I have had a few experiences in my life, statring when I was about 4 or 5 when I can remember being woken by a big black head that was growling at me. I couldn't make out any features and I remember that it disappeared down the side of my bed furthest from the wall. Not to mention that it scared the crap out of me.

Ever since I can remember I have always had an extreme fear of being outside at night and of being abducted or taken by flying saucers. Many times I've dreamt of flying.

I have also seen strange lights in the sky and caught fleeting glimpses of humanoid shapes at windows in my house on many occasions.

My sister has told me that when we were younger she'd come home from a night out and whilst falling asleep would hear a strange oscillating humming sound coming from outside her window and then she'd hear me screaming. I of course couldn't remember any of this.

Recently I asked her to immitate the sound she used to hear at night and when she did it gave me goose bumps. I can vaguely remember hearing this sound and it scares me whenever I repeat it.

Now fast forward maybe 10 years and I'm now married and have a 2 year old son. I sometimes hear him yelling 'no' in the night and on one occasion while on my way to calm him down in his room I almost ran into a person in the doorway of his room. As it was dark I thought that it was my wife also coming to calm him, but as I dodged out of the way I noticed that the person was about 5feet 5inches tall and dressed in a suit much like an overall. I turned to have another look at them and they were gone. I managed to calm my boy in a very short period and he fell into a deep sleep. I then went back to bed, to find my wife also deeply asleep.

About 2 months ago my wife woke to go to the bathroom at about 2am and saw a light through the opaque bathroom window. She went to the lounge room window to see what it was but couldn't make out anything. She then came to bed. The next morning she told me of this and when I asked her if there was any sound she described the exact same sound as my sister (see above) and she has never spoken to my sister about my experiences as a teen.

My wife tried to wake me a few weeks later when she heard the same sound again at about 2am, but was only able to do so once the sound had significantly faded. Suffice to say I was unable to hear it by the time I had woken.

A week ago I went to bed at about midnight and as I was lying there I noticed that I couldn't hear any 'night time' sounds such as cars etc, nor could I hear my wife or my newborn's breathing (the baby's in our room at the moment). I have a dog that also shares our room, and also came to bed when I did, and I couldn't hear him stirring or breathing either. I placed my hand on my wife's back and tried to wake her to no avail. A short time later I could hear a faint high pitched whirring sound and I think I fell asleep shortly after.

Our newborn usually wakes up about 1:30am - 2:00am for a feed and this night didn't stir until 3:30am. My wife also tells me that she heard our son talking in his sleep and saying 'no' when she woke up.

Two days later I was woken at about 2am by my son once again crying in the night. I got up to see to him when I noticed a light shining through my lounge room window. I looked outside to see what it was and I thought it was a car reversing out of the driveway next door. For some reason I didn't pay too much attention to it. I soothed my son and went back to bed. The next evening I did a little experiment. I reversed my car from this driveway and asked my wife if the light from my headlamps shone into the loungeroom. You guessed it, no. I then tried this from my driveway and was able to shine the light in, however on the evening in question my car was parked in my driveway, and therefore blocking the angle required to shine into my lounge room.

Sorry about the long post but I'd love to hear your thoughts on the above. I'd also like to know would there be a way of placing a camera or something in my childs room to capture what, if anything is happening to him.

WOW. Freaky stuff, man. I feel for ya. I have a Sony Digital Handycam that has a great nightvision feature. You could always get one of these, hide it in the room and record in NV mode during the time in question...2-4am?

Wow! That really is some neat experiences there, do you ever hear your son speak of aliens or anything? (if he can talk yet that is.. ) or perhaps look at the sky? You could place a video camera in his room at night and let it run, not sure how long a tape would continuously run though but it's all I could think..

Please let us know if any more unusual happenings occur.

I've thought of placing a video camera in his room at night, but apparently I've read where people have tried this and on nights when something happens they get out of bed and switch the camera off, before anything takes place.

My son has recently started saying that he wants to go to the moon and he also wants to take a ride in a helicopter.

Meaning that the child could actually "sleepwalk" to the camera and turn it off? That's scary. How about if you hid it without the kid knowing? Or...what about hiding it in the yard angled to capture the house and sky above it?

That's a good idea, Yankee.

If you use a MiniDV camera the tape lasts 60minutes in SP mode and 90 minutes in LP mode. Thats not a very long time unfortunately, but perhaps it is possible to rig the camera to only start recording when it dectects motion.

I might try that Yankee. The only problem is that you don't know when anything's going to happen. 'They' may come 3 times in one week or not return for 2 months. Maybe I could set it to record every night between 2am and 4am and rewind the tape if nothing's on it. Now I just need to buy a pretty good camera that will enable me to do so.

Yea, only one thing to comment on mate, My older sister woke up once to hear her baby crying, she looked up to see someone calmin ghim, but the thing was, as she looked back down her husband was still there, though i think this i ghost relate.
I think you you consider maybe a ghost you saw?

My sister has had theses experiances as a kid too, i will get her to say some stuff to help you?

That'd be good, though I don't know what it is at my place. My wife is pretty sensitive to 'ghosts' if you will. Or should I say she 'feels' if something isn't right about a place or room ie she can usually tell if something bad happened there or if there is a good or evil presence in a place, and most of the time she is right. However with our house she hasn't felt anything unusual, so I don't know.

ok ok, keep looking, im sure you will get something on camara, also keep taking pictures just in case

sounds like your sons been visited by the men in black! or something to that degree

I'd like to know what it is, or catch them at it, just to ask them what they're doing. Maybe when my son's a little older he'll be able to tell me if he has any strange dreams/nightmares.

u need to do the video camera thing, just cos u hear stories of them going off it doesent mean its true and have u always been in the same house through all this and did ure own parents ever mention anything on it?

Alex, this is probably the 6th house I've lived in since I was a kid. I believe that they can track you and know where you are when they want you. My mother has never really mentioned anything about any of this to me (I think she put it down to nightmares when I was a kid), while my father just thinks I'm being stupid and imagining things. However I do recall my father relating a story about how when he was younger he'd go to sleep at night and he would have all his strength sapped from him while lying there and be paralyzed (similar to stories of Incubi and Succubi that I've read about). Trying to get him to even acknowledge telling this story now is another story altogether.....

smokingman
However I do recall my father relating a story about how when he was younger he'd go to sleep at night and he would have all his strength sapped from him while lying there and be paralyzed (similar to stories of Incubi and Succubi that I've read about). Trying to get him to even acknowledge telling this story now is another story altogether.....

One explanation and by no means the only explanation.... is a common well researched sleeping disorder called sleep paralysis... induced by stress... or mental disorders or worries... or stimulants... overtirednes.... or can simply be an inborn brain mechansim....

The body muscles actually becoming temporarily paralysed sometimes and feelings of loss of control.... jerking..... being with no breath or being choked can occur at times... The paralysis helps prevent a person from sleepwalking or enacting their dream in reality... a prevention from hurting themselves... Also people can get the feeling they are being pulled out of bed especially by the legs....

This hyponogogic state of when half awake and half asleep... can result in lucid type of dreams with alien looking type of phantoms... ghosts.... mythical characters.... mystical lights... weird experiences.... like being smothered and handled and sat upon.... etc... and is also one of the medical explanation for to the Victorian phenomena of the incubis and succubis.... and for some of today's alien abduction experiences too...

Some people are so convinced they are having an alien experience and thus don't want to know that such a medical condition exists and prefer to not investigate it... I guess because it sounds more 'interesting'..... But there's a lot of research on it and people get treated in sleep labs and by doctors to alleviate the symptoms and to undertand what is happening....

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Thanks for the explanation Dingo. I have tried to broach the subject numerous times with my father in order to ask him further questions along the lines of what you have mentioned, but he pretends he doesn't know what I'm talking about. Hopefully one day he'll let the barriers down.

smokingman
Thanks for the explanation Dingo. I have tried to broach the subject numerous times with my father in order to ask him further questions along the lines of what you have mentioned, but he pretends he doesn't know what I'm talking about. Hopefully one day he'll let the barriers down.

No worries... But in reality if a person does have sleep paralysis it's mostly no big problem because many actually enjoy the lucid dreaming which can come with it and if those dreams get taken away from a person there can be feelings of loss... grief.... an emptiness in their night life... to coin a corny expression... And the medicos are aware of that too... Some can have very enchanting dreams too... as well as the nightmares too....

The only time medical intervention helps is for those people who have such a hard time of it.. and the nightmares are so bad... that they wake up in the morning really tired and it starts to infringe on their daily life and comfort... My ex has it and he reckons he knows what evil is and feels like.... and he says it feels like real life when going through it sometimes... and even upon waking up it doesn't feel like it was a dream or a nightmare but that it was real....

But when I told him he can get medical help... he said no bloody way you dog... I like it and have some really great adventures so rack off... We actually are great mates so no probs eh... So eVIL not be wanting to get no help for his evil dreams... especially now that he knows what is happening and thus the knowing and undertstanding has taken away his fear of such experiences... though not taken away the intensity of the experience...

Nothing a good nights sleep wont fix... :eek:

Dingo
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Wow scarry stuff! I would recomend setting up a video camera, that seems like the best thing to do. In the mean time, I dont know, I would fear too much for my childs safety.

This is very, very interesting... I'm in the process of reading about an experience with many aspects that are similar to yours, smokingman. It's in a book called "Communion," by Whitley Strieber. You may want to take a look at it sometime, it may explain some things for you.


Here are the parallels that come to mind (bear in mind that I have not yet completed the book, so there may be more):

The man who wrote this book spoke of beings who wore uniforms much like an overall, like you described. As of right now, I don't recall how tall they were. I think they were rather short, maybe four feet.

Whitley Strieber remembers encounters with these beings all throughout his life, though much of them had to be brought forth with hypnotism. He says that before the hypnotising process, he mostly just recalled strange encounters with animals, like owls or wolves. And he said that this "memory shielding" was either his mind's way of protecting itself, or it was strictly the beings' doing by altering his memory for some reason. That dark, growling head you spoke of? Could it perhaps have resembled a bear, or some other creature?

At Mr. Strieber's cabin, they were often woken up by a very bright light shining into the house. At first they associated this with the lights from a neighbor's house, but when they tested this theory, like you did, they found that it would be impossible for the light from their neighbor's house to reach their window at that angle, for a bunch of trees were in the way.

His young son also seemed to be encountering these "beings". The boy told Strieber that he had dreams of strange little doctors that took him out on the porch to a cot, where they would tell him not to be afraid and such.


Like I said, there are some parallels. Wow...this must all be very frightening for you. I hope you've had luck observing whatever's going on, and that you'll find some answers.