The land around our House.
Hi, Dear Steemian Friends. Today I want to write a story that has happen to me and my wife 5 years ago. I already posted about it when I start Steemit but here is an opportunity to share a real-life experience that has changed my vision of our world. I will rewrite and explain my story and what I have learned from it in a better way than my first post.
First of all, I am born and raised in France and I move to South East Asia nearly 19 years ago. I move in Thailand because I wasn't feeling good in my country. Since my childhood, I have witnessed my country and Europe, in general, going from what we use to call a Free Country to a non-sense and close to communist ideology. I wasn't feeling right there and as I am a kind of open-minded, rebellious and truth seekers guy, I was starting to have some trouble with authorities just for trying to bring some subjects to the eyes of others. I use to really love my country for what it was back in the 70' and 80'. Today you cannot say I love France from before, if you do it in public you get called "nazi, white supremacist, fascist, racist and many other bad words" and I cannot see why I cannot love what my country use to be. France has never been a Nazi country but those brainwashed people use words that are putting you in trouble and even on a trail. Anyway, there are so many things that are going wrong in Europe in general that I can write an encyclopedia. So I come to Thailand and feel much better here. People love their country and do what it takes to make it even better and also I come here because it is a beautiful place with a good weather and lovely people. I also love the way they take care they cultural heritage and always respect it. Also, I know the country for a long time and has the biggest movie production in Thailand was asking me for more than a year to come and work for them. after some years in Bangkok, I move up north near Chiang Mai and leave here with my wife and our two dogs. After some years running a successful business in Chiang Mai, we decide to move out of the town and rent a house in the mountains not far from Chiang Mai. We find a very nice little house in Nam Phrae area just at the entrance of Op Khan national park. We were lucky to live there as nature lovers we have many beautiful animals all around us, the park has tigers, bears, monkeys and many kinds of birds all running freely in and some time out of the park of 550 Km square. One night we have a clouded Leopard on our roof, when I go out to check what was on the roof it jumps from the roof and in two jumps it was out of our land and over the fence. We really enjoy the life there.
A clouded leopard.
The house and the land has a good vibe and both of us and the friends that are coming to see us were experiencing a good time at this place. Thai people are Buddhist and most of them have a deep contact with their environment (things most westerners are not understanding) they really notice the vibes of a place and if the vibe isn't good they will not stay there. But in the case of our place, all our Thai friends really enjoy the place. Also in the Thai tradition and culture, every house has what we call a Spirit house. The spirit house isn't from their Buddhist heritage but from before when the very long time ancestors were animist, but this tradition still here today and it is really rare to see a house without a spirit house. I made a post in the past about it Here. The spirit house is mainly a little house where the spirit from the ancestor of the land and the family are supposed to live. It is an important thing in Thailand, when Thai people come to visit us they "Way" (traditional gesture with both hands join at head level, little like praying, but it the way to give respect and salute) the spirit house to give respect to ancestors of the land and ask them permission to enter. Like every house in Thailand, our house has a spirit house in front of our house. We treat it with the respect of the traditions. The first 3 years were very good, I never notice anything suspicious. I am maybe a foreigner but I always also have this feeling since I was a child, that someplace has something I cannot explain, but I remember me as a child running out of some places only has my inner feeling was telling me to do so. The western culture tells us there is no such a thing as ghost or entities. I was believing in the teaching I receive but at the same time, I always have a strong suspicion about what I was feeling and for some years I put it on a psychological issue. But in the case of our house, I never felt anything that makes me uncomfortable.
One evening on the third year living there, I was at the back of the house in the kitchen, I was doing something and I was facing the windows but wasn't looking at it. For a second or so I have a quick feeling that I was watching by someone. So, I look at the windows and see something very strange, it looks little like the shape of a human but with blurry outlines and moving very fast out of my sight. It was close to the windows and in between the windows and a kind of little bamboo fence, also we have at night a neon light always open in the front and back of the house so I can see it very well, it moves really fast out of the windows and I try to follow it by moving in front of the glass door we have in the kitchen. But it is like in a matter of a second this thing is already too far to be seen. No human or even animals can go that fast. If I can describe it I will say it looks like a kind of black smoke or something like that and shaped as a kind of human outline and it must be in 3 dimensions because I cannot see through it and it moves without any noises. My feeling was very strange after that. I remember running to the bedroom to tell my wife about it and as Thais are much more aware of these things then we are I was expecting a kind of explanation from her or an interpretation of some kind. But nothing, she listens to me and may have thought I have mistaken for an animal or even I was dreaming. It was my first encounter with this thing but not the last.
Our Backyard.
Just a few days after in the evening I was laying on the bed with our two dogs close to me. The curtains of the window were closed but I can see through it as our light is always on outside at night (It is common for Thais in the countryside to leave the light on outside at night time). I was on the bed looking at something on the computer when, suddenly I have the same kind of feeling than a few days before, being watched. I look in the direction of the window, and behind the curtain between the light outside and the window, I saw the same dark thing moving really fast without a sound. I opened the curtain and look outside and again nothing to be seen, but at the same time, my two dogs start to barking and growling. But they are small dogs and it was impossible for them to see what was going on outside behind the curtains. Just before it happens they were on the ground relaxing, then suddenly they stand and start barking and growling. They go to the door enclosure and start to growl in the direction of the main door and get kind of piss off by something. After maybe half a minute they were kind of afraid with their tail in between their legs and run under the bed and faces the door of the bedroom as if they were waiting for something to enter the bedroom and also growling slowly. My wife was in another part of the house, I called her and explain to her that I've just seen the same thing for the second time and let her notice how our dogs were reacted to something that wasn't there. I know she was thinking that the dog reaction wasn't right, but in this kind of cases, Thai people will not speak about it by fear of inviting something unwelcomed in the house. I can see her reaction but she just say it must be an animal outside, but I know she didn't believe in what she was saying.
Our two dogs Lily & Rosie
From that day our two dogs don't want to put their legs outside the house at night, not even with us on the terrasse. Nearly every night at some point the dogs react to something outside the house and start to bark at the main door, then growling and finally, tail in between their legs running to take refuge under the bed and staring at the bedroom door with a slower growl like they were waiting for something to come inside the bedroom. A few time I've been out with a sword to look what was making them so afraid, but not find anything at all. It becomes a kind of strange thing that happens nearly on a daily basis and we don't know what to do about it. A few time I carry the dogs outside than they always run back inside and under the bed. This was really strange as they are really happy dogs and always use to like hunting around the house especially at night time. But one thing I have noticed was, every time the dogs have this kind of reactions the house feel very different. The best way I can explain this feeling is like the overall energy of the house become heavier and kind of electric at the same time. But it means nothing it is just how we felt the house at these strange times.
A few days later, at night the weather was really hot, much more than usual. I wasn't able to sleep at all, I was feeling like I cannot breathe. So I decide to go to take the fresh air on the terrasse and relax on the hammock. I leave the main door open and called the dogs to join me outside, just in case they will come. They both come to the door and right away turns back and back under the bed (before these events the dogs never go under the bed, they prefer to be on the floor or even on the sofa). So I try to relax as the air outside was a way better than inside the house. I take my phone and start to read some messages. All around me the sound of all the insects of the night was loud as usual and I was having a good time. Suddenly all the insects stop their sounds and I hear the sound making me feel like somebody or something was walking and walk on some dead branch on the floor making it cracked one time. I can estimate the sound was about 10 or 15 meters from me, I started to look in the direction of the sound but nothing was there, so I was thinking a fruit must have fallen down on the floor, but deep inside me I also know well enough what is the sound when fruits are falling. I just ignore it and continue to swing on the hammock and look at my phone. A minute or so later another cracking sound but this time it was very close to me. Next to me at the side of the terrasse was a few bamboos and a kind of tall and skinny palm trees and just behind it, I use to park my motorcycle. The sound was coming from around there, about 2 to 3 meters from where I was in the hammock. I open the light on the back of the phone and start to light the area. Suddenly just after the bamboos in between it and my motorbike, I saw two big eyes but no head at all, the eyes look like the eyes of a panther and what was really strange it looks like it was spaced from at least 20 centimeters one from the other one. As soon as I light it makes like the eyes turn from me to somewhere and it disappears right away. I jump out of the hammock and get goosebumps to my whole body and run into the house, the few meters to go inside seems to be kilometers. I finally arrive in the house and close the door as fast as I can, the dogs were growling to something. I cannot really explain what I have seen it is just like two eyes with no head and body and it looks huge. Behind it was my motorbike and it has many chrome parts and this thing was in between and just turns as soon as I light it. I was kind of shaking inside, I told my wife about it and once more she denies to talk about it, by fear of bringing this thing closer to us. After some time I finally calm down and decide to try to change my mind by looking at a movie on my computer. The dogs stay alert for some time then they stop and after a little time always under the bed they start to growl again. Then my wife comes to me with a strange expression on her face and she started to tell me with a low tone voice she just sees this black thing from the kitchen windows and she is also looking terrified. Even if she was kind of terrified I was kind of happy to not be the only one to have seen it, it comforts my feeling that I am not turning crazy. This strange situation has lasted for nearly three weeks, the ones the most affected was our two dogs.
The day after the strangest experience we've been to little shop two kilometers away where we are used to go. We going to buy some food from the woman who owns the shop. Since the night before I cannot stop thinking about what has happened and was fearful that it can go further. I don't know why but I have the feeling we really need to talk with her about what we experiencing. I tell my wife let talk to her about it. My feeling was right as it happens that her father is the spiritual healer of the village and he also takes care of strange events like that. We explain the whole situation to her and she says she will talk to her father about it. Later that day she shows up at our gate and handles us an envelope with four little red ropes with a tie inside. She tells us to hang one at the top of the main door and another one at the top of the bedroom door. The other two rope is for us to put around our wrist, her father makes it for us. After a few days nothing has changed, it still the same the digs are afraid at night and they are disturbed by something. The energy in the house is sometimes normal but it can change very fast. I decide to go to see her again and tell her about it. She tells me she will speak to her father again and he may need to perform a ceremony at our place. She also tells me that this kind of things can't be done at any time. First, her father has to decide on the day following some rules and it should be done early morning.
It takes four days for them to come. Without us knowing they come to our house at 6:30 am. Her father as a plastic bag in one hand with some plants in it, some flowers, a little branch, some candles and incense sticks and a roll of a white rope like the one used in the temples. The first thing he asks was to bring him a little bucket of water and to fill two big buckets with water. He sat on the terrasse and start to prepare things. He put the dried fruit (King of fruit in Thai, not for eating) in each bucket and he lights a candle and put a few drops of wax inside the water in each bucket. He does the same with incense and prepares a plate with the flowers and some leafs inside and the dried fruit then he goes into each room of the house and says something in Pali (the Buddha Language) and he blows on the top of the plate in each room. After that, he takes the little bucket and the small branch and throws some of the water on every wall of the house inside and outside. After that, he gives me the roll of white rope and tells me I have to put the rope all around our house upper than the doors and windows. He helps me to do it. After that, he told us we have to take a shower with the water in the two big buckets before 9 am and not after. Before they leave the house he turns to me and says I was the one targeted by this thing and ask me if before these events I have some experiences or feelings. He was right a few day before I first saw the black thing I have a dinner in Chiang Mai with some friends leaving in Chiang Rai. We have been to a Swiss restaurant because they are from Switzerland. It was a nice dinner with very good friends. But on my way back home just after I quit the big road and was riding my motorcycle on the last 4 kilometers to my home. I have a strange feeling that something that I can't see was next or behind me and it gives me chills, so I accelerated and feel better after. I arrive home and didn't think about it. In my head, this was due to my imagination but after thinking about it, how come when I was busy at riding my motorbike on a mountain road I just get disturbed by a strange feeling and can even feel where this thing was next to me. After linking all the events in time it is possible that I get hooked by something at that moment. Anyway, after asking me about it, the father and his daughter leave our house and we take a shower with the water and even shower our two dogs, as they were the most affected.
I was really suspicious about the issue of the ceremony, I was sure as soon as the night arrives the dogs will start to be fear again and the house will become heavy once more. But anyway, I try what the father says because when this kind of things happens, it can be fun at the beginning but quickly it becomes out of control and it brings bad vibes in our house as well as on our lives.
The night arrives, and at my big surprise, the dogs were not afraid at all to go out even on their own. Also, the overall energy has changed a lot everything is back to normal and for the dogs, it really looks like they had already forgotten what the house energy was for nearly three weeks.
From this experience, I learn a few things. First listen to what your feeling tells you, human in the west are so materialist and only rely on science. But the world and universe, in general, is much more than what we see, we are not used to listening to our feeling and interpret what it says. There are other things that science doesn't know about yet, life seems to be more than what we know. Second, I learn how to interpret the reactions of my dogs and I can tell you in a few cases when I take them for a walk in our village there is places where they won't go and knowing more about the village, I also now know why they won't go there. Animals feelings are much more developed than human and it is good to learn with them and be close to them. The reality is much more deeper and strange than what we are able to see. Just listen to yourself.
For those who not believe may be open yourself to the world and not only what you think you are seeing. These are the facts of a real story, believe it or not, it will not change it.
Love and Happiness
