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[c=004A59]Do you believe you've had a paranormal experience? If so, describe when and where you were when this happened.[/c]

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NotJamieM · 46-50, M

I was afraid of ghosts and all as a kid, lol. But after I got over that, as a teenager, I was lying in my bed once trying to fall asleep and rolled over and saw what looked like an indistinct figure standing over me. I kinda looked at it for a good few seconds and then turtled under my covers (like that would do any good). It never happened to me again but it was a pretty vivid memory and I never could find a way to dismiss it.

Oh yeah, and years after I left the house, my mom told me she was napping in that room when she felt the bed sink as if someone had sat in it, but when she opened her eyes, no one was there.

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@NotJamieM [c=004A59]Interesting. I had a similar experience in grade school. One night, I woke abruptly and seemed to see a shadow figure at the foot of the bed. I dived under the covers, and when I had the guts to look again, it was gone. In later years, I discovered many people claimed similar experiences in childhood; they interpret this as a guardian angel sighting, rather than a haunting.[/c]

NotJamieM · 46-50, M

@SW-User that's very interesting because it sounds almost exactly the same. Whatever it was, it was certainly benign enough because it didn't do anything threatening. In my memory there was something skeletal about it, and maybe in a robe. But as vivid as it was and never mind the fact I stared right at it for a long moment, I have no specific recollection of what it really looked like.

Interesting theory on the guardian angel, too.

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@NotJamieM [c=004A59]The difference between your experience and mine would be our impressions of the apparitions' appearance. Mine had a beautiful face and a sort of hazy light about it. The other people I mentioned had similar experiences of angelic looking beings.[/c]

NotJamieM · 46-50, M

@SW-User so that's definitely different. Despite my lack of clear recall, it definitely was not angelic looking. Though perhaps my perception of it as scary is influencing my vague recall. This was also longer ago than I care to admit, lol.

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@NotJamieM [c=004A59]Yes, I was wondering if maybe because it startled you, that's why you interpreted it as something dark.

And by the way, I make no claim about what I saw.
It may have looked angelic, but I don't feel positive about what it was. Could have been the Devil himself for all I know. 😐[/c]

NotJamieM · 46-50, M

@SW-User conceivably, it might have been something I wasn't even supposed to remember. If there are things that can manifest like that, stands to reason they could have other abilities. I often wondered if it would make another appearance, but it never did, at least to me.

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@NotJamieM [c=004A59]I've never seen anything like the childhood apparition again. I did have a "dream" or vision in recent years about a cloaked figure with a skeleton face. It spoke to me and said, "Youre in bad shape, but E. is worse. I'll take her instead." I didn't think much of it at the time -- dismissed it as a nightmare, rather than an apparition. But when I saw the newspaper at the grocery checkout that evening, a celebrity with the same name as the person mentioned in my "dream" had died. So... I'm thinking this was what they call a paranormal nightmare, which means that the apparition isn't just a dream.[/c]