moved into a brand new apartment a year ago, some weird stuff occuring

CorkMan

First things. I am not making up this stuff, I have a slight belief in ghosts but I don't watch any of that most haunted, derek acorah stuff. Let me start:


Sometimes when going to sleep I feel something gliding up against my sheets, or else sometimes pulling at the bottom of my legs. You know when you meditate and feel really relaxed, and your body seems out of proportion, that feeling? That is the part that seems to be pulled. Like a part of my body being pulled away.

After 6 months of moving in I put up new drawers. The 1st night they were up I was asleep in bed and heard one being slammmed, I live by myself like. My heart was pounding but nothing more occured. It is weird cos i'd think of something being there, and these "pulling" at the bottom of my legs happen. One other time I heard the washing machine being "kicked", a loud noise against it.

Another incident occured in which I was putting toast into the toaster, and there was a penny on top of my fridge and it flipped over by itself, right in front of my eyes. Other times I saw what paranornal investigators call an "orb" flying in front of me. This place has only been up for 1 year, yet this stuff happens. I don't feel threatened, the only hardline physical symptoms are my heart beating faster when I heard these things.

Anyone have an explanation?

maccored

i dont want to be negative and I am by no means disputing what you've witnessed ... but ..... the coin flipping thing is the only thing that you cant say may have happened naturally. The drawer slamming ... unless you seen the draw itself open and slam shut, you cant say for definite that it did. The sound may have come from elsewhere. Same idea with the washing machine. Dont know about the 'pulling' sensation but I have often felt such things myself (as in I could swear someone was tugging a blanket etc) and it ends up just being the way I was lying in the bed.

But the coin flip - thats weird. Did you see it clearly?

kylith

It's not unusual to feel stretchy sensations as you fall asleep. As you're in an apartment block I'd strongly suggest that the odd noises you're hearing are probably your neighbours.

CorkMan

With the drawers I know the precise sound of it opening and closing, and the sounds of what happens in the kitchen. It was the drawer alright.

The washing machine was a very loud noise, within the vicinity of my apartment, not a loud noise leaked through the walls to my apartment, ie a muffled sound.

maccored

noises dont equal ghosts though. As for the drawers - you did say:

After 6 months of moving in I put up new drawers. The 1st night they were up I was asleep in bed and heard one being slammmed

... not much time to get used to the precise sound.

Still - did you see the coin flip full on with your own eyes or did you notice later that it was on a different side than it was at the start?

CorkMan

With the coin I saw it flipping over on its side, and hear the noise of in hitting the microwave.

With the drawers they are the only things that could make that noise. I have opened and closed them many a time afterwards and they sound is the exact same. If noises don't equal ghosts/paranormal activity/ poltergesists or whatever the term is, what are they?

maccored

I think no matter what, if you saw a coin flip of its own accord, then that's pretty strange. All you can do is a) don't let the whole thing freak you and b) just keep your eye open. Might be an idea to keep some form of notes .. have a notepad and pen handy around the house and if you hear or see anything strange, note the time, the date and any logical observations you may have.

Over time you can collate these together and see if there are any kind of patterns. Its always helpful to have a grounding on things that you have observed as that way you can start to see if there are everyday rational explaintions. If there definitely arent any rational explainations then contact one of the teams on here - Im sure one of them would check things out for you.

bigeasyeah

Maybe look into the history of the area or the land on which the apartment was built.
Myself personally would discount everything but the coin moving.That is fairly inexplicable.

CorkMan

bigeasyeah wrote: »

Maybe look into the history of the area or the land on which the apartment was built.
Myself personally would discount everything but the coin moving.That is fairly inexplicable.

I used to get it where I lived before as well, up in my aunts place. It as if I am being "followed" by something.

bigeasyeah

CorkMan wrote: »

I used to get it where I lived before as well, up in my aunts place. It as if I am being "followed" by something.

Or it could be yourself thats causing it.
I read a few times of the theory of poltergeist activity being the work of an individuals mind.

fryup

CorkMan wrote: »

I used to get it where I lived before as well, up in my aunts place. It as if I am being "followed" by something.

like in that movie The Entity

Oryx

Does your fridge vibrate or shudder? And can you describe exactly what happened to the coin? Did it just flip on the surface, or move, because you say it hit the microwave? Im not saying strange things are not happening, but you have to thoroughly rule out any 'normal' causes first.

Rasmus

To the OP;
Although the noises sound odd, I think the feeling of sheets moving is pretty normal, as is the sensation of limbs being pulled in bed during that period between wakefulness and sleep.
The coin - you said it flipped over on the fridge, but you mentioned you noticed the sound of it hitting the microwave? Did it flip from the fridge to the micro?
If we were to assume that all of these things were paranormal, then I don't think that it's anything to do with the apartment - sounds more like something/someone trying to get your attention maybe. Can you think of anything that might be?

CorkMan

Rasmus wrote: »

To the OP;
Although the noises sound odd, I think the feeling of sheets moving is pretty normal, as is the sensation of limbs being pulled in bed during that period between wakefulness and sleep.
The coin - you said it flipped over on the fridge, but you mentioned you noticed the sound of it hitting the microwave? Did it flip from the fridge to the micro?
If we were to assume that all of these things were paranormal, then I don't think that it's anything to do with the apartment - sounds more like something/someone trying to get your attention maybe. Can you think of anything that might be?

No, it was flipped over on the microwave and landed on the microwave I meant (typed fridge by accident there!) It flipped over by itself on the microwave (the fridge is about 8 feet away)

I am not sure about anything trying to get my attention. I hope its all the work of the mind, cos it is getting on my skin. I saw something faint once, it was about 5 feet in the air. Picture a person moving while the sun is shining on a portion of their body while they are moving. Take away the body and leave the suns rays, I saw that "floating" for a second in mid air as if it was turning.

There are 6 other apartments in the complex, 3 floors with 2 on each floor. The person across from me is hardly ever there. In the apartment below me I hear the chairs being moved, practically "dragged" along the floor sometimes. I am not sure if the person is there then.

Thoie

CorkMan wrote: »

Sometimes when going to sleep I feel something gliding up against my sheets, or else sometimes pulling at the bottom of my legs.

I'd consider that relatively normal when falling asleep - a bit like the sensation of suddenly falling and jerking awake just as you're right on the edge of sleep. Brain patterns often go a bit odd when you're just about to fall asleep/wake up

CorkMan wrote: »

The 1st night they were up I was asleep in bed and heard one being slammmed, I live by myself like. My heart was pounding but nothing more occured.

I have a set of drawers that if I don't close them fully they kind of hover at a certain stage, then fully close themselves later, often when I'm not in the room. Are the drawers on gliders/rollers or anything?

CorkMan wrote: »

One other time I heard the washing machine being "kicked", a loud noise against it.

When I first moved into my apartment that used give me a heart attack. The combination of the pump system, and communal plumbing sometimes meant that if someone ran a tap further down the building, there could be a kind of mini airlock, that would escape through the washing machine drain. The slight vibration would travel up the hose and kind of "thump" the washing machine at odd times. I never really noticed it during the day when other things were happening, but in the middle of the night it freaked me out

With the coin and the sun figure - were you tired/run down/hungry/hungover at the time? When keeping notes of these things, keep a note of your own state at the time.

CorkMan

What are gliders and rollers? With the figure I had to stay awake for long as I was going to the airport a couple of hours later. I was awake around 23 hours at the time.

As for the coin, I was fully alert when it occured. I saw it in motion and heard the noise on impact, of a coin landing. I personally think loads of people experience these type of things. My aunt said she saw a ghost looking over her now born son after he was born, my cousin saw a ghost during the daytime, when I was in my friends before that damn cat kept staring at the ceiling above me during the night. (minute pieces of dust being illuminated by the lamp is a good explanation for that)

Thoie

CorkMan wrote: »

What are gliders and rollers?

I have a chest of drawers which has a few different "fixings". The small drawers are plain wood along each side, and just fit into a wooden hole, so to open and close those drawers requires a bit of effort, and they can get stuck a bit. The big drawers are kind of on rails, so they slide in and out smoothly. It's that kind on rails in my place that can sometimes be 99.9% closed, but will then snap shut some random time later.

CorkMan

Thoie wrote: »

I have a chest of drawers which has a few different "fixings". The small drawers are plain wood along each side, and just fit into a wooden hole, so to open and close those drawers requires a bit of effort, and they can get stuck a bit. The big drawers are kind of on rails, so they slide in and out smoothly. It's that kind on rails in my place that can sometimes be 99.9% closed, but will then snap shut some random time later.

The drawers are in the kitchen, you pulled them out at head level. They easily swing out.

Thoie

CorkMan wrote: »

The drawers are in the kitchen, you pulled them out at head level. They easily swing out.

So we've solved everything other than the coin then?

Was the microwave operating at the time of the coin flip?

kylith

What make of microwave is it? Was the coin initially on top of the microwave? Is it possible that it fell from a shelf? The OP just says that they saw it in midair and heard it hit the micro, to me that would sound like it fell from somewhere and the OP caught the motion out of the corner of their eye.

CorkMan

Thoie wrote: »

So we've solved everything other than the coin then?

Was the microwave operating at the time of the coin flip?

You don't understand, it was definitely opened and closed, definitely.

The coin was the only coin there, on top of the microwave. It didn't come from the drawers above the microwave, it would have made a louder noise and bounced to the floor if that happened. I am not sure of the brand, it is a microwave/grill type.

I don't think there is any watcing me or anything, just odd occurences. I don't believe in a being being there and watching me. That is impossible IMO, you need a cerebral cortex or whatever its called to have vision, limbs to move and neurons to remember stuff. I read about the magnetic field of the earth stimulating your brain, causing visions and sounds but I am not sure.

dellas1979

Maybe ask it out loud (or in your head) to stop frightening you.

Either way, it cant do any harm really.

neonman

I had a coin thrown at me across my bedroom one night. Just out of the shower no one else in the room, door closed and a coin flew across the room and hit the wall behind me. But it was a once off never happened again.

Don't know how or what caused it but there ye go....madness but couldn't explain it myself.

CorkMan

its weird man, I saw something again last night "walking" to the right of me in the wall/through the air. it is something "that is there" but not tangible or however you wanna word it. Like very dense, almost see through mist there. It is only when you are not fully looking at the thing though.

In my bathroom my tissue was on the floor when I walked in there and when I was going to bed heard creaks in my kitchen. this is some ****ed up ish. When I am sitting down I feel "pulses" up against the back of my body too. When I move it stops but starts again when I stand still. WTH.

EDIT: was looking up wikipedia and found carbon monoxide and can paranormal activity, maybe i have some in my place. Also I read a specific sound frequency below our hearing level can cause paranormal activity, incluing extreme sadness etc.

loldog

Ok, well maybe you've made yourself over sensitive to the ordinary background creaks and noises and maybe the pulses are just your nervous system being more alert than normal.

If the whole thing bothers you much more though, get some experts (maybe from the board here) to come and have a look round. Just relax, I think we have a lot more to fear from the living than from the dead.:)

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CorkMan

ya, like a effin scumbag who'll take your life without even thinking about it

BTW I am a music person, an "audio" version. I hear people who mainly think in sound are sensitive to background sounds? I lived in a homeless shelther for 2 years before in south africa, and I can remember about 5 schizophrenic people. They look very normal, everyday people but have schnizophrenia.

I knew this fella from there who was COMPLETELY normal, until one day he complained people were talking a bout him in the street, and started pushing random people

loldog

I've no idea, but I know that when I start reading about ghosts and paranormal, I start hearing every creak and groan the house makes - it just heightens the sensitivity when you think about such things.


EDIT: Sounds like an interesting experience.:)
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Riamfada

CorkMan wrote: »

I knew this fella from there who was COMPLETELY normal, until one day he complained people were talking a bout him in the street, and started pushing random people

If people started talking about me in the street id probably take a rifle and shoot them from a belltower. Perfectly reasonable response imho

kylith

CorkMan wrote: »

its weird man, I saw something again last night "walking" to the right of me in the wall/through the air. it is something "that is there" but not tangible or however you wanna word it. Like very dense, almost see through mist there. It is only when you are not fully looking at the thing though.

In my bathroom my tissue was on the floor when I walked in there and when I was going to bed heard creaks in my kitchen. this is some ****ed up ish. When I am sitting down I feel "pulses" up against the back of my body too. When I move it stops but starts again when I stand still. WTH.

EDIT: was looking up wikipedia and found carbon monoxide and can paranormal activity, maybe i have some in my place. Also I read a specific sound frequency below our hearing level can cause paranormal activity, incluing extreme sadness etc.

If you think there is any chance of carbon monoxide in your apartment get it checked out immediately because that stuff can kill you very quickly, any good hardware shop should sell CO detectors.

Apparently ultra-low frequency sounds can make a person very uncomfortable, so that could be worth checking too.

CorkMan

Was up in my uncles last night and I felt the same pushing up against my bed linen.

When I straight ahead I see nothing, but I look away for a bit then back against and saw a figure for a second, with a hat and glasses, it was all black. Does anyone big time into ghosts have anything to say on this?

CorkMan

It is just annoying, lately i've been getting cold spots. 2 weeks ago I swear I saw an "apparition". Some sort of mist floating through the air, but I could see some sort of face.

It creeped me out TBH, it had no feelings, dead eyes but was moving. I went out of the apartment for a couple of hours after that. The feelings I get when going to sleep, I get them in my mid-body as well.