Paranormal stories in real life. Post yours.

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So does anyone believe in anything related to the afterlife? I'm not talking religion just maybe a weird encounter you've had or something that has happened to you in the past.

I'll start with my story.

Back in 2007 I was living with my mom and my grandparents after my mom bought their house. My mother had an illness and I had to pretty much take care of everything for her including helping her eat. That morning my grandparents had gone bowling and my grandfather ended up having a massive heart attack and died. This was a major loss for our family as my grandparents had been together for 56 years.

Later in the day once we had come back from the hospital and received that bad news. We were still in shock but just trying to deal with it the best we could.

We had two phone lines in our house one for my grandparents and one for me and my mom. I was helping my mom eat while my grandmother was sitting down looking at photos. Suddenly our phone rang and because I was preoccupied with my mom my grandmother went to answer the phone.

She said hello a couple of times but all she heard was static. When she looked at the caller id on the phone it had my grandfather's name on it. Their phone had called our phone. We think it was my grandfather saying goodbye one last time to my grandmother.

My mother passed away 19 days later and at times I catch the scent of my grandfather's cologne and my mother's perfume even though they have been gone close to 5 years now and we don't have any of their fragrances in the house still.

Post anything you guys have encountered. I'd love to hear more stories.

When I was about 10, my parents went out to a party and I stayed with our neighbour, who was my Mum's best friend. I slept in the same bed as her. During the night, I felt the duvet lift up and I was aware of a presence getting into bed, between us. There was nobody there. The presence didn't seem malevolent and I was not scared. I felt it was my Mum's friend's husband, who had died many years previously. He had gotten up to visit the toilet, during the night, and died there.

I didn't know then but I've heard since that the house is thought to be haunted. But, there may be more than the benevolent presence there. The house has burned to the ground twice and, a few years ago, the owner died and his body was undiscovered for months. Strangely, his ex-wife had been seen entering the property on numerous occasions, so nobody was concerned about him, even though they hadn't seen him. She hadn't killed him, but how didn't she realise he was dead? Weird.

I never really experienced anything paranormal, but there was this one time I was reading a book in my basement, and I thought I saw a shadow figure walking a few feet in front of me. I jumped, only to see no one in sight. It was probably just my eyes tricking me, since no one in my family ever noticed any kind of "haunting" in my house.

I was working in my cousin's New Age / Psychic / Homeopathy shop, programming her computer with stock phrases for computer-generated astrology charts, when she came to the back with a friend. It seems that the shutter of her friend's Polaroid Land Instant Camera was stuck and she asked If I could look at it.

That night, I cleaned and lubed the shutter mechanism. Then I saw that the bellows assembly had a few cracks in it. Coincidentally, I had a similar bellows system laying around the shop, so I made the replacement.

The next day, the friend was so happy that she gave me one of those hugs that makes a man glad to be a man.

The day after that, however, she came back and said that I had ruined her 'magic' camera -- the one she used to take pictures of sprites and ghosts. When she showed me the old pictures, I saw that some of the 'ghosts' looked suspiciously like the cracks and holes in the old bellows.

A little careful application of a very sharp hobby knife and a hatpin, and I was soon the happy recipient of another series of warm, cushy hugs from a woman who was only 10 years older than I. She told me her age over breakfast the next day...

Moral of the Story: It sometimes pays off to indulge others in their beliefs, even when it is obvious that their beliefs are misplaced.

Friend's girlfriend worked as a psychic.

Gave me a reading, maybe the second or third time we hung out (important to note that she barely knew me, and didn't know my family at all).

She said she kept seeing the letter M, big, with no other letters. That there was a man in my life, likely with the initials M.M., who was gonna be having health problems.

A couple weeks previously, my uncle had moved back to LA from the east coast. Moved in with my folks. He was developing Alzheimers, and had heart trouble. His initials were M.M.

I was suitably impressed, and told her how much she'd gotten right.

She insisted that I was wrong. That it wasn't my uncle she was talking about. Weird, I thought. Why go back on what she'd said, when I'd just confirmed that it fit.

A couple months later, my father was hospitalized. Internal bleeding, out of nowhere. Needed surgery to have about a foot of intestine removed. His initials? M.M.

Do I believe in the paranormal? No. But that was one hell of a coincidence.

When I was 15 or 16 I went to a late diner with my mom and some of her co-workers. We rode with 2 of her friends who were in their early 60's at that time. Two WWII vets, conservative, reliable types. so they rode in the front and my mom and I rode in the back. We had diner and were leaving at around 11PM. It was pretty quiet in town around that time on a weekday so there was nobody else around. You had to go through this sort of ally to get in and out of the parking lot. It was in that alley, as we drove slowly through, that a light appeared in front of us. I was a small object that looked round and shed a light bluish light. It came toward us through the air and I was just kind of frozen in the back seat trying to figure out what it is. I thought I was going nuts or something because I'd never seen anything like it. Nobody said a word and it still kept coming at us. I thought it would break the windshield but it went right trough it. It went between the 2 guys in the front seat and past my mom and I in the back seat, then it just passed through the rear window. Nobody said a word until Al, the driver stopped the car and asked, "did any of you just see something strange?" We all said yes and described what we saw. Everybody had seen the same thing. Nobody wanted to say anything about it til Al stopped the car because we all thought we were hallucinating I still don't know what that thing was. I'll never know, but it was one of the strangest things I've seen in my life.

I used to like in an old apartment building that was around 80-90 years old at the time. In the hallway outside my front door there was a removable ceiling panel that led to a deserted attic in the rafters between the ceiling/roof. I would often notice the ceiling panel would be partially slid open then later it would be closed again even though nobody EVER went up in that deserted attic. Also, I had different friends stay the night who swore they heard somebody walking around up there at like 2-3 a.m. I strongly suspect that building was haunted.

No one believes me, so no point.