Hello Eveyone,
I found this forum while I was looking for answers upon a phenomena that has been happening to me for the last few years... And it seemed to me like
the best place to find them,
I live in Portugal. I started dating my girlfriend in summer 2000.
Around ealrly 2001, she came to live in Lisbon (where I live ) because of college. Around March 2001, we decided to rent an apartment and live
together.
At some point, I started noticing a strange urine smell in our bedroom, and my girlfriend described it as something that had been with her family for
quite sometime.
This is how she said it started:
Her Great Grand Mother spent her last sick days at a bedroom at her dughter's (my girlfriend's Grandmother) house (she didn't die there though).
Some days after she died, they began to feel a strong scent of urine in that bedroom. At first they thought it could have been some forgotten
chamber-pot, but then they found nothing...
Then the smell seemed to come from behind a closet, but there was nothing there either.
Finally they washed the room with bleech and painted it new. It didn't take long for the smell to keep showing up.
Later one day, my girlfriend's father got angry with his parents (his mother being, the daughter of the deciesed old lady), and there was a strong
dispute concerning the family business ( a crystal factory).
My girlfriend father decided to start his own factory, and bought an old warehouse.
As soon as they enterd THAT new warehouse the smell showed up... Yet nobody from her family had ever been there.
On another ocasion, she and her father were driving home late at night and her father almost fell asleep while driving... He woke up with the sound of
the wheels going out of a road turn, and of course my girlfriend's scream. He quickly assumed control of the car, and stopped it to take a breath...
At that moment, that same urine smell came up.
As I was saying, back in March 2001, we both started having that smell in our new home in Lisbon (a hundred kilometers from where her family lives)
and it became an almost daily phenomena.
About 2 years later, some financial drawbacks made us give up that house, and she went to share another house with some college coleagues, while I
returned to my Father's house.
I helped her moving, and as soon as we steped at her new bedroom to drop the first furnitures, that smell came up again...
Now the unexpected about all this is that it was the first and the last manifestation at that new house... And sometime afterwards it stated showing
up at my place!.. I mean this is my parents house we're talking about... The place where I was born, and there had never been anyone in that house
before my parents!... The flat was brand new back in 1968!... And we never had any kind of less than normal phenomena there whatsoever...
In other words: Whatever that smell is, it sort of decided to start following me instead... To where I lived.
Some months ago, me and my girlfriend have rented a new house to live together again... but I haven't managed to move there yet. So she still lives
alone there - So far... No smell.
I'm still at my father's house, because he's been doing some radiotherapy for a prostate tumor, and I've been giving him some support...
The smell is always here with me, at the room where I spend more time with my computers. It manifests itself as soon as I show up, and goes after
sometime... But sometimes has short returns. I was feeling it just moments ago.
I wonder what will happen when I move to live with my girlfriend. Will we start feeling it there?..
Also important to remark is the fact that this same smell keeps manifesting at the bedroom where it first started, at my girlfriend's Grandparents
house (100 km from here)...
I felt it myself when I went there, on several ocasions. It's quite strong sometimes!
I'm not a skeptic person at all, but I have a natural way of facing things I don't understand. I realize that I cannot understand or have a
"scientific" explanation for everything, so just because i don't understand something, it doesn't mean it doesn't belong to the natural world. I
think there is an infinity of things we still have to learn, about our natural reality...
But then agin I thought: maybe there is some research upon this subject... Maybe something has already been studied...
Therefore, here I am seeking some enlightenment about this strange yet persistent phenomena.
Unlike what seems to be more common (?), it doesn't seem to happen at one fixed place, or with one fixed person or family... It sort of shifts places
and persons, as if... Well, I don't know.
All I know is that it sometimes is strong as a public latrine!
I've seen many reports over the internet, about people who say they feel a cat's urine smell (I guess it could be quite related), and it is often
explained as Poltergeist (not that I know very well what that is).
I also read the sinister story of the Dibbuk Wine Box, since it also mentions cat urine smell, but fortunately that's the only thing in common, both
phenomena seem to have.
Can anyone help me enightening this mistery? I could use any information i can get...
Thanks.
[edit on 1-10-2004 by mikas]