My ghost

I have a ghost story which is a bit of a tale. I'm a skeptic when it comes ghost phenomena because I know with my sleep issues and migraine disease with aura that the brain can play so many tricks on us. Tricks that may seem like something paranormal but are not. Things like hallucinations right as we fall asleep or from sleep paralysis or from migraine attacks.

So even if I experience something my rational mind is very inclined to dismiss it. Brush it off as some sort of brain fart or misfiring. I'm skeptical, yes, but I also believe in the possibility of ghost phenomena. I don't outright deny it is impossible that it happens. Just doubt every experience is a valid one.

The backstory to my ghost evidence

I have, in the past, lived in houses with paranormal activity I couldn't quite explain but the house I live in now never had any such activity. Not for more than a decade. Then it changed and I have no idea why.

The first 'incident' was so bizzare my skeptical brain couldn't actually deny it. I have profound insomnia so I was on the computer writing at two or three am as usual. Then I heard this noise- a static, click, static, click. My speakers were not on and I wasn't in any prgram with sound. Curious if the sound was coming from the speakers I leaned into one. That is when I heard two children giggling. So that was disturbing. I sat back. Considered my options to this weirdness. Then I asked out loud 'If anyone is here flicker my light'. We live in a '70s house so we have mostly lamps. And when I asked this the lamp light loudly fizzled and flashed. Not a flicker. A loud zzzzztttt and flash like it might explode. I said, calmly, 'Okay, so your here. You don't belong here. You have to leave.' And having enough of that business I went to bed.

That was that, I thought. And it seemed to be the case for a little bit. But then lights began to flicker around me all the time. Also, something began to shake my bed. More like push it at the bottom. Like if someone put their hands on the bottom of the mattress and pushed repeatedly and you could feel the movement of it.

Having had weird phenomena in other houses I did what I always do when I can't quite explain things and my skeptical brain thinks of things that might account for it- I ignored it.

Ghosts do not like being ignored apparently

So ignoring it seemed to be the wrong tactic because there was a more conistent effort to catch my attention. Specifically mine, not my boyfriend. He did see the lights flickering though. One night we were watching TV and the kitchen stove light flickered. So I turned it off and turned on the kitchen light. That one began to flicker. So I turned it off and turned on the dining room light. That one began to flicker. So I turned that one off and turned on the from entryway light. THAT one began to flicker and I gave up and turned it off and we just watched TV in the dark.

For me, often the light I used at night when I was awake and he was asleep would flicker. And one night I saw a shadow figure cross the kitchen doorway. That led to our first action to deal with the situation. We saged the house. And that stopped everything outside of the bedroom. But did not stop the activity in the bedroom.

It is the bedroom phenomena that began to get rather hard to ignore for me. I heard someone talking one night. I heard a loud hiss, like from a wildcat. Mostly though the bed continued to be pushed. And if I ignored it- shoved like someone kicked it. And if my boyfriend, who sleeps like the dead, began to wake up, groan, and move about, it would abruptly stop. Until he settled and his breathing evened out and then it would start again. Other things began to happen like someone tugging at my blanket at my feet. A hand patting my feet area. Someone touching the back of my head.

It would always start mild and I would ignore it and then it would get more Persistent. I tried spraying salt in the room and that seemed to stop it for a bit but it would start up again. I asked it to stop because I needed sleep and that also stopped it for a bit, but then it started again. When I sleep alone, it never bothers me. When my boyfriend is in the bed, it constantly does. And always stops if it begins to wake him up. Seems like it does not want him there. And specifically wants my attention. For what I cannot say. I wish I could so I could get it to stop but I have no idea.

Obviously, my boyfriend had a hell of a time believing me since it never did a thing to completely wake him up or while he was awake or while he was falling asleep. Only when I went to bed, later, and I was trying to fall asleep... or at times waking me up. Often making me go to the couch because nothing happened out there. It all became isolated activity in the bedroom that I could not stop.

So I aimed to get Proof. I took my Smartphone into the bedroom with me I which I never do. As soon as it started I took some pictures in the pitch black. Wondering if it would pick up anything. It didn't. I took a video of the dark and while I did I then turned the camera light on briefly. Like I said, nothing really wakes my boyfriend up so the light certainly didn't. And I did it for a few seconds then off. Panned more in the dark. Then the light again. Then turned it off, set it aside, and went to sleep. No shaking of the bed this time. That was odd but a relief.

I looked at it all later and that is when I noticed the first time I turned on the video camera light an orb is caught zipping from where our fan is out to the left where the bedroom door is. Moving fast.

Instagram video at full speed of the orb zipping out of the room

Above is the original video of my ghost in orb form shooting from the fan to the left and booting it out of the room when I turned on my video camera light. It is hard to see because it is fast and pale. But there is no light source in the room to make that. I have blackout curtains and the only light came from my phone.

I then posted it at half the speed so people could see it better because it zipped out of the room that fast. And you can see it clearly here.

So I caught my ghost on camera. I have the evidence I needed to prove to my boyfriend this was actually happening. Not a figment of my imagination. It does suggest that to me something is going on. Again no clue what to do about it. Google only mentions smudging and salt. I have tried both. Both work temporarily but not long.

I wonder if we should sleep in the spare bedroom instead. Or if I am the issue, not the room. If it is me that's attracting this ghost for whatever reason I really have no clue what to do. I can't communicate with it. It isn't chatty and I have no skill for chatting up the dead. It doesn't seem malicious really. However, I really would like to actually be able to sleep in peace.