Do You Believe In the paranormal and Did you ever experience supernatural Phenomena?

[Niamh]

oh sorry i didnt post the other picture. if you go to the photoalbum thread i posted the zoomed in image. there is a face in the picture that doesnt belong to anyone in the group staring right at the camera beside me.

[Jay]

Oh, ok, thanks , thought that was just someone out of the light. Funny how the face is 'dark', ie almost the same colour as the guy beside it. Guess nobody seen anything at the time the picture was taken? It looks dark in there.

You say recent paranormal investigation... where were you investigating? Any luck other than the yellow-eyed demon lady? (ok, I DID try not to make a Supernatural reference but I just couldn't help it, too tempting , please ignore unless you get my reference )

[Niamh]

I did an investigation of Pembrey Woods and War Bunkers in South Wales. It was quite dark but there was some natural moon light in the room. No one saw the face at the time, but i had seem a face similar to it at one point before hand (and it was just the head) coming straight at me from under the really tall guy in blacks chin. I'd never been so terrified in my life. And thats the god honest truth. Hands flew to my face because it scared the wits out of me. I'll never forget it. When i saw that photo i paled and told everyone what i'd seen. they had seem my hands fly to my face and me cry "Oh my god!" but they thought it was because i was excited about winning the T-Shirt in our auction for charity and they thought it was weird i'd done it. Said it made so much more sense when they found out what i'd seem. It was the first time i'd seen something that wasnt a white glow of a figure or a black shadow. I can still see the image of the face coming straight for me when i close my eyes.

I'm hopefully going to do something in Derby in beginning of June!

[Babbalanja]

there is a face in the picture that doesnt belong to anyone in the group staring right at the camera beside me.

[DanielBenoit]

I don't believe in paranormal stuff or am I entirely interested in it (watching unscary episodes of GhostHunters pretty much turned me off), but I am opened minded to other peoples beliefs and always love hearing about strange things, even if I can't explain them or am even skeptical towards them.

Just think of the film My Dinner with Andre, it doesn't expect you to believe much of what Andre says, but it sure creates a damn interesting conversation. Too much rationalism takes away the joys and spontaneity of the human imagination. Rigidness is a metaphysical sin.

I really enjoyed reading about your experiences Niamh , you should really share them with us more often. . . unless you already have *runs to Niamh's blog*

[Niamh]

Hahaha, i dont think i've ever written anything in my blog about the paranormal... unless i mentioned the investigation but i dont think i did.

[JuniperWoolf]

I don't believe in paranormal stuff or am I entirely interested in it (watching unscary episodes of GhostHunters pretty much turned me off), but I am opened minded to other peoples beliefs and always love hearing about strange things, even if I can't explain them or am even skeptical towards them.

Just think of the film My Dinner with Andre, it doesn't expect you to believe much of what Andre says, but it sure creates a damn interesting conversation. Too much rationalism takes away the joys and spontaneity of the human imagination. Rigidness is a metaphysical sin.

That is an excellent point.

[blazeofglory]

In fact I find supernatural phenomena highly engaging to me. It is hard to beleive them, but my question is the world is still a great mystery, and all that science has achieved is very little of it, and the great part of it still remains veiled from us.

Logically going everything, every event has a cause. Our presence here too has a cause. Our parents had desired for sex and the upshot is our existence in point of fact. What was the cause that led to copulation, maybe an external stimulus. What caused the stimulus and this goes on unending.

Then what is the supernatural? Is there a being? what causes everything in the world?

Mysteries do exist but it is really hard to synchronize with phenomena

[Babbalanja]

Too much rationalism takes away the joys and spontaneity of the human imagination. Rigidness is a metaphysical sin.

There's a responsible way to indulge our thirst for fantasy, and that's through poetry, music, and fiction. Let's follow the human imagination down the path of artistic invention, not the deep dark rabbit hole of numbnuttery.

Magical thinking isn't an admirable trait in adults. Once you're past a certain age, credulity is the real metaphysical sin.

Regards,

Istvan

[Niamh]

There is nothing fantastical or fictional about experiencing real paranormal activity.

[Revolte]

There is nothing fantastical or fictional about experiencing real paranormal activity.

I agree with that 100 percent. When all is said and done though, I don't think most people will believe in the paranormal if they dont experience it first hand, and if they do believe in it just for the sake of believing in it, they tend to believe false ideas. Like every haunting being demonic. I've delt with the paranormal starting when I was a child up until now and though there have been a few, more then startling, experiences, for the most part all was calm and far from what most people would expect from spiritual activity.

[Babbalanja]

There is nothing fantastical or fictional about experiencing real paranormal activity.

I'd say there's nothing paranormal about it either.

Regards,

Istvan

[Niamh]

I agree with that 100 percent. When all is said and done though, I don't think most people will believe in the paranormal if they dont experience it first hand, and if they do believe in it just for the sake of believing in it, they tend to believe false ideas. Like every haunting being demonic. I've delt with the paranormal starting when I was a child up until now and though there have been a few, more then startling, experiences, for the most part all was calm and far from what most people would expect from spiritual activity.

Exactly. Somethings, especially in the case of the paranormal, need to be seen to be believed. I know many people who were very sceptical about the paranormal until they experienced things even they couldnt explain via science.

I'd say there's nothing paranormal about it either.

Regards,

Istvan

Well you are intitled to your opinion.

[Babbalanja]

Somethings, especially in the case of the paranormal, need to be seen to be believed. I know many people who were very sceptical about the paranormal until they experienced things even they couldnt explain via science.

But the point is you're not explaining them simply by referring to them as paranormal either. Telling ghost stories and celebrating weird sensations isn't expanding our knowledge about the universe, it's just fetishizing the unknown.

Regards,

Istvan

[soundofmusic]

I never believed in such things; then I had a bad car accident in '93...it was terrible, I was always seeing things stepping in front of the car, running over disappearing people...I didn't dare tell the neurologist and the sensation disappeared completely after 10 years.

Then, I began to do hospice nursing at night. I would sit in a dark room in the wee hours of the morning and just as the patients would die, I would see a bright light over them...I asked my workmates if they experienced this also; and many agreed they did...I decided to switch to days and have seen nothing in the rooms since.

After my husband died, I began to see him at the foot of my bed every night. (He was retired from the military and was to be cremated immediately; but the services would take place a few weeks later at the national cemetary with several other vets) Each night, his apparition became more bloated and purple. I was so disturbed that after a few days I called the funeral home. His body had been lost on its way to the crematory. For two weeks, his body was unidentified and for two weeks he showed at the end of my bed; each night more horrifying than the previous. Once they found him and he was with his friends, he never again came to me.