My Experiences With The Paranormal
As terrified as I am of most things paranormal (shows like ghost hunters and celebrity ghost stories leave me with paranoia and tears in my eyes), I have actually had a few paranormal encounters in my life. These are them:
1. When I was young, I had an invisible friend. I was so young when I first met her (I think I was 3), that I don't remember how it came about. But we were friends for years so I remember things about her as I got older. Her name was Coco. She was black. She always wore a blue and white outfit that now, I would recognize as something similar to a maids uniform. I grew up in a real small hick farm town. Until I started school, I had never seen a colored person in real life. Apparently one day just after I first started talking to Coco, I was at the mall with my mom and in seeing a black mannequin, I pointed and told mom "that's what Coco looks like!" I remember her just being really sweet, being my friend. She did things like tell me to ask my mom if she could have cookie as well, when I was allowed to have one and then telling me I cold eat it when Mom brought it. I remember feeling really safe because she was always there.
One strange night that I remember well, I had a fight with my parents because I was supposed to get a new bed and they changed their minds. In protest, I took ALL of the sheets off my bed (fitted one as well) and made myself a bed on the floor, in which I fell asleep in. When I woke in the morning, I was back in my completely made bed with no idea how I'd gotten there or who had made my bed. My parents still swear they had nothing to do with it.
Eventually, people kept telling me that I was too old to have an invisible friend and slowly, I convinced myself to let Coco fade away. I remember making her a gravestone and taping it to my floor, genuinely sad that she was gone. For most of my life, I believed I was just a kid who had an imaginary friend. But with research, and the internet, I have learned that that may not have been the case. Most kids with true invisible friends KNOW that they are not there. They know they have created them, they don't actually see someone there. Also oftentimes, they are not people. They are animals, etc. And it's a known fact that the younger we are, the more susceptible we are to contact from the other side.
I very much believe that Coco was a spirit. I wonder things like, was she attached to the land there? (We built our house so it couldn't have been it.) Or was she attached to me? Is she a spirit guide or something of the like? Is she still here somewhere? I might never know but I'm extremely curious.
2. About 7 or 8 years ago, I worked in downtown Vancouver at Virgin Megastore (best job of my life!). There are 3 floors in the old building that was once the Vancouver library. The top floor, we called the mezzanine. Once it had a cafeteria that was now shut down and it didn't get a whole lot of traffic. It held the toys, games, comics, books, vinyl, and smaller sections of cd's like rap/hip hop, electronica,world, etc. After working the main floor for a few years, I jumped at the chance to work the mezz. It was quiet, we got to play our own music and read. It was awesome up there. (I made friends with Robin Williams up there and we bonded over graphic novels for months!)
Anyways, before I started working up there, I had heard the mezz staff talking about the "ghost" but I truly never thought anything of it. But I understood as soon as I started working up there.
When the books started flying off the shelves, I honestly chalked it up to bad merchandising; they weren't set up properly. But it happened so often, I finally questioned it. A few times, I actually saw them fly out and it was in no way "falling" off the shelf. They flew out in stacks.
One day I was organizing cd's at the far end of the floor and I ver clearly heard a woman say "excuse me". I looked around, but no one else was on the floor at all. And there is only one was down and no one could have gone that way without me seeing them. I never felt scared, though. I'm terrified of ghosts, but it definitely meant no harm and there was never any negative energy. Just wanted to be acknowledged, I suspect.
3. Two-ish years ago, I was living alone in a small apartment with my 2 cats. being a tiny 1 bedroom place, there was just one small hall connecting all the rooms. I was sitting in the living room one day when I saw a dark, human shaped figure flash down the hallway from the living room towards the front door. It had seemingly appeared out of nowhere and disappeared just the same. This time, I felt fear tightening in my chest but I shook it off as my paranoia, or just my eyes playing tricks.
A day or two later, I was in the bedroom looking in a mirror that happened to reflect the hallway. This day, I saw the figure again, much clearer. It passed the bedroom door, headed towards the front door. But nothing was there. I was scared out of my fucking mind. I had definitely seen something this time.
I saw my mom a few days later, and ignoring how crazy I might look, I told her about what I had seen. I was quite freaked out by it, and I worried if it escalated, no one would believe me that it had happened before. When I told mom that I had clearly seen a tall, shadow figure, HER face looked terrified and she asked me if I was being serious. Turns out, during the same week, she had seen the same thing. We live in the same area, but different apartments. Both of us had lived in the places for a few years before the sightings and nothing had ever happened. Oddly enough, nothing ever happened again.
The only thing we've been able to think is that during that time, my uncle (who has now passed) was diagnosed with terminal cancer. So we questioned whether it could have been my poppa (my mom and uncles father) trying to be there for the family, or to tell us… or maybe just energy that came from what was happening. I don't know. I'll never know. Creepy, though.
4. Last one may not have been paranormal… but I believe some force was at work. I recently watched an episode of celebrity ghost story where the woman was drawn by an unknown force to pick up a book she had never seen before and read it. It happened to be a conquest journal her boyfriend had written about the women he had cheated with. I had some suspicions about my similar story, but after being brought to weeping tears by that episode, I realized my story was probably more similar than I could have dreamed.
Last October, I was in a really sad relationship. I was in love with someone who was pushing me away and I couldn't do anything about it. We were at a place where we hadn't even been speaking, and I was a day away from giving him the ultimatum of being with me or fucking off for good. It was on my mind pretty heavily and had been for a few days; that I had to do something. SOMETHING needed to end one way or another.
The few times I have ever been THAT lost in my life, I wish that my nana was still alive. I find myself talking to her, and crying to her, and knowing that her love and knowledge could have saved me in a way. I've never had any solid proof of her like visions, etc. But often, I feel like her energy is here and it's always calming.
So this night, I was browsing instagram on my phone and was strangely drawn to someones Facebook link. The thing I find strange is that is not normal for me. it was a total stranger. I do NOT add strangers to Facebook, and I didn't care one bit about seeing this strangers page. I don't ever know how to explain it, but something made me click it. And I did.
Those who have iPhones will understand this; when I clicked on the link, Facebook opened in Safari instead of through my app. Apparently, my boyfriend had signed into his Facebook in my Safari and never signed out.
Another strange factor was that out of the few mutual fb friends we had, one had been the last to post in the feed, so I never even questioned it not being my page. There was a new message so I casually clicked on it.
Now I am truly NOT the type of girl that creeps people. Had I known what I was doing, I would have stopped it long before I saw what I did. I didn;t even realize what was happening until it was way too late.
Long story short, I read messages about him cheating on me, and saying terrible things about me. Clearly enough for me to avoid looking like more of a fool by trying to fix things any longer, and to just end it for good myself.
I just really believe that this was more than intuition. Something other than fate put all the facts in order for that to have worked the way it did. If I hand't read what I did, we still would have broken up, and I would have always blamed myself and wondered what I did when the reality was just that I was dating a lying piece of shit.
Anyways, thats it to date. I'm still terrified of spirits, but I do hope I have more experiences in the future. I know ghosts are real, the few experiences I have had prove that in my brain without a doubt.
Have a paranormal experience? Tell me your story in the comments below - I'd LOVE to read them! Reblog so I can read more stories!?
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