Ouija Boards

I never did like them but Ouiuja Boards are a good source of paranormal fun. I always felt like there was something sinister about them and I experienced something quite scary one night when I was staying over at a friends' house.
It was 1992. We had moved in with a friend of my Mom's and this friend happened to have a teenage daughter. This teenager was really nice to us and treated me and my siblings as her own. I was enamored with her because she was older and way cooler, so I used to snoop around in her room for things that I could borrow to make myself as cool as she was. I was looking through her closet and found her Ouija Board.



I started asking what it was for and she told me it was used to contact the Spirit World. Now, me being 12 years old, I totally thought that it was the coolest thing ever! I told my friend about it and she asked me to bring it over one night. I never got any cautionary tales about it - all I got from my step-sister was, "Don't ask about bad spirits or demons". In my mind, I was like "Why would I want to do that?!"

So, I went to my friends' house on a Saturday night and brought the board. We waited until her parents were asleep before we busted it out. We set it up right, too. We had candles all around the living room, the lights were off, we cleared the coffee table off and made the board the highlight of the entire room.
We started asking the obvious questions:

• Is there anybody here? (YES)
  
• Are you alone? (NO)
  
• Are you dead? (YES)

Then my friend asked: "Are you bad" - to which we got YES. Then all the candles blew out and the table started to shake. All I remember was that she thought I was moving it to make it say that but I had let go of the planchette quite some time before that. After that, I remembered throwing the board out the front door into the yard and sleeping with ALL of the lights on.
The next morning, we asked her Mom if she found something in the yard when she went to get the paper. She said she didn't see anything, so we took a look for ourselves and it was gone. I was a little upset because I would have to buy my step-sister another one since we trashed her original one. Oh well.

I went home, spooked but feeling okay. I went to my step-sister's room to tell her that I would have to get her another one but she was gone and her closet was open. I looked and the Ouija Board was in the same place I had gotten it from the night before.

I haven't touched an Ouija Board since then but recently, I've been entertaining the idea of getting one, cleansing it and trying it out with 2 other "open" people to see what happens.

And I also came across this: Turn your iPod into an Ouija Board. Seriously?

A night from 1997

When my family moved to Georgia in 1990, I had this friend whose house was haunted. My friend never saw what I saw and her mother never believed me. He brother did, though. He saw the same things as I did - which made me feel less crazy. But I didn't really trust him since he made me feel weird when we were the only 2 awake at night and I found out later that he used to watch me sleep when I spent the night (which was A LOT).
I wanted to share the story of when the brother - let's call him Jack, my cousin - let's call him John, and my sister - let's call her Nicole all had an encounter with this entity.
Here's a rough diagram of the living room and where we were all sitting (excuse my horrible photoshop skills):


It was around 2 or 3 in the morning and my friend had just gone to bed. We were the only 4 awake in the house. I don't remember what we were talking about but it didn't have anything to do with the ghost in the house or anything scary.

Since I was by the back door, I kept hearing noises. Things kept falling over and getting displaced. I asked Jack what it was and he said it was probably the moles that his mom had stirred after they had dug a hole for their koi pond. I brushed it off and tried to not let it bother me. But things kept falling against the house. Metal kept clanging onto the brick patio and against the outer walls. I jokingly offered to go outside and chase the moles away but we laughed it off. I looked to the back door instinctively and, to my horror, there was a white shadow with it's face and hands pressed up against the glass. I looked back at Jack. He was getting up off the couch saying, "I saw it too". Nicole and John had no idea what we were talking about and laughed at us. I jumped up towards Jack and advised Nicole and John to do the same.
We walked into the kitchen. The white figure was there, banging on the glass, rattling the window pane. It was a huge kitchen window that overlooked the backyard in its entirety. And there were NEVER any curtains on it. I remember my friends' mom telling me that the sunlight that came in was too pretty to cover up. So, here we were in the kitchen with only 4 panels of glass separating us from the ghost. John and Nicole both saw it now and were just as scared as Jack and me.
I don't remember why this was a good idea but we probably would have ended up hurting ourselves worse than anything but we did it anyway - we grabbed meat cleavers, a butcher knife, and a bunch of carving a paring knives - as if we could fight this spirit off with knives!
We decided to walk with our backs facing eachother and slowly make our way across the living room back to Jack's room when halfway thorough, the spirit was inside the house. It was lunging towards us, trying to swipe at any of us. We hurriedly made our way to Jack's room.
After we came in, John took the knives away from us while me and Nicole huddled in the corner of Jack's bed. The spirit was standing in the doorway - unable to come in. Jack asked me to make a rune curse but I had never experimented with that before. He told us the reason why the spirit couldn't enter his room was because he had placed a rune curse so that no spirits could enter. The one he was asking me to make was for the door. Why for the door? He closed his door and there was loud banging and scratching. Oh. We opened the door and watched the spirit pace back and forth in the doorway, trying to get in. There was no way we were getting to sleep like this.
Jack sat in the middle of his room, making the rune curse for the door while John, Nicole and I all huddled on the bed. Jack punched a hole in his door, placed the curse inside and closed the door. It was finally quiet. I asked him to make me a rune curse as well, to take with me everywhere. He told me it was probably my fault that this spirit wouldn't leave us alone. He said my light was so bright. Nicole and John laughed but realized that the situation was still very serious.
Then we heard scratching noises coming from Jack's bedroom window. Jack said it was probably an animal that got caught in the holly bushes. Apparently, that happened a lot. My bright idea was to check on the animal to see what was happening, so I pulled up the blinds and there was the spirit again. Scratching at the screen and pounding on the glass. Startled, we all jumped back and started yelling at the spirit to leave us alone but it wouldn't. Jack made another curse and slipped it between the blinds.
Finally, it was quiet again. We waited an hour, maybe more. I suggested we watch Sailor Moon (which came on at 7am at the time). Before we knew it, we passed out.

I don't speak to anyone who lives in that house anymore (we had a bit of a falling out). But before the falling out, Jack and I would talk about it all the time.
A few years ago, I asked John and Nicole if they remembered the incident and neither of them did. They thought I was making it up but I know for a fact that Nicole blanks out bad memories because there are a few memories that my family knows are true but Nicole doesn't remember them.

That was probably one of the scariest encounters I've ever had with any entity.

Pulsar Creates 'Alien' Hand

At the center of a new image made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is a young and powerful pulsar, known as PSR B1509-58. The pulsar is a rapidly spinning neutron star which is spewing energy out into the space around it to create complex and intriguing structures, including one that resembles a large cosmic hand.



It's weird (and fascinating) that something in deep space can create something as beautiful as this.

Parallel Universes

When I was younger I knew, with all my heart, that there was such a thing as a Parallel Universe. I just knew it. I used to think that there was someone somewhere outside of the Milky Way Galaxy that was exactly like me and that we were doing the same things at exactly the same times but in different galaxies. I came up with that idea after I was watching an episode of Nova. It was about space and our galaxy and how the cloudy formation that looked like clouds in the stars were, in fact, clouds of stars in an arm of our own Milky Way galaxy.

This fact excited me and scared me at the same time because it made our galaxy seem more real than it ever was to me at the time. And it was then that I realized that space was larger than we all thought.

I remember in 1999 I took a trip to Seaside, Florida with my ex-BF and one night we were on the roof, staring at the stars. Since there wasn't a whole lot of development on that side of Florida, we had a fairly clear view of the night sky. He asked me why a certain cloud cluster wasn't moving in the sky and I told him that that was an arm of our very own galaxy. He didn't believe me, of course, but I still thought it was a very beautiful moment in time because of the nature of the subject. I'm sure on a subconscious level, it made him feel like a grain of sand in our own universe. Maybe, maybe not. Either way, I know it made me feel significant and insignificant at the same time. And that's when I thought of my interdementional self. Was my "univeral twin" doing the same thing with the same "universal significant other" at the exact same time?

What if there wasn't just one "universal twin"? What if there's more? What if in every galaxy, there was a planet just like Earth? Would there be humans or higher beings? Would the Earths be where we are now or more advanced or more primitive? What if these Earths were at different stages of civilizations? Like, one Earth was in the year 1860, another was in the year 2285? Then, what would happen to our perception of time?

I'm not a mathematical genius or a physicist or a scientist or an astronomer (although, I've always wanted to be one) so I can't properly explain the properties of our known universe and time and space and all that BUT - I know that deep down, space and time are illusions. I know I'm not the only non-genius to realize that. How can your accurately measure space? Like, Outer Space? Those measurements - nanometres, light years - we, as normal humans, can barely grasp those concepts because we haven't seen it properly measured out. It's hard to visualize something so small or so large. Well, for me anyways. The closest I ever got was calculating the distance of the closest galaxy: the Andromeda Galaxy using basic math with my 10th grade Science teacher. It took 8-10 pieces of paper, front and back. I don't remember the calculation but that's when I knew I didn't have the math skills to be a proper astronomer!
It did, however, put things into a better perspective for me. But I still find it hard to visualize light years. I just know that 2.5 million light years away and farther, I have galactic "twins" and maybe we're doing the same things right now OR maybe there are some that are doing the opposite of what we're doing right now...
Like maybe there are Bizarro Universes out there...

You don't seem like yourself today...

I've been hearing that since Tuesday from everyone at work. I guess my week just started off totally wrong.

Tuesday night, I had a dream that my room was full of aliens but my BF couldn't see them at all and I was screaming because they were just standing there. I wasn't sure if they were going to take me away or put an implant in my hand or take me and my BF. I remember I felt like I had a weight on my chest in my dream and when I talked to my BF about it the next day, he said he felt sorry for me because he felt me toss and turn in my sleep and said I was having problems breathing - like it sounded like I was choking the entire time. That explains the sore throat when I woke up terrified at 4:30am.

Then on Wednesday night, I had a dream that I was trying to catch a scorpion that had made its way into my house. It kept getting lost in the pattern of my area rug, so I couldn't catch it successfully. Finally, it ran under the couch. I thought I could get it then but no luck. I gave up after awhile and went to pick up a jacket that had fallen behind the couch and there it was! But it had doubled in size. When I went to trap it with a glass vase, I woke up.

I found this interpretation regarding scorpions in dreams but it doesn't really help me, I suppose. But I was thinking that my brother is a Scorpio and we get along fairly well and one of my closest friends is a triple Scorpio and we get along great, so what's the deal? Am I maybe trying to "catch" my Scorpio friends and they won't let me? Or do they know something they're not telling me and my attempts at finding out are useless?
Here's another scorpion dream analysis. (You have to scroll down to it). I think this better describes what my theories are...

What about my alien dream? No a whole lot of truth in this interpretation.
Maybe some truth in this interpretation.
I feel like the 6th bullet point accurately describes the situation with a member of my family...

The Bug-Like Creature

My BF and I lived in this shitty apartment somewhere in Dunwoody, GA. I always felt negative energy there and I couldn't really explain it until one night.
I used to work nights and I wouldn't come home til about 3:30am or 4am and I would stay up til around 7am to see my BF off to work. One night, I decided to read on the couch. I was laying on my back with my book propped onto my knees, covered by a sheet. I was deep into this book when I felt something tugging on the sheet. I thought it was my imagination but whatever it was tugged so hard, the book fell out of my hands and the sheet was thrown onto the carpet. Nothing was there. NOTHING. When something like that happens to me, I talk out loud to whatever it is that I feel is there. I kept saying things like "Don't be afraid", "I'm not going to hurt you", and "Please show yourself to me" but I saw nothing...That night.

Soon after, strange things started happening. I saw deformed hands (like a decaying old hand) reaching for the door to where the furnace was (which happened to be behind my computer desk area). I saw the faces of an old man with white, curly hair and large circular glasses and a child in my kitchen. Before I hooked up my 2nd computer monitor, I used to see the reflections of people walking into and out of the furnace door. My friend spent the night once and she said she had the covers pulled off of her in the living room. I fell asleep one afternoon on the couch and had the covers ripped off of me so violently, I fell onto the floor. I was home alone.

So, one night after work, I was working on my computer. The BF was sleeping, the TV was on some music videos and I was deep into some graphics tests on After Effects. I started hearing noises coming from behind me. I thought it was the ghosts or spirits that came in and out of the furnace door. I was partly right. I didn't turn around right away because all that stuff was pretty normal to me by now. But something compelled me to turn around. I wish I hadn't.

On the floor of my hallway, there was the scariest creature I have ever seen in my life. More than ghost, aliens and spirits. It was a scorpion. A human-sized scorpion with a shiny black body, a human-ish face and a long scorpion tail. It had human hands but in the style of a mix between a real scorpion and a grasshopper but it had fingers - shiny black fingers.
At the time, I was not afraid. I calmly opened the door to the furnace and it went in. After that, I freaked the fuck out. Who in the world was going to believe me?! I had only heard about bug-like creatures once before - from a friend of a friend in South Carolina. But that was it. I haven't been able to find out anything more about these...things.
Can someone help me?

A Note About Shadow People

Because of my encounter this morning with the Alien and Shadow People, I decided to do some research. I don't have it in me to properly research Aliens because the experience 14 years ago and the face I saw a few years ago and the figure this morning all scare me so much that I can't sleep for days if I see make myself look at it. I turned my energy towards the Shadow People - which lead me to this article. What a great article. I like to hear what and how other people experience shadow people.
Here are my experiences:
--I hear shuffling feet in my bedroom and when I look to see what it is, it's 3 or 4 shadow people walking from my window area towards the bedroom door. They don't seem to notice me or my BF.
--When I walk into a room, I'll see figures dart behind walls, like they're hiding from me.
--At work, I'll see white shadows outside when I pass windows (good thing I don't have any windows in my office!).
--When I was 14, I started seeing black and white figures that my therapist told me were the manifestations of my good and bad energy. She prescribed me Prozac - which did nothing but worry my Mom.
--I will see a series of shadow people for a few days, weeks or months and then, I'll stop seeing them for weeks or months.
***NOTE: The last time I listened to Coast to Coast AM (1998-1999 or so), the show was about shadow people and the story they were telling was about a man who had the same experiences as me (seeing them for a period and then not seeing them for a period and then seeing them again). I got really scared and turned it off because I knew it wasn't just my imagination - that it was a real phenomenon that was happening to other people besides me. That story has always stuck with me...
But, my double whammy encounter this morning really did a number on me because when I see the "Greys" (as they are sometimes called), I don't really think anything of it and I go on about my day. But when I see Shadow People, I feel like I'm constantly being watched and like something or someone is following me.
I never feel alone regularly but after seeing Shadow People, I can definitely feel something. I don't know what it is but I can feel it.

But what does a double sighting like this mean?

My encounters this morning

I hear the shuffling of feet in the middle of the night.
I haven't heard that noise in a few months but now it's back.
It's not a ghost. I feel like I know what it is but sometimes I'm not entirely sure.
I know about the Shadow People but I know it's not a Shadow Person - although I see Shadow People throughout my house - sometimes.
I know it's not a Shadow Person because of this incident I had last year or the year before (I can't remember now), when I used to sleep on the other side of my bed...
My BF likes to sleep in pitch darkness, so our window is covered with a heavy forest green blanket. Only a sliver of light shines in our bedroom. I sleep in a cocoon of sorts (always have) with the blankets wrapped around my head with only my face sticking out. Sometimes, I'll only leave my nose sticking out.
This night was very peculiar because I fell asleep with no problem on my right side, facing out towards the nightstand that is 5 or 6 inches away from the bed. Something roused me out of my sleep (I think it was a dream I was having) and I opened my eyes to see 2 eyes staring right into mine.
Now, it's important to note that we don't have any kids or pets or roommates. Whose eyes were staring at me?
Afraid, I covered my head with my blanket, even though I was drenched in sweat. I waited a few more minutes and uncovered my face slowly. The eyes were still staring at me. The sliver of light from the window revealed a shiny, gray skin and all the other characteristics of an Alien. I knew that's what it was since I had seen so many specials on the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, the SciFi Channel and even The X Files.
It was also NOT my first encounter.

Back when I was 15 or so, my Mom's subdivision was still under heavy construction. Where the pool is now, there used to be loads of trees. I was taking our beloved Cocker Spaniel for a nighttime walk and something compelled me to walk into the woods. We walked and walked further into the trees and we saw some flashing lights heading towards us - similar to flashlights frantically shining between trees. My dog was barking furiously and when the lights got close enough to temporarily blind us, he siddenly stopped. I remember looking down to see if he died or passed out or something but he was STILL BARKING only no sound was coming out. I looked in his direction and saw 3 aliens coming towards us.
I stood, paralyzed by my own fear, and when I tried to move my arms and legs, nothing happened. It felt like I had a giant concrete boulder on my chest and I couldn't breathe. I only saw flashes of light, fire, water and deep space infront of me. Voices were in my ears telling me to be wary of the future. There would be much fire and suffering. Space will be revealed to us somehow.
And as suddenly as it came, it went. I heard my dog barking again and he was tugging on the leash towards our house. When we walked through the door, my Mom told me that we need to go back out since we were only gone about 5 minutes or so. It felt like we had been gone for an eternity.

So...I know what was staring at me was an alien that night a few years ago. And I saw it again in my kitchen this morning - only for a brief moment. But something else happened: I also saw 2 shadows looking like they were hiding from me. These were not alien shadows. I believe they were Shadow People.