Hey everyone who reads this im new here and i really like the site and find it all very interesting.
Ok so here is my topic.

My mom was telling me when she was little she used to live in a haunted house up in Jersey now it can be debatable if it was haunted or not but from the stories her and my uncles and grandma told me it was. So its your typical huge house with 4 floors counting basement and attic at a "steal" price. When my moms family moved in she was about 12 years old. Now she used to wake up with bruises and hear things and doors would close. the chandliers would shake as if kids were running on the floor above, kitchen cabinets and drawers randomly opening and closing, you know the usual. When she saw this figure it sounded like drops of water were dripping onto the floor. She woke up fast and saw a white translucent(sp?) hooded figure. There was no face just darkness. It hovered over the ground then glided away. She thought it was the Angel of Death and that it was her time but obviously she was wrong . So yeah im kinda wondering what that thing is if anyone has ever had an expierance like this please post id like to read it.

Probably a Shadow Ghost or some kind of Phantom.

if she was getting bruised i wouldn't think the spirit wanted them there.

maybe a demon.

I agree with you, it's a demon.

but i mean it was cloaked in white. only the facial part was darkness

dindwyder:

Despite colorization (white/black) Hooded Figures are menancing entities. Based on many accounts I have read, they represent evil. I have not read one story that depicts them as being "nice".

Not to promote another site, but about.com paranormal section has many topics discussing personal accounts with hooded figures. Some of these stories are rather interesting to say the least!

How do you banish them??

i think the spirit just did not want them there, it depends how on how powerful it is when it comes to getting rid of it.

Any normal banishing ritual should work, if you really want to give it a try. Some people worry that they might 'fail' and/or 'anger the spirits', which supposedly has been reported on occasion, so make sure you've weighed the options.

First off, it would probably be best to approach the situation more like a casual "freeing", which is a sort of non-conflict "exorcism".

Do your standard visualization of white light, love and protection, say a prayer, etc - and basically indicate to the spirit that they have passed on or do not belong in the normal physical world any longer and that their friends and family who have already passed are waiting for them and will help guide them to their new destination - you suggest/tell them to look around for the doorway, their white light, which is their means to release themselves from their "imprisonment" in their current state - if you have a candle, flashlight or even camera with a flash (Polaroids are good), use this as a visual aid. Tell them to not fear, to trust their loved ones, etc. Bid them farewell and perhaps say another prayer for them.

For a short span of time, while using the ouija board, our group was almost CONSTANTLY pestered by what seemed like a waiting room full of spirits who started flooding in once we had "freed" one confused soul, each asking to be freed. Likely this was one of the board users' interests at that point, plus it was sort of interesting - I'm not personally fully convinced of the reality of "spirits" or in fact any sort of non-physical entity, so this is just my experience, not necessarily my conviction speaking.

this is just one of the things that happened around. At my old house when i was 13 she told me she had seen a white cloudy mist floating above her bedroom door. And one time in that house when i was smaller i had a dream that satan was trying to get something from me and i wouldnt give it to him and my whole family helped me escape from him but i forgot how it ended, anyways i never felt comfortable in that room again. The next following day i told my mom about my dream and how that room feels so weird. She told her cousin who is a Psychic/Witch or something like that and she definitaly said something was wrong in that room. How could something like that happen in a house that was blessed?

to me, because most paranormal events, even ones involving spirits or "demons" have nothing to do with religious concepts of divinity, holiness, etc.

you cant banish spirits because they run on memorys and feelings if there grounded on earth. Demons are visiters that come to harm or warn you. Moving into a new house that is already occupied by that demon to them its there home and they dont like intruders

Remember, though, those guys in the Bible, Acts, I believe, who tried to banish the demons from a guy, in the name of Jesus, "whom Paul preacheth", and the demon turned on them, beat and stripped them.
I think that your standing with God, and your faith have a particularly heavy influence there.

I'm not up to scratch on all this demon stuff, but why would wearing a hood make someone evil? It makes them look maybe mysterious or something, but isnt it just a common signification of evil or menace or is there actual ground behind it?

Exorcism of course!

I think that the hood wouldn't make them evil. A baby hanging out of their mouth, maybe...but a hood, no.

I don't believe that spirits and ghosts really see us or feel us, because they're just flashes from another time. As some "scientist" said, ghost's are physical or emotional remains. They don't know of your presence and you shouldn't bother. Let 'em wander about, banishing and cleansing won't help, because they are of no religious class. And those people who get paid money for freeing a ghost are liars and thieves.

Well, are you asking if you would be considered "evil" for wearing a hood?
The wolf didn't dress in a red hood, but "granny" clothes.
I think that people connect hoods and not being able to see a face as, at least somewhat less than "bright and shiny friendly".
An angel would probably not appear in any kind of frightening manner.
All the descriptions that I've EVER heard of DEMONS, however, have been odd, ape-like and ugly, or weird in some other way.
I would say: hood=not good.

its probably assumed because most evil things do wear hoods like the grim reaper

LOL but in all seriousness, I agree, death is a hooded entity and he isn't evil, sure he comes and gets you when its your time but someone has to have the job...I always figured that entities wore hooded cloaks because they were nothing but bones underneath...You know to try and look less 'pirates of the carribian...

i believe it is possible to stop a spirit by praying, and send them to wherever they should be, if you see something wearing hood most likely evil, i mean if it was an angel what would it have to hide and if you get a bad feeling about a spirit its probably not a good thing, unless you have a fear of angels then you really have some problems

Never heard of an SP hoodie refered to as white or luminous always dark and opaque ,also did the OP or guess it was his mom mention "feeling" anything good or bad during the encounter?.......B

holy crap thats funny C. how did i miss that!...............B

IMO, Assuming these spirits wear anything is insanely funny-- these things are stereotyped by us folks and we stereotype each other as well. Even the paranormal world isn't safe from us mortals! Who says demons have to wear clothes anyway? angels? spooks? Who says they wear this color, or that color....It's the same as picturing a self proclaimed witch with a large black hat, big pointy nose, with a mole on the end, and green. LOL! That's not the case, we know it, but that's how most see it.....

I love that snappy hat the creeper wears! somewhere Freddys pissed!...............B

LOL!
come to think of it, Freddy is about the scummiest one of them all, imo! -- He's just nasty as nasty is.

My guess is the feeling of evil comes from anything that appears to be trying to hide itself. I think secrecy spells danger for a lot of us; stealth. Criminals find a need to hide their faces. Clowns can be unsettling because who knows what persona is hiding behind all that happy makeup (ick I hate clowns).

Then again as far as the whole cape thing goes: Capes are worn by monks, who are purposely hidden from the rest of society. That's not evil, just a sign of seclusion from typical worldly/materialistic matters.

White cape vs. black cape (or white vs. black): Can't go solely on color. Priests and nuns wear black, for example. Of course something could show up in black knowing that you're trained to be scared of someone in black. Or could turn up in white to try and earn your trust for sinister reasons.

If demons and their positive counterparts really exist, I'd trust my initial gut reaction to its presence in deciding whether or not it is a threat. Does it give you an immediate, overwhelming feeling of defensiveness and dread? Generally this sort of intuition works w/people. So I'd use my intuition w anything that might be otherworldly too. Even if I feel its just a hallucination (like w the Sleep Paralysis episodes I used to get).

Couldn't have said this better myself !


Just give it a few months and we'll start to get demonic saddam descriptions

Man you guys are killing me with the necro posts.

But what I said in May was really funny, so I'll let it slide.

Ya- haha! ... And maybe by Halloween there'll even be a ghostly Youtube Saddam vid featuring a shadowy figure w/ an unkept beard, holding a piece of bloody rope LOL

Ever seen a security camera video of a liquor store holdup? lots of hood wearers.............B

Sounds like a more evil ghost to me.

Can I ask how old your Mum was?

As soon as I read that the thoughts of Cannibal Corpse (band) came into my head.

EDIT: A quick thought came into my (slow?) thinking head. Perhaps hoodies are unlikened because they wear a hood making them look evil?

Sorry, that was another of my weird, deranged thoughts.

This hooded spirit, was it human size or small(half human hieght)? Was it also accompanied by a feeling of dread? Although white with blackness in the face area is unusual....it sounds familiar.

The Grim Reaper isnt Evil although grim is a very apt naming. Death is ambivilant and is neither good nor evil, it just is.

I've heard of ghostly encounters (that particular one was a woman) where the apparition was pretty visible except of the face, which was said to be a dark hole.

Maybe there is a significance to this, like the headless rider etc. So maybe it is similar with the hooded figure...hm could be.

I love the casual way in which you dropped that line in, as though it's common for cabinet doors and drawers to open and close by themselves.

With regards to the hooded apparition I can understand why many people would think that it must be evil. People who go around with their hood up can look intimidating, particularly if they are large in stature. There are lots of hooded figures that hang around the area where I live and they can seem quite threatning if you are old, frail or stuck in a wheelchair. Mostly they just rob people and vandalise public property. I have found that these evil beings can be sent back to the dark nether regions from which they came by grabbing their ear and administering a hard kick up the a*se.

That's just our interpretation of hooded characters....in the spirit world if one appears hooded and/or faceless then they are hiding/cloaking there identity, it doesn't always mean 'bad' but it is something you have to question.

I have only seen a hooded figure once in my life. My brother and I saw a tall, dark hooded figure in the doorway of his bedroom a couple of weeks before my dad passed away. I didn't necessarily think it was evil, but I was scared out of my wits just by the looks of it!! We told our mom and she said that the figure was a sign of death in her family; she and all her brothers and sisters had seen it at least once.

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the water drops give it away as a demon

what makes you say that?

No kidding, what gives you that impression...kinda far fetched.

LMAO!

anything dark shadowy and hooded is not of good. its there to try and scare you to catch a buzz of your fear. don't fear them and they can't catch a buzz. probably a lower end demonic manifestation.

I've seen dark shadow things that didn't scare me at all, and seen a bright lady that scared me near death.. so.

yeah usually the lower end demons appear as shadow-type figures. i believe the more powerful ones can appear as angels of light and less-evil looking entities.

She was light, & wasn't "evil" looking at all. Except for her eyes.. they were huge holes. The feeling I got with her was indescribable. Doom closest thing I can come up with.