Clarification of Question by
jan73-ga
on
25 Aug 2002 06:02 PDT
Answer to chromedome:
Actually, this is kind of odd. My earliest memory is from the winter I
turned two (1974/75). We were living at Christensen, and my dad was
away on assignment- I went through a period of time where every night
that I slept in my room (on the thrid floor), I saw this grey figure
wearing skis and a big backpack and what looked like a weird distorted
face with big eyes. I refused to sleep in my room for a while. Asking
my Mom if she remembered the time I was refusing to sleep in my room,
she said that it was the December and January just before I turned
two, and told me the name of the barracks and town.- (she remembers
because my refusal to sleep in my room was rather inconvenient for
her. And whenever I did sleep in my room, she says I'd wake up crying
and frightened in the middle of the night, saying "that man whent
bye-bye")
When I got older, I relalizde the "distorted face" actually looked
like a gas mask. While at the time of the dream I didn't even know
that there was a WWII (hey, I was 2), when I got older I discovered
that there was a winterWWII battle at the site of the barracks where
we are staying. And then I thought that the backpack could have been a
parachute.
Now it could well be that this was just a recurring nightmare that I
had when I was too young to tell the difference between dream and
reality, but then why would I dream a gas-masked paratrooper wering
skis over the site of a WWII airbattle that I didn't even know had
occured? I didn't have any background to act as power of suggestion.
So, I'm curious to know if there have been any other reported sitings.
My own internet searches have turned up stories of alleged hauntings
at other US barracks in Germany, but I couldn't find anything on the
barracks we had been staying in.
A side note: My mom tells me that the same two months I was having the
nightmares, she was feeling spooked. She figured that she was spooked
from being alone with me in the apartment in the middle of the darkest
time of year, and that my nightmares may have been partly from my
picking up on her feeling spooked. But one night in her own bedroom,
she thought she saw a woman standing there, who was gone when she
looked. But she stopped feeling spooked, and I was suddenly willing to
sleep in my room again.
So, the sightings I already know about you won't find reference to
anywhere, so I can't help you with time-period of the sightings. But
I'm very curious to know if anyone else has reported seeing anything
there, and if they have any background on who or what they saw or
thought they saw.
(One more PS- when I saw this/had this dream, a voice that seemed to
come from every direction said words that sounded to me at the time
like "It's a sleigh......." trailing off at the end. At the time I
thought that it was a reference to the skis. Now I wonder if maybe it
wasn't English, and it means something in some other language.)
