Issue date: Saturday, August 26, 2006
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Dear Readers:
I'm smiling to myself as I'm preparing
this week's issue
because I have a sneaking suspicion that one
day, in the
not-too-distant future, my highly skeptical
significant
other is gonna crack. Yes, I think he's going to
come over
to 'our side'. It's high time too, considering all
the
weird things that continually happen around our home.
At
present, although we've had some weird happenings
here,
and we have both witnessed Mystic the cat chasing
unseen
objects, I have never felt that there were any
'resident'
spirits or energies here. Until today, that
is.
About a year ago, we found the oddest little object,
on
the living room carpet if I remember correctly. It is
a
small (less than an inch long), very thin metal rod or
pin,
with knobby things at either end, and it looks much
like
the little pin that would be found holding a watch
strap
together. It really puzzled us but neither one of us
could
figure out where it came from and eventually we dropped
it
into a junk drawer. Some time later, my s/o was up late
one
night snacking and the next morning he presented me
with
another little pin. He had found it in the bottom of a
bag
of trail mix!
Well, that got me going. I
thought, okay, the mystery is
solved, He occasionally buys the
same bags of trail mix
so I was certain that's where the first
pin had come from
too. We did a bit of searching and found the
first pin and
I immediately dug out the empty trail mix bag from
the
garbage, looked up the manufacturer and contacted
them
about pin. I was appalled at the idea that someone
may
accidentally swallow one of those little pins,
especially
if a child was munching on the mix. On their
instructions,
I taped one of pins to the empty bag and took it
back to
the store and filled out a form for the manufacturer
to
look into this and I considered this to be pretty much
a
case closed.
Many weeks or even months
have passed, and yesterday, lo
and behold, something familiar
was glistening on the living
room carpet. I picked it up and to
my astonishment, it was
yet another pin. After showing it to my
s/o, I put it in
the kitchen, very puzzled, because there has
been no trail
mix in the house for the longest time so that
apparent
source was effectively ruled out. And today, I
found
another pin, that is now taped to a piece of paper
along
with the other. When I expressed my amazement to my
s/o,
and I jokingly said that it's our ghosts at work, he
told
me that he'd had a strange experience last night after
I
had gone to bed. He was watching TV and heard a
large,
sharp bang from the kitchen, and while he'd thought it
was
one of the cats initially, he found both of them curled
up
nearby the sofa. When he went to investigate in the
kitchen
there was nothing out of place. I reminded him that
he'd
told me of similar events before, each time
unexplainable,
and especially surprising coming from this
skeptic! I am
thinking that the last noisy mystery disturbance
in the
kitchen was probably around the time we found the
previous
pin.
continued...
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We
live in a home that I believe inherently attracts spirit
visitors due to its odd line-up with some hydro towers in
our neighborhood. Now I am wondering if a new group of
ghosties isn't dropping in now and then, making some noise
and leaving us little markers to let us know they've been
here.
I am tempted now to think these little pins are a
phenomena
called apports. Wikipedia defines an apport as
"the
transference of an article from an unknown source, to
you,
or another place by unknown means. The item can be
any-
thing, from coins and jewellery from ancient times,
to
modern objects such as watches and keys."
Apports are often associated with spiritualist activities
such as séances, as well as with poltergeist activity. If
you have ever had items unexplainably appearing in your
home
or environment, or items disappearing only to be
found again
somewhere else with no rational explanation of
how it got there,
you may have experienced apports. There
have even been cases
reported of people actually seeing
objects falling to the floor
or even dropping into their
lap from thin air, or seemingly,
from a ceiling.
In my old home, I had a beautiful brass
bottle opener
disappear after using it at a party, only to find
it a
few months later in a box of kitchen linens under
the
counter that hadn't been touched (to my knowledge)
since
we'd moved in.
A dear friend of mine
once had a lovely antique watch
appear in the middle of a bed
she had just made, and
another time, she was something appear
and drop into her
laundry basket, right before her eyes, from
the ceiling
of her laundry room.
Have you
ever had any apport experiences? If so, please
share them with
me and our readers,
mailto:
paranormal@zsuzsana.com Carpe
Diem!
Zsuzsana
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Our Readers Respond with Personal Ouija Experiences
I had an experience with a ouija board some 40 years ago.
At the time I was a young teen, maybe 13 or 14. A friend
of
mine and I were using the ouija board and we asked it
when I
would die. It said I would die when I was 16. I
asked how I
would die and it answered that I would die in
a
dream.
That was a surprising answer and I pondered it
long.
Obviously, at 51 now, I did not die when I was 16.
When
I was 16, however, I did become a born again
Christian.
Prior to this, when I was 16 also, I did have an
abortion.
There was a death there but not mine. In becoming
a
Christian, the Bible talks about it as a "re-birth"
with
the "old man" being put to death. Was this the death
that
the ouija board spoke of? And what is the significance
of
dying in a dream? What does that mean? Does it speak
of
the ethereal nature of faith? I have not come up with
any
answers on that.
This experience scared
me and I don't believe I ever used
the ouija board
again.
Kathy E.
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I
have not used the board in many years but it 1972, I was
leaving
my husband and asked for the initials of my next
husband, if I
was to have one. The initials came up RES and
I did not know
anyone with those initials but kept it my
memory just in
case.
I moved to another state and within 6 months I met
the
person with those initials and married him the next
year.
I am still with him.
Peace,
Thyme
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Dear Zsuzsana,
When I was a young teen, my mom bought me
a Ouija board.
My parents were planning a trip to visit my
grandparents
in Tennessee. We decided to play with the Ouija
board that
night. As we were taking turns asking questions, I
felt
prompted to ask it if my parents should leave in
the
morning at 10 a.m. as they planned to do. The
board
promptly answered "no". When asked why, it spelled
out
"accident".vFurther questions led to "accident with
a
semi", and "tire blowout on car." At that my father
said
this was hooey, that those are brand new tires on the
car
and a new tire is not going to blow out like that and
then
my father left the room. My mom and I kept playing
and
asked the board if there was a way to avoid the
accident.
It replied, "yes." So we asked how. The board replied
to
leave at a later time, so that's what my parents did;
they
left at 10:05 a.m., to the perturbment of my father.
Need-
less to say, they were on the highway (and at that time
the
highways were 2 lanes, one in each direction, not the
big
2 to 4 lanes each way of today). There wasn't much
traffic,
which was pleasing to my father since he was driving.
Then,
all of a sudden, to my father's amazement a big rig
coming
in the opposite direction just passed by and the left
front
tire on the car blew out. He lost control of the car
and
ended up on the opposite side of the road (the
oncoming
side). My mom and I were very shaken and I mentioned
to
her, "Boy, was Ouija right or what?" If we would have
left
on time like Dad wanted to do, we would be splattered
all
over the front of that truck or worse dead, because we
could
have hit that passing semi head-on. Ouija saved our
lives
by telling us to leave a few minutes later. My dad
changed
the tire and got back on the road. We stopped at the
next
gas station/restaurant and in the parking lot my dad
looked
over the tire real good to see if he could determine why
it
blew out. The only thing he could find was that a cord
in
the tire separated which caused it to fail. I remember
say-
ing to him, "I guess brand new tires can be bad." At
any
rate, Ouija saved our lives that day, so whatever makes
it
work, whether it be a person's subconscious or a
spirit
from beyond, I'm glad we got warned and heeded
that
warning.
Sincerely,
Janet
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Dear
Zsuzsana,
My daughter and her friends unleashed an evil
spirit into
our home, that created such havoc in our lives we
had to
have a priest come in and bless the house. My daughter
and
her friends were playing blindman's bluff in the house.
We
had a sofa that sat just a few inches off the floor.
Some-
thing reached from under the sofa and grabbed her
ankle
and tripped her. When they turned the lights back on,
she
had a hand print around her ankle. This thing would
turn
gas space heaters on and off. I'm sure it would have
been
worse, but we had a good spirit in the house as well
who
seemed to temper the evil one. I used to think that
ouija
boards were just silly toys but that truly changed
my
mind. The house is now longer there by the way.
'Katrina'
saw to that.
Susan
Johnston
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Zsuzsana,
I have had two remarkable experiences with
my Ouija, and I
have seen others using my board with great
'success'.
I purchased the board in 1990, and we used it at
my eighth
grade graduation party. I was busy being the
hostess, so
I couldn't participate. I happened to be
walking through
the kitchen (where the board was being used),
and I noticed
a girl with her hands on the planchette behaving
strangely.
She seemed as if she was in a trance; her head was
down and
she was swaying side to side. My mother saw this
and
quickly went over to her. She placed her hands on
the
girl's shoulders and shook her. She 'came to' and did
not
know what had just happened. She was slightly feverish
as
well.
The second time I had success with
the Ouija board was when
I lived in my very first
apartment. I had been noticing
weird goings-on (clothing
in the hamper that were hung up
when I returned from work, front
door open when I had
locked it behind me, soda cans opened when
I had left them
unopened, etc.) in my apartment.
One night my friend, my boyfriend, and I decided to use
the Ouija board to see if there truly was a spirit in my
apartment. I did not touch the planchette, only my friend
and boyfriend did; I wrote down the questions and answers
to
document our findings.
We started by asking if there were
any spirits in the room,
and someone responded
unintelligibly. After a few moments,
my friend had
deciphered that the language being 'spoken'
was not English but
Russian, which happens to be her native
tongue. The person
revealed herselfas a three year old
girl who was executed during
the Holocaust. When asked how
such a small girl was
getting along on the other side, she
responded that she had a
caregiver: my friend's deceased
mother, L. They then
spoke with Lucia for a while. She
and the little girl were
inhabiting my apartment, along
with the spirit of an animal, and
the mischievous spirit,
Michael. Michael was the spirit
who was playing the tricks
on me, and he was not evil, he just
didn't know he was
dead. We also found he was in his late 30's
when he died.
After a couple of hours of speaking with L, we
ended the
experience.
A few months later, my
friend who has very psychic
perceptions came over to analyze the
apartment. She
'felt' the presence of Michael, even gave
me his name,
and labeled him as being 38 when he died. She
had no
knowledge of what we had found out from the Ouija
board.
I had made a visit back to my hometown for a
surprise
party for my grandfather. My boyfriend had
accompanied
me on this vacation, and we also had my brother's
birthday
present to take with us. My boyfriend had painted
a
watercolor for my brother, and before we left on
our
journey, we wrapped it in butcher paper and packed it
in
the suitcase. Apparently Michael's spirit got trapped
in
the wrappings, because Michael disappeared from
my
apartment and reappeared in my brother's.
He did some of the same silly things in my brother's
apartment that he had done in mine. One day my mother
spent the night at my brother's and someone came up to her
and whispered into her ear while she was asleep. The
whisper was, "Tell Sammy I need help." It surely made a
believer out of my mother!
I moved to a different
apartment and I received a package
from my brother. It was
something he had purchased a
long time before and it had just
been sitting in his closet
for months. When I opened the
package (a Snoopy jack-in-
the-box), I set it on the floor and
went over to my
computer to send a thank you. All of the
sudden the
jack-in-the-box started playing music, and I knew
Michael
had returned.
Quite awhile after
that wonderful positive Ouija
experience, my friend and I
decided to give it another
try. I had been reluctant to
try it again because I didn't
want to have a negative
experience. We did it anyway,
and I tried to take notes as
well as touch the planchette.
We first spoke to a man who had
been a lover to my friend
in a past life. He was a little
scary, as his love for her
was still strong and he asked her to
join him on the other
side. He then apologized to her for
being so selfish and
left our space so that the spirit of my
deceased grand-
mother could speak to me. She asked all
sorts of specific
questions about my brother's health, and she
also told me
that I should get rid of my boyfriend because he
was evil.
He was evil because his twin brother always competed
with
him. (She ended up being partially correct). The
most
amazing part of speaking with my grandmother was that
out
of nowhere she said, "Snoopy needs to poop." Snoopy
was a
dog I was dogsitting for a friend. Sure enough, I
opened
the door, Snoopy ran right to the grass, and he did
his
business.
We then spoke with Michael and
he claimed he knew where my
long lost hammer was. He said
he would give it to me that
night. I jokingly asked if he
was still a good spirit,
and he said he was. He never did
reveal where my hammer
was, and I think he was insulted by my
questioning his
intentions. I never experienced him
again. He then went
to my friend's house, but we haven't
heard from him since.
Samantha
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Dear
Zsuzsana,
I own a Ouija board which I haven't felt
comfortable
using since an incident that happened several
years
back. After I had bought the board I had taken it to
a
friend's home at their request. Well, another
friend
was there who immediately took the board and
declared
herself a "master" of Ouija use ... later it
was
discovered that her only knowledge of how to use
the
board came from the horror movie "The
Witchboard."
This important omission on her part resulted in
quite
a scary experience for the rest of us. While she
and
the brother of the friend who asked me over were
using
the board and moving the planchette in the way
they
did in the movie, something started happening. Now
for
some background information, the home we were in
was
not air-conditioned and it was in the middle of
the
afternoon on a clear and sunny day with the
outside
temps being around 90. The air inside the
home
dropped 30 degrees or more and all of a sudden
we
started hearing a raspy hoarse breathing. The
spirit
on the board was trying to tell the brother that
it
was his great grandparent and had died of
emphysema.
As the conversation went on, the breathing sound
got
louder, and we could tell that it was centered in
the
middle of the room about six feet off the
ground.
Around this time the whole bunch of us
started
feeling ill and I finally said that enough is enough
and
took the board and put it away. As I did so, I
discovered a perfect figure 8 at the center of the
back of
the board. It wasn't until the board was put
back into its box,
closed and then taken outside that
the room returned to normal.
Upon further exploration
we discovered that the being talking
was not telling
the truth about its identity, but to this day
have no
idea who or what it really was.
Brightest Blessings
Dan G.
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