This incident occurred a long time ago, and before I made the long journey back to the fold of Our Lord’s flock. Had this happen much later, a more spiritual me might have handled the situation quite differently. Anyway read on.
The year was 1978, soon after I had returned from England after having spent many years there. I was sharing a room at my parents house with my elder brother himself having just returned after more than 12 years in Australia.
On this night my brother had gone for a dinner night out with his future wife while I had been playing a rigorous game of badminton at a nearby sports centre. I returned home dog tired so decided to hit the sack early.
The bedroom was a decently sized 20 feet by 20 feet and our two beds were mirrored against each other on opposite walls. A little black wooden table was between our beds, below a window which overlooked the football field outside. Except for an old spring loaded alarm clock, this table would normally be empty, but this time a hardcover book was casually placed on the side closest to my bed.
I did not know what time my brother returned from his date, but when I woke up at around 3.00 am, I was on my side facing his bed and from the light of the moon shining through the window I could clearly see the outline of his sleeping body on the other bed.
The moon was fairly bright that night and the black table was completely basked in its pale light. The face of the clock was easily readable and I could also clearly make out the title of the lone book placed quite close to my head. It read “Guinness Book of Records 1977”.
Then I noticed something which was not normally there. It was a bouquet of purple, blue and white flowers. I have never been very good with flowers so I could not tell what species the flowers were, but they did look fresh and appeared very vibrant and alive, not something which had been plucked days earlier. These looked liked they were fresh off the garden.
It had to be my brother, I thought. His fiancée’s house had a beautiful garden, so it had to have been from her then.
As I continued to curiously study the flowers under the twilight of the moon, I suddenly noticed that the bouquet was not even resting on the table but was in fact about six inches above it, for I could clearly see the space between it and the table. And, as if that was not startling enough, holding the beautiful arrangement of purple, white and blue were a ghostly pair of disembodied hands. The hands were well formed with long slender fingers and perfectly manicured nails, very much like what a woman’s hands would be.
I stared in disbelief and my heart threatened to jump out of my chest as I laid frozen completely at a lost on how to react, but I felt blood leaving my face and my whole body began to break into sweat. Then the hands moved to slowly bring the flowers closer to my face until they were about only three inches away from my nose. Wide eyed and in near panic, I tried to scream but no words would come out. I tried to move myself away from the unearthly bunch and the articulating fingers of the ghostly hands, but my muscles refused to obey me.
Then with one Herculean effort, I managed to open my mouth and uttered a cry from within my parched throat. I called out my brother’s name. Finally after the third feeble call, my brother responded with a sigh and he turned his body to face me. He was still asleep though, but the sound he made seemed to cause the advancing figure to stop. Then in an instant, the unholy apparition disappeared in a manner quite unlike anything I have ever seen before or since.
Picture a water color painting on glass. Then picture spraying that painting with a strong blast of water. In an instant everything disappeared, literally dissolving into nothingness right before my very eyes. I recovered from my paralysis at almost the very same instant, but suffice it to say that I found returning back to sleep that fateful night nigh impossible.
Sweet dreams all.
GM
GMNIMan posted on Aug 29, 2006
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rosking said on Aug 29, 2006....
I can understand that such an experience freaked you out at that time. How would you handle a situation like that nowadays?
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missb said on Aug 29, 2006....
Damn that was spooky :/
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FaithfulDisciple said on Aug 29, 2006....
At the rate it happened, you would have wished it was a nightmare that you can wake up from. But it wasn't a nightmare, it was reality.
Could it be someone that your family knew or someone that lived in your house trying to tell you something? At any rate, she shouldn't have scared the hell out of you. She got your attention but in a way that distracted any possible positive outcome she may have wanted to achieve from it.
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chingform said on Aug 30, 2006....
I also feel that it was spooky
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GMNIMan said on Aug 30, 2006....
I wrote this while I was in bed last night and only posted it this morning our time. We are 13 hours ahead of New York. And it brought back a lot of memories and I again questioned the significance of the apparition.
When I tried to sleep I was very troubled and I sensed a lot of activities around me. I prayed for God's protection and asked for Him to send his holy angels to be by my side. Then I could see a lot of movements above and around my bed. I knew then that the angels were around for I could clearly see shadowy and misty apparitions hovering above and around my bed.
Usually when I was about to experience a spiritual manifestation, I would first see pins of electric white lights running back and forth along the rim of my lower eyelids, especially of the left eye. Last night the sparks of lights were unusually intensed and very uncomfortable.
I was awake most of the night and on the brief moments when I did managed to drift to sleep, the sleep was anything but restless. I never told my wife anything about when happened or about what I was writing about while in bed. This morning however she told that she had a very restless night in bed as if something was disturbing her. I kept my silence.
Rosking and FD, I will give it a little bit more thought then I'll respond to your query.
GM
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GMNIMan said on Aug 30, 2006....
rosking, if I were to encounter the very same aparition now, I think what I would do is to just wait and see what the apparition had in store for me. Will the flowers touch my face? Will the hands reach out to touch me? I will just say a prayer to the Lord for His protection and I will see what happens next. If the apparition becomes threatening in any manner, then I would immediately bind it in the name of our Lord.
Then there is the question of the paralysis. Was I paralysed from the intense fear that I had then or was it part of the spiritual manifestation? Even Saints have been known to experience temporary immobility when face with a spiritual apparition, despite their lack of fear. I really wouldn't know now. However if I were to experience the same paralysis now, I can still utter a prayer in my spirit.
FD, I truly have no idea regarding the origin of that apparition. However on reflecton, I quite frankly did not feel any danger or threats from that spiritual encounter unlike others which I were to experience later on. What gripped my senses in a vise-like grip then was fear. Pure primeval fear of the unknown. I now believe that there was actually a message there for me, but I have long since missed out on that.
GM
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FaithfulDisciple said on Aug 30, 2006....
GM, I think it has something to do with the fact that you have a psychic ability within you which is just manifesting recently.
It's probably best to learn how to control into turning this psychic ability on or off, whenever you want to. Otherwise, the spirits will always be running towards you seeking for your assistance to the point that even your sleep will always be bothered.
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genuinehater said on Aug 30, 2006....
To sleep, perchance to dream?
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light16 said on Aug 30, 2006....
u gave me goosebumps.
hahaha...
thanks.. =p
sweet dreams alrite..
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CreativeWoman said on Aug 30, 2006....
That is really something. Do you have an inkling who the hands belonged to?
CW
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GMNIMan said on Aug 31, 2006....
Absolutely no idea CW. However, I had no doubt that they belonged to a lady.
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FOTC said on Aug 31, 2006....
Wow, this is one hell of a story. I may be the Freak Of The Century, but I don't think I could have survived such an encounter. Keep them coming.
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Alyss said on Sep 01, 2006....
That's very spooky.
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youmylifesong said on Sep 01, 2006....
Hi GMNIMan. This is youmylifesong. Thanks for connecting to my blog.
As I read your extreme experience, I am reminded of my exorcism of a lady recently. She had nightly visits of the demonic presence; seeing some of the spirits, mainly, receiving tugs at her feet every morning about 5.00am.
During the exorcism, she had the spirits moved around her body!
After she became a Christian, she had to resist the devil for sometime. Today she is totally freed of such spiritual disturbances.
Once I was called at past midnight by a man. His wife was being attacked by the devil. She had the ability to see in the spirit realm. She could see the devil residing in certain pictures. She proved her spiritual discernment when we did home cleansing. She would tell us where certain charms were stashed away, and we would find them.
That night the devil came to 'kill' her. I went and in the power and Name of Jesus we defeated the devil, and she was left alone. She was OK after that.
Just my sharing. Yes, what you experienced is real.
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GMNIMan said on Sep 01, 2006....
youmylifesong, thanks for dropping in. I am in fact a bit relief to have met someone here in SC who has so much spiritual and demonic encounters, in truth much more than I have.
I have had quite a number of encounters, but I am a little reluctant to write about them here, apprehensive that people may find me a tad weird. With you around, I feel a little more normal ;-)
Meeting the lady who can see in the spirit realm would be interesting. I know a priest here with that ability. He has to live with it 24/7.
GM
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RisingPhoenix said on Sep 02, 2006....
This gives me the chills even though it happened long before I was even born.
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Lightwriter said on Sep 07, 2006....
Based on my own experience, I don't understand why this experience was frightening to GMNIMan. I gather from his description that the hands did not make any threatening movements. In fact, they seemed to be try to give a gift.
People make far too much of "ghostly apparitions" and "demons" and other possibly supernatural visitations. God never gives us more than we can handle. All we need to do is trust Her and hand over any emotions we might have to Her and let Her take care of us.
In general, I have observed, people who are fearful, judgemental, angry, untrusting or violent tend to attract energies or beings that reflect their own human qualities.
People who are loving, kind, compassionate, open hearted or needful of love attract energies that reflect their own human qualities.
It's an old Buddhist concept, you are what you think; you manifest what you think; thoughts are energy and can generate similar energy.
Jesus's great commandment, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," says the same thing in a slightly different context. The bottom line is the same, however: you will receive back whatever you send out.
In my experience, if someone is being visited by demons, the first thing to investigate is their behaviour; then look into their attitudes toward others. Their demons may well be invited in unwittingly by their own unconscious negative aspects.
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Bluesnake said on Sep 10, 2006....
If you had a camera phone back then, it would be useful.
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GMNIMan said on Sep 11, 2006....
Bluesnake, I have my Nikon bag right there on the floor next to my bed, but I could not more a muscle.
However I agree with you, under such circumstances, if I could react well enough to attempt a photograph, I think a camera phone would be the best tool to record the occasion.
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anonymous said on Sep 16, 2008....
It may sound weird what I am going to say now, but it is totally up to you whether you take my advice or not. You have to clean your self before going to bed. When you pray please don’t say “Jesus is god” or do not say “Jesus is the son of God”, I recommend you to say “Jesus Christ is the messenger of the almighty God”. Now you’ve got say: 1. Say: I seek refuge with the Lord of the Dawn 2. From the mischief of created things; 3. From the mischief of Darkness as it overspreads; 4. From the mischief of those who practice Secret Arts; 5. And from the mischief of the envious one as he practices envy And 1. Say: I seek refuge with the Lord and Cherisher of Mankind 2. The Ruler of Mankind 3. The Judge of Mankind 4. From the mischief of the Whisperer (of Evil) who withdraws (after his whisper) 5. (The same) who whispers into the hearts of mankind 6. Among Jinns and among Men After then do not talk to anybody, just go to bed n sleep. Hope it will work. God bless you. Peace.
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