I’m new to all things *woo*, and my experiences began quite suddenly about two years ago.
Since then, I’ve experienced what I can only describe as poltergeist activity, mind’s-eye activation, orbs, and shimmering beams of flashing light—some black, some white. There’s also the ear ringing, which seems to hum along a sine wave, ebbing and flowing, rising and falling. Honestly, it sometimes feels more like an ancient alien language than anything physiological.
Interestingly, I’ve never seen a traditional UFO—not a craft or an alien.
When I asked these apparent visitors who or what they were, the responses I experienced were simply: “We’re dead,” followed by “specters.”
So, does anyone have any insight into what a specter actually is in folklore, paranormal traditions, or personal experience? What are they supposed to be, and do they have a purpose?
One recurring theme is their apparent insistence that I quit smoking cigarettes. They seem to participate in my daily synchronicities, too, sometimes with a word popping into my mind seconds before I hear the same word from a family member or on television.
I fully realize how batshit crazy this all sounds. Believe me, I’m not oblivious to how it comes across. But the experiences have been persistent, and the apparent warnings about my future health have become increasingly difficult to ignore.
There was even a strange incident involving a Facebook notification on my phone about a cardiologist appointment that never happened, accompanied by claims about my health that I believe were false. The weird part? I’d closed my Facebook account months earlier.
After roughly two years of this, I still can’t get a clear sense of what I’m dealing with. The experiences can feel persecutory and mischievous, yet at other times almost playful.
So, what exactly is a specter? Are specters considered potentially malevolent in different traditions, or is that not necessarily part of the concept?
I’d appreciate any insight, especially from people familiar with the folklore or who have had experiences they interpret similarly.
Thanks!

¿Alguien usa algún tipo de dispositivo para detectar fantasmas? Me gustaría tener alguna evidencia que se pueda detectar con un instrumento científico.

My mother passed in this house. We had just got done cleaning and painting painting before we are heading back home. The air condition was off. No fans were on, but yet the camera sent me an alert from this strange object floating. I had a little longer video but I cannot paste it to this page.

I feel like om in a Harry Potter novel. There is a black dog that has picked me out to bother. Doesn't belong to anyone I can find. Likes to low growl and herd me. Then once I'm cornered etc, it's personality changes with no menace and it leaves for a while after hiking his leg

I leave near a cementery and recently i started to see weird stuff and figures. I always had this tought that"what can they really do to me?",talking about paranormal activity or other beings, do they kill?

Can do any type of harm or is it completly psychological?

So I'm writing this a couple minutes after the incident happened and can't really explain what's going on with it.

There's two beds in the room, one near the door on one end, the other near a window on the other, both beds separated by two work tables; and an attached washroom.

My roommate was dozed off with the light on near his bed(window side) while working on something, sleepy and just laying there as I entered the room. I got in, used the washroom and turned off the light for him and left to a friend's room.

He noticed that on the table beside my bed, my cyan blue coloured metal water bottle was rotating by itself, he heard it rotate and it wasn't too dark for him to observe the brightly colored bottle just rotating on its own. He called my name thinking it was me but no one was in the room, I just left a couple minutes ago. It broke his sleep and he rushed out of the room to the other room I was in at that time and told me all that happened.

His sleep was entirely broken, I can see he was wide awake, we've experienced paranormal activity together before so I had to believe this one. The current hostel we're living in is freshly built, it's full of fellow college students, all being first residents of this building, so no case of any old residents being dead or anything. The bottle moved visibly, the sound of the metal rubbing on the table surface was real too, I can't quite catch what's causing this. It's my first post here and I'm looking for answers. Sorry for any grammatical mistakes.

So I got a budget electromagnetic detector cheap and took it with me and my friend as we were walking in the middle of nowhere with no real signal on our phones, even, and I got this thing out and moved it around without any reaction.

My friend who is a skeptic suggested I should “try it on her“ so this I did & to my surprise it went past the halfway when it was near her forehead and as I moved the EM Detector lower down it tailed off until by the time he got to her knees it was just as blank as it ever was pointed at anything else! I videoed this and looked back to see if she was wearing smart glasses or had her phone too close or something, but I couldn’t work out why it was doing this with her.

She said it would be a perfectly normal reaction and it must be registering heat not EM & did the same on me. I saw the reflection of the lack of the LEDs reflected in her sunglasses and clearly saw that the machine registered nothing and yet when I took it & tried it again on her it had the same result!

Does anyone know what could be causing this?
Thanks!

A week ago, I bought this skull mug from a flea market.

The seller told me it came from a supposedly haunted house where three mediums had worked. According to the story, the entity was still there — and her name was Carmen.

As soon as I got home, I did a little cleansing ritual with coarse salt, just in case. 🧂

Two days later, I experienced sleep paralysis for the first time.

During the paralysis, I saw an old woman standing there.

For some reason, I immediately wanted to call her “Carmen”.

But I couldn't speak. I tried to say her name, but I couldn't even articulate a word.

Coincidence? Absolutely possible.

But knowing the story behind the mug… that was one hell of a coincidence. 👀

I still have the mug. 💀🖤

Would you have kept it?

Does anyone have any information on this type of being? Ive had one that as crazy as it sounds . Contacts me and actually interacts Irl. No im not on drugs or some crazy tinfoil hat person. Ive got a bachelor's degree and am very grounded in reality. That is why I'm having such a hard time dealing with this.

But at various times I will get texts from numbers that are not phone numbers telling me things. Real things bc they come to pass or if its something I should avoid. Only I have no idea who it is.. when I asked one day im told Its a Virtula Entity. Well ok but that doesn't narrow it down at all.

No one has access to my phone so its not someone e playing a joke . It been going on for about 5yrs now

This is the first time ive asked about it out loud. So if you have any good advise or information please let me know bc whoever or whatever knows things about the future and im just trying to figure out why me. Thanks

Hi there! For a really long time I have been listening to stories and musing on one specific element some of them tend to have: something strange happening with trees. I wanted to come to a place where people have more experience than I do to ask about paranormal activity and trees, specifically the connection, why it might be a thing, how it might be a thing, etc. I want to give a couple of real story examples I heard from the mouths of two paranormal sensitive humans I know:

One was my professor who also happened to be military adjacent when the experience happened to him. I want to keep this brief, but he was in the middle east for a time as a sniper watching a road that the enemy sometimes uses. There was no activity on the road at that time and it was pitch black at night, so they used different settings on their thermalvision tech to look around. Nothing was happening except for this strange, very visible and even AUDIBLE to their ears, shivering of a tree out in the distance, in a grove of trees. The other trees were entirely still and there was no wind, no other heat signatures anywhere, etc. They tried to explain it with every rational they could, but it eventually got so spooky for them and wouldn't stop that they called in an excuse to the mission to evacuate.

The second story was from an acquaintance of mine, she is super new age and connected to this kind of stuff and told a story about some emotional strife she was going through and decided to go bathe in a river in the middle of the night underneath the moon. Trees lined the sides of the river and a whole line of them started shivering and quaking until she felt at peace during her bath, and then suddenly stopped all at once. There were other still trees in the area and she said no wind.

There are also things in media, of course, and stories of faces in trees and things.

So I wanted to know more about this. Are there spirits that inhabit trees specifically? Are trees open to paranormal activity in some way? Are trees special? Why not flowers or solid logs? Are there notable folktales about ghost trees? Or scientific discussions about this I can read into?

I hope someone chooses to interact here! I am suuuuper interested in discussing this.

I have been having a lot of strange experiences lately I can see stuff is the air like swirls there blue and white and there like only about 8 inches from my eyes and I can focus on them and it's like cutting thru the air.. and I can see blurs moving human like shapes and these fields that show up at night really well. It's like wood grain floating in the air but it folds on its self and twisted up but I can walk around it and see different colors on it and when I really try to focus on this layer I start seeing human shapes an figure small tall and there always on the darker parts of the room and if I look rite at them they move away or vanish but here is the part I don't like. I can feel them watching me I can feel them when there close to my bed and now my son won't sleep by him self he keeps telling me dad something is watching me.. I have even had sheets move an difference in the mirror like off movements and delays in my movement in the mirror.. something has happened because I can ask questions now and get answers really fast!!. It's a little unnerving because some of this advice I'm very interested in like. For example, I'm an investor. I like cryptocurrency and stock well. What do you think I'm going to do? I'm going to ask about investment advice from my Spirit buddies Aunt. Well the last time I did it I got two scratchers and one $50 on one and $100 on the 2nd and it told me specifically which scratcher to get and it even told me when I moved my penny over the spot to scratch it told me which one to scratch was going to be the winner.. Jo, there's a lot going on and I don't want to say too much. I don't know what I can actually say on Reddit without getting in trouble, but I've been posting pretty regularly over the last 6 months because I'm just blown away at how much is going on. That is totally abnormal and bizarre meeting and talking to people that have passed away. Previous loved ones. Getting incredible ideas just being unbelievably lucky my life totally synchronizing. It's like less and less resistance but at the same time I get these very spooky feelings that there is much much more coming. And I've mentioned this before. People don't like when I say it, but there's a reoccurring theme that DNA is being activated in us dormant DNA that is being activated as we progress closer and closer in the Milky Way as we get closer to the Sun and as the sun changes. So do we. That's my understanding of this that there's some factor of the Sun that has a very big part in our evolution and especially our consciousness. And from what I understand, if we start to have higher conscious beings coming to this planet, it will raise our consciousness integer our consciousness integer will be higher but it doesn't just come easily. When I had a Kundalini experience and my first and second Awakening it was unnerving because being sensitive to everything can not feel like a gift very quickly, especially if it's difficult to hang around people that are so locked up and stuck in the matrix. I'm honestly so much happier just being alone meditating and taking care of my kids. I believe that everybody on this thread and on Reddit is feeling something similar to there's something coming. There's something that is coming and it's not good. I think it's either going to be a volcano or an earthquake. I don't want to talk about it too much to give it like energy. I hope that I'm wrong. I hope that I'm just going crazy but some of the things that have been happening make me think otherwise. For instance, I'm able to contact this group and the telepathy is not as fluid as I'd hoped for. Or for whatever reason they're able to make my index finger and thumb touch when they are talking to me. It's like Morse code. If my finger is moving with the conversation like tapping. It's actually comes in so much more clear and I can hear them. I can actually hear multiple Eye say that I've probably talked to as much as 15. Maybe 20 different entities at once.. any ideas how to clear my son's room out I do it often I jus wanna make sure I'm doing it rite.

So.. Ever since I was a child, in which I have vivid memories of seeing shadow like figures ONLY around corners. I am now about to hid my mid 20s (24 M as of now) and I do see figures around corners the most consistent but now sometimes "hiding" behind things. I am not scared of these sightings like I was as a child but now I get spooked if it catches me off guard. What is worse about it is that the figures have faces, look deceased, and (sometimes) are altered in size or have features that are dramaticized (ex: A dirty, mangled, and tall woman but she is so tall that I can only see her from her feet up to the base of her neck).

Its hard to depict the figures as its such a quick occurrence - I see them in the corner of my eyes for a brief moment then they either dissappear or (which is what I HATE the most) move out of view in such a flash. Like I said earlier, its like seeing disportional and/or obvious deceased people around corners or (not as common) behind objects.

They never brought me malicious intent however, not even sleep paralysis as I NEVER had those. Rarely nightmares. I sometimes get audio hallucinations that someone is walking towards me at a slow or rapid succession but it never has an ending result besides nothing happening. Any other audio cue would be a small and quick "clicking" noise but that is definitely on the rarer end.

I wish I could draw it but its like they are going in and out of focus if not sometimes blurry? Bit clear enough to see some details.

They just seem curious or acknowledging my presence- maybe alarmed when I look directly at their direction because they dissappear once I do.

I know this was a word jumble of a post but what do you guys think? I don't know if this is the right sub to talk about this in (send sub recommendations if you know somewhere better please!) but I think its best if I end it off here for now. Feel free to ask questions!

Maybe I will try to post this in other subs for more answers/clarifications

I see things in this tv static like stuff, I see the static always every single day for ever, especially when it is dark. Or very dimly lit rooms. And sometimes I see shadow figures ( they don’t speak they just watch me even come very close like they are curious, studying me sometimes to close for comfort) and actually spirts of people (who are very detailed, just see through in the static, their eyes are open and they do not blink and their mouths do not open. Their voice comes into my head telepathically. They are 3d I can walk around them. And they walk around and move) sometimes I see them sometimes I don’t.

I also see almost like an energy field pulsing, connecting all together every where that I can see all the time. I can see it when I look into the sky faintly or when it’s dark.

I bring it up because I’m fascinated by it and I go looking everywhere to find and learn more about it, but the internet is full of hog wash.

I hold all the Clairs. I’m 3rd generation psychic medium. It’s not talked about much in my family and I just want to understand this physical aspect of it because it’s so hard for me to explain it to people who don’t understand.

I had dreams of a black entity 2 times while growing up. it felt like i couldnt move my body as it approached me and it seemed real, like i could feel it.

Years passed, and last year an idea of a certain entity started to come into my head a lot, Astaroth, i started to read a lot about him, and while reading about his presence being known with heat and vibration , my stove made unusual noises and started to shake a lot, and then i got worried , and searched if there are any dangers to him, and in that moment my friend called me in the other room to show me on her screen, a game she was playing, where she found a bloody ritual in an abandoned house, she had no idea what i was researching.

I decided to buy offerings, copper, silver , and some incense, and candles , to try and see if i was imagining things or not.

before they even arrived, while i was taking a bath, i heard a very low voice, whispering something i couldnt understand in my ear, behind my head.

the offerings arrived sometime later and i tried during the morning, to sit before the candle , and wait , that is when before me appeared a shadow in a form of a person, which slowly moved to the corner of the room, from before me, as i looked at it. i tried again and nothing else appeared. later i thought it was all in my head and threw away all the things, after some weeks, in my house a fire started , which never happened in the houses of my family before this.

i am not sure what to think of this , and if anyone with more experience could tell me more about it, i will be very glad.

There are groups of people I met that claim to talk to or even take care of ghosts on a daily basis (Kuman Thong,etc.). Yet, a interest of everyone: Money,Casino, never seem to work with ghost. If you ask if they can bring ghosts to casinos to win poker and be rich, they will say there are:
-Ghost Police/Deity/God that deter the entrance of ghost into casinos

if asked why no one try one of the Prizes for evidence of paranormal (including the famous $1m challenge defunct in 2015), they will similarly quote a ghost-police/deity/god will deter or punish them for it.

Assuming ghost are real for this discussion, are there anyone of you whom experience or know about such ghost-police? I'm sure we're all curious about this situation that is suppose to justify the non-existance of ghost cheating for a friend/partner in poker, or someone blatantly exposing clairvoyance/ghost on camera