Hey!
So I'm pretty new to this
I've been reading a lot of topics in this forum about their childhood experiences with the 'paranormal'. I've been quite skeptic before, but realised that a lot were quite like my own when I was little. I used to think it was just my imagination lol!
Sooo here's my story - i'd like your take on it.

When I was about 6/7 years old, we had recently moved in to our house (well, about a year or two anyway). I remember taking a nap in my parents bedroom, when I woke up I thought my sister and my mum were standing next to the bed, watching me. Their faces were pretty blurry so I thought I had something in my eyes. I rubbed them and they were still blurry. I remember calling them 'blind' because they had no eyes, and boils on their faces. Im pretty sure they were both women too, one had short dark brown hair, and the other had long dark brown hair. I remember being so scared that I started screaming for my mum, crying, and by the time she got to me they were gone (I think I closed my eyes shut tight). I thought I was having a bad nightmare- hey, maybe I was!

Another one in this house was when I was about the same age, but there was something different. I hated being alone, because when I was alone, I felt really scared! I remember being in my room, wanting to come out, but was really scared to go to my mum's room because I swear I thought something was in the bathroom. I thought it was a he, and wore black, I had seen it a couple of times (but shrugged it off as imagination). The bathroom was across the hall from my room, so I was terrified to go out. But I ran to my mums room anyway and told her about it, and we got the house blessed, since then I never remembered seeing anything after that.

Yea, so I'm not sure what to think of those anymore!

Hmm interesting story thanks for sharing! Did you sister ever see anything at all?

I don't think she ever had actually (she never told me if she did!) I remember her seeing a girl on railway tracks though, so I guess if she ever did witness anything she would have said!

I feel the house may have a history attacted to it, if not the house than the land, people with boils on their faces may be due to a fire or a chemical accident, these are lost souls from some sort of tragic event that took place in that area, I'd do a bit of research and see what you dig up, the girl on the railroad tracks sounds to me like someone who was struck by a train or that's where she was lying when she died, maybe she's connected to the other's, Once you have solved the mystery, the fear will subside.

Well I learnt when I was going to the highschool near where I live from the teachers, that people used to fight on the land decades, (perhaps centuries) ago. I didnt think about it until a few days ago!

It's a possible lead worth looking into.

I've never had these experiences when I was a child. I have had a paranormal event free life. I have only ever seen a ufo which you can read about in my profile. My two sister's however have had the total opposite to me. We all lived in the same house but they had these ghostly type experiences which I have never had. when I read these child hood stories they don't bring back any memories but they are firmilliar to one of my sisters experiences. One sister has only had one ghostly experience and my other sister has had three or four. The sister who has had three or four has experiences is the oldest in our family and i'm the youngest. One experiece she had was quite terrifying and it happened in the room I sleep in today but I have never experienced anything. The ghost followed her home so I guess the ghost didn't stay long.

My sister told me that she could see two shodow figures at the side of her bed and one at the bottom. She said she never felt afraid. I was like.... WTF. How come i'm only being told this now? I heard this from her first and sense then heard firmiliar stories on the net. Her other experience was that she was in bed and she felt something touch her and it moved down from her shoulder down her back. she froze in the bed with this animal fear and did nothing untill she woke up the next day. She was very young, about 10. My other sister had the very same experience but in another bed room and this was about 6 years later. She was in the room and she felt something touch her from her shoulder downwards just like my other sister. They both said that they wanted to get up and turn on the light but they just froze like an animal about to get knocked down. The lightswitch for my older sister was ages away while the lightswitch in this room was right beside the bed and she didn't even have to get out and she still didn't do anything. She was frozen with fear and she woke up the next morning. They both had this experience and I havn't... well from what I can remeber I havn't. I have heard that my father has had sleep paralysis but i havn't heard much about it and i would feel stupid asking about it. Well i could ask but I wouldn't would feel stupid trying to get him to talk about it in detail. It just feels weird.

My research has brought me to the conculsion that shadow figures are indeed connected to sleep paralysis, and I'm unable to connect them to ghost encounters, simply because ghost radiate aura's and shadow figures radiate nothing. Even the connection of Shadow figures and alien invasion or abductions is looking rather slim, some have even link them to demon entities, but yet I've been unsuccessful to link them to anything except for sleep paralysis, simply because a Maleviolent spirit radiates some type of glow or gives off energy, such as flicking off and on lights.

It could have all been sleep paralysis and it is hereditary. But Shadow people and SP are two different things. SP is very frightening, and many see a dark image. However people see shadow people when they are awake, and it happens often to many many people. Even all the ghost hunting shows find those shadow people, and they look scary, but not sure if they are dangerous or just go about their day, not interacting with humans..Some people say they have been pushed by them, so they say. Shadow people is quite the paranormal phenomena..JN

Very interesting. I have seen/sensed spirits as a child myself, and still do to this day. You said your family had the house blessed; did others see things there as well? I think that children are naturally able to see and feel things that most adults can't. Growing up normally makes most people close off spiritually to some degree, and that's really a shame. Do you still get paranormal visions or feelings from time to time?

You are making quite a few generalizations. Yes, some shadow people may be the result of sleep paralysis, however it is common for people to see them while wide awake, and sometimes even in the middle of the day. I have encountered residual ghosts that radiated no aura at all. They were more like a recording that would play back at certain times of the day, week, or year without regard to the surroundings or people witnessing the event. I do not use the word demon, as they are not a part of my belief system, however many shadow people have been connected with non-human negative energy, including one that I dealt with personally. There are human and non-human malevolent or negative energies. Not all manifest in the same way, and not all display manipulation of their surroundings. I understand that your own personal research has brought you to these conclusions, but making cut and dried statements about the way certain energies manifest is very limiting. Out of curiosity, what is the nature of your research and how long have you been studying the paranormal? I'm not trying to contradict you or call you out in any way, but I am curious as to how you can be so certain of the behavior of certain energies/entities.

Do you live in an area where some type of plague or similar happened in the past? Pox, for example, was devastating not that long ago, and might manifest what looked like boils to you as a child. It is not the generally more mild version we think of today in most cases.

It could be chalked up to childhood imagination, but if you can discover some information which you did not know then which would tend to add some possible truth to it, then who knows? Maybe you did see a ghost

NS

They seem to be, don't they? I don't know I have ever decided what I think they are, but the couple times I have seen them, they do seem busily going about their business, whatever it may be. Both times, they were walking and seemed unaware of me, or else were departing because someone was coming....? Who knows. Neither time did I expect to see them, and both were a surprise. I never suffered any nuisance factor related to them which some report, thankfully. Neither wore hats, if that makes a difference. Seems they all are the same but some wear hats and some don't, and that's about all we really know with any certainty.

Odd, for sure, which makes them interesting. Shadows which do not follow at your heels

NS

agrees and to the OP childhood experiences like this are not uncommon at all. If your house was blessed then it suggests the adults around you were taking it seriously. Have you ever talked to them about it ? Perhaps they had experiences also.

I've been studying the paranormal for 20 years, and I do have a theory to the shadow people that are seen durning the day, but I'm not quite done investagating that theory and do not want to touch on it in here, the only reasons why I concluded that Mbyte's sisters had exp the shadow people durning sleep paralysis is because they were in bed durning the encounter. If the theory I have come up is correct than these beings are human, like I said there is much more to investagate and still it's just a theory.

I'll ask her but i don't think my sister had sleep paralisis when she saw them. She was just trying to go to sleep or was lying down in bed. Well the really scary ghostly experience is amazing and was eperienced by her friend as well who was sleeping over. Now it'sd a long story so I won't go into the epic feelings and thoughts which occured when she had this experience so i'll give you the bare outline of it becasue it's a long long story. So my sister was swimming in a river with freinds and her attention kept getting grabbed to the shore for no apparent reason. She shrugged it off but it was always bothering her. She had to go home so she waved goodbye to her friend and made her way home. On the way home she felt something behind her. This feeling followed all the way home. So she gets home and everything is grand. One of my sisters friends who is also a girl came to sleep over, she was also swimmed with her earlier. Well that night and i type this now in the very room it happened wear I now sleep. they were talking and chatting very much awake listining to the radio when suddenly this very intense feeeling expands from the corner of the room farthest from the bed. The instant the felling or force emmited itself the radio lost signal of the radio station so there was white noise. My sister and her friend totally tensed up immensly for she doesn't know how long. They grab each others hand (hand closest to each other) and grab it so tight that it probably would have hurt but they didn't feel it. My sister was directly exposed to the energy or the entity and my sister was blocking it from her friend. My sister described it as evil, dark and dense. She could only move her eyes and she looked at the coner of the room with such intsity just waiting for something to materialise. She said she was surpized she didn't see anything becasue it was so intense and overwheleming. Both my sister and her friend tensed up stiff. The force died down and the radio station came back on. You would think that after such a terrifying experience that they would die from shock or cover the bed in brown stuff but the opposite happened. She said that it was like they were drunk afterwards or stoned. They laughed and laughed and joked about it and other things. She destincly remembers seeing a ladder from the headboard going into the clouds in the sky (there was a ceiling but they saw the sky some how) Her friend also saw the same thing. They don't remember falling asleep and they talked about it in the morning. My sister was so freeaked she slept in her friends house for a week. My sister didn't know this at the time but people had killed themsleves at that point in the river loads of times, she found out the week after. The river goes through our town and people often jump in to kill themselves. Three people have died in there within the last 3 - 5 months. My sister went around the house after her frind went home in the morning and told the entity to leave just incase it wasn't gone. No more experiences yet.

Im not sure where I'd get the information, I'm not sure what I'd ask the library for! :S

Basically half of my family has had paranormal experiences, but not in this house (it was only me). My mother said though, when she took me to her home village, that something did try to get touch me (I was a new born baby at the time). I don't get that "feeling" in this house anymore, though I do sometimes, I saw my grandma once when I was a couple years old, but I remember telling my mum a few years later and she told me that she had passed away before then, which confused me since I was pretty sure she was talking to my mum! (But I dont think my mum was talking back...)

I think there probably was a plague in this area (but Im not sure, Ill try doing some research on the internet first before going to the library!) All I remember is that my ex-teacher told me that the land that this area of houses was built in, there were some small wars (or battles)

Find out where you can track down the history on the land or house where you live, old newspaper clippings, records, etc...

Ah thanks
Ill probably go to the library tomorrow then- Id really like to know the history of the land!

Let me know what you find, I'm highly intrigued....

I will definitely keep you posted

Thanks

This is the first thing that came to mind for me; Pox. I also think what you saw was sadness and not anything evil or mean...SADNESS for sure. And, yes, I believe children are more open to paranormal experiences (ie: seeing ghosts).

Strange, I had exactly the same vision when I was about 10, and the bathroom was right across from my room. I thought I saw someone wearing a black cloak right outside my bedroom, and got really freaked out. >_>
I think it was just my imagination though XD

@Mbyte: Your sister's 'shadow figures' could possibly just be her eyes playing tricks on her, depending on when she saw them.

Children tend (well, here's my theory) to be more open to paranormal experiences because of their wide imagination at their age - not that the visions are imaginary, but they tend to have a open-minded personality. Some don't fear their visions because they may be used to them, which could be the case with Mbyte's sister.

Interesting thread, though.

XD Yea it is a pretty freaky thing to imagine!

That is the strange thing about children!!! Every one says that they are sensitive, and have a pure soul, so they can see things that we can not. Then I hear that they just have an imagination that is way more advance than adults because there brain works alot quicker!!! (A little baby...or tot's brain does work FAST!!!) They learn too talk and walk and well you get my point..........but I have heard stories of babies laughing and playing with absoultley nobody........is it an imaginary freind or a spirit???

Yea I know!
Thats why Im confused about what I saw when I was younger O__O
Not sure whether to believe it was paranormal or if it was imagination

You can't pass them off as imagination unless you were consciously trying to imagine them. If they appeared without any effort, it was probably a few punks screwing around

Well I wouldn't have really liked to imagine the things that I thought I saw- freaked me out too much! What do you mean by "punks"?

Okay in my opinion I think it could be Paranormal...because you still remember it. I don't remember any of my imaginations that young! It has a significance to you.

Just obnoxious dead people

That's not nice.

I remember it too vividly for my liking!



Agreed!

Okay maybe they were friendly dead people who thought you'd be delighted to see hideous versions of your family standing over your bed

That is a scary thought.

Well I guess that is better

Okay so I did some research, and apparently there was a war called 'The Battle of Dussindale' which over 3000 soldiers died in the mid 1500s.

Hi, long time reader, first time poster. Just wanted to share a few of my own personal chidhood experiences in this thread. It doesnt' really relate to "shadow people" (I have, thank god, never experienced that, though there is a local concert hall in my town, The Phoenix, which people claim they can see a shadowy figure on a balcony), but it does fall into the catogory of childhood imagination/paranormal.

So when I was a really little kid, like before I turned five, my family used to live in this townhouse. The previous owner was an old woman who died in the house (Yes, I know this is the set up for countless ghost stories). Well every year, around the same month (August) there is this rotten egg smell that comes into that one townhouse. Every year, for the same calender week on the same month. And it can't be anything like a dump or fertilizer, since the smell is ONLY in this one townhouse. One of my best friends still lives in the townhouse next to it, and she tells me she can still, on occasion, make out a rotten egg smell coming from my previous house, every first week of August.
And then on one occasion I went into the closset to get some shoes or something, and I saw this old woman among the coats, sitting on the floor. That could VERY well of been childhood imagination (Except it's curious to think at the time that I had no idea an old lady died in that house just a few months before we moved in). But the smell wasn't, and, this might seem obvious, but the lady died the first week of August.

Sounds like an interesting experience, the rotten egg smell could be caused by pollution from industry if there is any near you. I remember once when there was a horrible rotten egg like smell that was around my house for a few days, and while I never really found out what it was I always suspected the industry that is near where I live, but the way you say it only happened at your house is a bit odd. Could it have been something inside the walls of the house or some kind of plant or rubbish matter?

Seeing the old lady is very odd too, especially seeing as you didn't know that someone had died in the house at the time, even if it was just your imagination, there is usually something that causes you to imagine something, so you must've somehow known about the old lady, whether it was from spiritual contact or if you maybe overheard someone saying it and then forgot.

I think childhood experiences are hard to prove, because children do have really vivid imaginations, but considering you say you didn't know about the old lady I don't see how it could just be from your imagination.

Where there any other experiences in that house?

In that house? No. I did have night terrors in that house, but those weren't really super-natural. Now my friend who I mentioned, she has super-natural experiences all the time, and she still lives in the house directly connected to my old one.

As for the rotten egg smell being industry caused, I really doubt that. The townhouses are built literally right next to eachother, it's one big building, except sepperated into different living spaces (Bigger than appartments, not as big as regular homes). So the fact that it could only be smelled in that certain space is what makes it really odd to me. The theory about something in the walls could explain it, but if it was something in the walls I'd really think that the house next to it would be able to smell it as well, because they share the same walls. Also, I don't think anything in the walls can just start smelling for one week the same exact seven calender days every year.

Oo that's weird.
Maybe she smelt like rotten eggs when she died?
As for the old lady sitting on the floor... creepy!!