Unexplained things you've seen with your own eyes.

[vocatio]

Neat thread. Thanks Vocatio.

Not something I “saw”, but instead heard.

I was driving I 59 on my way to Texas from NC. I had been driving for a while, and was drowsy. I had started to drift off, when I heard a voice say “Wake up, Jon!” I say a voice because it was not in my head. It was a voice! Oh, I forgot to mention I was driving alone.

Jon

Exactly,…it wasn’t in my head either. That’s the only reason I married. Looks like someones watching over you. I said early that God spoke to me…but I wonder if it was an angel. I will send my guardian angel to pray for you right now.

Have you ever read “Send Me Your Guardian Angel”?

 

[D_M]

A year ago, I had come home from sunday mass and went to back to bed because it was still early and I was very tired, and while lying down on the bed I felt a jab in my heart, like a needle was passing through it… extremely painful… and I got up out of the bed without any trouble (it was evidently not a heart attack), it happened several more times in the next few minutes and I got my friend to drive me to the hospital. My friend is from Virginia in the United States.

I didn’t say very much to him, but while waiting in the waiting room to be called, I was simply thinking over all the evils in the world and in mind’s eye I could see a beast perched atop the United States with great power beneath it covering the earth. I turned to my friend, trying to make conversation with him, and asked him “How popular is Jerry Falwell in Virginia?”, he said he didn’t know and the conversation ended there, and then I was called.

The doctors said I was fine.

Two weeks later I turned on the news after getting home from work I turned on the television set, and the headline on the tv news: Jerry Falwell was found without a pulse at 11:00 this morning, he had apparently said he had trouble with his heart a few weeks before.

For reasons that are left unexplained, I felt or interpreted like Falwell was in the place of Martin Luther, and that the latter of whom I was being privately shown was condemned to the second death.

Few months later I learned about the apparition of the virgin at fatima, who had shown an image of her own heart pierced with needles by men who would not accept her Son.

 

[JonNC]

Exactly,…it wasn’t in my head either. That’s the only reason I married. Looks like someones watching over you. I said early that God spoke to me…but I wonder if it was an angel. I will send my guardian angel to pray for you right now.

Have you ever read “Send Me Your Guardian Angel”?

No, I haven’t. Thanks for your kindness.
Blessings,
Jon

 

[vocatio]

No, I haven’t. Thanks for your kindness.
Blessings,
Jon

You would have had to read the book to know what I meant. The book was written by a man that was assigned to watch or help Padre Pio. In the book he describes all kinds of very interesting things, kind of like all of our stories on here…attributed to miracles as well. My grandfather was a real big fan…so I read a bit about Padre Pio, whome we affectionately refer to as St. Pio now. I beleive he died in 1968… not sure. But I see that you are Lutheran and probably wouldn’t appreciate asking us to ask an Angel or Saint to pray for you. But I did it anyway.

Blessings.

 

[MarcoPolo]

EXACTLY!!! It’s almost like you could see my soul…That is exactly what I do.

My wife calls me her “E-5 Man” now. Special Forces…google it.

I offer up my prayers constantly for people separated and chained in their existence, feeling hopeless at times. It’s a challenge…but I feel called to it.

I will pray that you persist in this call with joy.

 

[bethndanny]

I watched “something” go across my house. I know it was evil. I felt it. I feel, but can’t see, that I am attacked mentally by satan/demons regularly right now. Just today I was praying the rosary, after going a couple of months without, and I thoughts from satan came to my mind. I know he wanted me to not go back to this particular devotion. He is trying to get at me where I am weak.
I have felt God as well. I KNOW He is doing things for me right now, I haven’t seen Him though. He has answered my prayers VERY physically. He has strengthened me for my battle against the evil one.

 

[inJESUS]

Neat thread. Thanks Vocatio.

Not something I “saw”, but instead heard.

I was driving I 59 on my way to Texas from NC. I had been driving for a while, and was drowsy. I had started to drift off, when I heard a voice say “Wake up, Jon!” I say a voice because it was not in my head. It was a voice! Oh, I forgot to mention I was driving alone.

Jon

if any of you is familiar with assassinations in Lebanon lately, there was a case of an assassination of a Maronite woman journalist who did not die. Upon relating what happened to her, she said that as soon as the bomb in her Jeep exploded , she heard a voice telling her " Daughter, stand up " and she miraculously survived. Her name is May Chidiak.

I have many stories of the Lord literally speaking to us to comfort us, but am not sure i can post them in public.

 

[inJESUS]

I understand why she didn’t elaborate. First it’s very special to have such a vivid vision if you will.

i was curious about what He told her , but i understand perfectly why she wouldn’t give details because i myself have too many things i do not tell about exactly because not all people can grasp them or able to understand them as they are even if they are very devout.

 

[inJESUS]

Here i will tell you about smth that happened with me. I knew beforehand of a coming war in Lebanon , but i did not know the exact timing. I was sleeping one day, to wake up by a sudden knock on my bedroom’s door. I woke up and entered my brother’s room asking him why did he knock on my door to wake me up…he looked at me baffled and said he did not do it…i said whatever and i turned on the tv (something i never do as soon as i wake up) and i immediately read a flash news : " 2 Israeli soldiers held hostages by Hizbullah".

I knew immediately within myself that this is the timing of the war and i immediately called a group of friends i knew were working in the south …i told them what just happened and i asked them to immediately leave the place…they were baffled at my insistance and said they’ll leave at night because they need to finish some things …i insisted they left immediately and so they did…as soon as they left, the place where they were working was bombared by Israeli forces .

 

[rinnie]

My niece was a the carnival. My brother had died the year before. We all had a hard time with this, a anyway my niece was sitting on the ride with her older sister and started screaming and crying. Then the ride started and she settled down. After the ride ended ny sister said whats wrong she said uncle Joe was just here he strapped me in and said if he didnt i would fall out and get hurt. My sister was like yeah right, She asked the older sister did you see a man, she was i dont know whats wrong mom no one was here. She said who strapped her in, she said no one i dont know. A few weeks later she developed pictures, one was taken on that ride and my brother who died is standing in that picture. And where he is standing no one could possibly be standing when the wheel is turning.

 

[JonNC]

You would have had to read the book to know what I meant. The book was written by a man that was assigned to watch or help Padre Pio. In the book he describes all kinds of very interesting things, kind of like all of our stories on here…attributed to miracles as well. My grandfather was a real big fan…so I read a bit about Padre Pio, whome we affectionately refer to as St. Pio now. I beleive he died in 1968… not sure. But I see that you are Lutheran and probably wouldn’t appreciate asking us to ask an Angel or Saint to pray for you. But I did it anyway.

Blessings.

I appreciate any act of Christian compassion and charity. I also appreciate the fact that you, as a Catholic, believe strongly in this type of request for intercession. That you are willing to do it for me, I am honored and gratefull.

Jon

 

[Tietjen]

Felt horribly frozen while awake in my bed several times while a dark spirit tormented me mentally mostly

I think this is more likely the phenomenon called “sleep paralysis.” Frequently people have claimed to be visited by extraterrestial beings during it.

I have experienced this paralysis, but there was more to it than simply fear and being unable to move…

I was about 15 years old and was asleep in bed. I had a nightmare where “something” was chasing me. In the dream (which I remember like yesterday), I couldn’t identify what/who it was that was after me. I was however, very aware of the fact that it meant me harm and had a strong hatred for me. Then, I suddenly woke up (this is when I experienced the paralysis). I was unable to move anything other than my eyes, which were wildly racing from corner to corner of my bedroom. I was unable to call out as well. After approximately 15 seconds of experiencing this terror, there was a crash and my bedroom closet door flew open. At that instant I regained my voice and my parents came rushing into the room. Upon further investigation, it was discovered that my sleeping bag had “come” off the closet shelf and struck the bedroom door causing the door to fly open. Logical actually, but there remains some things that I still cannot explain.

1. The timing of the whole situation. I don’t have nightmares… in fact, I don’t dream at all (at least not that I am able to remember). I find it difficult to believe that on the one night in my life that I found myself waking up terrified, my sleeping bag falls and causes my closet door to fly open.
2. The most disturbing fact of the matter is the way in which my sleeping bag was stored. It was on the upper shelf of my closet and it was length-ways NOT barrel-ways where it could roll. It was between a cardboard box and a stack of books. So, in order for it to come off the shelf it would have to suddenly flip end over end and strike the door. At the time, I was living in Miami, Fl so there were no earthquakes and even if there had been I don’t believe that it would be able to cause a sleeping bag to “flip” off the shelf like that.

Well, that’s my experience. It’s been with me now for almost 30 years. It’s the only “unexplained” experience that I have had, but as far as I am concerned, it was enough. God bless all.

 

[rinnie]

I watched “something” go across my house. I know it was evil. I felt it. I feel, but can’t see, that I am attacked mentally by satan/demons regularly right now. Just today I was praying the rosary, after going a couple of months without, and I thoughts from satan came to my mind. I know he wanted me to not go back to this particular devotion. He is trying to get at me where I am weak.
I have felt God as well. I KNOW He is doing things for me right now, I haven’t seen Him though. He has answered my prayers VERY physically. He has strengthened me for my battle against the evil one.

go to church and get some Holy Water, and then Father can give you a paper, Caholics can bless their own houses now. Even if you arent Catholic you can bless your house. THis will help keep the devil away.

 

[R_not]

I have had sleep paralysis - or the feeling of being awake while asleep and sometimes being visited by something/someone. I was diagnosed with a physical problem in my nose (I got it from my dad) and now use a CPAP machine. The weird part is - I still have experienced the phenomenon of someone/something, dark, who visits me while I am using the machine - or not. It should have stopped if it were a physical thing. I don’t like it because it is an overbearing darkness that comes over me - almost suffocating. If it is physical or a real ‘ghost’ - I don’t know. I just experience it every so often.

So, what is it? I don’t know but I am not afraid of it anymore and just tell it to get the crud out of here!

When I was in my middle twenties, I saw my boyfriend, who had died two days previous, when I went to stay at his friends house just before the funeral. Geez, that one really got to me too. At first I was just talking to him and we were ok, then all of a sudden I realized that he was dead and I freaked out. He looked at me with sad eyes and said, ‘but I thought you liked this sort of thing?’. I couldn’t stop crying. After that I only saw him in my dreams.

I have had dreams that told me of things to come. In fact, one of the dreams told me that my boyfriend would die. I usually have them repeatedly until they occur and then they stop.

Another dream was weird - it had two caskets with the son’s casket before the father’s casket. I freaked out. Ok, my dad was dying so I thought the son in the dream was one of my brothers. I was overcome with grief and sadness to think that one of my brothers would die. But then my dad died and nothing happened to my brothers. I kept having the dream though and just thought is was a reoccurring dream - and then my grandfather died. He died suddenly. The ‘father’ was my grandfather, who we all loved more than words can explain, and the ‘son’ was my dad who was dying of a long illness - cancer. When grandpa died that was the end of the dreams.

I have been in houses where I know that something is not totally right too. They sort of creep me out and I don’t stay very long and don’t revisit them. One house is my cousin’s house. She is such an addict on prescription drugs that I think she might be the problem, or ‘let in’ a problem!

And the last dream I ever had in this regard - I kept having dreams of vehicles crashing and then I would wake up. It was different vehicles with different colors always hitting each other and I would wake up hearing a loud bang. It didn’t go away until after I had a head on collision in Ireland. It was like slow motion and this was the dream in real life! And it ended with a big BANG!

One thing that has always bothered me was when I was really tired and I sat down in a chair and just ‘vegged out’. A large ‘opening’ appeared and it sounded like the ocean and a voice said, ‘come here’. I not only said, “NO!”. My head felt like it banged shut and I had a headache afterwards. No, I wasn’t, or am not, on drugs! But that has never happened again and I always wonder who the voice belonged to.

I know I have a guardian angel too. In fact, I know when it is leading me. I know when it is disappointed in me too.

Anyway, this website sort of let me write things that I haven’t told anyone. I guess being anonymous sort of helped too.

 

[R_not]

Tieten, wow - that explains what I had - a sort of paralysis. I could see the room and tried to cry out and would even try to hit myself awake. It started when I was a teenager.

But, that sleeping bag - it sounds like you had a spook in the house too!

rinnie, I blessed my house after 9/11 happened - after I started reading about islam. The whole thing was starting to add up - years of attacks (I was in the USMC when Beirut got bombed), and the threats against us, then finding out what islam was all about - I went and got some holy water and blessed my house.

I don’t know totally why I did that though. Yes, I believe in holy water but I don’t totally remember why I wanted my house blessed.

 

[vocatio]

Guardian Angels…that brings to mind something I think about from time to time…pretty often. I talk to my Guardian Angel as if he were my God given representative for me to see the face of God for me… I try to make him proud of me and to avoid bringing him embarrassement from my sinful ways. I do it first for having saved me so many times and owe him my life. But also this reminds me of just how much God loves us so much.

I recommend that you reveal these things to your spiritual director…if significant and repetative like mine. I did last summer. His response was reciprocated with one of his own. But he has spoken of many other form others he knows in homilies. That’s what gave me the courage to open up to him. He was the first I opened up to.

We had our house blessed about the same time I saw that demon. I can’t remember if the house was blessed before or afterwards without checking the calendar. But I can say this, since then the number of huge scramentals hanging on our walls all over the house including bedrooms has grown tremendously… We have holy water in the house, which I need to replenish. I bless my children every night with or without holy water. I pray with them daily. I read the bible to them daily typically unless we’re up too late for some bazaar reason of course. I pray that my children are protected from these things I’ve seen and felt. I carry my rosary everywhere I go - I’m a Knight but I’m dedicated to the blessed virgin Mary. She is my mother who I ask constantly to pray for me…and I use the Fatima prayers that are in essence a modified “Jesus Prayer” used in the Eastern Rites. I say the Liturgy of the Hours. I study apologetics and pray and pray and pray and pray… I truly believe…not just out of fear but out of real Love. Love God…I mean really love GOd with all you heart, all your mind and all your soul. Love him even when you are down, hurt, angry. I believe God is talking to us, we just have to listen…oh adoration…Please go to adoration as often as possible.

God Bless all of you for your responses to this thread. I felt compelled to start it and do not regret it. It’s been very revealing that I am not alone in hearing and feeling God all around us… I look for all of heaven during the Liturgy of the Eucharist…at the Holy, Holy, Holy Lord… All of heaven becomes present at that moment. All of our diseased relatives that are in heaven, Saints, Angels and God are present. Be aware of that in the mass and your experience will be much more meaningful and wonderful.

GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU.
PAX Christie tecum

Voccatio - btw my user name is simply Vocation…partly because of my Domestic church, but also partly because I went to the seminary, pray for vocations and am discerning the diaconate that I feel strongly called to. I’m just trying to let God open doors.

 

[PaulDupre]

Have had this happen to me three times in different places. Horrible.

This is a common phenomenon related to dreaming. When we enter the REM (rapid eye movement) sleep wherein we dream, our muscles are effectively paralyzed so that we will not thrash about in our dreams and hurt ourselves. This normal state is called hypotonia. We can see this in dreams wherein we want to run away from some danger but cannot seem to lift our feet. That is because we are in the paralyzed state. When people become partially awake while in this paralyzed state, it can be terrifying.

Paul

 

[inJESUS]

The weird part is - I still have experienced the phenomenon of someone/something, dark, who visits me while I am using the machine - or not. It should have stopped if it were a physical thing. I don’t like it because it is an overbearing darkness that comes over me - almost suffocating. If it is physical or a real ‘ghost’ - I don’t know. I just experience it every so often.

a friend of mine experienced the same, she was horrified…she went to a psychiatrist who said it is “stress” and prescribed to her the anti-stress meds but she still experienced the same. I’ve known her for years on daily basis and she never had such experiences until she told me one day that she met an Egyptian woman who "sees the future , put/remove smells) and that this woman has been visiting them…i asked her to set an appointment for me with that woman, to see what she’s up to, and the woman asked me if i want to cast a spell on someone, that she can do it by “prayer” and that i should give her something that belongs to me and the person to whom i want to cast the spell. I told her NO and i understood why my friend started experiencing these spirits only after meeting that woman…she let in her house a woman who invokes these “good” spirits.

 

[Yerusalyim]

Unexplained things you’ve seen with your own eyes.

Democrats winning a majority in congress…

But seriously:

Years ago I had a REAL hard time waking up in the morning. I was to start a new job on a Monday and had to be in at 7AM. I set my clock for 6AM and ordered my guardian angel to make sure I got up on time to get to work.

Of course, I shut off the alarm clock while sleeping through the alarm…happened a lot back then. However, at 6:30 AM the phone rang. The female voice on the other end said, “Mike, just making sure you’re awake.” and then they hung up. I’ve asked every female I know and they all deny making that call…I say it was my guardian angel.

 

[Lilyflower]

I think a lot of spooky things are emotional in origin.

A friend of mine is very negative. When she is of the mind to, she can haunt. I find it very spooky. There is a very heavy atmosphere like one is in water. The atmosphere also feels negatively charged.

Sometimes it was so bad I used to tell her she was haunting and ask her to stop it. Usually she did.

I recall on a few occasions during these heavy atmospheres seeing a small wissoned shape [which I can’t describe]. It was like cigarette smoke in colour but had a definitive but indescribable shape and moved very fast when you tried to look directly at it. In fact it moved so fast it was only just possible to track it with the eyes. It always appeared in roughly the same spot.

Her house was nearly new so it wasn’t due to any phenomena that had occured there previously.

I never did understand what it was or how she managed to haunt. She never haunted in my presence. It only ever happened when she was upstairs in her bedroom. I have no idea what she was doing.

I think it was all manifestations of powerful negative emotions. What do you think?

The reason I remained friends with her was because she was not liked by many people so I felt sorry for her as she had no friends.

My home was once owned by the diocese and was lived in by a retired priest. During his retirement he celebrated Mass here every day so it should be well blessed. She has been to my home a few times but refuses to come in as she finds my home spooky. It took her many visits and 5-years before she would even cross the threshold. Strange that isn’t it.

Blessings and peace.