Spirits, specters and moving objects

In My Humble Opinion
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I am definitely a skeptic when it comes to the supernatural. I would like to believe but until I try to shake hands with a ghost and see myself pass through him/her, I remain doubtful.

That being said, a strange thing happened last night. Around 2AM I wake up and go use the bathroom. I come out of the bathroom and head for the bedroom. I purposely closed the door to the bedroom so as not to wake up my girlfriend. I reach out to open the door and when my hand is about two to three inches from the door…the door opens on its own. Nothing fancy, no lights, no apparitions. The door just silently opened completely. Not just a couple of inches, the door opened and swung back as far as it could go, right up against the wall. No sound, and defintitely not slowly like in the movies. It opened just like if someone was opening it at my pace.

I actually was just not going to break my stride and go towards the bed and back to sleep (that’s how well timed it was) but I did a double take when I noticed that I was still looking at my hand. It was still frozen in mid-air, in that split second where you look at both your hand and the knob to make sure you grab it…and the knob wasn’t there.

My eyes were adjusted to the dark so I saw my girlfriend sleeping away. No one was behind the door, it was against the wall at this point. No one behind me. I grabbed the door, it felt normal. Looked behind it, no strings, nothing weird. I closed it and went back to sleep.

Only in the morning, when I told my girlfriend about it, it started to strike me as pretty weird. I think I had assumed it was a breeze last night, but a breeze? In an apartment? The air conditioner was in her room, not outside it. A breeze should have shut the door, not opened it. I can’t explain it but damn, I hope it happens again.

Have you had a similar first hand experience that you just can’t explain? Were you freaked out at the time? After that event, do you believe in the supernatural now, if you doubted before?

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I’m also a skeptic, but I think true skeptics don’t automatically dismiss things either.

I saw a glass slide about 10 feet down a kitchen counter on its own. 5 other people in the room saw it too. I have no proper explanation - examined it for moisture; checked for trick strings in case someone was playing a prank; there were no draughts in the room. I have no idea why it happened.

I’m sure the explanation isn’t occult, but it might be ‘supernatural’ in the true meaning of the word.

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The door could have opened due to gravity.

Check the door for level.

Are you sure the door latched when you left the room?
I’ve never expireced it but my parents first house had ‘problems’ with furniture and stuff moving around on their own.

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I thought of the door not being level but it is. The door was slightly ajar when I went to grab it and it just moved on its own. I’ll definitely watch it like a hawk from now on.

Furniture moving around? Did they see it happen? That’s something I would have liked to see!

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I don’t think they ever saw it directly happen although once after closing the front door while leaving there was a noise and then they opened the door and a chair had been overturned. Mostly the stuff moved overnight and on one occasion they returned to find as they put it ‘everything in the house had been moved but nothing was broken or taken’ that would include the silverware spread through out the house all the pictures on the walls either off or set off kilter, all the dressers emptied. This was one in a long string of events.

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Man that would’ve made me think twice about believing in the supernatural. They should’ve set up a camera to record the events overnight!

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Cats?
Dogs?
Wind?
AC Vent?
A string attached to your GF’s toe, so she caqn have sh^ts & giggles by freaking you out? :smiley:

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Not that easy to do in 1950

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I used to work at a nightclub/steakhouse.

One afternoon as I was starting to prepare the grill I heard a male voice say my first name. It was in a clear voice, not loud, but not a whisper, either. It seemed to come from just inches behind my right ear. I turned to look, but no-one was there. Every hair on my body stood on end, but not from fear or cold. The best description for how I felt would be ‘thrilled’ in the sense of, say, a thrill-ride at an amusement park.

There were only two other people there, yet. One was all the way across the huge club cleaning one of the bars, the other (the D.J.) was sitting at a table about halfway across the club.

I went to the D.J. and told him that I had heard a voice, seemingly, from nowhere and he said, “Oh, so you met Galen! Did he say your name?” and explained that employees (but, no customers) had been hearing him for years. It had happened to him, he said, and it was always the person’s name that they heard. They called him ‘Galen’ because that was the name of the only person that had died in the club. (About fifteen years earlier he had had a heart attack on the dance floor and had died in the lobby waiting 25 minutes for an ambulance to come from 5.2 miles away.)

That evening I told several co-workers the story and about five of them said that it had happened to them too.

After my shift I told the girl I was dating about it over a drink. When the bar closed we decided to go out for breakfast. As she started her car the windshield wipers came on even though she had not had them on at all that day. However, I thought nothing of it at the time.

She dropped me off at my car (still in the bar parking lot). As I started it up MY wipers came on. This time it gave me pause.

I stayed up that night until I was thoroughly sleepy and as I was just nodding off I heard the same voice tell me “Goodnight” by name.

The strangest part of the whole thing is that I just said, “Goodnight, Galen,” and went to sleep.

I never heard from him again.

Absolute truth.

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I’m neither a skeptic, nor an advocate of such happenings.
I believe in the possibility of things that science & cynics cannot explain, as well as the things I have witness to be true. This is a completely personal subject, with each person being affected by experiences, or the lack thereof… differently.

This was your experience. And it’s only you who can decide whether or not to believe, or believe simply in the possibility that it was a supernatural occurance.

Some things just don’t need to be over analyzed. Don’t make yourself crazy coming up with a plethora of possibilities. You certainly would not be alone in the world if you stood firmly behind your gut instinct & said “F*ck yes i think it could have been this” and you certainly will not be the last person who is touched by these type of events.

There are those who have seen things, and still don’t believe them. Those who believe, even without seeing. And those who will never believe and would eternally reject any form of personal proof, no matter how compelling it might be. So taking a broad range of advice on the subject, to determine its authenticity, will probably get you no farther than confused & over anxious, or send you off with an ulcer.

We all should be willing to take more things for face value & leave them be, until a better explanation surfaces on its own.
Not everything in the universe was meant for our tiny ass little minds to fully comprehend, and while we may try to the death to prove this idea wrong, we never will - so we need to just take a shit & relax.

Give it some time to breath, if it was real - it will surely rear itself again, in more obvious ways.

Whatever it was, good luck in finding out =)

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OK so your heard this voice in your home???