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In the routine of our everyday lives, it's often easy to forget how remarkable the world can be. Yet every once in a while, the commonplace, the "normality" of the day-to-day is shaken up by astonishing, sometimes eerie events that are not easily explained. Take, for example, these true stories from readers of fleeting ghosts and shadows, amazing coincidence, and startling premonitions:
Girl
of His Dreams
In 1974 in high school, I fell asleep during class and had a strange dream. I
saw a beautiful woman of Asian descent standing next to me talking to me in some
strange language. She then disappeared like she was being beamed up in
"Star Trek" and I woke up screaming, "Who are you?" I
started having the same dream on a monthly basis for the next seven years. One
day I was in South Korea teaching for the US military. That morning I had the
last dream I have had in this series. In this last dream the woman spoke to me
in Korean, which I understood by then, saying "Don't worry, I'll meet you
soon."
That evening, I stepped off a bus and stood face-to-face with the girl in the dream! I proposed three days later, married her six week later and we have been married almost 20 years. I can't explain how this happened, other than to speculate that we knew each other in a prior life, had some sort of tragic love affair and vowed to meet somehow in the next life. - Jake A.
Followed
By the Shadow
Man
The first time I saw the words "Shadow
People," it really startled me because the term perfectly described
something a close friend of mine encountered years ago. One sunny afternoon, he
and I were walking through a heavily wooded area of a park and he all of a
sudden became very agitated and wanted to leave. I pressed him for several hours
as to his change of mood.
He finally told me a story about when he was 11 years old. He and his older brother shared a bedroom. In the middle of the night he awoke to see a black outline of a person standing it the center of the room. He couldn't see details such as arms or legs, but there was definitely a neck and head, and the top of the head was a little wider and seemed to him to be the brim of a hat. He was sure that this was not a shadow because he could not see through it (streetlights shined through the windows, so the room was not pitch dark). It seemed to have some depth to it. He said that he ducked under the blankets and stayed that way for several minutes. When he peeked out again, the thing was still there, but it had moved to another spot in the room. After about 10 more minutes of hiding under his blanket, he looked out again and saw the thing standing right next to his bed and it seemed to him almost like it was leaning forward a bit. At this point he started crying and put the blanket back over his head. He did not remove the cover until his mother came in to wake him in the morning.
I asked him why he was thinking about this incident now and he said that he saw "it" in the woods where we were walking. - Diane W.
Cemetery
Ghost
My daughter, my husband and I do some charity cleaning with others at a
turn-of-the-century cemetery, Evergreen Cemetery. As the men and my daughter
were pouring water into a dirty vase, we were talking about eight more graves we
needed to really clean that we had just found among bushes and thorns. I then
noticed an elderly lady walking slowly toward a grave. It appeared that she was
reading it. So I told my daughter to wait there while I went to see the lady. My
daughter kept on washing other vases. I started walking toward the grave where I
had seen her. As I kept my eyes toward where she was... she disappeared! Etched
on the grave she was reading was the name Isabelle. Was it hers? The gravesite
was very old and dirty, so I brought over some flowers from the ones I donated
and placed them on her grave. One week later, her grave was cleaned again but
now with fresh planted flowers! It seemed Isabelle knew that some of her
relatives were coming to plant them for her as she wished. - Anonymous
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