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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[du-secondaire.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if it was a paranormal experience, but this sure scared the crap out of me:

In the building next to the one my research lab is in, there's a building named after a rich benefactor, and in the foyer is a painting of his daughter who died at 20. There is a rumor that her ghost haunts the building. The eyes of this painting seem to follow you no matter which angle you are looking at, and one day the inside case of the painting appeared fogged up as if someone had been breathing on it from the inside. I'm sure there was some not-paranormal explanation for it but it was very creepy. I not sure if ghosts are real or not, although if her ghost is around, I'd imagine she's friendly and pretty!

Also, when I was 17 my brother and I saw a UFO!

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

That does sound spooky! xD I don't know if that means she's around, but I can totally see being creeped out by that. ehehe