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

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[agentbethbonsai.livejournal.com]

Me, I think there are spirits around us. You just gotta pay attention to what you hear/see.

For example, after my grandpa on my dad's side of the family passed a few years ago, I went to sleep that night after the funeral, and he came to me in a dream telling me he was fine and not in pain any more. When I told my mom and pop about it the next day, they said it was just my imagination. Same thing happened when my grandmother on my dad's side of the family passed, and my uncle and grandfather (not at the same time, mind you) on my Mom's side passed. Every time I go visit my grandma (on my mom's side), I sense the two there, but I just smile and go about my business.

And the time I was in high school, when I was coming up from the area where the car riders get out to go into the school, (we had this thing where the buses would let out, and the car riders let out in the lower part of the parking lot...never really understood that...) I had my nose stuck in a book, reading. (Gee, who does that sound like? XD) As I was about to cross over, in front of the bus section, I clearly heard a male voice call out "BETH, STOP!!!". I glanced up, and saw a bus turning the corner that would have hit me, if I had not glanced up. My foot was literally raised to move, if I had not heard that shout. As I bookmarked my spot, I glanced around to see who had called out, but there was nobody there.

I shrug it off as my Guardian Angel, but I'm beginning to think I keep getting this stuff (even though I'm a Christian) for a reason.

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

Aw, I think that's nice that your grandpa came to you to tell you he was ok. :3 And the others! It's sweet that your grandparents are there too.

lol at your nose stuck in a book! I totally did that too btw! Sometimes I passed where I was trying to go and would have to backtrack. Its awesome that you were stopped before the bus came! I get that too.

I'm not christian (I'm pagan), but I think that we get help for a reason. :3

[agentbethbonsai.livejournal.com]

I know, right?

Mayhaps it was Loki, having a good day.

*Zapped*