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Eerie feelings.
This experience is new to me, therefore the reason I feel creeped out. I've been living in my current house (With my parents, I'm 16) for about a year and a half. When we moved in, I found out about the history of the house, seeing as it is renovated, it still has the original flooring on the first floor, original walls...and interesting characters that lived here. Regardless to the details of the previous inhabitants, this house has a feeling to it.
Recently, more specifically in my room and the hallway beside my room have been...well, excuse my French, but f**cking eerie. That is the best word I can come up with, maybe supernatural is better? Either way, my cat behaves weirdly in the hallway outside my room. He'll just hiss, whilst obviously staring at something in the air, which, apparently I am oblivious to. Okay, that I can handle. In my room, where three inhabitants have killed themselves, I get cold feelings. You may think I'm paranoid, and I was pretty sure I was myself, it seems near impossible now. It's not like I'm constantly thinking about it, I'll be sitting here, on my laptop, not thinking about this paranormal issue, with my window and door closed, and suddenly it'll be freezing. Few seconds later, it'll be back to normal. And no, I don't have some medical condition that gives me the shivers or whatnot.
Also, I see some strange lights, flashes. I don't know how to define it. Just the other day, I was lying on my bed, reading a book, home alone, so no sibling disturbance, and I just see a flash pass my eyes. It wasn't the street lights, or any cars. It was in broad daylight and so far, I have yet to come across something that could've caused this. Prior to last week, I've experienced this flashy encounter about four more times.
I'll just remind you that I'm not thinking about these occurrences. They are rarely on my mind, only after some thing's happened. I'm not exactly spiritual, but I do believe there's something out there. I'm not religious either.
I guess the worst part is the creaky floorboard happenings. At one part of my room, there is a floorboard or two that creak when you step on them. Directly, if you stand next to them, the floor doesn't make a sound. There have been countless times that the boards have creaked, in manner of somebody walking across them, but naturally, I'll be in the room alone. This is just disturbing at the moment of action, after that I just forget about it.
My dad admitted that he's had a few weird feelings in this house as well, thinking they are paranormal, but I did not know this until about a month ago when I asked him about his opinion on the house.
My main question is, and I just realized how long my introduction was, please accept my apologies, what do you think is going on?
Anything I should try or do?
Any specific reason why my cat would hiss at empty spaces, in one particular area of my house?
Whatever you have to say or propose, feel free, I'm not going give harsh ratings because I disagree. I'm open to anything :)
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There is a ghost currently living in your house. I wouldnt really call it living. But the presents are there. The flashes of light is your ghost. And cats and dogs have a extra sense and they can see these things or just sense them which would explain your cat looking into space. Honestly, I think that the ghost that is walking about your room is one that has died in your room that is why it has continued to stay where it is and not change rooms or houses. Dont ever get a ouija board to contact it. You can tell it to go away, you may need to repeat it multiple times but i find it works as i have had experiences with ghosts/spirits. You can get a physhic to talk to the ghost and ask either what it wants/reasons to stay and she can help you get it away if you do want it gone. Some people arnt really bothered at the ghosts because they are not harmful. Its natural to be creeped out or scared. I wouldnt give it ALOT of directions and talk to it TOO much but you can say the odd thing like "please leave" or explain that he/she needs to cross over.
Hope I helped in some way!
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My mother in law and wife see ghosts. Having read your question, their advice is:
You have a ghost in your house. This ghost is someone who has died but for whatever reason refuses to "cross over" to the "other side". Likely the ghost doesn't realize he/she is dead. The best thing you can do the next time you sense it's presence is to kindly (KINDLY, GENTLY)inform it that it is dead and should cross over to the other side to be with its loved ones. You might have to do this a few times. Do not be afraid. The ghost isn't able to hurt you--he/she is just lost and needs directions.
If this doesn't work, tell the ghost to go to a funeral. The white light that leads to the other side is always present at funerals and at the scene of any death.
Dr. Chad
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Here are some rational explanations to what happened:
Creaking Floorboards- Old houses are known to creak, because changing temperatures cause the wood to swell or shrink.
Flashing- Even though it happens during broad daylight the sun could hit a car just right and bounce the light into your room, causing you to see a flash
Coldness- This is just an educated guess, but it seems likely to me. When we think of something eerie(consciously or subconsciously) we get goosebumps. Our brain automatically relates goosebumps to cold. So it sends a message of cold through your body, and you actually feel cold when it isn't. Like I said this is a guess, not fact.
Cat Hissing- As for the cat I don't really know. Could there have been some sort of bug like a fly in the air? Cats don't always look at what they're hissing at. So maybe it was hissing at someone in the hall? Maybe you? You could have even been behind it when it started to hiss, and it still might have been hissing at you.
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There are a whole bunch of factors that could be at play here.
You live in an old house, and when the idea of ghosts was introduced to you, you probably started to experience confirmation bias.
Confirmation Bias is one of the reasons we naturally read too deeply into coincidences.
Imagine this, Someone tells you that your grandmother was phycic.
That week, you think about that guy at the party last Saturday and then, he calls!
Or You think about that guy at the party last Saturday and you never hear from him again.
Which situation are you more likely to remember?
Our brain naturally remembers things that CONFIRM our earlier ideas (even if we don’t hold those ideas strongly yet).
I think you are also human, so you have, like all human beings, a hypersensitive agency-detection device.
Okay, what they hell does that mean? It means our brains are PROGRAMED to assume that there is an agent, or a living, thinking things, behind EVERYTHING. Agency is the capacity for a begin to make choices and to impose those choices on the world. Basically, it’s the ability to act.
It’s a good thing we assume everything is an agent from an evolutionary perspective. It kept our ancestors safe. Anything else that was an agent, was perceived as a threat, and anything that MAY BE an agent, was also, assumed to be a threat. Just to be safe. If you saw something in the dark, it was safer to assume it was a wolf, then the wind, just in case it was actually a wolf!
So, the moment there is even the slightest chance there might be something with agency, we assume it is. And we get a bit scarred.
So, were given the idea of ghosts, and COMPETELY without believing it or accepting in, your active little human brain went out searching for confirmation and in the search, it automatically ASSUMED agency, ‘cause that is what a well-evolved human brain does.
You might also be stressed out and a bit anxious, and seeking control by exploring subjective ideas. It’s much easier to experience control and understanding of subjective ideas, then the more objective trials and worries of life.
A study in the journal Science was published last year and found that when they asked people to recall a time when they felt anxious and out of control, they suddenly saw more patterns in random noise, accepted and assumed there were more conspiracies in newspapers they were given to read and imagined illusory correlations in financial markets than people who were not asked to think of times when they were out of control.
Our brain seeks control and organization. When we lack that in reality, we sometimes try to construct it in fantasy.
You can probably tell I don’t believe in ghosts. I believe that the human brain is amazing, and that neuroscience is one of the most exciting sciences out there...
If you want to read more along the lines of how and why your brain loves to think about the paranormal, pick up a copy of the Michael Shermer’s book, Why People Believe Weird Things. It’s an awesome read.
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