I Survived A Poltergeist! (Violent Ghost) 😱 B2 English Conversation

That's when I got a bit freaked out. Because I would still hear it. Toilet flushing. Door opening. Toy folding up to sh. Sleep paralysis. These things are adding up. And this is when it got really big and really intense. I got scared. Like I wasn't really scared before. It was just interesting. I think that's the same.

So today today we will discuss our ghost experiences. This is simple English listening. Fun, interesting topics, but in simple, intermediate English. Joining us once again is Joseph. Hello. Hello, thank you. So uh do we believe in ghosts? On one hand I'm very science based generally. Something doesn't scientifically make sense. I usually don't usually believe it, but there's so much more we do not know about the secrets of the universe and how it works. Then we do know.

like ants on a tree. For the ant, the tree is everything, but there's a whole world more of knowledge and discoveries out there, We are human beings, but we still have limits. I've thought this. Uh when it comes to ghosts and demons and aliens and whatever. We perceive things in only five senses. So we have the five senses are sight and touch and hearing smelling and Have I missed any? Taste. Taste. Okay. So is it possible that maybe things exist outside of these senses? ¿Por qué no?

Next, another thing we perceive in three dimensions. Right. So human beings see and sense the world. Sense the world in the third dimension. So here's a crazy idea. Do do you know how many dimensions they think there are? Ten? That's right. Ten ten or eleven is science's uh best guess. I just got ten because that's as high as I can count on my fingers. Uh w we don't know what happens when we go through black holes. Yeah, there's so much more we don't know.

So maybe ghosts do exist and maybe they can be explained by science that we do not yet know. And of course There's the frontier of the mind. There's so much we don't know about the mind. Maybe these experiences are just illusions of the mind, or collective illusions. where more that collective illusions is where more than one person sees something. That's where I generally stand anyway. But one thing is for sure is I cannot deny the experiences that I have had.

And y you have also had some paranormal experiences as well, have you? I had one pretty scary one. Well Like like a series of experiences that added up to one haunted house, I guess, is how you would call it. A haunted house or a poltergeist. So poltergeist is a a kind of ghost that touches and moves real objects?

I thought I thought a poltergeist was something that was trying to hurt you. Okay. Maybe it is maybe that is the difference between just hearing and seeing and then it moving things. But If that's the case, then yes, mine definitely was a poltergeist because things moved around. So, one other thing that you were talking about on our limited experience. of the world. It's the colour spectrum And because the color spectrum is just a tiny, tiny piece of the full wavelength spectrum.

So for instance there are I don't know the I don't know the order, but there are gamma rays, X rays, infrared and living creatures. That we know of. pick up different combinations of these. Yes, they can see those. They can see in those. So I think some butterflies or bees maybe can see in the infrared or they can see in the ultraviolet. So there are flowers and plants that pick up those waves. So if our eyes could see them, we would actually see different designs on these plants.

Or other things too, maybe walls or Who knows? Same with sound. We only hear a limited range of frequencies, right? Some animals can hear Supersonic. I don't know if that's what you call it. or really low, like a dog can hear a really high whistle. I guess whales can hear very low sounds. That's right. So now we have this not only do we only have these five senses But then we have even in those senses a tiny range of

Those are very good points. It's not like human beings see the same as a dog or a butterfly, or even of course a tree's like sense life in a completely different way to us.

Uh so let's get to the ghost stories. Uh would you like to go first? Sure. Uh so we'll take turns with our ghost experiences, of which we have Things that cannot be explained. And the word for that is paranormal experiences. Paranormal, yeah, that's good. I like paranormal because it it covers ghosts. and all of the other things that we don't really understand or can't really explain, possibly aliens, possibly

spirits or demons or or or any kind of entity interdimensional entity, who knows? Even Bigfoot. For sure. Yeah. So I never believed in ghosts. Even when my mother, who does believe in ghosts, had weird experiences, I kind of always thought she was Mmm exaggerating or Lying even, making it up, because I thought that's too ridiculous. So I was always v very skeptical, means I didn't believe in ghosts, and I wanted to see real hard evidence, very scientific minded.

And I even had this mindset that Ha, if I did live in a place with a ghost, I wouldn't even know because I'd always think that it was some rational explanation. And so I lived in a place for a year and a half, and when strange things did start happening, I think I was there for a long time before I ever noticed it as strange. Because

I always had some explanation. Even when it could have been scary, I just had some thought Oh, it could be this, it could be that. I'll give you an example. But was it just until uh things happened like maybe you've repeatedly repeatedly that it started to make you think a bit differently. Repeatedly and the intensity of them grew. And the strangeness grew. So really simple things that

Can be scary when you're alone in a at night in a dark apartment just watching TV and the bedroom door opens. If it's if it's almost closed, it would move open. But this is an old house, wood expands and there might be maybe a bit of a breeze. Could be a breeze, yeah. The air conditioner could be creating some sort of circulation and is an old house so things shift is what I thought. And

You know, if the door would be open, sometimes it would close. So it was the opposite. So sometimes it would open, right? Sometimes it would close. I also thought a lot about There's a lot of construction in Vietnam. People building houses nearby. People Doing things on the road, building buildings, buses or motorbikes driving by. And that could just create.

a small vibration in the house that caused something to happen. Who knows? I don't know. I'm not But maybe at some point, these are all great explanations, but at some point The explanations run out. They run out. So especially when it's at night, because I think, well, nobody's doing construction at night. So Other things happened in that apartment that at first I just didn't see as very strange. But as they continued, got more strange. For instance, the toilet would flush. Which

I've I mean wind can't cause that. But I get it in my head, well I don't really understand modern plumbing. I have no idea about suction and pressure and water levels or somebody flushed upstairs and it flushed. I don't know. But I'd go into the bathroom, did it really flush? And then the water's filling back up. So yes, it did flush. And that would happen maybe once a week it would flush. The doors would happen two or three times a week. This is over a year and a half.

Yeah. I've heard about that too. Through the window. I've heard about people uh Living in hidden compartments in people's houses just to get free rent and maybe needing to come out. So I thought about that too, but I don't think it was that. We'll be right back. Do you understand English, but when you speak, you freeze? On my app, Coffee Chat English, you speak every day. First, you read a short story and then speak about it with the AI. New topics every day. Read a little

Speak a little, learning about our beautiful world. Speak with coffeechhatenglish.com. Um so one of the weird things that happened in this apartment, it's happened to me before, but never like in this apartment, is that Always when I was on the couch, I would get sleep paralysis. Okay, so sleep paralysis is where your mind wakes up, but your body

has not woken up. So your body can't move, but your mind is awake. And sometimes you can look around Sleep paralysis. Yes, your body can't move. That's what paralysis is, is you cannot move. You can look You feel like you're awake. You look around and sometimes people talk about when you have sleep paralysis, there can be other entities there, other beings. things there in the room, living things, or spiritual things. Well, I'd had sleep paralysis before in my life, but

I'd never had other entities there, I'd never had other beings. But in this place, only on the couch, never in the bedroom, always on the couch, when I'd be taking a nap in the middle of the day, I would have this feeling like something was there. I didn't see it, but I you know, you just feel like there's something watching you, something looking at you, something sitting on the couch with you. Ooh, I'm getting chills just talking about this. I'm getting chills just listening to it. So

Also, I thought, oh, that's normal. I get sleep paralysis a lot. And then other things start building up too. So my upstairs neighbor had moved out, but I kept hearing running around upstairs. Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum. Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum and I thought maybe it's the grandkids of the landlord. They go up at ten PM, run around until eleven, their bedtime is eleven, then they have to go down. And so I didn't think anything of it.

A a a traditional Vietnamese toy started falling off the shelf. And it was always the same toy. Go ahead. No no I've I've got I'm I'm all ears. Okay. All ears means I'm listening intensively. So this one toy kept falling off the shelf. And I would come home, it would be on the floor. I'd put it back on the bookshelf. And just to let you know, this bookshelf was right next to the couch where I always had the sleep paralysis. Did you examine the toy or did this toy have any kind of

significance. Vietnamese people from olden times, a ghost maybe, would have recognized it as a Vietnamese toy still. Anyway, sometimes I'd walk in from the bet bedroom and it would be on the floor. Or sometimes I'd be in the bedroom and I'd hear And I'd walk in and it'd be a little bit

Well, one time I put it back on the shelf, and I keep thinking, why don't my books fall off? Why don't like little statues fall off? I had a lot of decorations on this shelf. Just this one toy kept falling off. So I put it back. Just like we did with the microphone, I checked to see if the air conditioner is blowing on this toy. It's not even in the right angle. There's no way the wind is coming in. And I put it back on the bookshelf and I hit the bookshelf. I try to shake the bookshelf.

But it is so solid and hard. It doesn't move at all. In fact, even when I shake the bookshelf, The toy doesn't even move. The toy is just there. Mm-hmm. Perfectly still. And I turned around to walk away. The toy hit the floor. Oh. And I turned back around. And that's when I start being like, What's going on? What's going on in here? And so I when I put it back, then I I start putting all these things together in my head and I want to like

get a sense of maybe if there's something in this apartment. So I I ask the landlord, I say, Hey, Oh could you ask the grandkids not to go run upstairs? at night because sometimes I try to go to bed at ten and they're running from ten to eleven. And he said, Oh, the grandkids are in bed by eight. On the second floor came. And I'm on the fifth floor. The running is on the sixth floor. Mm-hmm. I said, Oh, who's going up there at eleven? Whoever's walking around.

is kind of loud. Can you is it you or your wife? He said, Oh, we only go up there in the middle of the day at noon to practice yoga. Besides that, that whole apartment is completely locked and no one goes in. And the grandkids never go in because they don't have a key. They don't even live in the same room as the grandparents, so they don't even have access to the key.

That's when I got a bit freaked out. Because I would still hear it. Boom boom boom. Toilet flushing, door opening, toy falling off the shelf, sleep paralysis, these things are adding up. And this is when it got really big and really intense and I got scared. Like I wasn't really scared before. It was just Interesting. Cute almost. Oh. Then it became something more personal, I suppose, because it felt like it was coming at me.

So the the door in the apartment had a deadbolt, which means you can only open it from the inside, and it was solid metal. So I deadbolt that every night, lock it. I'm in bed at about two or three in the morning and I hear my door open and slam. Boom. And that like shakes me awake and I'm groggy and I'm looking around the room and I'm

I'm like So this door was locked. Oh yeah. Like deadbolt. I mean the the the piece of metal that goes across is like th two piece of metal two centimeters up and down like a centimeter thick. I mean it's solid metal. You can't get in. You're not gonna kick that door. If you kick the door open, it's you're you have to fix the door. Mm-hmm. So I hear the door open and slam shut boom and I'm thinking maybe it's a different apartment, maybe it's downstairs. It was really loud, it woke me up. But

Maybe it's not mine. I'll go to sleep. Plus, I think I locked the deadbolt. I hear it again. And that's when I really Freak out because I was awake during the second one. I get up out of bed and this apartment was weird. It had a window from the bedroom into the living room. And I'm looking down. And from the front door into the living room, a shadow crosses.

Yeah, I'm getting chills just talking about this because I remember it so vividly. Then it crosses again the other way, back to the front door, but a little closer this time. Then it crosses a third time. Closest. And then you started packing your bags. Surprisingly I didn't because my friends kind of talked me out of it. But this is when it crossed it went towards the kitchen.

And I had a plastic met uh a plastic bottle with a metal shaker to like shake up powder, protein, vitamins, anything like that. And that knocked off the counter and bounced on the floor. You know that real hard plastic, it's like And you can hear the shaker bouncing around inside. So it's loud, I hear that. I close the curtains, lock lock the dead bolt in my bedroom, get back in bed, and I think, There's no way I can go to sleep. There's no way I can go to sleep.

And then I just wake up in the morning. Apparently I just went went to sleep. And This is what they say about these either aliens who come into your apartment or these entities, shadow people, is they can have a calming effect. If they know you're freaked out, they can either telepathically or with a pheromone you can't smell, maybe calm you. And boom, I was asleep. Totally asleep again.

I didn't think it was a ghost. I thought it was an alien. Mm-hmm. I even then I was kind of a believer in aliens. Mm-hmm. But in your mind it's more chance it was an alien than a ghost. Still, actually, yes. Okay. But it was um it has a lot of the hallmarks of ghost stories. And in my opinion, most of those ghost stories would be alien. Because I still don't quite see how a ghost would exist, whereas I see how an alien would exist. But the fear is real.

The fear of whatever it is, it doesn't matter what it is, it's the same feeling of Oh my gosh, I need to get out of here. This thing is coming after me. It doesn't want me here. It might be evil. It's still really scary. So The last time I ever stayed in that apartment alone, I was asleep on the couch.

And this time it wasn't just in the middle of the day. It was from day to night. So it was about five or six PM when the sun's going down. And that sleep paralysis that I had then, I had sleep paralysis again. That sleep paralysis Is one of the scariest things that's ever happened to me. It was like somebody was grabbing me around the sub my ears with their face right in my face. Face to face. And it was like my face was open and I had this pale white.

Like a like a vampire face or like a very evil spirit. Big eyes with the reds of the eye. You can see the red even around the white. The teeth. And going and it was saying something, and it was screaming it into my face. It was screaming, mine's eye. Mind's eye. Many times over and over. Mine's eye. Mine's eye. I can still hear it when I say it. What the mind's eye is, I'll explain if you or if you want to, is the eye. inside your head. What you visualize something as.

For instance, when you close your eyes, you have an inner eye that thinks about things or that imagines things, that sees things. So it's your mind's eye. It's w when I when you close your eyes and I tell you to visualize a bear. You use your mind's eye to visualize the bear. It's basically the it's it's another word for what you see in your imagination. Is your mind's eye. Like right now I'm seeing a river in my mind's eye, for example. So so h the entity was saying mine's eye.

What I f this is normally when I have sleep paralysis, I don't try to pull myself out of it. I kind of just like, okay, go with it. But this time it was so intense and so powerful. I was like Pulling myself out of it like moving my body, struggling to move, struggling to move my hands, and then finally I could breathe and I could open my eyes again, like really open my eyes and get up. out of this position that I had been stuck in, and I grabbed my phone,

I grabbed everything that I needed because I knew I was not going to be sleeping there tonight. Yeah. And I got the heck out. I was calling my wife, who was actually my fiance at the time. She's my wife now. And Calling my friend to tell him the story. I I was shaken up. I was really it It was like when you almost get into a car wreck. And you feel the shooting in your arms or the shooting in your legs from the adrenaline.

It was like that, but for an hour or two hours maybe. It I was I was walking around, I was like sweating. This is in winter, sweating like Trying to catch my breath, trying to tell people the story. I was really freaked out. And did you ever think much about what the entity Men? I guess it's imp impossible to know. No, I really thought about that a lot actually. And I was thinking maybe I'm even mistranslating some sort of Vietnamese

words because th that sounds like Vietnamese. Mine's I, you know, mine's I Maizi. You know y it could be, but I so I asked the Vietnamese people like every possible combination of tones, my enzi, yeah, my zai, things like that, you know. And They said it couldn't really mean anything. Even one really sat with me'cause he believed me. And he he was kind of into ghosts and stuff like that. He sat with me for a while and he just

Even he being a true believer in this, he couldn't come up with something that it meant. So I think it's English. And it would probably communicate to you in some something kind of deeper than than language, you know, like you're an English speaker. It would, you know, fashion it in a way that the recipient understands. For instance, you mean it would communicate through with you through your mind's eye? Yeah, w yeah. Or like well that is a mad story.

And I've also had sleep paralysis where I have to fight to get out of it. Like really. And when I finally get out of it, I'm just like Yeah, it's it's pretty mad. So And to this day, like you it s has still affected you. Like you get chills, right? Just thinking about it. Telling that story I get chills. Yeah. Thinking about it and examining it, like you asked, do have you ever thought about what it means? When I think about what it means.

I go into it, I start remembering other little details and it it freaks me out. I never slept there again. I ended up moving in with my fiance. No, no, no. That's not true. I I slept there, but not alone. I never slept there alone again. Again. I slept there with her. She came with some sage to burn sage. The we told the landlords about the whole experience. They thought it was stupid. But they introduced me to the family altar.

Like, oh, this is our new tenant, blah blah not new. I'd been there a year and a half. But, you know, just to let you know in case you're freaking him out or scaring him. Oh wow. But I was just too affected. I felt like I had I hate to use the term, but PTSD from that apartment. I know it's a serious term that people actually who have gone through something real, they get PTSD, but that's how I felt. Anytime I went into that apartment, it just felt

It's not right. And so I moved in with my fiance. We got our marriage paperwork. signed away real quick, so it actually helped me get married faster. There we go. It served another purpose. And I've never had any experience like that since. I haven't had any of the sleep paralysis again. I haven't had things fall off the shelf. I still have that toy. It's never fallen off the shelf again. No toilets flushing. Yeah. So that's quite a story. Yeah.

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