Topic: Living with ghosts
In my intro thread, someone asked me to elaborate on mt paranormal experiences, so now I am. The youngest I remember a ghost encounter was when i was four or five. i had been sent to my room and shortly afterwards heard a very loud hissing noise. I thought it was a snake. I couldn't see it but thought that it must be there. I screamed for my mom in terror, and she came in and yelled at me for "making up excuses to get out of my room."
The ghosts followed me from house to house. Their activity peaked around my preteen and early teen years. I believe they were feeding on all the negative energies in the house. You see, I had parents who were neglectful, and emotionally, spiritually, and sometimes physically abusive. We lived in poverty.
Here are some of the entities I encountered:
*"Robot Man"--I called it so because its voice sounded electronic, like a machine speaking. I could never understand him. For some unknown reason, I feared him.
*"Motherly Ghost"--this ghost had a matronly aspect. She was harmless, and would tell me things like my room was untidy or that my hair was a little frizzy.
*"Little Girl"--this one constantly called for her mother. Once my mom and I were alone in the house, and "little girl" called out, "mom! Mom!" My mom said, "yes? Leigh, what is it?" thinking it was me. This incident and others similar to it helped me realize it wasn't all imagination.
*Poltergeist(s)--this entity or entities did things like shove my mattress with me lying on it, and produce the sound of breaking glass when no glass actually broke, or growl like an animal. They slapped my sister at one point. At another point, it drove my mother out of the house by its growlings. The growlings were heard by the whole family, and dismissed by everyone but me as "the electricity acting up." It came from the ceiling, and my dad went into the attic and stood right where the noise was coming from while it was occuring, yet heard nothing.
*Various harmless white blobs/orbs
*Various entities commonly called "shadow ghosts." One night, I was lying in bed and the shadow ghosts were especially active. One of them materialized at the corner of my bed. It was the size and vague shape of a person, yet all black. It moved towards me, and I think I fainted, because I don't know what happened next, and I DO NOT wish to remember. Thinking of this incident drives me to tears.
*Various entities, which may have consisted of any of the above, or been seperate beings---whispered amongst themselves. What they said was never intelligible.
As the activity escaladed, I turned to a Wiccan friend for help in ridding the house of them. She give me a cleansing chant. I did not expect it to work, for I did not believe in magick, but I was desperate to try almost anything.
It worked. Now, the ghosts rarely return. The poltergeist has returned once to growl at me from under my desk when nothing was there, but has done nothing else. "Robot Man" hasn't returned, nor have the "shadow ghosts" or white blobs. The motherly ghost and little girl occasionally return.
