who's had an experience with a ghost

[all the same]

Mine are:

I live in a really old building built in 1917 (I think). Three things have happened since I've lived here:
1) every few nights while I'm drifting off to sleep, someone sits on the foot of my bed. I try to move around to recreate the feeling of weight just in case it was me that caused it, but it feels totally like someone sat at the foot of my bed
2) my closet door opens by itself
3) I was dog sitting for my parents and the dog was all excited about something in the living room, like she was greeting someone and wanted to play with them. I was laying in bed and thought it was a bit odd. Then all of a sudden, she screamed, like literally screamed, and jumped into my bed and hid under the covers shaking. This other time, I was at my friend's place across the hall from me and she was barking and growling at the corner of my friend's bedroom.

These incidents seldom happen and when the person sits at the foot of my bed, it's never creepy. It just feels sort of comforting or something. Very non-threatening. The dog incidents were REALLY freaky though!

Anyone got any they wanna share?

[skcin]

I haven't, but when we lived in our apartment my husband used to have bad dreams about some guy (or some thing) chasing him. He used to get weird feelings, esp up in the attic (chills, hair standing up on his neck, feeling that someone was there, etc.) When we moved, the dreams stopped.

Since we moved into our house, he has seen a dark figure several times. Once he was walking by the spare bedroom & thought he saw a man standing in the room. He looked again & nothing. The scariest time was when we were sleeping on the futon in our basement (it was 90 degrees & we didn't have AC yet.) He woke up & there was a man sitting on a chair staring at us. He closed his eyes, opened them again & there was nobody there.

I would tend to think he was bull****ting, except that: a) he gets scared out of his mind, b) he is embarrassed to tell others cuz he's worried they'll think he's nuts, and c) we found out after the "sightings" started that the woman who we bought our home from had lived there alone for the last 25 years. Her husband had died of a heart attack snow blowing the driveway, in the 70's.

[all the same]

Originally Posted by skcin

I haven't, but when we lived in our apartment my husband used to have bad dreams about some guy (or some thing) chasing him. He used to get weird feelings, esp up in the attic (chills, hair standing up on his neck, feeling that someone was there, etc.) When we moved, the dreams stopped.

Since we moved into our house, he has seen a dark figure several times. Once he was walking by the spare bedroom & thought he saw a man standing in the room. He looked again & nothing. The scariest time was when we were sleeping on the futon in our basement (it was 90 degrees & we didn't have AC yet.) He woke up & there was a man sitting on a chair staring at us. He closed his eyes, opened them again & there was nobody there.

I would tend to think he was bull****ting, except that: a) he gets scared out of his mind, b) he is embarrassed to tell others cuz he's worried they'll think he's nuts, and c) we found out after the "sightings" started that the woman who we bought our home from had lived there alone for the last 25 years. Her husband had died of a heart attack snow blowing the driveway, in the 70's.

Yikes! That made me remember waking up in the night and looking by my door seeing a tall figure walking out of my bedroom! My door was locked and there was no one home with me! Nearly crapped myself!

[dissention]

I have!

The apartment we lived in when I was younger had a family of a father and his two sons living in it before us. The eldest son hanged himself in one of the bedrooms (never knew which one) when his father wanted to move out of state. My mother left me alone one night to attend a graduation ceremony and before she left, she closed her bedroom windows and her bedroom door. Her room was adjacent to the living room, which I stayed in to watch TV for a few hours after she had left and then went to the bathroom to get ready for bed. When I came out of the bathroom and back into the living room, her bedroom door was wide open, as were her bedroom windows. Scared the living **** out of me.

A bunch of other weird things happened over the course of the five years we lived there, like slamming doors and stuff like that. There was another time when I was putting dishes away from the dishwasher when I was alone and I went to get the mail, only to come back and find that the dishes I had already put away were back in the dishwasher. My downstairs neighbor and I were convinced that building was haunted by something, not necessarily the ghost of some kid. Absolutely convinced.

[amber]

Originally Posted by dissention

I There was another time when I was putting dishes away from the dishwasher when I was alone and I went to get the mail, only to come back and find that the dishes I had already put away were back in the dishwasher. .

Not only is that freaky, but very inconvenient. Great, a ghost who undoes chores you just did! Fabulous!

[DrummerDeanna]

My sister also had an experience with dishes and perhaps ghosts...

we lived in this house when I was super small - like before I was 5 and one day my mom, dad and I went out - my sister stayed home - she was in 6th grade - and not allowed to use the oven.

Well being home alone she decided to make some cheese dip

Well she burned it - and the cheese was like baked to the bottom of the pot - she was going nuts trying to get it cleaned when she heard the car pull up - the pan was nowhere near clean - she ran to the window to see if the car was us - and it was ...

She ran back to the kitche and the pan was cleaned and put away - the water in the sink was gone etc...no signs of a cheese dip experiment gone wrong

Also in that house we'd hear footsteps all the time - and once in a while he's hear someone sit on the couch (it squeeked) - it was scary....I still remember some stuff at that house - even though we moved when I was 5

[all the same]

Originally Posted by amber

Not only is that freaky, but very inconvenient. Great, a ghost who undoes chores you just did! Fabulous!

That is so awesome! I was totally going to post that exact same thing until I read that you did already! Totally! To have a ghost that did the dusting every once and a while would be great. Instead, all I've got is some dink sitting on the end of my bed! I should tell him to get his fat ass off my bed and do some vacuuming the next time he's there!

[irishgrl]

Originally Posted by amber

Not only is that freaky, but very inconvenient. Great, a ghost who undoes chores you just did! Fabulous!

THAT sounds like a poultergeist, which is a mischievous ghost/spirit...

[irishgrl]

My brother was helping a buddy of his (who owned a bar/inn in the mountains--I think it was around Lake Tahoe) close up his bar one night. My brother went upstairs and started making sure the windows were all closed and locked for the night. He went room by room, down a long hallway. about midway, he passed thru this COLD spot but didnt think anything of it and finished closing/locking the rest of the windows/doors. As he finished at one end, and returned to where he started, he saw that a few of the first windows/doors were open and he KNEW he shut them. so he had to go back and do it all over again. pretty frustrating!

My daughter was with her husband in an building in Chico, I think it was the old Theater, and she was up in one of the balconies, when she experienced a COLD spot, and felt something brush against her leg. All of a sudden, she said she felt a small hand in hers! She then "saw" a young woman in a hoop skirt and wearing long over the elbow gloves (this was who was holding her hand).

I have another friend who used to own a historic home in downtown Martinez who said his house had several ghosts: At one time, his home used to be a Nunnery, but before that, it used to be a Boarding House in the Early part of the 20th century. apparently, there was a music teacher, and a young boy and the home owner himself who succumbed to the flu pandemic at the early part of the 1900's who still haunt the place. I stayed the night there one night but I was so freaked out that I got blotto so I wouldnt see any ghosties, and got SO sick but the weird thing is, it all ended up in the hood of my shirt, not a DROP on the pillow or sheets or anything....I musta done a Linda Blair in my sleep. its amazing I didnt die....to this day, I dont like wine.

[all the same]

Originally Posted by irishgrl

My brother was helping a buddy of his (who owned a bar/inn in the mountains--I think it was around Lake Tahoe) close up his bar one night. My brother went upstairs and started making sure the windows were all closed and locked for the night. He went room by room, down a long hallway. about midway, he passed thru this COLD spot but didnt think anything of it and finished closing/locking the rest of the windows/doors. As he finished at one end, and returned to where he started, he saw that a few of the first windows/doors were open and he KNEW he shut them. so he had to go back and do it all over again. pretty frustrating!

My daughter was with her husband in an building in Chico, I think it was the old Theater, and she was up in one of the balconies, when she experienced a COLD spot, and felt something brush against her leg. All of a sudden, she said she felt a small hand in hers! She then "saw" a young woman in a hoop skirt and wearing long over the elbow gloves (this was who was holding her hand).

I have another friend who used to own a historic home in downtown Martinez who said his house had several ghosts: At one time, his home used to be a Nunnery, but before that, it used to be a Boarding House in the Early part of the 20th century. apparently, there was a music teacher, and a young boy and the home owner himself who succumbed to the flu pandemic at the early part of the 1900's who still haunt the place. I stayed the night there one night but I was so freaked out that I got blotto so I wouldnt see any ghosties, and got SO sick but the weird thing is, it all ended up in the hood of my shirt, not a DROP on the pillow or sheets or anything....I musta done a Linda Blair in my sleep. its amazing I didnt die....to this day, I dont like wine.

It's hard not to laugh even when you're telling spooky stories because I keep looking down at those hilarious little jigging dudes! So funny!

Weird that you did a spot barf! Did your neck hurt in the morning from all that spinning? and you didn't do a backwards crab walk or anything, did you?

[bikerchic]

Originally Posted by skcin

I haven't, but when we lived in our apartment my husband used to have bad dreams about some guy (or some thing) chasing him. He used to get weird feelings, esp up in the attic (chills, hair standing up on his neck, feeling that someone was there, etc.) When we moved, the dreams stopped.

Since we moved into our house, he has seen a dark figure several times. Once he was walking by the spare bedroom & thought he saw a man standing in the room. He looked again & nothing. The scariest time was when we were sleeping on the futon in our basement (it was 90 degrees & we didn't have AC yet.) He woke up & there was a man sitting on a chair staring at us. He closed his eyes, opened them again & there was nobody there.

I would tend to think he was bull****ting, except that: a) he gets scared out of his mind, b) he is embarrassed to tell others cuz he's worried they'll think he's nuts, and c) we found out after the "sightings" started that the woman who we bought our home from had lived there alone for the last 25 years. Her husband had died of a heart attack snow blowing the driveway, in the 70's.

ooooo.kkkkkk. First there's the ghost that put the fridge back together, now this and I'm sharing a room with you

[amber]

Originally Posted by bikerchic

ooooo.kkkkkk. First there's the ghost that put the fridge back together, now this and I'm sharing a room with you

Me, too! I'm ghost free!!! Wait...two tauruses...I just realized that. ok. Maybe we'll have a ghost for our room that brings us snacks and drinks....

[all the same]

Should I whip out the next one?

I think I'm ready. When I was in Spain in October I was in a subway station. This one is super weird. My friend Tara and I were walking from one end to another and there was a man approaching us who basically looked like a homeless guy or a major sketchpad! My friend didn't notice him at all as he was approaching which was weird to me. I was watching him the entire time as we were walking. He was walking very slowly with his head down not looking up at all. As he crossed my path, he looked over at me and grunted with angry, evil, scary, pee your pants eyes. The grunting sound was absolutely demonic! I said to my friend "Did you just see that?" She had no idea what I was talking about. Seconds later, we turned around and the guy was no where to be found. The subway was one long tunnel with an entrance at either end only. There were no side exits. Scared the crap outta me!

[amber]

Originally Posted by all the same

Should I whip out the next one?

I think I'm ready. When I was in Spain in October I was in a subway station. This one is super weird. My friend Tara and I were walking from one end to another and there was a man approaching us who basically looked like a homeless guy or a major sketchpad! My friend didn't notice him at all as he was approaching which was weird to me. I was watching him the entire time as we were walking. He was walking very slowly with his head down not looking up at all. As he crossed my path, he looked over at me and grunted with angry, evil, scary, pee your pants eyes. The grunting sound was absolutely demonic! I said to my friend "Did you just see that?" She had no idea what I was talking about. Seconds later, we turned around and the guy was no where to be found. The subway was one long tunnel with an entrance at either end only. There were no side exits. Scared the crap outta me!

Omigod! That's really weird. Same thing happened to me, only it was a real guy. He yelled in my face. Now I'm starting to get jealous. How come I never see any ghosts? Except, of course, for the ghost of what I want to be, the ghost of the past that I live in, and the ghost of the future that I'm frightened of....

[skcin]

Originally Posted by bikerchic

ooooo.kkkkkk. First there's the ghost that put the fridge back together, now this and I'm sharing a room with you

You ain't skeered, is ya?