

The witness was apparently in his bedroom one night, which features a full length mirror, when he saw lurking within it a tall figure in black clothing and a Quaker hat, which supposedly stepped right out into the real world.

In another account, we allegedly have what seems to be some sort of shadow person or even a demon using a mirror as a portal. Once that was done the family, the pets, the home was back to normal and healthy again. After the cleansing the mirror was thrown away properly so it couldn’t be used ever again. I had to do a cleansing on the whole family, the pets, the home and most of all trap the spirit within the mirror again through a technique. The spirit fed off the negative energy becoming stronger, which allowed it to become a poltergeist. When my client said what she said to the mirror, she release the energy/spirit into her home. When this person passed away the mirror was sold to my client, and the negative energy and spirit of this person was attached to the mirror. We found out that the person who owned it was a very negative, vain person. When I went in found out through psychometry, a form of a tool/technique to communicate with spirit. Things started moving or disappearing, at that point she contacted me. Her family started arguing, getting sick as well as the pets. She had a sensation something was trying to get her attention, until one she said looking at the window “show yourself to me and talk”. One day she found an old, beautiful mirror from ceiling to floor. One of my cases: A young woman loved mirrors, she would go to yard sales, estate sales for unusual mirrors. There are many reports of this happening, such as is the case with one commenter named Destiny Glaubitz on the site Quora, who says she is a spiritual adviser and explains one of her cases: One of the most common types of experience are figures, shadows, apparitions, and entities other than the person in the room appearing in a mirror or sometimes even passing through. There are instances throughout history of paranormal activity gravitating towards mirrors, which takes various forms. Mirrors are weird, and this is reflected in plenty of legends and lore.

It is perhaps this widespread belief that has led to the phenomenon of haunted mirrors, so common around the world that there are various disparate cultures that follow the superstition of covering mirrors at certain times, in particular after a death, in order to prevent whatever is on the other side from peeking in or coming through, or even to stop a soul from becoming trapped within the mysterious mirror world. In many cultures mirrors are used for communication with spirits, and it is believed they serve as portals or doorways to the spirit world, that they are some barrier between the world of the living and that of the dead, through that veil that separates us.

The ancient Romans believed that they reflected a person’s soul and could bring great strife if they were misused, and indeed many other cultures have various negative, supernatural qualities attached to mirrors, such as they can suck out one’s soul, be portents of death, or offer glimpses into some other dimension. Mirrors have had legends, lore, superstition and myths tied to them for pretty much as long as they have been around.
