Ask Me Anything Meme #15 and #16: Nicknames and the Paranormal

[milleniumgypsy]

Ehehe... Still behind. n_n' But the very end of the month has free days, so if I answer a couple now I'm only one behind. :3

Did you have a nickname as a child? arctic_comet
I was nicknamed Flipper or Twinkle Toes I think when I was really small. Flipper because my socks were always falling off but I never bothered to pull them up, Twinkle Toes because I ran everywhere on tip-toe. I think that also got me Luigi.

Do you believe in the paranormal? If you do, have you ever had a paranormal experience? jeune_fleur
I do believe in the paranormal! I see ghosts.

what this is completely relevant

The first time I did I was in maybe 3rd grade, there was a ghost that ran at me out of my mother's bedroom. That house was really haunted. The people that had lived there before us (this was rental home) had actually moved out in the middle of the night without letting the landlord know they were leaving, they just threw most of their stuff in the car and drove off. This was in the middle of the winter so the pipes froze and everything.

There was a ghost girl that my mom saw looking into my sister's crib, there was an old man who was more of a poltergeist, and there was something more sinister. A lot of really weird stuff happened at that house, but only some of it was directly involved with me.

Apparently my mother saw parts of the wall and floor disappear, eyes looking at her through keyholes, my sisters wind-up swing would stop if it was put in a specific part of the house, things would get moved around, stuff like that.

I've seen ghosts elsewhere, and felt them, but those stories are in general less interesting. Scottie and I saw a car that disappeared when we were driving up a mountain (there was nowhere that it could have gone!)

So yeah, I do believe in the paranormal. I never argue that I'm sane however, so take that as you will. xD

Comments

[icecoldrain.livejournal.com]

lol, ghost!Loki could maybe sort of work. He'd always be trolling everyone though.

Those people must have been really scared to just up and move in the middle of the night! I've had many ghost experiences(including the cat that started haunting our house last year, but no one ever actually saw it!), but I'm pretty sure I couldn't deal with parts of the floor and wall seeming to disappear. Kudos to your mom!

Our house has been haunted on and off for years. Most of it started after we added on to the house when I was a kid. I did see things before that as a kid, plus the person who owned the house before us haunted it for the first few years my parents lived here. Most of it is fine, but the scary ones were when something was banging on all our windows at night but no one was outside. My mom bought something at a garage sale and something came with it that kept drying to drag her out of her bed and punched me in the face. I feel like a lot of people aren't believers until they experience something. Other than my younger brother lol. He's convinced that ghosts/anything supernatural are really demons.

[jeune-fleur.livejournal.com]

I feel like a lot of people aren't believers until they experience something.

Dunno! Some people get so scared from the experience itself that they keep saying they don't believe, that's it's silly as a way of convincing themselves that nothing happened to them!

My mom bought something at a garage sale and something came with it that kept drying to drag her out of her bed.

I've had that happen to me once and it's the worst thing ever ;_; Though in my case there was no particular reason why it happened....

[icecoldrain.livejournal.com]

I hear you there lol. My younger brother is convinced that ghosts and all things supernatural are really demons trying to trick us. idek, and he's more sensitive to the supernatural than I am!

I would've cleansed my house that moment tbh. We've had to cleanse the house a few times over the years, but whatever came with that garage sale item keeps returning (which is why we think it came with the garage sale item lol). It was uber eerie because I mom returned to the house of the garage sale to ask if they knew what was attached to it and it was whole new people and they had no clue about any garage sale that took place in their yard! Would've thought those people were trolling if it wasn't for the fact that it took a while to get rid of one of the things because it kept reappearing in the house after we gave them away.

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

That's creepy that the item kept coming back! DX

[icecoldrain.livejournal.com]

It was so strange! The first it happened my mom thought that they were brought back, except the friends that she gave them to hadn't been by. Plus, they kept appearing in weird places like inside a box, behind the couch, etc.

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

It totally makes sense that some people will just convince themselves that an experience didn't actually happen because they can't deal with it being a real thing. I think it's silly, but I can understand.

All this talk about haunted items is making paranoid about my love of rummage sailing I hope that Scottie doesn't see this he doesn't want me to get more random things from rummage sales xD

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

ehehehe, he totally would! I would do the same thing. x3

I know, they must have been! I think it says something that the other people who lived in that house (before and after) never stayed there long, and it was actually a cute house in a relatively nice location.
Mom didn't deal that well with parts of the floor disappearing! I'm glad I didn't experience that part.

The item story is really freaky! The banging on the windows reminds me of one of the rooms in the house I was talking about- there was a room that was always locked that we'd hear scratching at, and the doorknob would turn. Creepy stuff!
Mom thought the sinister force at that house was a demon.

[icecoldrain.livejournal.com]

That's when you do everything to cleanse the house. Burn sage, have a priest bless it, have a Rabi bless it, just get everyone to come by and bless it while hoping for the best lol.

It was! At first I was like should I open the curtain? But then I didn't know what I would've done if someone was outside banging on the window. One night my mom stormed out there and the window banging was still going with no one there. It was crazy!

Who knows tbh. There was a ghost at one of the homes my great grandmother used to own that tried to drown my brother's dad. Ghosts can be pretty strong! Not sure about the hallucinating though.