Has anyone ever experienced first hand anything supernatural?

not me, nope

After a long illness with no hope of recovery, my father ended his own life. The day afterwards, I was sitting on the front porch at 6:30 am reading the newspaper. A car pulled up across the street and a man just sat in it. I glanced up from the paper, and my first reaction was, “Why is dad wearing that Hawaiian shirt? It looks good on him.” All of a sudden I got a jolt, and realized what I thought. The man got out of the car and started to walk down the street, and not only did he not look a thing like my father, he was not wearing a Hawaiian shirt. I called my stepmother later that day to tell her that I thought I’d seen my dad, and she told me that same morning, she was asleep, and in her dream, she heard him calling her from the back yard near the pool (Florida) and when she went out back to see, he was standing at the far end of the pool, looking extremely healthy and well. She walked to where he was standing, and when she reached out to touch him, she woke up and found herself standing besides the pool, in the exact spot. We both took it as a sign that wherever he was, all was well.

I haven’t yet but I would really like to. I want to believe.

I like stories like that. I’m pretty open-minded when it comes to the afterlife – I’ve not seen anything myself and I’m not saying I definitely do believe, but I’m not saying I definitely don’t either. However I’m not religeous and therefore don’t think religeon and the afterlife go hand in hand – but I guess that’s a different discussion…

…and maybe I should learn how to spell religion!

jonsblond’s hoo haw.

sorry baby but it almost makes me religious

@Sparkie510, I don’t believe afterlife and religion are necessarily connected either. We had three family members die within three months of each other, and all three had things happen that made me think there was something else going on. My grandmother kept talking about her “boyfriend” coming visit her and promising that they were going to take a walk together. My stepfather was in the hospital and kept saying he smelled his mother’s fried chicken, and heard her singing, and he kept asking if anyone else could see the light in the corner of the room, near the ceiling. Both my grandmother and stepfather were pretty darn lucid during all this. My sister-in-law, before she passed, kept giggling, and saying over and over, “I know who you are! You’re Julia (her grandmother). If you can help me find my mother, I’ll be fine.”

I have had several experiences, similar in essence to what Alfreda described with regard to her father. Each time, I am left shaken but somehow comforted. I’m reluctant to talk about them as people tend to look at you like you have two heads! I think life brings to you what you’re open to…whatever that may be.

Yep. And maybe it is a kind of sensory thing – that some people may be more ‘in touch’ with it than others; or that it depends what’s going on in
your life and what you’re feeling at the time.

I wish i did, im the type of person “i need to see it to believe it” but have never experienced anything.

A lot of my family is religious and into the whole “orbs as angels in pictures” and everything but i just dont see it.

When I was a little girl, I was rescued from a near drowning by an angel- a being who was neither in the area before or after the incident.

@Sparkie510: You may be right. I’ve always had oddities around me like knowing the phone was going to ring before it actually did, telling my Mom someone was coming to visit, only to have them show up at our door, etc. Very often I will think or dream of someone I haven’t seen in ages and then will actually see or hear from them the next day. When I was 8 years old, I came to my Dad one evening and asked him if he was sad about losing Uncle John (his brother); he laughed and told me Uncle John was fine & well and playing golf tomorrow. When the phone rang 2 minutes later; it was my Aunt; you can guess the rest.

When I was younger I used to come to breakfast telling my parents of conversations I had in my dreams with friends & relatives that had passed away years before. My parents often said that I described in great detail the conversations, using terms & phrases very specific to those I was “talking” to.

There have been many unexplained “people” in my life who appeared and then were gone inexplicably. Once, I got a flat tire and was searching in my trunk for the jack, etc., a man stopped and urged me to move away from my car and onto the grassy area. He explained it was too dangerous an area to be changing the tire so I acquiesced and resorted to calling for roadside assistance. He left, I sat on the bank waiting for help. Right in front of me a “rubbernecker” slowed to look at my car, was struck from behind, and smashed right into the trunk of my car…where I had been standing.

Strange, I know…

Not strange, common sense @bythebay. Dont stand in the way of a D.A.V (disabled vehicle) when we have idiots out there with licenses. What you described i saw everyday at Florida Highway Patrol. Not an angel that saved you that time, more like a smart man.

I’m grateful for him, whoever he was!

@bythebay You’re not John Edward are you? Seriously, that is really interesting -and a little bit freaky…

?John Edward?

Isn’t he the medium guy who had a TV show?

John Edward and Sylvia Brown are both proved phonies.

Google them.

LOL! I just went and googled John Edwards…nope, that’s not me!
I don’t invite the interaction, it just happens! Sometimes, I have received great comfort from the contact. I just go with the flow.

I wish they had real studies based on the things you see in dreams and how they are relative to your life. Is it just something you may have been thinking about as you fell asleep? Or maybe you fall asleep with the Television on (as i seem to do every night) and end up having a dream abotu that.

I majored in Psych and took several classes on dream studies. There can be correlation to prior thoughts, tasks, stressors, etc., in relation to dreams. This is, of course, not always the case.

But what about the more negative side of this subject? Has anyone ever experimented with a Ouija Board? (I haven’t -but you always hear these ‘friend of a friend’ stories that you’re never quite sure whether to believe or not).

We played with Ouija Boards all the time when we were little, I just always assumed it was my cousins or friends moving the little “thingy”. It was always creepy and a little funny; just the haunted house at Walt Disney World.

Ouija Board seemed like a good way for the older kids to freak us younger kids out when we were little. My cousins sure got me.

I know someone who thought there were “clues” of her late mother’s spirit being around the house and when I said it was because you can’t accept your mother’s passing, she got very angry with me. I touched a nerve. From that day I’ve felt that people who “see” their late relatives see them because they WANT to see them, i.e., they can’t accept the passing and want to convince themselves, in some way, that the relative is not dead.

@Mr M. I hope when you lose someone you love, the people around you will be compassionate and understanding.

Ouch! I am VERY compassionate and understanding. And had she spoken about her mother’s passing, I would have been then too. Instead she was talking of how she felt her mother’s spirit was haunting her home and why.

Not the case at all, with me, Mr M.