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On 10/15/03, my 104 year old maternal grandmother passed away and was cremated. I wasn't sure grandma would have agreed to cremation and I became a little concerned after attending a lecture by Maryann, a "ghost buster" who assists spirits who sometimes hesitate to cross into the white light and become earthbound.

Just hours before the burial, I stopped at my parents' house and my mother told me she was awakened by a very strong, sweet smell. She thought that my father had sprayed an air freshener, but he was still asleep. Grandmother's favorite flower is the carnation and I'd like to believe that she had stopped by to say "I love you and I'm fine!"

We also made sure that Gram's favorite earrings were placed in the urn because she wouldn't want to go anywhere unless she was wearing them (always a lady).

At the post-burial gathering, we were telling our favorite Grandma stories and the phone rang. I said "There won't be anyone there, it's Gram." My niece answered the phone and sure enough, there was no one on the line. I think she was saying "Good-bye!"

We all feel like she was able to tell us that she is okay and has crossed-over.

I have a few little stories to tell. Some of these, I can't exactly recollect the month or day, so just bear with me on them. I'm 16 and I've always been interested in the supernatural and ghost stories and such, but to tell you the truth, I'm actually the biggest fraidy-cat anybody could ever meet, and still am. Well anyways, here's my stories. (I can't really explain why this happened or how it happened, but all I can say is that they are definitely something I won't forget. These may not seem that scary to you, but they definitely were to me!)

One of my encounters that sticks out most in my mind was in the summer of 2001. I decided to rent the movie "The Exorcist." I hadn't seen it in a while so I wanted to see it again. About a week before I rented it, my sister gave me a necklace with a cross charm on it, with a white circle in the middle. After I watched the movie, my necklace broke. I didn't really think nothing of it cause it was kind of an old necklace anyway. Later that night, I was getting ready to go to bed. My mom never got a chance to put up my curtains in my room yet, and I don't like looking at a window with nothing covering it (it just scares me for some reason), so my mom put a sheet up to cover up my window. When I went to bed, I lay in my bed, and I kept thinking about the movie. I grasped my covers and then glanced over to my window. There was something in it, so I got out of my bed and turned on my light. At the top of the sheet, a face was imprinted. It wasn't really clear, but it looked like a scary face... a demonic face.... As I kept looking at it, it made me so scared that I almost started crying. I grabbed one of my angel figurines (I have strong faith for a girl my age), held it tight, and went into the living room, and stayed. I ended up sleeping on the couch that night. The next time my friends came up, I showed them the face. Afterwards, I took the sheet down and haven't seen it since. I still can recollect the creepy face.

Another incident was earlier in the year, around April or May. I was laying in my bed, getting ready to go to sleep to get up for school the next day. It was boiling hot in my room. I had the covers around my waist to try and keep cool. As I lay there, trying to go to sleep and the heat about to drive me crazy, I felt breathing on the side of my face. The vent in my room never did kick on for cold air to even be in the room anywhere... and the vent is on one side of my room, while my bed is on the other. I closed my eyes, began to pray that it would go away (whatever it was), and then it just suddenly stopped. I don't know who or what was breathing on me, and I really don't intend to find out either.

My last story also occurred the fall of 2002. I spent the night with one of my friends for our youth group. (two of our girls' had a birthday in August so we wanted to have a sleepover) The next morning, we had to get up for church. My friend's family is very very religious, so I felt incredibly safe and content there. I went into the bathroom to change clothes. I was the only one in this room, mind you. As I was putting my shirt on, I heard breathing behind me.... heavy...slow breathing. It kept on and on, until I practically ran out of the bathroom with my shirt half on, ranting about the breathing. Two of the girls in the living room went into the bathroom and shut the door, locking it behind them as I had done. Two seconds later, they come running out of the bathroom, telling me that they had heard it as well. I couldn't stop thinking about it all morning. When we got to church, I prayed that nothing would ever happen like that again... and nothing ever has.

well first off in my neighbor hood we have a urban legend. I live in a apartment complex. well one night me and my friends were having a sleep over and we heard this scratching on my window. some of my friends got scared and went into the living room and sat there watching cartoons. in the mean time me and one other of my friends (being the thrill hunters that we are) got up and opened the blinds and we saw 2 red glowing eyes. they sort of looked like they were trying to tell us some horrible story. we looked at each other and then back to the thing. we stood there all 3 of us looking at each other for at least 10 seconds and then all of a sudden it just grew a face and hissed at us with its teeth bared and then there was a loud bang on the window that almost shattered it. we thought that it was pretty cool. but the thing is is that every other night that thing comes back to my window just to stare and then hit the window and run away. I call it eyes. after a while I sorta got annoyed with it and asked if some of my neighbors if they have anything come to their windows. all of them say yes. EYES comes around 1:00am to my window and then it spaces out a minute each and goes to the rest of my neighbors. and then disappears. another one is the knocker. the knocker knocks on peoples doors and then when they open them a burst of freezing air comes in the house and then it returns to normal. it is known all around the state of Utah. or at least I think it is. well it is know around my neighbor hood anyways. it isn't like a specific time that it comes around or any thing but when it happens it is scary.

-Seth-

Seth;

Check your email for some Urban Legends I wrote you about, in answer to your other email...

Thank you for sending in those stories. The 'Knocker' one sounds harmless enough to me. However, it is my understanding that an Urban Legend is a story that is told over and over, with no actual proof to back it up... if you are seeing these eyes at your window, and something is hitting the window, and other people have also seen and heard it, that doesn't fall into the category of an Urban Legend, that falls more into the category of Paranormal Phenomena, because it is something that is currently happening, has a definite starting point, and can be documented as actually occurring, with names and places, possibly photos and video, etc.

BUT, an Urban Legend DID come to mind when I read your story... "When a vampire comes to your window, scratching or knocking on the glass, saying 'let me in, let me in' it can only harm you if you INVITE it in..."

I DEFINITELY wouldn't open that window...

(NOTE: this is an email 'conversation' I had with someone who sent me the most fascinating story about seeing an unidentified - and frightening - animal... My emails are in italics.)

hey how are you .. I feel kinda of funny telling this because I am not sure I believe it myself ! me my girl and are friend were fishing in some cliffs on the Cuyahoga river.. pretty dark and pretty cold out we had a fire and it was a clear sky.. around 1 am we saw a large dog like creature watching us from the bend in the river.. it was pretty big bigger than a man and it kept standing on its legs upright.. it watched us for about three hours we did not move because we had to climb up the cliffs to get back to the trail it was almost like it was waiting on us to leave to go threw the cliffs.. so we just waited.. we shined flash lights on it and it did not budge there was only a green florescent reflection.. of it eyes .. it was just creepy . I am 6ft 240 and it was bigger than me.. come to find out that other people have had experiences in the same are.. I was shocked.. we have not been back since.. if this interests you the other people will talk also

Hi;

Your story interests me very much! I would love to read what the other people saw as well, if they would be good enough to send in their stories...

Which part of the river were you at when this happened? Upper, lower, etc. I know this river is Ohio, but were you possibly in a neighboring state? (I don't know if this river is only in Ohio).

Also, you are no doubt aware that there are several breeds of dogs that can stand taller than a man when on their hind legs... the Great Dane, Irish Wolfhound, Saint Bernard, Great Pyrenees, and Newfoundland come to mind... when you say it looked like a large dog, did it resemble any of the above? I'm trying to get a clearer picture of what you saw in my mind's eye...

Any further details and information would be great! You've really got my curiosity up on this - thank you for sending in your story

my name is Jeff. my girlfriend is a vet tech my friend Rodger is a hunter I own a Great Pyrenees.. I have seen some strange things.. nothing like this.. I will talk to them they will send you their accounts of the experience... the river is in Cuyahoga falls Ohio.. Cuyahoga national park system. known as hell town.. we were east just north of the gorge park.. I am half crow Indian my people have many tales of strange accounts and nothing matched this.. I am not sure what it was but it made two of me. and watched us with cautious eyes .. it did not once remove them from us.. I don't scare easily but that had me a little beside my self.. it was watching us like it was waiting for us to make a move to try and run.. we figured it was safer to jump in the river than it would be to try and go up the rocks .. so we stayed eventually it tired of us and left.. still when I think of it the hair stands up on the back of my neck... have you ever encountered any other stories similar to this in are area. please advise.. I have not told to many people afraid they will think I am out of my mind. however we did talk to someone who lives in that are down river on the river and the had some strange fiction for us.. Jeff

just to let you know I am not crazy.. we did see some strange thing... that part of the river is called bad water a name given by the Indians and there has been an abnormal amount of deaths related to that area...

I do not think you're crazy by any means...I believe that you saw something unexplainable, that it was real, and for whatever reason, it was watching you...I read your other email also, by the way, and I want to make it clear that I was not suggesting you saw a large breed of dog like those mentioned. I was trying to find a frame of reference so I could get a better idea of what the 'animal' you saw looked like...I also do not believe you saw a bear, either - I can't imagine that anyone could mistake a bear for a dog, especially something you were able to look at for an extended length of time... Did you get an idea of what colour this 'animal' was? Did it have visible ears, did it show it's teeth or make any aggressive movements or expressions, or did it just seem to be alertly watching you? It stood on it hind legs, right? Did you get the impression that this was a natural stance for it, or was it doing this the way a bear would, to appear more threatening? A lot of questions, I know, but I'm one of those curious people who like a lot of information. I would suggest that perhaps you saw Bigfoot, or something similar, but I have never seen/heard Bigfoot or Sasquatch, etc., EVER described as resembling a dog...you've got me completely stumped here...

I haven't received any other stories/accounts of encounters in your area. It sounds like you have access to a lot more information than I could find...please do talk with the other people who had experiences and get back to me, I would appreciate it. I'm getting more and more curious about just what it was you saw.

I think one mistake people make when hearing Native American legends and stories is assuming they're just that - stories. I'm finding more and more, however, that these legends are often based on actual events, and in many cases are more factual than one might think... in my opinion the chances are that if there is a local legend among the Native Americans in an area where unexplained encounters or events have taken place, then the odds are that there really IS something there...

I can certainly understand why the hair on the back of your neck stood up...I think that if something like this happened to me, I would have a LOT of sleepless nights...do you ever intend to go back to the river?

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it had large cropped ears...like a Doberman or something.. it seemed to be natural on its hind legs.. and when it did stand it seemed to smell the air.. it was black.. dark black long slender large head.. this was in February of this year it was very cold.. you could see the steam from it breath that is how Rodger spotted it watching us did not make a sound.. you but you could feel it watching you.. maybe it was a large breed of dog.. I thought it was a gigantic wolf or a bear.. so we went to the zoo it was neither of them..... wasn't a big foot .. who knows I don't know! we are going to go back and see if we cant find any evidence.. Jeff

Please be careful when you go back...! Take a camera with you, several people, and some plastic baggies to collect hair samples, etc. in. You can have those analyzed to see if they're canine hair or from a bear, etc.

The whole thing sounds creepy. Most dogs would growl or something, and bears don't have cropped ears...

Let me know what you find...

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where are you located.. we would be glad to give you a tour and you can talk first hand with us and other people who have a experience in that area.....

(Unfortunately I don't live anywhere near his area...I don't think I'd be brave enough to go on the tour anyway...)

Hello, My name is Jenny. I have seen lots of phenomenon. But I never told anyone. One time I was only 8 years old. I was playing with the kitchen door. I have place a key in the key hole. I've move it back and forward. I have let go of it and I was so surprise when it started to move by itself. I wasn't even scare. I keep playing with it and it play with me. I just found out a woman was kill there by her husband. She had a little girl. So I believe she was playing with me. Couple of time I've seen a woman dress in white. My sisters and brothers had seen her too. But never told no one. Just like me we all kept it to ourself until now. We all laugh about it now. That was a true story.

Hi. I'm 12 years old. This is my paranormal experience

I think that the girls locker room at my gym is haunted. I have gym 2nd period, and sometimes the health teacher will let the health class come to the gym because he has work to do in the gym. Well, whenever that happens, me and some of my friends from gym and health will stay in the girls locker room (which is below ground). We usually play a game called "vampire" were 1-2 people are it, and everyone hides, then they turn off the lights, and try to find someone, the first person that they get is it, and she gets to choose a partner to be it with. Well, anyways, lately, when we play, a few minutes after they turn off the lights, someone ALWAYS starts seeing faces in the dark. That someone is usually me, or one of my best friends. We always see the same face of a woman, and that's all we ever see, because we always run off screaming. We are fully awake when we see the faces because its only 2nd period and we usually eat the school's breakfast which keeps us alert for pretty much the whole day.

I was in 1995 almost the end of the year .Me and my grandpa were very close and we spent a lot of time together but he had cancer and would feel as though he was choking a lot and stick his fingers down his throat to make his self vomit .well on this particular day he could not stop throwing up so I had to call 911. When he arrived he was seen right away and they got it under control but kept him for observation. Well the next day I was at work feeling uneasy but could not grasp why and when I arrived home I got the news that he choked on something and the panic caused him to suffer a stroke and a heart attack and died but he was revived and put on life support but not for long they had to remove it because he started breathing on his own again faster than the machine. Well, he was never the same and ended up in a nursing home well every night at the end of visiting hours I would say see you later grandpa and sure enough he'd be there the next day well on Dec 29 1995 I said goodbye grandpa and that night I had a dream that was too real someone knocked on the front door and when I opened it it was my great grandma and she said thank you for letting my son go I have come to take him back home with me now the next day we got the new that he passed away in the middle of the night.

Hi I'm Tatjana.I have a ghost in my house.It puts the stereo on .Puts on the light,puts the light off.He openes doors ,closes them.It scares me.Sometimes it doesn't if it's just sitting near me or is somewhere around me.I think it's a person.I sometimes see shadows af a man passing by and then when I look behind me there's no one.When he does like this he scares me a lot.First it was in my parents'house cause then I could hear someone running on the stairs.And not only me I searched with my family through the whole house because we thought that there was a thief or something but it was just the ghost.Now I moved and I have it in my appartement.I don't know what to do.Sometimes when I'm in the cellar there are long ways of everyone's cellar.And then I look through the pathway and I see a shadow in the shape of a man behind a part off wall(half behind it,and half near it).That scares me too.And the doors open of the cellar-stairs when I come in in the start of the building.I 'm just so afraid when I'm alone.But sometimes when I'm walking outside I feel that it's near me and that it gives a kind of protection feeling.At first the ghost was kind off quiet.But I started to buy some healing stones and know sometimes I put on these sticks with aroma.I don't know how it is called.Actually I'm trying to do spells and stuff cause we have withches in the family.And when I started doing that the ghost maked more noises.At first it was just the music and stuff.But then it started opening the doors and running or walking on the stairs and doing stuff.My mother and I have the most problems with it.We bould do the witchcraft.But I think that when he's more around that he means that we're on the right trail.To finish his problems or stuff.By my thinking he's here because he diedfrom a murder or something not just a natural death,you know?Please contact me about this before putting it in your site though you can use it.Thanks Tatjana

My son owned a house in Tennessee that was built in the 1890's. Some of the things that happened while he lived there during the '90s" a picture on the wall spun in a complete circle then hit the floor while they were watching tv one night. a remote car ran across the kitchen floor - with no batteries in it or in the control. doors that were closed when they went to bed were open the next morning an ashtray slid across the bathroom vanity - no water under it and my favorite - one night they heard a thud and went into the kitchen and the kitchen table was upside down!

The roof on the house was in bad shape and they replaced it down to the decking. You could go into the attic and see the sky! After that, no incidences! Did the ghosts escape? Thank goodness, they have sold that house now!

All of my life I have had strange things occur. I believe that for some the veil to the next life is very thin, especially in my case.

I have had many encounters with the unknown. As far back as I can remember I've been afraid of the dark. Not like the normal childhood fears. I KNEW there was something in the dark that would manifest itself to me, if I wanted it to or not. The earliest I can remember "Feeling" someone else there with me was when I was 3.

As I got older it grew to more than just feeling spirits presences. At the age of 16 for some reason it became more intense with things happening like the alarm going off at 3 A.M. ( and still being set at 6 A.M.) and the stereo turning itself on and playing an LP , which is rather a hard task, for those of you who aren't old enough to remember the record players with the little needles they didn't just play by themselves, you had to manually place it on the record.

At this time I was also experiencing strange, horrific dreams that seemed so real. As I got older, I'm now 33, this sixth sense has gotten stronger. Let me give you some examples; I was in the shower one morning and I had just turned the water on and turned around to stand under the water and I noticed that the shampoo bottle was tipping itself back and forth- rocking motion. I said to whatever it was "Ok, your presence here has been noted, now leave me be." It did.

Then a few days went on, my friend who was battling cancer had finally passed away. Her funeral was long and drawn out and I was inconsolable. I know we go on and this life is only a proving ground however, I was very sad. I was laying on my bed sobbing (this was early evening maybe 8 PM), my husband who had tried his best to make me feel better was on the couch watching TV.

So as I lay there I had a warm sensation crawl from my toes to the back of my head. Someone was in bed with me and hugging me ( spooning me) from behind. It was a good feeling yet it scared me because nothing like that had ever happened to me. So I stood on my bed yelling for my husband to "get in here." I must have been a sight standing on my bed but I was a little rattled. When I finally calmed down I realized what a gift I had been given to have a last hug goodbye. That was all I need for my peace of mind.

As I said I have always felt the presence of spirits around me. So when I was looking to buy a new home in was very important to me to have a house that was new. No old memories and no reason for spirits to dwell here. Boy was I wrong about that one. We have lived here for nearly two years and I have seen a whole bunch of spirits. The most recent event has really shaken me up a bit. My husband has a tendency to fall asleep on the couch, so I was in the bedroom alone. I was in a deep sleep when I hear "Mommy, mommy wake up." So I woke up and said," what," thinking that my 7 year old was needing me. Well she didn't answer so I turned on my light and no one was there. My bedroom door was still closed in fact.

So I got up checked on my children and husband and went back to sleep dismissing the event. Well it wasn't going to be that easy. I shut the light off, got into bed and lay down . The little voice came back. "Mommy, mommy. " So I rolled over facing where my husband would be sleeping and buried my head in his pillow. The little person CAME up on my bed. Repeating its self. "Mommy, mommy pay attention to me." I could not see this child but had a sense of it. I seemed to know what he looked like without really seeing him. So I turn on the bed side lamp and of course no one is there. So I call my husband to come and sleep in bed with me thinking this would deter any little spirit from bothering me. No, I was wrong. He persisted to "speak" to me. My husband says he didn't hear it. When I asked what the child wanted he wouldn't answer, his voice and his presence just faded away. These incidents are only a few of the encounters I have experienced.

I'm a believer in the psychic mind and powers that be, you don't have to
convince me.

My son has always had a sense of, let's just say, heightened awareness. When he was in the third grade he had a terrible bike accident. I went to the door when I heard him crying. He was covered in blood. I took him to the sink and began to wash him off. As I did he kept asking me if that was blood I was washing and where it came from. He remembered NOTHING of the accident or how he got home. OK fine, I thought. He has a concussion. I called the hospital and told them I was bringing him in. Now we were new to this town. I was still unpacking the house. He had NEVER seen the hospital before. Here is where it gets strange.

When we walked in, my son KNEW just where to go. He KNEW the name of the intake guy. He even TOLD the man what was on the man's computer screen WITHOUT looking at it!!!! The man thought my son was strange. My son described the room we were going in BEFORE we even got there!!!!! It seemed the accident HEIGHTENED his window into the future. NOT over YET> When we got home, for several months, he did not have anymore of what HE calls, deja' vous!!!! Even when he tried. It was like the accident gave him a burst then made it go away all together. When it did start to come back, he was able to see things more clearly than before the accident. And here we are today!!!!! I know he did not get it from me!!!!!!!!

Hard to explain....

We have a 14 month old Alaskan Malamute, Sebastian. Sebastian is a very stubborn and playful dog as many malamutes are at that age. *He responses when he feels like it. This happen few months ago, I was in bed by 8.30pm in our town house. Sebastian was playing with his ball and all of a sudden he got up and started to pace around the house in frustration. He was looking for something in anticipation. I didn't pay heed at first thinking he was looking for a toy. He continued to do so as his frustration increased. So, I got out of bed to ask him what was wrong. He didn't listen to me and continued to pace around the house. I asked him if Michelangelo, my guardian angel was around. He looked at a corner and wagged his tail, which meant yes. But this wasn't what was bothering him. Finally, he went to the front door after a few laps around the house and growled. *Malamute owners know that they are not vocal dogs at all or good guard dogs. He seemed to have found the source that was upsetting him. He sat down firm with his tail not moving. So I peeped under the door to see if there was anyone but nothing. So I opened (silly me!) and nothing was there. I said to him, look boy, nothing. He peered his head to see, but was not convinced. So I shut the door and went back to sleep. He was still standing at the door. Not satisfied.

I called to him to sleep but he sat firmly, with his ears erect at the bedroom door guarding the entrance. *This is strange, as he never guards anything! I called him inside the bedroom and he finally came in and sat at the edge of the bed watching and waiting for anything. Whatever it was, couldn't get in the house. As far as I know, no one ever died in the house.

When I was in high school I saw this dog cross the street in the middle of the street he stopped and looked at me and changed into a man. I have seen this man over the last 12 years everywhere I go he is there. I have lived all over northern and southern California and he is always there. I have even lived in England AHD have seen him when I was there as well. He has usually only come as a dog. What does this mean and who is he???

Hi, my name is Mandy, and I am a 14 year old girl who lives in a small town in Virginia. Me and my two friends (Tommy and Zeb) think that our whole street is haunted, and here are the reasons why.

One day, while I was getting ready to go to my friends house, I heard a really loud BANG upstairs in my room. Being the only one at my house at that time, I walked to see what it was, as I was walking, the upstairs hall light came on. I was so scared that I didn't go any further, so I walked back down and turned the light switch off. A few minutes passed, and I heard someone/something running down my steps, scared to death, I walked back to see what it was again, nothing was there but the hall light was on again. So I ran to my friend Tommy's house. He said that he had heard that loud bang too, and wondered if I had fallen, and if I was ok, I told him that I had not fallen and that I wasn't ok. I told him what had happened, so we went and got Zeb and checked it out. When we went back to my house. The light was off (I never turned it off the second time) and there was no more noises.

I keep hearing strange noises every now and then. And things happen too like, the lights will flicker on and off, and the t.v. will be off, but then it cuts on and something changes the channel. It's very scary and weird. A few days had passed after what happened to me, and Zeb started seeing and hearing things. One night, he was half asleep on his couch, watching t.v., he said that he had heard foot steps. That scared him, so he got up to see what it was. Nobody was around, everybody was asleep. So he thought nothing of it, until he heard somebody tell him to "come here". So he got up and started walking around, and he saw this evil looking man standing there. It scared him to death!!

My friend Tommy said that he has seen the evil looking man too. I have not seen him yet, and I hope that I never will. And another thing that happens to us is, you know that feeling that you get, where somebody is just staring at you???...We get that at night, when we're trying to go to sleep. It's like something/someone is just standing over our beds staring at us. Only sometimes it feels like someone is sitting on our beds. It's very creepy. Nobody believes us when we try to tell them our story, but the three of us know that, we know what we saw and heard, and our story is very true. Thanks for reading my story.

Your article on Shadow People on your site was very amazing. I have seen these people many times, usually when I close my eyes and focus. It seems very strange, I've never actually seen them as black "shadows", but strange colors instead. They're never very bright, usually purple or green. These do not occur just when I close my eyes, but I can look around and see similar beings to those you described not really walking but hovering.

Thanks for whatever time you can give to this and for making a very wonderful, interesting site!

Hi, my incident happened roughly around June 1998.

I just came back from our churche's evening service , which got me into a gospel singing mood.

I had this urge to sing all the old gospel songs-- but not wanting to embarrass myself in front of my parents, i went outside and sang outside. I prayed that God would "doctor up" my horrible singing voice because i wanted to sing all the hymns for Him.

Well, as i was singing, i felt a feeling of peace and an uplifting feeling..

Right after i finished singing (I was looking up into the stars the entire time) I noticed a 6' or so globe of very bright light resting on the tip of my parent's roof right near me. It was there the whole while as I was singing.., and after I finished, the globe of light flew up into the air, and into the Universe, like a comet flying in the wrong direction.

It was a very positive experience that convinced me further that there is a God, and angels do exist

(NOTE: This happened in 1988 in Peoria, IL.)

My parents remodeled the attic of the house I grew up in when I was in my early teens so my bedroom was then moved upstairs. Around junior year in high school I became fascinated with the movie "Gone with the Wind" after reading the novel in English class. I soon thereafter began collecting memorabilia from the movie and my room upstairs became a shrine to the film.

One day I was in my room sorting through various still photographs I had ordered from a memorabilia shop when I went downstairs to the kitchen to retrieve some scissors. When I returned there in the middle of the floor on top of one of the pictures was a small pool of a brown, sticky substance which to this day I have been unable to identify. There was no food, drink or chemical in the room with me at the time, and upon inspection of the area there was nothing from which I could trace this substance. The goo had no detectable odor, either . Could this have been what's referred to as ectoplasm???

A couple of days ago I was in my kitchen, when I saw like a black hand sized kind of smoke like thing just quickly float by<like if you had cut a piece of black nylon out in a badly shaped circle, then threw it by in slow motion>I walked out of my kitchen to try and find it, and couldn't find anything. I'm not sure what I saw, if anything at all, but its always the same with these sorts of things, my mind is somewhere else then out of the corner of my eye it sort of whisks or quickly floats by. I see it, then look for it and can't find it.

This was my first sighting of this.

A friend told me to do a search on "Shadow People" so I did and found your site.

I'm not sure about this other thing either, but here it goes.

I walked into my living room while brushing my teeth, when from the corner of my eye I saw what seemed like a huge dark brown rat<or something> scurry from under the couch across the floor to under the love seat. I jumped of course not knowing what it was. I turned on every light and ripped the furniture apart trying to find it - nothing. I looked at the coffee table I thought it scampered under on its way to go under the love seat and there weren't even tracks in the dust under it. I was sure I had seen it though, and knew it was too big to hide so tore everything apart looking for it. I couldn't find a thing. I just shook my head thinking I must have imagined it.

I have no idea what I saw if I saw anything at all but after I told a friend about this he suggested the "Shadow People" search on the web.

(NOTE:) Below is our email 'conversation'. My comments and questions are in italics)

Hi;

Not to freak you out or anything, but if the thing you saw in your living room had been a rat, could it have hidden inside the loveseat?

Naw I teared everything apart looking for it, and after looking through some sites at some photos. I'm guessing now it was a shadow thing. I had an awful time trying to fall asleep last night because of all this.

I know now it wasn't a rat, my first thought was that it was something like that because it zipped from under the couch through a coffee table<which has a base on it> to under the love seat. when I checked the base of the coffee table it was dusty and there were no tracks, where there should've been had it been a rat.

The thing that floated by in your kitchen stumps me completely! I have NO idea what you saw at all. I consider myself fortunate in that I have never seen anything that could be described as a 'Shadow person' of any description, by the way, but I believe they're there...

Yeah that was another one. After looking through some sites, I actually matched up what I saw to one of the example pictures one of the sites had of shadow people. Like I said safe to say I had a real crappy sleep last night feeling paranoid about all this. I don't think I'm going to research it much more, maybe that way it wont manifest. Its hard to get a good sleep when your watching the shadows suspiciously.

I plan to post your email on the Guardian Tales website in the near future, by the way, in the We Get Emails section... be sure to keep checking back on the What's New page to see when it has been posted... Thank you for sending this to me, I appreciate it!

That's fine, just if you could don't include my email. My location is Vancouver Canada, I'm male and 30 years old -you can use that if that helps.

Thanks for writing me back about this.

Kyle

WELL MY WHOLE FAMILY THINKS IM CRAZY EXCEPT MY STEP DAUGHTER. MY NAME IS D****, AND I LIVE IN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA. AT OUR OLD APARTMENT STRANGE THINGS WERE HAPPENING BUT AT FIRST I THOUGHT IT WAS THE WIRING IN THE PLACE OR SOMETHING SIMPLE LIKE THAT . THE TV WOULD SHUT OFF WHILE YOU WATCHED IT OR COME ON WHILE YOU WERE NOT WATCHING IT . LIGHTS WOULD GO ON AND OFF FOR NO APPARENT REASON . I FELL ASLEEP ON THE LIVING ROOM COUCH WHILE WATCHING TV ONE NIGHT . SOMETHING STARTLED ME AND WHEN I LOOKED UP I SAW A WOMAN STANDING IN THE DARK JUST STARRING AT ME . I THOUGHT IT WAS SOMEONE IN THE FAMILY BUT COULDN'T TELL . SHE LOOKED TO BE WEARING SOME SORT OF BLACK OUTFIT I WAS SURE IT HAD TO BE SOMEONE IN THE FAMILY SO I JUST ROLLED OVER AND WENT BACK TO SLEEP. IN THE MORNING I STARTED ASKING QUESTIONS TO THE FAMILY ABOUT WHY THEY WERE STANDING THERE WATCHING ME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND THEY LOOKED AT ME LIKE I WAS NUTS.

WELL A FEW DAYS AFTER THAT MY STEP DAUGHTER WAS TAKING A SHOWER AND COME OUT SCARED . I ASKED HER WHAT HAPPENED AND SHE SAID SHE WAS IN THE BATHROOM WITH THE DOOR LOCKED AND HAD THE RADIO ON . SUDDENLY THE RADIO VOLUME WENT UP AS LOUD AS IT WOULD GO . THE WEIRD THING IS THAT THE VOLUME WAS A KNOB YOU HAD TO TURN NOT A BUTTON THAT YOU HAD TO PUSH .

WELL WE MOVED OUT OF THERE SHORTLY AFTER AND INTO ANOTHER APARTMENT COMPLEX AND HAVE HAD NO MORE OF THOSE STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN . THANK GOODNESS.

Bagman, as he is known now, was abandoned in the woods somewhere in Texas when he was only eight years old. His parents left him alone there because of financial troubles they were having. Bagman's face was horribly burned by his father's cigarette which was dropped carelessly tossed onto the dry leaves on the forest floor. He is called "Bagman" because of the cloth bag that he uses to cover his scorched face. People say that on Christmas of 1998, he came back to his home town and slaughtered five children searching for his younger brother that took his place twenty years later. Hr never found his old family, but he still searches around Texas to this day.

My father was gravely ill and in the hospital in the winter of 1983. We were told to expect the worst and to stay close to home where we could be reached. I was 15 at the time and was heartbroken at the prospects of my father demise. It was the early morning of January 25, I awoke suddenly, and before I knew what was happening I was out of my bed into my mothers room where the phone was with my hand on the telephone. I then realized where I was and what I was doing and was looking at my mother with surprise and wonderment. She then said in a sleepy voice "What are you doing, the phone.................." she had meant to say - didn't ring. Then the phone did ring for the first time, she answered. It was the hospital telling us of my fathers passing. After my mother hung up, we looked at each other in astonishment and fear, I had my hand on the phone before it rang.

hi,, thought you would like to hear this. in 1994 i recall an incident where i was sleeping in my bed, i was awakened by my name being called. when i woke up it was only for a second .i guess i must have been half awake. anyhow ,i was laying on my side and when i turned over on my back or at least thats what it seemed i did. i saw sitting on my bed a blonde haired alien. he said to me .. and i quote,,its ok ,,i just wanted to say im here ,, you can go to sleep now. so i said ok.. turned over and fell back to sleep. however, when i woke up fully there on the end of my bed was the mark of a body, and imprints on the rug. i never forgot that as it was just one story of many things that have happened to me regarding aliens and ufos..