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A strange experience

  • 09-06-2007 05:04PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭


    Hi all
    Having a look through boards and found this paranormal forum, scanned through with interest but could not find anything similar to my strangest sighting.
    Bit of background on me firstly
    Born 1971 last of 7 kids but quiet a gap between myself and the others(7 years). Farming family in an isolated area, elderly very conservative/religous parents. My mother was 45 when i was born and my dad a few years older.
    As a result of the age gap, distance from neighbours and such like i pretty much grew up alone as in played games and spent free time on my own.
    None of this was bad or unusual and its probably led to me being self sufficient and imaginative as i am today.

    To the story
    One summers evening at tea time so probably about 5 or 6 i being the youngest was given the job of walking down to the main road to see if a lorry had dropped a delivery.
    Beautifull day i remember blue sky and very warm. This road goes through a bog where lots of people used save turf and on this evening there were lots of people working. Saw that the delivery had not yet been made so turned and set off back home. Spoke to a few people on the way home and all was well and normal. Coming closer to home where the farm is more arable and getting near to some sheds of ours i noticed a "person" on the road about 40 yards ahead. This "person" was at a point on the road where there is a gate that leads into a large field and as i drew closer they moved from my sight into the gateway. At this point i was wondering who this person could be as we had trouble with people snooping around the sheds in the past. I also remember wondering why they were wearing a long black coat on such a warm day. Getting closer to the gateway i was listening half expecting to hear the gate open and if it didnt prepairing myself to confront this person in all my 10 year old(approx) authority.
    Got to the gateway and nothing, not a sign of anyboby. I was a bit perplexed by this but not scared or anything yet. I climbed the gate as it was easier than opening it and looked inside the field, nothing.
    In the next few seconds or minutes the facts of what had just happened started to sink in
    I had seen a very tall "thing" in broad daylight that had no features that i could remember i.e no arms, legs, face or otherwise basically a very tall black human(but too tall) shape that had moved outa my line of sight and dissappeared.
    At this point i completly lost it and ran home to mammy and daddy and anyone else who was bigger than me lol.
    I havent told this story in years and have seen a few other unusual things as a young fella but have become a bit of a cynic of late. I do remember a girl telling me a very similar story that happened to her when she was around the same age so im wondering has anyone got similar stories to tell or could anyone throw any light on this for me. I have my own theories but im not gonna go into those for now.
    Thanks for reading and hope it reads ok , im not used to writing much these days.


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭kshiel


    I think you will find people on here have a lot of stories to tell. With your own experience I dont really know but could there have been a shadow cast from one of the barns? or near by machinery, trick of light maybe? Or did you get a very distinct feeling to go with this vision.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭Auldloon


    kshiel wrote:
    could there have been a shadow cast from one of the barns? or near by machinery, trick of light maybe? Or did you get a very distinct feeling to go with this vision.
    Absolutely no chance of a shadow or trick of light being so clear and defined or black as this. It was a beautifull bright summers evening and i was not at all bothered until the realisation dawned on me that what i had seen couldnt have been a real person. Then i was really scared terrified is probably a better word, ran all the way home:eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,369 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    I often walk around in a black coat regardless of weather, and I can hop a fence pretty quickly and easily too :)

    The problem with stories from when people were 10 is that children see a very 'soft' version of the world that changes very easily depending on what they think of an event afterwards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭Auldloon


    Zillah wrote:
    I often walk around in a black coat regardless of weather, and I can hop a fence pretty quickly and easily too :)

    The problem with stories from when people were 10 is that children see a very 'soft' version of the world that changes very easily depending on what they think of an event afterwards.

    So you often walk around in a black coat hopping fences and scaring children:eek: :eek:
    It was you lol.
    I see your point that its a long time ago and i was a very imaginative(amongst other things) kid.
    I read up on this kind of sighting a few years ago and i have heard one almost identical story as i said earlier but i guess im waiting to see if it strikes a chord with anyone here.
    My father constantly saw things that others didnt see and probably still does but being very religous pretty much refuses to speak about them.
    I have become a cynic in a lot of ways but this is still clear in my mind i.e i know what i saw and im convinced it was genunine.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭kshiel


    What are your own theories on this chuileog?


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