Time Slip-A Past Occurrance

This is a Past Occurrance, which took place sometime in the Summer of 1999. Location: Bakersfield, CA.

My husband, son and I were driving around Bakersfield looking for the School District office so that my husband could do paperwork for the substitute teacher listing. We were in an unfamiliar part of Bakersfield but had general directions. It was mid-morning and we had left home without breakfast...our son, who was almost 3, as well as myself and my husband were getting hungry. We decided we would stop after we went to the district office before heading home, which was an hour drive away. Down the street we noticed a little diner on the right side of the road that looked open, it was right next to the train tracks. We made a snap decision to just go there and eat, then ask directions to the district office. When we walked in there were several tables full of people, some families, mostly elderly and everyone looked up and smiled. The waitress greeted us warmly. I remember thinking she ought to be wearing rollerskates...the diner just had a 50's feel to it. We looked at the menu and we were shocked at the prices! A whole breakfast platter (2 eggs, sausage or bacon, hash browns, toast or biscuit AND drink) was like $2.00. We paid just over $5.00 for all three of us. When we were leaving we asked directions and found that we had passed the district office by only 3 blocks. As we walked out the door we were told to have a nice day and to come back sometime and it was all very...nice. We commented on how we wished all diners were like that.

We drove to the district office, then headed home. A few months later we were down that way again and decided to go to the diner for lunch. We drove to the school district then followed the road along the tracks to where the diner was. But, it wasn't. It was no where to be seen. No building, no sign, even no foundation. It was like it had never been there. Two other times while down there...once with all three of us, and once just my husband, we looked for it again. No luck. We later asked someone who had lived in Bakersfield all their lives and were told that there had been a diner there in the 50's and 60's but it had burnt to the ground.

We knew those prices were too good to have been current. So, it turns out, it seems, that we ate, in 1999, in a diner that hadn't been there for over 30 years. Too bad, the food was good and the price was right.

~Saffy

More fun with Phones

This past Friday, Dec 14, my last remaining grandparent (my adoptive mother's mother) passed away. As is usually the case when a family member passes, I have been in nearly constant contact with my family.

Sunday I went to the store and on the way there I checked my phone...my husband had put it on silent earlier that morning when he had it with him...I switched off the silent ring and noted that I had one missed call. The missed call was identified as being from "Mum Cell", which of course is my mother's cell phone. I deleted the missed call alert and noted that I had a new voicemail. I dialed voicemail to listen to my message, which supposedly was from my mum earlier that day. I could hear TV in the background and a kid talking...not sure if the kid was on the TV or not. The person leaving the message was a man, youngish...maybe in his 20's it sounded like. He said "[my name], call your Dad."

So, of course, the first thing I think of is 'oh no, Mum is sick because of losing her Mum.' So, worried, I call the cellphone.

My mum answers and I ask her if she called and she said no, I asked if anyone else had called and she said no. We can not figure out who it was that called me, from her cellphone, which was in the kitchen all day and they were home. What is also weird is that the caller used my legal name. I legally changed my name back to my birth name several years ago, but my parents and my (adoptive) family use the name I was given when adopted, which was NOT the name the caller used. Still not sure who it was or how they called from my mum's cell...or even how they had my cell number, very few people have it.

Phones.

~Saffy

Mothman Update

I received by email a photo taken the day after my meeting with John and Tim Frick regarding the Mothman sightings (photo taken Dec. 7 2006).

You will notice a large Orb near where we saw the Mothman before he leaped straight up over the trees. Photo copyright Tim Frick 12/7/06, used with permisson.

Isn't that a great Orb! Amazing for me to see...and to think, the day before I was standing right next to it! We (husband, son and I) plan to make a trip soon to the Mothman Museum in Point Pleasant. More on the Mothman as it comes about...

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Saffy

Compilation begins...

I decided recently that I needed to record ALL things paranormal or supernatural that have happened to or around me...before I forget them all. Every once in a while, a memory will pop into my head of something strange that happened and I will realize that I had not thought of it for some time. I don't want these experiences to get lost in a sea of aging brain matter. So, starting with this post, I will type up, when I have the time and energy to do so, everything I can remember that should be here in this blog. The posts will come in pieces, so I will mark them as Past Occurrances, or Recent Occurrances from now on. When possible, I will give an approximation of when the happening occurred.

To start this off, I will put the most recent happening that I do not remember the date of, though I should and I kick myself for not noting it then. This occurred sometime after November 11 2006 but before mid December 2006.

-I was calling (from my house phone) my husband on my cell phone, which he carries to work. Before the rings started, there was an awful static and a strange almost electronic female sounding voice said very clearly: "where are you going, help me". There was no question in the voice when it said where are you going, it sounded more like a statement than a question. The call went through and I got the voicemail. After leaving a message, I called again attempting to hear more, but could not.
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-On two separate occasions between June and July of 2006, a woman named Wanda answered my phone. My mother called me, using the redial button on her phone. She was surprised when a woman named Wanda answered. She told the woman she must have dialed wrong but after she hung up, realized she had used redial (I had been her last call) and there was no way she could have dialed wrong. Furthermore, she does not know anyone named Wanda. She called back again, dialing my number one number at a time from the paper she'd written it on. Wanda answered. My mother explained that she was trying to reach [her daughter] and was sorry to have dialed wrong again. She finally got a hold of me and told me about Wanda answering. We went over my number again and it was the right number.
The second occasion was when my husband called our house from my cell phone. I have our number programmed into the phone as "Headquarters". Imagine his surprise when "Headquarters" that day seemed to be headed up by Wanda! He pushed the call button to dial "Headquarters", but got Wanda instead. Right after, he dialed "Headquarters" again and got me. He told me about Wanda answering the phone. We never have figured that out.

More to come...
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Meeting with John Frick tomorrow

Tomorrow, December 6, I am meeting John and Tim Frick (Mothman Museum in Point Pleasant) regarding me and my son's sighting of what may have been Mothman on Nov. 2 of this year. We are meeting near where I was staying as they are on their way to Point Pleasant for the day. I will also get a copy of a recent Sci-Fi Investigates show to view about Mothman, can't wait! I will let you know if anything exciting happens!

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Saffy

Orb photo &...

I did one hour photo today and got this one pic here with an Orb (see below). There were no lights on in the hallway or rooms to the side and no sun coming in from outside. I took this with a regular old one use camera. I have not caught any EVPs in the room where the smoke was and it has not been back. If it comes back, I will be ready with the digital voice recorder to try again.

The "Ghost Hunter" photo (at top of course) is of my custom-made (by me) white tank top. I made another today and will post it later, once I get a pic of it. ~Saffy~

The Mothman?

Post reformatted for posting at this time. Dates of sightings appear in post.
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Well, we were staying near where the Mothman was seen years ago (1966-67) by many people in Clendenin and Point Pleasant WV...the other day (Thursday the 2nd Nov.), on our way to Ravenswood (not too far from Point Pleasant) I saw a human-like figure literally jump/float straight up from the ground to the top of the trees. There are no houses near there, nor was this a large bird...unless the bird was human size! I felt no fear, just a feeling of "Whoa, did you see that?" I mentioned it to my son a couple of minutes later when we neared town but did not tell him exactly where I had seen it...with the whole smoke thing (see previous post) that was going on at our house, I did not want to spook him.

I did not stop and turn around because I was in a hurry to get somewhere before a certain time. On our way home, in nearly the same spot...maybe 75-100 ft further down the road, both my son and I saw the figure do the same thing I had seen him/her/it do the first time around. He was not scared either. He told me it reminded him of the Mothman.

Yesterday (Friday Nov 3) right before dark, he saw it again, outside near a small patch of woods. This creature is not making us scared, nor does it seem to be saying anything...yet. We are wondering if the Mothman is showing himself again...I did NOT see the red eyes, but my son did on the 2nd.

Here is a site with more info, and I just read that the first sightings took place in NOVEMBER! Ten days from our initial sighting marks the 40th anniversary of the first sightings!!!

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Saffy

Recent Paranormal Experience?

This started on October 20th, 2006
The following is my email (reformatted for this blog) sent to a Paranormal elist I am on.
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The first part of this I was pretty sure was nothing more than an unfortunate animal decomposing under our house, the second part is as of yet unexplainable. (As the day wears on, I am less sure about the dead animal theory as well)

Let me elaborate. And, for later reference, neither of us smoke.

When I awoke this morning and went over to my shelf to grab my hat (I am an ethnic Calo Gypsy and wear a hat or scarf on my head daily symbolizing my married status), I smelled a strange smell that seemed to be coming from the shelf and the air around it, right below my nose level (I am 5'7"). I tried to find the source of the smell, even got down on the floor to smell the heating vent and Nothing! Not a smell coming from the vent. But, when I stood back up, I could smell it again. I figured it was just some animal...we live in a small country town with the Sierra mountains and woods all around, so many animals wander around the house...I let it go.

Later, I went into the bedroom to help my husband prepare for work. As we walked into the room, me first, then him, I saw smoke! A stream of smoke floating in front of me, right around the same place I had smelled the smell. I could smell a burning smell, but it was like no burning smell I had ever smelled before...in other words, it was not like a wood, or plastic burning smell, not a gas smell...then the smoke disapated and took the smell with it. BUT, that other smell was back. My husband walked into the room and could smell it (the original smell, not the burning smell) in the corner too, but neither of us can smell it anywhere else but in that linear section at right under my nose as we first walked into the room, and on the other side of the room in the corner. No where else or in between.

Also, after my husband left for work, I went through the whole place saying a cleansing chant. I don't know if I imagined it, or if the cat made a noise, but I heard a bump coming from our room. (The cat was on the other side of the house). Now I feel like I am being watched.

UPDATE [sent to same Paranormal elist on Oct 23, 2006]

Well, it happened again. Yesterday (Sunday Oct 22). I was in the bathroom getting ready to go to the store and all of a sudden I smelled the first smell. (It actually smells like a lobster tank of all things). It filled up the whole room and I heard my son (he's 9) tell my husband in the living room that he smelled something. He described it as a lobster smell too. I called to them
to come look in the bedroom (we had only told our son about the smoke, not the other smell or where in the room the smoke was). He saw the smoke and saw it in the exact same place that my husband and I had seen it the other day.

UPDATE #2 [sent to Paranormal elist on Oct 24, 2006]

It happened again today but this time the amount of smoke was more, it filled nearly half the room but again had no apparent source...it seemed to be coming from the air. I asked it to tell me what it needed, that I was trying to listen to its needs and the more I talked the more it disapated until finally it was gone. The smell was a bit different this time, not so much of a "lobster" burny smell, but still unlike any burning smell I have ever smelled. Immediately after it disapated my cat Onyx came in, meowed really loudly and laid down on the bed and fell asleep.

The other difference this time was that I did not smell the plain lobster smell before seeing the smoke as we did in the other cases.

UPDATE #3

On October 26, my son and I smelled the "lobster" smell, but no smoke was seen.

*As of posting time on November 8, 2006, this phenomena has not happened again.*

Saffy