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Post by markw on Mar 8, 2017 17:26:08 GMT -5
If you haven't read the first part, some of this might not make sense.. Growing up, the house that I lived in (my mother’s house) had a couple spirits in it that many years later my niece saw, she described them exactly as I remember them, we even had the same names for them! I have no reason to believe that Sue had anything to do with them as they existed long before she came into my life. One of these ghosts I called the dark man, he was in the basement. I started seeing him in my dreams when I was 6 or 7, right after we moved into that house. By the time I was ten I was seeing him when I was awake. In the basement you could barely see his features, but when he was out of the basement he was just a shadow, a very big shadow. I used to lock the door to the basement to keep him in there. My dad would get mad at me but I still did it. There was another one that walked around in the house. I don’t think it was the dark man that walked (and still walks to this day) around the house. The dark man makes no noise when he moves, but the ‘walker’ does. Sue became an addition to the family I guess you could say.
I went into the military in 1979 and for the first couple years I was in Texas, Mississippi, then Florida – had a few mirror events but nothing else out of the ordinary.
In 1981 I was transferred to northern Italy, and had a great apartment on the top floor of a five story building, big windows in the living room and in the hallway leading to the entrance door. I saw Sue many times reflected in those windows.. especially the ones in the hallway towards the front door. It seems that nearly every time I passed through there if I looked at the windows I would see her. She followed me to places that I went, sometimes I would see her in the store windows if I walked downtown at night, or in mirrors in bathrooms in restaurants and bars.. and she started coming into my dreams. A friend lived downtown just off the square in an old building. We went over to get some beer from his apartment.. the timer for the lights on the stairs timed out and we found ourselves in the dark right outside the hallway to his apartment. The light turned on inside, and the door opened – all by itself – giving us light to see by. We looked at each other and went in and grabbed the beer and got back out. As soon as we were back on the stairs with the light on, the door closed, again all by itself. I was on a mobile maintenance team and we went to mountain top communication sites. On one trip coming back from one of the mountains, we were on the road between Fanano and Vignola - a curvy road along a mountain river. I was asleep while a coworker was driving. Traffic was extremely light and it was easy to drive rather fast. Sue came to me in my sleep and said; “Wake up! Tell him to pull over! There is a white car coming around the curve on your side of the road! Stop or you will both die!” I woke up and told him to pull over. When he hesitated, I yelled, “I saw a white car coming fast! Hurry, get off the road!” He did, and as soon as the tires touched the side of the road, a white car came screaming around the curve, barely missing us. There was no way I could have seen the car coming, besides the fact that I was asleep. Just before another trip to a different mountain, I dreamed about driving down from the site. At a certain point on the road, which had many switchbacks, there was a sign that stood out like it was brighter than the rest of the scenery. As I neared the next curve I heard Sue in my head: “Watch where you are, pay attention”. When I tried the brakes they didn’t work and I went over the side of the mountain; there wasn’t even a guardrail to stop the truck. The next night I had the same dream, with the same sign. Again Sue came in my head; “See where you are, pay attention. Know what happens. Use the hand brake”. I tried the brakes earlier than I had the night before and they were useless. I pulled up on the hand brake and the truck started slowing down. It was still moving too fast when I came to the curve, tried to turn around it anyway and the truck slid to the side and overturned down the side of the mountain. The next week I had to go there and while driving down the mountain I recognized the sign near the curve before the one I had dreamed about, and slowed down.. tried the brakes (dead) and used the hand brake. Since I had slowed down beforehand I was able to stop the truck before I reached the edge. When I got back home I was there by myself. I got two chairs from the kitchen and sat them facing the bay window in the living room. I sat in one and looked at my reflection. I told her that I knew she was there, that she had been in my dreams. I asked her to show me that she was there, anything, to prove to me that she existed. Immediately the chair next to me moved a few inches. Scared the crap out of me! I thanked her and asked her how we could talk, if I could trust her.. No answer, no movement, nothing.
After I got married in 1983 and she showed herself in the window a few times, moved a couple glasses, but that was it.. she stayed out of my dreams and my life for a few years. She bothered my cousin during those few years, but then once she came back to me she left Terri alone.
I had never heard of a ghost coming into someone's dreams and telling them things that then come true - saving their life! I was seeing her fairly often, so dreaming of her makes sense. So at that time I wasn't sure if it was actually her that had come into my dreams and saved my life, or that I had a few precognitive dreams and I placed her in my dreams to give credence to the 'visions' so that I would act on them. The mind does play tricks on us sometimes, but after other events yet to be told I believe she saved me.
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Post by markw on Mar 8, 2017 15:23:35 GMT -5
Kate, Other people have told me the same thing - that they have a ghost in their house, not one that appears in various places or is necessarily connected to them. In my case she haunted me and my cousin and was 'free' to move from place to place. It might be that she was in the house of my sister's friend, but then we called her out to walk the earth and that is what she did. I would advise against doing it! As far as mirrors and windows, I am not sure about why she appears in them when she is not visible directly. It could happen in any mirror or reflective surface anywhere, usually in the house. I have heard of mirrors that were haunted in the sense that the ghost or spirit appeared only there. It may be similar to a house or other location being haunted, and the ghost can't or won't leave there unless asked to.
Chris, We would have used the board if nothing would have happened, and it was in the middle of us. All of us had touched the pointer and the board. I have used the board since that event and most times nothing happens right away. A few hours later, or even a day or two later yes, but usually not right away. The board I had then, and still have, is a Mystical Oracle 1954 circa, before the Parker Bros bought the patent and made Ouija. I doubt that I will ever use it again, but I haven't had the heart to burn it yet either. It is not in the house, my wife will not allow that, but it is in a box in the garage. I am pretty sure you are right; that in some circumstances, like a real desire to have something come, the right combination of people and/or the right words, it is possible to bring a spirit or whatever they are away from their normal haunt and they could become attached to another place or person(s). The board supposedly makes that easier, but it may be just a means of channeling the energy of the people involved, like putting them in the state of mind that gives strength to the wishes expressed.
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Post by markw on Mar 7, 2017 17:24:37 GMT -5
I guess I’ll start at the beginning. A friend of my sister said her house was haunted and that she had great 'fun' with an Ouija board in her house. Someone or something turned all the pictures face down inside of closed cabinets, and noises were heard in empty rooms. She said that the spirit was a woman named Susanne that had lived a long time ago in Scotland. The house was made from rocks that had been imported from there, so maybe they carried her spirit with them. I was very curious so I read a few books on séances and about the entities that various beliefs considered to control or hold some power over the dead. This was in the summer of 1976, and I was at a campground with my sister ‘Sam’ and a couple cousins, I’ll call them Bob and Terri. My mother and stepfather had gone to a wedding, so we decided to have a séance to try to raise the spirit. I had an Ouija board that I had found in a yard sale, so we got in the back of our pickup that had a camper cover. We sat down and joined hands. We had no clue what we were doing, none at all. I chanted very softly to myself, but once I had a decent mantra or what I thought sounded cool anyway I spoke loud enough for the others to hear.. I was asking to bring out Susanne, to let her be free of any bonds that bound her, and to let her walk the world again. I pleaded to Ereshkigal, the queen of the dead according to the Sumerians, to let Susanne walk the earth and show herself to us. After a short time the dog – who’s dog? – started barking and looking right at us.. we freaked out and jumped out of the truck. Sam looked towards our camper and saw a woman in the window, dressed in old-fashioned clothes and was pointing straight at us. Terri ran off screaming. I saw a shadow in the camper, and heard a screeching noise that never seemed to end.. but it finally faded. We went down to the store at the lake and found Terri there. She was shaking and said she had seen a woman in the camper too. We went back to our campsite and I got up the nerve to go in the camper. No one was there, no shadows, nothing. We didn’t use the board at all that night, never had the chance to ask it any questions.. later in life I did use the board though.
We didn't see her again for a couple weeks, but then we started hearing noises at night, saw faces in the windows or in mirrors, or heard voices and noises - and this occurred to my cousin Terri at her house as well as to me at my house. The mirror was Sue’s favorite place, and she could scare the crap out of me! I don’t have dates or order for the things that happened over the next two and ½ years. I saw Susanne quite regularly though, just never kept a record of dates and exact events. She would appear for a few moments and then would either fade away or walk around a corner in the house. Sometimes I would hear her laughing – many many times her footsteps squeaking on the stairs. I saw her quite often in mirrors or in the reflection of darkened windows. She had a thing for plates and glasses, and on many occasions I could hear dishes moving around in the kitchen when no one was in there to move them. Sometimes she would pull all the plates out of the cupboard and stack them on the table. Or the glasses. If I was sitting in the living room watching television and then got up to go to the bathroom, when I got back my glass would be gone and the television either turned off or on another channel. I could hear her voice at times, but it was never clear enough to pick out any words. Other times she would just moan softly. On more than one occasion, I would be in the living room and would hear a laugh all the sudden in the kitchen, and then a crash. When I got up the nerve to walk into the kitchen, I would find the phone or a something else on the floor. The dining room was in between the living room and the kitchen, and there was a mirror on the far wall. When anyone walked through the dining room to go to the kitchen, they would pass right in front of the mirror. When I walked by and looked in the mirror, a lot of times I saw her looking at me like she was in the mirror – or see her standing behind me. Other times I would be in the bathroom looking down such as getting a comb from a drawer, and look back up to the mirror - and for a second she would be there in the mirror behind me! It didn't happen every day or even once a week, but when it did, my god it freaked me out. I would see her in windows at night and think that she was outside trying to get in, but then realized it was a reflection and that she was inside. I tried to not look in the mirrors or windows, but then would see shadows moving. Or I would see something moving in the shadows. These things kept happening in the house I lived in or at my stepfather’s house. Much more often at my mother’s house though. This lasted from 1976 to 1979 when I left home to go in the military.
That’s a quick rundown of how it started, and the first couple years of a haunting with poltergeist-type events. I think she loved to scare Terri and me the most. I understood her bothering me as I was the one that had called for her, but with Terri I never really understood. I was very close to Terri, closer to her than to any other person alive, but still. Sue bothered Terri on and off in the same manner (voices, noises, in the windows and mirrors, sometimes knocking on the windows, etc.) for 10 years before she left her alone. For me, it is a different story which I will get to.
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Post by markw on Mar 5, 2017 16:14:04 GMT -5
Thanks for the responses and interest. I kept a kind of diary of the major events or things that were just outside of her normal visits, so I have a reference to use to describe the various things that happened over the years. I have searched and talked to a lot of people and their stories of the ghosts that visited them, and I have to say that none have matched the variety of visits I have had. Other than in a few instances though, it was always her - the same one from the start. I suppose I can start at the beginning and just tell it as it happened, and see how it goes.
If I need to wait for a section to start this, or if this thread will just be moved once that section is created, please let me know. It is a long story so I'll be writing a piece at a time - literally the whole story could be a book if I had the time to write it out. I will give detail in parts, for those areas that need clarification, but others will be somewhat general as some events were repeated over and over for days, months, and even years.
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Post by markw on Mar 2, 2017 16:30:06 GMT -5
I came on this group a month ago, and was hoping to see people put their stories out for other members to learn from, to compare their own experiences to, but I have yet to see any. Is there a place where people are discussing events like hauntings? My story is a very long one, and it is hard to talk to the 'normal' people in my life that probably won't understand and will think I'm crazy, a liar, or just seeking attention - or they are too close to me and would be afraid if they realized I was telling the truth. I hope to get an open mind, or two or a dozen, on here that may want to compare notes, or have similar events or may need help or just someone to talk to. Years went by when I was desperate for answers, for a cure or a stop to the things that were happening, but some things are hard to discuss for fear of ridicule. Eventually I found help, and it was actually the main ghost that was haunting me that gave me that help. I may get to the details eventually, but first I just want to give the generalities of the situation before going into any detail. Of course any and all names will be changed to protect the innocent, and the guilty. For now that is not necessary as this is just a summation of the story. The basic story in general is that in in 1976 I was 15 years old and we (myself, sister, and a couple very close cousins) were at a campground and decided to have a séance to raise the spirit that was haunting the house of a friend of my sister. We thought it was a joke, something fun to do, but it changed some of our lives for quite a long time - mine for sure. That event was in Michigan when I was 15, and that spirit made her appearances ever since then, no matter where I have been - all over the world. I moved to Europe in 1981 and she followed me, I have seen her in at least 5 or 6 different countries on 3 continents over the past 40 years.. sometimes in a solid form, other times as a shadow, other times just her voice or feeling her close by, and sometimes just from the noises she made moving things or because she moved things around in the various houses I have lived in over the years. She was a prankster at times, moving things when I wasn't looking, or moving things in the next room in a way that I was sure to hear. She came into my dreams and when I woke up screaming from some of those dreams she would be in the room for a second or two, rocking in my rocking chair or just standing in the doorway. Other times she came to me and saved my life; this happened quite a few times. Other people have seen her when she was solid so I know she is real. I even managed to get a picture of her once. I have touched her, talked with her, both in dreams and when I was awake. She has possessed people to talk to me longer, and in her many attempts to seduce me. Finally another spirit came into the house that was not as 'friendly' as she, and that was when she told me how to protect my daughters and the house from them. By 'them' I mean spirits in general - once I did what she told me to do, all spirits were blocked from being in my house, including her. I still notice her on occasion in other places as I travel rather frequently so sometimes she reminds me that she is there, but it is much calmer than it was in the past. Not sure what to make of that, but calm is fine with me! She found her way back into the house a little over a month ago, but it is at a very light level as most of the house still blinds her and she cannot move as freely as she once did. Anyway, that is the very top level generalities of this haunting that has been going on, on and off, for the past 40 years. I might tell parts of my story if there is interest, but some is very personal and I will never tell those parts to anyone. She is in no way limited to a place, actually has been on one side of the Atlantic at one time and on the other side less than an hour later. She does not change over time. She can make herself visible to me only, or to everyone.. once she was being a prankster that I could see and a small girl saw her too, but no one else did. I don't know why she stayed with me, or around me, for so long or how to send her back to wherever she came from (if that is even possible). I do know how to keep her and the others out of my house, but not out of my life. Cheers everyone!
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Post by markw on Feb 2, 2017 15:38:17 GMT -5
As the title states, I am as new member.. hello! I have had many experiences with 'visitors' I guess you could call them over a long period of time and am interested in hearing about and sharing encounters with spirits, ghosts, or whatever you wish to call them. I always hope to find meaning, to figure out what they are or want, and that is not always possible.. never complete. I have learned to accept when possible, and to protect when necessary, as the nature or character of the visitor can vary from seemingly pleasant and benign to cruel and threatening, even dangerous. Anyway, I'll be reading through previous posts in hopes of finding stories similar to my own, and eventually posting the events I have had to share with whoever wants to take the time to listen. I will never judge or ridicule anyone for what they say, and I hope to be treated in the same manner. The object of sharing the events of our lives is to grow in knowledge, to learn about others while learning about ourselves - and the things that haunt us.
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