Paranormal Activity...

I downloaded the movie, and I watched it last night..alone. It
everything that they are talking about, its freakin' scary as hell. At
first it gets a littkle slow, but quickly it builds up to speed. For it
to be have made with such a little budget, about $15K, and with the
total of 6 or 7 on screen actors, add in that they are ALL unknowns.
This is the best scary picture of the year. Yeah I know, Blair Witch
Project, that to me was a total let down, but that movie grossed ove 245
million dollars world wide. This movie, is going in that direction but
further. Watch it at night and alone for the best effect. Which brings
me to this.....

Paranormal activity has been around for a long time. My first brush with
it was in the late 70's, remember the Floating Bible and The Floating
Cross, let me bring you back. In certain areas in The South Bronx, one
was on the corner of Union ave @7 169th street, the other was on Hoe
ave, there was this sighting of crosses and bibles. The one on 169th
street was on the 5th floor, the bathroom window that faced out to the
street. The one on Hoe ave, was also in a bathroom. Wonder why it was
bathrooms only, anyway...

You know how bathroom windows are, opque, right. Well from inside the
bathroom, when a light is shining from the outside or inside the
bathroom looking out, you would see this sighting with the window
closed. Let me try to discribe to you what the sighting is.

This is kind of hard to exp,lain, but picture this, with the window
closed. First you see nothing, then an outline of a book appears. Its
first pink, then blue and pink again. Then finally its blue. Its kind of
flashing in a way, but staying constantly a baby blueish color. Next,
starting in the upper righthand corner, a cross appears, then another
one. Sometimes its 2, then somestimes its 3. The crosses start
flickering also, and like hopping around the book, the bible. Its
strange, right.

One of my friends told me that he has an aunt that has them in her
bathroom on Hoe ave. I snuck out of the house at night to go see it. Her
abthroom was being use for her dog who just gave birth to puppies, but
she moved them out so we can see. She told us whatever we do, don't open
the window. She left us alone when she open the bathroom door. Seconds
past, the bible appeared and then the crosses. A strange weird feeling
came over me, hard to describe too. My friend look to make sure his aunt
wasn't at the door, and he opened the bathroom window. Nothing wqas
outside the window except the courtyard. He then stuck his hand out the
window. What happened next, scared the holy shit out of me. Picture
this.

From the tip of his right hand to the second knuckles was nothing but
bones !!! Its was as if his flesh melted off and all you saw was the
skelton of his hand up to that point. I ran out of the apartment right
behind him. He went left, and I ran right, all the way home non stop.
Snuck back inside and never mentioned anything to my family or
friends....ever.

The legend or whatever is this. When all The Bible and Crosses in the
windows disappear, the world will come to an end. That's what was going
around then. I never did see my friend again, don't know what happened
to him either.

Another thing that use to happened to me was this. As I was laying in
bed, facing the window, on the top bunk of a bunk bed, I sue to see
these lights at night. I could never figure out what they were. They
were so far away, but they would get brighter and brighter, then dim,
and dimmer. I was again scared shitless cause I didn't know what it was.
I was about 8 or 9 years old. Not until sometime around when I was 35
years old, I figyred out what it was..... an airplane !!! It was
approach the airport, Laquadia.

Around 1988 or so, I was up in the Parkchester area, alte at night
during the summertime. I was walking and I was looking up through the
trees. All of a sudden this black trianlguar...whatever appeared with
blinking lights. No noise or anything. There was no one else around, so
I could say, hey look. I followed it for a while looking up until I
couldn't see it anymore, for about a half a block.

So, some strange things are happening all around us. Those were my 2
instances.
--michaelchappell