Hi all,
I'm new to the BBS in general, posting this from my X220 in the middle of class. Ghosts may be questionably real, but because of a set of unexplainable occurances that happened to me, I cannot help but lean more towards the validation of the opinion that ghosts, in fact, are the explaination to certain paranormal phenominon.
When my mother passed away about five years ago, there were a number of occurances that make me think some part of her was still there.
Firstly, when I first lost my mother, I was talking with a friend from the internet on Skype, and I had to get up to use the restroom. To preface what happened next, when my mother was still alive, it wasn't uncommon for us to argue verbally across the house - it's just who we were as people, naturally argumentative and prone to getting into it every once in a while. Well, when I got back from the bathroom, the call had been ended on the end of my friend. When I asked why she'd hung up, she told me that she could hear someone female speaking to me, trying to start some kind of argument, over my microphone. Both myself and my friend are uncertain as to if that voice was my mother, but my friend had said the voice was similar to what she'd heard when my mother and I still fought, so i'm fairly convinced it was her. My friend hung the line up because it freaked her out, evidently.
Secondly, last winter, I was on an odd kick of making use of Tarot cards, not to attempt to commune with spirits or tell the future, but simply asking them questions and seeing if the results offered insight into something in my life. I believe these cards to be less of spiritual items and more of psychological tools that help people explore things they can't consciously think about well by associating a question with broad, general indications of possible courses of action or outcomes to the question asked. Digression aside, my friend had taken me to see a professional reader due to my interest in improving my own personal reading, and upon returning home, I took a deck of Tarot cards out of its box and, without really paying any mind, began to shuffle them. It was then that I had noticed what had changed in the room - I keep my keys on a cloth lanyard, and never once in my life have I ever tied that lanyard in any kind of knot. My mind had drifted back to my mother during the time I had returned home, due to some of the 'professional reader's' probing into the issue (to my discomfort), and upon the point I was ready to go to bed, I turned my head and saw that my key lanyard had a massive knot tied in it.
A knot in a cloth lanyard is no indicator of paranormal activity, however, I was aware of the applications of tarot cards as they pertained to recieving answers to questions from spiritual entities. I'm unaware of the validity of what happened next - I was highly emotional at the time and could have been misinterperiting what was happening, but I spent the next hour with my cards, talking to the open air as if my mother could hear me. I would ask questions, deal the cards and treat the results as the answers to the questions I asked. Suprised at the coherency of the responses I got, I kept going until the conversation naturally drew to a close.
I suppose, in conclusion to the massive text blocks I just typed, my belief in the paranormal stems from instances of unexplainable activity that i've bore witness to.
Thanks for reading, everyone, and I hope we get to have more conversations together in the future.
Wayoul
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