What I appreciate most about your content, Olivia, is that you're not simply regurgitating common/folk knowledge that we could find anywhere on any instagram or pinterest post. Your descriptions and theories are intelligent and grounded. And the way you speak is genuine, without affect or pretense. Thank you for this.
Just an FYI from someone with psychotic tendencies- if you are regularly seeing shadow people and are afraid, especially as a response to stress and lack of sleep etc or if seeing spirits is common in your family, i sincerely recommend talking to a therapist. These are classic signs of emerging psychosis. It is very hereditary but not always, and schizophrenia specifically often shows up in childhood to early 20s. If you find it interfering with your life and functioning, always investigate the mundane before the magical. I don't want anyone to struggle for longer than they have to, I have OCD with psychotic elements and it can be very debilitating and scary.
I am a practitioner and don't discount spirit work overall! I just wanted to give a PSA because I've been in that place. And it's also ok to decide that spirit work or even magic is just too much for you or too unsafe for your mental health. There was absolutely a time in my life where I could not entertain anything in that realm because it would send me into a tailspin.
Damn I have OCD too that's hard enough as it is but you have psychotic symptoms too 😅 I'm so sorry I hope you are being treated and it's manageable for you
This lady seems to live a lonesome life. Her paranoia and delusional thought do not seem too abnormal. Without interviewing her it would not be possible to get to the bottom of things. She might just be hallucinating, if so, her assumptions must be be based on her hallucinations which are far from reality. She in my opinion needs to see a clinical psychologist. Even changing her place of living would not be of much help. Although, her persona appears quite cool, calm and collected she suffers from some form of anxiety.
I saw a comment calling watchers shadow people or shadow humans. I banished one about half a year ago. I knew he was there for some time after moving into my flat. Most of the time, he didn't do anything; he just "walked" through my flat. He wasn't terrifying, though. It was just unnerving to have him standing somewhere in the corner and watching however, I banished him as soon as he started to show up when I was in the shower. That freaked me out. Thanks for the in-depth video on the watchers! I find that name is really fitting for them.
As a kid, I use to be so scared of Watchers. I use to cry and not sleep at night because I would just see someone standing in my room staring. Nowadays, they don't even notice me. I see them and I like to look over at what they're looking at. I'm so happy that I've grown more with myself. Your video really made me feel a bit better knowing that someone else out there has had experiences with these types of spirits as well. Thank you for sharing ❤️
I came here from a banishing video....I've been in the craft. Since I was at least 12-13. 23 now. But as a preteen/young teenager. I was always terrified to leave my window open at night. It was always unnerving for me if it was. And for so long I didn't really get why. But hearing you describe what you'd see as a watcher. Sent chills down my body cause that's very similar to what I use to picture on the other side if I didn't close my blinds and curtains. (Edit. I spoke with my dad about this video and the watchers. And Apparently it was something I talked about a lot younger)
This was an excellent informative video. I would add that, while they aren’t typically dangerous or high in intelligence, they do learn and they can become more dangerous if not addressed. Not only can they be detrimental to a person’s mental health and negatively impact various other aspects of a person’s health, relationships, and overall well being as an extension of a person’s mental state, that cumulative effect of instigating situations that cause an uptick in negative emotion is very much like the “beacon” you’re talking about. A “well-fed” watcher that repetitively contributes to the raising of strong negative emotion can become a beacon for other things. A bit of a snowball effect. And your theory about water is pretty spot on. Water, like every other thing in our world, has inherent metaphysical properties. Those metaphysical properties are similar to its physical properties. It acts as a conductor and an amplifier. Love this content. Thank you so much for making it and sharing it with others. 💕
@@TheWitchOfWonderlust Annie (hope I’ve spelled that correctly) mentioned in her video that she still senses it near the property from time to time. I think it’s likely to stay near that water source until it comes into contact with another source of the energy it needs to feed from. I similarly wouldn’t be surprised if the watcher you called Zane left with your father’s friend at the end of his stay with your family. Seems very likely, based on your account, that he was a better “food” source for it. Many apologies for so many words. This particular topic just really struck a chord with me. Much thanks again and Happy Halloween. 🎃💕
@@AriaIsara lol… that might be oversimplifying it a bit, but you’re not wrong. I do wholeheartedly approve of talking about something in such a way that allows us to override being so afraid of it that it induces a sense of panic. Sort of akin to the idea that you can be fully aware a poisonous snake is more afraid of you than you are of it, but you still wouldn’t pick it up because you know better. You’d also give both venomous snakes and leeches a wide berth in the wild, but absolutely no quarter in your home and it’s pretty much the same with Watchers. 💕
I saw them as well in my childhood i called them „Schattenmenschen“ which means shadow humans and when small i thought they were my deceased ancestors. Then i forgot about them but kept seeing them, after which they started to make me feel watched as you so fitting put it
I know them also as shadow people and I experienced all this also in my childhood and later in life. But through this times I would say I wasn't emotionally stable. I would also say you are more receptive or open when you struggle emotionally with something. I also had other experiences but I mainly feel not anxious. I'm more curious and observing.
@@julie3722 that's so interesting because I have been severely mentally ill for decades, doctors thought I was schizoeffective and hallucinating, but I never saw anything. Which was really rude pathologizing on behalf of schizoeffective people and indigenous spirituality. I've always believed what people can see and thought that I was spiritually underdeveloped if I couldn't perceive certain things. I would get scared random times what if a being shows up right now, I would haywire. Now i keep hoping. It must have been stressful to be emotionally struggling and seeing too
It's so uncanny. The way you describe watchers and their effects reminds me of my parent's master bedroom. It was an exhausting presence that would cause people to have identical nightmares, shift your mood from great to sucking all the happiness from your soul etc
Really enjoy this video. As a professional who conducts paranormal consultations and clearings, I would likely categorize this as an attachment. The energy isn't necessarily interested in actually hurting you, they just want to feed from you by making you feel certain things or behave certain ways. They get in by attacking the mind, through clairaudience, placing ideas, things like that. Also your peers we're onto something! Water, while cleansing a lot of the times, is extremely activating as well. I love this video, I hope you're doing so well. Can't wait for the next one. 🤗
Thankyou, I thought I was going crazy too. I've had a spirit lurking around me since my child was born 17 months ago. At first I thought it was postnatal deppresion and started to question my sanity, I've grown more protective of my daughter who is now experiencing psychic awareness like myself possibly through my female line, we do have gypsy heritage on my grandfather's side. This spirit will not cross over at all and is very stubborn, seems to want to drive me crazy but my witchy spirit will not allow it. I've saged and cleansed my home but one room is now uneasy where I change my child and get her dressed but her nursery is very protected. I would love to seek more professional help but a bit weary
@@Coffeeismylifeblood Hey, omg so sorry I'm just seeing this! So I can't prescribe or diagnose, but intrusive thoughts can be linked to empathic & mediumistic ability through clairaudience. but it would vary on a case by case scenario.
Thank you for sharing! When I was little I used to see "shadow people" in mirrors and things like T.V screens. Freaked me out so much but now as an adult I feel better about it and even so now I read the comments and see other people see them too- very validating and comforting.
I used to see a shadow person in my bedroom at night when I live across from an old country Quaker church and graveyard. It would black out the light from the night light completely. At first I used to think it was my dad but nope. No one there. It used to scare me horribly. (Not the only things I used to see).
I’ve never heard someone else mention also seeing things in reflective surfaces such as mirrors, screens, glass, etc. Seeing your comment definitely made my day and probably my week, thank you ❤
Funnily enough, a watcher stopped by right as I was watching this video. Right next to my house, there used to be a large property with an apple orchard, a pear orchard, a big hill, and and even bigger mansion. This whole property was a HUGE source of energy for the whole neighborhood. The pear orchard and the hill were at the front of the property, hiding the house and apple orchard behind it. Both the pear orchard and hill were very inviting and friendly feeling, and the owners of the property let all the kids come play in just those two areas. I believe the hill was the land spirit of the area. A really inviting, cozy sort of spirit. My area used to have a lot of hills until they were removed for houses, it was one of two left in my neighborhood, and it was the center point of my entire neighborhood. I remember feeling so close to my friends who lived on the other side of it, and now I feel oddly disconnected. The apple orchard was tucked in the back corner of the property. That was the fae's place. It wasn't scary or anything, but it definitely was like, this is not yours, you better be respectful. If a ball accidentally rolled into the apple orchard, kids would always be really quiet and slow when retrieving it. Now, about six months ago, a big real estate company bought the whole property and tore everything down. Ever since then, fae activity has pretty much stopped. And it's definitely been a lot harder to practice since then. The company has been pretty unsuccessful getting people to buy plots of land for houses, so there's just this giant gaping hole where so much life used to be. Occasionally there's a house or two, but they look very ominous and alone in this big darkness, especially at night. This has kinda bled into the empty spaces of my backyard. The back patio and our deck being the only real comforting places at night now. I believe that once the land spirit was removed, and all the fae, there was this giant negative space where many watchers and other spirits have kind of filled in. Now, almost every time I do any sort of working, there's watchers quite literally at my back door. I had a pretty bad run in with a particularly malicious one a few months back. Anyways, I was working on a quilt for my little sister this evening, listening to witchy stories on TH-cam as I often do. I always try to imbue just a little magick into the quilts I make, trying to make them this sort of magickal safe space I guess. My brother was upstairs for a moment while I was doing this, and I had some incense going that he didn't like. He jokingly opened the back door and kind of swung it a few times to clear out the smoke and then opened all the windows. That's when I noticed an immediate change. Funnily enough, there wasn't any weird feeling about the front windows, only the back. The worst part of the whole room was the largest back window that no longer has a screen on it. Bad energy was just flooding into the room. I shooed my brother downstairs and grabbed one of my chicken's eggs, and swept around the whole room and myself, before chucking it off my balcony and into the empty property next door. I then lit some candles, said a simple little invocation, and moved on. Really not too bad. I think it is pretty funny I just happened to be watching this video when it happened though.
honestly my parents homes have always felt so bad. But being near the house they have now makes me and my gf sick, like its just draining you down to a reactive clusterfuck the longer you stay. kinda like tons of medium sized dogs hungry and waiting patiently, just slowly circling. Used to have a weird coyote right before we moved outta tucson too. He'd hop on top of a 6ft wall to watch us, super nasty vibes. I'm glad I've learned a bit more abt what I feel tho
I've experience something similar in my childhood home. My friends experienced it while I was away with family, and I allowed them to stay over. I always felt something, and I believe it was also the cause of my childhood night terror, a repeating dream of a red desert with a red sky, with geometric shapes vibrating so intensely that I felt I'd be ripped apart, only waking when the whole scene would implode onto me with the feeling of claustrophobia and feelings likened to chalk on a chalk board. this being, however, did eventually present itself one night when I was alone in the spare room as the painted walls dried in my own room. I heard what s9ounded like someone coming up the stairs, pressing down on the wooden banister and making its way across the landing all while the house was empty, I could see through the crack of the door that nobody was there, but I felt and heard it like there was, I knew the sounds of the house i'd grown up in. the moment it reached the door, it paused, and the door moved wider as if by a breeze, which there was none. I felt it enter, and as it did, I felt it seemingly teleport from one side of the room to the other, next to my bed. It was huge. I couldn't see it but feel its shape and size. twice the height of a human with a thin frame in comparison, full of envy. It hung over the bed because the ceiling prevented it from standing upright and I could feel it trying to initiate fear in me to begin the feeding cycle, ultimately creating a loop that would strengthen my fear. I reacted as any sane person would leaning away, saying "okaaaaay". I turned the light on and stayed up until I could no longer hold my eyes open. the next day I burned a pile of incense in a brass bowl, closing the door, envisioning light filling the room. after a while I returned and opened the windows. I've not felt it since, although it could be anywhere in the house I suppose. The imposing nature of this room is a peaceful one after these events. I know it appeared to come upstairs but something told me that it originates in that room, the movement outside of it was actually still in that room, metaphysically speaking.
Four years ago I had an experience with a “watcher” being and this makes so much sense looking back because of magic that I started practicing. The light that magic shines in the spiritual realm was so bright it attracted this being, that was wolf-like, predatory. It gave me a sense of anxiety and my heart raced when I woke up, and that anxiety was something I never felt before. It was different. Like someone watching your every move from the shadows. Finally seeing this video I have a better understanding of what I dealt with and now I must go create protections and wards ✨
@@kerris629 Who me? I am a skeptic, that's not something to feel bad about, blindly believing or fantasizing while acting like you are not is, and I'm talking about eclecticism outside of the context of entheogenic or trance experience. You will never understand the natural world without a certain level of materialist philosophy and alot of science.
That is fascinating that they are drawn to water areas. I haven't heard that before but it makes so much sense as the place I've experienced them the most was an island. I believe there is a connection to limestone or that perhaps it acts as a kind of holder of spiritual energy that draws them. I once heard them described as a spiritual pleco fish and It's always stuck with me because it fits them so well lol. Great video!
When I saw {over tea} I immediately put the kettle on, always nice to sit and listen especially on a chilly day like today. Thank you for the video and have an awesome Halloween!
Ive seen watchers before myself. ive always had intense experiences with spirits but watchers always have a weird hold on me.Their stature their eys always stay in my memory, their white, bleak hollow eyes. everytime I see one my energy is drained. i think your description of them as energy leeches was perfection. again your videos are such an amazing and refreshing in my normal viewings.
Oh, i love, love, love over teas! I would love to see you do more of those. Just casually speaking about different aspects of practice from your personal point of view or experiences with the spirits, energy, etc... I could watch that all day.
This makes me think of the basement in my childhood home. It felt like there was someone else with you in the basement. Not a mean or negative presence, more curious. Like they wanted to know why we were in their space. And it was their space. We could use the basement, but it never felt like it was ours.
Thank you so much for this video! Lately I’ve been dealing with more spirits and entities. It makes sense when you say the more magick that you do, the more spirits will become attracted to you. I’m also someone who had been going through a lot so spirits tend to be attracted to be people who are facing life issues/difficulties. I think a video idea that would be cool is possibly a cloaking your aura spell/creating a protective veil to prevent some spirits bothering you and pushing them away. Happy Halloween 🎃
A spiritual advisor who my mom married said that people who are more in tune shine brighter to things on the other side. I feel like you’re spot on about practicing only amplifies it
Thanks so much for sharing your experience, Olivia!! It helps so much with these things to hear what others have directly experienced. If you ever feel called to create more content on spirits and working with them, it would be welcome!
I once heard a story about things similar to watchers, similar in how they feed off of energy. These ones stir up negative energies, draining and causing their victims to spiral. Violent or suicidal tendencies rise until either the entity is removed or the person eventually does something that cannot be taken back. Reminds me a bit of the "advanced watchers" as you called them.
This video makes me finally feel at ease and that I am not the only one who has felt or seen this. Thank You Olivia for all your amazing knowledge you share!!
I think me and my family had an incident with a watcher, I never saw it but I could feel it. Every single time I would go into the garage to do laundry or even to grab something I could feel it watching me. I thought I was making it up until my mom eventually asked me if I felt like something in the garage like she did, she's even more skeptical than I am so I knew something was up even my sister wouldn't go in there. Eventually it started to get more comfortable and would stand RIGHT BEHIND you if you went in there, most unnerving experience of my life. Eventually it got so bad the thing followed me into the house which it never did before I banished it back to the garage and then my mom's indigenous gave her some sage and told her to smudge the whole house. Thankfully it hasn't come back.
My thought when she was describing the story about the table is that this entity deliberately targeted her. The way she described the urge to stop what she was doing to go the shop and buy this specific table sounded very intentional on the part of the spirit. That ties into the idea that in the spirit realm or astroplane that your energy can "shine brighter" and make you a target. I think these entities are deliberately trying create fear and negative energy that they can feed on. Makes me wonder if a lot of the conflict we see in the world around us is actually being incited by these kinds of creatures to manifest a food source.
I appreciate that you made this video so much! I never had anybody to talk to about the spirits/energies that I saw or felt as a child or an adolescent ... not even friends. When I did finally say something, my dad threatened to have me admitted to the mental hospital. I didn't shut down my sensitivity then, that came later. It's been about 30+ years since I have allowed in any energies, aside from my beloved deceased, and I now find myself called to "open up". I'm terrified. I'm terrified and I know that the work must be done. Your account and your experience is largely helpful, so again, thank you for making this video. ❤
Thank you Olivia. Ive been seeing “watchers” for decades but never really knew that it was a thing. None ever really bothered me much. After cleansings and protection charms it would quiet. But if I didnt brush the charms up, id get that feeling of being watched again. Luckily I have never had to perform a banishing. But the deeper I get into practice, its clear I need to know how as the trouble makers do occasionally like to play.
Sounds a lot like the shadow people I ran into back in Cheyenne. They seemed to thrive on inciting fear so they could feed off of it. Wonderful video as always!
Recently, I sat in a hospital visiting room. I was alone but speaking to a gifted friend on the phone. I felt the energy change. It became fuzzy. I listened and felt a presence. Then many many presences. I knew these were souls who had not fully crossed over. I asked my phone friend to help me perform psychopomp work as I am trained to help in that way. Together, she and I helped these souls complete their journey. Immediately, I felt the presence of a matriarch. She hugged me and whispered in a sweet voice that they were the souls who had passed on that floor and that she was the guardian of that space. She noticed me and knew I could/would help. I am grateful to have been guided to notice and to be able to offer assistance. Be well
Interesting and relatable experiences you are describing. I did a course on shamanistic techniques (from a practicioner who slid sideways into shamanism from witchcraft) And as one of the practicum days we went to this ancient landcape, a sparsely forested heath with a dozen or so bronze age burial mounds, some so ancient they are just spots in the landscape, others still clearly hill like. We were sent on our own to explore, visit these places and note what we felt and experienced. The fun thing is, when people came back, they had similar experiences to one another, and these also corresponded with the teachers own experiences and those of students of previous years. One exception was one guy who came from a certain site shivering and feeling drained, urging me to stay out of there. I am always a bit perky in such situations so i just went on anyway. But the interesting thing was: the teacher had previously advised us to bring some offerings. Since the sites were bronze age, she advised us to not bring stuff like tobacco incense or stuff from other continents (her reasoning being that european bronze age people didnt know tobacco, white sage or sandalwood) So she advised stuff like ochre flour or fruits. So i had brought apple cake. I approached each site with a small mental prayer like "hi, my name is Kira and id like to come visit you if thats ok. Here i brought you this gift. it is a cake baked with apple inside" and i would place the cake first, then see if i was wanted. I did so with that place too. I had zero problems. The place was pretty neutral to me. But i did get the feeling what was the problem. That place felt like a place that asked for 'sacrifice' in the broadest sense of the word, a form of 'taking/sucking' energy. And bcs i offered something freely, the place took that. The guy that came from there shivering was the only member of the group that had not brought any offerings. So i guess the spirits assumed hew as the offering and took of him what met their fancy. So even there we had the same experience just a different side of it. Love your videos a lot, and you look stunning! If you ever feel like divulging the magic that does that, let this old crone know please 🤣
Thank you for this video, Olivia! I used to have a lot of scary spiritual experiences when I was little, which was why I got into my craft later on. Knowing that I’m not alone in those experiences affirms me in my abilities as a practitioner ❤
The whole saga of the haunted table has been fascinating, and this is an excellent chapter! Your theories make a lot of sense and give me much to ponder.
I had to deal with a poor spirit that had all the attributes of a watcher (E.I, feeling a tall, gaunt, unnerving presence. Energy leech) but it also had a kind of scary ability to create chaos that it also fed on, i don’t know if that was just the people in my houses reaction to it being here. But i know chaos correlated to it being here and that it liked to feed on that chaos. I began living with my mom again and our interactions got so emotionally violent, so I had to get rid of it. Lord it was a scary time 😅
I loved this more in depth explanation Olivia. Fascinating to hear how they were all around you during the Hecate course. Really appreciated the further explanation of Annie's Watcher. Perfect video for Halloween 🎃 Saw you in the Chat of Hearth's Live Q & A . Would love to see a collab with you and Hearth. ❤
My parents’ property has a watcher. It can’t get into the house for some reason, but it’s on the property. Before we moved there, I liked to sleep with the curtains open. Even after we moved I would leave my blinds open at night. However, when I moved from an upstairs bedroom to one on the ground floor, I started getting this awful feeling like I was being watched whenever I had the curtains open after dark, and sometimes even during the day. I got into a habit of sleeping with the curtains drawn, and whenever I would go into the kitchen to get a snack or something, I would be able to feel it watching me through the windows out there. I assumed it was my imagination getting the better of me bc I was on the ground floor and the idea that someone COULD be watching me was scary. But now I live in a basement apartment and I don’t have any issues with the curtains being open, so I’m quite convinced it’s a watcher. Every time I spend a night at my parents’ the feeling returns, and it vanishes the second I leave.
Thankyou for this video, my son and I have experienced a watcher entity in my home art studio one evening. It was ridiculously tall and long limbed and it would hover over my artwork and create nightmares which would evoke fear and anger and feed off it. I only realised this when we all seemed to have similar dreams and wake up feeling angry or fearful. Eventually I had enough of the tactics and asked it to leave countless times and it would for sometime but then return again. It's funny you called the watcher Zane, my son had a similar experience with an entity he named Zane too.... It would talk to him and enjoyed fire and chaos and manipulation. It drove me mad for a while before I banished it from our previous home. It's interesting to hear others accounts on these beings.
We used to have these "watchers" existing outside of the first apartment that I lived in after moving out on my own. Our roommate who was also sensitive to spirits and energies said that he saw dark, lanky spirits outside behind our apartment out in the parking lot. They never got into the apartment but they made the living room/balcony VERY unnerving. I never knew what they were until this whole situation with Annie. After watching the rest of the video, I also want to point out that where I live used to be swampland that was built up to be lived on and to accommodate roads and such. It floods like crazy here, so I guess watchers love bodies of water and swamps.
This is an amazing channel. Everything about it just delivers so much genuine knowledge that I can most definitely appreciate it. Thank you so much for this content.
My house is very old, built in the 1880s, and the basement is very rudimentary: stone walls, crumbling and dusty, etc. There’s a sort of enclave, a small outcropping of a room; it’s dark, and the ceiling is low, and ever since I was a kid I knew there was something in there. I’ve never seen anything, but i have an image in my head eerily similar to what you described. It’s pale and lanky, its mouth is open, and it’s crouching, watching. It’s never left that room in all the years I’ve lived here so I’ve never felt the need to do anything about it, but it’s so interesting how similar it is to your experience and other comments I’ve read on here.
Honestly just videos of you talking about the different experiences you’ve had with different entities would be so amazingly interesting to listen to. Love your content Olivia 🖤🖤✨✨
This was a really interesting video thank you for that! I've worked a bit with house cleansings here in Sweden and although most of the energies I've encountered are dead relatives or confused spirits lingering, sometimes I get in contact with different kind of entities so to speak. I've never heard of the term watchers other then in a horror movie I think with that name, but I can definitely relate to that in terms of what kind of "vibe"I get sometimes in certain houses. I've started to walk the shaman path now and it's very interesting to see how the witchy world and the shaman world are talking about the same thing, only in different words. I can tell you have a lot of knowledge and I will definitely continue following your channel! Thank you 😊 🙏 /Josefin from the noth of Sweden
It was funny actually when you mentioned hollowed out eyes and a gaping mouth as characteristics of watchers. I ran into one a few years ago. I would have been, what, 14?? We were heading to the snow here in Australia, and we were staying in one of the little overnight houses in Hunter Valley. The house we were in was fine, clean, looked new, blah blah blah blah blah. The centre room, however, felt really weird. It felt off, and I told my parents about it. They said there was nothing, and even mum said: “yeah, it’s fine. Nothing’s gonna hurt you.” (Mum is like a spirit magnet and can often read those things really well. Though now I’m thinking she said that not to scare me, but she did feel something there hahaha). I felt it on top of the table and right at the wooden light piece/chandelier. I had to sleep in that same room on the couch in front of the fireplace, and I went around trying to cleanse the place with a spray I had made. It worked for a few hours, but it had come back in the evening anyways (because I had nothing for protection). I reluctantly went to sleep, and had these dreams of a person in there who looked like me, but with those hollowed out eyes and that gaping mouth, and I felt this pain in the back of my neck. I was in the bathroom and saw it in the mirror every time. I kept screaming in the dream and whatnot, and every time I woke up, I would look to that light piece and it was slowly rotating. There was no draft mind you, so nothing but someone moving it would have made it move. I had this dream again and again every time I closed my eyes and it was in different rooms with mirrors every time. I guess I can now say I experienced a watcher hahaha. Was not fun
It's great that younger witches are connecting to the spirit world. There was a problem for a while when witches neglected the spirits, and just focused on spells and ritual. Witches have always served and worked with the spirits. The Watchers, however, are also a name for the Four Grigori (Lords of Karmer, Watchtowers) and the Watchers who were fallen angelic forces who came to earth to teach humankind arts and sciences such a cosmetics, weapons, astrology, magick, herbalism etc. If we use the term Watchers with older witches, they will think of the four Watchtowers. Blessed be
That drawing instantly caught my attention, it's them! Everything you said is just spot on with all the experiences I had (I just call them "shadows", I know it's a little reductive). Never thought about banishing spells or something similar, I always let them be even though they can cause some sort of discomfort when they are too close (chills are the first thing to happen, it's like they suck your heat even when it's 100°F outside), that's why I try to politely stay at a safe distance. If they want to watch they can watch... I just try to not watch them do it. If I recall correctly, Don Juan told about something similar to Carlos Castañeda in A Separate Reality, which I think it's the closest to my approach to the matter.
The watchers I had in my old house I lived in were fine for a while until they got closer. It was such a distinct difference from them being across the room verses right next to your bed looking at you. I didn’t get open mouths but large eyes with no lids to blink. Very small mouths in an unsettling frown. Instead of a breathing in like a leech, it felt more like they were trying to pull your soul out with their eyes. Like if you looked at them they would strike with their long arms and large hands and grab you. I always felt like if I looked in their general direction then they would notice that I noticed them. It got so bad that I would cover my entire self with my blanket because I could just FEEL them staring at me.
Thank you so much for this video. I’ve been feeling incredibly tired, I have an autoimmune disease and have been dealing with the worst flair up I’ve ever had. I’d started to suspect something else was draining my energy as, I’ve just been feeling ‘off’ beyond what I usually deal with with my health. Last night before bed I asked for clarity in the form of a dream. I had a vivid dream where this weird skinny man with no face was following me around. I asked another person in the dream what is was and they said it was a ‘watcher.’ This morning I started researching what that could be and found this video. It’s so relieving to know what the heck this thing is. I’m planning to try your banishing video and see if that gets rid of it.
This is timely. I think I had to push one out of my house two nights ago. I pushed SOMETHING out that didn't want to go, and your description of Watchers fits the feeling.
I had one of these in my bedroom growing up. It was that same uncomfortable feeling and now I have a word for them. Thank you! Your content is always wonderful to watch, thank you for everything you have, are, and might put out ❤
I only ever encountered spirits like this once, and that was when I moved to my current home 17 years ago. My home is in the country, and while there is absolutely nothing wrong with the house itself, the hill to the northeast of my property had a watchfulness to it that I just never could shake off. Whenever I was outside, especially in the part of the property just below this particular wooded hill, I would sense a somewhat unsettling observation coming towards me, and my mom confirmed much the same thing. It even followed our truck when we would drive north to head to the store, following us through the valley. Eventually as I warded this place the presence seemed to be pushed aside, and the only time that it's showed up again over the last few decades was around my sister-in-law when she was out on a walk on the road above my property and cutting through the trees. I know that there is a Native American burial ground on that hill, but it is quiet and peaceful, so that is not the presence. Hearing you in this video actually helped me understand that such things are more common than we'd care to think about.
I love that you shared this. I remember starting to see a man, of similar nature as a young child. But at the same time there was always a second spirit between us. I know now that the spirit between us, which grew to more than one as I got older, were my ancestors protecting me. However this ‘watcher’ I would see mainly at home, especially if I forgot to cleanse or bless it, otherwise I could see it outside my home almost like you described. But what was the weirdest was I started seeing it at work after a while and just a bit later I entered the world of paranormal hunting for about three years. During that time it would always be there but it was almost as if to say to whatever else was around ‘don’t touch her, she’s mine’ Soon after my group had a horrible experience that broke the group apart through a few members dying unexpectedly or marital issues. It was odd. That’s when I began to really take protection seriously. I Don’t have the same experiences since then, but occasionally it’s like it comes back to visit. Just to remind me, this winter being the last time when I found my locked patio door, wide open around midnight. It happened for a week and not since I upped the protection. Really I look at it as a narcissistic soul, that is too stubborn to admit it’s wrong doings and did their own peace, attempting to steal who’s they can find around them. Anyway. It was pretty amazing to hear another talk about this. So thank you ❤
Thank you for sharing such personal interactions with us, it's really helping me to understand the experiences that I have had and still have, and how to feel and deal with them. The beacon analogy makes so much sense, I can see how spirits would want to come and see what's going on, what's new.. then get used to it or board once they know and understand.. I wonder what they see and feel when looking at us, maybe we are spirits to them..? Anyway, thank you again for all of your time, content, and beautiful videos, it's one of my main go to's. Have a beautiful day!
When I began practicing, I remember going to my altar one day and just feeling a sense of dread that I could not feel anywhere else. I would move around the room and the feeling was just there on the altar. It scared the bejeezus out of me and I burned some herbs and it went away. Thank you for this explanation - I never really figured out what that was!
Pretty darn sure my childhood home was just a magnet for Watchers. My sisters and I had experienced things and energies exactly like you're describing throughout our lives, but particularly in that house. And the fact that my most intense run-ins with them were just after I'd started practicing makes SO MUCH SENSE now that I've learned more about them.
Ok i have to say how thrilled i am that you both did a follow up video to last years haunting. I love sequels lol i also appreciate you telling your personal story as i grew up in a haunted house and it was hard to talk about until recently.
I finally have an answer, thank you ❤️ So much of this gives validation to my intuition of what I thought was happening to me since we purchased a new house. You have given me courage to continue my journey x Now, to learn how to banish the watchers manipulating my life toward destruction.
I was having some unnerving nightmares a few months ago and a common one when I’m stressed or uneasy is very grudge like with a creeper hiding up in a dark corner just watching. Usually it’s just that I’m stressed and with the mornings rush it quickly fades from memory but I did feel a bit of lingering unease in my bedroom for a couple days. Luckily for me it was as simple as regarding the corner I felt the presence and politely asking them to leave please. Worked like a charm haha 😂 I hadn’t ever heard of anyone naming these entities in particular before some of these videos lately though!
Reminds me of this entity from a childhood home of mine. It stalked the woods around where we lived. The difference between it and a watcher is that this thing definitely felt dangerous. You had that eyes on you at all times kind of feeling, but there was a malignant, predatory aura. It wanted to hurt you or make you hurt yourself. I don't know what this thing was, but it still haunts those woods. To this day if I go back there, those eyes will be on me.
This is why I have found it is so important to have a spirit familiar who can add more protection and also banish malevolent spirits from infesting your life and draining your emotions and energies.
Thank you for sharing this. It gives me chills how much what you speak of overlaps and aligns with my own experiences. It’s also a relief to know I wasn’t just making it up-that there are others out there who have shared the same experience.
It's wild how I was talking about this last night to someone, relating it to something my partner said about my own home. Thank you for the video and information!
I had an experience years ago of waking up in a B&B with the distinct feeling I was being watched. It reminded me so much of what you described. Great video!
My favorite part of this video was when you were tells the story about your friends going into the different rooms of your house and taking personal notes on the energy or spirits they intuited. I want to do this with my friends!
Thank you for this! I felt like I was being watched, especially in my own bedroom. I got this hand painted guitar for my birthday a few years ago. When I walked into my room, especially during night time hours, it would strum lightly. Like someone was picking a cord or two. My mom and I ‘cleaned’ it and the house, haven’t heard from them since!
Great and really helpful video as always. I am so thankful to have stumbled upon one of your books on reddit which lead to me discovering you and some other creators here on TH-cam. I cannot thank you enough for the effort and time you put into creating videos and content for us. I was always been interested in mythology and other topics that have to do with witchcraft and always felt something of a "calling" in this direction, but I've only now decided to explore this. Your channel and your content in general has been so helpful for me, you explain everything in an understandable way even for a beginner like me. I also feel like I approach witchcraft with the respect it deserves due to your content - not with fear, but with respect. Thank you so much again for your content and the work that you put into it. It's highly appreciated!
ohhhh i see what you mean, here in Brazil we usually refer to them as obsessors, idk if it’s the same for you, but for us it’s a really vague term that encompasses from spirits of the dead who are using your energy to very dangerous spirits sent by curse-like magic, the more they’re dangerous, more high ranking they are. these watchers for us would be very low ranking obsessors, and they’re everything you described :)
Dear Olivia, I’m late to the party because I finally worked up the courage to watch this video. You very eloquently put to words an experience I had when I was around twelve years old (I’m 38 now). My family moved from an apartment to a rented house and the house itself was… just gloomy, especially on the ground floor, which was also the basement (kind of built into the hillside). On this floor there was my parents’ bed room, a storage room and a guest bed room as well and the energy there was exactly the way you described. I absolutely did not like being in there. It encompassed the entire ground floor but was strongest inside the guest bed room. I have suffered from insomnia since I was very young, but once we moved there it just went through the roof (along with my anxiety). My parents were not understanding AT ALL (not surprising, they were abusive well before living there). I even remember my father getting into a fight with old friends who were staying with us briefly while we lived there (we never heard of them again). We had to move again after living there for little over a year and despite living in a very old house for years afterwards, I didn’t experience anything like this again.
That pulled things nicely together. A different perspective from mine, but clearly the same phenomena. I think of mine as a wyrm rather than an insect. Like the waterspout entity in The Abyss. She shows considerable shapeshifting prowess though. We've connected pretty well. It all started off a bit like the big bad wolf trying to huff and puff and blow my house down, which to be fair she did succeed in doing, in that I did end up without a house, so I ended up in a tent during Storm Francis, huffing and puffing even more. Eventually once the big bad wolf managed to get in, I showed it a decent British level of hospitality, and we were soon on friendly terms.
15:40 my mother used to be a manager at a lakeside restaurant and although I never saw the watchers I definitely have gotten a feeling like you've described many times
I find it interesting that you mentioned Hekate because i also noticed more Watchers arriving at my place when i first started working with her. There was always a Watcher in my bedroom, just standing at the corner behind the door. He wouldn't do anything and honestly, i got used to him and i didn't mind having him there. However, the moment Hekate called me and i replied, i've had so many Watchers popping up, it became heavy. It took A LOT of effort to get rid of them. My first attempts did not work and i had to try again several times. I guess that's why many witches warn you against working with Hekate if you're still very new to the practice.
I watched her video about 20 minutes ago. I then searched for something completely different & found your channel . Ive been randomly choosing different videos of yours to watch & it just so happens to be about the video I watched just a few moments ago. I appreciate your videos !
So that's what was lurking in my old bedroom in my parents house!! There were two in there when I lived with my parents. One that my mom and I call the "shadow man" who is more of a harmless mischievous presence, and the "watcher" in my old bedroom that no one liked to be in because of this unsettling feeling of being watched. He manifested himself first when I first started practicing witchcraft at 12 years old. The "watcher" isn't there anymore since I did a banishing spell, but the "shadow man" still pulls practical jokes on my mom from time to time.
Wait, did we grow up in the same house??! Lol I am so appreciative of this video, it really helps almost clarify a mystery of my own experience with an interesting entity I had once in my childhood home. We were always aware of at least one spirit in our home, never meant harm. But the one I saw I know in gut was completely different, just a tall black cloaked figure with a long white face and dark sunken eyes, it’s head nearly touched the ceiling and length stretched to hovering just above the carpet. I bolted out of my room yelling for my parents needless to say not knowing what the hell I just saw, and what’s kinda funny, in retrospect, the look on their face seemed almost shocked like they were just as surprised that I could see them too lol never saw them again though but always wondered who/what they could’ve been. Thank you for your openness on such wonderful topics!
Oh I definitely remember watchers from my childhood. What an interesting way of looking at this. I often think of magic and spirit work as some sort of language for everyday problems and situations we have to deal with. Watchers have been common in my childhood and now I have a name for it and also a description. As I said, it's all very interesting, especially as nobody really had that understanding of the spirit realm while I was growing up. I'm sure I have encountered watchers in several guest bedrooms. Thanks Olivia. Blessed Samhain/Halloween/however you like to call it.
This was so helpful! This is my intro to your channel very meant to be. I have suffered from these watchers since I was a child and am still vulnerable when tragedy hits my life on my own I’ve found intuitive techniques. This video helps me feel more inspired to take action and stronger to do so. Also be able to have more of a explained concept around their definition is very empowering. I can’t explain how validating and helpful this was thank you 🙏
My mom, my brother, and myself, we used to feel watchers on our staircase and in some of our doorways. Occasionally it still feels like they’re there but they were much more present when I was a child. It’s Halloween and my parents have had the house for 29 years now. We’ve just come to affectionately call our spirit roommate Shirley.
I super enjoyed this video. I'm a bit scared to go deeper into my practice because I'm afraid of attracting these spirits. I've come close, and I believe I felt one at one point, so I stopped doing anything 'interesting' and it seemed to have left haha. I did some basic protection with a strong intent just to be sure, but I always worry it's not enough lol. Oh and I'm curious, why might one ask not to share a banishing with someone else? Geuinely curious, not making any assumtions :)
When I was little I would see them in old paintings and pictures..the kinds that great grandma hung up in the guest room. They never did anything...just moved the ... energy around the painting/picture.
I really enjoyed watching you grow throughout the years your videos give me comfort and I love the amount of witchy knowledge I've learned from you and other creators !
When you begin to exercise your banishing ritual, whatever it may be. Consider linking a gesture or an internal visualization to perform as part of your banishing ritual. As you become more confident you can achieve your banishing ritual with a bodily pose or a simple thought.
Wonderful presentation and lovely dress and hair! Very atmospheric! Shadow Folk, Shadow People, the Hat Man, the Hooded One(s), Watchers, etc., project a sort of unease that activates the amygdala and can cause paralyzation through the fear aspect... if one allows the sensation to overwhelm them. When you learn to overcome that sensation, you can watch the watchers. I learned how to "copy" their energy, in a sense. They stopped watching and even avoided me from that point forward. I've experimented with that same energy, shaping and expanding it. If I summon it up, all spirits seem to move away from me, though I am not precisely sure the reason why. The energy vampirism hypothesis seems to be accurate. Advanced ones can move through wards and resist banishment, though most wouldn't make the effort. At any rate, I learned the technique from exposure, but I don't use it much, anymore. It can become addictive, but also causes physical distress, as it's not really meant to be used by human beings... stay safe.
We named them vigils. Latin for watcher. The first one we encountered was latched to me. I was the most active in practicing and we. And to understand it as something that monitored a particular persons spiritual activity. Through study and divination it was shown that the vigils we encountered were either neutral, benevolent, or malevolent. I won’t go into depth but this opened up the window to study them and the shadow beings that came with them. Other shadows were what we called bottom feeders seeking energy but they were like the fish that swim under the shark. I was lucky in having a vigil that through intimidating encounters and divination, urged me in the right direction when using magick. Keeping me in the gray and closer to the light. Some of the other vigils I’ve come across that had attached or as we felt were assigned to upcoming promising practitioners, were not always in that persons best interest.
So, I currently live with my parents in my childhood home, in my childhood bedroom, and I know I have watchers around that I've felt since I was very young. Since I have anxiety, one thing that helps me is keeping my curtains open pretty much all the time, because I can see outside and know for sure whether someone is physically out there or if it's a paranormal thing. Really helps me feel less creeped out somehow.
I love how much time you put in these videos and I love watching them and you are the one who made me want to start making videos of witchcraft and stuff so what I'm saying here is thank you
This video popped up right after I just yelled at a watcher to go away. When you said you imagine seeing a gaping mouth trying to suck energy I got chills. There’s something outside my door with a giant mouth. It’s watching me and my spell candle.
Oh god the watcher spirits that wad talked about. It gave me a anxious feeling mainly because I didn't know how to explain what that type of presence was, you nailed it though!
My theory on it personally is that you have to take things in dimensionally. There are many dimensions and I don't need to rant and explain that as you probably already understand but I think some things can be remnants of a past life, random encounters, or a combo of both. Before I started watching your videos and getting interested in witchcraft I had a lot of encounters i.e. early age astral projecting I did. I think a lot of it too is just natural clairvoyance that we might have which explains maybe why we are directed to this lifestyle we desire. I know it has become a reason I have and I have a lot of scary, sometimes not scary encounters I've had to the point where physical items have appeared in my house on top of a lot of activity. Sorry for the long comment! But I believe somehow in my past life there was bad actions I've preformed or have messed with certain entities negatively and things like that follow you in every life. If you're interested I'd love to explain some of the situations in longer explanation but I don't want to make a wall of text more than this comment already is.
What I appreciate most about your content, Olivia, is that you're not simply regurgitating common/folk knowledge that we could find anywhere on any instagram or pinterest post. Your descriptions and theories are intelligent and grounded. And the way you speak is genuine, without affect or pretense. Thank you for this.
I really appreciate this. I’m glad you enjoy my perspective🫀
I feel like hekate had something to do with helping bringing that out in her natural self
@@Coffeeismylifeblood I feel like giving a deity I worked with for six months the credit for my self growth over five years isn’t it.
@@TheWitchOfWonderlust Anna I know you are you remembering the past yet???
@@Coffeeismylifeblood nope
Just an FYI from someone with psychotic tendencies- if you are regularly seeing shadow people and are afraid, especially as a response to stress and lack of sleep etc or if seeing spirits is common in your family, i sincerely recommend talking to a therapist. These are classic signs of emerging psychosis. It is very hereditary but not always, and schizophrenia specifically often shows up in childhood to early 20s. If you find it interfering with your life and functioning, always investigate the mundane before the magical. I don't want anyone to struggle for longer than they have to, I have OCD with psychotic elements and it can be very debilitating and scary.
I am a practitioner and don't discount spirit work overall! I just wanted to give a PSA because I've been in that place. And it's also ok to decide that spirit work or even magic is just too much for you or too unsafe for your mental health. There was absolutely a time in my life where I could not entertain anything in that realm because it would send me into a tailspin.
Unchecked sleep apnea will have a person seeing shadow people and hallucinations during waking hours as well.
@@jessalyneddy9243 true! As will gas leaks. Many a hauntings have been caused by slow carbon monoxide poisoning
Damn I have OCD too that's hard enough as it is but you have psychotic symptoms too 😅 I'm so sorry I hope you are being treated and it's manageable for you
This lady seems to live a lonesome life. Her paranoia and delusional thought do not seem too abnormal. Without interviewing her it would not be possible to get to the bottom of things. She might just be hallucinating, if so, her assumptions must be be based on her hallucinations which are far from reality. She in my opinion needs to see a clinical psychologist. Even changing her place of living would not be of much help. Although, her persona appears quite cool, calm and collected she suffers from some form of anxiety.
I saw a comment calling watchers shadow people or shadow humans. I banished one about half a year ago. I knew he was there for some time after moving into my flat. Most of the time, he didn't do anything; he just "walked" through my flat. He wasn't terrifying, though. It was just unnerving to have him standing somewhere in the corner and watching however, I banished him as soon as he started to show up when I was in the shower. That freaked me out. Thanks for the in-depth video on the watchers! I find that name is really fitting for them.
As a kid, I use to be so scared of Watchers. I use to cry and not sleep at night because I would just see someone standing in my room staring. Nowadays, they don't even notice me. I see them and I like to look over at what they're looking at. I'm so happy that I've grown more with myself. Your video really made me feel a bit better knowing that someone else out there has had experiences with these types of spirits as well. Thank you for sharing ❤️
I came here from a banishing video....I've been in the craft. Since I was at least 12-13. 23 now. But as a preteen/young teenager. I was always terrified to leave my window open at night. It was always unnerving for me if it was. And for so long I didn't really get why. But hearing you describe what you'd see as a watcher. Sent chills down my body cause that's very similar to what I use to picture on the other side if I didn't close my blinds and curtains. (Edit. I spoke with my dad about this video and the watchers. And Apparently it was something I talked about a lot younger)
This was an excellent informative video. I would add that, while they aren’t typically dangerous or high in intelligence, they do learn and they can become more dangerous if not addressed. Not only can they be detrimental to a person’s mental health and negatively impact various other aspects of a person’s health, relationships, and overall well being as an extension of a person’s mental state, that cumulative effect of instigating situations that cause an uptick in negative emotion is very much like the “beacon” you’re talking about. A “well-fed” watcher that repetitively contributes to the raising of strong negative emotion can become a beacon for other things. A bit of a snowball effect. And your theory about water is pretty spot on. Water, like every other thing in our world, has inherent metaphysical properties. Those metaphysical properties are similar to its physical properties. It acts as a conductor and an amplifier.
Love this content. Thank you so much for making it and sharing it with others. 💕
Very interesting! Thank you for sharing~
@@TheWitchOfWonderlust Annie (hope I’ve spelled that correctly) mentioned in her video that she still senses it near the property from time to time. I think it’s likely to stay near that water source until it comes into contact with another source of the energy it needs to feed from. I similarly wouldn’t be surprised if the watcher you called Zane left with your father’s friend at the end of his stay with your family. Seems very likely, based on your account, that he was a better “food” source for it.
Many apologies for so many words. This particular topic just really struck a chord with me. Much thanks again and Happy Halloween. 🎃💕
@@shewitch8220 100%
So in a way, they're like the leeches of the spirit world 😂😭
@@AriaIsara lol… that might be oversimplifying it a bit, but you’re not wrong. I do wholeheartedly approve of talking about something in such a way that allows us to override being so afraid of it that it induces a sense of panic. Sort of akin to the idea that you can be fully aware a poisonous snake is more afraid of you than you are of it, but you still wouldn’t pick it up because you know better. You’d also give both venomous snakes and leeches a wide berth in the wild, but absolutely no quarter in your home and it’s pretty much the same with Watchers. 💕
I saw them as well in my childhood i called them „Schattenmenschen“ which means shadow humans and when small i thought they were my deceased ancestors. Then i forgot about them but kept seeing them, after which they started to make me feel watched as you so fitting put it
I know them also as shadow people and I experienced all this also in my childhood and later in life. But through this times I would say I wasn't emotionally stable. I would also say you are more receptive or open when you struggle emotionally with something. I also had other experiences but I mainly feel not anxious. I'm more curious and observing.
@@julie3722 that's so interesting because I have been severely mentally ill for decades, doctors thought I was schizoeffective and hallucinating, but I never saw anything. Which was really rude pathologizing on behalf of schizoeffective people and indigenous spirituality. I've always believed what people can see and thought that I was spiritually underdeveloped if I couldn't perceive certain things. I would get scared random times what if a being shows up right now, I would haywire. Now i keep hoping. It must have been stressful to be emotionally struggling and seeing too
I used to see shadow people in my school, when I was younger. They were so present, that I always asked myself why no one else could see or feel them.
It's so uncanny. The way you describe watchers and their effects reminds me of my parent's master bedroom. It was an exhausting presence that would cause people to have identical nightmares, shift your mood from great to sucking all the happiness from your soul etc
i am so glad you decided to tell more about them, after Annie's story i became invested
Who’s Annie? Is there a video link to her story?
@@zingara76 I think they refer to The Full Story of Last Year's Haunting by The Green Witch (Annie).
@@momententierchen2008 Ohh Thanks, the green witch and her furniture. Got it
Really enjoy this video. As a professional who conducts paranormal consultations and clearings, I would likely categorize this as an attachment. The energy isn't necessarily interested in actually hurting you, they just want to feed from you by making you feel certain things or behave certain ways. They get in by attacking the mind, through clairaudience, placing ideas, things like that. Also your peers we're onto something! Water, while cleansing a lot of the times, is extremely activating as well. I love this video, I hope you're doing so well. Can't wait for the next one. 🤗
I agree, the Watchers are also known as fallen angels.
@@sarahmagnuson4241 I'm curious, could you elaborate? Have not heard that
Thankyou, I thought I was going crazy too. I've had a spirit lurking around me since my child was born 17 months ago. At first I thought it was postnatal deppresion and started to question my sanity, I've grown more protective of my daughter who is now experiencing psychic awareness like myself possibly through my female line, we do have gypsy heritage on my grandfather's side.
This spirit will not cross over at all and is very stubborn, seems to want to drive me crazy but my witchy spirit will not allow it. I've saged and cleansed my home but one room is now uneasy where I change my child and get her dressed but her nursery is very protected.
I would love to seek more professional help but a bit weary
That’s really interesting-
I wonder about “intrusive thoughts” and then…
“Intrusive ideas”
@@Coffeeismylifeblood Hey, omg so sorry I'm just seeing this! So I can't prescribe or diagnose, but intrusive thoughts can be linked to empathic & mediumistic ability through clairaudience. but it would vary on a case by case scenario.
Thank you for sharing! When I was little I used to see "shadow people" in mirrors and things like T.V screens. Freaked me out so much but now as an adult I feel better about it and even so now I read the comments and see other people see them too- very validating and comforting.
I used to see a shadow person in my bedroom at night when I live across from an old country Quaker church and graveyard. It would black out the light from the night light completely. At first I used to think it was my dad but nope. No one there. It used to scare me horribly. (Not the only things I used to see).
I’ve never heard someone else mention also seeing things in reflective surfaces such as mirrors, screens, glass, etc. Seeing your comment definitely made my day and probably my week, thank you ❤
Funnily enough, a watcher stopped by right as I was watching this video. Right next to my house, there used to be a large property with an apple orchard, a pear orchard, a big hill, and and even bigger mansion. This whole property was a HUGE source of energy for the whole neighborhood. The pear orchard and the hill were at the front of the property, hiding the house and apple orchard behind it. Both the pear orchard and hill were very inviting and friendly feeling, and the owners of the property let all the kids come play in just those two areas. I believe the hill was the land spirit of the area. A really inviting, cozy sort of spirit. My area used to have a lot of hills until they were removed for houses, it was one of two left in my neighborhood, and it was the center point of my entire neighborhood. I remember feeling so close to my friends who lived on the other side of it, and now I feel oddly disconnected. The apple orchard was tucked in the back corner of the property. That was the fae's place. It wasn't scary or anything, but it definitely was like, this is not yours, you better be respectful. If a ball accidentally rolled into the apple orchard, kids would always be really quiet and slow when retrieving it. Now, about six months ago, a big real estate company bought the whole property and tore everything down. Ever since then, fae activity has pretty much stopped. And it's definitely been a lot harder to practice since then. The company has been pretty unsuccessful getting people to buy plots of land for houses, so there's just this giant gaping hole where so much life used to be. Occasionally there's a house or two, but they look very ominous and alone in this big darkness, especially at night. This has kinda bled into the empty spaces of my backyard. The back patio and our deck being the only real comforting places at night now. I believe that once the land spirit was removed, and all the fae, there was this giant negative space where many watchers and other spirits have kind of filled in. Now, almost every time I do any sort of working, there's watchers quite literally at my back door. I had a pretty bad run in with a particularly malicious one a few months back. Anyways, I was working on a quilt for my little sister this evening, listening to witchy stories on TH-cam as I often do. I always try to imbue just a little magick into the quilts I make, trying to make them this sort of magickal safe space I guess. My brother was upstairs for a moment while I was doing this, and I had some incense going that he didn't like. He jokingly opened the back door and kind of swung it a few times to clear out the smoke and then opened all the windows. That's when I noticed an immediate change. Funnily enough, there wasn't any weird feeling about the front windows, only the back. The worst part of the whole room was the largest back window that no longer has a screen on it. Bad energy was just flooding into the room. I shooed my brother downstairs and grabbed one of my chicken's eggs, and swept around the whole room and myself, before chucking it off my balcony and into the empty property next door. I then lit some candles, said a simple little invocation, and moved on. Really not too bad. I think it is pretty funny I just happened to be watching this video when it happened though.
I would personally love a spirit catalog myself. Loved the video!
Haha I know, but it’s too much to take on at the moment. Maybe in the future!
@@TheWitchOfWonderlust i understand, of course! Thank you, i love your work!
honestly my parents homes have always felt so bad. But being near the house they have now makes me and my gf sick, like its just draining you down to a reactive clusterfuck the longer you stay. kinda like tons of medium sized dogs hungry and waiting patiently, just slowly circling.
Used to have a weird coyote right before we moved outta tucson too. He'd hop on top of a 6ft wall to watch us, super nasty vibes. I'm glad I've learned a bit more abt what I feel tho
Perfectly timed video!! I am currently trying to help a friend learn enough to banish a watcher who is being particularly disruptive in her home!
I've experience something similar in my childhood home. My friends experienced it while I was away with family, and I allowed them to stay over. I always felt something, and I believe it was also the cause of my childhood night terror, a repeating dream of a red desert with a red sky, with geometric shapes vibrating so intensely that I felt I'd be ripped apart, only waking when the whole scene would implode onto me with the feeling of claustrophobia and feelings likened to chalk on a chalk board.
this being, however, did eventually present itself one night when I was alone in the spare room as the painted walls dried in my own room.
I heard what s9ounded like someone coming up the stairs, pressing down on the wooden banister and making its way across the landing all while the house was empty, I could see through the crack of the door that nobody was there, but I felt and heard it like there was, I knew the sounds of the house i'd grown up in.
the moment it reached the door, it paused, and the door moved wider as if by a breeze, which there was none. I felt it enter, and as it did, I felt it seemingly teleport from one side of the room to the other, next to my bed. It was huge. I couldn't see it but feel its shape and size. twice the height of a human with a thin frame in comparison, full of envy. It hung over the bed because the ceiling prevented it from standing upright and I could feel it trying to initiate fear in me to begin the feeding cycle, ultimately creating a loop that would strengthen my fear.
I reacted as any sane person would leaning away, saying "okaaaaay".
I turned the light on and stayed up until I could no longer hold my eyes open.
the next day I burned a pile of incense in a brass bowl, closing the door, envisioning light filling the room. after a while I returned and opened the windows.
I've not felt it since, although it could be anywhere in the house I suppose.
The imposing nature of this room is a peaceful one after these events.
I know it appeared to come upstairs but something told me that it originates in that room, the movement outside of it was actually still in that room, metaphysically speaking.
I love the ambiance music and the way the room looks
I have anxiety and depression and watching your videos is calming . Thank you ❤
much energy to you
Four years ago I had an experience with a “watcher” being and this makes so much sense looking back because of magic that I started practicing. The light that magic shines in the spiritual realm was so bright it attracted this being, that was wolf-like, predatory. It gave me a sense of anxiety and my heart raced when I woke up, and that anxiety was something I never felt before. It was different. Like someone watching your every move from the shadows. Finally seeing this video I have a better understanding of what I dealt with and now I must go create protections and wards ✨
Are y'all sure you're not just fucking with your minds and hallucinating?
@@whatabouttheearth Exact words of a skeptic.
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Who me? I am a skeptic, that's not something to feel bad about, blindly believing or fantasizing while acting like you are not is, and I'm talking about eclecticism outside of the context of entheogenic or trance experience. You will never understand the natural world without a certain level of materialist philosophy and alot of science.
@@whatabouttheearth You know not of what you speak.
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How erudite of a protection behind vagueness.
That is fascinating that they are drawn to water areas. I haven't heard that before but it makes so much sense as the place I've experienced them the most was an island. I believe there is a connection to limestone or that perhaps it acts as a kind of holder of spiritual energy that draws them. I once heard them described as a spiritual pleco fish and It's always stuck with me because it fits them so well lol. Great video!
When I saw {over tea} I immediately put the kettle on, always nice to sit and listen especially on a chilly day like today. Thank you for the video and have an awesome Halloween!
😂 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑜.. 𝐿𝑜𝑙
Ive seen watchers before myself. ive always had intense experiences with spirits but watchers always have a weird hold on me.Their stature their eys always stay in my memory, their white, bleak hollow eyes. everytime I see one my energy is drained. i think your description of them as energy leeches was perfection. again your videos are such an amazing and refreshing in my normal viewings.
Oh, i love, love, love over teas! I would love to see you do more of those. Just casually speaking about different aspects of practice from your personal point of view or experiences with the spirits, energy, etc... I could watch that all day.
This makes me think of the basement in my childhood home. It felt like there was someone else with you in the basement. Not a mean or negative presence, more curious. Like they wanted to know why we were in their space. And it was their space. We could use the basement, but it never felt like it was ours.
Thank you so much for this video! Lately I’ve been dealing with more spirits and entities. It makes sense when you say the more magick that you do, the more spirits will become attracted to you. I’m also someone who had been going through a lot so spirits tend to be attracted to be people who are facing life issues/difficulties. I think a video idea that would be cool is possibly a cloaking your aura spell/creating a protective veil to prevent some spirits bothering you and pushing them away. Happy Halloween 🎃
A spiritual advisor who my mom married said that people who are more in tune shine brighter to things on the other side. I feel like you’re spot on about practicing only amplifies it
Thanks so much for sharing your experience, Olivia!! It helps so much with these things to hear what others have directly experienced. If you ever feel called to create more content on spirits and working with them, it would be welcome!
I once heard a story about things similar to watchers, similar in how they feed off of energy. These ones stir up negative energies, draining and causing their victims to spiral. Violent or suicidal tendencies rise until either the entity is removed or the person eventually does something that cannot be taken back. Reminds me a bit of the "advanced watchers" as you called them.
This video makes me finally feel at ease and that I am not the only one who has felt or seen this. Thank You Olivia for all your amazing knowledge you share!!
I think me and my family had an incident with a watcher, I never saw it but I could feel it. Every single time I would go into the garage to do laundry or even to grab something I could feel it watching me. I thought I was making it up until my mom eventually asked me if I felt like something in the garage like she did, she's even more skeptical than I am so I knew something was up even my sister wouldn't go in there. Eventually it started to get more comfortable and would stand RIGHT BEHIND you if you went in there, most unnerving experience of my life. Eventually it got so bad the thing followed me into the house which it never did before I banished it back to the garage and then my mom's indigenous gave her some sage and told her to smudge the whole house. Thankfully it hasn't come back.
My thought when she was describing the story about the table is that this entity deliberately targeted her. The way she described the urge to stop what she was doing to go the shop and buy this specific table sounded very intentional on the part of the spirit. That ties into the idea that in the spirit realm or astroplane that your energy can "shine brighter" and make you a target. I think these entities are deliberately trying create fear and negative energy that they can feed on. Makes me wonder if a lot of the conflict we see in the world around us is actually being incited by these kinds of creatures to manifest a food source.
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@@cannuck3577 Thanks! I learned a new word!
I appreciate that you made this video so much! I never had anybody to talk to about the spirits/energies that I saw or felt as a child or an adolescent ... not even friends. When I did finally say something, my dad threatened to have me admitted to the mental hospital. I didn't shut down my sensitivity then, that came later. It's been about 30+ years since I have allowed in any energies, aside from my beloved deceased, and I now find myself called to "open up". I'm terrified. I'm terrified and I know that the work must be done. Your account and your experience is largely helpful, so again, thank you for making this video. ❤
Thank you Olivia. Ive been seeing “watchers” for decades but never really knew that it was a thing. None ever really bothered me much. After cleansings and protection charms it would quiet. But if I didnt brush the charms up, id get that feeling of being watched again. Luckily I have never had to perform a banishing. But the deeper I get into practice, its clear I need to know how as the trouble makers do occasionally like to play.
Sounds a lot like the shadow people I ran into back in Cheyenne. They seemed to thrive on inciting fear so they could feed off of it. Wonderful video as always!
Recently, I sat in a hospital visiting room. I was alone but speaking to a gifted friend on the phone. I felt the energy change. It became fuzzy. I listened and felt a presence. Then many many presences. I knew these were souls who had not fully crossed over.
I asked my phone friend to help me perform psychopomp work as I am trained to help in that way. Together, she and I helped these souls complete their journey. Immediately, I felt the presence of a matriarch. She hugged me and whispered in a sweet voice that they were the souls who had passed on that floor and that she was the guardian of that space. She noticed me and knew I could/would help. I am grateful to have been guided to notice and to be able to offer assistance.
Be well
Interesting and relatable experiences you are describing. I did a course on shamanistic techniques (from a practicioner who slid sideways into shamanism from witchcraft) And as one of the practicum days we went to this ancient landcape, a sparsely forested heath with a dozen or so bronze age burial mounds, some so ancient they are just spots in the landscape, others still clearly hill like.
We were sent on our own to explore, visit these places and note what we felt and experienced. The fun thing is, when people came back, they had similar experiences to one another, and these also corresponded with the teachers own experiences and those of students of previous years. One exception was one guy who came from a certain site shivering and feeling drained, urging me to stay out of there. I am always a bit perky in such situations so i just went on anyway.
But the interesting thing was: the teacher had previously advised us to bring some offerings. Since the sites were bronze age, she advised us to not bring stuff like tobacco incense or stuff from other continents (her reasoning being that european bronze age people didnt know tobacco, white sage or sandalwood) So she advised stuff like ochre flour or fruits. So i had brought apple cake.
I approached each site with a small mental prayer like "hi, my name is Kira and id like to come visit you if thats ok. Here i brought you this gift. it is a cake baked with apple inside" and i would place the cake first, then see if i was wanted. I did so with that place too. I had zero problems.
The place was pretty neutral to me. But i did get the feeling what was the problem. That place felt like a place that asked for 'sacrifice' in the broadest sense of the word, a form of 'taking/sucking' energy. And bcs i offered something freely, the place took that. The guy that came from there shivering was the only member of the group that had not brought any offerings. So i guess the spirits assumed hew as the offering and took of him what met their fancy. So even there we had the same experience just a different side of it.
Love your videos a lot, and you look stunning! If you ever feel like divulging the magic that does that, let this old crone know please 🤣
Thank you for this video, Olivia! I used to have a lot of scary spiritual experiences when I was little, which was why I got into my craft later on. Knowing that I’m not alone in those experiences affirms me in my abilities as a practitioner ❤
The whole saga of the haunted table has been fascinating, and this is an excellent chapter! Your theories make a lot of sense and give me much to ponder.
I had to deal with a poor spirit that had all the attributes of a watcher (E.I, feeling a tall, gaunt, unnerving presence. Energy leech) but it also had a kind of scary ability to create chaos that it also fed on, i don’t know if that was just the people in my houses reaction to it being here. But i know chaos correlated to it being here and that it liked to feed on that chaos. I began living with my mom again and our interactions got so emotionally violent, so I had to get rid of it. Lord it was a scary time 😅
I loved this more in depth explanation Olivia. Fascinating to hear how they were all around you during the Hecate course. Really appreciated the further explanation of Annie's Watcher. Perfect video for Halloween 🎃 Saw you in the Chat of Hearth's Live Q & A . Would love to see a collab with you and Hearth. ❤
My parents’ property has a watcher. It can’t get into the house for some reason, but it’s on the property. Before we moved there, I liked to sleep with the curtains open. Even after we moved I would leave my blinds open at night. However, when I moved from an upstairs bedroom to one on the ground floor, I started getting this awful feeling like I was being watched whenever I had the curtains open after dark, and sometimes even during the day. I got into a habit of sleeping with the curtains drawn, and whenever I would go into the kitchen to get a snack or something, I would be able to feel it watching me through the windows out there. I assumed it was my imagination getting the better of me bc I was on the ground floor and the idea that someone COULD be watching me was scary. But now I live in a basement apartment and I don’t have any issues with the curtains being open, so I’m quite convinced it’s a watcher. Every time I spend a night at my parents’ the feeling returns, and it vanishes the second I leave.
0:01 and you got me screaming "GURL THE AESTHETIC IS SO ON POINT AS ALWAYS DAMN OLIVIA"
Thankyou for this video, my son and I have experienced a watcher entity in my home art studio one evening. It was ridiculously tall and long limbed and it would hover over my artwork and create nightmares which would evoke fear and anger and feed off it. I only realised this when we all seemed to have similar dreams and wake up feeling angry or fearful. Eventually I had enough of the tactics and asked it to leave countless times and it would for sometime but then return again. It's funny you called the watcher Zane, my son had a similar experience with an entity he named Zane too.... It would talk to him and enjoyed fire and chaos and manipulation. It drove me mad for a while before I banished it from our previous home. It's interesting to hear others accounts on these beings.
We used to have these "watchers" existing outside of the first apartment that I lived in after moving out on my own. Our roommate who was also sensitive to spirits and energies said that he saw dark, lanky spirits outside behind our apartment out in the parking lot. They never got into the apartment but they made the living room/balcony VERY unnerving. I never knew what they were until this whole situation with Annie. After watching the rest of the video, I also want to point out that where I live used to be swampland that was built up to be lived on and to accommodate roads and such. It floods like crazy here, so I guess watchers love bodies of water and swamps.
This is an amazing channel. Everything about it just delivers so much genuine knowledge that I can most definitely appreciate it. Thank you so much for this content.
My house is very old, built in the 1880s, and the basement is very rudimentary: stone walls, crumbling and dusty, etc. There’s a sort of enclave, a small outcropping of a room; it’s dark, and the ceiling is low, and ever since I was a kid I knew there was something in there. I’ve never seen anything, but i have an image in my head eerily similar to what you described. It’s pale and lanky, its mouth is open, and it’s crouching, watching. It’s never left that room in all the years I’ve lived here so I’ve never felt the need to do anything about it, but it’s so interesting how similar it is to your experience and other comments I’ve read on here.
Honestly just videos of you talking about the different experiences you’ve had with different entities would be so amazingly interesting to listen to. Love your content Olivia 🖤🖤✨✨
This was a really interesting video thank you for that! I've worked a bit with house cleansings here in Sweden and although most of the energies I've encountered are dead relatives or confused spirits lingering, sometimes I get in contact with different kind of entities so to speak. I've never heard of the term watchers other then in a horror movie I think with that name, but I can definitely relate to that in terms of what kind of "vibe"I get sometimes in certain houses. I've started to walk the shaman path now and it's very interesting to see how the witchy world and the shaman world are talking about the same thing, only in different words.
I can tell you have a lot of knowledge and I will definitely continue following your channel! Thank you 😊 🙏 /Josefin from the noth of Sweden
Ahhh I’m always so excited when I see you’ve posted. Your videos are so entertaining and visually pleasing 🌷✨
I appreciate that, Emily~
It was funny actually when you mentioned hollowed out eyes and a gaping mouth as characteristics of watchers. I ran into one a few years ago. I would have been, what, 14?? We were heading to the snow here in Australia, and we were staying in one of the little overnight houses in Hunter Valley. The house we were in was fine, clean, looked new, blah blah blah blah blah. The centre room, however, felt really weird. It felt off, and I told my parents about it. They said there was nothing, and even mum said: “yeah, it’s fine. Nothing’s gonna hurt you.” (Mum is like a spirit magnet and can often read those things really well. Though now I’m thinking she said that not to scare me, but she did feel something there hahaha). I felt it on top of the table and right at the wooden light piece/chandelier. I had to sleep in that same room on the couch in front of the fireplace, and I went around trying to cleanse the place with a spray I had made. It worked for a few hours, but it had come back in the evening anyways (because I had nothing for protection). I reluctantly went to sleep, and had these dreams of a person in there who looked like me, but with those hollowed out eyes and that gaping mouth, and I felt this pain in the back of my neck. I was in the bathroom and saw it in the mirror every time. I kept screaming in the dream and whatnot, and every time I woke up, I would look to that light piece and it was slowly rotating. There was no draft mind you, so nothing but someone moving it would have made it move. I had this dream again and again every time I closed my eyes and it was in different rooms with mirrors every time.
I guess I can now say I experienced a watcher hahaha. Was not fun
It's great that younger witches are connecting to the spirit world. There was a problem for a while when witches neglected the spirits, and just focused on spells and ritual. Witches have always served and worked with the spirits. The Watchers, however, are also a name for the Four Grigori (Lords of Karmer, Watchtowers) and the Watchers who were fallen angelic forces who came to earth to teach humankind arts and sciences such a cosmetics, weapons, astrology, magick, herbalism etc. If we use the term Watchers with older witches, they will think of the four Watchtowers. Blessed be
That drawing instantly caught my attention, it's them! Everything you said is just spot on with all the experiences I had (I just call them "shadows", I know it's a little reductive). Never thought about banishing spells or something similar, I always let them be even though they can cause some sort of discomfort when they are too close (chills are the first thing to happen, it's like they suck your heat even when it's 100°F outside), that's why I try to politely stay at a safe distance. If they want to watch they can watch... I just try to not watch them do it. If I recall correctly, Don Juan told about something similar to Carlos Castañeda in A Separate Reality, which I think it's the closest to my approach to the matter.
The watchers I had in my old house I lived in were fine for a while until they got closer. It was such a distinct difference from them being across the room verses right next to your bed looking at you. I didn’t get open mouths but large eyes with no lids to blink. Very small mouths in an unsettling frown. Instead of a breathing in like a leech, it felt more like they were trying to pull your soul out with their eyes. Like if you looked at them they would strike with their long arms and large hands and grab you. I always felt like if I looked in their general direction then they would notice that I noticed them. It got so bad that I would cover my entire self with my blanket because I could just FEEL them staring at me.
Thank you so much for this video. I’ve been feeling incredibly tired, I have an autoimmune disease and have been dealing with the worst flair up I’ve ever had. I’d started to suspect something else was draining my energy as, I’ve just been feeling ‘off’ beyond what I usually deal with with my health. Last night before bed I asked for clarity in the form of a dream. I had a vivid dream where this weird skinny man with no face was following me around. I asked another person in the dream what is was and they said it was a ‘watcher.’ This morning I started researching what that could be and found this video. It’s so relieving to know what the heck this thing is. I’m planning to try your banishing video and see if that gets rid of it.
I LOVE this look. So fierce.
Thank you~
This is timely. I think I had to push one out of my house two nights ago. I pushed SOMETHING out that didn't want to go, and your description of Watchers fits the feeling.
Love the comparison with a jellyfish! The immediate word that came to mind was filter feeder. Simple, but still bone chilling 😵💫
When you say “hollowed out eyes” I yelled from my bed “THROW A LEMON AT IT!”
I’m glad you will be an elder one day. ❤
I had one of these in my bedroom growing up. It was that same uncomfortable feeling and now I have a word for them. Thank you! Your content is always wonderful to watch, thank you for everything you have, are, and might put out ❤
I only ever encountered spirits like this once, and that was when I moved to my current home 17 years ago. My home is in the country, and while there is absolutely nothing wrong with the house itself, the hill to the northeast of my property had a watchfulness to it that I just never could shake off. Whenever I was outside, especially in the part of the property just below this particular wooded hill, I would sense a somewhat unsettling observation coming towards me, and my mom confirmed much the same thing. It even followed our truck when we would drive north to head to the store, following us through the valley. Eventually as I warded this place the presence seemed to be pushed aside, and the only time that it's showed up again over the last few decades was around my sister-in-law when she was out on a walk on the road above my property and cutting through the trees. I know that there is a Native American burial ground on that hill, but it is quiet and peaceful, so that is not the presence. Hearing you in this video actually helped me understand that such things are more common than we'd care to think about.
I love that you shared this. I remember starting to see a man, of similar nature as a young child. But at the same time there was always a second spirit between us. I know now that the spirit between us, which grew to more than one as I got older, were my ancestors protecting me. However this ‘watcher’ I would see mainly at home, especially if I forgot to cleanse or bless it, otherwise I could see it outside my home almost like you described. But what was the weirdest was I started seeing it at work after a while and just a bit later I entered the world of paranormal hunting for about three years. During that time it would always be there but it was almost as if to say to whatever else was around ‘don’t touch her, she’s mine’
Soon after my group had a horrible experience that broke the group apart through a few members dying unexpectedly or marital issues. It was odd. That’s when I began to really take protection seriously. I Don’t have the same experiences since then, but occasionally it’s like it comes back to visit. Just to remind me, this winter being the last time when I found my locked patio door, wide open around midnight. It happened for a week and not since I upped the protection. Really I look at it as a narcissistic soul, that is too stubborn to admit it’s wrong doings and did their own peace, attempting to steal who’s they can find around them.
Anyway. It was pretty amazing to hear another talk about this. So thank you ❤
Thank you for sharing such personal interactions with us, it's really helping me to understand the experiences that I have had and still have, and how to feel and deal with them. The beacon analogy makes so much sense, I can see how spirits would want to come and see what's going on, what's new.. then get used to it or board once they know and understand.. I wonder what they see and feel when looking at us, maybe we are spirits to them..? Anyway, thank you again for all of your time, content, and beautiful videos, it's one of my main go to's. Have a beautiful day!
When I began practicing, I remember going to my altar one day and just feeling a sense of dread that I could not feel anywhere else. I would move around the room and the feeling was just there on the altar. It scared the bejeezus out of me and I burned some herbs and it went away. Thank you for this explanation - I never really figured out what that was!
Pretty darn sure my childhood home was just a magnet for Watchers. My sisters and I had experienced things and energies exactly like you're describing throughout our lives, but particularly in that house.
And the fact that my most intense run-ins with them were just after I'd started practicing makes SO MUCH SENSE now that I've learned more about them.
Ok i have to say how thrilled i am that you both did a follow up video to last years haunting. I love sequels lol i also appreciate you telling your personal story as i grew up in a haunted house and it was hard to talk about until recently.
I finally have an answer, thank you ❤️ So much of this gives validation to my intuition of what I thought was happening to me since we purchased a new house. You have given me courage to continue my journey x Now, to learn how to banish the watchers manipulating my life toward destruction.
I was having some unnerving nightmares a few months ago and a common one when I’m stressed or uneasy is very grudge like with a creeper hiding up in a dark corner just watching. Usually it’s just that I’m stressed and with the mornings rush it quickly fades from memory but I did feel a bit of lingering unease in my bedroom for a couple days. Luckily for me it was as simple as regarding the corner I felt the presence and politely asking them to leave please. Worked like a charm haha 😂 I hadn’t ever heard of anyone naming these entities in particular before some of these videos lately though!
Reminds me of this entity from a childhood home of mine.
It stalked the woods around where we lived. The difference between it and a watcher is that this thing definitely felt dangerous. You had that eyes on you at all times kind of feeling, but there was a malignant, predatory aura. It wanted to hurt you or make you hurt yourself.
I don't know what this thing was, but it still haunts those woods. To this day if I go back there, those eyes will be on me.
This is why I have found it is so important to have a spirit familiar who can add more protection and also banish malevolent spirits from infesting your life and draining your emotions and energies.
Thank you for your honesty! This is something that many TH-cam Witches refuse to acknowledge...
Thank you for sharing this. It gives me chills how much what you speak of overlaps and aligns with my own experiences. It’s also a relief to know I wasn’t just making it up-that there are others out there who have shared the same experience.
It's wild how I was talking about this last night to someone, relating it to something my partner said about my own home. Thank you for the video and information!
Dang, so much clarity🙏🏽 as always, I can’t thank you enough🥰👁🗨
I had an experience years ago of waking up in a B&B with the distinct feeling I was being watched. It reminded me so much of what you described. Great video!
My favorite part of this video was when you were tells the story about your friends going into the different rooms of your house and taking personal notes on the energy or spirits they intuited. I want to do this with my friends!
Thank you for this! I felt like I was being watched, especially in my own bedroom. I got this hand painted guitar for my birthday a few years ago. When I walked into my room, especially during night time hours, it would strum lightly. Like someone was picking a cord or two. My mom and I ‘cleaned’ it and the house, haven’t heard from them since!
Great and really helpful video as always. I am so thankful to have stumbled upon one of your books on reddit which lead to me discovering you and some other creators here on TH-cam.
I cannot thank you enough for the effort and time you put into creating videos and content for us.
I was always been interested in mythology and other topics that have to do with witchcraft and always felt something of a "calling" in this direction, but I've only now decided to explore this. Your channel and your content in general has been so helpful for me, you explain everything in an understandable way even for a beginner like me.
I also feel like I approach witchcraft with the respect it deserves due to your content - not with fear, but with respect.
Thank you so much again for your content and the work that you put into it. It's highly appreciated!
ohhhh i see what you mean, here in Brazil we usually refer to them as obsessors, idk if it’s the same for you, but for us it’s a really vague term that encompasses from spirits of the dead who are using your energy to very dangerous spirits sent by curse-like magic, the more they’re dangerous, more high ranking they are. these watchers for us would be very low ranking obsessors, and they’re everything you described :)
Dear Olivia,
I’m late to the party because I finally worked up the courage to watch this video.
You very eloquently put to words an experience I had when I was around twelve years old (I’m 38 now). My family moved from an apartment to a rented house and the house itself was… just gloomy, especially on the ground floor, which was also the basement (kind of built into the hillside).
On this floor there was my parents’ bed room, a storage room and a guest bed room as well and the energy there was exactly the way you described. I absolutely did not like being in there. It encompassed the entire ground floor but was strongest inside the guest bed room.
I have suffered from insomnia since I was very young, but once we moved there it just went through the roof (along with my anxiety). My parents were not understanding AT ALL (not surprising, they were abusive well before living there). I even remember my father getting into a fight with old friends who were staying with us briefly while we lived there (we never heard of them again).
We had to move again after living there for little over a year and despite living in a very old house for years afterwards, I didn’t experience anything like this again.
My goodness, your channel has come so far since I first started watching
That pulled things nicely together. A different perspective from mine, but clearly the same phenomena. I think of mine as a wyrm rather than an insect. Like the waterspout entity in The Abyss. She shows considerable shapeshifting prowess though. We've connected pretty well. It all started off a bit like the big bad wolf trying to huff and puff and blow my house down, which to be fair she did succeed in doing, in that I did end up without a house, so I ended up in a tent during Storm Francis, huffing and puffing even more. Eventually once the big bad wolf managed to get in, I showed it a decent British level of hospitality, and we were soon on friendly terms.
15:40 my mother used to be a manager at a lakeside restaurant and although I never saw the watchers I definitely have gotten a feeling like you've described many times
I find it interesting that you mentioned Hekate because i also noticed more Watchers arriving at my place when i first started working with her. There was always a Watcher in my bedroom, just standing at the corner behind the door. He wouldn't do anything and honestly, i got used to him and i didn't mind having him there. However, the moment Hekate called me and i replied, i've had so many Watchers popping up, it became heavy. It took A LOT of effort to get rid of them. My first attempts did not work and i had to try again several times. I guess that's why many witches warn you against working with Hekate if you're still very new to the practice.
I watched her video about 20 minutes ago. I then searched for something completely different & found your channel . Ive been randomly choosing different videos of yours to watch & it just so happens to be about the video I watched just a few moments ago.
I appreciate your videos !
So that's what was lurking in my old bedroom in my parents house!!
There were two in there when I lived with my parents. One that my mom and I call the "shadow man" who is more of a harmless mischievous presence, and the "watcher" in my old bedroom that no one liked to be in because of this unsettling feeling of being watched. He manifested himself first when I first started practicing witchcraft at 12 years old.
The "watcher" isn't there anymore since I did a banishing spell, but the "shadow man" still pulls practical jokes on my mom from time to time.
Wait, did we grow up in the same house??! Lol I am so appreciative of this video, it really helps almost clarify a mystery of my own experience with an interesting entity I had once in my childhood home. We were always aware of at least one spirit in our home, never meant harm. But the one I saw I know in gut was completely different, just a tall black cloaked figure with a long white face and dark sunken eyes, it’s head nearly touched the ceiling and length stretched to hovering just above the carpet. I bolted out of my room yelling for my parents needless to say not knowing what the hell I just saw, and what’s kinda funny, in retrospect, the look on their face seemed almost shocked like they were just as surprised that I could see them too lol never saw them again though but always wondered who/what they could’ve been. Thank you for your openness on such wonderful topics!
Oh I definitely remember watchers from my childhood. What an interesting way of looking at this. I often think of magic and spirit work as some sort of language for everyday problems and situations we have to deal with. Watchers have been common in my childhood and now I have a name for it and also a description. As I said, it's all very interesting, especially as nobody really had that understanding of the spirit realm while I was growing up. I'm sure I have encountered watchers in several guest bedrooms. Thanks Olivia. Blessed Samhain/Halloween/however you like to call it.
You look absolutely breathtaking Ms. Olivia!
This was so helpful! This is my intro to your channel very meant to be. I have suffered from these watchers since I was a child and am still vulnerable when tragedy hits my life on my own I’ve found intuitive techniques. This video helps me feel more inspired to take action and stronger to do so. Also be able to have more of a explained concept around their definition is very empowering. I can’t explain how validating and helpful this was thank you 🙏
My mom, my brother, and myself, we used to feel watchers on our staircase and in some of our doorways. Occasionally it still feels like they’re there but they were much more present when I was a child. It’s Halloween and my parents have had the house for 29 years now. We’ve just come to affectionately call our spirit roommate Shirley.
I super enjoyed this video. I'm a bit scared to go deeper into my practice because I'm afraid of attracting these spirits. I've come close, and I believe I felt one at one point, so I stopped doing anything 'interesting' and it seemed to have left haha. I did some basic protection with a strong intent just to be sure, but I always worry it's not enough lol.
Oh and I'm curious, why might one ask not to share a banishing with someone else? Geuinely curious, not making any assumtions :)
When I was little I would see them in old paintings and pictures..the kinds that great grandma hung up in the guest room. They never did anything...just moved the ... energy around the painting/picture.
Right off the bat I ADORE your top also your vibe is always amazing
I really enjoyed watching you grow throughout the years your videos give me comfort and I love the amount of witchy knowledge I've learned from you and other creators !
When you begin to exercise your banishing ritual, whatever it may be. Consider linking a gesture or an internal visualization to perform as part of your banishing ritual. As you become more confident you can achieve your banishing ritual with a bodily pose or a simple thought.
Wonderful presentation and lovely dress and hair! Very atmospheric! Shadow Folk, Shadow People, the Hat Man, the Hooded One(s), Watchers, etc., project a sort of unease that activates the amygdala and can cause paralyzation through the fear aspect... if one allows the sensation to overwhelm them. When you learn to overcome that sensation, you can watch the watchers. I learned how to "copy" their energy, in a sense. They stopped watching and even avoided me from that point forward. I've experimented with that same energy, shaping and expanding it. If I summon it up, all spirits seem to move away from me, though I am not precisely sure the reason why. The energy vampirism hypothesis seems to be accurate. Advanced ones can move through wards and resist banishment, though most wouldn't make the effort. At any rate, I learned the technique from exposure, but I don't use it much, anymore. It can become addictive, but also causes physical distress, as it's not really meant to be used by human beings... stay safe.
We named them vigils. Latin for watcher. The first one we encountered was latched to me. I was the most active in practicing and we. And to understand it as something that monitored a particular persons spiritual activity. Through study and divination it was shown that the vigils we encountered were either neutral, benevolent, or malevolent. I won’t go into depth but this opened up the window to study them and the shadow beings that came with them. Other shadows were what we called bottom feeders seeking energy but they were like the fish that swim under the shark. I was lucky in having a vigil that through intimidating encounters and divination, urged me in the right direction when using magick. Keeping me in the gray and closer to the light. Some of the other vigils I’ve come across that had attached or as we felt were assigned to upcoming promising practitioners, were not always in that persons best interest.
So, I currently live with my parents in my childhood home, in my childhood bedroom, and I know I have watchers around that I've felt since I was very young. Since I have anxiety, one thing that helps me is keeping my curtains open pretty much all the time, because I can see outside and know for sure whether someone is physically out there or if it's a paranormal thing. Really helps me feel less creeped out somehow.
I love how much time you put in these videos and I love watching them and you are the one who made me want to start making videos of witchcraft and stuff so what I'm saying here is thank you
This video popped up right after I just yelled at a watcher to go away. When you said you imagine seeing a gaping mouth trying to suck energy I got chills. There’s something outside my door with a giant mouth. It’s watching me and my spell candle.
Omg and you just said they linger near large bodies of water. There is a pond around 200 yards down the road. That’s wild!
Wtf. Super creepy and I'm rarely creeped out. My sister says if I think its creepy, then its creepy. Chills.
Oh god the watcher spirits that wad talked about. It gave me a anxious feeling mainly because I didn't know how to explain what that type of presence was, you nailed it though!
My theory on it personally is that you have to take things in dimensionally. There are many dimensions and I don't need to rant and explain that as you probably already understand but I think some things can be remnants of a past life, random encounters, or a combo of both. Before I started watching your videos and getting interested in witchcraft I had a lot of encounters i.e. early age astral projecting I did. I think a lot of it too is just natural clairvoyance that we might have which explains maybe why we are directed to this lifestyle we desire. I know it has become a reason I have and I have a lot of scary, sometimes not scary encounters I've had to the point where physical items have appeared in my house on top of a lot of activity. Sorry for the long comment! But I believe somehow in my past life there was bad actions I've preformed or have messed with certain entities negatively and things like that follow you in every life. If you're interested I'd love to explain some of the situations in longer explanation but I don't want to make a wall of text more than this comment already is.