Paranormal.

[ZephyrStar]

Another neat thing I just thought of, many of you might have heard of it, but if not, check out the "Skinwalker Ranch" story.

http://www.theblackvault.com/wiki/index ... lker_Ranch

[JaddziaDax]

Ah but you notice, I didn't see anything actually at the tower XD but rather in Nevada (in the middle of desert) on the way back after visiting the tower. XD In other words - I think the tower got me in the mood to thinking what I saw was something other than what it really was. (Either that or the Aliens chased me across the country just to show off O: lol)

And yea it's a weird formation - I'm not surprised it would be popular for sightings. Though I don't know if I believe in Aliens that visit Earth. Some UFO stories seem way too far fetched. XD

[Kionon]

Zephy,

I am not sure this counts, but most people know I'm fairly religious. Perhaps only godix knows to the extent. The reason is primarily my UVIDDs, or Unusually Vivid Intrinsic Defeater Defeaters, or "weird shit that happened that trounces any other argument given to me." I wonder if you would consider these paranormal, and if you would like to hear about them. Nothing so hollywood as stigmata or crying Mary in the sky, but still strong enough I often say I believe against my will because the UVIDDs were so strong, whereas before them, I was pretty agnostic.

[ZephyrStar]

Yes, I would be interested in hearing about them. I can't say I've ever experienced something like that, but I do feel that I have an intrinsic knowledge of some creator, despite not being a terribly religious person myself. Call me spiritual. So can you give us particular instances? What happened?

[Kitsuner]

Last year at AWA, a bunch of us went skydiving for Brad's bachelor party. It was a tandem jump, since none of us had skydove before. Anyway, the plane took us up 14,000 feet or so before we leapt out, and we freefell for a while before the guy attached to me released our chute. It was super intense falling that fast, but in a good way. As we floated down, the guy would spin us in these tight little circles to bring us to the ground faster (we didn't have all day, after all). I get motion sick really easily, as some of you know, so all these super sharp spins made me totally queasy. Luckily, I managed to hold it in until we had landed securely on the ground. I'd hate to get charged extra just because I couldn't keep my mouth shut, y'know? What's most important, though, is that our parachute opened normally.

And that's my para-normal story.

(Thanks FC!)

[Otohiko]

haha Kit.

I'm still trying to rack my brains for these stories - sadly, my own aren't terribly interesting, but my relatives and other people I knew had some fascinating stuff, the details of which I unfortunately forget

I know my brother claims to have seen a UFO, which actually seems to match descriptions of some fairly typical kinds of UFO encounters. My dad has seen some fairly weird shit, especially when he served in the army in the Arctic. I've had some very uneasy feelings related to war sites and an ancient, abandoned cemetery next to where I grew up - there is something there beyond just stones and rusted barbed wire. Then there was my Russian teacher, who did his dissertation work on Russian folk superstitions and tradition - and did much of his field work studying crop circles, haunted houses, and collecting bizzare stories in distant villages. I wish I could remember these.

The strangest one I've seen personally is probably an athmospheric phenomenon of some sort - one clear, windless august night in a small Russian village, I remember looking out the window at around 3-3:30am and seeing 4 vertical, motionless columns of dim light rising from the horizon to the sky, tall and relatively thick, all of equal size and at equal distance from each other, at what seemed like a very long distance. They stood for almost an hour before dawn started approaching and they disappeared with the morning light.

[guy07]

Oh ya! About mid-summer I was going for a bike ride and took a rest at a park facing out over lake ontario. I was just sitting when i noticed a few seagulls flying around. Then I noticed something white in the back ground, far away, that was white and just sort of floating. It didn't move so I just stared at it for a bit trying to figure out what it was. Then it wasn't there. Just like that, it disappeared. Still don't really know what it was, closet i can come to a explanation is a UFO. Second is it was a weird cloud. Third is i'm crazy.

[surfsama]

I can’t say I’ve witness anything paranormal that couldn’t be explained but people around me have shared some interesting experiences.

When my daughter was 10 she accompanied me to a co-worker’s house to look at a boat for sale. It was late afternoon and the lady selling the boat lived in an older part of the city in an old Victorian that was fairly run-down. No one was home so we just walked around to the backyard where the boat was kept and I started looking it over. As I was looking into the hull my daughter suddenly said, “Hey dad, look at that – what is it?” I thought she was asking about a part of the boat but she started walking away and toward the other side of the house. She suddenly ran back and asked again if I’d seen “it”. I said what; Dog; Cat; Squirrel? She said, “No,no,no it was a little blackish pair of feet and legs and a ball of black fuzzy smoke run around the side of the house and then disappear”. I said it was probably a squirrel but she was absolutely emphatic that it was, “Not a squirrel with people feet!”
The next day I spoke with my co-worker about the boat and mentioned my daughter thought her house was haunted because she saw – my co-worker cut me off and said “A little black entity.” I was taken aback. Apparently, she was well aware of these little fellows appearing and disappearing around her house. She asked if I could bring my daughter back to the house. She absolutely refused to go near that house again.

[guy07]

Freaky.

[ZephyrStar]

eep eep eeep... kids can definitely see shit....I thought I saw shit when I was little, but I think I was too little to remember it. Primarily in the form of seeing lots of skeletons and bones when I would close my eyes and try to go to sleep, and it would go away if the lights were on. Again, I don't really attribute this to anything supernatural, just a kid having nightmares, but somehow I wonder...

@Oto: I reeeally want to hear some Russian ghost stories/legends...the more fsked up the better :3