Hmmm, that thread does indeed contain a lot of info. Well done :)
Still, I would like to hear some experiences.
And yeah, spirits vary in kind and power, so each act differently.
Anyone else?
It all started by me feeling a different kind of spirits present, something that was exactly positive. I kept feeling it every night when i was home alone. After weeks of feeling that presence i started to feel and see other weird things. Things moving out of place, things breaking without any one touching them etc. I remember that the worst day wasn't when i woke up scratched and bruised, or when i felt touches and someone calling my name. It was when i was getting ready to sleep, already in my bed, i started to hear a noise like something scratching wood, at first i just closed my eyes and covered my whole body with the blanket. But then, i heard the scratching and footsteps, has if someone was walking towards me while scratching the wall. At this point i was just terrified. I kept hearing those things when i actually see a shadow ( because i was under the blanket couldn't se exactly ), like if it was a face just really close to mine. AT this point, i just screamed and turned on the lights. I didn't saw anything, it's like it dissapeared. So in confusion i looked at the wall and it was scratched. When my dad came running to my room he saw the scratches aswell so i know i wasn't crazy or something. This is why i got in to studying the paranormal, i expelled the spirit and it led to witchcraft and here i am.
I have had a few odd and bothersome incounters in the past. Most of them were just a sense of dread and feeling of weight on my chest like the air was pressing down around me. One time I had a blackout years ago and ended up hurting myself while visiting my grandfathers grave. I was trying to work out ptsd issues because I had been attacked in that cemetary as a teen. When I came to and walked home every dog I passed, even in houses, were barking at me. I kept hearing strange things and seeing spirits for weeks. Ended up having to speak with an old moderator from here to get an idea of what to do. I have had other experiences but would prefer not to talk about them on the forums as it is a bit personal.
If you fear you are being followed by an unwelcomed entity there are a few things you could do. Banishments are usually good to start with. Some seem to be cleared out with a simple sage burning but others are just upset by it. You can always wear an amulet for protection. If you search online I know there are various symbols to stop any spiritual entity from effecting you. Cant remember specifically what though. Different things seem to work for different spirits. Stoney taught me that if a seriously malevolent spirit is bothering you to bind it to a poppet and bury it far from your home in a box or large container.
Well, it depends the object you bind it to and your experience I guess... binding a spirit to a crystal and apply all shorts of seals is not the same with just binding it to a paper talisman for example.
Still, your experiences are quite remarkable. Erenexus, yours intrigued me the most, because the haunting started after a blackout in a graveyard, right? Would you be comfortable with telling us what kind of entity haunted you?
A couple of months ago I felt drained from energy every morning. One night I woke up in the middle of the night in a shock. I saw a shadow entity hovering above by bed, draining energy from me. I looked at it and it disappeared.
I still don't known if it was a spirit/entity or a manifestation of my own fears.
here's one from when I was a teenager. I was doing some babysitting for a couple. My first day babysitting for them I felt a presence in these peoples apartment. I had told my mom about it when got home , she said it was just my first day jitters. Following day same feeling came over me but this time I heard steps coming down the stairs. I did walked to bottom stairs saw nothing so i grabbed the baby went to my house. Told my mom again she told me its just my mind playing tricks take the baby home. I did just that and I heard a growl by the stairs and I said I'm not leaving here until the parents come home so get out and leave me alone. I didn't hear and see anything . This came the routine for about a week which by the of the first week I actually saw this big shadow had came all the way to bottom of the stairs growling at me I was scared but stood my ground told it to go back to hell or where ever it came from cause I was not going to run. That last thing I saw was it came toward me. . My eyes didn't open until my mom right there doing cpr on me. She asked what was the last thing I remember and I told her what happened that time she believe me.
I've had all kinds of weird experiences. Lights turning on when I know I left them off. Things being thrown off of shelves. Toys normally triggered by a button talking and lighting up when they hadn't been activated.
Once when I was around ten I went to the bathroom at around 5 in the morning. The shower curtain was closed so I couldn't see what was inside. As I was standing up it violently shook and I heard a growl. Everyone in my house was asleep at the time.
Then there were all the times I would see something moving out of the corner of my eye. One time I was in our pitch black crawlspace (alone) with only the light of my flashlight to try and find whatever I was looking for and I distinctly heard a man say "hello". The voice didn't belong to anyone I knew. Another time I was dozing off to sleep and everyone else was already tucked in bed. I heard an elderly woman say "hey" and once again the voice didn't belong to anyone in my house.
I remember a little girl broke her arm on the swings near my old house when entire bar that the swings were suspended from fell. That bar had supported five teenage boys fine without so much as a creak but a little eighty-pound girl broke it? Other weird things went on in that neighborhood and that house.
On one rainy day, Friday the 13th earlier this year actually, someone rang my door bell. I looked outside and no one was there. Nothing on the stoop. No delivery vans nearby. It's a new house with no issues so far. What made this so weird? It was raining, so the ground was wet and there was a puddle right in front of the stair. You can't reach the door bell without stepping on the stoop so there should have been footprints, and yet, there weren't any.
As far as serious damage I haven't received any physical problems. My damage mainly just goes as far as mental trauma. I tend to be paranoid a lot of the time because even if nothing is happening I sometimes get a feeling that there is someone there with me.
I know someone who has had an experience with (what I believe to be) a succubus, though. That's far more interesting then just my mundane little encounters.
It obviously depends on both the personal power of the spirit in question and the victim.
Obviously, some of the experiences with higher-ups I would prefer to leave obscure, though sometimes horror movies aren't exaggerations.
Entities may work directly(as in affecting physical things, with poltergeist activity, and the likes) which is fairly rare because it always takes enough of a connection to this plane and enough power to do this.
They may work indirectly(as in, by altering circumstances to undo your life) which is obviously more common. Coincidences, accidents, slip-ups, and the likes.
Of course, the middle ground here would beby affecting mentally, either covertly or explicitly. Explicitly would be you being aware that something is wrong, like if they were to hijack your dream. Covertly would be if you're unaware of something being wrong, like them changing your mood to suicidal depression, or something like that.
There are of course ways for negative spirits to act beyond these, and in extremes,but very very few of the ''trickster'' wandering spirits that mess around with people at random would be strong enough to do many of the more extreme things with these.
However, you may also experience the negative consequences of some negative pattern moving like the plague, a war being fought on the astral plane, being drained by a person, or somehting really powerful for specific goals...it really depends on the situation.
Sometimes simple defenses work. Sometimes, they don't. Sometikmes you're strong, sometimes you're not. It really depends on the experience.
