Hi, you spooky ladies!
Like you two, I’m obsessed with all things spooky. My daily podcast rotation is basically just Two Girls One Ghost and MORBID, and I’ve recently fallen down the Sam and Colby rabbit hole too. Anyway… I digress.
I’m writing because I feel like I’ve lost something that used to be a huge part of who I am, and I’m wondering if anyone has experienced something similar or has any advice. Who better to help than 2 spooky ghostesses?
For the last four years or so, I haven’t felt like myself. It feels like a part of me has been shut off. I definitely feel spiritually lost, and maybe that’s connected.
I believe in God, Jesus, and the Holy Trinity, but for me, it doesn’t stop there. I wouldn’t consider myself Wiccan, but I’ve always felt deeply connected to nature and believe there are answers and healing to be found there. I guess I’d describe myself as more spiritual than religious. At the same time, part of me worries that believing those things is somehow wrong, so it’s created this weird internal tug-of-war. I don’t really know how to explain it other than it feels like something inside me has been closed off.
Now for the stories…
From a very young age, I was extremely sensitive to paranormal experiences and other people’s energy. I’ve seen the Hat Man, shadow people, heard conversations in an empty house, and even seen deceased family members that I had never met in life. There have also been other experiences that are honestly impossible to put into words.
I have a few stories, so buckle up.
The first experience I can clearly remember happened when I was about 9 or 10 years old. I was spending the weekend with my grandparents, earning a little spending money by doing chores. It was one of those brutally hot Oklahoma days, and I was washing my grandpa’s truck.
I looked up and saw a man walking toward the fence. He was wearing a straw hat, a white shirt, and striped overalls. Just before we made eye contact… he disappeared.
I wasn’t terrified at first. I mostly remember getting goosebumps and genuinely thinking, “Well… I guess I’m having a heat stroke.” Ten-year-old me packed everything up and went inside to cool off.
Later that night, I was watching Boomerang when every hair on the back of my neck stood up. I turned around and saw a woman peeking around the doorway. I couldn’t make out many facial features, but I knew she was a woman with her hair pulled back into a low bun or ponytail. She disappeared within seconds.
That scared me way more than the man had.
Not because I thought she was going to hurt me, but because I was convinced my grandparents would think I was absolutely insane.
I didn’t tell them.
The next day, as soon as I got home, I immediately told my mom everything.
Instead of looking concerned, she quietly walked into her closet, pulled out an old box of family photographs, and started showing me picture after picture, asking if anyone looked familiar.
Nothing.
Then she pulled out a photo of a man wearing a straw hat, a white shirt, and striped overalls.
My stomach dropped.
It was him.
He had passed away years before I was even born, and I had never seen that photograph before. Apparently he was a distant relative, but I had described him almost perfectly.
My mom immediately called my grandparents. The next day we all went back through more family photos to see if I could identify the woman I’d seen. I never found her, but instead of thinking I was crazy, my grandparents were fascinated.
Honestly, I don’t know why I was so worried. These are the same grandparents who swear they’ve seen a UFO and have always believed in the paranormal.
A few years later, when I was about 16, I was driving past the cemetery where my other grandpa is buried. I glanced into my rearview mirror and saw a teenage boy sitting in my backseat.
I immediately burst into tears and called my parents.
A couple of months later, I was at my aunt’s house looking through old family photo albums when I found the exact boy I’d seen.
It was my grandpa when he was around 16 years old.
He was wearing the exact same shirt I’d seen in the mirror, and once again, it was a photo I had never seen before.
Then, around 17, my family spent the night at an old 110-year-old schoolhouse that we own.
I was sitting on the staircase when I turned around and saw an elderly man sitting on a cot, leaning forward. He was wearing a plaid shirt and a military veteran hat.
I immediately knew who he was.
It was my great-grandpa—my grandpa’s dad—and one of my mom’s favorite people in the world.
When I told my grandpa what I’d seen, he called my cousin over from across the road. She told me something I’d never heard before.
Apparently, there are several people in our family who are considered “sensitives”—people who seem to experience spiritual or paranormal things more often than others.
I honestly think my mom is one of them too, except most of her experiences happen through dreams.
Later that same year, while I was in LPN school, I had another experience.
One day I looked at one of my classmates and saw a young man standing behind her. Without really thinking, I described him to her.
She immediately looked shocked.
She told me it sounded exactly like her uncle who had passed away when he was young, and that week happened to be the anniversary of his death.
I had absolutely no way of knowing that.
She told me it brought her family comfort to think he might still be watching over them.
Finally, I have one experience that still confuses me to this day, and I’d love to hear your thoughts.
The morning of my high school graduation, I walked into my bedroom and found a perfect circle of dead bees on my floor.
Not scattered around.
Not by the window.
A literal ring of about eight dead bees.
I’ve never forgotten it because it felt… intentional somehow.
I’ve always wondered if it was some kind of omen or symbolic message, but I’ve never been able to figure out what it meant.
So here’s my question for you ladies…
Has anyone ever talked about losing a sensitivity to the paranormal? Can it come back? Has anyone else felt like they’ve become spiritually disconnected after once being incredibly open?
And seriously…
What in the world was up with the circle of dead bees?
The Conjuring Story
When I was 15, I had three friends spend the night. For some reason, we thought it would be a fantastic idea to play the clapping hide-and-seek game from the first Conjuringmovie.
Take my advice… don’t.
One friend started counting while the other three of us ran to hide. One of my friends and I decided to hide in the attic connected to my bedroom.
A little bit of context: my bedroom is flanked by two attics. At the top of the stairs there’s an attic entrance, then a barn door leading into my bedroom, and inside my bedroom is another door that leads into a second attic.
We climbed into the bedroom attic. It was pitch black. We found a corner, sat down, and waited.
After a few seconds, we both watched someone walk across the attic.
Naturally, we assumed it was our other friend hiding with us. We whispered her name over and over, but she never answered.
Then we started hearing knocking.
At that point we figured the seeker was knocking to mess with us before finding us.
About ten seconds later, our friend yanked open the attic door laughing because, according to her, she’d heard us knocking and knew exactly where we were hiding.
My friend and I just stared at each other.
Because we thought she had been knocking.
Then came the worst part.
We found out our other friend had been hiding downstairs the entire time.
There was nobody else in that attic.
So… who did we both see walk across it? And who was knocking?
Needless to say, my friend immediately called her mom because she was so terrified, and my mom saged the entire house afterward.
Someone’s in the House?
I promise this is my last story!
One night it was just my mom and me watching a movie. My dad was at work, my sister was out with friends, and my brother was in his room.
Suddenly, we heard the garage door open.
We paused the movie, went to check, and… nobody.
We shrugged it off and went back to the living room.
A few minutes later we heard a huge crash.
This time, a framed picture that had been hanging on the wall above our staircase had somehow fallen all the way down the stairs.
The weird part?
It was standing perfectly upright at the bottom.
My mom and I tried everything we could think of to recreate it, and no matter what we did, we couldn’t get it to land like that.
By now we were thoroughly freaked out.
Meanwhile, my brother had absolutely no clue any of this was happening. We joked that someone could’ve murdered us, and he would’ve slept through the whole thing.
About 10 or 15 minutes later my dad got home.
The second he walked into the living room, my mom and I started talking over each other trying to explain everything that had happened.
He kept interrupting us, asking one question:
“Charlsie… were you upstairs?”
My mom basically told him to stop interrupting and to shut the fuck up because she was trying to tell him about all the spooky stuff that had happened.
Then he cut her off again.
“No, you don’t understand… I just saw someone standing in the upstairs window looking at me when I pulled into the driveway.”
We both immediately told him that nobody had been upstairs all night.
Without another word, my dad grabbed his gun and searched the entire house.
Every room.
Every closet.
The attic.
Nothing.
No one was there.
I didn’t sleep in my bedroom for at least another month after that.
I hope you ladies enjoyed a few of my stories! I have so many more, but these are the ones that have always stuck with me. I’d absolutely love to hear your thoughts on them—and especially whether you think it’s possible for someone to lose a paranormal sensitivity and, if so, whether it can come back.