Paranormal Activity?

[WLDWST]

I just thought I would share this with you guys. For those of you that don't know me or what I do, I am a Master Goldsmith with 38 years in the business. I have certain skills that other jewelers require from time to time and I take on those jobs as part of my business. A week or so ago I received an Engagement ring that needed some work. It was beat up and looked as though it had been in a fire. The moment I touched it I felt sick to my stomach. I figured I was getting the flu or a cold. Anyway I have a routine procedure for cleaning something like this. It begins with heating up the item and burning off any impurities. I do use a protective coating on the ring, but it has never produced a reaction like this.
This is where it gets interesting. While I was heating the ring, it shot a green and purple flame vertically about 2 feet. Yes, I said vertically. It hung there for about a second. Not like a burning flame that goes out instantly. It was the most bizarre thing I had ever seen in my years of doing this business. It was as though something was being released from a trap. The strange thing is that I instantly felt the most peaceful and euphoric feeling I have ever had. Like being in the presence of Divinity. I know it sounds unbelievable and weird. After a time, I wrapped up the ring and sent it out to the jeweler. I asked if there was a story to this ring and told him about my experience. He put his head down and said that the young girl that was wearing this ring was killed in a head on collision with a semi trailer. The ring was to be buried with this young girl this weekend.
This is the truth and a personal experience. I have had a few in my life and in my trade. This just happens to be the latest. Maybe I will post some of the other ones sometime. Makes me wonder. I am still a little stunned by this, but somehow feel blessed.

 

[SGRIM]

Wow!!!!!!

 

[slaphappy]

Goosebumps!!!!

 

[dragonational]

Thats crazy!! Lets just hope that the flame wasn't the spirit escaping or something....you might have visitors

 

[WLDWST]

Thats crazy!! Lets just hope that the flame wasn't the spirit escaping or something....you might have visitors

I didn't get the feeling that it was evil or a bad thing. The way it made me feel was uplifting. It was like I had released something from a trap and it paused to thank me. It was definitely a spiritual experience.

 

[krom]

You sure it wasn't the "Calgary Flames"?
Nothing exciting like that ever happens to me.

 

[GNeric]

WOW!! That is really something. I get little visits from my late father in law. He was a prankster and still messes with me out in my garage or yells to me while I am asleep. He hides tools that I am using while in the garage. I always get a goosebump feeling and I have learned that he is there when that happens. Never had your kind of experience though. Maybe you helped her pass on from Purgatory and now she can head "home".

 

[WLDWST]

"Maybe you helped her pass on from Purgatory and now she can head "home"."

I hope that is what it was.

I have another unusual situation that I have experienced.

In the Fall of 1979 myself and a partner opened a small jewelry store in a mall. This was my first attempt of going on my own. I was standing at the counter when I noticed a woman staring at me from the hallway. I figured it was someone I knew so I waved at her. The next day she came in and gave me her story. Well apparently she was into the occult and was walking down the hall and noticed my aura. She asked if I would make her a quartz pendant. A buck is a buck they say, so I made her a beautiful ladies quartz pendant. Apparently all stones have different energies and\or healing qualities as dictated by her. When it was ready, she came to pick it up with a large east Indian looking man. The impression I got from him was that he was her handler. Very dominant personality. He was very respectful to me (almost humble) and thanked me for my work. My partner at the time came over to see how it was going and made an attempt to touch the pendant and compliment her on her purchase. The man instinctually grabbed my partners wrist and yelled at him to do not touch the pendant. Apparently it had to be made and handled by me exclusively. He said that I had no idea of the power I possess. If I have any power it's news to me. Anyway, on average, every year since that encounter, I get at least 6 or 7 requests for the same thing. These Wicka types track me down and always seem to know where I move to. They all request similar items. One customer expressed it as a good luck charm of sorts. More of a talisman. Funny, I always just looked at it as income. Weird eh??

 

[GNTIM]

I believe you. A friend of mine is a Psychic, she has solved cold cases and found dead bodies among other things. She says the human spirit wanders after death, more so when people die suddenly, like they don't know that they are dead. My sister is a nurse and she has seen different stuff when people have died in her presence, ghost like stuff traveling vertically from the body at the time of death. I would like to hear some of your other stories.

 

[WLDWST]

I believe you. A friend of mine is a Psychic, she has solved cold cases and found dead bodies among other things. She says the human spirit wanders after death, more so when people die suddenly, like they don't know that they are dead. My sister is a nurse and she has seen different stuff when people have died in her presence, ghost like stuff traveling vertically from the body at the time of death. I would like to hear some of your other stories.

I have had a life sprinkled with strange and puzzling encounters. I guess that's why I am one of the few jewelers you will meet that don't particularly like to buy old gold or to take old rings in trade. To be honest, some literally make me feel sick. These are all personal experiences. Not exaggerated or made up. On the chance of being labeled a nutcase,I may post a few more over the next while. If there is any interest. Just to be clear, I was raised as a devout Christian and remain so to this day.

 

[tomsws6]

Lord of the Rings! :biggrin: sorry just had too. Interesting story. Everyone experiences something like this sometime in there life. I find it interesting how it made you feel after the flame. Makes ya think.:wink:

 

[Evans Ward]

Thanks for sharing this. It was the most interesting and facinating thing I have heard all day! I believe you 100%. The paranormal is what interested me in majoring in psychology and went on to receive a MS in Counseling. I'll have to share a couple of my experiences too. Born again Christian here too!

 

[RobsIron]

You are fortunate to have these experiences and its good to see that you are aware and recognize them and not just shrug them off like most people do.

 

[GNTIM]

This stuff facinates me so much. My psychic friend has told me so many different stories, and she is a Reverend who used to run a church. From what I understand, everyone has the ability to be psychic, some have stronger powers than others. She inherited her powers from her grandmother and her sister is gifted as well. About a week before a friend hung himself, I was having wierd dreams and emotions, couldn't understand why. Turns out he got a DWI a week before he died and he told people he was not going to jail. Kid loved my GN more than I did. A couple of years ago I had a dream that I was walking through black space, and all of the sudden there was my ex in a chair wearing a wedding dress with her 3 best friends around her. I have not missed or seen her since we split. The next day, I run into my ex-brother in law whom I hadn't seen in years. I ask how the ex is doing and he tells me she re-married a month earlier.