19-year-old sees, hears, senses spirits

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19-year-old sees, hears, senses spirits

Ever since she was a little girl, Aly Vanderboegh of Nebraska has been seeing spirits.

Now at just 19 years of age, she’s probably had more paranormal experiences than mostof us do in a lifetime.

One day, Aly was visiting her friend, Evan, who lived in a large home not unlike a

mansion. She and Evan were sitting in the large, newly refinished basement talking about

his plans for his band. Suddenly, Aly felt the air go cold. She turned to Evan and askedhim if he’d felt anything. Evan, who is also somewhat psychic, said yes he did.

“I suddenly saw a young woman standing right next to me in a yellow summer dress, just

standing there with a pondering sort of look on her face, as if she was watching Evan and

me talk about destiny and was thinking about her own,” said Aly.

Evan could see the woman too and they both watched her for a while, when Aly realized

she was weeping.

“I felt heartache for her, which doesn’t really happen too often. I had the worst feeling

then, as if I was desperate for love, longing to be alive - then I realized I was feelingexactly what this specter was feeling.”

Aly said the woman’s tears were so black, they were almost blue and her yellow summer

dress was torn and dirty.

“I blinked a few times, but the vision did not change. I somehow knew that I had to speak

to her or at least try. I wasn’t sure whether she would respond to me or not, but I had to

try.”

“Hello,” Aly said and the woman looked right at her. “This was the response I had hoped

for. Just turning her head to acknowledge that I spoke with her was a good response.”

“Do you need something?” she asked. “Do you need help? Can I do something for you?”

The woman did not speak, but she nodded and pointed to a mirror. Aly got up, took it off

of the wall and brought it over to her, while Evan looked on in amazement.

“I held it up to the woman’s face and she peered in, her red eyes reflecting heavily in theglass. She prodded at her face and bit her lip once and then she blinked a few times at

herself. She looked at me once and then back to the mirror.”

The spirit then pointed to a camera Evan kept by his side at all times – ever since his first

sighting of a ghost. Aly picked it up and took the woman’s picture.



“Right after I snapped the picture, the camera melted in my hands. It was the strangest

thing I had ever seen in my life. The woman finally just smiled and nodded at me, and

then she disappeared.”

While that experience was most unnerving, Aly was about to meet a much more sinister

spirit.

“It started when one of my closest girl friends, Lora, called me, frightened out of her

wits.”

Laura said she did not really believe in ghosts, but felt, saw and I heard something thatshe could not explain.

“I immediately went over, as she only lived a block away, and upon entering the house

my sixth sense spoke up. I felt a very, very angry presence in the house and it was as if

this presence was all over the house.”

Lora told her that she had seen an orb floating around in the living room and then

disappeared as quickly as it had come.

“I began to walk around Lora’s home, which was a large 18th century place. It had four

floors including the attic and the basement was rarely used.”

While Lora did not believe in ghosts, her family believed the rumors that someone had been murdered in the basement, and the ghost of the murdered woman wandered around

the house.

Aly decided to stay the night and camped in the basement, much to the surprise of her friend. During the night, she says both the ghost of the murdered woman and themurderer came back to relive the entire grisly scene.

“It was gory. The murderer slit her throat, then cut her into pieces and burned them. The

knife that was used in the murder had been down there since it had happened, so it’s safeto say that to remove it and destroy it is to get rid of the murderer’s ghost - but the

murdered (person) had lived in that house, so she was going to stay. I knew she would

leave Lora alone, though. She was angry with her murderer, not anyone who would

succeed her in living in this place.”

Though the murdered woman was not harmful, she sure did scare Lora. For example,when she would walk up the winding and very steep staircase, the spirit would pop out at

her and holler, “Get out!”

“Lora actually fell down the stairs at one of these incidents.”

And whenever anyone went into the basement, they would here her cry, “I’m beingmurdered! I’m being murdered! I’m dying! I’m completely dead!”



Before and since these two harrowing incidents, Aly has had many such events occur.

“I have been in so many houses where I have communicated with presences that I can

barely count them.”

For Aly, seeing spirits is something she’s been able to do since she was a child.

“I had a lot of ‘imaginary friends’ as a child and it scared my parents, because I never really grew out of it. Many times, I also guessed that my mother was homesick for her

birth country and went to comfort her.”

Aly says she always knew she was different, but didn’t really understand what washappening until she was about 13 years old. Her first encounter with a ghost happened

one night while she was in her bedroom and the spirit of a woman walked in.

“I asked her who she was and she vanished.

Her next encounter occurred while she was watching television alone, as her parents had

gone to bed. All of a sudden the television turned seemingly by itself.

“Suddenly, a young boy was sitting on the ottoman in front of me. He was weeping.”

Aly says she immediately knew who he was. Apparently, on the third day her family had

lived in the house, she found a book with the name “Timmy Sherwin” written in pencil

on the jacket. So she asked the boy if he was Timmy and he nodded yes.

“I gave him the book and he hugged it to his chest. Then I asked him if he would like me

to read it to him.”

Timmy just shook his head and vanished, Aly says and she hasn’t seen him since. She

said the boy’s sudden appearance really freaked her out. However, now she says she

views her ability more as a gift since she is able to communicate with spirits and help people who are very disturbed by their presence. At one home she visited, she

encountered half a dozen Victorian women when she was shown a supposedly “hunted

tea set.”

“It had come with the house, as if the previous owners had not wanted to keep it. The

current owners had tried to sell it, but every time someone took it home, they brought it

back within the month, claiming that it was haunted.”

The homeowners never really believed that, but one afternoon, the lady of the house wassurprised to see the spirit of a woman holding the teapot by its handle. The lady screamed

for her husband, but it was her daughter who came running. Meanwhile, the spirit

continued to seemingly pour tea into the porcelain cups. When finished, she looked

toward the bay windows as if she was expecting someone.



“At nearly that exact moment, the doorbell rang and then there was a delicate rapping on

the door. Everyone started, but the specter went to the door and opened it! Standing

outside were five more women, all attired in the most beautiful Victorian gowns and hats,carrying parasols! The specter let them in, and they sat around the table, sipping tea. The

family could hear them chattering about this and that, but they couldn’t pick up specific

conversation.”

Aly says the tea party lasted about an hour and a half and when it was over, the womanshowed her guests to the door.

“When it was all over, the lady of the house went over to the tea set and touched the

teapot. It was still hot!

Aly said she learned a lot about spirits and the spirit world that day.

“Some specters seem to just go on with their lives even after their deaths, regardless of

the living around them. Perhaps they don’t even know that they are dead.”

Since seeing, sensing and feeling spirits is so natural to Aly, she says she doesn’t really

understand why people keep their experiences, bad or good, scary or not, to themselves.

“I feel that each spirit you encounter gives you a more rich experience in life. I think thatyou can learn a lot from a ghost, whether it has bad or good intentions. They can actually

be very fun to talk with, if you have that sort of gift.”

And Aly certainly has fun with the two spirits of children whom she lives with now. She

says 6-year-old Mary Anna Joseph has been a real joy to get to know.

“She has so many things to say, she is so vibrant, and I think that she is making up for what she has missed in life. I get sad sometimes when I think of what she could have

become.”

When she first met Mary, the little girl told her that she used to live in the house, becamevery ill and died.

“Then she told me that she needed a friend. When I offered to be her friend, her eyes lit

up and she looked immediately happier.” She was born in my room, and her mother had

died when she was born, so Mary had never known her mother. I found this extremely

sad.

Aly explained that since her mother died during childbirth, she was very close to her

father. Aly asked Mary if she realized she had died.

"Not right away," she told Aly. "I just remember a light and then I was standing outside of

my own body. I looked around. I saw my daddy kneeling by my body and crying. Isuddenly knew that I was dead and I was a ghost. I cried for a really long time and I tried



to talk to my daddy, but he left about six months after I died. He couldn't take the pain of

losing me so quickly after he lost my mother."

Having special psychic abilities has not been easy on Aly. Her parents don’t believe her and some of her friends think she’s very strange. However, she says what she does is

quite normal for her. While she has learned much in just a few years about the spiritworld, she says she’s also come to realize that love and doing good works are most

important.

“I believe that wholeheartedly. I also believe that death isn't to be feared, that you should

get all your anger and bitterness out while you're still alive so that you can have a happy

afterlife. Life is just beautiful. It really is.”

19-year-old sees, hears, senses spirits

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