I am a 25 year old male from South Africa. Since I was a small boy, I had some very strange occurrences happen to me, some of which my parents told me later, and I have no recollection of them at all.
Starting from what my parents told me;
We went to visit friends of the family when I was about 3-4 years old. Upon arriving at their house, I told my parents that I do not like the place, and no matter how hard they tried to figure out why, I just refused to tell them why. On the second night of the trip I told my mother: "I do not like sleeping in that room, there is someone in there who doesn't like me ". To this day I cannot remember anything of what happened there, nor that we even went there.
A second account is one where we went on holiday to the coast (we live inland). We were driving along a mountainy region and I told my dad that I think we should stop at the closest spot, without giving any apparent reason. My parents wanted to push on so we could get to our destination as soon as possible, but I was adamant, getting very anxious. We stopped, and as soon as they calmed me down we continued our journey. There was a rock fall on the road, and judging by the dust in the air, it must have happened a few moments before.
The next recollection is my first that I can remember myself; I was 13 years old at the time;
I was sitting in our TV room at my parents' place, watching a movie; my parents already went to bed. My dad was the only smoker in the house at the time (the reason why I say that will be clear later on). The TV room is quite far from their bedroom, so the noise from the TV did not bother them at all. I heard footsteps in the passage, and as I turned around to look, there was no-one there. As soon as I turned towards the TV, I saw someone behind me lighting a cigarette, and again there was nothing as I turned around. I went to my parents' bedroom, thinking that my dad was checking up on me and with the intention of asking why he didn't just say something when he was behind me. Upon getting to their room, both my mother and father were fast asleep. I felt very weirded out since I had a lot of funny feelings in the house before.
A few years later I had a very disturbing occurrence. I was laying in bed (about 17 at the time) I had a dream about someone close to me passing away in a car-wreck. The following morning my father came in to the room and told me that my cousin passed away the previous night.
After that I didn't have any more experiences until very recently. I had a few occasions where I would wake up startled, unawares as to what woke me up.
About 18 months ago I woke up to someone at my bedroom window. I jumped out of bed, thinking that someone might be breaking into my house. I grabbed a weapon of sorts, looked out of windows but saw nothing at all. The next morning I walked around the house, looking for tell-tale signs of someone walking around earlier. There were no footprints whatsoever outside my window. (There is a garden underneath my window, and it was the rainy season, so the ground was wet)
Two nights ago, a friend and I was sitting in the kitchen chatting about odds and ends. The kettle started boiling, and abruptly stopped about 20seconds later. Neither my friend nor I touched the kettle, and I checked, the kettle's switch was in the "off" position. We decided that it was a bit too freaky to stay in the kitchen, and moved outside to the patio area. Nothing happened any further. That night while sleeping another unexplained thing happened. Since I was the only one in the house I normally sleep with my door open. The door to my bedroom slammed shut, and for a few moments I could not open the door, no matter how hard I tried. Finally the door gave way, and there was a chilled air about the house, not the normal winter-chill, but the kind that makes your hair stand on end. I couldn't sleep anymore, so I put on the TV and waited for anything else to happen, nothing did.
My question is: Is there some kind of entity attached to me? No one in my family had anything of the sorts happen to them. These things happened to me over the years, and I have moved to 4 different houses in the mean time. I also have some dreams from time to time about things that didn't happen, feeling way too realistic. It has happened before those events do happen as I have dreamt about it.
I would be very happy to answer any questions that you might have. I really need to understand what might be wrong with me (not "wrong" but "different" might be a better word), or if there is an entity that is attached to me.
James: Thanks once again for your post, I love it when someone explains themselves clearly.
With regards to the cigarette flare, some explanation might help with what I saw. My dad is married to my stepmother, her ex-husband died about a year before they got married. He was an alcoholic and smoked quite alot, and that made me think that it might be him. I might be very wrong, but the silhouette I saw was quite clearly in the shape of a human.
The door slamming shut; yes, no windows open whatsoever.
Where I live the ground is a clay-ish type of turf, so even when the ground dries up, you will still see footprints. As soon as I woke up, I only got a glimpse of a very "undefined silhouette" for a lack of a better explanation. It disappeared almost immediately.
Thanks for the advice on how to hone my gift, funnily enough my girlfrind sometimes claimed I read her mind. 😊
Zzsgranny, thanks for your post as well, I will most definitely give it a try.
Regards,
Komatist