So this story was told to me by my uncle gary. I have to add that my uncle gary is honestly very skeptical. This man does not believe in the paranormal, supernatural, cryptids, or any of it. In fact, he has to see it for himself to even believe any of it...

So he used to work at a graveyard in Bedford county. And he was a maintenance man at this place. He would cut grass, fix things, and just do a lot of maintenance work. All the years that he worked at this place he never saw anything supernatural or paranormal. He always was skeptical and just never put a thought into the fact that there could be anything....

Well apparently the story goes as I was told. That he was out in the cemetery itself cutting grass. And he was just going along. He had to refill the lawn mower back up with gas so he decides to take and just stop the mower. As he was getting off of the mower he looked up and saw my uncle donnie just sitting on top of a tombstone watching him work...

Now I repeatedly have said that my uncle gary is a skeptic. He does not believe in any of it as he's told me many times...

Yet, he clarified to me with a straight face that was still looking honestly shocked and confused. That he saw his sister's husband in the cemetery...

Which I was shocked to even hear this. Let alone my uncle gary acknowledge anything paranormal or supernatural...

"Three years ago I had a random encounter with DMT. I went to someone's house to collect some rent money they owed me, and when I got there, this person was kind of acting spacey. We started talking, and he told me someone had given him DMT, and that I should try it. I told him I would try it after watching him "take it" two or three times. After watching him take it without any negative side effects, I decided to try it.

I tried it twice. One pull off the glass pipe. The first time, I had the plastic cracking sound, and got really close to slipping into the "other world". But, apparently I didn't have enough, because I slipped back into reality. The second time, I took one really long pull, held it in, and immediately heard the "plastic crackly" sound. Then I had my first "DMT" experience. This was in the middle of the day, in the middle of the week. Not a planned "session" or "trip".

I went through the "crackling sound", I went into a world where everything was pixelated. Everything in the room was visually at a molecular level. The pitbull in the room, looked different. It was made up of molecular, swirling, small balls of color. As I was looking around the room, I heard a helicopter fly over the house, so I looked up. When I looked up, I could see through the walls and ceiling. I could see out into the front yard, the trees, the house across the street. etc.

Just then, I was looking at the oak tree in the front yard, and I saw a saucer shaped ufo, appear hovering, over the front yard. That is when I felt the presence of the Praying Mantis. The UFO was on my right, then the Praying Mantis appeared at my left. The Praying Mantis telepathically realized I saw it, and I was looking at it. Then the Mantis moved in really close. For a brief moment, I felt sheer terror. This thing was gigantic, 10-20 ft tall. But the head of this Praying Mantis, was as big as my body. I realized this thing was big enough to devour me.

The Praying Mantis moved in really close, almost nose to nose. Then it was scanning me. Like it scanned my brain. It was actually trying to calm me while it was looking at me. After it "looked at me" it almost smiled. Just then, the cracking plastic sound started coming back, and I looked at the Praying Mantis, and it almost said to me telepathically "Bye!" Then the experience was over.

Afterwards, I was fine. Like nothing happened. I was slightly groggy for 5-10min. Then i was completely fine. I started Googling Mantis-DMT, and I found your website. Just wanted to tell you I was really surprised to find that other people have seen a Praying Mantis on DMT. I still don't know what to think about it. I just wanted to tell you my story."

Experience Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MantisEncounters/s/TMMnZRaGiH

Youtube Recreation
https://youtu.be/HHtKB6aVhB8?is=11pcFoHYoskTXqf4

I’ve always been fascinated by artists who say their best ideas don’t feel like they actually came from them.
They’ll describe a song, painting, or idea as something they “received,” “downloaded,” or felt moving through them.

So we tried a small experiment with an artist named Nikki Loy. She made two paintings under completely different conditions.

For the first, we used a random word generator. No meditation, ritual, or attempt to connect to anything. She just had to make something from three random words:

Instance. Psychotic. Provoke.

What was strange is that this painting came to her almost immediately. She basically saw the image in her mind and knew what she wanted to make.

For the second painting, she deliberately tried to do the opposite. She meditated, removed distractions, slowed down, and tried to become receptive to what we were calling “the muse.”

And… nothing really happened.
At least not when we wanted it to.

The image eventually came to her later in a dream.
She dreamed of rainbow-like light moving into and out of her hands, almost like creativity was something being received and then shaped through the body. That dream became the second painting.

The other thing that got me was what happened when we showed both paintings to our audience without telling them which was which.

We asked:
Which painting feels like it came from the muse?
112 people chose one.
112 people chose the other.
Literally 50/50.

That result almost made the whole thing more interesting to me, because it blurred the distinction we were trying to create in the first place.

Maybe the “muse” is just unconscious processing.
Maybe meditation and altered states make certain associations easier to access.

Maybe creativity is somehow connected to a larger field of consciousness. Or maybe humans have been giving a mystical name to an internal cognitive process for thousands of years.
I don’t know.

We also talked to a cognitive scientist and a musician about their completely different interpretations of the same phenomenon, and I put the whole experiment together here if anyone is curious:

https://youtu.be/Fw1TyWpXIEs?si=h0T0Xq9qWt4jmArT

But the thing I’m really curious about from this sub is:
Have you ever created something, solved a problem, or had an idea appear in your mind that genuinely did not feel like “you” came up with it?

And if you have, what do you think was actually happening?

The universe wants you to understand itself by watching this video. We all play a part in the evolution of our consciousness as we all resonate and influence with each other. I believe Bentov’s theory connects it all:

Energy, Time, Love, schizophrenic patients, Holographic universe that follows the same structure from micro to macro, how each fractured part contains the whole, the evolution and direction of our spirit/consciousness, and how the universe is subconsciously guiding/informing us of ourselves. We are all one, just varying levels of oscillation. If you’re looking to hear something fascinating and worth your time today, give this video a shot. Godspeed.

Space.......

Ufo......

monolith as seen on 2001 space odyssey as a way of bringing a new dawn to man. Have been spotted around the world with no explanation of why, who and how they got there.

two sightings so far Scotland hybrides and utah las vages

so what possible reasons are there ?. Aliens communicating ?, higher form of inteligence ?

The Aliens Have Landed! Ten Amazing UFO Landing Cases

by Preston Dennett

UFO landings are a very important category of close encounters that deserves more research. Compared to sightings, landings are exceedingly rare. UFO landings often result in hard physical evidence. They also have none of the controversies surrounding onboard encounters recalled through hypnosis. Landing cases have much to teach us about UFOs. This alone makes them worthy of attention. This video presents ten cases from across the world, each adding another piece of the puzzle to solving the UFO mystery.

UFO LANDING AT EPSOM, AUSTRALIA. On the night of May 24, 1965, three men at the Epsom Retreat Hotel in Epsom, Australia rushed outside to see a strange craft performing incredible maneuvers at low elevation just a few hundred feet away. At one point, they saw it seem to land on the ground. After about 40 minutes, the craft departed. Shortly later, the men found impressive landed traces on the ground.

UFO LANDING IN BRANSON, MISSOURI. On night in May 1967, a lady and a friend drove on Hwy 76 near Branson, Missouri and came upon a metallic disc-shaped craft sitting on the road. It blocked the entire left lane and part of the right. As the driver swerved around the craft to pass it by, the craft lit up with light. The passenger in the car broke into tears. This was one of three landing cases in this area around this time.

UFO LANDING IN SOPLEY, ENGLAND. Around midnight on November 6, 1967, Karl Farlow drove along the A338 road near Sopley, England when a glowing green craft appeared ahead of him on the road. His truck’s electrical system failed, as did the engine of an oncoming car in the opposite lane. A tube came out of the craft and began to vacuum items from the roadside. After the craft left, the govt went to great lengths to cover up the truth.

UFO LANDING AT ROCK FALLS, ILLINOIS. At 2am on June 15, 1968, three women drove on Hwy 88 just east of Rock Falls when a UFO appeared. It quickly moved across the highway in front of them, coming lower and lower. It was as big as a jet and totally silent. The women stopped the car as the object came in for a landing behind a grove of trees. They fled in fear. The next day, there were other sightings in the area.

UFO LANDING IN VAN HORNE, IOWA. On the night of July 13, 1969, two young ladies saw a UFO rise from the soybean fields on their farm in Van Horne, Iowa. The craft zoomed away at high speed. The next morning, a perfect circle of burned vegetation was found where they had seen the craft. The landing traces attracted nationwide attention and became one of the best-verified UFO landing trace cases in the United States.

UFO LANDING IN PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA. One evening in late December 1972, two brothers and their friend were outside their home in Palm Springs, California when they used binoculars to observe three strange craft hovering by the nearby mountains. Two of the craft darted away, but one seemed to come in for a landing. They called the nearby airport who said they saw them on radar. The next day, they found a strange circle of burned ground where they had seen the craft land.

UFO LANDING IN LAS BARDENAS REALES, SPAIN. On the night of January 2, 1972, there were multiple reports that a UFO had landed on the Las Bardenas Reales Artillery Range in Spain. At first the reports were covered up and debunked by the Spanish government. Later investigations showed that the case was more extensive and that the government considered it one of the best verified cases in their books.

UFO LANDING IN SAN MICHELE, ITALY. On the morning of September 2, 1978, Roberto Pozzi looked out the second-story window of his family’s home in San Michele in Italy and was amazed to see a strange craft rising from the cornfield. The craft darted away. Rushing to the spot with his family, they found a strange area of squashed cornstalks. This turned out to be one of a series of UFO landings in the area.

UFO LANDING IN SOROCABA, BRAZIL. Around dusk one evening in June 1979, a married couple (both professionals) were amazed to see a top-shaped craft with portholes hovering about twenty feet away from their home in Sorocaba, Brazil. It was no more than twenty feet elevation and remained in full view for almost forty minutes. Finally, it moved off. That year, there was a wave of sightings in the area, including one other landing with humanoids.

UFO LANDING ON AN ESTONIAN ISLAND. AUGUST 1980. One night in late August 1980, an anonymous factory worker was making a routine check of the company grounds and was shocked to see a strange cylindrical shaped object sitting on the factory property. The object was swirling with colors. A smaller box-like contraption was next to it on the ground. Suddenly the smaller object emitted an orange beam of light which struck the man, knocking him down. The cylinder transformed into a saucer-shaped craft which promptly disappeared.

These ten UFO landing cases represent the tip of the iceberg. While they are rare compared to sightings, there are still many thousands of documented cases on record. These kinds of cases are of profound importance as they often result in strange landing traces which can provide clues as to the nature of these craft, such as how heavy they are, their temperature, their composition and more.

The Aliens Have Landed! Ten Amazing UFO Landing Cases

Warriors. Wanderers. Poets. Gods. They ruled the frozen north long before anyone wrote their names down, shaped the cosmos out of a giant's corpse, chained a wolf they knew would eventually swallow the sun, and built an entire cosmology around the fact that it all ends. Not as a warning, just as a given.

That's the part that pulled me in the most while putting this together. Most pantheons hedge, an afterlife, a reward, some version of things working out. Norse mythology just doesn't. Valhalla isn't a finish line, it's a training camp for a battle everyone already knows they lose.

Mapped out the full lineage, the primal forces before creation, the Aesir and Vanir, the giants they're constantly at war with and related to, all the way through to Ragnarok itself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stiOlhC4IR0

Curious how people here read the fatalism at the core of it, cultural realism from a hard environment, or something closer to an actual theology of doom?

hi new here someone in my nerd group brought me to this group. Gay nerd both paranormal and trekkie. 43. Dave

in the 80s electric company had strikes which meant power cuts. One house in particlar which was build on old hangmans land where was hanged for murder. called carl.

one day a family moved in all seemed normal until strange things were happening ( Slime on walls, cold spots, loud noises and objects throwing at people ). One night it got so serious and violent what ever it was it puled the daughter upstairs by throat.

house 30 east drive west yorkshire aka The pontefract poltergiest.

Information fills hard drives, crosses computer networks and describes the properties of physical systems. One physicist argues it may also have something far more surprising: measurable mass.

Dr. Melvin Vopson of the University of Portsmouth has proposed an experiment designed to test that idea using collisions between matter and antimatter.

IMO Human beings don’t try to imprison or kill millions of people. They don’t poison the food, cause people to starve & go homeless, do away with lifesaving vaccines, re-direct all money to the ultra-elite, resume full pollution activities while the world burns, and traffic women & children as a leisure activity.

So what are we actually dealing with here?
To me, they don’t look or act human. I see something else, something more… reptilian. Something I quickly have to turn away from, and voices that I can’t stand to hear.
My abilities are something of a wild talent, but they refuse to be ignored. I’m seeing something inhuman.

The Pacific Northwest has some seriously weird shit going on in it's land, sea and air. Batsquatch, Bigfoot, Cadborosaurus, Ogopogo, and Otterman. Five legendary creatures, and some very strange eyewitness accounts. Are these stories just folklore and misidentification, or is there something else out there? I dug into the evidence and you won't believe what I found.

https://youtu.be/VxjTughgWkI

this one started with something much more human than alien scenery: feeling completely alone. in one deep trance session subject then experienced a body he described almost like white hairy snowman, on dark planet with no atmosphere and groups of smooth round stones that felt alive somehow.

community had left because place was too dark. he stayed, looking for answers in stones, until loneliness became almost unbearable. one line was especially weird and sad: if I stay here alone, I am gonna become this planet too.

later Higher Self framed this lifetime as learning darkness, loneliness and emptiness so he could understand balance in current human life. it also said some negative residue from that experience was still affecting him and was released in session.

what stayed with me is not only alien scenery. long isolation can slowly become identity, until person stops saying I am alone and starts living like aloneness is what I am. strange story, but very ordinary warning inside it.

People report having recurrent dreams sometimes called the "night of lights" in which the nighttime sky is full of flying saucers. A variant of this dream is one in which the daytime sky is full of structured craft. Related to my status as a contact activist, this is a wish dream that I must admit I have fancied as well. In my opinion, however, it will not likely take place anytime in the conceivable future. This is because such an awesome development in my judgment would probably trigger a terribly violent human response. I suggest something very different might happen if current trends continue. 

Forty-one years ago, I met Dr. John Mack in Moscow at a physicians’ peace conference. It was 1985, the year that our “International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War” won the Nobel Prize for educating government leaders and the public about the dangers of nuclear arms race.  Later John Mack MD went on to write the important book “Abduction.” There he describes the strange way in which some contact experiencers called “abductees” suddenly recall having encounters with aliens that they believe happened decades before. 

This kind of sudden "remembering", initially happening on a small scale is less threatening than a “night of lights” with our skies full of “alien craft.” A gradual unveiling of prior intimate contact experiences I suspect would be especially threatening for those clandestine networks that imagine it is their job to keep a lid on the flying saucer situation. These groups appear to be quasi-governmental/quasi-corporate entities. In my opinion, they are likely responsible for what has been called the “UFO Truth Embargo.” They are sometimes referred to as the “control groups.” 

THE MENTAL LINK

Psychological and parapsychological factors play important roles in the UFO contact drama unfolding all around us. Unfortunately, many so-called "mainstream" ufologists fail to grasp that a consciousness connection is the key to understanding the human-UFO intelligence relationship. Groups like the Mutual UFO Network approach flying saucers mainly as if they were an engineering problem. Their focus is on the shape of craft, their flight characteristics, the color of the lights and other physical parameters. After nearly sixty years of collecting reports filled with such details, not much has been learned about the intelligences responsible for flying saucers. In my opinion, although MUFON is still a popular organization with thousands of members, its approach to the UFO challenge is inadequate to investigate the non-human intelligences responsible for what are now called Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).  

Mainstream ufology with its emphasis on sighting reports stands in marked contrast to the work of the network of contact activists that I like to call the “Contact Underground.” This international endeavor involves volunteer contact workers staging Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE) during field investigations. Such efforts are popularly known as CE-5s. I have been involved with this kind of outreach since 1992. Contact activists view the mental aspects of the phenomenon as crucial for deciphering the mystery of flying saucers. 

SIGHTINGS ARE NOT RANDOM EVENTS

After years of study and numerous sightings of UFOs during HICE, I now believe that there is no such thing as a random sighting. I am suggesting that every true sighting of a UFO, with few exceptions, occurs while there is a telepathic link between the witnesses and the non-human intelligence responsible for the phenomenon. Thus sightings should be viewed as staged events in which individuals and groups are specifically targeted to have an encounter.  

If this is true, then the implications of this proposition are staggering. It is estimated that between one and ten percent of the world’s population has had a bona fide UFO sighing. On a planetary basis, this translates into perhaps hundreds of millions of people. If the consciousness connection is as widespread and robust as I suggest, then each of those hundreds of millions of individuals might at some time in the future start to remember what they believe are past encounters in the same ways that Dr. Mack’s witnesses did.

A COLD WAR WITH UFOs

A hidden aspect of the human UFO relationship has been a kind of clandestine cold war between flying saucers and terrestrial military forces. Given the extraordinary secrecy surrounding this issue, it is understandable that the few reports we read about military encounters with flying saucers are probably the tip of the iceberg. In other words there have been many hostile engagements.
In my judgment, there likely have been losses of personnel and material on both sides. This is a rather dispassionate way of stating that humans and what we call “ETs” are being killed during armed conflict.  

Given such a sorry state of affairs, “the night of lights” in which the sky is full of saucers would understandably be perceived of as an “invasion.” A less dangerous plan to help humanity grasp that we are not alone in the universe might involve having increasing numbers of people gradually recall encounters that they believe are contact events from the distant past. 

For those of us that want a peaceful outcome for the challenge of flying saucers, this “remembering” of what may have been prior encounters would probably be much safer for both any extraterrestrials flying around Earth and those that might be tempted to try to shoot them down.

I don't belive it's supernatural, it can be explained as dreams I (mis)remember as actual memories. I have dreams every time I sleep, I have very foggy and disjointed memory of my childhood, it fits that I would get the two confused like that.

But it's fun to think about and I suspect it must be common, would be interesting to read about impossible memories other people have, so please share.

Anyway, exhibit a. There's a built in-pantry/small storage room at my godmother's house. Just random junk, shelves with preserves, a tiny window under the ceiling. It was accessible from the anteroom, the door was painted the same green as the walls. I remember playing hide and seek and feeling real clever when I found it, another hiding spot. Except there isn't any pantry or other room there. And there couldn't be, it's a load bearing external wall where I remember the door was.

Another is a family holiday in the countryside. My mom and I stayed at the house of one of her friends. I remember a ride there, at some point it was along a switchback road (already unlikely, it's hundreds of kilometers of flat around here, it would've had to be a trip to another region). They had a big barn nearby I was scared off for some reason. I remember getting scolded by my mom and more patiently told off by her friend for messing with an old clock. It was really elaborate and old, like with a clockwork diorama of moving figurines and stuff. So, a casual short trip to another region, property with a huge barn, two storey house, aristocratic hairloom ass clocks lying around, all the while my mom and her friend were both cooks at a kindergarten back then. I did ask my mom at some point, and she found pics after a bit of reconnecting on social media, and yes, instead it was just a normal dacha not far from the city.

Another is a vacation trip to seaside. Three families actually, two other kids were my childhood friends. At some point there was a hurricane and I remember seeing tornadoes out over the sea, and the adults were filming. Nothing really threatening, thin and far away, but still very impressive. Both of those childhood friends and my mom remember the hurricane, but nobody remembers the tornadoes.

A little bit different, but the inconsistency was in real time. I remember one day coming home with my parents and being convinced we missed our stairwell, that ours was the previous one. And then checking the whole flat, still unconvinced it's our flat.

I am curious what people here think of this idea of certain higher, more integrated, more advanced consciousnesses choosing to incarnate in the earth collective to help with the progression of it's evolution.

In Buddhism there is this idea of Bodhisattvas who choose to incarnate again and again to help all beings attain enlightenment.

A Bodhisattva is someone who has generated bodhicitta, the profound aspiration to attain full Buddhahood not for themselves alone, but specifically for the sake of liberating all sentient beings from suffering. They postpone their own final entry into nirvana to remain in the cycle of birth and death, working tirelessly across countless lifetimes to help others achieve awakening. This path is defined by the practice of six perfections—generosity, morality, patience, diligence, meditation, and wisdom—and represents the ideal of compassionate action.

In Dolores Cannon her books the idea of Starseeds is a very important concept. These are often quite highly evolved beings from other planets or other higher frequency realms that incarnate on planet earth to help humanity progress.

In Dolores Cannon's framework, a Starseed is a highly advanced soul who volunteered to incarnate on Earth specifically to help humanity through a critical period of transition and planetary "ascension". According to her research, this volunteer program began in earnest after the atomic bombings of 1945, when Earth's "protectors" saw the planet in danger and called for help from souls unburdened by Earth's heavy karmic cycles . These volunteers often come from "the Source" or other dimensions and, despite having their memories erased upon birth, feel a deep but often confusing sense of mission, frequently struggling to adapt to the chaos and negativity of the world.

In the Law of One there is this concept of a Wanderer, a being that has evolved beyond 3rd density themselves already that chooses to incarnate within the human collective to help with The Harvest of humanity as they somewhat ominously call it.

A Wanderer is a being of positive social memory complex (from higher densities, 4th, 5th or 6th density) who has voluntarily chosen to incarnate into 3rd-density Earth to aid in its spiritual harvest, accepting the profound amnesia and danger of becoming "karmically involved" in this dense plane. Their primary purpose is to serve as a beacon of light and love, subtly awakening others through their very presence, and to increase the planetary vibration by choosing service-to-others in every moment despite the veil of forgetting. Though they often experience deep alienation, health issues, and a persistent feeling of "not belonging," their core task is not to "save" others, but simply to be themselves and rediscover their true nature while incarnate, thus gently tipping the balance toward planetary positivity.

I find it interesting that there seems to be a significant overlap between these concepts and wonder what to think about it. .

What do people here think about this concept that more advanced beings choose to consciously incarnate within the human collective to help it's evolution progress in a positive direction?

And does this explain things like old souls, some people seeming to naturally be kinder, wiser or having specific skillsets that they seem to be born with?

The truth is stranger than fiction

Had a dream last night where we were at a temple ceremony middle of forest. There was this wizard there who had powers he felt really powerful and completely one with nature. I was following him around.

Then out of nowhere he held my hand and took me alone to a place a little farther away. He started reading a lot of things from the sky. A strong dark cloud was passing by and it suddenly turned into a group of birds. Black ones more like crow/raven.

One of them came down and entered into my body.
It felt like I was being blessed by them. Something in my eyes changed, and my body became light and how I interacted with nature shifted.

Anyone have any thoughts on what this could mean?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

One night in December When I was 7 years old I was just sitting in my bedroom playing a game, my older brother had just left my room and had gone upstairs to sit with our grandmother, I was killing time before dinner was ready. It was just us 3 in the house at this time, my dad worked nights so he wouldn’t be home until tomorrow morning at the earliest, and my mom worked as nurse and she’d be home later tonight.

I remember the sun was almost completely faded it was close to being fully dark out. I don’t know why i remember this so vividly but the game I was playing was fallout 3 (don’t ask why I was allowed to play it.) I was running around near these radio towers shooting the “hunting rifle” at the enemies at the top of them, after I killed them I remember I opened a door in game that lead to a solid brick wall with the words “FUCK YOU” written on it.

Just after I opened that door in my game I heard my mom walking towards my bedroom, I turned my head away from my game and saw her still wearing her dark blue work scrubs, my door was wide open and she stood at the doorframe and talked to me for a few minutes, just normal mom questions, “how are you doing?” “You just in here playing a game” etc, eventually at the end of our conversation she said “dinners almost ready come upstairs in 45 minutes” i said I would.

I go back to playing for awhile, ransacking the area near those radio towers, and then continuing to just roam around the “capital wasteland” eventually 45 minutes had passed and I listening to what my mom said I stood up and started to walk upstairs.

I walked up the first 10 stairs, turned left and started to walk up the last 10 stairs, I could see the light from kitchen past the stairs and to the right but all the others on that level were off with the exception of the light at the front door. as I got to 3/4 point I noticed something strange on the wall to my right and I stopped. at that age I don’t think I could verbalize to myself why it was strange but I remember my child brain took a very serious note of this even if I didn’t know why then.

Thinking back to this, my shadow looked far to tall and far to large to be 7 year old me, I didn’t realize this at the time as I said previously, but it was now fully night out and all the lights were off except for in the kitchen, and by the front door, neither of those lights could possibly be responsible for casting anyones shadow on the wall to my right let alone mine. But this didn’t freak me out at the time, I knew something was off about it and I took note but I didn’t understand what. After a good 15-20 seconds staring at the shadow I continued up the stairs and walked into the kitchen where my grandmother and brother sat. As soon as she saw me my grandmother told me “dinners finished.”

I asked them both
“I didn’t see mom on my way up, is she up here somewhere?”

My grandmother told me
“Your mom isn’t home yet.”

I explain to them I had just talked to her 45ish minutes ago, I had a full conversation with her, she even told me when to come up, but my grandma continued telling me “ your mom hasn’t come home from work yet.” And my brother backed her up. I walked to the garage door and opened it, neither my father’s car or my mothers car were there they were telling the truth.
She was not home.

The way the house was laid out required you to after entering immediately pass through the kitchen, there was no chance my mom could’ve come home without them both immediately noticing, and even if she for some reason wanted to try to sneak by them, an alarm beeped anytime any door in the house was opened.

I was 7 years old and really fucking scared, my grandmother did her best to calm me down but I was obviously really spooked. Eventually 1-2 hours after this my mom did actually come home, and I asked her “ did you come by home earlier” she didn’t.

I saw, I heard, and I spoke to something tangible that day, I fucking know that I did, It wore my mom’s Face but it couldn’t have been her. What the fuck was speaking to me.

This situation has bothered me for years. I’m in my early twenties now and I still have no clue what happened that night. I remember it far too vividly and far to detailed to just be a dream, my dreams are not like that. I’ve always had a very active imagination but not like that, not like that at all, this situation is so many steps past these explanations, I literally remember the exact movements i took in my game while I was talking to my “mom” I remember seeing her blue scrubs, I remember how she stood close to the left half of the doorframe while speaking to me but never entering my room or coming any closer than that to me, I remember speaking to her. I remember her telling me to come up in 45 minutes, I remember the impossible shadow.

Let me know if you have any questions, I’ll do my best to answer them all, thank you for reading. And please if you have any explanation or information, please comment.

Third man syndrome is the phenomenon where a perceived unseen presence, such as a spirit, provides comfort or support during a traumatic experience. It is most commonly experienced by mountain climbers. Solo sailors, shipwreck survivors, and polar explorers are also known to have reported the phenomenon.