Expert: Stephanie Loss - 10/11/2005

Question
Hi,Sorry I wrote a long one.
After you read this you will think I'm crazy.I'm not.

I'm nineteen my sister is twelve.We are not afraid of the dark,But we are seeing some dark shadow shapes.We are seeing them a lot. We are very tall,I'm about six foot and she's past.

The things are taller than us.Sometimes they look like a shadow.And sometime they look like...Ok you know on hot days you can see the hot air over a car? Well they look like thst.

When I'm in bed I really see them. Seems like a lot of them will stand over me.My sister and I share a room and she sees the same thing.

I have been touched by something a lot.And one night when I was laying down in bed.I felt something burn my cheek.

It was getting really scary for a while than it just stoped,But lately it seems like their coming back.

Yesterday we were at my Grandma's  I was outside alone.I heard a dog crying,I start calling for my Grandma's dog Sam It started close as I walk closer and call his name it was further away in the barn. I start to walk out there calling the dogs name.My sister tells me to wait.So I wait at the gate.Now the crying is in the horse shed,that is right by me.My sister gets my aunt they found the dog.But everytime I called the dogs name I could still here crying.We all go out to see if there was an animal out there but we didn't find anything. I felt like someone was trying to get me out there alone.

All right I'm done Please tell me what you think.
I want to know if you know what they might be?

Answer
To the first, it could be "ghosts", or there is a growing pheonomena called "Shadow People". I don't know anything else about it, and I'm not the kind of expert you need. I deal with mythical creatures, more literary than anything else.

As to the phantom dog, I don't know. Once again, an occult expert would be more help.

There are psyhological explantions. Hallucinations, symptoms of an illness, over active imagninations.

Despite what the horror movies say, the common belief is that, if it is ghosts, they can not harm you unless you let them. "I'm not afraid of you, you can not harm me, leave me in peace." is something good to repeat if you start feeling scared.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Stephanie Loss