by SpannerintheWorks 30 Replies latest jw friends
As a child I had quite a few nightmares that there was an evil man standing in the doorway of our bedroom (I shared the room with my sister). After a while, he disappeared, but I never forgot his red eyes.
20 years later, my sister and I started talking about spooky things, and I happened to mention my nightmare. Imagine the goose bumps I got when she went pale and said "I saw him too".
Sirona
Spooky, Sirona!
New Sense. You seem very sure of your theory. Are you speaking from experience? Has what you are saying happened to you?
Spanner
Shera, tell your story!!! I love hearing spooky stories!!!
Span, that was definately a wierd experience!!! That would have spooked me big time!!!
Wierd things would happen in the house that me and my ex lived in. It was a old two story house from the 1800's that had been gutted and completely remodeled. Doors would shut by themselves, lights would go off for no reason. A picture fell off the wall once. One morning when we got up, all the diningroom chairs were in the livingroom, as if we had company and moved extra chairs in there for more seating. My ex and I argued over it, saying that neither of us had moved the chairs! Don't know if one of us got up during our sleep and done it or not, but it was strange in deed.
Nothing like that has happened since, thank goodness, but then again, I don't live in that house anymore!!! I'm not saying that I had ghosts, but I don't have answers for some of the wierd things that happened there either.
Once, after a long dark scary campaign, the Democrats won control of the House of Representatives and kept control of the Senate. MAN! Now THAT is scarry!
New Sense,
BTW, you said
That was you talking to you
Well, the man said this to me
" you should be at home painting the stairs, mate! "
As I have said, it wasn't me talking to me. I NEVER use the word " mate " when addressing somebody. Especially not me!
Spanner
I have another.
A friend of mine visited the house of a middle aged woman who was slightly "dizzy". This woman flippantly announced to my friend that when she left the kitchen, something strange would happen.
They both entered the kitchen, and the woman said "now watch". They stepped just outside the kitchen door and the woman closed it *momentarily*. When she opened it again, EVERY cupboard door and EVERY drawer was open.
The woman closed them all, and repeated the excersize. Again, EVERY door and drawer open.
The woman giggled and said "isn't that strange?"
My friend couldnt get out of there fast enough!!!
Sirona
Spanner,
Just a thought here. Maybe "your soul" took a break, and came "outside yourself" for a few minutes just to say "hi". Usually, they don't break the rules, but on occasion, perhaps they do. Who better to know YOU, than your own soul?
Perhaps the souls of other individuals "escape" for awhile as well, and that is why curious things happen and unexplainable events occur.
In my life, so far, I have several times met someone while walking, or seen someone in a public place, like out in the door to door service, in an airport, or even on an airplane once. I see them from a distance, and we make eye contact. They "appear" to be getting into my head, they smile softly as we pass, or as someone walks between us and closes off the visual connection, and I instinctively I try to resume the visual because I'm drawn to them---and they are absolutely gone! The first couple times this happened, I was very upset and thought I was losing my mind! But, I've just grown accustomed to it. It makes me smile and feel very warm and loved and accepted when it happens......like it's a "secret".
(You can imagine me trying to explain this to a couple elders at various times! They said they it had to be demons. How would they know whether they were demons or angels? Well, of course, as we know, visits from angels to JW women are extremely rare. ) This was only ever "spooky" when I tried to accept the "logical explanation of the elders", who warned me not to speak of such things.
A few of those times, I haven't been alone, and when it happens, my companion does not have a clue as to what I'm talking about. They never saw the person to begin with. And, here is another unusual thing, I can never remember whether they were male or female. They seemed "genderless", wearing comfortable, flowing shirts and pants, with shoulder length hair. It has become somewhat of a joke between my husband and I.....
I never discount the experience of someone else, no matter how "irrational" it might appear. I try to stay close to the good and away from the bad, the evil. There is so much we don't yet understand.
Thanks for the reply, Sentinal
Well I would like to be reassured that the "man" was my "soul". At least that would prove that the soul does indeed exist!
It is interesting that nobody has said "don't be a silly bugger, there is a perfectly logical explanation for it". It is equally revealing that everybody so far who has offered an explanation believes in what they have said, without question.
However the explanations thus far offered do not agree with each other.
HERE'S THE TWIST! Snuffling around the bench was a small dog (a hound?) that I presumed belonged to the man. We haven't got a dog. Never have had.
What's it doing there?
Spanner
Thats creepy Spanner!
The fact that you saw the 'guy' gives me the willies. The only spooky stuff that happened to me was in a 'haunted' appt. I had by the local college. Luckily I didnt see 'anyone'. Whatever 'it' was in the appt. it didnt do anything too scarey, just silly stuff like leaving the sliding door open or messing with the blinds.
A neighbor accused my roomate of shooting her window with a BB gun and he said he didnt do it...hmmmmmmm
The only thing that got to me was when my room would have a creepy smell- like burned insulation from an electrical fire.....ugh
The only thing that got to me was when my room would have a creepy smell- like burned insulation from an electrical fire.....ugh
Crazy, my battery charger exploded in between sending posts!
Spanner
