THE HORROR OF BEING SLEEPY YET AWAKE: SLEEP PARALYSIS

I have experienced something like this before. It was quite vivid and scared me to death.

I was laying down in my living room thinking about a book i was reading, when I heard a mans voice. whispering to me, trying to coax me into doing something bad, like i was a child. I was paralyzed. and fearful. i tried to look around the room with my eyes, and sitting on a chair next to me, i remember seeing a flannel arm. it was very clear, but i couldnt turn my head to see if there was really anyone there. Then the whooshing thing happened in my ear. It was so loud and so real that it hurt. It felt like the air was being blown hard into one ear and forced out the other. my eyes were still open. They never closed. My surroundings never changed. After I snapped out of it, I was very confused and frightened.

I have also had other similiar things happen to me, and whenever I tell people about it, it seems to all go back to sleep paralysis. Though for me, and im sure others, it feels like something more.

March 12, 2010 3:31 AM

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image courtesy of wired.com

I’m not sure if you have experienced this:

“You wake up, but you can’t move a muscle. Lying in bed, you’re totally conscious, and you realize that strange things are happening. There’s a crushing weight on your chest that’s humanoid. And it’s evil.” (Wired.com)

Scientists have a name for this medical condition — sleep paralysis. I have a name for this, too: fudgin’ nightmare. It’s pretty common, though. In fact, it is believed that half of the population has experienced this. You’re not alone. Yay for that.

Even without these stats, I’d still tell you you’re not alone — simply because I’ve had more than my share of sleep paralysis “attacks.” And no matter how much I google sleep paralysis, there are things that keep me bothered.

It all started on a trip to a province in the South. One morning, I woke up and found myself paralyzed. I couldn’t move but I could speak. Suddenly, I heard a grim male voice. Although I could not see him, he was talking to me. And he was mocking me every time I try to speak.

“Wag mo nang labanan… Hindi ka makakagalaw…”

I started calling Shy Guy but he was totally in slumber.

“Hindi ka nya naririnig. Hindi sya magigising…” Then he laughed so boisterously, I easily concluded he was more like a demon than a maligno.

I struggled. Then he spoke again, “Wala ka nang magagawa! Akin ka na… Kahit saan ka magpunta, susundan kita…”

I started shouting, “Hinde, hindi mo ako makukuha. Umalis ka. Umalis ka!” But he was mocking me, repeating the words I uttered.

And then I started doing something I had not done for a veeery long time. I prayed.

He stopped mocking me. But as soon as I was finished, he began talking again. “Walang magagawa ‘yan… Nakatakda ka nang kunin.. Kukunin ka na namin…”

It lasted for about 10 minutes but it was the longest 10 minutes of my life. He was just telling me he would get me and that there was nothing I could do about it.

Suddenly, I was able to move and started scooting to one corner of the bed. I was sure it wasn’t a dream; I was fully awake.

Paranormal? Nah, I thought it was what scientists call sleep paralysis. Here’s the medical explanation for it, again from Wired.com:

“This research strongly suggests that sleep paralysis is related to REM sleep, and in particular REM sleep that occurs at sleep onset,” write researchers Julia Santomauro and Christopher C. French of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, Goldsmiths, at the University of London. “Shift work, jet lag, irregular sleep habits, overtiredness and sleep deprivation are all considered to be predisposing factors to sleep paralysis; this may be because such events disrupt the sleep–wake cycle, which can then cause [sleep-onset REM periods].”

I would’ve shaken it off but I have had the same experience a number of times since then, even now that I’m here in the comforts of the city. It was the same guy, the same awful feeling. The monster who would get me in my sleep. Call me childish but it really scares the hell out of me.

Sleep paralysis? I think so. Nothing paranormal.

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That may be a typical case of sleep paralysis but that doesn’t explain what happened to my friends.

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WISPY MIST OVER TOMBSTONE:

This is the clearest photo...can read tombstones...taken at Rosehill Cemetery, Syracuse, N.Y.. Rosehill is the oldest cemetery in Syracuse. I hope this one will be considered.

GHOST IN TOMBSTONE ARIZONA!

Here's a photo I had not seen closely until today. We had been visiting Tombstone in April 07 and noticed a ghastly face in the far left window. See what you think!

Staff comments:

-When I'm sent a hideous window figure from Tombstone Arizona, I pay attention. The facial features are quite clear and make the image almost undeniable. So unless this image was placed there for the tourists, I think it has merit.

CEMETERY SPIRIT IS WATCHING!

The two photo's that I have sent are the original, and a cropped photo. I took these at Glen Haven Memorial Gardens in New Carlisle, Ohio. This is the cemetery in which my family is buried, and I was visiting for the memorial day holiday. I always take pictures of my fathers grave, but this day I decided to take photo's of the cemetery (I think it is a beautiful place). This particular photo was taken as I was leaving. This one, as well as about 4 pictures before this one, are a little blurry. My children were with me, and I was moving to keep an eye on them, at that time. There was nothing in this area of the cemetery, and the only people present at the time I took the photo, were myself, and my children behind me, as well as, a couple of people at the opposite end of the cemetery, by a grave. I couple days after taking the photo's I decided to look at them, and I found this photo. I see a man to the left of the tree. I spent a lot of time looking at this picture, as well as, showing family members. Reason being; I see this man as my father, as does some other family members. So, I decided to share this photo...regardless of who, or what this photo is of, I find it interesting. My name is Audrey Thomas, and I am from Huber Heights, Ohio.





Staff comments:

-The image would actually be harder to explain if it wasn't a spirit. I am hopeful that it is as Audrey concludes. If so, it's a remarkable photo capture. I just wish the motion blur wasn't a factor or we would probably know exactly what we are dealing with. Overall, I can't explain it. We welcome all comments.


CEMETERY APPARITION!

Here are two pictures from one our ghost investigations. The first one is the original photo and the other is the same just brightened up, so you can see a better view. It was not cold out or foggy, and no one was smoking. It was a clear, warm night. (June 7, 2008) At the time, I thought I had heard something walking right behind me, so I started taking pictures. The first picture I had taken at the time had nothing in it, but the second one appears to be a person wearing a robe behind the tombstone. After doing more research about the cemetery I read about 3 Guardians that roam the grounds.





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ANOTHER CREEPY CEMETERY PHOTO!

This is a weird picture I took at Oxford Cemetery in Oxford, Massachusetts. My Mom, Cousin, and I decided to go to the cemetery at night and randomly take pictures to see if anything would come out since we love the whole ghost thing. This is just one of the random pictures I took. It looks like a person to the left of the picture with smaller ghost heads at the bottom right. The picture was taken on May 4th, 2008, not the date on the camera picture.






SHE'S DRAPED OVER THE TOMBSTONE!

This is a photo that I took at Colonial Park cemetery in Savannah on July 17th 2007 at around 1pm. The first photograph if you look in the background from the center to the left, you can see a woman in a black colonial style dress. and behind her there is a little girl that some can see as well. You can zoom in and see them very clearly.

SO.. WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT THE PICTURES AND THEIR STORIES?

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Haunted Vacation Room

I came back from KL yesterday.This story is about the hotel me and my friends staying during my 5 days vacations.

I book this hotel earlier by online. I thought it would be a pleasant stay,as this hotel is very popular.Even foreigners enjoy staying at this hotel.It’s really a cheap-online hotel.You could book this hotel at very cheap rates.(I can’t tell you which hotel,as i afraid it might spoil the image).

We arrived this hotel on Saturday evening,around 6pm.The location is very strategic.The train just few walks away,nice restaurants around,and lots of convinient store.The hotel patrons all are friendly,service are nice,everything very nice and comfortable,until the night comes,it turns to nightmares,really nightmares ok?

We went out to Petaling Street for a little shopping and dinner,and got back hotel by 11pm.We were looking forward to shop in 1 Utama the next day.I dozed off straightly after bath.I switched on the dimmed orange light for my sweet night.

Bad nightmares started,which the nightmare is exactly showing the room i slept.First,i dream a woman wearing white passing from the window out the door of my room.In the dream,it didn’t disturb me.It was just passing.I woke up,and see around my room.Nothing. I slept back,and the 2nd nightmares came.This time is a child.He is standing beside my bed,and looking at me.He seems harmless. I wake up again.Look around,nothing.Feel a bit scary already from the two nightmares.I look at the time,it’s just 3am,and i sleep back.

This time,i dream again.In the dream,i was sleeping when Something broke my window glass and i heard scream of a woman.Then i run outside and the security was patrolling.I quickly asked him what happen.He told me he didn’t hear any scream,and told me this floor is haunted before.Something happened before..Then i woke up.This time really frighten me up.I open the light.And pray to god.After praying,i slept until morning.No more nightmares.

My friend slept next room to me.I told her what happened.She is a buddhist,and help me to burn an amulet over my room.The 2nd and 3rd night i slept nicely.No more nightmares.

On the 4th day,we are very tired shopping in Bukit Bintang.Then we decided to ride a taxi.The taxi driver were kind.He show us some spots and tell us the famous things there. Suddenly,he asked me how was the hotel i’m staying.So i told him,it was nice and peoples there were friendly.
The taxi driver told me little history of my hotel.The hotel i staying was managed by new management.The previous management close down after some incident.He said that,peoples staying in the hotel heard screaming of women at night.Business start to go down after news spread out to tourism companies and the locals.This news spread by employee’s in the previous hotel.

Soon,the management stop the business and it’s been officially closed for few months.It was then,the hotel been taken by this management doing budget hotel.The sounds of women screaming couldn't been heard anymore after this management doing the hotel business.Maybe some ritual had done perhaps?Many tourists staying in the hotels soon,and nowadays,it became quite popular.Mostly is fully booked.

We reach our hotel and i thanks the taxi driver for the news.At night,i couldn’t slept,maybe too scared as the news i get is quite similar to the dream i have before.Soon,i dozed off and no nightmares.We leave the next day.And,i told myself no more staying in that hotel.
Coincidence?Or really there are things there,but it appears in my dream?


Unclean Places

People says that hospitals are the most “unclean” places in the world. I can’t disagree with that especially when I personally experience something weird.

After my O ‘levels I was granted entry to a course in a polytechnic. I decided to take up a job during the 6 months period before I went to polytechnic. A job agency helped me to find a job in New Chxxxx Hospital (now known as Chxxxx General Hospital) material management department. I was to send all kinds of equipments to wards and OTs and offices, be it medical supply or office stationery.

The Lift

At that time Chxxxx hospital was not officially open yet, only its ER and other ICU are in operations. One day, I made my round up to the SICU and pass supplies to the ward. I press for the lift and when it came, I pushed my trolley into it and entered it pressed the B2 button for my department. The door closed and suddenly it opened. Thinking that maybe there was someone outside, I peeped out but there was no one there. I pressed the Close button again…..and the same thing happens again!!!! This happened for four times… and this hair rising feeling got to me and I exited the lift. The door closed and it went down!! Geez, I though… maybe something is wrong with the lift sensors… I waited for another lift that did finally came AND bring me down to B2………but a shock is awaiting me…..

When the door opens at B2 and I push my trolley out of the lift, the lift on the left, which was the left that refused to take me, opens at the same time. What came out of it was totally shocked me. Out came two attendants with a metal coffin (those that hospital use to transfer the dead to the morgue….. did I told u that the morgue was in B2 as while?) and the family of the dead. The family was weeping and crying….. this really chills me to the bone. For the rest of the day I felt sick and morbid.

Was something in the lift awaiting the arrival of the dead? That’s why it did not allow me to go down together? .

The Ward

After a month of two, my supervisor decided to send my group of friends and I to Old Toa Paxxx hospital ( Already closed ) at that time to retrieve what ever can be salvage from the old buildings there. The only two humans that were there are 2 security guards… a father and son.
The first day we went there, I had this feeling… that the hospital was covered in a dark aura. The only lift there smells of disinfectant and death…. and it get stuck always in the middle of two storeys. Imagine the door opening and you are half way under ground and from the first floor…… most of the electricity was out or cut off too. The place .. I guess like all abandon buildings looks spooky.

One day, I and another guy was assigned to count the total number of metal bed frames left in the hospital. We decided to count from the main building first, from the top level down. It was around 5pm when we reach the second storey. We open the ward door with our keys and walked in. It was a class C ward…. comprise mainly of different rooms by partitions with no doors in front of the partitions with a long corridor linking every room. We simply looked in and count the number of beds. I was doing the counting and my friend was doing the recording. ” Seven beds”, “Ok…” ” 10 beds…” ,” Ok..” then I came to the second last room I peeked in and i just continued to the last ward…..”8 Beds” ” Ok….. but oie….. the second last one you never count le…. how many beds huh?”

Then It struck me by I never count the beds in that ward. I saw a room… fully furnished. There were mattresses and pillows on each bed with cases and all. Looks like a perfect ward in a hospital. And on the first bed right near the door, was this old man, dressed in hospital grown and sitting on the side of the bed and looking directly at me……….” 8 beds la F**k! Go liao la!! ” I pulled my friend along and walked fast out of the ward, not daring to look to my left as I pass the particular room. My friend thought I was lazy and whacked me on my back when I was out of the ward. I told him exactly what happened. He scolded me even more. He later told me that when a person were to see any “unclean” things.. lets not suppose to tell others or his bad luck will pass on to others…… To this day it still sends chills down my spine just to think about it…….



Saw Dark Figure:

Just to share 1 of the many sightings from my own experience. This happen abt 6yrs ago. It happened at abt 12am I was walking down the stairs I stay 8th floor lift on the 10 so got to walk down. While walking down the stairs I felt someone following me, so I stop a few time on that few flight of stairs, so did my “stalker”. My neighbour a single lady met a stalker a few days ago also.

I felt uneasy but at that time but I had my disc man on blasting loudly and felt a bit comforted. So I ignored the feeling and continue to go down, then I heard sound of people clapping behind that was when my hair stand!!!!! Cos there is no way I can hear anything with that kind of volume.

By then I was left with a few steps to go so I just jump off the steps and ran all the way home cos my unit was towards the end of the corridor.

Upon reaching my door I still felt the presence following me but not so near. I was shaking and could not open the door so I banged on the door hard and my mum opened and ask what happen, i just mumble something and rush in to the safe grounds of my home and while I was walking towards my room, my mum was also walking back to her room which was facing my room window I told her what happen exactly.

The creepy thing is that just when I finish my sentence, my mum said she just saw a dark figure dashing out of my room window from the corner of her eye.. I’m still staying in the same house but thank god nothing much has happen ever since.

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Death masks are wax or plaster castings taken of a person's face soon after their death. Death masks have been a matter of practice from as early as ancient time and making death masks was routine until the late 19th century when photography took over in popularity. However, some death masks were still made in the 20th century and are made to this day. Death masks were sometimes used as a way to identify the dead and at other times the death masks were used as a way to remember the dead person or to use as a way to build their memorial on their grave. Death Masks usually involve the eyes of the deceased being closed but in a few rare exceptions the eyes are left open. We have collected a number of death mask pictures of well known people throughout history.

Death masks provide us with ghostly images of the people who had been living only a short while beforehand.

Here we have put together a collection of death mask pictures of famous faces throughout history.

This is the death mask Scottish novelist Sir Walter Scott.

Even the bard had a death mask made when he passed away. This is the death mask of William Shakespeare.

This is the death mask of William Hope Harvey.

This death mask is of Pope Pius IX.

This is the death mask the English romantic poet William Wordsworth.

This death mask of Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner.

This death mask is that of Thomas Paine.

This is the death mask of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

This is the death mask of Walt Whitman.

This is a bronzed copy of Napoleon's death mask. Napoleon's death mask is one of the most talked about by those who have an interest in such items.

This is the death mask of one of Australia's most famous historical figures, Ned Kelly.

This is the eath mask of Max Reinhardt.

Like the James Dean mask above, this death mask of Noel Cowards is unique to our collection for being cast in color and for the detail given to the death mask.

This is the death mask of Christian theologian, John Wesley.

This is the death mask of the famous writer Jonathan Swift. Included amongst his large body of work is Gulliver's Travels.

This is the death mask of the Russian novelist whose works included War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy.

You will notice that most of the pictures of death masks that we have been able to find are of men. However, this is a clear exception. This is a death mask of Mary, Queen Of Scots that was made not long after her execution.

This is the death mask the first president of the United States, George Washington. Also, if you notice his eyes are open which is pretty rare for a death mask.

This is the death mask of the famous film star, James Dean. This death mask is unusual for being in color.

This is the death mask of composer Ludwig van Beethoven.

This is the death mask of the poet John Keats.

This is the death mask of the Irish writer and poet James Joyce.

One of the more modern death masks in our death mask picture collection. This is the death mask of film director Alfred Hitchcock.

This is the death mask of the Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler.

This is the death mask of assassinated president, Abraham Lincoln.

This is the death mask of sculptor Filippo Brunelleschi. He died in 1446 so this is one of the oldest death masks we have seen.

This is the death mask of George Reeves, the actor that played Superman in the classic tv show.

This is the death mask of French mathematician, Blaise Pascal.

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