Bumps in the Night

Hello to all of you at EVC!I made a very brief appearance here a couple of years ago, but sunk very quickly back into lurker mode. But I have continued to follow and learn from the debates enthusiastically. Thank you all again for a great site.Science is not a strong point for me in the same way that some of you have been active scientists for many years, so in many ways I feel unqualified to reply in many of the threads. But there is an area that I have not seen discussed too much here (With good reason), and I would love to throw it out there and see what sort of responses I get from you. I will try and be brief and to the point here to begin with, and will attempt to expand on the details later, if any of you show interest in hashing through it with me.Although I come from a conservative Christian background, through much reading of my own I have left that behind me. I appreciate that the scientific method is superior to what I have come to see as random babblings that constitute the majority of religious methodologies. I am not particularly religious, and most certainly not superstitious. But there was a period of time in my life, that I have not been able to explain in any logical way.My wife is from Spain; we married there 8 years ago, and lived in the same house for about four years. I lived there alone for a year, while we were getting our things in order for the wedding, she moved in after the honeymoon. There is no other way to state it than by saying the house was classically "Haunted." I am not by nature a fearful or irrational person, but I spent many a night alone -truly alone- there in the dark listening to footsteps and voices swirl around me. Not a week went by, in fact; sometimes for days on end, I would be awakened by sharp repeated rappings on the headboard next to my ears. Bed moving; lights turning on and off, the whole haunted thing.This continued even after my wife moved in, and it was not just limited to us, sometimes entire groups of friends at a time would be left looking around wondering what was going on.I want to keep this opening brief, so I won't give any more details now, but I will be glad to elaborate or explain any questions I can as they are offered. I know this may be difficult in the sense that you don’t know me, and are not able to evaluate my psychology, but assuming I am not a basketcase, could there be some explanation for these experiences that do not involve the paranormal or the supernatural?To be clear, I DO NOT believe in ghosts or demons, or the disembodied spirits of dead things roaming the Earth; I DO believe there must be a rational explanation for these experiences, and would love to hear from any of you, religious or otherwise, to hear what your thoughts are on such things.Mods..please feel free to pick the most appropriate forum, I have no idea where this one should go. Edited by Aussie, : Forum selection request. Edited by Aussie, : No reason given.

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