The next event in this calendar of strange experiences was maybe the most strange. I was sitting in bed reading yet again, when I decided to settle down for the night. I got out of bed and opened one curtain, not to keen on sleeping with the curtains fully shut, it makes me feel slightly claustrophobic. Anyway, I walked back to the bed, switched off the bedside lamp and sat on the bed and had just put one leg under the covers when I heard my name called.
Looking down toward the window, I saw what I can only describe as a tall, hollow figure, a bit like the character Kevin Bacon played in the film Hollow man. But when I say tall, I mean if this figure did not seem to have been leaning, it would have most likely have been over 8 feet tall and muscular. Although I could make out certain features, nose, mouth, eyes and so on. Well I sat looking at it, it stood looking at me and then the most extraordinary thing happened. I put my other leg in the bed and went to sleep! Hang on here, I went to sleep, I've seen this thing, in my bedroom and I went to sleep. What on earth was I thinking?
Most men, would run around gathering their loved ones, whilst screaming that the Hollow men from Mars were invading. No not me, I went to sleep! But was I asleep and dreamed it you may ask yourself or try to presume and my answer to that, is No. I did not slip off to the land of nod for a few seconds, I was fully awake! To this day, I still do not fully comprehend what I saw that night, but it did call my name, to draw attention to itself. Allow me to reiterate one thing to all that read this. I've been investigating paranormal phenomena now for near on ten years. And on all the investigations I've done, never have I experienced anything like these happening within my own home! Although the Manor House in West Bromwich has offered up some unexplainable phenomena in the past. But what happened there in the Manor House, I'll leave until a later date to tell you about.
Well, you may think that nothing more could have happened, but there is a lot more to come. But for now, I'll leave you with my Hollow man sighting!
Saturday 16 May 2009
Tuesday 5 May 2009
My A449 experience and what came later. Pt 2
Like I mentioned previously, I was a full blown sceptic. So my A449 experience did not unduly worry me and I thought no more of it; until I started to experience further problems within my own home.
The first thing to happen was not to long afterward. I'd been out and upon returning home. I opened the front door and got distracted and returned back to the car. After which I went into the house. Later, when getting ready for bed, I was in the bathroom. When I clearly heard my name called. Thinking it was my wife, I replied. To which she responded to me from the bedroom, asking me who I was talking to. It turned out she had not spoken to me.
Thinking no more of it, I went to bed. The next morning, I was awoken by an almighty knocking on our front door. When I got down stairs and opened the front door. The postman was standing there. He then proceeded to point at the door and when I looked. My front door keys had been left in the lock all night. I thanked him and then thought about the previous night and hearing my name being called. Now most would start thinking a disembodied spirit of a long gone relative may have been trying to warn me that I'd left my keys in the door. Which may well be the case. But on the other hand, it just as well could have been my own subconscious trying to warn me! Both explanations hold a plausibility factor. But this minor incident was soon forgotten.
Until a few weeks later. I was sitting in the living room talking to my wife. The television was on and a Table lamp. Now where I sit, I can see into the kitchen. And whilst I was talking to my wife, I became aware of a figure standing in the kitchen. The strange thing was, this figure glowed like a light bulb. No features, just a figure with an inner light. I stared at it for at least 30 seconds and then it was gone. Now I had not been staring at a light source and I'm not prone to hallucinations. So I was totally bewildered and my wife knowing my scepticism, thought I was going mad and so did I!
Then not so many days later, I was sitting in bed reading. When I heard someone walk out of my daughters bedroom and across the landing into the bathroom. I thought nothing of it, until I realized my daughter was staying at her moms that night. For a few moments, I shook myself and thought, had I fallen asleep. Knowing full well I had not! So I got out of bed and checked the house all over to find no one. I have heard this on a few more occasions since!
Anyway that is the story of my experiences, for now, but there is a lot more to be told. So I'll tell you more in part 3. So watch this space!
The first thing to happen was not to long afterward. I'd been out and upon returning home. I opened the front door and got distracted and returned back to the car. After which I went into the house. Later, when getting ready for bed, I was in the bathroom. When I clearly heard my name called. Thinking it was my wife, I replied. To which she responded to me from the bedroom, asking me who I was talking to. It turned out she had not spoken to me.
Thinking no more of it, I went to bed. The next morning, I was awoken by an almighty knocking on our front door. When I got down stairs and opened the front door. The postman was standing there. He then proceeded to point at the door and when I looked. My front door keys had been left in the lock all night. I thanked him and then thought about the previous night and hearing my name being called. Now most would start thinking a disembodied spirit of a long gone relative may have been trying to warn me that I'd left my keys in the door. Which may well be the case. But on the other hand, it just as well could have been my own subconscious trying to warn me! Both explanations hold a plausibility factor. But this minor incident was soon forgotten.
Until a few weeks later. I was sitting in the living room talking to my wife. The television was on and a Table lamp. Now where I sit, I can see into the kitchen. And whilst I was talking to my wife, I became aware of a figure standing in the kitchen. The strange thing was, this figure glowed like a light bulb. No features, just a figure with an inner light. I stared at it for at least 30 seconds and then it was gone. Now I had not been staring at a light source and I'm not prone to hallucinations. So I was totally bewildered and my wife knowing my scepticism, thought I was going mad and so did I!
Then not so many days later, I was sitting in bed reading. When I heard someone walk out of my daughters bedroom and across the landing into the bathroom. I thought nothing of it, until I realized my daughter was staying at her moms that night. For a few moments, I shook myself and thought, had I fallen asleep. Knowing full well I had not! So I got out of bed and checked the house all over to find no one. I have heard this on a few more occasions since!
Anyway that is the story of my experiences, for now, but there is a lot more to be told. So I'll tell you more in part 3. So watch this space!
Friday 1 May 2009
My A449 experience and what came later. Part 1.
Prior to the 21st February 2006 I was considering closing the BCPS down. To say that I'd become disheartened with investigation would have been an understatement! I was a skeptic/debunker and was seeing no point in investigating the paranormal any further. The idea of giving up a nice warm bed for a night of sitting in cold dark places, waiting to see something that did not exist (in my opinion) seemed pointless to me.
So it is with a sense of wonder, that I tell you this tale of my experience on the A449, just before 7 pm on the of the 21st February 2006, which in my mind saved the BCPS from closure!
It was dark and there had been a light drizzle all day when I started out upon my journey to see a friend and then go onto a meeting with some colleagues who investigate UFO sightings. I was minding my own business, driving along, thinking about nothing in particular, especially not ghosts. Then on my approach toward Himley Cricket club, upon the grass verge, I saw what I took to be a figure of no distinguishable sex. Now this is a 60mph road and I thought look at that idiot, if they slip, I'll surely hit them.
So I checked my mirrors, slowed down and when I looked again the figure had gone. Then just as I reached where the figure had been, an almighty knocking started on my car windows. Now by no means do I mean just one window, but the knocking appeared to be going on all around me. Yet, I could see nothing that would cause this noise and it continued to the traffic lights just before the Himley hotel.
Now me being a rational thinker, I thought something was wrong with my car. So I stopped on the Himley hotel car park and checked my car over. But to no avail, the car was perfectly fine mechanically!
At this point in time, like I said before, I was a full blown sceptic and could find no explanation for my experience. So I shrugged my shoulders and continued upon my journey thinking no more of it. Then I started to experience unexplained happenings in my own home. But those experiences I'll tell you about in part 2!
So it is with a sense of wonder, that I tell you this tale of my experience on the A449, just before 7 pm on the of the 21st February 2006, which in my mind saved the BCPS from closure!
It was dark and there had been a light drizzle all day when I started out upon my journey to see a friend and then go onto a meeting with some colleagues who investigate UFO sightings. I was minding my own business, driving along, thinking about nothing in particular, especially not ghosts. Then on my approach toward Himley Cricket club, upon the grass verge, I saw what I took to be a figure of no distinguishable sex. Now this is a 60mph road and I thought look at that idiot, if they slip, I'll surely hit them.
So I checked my mirrors, slowed down and when I looked again the figure had gone. Then just as I reached where the figure had been, an almighty knocking started on my car windows. Now by no means do I mean just one window, but the knocking appeared to be going on all around me. Yet, I could see nothing that would cause this noise and it continued to the traffic lights just before the Himley hotel.
Now me being a rational thinker, I thought something was wrong with my car. So I stopped on the Himley hotel car park and checked my car over. But to no avail, the car was perfectly fine mechanically!
At this point in time, like I said before, I was a full blown sceptic and could find no explanation for my experience. So I shrugged my shoulders and continued upon my journey thinking no more of it. Then I started to experience unexplained happenings in my own home. But those experiences I'll tell you about in part 2!
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