I've had paranormal and psychic experiences my whole life. It wasn't till a psychic stopped me on the street to tell me I was going to have a rough time with my hands in the coming year that I ever thought about it and two months later I severely burned my hands in the kitchen where I worked and seemed to scrape my knuckles on everything in sight. Also, I would almost always win coin guessing games (the games bartenders play to decide who gets the change from the tips at the end of the night) to the point where no one ever wanted to play against me.

In the 17 years I was a bartender, I worked in two actively haunted bars where I saw fully formed apparitions, heard voices and saw items moving on their own (and one time, it saved our lives).

I've also had a few ufo sightings over the years. The ones that seem most relevant are - being about 8 years old and waking up at my bedroom window watching a very bright star moving away, that same event happening when I was 20 and one clear night in July of 1990 in central Wisconsin where I watched two *satellites* move towards each other from opposite directions and then both making sharp 90º turns in the same direction and continuing on.

Aside from my wife and friends who know about the haunted bar stories and my *in tuned* psychic events and the bartenders who almost always lost playing "the game", I've rarely talked about these things but in the last year or so I've discovered a huge online community of others with the same interests.

I'm also good at writing *run on* sentences. :)