Ok, first let me start by saying that I am fairly new to Unexplained-Mysteries.

Now that that's over with, I can get to the actual topic of this post.

Lately, I have been experiencing some mild paranormal activity. By mild, I refer to the plainly strange, and not at all violent. What I have been experiencing is the following:

When I was folding the clothes in the drying room, everything was quiet. Then I heard talking and laughter coming from the room next door. A second ago, all was quiet and the room was as I left it. The next moment, the television was on (which is where the talking/laughter was coming from). I thought that was pretty strange, because our TV's have never done that before. No one but me was at home at the time, so the possiblility that it might have been someone in the room is ruled out. Also, I didn't see anyone coming, so the possibility of it being an unwanted stranger is also ruled out. I'm 100% sure that the TV was off moments ago because the drying room is next to the bedroom in which the TV turned on by itself.

The next piece of paranormal activity is a little less alarming. It consisted of a door opening by itself. It was my closet door, to be more specific. I did not think much of it at the moment, nor do I do now. The television is my main focus in this post. If anyone has anything with substance to contribute, I would like to hear it. Thank you very much for your attention and have a good day! ^___^

Just to let you know, in case you are not aware, reading material such as demonic possessions can cause harrassments of such.

Harrassments? Like what kind of harrassments? If you could let me know I'd appreciate it. Thanks for the post! ^__^ I appreciate it, really. I do.

Did these things happening give you the creeps, were you scared to go into the room where the television is?

If your TV were on standby mode instead of actually turned off, maybe a big surge of electricity could have inadvertently turned it on (I don't really know if that is possible though). It is so hard to try to give any possible explanations without frightening you lol.

There are some beings that will do things to fascinate and they like to make an impact. Mischievious spirits will take great delight in frightening people but have no intentions of doing anything else.

When I was 17, I was sitting on a sofa with my boyfriend, we were watching TV, suddenly out of my right temple I felt a strange pull and as I looked to my right, a cane which was standing in the corner of the window was floating about six inches off the floor. I let out a gasp and jumped up, my boyfriend was like, "what the heck!".

Now he got frightened, I was fascinated, it floated there right in front of us and because I was not scared I placed my hands beneath and around the cane - still it floated. My boyfriend was, by now, pooping himself, I grabbed the cane and put it back into the corner.

Naive as I was I wanted to stay there to see if anything else happened, he wanted to run out of the house. We ended up doing the latter.

Sometimes excess mental energy can escape and do random things, if it frightens you it is not good. If you ignore it and it is some mischievious being, it should stop.

Hopefully there is a logical explanation (such as a stray cat in your closet lol)

when I was seriously researching material such as (Demonic possession/ case materials) I had many occurances that couldn't be explained. Voices, apparitions, music, things moving, water coming on, nightmares from hell, .. etc,. I had to pray about it, and take a break from it. Imo, of course. This may not be your issue, but anyway, thought I'd mention it. There are a thousand different reasons to explain such things, i suppose.

Interesting experience of yours! As far as my experience is concerned, I was not previously frightened of the room with the TV. I don't really know why the TV went on, and it was not on standby mode. I always turn off the TV completely to save electricity. Even more eerily, the remote was on the bedside table, so no button could have accidentally been pushed.

As far as my closet is concerned, I don't really know what happened there. I shut the door because I don't like to have doors open. I own no pets, and no one was at my house at the time it happened. All I have to say is that it will take more than a self-operating television and a closet door to scare me.

Thank you for your reply, I really appreciate it.

If I had of witnessed that I'd dropped dead with a heart attack. Seriously. Are you (sure) you are not able to TAP into telekinesis?

Well, I have always had an interest in that kind of stuff, and very few paranormal things have happened to me. I once had this incident with a very old radio, but that's another story.

Maybe what you say is true. Perhaps it does attract them, but then wouldn't priests and demonologists be severely plagued by disturbances?

LOL! They are.

Nah, I have tried and tried to move things like that consciously until I have had a throbbing headache and fallen asleep LOL. Other little things have moved like a lipstick flying across the room and the other day a bottle of red wine smashed onto the floor (something telling me to give up the booze I guess )

I just think it is excess energy, I guess it has to go somewhere.

The really weird thing is, when things like that happen it is as though I am in a different frame of mind and everything is calm. I know what you mean about heart attack though, because if I could do that at will, it probably really would frighten me.

Interesting. Well, I don't think there's any way I'd ever stop being interested in that stuff. Ever since I was a small child, I've known about it. When I was five, I had a dream I was visiting Hell. Not GOING to it, but visiting, like you would visit a prison. Then another dream about some weird vampire-type thing chasing me. Those have been my only nightmares in all of my life, and I still remember them vividly. Maybe they were more than just dreams?

You mean when you are angry, or showing strong concentration of a particular emotion???

No, it happened when I was calm and not thinking of anything paranormal at all, just doing something mundane.

Thinking about it, maybe that's when energy can flow freely, when we let it instead of trying to force it. In fact, I bet trying to force it, makes it all rush into one place and causes a sort of blockage - a traffic jam sort of thing

It would seem there's a certain amount of "beleif" in the person's mind also. My wife, who beleives in spirits, hears all sorts of weird things in our house. Myself, who beleives in almost nothing, I never hear anything. It's the same way with the kids too.

Mrs Mule: What are the kids doing?
Mule: What kids?

works for me...

ok well i dont no i would i like left my room or somthing if i was in my room like right now typing and my closet door opend (its behind me) and i heard it i mean like walk into there a somthing sharp in my hand scared lol, but yea that would scare me more than the t.v coming on becaues that can be explanded. O and yea i have never had that much happend to me i mean some times i move my head fast and see somthing out of my eye its happend to some of my friends before to but mine was always white and never scared me or anything, but that had scared my friend becaues she had never had that happen before and hers were black and she was having dreams and all about seeing stuff like that and being chasted by like dogs that were all black she was really scared by them but i think that stoped, i mean she never talked about that again.

Hi heinrich himmler.

What you have experienced, if it is paranormal, is pretty harmless. There is not much to warrant fear. If you have ruled out reasonable/rational explanations, then it sounds like something is playing with you or trying to get your attention.

My advice is always the same in this situation and it depends upon how you feel about it:

if you're worried or appalled by it, then simply tell it to leave - speak aloud in the rooms where it has been active and tell it firmly that you do not appreciate it and that you command it to go;

if you're interested or intrigued by it, then question it or challenge it - ask it to do more activity in a specific location or with a specific item or just ask it questions.

I believe I have ruled out all rational explanations concerning the television and the closet. Also, at the time the TV mysteriously turned on, the lamp was still on (it had been that way b/c I left it that way because I was only going to the next room, and coming back) So, if it indeed was an electric problem, the lamp would have been affected too, wouldn't it? They're both plugged in to the same outlet (or whatever you call it, It's 7 in the morning...Im not yet fully awake.)

I am not scared by it, I just wonder who it could be trying to contact me. No one in my family that I have known/cared about has died, so I don't know who exactly it could be. How can I figure it out?

Interesting, but I haven't had any strange dreams like that. At least not since the two I had during my childhood.

Well, I'm not the kind who hears a door shut and no one's in the house besides themselves, and is quick in jumping to a conclusion about the paranormal. I am not the overly skeptic kind either, who is too closed-minded to take anything but their "conclusion". When I post something on any paranormal forum, it's after ruling out all possible "normal" explanations. (Like the TV being on standby, which it has never done...)

It is true that those who are too quick to believe do tend to hear/see more stuff than those with a skeptic mindset. The power of suggestion might play a role, but it can't be the explanation for EVERYTHING, can it?

It doesn't have to be someone you know that is trying to contact you. It could be any spirit. It may even be location-based.

I think time will tell.

I guess. I wonder who it could be, though....

Whoever it is, I want to know more about them!

I experienced the same kind of botherings. I was reading the Necronomicon and shortly after that, weird things would go on. Lights dimming than returning to normal. Tv's turning on. My favorite was the spare TV . It was one of the one's you have to pull the knob out to turn it off and on. So that turning on was weird. My washer cycles would get changed. Things would go "missing. I think reading material that is paranormal in nature opens up your subconcious somehow and makes it possible for these occurences to happen. I don't know.

Maybe.... I don't really know but you might be right.

It definitely sounds like something paranormal...i'm incredibly susceptable to things like that as well (well maybe you arent, you didnt say)...our house is 200 years old and set back in the woods...there are voices in my cellar when i'm home alone...i never go down there, but i stand at the top of the stairs and listen...i thought i was losing it until one day a friend heard them too...also, doors in our house open and shut and i can always feel something there...because of my religion, though, i dont really believe in "harmless" spirits because in teh bible, all activity like that is basically of demonic origin...so, because of how i feel, my advice to you would be to have your home blessed adn when things liek that happen, pray or sing bible songs...it has always worked for me

True, I was raised Catholic. Yet, I feel curious, like there's something more to do with these beings than banish them. My apartment's fairly new, and no activity has happened before in this place.