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.

[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.

[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!

[jeune-fleur.livejournal.com]

Holy shit those people were really scared to run away that way in them middle of the night! O_O. I know I always say that I'm more scared of the living than the dead but damn it, it's super freaky ;_;

Now I feel like writing a post about my experiences as well!