Ghosts and such

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Hello everyone. First time poster and visitor to the board with a question. I'll keep this as brief as possible.
This morning I woke up at 1:30AM to find a male figure floating at the foot of my bed. The best description I can provide is a similar appearance to that of the late singer / songwriter John Denver. I watched for a few seconds and it moved to my side of the bed. Its face / head morphed into a skeleton with long gray hair. I let out a mostly inaudible choking scream and the image morphed into a sandy-blond female with pigtails, maybe 12 to 14 years in age. This image floated over the bed, through the wall and out of the house. Maybe just a freak passerby?? We build this home in 2012 in a new development. The land was formerly a working ranch. No prior paranormal experiences in the home. North Tucson, AZ.


Unrelated prior experiences:
In 2015 I flew to TX to be with my parents and brother. Dad was in-home hospice due to cancer. I was with him when he passed away. My wife and I ended up renting a car and driving back to Tucson with an overnight stay in El Paso, TX - I woke up around 4AM and watched the image of my mother walking across the hotel room with an empty vase. Later that morning after getting back on the road I called mom to do some probing about her morning (without leading the witness as they say in a court of law). Come to find out she was up about the same time replacing the water in the vases she had received earlier in the week.

In 2006 my wife and I build a townhouse outside Minneapolis, MN that ended up being haunted by three entities. This was confirmed by a local paranormal group. They said the haunting was beyond them and they called in someone else from a neighboring city. Neither charged us to come to the home and do the clearing so there wasn't an incentive to make a claim in either direction. The second person to come out with her partner said that as soon as they turned onto our block, she got the creeps. In her opinion, the whole block was experiencing high levels of spirit activity and its source was the church across the street. She also said that when she looks at the church, she sees a facility in a cornfield surrounded by barbwire and it dates back to the early to mid 1940's. She also believes there is a mass grave or cemetery under the parking lot. My first thought when I think of a facility in the middle of nowhere surrounded by barbwire was government facility and the early to mid '40s was WW2. Another interesting development... Come to find out, the owner of this land agreed to donate the land to the local church if the county and state agreed that nothing but a church could ever occupy the land. Our townhouse had been on the market for 6 months. Normally when I got a call for a showing I would camp out in the church parking lot across the street so I'd know when the showing was over. There were multiple times when a buyer and their agent would drive-up, chat on the sidewalk and leave or in other cases, spend less than 5 minutes in the townhouse. After the clearing by the Shamanic Minister / High Priestess, we had a purchase agreement in 30 days. She said she successfully cleared the home and added a "false-front" but the entities would be back. There was just too much activity in the area. The good news was she also said the entities were attached to the land and not any one individual.

From 2004-2006 we lived in a converted loft in downtown Minneapolis. The structure was build in 1901 but gutted and completely renovated. We were in a 971SF studio loft. I was sitting at my desk and my wife was putting laundry away in a dresser on the other side of the unit. She screamed and yelled, "what are you doing." - Seems she got goosed while bent over. Wasn't me because I was still sitting in my chair. Not sure what this was about.

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When your wife got goosed, that sounds like a poltergeist. Usually that kind of stuff happens around kids and angsty teens because they have a lot of energy, which the ghost kicks around like a ball to make weird stuff happen in the house. When I was a teen I was having an emotional moment, banging on a door, and an object in the room next to me flew off of a dresser. I'm pretty sure my emotional meltdown was used to do that.

For your haunted house, that's really interesting. I'm curious what the shaman/priestess did to protect the home temporarily.

As far as you seeing things upon waking up, I think this is your astral vision. You remotely viewed your mother and the vase. As for the weird skeleton guy, I'm not really sure but it reminds me of people who have night terrors. They often see figures or have weird experiences upon waking up or going to sleep. An acquaintance of mine once saw a Johnny Cash poster come to life and scream at him when he woke up. It sounds like you have some natural psychic ability, though. There are guys who worked for the US military who would remote view the enemy's documents in locked safes, so it's definitely a thing.

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The haunting checklist:

1. Any history with mental illness?
2. Any history with drug use?
3. Any medical problems (like tumor or brain damage) that could have caused it?
4. Have you checked for environmental causes like electromagnetic fields, mold, gas leakage.
5. Did you have a nightmare?
6. Have you had any problem with sleep paralysis or other sleep related problems?
7. Have you recently experienced high levels of stress, loss or sadness?
8. Are you having financial problems?
9. Are you a religious person?
10. Have the claims been verified by another source
11. How reliable is that source?
12. How does the claim fit with what we know about how the world works?
13. Has anyone gone out of the way to disprove the claim, or has only supportive evidence been sought?
14 Have you or anyone in your family ever dabbled or trained in occult practices?
15 Are you an internet troll?

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When your wife got goosed, that sounds like a poltergeist. Usually that kind of stuff happens around kids and angsty teens because they have a lot of energy, which the ghost kicks around like a ball to make weird stuff happen in the house. When I was a teen I was having an emotional moment, banging on a door, and an object in the room next to me flew off of a dresser. I'm pretty sure my emotional meltdown was used to do that.

My wife was 35 at the time and still very high energy.

For your haunted house, that's really interesting. I'm curious what the shaman/priestess did to protect the home temporarily.

Her and her partner went through each room burning white sage and speaking something softly which I couldn't hear. They did the same to the exterior and the detached garage. The entity that they claimed was "parasitic" stayed in the basement shower for the most part. The other two... they found one under the bed in the master bedroom and the master bedroom shower. The parasitic entity didn't like me... actually doesn't like males. They said it (he) wasn't demonic but was far from pleasant. All three would frequent all 7 units but predominately resided in mine. When I received a signed PA on the townhouse, a RADON test was required. The result was a 10. Three is the max without a mitigation system. The other 6 units self-tested for RADON and were all 3 or less. Interesting. We were never comfortable in the townhouse. I had many meltdowns. None living in AZ. Things didn't really manifest until we listed our place for sale.

• Main bathroom scratching in the walls almost same time daily.
  Main bathroom - hair dryer always falling off the counter.
  Water faucet running full open in half bath (twice).
  Water leak in half bath - blew breaker.
  Water leak in ice maker - froze the freezer door shut (lucky we had the water main off so only what was in the line leaked and froze).
  My iPhone started playing Pink's "The great escape" one day while watching TV.
  Saw a shadow move across the upper wall into the shower then disappear.
  Many issues with smoke alarms chirping after new batteries (only when wife was home alone).
  After putting place on the market, wife's office door wouldn't stay open. The paranormal person opened the door then it closed. She asked the entity to please leave the door open so the room looks bigger because the home is for sale. The door never close again for the remaining 4 months in the home.
  The three of us walked into the main bath. The paranormal gal asked for a sign if someone was present. The 4 bathroom bulbs flickered, which I've not seen them do before.

I work from home and we have no kids or pets.
That's all I can recall.

As far as you seeing things upon waking up, I think this is your astral vision. You remotely viewed your mother and the vase. As for the weird skeleton guy, I'm not really sure but it reminds me of people who have night terrors. They often see figures or have weird experiences upon waking up or going to sleep. An acquaintance of mine once saw a Johnny Cash poster come to life and scream at him when he woke up. It sounds like you have some natural psychic ability, though. There are guys who worked for the US military who would remote view the enemy's documents in locked safes, so it's definitely a thing.

Before leaving for AZ we did a reading with the shaman/priestess at her office. I asked about my bee phobia. She said my soul was over 400 years old which explained my intuitive nature and in a past life I died at a young age due to a bee attack.

Thanks for your reply.

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The entity that they claimed was "parasitic" stayed in the basement shower for the most part. The other two... they found one under the bed in the master bedroom and the master bedroom shower.

That's interesting to me because Robert Bruce (author on spirit attachment) claims that running water is a deterrent to entities because it can cause them to de-manifest. He talks about how people under spiritual attack will jump in the shower and notice that the attack stops, so they'll spend a lot of time in the shower. Who knows, maybe they just hid in the shower and then moved once you were going to turn the water on.

Before leaving for AZ we did a reading with the shaman/priestess at her office. I asked about my bee phobia. She said my soul was over 400 years old which explained my intuitive nature and in a past life I died at a young age due to a bee attack.

I'm pretty skeptical when people start to talk about past lives and things like that. Maybe there's something to it, maybe not. I know a lot of that system of reincarnation and past lives etc. was relayed to people who practiced seances to speak with spirits, and I just don't trust that any of their sources were reliable. That's just where I'm at with that.

15 Are you an internet troll?

If so this is a pretty weak story, no offense to the OP. The last guy had a story about an entity screaming in the woods, and it read like something Lovecraft would come up with. Then there was the guy claiming his Jesus book was burned to reveal some creepy message. Both of those stories were over-the-top and designed to make us look stupid when we take the bait and start giving out advice. If that's the intention here, I would just call it a big, huge fail. You can't have a story that's mundane and realistic enough to be believable that will still make us look stupid for taking the bait.

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That's interesting to me because Robert Bruce (author on spirit attachment) claims that running water is a deterrent to entities because it can cause them to de-manifest. He talks about how people under spiritual attack will jump in the shower and notice that the attack stops, so they'll spend a lot of time in the shower. Who knows, maybe they just hid in the shower and then moved once you were going to turn the water on.

The basement living, bedroom and bath were never used by my wife and I. Storage only so the shower was never used.

I'm pretty skeptical when people start to talk about past lives and things like that. Maybe there's something to it, maybe not. I know a lot of that system of reincarnation and past lives etc. was relayed to people who practiced seances to speak with spirits, and I just don't trust that any of their sources were reliable. That's just where I'm at with that.

We never would have contacted a paranormal group on our own but one of my wife's co-workers was part of the PA group as a hobby. Took us 2 years to say, "okay come on over"

15 Are you an internet troll?

If so this is a pretty weak story, no offense to the OP. The last guy had a story about an entity screaming in the woods, and it read like something Lovecraft would come up with. Then there was the guy claiming his Jesus book was burned to reveal some creepy message. Both of those stories were over-the-top and designed to make us look stupid when we take the bait and start giving out advice. If that's the intention here, I would just call it a big, huge fail. You can't have a story that's mundane and realistic enough to be believable that will still make us look stupid for taking the bait.

I'll respond to his post... Just got back home.

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The haunting checklist:

1. Any history with mental illness? No. Not me nor either side of my parents family.
2. Any history with drug use? No. Social drinking only.
3. Any medical problems (like tumor or brain damage) that could have caused it? No medical issues.
4. Have you checked for environmental causes like electromagnetic fields, mold, gas leakage. No. Other than high RADON reading that had to be mitigated prior to sale.
5. Did you have a nightmare? I do not recall a nightmare prior to last nights vision.
6. Have you had any problem with sleep paralysis or other sleep related problems? I sometimes wake and or toss-and-turn in the evenings.
7. Have you recently experienced high levels of stress, loss or sadness? No more stress than normal, which really isn't that much. No kids, no pets.
8. Are you having financial problems? No debt. Lost job on 7/1 due to a reduction in force. Knew about it since October so no surprise.
9. Are you a religious person? Not at all.
10. Have the claims been verified by another source? Just what I responded to in my prior post.
11. How reliable is that source? Two different groups. Neither charged a fee for anything they did or documented.
12. How does the claim fit with what we know about how the world works? All I know is what I saw this AM which was the point of my post.
13. Has anyone gone out of the way to disprove the claim, or has only supportive evidence been sought? Nothing done since the sale. No need to followup on this mornings "vision".
14 Have you or anyone in your family ever dabbled or trained in occult practices? No. Never been any interest in the occult or any other type of religion.
15 Are you an internet troll? No. I would rather spend my time in other ways.

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That's interesting to me because Robert Bruce (author on spirit attachment) claims that running water is a deterrent to entities because it can cause them to de-manifest. He talks about how people under spiritual attack will jump in the shower and notice that the attack stops, so they'll spend a lot of time in the shower. Who knows, maybe they just hid in the shower and then moved once you were going to turn the water on.

In western tradition running water is usually a threshold that spirits can't cross. Dion Fortune talks about going to a park that had small streams that you could cross over and she used this as a form of exorcism.

In eastern tradition running water is usually seen as a weakness of the house and a cause for all sorts of problem, mostly finical. (Any weak spot is usually where the spirits come in, this is why you will see amulets and protection usually around or in windows/doorways in eastern traditions).

15 Are you an internet troll?

If so this is a pretty weak story, no offense to the OP. The last guy had a story about an entity screaming in the woods, and it read like something Lovecraft would come up with. Then there was the guy claiming his Jesus book was burned to reveal some creepy message. Both of those stories were over-the-top and designed to make us look stupid when we take the bait and start giving out advice. If that's the intention here, I would just call it a big, huge fail. You can't have a story that's mundane and realistic enough to be believable that will still make us look stupid for taking the bait.

It's a standard checklist I took from another site years ago. It basically serves as a reminder not to take somebodies story as fact. For all we know, this person is a depressed 17 year old looking for attention.
It's not meant to be insulting.

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The entity that they claimed was "parasitic" stayed in the basement shower for the most part. The other two... they found one under the bed in the master bedroom and the master bedroom shower. The parasitic entity didn't like me... actually doesn't like males.

Parasitic entities usually don't like anybody.
Their whole existence is to torment people and feed of their fear.
Thankfully, they are fairly easy to get rid of, if this problem persists.

You describe this last event as a passerby. It is possibly that it is the same thing as you've experienced before. Once they form a connection with people they tend to keep themselves around, so they are not like a ghost that haunts a place, they actually haunt people and can follow from house to house.

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Thanks for the feedback / info.