Perhaps you were walking through the attic of a run down, abandoned building; or maybe it was while passing a dark graveyard on your way home. Maybe your experience happened in your very own home… did you wake to find a terrifying, hooded entity standing over your bed in the wee hours of the morning?
At present, I have a variety of writing projects I’m working on, some of which may even have to be put on hold until I get other deadlines taken care of first. That said, I want to extend an invitation to Gralien Report readers from around the globe to share with me your own personal encounters with the strange and unusual, for an upcoming book I’ll be writing.
Specifically, I’m looking for creepy encounters with ghostly manifestations, or any other strange experience that seems to point to the existence of life after death and visitors from other realms. Send your stories to info@gralienreport.com, or you may use the comment feature below this post to share your true encounters with otherworldly presences.
When it comes to the study of the paranormal and, in particluar, ghostly manifestations, there are a variety of arguments that present themselves which cause for rational pause in our greater assessment of what may be occurring. For instance, if ghosts are the manifestation of one’s life-force or spirit from beyond the grave, why do clothes the person wore while living appear to manifest as well? If the clothes were inanimate objects, rather than a physical part of the entity while they were alive, it stands to reason that maybe ghosts should be appearing naked when they manifest. However, since clothing does most often accompany the appearance of ghosts–as well as occasional objects, such as guns carried by ghosts in reports from haunted sites such as Gettysburg–perhaps we must consider whether what we’re viewing when a “ghost” appears is really the spirit of a dead person after all.
Looking at this from a slightly different perspective, what if our own human perception of ghosts was a force that somehow influenced their manifestation? If the appearance of an apparition stemmed from events that occurred on a quantum level, for instance, there may be scientific justification for things we do influencing a projected impression from the past in hindsight.
Sitting before you is a small, limbless, asexual being resembling Casper the Friendly Ghost, smiling and jerking around as it works to manifest a friend for you, who sits a good distance away speaking into a webcam. What’s going on here?
If Japanese robotist Hiroshi Ishiguro could have his way, this little creation, the Telenoid R1, would likely replace instant messaging and webcams altogether, providing a semi-realistic chat experience with friends remotely.
These days, it seems I hear more and more about Sleep Paralysis. In my estimation, this must be due in part to the way that the culmination of information pertaining to strange phenomenon today has allowed an “overlap” of experiences. What I mean by this is that the variety of sources available allow people to relate to others who have had similar things happen to them, whether that be sleep paralysis, an encounter with a ghost, or perhaps a hallucinogenic episode that is remarkably similar to both of these.
But when it comes to Sleep Paralysis in particular, nobody comes to mind more quickly than my friend Louis Proud, author of the book Dark Intrusions: An Investigation into the Paranormal Nature of Sleep Paralysis Experiences (a close second would be Dr. David Hufford PhD., who authored Proud’s introduction). Recently, Louis sent me a recorded segment he has done where he gives a wealth of information about the nature of Sleep Paralysis, delving into a variety of the subjects discussed in his book, as well as rather startling personal experiences of his own with the phenomenon. Below is a link where you can listen to Louis discussing the scientific and paranormal nature of this strange sleep science:
