Have you had an alien or supernatural encounter?

[BikeWriter]

Inquiring minds want to know. If you have please share your story.

[amitten]

1. I grew up with a ghost in my freakin' room. My family felt it, my

friends felt it. And I had to sleep in there (though I often ended up on the sofa downstairs...can you blame me?). It sucked. Glad I'm out of there.

[BikeWriter]

3. Whoa! How did you manage to sleep?

[amitten]

17. About 40% of the time it was pretty difficult. The 'presence'

seemed to almost always occupy the same corner of the room. I had to turn my back to that corner and pull the covers over my head.

I will never forget, though, the one (and only) night when the presence was very obviously standing right next to my bed. If I'd had my eyes closed, I would have sworn up and down that a living breathing person was standing there. As it was, my eyes were open, I couldn't see it (just feel it, strongly) and I was paralyzed with fear. I ended up on the sofa later that night, once I got the guts to get up and leave my room. :scared: Even writing about it years later creeps me out. And no, I'm not nuts, in case anyone's wondering!

[BikeWriter]

37. I'm so sorry; that had to be terrifying for you!

I'm glad you're no longer exposed to it.

[amitten]

41. Thanks. I managed okay--I just had a lot of trouble getting to

sleep. And when I've gone back to visit--you guessed it--the feeling is still there. Some kind of entity, I don't know what, really really likes that room!

[BikeWriter]

44. No one has ever tried an exorcism on it?

I think there are Pagan rituals, too, that are fairly simple.

[amitten]

49. No, the presence never seemed 'evil'. But it seemed sort of

cranky. It wasn't a very positive vibe, it was more negative, but it never felt truly menacing. It just felt like being near someone who was chronically pissed off, if that makes sense. The main reason it was unpleasant is because, hell, who wants an unidentified pissed off invisible presence in the room with them?!

Plus, sometimes it played little pranks that were harmless. Like shaking the bed. It only happened about once every couple of months. I'd be trying to sleep, and the bed would start subtly vibrating, like someone had a hold of the bottom bedposts and was shaking them. It would last for about three seconds, and then repeat a few more times. I thought I was crazy. However, years later (when I moved out and the room became a guest room) OTHER PEOPLE who slept there had comments about the same thing. So then I felt vindicated, but still very creeped out! :scared:

[BikeWriter]

53. Poltergeist activity is not so common. My neighbor's husband...

leaves things of his lying around the house to be found. He's been dead for ten years.

[swimboy]

68. I had that happen. The bed subtly vibrating and then it shook.

I could sense presence to but they seemed neutral or beneficent. They were being busy around the room and came to gather around the bed. I was a guest in the house and for some reason had more a feeling of wonder/perplexity than fear. It scared my host when I told him about it.

I'm sorry you had to live with that, but your the first person I've heard describe the bed movements the way they happened to me.

[Wapsie B]

2. Well yes I have.

I met a republican tonight as a matter of fact.

*rimshot*

[BikeWriter]

5. Bada Bing Bada Boom!

[swag]

4. I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus.

[BikeWriter]

6. Did he scare you?

[swag]

9. He wasn't as scary as this guy:

[BikeWriter]

11. Now that is a spooky clown! Is that Gacy?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

7. Actually, I'm just waitin' for the Mother Ship myself.

From MY perspective, you're ALL aliens.

Go figure.

[BikeWriter]

8. It should be arriving shortly, as scheduled.

[AlienGirl]

10. Look at my screenname!

Supernatural? If you mean ghosts and what-not, I think that's just part of nature, no weirder than high-pressure-systems and frogs coming out of hibernation in spring. I grew up in a haunted house, with parents for whom "ESP" is the expected thing; it would be weird to me if the Universe suddenly started acting like Radical Materialism was the best model!

Really, I get weirder stuff with my breakfast cereal.

Tucker

[BikeWriter]

13. I'm a firm believer in ESP. My second wife bolted upright...

from a sound sleep one night and said, "Something just happened to Travis." He was her nephew. After considering a few minutes she said, "It's not serious." and went back to sleep. I looked at the clock. The next day we found he'd pinched his thumb in a boat winch at that precise time.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

95. I bolted upright out of a sound sleep and said "Dee is dead."

A friend of ours, named Dee, had AIDS. We hadn't seen him in about six months, but suddenly in the middle of the night, the thought that he had died woke me up. A week later, his aunt called to tell us he had passed away.

[BikeWriter]

103. Oh, I'm sorry! It's sad to have that sort of premonition.

[Straight Shooter]

114. What's with this bolting upright out of a sound sleep thing?

I did the same thing when my boyfriend (a seven-year relationship) went into the hospital for a "minor" operation. There were unforeseen complications and he ended up in ICU. He was young, in his thirties, they didn't expect him to die.

Two days later, I bolted upright from a sound sleep and my first thought was, "He's dead." I couldn't even bring myself to call the hospital. Later that morning, when I went to work, I learned the news. Which, I suppose, I already knew.

I've had plenty of experiences, but I wasn't aware that other people have had the "bolting upright" experience, too.

[Whoa_Nelly]

126. Yup...Bolting Upright!

Dreamed my dad's death from a major stroke.

Three weeks later to the day it happened.

Bolted up right out of that dream and called my sister. When it did happen, she was the one to call and tell me.

[BikeWriter]

128. I'm sorry your premonition came true, Nelly!

[Whoa_Nelly]

130. Thanks, BW

It was one of the more intense ones I've had to live through...

Here's wishing you a good year in 2006 :pals:

[jpgray]

12. Have I had an alien?

Let's just say I'm a member of the light-year high club.

-rimshot, exhortation to try the veal, reminder I'll be here for approximately seven days-

[BikeWriter]

14. You've done the nasty in space?

[jpgray]

16. No, only Gus Grissom belongs to that club

Granted, he's in the solo aviator division. :D

[BikeWriter]

25. *Rolling on the floor laughing hysterically!*

[jpgray]

30. Glad you enjoyed, sir.

My grandfather loved that joke. (Used in reference to the mile-high club, of course.) And on that note, I bid DU good night.

[BikeWriter]

35. Thank you, I'll treasure that one.

:)

[Deja Q]

108. Well, you beat me to it!

:D

Still, I couldn't think of anybody better... :7

[MiniMandaRuth]

15. Don't make fun of me, or call me kooky,

but, I am constantly strangled in my room. I always have the doors closed, and it's never when I'm completely asleep, but when your in that twilight zone right between sleep and being awake. Very weird. I often feel scared in my room, and see shadows flitting across the walls in the dark. My house is built on an old battleground where many white soldiers and native americans were killed.

A couple of years ago, I was sitting in my bed in the trailer, looking up at the stars. One of them started to move in a circle. I looked closer at it, and then two others moved in the same patterns. I lined up the stars with the blinds hanging down over the window and the stars still moved.

Then, BAM! They were gone.

[amitten]

18. Strangled?!?! Good God, how badly? Does it feel like actual

hands or is it like a muscle spasm?

PS-And how do you stand to keep living there?

[MiniMandaRuth]

19. Like hands. Never cold, but definitly there.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=3543260

That was the first occurance where I really couldn't breath for a few moments. Now I can't breath or talk when it happens, for about two minuets and then I feel like I'm going to pass out.

I have to live in my room, I can't sleep in my parents room, and I'm not sleeping in the living room. I'm keeping more dignity than that!

[amitten]

21. Does it happen in other rooms?

If not, I'd think you should sleep in another room. If it's between that and getting strangled, um, you do the math.

[MiniMandaRuth]

23. Never happens in other rooms.

Though I do get cold for no reason when no one else does. And it's not easy for me to get cold because I have a low normal body temperature (96.7)

[RumpusCat]

39. I agree with AlienGirl below: sounds like sleep paralysis

The constricted feeling comes because your brain paralyzes your body while you sleep, so you don't act out your dreams. It's quite possible that your conciousness is waking up before your brain releases your body from the paralysis and you're feeling frightened and trying to gasp for breath--feeling like your body isn't reacting to your commands is totally surreal. I used to have a similar problem of half-waking up and still being paralyzed and freaking out--it's common to feel like there are malevolent beings or creepy things around you in this state. I used to be afraid of the dark because of this problem. It still happens to me sometimes but now that I've intellectualized it I can tell myself that I'm still dreaming and not become frightened.

Check out this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

I'm not saying it's absolutely not haints but sleep paralysis is much easier to deal with. :hi:

[AlienGirl]

20. That sounds a lot like sleep paralysis

If you're experiencing sleep paralysis and coming partially-awake when it happens, it could eather be a matter of half-sleep dreams, or it could be that you're perceiving without the usual filters and therefore seeing things that aren't visible in an ordinary atate of consciousness.

I once had a half-sleep dream where I opened my eyes and looked down my arm, and saw my arm stretching away into infinity. That was pretty cool!

Tucker

[MiniMandaRuth]

22. That's what I think it is too.

Any cure for it? I've lost a lot of weight since the first time, so I really don't think it's that...

[AlienGirl]

26. My sleep-paralysis/not-turned-off REM states are pretty random

A neurologist might be able to help you cure it. Personally, I just like to play around with the state: "Can I make the whole room look long?" and stuff like that. You might, if you want to, use the feeling as a cue to get into lucid dreaming! "I'm being strangled, this must be a dream, I'm gonna fly around now!" or some such. I taught myself lucid dreaming when I was about 11 or so, and can still do it, but lucid dreams don't feel as refreshing as random dreams so I generally don't bother doing it.

If there is a chance there's an Intelligence behind the experience you might try figuring out how to communicate with it. If it's nice that can be fun, and if it's an asshole you can either find ways of blocking its effects or just send it away. Good luck!

Tucker

[rockymountaindem]

59. Check out the article on Hypnogogia too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnogogia

That might make you feel better. Don't worry, you're not nuts!

[BikeWriter]

86. An interesting article, thank you. ;-)

[BikeWriter]

28. This sounds so frightening!

I hope you can learn to control this, Sweety.

[datasuspect]

69. that's anxiety

or sleep apnea.

[chknltl]

24. I am fairly convinced that my ex is from a different planet...

...does that count?

Ok, just in case you wanted something other than snark: I call myself a "spiritualist", (not the Christian kind) because as a child and as a teen I used to be an unwilling participant in something known as "Astral Projection". The fact that I did and could do this thing, the fact that I have proven to myself that this was not something conjured up by my imagination, is validation enough for me to accept that there ARE spirits out there... I WAS out there, I WAS a spirit, therefore spirits can and do exist for me. That particular bit of knowledge led me into an entire realm of study outside of religion and science because neither could explain to my satisfaction the phenomenon I witnessed and participated in.
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[BikeWriter]

27. Astral Projection as in Carlos Castaneda and Don Juan?

One of my exes was able to do that. She also was taught as a "wind walker" on a Cherokee reservation.

[chknltl]

32. Perhaps...I couldn't get into those books.

I read a few of the Carlos Casteneda books in search of enlightenment into my own experiences but I really could not make heads or tails out of them. I eventually did find other books which helped though.

[BikeWriter]

34. It has been years since I read them. They fascinated me.

[leftstreet]

29. Jimmy Carter did. I'm series.

I've read that CIA Director Poppy Bush denied him access to DOD UFO reports.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_carter

President Carter claims to have witnessed a UFO in 1969; he remains the only U.S. President to have formally reported a UFO. He filed a report with the International UFO Bureau in Oklahoma City after a request from that organization. <7> During his presidential campaign, Carter promised to release the truth about any alleged UFO cover-up.

[BikeWriter]

31. I'm sure it was something out of the ordinairy...

Since he was a Naval officer I'd consider him a trained observer.

[leftstreet]

33. Damn right!

[BikeWriter]

36. I found what appears to be Jimmy Carter's report.

http://www.presidentialufo.com/carter_ufo_report.htm

[ashling]

38. I am an alien

I don't think I'm from here.

[BikeWriter]

57. How different are you?

[ashling]

61. Different from what?

[BikeWriter]

62. Uh, earthlings?

[RumpusCat]

40. Once I had a really vivid dream about UFOs hovering over my house

The next morning when I read the paper I found out that it was like the 25th anniversary of some famous UFO sightings in the area! I checked myself over but I didn't seem to have any strange marks or scars.. heehee. I was like 16 when this happened.

My best friend's parents' house is definitely hainted--it's the creepiest place in the universe. They have a 'back bedroom' they use for storage and sometimes you'll hear a huge crash with glass tinkling and everything... and then go back there and find nothing out of place. Several people have woken up to see figures striding through the house, and more than one person has been startled awake by something grabbing a shoulder or an ankle. In my best friend's bedroom something will tap on the wall next to her bed and respond if you tap back to it. She grew kind of jaded about the whole thing and in fact used to get very angry at the haints and yell at them to go away, lol. I don't like superstition and would be very happy to find out natural explainitions for all of this! Until then, tho', there is no way I'm housesitting for them... :scared:

[BikeWriter]

60. I think I'd stay out of their house, too!

[driver8]

66. I grew up in the house that used to belong to my great grandparents

We were always hearing strange noises and footsteps. My father, who is the last person I would expect would believe in ghosts said one time, "Do you ever get the feeling that there is someone else living here with us?"

We used to hear the tapping on the wall, too. One night I was asleep and I woke up to the sound of someone knocking on my window. My room was on the second floor and there was no way someone could have done that without a ladder. I was afraid to look out -- I was scared shitless!!

[BikeWriter]

78. Hmm, that is spooky!

[Jamastiene]

42. I'm not from this planet.

I sometimes feel like I must not be from this planet.

I did see a UFO, so I counted that as an alien encounter. Hope that's ok.

[BikeWriter]

64. Only if they are alien to you. If this is the mothership coming...

back for you, that's cool, if that's what you want.

[TimeChaser]

43. Well, ESP's pretty usual for my mom's side of the family,

Growing up, I also had contact with what I later realized to be spirit guides. Oh, and the house next door is haunted. An elderly couple lived there, and I guess they, you know, are still there. I've never felt threatened, although my sister is freaked out.

[BikeWriter]

76. Do you have any idea why your sister feels differently about them?

[EFerrari]

45. I've been married twice and once lived with two teen agers.

Does that count?

[BikeWriter]

75. Yes, certainly it does! :-)

[evlbstrd]

46. My ex swears the house is haunted.

And that I was abducted by aliens through the bedroom window. I think I was sleepwalking again and that she's nuts.

[BikeWriter]

74. "through the bedroom window." Was it open at the time?

[evlbstrd]

115. Yes, but the screen was in.

I'm fuzzy on the details, having slept through it.

[BikeWriter]

119. I've floated through roofs before, so I know what you mean.

[evlbstrd]

120. Good to see you made it back.

[BikeWriter]

121. Yes, I've always landed safely. :-)

[evlbstrd]

122. I think I avoided

a satellite dish up the butt.

[BikeWriter]

123. CB antennas can be a real pain in the ass, too.

[anarch]

47. I'll go with "undecided"

I've seen some weird things for which I've never heard a reasonable explanation, but I try to keep an open mind towards all interpretations. That is, I've never seen or experienced anything that I can conclusively say was not of this earth, even though I've seen bizarre things in the sky (look up the "Phoenix Lights" if you're interested).

As far as "supernatural", I think any phenomenon that is currently outside the realm of science is just poorly understood, and hasn't been subject to sufficient research.

[BikeWriter]

73. I've read about the "Phoenix Lights" before. They seem quite fascinating.

[djeseru]

48. I grew up with a poltergeist...

...who regularly stole the bread and changed the alarm clock times. I got used to hearing the alarm go off mid-day, or my mom rushing to get us off to school and work a little late. I got blamed for it and the bread but whenever she'd ask me, I wouldn't have a clue...after a while, she figured out how to work with it and around it. He was polite and did return the bread when asked nicely. I don't think he gave up the alarm clock habit though.

My grandmother regularly sees my grandfather, although he passed away in 1955. I lived with her and would hear all kinds of banging and thumping, mostly from the kitchen. I saw him twice, once sitting behind us at the movies and the other was in a shop window reflection.

I've never had a UFO experience. My sister-in-law told me she was once visited when she was a young girl, and her telling me about her experience just leaves me too uneasy.

[amitten]

50. My 'ghostie' did the alarm clock thing too. I bought several,

thinking they were all defective. Sometimes the clocks would fast-forward or go back as much as three hours--a major inconvenience! My alarm would be set for 6 and go off at 3...that kind of thing. It finally stopped after about 2 months, though I can't explain why. :shrug: Someone told me it could be power surges, but then why would it not affect the other clocks in the house?

[djeseru]

54. Geez, that's gotta be frustrating!

I was only a kid so it didn't affect me as it would someone a little older. And, I agree with you: I am not the smartest electronical-wise (is that a word?!) but I can't see how a power surge would change the wake-up time set on an alarm clock. Or several alarm clocks. Isn't that odd how some 'ghosties' habits seem to vary, as if they've gotten bored with whatever they had been doing?

This was back in the 1970's before the digital ones came out, so my mom had one of those wind-up kind of alarms on hers. I never knew how to even set or change her clock, and never thought to do so in the first place. So, when she asked it was like way out of left-field for me...

[Ariana Celeste]

55. My gramma sees my grampa too

I'm the only person she's talked to about it because of my experience and open mind- she's afraid everyone else would put her in a home even though she has been seeing him since the day he died. She also sees my dad. Here's one of the experiences she told me about.
A few hours before my grampa died, when he was at work she was startled when she turned around and saw him in the hallway. He looked at her and smiled, and told her that everything was going to be okay. She was confused and didn't know what to think when he disappeared. Later that day, awhile after coming home from work, he had a heart attack, and passed away. She's got a few experiences like that she has told me, involving him, my dad, and my older brother.

[djeseru]

56. Does it seem to be in the female line of your family too?

My great-grandmother told my grandmother of experiences she had, even her last dream before she died of her deceased husband telling her it was time to leave. They both would also visit mediums when my great-grandmother was still living. As it sounds in your family, it was the same in mine...they would just keep it to themselves, or when I came along, they would tell me.

[Ariana Celeste]

58. Yes

My Great Aunt Ruth sees things, too, and so did my great gramma. From what I've been told my older brother did as well, when he was a little boy. My gramma always told me it ran in the family, but nobody really talks about, except for one on one with the others who do too. My great gramma had to stop visiting my Great Aunt Ruth's house because she saw something every time she went there.
Now the only other person in my family who talks about it is my Evangelist uncle, and he claims that we had a bad witch in the family a few generations back. He also says that he gets visions from Jesus so I take what he says with a grain of salt. (Plus my gramma said he was full of shit. ;))

[BikeWriter]

72. Did you feel your perceptions were somehow sharper...

when you saw your grandfather or do you think he meant for you to see him?

[djeseru]

87. Not that I noticed anything different...

...on those particular days, I was only 9 to 10 years of age, but I can remember the incidents very clearly. I was on the left, my grandmother on the right, then all of sudden a gentleman in a suit sits immediately behind us in an almost-empty movie theater that is showing a children's film mid-day. My grandmother and I both turned & looked at him, and I remembered thinking in my head about it being unusual that I would even see someone dressed in that manner, in the 1970's. But it was my grandmother's behavior that was odd. After the film, he wasn't there, I didn't even notice when he left. A few blocks away from the theater, my grandmother started asking me questions: did I see the gentleman, or even recognize him? No, I hadn't, I couldn't get a clear view of his face. Then she told me who it was.

I am unsure of the amount of time between incidents, but the second time was downtown. She and I were window shopping, commenting on this and that, when a gentleman stood behind her and to her right. She and I looked at the reflection at the same time, and I felt it was the same person from the theater. I turned to look at something to my left, turned back, and he was no longer there.

I never felt awed, or threatened, or scared. It seemed as natural to see him/hear him as it would to see or hear anything else. It's probably something I could fall into the habit of seeing again, if I was sensitive enough again, but I don't actively look for it anymore. I think I just got too 'caught up' in the outside world to keep up with it.

What was interesting was finding photographs of my grandfather a couple of years ago wearing the outfits I "saw" him in those two days. It made it easy to recognize him!

[BikeWriter]

116. Do you think he was checking in on you purposely, or...

perhaps he just forgot that he was not supposed to be there?

[Ariana Celeste]

51. I clicked yes for supernatural, but I'm kinda undecided, too

Before I moved here to Indiana, I used to always feel like someone was with me. I always thought it was my dad or my brother, both of whom passed away years and years ago. Sometimes it felt familiar, which I attributed to them, and sometimes unfamiliar, but never really bad. It was always neutral, or good feeling, although sometimes the hair on the back of my neck would still stand at times. Usually it was from not feeling anything and then out of nowhere, strong unexpected sense.
But ever since I've come here... almost nothing. And I think it's because my man doesn't believe in anything supernatural, and maybe I've just kind of closed myself off since I don't have anyone around me to share with? Or maybe it was never there? I don't know, but sometimes it makes me feel sad that it's "gone". :(

[BikeWriter]

71. I lost a Brother years ago who "visited" me a number of times.

Somehow I'd know he was there.

[Nikia]

52. I saw a figurine levitate and fall on the floor

At my mother and her second husband's wedding reception. The figurine jumped off the cake. There is no other way to explain it. It did not slide off the cake. no one touched it or jumped the table. It levitated projectiling onto the floor.
When my sister and I were little, we used to freak out people by saying the exact thing at the exact time. It was very easy for us to do at the time. We didn't think that there was anything strange about it.

[BikeWriter]

70. Kids sometimes do impossible things until they find out...

they can't be done. I was six years old when I found a new way to do square roots in my head. I've long ago forgotten it.

[EstimatedProphet]

63. I saw Kit Bond at a reception in DC

[BikeWriter]

65. Is Kit Bond an alien?

[EstimatedProphet]

83. See for yourself

When I ran into him, I so much wanted to tell him that I used to be one of his constituents, but I decided freedom was better and left. I would have gotten fired in a heartbeat though.

BTW this pic came off this site: http://www.rnla.org/default.asp
I have a feeling it's going to be really busy in the coming months.

[BikeWriter]

84. Hmm, he looks like an alien...

[xmas74]

104. I'm sorry.

I met him once in high school. An alien encounter would have been a better experience.

[Mutley]

67. Nah. It would be cool, though.

:D

[khashka]

77. Yes, both.

This was all back in the day when I was doing ritual magick and really weird stuff started happening.

You name it, it happened.

Weird little aliens who kept going on about "time" but none of it made any sense.

I met the goddess. Trust me, she's hot.

I had sex with, well, an entity. Yeah, I know, everyone is gonna think "Khash confronts the supernatural? Of course his first response will be to have sex with it!" It wasn't like that. It was fucking scary.

My ex wife and I were dreaming the same dreams.


I no longer do ritual magick - I don't have the guts for it. A little bit too Lovecraft for me.


Khash.

[BikeWriter]

79. I've heard magic can do some spooky things...

I know several people who've been scared witless by ouija boards.

[khashka]

80. Ouija boards are child's play

I'm talking the serious stuff.

The best thing I ever learned was: do not call up that which you cannot put down. Esoteric, but nevertheless good advice.

Khash.

[BikeWriter]

81. That's what happened to my friends with the Ouija boards.

They called up things they had no control over.

[Generic Brad]

92. Any Recommended Reading?

Just curious.

[khashka]

100. You really wanna play this game?

Anything by Aleister Crowley but especially "The Book Of The Law" or "The Book Of Lies". Not exactly how to manuals, but.....

As a beginner, I suggest starting out easy. The Invocation Of The Holy Guardian Angel is the only ritual magick I do any more. Kate Bush's song Lily basically describes it.

If you are truly interested.... reading won't help. It requires apprenticeship. And it's gonna get ugly.

Khash.

[xmas74]

105. I never cared for Crowley.

I've read him a few times through but just didn't care for him.

[khashka]

106. He's certainly difficult

and generates strong opinions.

But surely you can't argue with this:

"Had! The manifestation of Nuit!
The unveiling of the company of Heaven:
Every man and every woman is a star"

Khash.

[xmas74]

107. I can't argue w/ a few things he stated.

It's just a feeling about him. He always reminded me of a dirty old man who enjoyed leering at adolescents.
Nothing against his teachings-just his personality itself.

[khashka]

109. Well that's a normal response

He WAS a dirty old man who enjoyed leering at adolescents.

Part of his problem was

1. the heroin addiction
2. his idea that fucking with people's minds was a good idea
3. taking evrything to an extreme - when this guy tried to teach himself to be ambidextrous, every time he used his right hand rather than his left he slashed himself with razor blades.

So, yeah, he was creepy.

But so am I :)

Khash.

[xmas74]

111. You're not that creepy.

Crowley is someone I can only handle in small doses.

[Blue-Jay]

91. Magic is not real unless there's a "k" at the end.

:D

[khashka]

99. It is entirely inappropriate

to mock people for their pretensions. Especially when one is a moderator.


Shame!


Khash.

[BikeWriter]

143. How about Magicke? I used it that way in one of my poems...

Dancing in the Rain

Born deep in the forest, far from the prying eyes of mortal men, a small creature flits ceaselessly ‘round the perilous rack and fen.

It searches for a bit of *Magicke* to keep its Age Olde Race intact, snooping in the Neverlands, Stealthy Fugitive from Truth and Fact!

A raptor plummets from the sky, cruel talons spread….. Shrill Scream of Pain..... THE ANCIENT TRIBE IS DEAD! Forest Giants tremble, they moan this sad refrain, “We’ll never see their like again, dancing in the rain.....”
BikeWriter
1/29/2000

[Orsino]

82. Five years ago...

...my wife and I were abducted and transported to a weird alternate Earth in which the US has no Constitution.

[BikeWriter]

85. I think we all were, Pard. ;-(

[Fox Mulder]

88. This is a thread I need to bookmark.

I'm fascinated with this topic. :)

Edit: I've never had a supernatural encounter, but I've encountered a few UFOs in my time.

[BikeWriter]

113. It is an interesting thread. I think it will be active a while. ;-)

[merh]

89. Only on DU

At least that is what it has felt like sometimes. :freak:

Happy New Year! :toast:

[BikeWriter]

102. Surely we're not that weird... are we?

[merh]

110. Oh no, not all of us

There are some that creep into GD & GDP & LBN & even here that try to cause problems.

They have to be aliens, there is not other explanation for their behavior :crazy: :freak:

Happy New Year, BikeWriter! :hi: :toast:

[BikeWriter]

118. Thank you, Merh. Happy New Year to you, too!

[gollygee]

90. My husband is foreign

so in a way I guess I have had quite a few encounters with a US resident alien

[BikeWriter]

144. There are alien encounters, and then there are other alien encounters.

[hyphenate]

93. Mostly with ghosts

nothing exciting. Just the knowledge that I wasn't alone in a room on more than one occasion. I shivered several times in such situations, and once the hair on my neck bristled when I was there.

Once, I went to a house that is actually supposed to be haunted by family members from several hundred years ago, and I felt something in one room that wasn't supposed to be haunted like the others. I couldn't get rid of the feeling that someone was present in that room, and I kept staring into one corner. It was eerie.

Someday, I would like to go on the Queen Mary and test it out. It's suppposed to be majorly haunted in many areas. Or the Winchester House. That would definitely be a worthwhile trip. I lived in SoCal for 15 years, you would think I would have made it to one or the other at some time, but I never did.

[BikeWriter]

145. It sounds as if you did sense "something" real. I'd love to...

tour the Winchester House, too. It's very mysterious.
http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/

[Liberal In Texas]

94. Art Bell fans don't forget:

Tonight --

Upcoming
2006 Predictions II w/Art Bell
Art Bell hosts his annual New Year's Eve Prediction show featuring callers' predictions for 2006 and a review of their predictions from last year.

[Digit]

97. * being impeached was one of the predictions on last nite's show

The caller claimed to be a conservative republican AND predicted that * would be impeached.
:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

[BikeWriter]

148. Woohoo is right, Pard!

[Joey Liberal]

96. Only when I drank large amounts of Tequila

[BikeWriter]

149. Large amounts of Tequila have enabled my visions before!

[BamaLefty]

98. ROFLMAO!!!

Every single one of you idiots need to hit up Jim Beam or something. This is the funniest thread I have ever read on here. I mean (lol- I'm laughing pretty hard right now!) some of the stuff in here is just too funny!!!

LOL!! Don't look out the window closest to you! Save yourself! :freak:

[misanthrope]

117. Yep, almost as funny...

...as watching Auburn's defense plant Brodie's spindly ass in the Jordan-Hare playing surface over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.

Now THAT was funny!

Fear the thumb, be-yotches!

[BikeWriter]

152. We're idiots?

[BikeWriter]

154. I'm still waiting for an explanation of your post.

[Hugin]

101. I might! If I could get those voices in my head to stop talking so loud!

I think it scares them away!

Shhhhhh!

[BikeWriter]

136. Those loud voices in your head scare me, too!

[TheBaldyMan]

112. I am an alien n/t

[BikeWriter]

151. Alien to where?

[Ladyhawk]

124. When I was a fundy, I THOUGHT I had supernatural experiences.

Funny that as soon as I stopped believing in the supernatural, it stopped happening. :)

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it doesn't go away."-- Philip K. Dick

[BikeWriter]

132. I believe in Tinkerbell.

J/K!

[Ladyhawk]

134. You KILLED Tinkerbell!

I'm telling!

[BikeWriter]

135. I'm sorry, I didn't know she was a favorite of yours! Here she is!

[mwooldri]

125. Is Jesus an alien?

Well, if you're being atheist about this which I am trying to be right now, then I guess by popular definition Jesus is an alien.

I perfer Son of God myself but then to the atheist, Jesus meets all the criteria for being from outer space.

Mark.

[BikeWriter]

127. Probably so, but I don't believe in deities.

[NNadir]

129. Does it count if I once shook hands with Richard Nixon?

[BikeWriter]

131. I think he was more a case of mental alienation.

[texanwitch]

133. A long time ago when I lived in Austin I lived in a haunted house but

we were just kids and the ghost or whatever never hurt us so we got along.

The only bad thing was the noise, we had some loud ghosts. At least 3 times a month we would hear the sound of falling dishes and chairs being pushed around the room.

We had cheap rent, and the ghosts were there first.

I don't know if I would live there now.

[BikeWriter]

138. It sounds as if they were definitely poltergeists...

I'd be more leery of them than most spirits.

[texanwitch]

141. We also had a upstairs bathroom that was very cold all the time,

It always felt like someone else was there.

The ghosts always waited until we were upstairs before making noise, so we had polite ghosts.

The house is now gone, I would have liked to spent one more night there.

[BikeWriter]

142. The coldness around a spirit seems to be common.

[leftofthedial]

137. I have both

every morning, first thing

[BikeWriter]

139. Wow, that's spooky!

[texanwitch]

140. So you still have your ghosts.

I was hoping they would have been gone by now.

[leftofthedial]

147. well, when I look in the mirror first thing in the morning

there are usually two of me. I figure one of them is a ghost.

[BikeWriter]

153. At least one of them is probably an illusion.

[Bridget Burke]

146. I sometimes have dreams that predict the future.

Not consistently, though. Could just be random mental shuffling--with a touch of synchronicity.

Never about anything like a winning Lotto number, though.

[BikeWriter]

150. No lottery numbers? That sucks.