- Human history is littered with stories
about the soul or spirit leaving its earthly body
and passing on to the unknown void.
Some individuals claim to be able to temporarily
project their mind out of their body
to visit the mysterious realms and dimensions
of the spirit world.
And sometimes those spiritual journeys
hold a terror all of their own.
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Here are 10 Spooky Out-of-Body Experiences.
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Number 10 is The Wrong Place.
Also known as astral projection, when practitioners
leave their bodies to explore the world of spirit form,
there are some environments they try to avoid.
One of these is any place which is already haunted
by a malevolent spiritual entity.
When Andrea projected out of her body,
she suddenly found herself standing at the top of the stairs
in her boyfriend's father's home.
The father had recently passed away
and people had experienced strange goings on there.
When Andrea projected into that house,
she felt the same evil presence
and was soon attacked by something unseen.
Clawing to get back to her body,
Andrea finally broke free from the evil spirit's claws
and snapped back into her body in another location.
After that, she hoped to never set foot in that house again.
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Number nine is Motionless.
Some people have experienced a combination
of sleep paralysis and astral projection,
which is terrifying.
One practitioner who posted to the psychic experiences forum
described how she woke up and couldn't move.
Then her spirit slowly rose out of her body
towards the ceiling before she felt her spirit body
being dragged to the floor.
Throughout the entire ordeal, she was unable to move
and began to have the horrible realization
that something was trying to pull her out of her body.
Not only that, but the entity that was doing this
was the ghost of her deceased brother.
Thankfully she soon snapped back into her body.
But when looking for a reason why it happened,
she soon realized that her brother's spirit
was not happy about the fact
that she had held onto some of his ashes after cremation.
Number eight is No One Listens.
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Sometimes spontaneous astral projection can occur.
This is when the soul is suddenly ejected from the body.
When this happens, it can be a terrifying experience,
and for some, this manifests itself as a strange
vibrating feeling before it happens.
For others, it comes out of nowhere, such as in one
Quora poster's experience where their first time projecting
was unwanted and frightening.
They couldn't understand
why they were being ignored by their family.
After screaming and shouting without gaining any response,
it became clear something was very, very wrong.
Finally, the Quora poster saw their body lying down
and realized they had left their earthly vehicle behind.
After finally snapping back into their body,
they ran terrified from their house,
the family having no idea that their relative's spirit
had been trying to talk to them all along.
Number seven is a Split Personality.
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Out-of-body experiences have been recorded
throughout human history, and in a particularly famous case,
the experience was bizarre and unnerving.
In the early 1900s, French otologist Pierre Bonnier
wrote a case study on a patient who only partially projected
from their body into the astral plane.
When this happened, the patient experienced the world
through two sets of eyes.
It was as though their consciousness had split into two
and the patient was experiencing the world
as two different people.
This existential crisis was only remedied
when the split spirits walked towards each other
and then finally merged back into one person.
The patient was scared beyond belief at what had happened
and they never quite looked at themselves in the mirror
the same way again.
Number six is The World Spinning.
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One common complaint of spontaneous out-of-body experiences
is that they bring about a series of unsettling symptoms.
In a study looking at people with vestibular disorders,
it was discovered that many of them suffered
from out-of-body experiences.
But these were not of the spiritual calming kind.
Instead, many of these individuals reported
being snapped out of their bodies with great force.
Then before being able to find their bearing,
the world around them would start to spin violently,
so much so that it would cause a deep feeling
of nausea and confusion.
Blinding headaches would follow,
and it was described by some as being a gut-wrenching
roller coaster with no way to stop.
This happened numerous times to these patients,
and it made them deeply fear even the mention
of out-of-body experiences.
Number five is Grounding.
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A worrying side effect for some people
who regularly leave their bodies is that they suffer
from what's known as improper grounding.
These individuals regularly go into the spiritual dimension
and feel more connected to that realm
than the physical one where their body resides.
When returning to the body, the real world
then feels dim and unreal.
This has profoundly affected some practitioners,
robbing them of concentration,
and even resulting in physical problems.
One person suffering from improper grounding
felt that the spiritual plane was so compelling
that all they could do was think about it.
The thought consumed them
until it affected their relationships.
One theory is that those who do not pull back from the brink
eventually fade to become a shadow person,
neither living nor dead.
Number four is The Dark Figure.
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On an astral projection forum, one user named Tom
posted his encounter with an entity.
Tom had been able to project his spirit
out of his body for some time.
These experiences had been positive.
That was, until one night when he left his body
and began to experience a creeping unease.
All around him, the atmosphere felt charged,
and he suspected that something malevolent was watching him.
It was at that moment that he saw a tall, dark figure
standing at the end of his bed where his body lay.
When Tom tried to communicate with this figure,
it lunged forward and grabbed his spiritual body,
holding him down against the floor by his bed.
Tom began to feel extremely dizzy
as the figure glared into his eyes.
It was then that Tom used a chant
to force himself back into his body,
and he then lay in the darkness,
afraid of the emptiness at the end of his bed.
Number three is Family Feud.
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One of the most frightening accounts
of out-of-body experiences gone wrong
comes from a post on astralvoyage.com.
Forum user Jaylan describes this experience in detail.
The background to this story is that Jaylan grew up
around her grandfather's girlfriend,
who was not a good person.
When the girlfriend passed away,
Jaylan began to have out-of-body experiences.
These, however, were not like most such experiences.
Jaylan believed that the malevolent spirit
of her grandfather's girlfriend
had laid a claim on the house.
Often the girlfriend's ghost could be felt
in the environment watching.
At night, Jaylan would feel the dark presence,
and on several occasions found herself leaving her body.
Panicked, she would attempt to get back into her body
and often felt as though invisible hands
were holding her down in the process.
Number two is Astral Vampire.
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Erin had long practiced astral projection.
In fact, she was so adept at it that she considered herself
stronger in her astral form than in her physical one.
One night, she and her boyfriend had an argument.
As though negativity had filled the air around them,
suddenly they passed out.
Erin woke in her astral form out of her body
and looked around her.
In the nearby room, she saw a floating white orb.
Soon the orb changed into what can only be described
as an astral vampire.
It had a yellow and red face with deep set eyes
which glared at her angrily.
This being then tried to drain her spirit
which would have resulted in her death.
Erin was able to reconnect with her body
just in time before it was too late.
Such astral vampires have been written about many times.
And for some, they're among the most frightening beings
to exist in the astral plane.
And number one is Possession.
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For beginners of astral projection,
there is one element of the out-of-body experience
to fear the most, possession.
Because the spirit is allegedly able to leave
the physical body, this makes the body
a desirable receptacle for a demonic entity.
Many people have reported that during their
out-of-body experience, they encounter a shadowy creature
which not only tries to stop them from getting back
into their body, but tries to possess the body itself.
Some demonologists believe that this is the very method
through which possession is possible,
that these creatures which crave life
can enter a body while it's vacant.
Most worrying of all, there are rumors that some people
have never come back at all and have been locked out
of their bodies, and that the person walking around
who looks like them is in fact an evil creature
hellbent on destroying their life.
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