Wednesday, August 25, 2010

More Paranormal Experiences...

Before I met Chris in Jan 2002, I had numerous experiences at my house.  A lot of them dealing with my Daddy.  I saw a lot of full figure apparitions of him and felt his presence in hundreds of situations.  I came to get used to him being around me all time.  About June of 2002, I moved to Chris's house and stayed there with him for 2 years.  During that time, things were quiet.  I didn't have a lot of encounters, and it all kind of slipped into the past and out of my mind.  Then in 2004 we moved back to my property and got a "new" mobile home.  It wasn't long before things started to pick up.  There were orbs, orange, white and yellow.  Beautiful and frequent.  They were near the ceiling of my kitchen, above the head of my bed near the ceiling and coming up out of the floor of my living room.  I seen one come out of my Mom's car one night when she got home from being out with her friends.  Then all of a sudden it wasn't just my Daddy I was seeing anymore.  My grandmother, who had passed in July 2002, started shaking the foot of my bed at night.  She seemed to get a big kick out of waking me up like that.  She also would pull on my ankles.  Once another young female came in and tickled the bottom of my foot and shook the bed.  She had long strawberry blonde hair, and a gauzy white billowing night gown.  I also heard her giggle!  A man started showing up in the corner behind my chair.  He would make the movement of the rocker change, like bumping it in the middle of a rock.  He always smells strongly of old stale cigarette smoke.  He is in his mid thirties, and his name is David.  It is like he is trying to get someone's attention, but when he gets it, that's enough.  He never tries to leave a message - or at least I don't get a message from him.  There was also a woman in late 1800's to early 1900's clothing that showed herself - full figure - in my living room.  She had on a striped skirt and an apron.  She had her hair up on her head in a bun, right on top.  She looked like an old photograph, sepia colored, and she sort of rolled, like tv's did in the 80's if the setting wasn't just right.  She looked like my great grandmother - Alice (Ally), but I can't be sure.

About this time - mid 2005 or later - the "dark figure" started showing up again.  The first time, I was sick and sleeping in the recliner in the living room.  I wasn't sleeping well because I couldn't breathe through my nose at all.  I had a bad sore throat too.  I felt something come up at the bottom of the chair and then press down on my chest.  It wouldn't let up.  I prayed and called out the name of Jesus, and as soon as I said that Name...he was gone!  It was the same figure that had showed up at the side of my bed in the mid -nineties.  Later, I was sleeping on the couch in the living room and I heard footsteps coming down the hall.  I was sick again, and my Mom had been coming down in the day to take care of me.  So I thought it was still her there at night coming down the hall to check on me.  I was anxious to see her there because she is so comforting when you are sick, and I was really anticipating seeing her come around the corner.  But it wasn't her that came around the corner, it was the shadow man...He held me down again and curled up around my back, pressing his body tightly up against mine like he was spooning or cradling me.  Thing of it is, there was nowhere for anyone to lay behind me.  I was on the couch facing the back of it, and it is narrow.  I prayed and pled the blood of Jesus, and it left immediately.  I also knew where it was staying.  It was staying in the back of my craft room/closet.  It is messy in there, cluttered with boxes and totes of craft supplies and yarn.  If you didn't know it was organized, you would think that someone just threw stuff in there.  I tolerated it beig there for a while, and then talked to my Mom.  She had been having the same kind of experiences as I had and she still lived in the home where I had my first experience with him in the mid-nineties.  He would come down the hall at night and curl up around her and spoon her.  So I decided that something had to be done.  So I got ready and one morning I went after it.  I cleaned and straightened up the craft closet the best I could and then went in and rebuked it in the precious Name of Jesus Christ.  Then I told it that it was banished and could never come back ever again.  I read aloud the book of Psalms chapter 91.  I did that throughout my house, concentrating on the craft closet and the side of my bed.  It was really hard to do at first.  It felt like I was being choked.  I could hardly breathe, but I knew if I gave in and stopped that it would never leave and it would be even more powerful than it was.  So I pressed on.  It disappeared and things improved in that area dramatically.  I was still seeing my orbs and feeling my human spirits, but nothing evil.  It felt lighter and more bright in the house.  What a relief!

Monday, August 16, 2010

Trip to TALA...

OK, so Mom and I are out at the yardsales and everything is pretty slow in Weston - no pun intended... So we go out and check out TALA - Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. I didn't know it, but they have a few rooms that you can tour for free! Mom definately does NOT want to take a tour there, so we did the free rooms and I will go back later with Chris for the grand tour - paranormal, of course!

The first time I saw TALA, I could feel it was a forboding place. Chris and I were really just driving by and didn't really stop. The next time I saw TALA, I was with my Mom and we were at the sales in Weston in Summer '09. We stopped and got out and I took some pictures outside. I didn't dare go in because when we drove past the water fountain in front the sensation in my head was like being in a room full of 500 people and all of them talking to you at the same time. I could feel the confusion and chaos that certainly reigned there and didn't want to go inside. I thought I wouldn't be able to stand it.

This time, Mom and I went over. Once again, at about the water fountain, I could feel all these people talking to me. We parked, got out and started inside. As I was walking up the steps, it felt like something was trying to stop me from going in. It was like walking into an incredible headwind. It felt like I had hundreds of pounds of weights tied to my legs and arms. And I felt like I dreaded going in there.

After we went into the room beside the Superintendant's Office, I felt like someone had come up behind me and put their hands on my shoulders and then just went limp, like I was dragging someone behind me. This continued throughout the rest of our visit. At one point I had a cramp in my right shoulder where it felt like their fingers were pressing into my shoulder. We looked around and then went to leave and going down the steps it felt like someone was pushing me out of there. I still felt like I was dragging someone - a female in a white nightgown. It was after we were a good ways down the road that that feeling left. Ironically, there was a sign on the door of the one room that said "This area is off limits to ghost hunters"...Now how exactly do you stop that sort of thing if one is merely sensitive.

After we left TALA, Mom and I were talking about how it made us feel to be there. She felt overwhelming sadness, depression and anger. She asked me one strange question - "Why did you skip steps when you walked up the steps into the building?" But I hadn't. She said she watched my feet as I walked up the steps and she saw me skip every other step. But I had NOT skipped any steps I placed my feet on every single step. It was too hard walking up them to skip even one.

That afternoon when I got home, it felt as if the woman had followed me. I felt her around me all of that night and the next day. It seems now that she feels that she has been "sensed" and that my place is not familar to her so she is back at TALA where unfortunately she feels she belongs.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Paranormal Cont...

I remembered something that happened while I was in my twenties and living up Bingamon. My father-in-law had just passed away in Dec of '92. I was driving to class in the spring of '93 and he appeared in my passenger seat. He didn't say or do anything, and I acknowledged that he was there. It felt strange, but I talked out loud to him. I could see the passenger door thru him and he had his customary coat and cowboy hat on. I actually had the coat hanging in the closet at home. It was about a month later that my husband told me he was leaving. I don't know if that had any connection to the apparition, but I always felt like my father-in-law and I were kindred spirits.
In the spring of 2000, my Daddy began coughing. It wasn't out of the ordinary for him to have a bout of a chest cold a couple of times a year, so we just treated the cough as we usually would. After a few weeks, he went to the doctor and got some antibiotics. They didn't seem to help and this started a string of doctor visits and different antibiotics. Finally in Oct, he was int he hospital. He had a bad infection that wasn't getting better. They were treating him and planning on him making a full recovery and coming home. One day in the middle of Oct, I was vacuuming my living room. I was living in the trailer that sat on this same lot I live on now. There was nothing out of the ordinary, except that later in the day I was going to go to the hospital and visit my Daddy. When I got to the couch in the living room, it felt like something hit me in the stomach-HARD! It doubled me over, but I was alone in the house. I had to sit down on the couch. With the "punch" came flashes in my mind of my Mom crying, the family in an uproar, everyone torn up emotionally, chaos. I saw different family members and their emotions. I thought it was because my niece was having a lot of problems and the family was worried about her. I thought in my mind that maybe she had done something stupid and that the family was upset about that. This lasted about 5 minutes; not being able to breathe and these changing images flashing in my mind. The one thing I realized later that my Daddy wasn't in any of these images. A month later he passed away in the hospital in the middle of the night. The family was devastated! After his death things around here really picked up in the paranormal sense.
I would be sitting on the couch and look up and out the window and he would be walking thru the yard. He had his blue plaid lined flannel shirt on and his hands clasped behind his back, classic Daddy. He would be in the house, on the property, at my job, in the car. When my boyfriend and I broke up, my Mom was down at my house the night I threw him out. We were in my room and were boxing up my boyfriends junk and there in the corner of the room was a full body apparition of my Daddy. He was just standing there, watching over his girls. The love that was radiating from him was so strong and comforting. He was with me for 7 1/2 years. It was so comforting and strengthening to know he was always around. I even had a picture of an orb in my kitchen that I know was him. The strange thing is that when I quit feeling/seeing him here, the picture also changed. In the original photo, there was only one orb. Now in the picture there is a line of orbs. You wouldn't believe it if you hadn't seen it for yourself, and now the evidence itself has changed.
The most wonderful part of this is when/why I stopped seeing my Daddy. I had met my fiance in Jan of 2001. We were in no hurry to get married, and were both perfectly happy just living together and having our lives. After we had been together about 6 years, we did start talking about getting married, but he wasn't ready yet, and I understood. In the fall of 2007, we started looking at rings and talking again, but didn't do anything. I was still seeing my Daddy on a regular basis. In February of 2008, I found a ring I loved at Gordon's and I told Chris about it. In March, I stopped seeing my Daddy and I haven't seen or felt his presence since. Life went on for Chris and I and we went on vacation in Aug/Sept of 2008 to the beach. On Sept 4, at sunrise, on the beach, Chris proposed. And I accepted! Later that day we were talking about the ring and how he had gotten it. That was when he told me he had actually bought it in March of '08 and had just been waiting on the right moment to pop the question...That tells me that my Daddy knows I am loved and safe now and that he can rest because both of his girls are in good hands. Chris loves and takes wonderful care of both me and my Mommy. This just makes me want to cry. I have tried to contact my Daddy since, but he never responds, and since I was his baby girl, I had him wrapped around my finger and he would definately show up if I was the one asking. So I know he is finally resting on the other side and that he can be at peace now, and that I don't have to worry because he has put his stamp of approval on Chris!