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Ghostly Happenings #3
Submitted by: Kay, Adelaide, South Australia (20/05/03)

Well I have a few experiences to share, so ill start at the earliest one.

When I was about 4-5 years old we lived in an old house in West Croydon where as a child I had a few experiences. One time I was at the sink with my mum while she was doing the dishes and I said "Mum who is that old lady in the watering the garden". My mum looked up and said to me to stop playing round coz there was no one in the back yard.

However later on that day my parents friend came around and said "Oh is that your mother out the back having a cup of tea?" and my parents were confused, but my Mum said that's funny u say that coz my son saw an old lady out the back earlier today.... (we also found out that an old lady had lived and died there) she was completely harmless though and never really bothered us.

Another experience I had in that house was, at night I couldn't sleep in my room - I would be scared of something so my Mum put a lamp in my room which she said kept the "bad spirits" away but I would still get scared.

The scary thing is, (well it wasn't scary to me at the time) but now I am older and think about it, when I was scared I would go to my parents room which was at the front of the house and my room nearer the back of the house and we had what seemed to me to be a huge hallway.

Anyway when I would get out of my bed a figure of a boy would be standing at the door with a golden outline 'round him and I would close my eyes and walk to the door then he would be like a metre in front of me. I would run down the hall to my parents room and he would run ahead of me - always keeping just a bit ahead of me. Then I would get to my parents room and he would jump on my parents bed before me but when I would hop in their bed he would disappear.

This happened on many occasions though I was never actually scared of him - I didn't like him because he would always race me to MY parents bed and beat me.

I remember getting angry with him because they were MY parents and for some reason HIM hopping into MY parents bed annoyed me.
This is another experience I had as a young child I was around 7 years old I think. We moved into this little house in Greenacres, at night we would here noises when we were in the lounge room watching TV like "Thump... thump.... thump..." on the wooden floorboards but we could never work out what it was until my Mum asked a lady down the street if maybe our house was haunted to which the lady replied that the house had once belonged to a war veteran who had both his legs amputated during the war and replaced with wooden stumps. Anyway I didn't find that scary, however what happened one night was!

I went to bed and my Mum and her boyfriend went to bed in the lounge but before my Mum left the room, she opened the window in my room and hung a towel over it to act as a sort of "curtain" and muttered something to me bout getting fresh air.

Anyway, my Mum went off to bed and I was just about to go to sleep when the door started banging rapidly (opening and shutting)! I thought it was just the wind but when I looked up at the window the towel was dead straight even though the door was opening and shutting rapidly when I saw that I immediately froze in fear but pulled the covers over my head and stayed under there for which felt like 2 hours but in reality was probably only about 30 minutes until my Mum came in. When she did she shut the door and I remember having a great feeling of relief come over me when she came in. But even after she shut the door and came into my bed the door started up again until she got up and booted it shut really hard, and even then it continued to rattle.

Well I didn't expect my stories to be so long! I have a few more but I wont put them on this post as this one is pretty long as it is... lol....

If u wanna give me any feedback or having interesting to tell me bout your on personal experience please email me.


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Ghostly Happenings #2
Submitted by: BlUnT, Australia (23/05/03)

About 2 hours ago I was making coffee when I hear this man say "stay".

I don't know what to do.

Should I try to find out why there here or move and leave it alone? It calls out to me telling me to come here but I've been told not to go by a lot of people.

I've been sleeping inside lately and was awoken by loud banging on the lounge room door. It's scary, I just need someone's advice of what to do.
I've also been having dreams that are coming true in every detail, so now I'm sketching out the places in my dreams and writing down what happened in them.

Please email me if u have some advice.

Thank u.

.....................BlUnT......................


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Phantom Cars
Submitted by: Rick, North Queensland, Australia (20/05/03)


Some years ago my wife and I were driving northwards from Christchurch in the South Island of New Zealand, heading towards Blenheim near the top of the South Island.

It was a fine sunny afternoon as we drove up the main highway approaching a range of hills called, if I remember correctly, the "Hunderleas."(?) The road was, at that time quite narrow, and as we headed up the twisting and winding road I drove carefully. We rounded a sharp corner and as we did so we both could see the road further up. At this point I noticed a car coming around a sharp bend heading towards us before it disappeared from sight at the next corner. I made a mental note to watch for it as we rounded the bend.

"Careful, dear," said my wife, "there's a car coming."

Obviously she'd seen it too.

"Yes," I replied, " Don't worry, I saw it too!".

We drove on a little further and rounded the next bend, expecting to see and pass the car we'd both seen a minute or two previously, but to our astonishment, there was nothing to be seen. Thinking that the car we'd seen had run off the road and gone down the embankment on our left, I stopped our car. We both got out and searched along the side of the road, expecting to see a damaged auto down below, but there was nothing. We never did pass that car. To this day we can't explain what we both obviously saw, except that perhaps the explanation was that we "saw" a car that had come to grief in an accident some time previously! The "car" that I had seen fitted the description of that that my wife described....an old, rounded shape of a pre-war car. Who knows - was it "re-living" the past?

A similar "sighting" occurred many years later when I
was out hunting with a friend in outback Queensland.
Again, it was a bright, sunny and windless morning,
with good visibility. My friend, John, and I were walking through long, dry grass on the top of a high bank following the Burdekin River, looking for a track to follow. Suddenly we both stopped, for there ahead of us about 200 yards away we spied the top half of a vehicle traveling reasonably fast across our line of vision,going from left to right.

The car could be seen intermittently through the iron-bark trees ahead that was part of the open forest country that we were in. We both spoke almost simultaneously. "There's gotta be a road over there!" Off we headed towards the spot where we'd seen the vehicle, but of course there was no sign of a road - for where would it have crossed the river to our left? There was no bridge. Nothing.

When we stopped and looked about, it suddenly came to us - the vehicle had not left any sign and there was no dust cloud raised from it's passage! For sure, a vehicle moving in that country always left a plume of tell-tale dust behind had there been a track or any type of road - and there wasn't a sign of any car-tracks in the long brown grass. We were puzzled - and then we both realized that the "car" we'd both seen had also not made a sound, either! It had been "dead silent"!

This was another episode of seeing something which apparently "wasn't there".

Had it not been for the fact that on both these separate occasions another person with me had also seen the same thing, I would definitely have thought that they were just "figments of my imagination!"


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Kalgoorlie UFO
Submitted by: Billy Zane, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia (16/05/03)


I was sitting on my back porch when I saw an object coming down from the sky it wasn't that big but it had flashing lights I got my shotgun and started firing at it and it flew away.
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Deceased Stepfather
Submitted by: Peter Alexander, Broom Western Australia (16/05/03)


One day in the shower whilst masturbating I thought I caught a glimpse of someone's reflection in the mirror. It was really freaky so I stopped what I was doing and got out of the shower, wrapped a towel around my torso and slowly paced around the room. I stepped outside still dripping wet. I couldn't stop thinking about that reflection that half resembled my deceased stepfather,who used to beat me.

On my way down the stairs I thought I felt something hit me in the back of the head, I toppled over face first. Everything was black yet luminous at the same time, I felt like I was floating but not through time floating through dense thick material but I was weightless and transparent.
Suddenly a voice shouting abuse, similar to that of my step father surrounded my, I covered my ears but it did nothing and the voice was just as clear. I began to slow down and eventually stopped. Then I awoke in hospital but a micro second before I woke I was confronted by a huge evil face of my step father, his eyes black.

I had a broken sternum and arm as well as a fractured collar bone, my skull was cracked but strangely at the back of my head and I was found face down.

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Strange Experience
Submitted by: KB, USA (16/05/03)

This was the weirdest thing, and it happened last weekend.

My parents left to go to a meeting in Oregon, so I was alone, which was no big deal considering I am seventeen. Well let me explain my house, its nice, actually you walk through the front door and there is a long hall on the right, with the bathroom and three bedrooms, and the middle bedroom is mine. that's all I'm going to explain.

It was like 1:30am and I started to get somewhat tired so I started to get ready for bed. I went in the bathroom to take out my contacts, brush my teeth, go poop (I'm totally joking), anyway I heard running down the hall, by the way the bathroom door was closed, I was like "What the heck, I am alone!". At one point I believe I heard whatever it was laugh.

I was freaked I mean this is my house. I hollered, "is anyone there?" a couple times.

The running stopped.

I opened the door and slowly walked to my room, when I heard something behind me I about died. I then took off running in my room and I locked my door, and I was safe.
My blinds were open, so I turned off my light to see what was outside, three scroungy looking men were just standing there gazing at me, the only thing blocking them from me was a thin window...

My heart stopped. I closed the blinds like I didn't see anyone there, but inside I was dying. I ran in my parents room and called the police and they came, they said to call again if anything else happens, because the creepy men left.

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Haunted Homestead
Submitted by: balata, Australia (08/05/03)

My mother had been working as a child minder for a busy couple for a few years and when they moved, she continued on with them. The couple had bought an early Nineteenth Century house which consisted of the main homestead and a stable block which had been untouched since originally built.

From the beginning, the dining room, verandah and stable area had an eerie feeling which was notable to all who entered. The owners of the house refused to acknowledge anything of the sort but both refused to park their expensive cars under shelter in the stables, instead leaving them out on the roadside. My highly skeptical mother also avoided this area, and put the two young boys tales of hearing someone wandering around at night to overactive imaginations.

One night about a month after moving in, the couple had some friends stay over. They were awoken during the night by one friends scream. They met her in the hallway, trembling and swearing that she had awoken to feel someone touching her on the face. Although it was the middle of the night and she was miles from home the woman left - refusing to stay another minute.

My Mother also began to experience strange noises. When working late, she would hear footsteps along the wooden verandah which would stop near the front door. Upon investigation, no one was ever seen. Once, frightened but determined to ensure no-one was playing a prank, Mum waited seated near the front door, reading a book. As soon as she heard the approaching footsteps, Mum turned on the outside lights and looked out, but of course there was no-one there. Feeling spooked, she locked the door, checked it, and went into the kitchen to make a cup of tea. As she walked back into the lounge room she glanced toward the front door and found it standing open. With no choice but to stay, she relocked the door and called me, and we stayed on the phone until one of the parents arrived home.

Curious about the whole thing, with the couples permission I visited the house during the next day. I went into the stables first, impressed by it's old fashioned charm. I then noticed a door into another room behind the main area and went to investigate. I ignored the goosebumps and opened it, managing to notice a few old stored relics before suddenly feeling incredibly ill and having to rush outside with the feeling I wanted to throw up. Refusing to re-enter I moved on to the main house. I immediately sensed someone in the corner of the verandah, but didn't feel at all threatened so I went inside. I also instantly felt the eerieness of the dining Room, but unlike outside, this presence felt menacing and without hesitation I decided I had had enough and left.
Not long after that day, my Mother was again asked to work late, and I allowed myself to be convinced to stay with her. That night I also experienced the sounds of footsteps on the verandah. The boys told me this was an almost nightly occurrence. The next I heard about the house, the owners were having the stables demolished. No reason was given. They also bought a dog for the boys. Although the property was fully fenced, the dog refused to stay there unless the owners were present, finding incredible ways to escape. Once escaped, the dog would remain outside the house, just across the road until the owners returned home.

It was about this time that the renovations really began. The owners were getting sick of rewiring the house due to light globes blowing and needed more space anyway, thus they decided to add another story. All was going well until everything was almost finished. Inside the old part of the house the noises kept occurring however, and the couple had been having violent arguments. The night before the renovations were complete, a fire started in one of the downstairs bedrooms - the same one that the woman had fled from a few months earlier. Despite it's origins downstairs, the fire left the original building almost completely untouched - but completely gutted the renovations.

The family are now renting a nearby house whilst deciding how to proceed.


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Scary Sleepover
Submitted by: Alex, Brisbane, QLD (12/05/03)

One night me and my friend Steph were sleeping over over Susans. Susan lives in the oldest part of Cleveland (a suburb in Brisbane) and was always saying that she saw ghosts and I never really took any notice of it.

It all started when we were sitting on her front lawn and I thought I could hear footsteps. I asked if the others could hear them and they said yes. We thought some one was coming so we all got up to go inside, but as I got up I saw something on the driveway, it was kinda smoky on the bottom but at the top it was forming the shape of a boy. I asked if the others could see it and they said no, and when I looked back it was gone. I just dismissed it and went into Susans room,

Later that night Steph went outside to have a cigarette and came back and said that she had seen a little boy on the driveway, she called out to him but he ran away. Susan went outside to have a look then came back a few minutes later and said there was no boy but she had seen a tall man who looked like he was wearing a robe.
By this point we were all scared, so we decided to go to bed.

At about 3:00 I woke up and saw a figure near the door, I thought it was Susan but then I realised it was too tall. It was blurry around the edges. I screamed and pulled the covers over my head and sobbed for what seemed like hours.

I finally lowered the blanket and it was gone.

This happened to me when I was 15 and I cant really remember it well.

I think I forced it out of my memory cos I was so
scared!

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Wierd Green Light
Submitted by: Josh Rumballe, Bundaburg QLD Australia (09/05/03)

Well I really didn't believe in ghosts or aliens or really anything paranormal. I have had a Christian up-bringing so you know... I felt that these topics were stupid....

Well getting back on track.... it was about 8:30 at night when I was at my friends place just down the road.. His Mum, older brother and his sister said that there was a ghost in his house but being a stubborn person I am I didn't believe him....

Well let me describe it to you and if any of you know what type of ghost it is then just post it up... well it's just a dull green on top of this bookcase splitting these two rooms so my friend said "are you nervous?" I said nup and so I attempted to communicate with it so I said.."Come out bright... real bright" and it came out the colour of the brightest grass you have seen... is brother who was 18 at the time...
I really want to see more like this stuff so if any one knows of hot spots post them up.


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Dark Figure
Submitted by: balata, Australia (08/05/03)

One night when I was sharing a single bed with my sister, something had fell off the dresser, and woke me up. Let me explain, there were no curtains on the window and the moonlight had shone through that night. As I tried to find out what had fallen off the dresser, I suddenly saw a dark figure beside the bed. I only saw what appeared as the head, shoulders and waist of a person or thing beside my bed.

The only thing I could do was duck under the covers and pinch my sister to wake her. When she did I asked her to turn the lights on. I did not tell my sister what had happened, and eventually I went back to sleep and slept soundly for the rest of the night.
There has been a few strange things that have happen in that house. My Mum has had some strange things happen to her in the same room - she was laying in bed reading while Dad was asleep and all of a sudden there were these two faces or heads coming right at her. She jumped in fright. This woke Dad for a second and he asked what was wrong, but Mum just said "Don't worry about it, it was nothing.".


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Ballarat Experiences
Submitted by:
josh p, Ballarat - Victoria (07/05/03)

I went to bed one night, turned off the light and something like a cat or perhaps a rolled up jumper (or something similar) landed on the bed between my legs. I turned on the light (next to my bed) and there was nothing there but a perfect impression of a circle.

I also hear almost every night, footsteps around the house, always in the same spots. I've been told an old lady died in my bedroom and her bed is in the exact position that her bed was in.

Also my Mum has had an experience today (06-05-03). She got home, and as she was putting the key in the lock part of the door seemed to become transparent. It lasted for about 3 to 4 seconds - just long enough to see that the bathroom door was open (which we always close to help keep the heat in). She was pretty scared because she had not seen or even heard of this kind of thing before.

I've had more than my fair share of experiences over the years. Sometimes it seems like I have been singled out. I don't know why (or maybe I do?).
I also think Ballarat should be investigated as there are some very, very strange stories here. Also a lot of UFO sightings (myself included) however nobody seems interested.... I don't know why.

Thank-you...

Hi Josh.... thank you for your experiences! We'd be very interested in doing an investigation in Ballarat sometime in the future... if anyone has any paranormal information about the area we would love to hear more!

- The Paranormal Australia Team.


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Loud Noise
Submitted by:
bella315, Adelaide - South Australia (03/05/03)

Twice now, at around 2.30am in the morning I have woken to hear a loud metallic/scraping noise which seems to travel around the outside of the small cottage where I live with my two children.

No one else is woken by this sound and it really is loud!!

I have been unwilling to go out and investigate but by the light of morning there is nothing to indicate anything has happened to make this noise. The closest thing I can think of to describe it is that it sounds like a sheet of iron is being dragged around the outside walls of the house. I am definitely awake when this is going on and have made sure that it is not water pipes or anything like that.

We have lived here for nearly five years and although I have had some strange (non frightening) feelings around/about the place this is the only time anything like this has happened.

The cottage is approx. 60 years old.
Has anyone experienced anything similar or can shed some light on it for me?

Hi bekka315, this sounds very unusual indeed!

The fact that only you are being woken up by this incredibly loud noise could be that you are hearing this noise "psychically" rather than actually hearing it audibly with your ears.

Perhaps the sound is of an event that happened in the past that was somehow "recorded" into the atmosphere of the place, or perhaps it is a spirit or ghost trying to get your attention?

Does anyone else have any thoughts? Post a message on the Discussion Board.

- The Paranormal Australia Team.


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Kirsty's Ouija Board Experience
Submitted by:
Kirsty, Brisbane (28/04/03)


I have had many experiences with the unusual or inexplicable. I would like to share an experience of mine as a form of warning to those who are curious about Ouija boards or seances. I can remember clearly the moment when I got my own proof that something exists in another realm.... it was when I was having a seance with a friend approx. 6 years ago.

We had done quite a few seances together, but there was always the small doubt that the other person involved was pushing the glass. On this particular occasion I asked her to let me try by myself. When the glass moved, there was no one else to doubt but myself, and I knew I was not pushing the glass. I knew at that moment that what I was playing around with was REAL. I then went on to do several seances by myself over the next month or 2 that lasted for a few hours each. I have not been a part of a seance since then and would HIGHLY recommend that NO ONE mess around with them without first learning very clearly how to protect themselves. Or better yet, attend one of the spiritual churches in your state (who will probably advise you not to do a seance) and learn about clairvoyance and spiritualism if you are interested in pursuits of this fashion. The reason I advise this is that I have learned first hand the risks that you take.

Over the following 3 years I felt as though there was a bad presence with me, my life deteriorated, my health deteriorated, I was much more prone to depression than previously. I can clearly remember going to bed one night and hearing the babble of voices like being in a crowded room. I thought that I must have become schizophrenic or was going crazy. My own "inner voice" was drowned out most of the time. When I looked within myself for advice on what to do with any situation I got so many conflicting opinions I was confused. I learned not to listen to my thoughts because I felt I could not trust them. I had my good days and my bad days, but the point is I had many instances where I was scared, felt my mind was weak, felt that I had something bad with me, dragging me down.

The turning point came when attending spiritual church for the first time. I was lucky enough to attend on the night a highly respected clairvoyant based in Brisbane, Jason MacDonald (one of the best I've ever seen) was present to do clairvoyant readings for the congregation. (As far as I know, most churches have a guest to do clairvoyance each week) My question to him was "Is the person that I've been talking to through automatic writing really my (deceased) father?" (Automatic writing is rather like a seance but the tool used is a pen and paper instead of a glass and paper letters or Ouija board. It is seen as not as dangerous... I still foolishly do this from time to time...I know how to protect myself now but I still feel the effects of the influence on my mind for hours/days/weeks afterwards depending upon who comes to talk to me) I digress,...His response to me was "You did some seances a few years ago... you picked up something... it is not a good presence". He then went on to talk about how it had attached itself to me and had been with me ever since. I had had this very thought so many times and thought I was a candidate for the loony bin!

I took part in the healing meditation that night (group meditation where some of the people are given hands on spiritual healing by another trained member of the congregation) and the difference it made to my mind was beyond my expectations. Life hasn't been perfect since then... it never is, but the feeling of something bad being around me has gone. My mind is my own and I know that my thoughts are my own.

If you have an interest in seances I STRONGLY urge that if you must do them, PLEASE learn how to protect yourself first. If you do one thing, please ask your spirit guides to protect you (whether you believe they exist or not). You may feel that it is silly... if you get your own proof that these things are real you will be glad you bothered.

I don't profess to know everything about these things or be particularly gifted with psychic ability but since I was a teenager I have occasionally known things before they have happened, known when a loved one is ill or passed over and have had a few things come through automatic writing in recent years that I could not possibly have known that turned out to be true.

While putting sheets on my daughter's bed approx. 6 years ago I turned around to see my cigarette butt that I had recently stubbed out (the lit end down) standing the other way up, balanced in the middle of the ashtray. There was no one home but my daughter and myself and the ashtray was atop a tall chest of drawers that my daughter, being a toddler, could not reach even if she did have the motor skills accomplish such a feat (which at age 2 she did not). I cannot explain logically what I saw. I assume it was someone trying to tell me that smoking in my daughter's bedroom was a no-no. (I no longer smoke inside at all).

I am not trying to say that all ventures into the inexplicable are bad. They can be very rewarding, especially learning to communicate with your spirit guides. But I am saying that doing so without learning to do it the right way can be taking unnecessary risks and lead you down the path that I walked for 3 years of my life.

It is not worth it when a little prior knowledge can keep you safe.

Thanks for your experience and advice Kirsty, I'm sure that many people would find it valuable and hopefully if they do decide to use a Ouija board they'll avoid a similar experience

- The Paranormal Australia Team.


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Ghostly Happenings
Submitted by:
Adam, UK (27/04/03)


I am 18 now, and 8 years ago before we moved we lived in a long terraced row of small houses which dated around 110-120 years of age.

There was only me and my mother who lived in the house, and 'weird things' always happened around the house. Such as drawers opening and closing in the middle of the night and sinks full of water in the morning. And on some occasions when the weather was good, faint figures of uniformed officers could be seen, both me and my mum saw them. That used to scare the hell out of me, And on several occasions I used to run down the stairs and something used to attract my attention and when I turned around there was that vague figure at the top of the landing, maybe for only a second or two, but it was there. Since we moved 8 years ago, The house has been sold more times in the last 8 years than it has in almost 100 years. How strange.
Two years ago I went to see an old neighbour who lived just 2 doors down from us, And three more reports of similar activity had been reported in nearby houses. I am still not yet sure what happened around that area long ago, but all I know so far is the street previously was an old bus depot. I am unsure but I have heard from my grandma who lived in the area.

That the bus depot was destroyed in a huge fire, Dates still not sure.

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Locomotive Spirit #2
Submitted by:
David Williamson, Australia (19/04/03)


I agree with Paul Bird (see Locomotive Spirit on Page 9) about that sprit as I was there for a visit last weekend during Steamfest.

We got to the loco shed and our tour guide was taking us around where #30 (that same engine) was simmering. The whistle sounded a bit and no one was in the cab as only museum members are allowed to, only the ones who were signed up to do so.

The most freaky thing that happened while our group was there, was nothing to do with the engine but inside the shed there was a figure of a man in overalls and a drivers cap standing in this dark area. Even the tour guide stopped talking to someone who believe it or not asked about the ghost that they had heard of in the museums Newsletter.
One lady who was there burst into tears and she said something like "I can't stand this area it's making me cry" and bolted out of the gate and ran toward the train platform.

Now I know what the museum member (Paul Bird) was talking about as I just read his experience before writing mine.

He is still there, he hasn't gone.

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