When The Unexplained Activity is NOT a Ghost

 

Our experiences with the paranormal are not just about ghosts. Our haunting has been ongoing for many years and the ghosts often make their presence known, but other very strange things have happened here that had nothing to do with ghosts or the afterlife. I kid you not.

The following topics were previously mentioned on the blog but they bear repeating for those of you who may have missed them or if you just need a reminder/ These events actually happened. The haunting does not stand alone.

These all have one thing in common: they are completely unexplainable. We have our theories about some of them. Others, we were left forever wondering, “What the heck just happened?!”

I must advise you that the following events are super strange. I would not be surprised if you didn’t believe what you are about to read. But trust me on this…they did happen exactly as outlined below. All but one had witnesses.

 

Incident: A stranger is at the door.

Length of time it lasted: A half hour.

Creepy factor on a scale of 1-10: 9

Details:

 I had written about this first incident on the blog back in 2011. It happened a few years before that. It was a beautiful, warm, sunny September day. My son was in school and only my mother and I were home. I happened to be upstairs and I heard her calling me from downstairs. When I went down to see what she wanted, there was a man at the front door.

This would not be all that unusual, as sometimes people drop by for a multitude of reasons, except for the appearance of this individual. I have told a few people about what transpired that day and I still only have one way of describing this guy: he looked like he put on a human suit and wasn’t inside of it quite right. He appeared to be in his sixties and wore old-fashioned clothes, like he stepped out of a Sears catalogue from that same era. To be honest, I couldn’t quite believe my eyes: first, his ultra-strange appearance like he was in his body nearly sideways, and then he topped it off with that polyester outfit. It was a sight.

The second clue that something was really abnormal about this situation was the very odd feeling both my mother and I instantly got from this guy the minute we saw him. The longer we stood in front of him, the worse it became. It was the sensation you often read about where the hair on your arms stands on end and you get a prickly feeling throughout your whole body because something bad is about to happen. I have not had that feeling before nor since and have no desire to again.

I didn’t want my mother to deal with this guy so I positioned myself in front of her to inquire with this man about why he was gracing our doorstep. I asked him if I could help him. Not that I wanted to help him. I just wanted him gone but my mother raised me to be polite. He pointed to my vehicle, which was a Toyota 4Runner, and asked, “Is that your truck?”  He spoke normally. I don’t recall anything odd about his speech.

I could see past him to the road and the car he arrived in was parked on the shoulder. I didn’t take note of the make or model but it was an older car, probably built back in the days when cars were still made out of metal.

I told him it was mine and he said he ran out of gas and then asked if I would drive him to the gas station (about 2 miles away).

My gut feeling and the voice of reason inside my head and the hair standing up on my arms   warned me to do no such thing. This was going to be the part where the bad things happen. I just knew it.

I told him no. There was no way I was getting into any vehicle with this man. I then offered to go get gas for him and told him to go wait in his car until I got back. He handed me 10 dollars and went to his car. I told my mother to lock the doors and not let him in if he came back to the door while I was gone. I examined the money wondering what planet, literally, this guy was from. It looked like legit Canadian money, though.

I remember being at the pump thinking, “Just another normal day --putting gas in a can for an alien creature, nothing weird about that”. Yikes!

I came back with the gas a short time later. He was still waiting in his car. I tried to give him the change from the ten, but he told me to keep it. Okay, he’s a nice alien or creature or whatever the hell he was. He attempted to pour the gas in his tank but really succeeded in pouring about half of it on the ground, like he had zero clue how to pour anything anywhere.

He made no small talk. I tried not to stare at him but I know I did. How could I not? Then, he got in his car and drove off. It was not until this point that the feeling of being on high alert left my body.

I should point out he would have passed the gas station on his way by my place, unless he took the alternate road through the community he just drove through. But the whole thing still makes me wonder.

My mother and I discussed him after he was gone and for many years afterwards. The entire encounter was really unnerving. People we have told about this have wondered if he looked odd because maybe he was a burn or accident victim. Nope. That was not how he looked. He just looked like he was trying to dress like a human being but didn’t quite pull it off.

Our theory: We are quite sure this “man” was not from this planet and this is not because we had seen every alien encounter episode of Unsolved Mysteries. Sometimes, you just know.

 

Incident: Woken up in the middle of the night and someone from a faraway continent is standing by your bedside.

Length of time it lasted: 10 seconds

Creepy factor on a scale of 1-10: 10

Details:

As you know, I have talked and written a lot about the ghosts that have been seen and heard on our premises. You may think this next experience involved a ghost—after all, it happened in our very haunted house-- but as you will soon learn, it probably was not that.

This happened to my mother in September 1982. She had gone to bed and was asleep for quite awhile when something woke her up. My brother and I were upstairs in our bedrooms sound asleep unaware of what was taking place downstairs in our mother’s room. She opened her eyes to find a tall Asian woman standing beside her bed, staring down at her in a very unpleasant way. Until her dying day, my mother remembered vividly what this woman looked like; the Asian-style dress she had on, her features and her hair piled up on top of her head. Even though her room was dark, she could see the colors in the woman’s outfit and noted how dark and piercing her eyes were. She looked at my mother very sternly but did not speak.

My mother screamed, of course, and when she did, the woman disappeared. She had always been adamant that this was not a ghost. She had plenty of experience seeing those and felt this was something else. The fact that the person disappeared when my mother yelled out seems like ghostly activity to me but she was 100% completely sure it wasn’t that. She insisted this Asian person was definitely really standing by her bed and that she was not still asleep and dreaming. She was completely sane and did not hallucinate.

This was the only sighting of this woman in the house and no explanation of who she was,   where she came from (and where she disappeared to) was ever found. It bothered my mother more than any ghost she ever saw.

Our theory: Unsure. My mother surmised the mysterious Asian lady was maybe some sort of interdimensional being and just happened to end up in my mother’s bedroom. Seems as good of an explanation as any.

Incident: A strange shape appears overnight, burned into a bedroom carpet.

Length of time it lasted: 3 days

Creepy factor on a scale of 1-10: 7

Details:

I am thankful I had about 6 witnesses for this next one, otherwise no one would ever believe it. It was around 2003 or so. My husband and son and I were staying here for a while. I think it may have been around the Christmas holidays, which is the reason I lucked into 6 witnesses seeing this thing. I awoke one morning and after getting out of bed I happened to notice that near the bedroom door, there was a peculiar shape imbedded in the carpet.

I bent down to get a closer look. The carpet fibers were melted into the shape of a hoof.

A HOOF.

An unmistakable hoof.

This was not a case of pariedolia, where you see certain shapes or faces in innocent things like grilled cheese sandwiches or the side of a Tim Horton’s building. This was without a doubt, a hoof shape. And it was clearly burned into the carpet. Obviously this was very odd for many reasons.

1.    It was not there when we went to bed. It was very obvious. One of us would have noticed.

2.    We did not have any pets or animals at the time and certainly nothing with a hoof. And even if we did, it wouldn’t explain a burn mark in the carpet.

3.    There was only one hoof print. Not a pair. And not four like on a four legged animal. Just one.

4.    The burned hoof print shape was right inside the door, as if something stepped over the threshold with one leg/foot and made this burn mark.

5.    In my entire history of reading about all things creepy and paranormal, I have never once read about anything like this.

6.    How in the world did this get in the carpet and by what means?

I had my husband come take a look at it. He agreed it was a burn mark in the shape of a hoof and could offer no explanation for it. The next two days were when we had various family members visiting. I forced all of them to go upstairs and look at the mystery hoof print in the carpet. Every one of them was mystified. Some were terrified. Some swore to leave and never return because what the hell was going on in this house? Other than suggestions of a devil creature with one fiery hoof positioned in our doorway while we slept one night, thereby leaving an impression in the carpet, no one really knew what to think.

If this wasn’t mysterious enough, an even stranger thing happened. I swear on my life and everyone else’s life that I know that this is true: On the third day, the hoof print started to fade away. It was not as pronounced as it had been the previous two days. By day four, it was completely gone and carpet was back to normal, like nothing even happened. I had a couple of witnesses for that too and once I again I am grateful that others saw this besides me.

Our theory: A devil creature was here with one fiery hoof positioned in our doorway while we slept one night. Just standing there in the doorway, watching us sleep. I really don’t want to think this is true but I am all out of ideas.

Incident: Unexplained lights in our backyard. Two witnesses, one of which had the customary missing time problem.

Length of time it lasted: Hours.

Creepy factor on a scale of 1-10: 10+

This encounter was written about on my blog a few years ago by a family friend, who wished to remain anonymous. I will take 100 ghosts all at the same time rather than encounter anything like what happened in the story I am about to tell you.

It was the late 70’s. I was around 9 or 10 years old and put to bed for the night in my upstairs bedroom (probably scared, as usual because I knew all too well about the ghosts in the house). My grandmother and parents had bedrooms on the downstairs level but only my grandmother’s room had a window with a view of the backyard. Eventually everyone went to bed. Sometime in the middle of the night, my grandmother woke up and was startled to see the entire backyard was lit up with a blue light. There were no lights of any kind installed to shine in our backyard. Car headlights from the road that goes by our house could not possibly shine into the backyard. Plus, the light she saw was definitely blue and looked nothing like car headlights.

In the morning, she reported to my parents what she had seen. They offered no explanation because they didn’t have one. The only thing that could possibly explain it was if there was a UFO hovering out back, shining a blue light on our property, but that seemed kind of ridiculous.

In the following days a family friend (let’s call him Bert) who hung out with my older brothers, came by for a visit. He happened to tell my family, including my grandmother, the very odd circumstance that recently happened to his brother. The brother (let’s call him Ernie) had been driving Bert’s car late at night in a community quite close to where we lived. He recalled seeing weird lights in the sky and the next thing he knew, he was in a different place on the road than where he recalled seeing the lights and couldn’t quite understand what happened to him. Confused and disoriented, he continued on home but doesn’t remember any of the drive.

Bert checked out the distance driven the next day as Ernie had agreed to pay for the gas he used. Something didn’t add up, though. Several kilometers (about 7) on the odometer were unaccounted for when he compared them to where Ernie was supposed to have driven.

Ernie told Bert about his encounter and eventually fearfully admitted he had been abducted after seeing the weird lights. Several hours of time were also unaccounted for. This was the same night my grandmother saw the widespread blue lights in our backyard. Both incidents happened within a few kilometers from each other, as the crow flies and around the same time. We have zero explanation for the lights other than the obvious. Coupled with Ernie’s experience, it is pretty clear what went on here that night. Bert has told us a few times over the years that his brother was never quite the same after that night.

Our theory: An unidentified flying object big enough to shine enough lights to light up our  backyard was hovering over our house for some time on the night in question, while I slept in my bed, oblivious to everything (this is a good thing—8 year old me did not want to see anything like this). The object then moved off at some point to the nearby LaHave river area where it abducted the man mentioned above and returned him to a slightly different location some time later. I wish none of this was true but it is.

Incident: Unexplained lights in the sky above our front yard. Two witnesses.

Length of time it lasted: Minutes.

Creepy factor on a scale of 1-10: 10+

It was 2016. My son and my mother were outside one warm evening as it began to get dark as both of them had a fondness for stargazing. Scott was looking at the night sky in the direction of the road that passes by our house, going down the hill. A few lights caught his eye in fairly close proximity to our house. He stared, trying to make sense of it and pointed it out to his grandmother. They both saw 3 green lights in the shape of a triangle. It was not terribly high in the sky, about the altitude a small plane would fly by at.

It basically sat there, hovering. Scott was careful not to look away so as not to miss it doing anything. The craft was totally silent. After several minutes, the 3 green lights blinked out at the same time. The lights were just on one minute and then off the next. Where it went, or where it was from, is anyone’s guess.

I gave this incident a ‘10 plus’ on the creepy scale based on the fact that 2 people stood there and watched this unknown object right over their heads. It’s the last thing I’d personally want to see.

Our theory: If it looks like a triangle ship UFO, then it’s probably a triangle ship UFO. This is clearly our second encounter with such a thing RIGHT OVER our house, as you have just read.

 

When you consider that all of these things happened in or around our same property where we have ghosts drifting around, it leaves you with one big question:

Why?

Okay… so the house is haunted. Lots of people have a haunted house. Spirits hang around attached to a certain place or residual hauntings occur. It’s quite common. But add in the other things I just told you about and you have to wonder why so much stuff happens in one location.

I have asked myself this many times. It’s a question I cannot answer.

None of it is the unhinged hallucinations of anyone. All of the witnesses to the above encounters were (and are) completely sane and normal (with the exception of Ernie who is reportedly quite different since his alien encounter). And as I previously pointed out, all except one incident had more than one witness.

Some people theorize there are “portals” in certain locations on the earth from which paranormal or mysterious beings can come and go. If this is true, it would explain the appearance of a few of our ghosts, who materialized, but no one recognized. It’s like they just popped into our house yet they seemed out of place.

Did they come through an alleged portal?

Is that what UFOs do?

Is that what cryptid creatures do and that’s why they are so elusive?

 A great example of this is the Skinwalker Ranch in the U.S. Previous owners of that complete freak-your-freak location reported so much strangeness, they thought a portal was responsible for all of their activity. And having read extensively about that creepshow, they built a pretty strong case for it.

So there you have it. Mysterious events around our house that we cannot blame on ghosts. They do a lot of crazy stuff, but they did not do any of the events you just read about.

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