From this point, I was moved out of that bedroom by my mother, who told me never to dabble in dark things, and grilled me about whether I had used a Ouija board or anything similar. I hadn't, and just as an aside, I did not grow up in a religious family at all, so there was little influence there.
From this point, things became a little more... telekinetic. I would find potplants swinging above my head in full view of crowded rooms, lights flickering on and off, TVs and CDs starting of their own accord... all centred around me. My new bedroom was next to what I had come to call the "haunted" room, but I kept the door firmly shut, and only had a few experiences of night terrors after that, but the poltergeist-type activity continued unabated.
A truly bizarre experience is also sandwiched into these events, and even I have no idea still what to think about it. All that was happening led me to question the idea of God, and I prayed for proof one day - I prayed for an earthquake. An hour later, I walked into the house and my mother asked, "Did you feel that earthquake?" My eyes nearly popped out of my head, and I told her that I had asked for it as proof. She scolded me and said never to do things like that again. But that night there was the BIGGEST earthquake I had ever experienced in my life. New Zealand was constantly full of tremors, so it is not too bizarre, apart from the TRULY BIZARRE coincidence of that day. I still pray, even though I feign agnosticism. I can never shake that experience, and I find praying very consoling.
After this point, and as I got older, a type of premonitory ability began to surface. This is the one thing that is strongest to this day. I dreamed of both my grandmothers' deaths, and an uncle's, but only symbolically - through black animals, a raven, a horse, a moth - and never understood them until after the events. This still happens to this day - even to the point of the most trivial things in random conversations appearing in my dreams the night before I have them!
However, the telekinetic events stopped as I reached my later teens. The spectres and night terrors all but vanished. I have seen many strange things since - "spirit lights" (even last night one danced through my room as I watched a DVD) and flickers out of the corner of my eyes, but never anything substantially visual. However, I am VERY sensitive now to people and places, and often the most random information pops into my head and is often proved correct by very unsettled people! It's as if a lifetime of strange experiences has opened me to being psychic, or I was born with psychic ability, which led me to see and experience all sorts of strange things before I managed to control it.
And I did make the effort to control it and defend myself against what was normally a NEGATIVE force. I would visualise white light, after reading about it; and I would pray, and rationalise. But, yes, the "haunting" was a negative experience generally; the other psychic and telekinetic events did not so much and do not bother me anymore.
What do I actually believe about it all though? I now have two university degrees and I have a spiritual side, but I also have a strong background in science and work as both an internet technician and musician. So, despite not doubting most of my experiences for a second, I do try to analyse them objectively. I would say that the most scientifically likely explanation to everything was indeed some sort of poltergeist activity emanating from myself as a child with an okay but often tumultuous upbringing, shipped around homes.
This activity continues through my psychic experiences, and I since believe that it is a quite normal, if not constant, ability in humans and other species - the ability somehow to transcend the normal perception of time. However, I am also left with the distinct leaning toward believing that, yes indeed, there are spirits and entities out there. And, yes, there can be nasty ones, and that I was plagued and tormented by one of the latter. It's not all bad, though. If that is indeed true, then at least it means one day I will get to see my beloved grandmothers again!
