What do ghosts feel like?
This may seem like an odd question, but I think it is a good one to consider. For, at times, it is possible that when we encounter haunting we might not be aware of its effect on us.
Many of us have heard, or even experienced, that when we encounter “spirit” a tingling sensation or goosebumps may arise for some people. I believe this to be true for many of us. After having had my own encounters over the years, dating back to the 1990s, I began recognizing when I am within a “presence,” at times. I have felt this in my own home, when attending certain churches (in the past), and while attempting to communicate with ghosts at haunted locations. So I am trying to say that there has been a wide variety of places and experiences that seem similar to me (as it relates to feeling “an unseen presence”).
Others, though, have had deeper experiences with ghosts, having felt dazed or out of it after encountering what they can only believe to be a ghost attack. Now using the word “attack” seems harsh, to me, because who knows what really happened. Perhaps the ghost didn’t have intentions of attacking another person at all. So let’s be careful about labeling such experiences as attacks, demonic, evil, nasty, etc. Let’s agree to call these feelings that we do not fully understand as “odd.”
Kathryn Johnson had such an experience when entering the door of a notedly haunted place in San Diego – the Whaley House. She didn’t expect to feel the way she did, and I do not believe she felt she was attacked. Her suspicion is that, maybe, a ghost passed through her (see Whaley House Ghost Experience). And why couldn’t that be the case? After all, it might be good fun for a spirit to make their essence known by walking through or near a person. I would want to try it if disembodied, I think!
This idea of another’s spirit mixing with our own does seem parallel to accounts we hear of ghost possession (or “attachment”). People who have suffered such encounters struggle to be in control of their body and mind, seeming foggy or pushed back out of the way. Quite frightening to hear about but a phenomenon that has been known about for thousands of years.
This subject is definitely something to ponder: the influence of ghosts, invisible, upon the living. How might they affect us if interacting with us? Something to consider…yes, indeed.
– Louis
I used to call it a “Bleugh!” til got used to it – am a repeat experiencer, empath, & a bit of a magnet for the weird & wunnerful, as i call it. Now, the symptoms are far less as i’ve got used to it. Can oddly, normally be first experience of extreme cold spot that is only in a definable area, but sometimes oddly an extreme hot spot. As i said the effects have minimised as i’ve grown used & almost blaisé about it, but generally hairs raise on body, eyes get watery & eyes move everywhere to locate exact position. Having moved from UK (specifically Northern Ireland) to France, find little difference in sensing they are close, & language makes little difference, despite my terrible ungrammatical French, influenced by a dialect, as linguistically as anarchic as my natal Ulster/Scots – Ch’ti. They communicate to me more with feelings than exact histories, but i get the gist still. Never fer them – the living are more dangerous. To them often we are more like Ghosts in their strange lives. I normally ask if they want to talk, & waffle a bit & often keywords & a bit of history provokes reaction – verbal, or sub verbal – an impression in your mind, & on at times minor poltergeist behaviour – not violent throwing objects – just dropping something or moving an ornament or the likes. Talk to them, & show little fear, & usually they will communicate in one form or another. Good luch, & have no fear – the living are more dangerous 99.9% of time.
Great stuff, Paul. Thanks for sharing!