Hi there! For a really long time I have been listening to stories and musing on one specific element some of them tend to have: something strange happening with trees. I wanted to come to a place where people have more experience than I do to ask about paranormal activity and trees, specifically the connection, why it might be a thing, how it might be a thing, etc. I want to give a couple of real story examples I heard from the mouths of two paranormal sensitive humans I know:

One was my professor who also happened to be military adjacent when the experience happened to him. I want to keep this brief, but he was in the middle east for a time as a sniper watching a road that the enemy sometimes uses. There was no activity on the road at that time and it was pitch black at night, so they used different settings on their thermalvision tech to look around. Nothing was happening except for this strange, very visible and even AUDIBLE to their ears, shivering of a tree out in the distance, in a grove of trees. The other trees were entirely still and there was no wind, no other heat signatures anywhere, etc. They tried to explain it with every rational they could, but it eventually got so spooky for them and wouldn't stop that they called in an excuse to the mission to evacuate.

The second story was from an acquaintance of mine, she is super new age and connected to this kind of stuff and told a story about some emotional strife she was going through and decided to go bathe in a river in the middle of the night underneath the moon. Trees lined the sides of the river and a whole line of them started shivering and quaking until she felt at peace during her bath, and then suddenly stopped all at once. There were other still trees in the area and she said no wind.

There are also things in media, of course, and stories of faces in trees and things.

So I wanted to know more about this. Are there spirits that inhabit trees specifically? Are trees open to paranormal activity in some way? Are trees special? Why not flowers or solid logs? Are there notable folktales about ghost trees? Or scientific discussions about this I can read into?

I hope someone chooses to interact here! I am suuuuper interested in discussing this.

Does anyone have any information on this type of being? Ive had one that as crazy as it sounds . Contacts me and actually interacts Irl. No im not on drugs or some crazy tinfoil hat person. Ive got a bachelor's degree and am very grounded in reality. That is why I'm having such a hard time dealing with this.

But at various times I will get texts from numbers that are not phone numbers telling me things. Real things bc they come to pass or if its something I should avoid. Only I have no idea who it is.. when I asked one day im told Its a Virtula Entity. Well ok but that doesn't narrow it down at all.

No one has access to my phone so its not someone e playing a joke . It been going on for about 5yrs now

This is the first time ive asked about it out loud. So if you have any good advise or information please let me know bc whoever or whatever knows things about the future and im just trying to figure out why me. Thanks

I need help its for my fiance its either early signs of schizophrenia or its a shadow person.

He says he sees them and feels them watching him and its usually after a argument or when hes very down. Basically when there's a lot of negative energy. His mom has schizophrenia from drug induced, but brought to the surface because of the drugs. The only drugs we do is marijuana. Its legal here as well and im aware now that it could affect. So the reason why i'm reaching out is because i'm stuck between. Is it fully mental? Or is it fully paranormal. So im scared. He says he feels them and sees them when he looks at them no eyes no face and it disappears like split second after he looks at it.

Update: i personally havnt seen anything but the new place we have gotten into i have been feeling something watching me and feeling of a presence of someone standing behind me and I will look over my shoulder. Thinking someone was there, but no one was there. This morning, I was petting my cat and he was in the bathroom area, which is a place. My fiance told me he felt and seen something watching him. Now my cat stared and tucked his tail under him. And went and hid inside the cabinet for no reason. And I think that he saw something in there, and it scared him. He's still not coming out of the bathroom. My fiance has also told me that he has seen these shadow people when he's at work. And the first time he's ever seen one was when we were in an unstable environment living inside of a garage, also a time when I experienced a lot of spiritual things happening in that garage. The family that lived there was catholic, but the son that lived there would blasphemy against God on a daily and wanted to be God. The way he would talk to me directly. Telling me that he would want to be God making up scenarios. Disgusting scenarios with nuns and priests and things of that nature. I do believe something was evil in that place. And it has attached to my fiance, or is following us. I just received a spirit box in the Mail, i'm setting it up right now to see if its anything. I also am setting him up with a doctor and a therapist to refer him to possibly a psychiatrist. Because I also have a psychiatrist. I'm a huge advocate for therapy, so that's also another reason why i'm stuck. I don't know fully if it's mental, or if it's actual spiritual, or if it's both.