I’ve had some brushes or encounters with the mystical and supernatural which have led me to believe in a metaphysical world that a phenomenon we would call “ghosts” exist.
One morning, while preparing to go out, an object suddenly fell off the shelf in the bedroom closet. I felt no earthquake (it was in California) and I’m pretty sure the object didn’t just fall out since I was firmly on the shelf. A moment later my mother called to tell me my aunt had just died. It seemed to me that the object fell about the time it would take her spirit to go from Pennsylvania to California and knock that object off the shelf to make her presence known.
I’ve also felt presences in various locations that definitely had an otherworldly vibe. When I worked in northeast Pennsylvania, we took our shows on tour to the Mauch Chunk Opera House in Jim Thorpe, PA. There were two spots where you could experience an unearthly tingling: one backstage and the other up in the balcony. Once we found those spots, we avoided them the rest of our times there.
Also, when we would take arts trips to various cities (which were not supernatural but rather unnatural in some ways), I found a spot in the Japanese exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art that was truly unnerving. It was a Japanese house that had been brought over. At one point around the side, there was an overwhelming feeling of a dark presence. I would bring others to that place and they would also feel it. Oddly enough, the last time I visited, I did not feel that same thing. Perhaps they had it exorcised—but I decided not to ask, lest people think I was crazy and not just open minded about a supernatural realm.
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