Update: Are Mirrors Portals to the Spirit World?

As a result of the research about mirrors as portals to the spirit world, I published an article. If you’d like to read what I discovered, feel free to check out Are Mirrors Portals to the Spirit World?

If you have any experiences with mirrors and/or spirit portals, be sure to leave a comment in the comment section of the article and share your story with other readers.

Haunted Phones Calls

If you read the post about my daughter receiving a mysterious call that claimed to be from home, then you already know that I promised to share my story of another ghostly call I received a few years ago. It seems my last post was never published and sat in draft mode for a week, which means both posts will be dated today.

About that haunted call……

At the time I was working in a school that many believe is haunted. There are many stories about the school, but I was new there - so I was never quite sure when they were yanking my chain or if they really believed the stories.

I was in a meeting after school and there were no other people in the building except those of us in the meeting. My daughter was in a room that did not have a phone, practicing her violin. No one left the room.

Suddenly, the office phone began to ring. We ignored it for a few moments, but when it continued one of the members stepped into the office to answer the phone. She was in plain sight through the open door.

To my surprise the call was for me. It was my husband returning my call.

“What call?” I inquired.

He explained that there was message on call wave that showed that a call had been placed from the school to my home. I assured him that it must have been an old call and that no one had called him.

I really didn’t think much of the whole episode until I got home.

When I got online and checked the record of calls on call wave, I was shocked to see that a call had indeed been made from the school to my home. It was dated and the time showed that it was made while I was in the meeting and my daughter was in a room without a phone. The name of the school and the number were clearly displayed.

I have since lost the record of this call as we no longer subscribe to call wave.

I have no explanation for this odd occurrence.

Was it some mysterious contact from beyond or was it merely a glitch in the system?

If it were a glitch, I have to wonder what the odds are of a call showing up from a building that has reputation for being haunted instead of some other random number.

Spooky Phone Call: Do Spirits Use Phones?

Something a little out of the ordinary happened this afternoon. I was busy doing some research on a paranormal topic. My daughter was sleeping, but needed to get up soon. I looked at the clock and said to myself, “If she’s not up in 20 minutes, I’ll go wake her up.” and continued with my research.

Exactly 20 minutes later, she came down the stairs and said, “Do you mind?”

I was little startled and asked what she was talking about. She said, “Why did you call me on my cell phone?” When I told her that I had not called her she looked very worried.

She had received a phone call and it said that the call was from home. Thinking it was me waking her up with a call, she turned it off without answering it.

Had she answered the phone, perhaps we would have a better idea of how this happened. It seems we will never really know who called.

I’m sure there is a logical explanation for this. Some glitch in the system, perhaps. But I find it rather peculiar that the phone call was at the exact time I had decided I would wake her up.

She’s slightly spooked by this and I must admit at the time it sent chills down my spine and the hair on the back of my neck stood up. I’m not quite ready to call this a paranormal experience or start searching for some spirit that likes to make phone calls. However, I did receive a call once that may have been a paranormal experience … but I’ll save that story for another day.

Unless it happens again, we will chalk this one up to some unknown glitch in the system that somehow brought up the wrong number on the screen.

Mirrors and Portals to the Spirit World

I’ve done a little poking around to see what I can find about mirrors as portals to the spirit world. I didn’t exactly find a lot of information from what I would consider reliable sources. I find this both relieving and a little frustrating.

I’m relieved that maybe I don’t have to dash past my mirror every night, but frustrated that some have thrown it out there, but have nothing to back it up.

So far, I have determined that there is a group of people who believe mirrors are portals to the spirit world. One prerequisite appears to be that it must be a stationary mirror that has a solid backing and it must have been in place for a period of time.

Now, I’m not sure exactly what would make one mirror a portal and another mirror not, but I can tell you that I’m not taking any chances. I’m moving my mirror on a regular basis.

I discovered a few references to those who use mirrors to call up spirits or to see spirit guides. This is another topic altogether, as far as I’m concerned.

Apparently, the superstition of breaking a mirror bringing bad luck has its roots in the belief that spirits exist in another realm behind the glass. When a mirror is shattered those spirits are set free in your home.

An opposing theory of the origin of this superstition suggests that at one time mirrors were extremely expensive to make. Only the wealthy could afford a large mirror in the home. In an attempt to discourage carelessness, wealthy home owners convinced superstitious servants/slaves that breaking a mirror would bring seven years bad luck.

It seems likely that the combination of these two theories has fueled the belief that breaking a mirror carries with it certain bad luck.

Perhaps the belief of mirrors as portals to the spirit world has its roots in the superstitious beliefs of long ago, that were merely fabricated to control the actions of those who didn’t know any better.

Perhaps there is evidence out there, that I have yet to access, that would indicate otherwise.

For now, it seems that moving a stationary mirror to a new location on a regular basis just might prevent the spirit world from entering your home.

Mirrors… Portals to the Spirit World?

Last night, I spent some time reading a few of my favorite paranormal sites. Why is it that we are always drawn to these at night time when we are alone?

Anyway, I was reading about mirrors being portals to the spirit world. Admittedly, I need to do some research on this topic before I begin to form any opinions about the possibility.

I can tell you that the thought freaked me out. You see, my bedroom has a large mirror above my dresser. The mirror in itself was not the issue. It was the fact that my bedroom is a large open area at the top of the stairs and there is no light switch to the room, only an old fashioned chain that must be pulled.

This requires me to walk across the room, in the dark, to turn on the light. But what really bothered me was the fact that when I pulled the chain to turn on the light, I would be facing the mirror. In fact, I would have to walk towards the mirror in the dark to get to the chain.

Aah. you see my problem already. I was more than a little nervous.

Those of you who know me already know that I have no problems with ghosts and spirits in someone else’s house. In fact, they fascinate me. I’ve even gone on a ghost hunt and traipsed around in the darkness looking for a ghost. It was fun.

But, when it comes to my house, I want nothing to do with invisible beings that might choose my mirror as a portal.

I found a solution. I walked up the dark stairs, closed my eyes tightly and felt my way to my bed. I crawled in and pulled the covers over my head without so much as a glance at the mirror.

Ha! Maybe spirits do use my mirror as portal, but that doesn’t mean I have to look at them.

Check back soon to find out what I’ve turned up in my research about mirrors as portals to the spirit world.

Noises in the Night

If you have already read my post on sleep paralysis, you are already aware that I question some of the experiences I had in college. I’m not talking about the typical college experiences here, God knows we all question them. I’m talking about paranormal activity.

I lived in the same room, but had two different roommates over the years, both of whom experienced unusual activities to some degree, along with myself.

At the time, we were slightly frightened, but being young, we often blew them off.

One roommate complained that I talked in a different language while I was sleeping and seemed to respond to some invisible being in the room. This of course, freaked her out. To be honest it never bothered me because I didn’t experience it.

I simply thought she was over-reacting to a little sleep talking and never gave it much thought, even though she reported it on several occasions.

This roommate also claimed to feel the weight of something sitting on her bed in the middle of the night.

It was the noises I heard every night that piqued my interest.

Every night I heard what sounded like a large metal ball bearing being dropped. It would bounce twice and then a series of smaller bumps as though it were rolling across the floor.

My room was on the top floor, yet it sounded like it came from above me. I rationalized that it must be “the pipes”.

When no one from other rooms reported hearing this sound, I assumed that it must have something to do with the pipes in my room. Of course, there were no pipes in my room, but I assumed pipes passed by my room in the walls.

It wasn’t until last year when I watched an episode of Ghost Hunters where Jason and Grant heard the same sound that it occurred to me that the noise really wasn’t the pipes. I sat in shock as I listened to a sound I had heard every night for several years. I expected them to debunk it. They didn’t. They couldn’t.

Thinking back, I don’t know why I never questioned the fact that this noise was only present at night and only present in my room.

For whatever reason the noise persisted night after night and I didn’t give it more than a passing thought.

Check back for more stories about the events we experienced during that period of time.

Paranormal Experiences

I’ve been doing a lot of soul searching lately, and don’t mean searching for lost souls that roam the earth. I mean my own.

I’ve thinking about the first time I ever remember actually seeing anything that was out of the ordinary. I was in my teens, then. My family had spent the afternoon at the family grave yard mowing and repairing the graves. When we returned it was late afternoon and the sun was just beginning to set.

My mother made pizza and we sat down to eat fresh homemade pizza with a cold soda.

A small hallway lead from the kitchen to the living room. I sat down at the kitchen table, which gave me a clear view of the hallway and the entrance to the living room.

Just as I lifted the cold drink to my lips, I caught motion from the corner of my eye. When I looked up, there in the entrance to the living room stood a man in a white t-shirt and dark pants. The odd thing was, he only had one arm. He looked at me and then quickly darted out of sight.

I was frightened and confused, but I sat silently for what seemed like hours before I dared to tell anyone what I had seen.

There were no exits from that end of the house. There was no way out. The house was searched and no one was found.

To this day, I can still see this one armed man in a white t-shirt darting quickly out of view. I lived in the same house until I went away to college, yet I never saw this man again.

Granted there were other things that happened in this house, others heard and saw things, but to my knowledge no one ever saw this man again.

I can’t help but wonder who or what I saw so many years ago.

Back from a Ghost Hunt

Well, I have returned safely from the ghost hunt. I really don’t know where to begin. It wasn’t at all what I expected. It wasn’t scary. It wasn’t creepy. But I did feel as though I were transported to another place and time. The three hundred year old house was brimming with reminders of the past.

I participated in one “sit in” where I joined the Jr. investigators and sat in the dark for 45 minutes. As I sat in the room, I wondered why the people who were supposed to be sitting in the next room were moving around. I heard creaking floor boards and footsteps and even thought I heard the door to their room open twice. I simply couldn’t imagine why they were being so noisy.

After we gathered back in the living room, I reported out that I had seen and heard nothing. As a side note, I asked who was in the other room. When they identified themselves, I asked why they had been walking around. They claimed they did not move around.

Now, I don’t know these people and I have no way of knowing if they were or were not moving around. I don’t know what I heard. But it didn’t feel out of place or odd in any way.

I am a little leery of anything I was told. There was a plan in the works to test the power of suggestion on another young man who was told a variety of frightening stories and then the investigators wanted to see if he would confirm those stories by sights or sounds.

This, of course, put me on guard. I don’t know who was trying to fool whom. There were a lot of secretive side conversations meant to conceal information from certain members so as not to bias their experiences. These may have been legitimate, but it left me with the feeling that I was being had.

I suspect that I wouldn’t have believed anything that happened there that night.

Perhaps another time with this group, or another group, will leave me with a different perspective.

We will know … in due time.

Going on a Ghost Hunt

Well, this is it, folks. It’s finally time to get my feet wet with a little first hand experience with the paranormal. Tonight, I will be going on my first ever ghost hunt with a local paranormal group. I must admit, I am feeling a little apprehensive about the actual investigation.

The skeptic in me says that there will be no action and no paranormal activity. I fear that I will come face to face with the fact that maybe, just maybe, I really don’t believe in it at all.

Now how someone who has experienced unexplained events in the past can not believe it in is a mystery. I guess it is akin to those who live with multiple horrifying experiences, yet choose no to leave the home. There is just something that prevents us from accepting what we can not explain even when we experience it.

Which brings me to the other part of me who is wondering what on earth I will do if there is paranormal activity involved in this ghost hunt. As an invited guest, I really can’t go around cowering in corners (even though that is exactly what some tv personalities do). Will I be frightened out of my wits? Can I maintain a professional demeanor?

It time to find out.

Check back for an update on my experiences during a ghost hunt.

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