Contact with Spirits, Deamons, Ghosts, Etc.

[Georgia]

My wife is from a Phlippine provence. She had many experiences while she was growing up, and I had one in our last visit. (2001)

We were staying in a resort-style 3 story poured concrete hotel next to the ocean. There's a momorial plaq on the beach honoring the joint American and Philippino forces who landed there and drove the Japanese from the area. (Not sure if this is related)

There's a 24hr security guard who continuously roams the grounds carrying a riot gun. It's a well kept place with a nice pool

Our family's room was on the 2nd floor, and half the floor above was a lookout to the ocean, and the other half was a vacant room with boarded up windows.

One night I wokeup with my usual heartburn and wasn't in the mood to search through bags looking for medicine so I just lay there listening.

It was probably 2-4AM, not really sure of the time but I heard these things happening in that boarded up room above us:

1. Sharp, hard BOOM of something quite heavy hitting the floor above us.
2. Probably two pairs of heavy, adult- like footsteps
3. Several lighter, I guessed children footsteps

All footsteps were walking in a hurried manner

4. Toilet flushing
5. The howl of wood furniture as it is slid across a tile floor
6. Conversation, but couldn't make out any words
7. Door latch as it closes / closing doors
8. Electric drill

I lay there for a while wondering why they are fixing that room upstairs in such a hurry, knowing the hotel is half empty?

I thought nothing more of this and drifted back to sleep.
I experienced these exact same things three more nights but said nothing about it to anybody.

Two nights before we were to leave I fell into a light sleep, while my wife's relatives were over. It was about 1AM when they went upstairs to the overlook, when they said the plywood over the windows began rattling violently (Windless night) and a great BANG happened from the inside of the door, as if kicked.

The bang was loud enough to wake me below, and they all came running scared to death. I told them to stop it or else we'll all be in trouble with the management, when my wife asked me

"Steve, have you been hearing things at night?"

Without telling her my experience, both her and my son had also heard all the same sounds as me, except she thought the drill sounded like a vacuume cleaner.

I told her they must be working on the room so we went up there to find nobody at all.
Next morning we discussed this with management, concerned there my be intruders and they checked - nothing had been disturbed and nobody had been in there. They were quite sure.
Later I enquired about the security guard- surely he had noticed something and found that several times he'd recieved a gentle but noticable push on the 3rd floor. He said the room had been closed for 6 years, the owner passed away in there and hears "strange" things in the area.

Against my wife's advice I was going to lay awake, and when the sounds began was going to out to the beach and photograph the room area with a telephoto lens. She just didn't want me to "Mess with them".

So I laid awake that next night, probably till 3-4AM and only heard an occasional thud. Nothing more.
Next morning upon telling her of my dissappointment, I found out that she enquired to her father, who gave her a prayer for them to be quiet.

And they were.

-Steve

[SoylentGreen]

And another hotel gets a reputation for having a ghost. Which will encourage the curious to visit. And the hotel owner gets his hotel on the map and makes a bit more profit.
You would think with all the ghosts inhabiting hotels , that the government might consider giving them a home loan subsidy to help them settle in.

[Georgia]

You're wrong, actually.
These things happen more often there : It's considered common place. If anything it becomes a stigma, a place to avoid.

Now, if you would like to spend around $2,000 in airfare to patronize this hotel then PM me and I'll give you details. (Being obsurd)
My point is that nobody is going to do that.

There are no home loan subsidies in the Philippines.

-Steve

[Gods_Mercenary]

Hell, I'd do it, it'd be funny as hell.

[SoylentGreen]

Quote by: Georgia You're wrong, actually. These things happen more often there : It's considered common place. If anything it becomes a stigma, a place to avoid. Now, if you would like to spend around $2,000 in airfare to patronize this hotel then PM me and I'll give you details. (Being obsurd) My point is that nobody is going to do that. There are no home loan subsidies in the Philippines. -Steve

Perhaps not among local Philippine's but certainly westerners are increasingly interested in this kind of thing.
You were conned by another greedy hotel owner .
The electric drill was a bit much. Do you really think that power tools that's die before the job is done hang around as lost souls wanting to complete the job.
And why is it happening more often now? Why is haunting suddenly becoming popular among ghosts . Are there a number of unusually high instances of death and murder in hotels there? Or is it that someone smells some money to made?

[Georgia]

You were conned by another greedy hotel owner .

Show how you know this is fact.
Fact is, I never said this is ghosts: I don't know what we experienced.

As mentioned, a place rumoured to have paranormal is avoided by the locals, and located in a provence where few "Westerners" visit.
All societies do not follow Western beliefs, trends and intrests.

How exactly is the hotel owner being greedy, knowing they likely face a downturn in business if rumours are circulated?

And why is it happening more often now? Why is haunting suddenly becoming popular among ghosts .

There is no increase in activity: Philippines (Like many other societies) are very superstitious. Some of these beliefs I'd call obsurd, others not so. People there ocassionally hear and experience these things. It's not rare as it is here.

[SoylentGreen]

Quote by: Georgia Show how you know this is fact. Fact is, I never said this is ghosts: I don't know what we experienced. As mentioned, a place rumoured to have paranormal is avoided by the locals, and located in a provence where few "Westerners" visit. All societies do not follow Western beliefs, trends and intrests. How exactly is the hotel owner being greedy, knowing they likely face a downturn in business if rumours are circulated? There is no increase in activity: Philippines (Like many other societies) are very superstitious. Some of these beliefs I'd call obsurd, others not so. People there ocassionally hear and experience these things. It's not rare as it is here.

I have no facts , just skepticism.
I am an admirer of H. Houdini, he spent a long time seeking contact with his dead mother and though he never made contact he exposed many frauds along the way.
Stories like this do get out to the world and those who are curious or desperate take interest.
In the end it is good business for hotels to have a ghost.

[LtMisha]

I've had many encounters myself. I haven't seen any aliens yet, but I have, however had my fair share of ghosts, Deja Vu, psychics and other weird stuff.

The best video of a ghost I've seen is of a Pontianak, an Indonesian Vampire of sorts, a woman that died during childbirth. It basically was a night, full moon. Two Indonesian soldiers and a camera man were filming their sentry duty at a dock for security purposes. Suddenly, an eerie laugh is heard. One of the soldiers screams out profanities, and points at a crate behind a gate. There is a ghostly white woman there, laughing / screaming at them. They scream, and run for it. Scary like hell. And I was alone in the house at the time.

As for psychics, I believe that they are probably the real thing. I think I have some latent psychic talents. I believe in the whole spirit guide thing as well. I've seen mine. He once walked next to me on the street. He said hello, we exchanged some pleasantries, and he departed. Since then, he sometimes helps me out behind the scenes. It's damned cool to have one.

[??!]

Quote by: LtMisha As for psychics, I believe that they are probably the real thing. I think I have some latent psychic talents. I believe in the whole spirit guide thing as well. I've seen mine. He once walked next to me on the street. He said hello, we exchanged some pleasantries, and he departed. Since then, he sometimes helps me out behind the scenes. It's damned cool to have one.

A psychic once told my grandmother that one of her grandchildren will have a great interest in music; mainly violin. And what do you know? I have an obsession with violin. Lol.

[jumph1gh]

:l Well one day I was just about to sleep when something black swiftly glided or ran accross the hallway.... The hallway light was on so I was able to notice it... It headed towards my sisters room since hers is right enxt to me and so is the restroom(restroom is the dead end). I was shocked because my family was wataching a movie in the living room and I could hear their voices. I was shocked. I was like a eye close away from being asleep to. Maybe I was between the realm of dreams and reality. I don't know but it was freaky. Also I would feel sometimes in bed when I'm abot to go to sleep like as if I'm falling straight through and endorphines kicking in. I never had gotten any explainations.

[Piscean]

I also had an NDE (near death expirience) when I was 2 1/2 years old. They really should call them ADE (after death experiences) I was dead for more than 3 minutes.
It's an immeasurably valuable gift to have an NDE. If everyone got to have one this world would be an amazing place. Anyway if anyone who isn't determined to believe that their life is temporary and therefore essentially meaningless would like to hear about my expirience or maybe share one of your own, I guarantee I'm open to discussing with you so private message me and we can share. peace

[Night]

I once saw a ghost...a terrifying apparition of my dead old aunt.

But I was high.

[Piscean]

I appreciate anyone with the courage to share the things you've experienced on here knowing well that you will probably be ridiculed. It's good to share things that the norm of society can't handle and wont tollerate.Keep them coming friends!

[Nono]

Yes, the world is much stranger than we imagine.

The problem is that subjective consciousness is ... well, subjective. A fact that doesn't make it terribly available for objective analysis.

[Haig]

I spend alot of time in hospitals and im not bothered by them, but this one specialist hospital I deal with has a high death rate due to its speciality and I get the weirdest feeling whenever I walk though the doors. Not a big believer in ghosts but im not totally closed to the idea, I think its more feeling the despair of all the people inside.