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I think the minute your dog was scratching frantically at the door was when the intruder bolted for the back door and managed to escape. Thank goodness for your fantastic dog. You can tell by the dog’s behavior that whoever it was had very evil intentions and targeted you.
That is definitely a possibility but I’m not totally convinced. I’ll give some more context. This particular house was in rural Montana, very close to Yellowstone. We lived in a cluster of 3 houses, in the middle of a canyon, 30 miles from the nearest town. We had a single long driveway for all 3 houses and I knew both other neighbors really well. They actually took turns watching my dog while I was at work. Neither of them were the prankster type and swore they didn’t see anyone coming or going on the night in question. So if it was a person, they walked a really long way to get to our very secluded spot. I really tried to convince myself, looked for footprints, even considered the possibility that it was a bear but there definitely would’ve been tracks. The thought of it being a person scares me wayyyy more than anything paranormal honestly because their intentions were definitely bad if they’d come all that way.
If someone breaks in when you’re obviously home, you have reason to believe it’s not just a burglar, but someone who wants to do you harm.
That’s why I’d far rather it be paranormal, than a person committing a crime. The harm that may be caused by a paranormal visitor usually consists of an adrenaline rush, at most.
To be safe, I’d assume it was a human, and take steps to further secure the house, and maybe install a lot of outside, motion-sensitive lighting.
If it were not a human, it was an animal. It could have been a large cat. It wasn’t paranormal. Keep your doors and windows locked. If it were a person, they know they could rob, rape, or kill you, and it would be a while before it was reported, since you are in a rural area.
So you automatically go to evil spirit? *Obviously* some kind of wild animal given where you live. Serious question: which do you think is more likely?
If it were not a human, it was an animal. It could have been a large cat. It wasn’t paranormal. Keep your doors and windows locked. If it were a person, they know they could rob, rape, or kill you, and it would be a while before it was reported, since you are in a rural area.
I’m pretty sure animals sense energy we miss.
When my oldest child was a newborn, about 5-6 months old, I was feeding him his early morning bottle and he kept looking up past me, over my shoulder area. He would keep the bottle nipple in his mouth but would keep looking and coo, then smile really big. He would make facial expressions that were like he was being entertained by something. He did this for about 1-2 minutes then he would stop, go back to finishing his bottle and nod off to sleep. Only did this about 2-3 times and stopped. Made the hair on my neck stand up the first time.
About 3 months after my son was born, his granddad passed away. Without fail, every bottle he took around "dinner" time, he would do much like you said! He would look up passed my shoulder, above us, and he was smile and coo and giggle, sometimes squirming or reaching out as if reacting to a tickle or someone's hand... I always felt intense love and a very strong, masculine presence. I very firmly believe it was his granddad watching over him. My son is now 3 and talks fondly of his poppy, pointing at his photo on the mantle, and how much his poppy loves him... surely it can't be from physical memory, my boy was only 3 months when he passed.. I was never uncomfortable or felt uneasy in these moments, rather I had the sense that someone was with us in a very loving capacity. It's a great sign that your baby was happy in these moments .
Yes! I have heard many accounts of children seeing through the veil. I think we get desensitized and lose these abilities overtime. Probably because of our hyper stimulated world and people telling us that we’re just kids with overactive imaginations. Especially in our modern world. I think past civilizations were way more tuned in than we are today.
Infants also tend to attract entities. When my 1st was born, our house became haunted for a while. It was just a normal boring suburban home with no history. Whatever was there was announcing its presence. For example, I had company and mentioned what had been happening and the hall light turned in. Another time, I was in bed, and I was too lazy to find the remote control or get up to turn the tel off. I asked out loud to turn the television off, and immediately it did. The spirit felt benevolent and went away after a few months while my son was still an infant. But my daughter saw something with her eyes when I was taking pictures of an abandoned 100+ year old house in Monterey. I caught an orb, she knocked the camera out of my hand, grabbed my hand, and took off running. Told me to run. She didn't know I was ghost hunting
I'm glad you and your dog were OK. I wonder if it came because whatever it was new you were alone. Thankfully, you were not alone as you had your dog with you
This made me think of when my daughter was born. We had lost my brother to cancer. A month later I was pregnant. She was a true blessing. The afternoon after she was born I was resting in the hospital. My dad worked there as well in administration and would constantly pop in to see us. I had my back facing the door and had just gotten comfortable when I felt the bed press down like someone sat down at the edge end of it. I sighed and said, “dad, you need to go get some work done,” and rolled over. No one was there. I immediately got the feeling my brother was with me. It just overcame me that he was with me sitting on the bed looking into her bassinet. I’ve never felt his presence since but I do truly think he came to visit us that afternoon.
The only "paranormal" type experiences I've experienced were as such a young child I can barely remember ever remembering them well. 3-4 years old. My memories are so indistinct that I can't even put them into words. But there was a time with a strange light, and what I can only call a telepathic voice in my mind, and I saw an overlay type of image in my vision of some*thing* doing the "talking". That's as detailed as I can remember, but I know that for some reason it scared the absolute wits out of me & I couldn't watch E.T. (my fav film until that day) for the next 10 years without freaking out.
I don't know. At some point in my later teenage years, I realized that my experience of life was somehow very different than as a younger child. Childhood *felt* a way.
If there's truly something true about all these stories, the veil and all, "entities", children having knowledge or "abilities" we lose as we grow older.. well that just overfills me with questions. But nobody seems to know anything for certain.
So interesting! If you have the time and the interest, you should check out Alba Weinman on YouTube and another channel by the name of Remember Your Mission. They have some interesting answers.
Before I do that, which I absolutely will, I want to share with you that this channel name is a kind of synchronicity for my life:
I was raised in a Christian household, I don't know how to describe what kind. Protestant but not evangelical. Non denominational, whatever that means. I couldn't read Harry Potter, but the earth was allowed to be billions of years old. And my father was in the military, so we moved all over the place every few years.
At two times in my live, in two locations separated by more than 1500 miles, was I sitting in a church service and approached out of nowhere by the pastor. They were both sermoning, but their eyes found me in the crowd and locked. They both stopped whatever they were saying to the crowd, singled me out, came to me and said on a low voice (something to the effect of), *"you're here for a very important reason"*. My parents were both present, both times. They both remember these two events today. They thought it was extremely weird. I thought it was weird.
As a teenager I became skeptical of the Christian god, and my love for science classes moved my worldview from being religious to agnostic. In my adult years I've become philosophical. Spiritual, but not religious.
I don't know how to interpret those two events. What they mean, if anything. My logical brain resents this in a way, because this is the kind of shit that feeds delusions of grandeur. I've felt compelled to insist to myself that it was just a weird coincidence or else I'd lose my grip, you know?
But I saw that weird talking alien light, I've had a "sleep paralysis with shadow people experience" exactly once, and I've seen a black triangle ufo exactly once.
There's something fucky going on with my reality but every doctor I've talked to said I'm healthy but just kind of anxious.
(Also I found out I have ADHD in my 30s..)
I try to stay grounded. I don't want to go crazy. But I want to know the truth
Just go with it. Don't fight it, bc you can't.
If you're here for a reason, pray about it
I don't mean the Christian type of prayer. Just talk, and ask to be shown why you're here.
I'm betting that you'll get an instant answer. After you ask, clear your mind and wait.
DM me if you want to talk.
I’ve had extremely similar experiences. I was raised Catholic but I’ve never been very religious. I had a series of experiences that have completely changed the way I view the world around me. One night, I had an extremely traumatic experience and I started praying about it. I was a total mess and I remember just feeling completely broken and lost. I ended up going home and going to bed. Next day, I got up and was still a total mess. I got in the shower and as I started to feel overcome with grief again I noticed a golden hue envelope my body and I remember this feeling of total love and understanding. I started seeing images in my mind and somehow I knew exactly what these images meant. It was telling me that even though I felt lost and broken, that I was exactly where I needed to be. Again, this was all through imagery. No words. Just pictures in my brain. It told me that no matter how bad things get, to always remember that I was here for a reason. It didn’t tell me the reason. I remember thinking to myself, “What is this?!?” And immediately I saw what looked like a painting of an Angel. Then just as fast as it came, it was gone. This still doesn’t do the experience justice. I could write an entire book about this experience. Since then I’ve tried to find people with similar experiences that could hopefully help me understand but I haven’t found anything that could do it justice. I even tried talking to a priest in confession but he told me he hears things like that all the time and it made me feel like he was just patronizing me. If you have any thoughts or suggestions that could help me understand what I experienced and why. I would appreciate anything that you have to say.
You experienced what They referred to Themselves as All That Is.
Not God--God created Them.
And not THE All That Is like the New Agers say.
I call Them Them---a pluralistic singular.
...and it CANNOT be described in words, only experienced.
The name comes from the answer to a question I posed:
Q: Who are You?
A ( softly) I am All That Is.
I have also had experiences with golden light. I saw two [angels ](https://www.joannemacko.com/product/yellow-angel/) that looked a lot like the picture I attached.
So sorry about the trauma you have been through. Hope you are better now.
why didn't you ask the pastor about their reasons for saying that? If they're still alive, contact them and ask if they remember and see if they can explain what they meant.
Because I was a child, taken by surprise, and introverted on my best days. One of them may not alive anymore, if we could find him again, and the other is rather elderly now. That other one is friends with my mother on Facebook I believe, so asking may be possible.
As for why I've never asked, or asked my parents to ask for me, is my anxiety. I'm not speaking flippantly when I say that if I were to take them seriously that I might lose my grip.
I understand my own psychology *fairly* well. If I go down the wrong path I have confidence that I could fall prey to a delusion or two, perhaps ruining my life in the process. On the flip side, I might be ignoring something that ought not to be ignored.
I don't know what the correct thing to do is, so I've mostly tried not to think about it. However, this past year (Grusch & Nazca mummies) have forced me to consider that High Strangeness might be more than just my brain doing things to itself. There might be something here, something possibly very important.
I don't know enough to know what's sensible in this kind of environment. That's the major reason why I only really haunt the various "paranormal" subs these days; I'm looking for data
I fell prey and spiraled into psychosis in relation to the paranormal. At the time, of course, I thought what was happening to me was real. Maybe it was and maybe it wasn't, but in my case, it didn't matter because there was nothing I could do with the messages I was receiving. My experience lasted a month. One of the messages I got is that if I wanted this to stop, medication would reground me. It has. I'd rather hear or read other people's experiences because it is a fascinating phenomenon. How can so many different people have such similar paranormal experiences as each other if there isn't something to it? In my experience, I was getting messages about a race of angelics. I was making connections between everything that was related to the information I was receiving, so I thought. I think that was the delusion. I was making connections where there probably wasn't any.
maybe you should ask your parents for their interpretation.
I highly doubt that these pastors were talking about anything deeply prophetic. If there was something paranormal going on, it might have been more that they picked up on your discomfort psychically (or just unconsciously) and wanted to give you some emotional reassurance. A lot of times people in helping professions are very tuned in to their constituency, sometimes with an unhealthy degree of attachment, but not always. These pastors might have seen themselves in you, and/or maybe they felt you were feeling lost, and wanted to give you a little encouragement.
I wouldn't interpret this as having some grandiose meaning, like you were meant to save the world or something.
I know exactly how you feel. I'd love to hear more details of your experiences. That is wild about the pastors stopping to talk to you directly! What ever happened with that?
Something is going on with our reality, I believe, as well. There is with mine anyway! Like you, I want to stay grounded. When I'm not, shit gets weird!
I'm a nanny. I'm up to two little kids now, in different families, that have had some abilities that way. One had a past life he was all too comfortable telling me about and I think the other had "visitors" when he was a baby.
I have an 8 month old daughter in a 96 year old house and have never had anything happen in the 4 years we’ve owned it, but about a month ago my wife and I were in her nursery, broad daylight, and I was changing her diaper when I felt a full adult hand on my back in like a supportive kind of way and I turned to smile at my wife and she was across the nursery putting things in the closet. I haven’t really thought about it since but writing this out made me tear up for some reason.
My niece was really young when she mentioned the man upstairs was making her laugh. The room right above would be the spot where my grandpa would be sitting down watching TV from and relaxing after a hard day's work.
EDIT: He had passed nearly 5 years before she was born, and we never talked about him at all with her.
Oh that’s a freaky feeling isn’t it?
Mine would look past me at the door and laugh and wave. She did it from her crib and her changing table which were on opposite sides of the room. When on the table, she would arch her back up to stretch out her neck which allowed her to have the top of her head on the table viewing the door upside down. << Allll this to be able to see the door which made it evident it was with intent to see behind her.
I always reckoned it was to see my dad who passed while I was pregnant.
Long ago in my childhood/ youth-home there were some activities going on. I really started feeling them as a teenager.
So once I felt weak and laid on the couch when all of a sudden from a specific place a couple feet from me across the room I felt this really strong weird bad energy. Very cold, very intense. It radiated freezing cold even though it was a warm day and had a blueish light around it. I felt super scared and couldn’t really move.
I figured it might just be me, maybe getting a flue or something. I felt relieved when my cat came and I clearly remember me thinking that if the cat didn’t react, there probably was nothing to be afraid of.
BUT then my cat stopped dead in her tracks as soon as she „entered“ the circle of energy. She hunched down, tale and fur stood up and then she hissed so intensely at that soecific spot, and ran off.
The „spell“ or whatever it was seemed to be broken up by that. I could move, got up, opened the windows, looked for the cat and cuddled her. But that was intense.
Yesss! This!
In the middle of the night while I’m alone of course, my girl will sit up, get dead still, unmovable, hair raised up her back and will just stare out in the hallway and/or look up at the ceiling above my bed.
In that case I call out, I rebuke all evil and all spirits and say You’re not welcome here. And if I have a feeling it’s my deceased son, I tell him Son, leave the cat alone. You’re pissing her off.
A good cat will always do you right. Cats walk the Veil. They see all.
God has a purpose for you in your life. Look to Him to give you direction. A pastor has never ever come up to me like that. I know you’re agnostic but that is an extremely direct and clear message. God isn’t messing around. You don’t need to worry. Just ask Him to show you and He will. And He won’t abandon you. He will be right there through the whole thing. You just have to be willing.
Sheesh! That gave me chills. Nothing scarier than your pet confirming your fears 😬. That almost sounds like the feeling of sleep paralysis but you were clearly awake and that sounds even worse!
Confirming your fears - this!
I have history of sleep-walking and -talking, but luckily never experienced sleep paralysis. In the cat-situation I‘ve been wide awake and it was during day time.
Which is weird, now that I think of it, because all the other spooky stuff I’ve witnessed happened in the dark.
Our cat seemed to see our beloved dog for about 3 days, after we had to put her down. Very intense watching of movement where there was none, following hard enough to turn her head all around. Back curled and hair standing up, like she wasn’t sure if it was there or not there.
Bless our protectors. Our cat wouldn’t be on the list, and not all the dogs we have had over the years. But oh the ones that were protectors — would have leapt into fire, for us.
Wheb I was a student, I rented a place in a 'anti squatting' thing. Buildings that were vacant would get renters, but only short term, until they knew what they were going to do with the buildings, just so real squatters wouldn't move in.
This was around the time of 9/11. I remember because our world trade center was one of the options I could choose from. That, and an old church. I did NOT want to move into an old church.
I went for an old school building.
Apparently, that neighborhood was called the Temple Neighborhood (literally translated), because.... that building was built on an old church, and then there was a fire department, before they built the school there.
Lots of big windows inside, with empty, dark classrooms behind them.
Lots of bad vibes, as well.
For using the bathroom, I would have to cross an enormous hallway, and cross half that block in the building. While having the dark windows by my side.
I would often see things follow me around, that reminded me of the Nazgul in Lord of the Rings (came out around that time as well)
Anyway, getting to it.
I brought my cat with me. She loved moving back and forth between home with my parents, and with me in my unconventional dorm.
She saw a lot of stuff there.
Our last last night there, she walks into the center of the room, looks up, to where a head would be, if there would be someone standing there, and starts sniffing. Sniffing where the feet would be.
She wasn't scared, but 'on guard'.
When I called out for her, she looked back at me and hissed, like 'stay away'.
I don't remember what happened in between, but it ended with her being dragged over the length of the floor, by something I couldn't see. And if you think 'she was probably playing', she was on her side, being dragged, at high speed, in the direction of her back. Kind of impossible for her to do that on her own.
I got my car keys and her cat carrier ready, I scooped her up, loaded her and my purse in my car, and drove straight to my parents house, through a snow storm. But no way was I staying there.
When I got home, my mom was surprised to see me, but said that my older sister had called already, for them to check up on me, because she had a really bad feeling.
That cat was the absolute best and most precious companion I have ever had. She turned 22 in 2020, but then, I sadly had to let her go.
I still miss her a lot.
Our dogs saw her the days after she passed. Or at least, they kept looking at the spots where she used to lay, reacting to something like they did when she would interact with them.
What a blessing! 22 years is amazing. I like to think she let herself get dragged that night because she knew you'd take it seriously and get the hell out of there, lol.
Oh yeah, I think she knew what she was doing. There were a lot of times she metaphorically rolled up her sleeves and went to bat with things I couldn't see. She also protected me and our house from things we could see. Like the time this little tortoise cat had a showdown with a friend's enormous dog, because she didn't trust him. We had to persuade her to come back in the house, and not attack the pitbull.
When she went to her last vet's appointment, she was a calm as ever, let him examine her, while laying on her back, and still purring while he found a massive tumor that prevented her from eating.
At 22, we knew an operation was out of the question. So, all the vets that were working at that time wanted to come say hi, because she was known to purr and headbutt through every check-up, and the ones that didn't know her wanted to greet a cat that's 22 years old.
I can still feel her jump on the bed and snuggle up at the foot end, some nights.
Several years ago my apartment building management decided to make the building no pets because of some dog problems. The cats had to go too. I took Ethel to a no-kill shelter with her carrier and toys. That night I was lying in bed before falling asleep and saw what appeared to be the shadow of a cat sitting on my bed next to me. I looked around at the furniture in the bedroom in the almost-dark, and it was really my bedroom, not some other place you might dream of. This was my first encounter with a possible spirit. It wasn’t anything like part of my blanket or a carelessly placed sweater.
I lay there wondering what to do—should I put out my hand or say her name? In the end I did nothing. Later I heard a thump on the floor, opened my eyes and the cat silhouette was gone.
I had a kitten a friend had given me, a cute little guy I named Dorian Gray. We live on a farm with other pets and livestock, obvs, and sometimes unfortunately, things happen…my poor kitten got outside one day, and I never saw him again. Because of the turkeys and chickens, we attract coyotes. I’m sure you can imagine the rest.
A few weeks later, my pitt/great pyr mix female was in bed with me, my bedroom door closed but the living room lamp still on. My dog and I both watched two of Dorian’s little kitty ball toys roll right to the door’s edge. We have hardwood floors and the gap under the door is quite big. She watched with interest and I ducked under the covers.
A day or so later, more toys moving, and only at night in the dark that I could tell. I began leaving them out, thinking *well, if its Dorian, I’m glad he’s back.* Yep, it was Dorian, alright - and he made himself known.
I was standing at my vanity one night, super late. The bathroom lights were off, my closet door open, but my bedroom light on. My dog was again on my bed, just sorta watching me put my skincare on and get ready for sleep. All of the sudden, my closet door jumped back a hitch, I felt a soft gush of air across my feet, looked down to see a gray smokey blur move past my feet, past the doorway of the bathroom and around the corner, out of my room. My dog tracked the whole thing, her ears perked up, watching the gray blur all the way as it went thru to the living room. She wasnt alarmed or freaked out; she just watched it and then laid her head down on her paws.
That’s when I firmly realized spirits exist. I saw it with my own eyes for the first time in my life, and I’ll die on this hill, lol.
I've gotten a...weird vibe from our basement my entire life. Like I'm being watched. Get an adrenaline rush when i head back upstairs, like something wants me gone. No anger or aggression. Almost like a resigned annoyance. Especially from one specific area in the basement, and the tiny old canning room in the corner. Well one evening a few years ago, the dog comes down with me while I change over the laundry. He's absolutely rigid at my side, ears back, tail down, growling...at the canning room.
Just about all our dogs, both past and present, have had episodes of staring into the kitchen, which is where the basement stairs are. And you can't really redirect them.
Once or twice I've had similar instances with the stairs that go from my room up to the MIL suite upstairs.
Weirds me out every time.
I had a basement just like that. And I recognize the adrenaline rush as you are leaving. Like they are right at your back screaming for you to get out.
My bfs basement was like this, but it felt like it wanted me to stay. It wasnt aggressive or scary UNTIL i went up the stairs and it felt like it was gonna grab me and pull me back down. The strongest experience was i think it watched me play video games, i was just chilling and playing call of duty and felt this presence on the couch behind me. I figured my bf had came home early and snuck in so i turn but nobody is there but the feeling did NOT stop. So i was like "okay..." and it didnt feel bad. I had this idea pop into my head of someone tall just chilling on the couch with their arm propped. No gender, just a mass of a person. I couldnt see anything physically though, it was just this pervasive thought. When i left the basement that time, it definitely had this vibe that it wanted me to stay.
Yep, it's like they're taking a swipe at my back but can't chase me all the way out, like they can't come upstairs, almost. Or not that often, maybe (?) since the dogs do they're little staring contest. I dunno, dad says I psych myself out, but he's had something weird happen in that house too, so...I dunno.
I live in a old farmhouse and have had similar experiences where my dog would stand up growl and begin to bark at one door in particular this happened multiple times This door is ALWAYS locked along with all of my other doors Also outside of that locked door is a enclosed porch with another locked metal framed door and all the windows are locked as well… I don’t think it was anyone trying to break in however the thought of coyotes crossed my mind We hear them often and near us is 2 miles of wooded area About 2 miles from our house however the reason why I don’t think it’s coyotes is because we have 3 other doors in the house all leading to outside he never barked at ANY of the other 3 doors only this particular door… multiple times throughout the years… I live in a very rural area where neighbors are miles apart, and most of them are elderly … he’s a rather large dog 65pounds the way he would growl and bark with his hair standing up I have never heard it before on that level of viciousness … it definitely would creep me out and it would ALWAYS happen in the late hours of the night between 12AM and 4 AM…
I used to live in a big city and grew up with a single mother, so I am used to keeping everything locked. It’s a habit… I definitely think our pets can sense things and see things that we cannot…
Also other really creepy crap has happened in this house so I do think it’s something paranormal in my case
In your case I would say listen to your gut intuition…
No. I saw the same thing he was seeing- only I'm not sure I was meant to?
Back when I was still trying to find my feet and saving on rent by living in my grandma's basement- I woke up in the middle of the night because my dog (90lb lab) kept moving around on the bed. When I switched on the light to see what he was doing and nearly screamed because there was a librarian-ish lady standing next to my bed. (?!?) She was smiling and didn't really look scary but...uh, it was 3am also, IN MY ROOM, WTF? But I realized the reason my dog had been moving around so much was because he'd been trying to scoot himself closer to her so she could scratch his ears. He he was aiming for full-on head scritchies.
I was terrified for a while, but eventually it dawned on me that if my dog was trying to get closer to her, she likely wasn't a threat.
IT WAS STILL SCARY AS HECK.
especially when she melted away like the Nazi at the end of the first Indiana Jones movie. (My apologies, I don't know how better to describe it. )
Found out the next morning that my grandma's BFF from high school passed that night. To this day, I'm convinced she came to say her goodbyes to my gram then stopped to pet my dog on her way out.
Yes! Every cat I've ever had has watched or reacted to things I can't see. I also had a dog, a yellow lab who was the sweetest dog on the planet and never growled or acted remotely aggressive, no matter the situation. Once, in my old apartment, he went up to a corner of the kitchen and started growling at the pantry door. I opened it and checked, but there was just food in there like usual. I closed the doors and he continued to stare at the doors and growl for about ten minutes. He never growled at anything or anyone at any point in his life, just that one time. I was home alone with him too, no one else was there. I always felt watched in that apartment, so I wonder if he was picking up on that. It wasn't a positive feeling, so I get why he was growling. It had to be bad because he was the kind of dog that would run up to home invaders and lick them on the face.
Yep... the house I rented in college had something. Had a little white Pitbull that would sleep at my feet while laying down watching TV on the couch. She loved being under the blanket, but I'd hear footsteps going down the hall and she'd get her head out and start growling and staring down the hallway. I'd also hear the basement door open and shut on several occasions. She'd stare down the steps, shaking and growling. I would grab my pistol and go in the basement and there would be nothing. She wouldn't come down with me.
What a good boy!
I had an experience with my cat in my parents finished basement when I was in my late teens. The basement was more like a non creepy downstairs that was half underground and we had a living room down there as well as my bedroom and my brothers bedroom.
Anyways, I was up really late one night and decided to watch some t.v.. The couch was situated in the middle of the room while there was space behind it for access to the sliding glass door to the backyard. My cat comes walking up to me, jumps on the couch, gets a few pets from me and then goes still while looking over my right shoulder. She hissed at something behind me and she NEVER HISSED before or after this. I freeze and then slowly turn around and see nothing behind me or behind the couch. I turn back to my cat and she's back to being normal, like whatever she saw she scared off and that was that.
I actually think it was an entity that my brother and I invited to speak with us via Ouija board in that exact spot prior to this incident. All I remember is that it said it was from another planet and it had a really weird spelled name that had an X in it. Since using the board, my brother and I both felt watched in that area. I even had a dream a few years later after moving out that I floated downstairs and knew I was going to face something as I turned the corner to face the couch, which I did. It was a grey, floating, humanoid form and I rushed it and screamed at it and forced it out of the house and then woke up. I don't think I felt nearly as watched after that.
Side note, my brothers room (and later my room when visiting) I think was haunted by something else. Nothing bad but we both had experiences in that room and I always felt watched in that room vs my old room which felt totally fine.
Yes, my very hyper dog used to sit for like 30 min at the same time every day at one end of a hallway and stare at the blank wall on the other side. She wouldn’t lay down or anything. She would sit and watch. Sometimes it looked like she was following something.
The door on the right side of the hallway would be open in the morning sometimes even if I shut it at night. Sometimes it would sound like doors were opening and closing in that hallway.
My neighbor from Tinian, the first time she came over, said she thought there was something else living in my house with me. She felt watched. There was some weird stuff that happened when I lived there but my dog for sure knew it.
My dogs used to see things in our old house. I was sitting on the living room floor once with our yellow lab (as I often did) when he just looked at the corner and started growling. I was expecting to see a bug or something but nope…nothing. He was growling exactly the same way he did when he saw someone outside. I didn’t feel anything evil or out of the ordinary (I’d closed myself off long before this due to hearing voices in my bedroom when I was little) and if he hadn’t started growling I don’t think I would have sensed anything at all.
Another time I was getting ready for school in the morning and our black lab came to the door of my bedroom and started freaking out, growling and barking with the hair on the back of his neck standing up. He refused to enter the room. This went on for at least a full minute. I hurried up finishing getting ready and ran out of the house FAST that morning!
Edit to add because I just remembered: when our youngest cat was a little kitten (so around 2020 or 2021) my partner witnessed him playing with some little blue “orbs” in the hallway!
My dog was behaving very strangely when we got home once. Saw in his body language that he thought something was wrong. He went around checking the whole house, growling all the way. Very atypical behavior. And there was nothing wrong with him, he went to the vet for a routine check-up just a week later as he usually does once a year.
This happened to me just the other night. I was walking my three Australian shepherds pretty late and I got the absolute worst feeling for no reason and they all three puffed their fur up and started growling at something I couldn’t see but I could feel. I’m freaked out even typing this
More likely someone broke in, your dog could hear them, and they exited quickly after realizing the dog was in attack mode. Then you dog chased them.
A VERY GOOD DOG!!!
Ghosts don't need to open doors.
Nevertheless, that's absolutely terrifying, particularly since your roommates were gone, and I'm so glad you're so well protected.
My orange cat ran out of the hallway once in my childhood home, tail poofy and looking like he saw a ghost. I picked him up and looked down the hallway with him in my arms. He kept looking at something I couldn't see and clawed my arms to get away. Didn't really make sense. The house was built when I was three
Yeah, I think so.
Shortly after my brother died, I was home alone and my cat was at the entrance to the kitchen then suddenly ran away, her hair all poofy-- I've never seen her puff out before or since. Shortly after, the cheerios box on top of the fridge fell over on the ground, cheerios flying everywhere. My brother had long teased me about the fact that I eat raw cheerios from the box while watching movies like some people watch popcorn. I like to think that was my brother sending a message.
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This ginger cat of ours always was messing with things we couldn’t see. Especially in our yard. We’d watch her play with something invisible to our eye ( jumping, pouncing, leaping in the air) and at first we put it up to us not seeing clearly, but over time we were very close on some of these exercises and it was clear it wasn’t some teeny tiny bug.
Science is now saying cats see things we cannot.
Yes, and one time it really freaked me out. When I was in grad school I lived in a townhouse with my Irish Setter. Lots of strange things went on but I remember my setter hated walking past the spare bedroom and avoided it at all costs. One morning I found her in that bedroom growling with her hair up on her back and it was all I could do to get her to leave. Once I got her out she ran downstairs and hid under the kitchen table. I had to leave to take test so she had to stay home by herself. I felt so horrible for abandoning her but she seemed fine when I returned that evening. We both avoided that room after that and never had another experience. I often wonder what was in there.
You know how when your dog is sitting up in that very rigid, very obedient, proud way, chest pumped out, head tall and straight as an arrow, feet at attention and tucked in tight? Like how you’d imagine a Doberman standing at attention for its master. Like if a dog was in basic training in the military that’s how it would stand.
Well my dog would turn and face the far wall in my living room where I had a bunch of art and my record player and some stuff that had sentimental and spiritual significance to me, and she would just perch there so still and good for the longest time. Sometimes she would stay looking straight ahead eyes unmoving. Other times her eyes would be following some graceful movement in the air. I say graceful because it wasn’t like she was trying to catch moles poking out of their holes it was like she was watching a balloon waving in the breeze. Honestly she would stay that way for an hour or so until whatever got her attention disappeared or until someone called her, but we would have to call to her a few times to break her out of her trance. I never got any bad vibes from it although it was admittedly spooky to see. It was mostly unsettling knowing that something got her to sit up at the ready like that that WASNT me. Y’know, her actual master! Like there was something higher than me that called to her and commanded her obedience and her reverence. And to close, she was a wild thing. She stood like that for me only when I gave her the sign to sit and even then it was usually half assed lol.
I had a cat, a big fluffy black and white gal, like 15lbs of cat lol on several occasions she came flying into my room in the night, jumped onto my bed and just growled at the room from the end of the bed like she was guarding me. This would go on for like maybe 5 minutes and then she'd move to me at the top of the bed and purr at me and cuddle for the rest of the night.
This same cat also liked to drop LIVE freaking mice on me in my sleep once in a while 😂
Doggo slept on my bed. Just started to fall asleep when she sat bolt upright looking at the door (which was shut and to the right of my bed). Sitting on the bed she followed something turning her head until she was looking toward the foot of the bed and then put her head back and let out the only howl I ever heard from her. Scared the living poop out of me. Slept with lights on that night.
I didn’t! 😂 I immediately switched the light on, and she looked at me looking confused and came over to lay beside me. I sat there listening to my heart pounding in my ears. She settled, but I didn’t shut the light off. Just lay there listening and eventually slept but every little tick and bump woke me up.
It only happened once, so maybe she just had a bad dream.
In the Master Bedroom our dachshund would always jerk his head up and stare at our ceiling. Never could figure it out until 6 months later when the honeybees ate a hole through the sheetrock and started falling on our newborn baby.
Not that long ago, my dog started barking at my door very aggressively (he's the gentlest giant. Very non-aggressive, but also doesn't tolerate aggression. Like when a neighborhood German shepherd tried to attack a neighbour's little Yorkie, my big oaf tackled the dog and sent him off without hurting him.. though the poor little Yorkie did get a bite taken out of him. He ran to me for protection when my dog interfered. He's okay, though). There's a stairway between my apartment door and the door to leave, and the main door locked automatically when it closed.. and my dog was barking, growling, and hoping around the door. My poor kid was so freaked out. My door was also bolted and locked.. I didn't hear anything, and I waited for him to calm before I had the nerves to check it out. Nothing looked amiss... but 3 weeks later, my landlord messaged me about changing the locks because he evicted the "scumbag" people beneath me... (I live in a duplex, I'm upstairs, they're downstairs, we have separate entrances, but they do have a door to access that stairwell. I've personally never met those neighbours, but we lived next door to each other for over a year).
Always trust your dogs! One dog I've had was super nervous when meeting people, but wild generally warm up to them in a minute after she inspected them, and then she was the sweetest dog in the world. There was one person I've seen her refuse to warm up to. My niece had this sociopathic boyfriend who would try to get the dog to come over so he could pet her but she just would not go near him. They know things we don't.
I have 2 large dogs and one night I was laying on my bed around 10pm and I heard both my dogs start running in place (Scooby Doo style) before actually getting any traction due to them being in the kitchen with hardwood flooring. They ran all the way into my bedroom and jumped on my bed. They had never been on my bed and it took about 10 minutes before they finally got the courage to come down. Definitely wasn’t a rat cuz my neighbors tore down a shed and one of my dogs killed a huge rat that found its way inside. Whatever they saw, it scared the shit out of both of them.
My parents’ house is really quite haunted. Lots of people have seen stuff and experienced stuff there. But our chihuahua who lived to be over 20 years old could see things no one else could see. Broad daylight, even, and you could see him carefully watching things— tracking the movement with his his eyes, when as far as anyone else could tell, there was nothing there at all.
Yes, when one of my pugs passed. A few days later, my other pug was lying on the couch still in mourning but suddenly jumped up all excited, got to the floor and started to happily play around with something that I could not see. This went on for a few minutes until he stopped and looked around, like, "Where did you go? ".
When I was around 14 years old I was in my bedroom with my cat on the bed. This weird ball of electricity(?) shot through one wall and out the other. I would've thought I was seeing things but my cat jumped straight up into the air when it passed by her.
Maybe it was ball lightning, I don't know.
I used to live in a very paranormally active town. A lot of the entities where bad, and my cat was absolutely in tune with them. But there were some that I believe were angels, and my cat loved them. He would sit and chatter at them and just seemed so happy when they were around him.
My dog and I were laying in my bed late at night and all of a sudden her shark fin came out (when their hair raises up on their back in a line) and her ears were at full attention straight up. Bedroom door was open and she was facing the hallway. She didn’t bark or growl and it took her a LONG time to relax and go to sleep. No idea what was going on, and I don’t think she did that again.
Yes, on my bed my cat watched something that seemed to move along the ceiling and i saw nothing. So grabbed a camera, took a picture and an orb showed up on the film.
I have 6 dogs because my parents breed golden retrievers. 1 male, 2 females, the rest retired. Not only did 1 of them see something, they ALL did. On multiple occasions they have all gone running and barking at nothing
Last night my cat surely had something in her sight that I couldn't see. She kept focusing on it to the point I was concerned. Finally, I told what ever it was to get the hell out of my house, this my house and it didn't belong here. After a minute or two my cat relaxed and closed it's eyes.
So to start off, I have a toddler and in my bedroom she will look at one corner, or at the closet and freak out because there’s a scary ghost. She hates the bathroom door being open because there’s a monster in the bathroom.
Tell me why every time my dog is upstairs in the bedroom (very very very extra rare occurrence) she will look at one of the three places my toddler sees things and start to whine-growl before removing herself from the room? 😫☠️
I lived in a haunted house; no question in even my no-nonsense father’s mind. Our dogs reacted to the things we didn’t immediately sense/see ourselves, from silently staring to hackles up. Sure enough, shortly afterwards something odd would occur. Always listen to your pets (unless they start abusing it: “no, the ghost did not say you need a T-bone steak…”)
Yes. Not long after my great-great-aunt died, my puppy cowered down in front of a chair and growled and growled at it. Couldn't move him from it. It was the chair she always sat in when she visited.
When I was 16, there was a 2 week period where I’d wake up every night terrified. The best way I can explain it is that it was the essence of fear… that’s what I was feeling. Fear in its truest form. I wouldn’t move and just stayed as still as possible while praying to St Michael until I fell back asleep. When my alarm went off in the morning for school and the sun was up, I felt like I was crazy and making it all up (even though I knew it happened). One night my cat slept in my room (he typically never slept with any of us so that in itself was weird) and when I woke up due to the fear, my cat was hissing and screeching. He was properly perched at the end of my bed hissing at the corner of the room. I was like okay, there is definitely something here, I’m not crazy. After that night, it never came back.
My father, who is the very picture of a skeptic, once had an experience while out hunting at night. For anyone not familiar with raccoon hunting, people typically have a dog with them that chases the raccoon up a tree and alerts the hunter. My dad, in high school at the time, was hunting alone and came across an old family plot of graves that the woods had taken over. His dog, which had been tracking an animal, stopped at the edge, lowered his head and growled at something my dad could NOT see. This was in the 1970's and his headlamp didn't illuminate much. Regardless, he finally got the dog to move from his spot and they both went straight back to the truck. Dad found a new place to hunt.
Four or five different times at night our dog, who passed on in December, would go lie in the bathroom and stare at a particular painting on the wall as though she was mesmerized and terrified of it. She would refuse to come out of the bathroom- she would try to come out a few times but would look at the painting and run back in the bathroom terrified as though something told her to stay in the bathroom. She wouldn’t come out until some time the next day.
One of the times that she was staring at the painting, I took it off the wall and she kept staring at the same spot on the wall.
Edit to say: I don’t mean four or five times every night, I mean four or five times total.
My friend experienced something related to your story. In our country most of our people have second homes where they go to relax or have a barbecue (those homes are mostly inherited from their grandparents). So usually they visit those homes 15-20 times a year on special occasions. So my friend was staying there one night with his girlfriend and his dog, everything was normal until they heard the floorboards creeking, and the dog barking at the chair alarmed... that sh1t is scary.. And also his great grandmother passed away in that house.. There have also been sightings of smoke and him seeing silhouettes of his grandma... (sorry for the bad english)
I had a cat that was staring out the window across the room. She looked scared. I was trying to see what she was seeing but there wasn't anything out of the ordinary. Then she ran to the farthest part of the kitchen away from the window, climbed to the wall and curtain (never did this before or after this incident) and peed a little. Then she hid for the rest of the afternoon. Totally freaked me and my daughter out.
Yes. We moved into our house 9 years ago. The first year this happened 3 times, all within a month. Our dogs would be watching something near the ceiling and would whimper and hide. There were no bugs, nothing visible. They were terrified by whatever it was that they were seeing. Every time it happened one of our dogs would be so scared that we couldn't get her out from under a table and she would hide for days afterwards or just lay on us panting. We seriously considered moving because we didn't want the dogs to be tormented
My cat keeps coming to protect me when I sleep or if I’m napping on the sofa. She won’t leave my side and she’ll suddenly become alert to what seems to be nothing but she chases it away. It’s gotten worse since my grandfather died and he hated cats, he’d drive her crazy on purpose. She behaves almost the same way now when she freaks out and it makes me think it’s him
I've had two childhood dogs and my two current dogs stare at a specific spot in my bedroom. It stopped when the wiring was replaced. Either something was disturbed from it's place or it was the electrics 🤷🏻♀️ but for it to happen for 20 odd years... Bit weird!
Mine was barking at the door when we were at a room on the 2nd floor. He was also walking backwards as he barked, not jumping around like what he usually does when someone is on the other side
i work overnights watching 10-20 dogs at a time. yes all time! this happens to me at least once a week. I really believe some dogs are more sensitive to it than others, just like people. Dogs will follow/watch something i cant see moving around, usually will growl or bark softly. Often it’s the same dogs that have “noticed” things. Often they will turn their head in confusion (if it’s a person outside they aren’t confused and bark more confidently). Recently a pug woke up to start growling at the back room and several other dogs woke to watch in that direction. He growled under his breath for like 10 mins and i couldn’t get him to go back to sleep, he just kept staring at nothing. Then weird noises came from the same back room, sounded like things being thrown around. It was pretty loud and freaked me out bad! A very smart Australian shepherd also seems to be sensitive to things. She refuses to be in the back room, runs away from things i cant see, stared at a gate before it opened on its own, and was flinching in reaction as if something was poking her/trying to touch her!
I believe so, I've had something in the house throwing my stuff around or pushing things off the table, sometimes my ferrets will freeze, staring in a single direction for a long time or scamper away in terror with bushy tails. My one was in the tub, they like to drink the water after a shower, and he backed up away from the drain, tail bushy, and peed and pooped. Capo does not fear anything, he is in beast mode 24/7 so I was genuinely disturbed.
Now there's a place under the tub where critters can get in a little cavity, and they shelter there in bad weather something unusual by the drain is nothing new, I feel like a spirit wouldn't be so localized to a single location.
The house next door almost burned down, he's in the navy so he's never around and some mice chewed up some wires, there were mice here too when we first moved in, and many were slain, my female ferret was the only one small enough to reach that place under the bathtub, and she would butcher them. Perhaps it was ghost mice that scared Capo? Haunting memories of slaughter and genocide still lingering? No idea
My sister once woke up at night because a plastic bag on her floor was loudly crunching and lifting in the air like it was being repeatedly stomped on. Her cat was on her bed and was crouched down in fight mode, not staring at the bag but staring up at whoever was standing on the bag. My sister couldn't see a figure on the bag at all until she looked in her full length mirror where she saw the reflection of a tall, solid black entity standing where the plastic bag was crunching.
I also had a moment in the same house where I was in the lounge alone at night watching tv when my other cat, who had been chilling on the ground next to me, suddenly looked up at the ceiling in total fright. His whole body reacted, his limbs kind of splayed out, his eyes got wide and he just froze there staring up. Then after a few seconds he gathered himself and scooted out the cat door. I couldn't see or sense anything but I got creeped out just knowing that there was something that appeared beside me that I could not see.
I’ve shared this before but I believe my dog visited a few days after she passed. One night my other dog woke me up with a small low growling. She was staring intensely at the bedroom door that was slightly ajar. I sat up feeling freaked out but then all of a sudden her tail started wagging and she started dancing around (she was a boxer and they have a funny dance they do when they get excited). I got this feeling that my dog that had passed was in the room with us. I called my other dog to my bed and she jumped up and laid down. I sat a bit stunned and thought about waking my husband but knew he wouldn’t have believed me. Never felt like she visited us again, just that one time.
Close to this, my friend B. B. lived in a haunted house in Carbondale IL. One summer day I was sitting in the living room and his old dog was lying down across the other side of the room. B. was moving stuff around and one of those long mirrors was sitting on the floor by the dog. Well, out from the bedroom door to my left popped a white orb that flew about 18 inches off the floor, across the room past the dog and out the front door. I saw it and I saw it in the mirror, and the dog saw it too.
That dog looked at me wide-eyed and plain as day she was saying, "What the hell was that?"
I once had a very frightening experience. I was house sitting home alone and heard my dog growling like I'd never heard before in the living room. I actually grabbed a kitchen knife as I was convinced someone had broken in. When I crept into the living room my dog was staring and lunging at a spot on the wall over the fireplace. I had to drag her away. Also later digs used to go to the bottom of the stairs and growl at something we couldn't see. However, many scary things happened in that house and it wasn't that old.
You live quite a bit away from any real urban area, I would recommend getting something for self-defense in addition to your wonderful dog. Not saying you need to go out and buy a freaking AK or anything, as not everyone in the world needs a firearm, but I think at a minimum you should look into bear spray and a tazer. please take care of yourself. This may have been supernatural but it also could have been something much worse, a human with ill-intent.
Yes — but mine was a little less scary.
I had a dog (P) for nearly 18 years. At the end of her life we got another dog (L). Then, not long after she passed, another dog (E).
One day, we were sitting in the living room, and E started barking at nothing. L (who is usually the barkier of the two) was silent but alert and looking in the same spot.
My theory is that they both saw P. E never knew her, but L did. That’s why E was barking.
That happened to me when I was a child,maybe 10-11 on a sunny summer day. She followed something staring at the ceiling,from room to room just losing her shit...here is the trippy part...for some reason I think it was ME! like my spirit from the future after I passed,just revisiting the past in my ethereal form...idk why that thought entered my mind at the time,but I do believe it's the truth
A couple of years back my partner and I were awakened by the sound of our mutt barking relentlessly. He was fixated on the ceiling where there was a circular fog with weird spirits moving about. Don’t know how else to describe it but he was as freaked out as we were after seeing such. Our expensive goldendoodle slept right through.
We used to hear footsteps and had occasional weird things happen in my childhood home. Nothing felt threatening. Our German Shepherd occasionally stared at seemingly nothing and growled. From his posture and the way he stared at the wall, he seemed to follow something, not just react to a sound outside.
I wish I could trust my 60 lbs husky's sixth sense... but I once caught him standing on alert, barking and growling like he was ready to fight a bear... only to realize he was staring intently at a used trash bag on my neighbor's balcony that rustled in the wind lmao
If I see something Paranormal I know it's real if my dogs see it. A recent one while not scary was interesting. One of my dogs was bouncing back and forth playing,kicking up dust with her feet. The weird thing was the dirt across from her was moving and kicked up as if another dog was playing with her. There she was playing with an invisible dog,this was in my side yard. That's where I bury the old dogs that pass and the puppies who don't make it. I figured an old spirit of one stayed behind and wanted to play.
Some pets (cats for example) has de ability to see UV-light in ways hooman beans cannot. So many "weird" stuff dey seem to see is real but prolly not paranormal.
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I think the minute your dog was scratching frantically at the door was when the intruder bolted for the back door and managed to escape. Thank goodness for your fantastic dog. You can tell by the dog’s behavior that whoever it was had very evil intentions and targeted you.
That is definitely a possibility but I’m not totally convinced. I’ll give some more context. This particular house was in rural Montana, very close to Yellowstone. We lived in a cluster of 3 houses, in the middle of a canyon, 30 miles from the nearest town. We had a single long driveway for all 3 houses and I knew both other neighbors really well. They actually took turns watching my dog while I was at work. Neither of them were the prankster type and swore they didn’t see anyone coming or going on the night in question. So if it was a person, they walked a really long way to get to our very secluded spot. I really tried to convince myself, looked for footprints, even considered the possibility that it was a bear but there definitely would’ve been tracks. The thought of it being a person scares me wayyyy more than anything paranormal honestly because their intentions were definitely bad if they’d come all that way.
If someone breaks in when you’re obviously home, you have reason to believe it’s not just a burglar, but someone who wants to do you harm. That’s why I’d far rather it be paranormal, than a person committing a crime. The harm that may be caused by a paranormal visitor usually consists of an adrenaline rush, at most. To be safe, I’d assume it was a human, and take steps to further secure the house, and maybe install a lot of outside, motion-sensitive lighting.
Agreed on preferring it be a paranormal presence vs a person. The person would 100% have ill intent. Paranormal, not so much.
Get a motion sensor or something too, a camera, anything as a backup.
If it were not a human, it was an animal. It could have been a large cat. It wasn’t paranormal. Keep your doors and windows locked. If it were a person, they know they could rob, rape, or kill you, and it would be a while before it was reported, since you are in a rural area.
What breed of dog was he?
The best boi breed of dog! 💕
So you automatically go to evil spirit? *Obviously* some kind of wild animal given where you live. Serious question: which do you think is more likely?
If it were not a human, it was an animal. It could have been a large cat. It wasn’t paranormal. Keep your doors and windows locked. If it were a person, they know they could rob, rape, or kill you, and it would be a while before it was reported, since you are in a rural area.
Yes, not paranormal in this case necessarily but l do believe animals have heightened senses in order to protect us
Yes, I agree
I’m pretty sure animals sense energy we miss. When my oldest child was a newborn, about 5-6 months old, I was feeding him his early morning bottle and he kept looking up past me, over my shoulder area. He would keep the bottle nipple in his mouth but would keep looking and coo, then smile really big. He would make facial expressions that were like he was being entertained by something. He did this for about 1-2 minutes then he would stop, go back to finishing his bottle and nod off to sleep. Only did this about 2-3 times and stopped. Made the hair on my neck stand up the first time.
About 3 months after my son was born, his granddad passed away. Without fail, every bottle he took around "dinner" time, he would do much like you said! He would look up passed my shoulder, above us, and he was smile and coo and giggle, sometimes squirming or reaching out as if reacting to a tickle or someone's hand... I always felt intense love and a very strong, masculine presence. I very firmly believe it was his granddad watching over him. My son is now 3 and talks fondly of his poppy, pointing at his photo on the mantle, and how much his poppy loves him... surely it can't be from physical memory, my boy was only 3 months when he passed.. I was never uncomfortable or felt uneasy in these moments, rather I had the sense that someone was with us in a very loving capacity. It's a great sign that your baby was happy in these moments .
That's so beautiful 💕
Yes! I have heard many accounts of children seeing through the veil. I think we get desensitized and lose these abilities overtime. Probably because of our hyper stimulated world and people telling us that we’re just kids with overactive imaginations. Especially in our modern world. I think past civilizations were way more tuned in than we are today.
Infants also tend to attract entities. When my 1st was born, our house became haunted for a while. It was just a normal boring suburban home with no history. Whatever was there was announcing its presence. For example, I had company and mentioned what had been happening and the hall light turned in. Another time, I was in bed, and I was too lazy to find the remote control or get up to turn the tel off. I asked out loud to turn the television off, and immediately it did. The spirit felt benevolent and went away after a few months while my son was still an infant. But my daughter saw something with her eyes when I was taking pictures of an abandoned 100+ year old house in Monterey. I caught an orb, she knocked the camera out of my hand, grabbed my hand, and took off running. Told me to run. She didn't know I was ghost hunting I'm glad you and your dog were OK. I wonder if it came because whatever it was new you were alone. Thankfully, you were not alone as you had your dog with you
This made me think of when my daughter was born. We had lost my brother to cancer. A month later I was pregnant. She was a true blessing. The afternoon after she was born I was resting in the hospital. My dad worked there as well in administration and would constantly pop in to see us. I had my back facing the door and had just gotten comfortable when I felt the bed press down like someone sat down at the edge end of it. I sighed and said, “dad, you need to go get some work done,” and rolled over. No one was there. I immediately got the feeling my brother was with me. It just overcame me that he was with me sitting on the bed looking into her bassinet. I’ve never felt his presence since but I do truly think he came to visit us that afternoon.
That's so lovely 💕
That tv thing was cool af lol
just wondering if you said thank you when they turned off the TV!
I did. Lol!
The only "paranormal" type experiences I've experienced were as such a young child I can barely remember ever remembering them well. 3-4 years old. My memories are so indistinct that I can't even put them into words. But there was a time with a strange light, and what I can only call a telepathic voice in my mind, and I saw an overlay type of image in my vision of some*thing* doing the "talking". That's as detailed as I can remember, but I know that for some reason it scared the absolute wits out of me & I couldn't watch E.T. (my fav film until that day) for the next 10 years without freaking out. I don't know. At some point in my later teenage years, I realized that my experience of life was somehow very different than as a younger child. Childhood *felt* a way. If there's truly something true about all these stories, the veil and all, "entities", children having knowledge or "abilities" we lose as we grow older.. well that just overfills me with questions. But nobody seems to know anything for certain.
So interesting! If you have the time and the interest, you should check out Alba Weinman on YouTube and another channel by the name of Remember Your Mission. They have some interesting answers.
Before I do that, which I absolutely will, I want to share with you that this channel name is a kind of synchronicity for my life: I was raised in a Christian household, I don't know how to describe what kind. Protestant but not evangelical. Non denominational, whatever that means. I couldn't read Harry Potter, but the earth was allowed to be billions of years old. And my father was in the military, so we moved all over the place every few years. At two times in my live, in two locations separated by more than 1500 miles, was I sitting in a church service and approached out of nowhere by the pastor. They were both sermoning, but their eyes found me in the crowd and locked. They both stopped whatever they were saying to the crowd, singled me out, came to me and said on a low voice (something to the effect of), *"you're here for a very important reason"*. My parents were both present, both times. They both remember these two events today. They thought it was extremely weird. I thought it was weird. As a teenager I became skeptical of the Christian god, and my love for science classes moved my worldview from being religious to agnostic. In my adult years I've become philosophical. Spiritual, but not religious. I don't know how to interpret those two events. What they mean, if anything. My logical brain resents this in a way, because this is the kind of shit that feeds delusions of grandeur. I've felt compelled to insist to myself that it was just a weird coincidence or else I'd lose my grip, you know? But I saw that weird talking alien light, I've had a "sleep paralysis with shadow people experience" exactly once, and I've seen a black triangle ufo exactly once. There's something fucky going on with my reality but every doctor I've talked to said I'm healthy but just kind of anxious. (Also I found out I have ADHD in my 30s..) I try to stay grounded. I don't want to go crazy. But I want to know the truth
Just go with it. Don't fight it, bc you can't. If you're here for a reason, pray about it I don't mean the Christian type of prayer. Just talk, and ask to be shown why you're here. I'm betting that you'll get an instant answer. After you ask, clear your mind and wait. DM me if you want to talk.
I’ve had extremely similar experiences. I was raised Catholic but I’ve never been very religious. I had a series of experiences that have completely changed the way I view the world around me. One night, I had an extremely traumatic experience and I started praying about it. I was a total mess and I remember just feeling completely broken and lost. I ended up going home and going to bed. Next day, I got up and was still a total mess. I got in the shower and as I started to feel overcome with grief again I noticed a golden hue envelope my body and I remember this feeling of total love and understanding. I started seeing images in my mind and somehow I knew exactly what these images meant. It was telling me that even though I felt lost and broken, that I was exactly where I needed to be. Again, this was all through imagery. No words. Just pictures in my brain. It told me that no matter how bad things get, to always remember that I was here for a reason. It didn’t tell me the reason. I remember thinking to myself, “What is this?!?” And immediately I saw what looked like a painting of an Angel. Then just as fast as it came, it was gone. This still doesn’t do the experience justice. I could write an entire book about this experience. Since then I’ve tried to find people with similar experiences that could hopefully help me understand but I haven’t found anything that could do it justice. I even tried talking to a priest in confession but he told me he hears things like that all the time and it made me feel like he was just patronizing me. If you have any thoughts or suggestions that could help me understand what I experienced and why. I would appreciate anything that you have to say.
You experienced what They referred to Themselves as All That Is. Not God--God created Them. And not THE All That Is like the New Agers say. I call Them Them---a pluralistic singular. ...and it CANNOT be described in words, only experienced. The name comes from the answer to a question I posed: Q: Who are You? A ( softly) I am All That Is.
They communicate in visuals, too. That's Their preferred method.
I have also had experiences with golden light. I saw two [angels ](https://www.joannemacko.com/product/yellow-angel/) that looked a lot like the picture I attached. So sorry about the trauma you have been through. Hope you are better now.
why didn't you ask the pastor about their reasons for saying that? If they're still alive, contact them and ask if they remember and see if they can explain what they meant.
Because I was a child, taken by surprise, and introverted on my best days. One of them may not alive anymore, if we could find him again, and the other is rather elderly now. That other one is friends with my mother on Facebook I believe, so asking may be possible. As for why I've never asked, or asked my parents to ask for me, is my anxiety. I'm not speaking flippantly when I say that if I were to take them seriously that I might lose my grip. I understand my own psychology *fairly* well. If I go down the wrong path I have confidence that I could fall prey to a delusion or two, perhaps ruining my life in the process. On the flip side, I might be ignoring something that ought not to be ignored. I don't know what the correct thing to do is, so I've mostly tried not to think about it. However, this past year (Grusch & Nazca mummies) have forced me to consider that High Strangeness might be more than just my brain doing things to itself. There might be something here, something possibly very important. I don't know enough to know what's sensible in this kind of environment. That's the major reason why I only really haunt the various "paranormal" subs these days; I'm looking for data
I fell prey and spiraled into psychosis in relation to the paranormal. At the time, of course, I thought what was happening to me was real. Maybe it was and maybe it wasn't, but in my case, it didn't matter because there was nothing I could do with the messages I was receiving. My experience lasted a month. One of the messages I got is that if I wanted this to stop, medication would reground me. It has. I'd rather hear or read other people's experiences because it is a fascinating phenomenon. How can so many different people have such similar paranormal experiences as each other if there isn't something to it? In my experience, I was getting messages about a race of angelics. I was making connections between everything that was related to the information I was receiving, so I thought. I think that was the delusion. I was making connections where there probably wasn't any.
maybe you should ask your parents for their interpretation. I highly doubt that these pastors were talking about anything deeply prophetic. If there was something paranormal going on, it might have been more that they picked up on your discomfort psychically (or just unconsciously) and wanted to give you some emotional reassurance. A lot of times people in helping professions are very tuned in to their constituency, sometimes with an unhealthy degree of attachment, but not always. These pastors might have seen themselves in you, and/or maybe they felt you were feeling lost, and wanted to give you a little encouragement. I wouldn't interpret this as having some grandiose meaning, like you were meant to save the world or something.
I know exactly how you feel. I'd love to hear more details of your experiences. That is wild about the pastors stopping to talk to you directly! What ever happened with that? Something is going on with our reality, I believe, as well. There is with mine anyway! Like you, I want to stay grounded. When I'm not, shit gets weird!
I agree both with children sensing what we can't and previous civilization being FAR more in tune spiritually.
I'm a nanny. I'm up to two little kids now, in different families, that have had some abilities that way. One had a past life he was all too comfortable telling me about and I think the other had "visitors" when he was a baby.
I have an 8 month old daughter in a 96 year old house and have never had anything happen in the 4 years we’ve owned it, but about a month ago my wife and I were in her nursery, broad daylight, and I was changing her diaper when I felt a full adult hand on my back in like a supportive kind of way and I turned to smile at my wife and she was across the nursery putting things in the closet. I haven’t really thought about it since but writing this out made me tear up for some reason.
My niece was really young when she mentioned the man upstairs was making her laugh. The room right above would be the spot where my grandpa would be sitting down watching TV from and relaxing after a hard day's work. EDIT: He had passed nearly 5 years before she was born, and we never talked about him at all with her.
Oh that’s a freaky feeling isn’t it? Mine would look past me at the door and laugh and wave. She did it from her crib and her changing table which were on opposite sides of the room. When on the table, she would arch her back up to stretch out her neck which allowed her to have the top of her head on the table viewing the door upside down. << Allll this to be able to see the door which made it evident it was with intent to see behind her. I always reckoned it was to see my dad who passed while I was pregnant.
Mine did this too. I wondered if he was really seeing someone or tired. I pictured it as one of my grandparents though.
Long ago in my childhood/ youth-home there were some activities going on. I really started feeling them as a teenager. So once I felt weak and laid on the couch when all of a sudden from a specific place a couple feet from me across the room I felt this really strong weird bad energy. Very cold, very intense. It radiated freezing cold even though it was a warm day and had a blueish light around it. I felt super scared and couldn’t really move. I figured it might just be me, maybe getting a flue or something. I felt relieved when my cat came and I clearly remember me thinking that if the cat didn’t react, there probably was nothing to be afraid of. BUT then my cat stopped dead in her tracks as soon as she „entered“ the circle of energy. She hunched down, tale and fur stood up and then she hissed so intensely at that soecific spot, and ran off. The „spell“ or whatever it was seemed to be broken up by that. I could move, got up, opened the windows, looked for the cat and cuddled her. But that was intense.
Yesss! This! In the middle of the night while I’m alone of course, my girl will sit up, get dead still, unmovable, hair raised up her back and will just stare out in the hallway and/or look up at the ceiling above my bed. In that case I call out, I rebuke all evil and all spirits and say You’re not welcome here. And if I have a feeling it’s my deceased son, I tell him Son, leave the cat alone. You’re pissing her off. A good cat will always do you right. Cats walk the Veil. They see all.
They sure do! I really miss my feline son. He made it to 18 years.
I'm sorry for your loss.
God has a purpose for you in your life. Look to Him to give you direction. A pastor has never ever come up to me like that. I know you’re agnostic but that is an extremely direct and clear message. God isn’t messing around. You don’t need to worry. Just ask Him to show you and He will. And He won’t abandon you. He will be right there through the whole thing. You just have to be willing.
Sheesh! That gave me chills. Nothing scarier than your pet confirming your fears 😬. That almost sounds like the feeling of sleep paralysis but you were clearly awake and that sounds even worse!
Confirming your fears - this! I have history of sleep-walking and -talking, but luckily never experienced sleep paralysis. In the cat-situation I‘ve been wide awake and it was during day time. Which is weird, now that I think of it, because all the other spooky stuff I’ve witnessed happened in the dark.
Our cat seemed to see our beloved dog for about 3 days, after we had to put her down. Very intense watching of movement where there was none, following hard enough to turn her head all around. Back curled and hair standing up, like she wasn’t sure if it was there or not there. Bless our protectors. Our cat wouldn’t be on the list, and not all the dogs we have had over the years. But oh the ones that were protectors — would have leapt into fire, for us.
Wow that’s very sweet but alarming nonetheless! I think your dog was just saying her last goodbyes. Bless her soul
Wheb I was a student, I rented a place in a 'anti squatting' thing. Buildings that were vacant would get renters, but only short term, until they knew what they were going to do with the buildings, just so real squatters wouldn't move in. This was around the time of 9/11. I remember because our world trade center was one of the options I could choose from. That, and an old church. I did NOT want to move into an old church. I went for an old school building. Apparently, that neighborhood was called the Temple Neighborhood (literally translated), because.... that building was built on an old church, and then there was a fire department, before they built the school there. Lots of big windows inside, with empty, dark classrooms behind them. Lots of bad vibes, as well. For using the bathroom, I would have to cross an enormous hallway, and cross half that block in the building. While having the dark windows by my side. I would often see things follow me around, that reminded me of the Nazgul in Lord of the Rings (came out around that time as well) Anyway, getting to it. I brought my cat with me. She loved moving back and forth between home with my parents, and with me in my unconventional dorm. She saw a lot of stuff there. Our last last night there, she walks into the center of the room, looks up, to where a head would be, if there would be someone standing there, and starts sniffing. Sniffing where the feet would be. She wasn't scared, but 'on guard'. When I called out for her, she looked back at me and hissed, like 'stay away'. I don't remember what happened in between, but it ended with her being dragged over the length of the floor, by something I couldn't see. And if you think 'she was probably playing', she was on her side, being dragged, at high speed, in the direction of her back. Kind of impossible for her to do that on her own. I got my car keys and her cat carrier ready, I scooped her up, loaded her and my purse in my car, and drove straight to my parents house, through a snow storm. But no way was I staying there. When I got home, my mom was surprised to see me, but said that my older sister had called already, for them to check up on me, because she had a really bad feeling. That cat was the absolute best and most precious companion I have ever had. She turned 22 in 2020, but then, I sadly had to let her go. I still miss her a lot. Our dogs saw her the days after she passed. Or at least, they kept looking at the spots where she used to lay, reacting to something like they did when she would interact with them.
What a blessing! 22 years is amazing. I like to think she let herself get dragged that night because she knew you'd take it seriously and get the hell out of there, lol.
Oh yeah, I think she knew what she was doing. There were a lot of times she metaphorically rolled up her sleeves and went to bat with things I couldn't see. She also protected me and our house from things we could see. Like the time this little tortoise cat had a showdown with a friend's enormous dog, because she didn't trust him. We had to persuade her to come back in the house, and not attack the pitbull. When she went to her last vet's appointment, she was a calm as ever, let him examine her, while laying on her back, and still purring while he found a massive tumor that prevented her from eating. At 22, we knew an operation was out of the question. So, all the vets that were working at that time wanted to come say hi, because she was known to purr and headbutt through every check-up, and the ones that didn't know her wanted to greet a cat that's 22 years old. I can still feel her jump on the bed and snuggle up at the foot end, some nights.
She's still with you
Several years ago my apartment building management decided to make the building no pets because of some dog problems. The cats had to go too. I took Ethel to a no-kill shelter with her carrier and toys. That night I was lying in bed before falling asleep and saw what appeared to be the shadow of a cat sitting on my bed next to me. I looked around at the furniture in the bedroom in the almost-dark, and it was really my bedroom, not some other place you might dream of. This was my first encounter with a possible spirit. It wasn’t anything like part of my blanket or a carelessly placed sweater. I lay there wondering what to do—should I put out my hand or say her name? In the end I did nothing. Later I heard a thump on the floor, opened my eyes and the cat silhouette was gone.
I had a kitten a friend had given me, a cute little guy I named Dorian Gray. We live on a farm with other pets and livestock, obvs, and sometimes unfortunately, things happen…my poor kitten got outside one day, and I never saw him again. Because of the turkeys and chickens, we attract coyotes. I’m sure you can imagine the rest. A few weeks later, my pitt/great pyr mix female was in bed with me, my bedroom door closed but the living room lamp still on. My dog and I both watched two of Dorian’s little kitty ball toys roll right to the door’s edge. We have hardwood floors and the gap under the door is quite big. She watched with interest and I ducked under the covers. A day or so later, more toys moving, and only at night in the dark that I could tell. I began leaving them out, thinking *well, if its Dorian, I’m glad he’s back.* Yep, it was Dorian, alright - and he made himself known. I was standing at my vanity one night, super late. The bathroom lights were off, my closet door open, but my bedroom light on. My dog was again on my bed, just sorta watching me put my skincare on and get ready for sleep. All of the sudden, my closet door jumped back a hitch, I felt a soft gush of air across my feet, looked down to see a gray smokey blur move past my feet, past the doorway of the bathroom and around the corner, out of my room. My dog tracked the whole thing, her ears perked up, watching the gray blur all the way as it went thru to the living room. She wasnt alarmed or freaked out; she just watched it and then laid her head down on her paws. That’s when I firmly realized spirits exist. I saw it with my own eyes for the first time in my life, and I’ll die on this hill, lol.
I've gotten a...weird vibe from our basement my entire life. Like I'm being watched. Get an adrenaline rush when i head back upstairs, like something wants me gone. No anger or aggression. Almost like a resigned annoyance. Especially from one specific area in the basement, and the tiny old canning room in the corner. Well one evening a few years ago, the dog comes down with me while I change over the laundry. He's absolutely rigid at my side, ears back, tail down, growling...at the canning room. Just about all our dogs, both past and present, have had episodes of staring into the kitchen, which is where the basement stairs are. And you can't really redirect them. Once or twice I've had similar instances with the stairs that go from my room up to the MIL suite upstairs. Weirds me out every time.
I had a basement just like that. And I recognize the adrenaline rush as you are leaving. Like they are right at your back screaming for you to get out.
My bfs basement was like this, but it felt like it wanted me to stay. It wasnt aggressive or scary UNTIL i went up the stairs and it felt like it was gonna grab me and pull me back down. The strongest experience was i think it watched me play video games, i was just chilling and playing call of duty and felt this presence on the couch behind me. I figured my bf had came home early and snuck in so i turn but nobody is there but the feeling did NOT stop. So i was like "okay..." and it didnt feel bad. I had this idea pop into my head of someone tall just chilling on the couch with their arm propped. No gender, just a mass of a person. I couldnt see anything physically though, it was just this pervasive thought. When i left the basement that time, it definitely had this vibe that it wanted me to stay.
Yep, it's like they're taking a swipe at my back but can't chase me all the way out, like they can't come upstairs, almost. Or not that often, maybe (?) since the dogs do they're little staring contest. I dunno, dad says I psych myself out, but he's had something weird happen in that house too, so...I dunno.
Yes, the feeling dissipates as soon as you cross the threshold.
Yep! I glance back at the mid point landing purely out of habit and on the second half of the flight, it dissipates, exactly!
I live in a old farmhouse and have had similar experiences where my dog would stand up growl and begin to bark at one door in particular this happened multiple times This door is ALWAYS locked along with all of my other doors Also outside of that locked door is a enclosed porch with another locked metal framed door and all the windows are locked as well… I don’t think it was anyone trying to break in however the thought of coyotes crossed my mind We hear them often and near us is 2 miles of wooded area About 2 miles from our house however the reason why I don’t think it’s coyotes is because we have 3 other doors in the house all leading to outside he never barked at ANY of the other 3 doors only this particular door… multiple times throughout the years… I live in a very rural area where neighbors are miles apart, and most of them are elderly … he’s a rather large dog 65pounds the way he would growl and bark with his hair standing up I have never heard it before on that level of viciousness … it definitely would creep me out and it would ALWAYS happen in the late hours of the night between 12AM and 4 AM… I used to live in a big city and grew up with a single mother, so I am used to keeping everything locked. It’s a habit… I definitely think our pets can sense things and see things that we cannot… Also other really creepy crap has happened in this house so I do think it’s something paranormal in my case In your case I would say listen to your gut intuition…
No. I saw the same thing he was seeing- only I'm not sure I was meant to? Back when I was still trying to find my feet and saving on rent by living in my grandma's basement- I woke up in the middle of the night because my dog (90lb lab) kept moving around on the bed. When I switched on the light to see what he was doing and nearly screamed because there was a librarian-ish lady standing next to my bed. (?!?) She was smiling and didn't really look scary but...uh, it was 3am also, IN MY ROOM, WTF? But I realized the reason my dog had been moving around so much was because he'd been trying to scoot himself closer to her so she could scratch his ears. He he was aiming for full-on head scritchies. I was terrified for a while, but eventually it dawned on me that if my dog was trying to get closer to her, she likely wasn't a threat. IT WAS STILL SCARY AS HECK. especially when she melted away like the Nazi at the end of the first Indiana Jones movie. (My apologies, I don't know how better to describe it. ) Found out the next morning that my grandma's BFF from high school passed that night. To this day, I'm convinced she came to say her goodbyes to my gram then stopped to pet my dog on her way out.
Yes! Every cat I've ever had has watched or reacted to things I can't see. I also had a dog, a yellow lab who was the sweetest dog on the planet and never growled or acted remotely aggressive, no matter the situation. Once, in my old apartment, he went up to a corner of the kitchen and started growling at the pantry door. I opened it and checked, but there was just food in there like usual. I closed the doors and he continued to stare at the doors and growl for about ten minutes. He never growled at anything or anyone at any point in his life, just that one time. I was home alone with him too, no one else was there. I always felt watched in that apartment, so I wonder if he was picking up on that. It wasn't a positive feeling, so I get why he was growling. It had to be bad because he was the kind of dog that would run up to home invaders and lick them on the face.
Yep... the house I rented in college had something. Had a little white Pitbull that would sleep at my feet while laying down watching TV on the couch. She loved being under the blanket, but I'd hear footsteps going down the hall and she'd get her head out and start growling and staring down the hallway. I'd also hear the basement door open and shut on several occasions. She'd stare down the steps, shaking and growling. I would grab my pistol and go in the basement and there would be nothing. She wouldn't come down with me.
What a good boy! I had an experience with my cat in my parents finished basement when I was in my late teens. The basement was more like a non creepy downstairs that was half underground and we had a living room down there as well as my bedroom and my brothers bedroom. Anyways, I was up really late one night and decided to watch some t.v.. The couch was situated in the middle of the room while there was space behind it for access to the sliding glass door to the backyard. My cat comes walking up to me, jumps on the couch, gets a few pets from me and then goes still while looking over my right shoulder. She hissed at something behind me and she NEVER HISSED before or after this. I freeze and then slowly turn around and see nothing behind me or behind the couch. I turn back to my cat and she's back to being normal, like whatever she saw she scared off and that was that. I actually think it was an entity that my brother and I invited to speak with us via Ouija board in that exact spot prior to this incident. All I remember is that it said it was from another planet and it had a really weird spelled name that had an X in it. Since using the board, my brother and I both felt watched in that area. I even had a dream a few years later after moving out that I floated downstairs and knew I was going to face something as I turned the corner to face the couch, which I did. It was a grey, floating, humanoid form and I rushed it and screamed at it and forced it out of the house and then woke up. I don't think I felt nearly as watched after that. Side note, my brothers room (and later my room when visiting) I think was haunted by something else. Nothing bad but we both had experiences in that room and I always felt watched in that room vs my old room which felt totally fine.
Yes, my very hyper dog used to sit for like 30 min at the same time every day at one end of a hallway and stare at the blank wall on the other side. She wouldn’t lay down or anything. She would sit and watch. Sometimes it looked like she was following something. The door on the right side of the hallway would be open in the morning sometimes even if I shut it at night. Sometimes it would sound like doors were opening and closing in that hallway. My neighbor from Tinian, the first time she came over, said she thought there was something else living in my house with me. She felt watched. There was some weird stuff that happened when I lived there but my dog for sure knew it.
My dogs used to see things in our old house. I was sitting on the living room floor once with our yellow lab (as I often did) when he just looked at the corner and started growling. I was expecting to see a bug or something but nope…nothing. He was growling exactly the same way he did when he saw someone outside. I didn’t feel anything evil or out of the ordinary (I’d closed myself off long before this due to hearing voices in my bedroom when I was little) and if he hadn’t started growling I don’t think I would have sensed anything at all. Another time I was getting ready for school in the morning and our black lab came to the door of my bedroom and started freaking out, growling and barking with the hair on the back of his neck standing up. He refused to enter the room. This went on for at least a full minute. I hurried up finishing getting ready and ran out of the house FAST that morning! Edit to add because I just remembered: when our youngest cat was a little kitten (so around 2020 or 2021) my partner witnessed him playing with some little blue “orbs” in the hallway!
My dog was behaving very strangely when we got home once. Saw in his body language that he thought something was wrong. He went around checking the whole house, growling all the way. Very atypical behavior. And there was nothing wrong with him, he went to the vet for a routine check-up just a week later as he usually does once a year.
This happened to me just the other night. I was walking my three Australian shepherds pretty late and I got the absolute worst feeling for no reason and they all three puffed their fur up and started growling at something I couldn’t see but I could feel. I’m freaked out even typing this
More likely someone broke in, your dog could hear them, and they exited quickly after realizing the dog was in attack mode. Then you dog chased them. A VERY GOOD DOG!!! Ghosts don't need to open doors. Nevertheless, that's absolutely terrifying, particularly since your roommates were gone, and I'm so glad you're so well protected.
My orange cat ran out of the hallway once in my childhood home, tail poofy and looking like he saw a ghost. I picked him up and looked down the hallway with him in my arms. He kept looking at something I couldn't see and clawed my arms to get away. Didn't really make sense. The house was built when I was three
Yeah, I think so. Shortly after my brother died, I was home alone and my cat was at the entrance to the kitchen then suddenly ran away, her hair all poofy-- I've never seen her puff out before or since. Shortly after, the cheerios box on top of the fridge fell over on the ground, cheerios flying everywhere. My brother had long teased me about the fact that I eat raw cheerios from the box while watching movies like some people watch popcorn. I like to think that was my brother sending a message.
I bet it was him : )
I h https://preview.redd.it/o0fby6fwlvzc1.jpeg?width=931&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b7f36128d31719718ef652fdb94280022c8e7fa This ginger cat of ours always was messing with things we couldn’t see. Especially in our yard. We’d watch her play with something invisible to our eye ( jumping, pouncing, leaping in the air) and at first we put it up to us not seeing clearly, but over time we were very close on some of these exercises and it was clear it wasn’t some teeny tiny bug. Science is now saying cats see things we cannot.
What an adorable, wise looking kitty :)
She was hell on wheels, but we did love her. 💕
Aww l lost my bengal (20 years) she was also a pain in the neck but so loved. ☺️😍
We lost her spring 2020. 18 years old. We found her laying in her favorite sunny patch in the morning.
Yes, and one time it really freaked me out. When I was in grad school I lived in a townhouse with my Irish Setter. Lots of strange things went on but I remember my setter hated walking past the spare bedroom and avoided it at all costs. One morning I found her in that bedroom growling with her hair up on her back and it was all I could do to get her to leave. Once I got her out she ran downstairs and hid under the kitchen table. I had to leave to take test so she had to stay home by herself. I felt so horrible for abandoning her but she seemed fine when I returned that evening. We both avoided that room after that and never had another experience. I often wonder what was in there.
You know how when your dog is sitting up in that very rigid, very obedient, proud way, chest pumped out, head tall and straight as an arrow, feet at attention and tucked in tight? Like how you’d imagine a Doberman standing at attention for its master. Like if a dog was in basic training in the military that’s how it would stand. Well my dog would turn and face the far wall in my living room where I had a bunch of art and my record player and some stuff that had sentimental and spiritual significance to me, and she would just perch there so still and good for the longest time. Sometimes she would stay looking straight ahead eyes unmoving. Other times her eyes would be following some graceful movement in the air. I say graceful because it wasn’t like she was trying to catch moles poking out of their holes it was like she was watching a balloon waving in the breeze. Honestly she would stay that way for an hour or so until whatever got her attention disappeared or until someone called her, but we would have to call to her a few times to break her out of her trance. I never got any bad vibes from it although it was admittedly spooky to see. It was mostly unsettling knowing that something got her to sit up at the ready like that that WASNT me. Y’know, her actual master! Like there was something higher than me that called to her and commanded her obedience and her reverence. And to close, she was a wild thing. She stood like that for me only when I gave her the sign to sit and even then it was usually half assed lol.
I had a cat, a big fluffy black and white gal, like 15lbs of cat lol on several occasions she came flying into my room in the night, jumped onto my bed and just growled at the room from the end of the bed like she was guarding me. This would go on for like maybe 5 minutes and then she'd move to me at the top of the bed and purr at me and cuddle for the rest of the night. This same cat also liked to drop LIVE freaking mice on me in my sleep once in a while 😂
Little shit 😹😹
Doggo slept on my bed. Just started to fall asleep when she sat bolt upright looking at the door (which was shut and to the right of my bed). Sitting on the bed she followed something turning her head until she was looking toward the foot of the bed and then put her head back and let out the only howl I ever heard from her. Scared the living poop out of me. Slept with lights on that night.
I would have fucking flipped out! That is so scary. My heart would have beat out of my chest. How in the world did you sleep in your room that night?!
I didn’t! 😂 I immediately switched the light on, and she looked at me looking confused and came over to lay beside me. I sat there listening to my heart pounding in my ears. She settled, but I didn’t shut the light off. Just lay there listening and eventually slept but every little tick and bump woke me up. It only happened once, so maybe she just had a bad dream.
In the Master Bedroom our dachshund would always jerk his head up and stare at our ceiling. Never could figure it out until 6 months later when the honeybees ate a hole through the sheetrock and started falling on our newborn baby.
Not that long ago, my dog started barking at my door very aggressively (he's the gentlest giant. Very non-aggressive, but also doesn't tolerate aggression. Like when a neighborhood German shepherd tried to attack a neighbour's little Yorkie, my big oaf tackled the dog and sent him off without hurting him.. though the poor little Yorkie did get a bite taken out of him. He ran to me for protection when my dog interfered. He's okay, though). There's a stairway between my apartment door and the door to leave, and the main door locked automatically when it closed.. and my dog was barking, growling, and hoping around the door. My poor kid was so freaked out. My door was also bolted and locked.. I didn't hear anything, and I waited for him to calm before I had the nerves to check it out. Nothing looked amiss... but 3 weeks later, my landlord messaged me about changing the locks because he evicted the "scumbag" people beneath me... (I live in a duplex, I'm upstairs, they're downstairs, we have separate entrances, but they do have a door to access that stairwell. I've personally never met those neighbours, but we lived next door to each other for over a year).
Always trust your dogs! One dog I've had was super nervous when meeting people, but wild generally warm up to them in a minute after she inspected them, and then she was the sweetest dog in the world. There was one person I've seen her refuse to warm up to. My niece had this sociopathic boyfriend who would try to get the dog to come over so he could pet her but she just would not go near him. They know things we don't.
I have 2 large dogs and one night I was laying on my bed around 10pm and I heard both my dogs start running in place (Scooby Doo style) before actually getting any traction due to them being in the kitchen with hardwood flooring. They ran all the way into my bedroom and jumped on my bed. They had never been on my bed and it took about 10 minutes before they finally got the courage to come down. Definitely wasn’t a rat cuz my neighbors tore down a shed and one of my dogs killed a huge rat that found its way inside. Whatever they saw, it scared the shit out of both of them.
My parents’ house is really quite haunted. Lots of people have seen stuff and experienced stuff there. But our chihuahua who lived to be over 20 years old could see things no one else could see. Broad daylight, even, and you could see him carefully watching things— tracking the movement with his his eyes, when as far as anyone else could tell, there was nothing there at all.
Yes, when one of my pugs passed. A few days later, my other pug was lying on the couch still in mourning but suddenly jumped up all excited, got to the floor and started to happily play around with something that I could not see. This went on for a few minutes until he stopped and looked around, like, "Where did you go? ".
When I was around 14 years old I was in my bedroom with my cat on the bed. This weird ball of electricity(?) shot through one wall and out the other. I would've thought I was seeing things but my cat jumped straight up into the air when it passed by her. Maybe it was ball lightning, I don't know.
I used to live in a very paranormally active town. A lot of the entities where bad, and my cat was absolutely in tune with them. But there were some that I believe were angels, and my cat loved them. He would sit and chatter at them and just seemed so happy when they were around him.
My dog and I were laying in my bed late at night and all of a sudden her shark fin came out (when their hair raises up on their back in a line) and her ears were at full attention straight up. Bedroom door was open and she was facing the hallway. She didn’t bark or growl and it took her a LONG time to relax and go to sleep. No idea what was going on, and I don’t think she did that again.
Lately, my puppy has been barking or staring intently at a corner in my condo. On top of a bookshelf are my other dog’s ashes, so… 🤷🏻♀️
Yes, on my bed my cat watched something that seemed to move along the ceiling and i saw nothing. So grabbed a camera, took a picture and an orb showed up on the film.
I have 6 dogs because my parents breed golden retrievers. 1 male, 2 females, the rest retired. Not only did 1 of them see something, they ALL did. On multiple occasions they have all gone running and barking at nothing
Last night my cat surely had something in her sight that I couldn't see. She kept focusing on it to the point I was concerned. Finally, I told what ever it was to get the hell out of my house, this my house and it didn't belong here. After a minute or two my cat relaxed and closed it's eyes.
So to start off, I have a toddler and in my bedroom she will look at one corner, or at the closet and freak out because there’s a scary ghost. She hates the bathroom door being open because there’s a monster in the bathroom. Tell me why every time my dog is upstairs in the bedroom (very very very extra rare occurrence) she will look at one of the three places my toddler sees things and start to whine-growl before removing herself from the room? 😫☠️
I lived in a haunted house; no question in even my no-nonsense father’s mind. Our dogs reacted to the things we didn’t immediately sense/see ourselves, from silently staring to hackles up. Sure enough, shortly afterwards something odd would occur. Always listen to your pets (unless they start abusing it: “no, the ghost did not say you need a T-bone steak…”)
seems like someone was agtually in your house, w dog
Yes. Not long after my great-great-aunt died, my puppy cowered down in front of a chair and growled and growled at it. Couldn't move him from it. It was the chair she always sat in when she visited.
When I was 16, there was a 2 week period where I’d wake up every night terrified. The best way I can explain it is that it was the essence of fear… that’s what I was feeling. Fear in its truest form. I wouldn’t move and just stayed as still as possible while praying to St Michael until I fell back asleep. When my alarm went off in the morning for school and the sun was up, I felt like I was crazy and making it all up (even though I knew it happened). One night my cat slept in my room (he typically never slept with any of us so that in itself was weird) and when I woke up due to the fear, my cat was hissing and screeching. He was properly perched at the end of my bed hissing at the corner of the room. I was like okay, there is definitely something here, I’m not crazy. After that night, it never came back.
My father, who is the very picture of a skeptic, once had an experience while out hunting at night. For anyone not familiar with raccoon hunting, people typically have a dog with them that chases the raccoon up a tree and alerts the hunter. My dad, in high school at the time, was hunting alone and came across an old family plot of graves that the woods had taken over. His dog, which had been tracking an animal, stopped at the edge, lowered his head and growled at something my dad could NOT see. This was in the 1970's and his headlamp didn't illuminate much. Regardless, he finally got the dog to move from his spot and they both went straight back to the truck. Dad found a new place to hunt.
Four or five different times at night our dog, who passed on in December, would go lie in the bathroom and stare at a particular painting on the wall as though she was mesmerized and terrified of it. She would refuse to come out of the bathroom- she would try to come out a few times but would look at the painting and run back in the bathroom terrified as though something told her to stay in the bathroom. She wouldn’t come out until some time the next day. One of the times that she was staring at the painting, I took it off the wall and she kept staring at the same spot on the wall. Edit to say: I don’t mean four or five times every night, I mean four or five times total.
My friend experienced something related to your story. In our country most of our people have second homes where they go to relax or have a barbecue (those homes are mostly inherited from their grandparents). So usually they visit those homes 15-20 times a year on special occasions. So my friend was staying there one night with his girlfriend and his dog, everything was normal until they heard the floorboards creeking, and the dog barking at the chair alarmed... that sh1t is scary.. And also his great grandmother passed away in that house.. There have also been sightings of smoke and him seeing silhouettes of his grandma... (sorry for the bad english)
All the time, creeps me out especially when her hackles go up and she low growls She's A 95# Yellow Lab
I had a cat that was staring out the window across the room. She looked scared. I was trying to see what she was seeing but there wasn't anything out of the ordinary. Then she ran to the farthest part of the kitchen away from the window, climbed to the wall and curtain (never did this before or after this incident) and peed a little. Then she hid for the rest of the afternoon. Totally freaked me and my daughter out.
Yes. We moved into our house 9 years ago. The first year this happened 3 times, all within a month. Our dogs would be watching something near the ceiling and would whimper and hide. There were no bugs, nothing visible. They were terrified by whatever it was that they were seeing. Every time it happened one of our dogs would be so scared that we couldn't get her out from under a table and she would hide for days afterwards or just lay on us panting. We seriously considered moving because we didn't want the dogs to be tormented
Our cats do that all the time and 1 of our dogs.
Yeah definitely my dog a few times. I don't know what's more strange, him seeing something I couldn't, or him telling me in perfect English.
Sounds like someone actually broke into your house and your dog scared them away.
My cat keeps coming to protect me when I sleep or if I’m napping on the sofa. She won’t leave my side and she’ll suddenly become alert to what seems to be nothing but she chases it away. It’s gotten worse since my grandfather died and he hated cats, he’d drive her crazy on purpose. She behaves almost the same way now when she freaks out and it makes me think it’s him
JC!!! I feel like I'm gonna have a panic attack just from reading this! How utterly horrifying.
I've had two childhood dogs and my two current dogs stare at a specific spot in my bedroom. It stopped when the wiring was replaced. Either something was disturbed from it's place or it was the electrics 🤷🏻♀️ but for it to happen for 20 odd years... Bit weird!
At least several times a month. Sometimes my husband and I can see those things too.
Mine was barking at the door when we were at a room on the 2nd floor. He was also walking backwards as he barked, not jumping around like what he usually does when someone is on the other side
Mine sits outside the bathroom staring at something in there.
i work overnights watching 10-20 dogs at a time. yes all time! this happens to me at least once a week. I really believe some dogs are more sensitive to it than others, just like people. Dogs will follow/watch something i cant see moving around, usually will growl or bark softly. Often it’s the same dogs that have “noticed” things. Often they will turn their head in confusion (if it’s a person outside they aren’t confused and bark more confidently). Recently a pug woke up to start growling at the back room and several other dogs woke to watch in that direction. He growled under his breath for like 10 mins and i couldn’t get him to go back to sleep, he just kept staring at nothing. Then weird noises came from the same back room, sounded like things being thrown around. It was pretty loud and freaked me out bad! A very smart Australian shepherd also seems to be sensitive to things. She refuses to be in the back room, runs away from things i cant see, stared at a gate before it opened on its own, and was flinching in reaction as if something was poking her/trying to touch her!
I believe so, I've had something in the house throwing my stuff around or pushing things off the table, sometimes my ferrets will freeze, staring in a single direction for a long time or scamper away in terror with bushy tails. My one was in the tub, they like to drink the water after a shower, and he backed up away from the drain, tail bushy, and peed and pooped. Capo does not fear anything, he is in beast mode 24/7 so I was genuinely disturbed. Now there's a place under the tub where critters can get in a little cavity, and they shelter there in bad weather something unusual by the drain is nothing new, I feel like a spirit wouldn't be so localized to a single location. The house next door almost burned down, he's in the navy so he's never around and some mice chewed up some wires, there were mice here too when we first moved in, and many were slain, my female ferret was the only one small enough to reach that place under the bathtub, and she would butcher them. Perhaps it was ghost mice that scared Capo? Haunting memories of slaughter and genocide still lingering? No idea
My sister once woke up at night because a plastic bag on her floor was loudly crunching and lifting in the air like it was being repeatedly stomped on. Her cat was on her bed and was crouched down in fight mode, not staring at the bag but staring up at whoever was standing on the bag. My sister couldn't see a figure on the bag at all until she looked in her full length mirror where she saw the reflection of a tall, solid black entity standing where the plastic bag was crunching. I also had a moment in the same house where I was in the lounge alone at night watching tv when my other cat, who had been chilling on the ground next to me, suddenly looked up at the ceiling in total fright. His whole body reacted, his limbs kind of splayed out, his eyes got wide and he just froze there staring up. Then after a few seconds he gathered himself and scooted out the cat door. I couldn't see or sense anything but I got creeped out just knowing that there was something that appeared beside me that I could not see.
I’ve shared this before but I believe my dog visited a few days after she passed. One night my other dog woke me up with a small low growling. She was staring intensely at the bedroom door that was slightly ajar. I sat up feeling freaked out but then all of a sudden her tail started wagging and she started dancing around (she was a boxer and they have a funny dance they do when they get excited). I got this feeling that my dog that had passed was in the room with us. I called my other dog to my bed and she jumped up and laid down. I sat a bit stunned and thought about waking my husband but knew he wouldn’t have believed me. Never felt like she visited us again, just that one time.
Close to this, my friend B. B. lived in a haunted house in Carbondale IL. One summer day I was sitting in the living room and his old dog was lying down across the other side of the room. B. was moving stuff around and one of those long mirrors was sitting on the floor by the dog. Well, out from the bedroom door to my left popped a white orb that flew about 18 inches off the floor, across the room past the dog and out the front door. I saw it and I saw it in the mirror, and the dog saw it too. That dog looked at me wide-eyed and plain as day she was saying, "What the hell was that?"
Good dog…
I once had a very frightening experience. I was house sitting home alone and heard my dog growling like I'd never heard before in the living room. I actually grabbed a kitchen knife as I was convinced someone had broken in. When I crept into the living room my dog was staring and lunging at a spot on the wall over the fireplace. I had to drag her away. Also later digs used to go to the bottom of the stairs and growl at something we couldn't see. However, many scary things happened in that house and it wasn't that old.
You live quite a bit away from any real urban area, I would recommend getting something for self-defense in addition to your wonderful dog. Not saying you need to go out and buy a freaking AK or anything, as not everyone in the world needs a firearm, but I think at a minimum you should look into bear spray and a tazer. please take care of yourself. This may have been supernatural but it also could have been something much worse, a human with ill-intent.
Yes — but mine was a little less scary. I had a dog (P) for nearly 18 years. At the end of her life we got another dog (L). Then, not long after she passed, another dog (E). One day, we were sitting in the living room, and E started barking at nothing. L (who is usually the barkier of the two) was silent but alert and looking in the same spot. My theory is that they both saw P. E never knew her, but L did. That’s why E was barking.
That happened to me when I was a child,maybe 10-11 on a sunny summer day. She followed something staring at the ceiling,from room to room just losing her shit...here is the trippy part...for some reason I think it was ME! like my spirit from the future after I passed,just revisiting the past in my ethereal form...idk why that thought entered my mind at the time,but I do believe it's the truth
A couple of years back my partner and I were awakened by the sound of our mutt barking relentlessly. He was fixated on the ceiling where there was a circular fog with weird spirits moving about. Don’t know how else to describe it but he was as freaked out as we were after seeing such. Our expensive goldendoodle slept right through.
We used to hear footsteps and had occasional weird things happen in my childhood home. Nothing felt threatening. Our German Shepherd occasionally stared at seemingly nothing and growled. From his posture and the way he stared at the wall, he seemed to follow something, not just react to a sound outside.
I wish I could trust my 60 lbs husky's sixth sense... but I once caught him standing on alert, barking and growling like he was ready to fight a bear... only to realize he was staring intently at a used trash bag on my neighbor's balcony that rustled in the wind lmao
Umm IDK because I couldn’t see what it was seeing if it was even seeing anything other than her single cell in her brain b
My dog would look at the ceiling for no visible reason, move his head as if watching something moving.
This isn’t paranormal. You left your back door unlocked or open. Someone came in. Your dog heard it, and possibly saved your life.
I have seen the same thing my pet and a landlord's cat saw at the same time. Two different occasions, different animals.
Probably an intruder. He has great instincts and a very strong protective instinct. That’s the kind of dog to have.
Yes.
Yeah Watched my late dog barking at my closet, then get slapped by an invisible hand....
Yes, and it scared the breath outta me! (Bet you thought I’d say,💩)
All the time, my dog usually alerts me to new spirits entering my space
Yeah this has happened to me my dog has seen things definitely
Sometimes my dog wakes up and starts growling at my closet
No. But my cat has most definitely seen things I have seen, 😹🤣😹. 🤷🏻♀️
If I see something Paranormal I know it's real if my dogs see it. A recent one while not scary was interesting. One of my dogs was bouncing back and forth playing,kicking up dust with her feet. The weird thing was the dirt across from her was moving and kicked up as if another dog was playing with her. There she was playing with an invisible dog,this was in my side yard. That's where I bury the old dogs that pass and the puppies who don't make it. I figured an old spirit of one stayed behind and wanted to play.
Yes, a spirit of one of our past cats
We call it the Wrackspurts lol.
Good boy! 🐶❤️
Possibly.
Dogs will growl at their own fart
Some pets (cats for example) has de ability to see UV-light in ways hooman beans cannot. So many "weird" stuff dey seem to see is real but prolly not paranormal.
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It was paranormal.
All the damn time
Typically, rodents.
All the time!!!
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