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.

maccored

I honestly think you;re freaking yourself out. Coldspots are everywhere - in a paranormal sense its extremely localised coldspots that are of interest .. as in large temperature drops in one very small area ... if you find you experience cold spots, take out a lighter and make sure it isnt just a normal draft ... it usually is.

Mist is also quite common and due to its nature, its easy to imagine seeing things in it.

KeithAFC

Sounds like a form of poltergiest activity.

CorkMan

It bloody creeps me out.

Dave!

Sounds like this is all being generated (in your head) by fear

Stop worrying about little noises and anomalies and they'll stop being freaky

Podman

Your definitely experiencing vivid sensations, OP.

They could be manifestations of your fear about something, or anxiety, stress, etc.
You could be experiencing your own energy from a different time in your life, reflected through your senses in the present. For example anger, frustration or some kind of shock related thing.
You could be sensitive to ghosts/spirits.
You could be picking up residual living energies from somewhere else, a lot of people have natural "paranormal" talents/gifts.
Also, drugs and addictions can influence a person's mood, and sometimes cause visual and aural phenomena.

It might not hurt to remind your higher-self from time to time, that you don't wish to experience these sensations anymore. Perhaps say a prayer.
You could even go so far as to say a mantra (affirmation) out loud a few times every day.. something like, "These paranormal experiences don't bother me", or "I will not allow this (in my) to disturb my life".

However, if you think it is some kind of natural gift, you may want to get some information or advice from an expert.

You mentioned meditation, how are the vivid experiences when you meditate or are very relaxed, are they still as strong?

Do you feel there has been any kind of communication, or did the experiences leave you with a sense you had to do something in particular?

What would be your gut feeling on the whole thing?

vandammaged

I think someone is pulling your leg mate.

CorkMan wrote: »

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

KeithAFC wrote: »

Sounds like a form of poltergiest activity.

i would strongly disagree

CorkMan

If anyone has ever done deep breathing, you feel as if you have an "energy field" around your body, something fluctuates through your ligaments. Well the energy field is what is being stimulated when I feel the perceived presence.

BTW i'm a solid 20 stone, so I am not afraid of physically being attacked by anyone. Just the creepiness of it all, the unknown.

KeithAFC

maccored wrote: »

i would strongly disagree

Why? I understand many people will not believe poltergeist activity exists but i think it does. Be it spirit or something else, i think it exists. And i understand people will point to something else being the reason.

But i think the OP should set up cameras and try to video the areas he believes were this activity is happening. If he gets anything interesting, then that is good.

Iv always said, the paranormal is about proving it to yourself, no one else.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ROHVGuNJxo

That is a good case regarding poltergeist acitivty.

CorkMan

Staying in my Dads ATM.

I went to sleep at 1AM this morning, left on the computer as I need the online alarm clock and I offed the lights. I woke up at 4.30 AM with the lights on....

I get them same pulling vibrations here now. I was watching the TV with my Dad the other day and felt them, my Dad felt them aswell. An other time I heard in my bedroom upstairs a thud on the floor, not sure what it was. Not walking noises but a thud. My dad did aswell.

kippy

CorkMan wrote: »

Staying in my Dads ATM.

I went to sleep at 1AM this morning, left on the computer as I need the online alarm clock and I offed the lights. I woke up at 4.30 AM with the lights on....

I get them same pulling vibrations here now. I was watching the TV with my Dad the other day and felt them, my Dad felt them aswell. An other time I heard in my bedroom upstairs a thud on the floor, not sure what it was. Not walking noises but a thud. My dad did aswell.

Have you killed anyone recently?
This paranormal activity seems to be following you around, which is pretty strange...........

In all honesty, and not trying to be condescending about it, have you gone to see your doctor about this?

CorkMan

I don't suffer from any hallucinations or the like. I suffered from depression a few years back, got prescribed medication for it by a psychiatrist. He didn't notice anything funny.

Oryx

The more you focus on this stuff, the more you will notice. I have been known to turn on lights in my sleep, and all houses make noises. I dont want to belittle your experience in any way, but at times like this when youre getting this stuff happening, that is the time when you need to be at your most grounded. Which means NOT giving it your attention, but moving your thoughts to more normal things. If you hear odd noises, decide its just the house settling. The pulling sensation is just one of those things you get. Dont allow your mind to build on them in a frightening way. Stay real. Practical things to ground you are cooking, eating, exercise, work. Anything that occupies you physically. Ive been through stuff like this, and I promise you the strategy works.

dolphin city

CorkMan wrote: »

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.

you said that the drawers incident happened on the first night that you got the drawers so how could you have known what the noise was for sure.

I think you were on the verge of sleep and related the noise you heard to the drawers yourself. You are in a apt complex? listen, the way these things were hurled up in this country any vibration at all would have an effect on all the apts in the block. so I think what you are hearing is the noise of the apts. after all you you are only there for six months.

the pulling of the blankets etc is normal - its a state people get into before they fall asleep or just after they wake up - a bit like sleep paralysis. perfectly normal.

Many of us have "orbs" in front of our eyes - that also is normal and I wouldn't worry about it, unless they are chronic and you should seek medical help or go to an eye specialist, but its nothing to do with ghosts. thats my own humble opinion.

dolphin city

CorkMan wrote: »

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?

so in other words the penny fell from the fridge onto the microwave. it did not actually "flip" itself over and land back on the fridge where you said it was in the first place - that was a vibration. nothing more.

dolphin city

CorkMan wrote: »

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?

shoudda gone to specsavers???

hah only joking = but joking aside, sounds like you have quite a vivid imagination and automatically think "paranormal" for any noise that you cannot explain. if you first thing of the reality of the sounds and keep the paranormal out of it, you will answer a lot of your own questions.

CorkMan

dolphin city wrote: »

so in other words the penny fell from the fridge onto the microwave. it did not actually "flip" itself over and land back on the fridge where you said it was in the first place - that was a vibration. nothing more.

It didn't fall from the fridge onto the microwave. When you walk in the front door the microwave is right in front of you, and the fridge is around 8 feet away. Plus you swing a door open to get at the fridge. The only way it could have landed from the fridge on he microwave is by disappearing from the fridge and appearing on the microwave. The coin was on the microwave all by itself, and it flipped over and landed on the microwave all by itself.

you said that the drawers incident happened on the first night that you got the drawers so how could you have known what the noise was for sure.

I think you were on the verge of sleep and related the noise you heard to the drawers yourself. You are in a apt complex? listen, the way these things were hurled up in this country any vibration at all would have an effect on all the apts in the block. so I think what you are hearing is the noise of the apts. after all you you are only there for six months.

Because I closed and opened them multiply times that night, and I have opened them many times since and they make the exact same noise which I heard that night. Plus I wasn't almost asleep, I had to get up for college the next morning and was wide awake for 45 minutes. My heard was pumping for a good bit afterwards, it was certainly externally in my apartment.

kylith

CorkMan wrote: »

It didn't fall from the fridge onto the microwave. When you walk in the front door the microwave is right in front of you, and the fridge is around 8 feet away. Plus you swing a door open to get at the fridge. The only way it could have landed from the fridge on he microwave is by disappearing from the fridge and appearing on the microwave. The coin was on the microwave all by itself, and it flipped over and landed on the microwave all by itself.

So... it was on the microwave, and then it was on the microwave. I'm really failing to see anything weird with that.

GodlessM

CorkMan, no offense or anything but your constant misspelling, misplaced words, and grammar mistakes tell me you are grasping at straws to keep your story alive right now.

CorkMan

kylith wrote: »

So... it was on the microwave, and then it was on the microwave. I'm really failing to see anything weird with that.

Err, what? Did you not notice the words "flipped over"??? If you fail to see anything weird with coins flipping over by themselves, don't tell me where you live.

I suppose it is only paranormal if the coin landed on the microwave from the fridge, which is 8 feet away. Not a coin flipping over all by itself.

GodlessM wrote: »

CorkMan, no offense or anything but your constant misspelling, misplaced words, and grammar mistakes tell me you are grasping at straws to keep your story alive right now.

Keep my story alive? I am reporting highly abnormal stuff that has been happening to me. Don't try to slander me for trying to do something I am not doing.