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What paranormal experiences have you had? One offs or multiple times?

I know there's hundreds of these threads but I'd love to know more peoples paranormal stories!

I'll start with mine :)

The first one to my memory happened when I got home one night from athletics, I was 7yo. I was walking to our front door when I looked down the path along our house (cement path and a large fence along the other side of it). I remember seeing two large red glowing eyes staring right at me. The way our porch light was directed there was no way it could have been a reflection of anything. Being a kid I wasn't scared, I just stared for a few seconds wondering what our family dog(large German Shepard) was doing there, then I look to see him laying on his mat in the corner of our porch. When I look back the eyes were gone. I never saw them again and to this day I wonder what it was. I've googled a lot of animals in Australia and looked for explanations but none could be as large as this thing was. I live back at the house now and still get goosebumps when I walk down that path.

Later on when I was 10yo my dad was unable to work due to a neck injury so to help him cope mentally my parents moved us out to a new state and into a small country town. Naturally I was upset, I had to leave the friends I grew up with and my extended family behind but when I got to our new house I remember genuinely feeling uncomfortable. Like something wasn't right. I think it was our first or second night when things started to happen. The first incident I remember was two consistent knocks all around the outside of our bedrooms, seconds apart and feet apart. The entire family heard it and my dad went out to investigate but saw or heard nothing. Not too long after that my sister and I were sitting on a bed talking when suddenly the mattress lifted up right underneath us. We hopped off and looked underneath the bed, expecting it to be one of our siblings (there are four of us) but no one was under. and there was no way for anyone to sneak away without us seeing. Then it continued on and off for years. Feeling like someone was in the room with you. Footsteps up and down the hallway during the night. My mums lounge room chair made this particular squeak whenever you sat or moved on it, some nights it would happen repeatedly, I would turn on the light and it'd immediately stop. Things would go missing or randomly falling/fly off the shelves. My door knob would shake violently but none of my family did it. My dad, who doesn't believe in any of this stuff, even saw a woman that looked similar to my mum in our backyard, they had argued earlier and thinking it was her he went outside to apologize only to find the woman had completely disappeared and my mum was napping the entire time. Emotions also ran very high in that house, I had a lot of dark days there. Years later my dad was talking to a local who commented my mother looked a lot like the woman who had previously owned the land our house was on. Apparently the woman's husband had an affair and left her, and shortly after she committed suicide. The house it all happened in burnt down a year later, which was rumored to be an insurance scam. I eventually grew up and moved out. A few years later my parents decided to sell the house and move back to our old one, the new owners commented(without any word from us about our experiences) that their daughter looked at photos of the house and said there was a spirit there.

Not much has happened since, just small things like I've gone out bush-walking and gotten bad vibes from particular tracks only to find out later on there was some freak accident there or nearby. For a while I was also seeing a tall shadowy figure standing above my bed, I now sleep with my tv on.

Just to clarify I'm still a skeptic and look for logical explanations for everything that happens.

Posted Aug 25, 2017, 12:58 PM UTC

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