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Secretsmile

Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - 07:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I believe...

I believe in UFO's although I have no first hand stories of them. I believe spirits make connections with living people. I believe in miracles. I have several stories of the unexplained, I'll share the most recent and allow each of you make your own decisions on where it fits in.

I was being lazy and taking a nap. I was in the twi-sleep state, I could hear traffic and see my room. I had this vivid 'dream'. I was watching a scene of my husband on a medic call, he was holding a baby, the baby was about 6 months old, a little boy and unconscious. Suddenly there was a bright light and I saw "spirit hands" take control of my husband's hands and do CPR on the baby. This image kept me from falling asleep, no nap for me that day.

My husband called me, and described the most incredible moment of his life. He had an infant boy in the ambulance, it was suspected that the baby had a seizure, as he was taking the baby out in the ER parking lot, the bright sunlight caused another seizure and the baby stopped breathing and went into cardiac arrest in his arms. He then said, his first response was to pray out loud for help. He did CPR while holding the baby and the baby responded quickly, when he looked up he realized there was a crowd around him and one of the nurses swore she saw an angel save that baby.

That this happened to my husband was a wonder, that somehow it was shared with me at the same time is more than can be explained.

P.S. The baby had a high fever, and once that was treated he went home without further complications.

Jed245

Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - 07:44 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I believe in miricals where ya from? You sexy thing... sexy thing you. :o)

Your welcome Kaili :o) the song is called "You sexy thing"

Now on to the topic of this thread...

I think a ghost story would fit. :o)

When I was around 6 or 7 I lived in a very small house that my dad had built. There were me, my older brother, one of my sisters, mom, and dad living there.

My dad had just finished building an addition to the house. A small room he used for a electronics repair shop. Well one night it was raining very hard. The electricity was out my older brother was working, and my sister was staying at a friends house so it was just me and mom on the couch.

Dad was outside working on his car he had to get it running to go out and pick up my older brother who was about to get off from work.

I remember very vividly sitting in the dark on the couch. Then the street lights came on. I could see around the house pretty good. The front door opened and dad walked in. It never occured to me as odd, but, he was bone dry. Not even the look of being out in the rain.

Mom looked at him and said something to him. He just kept walking through the house. Back to his workshop. He only stopped for a second when he first came in and looked at me then at mom. Then he stopped again just before he went into the workshop and looked towards us.

Mom said his name then stood up and started walking towards the shop door. Just as she took her first step the front door swung open and dad was standing there shaking rain off his coat and pants.

He was drenched!! Mom kinda freaked out and said someone was in the shop. Dad grabbed his pistol and ran back there (there was no back door, windows, or exit to the shop.) He looked around with a flashlight he kept near the door of the shop then the lights came back on and no one was there.


Looking back what we saw looked exactly like my dad. Same shirt, pants, baseball cap and everything. Still makes me sit and wonder.

Jed.

Goddessatlaw

Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - 07:53 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I believe there's plenty of crap in this lifetime I don't and will never understand, so I just try to roll with it - neither counting nor discounting it.

Denecee

Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - 08:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I can't wait to read all of this thread but I'm going to Texas to see my son, so I will have to catch up later.
Square- I want to hear about this ghost you seen. I love ghost stories.

Squaredsc

Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - 08:57 am EditMoveDeleteIP
denecee, there really isn't much to tell. i think i was around 12 or 13 and i was living with my dad at the time. i was up late probably watching tv or something and went into the kitchen to get something to drink. the house was dark except for the light on in the kitchen. and as i was leaving to go back upstairs to my room there was this grayish blueish thing floating in the living room.

i wasn't scared or anything or all that curious, lol. i just looked at it and kept walking.

oh and i also believe that the spirits of my ancestors are available anytime im in need. and a couple of years ago i was in need and (ok this is going to sound very weird) but i called to them and they helped me out. but im not going to tell that story cause its way too personal.

Jan

Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - 09:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
To express my beliefs, GAL said it best so I'll quote her:

" I believe there's plenty of crap in this lifetime I don't and will never understand, so I just try to roll with it - neither counting nor discounting it."

I believe UFO's and ghosts (and reincarnation too) are all possible and even probable.

But I don't believe in the TV UFO/Ghost "evangelists" on TV making money off it :)

Faerygdds

Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - 09:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I think that's true squared... When I get in particularly tough jams, I often ask for my grandfather's guideance. He never let me down in life... and I still think he is! :)

Ddr1135

Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - 12:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay, I'll share.

My son and I have both "felt" something in the building/house we're in. Not evil, just a presence there. It's the strangest thing.

The first year we were here, I lost one diamond earring of 3 sets in a six months period. They would be on my night stand at night and then the next morning one would be gone. Each time I searched the house high and low, even tearing apart the vacuum cleaner bag, the whole nine yards.

So I just told the "being" - "Fine you can have the diamonds, but if you touch my grandmother's sapphire ring, you better be ready to rumble."

Faerygdds

Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - 12:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ROFLMAO!!!

That's so funny!!!

Lostintheglades

Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - 03:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LMAO Ddr....we have something here...it may be the Seminole Indian that we moved in with years ago. Maybe he followed us here...in any case, things are always disapearring....a few days later it turns back up in the exact place it should have been. We also had a weird incident with some baseball cards my DH and DD #2 were sorting..it's too complicated to explain but it was like a magic act.

Reiki

Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - 04:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I absolutely believe in ghosts/spirits and also agree with squares ancestor connection.

When I was a teenager my grandmother came to visit us and she slept in the spare bed in my room. One night I heard her tossing and turning and talking in her sleep. Being concerned for my elderly Nanny, I woke her up and asked her if she was okay and she told me she was just talking to dead people. I didn't understand what she meant until many years later after she had passed away.

Fifteen years ago I had a dream where my grandmother and my late aunt were walking down the stairs holding a baby. They told me the baby's name was Megan. This shouldn't have been so strange because I did have a infant niece named Megan, but I kept telling them that the baby they were holding wasn't her. I didn't think anything more about this dream until within the year my brother's wife named their new baby girl Meghan. Then it clicked.

There have been many more children born into my family since then and every time my grandmother would come to me in a dream. There are never many details. Sometimes I get a feeling if it is a boy or girl. Rarely do I know who will be expecting. About 5 years ago I dreamed of 3 babies all at once. Everyone denied the possibility but within a year there were 3 new babies in my family born very close together.

I haven't had a baby dream in a year or so. My niece has them now. When she has the dreams she see my grandmother with either me or my mother, so I must be acting as a conduit now. LOL.

Littlebreeze

Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - 06:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Spirits, yes. UFOs, yes. Have had experiences with both.

This experience happened several years ago. A friend and I were going out to dinner after work. We were the last two to leave that night. We were sitting in the car, parked, talking about where we wanted to have dinner. He was in the driver's seat and I was in the passenger seat. I noticed him starting to glance past me out of my window as he was talking to me then he said, "What is that?" I turned around and looked out.

It was a crystal clear winter night and the sky was packed with stars. There was something very large and low in the sky slowly moving straight in our direction. As it moved, it blocked out the stars. As it moved forward, the stars would again appear behind it. It was still a little distant but big and unmistakable in the star-filled sky.

We both got out of the car and watched as this object moved very slowly in our direction. When it was finally on top of us, we were looking straight up its underside. There wasn't one light or strobe visible on this immense object. It made no sound at all. I wish I was good at judging altitudes but I'm not. All I can say is that it was flying quite low.

It was easy to discern its shape above us because it was a visible, solid, huge, black mass. The front portion came to almost a point and the body was long and rectangular. It resembled the shape of what I imagine an oceanliner would look like if you were looking up at its underside, but this thing was bigger.

We just stood there, awestruck, and watched it fly over us and very slowly away until it was out of sight.


The next morning, on the front page of the newspaper, there was the story. This craft was seen by hundreds of people for miles around. The report said there were cars pulled over all along the the side of the highway with people outside of their cars watching it. Police phones were ringing off the hook. The object was seen by both local and state police officers. The Air Force offered no information other than to say it wasn't anything of theirs. I wouldn't think so unless they started flying very slow and silent planes the size of football fields.

As I was standing underneath that object that night, my heart racing, all I could think about was who was manning it and how close I was at that moment to beings from some other world. It was a powerful experience. We aren't alone on this speck of dust in the universe.

Admin

Sunday, November 16, 2003 - 11:54 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Aliens: I believe the human race was long ago a colony from another planet, sent here to colonize the earth or maybe marooned here, or maybe we travelled here because we destroyed our mother planet. In other words, WE are aliens. This is why we can't find the link between humans and other animals, it doesn't exist. We may still have been created by a God, perhaps this God is responsible for creating all life on all planets.

UFOs: When I was about 18 years old, 3 or 4 friends and I were at a cottage. Late at night we were all laying on the dock, looking up into the sky. We all saw moving stars. Yes, they could have been satellites, but one of them shot across the sky, stopped, then did a complete 90degree turn and shot across the sky that direction, eventually disappearing far away. Another came shooting along, stopped then slowly faded away....presumably it changed direction and went up, away from earth, so as it got further away, it because less visible. We all saw the same events, I believe they were alien ships.

Whoami

Sunday, November 16, 2003 - 12:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
You know Admin, that's along the line of theories I've developed.

You know the song "Get Together." There's a line in it that says, "when the one that left us here, returns for us at last." That could be all about that ship that left us here eons ago. I've also thought that could be why we look up to the sky for our God. Cause that's where we came from.

I have other areas of the "we are the aliens" theory. For instance, look at how we have damaged this earth. One example is the Native Americans, who lived in perfect balance with the Earth, until we came along that is. We drove them out, took over their lands, killed of their food sources, and settled in to make what was theirs ours. Seems like us "white folk" (for lack of a better description), always came in and took over/damaged the lands we lived in, that used to be in perfect harmony with the native inhabitants, human and otherwise.

I liken the "we are aliens" theory too as, we are somewhat like a virus to this earth. The earth is a "host" to a virus (us) that came in, took over, and is now destroying its host. Just like the microscopic viruses do to our own bodies.

I know this makes me sound like a nut. Do I believe is these theories and stand by them religiously? No, not really. But I am open minded to it. And if it were ever confirmed or proven that we are in fact the aliens to Earth, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.

Gidget

Sunday, November 16, 2003 - 12:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I went to a lecture by Erich Von Danigen (Chariots of the gods). If you haven't read him, you would enjoy

Tater

Sunday, November 16, 2003 - 12:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Who, my mom and I were discussing the very same ideas just last night. As with you, I woudn't be surprised at all! And as a matter of fact I wrote a scrennplay that challenges the Catholic Church about these ideas. I then thought that it might be a little bit too progressive for the main stream audience at this point in time. Now I am rethinking my plan.

Admin

Sunday, November 16, 2003 - 07:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree that I don't live by these theories, just ponder them occasionally. Ultimately they don't control what I think and do each day!

Natives are still humans, so I don't quite get that train of thought?

What about the Egypt pyramids? Are they aligned with the cosmos as some sort of map? I saw an interesting thing on TV about that......it's all part and parcel of the 'we are aliens' thing!

New Clipart! -> Use it if YOU believe!

Weinermr

Sunday, November 16, 2003 - 07:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That's what I look like when I get up in the morning.

Reiki

Sunday, November 16, 2003 - 08:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh thanks for the new clipart Admin! I love it!

I always liked the we are the Martians ending to the "Martian Chronicles". The possibility that aliens populated this planet intrigues me. It sure would explain a lot of mysteries.

Egbok

Sunday, November 16, 2003 - 08:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I believe....

Whoami

Sunday, November 16, 2003 - 09:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, I'm not sure I can explain my Native Americans (and other native humans) aren't the aliens thing either. Sometimes it all makes sense in my head, then I try to say it out loud and get even myself confused.

Maybe I'm just figuring the "white" people (or rather, those who have spread around the earth displacing native inhabitants) are the aliens. Sure, we may all be humans, but just humans from different origins. Its not all that far fetched that the same type of species could come from different origins. Look at the Animal Kingdom. You have Asian elephants, and African elephants. They're different species, but they're still elephants. There's all types of "species" of humans. Look at our varying skin colors, just for starters....but we're all still human.

Reiki

Sunday, November 16, 2003 - 09:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes Whoami, but even those "native" inhabitants came from somewhere else at some point.

My theory is that the "seeding" came much earlier. Maybe somewhere between Neanderthal man and Homo sapiens sapiens (us). And would explain why many of the creation stories from around the world have similarities.

Edited: Oops - forgot already

Tabbyking

Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - 05:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
okay, here's something that just happened as i was making my media w#ore game picks for survivor. i made my picks and then logged out to go in and make my son's picks for him. my daughter's teacher who is sick is mr. hobbs...
well, i logged out and the blank spaces came up for player name and password. i clicked on the player name space and before i could even type one letter of my son's user name a name filled in the line all by itself. hobbs
isn't that strange?
i told my daughter to ask him what happened at 5:17 tonight, if he is at school tomorrow. stanford lets him come home to teach his AP class on occasion while he awaits a bone marrow transplant.

Emt911

Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - 05:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I vouch that this happened and my dad was sitting right next to mom when the computer typed hobbs all by itself. My mom cried out when it happened!

Tabbyking

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 09:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
i am wondering if dd's teacher is at school this morning. she is going to talk with him if he's there (it's day to day whether he can go 200-miles roundtrip and have his transfusions every couple of day or whether he needs to be in the hospital full-time).
i still can't believe my keyboard typed his name all by itself, but it definitely happened. i said, "oh, my God!" and
dh and dd both said, "what?!"

Sanfranjoshfan

Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 11:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The existence of UFOs is a fact. Why should anyone *not* believe in unidentified flying objects? Until they are identified, they will remain classified as "unidentified". Of course, that doesn't make them spacehips or time machines or interdimensional portals...it just makes them "unidentified". :)

Zeno39

Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 02:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
This is too weird, and you guys are putting a scare in me!

I guess you could say that I don't believe in that crap.

Lostintheglades

Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 03:54 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow Tabby!!! I hope Mr Hobbs is okay. That is just too weird.

Tabbyking

Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 08:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
mr. hobbs emailed me yesterday after i emailed him (he was back in the hospital). he said he thinks he was dozing off at 5:17 on tuesday afternoon, but said that would be a pretty boring thing to 'twilight zone' about! :)
he'll let me know if anything more exciting comes up!

Babyboo

Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 10:50 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have never seen a ufo before but don't doubt for a minute that they exist but i have certainly seen and heard ghost before, I'll never forget as a child being at my grandmothers house out in the country, she would never let anyone up in the attic of the house and she kept a latch on the attic door but other relatives and i would often hear crying from up there and whatever or whoever it was would often coming running down the attic stairs and bump up against the door and bang on it as loud as they could, i recall one night when i was there we were all sitting on the floor watching tv and all of a sudden these huge red eyes appeared in the window, it was just like it was in that movie (The Amityville Horror) except the eyes were bigger, anyway, i never wanted to go back to my grannys house after that night but ofcourse i was forced to, always wanted to do some research to find out what terrible something had happened in that house but i would'nt know where to begin.

Lostintheglades

Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 11:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow Baby...I wouldn't want to go back there either. They say that kids are much more aware and open to spirits. My sister lived in the house where my Grandmother lived for a while. One morning when her daughter was about 4 years old, my sister woke up to the sound of her daughter in the kitchen having a conversation with someone about breakfast. When she asked her who she was talking to my neice said very calmly, just the lady that lives here. She then identified her in a picture.

Also...I mentioned before about the Seminole Indian that lived in our house in West Palm. Both my DH and I would see him regularly in the foyer, it was one of those things where you see them out of the corner of your eye. About a year ago we were talking about it and my daughters who are 20 and 17 now started laughing. The oldest one said she always wondered why we never talked him or acknowleged him but said he was always standing there and we'd just walk right past him.
and my youngest one said it used to make her mad because he used to always try to take her pillow away from her at night and couldn't understand why we didn't make him go home.

We lived in this house when they were born and until they were about 4 and 6.

Our Doberman still lives with us too. We had her until she was 15 and there are times you can see her sitting next to you (mostly when you're sitting and reading) and you instictively reach down to pet her. We rented a town house between moves a few years ago and my oldest DD came out of her room with this look on her face. She'd been packing up her bedroom and saw our dog next to her...when she looked straight at her she watched her go under the bed but when she looked Crown was not under her bed. (The other dogs were not even in her room.)

Seamonkey

Thursday, December 04, 2003 - 12:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow, Lost!! That's neat.

My cousins have a ghost who came with their very old house in Brunswick, Maine. There is also a ghost next door.. I saw that one, at a window.. apparently the two tend to look at each other from the third floor windows. My cousin thinks they did this in life too.

Amchess

Thursday, December 04, 2003 - 03:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Many years ago my friend and I were driving from my house to hers - probably around midnight. This happened in a suburb of Lake Charles, La. All of a sudden the sky lit up just like daylight and the car engine died. I mean died dead - no lights, no battery, nothing. Then when it got dark again, the car started up. We were panicked. When we got to her house we were practically hysterical and no one believed us! We weren't the only ones tho - from what I can remember, there were reportings of strange occurences from New Mexico to Lousiana.

Admin

Saturday, December 06, 2003 - 06:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Creepy stories!