that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This isn't a Ouija board story but I guess it's similar. My friend had this crystal thing on the end of a string. I don't remember if a few us us somehow held the string or something but we had a slip of paper with "Yes" and a Slip of paper with "No". You held the string with the crystal dangling in the middle and we would get the stone swing to and from the the Yes and No across from each other. Well my friend asked it a "Yes/No" question and that crystal defied every law of physics and paused above the "No" for a split second. It was probably something like...will Mary marry Robbie or some shit. But when that crystal paused, I almost crapped my pants. I left the room. Others still played with it. I was like screw that.

That's creepy. My friends and I played with a ouija board in high school and absolutely nothing happened.

[Anonymous]

Ouija board are based on the general rule that there is a liar/manipulator in every group. It's not a portal to hell, it's a tool to find out which friend is the drama queen/king.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:when I was a kid I had all kinds of extremely vivid dreams, flying dreams that seemed real but never paid much attention and this went by the wayside.

When I was 32, I was staying in a hotel in New Jersey, the night before I was going to interview for a job at a university. I woke up in the middle of the night with fear clutching my chest to see this man, standing next to the bed,looking at me. dressed in sort of 40s clothing. Simple, plain but wore a hat. I was panicked, frozen for a little bit and then turned on the light and there was no one there.

It just hit me now, right now writing this out, that I was interviewing at the university where my grandfather had taught for many, many years. Maybe it was him?!

It probably was him! How cool!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ouija board are based on the general rule that there is a liar/manipulator in every group. It's not a portal to hell, it's a tool to find out which friend is the drama queen/king.

Eh, or it’s a portal to hell. YMMV.

/s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ouija board are based on the general rule that there is a liar/manipulator in every group. It's not a portal to hell, it's a tool to find out which friend is the drama queen/king.

As a tween I did a oujja board with a group of friends a couple years after I had moved across country. There were a few “answers” that didn’t make much sense then on my turn I asked something about a kid at my old school that no one else would know (“who got lost on the children’s museum field trip and peed on the bus home?” or something) and it worked-the board “answered” slowly but clearly-R...O..B...B...I..E!

I know it must have been me unconsciously doing it but I legit was not trying to and was a quiet/non-drama queen kid. In the moment, I was shocked because it didn’t feel like I was doing it at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
We just found out my cousin was pregnant with my first child. My mother then said to my aunt/her sister that "every family birth means a family death." My mother, who was in poor health, then died weeks later.

Ypur cousin was pregnant with your child?

[Anonymous]

Sorry - my cousin was pregnant with HER first child. When my mom heard the news, I think she knew that she might pass soon... and the said "with every family birth, there comes a family death"

Other stories along those same lines found here: https://community.whattoexpect.com/forums/hot-topics-1/topic/when-a-baby-is-born-someone-dies.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry - my cousin was pregnant with HER first child. When my mom heard the news, I think she knew that she might pass soon... and the said "with every family birth, there comes a family death"

Other stories along those same lines found here: https://community.whattoexpect.com/forums/hot-topics-1/topic/when-a-baby-is-born-someone-dies.html

My dad died a couple of days after I had IVF and I started bleeding at his funeral and assumed it wasn't successful, but it turned out to be implantation bleeding as she dug in to stick around. My dd who was born from it is so like my dad it's crazy, like even his facial expressions of surprise, skepticism, goofiness, etc. to a tee. I've never really believed in reincarnation, but once when she was a baby I half jokingly said "...Dad? Is that you?" to her. (Thankfully she thinks it's funny and cute now that she's old enough to hear these stories)

[Anonymous]

wow, makes you wonder. A medium/friend once told me that relatives that have passed get to 'pick' the new souls that enter into your family.