Do you believe in the "paranormal"?

[Disneypixie513]

In a way, yes, but not in the way most people probably believe in them. I'm not going to really go into what I believe about spirits or ghosts, because I don't want to offend anyone with my religious beliefs or anything like that.

[para-normal?]

I have NEVER been a believer in paranormal activities and or ghosts. I don't watch any of the ghost shows and never have had any desire. My friend and I just stayed 2 nights at the Contemporary with a lagoon/pool view.My friend is very spiritual, however I am the opposite. The first night there was a meteor shower, so we got up around 3 am to watch it. It was cool since we saw a few and Jupiter was right in front of us. I started to just look around and to the right of us was the smaller tower (not sure what the name of it was) and there were 3 small roofs over the entrance which then became a walkway of glass. I looked at the one directly over the entrance and thought I saw someone sitting up there and told my friend. She didn't notice at first, but did notice a man sitting or whatever it was doing about a yard or so below them. He was very eery, with a white face, almost a white mohawk and and I am going to sound crazy, but almost like black spikes sticking out of his head. He just sat there, sometimes moving his head to the left and right...he looked like someone out of Halloween Horror nights. However, there were people coming in and out of the entrance with luggage and walking right past him which we thougth was odd. By this time my friend spotted the man/boys on the roof, which by this time had become 2. We didn't know if we should call security, since we were worried they may jump down and try to rob guests leaving or if they were just teens on something just up there to watch the show as well. They sat there as more guests left and did nothing to show harm. As it got a bit later/earlier I noticed they were not there anymore. A while later as it started to become lighter, I watched as the two returned to the roof, I could not tell how they were getting up so easily as it could not be easy. I decided to take my camera out which has really good zoom and get a closer look..I zoomed in a bit too far and got the fabric of ones jeans and zoomed out to follow up his body to a flannel shirt and onto his face in which he had an eery smile on his mouth and biting a cigar, as I moved up I was shocked in horror to see a completely demonic face out of a horror movie, deformaty, and completely SHOCKING and freaked me out and I screamed and I put my camera down and watched as they jumped off the roof. We spoke to security, did not mention anything we suspected as paranormal, but warned them about possible solicitation. Night # 2....unwinding from the Halloween Party, on the balcony again. My friend was trying to take pictures from the balcony to the roof we saw the boys or whatever they were the night before. However no matter which waay she took them she could not capture that roof. All of a sudden she got really weird and gasped "OMG"..I kept asking her what. but she kept telling me to hold on..she took about ten pictures..in the first few pictures were a figure of a dark skinny old man with some kind of fabric around his shoulders. The first couple of shots he was looking down, but the last he was looking at the camera and his eyes were huge and white and not normal. In other pictures, there were obvious other figures, men dressed in suits, women in long white dressings, one in fact hanging from a tree and even choldren. Some looked angry, while others sad and lost.They were all ghostly pictures, not like the men we saw before. One picture with writing in it that we could not make out. She started to freak out because she saw a girl, who she sensed was ****** at us...like I said I am not spiritual but she somehow knew the girl was ****** and I could not see her and she said she had to delete all of the pictures. I begged her to forward them to me and she did supposedly, but when I looked the next morning, they were all of the same pictures. After that, what I saw was unbelievable..on the roof of the smaller tower there was a girl wrapped in a grey blanket sitting on the edge at first by herself. For some reason I just blurted out 'Amy" is over there on the roof,like I knew that was her name. My friend spotted her immediately and watched as many more arrived..A woman wearing a long dress and bonnet was setting up cots and laying them all down, they were peaceful, and obviously not there to hurt anyone, just trapped there..We watched an old lady walk her old lab, a child read a book in a tree, absoltely amazing, confusing and scary all together. Has anyone seen anything like this or am I and my friend completely crazy...As I said, I never believed until now. Any input would be helpful, but if you are going to be negative or unkind, please dont bother...thank u!

[DonLefNY]

Not at all.

[Cinderelley]

"If there really is an afterlife, I'll bet the best way to contact it is through a plastic, mass-produced board game from Milton Bradley!"- Mad Magazine

This is just a cheap, mass produced version of something that has actually been around for centuries.

[Cinderelley]

Yes, I believe in the "paranormal". I have been able to sense it since I was very young. As far as how come not everyone can see it, I have always viewed it as the same as our other senses - some people are very visual, some auditory and others can pick up the smell of the oranges on Soarin' from a mile away. There are even variations in the way individuals who are capable of sensing it wind up perceiving it.

As for seeing "images" of people doing the same thing over and over again, when people repeatedly do things, it leaves an imprint of their energy. As you can imagine, the more they do it, the stronger the energy imprint is. An example was given previously of a young boy running through someone's house in a straight line. Imagine how many times a youngster would playfully take that path.

Additionally, there are things that people think are ghosts (the definition of a ghost being the soul of a departed human), but they aren't really.

Those of you who have been on the boards for a while know that I've had a pretty rough time the last couple of years, including dying on the operating table. At one point, my soul became separated from my body. "Someone" came and ever so gently placed me back inside of my body. There was such an overwhelming sense of love that there is no way to describe it. I thought it was an angel, until another angel told me "Only the Creator can fix those who are broken." Do people think I am crazy when I tell them that story? Probably, but after feeling the love I did, I really don't care.

I have many other stories, but that is the most important one. He loves us, and He is the only one who can fix us when we are broken.

[IwannabeinNarnia]

I have to say I do believe. I've had a couple of experiences that made me a believer.
One was when I was just out of high school I took a summer job as a waitress in a little cafe that had opened up in what used to be my towns library. The building was VERY old. One morning it was just me and my boss opening up and he told me to go get some ice. So I went back to where the ice machine was. The light was already on so I didn't have to touch it. Well, as I was getting ice I felt someone standing next to me and felt a touch. I turned and no one was there but the string to the light was moving. I freaked and got out of that room and when I told my boss he just smiled and said "You just met the old librarian". I refused to get ice again after that. The second story I have is what REALLY convinced me. My husband and I were renting an apartment in an old house. One night I woke up and glanced over to his side of the bed to see 'someone' standing next to it. My husband was asleep, the 'someone' looked at me. I closed my eyes in fear, opened them again and that 'someone' was gone. I quickly woke my husband up and told him. He told me that it was probably his grandpa. It seems his grandpa had appeared to him before - back when he was in the army and stationed in Saudia Arabia. I've also felt things bump the bed at night. So yep.. I believe.