Paranormal experiences of Santa

 

While ghosts, UFO's and Bigfoot are much known topics about the paranormal, there are less known and weirder stories involving the supernatural, like sightings of Santa Claus. Many people would not even admit it because Santa doesn't exist, or so they tell us. But why should people see Santa Claus then? I will mention a few of these cases and then offer sources.

Back in 2000 a small boy living in Bristol, England, was woken up by the sound of heavy footsteps on the floor downstairs and the sound of bells above him. He believed it was Santa Claus, and so he sneaked downstairs to have a peek. He remembered seeing a very large man putting presents around the tree, and the boy soon quietly went back upstairs to bed. The next day he told everyone what he saw. No one in his family believed him when he told him them what he'd seen. 

In 2003, a girl was in bed on Christmas Eve night, when she was sure that Santa was outside of the house. There was a vivid red light shining through her bedroom window that came from a silent object in the sky, which convinced her that it was Father Christmas. There was no sound at all apart from a tinkling of bells and the scurrying of hooves on the rooftop. Soon the sounds and the red light vanished.

There are more Santa experiences posted HERE on Liveabout article by paranormal researcher Stephen Wagner who has collected stories about people's strange sightings. Some are very interesting while others can be easily explained. 

My own experience happened when I was 9 years old, during Christmas Eve, I heard the clear sound of sleigh bells coming from the sky. I don't know what it was. 

Now after doing a lot of research, many people claimed to have experienced a Santa like being when they were children. Perhaps it was an over active childhood imagination? Or misinterpreted something else? Another paranormal even such as UFO or a haunting that a young kid believed was Santa because it happened over Christmas? One thing is for sure that there's more to the universe than we know. 

Strange Dimensions on Santa sightings page HERE..

Boston Globe article on paranormal Santa Claus HERE

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The dark side of Christmas

 

Christmas is actually an extension of Halloween, because it's meant to be a time of spookiness. How did I come to this? Well it's got so much happiness now that it shields everyone from nightmares but Christmas and Yule (whatever holiday you call it) is within the darkest time of the year. It's got many creepy things attached:

1. Ghosts

2. Monsters

3. Death

While modern Christmas is celebrated with family, friends, feasts, presents, decorations and cheer, it used to be a worrying month. Traditionally, for centuries, people listened to ghost stories around a warm fire that barely kept out the chill. This is deep rooted in ancient rituals of the Winter Solstice, and when people feared the spectral Wild Hunt. This is a phantom noisy gathering of hunters across the sky, making terrible sounds, that was believed to land and slaughter anything in its way. There is with that a fear of winter and darkness when the sun is less visible. People have perished during freezing winters. 

Monsters are also part of many cultural traditions. We have Krampus in places like Germany that children have feared so much for many generations; there is the dreaded monster Yule Cat in Iceland; scary Jack Frost in England; the nightmarish Wendigo in the USA, and the list of Yule/Christmas monsters is endless. As Christmas time means holidays and joy, there is always that inner fear that some monster is lurking so there are ways of protection. Also there's many old superstitions about doom and gloom over Christmas that are still believed today. The most famous and benign superstition is kissing under the mistletoe but also there's many scary superstition about Christmas such as the one about Christmas trees as symbols and omens of death.

To learn much more about the things I briefly covered, check out these pages I've linked. Here are some spooky pages: Mental Floss page "8 Legendary Christmas Monsters" HERE.

 Smithsonian Magazine "Ghost Stories at Christmas" article HERE.

Interesting page "Christmas Death myths. Omens and Superstitions" at Funeral Help Centre HERE.

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Nuckelavee

This entity of the Orkney Islands is called a Nuckelavee and appears only during the winter. Most of the time it's trapped in the sea and imprisoned by a powerful spirit called Mither of the Sea. During the season of spring, Mither of the Sea fights with her arch enemy, the storm being Teran. He is then sent to the deepest ocean, and remains there for much of the year while tired Mither of the Sea rests. By autumn, Teran leaves the sea, as Mither is exhausted still. It is in winter that the nuckelavee emerges from the waves.

So what is it? The nuckelavee resembles a diabolical creature with part horse, part man, part fish, with grotesque limbs. It's also said to be fleshless and bloodied, with features that are similar to a monster from nightmares. It's breathe is toxic and can destroy plants. It also kills livestock animals and brings drought.

People were so terrified of the nuckelavee that they wouldn't even say the name for fear he could hear them. If they had to mention the nuckelavee they would make a prayer quickly afterwards. Apparantly the nuckelavee chases and stalks people, especially those who call upon him, so the best option is to cross over a body of fresh water. The nuckelavee prefers sea water and even bad water, so it's unable to go near fresh water. This entity brings sickness and plagues. 

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Cryptid news December

 The village of San Antonio de Pintuyacu in Peru is where residents have seen strange creatures. They reported how entities that are 7 foot tall with "yellow eyes" have frightened people. Some witnesses have described these beings as dressed in black armour and wearing helmets, similar to knights. Others have told how these mysterious beings have flown on metallic disks. One person shot at one of these things and noticed to his horror that the entity simply got up and ran away. A teenaged girl was assaulted by two of these bizarre figures on floating disks, who tried to cut her with a sharp object. After she screamed, people rushed to help her and the two alien attackers fled. However, two Americans (Timothy Alberino and Doug Thornton) were in the area and tried to investigate this, but never found the culprits. Both are certain this is the work of humans and not aliens. Alberino commented "Worst case scenario this is an international organisation of organ harvesters or sex traffickers who are in possession of top-secret hardware and they are using it to do something very sinister." 

In Arizona at the Petrified Forest National Park is video footage of a "unicorn". A night time clip showing a remarkable animal walking out into the moonlight taken by a game camera. It was during the full moon so this is what makes it seem very magical. However, the park's officials say that it's really a normal elk, with a single horn stage development, which is going to change. Youthful male elks tend to have straight single horns after shedding, called "spikes" and before growing another set, and eventually branches! 

There is a video clip of something happening in the water at Loch Ness. This short video was taken by Eoin O'Faodhagain, using a webcam placed still at Shoreland Lodges. He has been searching for the Loch Ness monster for years. To view this watery disturbance, click HERE for the Youtube link.  

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