I was living at my parent's house in Buffalo, New
York. We lived in a suburban neighbourhood probably
built in the mid sixties. The year was 1974 and I was
18 years old. It was early in the morning, about 5am
very dark and I was on my way down the hall to go out
to my car to get to work, when I heard a woman's voice
call my name. It was a pleasant female voice and
sounded like a woman in her early thirties. I turned
around and saw that no one was there. I looked in my
sister's room but she was sound asleep. I looked in
my parent's room to find them asleep also. I was
scared, but forgot about it until a year later when I
had moved out to Seattle where my brother was living
at the time. We both experienced strange things at
practically the same time even though we were both
living in different parts of town. He lived on the
east side of the lake in a area called Bellevue, and I
was living in some old projects on the south side of
Seattle near the lake in an area called Ranier Beach.
It would usually occur around 4 in the morning while
it was still dark outside. I would wake up, unable to
move, not even my eyelids. I could hear two women's
voices chanting in a strange language in the next
room. After a little while, it stopped and I was able
to move again. There was nothing and no one in any of
the rooms. My brother then called me to tell me that
he had woken up with the same inability to move,
called "witches riding" by some people. He said he
heard several people clapping in the next room, in
unison, then a woman's voice shouted out, "Everything
you've ever learned in your whole life is wrong."
Then the clapping stopped. No one was in any of the
rooms at his place either. Another time he awoke to
find a luminous ball of light next to him on the bed.
After these experiences, I started having strange
psychic occurrences. Once, I was sitting with some
friends and started describing a scene I saw in my
mind's eye of one of the people being rescued by
someone after falling off a pier in Panama where he
grew up. He told me that this had indeed happened to
him years ago when he was a boy and wondered how I
knew about it. I've had psychic visions ever since,
especially using psychometry, the ability to see
psychic visions by holding onto someone else's
jewelry or tools, etc. I have no explanation for this
occurrence. I would be very interested though in using
these abilities, especially psychometry, for
paranormal investigation if anyone is needing this
talent. I now live near Austin, Texas in the hills
near a place called Will Barger Creek. Apparently my
ancestors, the Kickapoo Indians, had scalped Will
Barger in the 1800's and he lived to tell about it.
I'm hoping his ghost will not be out for revenge,
although I have seen fleeting images and smelled
strange smells that I can't explain in this old house
out in the woods.
Submitted from: Kevin Kinkade, Austin, Texas, USA