bogie13p
Skilled Investigator
I know I have been totally MIA for a long time, but I have been so uber busy with school, homework and real work that I am just now catching up with the September shows. I just listed to the shadow people episode and at the risk of sounding like a complete odd ball, have decided to share my experiences of that nature.
In previous posts I have mentioned some of my experiences when I was younger. I really had been through a whole lot and to this day when I have nightmares it is about the old house I grew up in (it was completely limestone btw and had a water well and underground water source so go figure). When I was about 23 all the way up untill about 26 or 27, I went through this phase where I wasn't having hardly anything paranormal going on and I actually got to this point where I really started rationalizing and shrugging off my earlier experiences. I had almost convinced myself that I had had an overactive imagination eventhough all of my family would agree that the house we lived in was very haunted. Also, I used to be very very frightened of stuff that I had experienced, so it was comforting to convince myself that it hadn't happened.
When I went back to college and started taking art classes, I started having small experiences again. Not much and it was all pretty much stuff my skeptical mind was able to discredit. The more classes I took and more I was producing art, the more stuff started happening that I just could not explain or ignore and although I was curious I became frightened again. As silly as it is, one of the things that made me not as afraid was that I started watching Ghost hunters. They go to supposedly haunted places a lot and most of it could either be discredited or was really not that big of a deal and not really scary going on. Things just seem more scary when they are personally happening to you. I began to realize that eventhough some of the stuff that was happening to me couldn't be explained, I just needed to suck it up because it probably isn't as scary as I was making it out to be.
Durring my second or third semester, I made the horrible mistake of procrastinating an uber long research paper. Oh and I am one of those silly people who push myself and freak out if I don't get an A. I was living alone, going to school and working full time and I had like 2 days to do all the research and write thing thing on top of an already hectic schedule.
I really started panicing and becomming more stressed than I ever have been in my entire life. I was also completely exhausted. This was when I had what I felt was my first stress related paranormal incident.. One night after work I walked into my bedroom and every light in ceiling fan/light fixture fizzled out when I turned on the light, my tv turned on by itself, my closet light burned out when I went for it and every freakin hanger in my walk in closet was swinging back and forth (not up and down) just barely less than violently...not in a natural way at all. I don't live where there are earthquates and it wasn't stormy or anything outside to shake that room to make my hangers move... It freaked me out and I squealed and ran into the living room. I called my fiancee (now husband) who at that time was still in England at that time while some visa stuff was processing. I was crying and stressing. Like I said, I was just freaked out and telling him about everything and I started telling him how I can't be going through this right now cause I just can't handle it while I have the paper to write. He was wonderful though and I calmed down and after the call, got crackin on the research. That night was the first time in my life I ever seen shadow people. It was completely quiet and probably started around 2 or 3ish am (late at night). I was reading and making notes and I kept seeing these lanky figures out of the corners of my eyes. Because it was out of the corners of my eyes, I never got a really good dirrect look. It seemed like they kept popping out of the corners and running across the room. They always seemed very silouette and not straight forward. I would turn my head as I saw them, but they would always be disappearing into another corner as I turned. I'm not sure if this is common in a lot of shadow people stories, but I would see then a lot closer to the ceiling than down by the ground. I am not going to lie, I don't live in the middle of no where, I live on a road in town, so sometimes I convinced myself a car must have gone by or someone walking down a side street reflecting in. There is also a bar down the road, so its not weird to see someone walking down my road in the middle of the night. Plus the practical part of me completely understands how shadows can stretch people out making them look lanky. It was happening so much though, and they seemed to have an unnatural cartooney-ness about them. I really don't know how to explain it other than that. I also started having fire alarm issues. I had them checked out and they were fine and the firemen came out and even replaced the batteries eventhough they were not bad (maybe one day I'll blog that whole part of the story in more detail). The crazy stuff in the bedroom only happened once, but these shadow figures and fire alarm issues went on non-stop until I finished the semester. The research paper was due last week of classes and next week was finals, so it lasted awhile. I called my husband and grandmother so much durring that time. I felt I was going crazy. The tv in the living room and the big ol speakers started going on and off randomly and would always be at full blast. One day I was on the phone with my friend in the other room (completely exhausted w/ the whole situation at this point) and my tv came on. She still laughs to this day at how I sighed and in an uber exhausted voice said, "hold on, my tv just came on by itself and i can barely hear you."
Well I am going to jump ahead to last year when my husband moved in. There was a lot going on and again I was working full time and taking multiple classes and this time we both started seeing shadow people. One of the weirdest experiences was when we were both watching our large lcd in the living room and one actually walked in front of it. This was one of the only times, I didn't see it out of the corner of my eye. We were both sitting on the couch and saw it with both of our eyes walk in front of the screan. It was completely opaque. We could not see the screan through this thing that walked by. It didn't run, it was just a fast skulky kind of walk.
Now that my husband lives here to, he sees them more than I do. On the show, it was kind of mentioned that these things could possibly be some sort of psychic projection. I must say, I noticed a long time ago that we only see them in times when I am completely stressed...my husband won't be stressed, but we both see them. I had a research paper due last week and my husband was seeing them. I saw a couple of things that were possibly shadow people. It reallly is hard to say though because it was just little glimpses out of the corner of my eyes. Things have never been quite as crazy as when I had the huge paper due and was stressed, but I still link it dirrectly with my stress levels. I am not sure if this means these things are actually me somehow or if that type of energy just attracts something that isn't me. They make my husband uneasy because they are just something strange in the house, but I dont feel frightened by them at all. I don't think they mean any kind of harm and if they are just something I attract, it seems more that they are curious and running around and looking.
I guess it is also interesting to note that while I think the phenomenon is completely connected to me and my stress level, it only occurs in my house... mostly living room/kitchen area which is one big open space and it will even happen when I am not here. If I am in the city at work and having a stressful day, sometimes I will get home and my husband will tell me that he saw some shadow people whille I was gone.
So yeah, thats my experience with shadow people. I found that show about shadow people interesting, although none of the stories were exactly like what I have gone though.
In previous posts I have mentioned some of my experiences when I was younger. I really had been through a whole lot and to this day when I have nightmares it is about the old house I grew up in (it was completely limestone btw and had a water well and underground water source so go figure). When I was about 23 all the way up untill about 26 or 27, I went through this phase where I wasn't having hardly anything paranormal going on and I actually got to this point where I really started rationalizing and shrugging off my earlier experiences. I had almost convinced myself that I had had an overactive imagination eventhough all of my family would agree that the house we lived in was very haunted. Also, I used to be very very frightened of stuff that I had experienced, so it was comforting to convince myself that it hadn't happened.
When I went back to college and started taking art classes, I started having small experiences again. Not much and it was all pretty much stuff my skeptical mind was able to discredit. The more classes I took and more I was producing art, the more stuff started happening that I just could not explain or ignore and although I was curious I became frightened again. As silly as it is, one of the things that made me not as afraid was that I started watching Ghost hunters. They go to supposedly haunted places a lot and most of it could either be discredited or was really not that big of a deal and not really scary going on. Things just seem more scary when they are personally happening to you. I began to realize that eventhough some of the stuff that was happening to me couldn't be explained, I just needed to suck it up because it probably isn't as scary as I was making it out to be.
Durring my second or third semester, I made the horrible mistake of procrastinating an uber long research paper. Oh and I am one of those silly people who push myself and freak out if I don't get an A. I was living alone, going to school and working full time and I had like 2 days to do all the research and write thing thing on top of an already hectic schedule.
I really started panicing and becomming more stressed than I ever have been in my entire life. I was also completely exhausted. This was when I had what I felt was my first stress related paranormal incident.. One night after work I walked into my bedroom and every light in ceiling fan/light fixture fizzled out when I turned on the light, my tv turned on by itself, my closet light burned out when I went for it and every freakin hanger in my walk in closet was swinging back and forth (not up and down) just barely less than violently...not in a natural way at all. I don't live where there are earthquates and it wasn't stormy or anything outside to shake that room to make my hangers move... It freaked me out and I squealed and ran into the living room. I called my fiancee (now husband) who at that time was still in England at that time while some visa stuff was processing. I was crying and stressing. Like I said, I was just freaked out and telling him about everything and I started telling him how I can't be going through this right now cause I just can't handle it while I have the paper to write. He was wonderful though and I calmed down and after the call, got crackin on the research. That night was the first time in my life I ever seen shadow people. It was completely quiet and probably started around 2 or 3ish am (late at night). I was reading and making notes and I kept seeing these lanky figures out of the corners of my eyes. Because it was out of the corners of my eyes, I never got a really good dirrect look. It seemed like they kept popping out of the corners and running across the room. They always seemed very silouette and not straight forward. I would turn my head as I saw them, but they would always be disappearing into another corner as I turned. I'm not sure if this is common in a lot of shadow people stories, but I would see then a lot closer to the ceiling than down by the ground. I am not going to lie, I don't live in the middle of no where, I live on a road in town, so sometimes I convinced myself a car must have gone by or someone walking down a side street reflecting in. There is also a bar down the road, so its not weird to see someone walking down my road in the middle of the night. Plus the practical part of me completely understands how shadows can stretch people out making them look lanky. It was happening so much though, and they seemed to have an unnatural cartooney-ness about them. I really don't know how to explain it other than that. I also started having fire alarm issues. I had them checked out and they were fine and the firemen came out and even replaced the batteries eventhough they were not bad (maybe one day I'll blog that whole part of the story in more detail). The crazy stuff in the bedroom only happened once, but these shadow figures and fire alarm issues went on non-stop until I finished the semester. The research paper was due last week of classes and next week was finals, so it lasted awhile. I called my husband and grandmother so much durring that time. I felt I was going crazy. The tv in the living room and the big ol speakers started going on and off randomly and would always be at full blast. One day I was on the phone with my friend in the other room (completely exhausted w/ the whole situation at this point) and my tv came on. She still laughs to this day at how I sighed and in an uber exhausted voice said, "hold on, my tv just came on by itself and i can barely hear you."
Well I am going to jump ahead to last year when my husband moved in. There was a lot going on and again I was working full time and taking multiple classes and this time we both started seeing shadow people. One of the weirdest experiences was when we were both watching our large lcd in the living room and one actually walked in front of it. This was one of the only times, I didn't see it out of the corner of my eye. We were both sitting on the couch and saw it with both of our eyes walk in front of the screan. It was completely opaque. We could not see the screan through this thing that walked by. It didn't run, it was just a fast skulky kind of walk.
Now that my husband lives here to, he sees them more than I do. On the show, it was kind of mentioned that these things could possibly be some sort of psychic projection. I must say, I noticed a long time ago that we only see them in times when I am completely stressed...my husband won't be stressed, but we both see them. I had a research paper due last week and my husband was seeing them. I saw a couple of things that were possibly shadow people. It reallly is hard to say though because it was just little glimpses out of the corner of my eyes. Things have never been quite as crazy as when I had the huge paper due and was stressed, but I still link it dirrectly with my stress levels. I am not sure if this means these things are actually me somehow or if that type of energy just attracts something that isn't me. They make my husband uneasy because they are just something strange in the house, but I dont feel frightened by them at all. I don't think they mean any kind of harm and if they are just something I attract, it seems more that they are curious and running around and looking.
I guess it is also interesting to note that while I think the phenomenon is completely connected to me and my stress level, it only occurs in my house... mostly living room/kitchen area which is one big open space and it will even happen when I am not here. If I am in the city at work and having a stressful day, sometimes I will get home and my husband will tell me that he saw some shadow people whille I was gone.
So yeah, thats my experience with shadow people. I found that show about shadow people interesting, although none of the stories were exactly like what I have gone though.
