It's considered extraordinarily rude. As rude as spitting on your mother-in-law or farting in church. My tribe sees it as an extremely U.S. Cavalry-esque thing to do...something that never existed before the settling of the west. In our religion, we are all related, all part of an enormous universal community, and the…

I know I'm way late in posting this, but GOOD GOD this story. I was absolutely transfixed reading this.

I can really relate on the cats with kidney failure thing. A cat I grew up with had kidney failure around the age of 12 (her, not me). She had put me to bed every night by hopping up into the crook of my knee, curling up, and falling asleep purring. I'm not new agey or anything—I like training horses, watching rodeos,…

*teary-eyed*

My story is really really simple compared to the rest, and is most likely to be attached to a reasonable, psycho-neurological explanation....almost embarrassingly so. However, it's my only real brush with the spirit world and for sentimental reasons, remains important to me:

I'm going to preface this by saying that I've been able to see, hear, and feel things since I was a small child. It stopped being weird for me years ago, and it's been happening less and less the older I get.

In my apartment I live with at least 2 ghosts. One is a victorian woman that lived in the structure that used…

I'm somewhere between a skeptic and a believer, but MamaFrascana is the uber-believer, and she'd tell you this - that spirits don't want to hurt us, they're here to watch over us. They don't mean to scare us, and they won't show themselves if they feel that we, the living, cannot handle the sight of them. If they do…

Two things:

Uhg. Creepy. And sleep paralysis is a bitch! I've had it once and I never want to have it again.

I've actually never told anyone this story before; I'm a skeptic and sometimes have trouble believing even my own experiences if they don't fall into the purview of what is explainable and rational. Call it an adorable quirk. But, since this is all anonymous and in the spirit of Halloween, I present to you the tale of…