OTHERPLANE

I sent an e-mail earlier that will give you a better idea of who I am. I'm not sure if I'm gifted or not, but I would appreciate it if you could tell me. I love your site and insights, and would be honored to be accepted as a member of OGS, but I will also understand if I'm declined.

My problems started at a very young age, but were not of a ghostly nature. I started having dreams of people dying when I was five years old. The problem was, they were always of people in my family, and they always came true. I'm 26 now, and have had 7 of these dreams all together. I also have witnesses to these.

My "ghostly" problems started when I was 11 or 12, and I have witnesses to most of these as well. They span over several years and several different homes, and seem to have a connection to the witness of the very first incident.

One night my friend (Mary) and I were watching MTV in the living room. My parents were out, so we were the only people in the house, save for my cat, Sassy. It was about 1:30 in the morning, I was sitting in the chair, with Sassy on my lap (she was solid black...no connection, but eerie coincidence...) and Mary was sitting on the far end of the couch. Out of nowhere, Sassy jumped out of my lap into Mary's lap with one jump. Understand, there was at least 10 feet of space between us. Before we could even say anything, every door in the house slammed shut all at once (3 bedrooms, bathroom, and den). All the windows were closed and the air was not on, so it couldn't have been that. We got up and went through every room looking for a reason, but couldn't find one. Then we noticed a gushing noise, and when we got to the bathroom, we found the hot water running full blast. We found the same thing in the kitchen. This was really the only thing that happened in that house, other than little black figures scampering around. I never got a good look at them, because I always saw them out of the corner of my eye, but they seemed to be four legged, and less than a foot tall. I would say they were just the cat, but I saw them MORE after we got rid of the cat.

The next notable incident was because of an Ouija board. There were four of us this time, including Mary. I'll save you the details, but the gist of the story is; I cussed at the board for saying that Mary was going to die, then Mary screamed and pointed behind me. There was a broom (the kind with the uneven bristles) standing straight up on the edge of the bristles, then it "fell" at me. I put that in quotes because it was more like someone had been holding it up, then pushed it at me. Everyone that was in the house that night was in my line of sight, and there were no animals.

Not too long after this, Mary started having a nightly visitor in her bedroom. It was a tall, thin man, black hair, mustache and goatee, wearing what seemed to be the 1800's version of a tuxedo. I saw him once, and hoped I never see him again. Several other incidents happened over the next several years, but they were mostly odd noises and eerie feelings.

The last house I want to tell you about was in Cincinnati, OH, with several witnesses. I will give you the address if you want it, but let me tell you about it first. I was married, with two children when these things started happening, and the kids play a part. We lived in a remodeled shot gun house with a full basement and a small room added on in the back that we used for the nursery. It started with things being moved around. I'd get the can opener out and lay it on the sink, when I'd look for it, it would be on the table...that sort of thing. At first, I thought my 3 year old son was doing it, but my husband took them to visit a friend one day, and 7 different things like that happened in the 3 hours they were gone. Then I started getting odd feelings, like someone was watching me. These feelings came from the basement and the back room. I would also feel this next to the living room fire place (which was directly over the storage room in the basement). It got so bad that I had to have an escort to go to the basement. It mainly came from that storage room, which was under the front porch, like it was added as an afterthought. It was also blocked off from the rest of the basement, which I thought was strange. I got the feeling that there was something "black" in that room. My 5 month old daughter would cry and throw a fit anytime she got near that room, yet my son seemed to be drawn to it. He would even try to sneak down there when we weren't looking and his behavior changed completely while we lived there. There also seemed to be something confined to the nursery, but I never got scared of it. I think it was the one pulling the pranks, but it never did anything harmful. There was one other "thing" there, that seemed to be free to roam the house and it seemed to be the mediator of the other two. I say this, because the other two would recede some when that one was present. My step father (a very spiritual man) spent the weekend with us, and told me I'd better either bless the house, or get the hell out. My mother started having chest pains when she went to the basement with me, but they subsided once back upstairs. Then I called Mary. Before I could even tell her about what was happening, she said she was being haunted at work by a "black" spirit that was harassing her AND her co-workers. I invited her to spend the night, and that's when it came to a head. We were sitting in the kitchen, Mary was holding my daughter, when I felt something touch my neck. At the same time, Mary gasped and said, "What was that?" When I asked her what she meant, she said my hair lifted up like someone had picked it up off my neck. Then my daughter, started laughing, and Mary said it felt like someone was pulling Jess off her lap. We could even see her pants moving like someone was pulling them off, the opposite of the way they would move if she was just sliding.

Several other things happened that day, and on into the night....that had Mary and I both terrified and in tears. When Mary got home, she said she could feel someone in the back seat of her car for the whole 300 hundred mile trip, and her "hauntings" at work got worse. One guy quit because he got trapped in the bathroom and said it got very hot in there, until someone pried the door open. The odd thing is.....I haven't felt anything at all since we moved, and Mary's problems stopped once she quit her job.

Why did these things happen? Can you tell who or what they were? Do you think there might be some connection between Mary and me other than friendship? If so, why do you think those things stopped when they did? If it was Mary or myself that stopped these things...how did we do it?

The memory of these things still bother me, mainly because they are unexplained, but also because I never know when or if they're going to start up again....please help!

Sat, 06 Jun 98, Otherplane's reply to reader:

It took a while before I could figure out what was happening and this is the first one that I have ever encountered. When you were young, you had an open channel. I call that a wavelength (Aura) that you emanated and entities sensed or felt and also like a vision of things to come. It just so happens that it's your relatives.

Later on in life, the vision faded but the aura stayed and it comes in a cycle but not strong enough to pull entities in. It just so happens that Mary has the same wavelength as you, only out of phase. When her cycle gets in synch with yours, that's when the problem starts. It's now a lot stronger and both of you will have your ghostly friends playing with both of you and whoever is around. They do stay until that synchronization between you and Mary is broken. All of your scenarios have different entities involved.

There are no straight cure for this phenomenon, but if it happens again, please let me know because I can unsynch one of you and that's all it takes. The emanation will not be there for them to sense or feel. Don't ask me how I do this...I just do.

Sat, 06 Jun 98, Reader writes: