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Experiences Page 6:
The Smell of Death
Strange Scratches
Prospect Haunting UPDATED!
Accidental Psychic
Guardian Angel or Ghost?
Quarantine Station
Factory Apparition
Arizona Ghost

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Arizona Ghost
Submitted by:
Arizona U.S.A. (14/08/02)

We moved here a year ago from CA.

My husband went outside to water the yard. I was in our room reading. He came in and said, "Oh wow, I thought you came outside and wanted me for something."

I told him no and asked why, what's up? He said he went to turn on the water and someone said, HEY to him and when he turned around it walked around the side of the house.

WE just know it was a spirit. You know how you just know, can't explain?

I went outside to see hoping it would be there but, nothing. The dogs were quiet.
We believe and we have a open mind. I hope it comes back so it will reveal itself to me. I want to communicate with it. Native Americans lived here on this land.

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Factory Apparition
Submitted by:
Michael - Western Australia (12/08/02)

I saw a ghost at work, it was approx. 3 am.

I am a shift worker and that involved regular checks off my area, on such a check I saw a man of Italian appearance walk past me 20 metres away and then disappear, it is a noisy area but I know what I saw, the factory is about 50 years old.

Some say it was just tired eyes but I know I saw the old gent and I hope he will rest in peace soon.
Other people have seen this too. I had a clear view as he stopped and looked at me. The factory was cockburn cement in the raw mill area others will confirm this.

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Quarantine Station
Submitted by:
SD - Australia (10/08/02)


I visited the Manly Quarantine Station a couple of years ago. I must admit that I did not expect to experience anything strange that night.

I was standing in front of the fireplace in the old hospital ward that is now an exhibition room. I was focused on reading a blurb about all the diseases that they treated near a plaster cast of an arm that had smallpox all over it.

I felt the firm touch of a hand on my right shoulder & top of my arm. Without looking, I just assumed that it was my partner. When I looked up, my partner was on the other side of the room. The closest person to me was our tour guide! I told him what had happened & he said that such experiences were commonplace!
Read more Quarantine Station Tour Reviews and information on the Tours page.

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Guardian Angel or Ghost?
Submitted by:
Josh - Brisbane, Australia (08/08/02)


Last year I had really wanted to see a ghost... see what they were like and experience that sort of thing..

A few months after that, I woke up one morning, really early... it was like 5am, still totally dark.. something made me lean up and look over the covers at the end of my bed. (im getting really spooked typing this even) I saw two figures ... faint but definitely two figures sitting on the end of my bed in the dark.. kind of pale... I just stared at them... for all of two seconds then I submerged back into the safety of my blankets... I stayed there and told myself it was all my imagination..

Then I felt something start to depress the blanket down on my leg near my foot... like a hand pressing down softly, it touched my leg lightly.. then it started to slide up my leg and when this happened, I freaked and threw the blankets up and ran past the end of the bed out the door, (closing it) and out to the far end of the house and slept there...
Even then, I did not sleep... It was impossible to go back to sleep, My room was diretly down the other end, the doorway visible down the hallway. Later, when I had started to relax myself and get comfortable, I felt a very definite press of the blanket right on the tip of my big toe which was pointing up. My back erupted in goosebumps and that made sure I didn't go to sleep at all.

I was too scared to go back into my room for clothes that morning, and slept out of my room for a week before I summoned the courage to go back inside. I still get the feeling Im not alone and I'm constantly checking over my shoulder to make sure I'm alone in my room. I really want to move out.

People tell me, everyone has a guardian angel, and that it was my guardian.. I hope it was.

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Accidental Psychic
Submitted by:
Rabbit - Portugal (02/08/02)


hello, i would like to share my experience with you and i am sorry if english will suck a bit ;)

ok, i had 15 years or so and i was enjoying a full year in Madrid - Spain with my family cause my father had to work in there, all was well till one day riding with my mountain bike (whose i had the passion for them) i came across a sign while going a almost 30km/s as shown on the bike, this sign was like 4 lights, just like the normal one but when 1 light goes of, the next turn on, i didn't understand that this was a sign like SLOWDOWN because there is another road intersecting it, i said ...BAHHH... as the road is all downhill and running real fast all i remember is i saw a car, the face of the driver, me saying NO (low afraid tone) and don't remember anything else ,didn't feel anything ,probably like dead.

i woke in the hospital with the side near my eye open with almost u could see the bone, i was totally full of blood around my body, i done a little operation to close the enjury , when i woke didn't remember my name or who's my family...

slowly begun to remember all, that same day i went home many hours later with a big headache, didn't eat anything, tired i try to sleep with my father next to me sitting on a chair afraid for me..

the day passed and i am a bit ok, but if my mother opens the courtains or a window , i pass out, lose consciounce..

i cured after a month of everything ,but my personality have changed a lot, i became a bit more emotional, i started to get an interest for the paranormal, i became more open with people , but i somehow become more afraid of SOMETHING, don't know what, i had a window next to my bed and sometimes i would not sleep and cover my head with the sheet afraid that something may come from the window, is like i feel something around, i started to get also and rarely some visions..

i must say i never thought or cared for anything of this, i was just the next crap guy who you would love or hate with just one meeting...

back to what i said, i had posters of Nirvana band, ozzy, Soundgarden, i love music, but one night around 9:00 pm i was reading a magazine saying that tonight may jesus appear in the sky or something like this...of course i said is a bunch of lies as always....NOT!!!

i started to stare at a poster of Ozzy and i swear to god i could see (even if not very defined) the face of JESUS, i never cared for religion, i still have till now my doubt about religion ,so don't take me as a religion freak, but i swear i saw his face, can't understand if was smiling or keeping a normal face, my mom stared at me and said ,hey what's wrong??...i said there's a face in the picture, i told her to take out the picture and throw it right now!!

time passed, all fine, i started to get what i would call sensitiveness, not that i see ghosts or monsters or anything, but i can sense the feelings of a person in front, it's hard to explain but, for example :

"i am going out, my father is smiling at me, give me some money....if he is angry cause i am going out but laughing to make me happy, I KNOW he is lying, even if he swear that he is not!".

i get all kind of premonitions but indirecly, like..

i talk to an MSN friend while playing chess on MSZONE, i started to tell him a story just to make him afraid, but the story is a lie, i said that i was in the house and in the kitchen appeared a dead cat making a wierd sound, and all kind of lies to scare him..... good...
next day, at 11:15am i see my father catching his face, what happend i ask, he said MISHO the cat i loved so much has fallen from the 6th floor in front of my eyes!

i understood that what i said has happend, but what is the difference, is that i said a dead cat IN the kitchen, while the real cat was OUTSIDE the kitchen, but anyway there is a DEAD cat whatever it is, so means i knew and not coincidence.

because is too hot right now, i turn on the air condition i go out the house i turn it off, but strange 2 days ago i went out but this time made something different, i turned the knob so that is on OFF mode, if you click the button, the Air Conditioner won't work, strange but true it happend only on this day ONLY.

so, i came from outside a few hours later, my mother told me, hey, i cleaned your room and was so hot, your father told me, why don't you close the door and windows and turn on the air condition "it never happend before this", my mother told me when she try to turn it on, it didn't work so she left it alone and didn't touch anything...

when she saw me go up, turn the Knob and tell her, I KNEW!

she said, it's the first time we get this idea, but how you knew, i said something in my mind was telling me to turn the knob off because someone might try to use your air conditioner, she stared in disbelief.

Now, all that happend to me as you read might have an explanation or may not, but i have the feeling i became a Psychic or Sensitive man but with a weak link to what may happened, i can know you lie, you are sad ,your are happy, you can't hide your emotions from me at all and amazes people that i don't show up after being with them laughing all night and i tell them, YOUR LAUGHS WERE NOT REAL AND I HATE BEING USED, they may argue, but i know the real truth.

about knowing what WILL happend next, this is more of something that happend to me a bit less, occasionally it happend, however 75% of my dreams become true almost the same day, i can dream of something and it happened, and i can say 75% is not low at all, it scares me sometimes because when i sense something, either a ghost, a lie or just anything, i become a bit muted, i don't suffer of mental illness at all if u are thinking about it, been to a psychiatric doctor and after a month he said, man why you came here, you are in excellent mental state, i did Brain MRI, radiography and all kind of medical stuff with excellent results all the time.

it doesn't bother me to live with it, but i have a question if someone can answer it...

does accident really can open up a part of the brain that is locked giving you special abilities or powers you never knew, like being as i am and much more?

if it's possible for a site or link, or an answer, would be really happy.

Thank you for reading my experience and before leaving now i want to assure you it's all true what i wrote about.

BYE.

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Prospect Haunting
Submitted by:
Kaz - Sydney, Australia (31/07/02)

I have always believed in the paranormal, it was always a favourite topic of discussion amongst my parents and some of their friends, and I loved listening to their scary stories.

When I was 22, I had my own paranormal experience. Much more than I ever cared to have, might I add.

It was 1992 and my then fiancé at the time and our son, moved into a beautiful big brick home in Prospect, it seemed ideal! The rent was very cheap considering how nice the house was, and it wasn't very far from my family either.

Not long after moving into the house though, we began hearing some funny sounds throughout the house after we had gone to bed.

It sounds weird, but there was an odd popping sound which I swear sounded like someone had sat on my closed toilet seat and then got up, and the toilet seat popping back into shape!

Footsteps were also heard, constantly up and down the hallway. My son who was only a tot at the time, would wake up screaming every night at precisely midnight, until I put him into my bedroom with me. I would hear my sons toy train, which had it a little bell on it, ring, I would go to see if my son was awake only to find him snoring soundly.

My fiancé didn't believe in ghosts, and always managed to try and find a logical reason for the sounds we were hearing at first. But after one incident late one night when we had gone to bed, all was quiet when suddenly there was the loudest crash, We both jumped out of bed and raced towards where we'd heard the sound, expecting a burglar only to find absolutely nothing, nothing had fallen, nothing was unlocked and we were alone.

After that he decided he had been a bit hasty on his no such thing as ghosts theory.

I also have witnesses, so I know I'm not entirely crazy here!

I had my entire family over for Christmas dinner. (12 people) when my windows began vibrating with such a force, (it is impossible to replicate it!) then as my Mum walked out of the lounge room to go to the bathroom, the lounger door slowly swung shut behind her. My mum returned to find 11 people sitting there with their mouths wide open!

I would hear rustling in my kitchen, like someone was going through my empty shopping bags! Things also moved about, I would return from shopping to find my coffee mugs had been taken off the mug tree and placed onto my kitchen windowsill.

And I often caught a glimpse out of the corner of my eye, a blonde child's head peeking around my lounge room doorway, but whenever I looked directly it vanished.

I feel I possibly had 2 spirits in this house, one was a man, and although I hadn't seen him myself, friends who had been visiting had, and had asked "oh is your other half home?"

"No" I'd reply, and they'd always say, "Oh, well I just saw a man walk into your bedroom!"

The first year I lived there I was so scared, I found the only way I could get to sleep without strange noises was to set up a tape recorder in the hall way, It was funny because whenever I did that, all would be quiet.

I really had wanted to move, but it seemed everything was against me moving, so I persisted and stayed. I learned to live with my visitors, when they scared my guests I'd tell them to go away and stop it, and they usually did, but they always came back. There were so many occurrences in that house that I'd be here all day telling you about them all!

I stayed in that house for almost 3 years in the end, and I can't say I was sad to leave my friends behind, but I often wonder if they're still there!

UPDATE!

I firstly would like to say i really enjoy your site, keep up the great work.

Secondly and more importantly, I submitted a story a few months ago, titled "Prospect Haunting".

On the weekend I was searching through an old box of photographs, when i came across this photograph (see below) taken at the Prospect house. The photo was taken in the scariest room of the house (my spare room, where my guests would start the night, but I'd find them camping in my lounge room in the morning).

I never knew what the dots in photograph were before, but since i've been checking out some paranormal sites, i can certainly recognise an orb when i see one! And was shocked to count 5 clear orbs in this photo.....Im still stunned!

Hope you can use the photo.

Thanks
Karen

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Strange Scratches
Submitted by:
egypt - new york (30/07/02)

When I was 16, I started experiencing scratches on my arms. I think they would appear while I was asleep. I would find them in the morning while taking a shower, and I would feel a burning sensation. The scratches would last for about a few day after a period of time they stop.

Now, they have started again at age of 24, but now I get them all over my body (especially stomach, arms and legs) while I am awake. I feel them every few minutes, regardless where i am. I feel a stinging/burning sensation, and within a few seconds either scratches OR subtle marks patterns appear on my skin.

Sometimes, the marks resemble letters or numbers, especially the number 3. I had a cousin, who I was very close to, who died when we were young. Her birthday fell on October 3 (possible connection?).

The scratches are thin, but they swell up slightly. I'm very confuse what is happening and why.

Any answer would be appreciated.
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The Smell of Death
Submitted by:
mark eade - Sydney, Australia (30/07/02)

So far, I have never come across another paranormal experience like this one!

One day I was waiting in a doctor's office waiting room (ears, nose & throat) there were others in the same area waiting.

Now I hate waiting, and picked up a magazine and began flipping through it and stopped at a page with article and picture.

If I remember correctly I think it was an anniversary story on the Tiananmen Square massacre. When I opened the page my nose was assulted by the smell of blood and decay for there was a photo of a bloodly mangled body. I slammed the pages shut. I sat there for a few seconds wondering if I had really experienced that! I opened the magazine again to the page and the same horrific smell came out!

I slammed the magazine shut and put it back on the stand.
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