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My Son Takes After Me I Guess

by Shaunda Campbell

To start off I want to say that my entire life the weird and unusual have always been a part of my life. I have seen, heard and been “hit” by ghosts. (And yes that is very right) But, the most disturbing things have happened after my son was born, hence the title.

The first experience that I had was after we brought my son home from the hospital. He was about 3 months ancient and just starting to sleep in his own room. We were living in a town house and the only things up stairs were our two rooms and the bathroom and I, my husband and son were the only ones living in the house. We had a baby monitor and were lying down to go to bed when we suddenly heard a loud crash come from our son’s room. We dashed to the room (all of 4 steps from door to door) and when we entered the room his dresser was tipped over, the drawers were pulled out and all his cloths were thrown around his room. It was the first time that I truly got frightened by something like that. I guess because it was now involving my new preemie son. Luckily our son slept through the whole thing. Needless to say he no longer slept in that room.

The next major event, and I say major because he was always looking/playing with someone, was when he was around 13 months ancient. We were living in an upstairs garage apartment. He has a small room that was “L” shaped. His crib was directly in front of the door. There was just enough room for the door to open. The door also had an ancient door knob that wouldn’t turn or lock on it. We had lived there for quite a while at this point. One night we had place him to bed and were sitting in the living room watching TV. Suddenly he started crying. I want to be clear here. If you have children you know they have different cries. This was a bone chilling weep of a toddler that was terrified. We rushed to the door but it wouldn’t budge. My husband was pushing and throwing his body against the door and it was not giving at all. I was beginning to get very upset. Finally my husband ran into the door and broke the door frame. This is where it gets scary. There was a large trundle drawer under his crib. It had been pulled out, turned on its side, and wedged between his crib and the wall and the door knob. I rushed in and grabbed my son. He was staring into the corner and shaking uncontrollably. I looked into the corner and saw a dark shadow and got the chills. I was truly frightened.  From then on his door knob was removed and a shoe string was tied to the side of his crib and through the hole in the door where the knob had been. 

These are just a very few of the experiences that I have had. I truly feel that I attract these kinds of things and my son is following in my footsteps. I just hope that nothing as scary as these two things ever happen to him again.

The following accounts were submitted by blog readers and associates:

THE DOG

Some time in the 1950’s I was visiting with my friend’s family in Toronto, Ont. Canada, where I grew up My friend’s father who was a respected chemist/scientist told me a tale that had happened to him recently. He had returned home one evening to find a weird looking dog on his veranda. The dog seemed to want to come in the house with him and he, feeling sorry for the dog in the cold of the late fall, took the dog in, fed it and place an ancient coat on the floor in the kitchen for a bed. In the morning he let the dog out and it trotted away.

Later that day he received word that his brother, who lived in New York City, had died suddenly. He made arrangements to leave immediately for New York. When he arrived there many hours later, he made his way to his late brother’s home. He rang the doorbell and waited for his sister-in-law to let him in. When she opened the door he saw beside her the dog that had visited him the previous night.

Dr.M was very silent after telling me this tale. I don’t reckon he shared it with his family and this is the first time I have related it and it happened about 65 years ago. E.Mader
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NIGHT IN THE DESERT

Hi, back in 1980, a friend and I were in high school and spent a lot of time exploring the desert near Tucson, Arizona. One night in October (don’t remember the date), I was spending the night at his house. He lived in a ancient ranch house that had a ancient barn/shed near a dry river bed where we used to sleep in so we could talk and wander around at night. This night was a small cold for October and it was clear with no moon.

Anyhow, it was around 1 AM and we were about a mile away from his house in the riverbed talking. We had a miner’s lamp that was operated by a 12 volt battery and was worn on his head. It cast a half mile beam. Ahead of us was a tall (20 plus feet) Palo Verde tree which was very thickly covered with branches so we couldn’t easily see the other side. Suddenly, the tree shook violently and we heard a loud snort like sound. Fearing a pack of Javalinas (wild pigs) or maybe a loose bull we froze. My friend shone his light on the tree about our eye height and we saw nothing. The tree shook again but higher up. He fixed the light on the tree about 15 feet off the ground. What we saw we will never forget, two huge blue eyes set about 1 foot apart! Again the tree shook followed by the sound of 2 heavy feet running the other way. Needless to say, we ran the other way!

The next day we returned to search the area. We found large footprints going the other way. The weird thing is there were sightings of weird lights in the area skies for the next couple of weeks. This happened on the west side of town at the base of the Tucson Mountains.
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BLUE LIGHT?

Dear Lon,

I am writing about an incident that happened several months ago. First, let me say that your site rocks. I live on an acreage 5 1/2 miles from the town of Hampton, Iowa. Late last summer there was an incident in the town that we heard over the police scanner about 9:30-10:00 p. m. People were calling in to the police department saying they were having distress sleeping because there was a bright blue light just pouring through their windows.

After several of these calls, one police officer came on the scanner saying that he was a few miles on the edge of town and he could really see what was a vivid blue ceiling type effect covering the whole town.

Within minutes, there were several calls coming in from the different officers and a few business owners saying that their electronic gadgets, ie: door locks, shop lights, etc. were all going crazy. The police, who have as part of there nightly rounds check all the doors on the main street businesses to make sure they are locked, were reporting that they were having to backtrack and redo their routine.

I couldn’t see anything from where I live and after a small amount of time, nothing else was said. I imagined they might have switched channels or scrambled the channel. The next day when I went to town and questioned a few people who I know to be honestly open minded like myself, if they had seen/heard anything about the blue light or the electric gadgets freaking out. Nobody seemed to know anything or to have heard anything.

I waited for our weekly paper to come out and checked the neighboring town papers for anything about it, but, nothing showed up. I just wanted to know if anyone else has written about this or if anyone has ever had anything like this happen in their area.

NOTE: Have you had a close encounter or witnessed something unusual? Send us an email…I’d be pleased to feature your tale on the blog. Detailed and concise accounts are appreciated. Thanks…Lon

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