She Makes the Lights Go Out

[Diane17]

Hi,

The events that I am about to describe are paranormal. They are also real. This story is about me. None of it is made up. I can demonstrate it, but not at will.

This is the first time I have ever talked about this in public. I never even told my therapist, Millie Brown. Someday, I'd like to find someone who investigates these kinds of things. Maybe they can figure out what it is.

I have seen it happen many times, most often when I am driving, but not always. My whole family has seen it happen. I don't really know how it happens. I only know when it happens. I also know that I cannot control it. Dangerous? No. Scary? Hell yes, because I do not know how to make it stop.

When I get very upset, I seem to create a very highly charged aura around me. I can feel it coming but I cannot stop it. And this is no small aura. It seems to stretch out for hundreds of feet in all directions, and most definitely upwards.

And then it happens.

As I am driving down the street and pass under the streetlights, they turn off instantly. Not all of them, just some of them. Sometimes one or two, sometimes more. It seems to depend on how upset I am. It's not random. I can turn the same lights off every time this happens. Well, I am not deliberately turning them off. But they most certainly do turn off, and they stay off for a long time.

One time, when my autistic younger brother had wandered away and was missing for three days, I was frantically searching all of the places where homeless people go. We were hoping that maybe he had wandered into one and that we might find him there (we found him and he was okay). About 9:30 PM on the third night, I drove to the Inn Vision hotel in the downtown area of San Jose. I parked about a hundred feet from the street corner where the door to the hotel was.

This particular intersection was lit by two streetlights, diagonally across from each other. As I approached the hotel door, I passed directly under one of the lights, and all of a sudden the entire intection was plunged into darkness, as if the power to the whole area had gone off. But it hadn't. The lights in the hotel were still on. I screamed and I got inside the hotel as fast as I could. I'd never turned two streetlights off at the same time before, and not with such obvious consequences.

Again, I swear this is true. I am really not making any of this up. If any of you have ever seen anything like this before, please tell me about it. I am worried that something worse will happen. I cannot help wondering if there is a ghost following me or something. Or maybe it's my other soul, the one I said no to.
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This is Jeanne, Diane's spouse. I do not usually write on lists, but this is different. She is not kidding. I have seen the lights go out. I don't know any more about it, but it happens. Diane's son Steve can make this happen too. It's very wierd.

[Dee]

I'm fortunate enough to be around people who accept these kinds of things as just stuff that happens. You're not the first person I've heard say this. People do emit electromagnetic kinds of energy and emotional states do affect what happens. I've also over the years known people whose watches will not work on their wrists and in whose presence tape recorders will not function or come out sounding warped. It's a pain in the butt trying to do tape recorded interviews, I'll tell you -- I sometimes have a tape recorder jinx myself. Then there's flashlights-- which sometimes conk out on me just when I have put in brand new batteries and a new bulb. I may -- or may not -- have affected street lights. Not sure.

As an aside I've never seen anyone teleport a physical object, nor do I expect to.

There are some things labeled "paranormal" that I think are just things we don't understand yet but are explainable. To me this stuff falls into that category and I don't consider it a big deal, although I can see why it might be scary to you.

Of course, there are tons of scam types out there. What I don't trust is people who come across as having "always on all the time" talent -- as it does not jive with my sense of the reality of this, which is "there but not always consistently nor predictably." (And sometimes "on" to me means uncannily accurate and vivid, and it makes more sense to me when someone relates things they have experienced but don't claim they're in that kind of experience ALL the time.) So, I tend to not dismiss anything but I like my reality checks!

I have no idea if this post just made sense to anyone, but here it is...

[Jenny Boylan]

this line is in the new book, but can I just say--

when I went back to the house I grew up in with a paranormal investigator, I asked my mother's permission, since it is, after all, her house. And she said: "Now Jenny-- when you say "paranormal"-- do you mean, you know--- other transsexuals?"

Love my mom.

[Gina James]

Hi Diane,
No reason not to believe you.Its pretty amazing.
Jenny,
Yep,ya do!
>Gina<

[Stefenee]

Could be you have something to do with the lights going out- but not 100% sure it's a paranormal effect. I deliver food occasionally, and I 've noticed how street lights go out sometimes if I pass beneath them. I don't know why it happens, but I have noticed that it does quite often.

I'm just sayin'

[Dee]

I've known people who can't be around electronic watches (they make them stop or go at the wrong speed) -- a guy I knew in college wore one watch on each wrist and they would both either stop or run at different speeds.

I used to not be able to be around tape recorders or dictation tape equipment because they'd invariably stop working: drained batteries, batteries wouldn't work, etc. At least it wasn't like my friend G., whose tape recorders would run, but whatever she recorded came out with electronic interference and static noises and a horrible distortion. Didn't matter if the recorders and tapes and such were new, old or anywhere in between.


One time I was going into a cave with some friends, (it is a lava tube near Mt. St. Helens and involved a long walk in the dark but no climbing), and T and W were experienced and had extra stuff. I put brand new batteries AND a new bulb in my flashlight which had always been completely reliable but was starting to dim a little : it refused to work altogether.My two backup flashlights conked out as well. Good thing they had extra stuff.

Never did figure that one out.

This past week, it's been watches: an admittedly cheap watch I bought stopped right after I bought it, then the new battery I had put in (for free thanks to a sympathetic clerk) made the watch work for a day, then it stopped once, and then the next day it stopped five times, at which point I just got rid of it altogether. The hands were catching somewhere, I think.

I'm feeling a certain dread about trying a new one.

[Cheryl_Lynne]

I BELIEVE YOU. When I was young, I could stare at lights, feel the power drain from them into me. They would go out every time. I did it for a friend then got scared and stopped trying. I have felt the power from TV sets go in my eyes into me. TRUE!

[Diane17]

I had forgotten that I started this thread and I had not read the posts before tonight. It happend again, only differently this time. Always before I was driving when the lights went out. Last night I was walking under a light in a hotel parking lot. Zap. Total darkness. I kept walking toward my car. When I was about a hundred feet away from the light it came back on, but slowly, as if it were afraid of something and was ready to turn off again at the slightest provocation. Like a cat, fearful of a noise it just heard, crouching, hiding, ready to run the instant the sound comes again.

I turned around and walked toward the light. Again, the Princess of Darkness instantly reigned over her domain.

I told my family about it at lunch today. My son's answer blew me away. He can do it too. I didn't not know. Is this "talent" inherited? Genetic?

And there is more. I knew Jeanne does not wear a wristwatch but I thought she just didn't like wearing one. The problem is that no matter what kind of watch she tries, they die in 2 or 3 days. They just stop completely, never to run again. Even windup watches. Dee, it sounds like whatever power you have might be almost common.

The x-files are real.

Diane