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Underworld Priestess Vice Captain
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 Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 6:50 am
Hello everyone.
I am starting a new thread about paranormal and supernatural experiences and phenomenon. I will post some information about different happenings, please feel free to add to my information, post your own experiences and add other topics to the list.
Topic 1: Old Hag syndrome
Topic 2: Shadow people
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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 6:56 am
OLD HAG SYNDROME
Old hag, aka "sleep paralysis" to the medical community, originated as the belief that a hag "old witch" would attack you in your sleep. It was believed that the hag was doing this in order to kill you. The feeling of it is that something is laying on your chest, making it hard to breath and move. Sometimes people get the feeling that they are choking. It is truly a terryifing and as of yet rather unexplainable event.
It is estimated that 40 % of people have experienced this.
(this estimate comes from www.ghostvillage.com
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Underworld Priestess Vice Captain
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Underworld Priestess Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 6:59 am
According to the medical community it is believed that it is caused by a person coming out of REM sleep and your muscles aren't reacting yet to being awake.
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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 7:01 am
The closest I had to the experience was about four years ago I was asleep and I awoke to the feeling of something big and black crawling up my legs and holding me down on to the bed. It was completely terryifing but I couldn't even speak. It was like I was just screaming inside my head. But then it felt like something else came in and pulled it off of me and then it was over. I never felt that again.
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Underworld Priestess Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:14 am
I use to have that all the time, when I lived in Twin Pines, and I had it at delbrook, My parents house and then I have it here like twice.
All times, i was being held down by a man in an hold depression style hat.
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:29 am
i've only had it happen once..but not to that extent.
it was jst my arm & it was just after one of my special dreams... & it lasted for a good hr..i remember i walked around the ouse lie normal & had brekfast & it eventually came back... & it wasn't tingling or anything as if it fell asleep...just felt...nothing.
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Underworld Priestess Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:45 pm
GuardianIceQueen I use to have that all the time, when I lived in Twin Pines, and I had it at delbrook, My parents house and then I have it here like twice. All times, i was being held down by a man in an hold depression style hat. Mine looked like just a dark figure in a cloak or something like that. I did see a shadow looking person in an older style hat but he didn't bother me.
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 1:50 pm
celticfireguardian GuardianIceQueen I use to have that all the time, when I lived in Twin Pines, and I had it at delbrook, My parents house and then I have it here like twice. All times, i was being held down by a man in an hold depression style hat. Mine looked like just a dark figure in a cloak or something like that. I did see a shadow looking person in an older style hat but he didn't bother me. They say this is all in your head, because you are in mid dream and your mind wakes up before you body. So you still seeing partically your dream. But really, I don't think that. Several times, steve( when I was iwth him) saw something standing over me.
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Underworld Priestess Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:32 pm
Yeah but I'm definitely not dreaming these things when it happens
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:59 pm
celticfireguardian Yeah but I'm definitely not dreaming these things when it happens Yea, neither am I.
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Underworld Priestess Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 3:33 pm
A new topic:
Shadow people (also known as shadow men, shadow folk, or shadow beings) are supernatural shadow-like creatures of both modern folklore and traditional native American beliefs. According to folklore, they appear as dark forms in the peripheries of people's vision and disintegrate, or move between walls, when noticed.
Reports of shadow people occupy a similar position in the popular consciousness to ghost sightings, but differ in that shadow people are not reported as having human features, wearing modern/period clothing, or attempting to communicate. Witnesses also do not report the same feelings of being in the presence of something that 'was once human'. Some individuals have described being menaced, chased, or in some rare instances, attacked by shadow people. There have also been reports of shadow people appearing in front of witnesses, of which they stay there or lingering for several seconds before disappearing. Witnesses report that encounters are typically accompanied by a feeling of dread
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 3:35 pm
Appearance
Accounts of shadow people typically describe them as being black humanoid silhouettes with no discernible mouths, noses, or facial expressions, though accounts also exist of them being child-sized humanoids or shapeless masses that sometimes change to a more human like form. The eyes are usually not described as being discernible but in some reports glowing eyes are mentioned. The color of the eyes, if any, is typically given as red. Their specific form is described variously as two-dimensional shadow to a vaporous or distorted three-dimensional body (as though made out of smoke or steam). Movement is often described as being very quick and disjointed. Some witnesses describe this movement as though the shadow entities they have seen "danced" from one wall to the next, or as moving around the room "as if they were on a specific track". Rarely, they are seen "standing" in the middle of doorways or off the wall. Often they are described as being seen staring at the floor. Some accounts describe what appears to be the outline of a cloak, and in some instances the outline of a 1930s style fedora hat. This last type is referred as the "hat-man"
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Underworld Priestess Vice Captain
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Underworld Priestess Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 3:36 pm
My reference for shadow people was brought to you from wikipedia.com
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 3:56 pm
That sounds closer to what I've seen than ghosts. Only just one of them moved, and that was the puppy... There was one in a nightmare that also moved, but that's different... The ones I've seen awake are just outlines filled in with the color of the inside of your eyelids... Not literally, but what you see with your eyes closed...
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 6:50 am
shadow people loved my room alone in the house i grew up in eek
there was a man in a cowboy hat, a little girl, & an old lady who showed up in full apparition once to my mom & we found pics of her in a closet of the house.
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