I think most people through the course of their day-to-day lives have had a chance happening of experiencing something out of the ordinary. Fewer people have actually had a direct paranormal experience, and I am one of those. My paranormal experiences as a young child ignited a spark that turned to a flame that burns brighter than ever to this very day.

My interest in the paranormal began from a very early age. I was 6 years old and I lived with my parents in a small apartment in Oklahoma City. About 3 months after we moved in, I began having the bed shake at night. As with any child, I would leap from the bed in a fearful state and shoot down the hall to wake my mother. Without fail, every time she would take me back down the hall to my room, it had stopped. She began to get very irritated with me and told me I had an overactive imagination, it wasn’t happening and to go back to bed.

One night, however, I laid in bed waiting for sleep and I had the feeling or sense that the bed was going to shake again. I closed my eyes and drifted off. Without fail, the bed began to shake, but this time it shook so violently I nearly had to hold on to stay in the bed. I got up the courage and jumped from the bed and ran to the door. As I stood there with my back to the bed in the doorway, I closed my eyes and clenched my fists repeating in my mind “it’s not happening, it’s my imagination,” just as my mother had said. I then turned and much to my surprise I felt a complete panic as I stood and watched the bed shaking. Afraid to waken my mother again, I opted to sleep on the couch.

This went on for months on end and I stopped telling my mother about it. My father was basically aloof and disbelieving, so I never bothered him with it either. We later moved when I was about 10, and the bed shaking stopped, but other occurrences would soon follow.

We moved into a small rent house in a rural area, out in the middle of nowhere pretty much. All seemed fairly normal, but at night when I would start to drift off to sleep I would see a dark shadow in the already dark doorway. It had a definite physical shape, and would just kind of sway in and out of the door. Oddly, I felt more relaxed when I would see it and would just drift to sleep. Shortly after moving there, I also began writing in my sleep with no recollection in the morning. I would awaken with notebook and pencil in my bed. They were often letters of some sort to people I knew not–and neither did my mother. I suppose this was some form of unconscious automatic writing. My mother related it to the stress of moving and adjusting to a new environment.

In any event, the things of our youth can shape our interests and outcome of the very person we become as adults. These things helped shape me. The paranormal arena has had a very strong and positive affect on my life. The events I have personally experienced have kept a spark alive to try and find answers to those things just beyond the tactile world we live in.

I am very interested and active in engaging in paranormal activities with a group, and have a fond interest in EVP (electronic voice phenomenon). I have had other things happen during the course of my adult life, but none feel as if they have shaped my interests and activities as the ones in my youth.

If you share an interest in paranormal, I say definitely take a step in learning more about it. There are often local groups you can become affiliated with, and activities that will only help you to get closer to what it is you are seeking to learn or understand. I know there are many skeptics in this arena with regards to the paranormal, but open your mind and take a look at a bigger picture and you might be surprised at what conclusions you reach in the end. You may find that paranormal spark thriving in you as well.