Close Encounter of Flying Snake Like Creature Near Lake Ontario

Friend Paul Shishis recently sent me an article which he wrote and submitted to UFO Digest.

Close Encounter of Flying Snake Like Creature Near Lake Ontario

Many thanks to Paul for sharing.

Vietnam Vet Recounts UFO Sightings

Numerous sightings of unexplained flying objects and mysterious lights during the Vietnam War have been reported. Here is one veteran's opinion on the matter of UFOs.

"I can tell you UFOs are as real as your car you drive. I was in the Military in the Air Defense sector. I also served in Vietnam and UFOs were active there also. They were known to fly up to Army helicopters in the air and pace them and just observe. They also observed ground activities. Helicopter door gunners were told not to fire on the UFOs because no one really knew what they were or their capabilities. I have observed them and was told never to tell what I saw and was informed I could be imprisoned and etc. if a riot or whatever broke out as a result. I have no doubt aliens are here now and for the most part look like us."

Also check out The Nha Trang UFO Incident which took place in 1966 causing electromagnetic effects on the ground below.

Ghostly Twin

Recently a reader wrote me with this frightening true account.

I was born in Long Island New York and now I live in Miami Fla. For years I have been searching for a true answer. When I was 14 teen years old I would always go to sleep with the stereo on and my bedroom door closed. I always left my window shades open so the street light would keep my bedroom lit up. One night, I woke up out of my sleep because I couldn't hear the stereo on. I opened my eyes and my mother had opened my bedroom door and turned off the stereo. I was so mad at her so I started to pull my covers off and I laid back down scared out of my wits. There was a girl identical to me standing next to my bed. She was just like me- I have never been so afraid in my life. All she did was look at me. She had a long white dress with a pinkish color to it, but white. She had this covering over her like a see through veil but clear in color. She even had the same color hair and hair cut I had. I was mostly afraid that she was going to talk or do something to me. After staring at her for as long as I could without blinking, I finally blinked my eye's and she was gone. Then when I saw that she was gone I made sure and looked all around the room- to make sure she wasn't hiding in any corner of my room waiting to pop back out on me. I counted to 10 and ran to my mothers bedroom, I told her and fell asleep in her bed and slept there for a few nights after that. I am now 45 years old and I am still asking myself and searching online for an answer. I remember that night like it was yesterday. I wonder- Was this demonic a twin I never knew I had? What was that all about? Nothing like this has ever happened again. May you please or someone out there help me put closure to this. Thank you.

After doing some reading regarding a twin-like apparition appearing to someone, the closest thing I came up with was a doppelgänger. However, I could be way off. What do you all think? I have never heard of anyone seeing their double like this. Your thoughts about this persons experience are appreciated.

Groveland, NY Haunting

Reader shares her haunting experiences while living in Groveland, New York.

"I rented a farm house in 1997-1998 in Groveland, New York, located in Livingston County. I lived there with my youngest daughter who was a young teenager at the time. The house used to be an Inn in the 1800's, but had caught fire and a good bit of it had been destroyed. At some point in time, one of the owners of the place made it into a farm house. Unknown to me, a man had died in the house prior to when I moved in. That man turned out to be my daughters great uncle!

I worked nights and needed a nap before going into work. I told my daughter and her friend to go outside to let me sleep for awhile. While trying to get to sleep I heard someone walking up and down the hall upstairs and saw a shadow under the door of someone walking by. This continued for a good half an hour. I got mad thinking it was my daughter, and got up, left my room and went downstairs to find her. She was out side with her friend talking. I asked her why she was going up and down the hall when I told her to stay outside, she and her friend told me that they had not moved from where I found them talking.

In the same house after work I would do the dishes before going to bed. In the morning, when I got up, the silverware would be thrown all over the kitchen.
One day my daughter and I were folding clothes and we both heard someone fart near where we were folding, but no one was there.

One of my other daughters came to visit me with some of her friends on a night that I didn't have to work. I was across the room from them and it suddenly got real cold, and I felt like someone walked right threw me. Everyone else had got real cold shortly after, and felt a cold breeze go by them. I had loud banging on the walls there as well. I didn't live there very long."

Strange Lights Over Virginia

Here is another sighting from Virginia that took place on April 4, 2008. Any of my other readers from this area seeing similar things?

"Last night at a little after 11:00 PM I went outside to smoke. Right over MY HOUSE was a very (I could see the bottom as plain as day) low flying triangle in shape air craft, on all the points were steady very bright lights in the middle a red smaller flashing one. It was headed north. I heard what I believe were military jets but did not see them, at the time I thought the noise of the jets belonged with what I saw, but that would not make sense, as it was not going fast at all, rather slow in fact. I was just watch UFO FILES on the History Chan. and what I saw is exactly the same as the photos they showed of UFO's seen in Belgium.
Glen Allen VA"

Haunted House In Atlanta, Georgia

Georgia is home to one of the most haunted cities in America. Read this haunting experience a reader had while renting a home in Atlanta, Georgia.

"Hello. I lived at the above address from 1997 to 1999. My family, myself and many of my friends had strange experiences that ranges from creepy to out right terrifying. Voices were heard in conversation that sounded like a woman and two men. My then four year old kept insisting that he saw a man in the mirror with a "string" around his neck. Shadows of people would move about and lights turned on and off. I awoke one night to the sound of a woman laughing and ice pouring out of the ice maker and all over the kitchen floor. Twice human teeth were found in the bathroom. There had been a crawl space under the house, but it had been concreted over. There was a foul odor that came and went on the back porch. All in all, when the landlord became ill and we had to move, no one was sad. Thanks, R."

I have chosen to withhold the address out of respect for anyone who may live there now and the property itself. My thanks to R. for sharing this experience with us.

Paul Shishis

From the age of eight years old, Paul Shishis has had numerous sightings of UFOs and one close encounter. In 1967, Paul had his first of many sightings. He also vividly remembers having a number of recurring dreams between 1963-1965, where he was "being carried by tall white creatures, as two walked side by side with a robotic motion and remember being given a intense white light-with crushing results in the chest." After many years of trying to forget these nightmares, Paul came to the realization that they represented something real and beyond comprehension. Coincidentally, while Paul was having these "nightmares", witnesses were reporting seeing unidentified flying objects in the area. One of these sightings took place in August, 1965, making local news. Paul was kind enough to send me the newspaper article from this sighting.

On August 4, 1977, Paul had a close encounter with a pear shaped craft outside of his place of work. This sighting made headlines in the local paper and Paul reported the incident to NUFORC. (Read Paul's Report)

Here is a detailed drawing that Paul drew from that night.


In 2003, Paul had an profound realization about his many sightings and experiences with UFOs. This awakening has since gained him a different perspective on life. It is his belief that our planet and species are in peril. His mission is to tell his story truthfully and raise awareness about the "higher forces surrounding us. "

To date, Paul has had over 90 sightings of UFOs, his most recent taking place just this past March. He has seen objects of all shapes and sizes. From classic rods and orb shaped to oblong and star shaped. On a number of occasions, Paul was with others who also witnessed the mysterious objects. Paul has sent me a number of photographs taken of mysterious looking objects that do not appear to have been manipulated in any way. Over time, with Paul's permission, I will post the photos on my site.

My thanks to Paul for all that he has sent and for sharing his most remarkable experiences with me.

Lake Ontario UFO

This story was recently sent to me by a reader here in Canada. There have been a number of UFO sightings near Lake Ontario in recent times. Here is one of them.

"This might seem like the most unbelievable story and of course I don’t have any photographic evidence, but in July of 2005, my parents and I were invited to a friend’s house near Lake Ontario just south of our house in Ajax. While we were going to pick my sister up to join us, I spotted a very white, shinny object emanating in the eastern part of the sky. It was a sunny day and there were a few white puffy clouds in the sky. I got out of the car and my dad did also and the object could be seen as a long white cylindrical shaft angled at about 30-50 degrees pointing downward. It was falling at a steady rate towards the lake and had NO and I repeat NO TAIL whatsoever like a comet or and airplane at these altitudes. It appeared for a few minutes but then disappeared behind another large cloud. We watched it and this object must have been large and far up to have been able to be seen and amount to the size of another object that was soon to appear. We estimated that it must have been over eastern Whitby or Oshawa or even further east. Then as we were about to go get my sister, a small black dot that had swooped in from no where and was falling almost the exact path the object was falling downward. It had a tail and we thought it was one of those fighter jets like an F-16 or something similar. By the way my dads one of those buffs on airplanes and history (or at least he thinks he is sometimes) but this time he seemed to be right. Now here's the kicker! The next day my dad called the NORAD service for what was going on in the airspace at that time. We as Canadians have the right to know these things like you or I. But for some ODD reason the person we called gave us the second degree. Not willing to tell us what was going on and seemed skittish/reluctant to tell us. He said many different things like “there was nothing there at that time” and “I don’t have to give you that information” and so on. So he finally hung up on my dad saying “we are very busy at this time please call back at a more appropriate time.” So my dad just left it at that and for three years now I have always been wondering what the object was. A “UFO”, a missile, even though it had no tail and was VERY shiny due to the suns glare, or if it was some experiment for a new kind of airplane? I am one of those people who do believe in some conspiracies, but I'm not one of those crazies you see saying they were abducted and had a baby for the aliens. But, I am a person who is open minded to most things. I wish to share this story because someone either than myself or father must have seen this and would like to know how large indeed this object was.

~Forgot to enclose some info. It was around 4 or 5 in the afternoon, our car was facing an easterly position. I believe the object was high enough to have crash landed into the lake or even across to the US."

My thanks to Ted for taking the time to write and send in his experience. If anyone in the area remembers seeing something unusual during July 2005, contact me with your story or leave a comment here.

First Hand UFO Encounters

Recently a retired veteran of the United States Air Force contacted me. Here are two intriguing accounts of UFO encounters while in the USAF.

"The first account related to observing UFOs was in the fall of 1986 in South Dakota. While on perimeter guard duty of the main runway, my security team members and I witnessed 2 silver flying discs hanging low and stationary in the southwestern sky. These objects were reflecting sunlight brilliantly and were moving in a wobble type fashion on closer observation through field glasses. They kind of reminded me of diamonds on a sting or something like that. This event lasted more than an hour when, the Duty Officer got on the phone and made the tower see if there was anything on radar. I do not know if there were any contacts made that day, as I was not privileged to that information. As quickly as the objects appeared they vanished by flying off to the north when the late afternoon B-52s came back from there daily mission. Highly strange stuff.

The second best experience was when I was on field exercises in Texas shortly after entering the USAF. We had gone on a mobile exercise on the Fort Hood military reservation and set up a control base for a joint exercise to take place. While patrolling this vast area we drove to deeper into the vast expanse of the reservation and took notice of this object approaching from north. Our two small utility vehicles stopped, and we grabbed the field glasses to watch this thing. This object was rolling on the ground, and was an orb around 10 feet in diameter. The closer it came to us, the more interference we had on on our walkie-talkies and the hardware on board with us. As this orb came closer, we took note of the way it moved and undulated and almost looked alive! The weird quality of this thing was it looked like oil on water moving around. It came within 20 feet and our batteries died and the lights went out. It really sapped the power in both the vehicles. After that we watched the thing roll away into the distance and it just faded. We, on the other hand, were very shaken up and waited until morning for the wreckers to come and tow us away. That was also recorded as an unknown, no further action was taken by higher authority and it was the last I heard of it. I later did some research and this phenomena was occurring during the Old West."

My thanks to T. for sharing this story with me and my readers~Aura

UFO In Virginia

Reader reports seeing a UFO in Glen Allen, Virginia.

"Today while sitting in my car it was around 5:30 PM, I saw a bright light flying kind of low in the sky. I watched it for around 3-4 seconds -- it totally vanished! Tonight my daughter and I were on the deck having a smoke and we both saw a floating reddish/yellow object roundish in the sky moving in a zigzag motion, there was an odd shaped bluish barely visible under the other object. 6 airplane's went near them with in a 10 minute time frame, when this happened, two object's (at different times) zoomed by the planes so fast, faster then anything I have ever seen, and vanished. 02/09/2008

On 03/08/2008 on about 5:30 to 6:00 PM, while sitting in my car which was facing southwest I saw a bright object flying way to low for a plane, the object was kind of tube shaped or bullet shaped and it was very bright yellow/white. I watched this object for 3 to 4 seconds until it VANISHED!

That same night, while standing on my deck, I saw a bright roundish light it for the most part was yellowish, under this object barely visible was a bluish object which was bigger and shaped like a tube or bullet. The roundish object "flashed" red, then blue, reddish/yellow (while doing this is seemed smaller) then back to the bright color, after it did this two object's (I couldn't tell the shape of them) zoomed faster then is even logical one went in the path of one of the plane's that was flying toward the bright roundish object and then they vanished. It seemed like object's at different times were going out of the bluish bullet shaped object. At one point one of the object's seemed to be chasing one of the planes in a northerly direction. The two object's I watched were (from my deck) in the southern sky. I would take a lie-detector test to prove what I am saying is true.

For the last 3 to 4 month's there have been object's zigzagging, and moving strangely. Flashing different colors then from a different part of the sky something flashing back the same colors in the same order, then object's begin "zooming" fast back and forth in the sky. I began noticing these things around the end of October/beginning of November. It is mostly in the southern sky or southwestern sky when I am seeing the objects."

Has anyone else seen strange lights in the west end of Glen Allen, Virginia?

Family Haunted In Indiana

Family Haunted In Indiana

"My name is Brittany and I'm 16 years old now. I first moved to Cataract, Indiana when I was 12 years old. We lived way out in the country in a big old house. We had one neighbor that was close by and that was it. We lived in this house for a couple months before we started experiencing abnormal encounters.

The first time it happened, me and my mother were in the kitchen and we started hearing the back doors handle jiggling. We opened the laundry room door and the lock on the door handle was locking and unlocking by itself. It scared me and my mother but when we told my step dad he said we were crazy! I didn't really care because I know what I had seen and nothing was gonna stop believing that. It had stopped for awhile after that but then out of no where the TV in the great room would turn on and off by itself, change channels, and the volume would always be a high odd number. In the great room there is also a big picture window and out it the only thing you can see are woods and an old lane. My younger brother and I were watching TV one night and we seen lights reflecting off the window, so we got up and looked and we seen what looked like car lights going down the old lane. The next day we told our mom about it and she asked our neighbor if any one had went down the old lane last night, she said no that the gate is locked so no body can get in it unless they broke it. We checked and the lock was still attached.

My grandmother (moms mom) had died of cancer when I was 7 years old. Before we moved out of this house, every time my grandpa would call us on the home phone it would show up as Erma Thacker. The weird part was was that my grandmother was dead and she had never had a phone in her name. It was always in my grandpas. It upset my mom and when she told my grandpa he got mad at her thinking she was trying to upset him. A week after that, my mom and my step dad split up. My mom and I think grandma was trying to tell us something but we don't know.

My brothers room always had the most abnormal activity going on in it. He used to have real bad nightmares and he would talk/walk in his sleep. One night he got out of bed and came in my room and asked me if I knew where her doll was? I was confused and half asleep so I kinda blew it off, but I noticed when he left my room he didn't go back to his. He was trying to get out the front door and he kept talking about little girls. I was trying to be as calm as I could be because my parents were not home so I asked him who the girls were and he said the twin girls. I thought he was just dreaming. So I took him back to his room and he went to bed. I really couldn't sleep because I got scared he was gonna wonder off. I heard talking and giggling coming from his room so I got up and went in there and there are two little girl figures sitting at the edge of his bed about 4ft away from me. I couldn't move scream or anything. I just stood there. My little brother wasn't in his bed and I was so scared I couldn't take my eyes off the girls. I tried looking around for him but at the same time I was trying to make out what the girls were saying. It was something about a house and there doll. I started to feel a lot of high energy in the room and very cold. The girls figures' disappeared. I found my little brother sitting outside his window. I asked him what he was doing and he said saying goodbye. I didn't ask what that meant because I really didn't wanna know. He still does not remember it to this day."

Brittany and here family have since moved from that house. However, her and her family continue to experience strange activity in their new home. Here is the rest of her story.

"The house that I live in now is located in Cataract, Indiana, close to the other house I lived in. This house is sitting on 117 acres and on the land there are 3 ponds. The land lord told us that African Americans used to own the house back in the late 1800s and a lot of them were hung on their land because of their color. In the front yard, there are 4 pine trees and they have been there since the recent owners were brutally murdered. As of now, we are the first family to live in this house since they were killed. Inside the house there are 3 bedrooms upstairs, two bathrooms, and a full basement. My parents and my brother are upstairs and my room is in the basement. Nobody has seen anything very clear besides shadows and figures. Sometimes thick fog travels up the basement stairs , but after a couple of years you get used to the scary parts of your house. My mother hates being at home alone while me and my brother are at school because she can hear loud laughter/talking and someone walking up and down the steps. She used to call me at school while she locked her self in her room scared to death telling me what happened. I didn't know what to do beside get home schooled. After I started that I too started noticing the same things she had told me about, and it was weird because what ever it was it was just hanging out. It never hurt anything/anybody. Now that I'm used to it it's kinda like company when your alone. It also has a problem with taking things or rearranging things in the house, especially in my room the basement."

Here was my response to Brittany.

That is unnerving to say the least. You and your family could benefit from a blessing of the home or smudging of the property. If you are not religious you could try burning (carefully) Sage in your home in the areas that have the most activity. Based on what you have told me it sounds like you could have residual energy left behind as well as intelligent spirits around. For obvious reasons. Traumatic events such as these, that you have described, leave imprints behind on land and the very materials that homes are made of. In instances such as these where murders have taken place, I find it important to put the souls at peace and to release them. It might not be something that you and your ma can do alone. You may not want to change anything but if you do...and If you need some help finding individuals who may be able to assist you, let me know. I know of a number of groups set up to help people like yourselves, in a number of states, that do not charge. If you find someone that does, say thanks but no thanks.

My thanks to Brittany for taking the time to share her story with me and my readers. What do you all think Brittany and her family should do?

The Confederate Soldier Ghost

"The Confederate Soldier Ghost"
Story submitted by reader

Hello, my name is Holly and I would like to tell you my story of "The Confederate Soldier Ghost" i saw outside a well known restaurant in the Milwaukee WI area.

Outside the restaurant called Bluemound Gardens in Wauwatosa, my mother and I were pulling into their parking lot and saw at the entrance what appeared to be an elder, white, man dressed in Confederate soldier uniform standing attention.

He leaned on what appeared to be a sword and had a white pale look on his face. He stared at me and didn't move. People going in and out of the restaurant seemed to not notice and not being alarmed by him as they walked and drove past him, not even looking his way. When I pulled up in front to let my mother out so I could find a parking space, my mother said she looked over at the entrance of the parking lot where this soldier was and he was gone. I parked my car and also noticed he was gone. We know what we saw and saw the same thing.

Never saw this soldier again as we have been to Bluemound Gardens several times. We are too afraid to ask owners or workers at this place about this soldier. I can't find records of any one else online or incidents about soldiers haunting around... or if the land where this place now stands was a seen from like the movie Gettysburg.

My thanks to Holly for sharing her experience with me and my readers.

Reader Recalls UFO Sighting

Reader recalls his UFO sighting.

I had a sighting of a ufo a year and a half ago. I was coming back from dropping off someone when I thought I saw something or someone jumping out of a plane, with parachute deployed. Here is the thing, it didn't move it was stationary. I pulled into a driveway and was just staring at it. People were also driving buy and those stopped at the stoplight were looking too. Then I guess this craft started to move to the right about 100 feet then stopped and turned. Like it wipped its tail around because it turned over and wobbled a bit. Then it took of slowly moving away from my direction. I jumped back in my car and was trying to follow it. I got to a field clearing pulled into another drive and there it was heading at an up wards in the sky! Here is where it gets real interesting, a small 2 seater plane from a near by civil airport was flying at the same level as this thing and this craft looked as if it turned to look at the plane! Then turned back to the direction it was heading. I figured I would be underneath it if I drove a little and turned down the next street. Well that's what I did, only 6 minutes had past and I lost it for a moment, till a little black dot was so far up in the sky I could barely make it out!! This thing looked like an up side down u, but almost like a parachute. It even had humps coming down the sides. Black in color like Teflon. Here's the thing I don't think it was a craft from another world I think it was man made because it wobbled when it turned. But, I can say this, it was controlled by something!!

Thanks David for sending in your sighting and sharing it with us.

Validation From A Loved One

This is in response to my When The Dead Call post. My thanks to the person who submitted this story.

"As my husband and I were leaving the hospital where my mother had just passed away, we had to cross the street to get to my car - As we were waiting in the center divider area for the cars to clear, my cell phone began ringing.

I waited until we were on the other side of the street to answer my phone.

As I grabbed my phone from my purse, and went to answer it, I looked at the screen and it was black. I then realized I had turned my phone off while in the hospital.

We both thought it odd to have it ring as much as it did, and it not have the phone on.

Then the next day we had other strange occurrences happen in our house, such as the tv in our living room changing to the Golf channel. I looked around and no one was in the room with me, and the remote was on sitting on top of the other couch. Then I remembered the last conversation I had with my mother - we talked about golf, and that I would take her and dad miniature golfing when she got better.

Just after this incident I walked into the bedroom where my husband was watching tv, I said nothing to him as I thought it was just conincidental. Just then the tv in the bedroom changed to the golf channel. This also happened to my brother a few months later. I know this must have been my mother telling me she made it to heaven."

Protected by My Guardian Angel

Here is an experience sent to me by one of my readers.

"I like your website and have an experience of my own concerning the supernatural. One night back in October 2001 at 2:00AM, I was trying to sleep but could not. I was alone in the room and it was dark. With my eyes closed and being aware of everything, I could feel someone or something touching my lower leg. Then it touched my upper leg. I did not want to get up, but just wanted to know what it was. Finally it touched my chest and I jumped out of bed and turned on the light expecting to see something near my bed. Nothing was in the room with me. Whatever it was disappeared into thin air. It had to be a spirit, I figured.

I am a believer in guardian angels having had my life spared 3 times in the military. Once I was strangely aware of an ambush up ahead of our squad and told the other infantrymen we should not go in that direction. They disbelieved me, so I told them to give me some time to look with binoculars. After about a half hour I saw the enemy watching us with binoculars. They decided I was right and we went back the way we came. They shot at us at over 1000yds and missed us. We returned back to camp, although it could have turned out very different if I had not been informed by my guradian angel. We might have all been killed."

Thanks DH for sharing your story with us.

Near Death Experiences

"Near death experiences or N.D.E. have fascinated me for decades, ever since learning that my own mother experienced one in a near drowning."

Paranormal Activity

After reading my Noises On The Roof post, a reader commented by sharing his paranormal experience with me. Here is Quentin's story...

I had a friend named Ryan in Austin, Texas who had a similar experience. We would hear stomping sounds in his ceiling pretty regularly that he could not explain. In his mother's bedroom, you could hear what sounded like someone running back and forth across the ceiling. At first he thought there was some problem with the air conditioning vents, but it would happen in the winter as well. There were no problems with the roof and it wasn't the wind. Sometimes it would get so loud that he couldn't hear his music over it. This went on for a couple of years. My friend Ben and I were spending the night at Ryan's house once and Ryan and I left to go buy some cigarettes. I left my cell phone on the coffee table where it stayed all night. When we returned, Ben was standing on the porch. We asked him why he was standing outside and he said he had an unbearably uneasy feeling when he went in alone that he couldn't explain. I finally decided that I wanted to know what was going on in the ceiling so I got a ladder and went up into the attic. I didn't see anything at all when I looked around with my flashlight. I crept in a little farther and peered towards the back of the attic where the vaulted ceiling of the living room blocked my vision. As I did this, I heard a sound like scraping knives and at that moment my flashlight started to flicker. I rushed back towards the ladder and left the attic in a hurry! Ryan asked what I saw and I truthfully told him that I saw nothing, but I certainly felt like there was someone in there with me. Ben said my face was pale white as I descended the ladder. I forgot my phone when I left the next day so I called Ryan to get it for me. He said he couldn't find it on the coffee table or anywhere else in the house. Frustrated, I decided to go back to his house and search for it. Sure enough, it was nowhere to be found anywhere in the house. I was about to give up when the word "attic" popped into my head. I got out the ladder again and climbed back up. There it was, right next to the hatch, sitting there on the crossbeam like someone had placed it there. Creepy. Ryan had also mentioned seeing strange lights outside his window at night, almost as if someone was walking around outside his room with a flashlight. Or the moon was sitting on his front lawn. When we walked outside, no one was there.

The Green Mountain UFO

J.R. from Alabama wrote:

"I was just watching Larry King's special on UFO's and it reminded me of a time I encountered a UFO. I believe 100 percent that my sighting was not of this world. I live in Lacey's Spring, about 4 miles south of Huntsville, AL. home of one of NASA's centers. My sighting occurred a few years ago when my mom had picked me up from school. We were at a stop sign and I was looking out at Green Mountain on the other side of the Tennessee River. A flash of light caught my gaze and I saw it. I could not make out the shape because the sun was reflecting so brightly against it. My best guess would be an ovalish shape. The object stayed motionless in the sky for a moment, then would zip across the sky at an unbelievable speed. This vessel was very sophisticated. I got my mom to see it and it zipped around a few more times and then it suddenly shot straight up into the atmosphere and disappeared. I wish I could witness something like this once more in my life."

Thanks J.R. for sharing your story with me and the rest of my readers! Fascinating...

A Haunting In Texas

"I came across your site and found it to be very interesting. I am a total fanatic about the paranormal. I love the movies, documentaries, everything. I live in Houston and I too have had many unexplained things happen.

In Beaumont, TX where I was born, the house that I grew up in I can say is haunted. That house is now home to another family member that has unexplained things happen to her. Anything from apparitions(sp) to poltergeist. A few years ago, I house sat for my aunt who lives there now. One night, about 2a.m., something kept knocking on the door and ringing the doorbell. I got up to check and no one was there. I turned around and it happened again. I thought I was just crazy till it happened again for a third time. I left the house in the middle of the night scared to death. Come to find out that the doorbell was one of those wireless ones that you put batteries in. I didn't know that. When I was told, I went to where the doorbell chime was in the house, opened the cover and the receiver did not have any batteries in it. Later that day, I was washing dishes in the kitchen. I was placing glass cups in the cabinet. I turned to bend down to get another glass and as soon as I did, the glass in the cabinet went flying across the kitchen and shattered. My aunt likes to drink beer. One night when she was alone, she opened the fridge and grabbed a beer. Before she closed the door, she said the bottle flew out of her hand and smashed on the wall behind her. One day, I was in the attic running cable to an area of the house. For a moment, I got a feeling that I was not alone. Something grabbed my shoulder and I ran down screaming. Weird thing is that the same thing happened to my dad about twenty years earlier when I was still an infant. My mother has seen a ghost of a little girl twice. My brother has seen a lady figure. We had a Houston paranormal team come and investigate and they came to a conclusion that this house was haunted by a man named Wallace. Whoever it is loves to move things and make noises. At Christmas time, this ghost loves to play with the crystal ornaments on the tree. Every night you can hear them clanking together. The family has pretty much gotten use to it now and we feel that there is no harm. We even speak out and say "stop that" or "be nice". Always seems to work."

Thanks MM for sharing your story!~~Aura

Supernatural Hawaii

Story written by A.V. Michaels

"Hawaii is a gorgeous place to live, most would agree. The weather is unbeatable, the people are full of aloha and the beach is always close by. I suppose some might say it has its downsides too – things tend to be more expensive, and it always takes longer to get things done because most people would rather be playing than working.

Whether Hawaii’s legendary creepiness is a downside or not depends on your point of view, but unless you live here you might not be aware of all the strangeness that goes on – and the blithe, casual way people live with the phenomena. It’s just part of life here, given the diversity of cultural influences regarding the spirit world and its pervasiveness in everyday existence.

The first experience I had was talking to the rocks. It might sound strange but since then I’ve heard such stories from many, many people here. Pele, the volcano goddess, has created a virtual army of bizarre lava rock formations that often seem to contain faces and shapes, and in the right state of consciousness you can hear them whisper their wisdom. What they told me was scarier than hearing their voices: they have been here for a very, very long time, waiting; but that time is now short. Later I picked up the great book Obake File: Ghostly Encounters in Supernatural Hawaii and a shiver went down my spine when I read the chapter on the rocks. Witnesses account that giant rocks, said by local shaman to contain demigods, have gotten up and moved on their own. Supposedly the great god Kane lived in a famous rock in Pearl Harbor until the day the monarchy was overthrown by the US government on January 17, 1893, when it abruptly disappeared.

We get spirits, too; a lot of them. All locals know about the Nightmarchers, and if your house is located on one of their ancient trails, you’re in for some trouble. I’ve heard people tell about seeing an army of ancient Hawaiian apparitions marching through their living room on a full moon. Rumor has it people have actually had houses moved out of these paths. Whenever anyone builds a house or starts a business they always have it blessed in Hawaiian – whoever you are, spiritual or not, this is simply the way it’s done. Don’t tempt the local spirits – trust me. We have to periodically cleanse and bless our own home – not that they’re evil, but they do seem to grow in numbers and they eventually start to irritate my husband, who can see them much better than I can. They try to hide in the mirrors but we’re hip to that trick.

The most astounding experience however has been the fairy lights. I’ve read similar accounts of people seeing strange colored globes of light flitting around various places, all over the world, in fact. There are certain places in Hawaii they simply abound, especially during a full moon for some reason. Initially they like to pretend they are emergency trucks in the distance – until you realize 1) there is no road out there or 2) they suddenly all spin into a circle and blink in patterns. The locals call them ’akualele’, or fireballs. My husband has had many, many very close encounters with them, and is convinced they are conscious in some sense. They have come within 10 to 15 feet of him, and he describes them as, “spheres about the size of basketballs with spun glass inside (angel hair, like for Christmas), all lit up but changing colors rapidly, red, green, blue, orange, yellow, purple.” He said when he laughs, they light up brighter and bounce up and down a little as if they’re imitating him. The most incredible story involves an outing at one of these more remote places with our teen-aged nephew, who had gone hiking away a few miles and as it got dark my husband began to worry when he didn’t return to his calls. He began to yell louder and louder, when he saw one of the lights speed off away from him. Our nephew returned later to say one of the fireballs had screeched up right next to him whereby he heard his uncle’s voice loud and clear, calling for him, at which time he turned around and headed back the approximately two miles he had walked. The light they emit is strange, and when photographed one can see the different light spectrums. Though difficult to capture and then interpret, here are a few shots they managed to get. My own spirit tells me they are just curious thought forms; some kind of earth spirit or perhaps they are peering at us through vast distances of time, space or dimension.

Since moving here six years ago I’ve fallen in love with this place, this island, this Hawai’i. Its beauty and energy both bring me solace and nurture my inspiration. If you are in Hawaii or ever plan to visit, take some time for a supernatural tour of its legends and mysteries. You won’t be disappointed." A.V. Michaels

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Angela ~Thanks again for taking the time to write this story for me and the rest of my readers. Mahalo nui loa!