From: marino@dxcern.cern.ch (Massimo Marino)
Subject: Saw this ghost?...
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:51:01 GMT

This is my personal experience and I'd like comments on it...It is not a scary
story but it is true, and unusual!

In my family paranormal has always been kinda 'normal'.
My uncle was a medium and he predicted his death by cancer 5 years in
advance, my grandma had a ghost during WWII refilling a can of wheat flour
(they always had home made bread so) when it was 3/4 empty...but this
is not my story anyway.

It happened the night of a family party...grandpa/ma uncle/aunt, cousins
etc. I was 11 at that time..
We (children) spent all the evening playing together while the others,
the adult ones, chatted until late. We children did not have part on it
nor we knew what they were talking about. Well, the evening went on as usual
with we kids sent to bed at the regular time...

I felt asleep and slept quietly until I awoke in the middle of the night
for no reason at all. I found myself in the dark, my brother breath was the
only thing I heard. I could not see anything because of the dark. I was perfectly
awake and no trace of sleep, I was feeling perfect and rested.
Suddenly a glow started to be visible on the corridor (we were used to sleep
the door opened). Same glow as a candle but the light was pure white! and I
started to be able to recognise object in our room. The house was perfectly
quiet, not even familiar noises like furniture cracks, refrigerator, cars
outside...

The glow slowly got more intense and now there was almost the same light a
full moon produces, though the corridor had no windows and it was dark out
my room's window.

I was strangely calm and relaxed, too calm and relaxed while seated on my bed
now. The glow approached and after a while a humanoid figure, completely white-glowing, stood at the door of the room. It, He, She, was simply 
standing there doing nothin. The glow was such that I was not able too
catch any characteristic of the face or the body. It seem as it was made of
some luminiscent fluid substance...

I look at it and again I felt calm and ...satisfacted of seeing it. It looked 
back at me, or I thought it had turned the head toward me and moved.
It walked inside and I saw something never heard about ghosts or whatever.
It seem as it was carrying behind its back (just over the sacral zove) a large,
better thick, tube of the same appearance of the rest of the body. As if it
was tied to somewhere else than our space and time since the ?!tube!? was 
ending without defined contour.

The creature (ghost) continued to walk, even if I was not able to see any movement
of legs or feet or other, until it stopped at the side of my bed. I swear, I did not felt any fear, just a deep calm, I am still arguing why and how.

Even so near to me I did not see any particula of its body and face, just a 
glowing mass making light in the room. My brother..., I did hear anymore his
breath, no sound at all, nothing! Still I was so relaxed...
The creature fluidly sit down on my bed, in front of me. I forgot to say that it
was completely opaque and seemed solid. It stayed seated I don't know for how
long, I was as in trance looking at it, without moving, waiting who knows what!

It was looking at me like people do when they try to recognize someone, bending 
the head to one side and then to the other. After a while I reacted and slowly
I tried to touch that creature seated on my bed whit that strange tube-tail
perforating the bed, the floor, the house...
It did not move while my hand was reaching it but I felt strange sensation of
internal vibration as I was approaching...finally my fingers reached a zone
where they started to disappear deep inside it. I put my hand until my wrist
was popping out of it as if I was without hand. My hand felt a sort of warm and
vibrating sensation, nothing more...but my ears was communicating me a sort of
buzzing soft sound, but not from the outside, rather from inside my head.

I retired my hand I close my eys and tried to hard punch the guy in the body.
It disappeared, the room became dark again but the buzz in my ears still remains,
even now while I am typing...Doctors says my ears are perfect, but my ears
still vibrate to that...

I had some other experience since then, out of my control and a medium, friend
of my dad, said there is someone very tall behind me.




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