Paranormal experiences: UFOs, voices and prophetic dreams

UFOs that were ducks, bodiless voices and dreams predicting deaths

Most people have never seen anything strange in their lives. And then there are the rest. A collective account of alleged paranormal phenomena, accumulated over more than a year, reveals a curious pattern: almost no one talks about ghosts in sheets. What appears instead are voices calling your name in the dead of night, objects turning on by themselves, unexplained aerial sightings and dreams that, according to those who recount them, come true the next day. It starts with a brief message: "You can tell whatever you want. In my case, I've never felt anything out of the ordinary." From there, the thread becomes a catalog of the unclassifiable.

Voices, shadows and appliances that wake up alone

The most repeated story is that of the voice. Someone tries to sleep on the sofa, wearing headphones with music playing, and hears their name being called. The sound was louder than the music and guttural, according to the testimony. It wasn't the first time strange things peine in that house, but it was the most terrifying. Another case describes three female figures at the foot of the bed upon waking, interpreted at the time as a mother with two daughters; twenty-five or thirty years later, the height differences match those of her own daughters.

Added to this is the domestic catalog: a painting falling right onto the headboard, a microwave starting on its own at seven in the morning, two glasses bursting without reason and the glass of an off and cold oven breaking. And the case of a light bulb that stopped working, the socket was checked without finding a defect, it was changed and still didn't give light; years later, returning to the abandoned home, it turned on by itself in front of the owner.

The UFO that ended up being a flock of ducks

Not everything paranormal withstands analysis. One testimony admits that, coming down from the Sierra with two friends, they saw a flying object of colossal dimensions and hypnotic reddish tonalidad. The most brutal experience of his life, he says. Until the object faded away until it became a distant flock of ducks. The red tonalidad is explained by the sunset. What finds no explanation is the perception failure: "Since then, I doubt everything I see."

Other sightings don't have such a prosaic ending. On a rainy star shower night in a town in León, a witness saw a giant triangle pass through the sky. Years later, he heard another person from the southern area of the province describe the same thing. And some keep images of alleged unidentified objects chased by fighter jets, with visible numbers on the nose of the planes, in the northern area of Huesca province. The author says he has them in digital format and also videos, and rules out sending them to any administration: he doesn't want trouble.

Precognition, telepathy and a grandmother who always got it right

The other block is that of perceptions that anticipate events. A woman who read palms and always got it right, according to her family, got up from the sofa one night in the nineties saying her brother was in trouble: she had seen an illuminated sign with the name of a specific area. They took the car and found him lying there, with the vehicle's headlights illuminating the sign.

In the same line, someone drives on the highway and thinks of a person they worked for fifteen years ago, knowing nothing about them. The next day, they learn that the person died the previous day. Another case speaks of visualizing being another person and suddenly receiving a call from that same person asking what was happening. And some, when young, drew a card from the deck and correctly guessed the one underneath with some frequency, until the ability faded away.

Childhood Spain as a paranormal phenomenon

Humor is not lacking. One participant defines his most terrifying experience as having known the Spain of his childhood and youth and seeing the current one. Another calls the health center and gets an answer immediately. A third avoids a cold by praying on the balcony at eight. And several agree on the same impossible scene: their mother-in-law or vvife agreeing with them.

Between joke and chill, the material leaves an open question. How much is altered perception, how much is coincidence and how much is something that doesn't fit? The author of one of the hardest stories himself, the one about the abandoned mansion in the Sierra de Madrid with voices and children's laughter with no one within a kilometer radius, later describes a personality change, obsessions and difficult-to-control behaviors. His conclusion: something stuck to him. There is no way to verify it. And it remains there, unresolved.