My dads first kid from his first marriage died in its sleep, I think 7 months old. Doctors back then couldn't figure out why. Today were guessing it was a heart failure, the heart just stopped or something. The same thing happened to my uncle's child 4 months old. My fear is that it's in the gene pool somewhere which means it might happen to one of mine.
Anyway weeks after the baby died whenever he passed that room in the hallway he could hear the baby crying at night. He ended up tearing that room apart, the walls, the floor, everything damn near went insane then joined the military to get his life straightened out after going through a divorce.
When I was 6 I had a SEVERE phobia of spiders to the point of schizophrenia. I still do though not as bad as then. I had nightmares, would see dark spider looking figures running across the blankets, floors when the lights were off, would see moving spider webs in the air. I remember screaming a few times just to get my mom to walk me to the bathroom. Then she bought me a nightlight and slowly got past that problem. Still got the phobia though.
I don't believe in the paranormal but I do believe in psychosis. A state of mind that you set for yourself voluntarily or involuntarily to the point of perfectly explainable events become the paranormal, or percept things through the senses that aren't actually present.
I do remember seeing something that is really hard to explain though (Never really did explain it)... Back when I lived in Kansas there was a park in our neighborhood. I was walking home with some friends after going to Braum's for ice cream. Crane Park was abandoned around 9:00 cause curfew was 10 there cept during the summer. Here's some google map Pics:
In the park there are swings (The big red circle), and behind those are animal like things placed on top of springs that rock back and forth like a solo seesaw (The two smaller circles). At the very front an actual seesaw. It was just a normal night. Absolutely nothing out of the ordinary night. Me and 2 friends were walking down that sidewalk and we saw both of the animal seesaws springing back and forth without anyone on them. THERE WAS NO WIND! I remember saying vividly that there was no wind. Even the swings weren't moving. So we stood there arguing over who was to go and inspect it then looked over and when we looked back over at some point only the one on the right was now springing back and forth by itself (They were moving back and forth pretty damn fast originally but now only that one was, even if there was wind it wouldn’t of been strong enough to do that, I remember thinking this as well). We talked Dan into going over there. For a few moments he just stood there peering around it then he touched it and it slowly stopped rocking back and forth and went into resting position. After that we walked to my house freaked the hell out. Never really told anyone about this either. Weirdest thing I ever seen.
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