I have not.

*looks over shoulder*
But I am now scared.

BOO!!!

*Jumps a mile*

Yes I have seen, felt and talked to ghosts. The best places to try and catch sight of one is a cemetary or an old abandoned building such as a hospital, nursing home or prison/jail.

How to describe a ghost you have seen IRL is very difficult to say the least

Hmm.. :C I wanna knooow~

Hmmmmmm. Interesting, would love to have that ability.

Hate to break it to you but... they don't exist. But it still is fascinating how one's mind can misinterpret input, or even manufacture things which aren't even there. The brain is a mysterious and awesome thing. :3

please explain your thoughts? :o

Ghosts and ghost hunting is pseudoscience, nothing more. It's populated by hucksters who are either aware of what they do is bunk but sucker people into dropping cash on them, or are honestly misguiding themselves into manufacturing an experience that just isn't real.

The human brain is not a perfect organ. It is trivially easy to trick the brain into believing in a false reality. We are ruthless seekers of patterns, a product of evolutionary design, but sometimes our perceptions fail us, and pareidolia plays havoc with our senses. This covers the gamut of supposed supernatural occurrences, from the Virgin Mary in our toast, to ghosts, to palmists and tea readers, and every other fount of bullshit out there.

Cheers! :3

yeah I believe with you for the most part

I still think it'd be neat if I saw a ghost though! I mean if they were real. To be able to say I did and for the adrenaline rush.

Well, you can still get that adrenaline rush walking through a creepy basement. That's exactly what your genes are supposed to make you do. If we weren't a little wary going through such spaces, we'd be so much lion food. :P

Due to contrary beleif, spirits or ghosts, do exist. There is just too much emprical evidence to suggest otherwise. I have seen some things that can't be explained away as someone playing jokes, not to mention that there are documented accounts of people who do intteract with ghosts (both malevolent and harmless)

Heh. I have not heard of this evidence of which you speak, unless you consider doctored photos and personal accounts to be evidence. You see, unlike in the world of Justice, to a scientist, personal accounts are the LEAST RELIABLE SOURCE OF EVIDENCE. And what I say stands: people are easily fooled into believing things which never happened. It doesn't matter how passionate they are in their accounts, they can still be in error.

However, if you are still convinced that ghosts exist, why not take up the Randi Prize? He's offering $1 million to the first person who can prove the supernatural in a controlled, double-blind test. Don't let the fact that no one in the history of the prize has ever been successful deter you from your faith of spooks and ghouls!

Go to the discovery channels website. You know that the discovery channel is based on facts

The discovery channel is based on making money, nothing more nor less. Their credibility has gone down every year, and not coincidentally their random non-nature non-science random crap like blowing stuff up has gone up every year.

Their show "A Haunting" is one show that is based on eyewitness testimony and public documents

Unfortunately that's not really evidence.
Just because one person is relating something -they- couldn't explain doesn't mean that another in that situation would have taken it that way. :-/
Saying "I can't explain this, that means thus" isn't evidence, and is actually rather closed minded, not open. Because the people saying that have already stopped accepting information that might contradict what they want to believe.
So, back to the eyewitnesses. They're telling their story. But how warped has it gotten over the years? And how can we know they're relating -all- the information from the situation. We can be pretty certain they're not relating all of it. We can't go basing any facts on their information, neither can we agree or disagree with them simply for the fact that their account is now third hand :) But it's not proof.

Unfortunately Fuzzy is right, Discovery channel has been going way down hill. I'm by no means a christian or catholic (as I'm buddhist and don't believe that the bible was remotely the 'word of god') and I have to sigh and shake my head when they run the shows on how christianity isn't what it makes itself. Look at all these contradictions! and omg listen to this apocalypse stuff! Because most of it is fanatics who take a few sentences and run, while playing the semantics game. But this isn't the place for that, I'm just giving an example of how the station isn't what it seemed, even five years ago.

I mean all those haoky UFO documentaries must be true....It's a TV channel, they aren't beholden to any standards, they get to do what they want.

As well it's not as if there is scientific proof ghosts don't exist. Proof of non-existence is essentially impossible, however we can say pretty well that there don't seem to be many ways in which a ghost could exist within our current understanding of biology and physics.

Heinlen (the scifi author) proposed that there are alternate dimensions that at the moment we can't yet access

Theoretically possible, though irrelevant.

Don't forget, virtually every bit of tech that we rely on and use today was thought of by scifi authors as far back as Verne and some even further

Again; interesting, but not necessarily pertinent info. It's also worth noting a lot of the authors that DID imagine possible technologies were well versed in science, and put a great deal of thought into the functions of these things within physics. There are countless more fiction writers who simply make things up, or don't fully understand the concepts they're utilizing. Some dirt has gold in it, that doesn't mean it all does, we can't go around saying there is gold just because there has been a little bit in the past.

I do beleive that is was H G Wells who said that any technology that is far in advance of our own current rechnoloy will seem like magic to us

I apologize, I don't mean to be rude, but it really is a moot point. If the existence of ghosts (or anything) requires us to believe in things we can't quantify or interact with in any meaningful or demonstrative fashion, than it's useless. I mean there is only a lot of what ifs. If you want to believe in it, that is certainly okay, but I wouldn't expect to convince anyone of anything, simply because there's nothing to do it with. No one can say they conclusively don't exist, but ther certainly isn't any degree of evidence to the contrary.

Just because you can't see them "easily" doesn't mean they don't exist. They do in fact exist, but it's not a big deal anyways. They're just people who died. However I'm sure there's no changing your mind about your belief, but meh. I know a lot about spirits through connections...

And just because science has been unable to detect invisible pink unicorns that live in people's garages, this doesn't mean they don't exist!

The burden of proof is not on me, but you, and if all you have is "They exist because I believe they exist", then you make a very poor critical thinker indeed.

What you and others don't understand is that scientists would LOVE to prove the supernatural. Can you imagine being the scientist who proves conclusively that people have souls, or that God exists, or people have latent telepathic abilities? It isn't that our minds are closed; they are open (otherwise, we'd be stuck with an Aristotlean view of physics, rather than Newtonian or Einsteinian physics). However, we've been burned enough times by these supposed claims that we harbor a great deal of skepticism when someone steps up and says, without any concrete evidence whatsoever, "They DO exist!" Would you not possess the same inertia when someone repeatedly claims that they have an invisible pink unicorn in their garage that is undetectable by known science, and you just have to take his word for it?

Why make such a big deal about silly beliefs any way? Because critical thinking is something that is needed now more than ever before. At this crucial technological junction, can we trust the voting public to make informed decisions on pollution, energy, and political decisions when that same public believes in horoscopes, homeopathy, religion, ghosts, alien visitations, and other such gobbledygook? Would YOU trust someone with government policy if they professed a belief in invisible pink unicorns?

Is it possible that ghosts exist? Sure. But there are other options that are far more likely, options that you "open-minded" people refuse to acknowledge because that is tantamount to admitting error. It's okay to say you were wrong. It is the hallmark of a good scientist--nay, a good human being, to admit his errors.

And that's all I have to say about that.

I have.


Was about ten years ago. My brother and I were home alone, both of us were in his room. We were talking, don't remember much of what it was about. During a part of the conversation both of us paused during and at that moment, there was a "THUD! THUD! THUD!" sound on the wall outside his room that seemed to travel down the hallway. We both thought it was some prank...until we saw what was at the end of the hallway.

I SAID EXPLAIN WHAT THE HELL lol where's the vivid detail :C

Well, you see, therein lies the problem. What we ended up seeing was much less than impressive.

well what was there? a cat?

After searching the end of the hallway, me and him split up. He went downstairs and I stayed upstairs. The only thing we found was nothing

Seems like a common issue among anyone who looks for those things - they hear things, see shadows, etc. They go to places that the "thing" could have been to and sure enough - it's not there. It's quite an annoying thing, I'll say that much.

That it is. We searched everywhere in our house, and the first place we looked (Also the area that the bangs seemed to be heading, which was our parent's room) had our dog in the middle of the room, growling.

That's the strange thing. People accuse us of making lies - using times when we can't find the source of something as "proof" that it's all an illusion - only one problem - why would animals then react to strange things such as that? And even after checking the area (and finding nothing, no less) they still are reacting to something? I find it hard to believe we can train dogs to do something like that oh so easily. It HAS to be something.

Besides, one of the things I feel is that spirits - or as others call them "ghosts" are able to do things that SEEM perfectly normal. That CAN be debunked. However they are behind it - not often but that is a theory of mine.

THANK YOU! Someone finally gets it!

When we first moved to our current place one of my cats started growling out the window. She's an expressive kitty, she growls when she plays sometimes. But usually when it's something she can't have she twitters. It could have easily been her wanting to play in the leaves, but still. It was odd. :) They've not done any of other strange things though. No staring at ceilings or walls. If Rasmus is staring at the wall we always find the shadow and lights she's watching.

As I said, spirits MIGHT also manipulate things that would be found as nothing more than an easily-debunked occurance - however like people who are easily spooked/have overactive imagination/what have you, you have animals that'll growl at things that are perfectly safe and perfectly normal.

About the cat growling out of the window.. If she does it when she plays, perhaps she saw something that she thought was for fun or whatever.

That's what I assumed about her. But it was kinda freaky, because it was just her and I alone in an empty house XD she gave me the spooks for a bit.

NO SUCH THING GET OUT

UGH GO AWAY

They look like burning.

I'm skeptical of their existence, though the mind can play tricks on you. I do recall one time when I was young suddenly waking up in the night and seeing more door open (I left it open, it was supposed to be open). It was dark and I was blurry, but I could've sworn there was something on the other side, through the crack in the door. And then, slowly, it started to swing forward inch by inch. I think I just screamed and waited for my parents to come and turn the lights on >_>

Yeah.
I remember I've seen him at nights...
He had a bug and some sort of robot... and he was with some... stars and...
...Oh, wait. That's the Space Ghost.

Uh... Seriously, I've never seen a ghost in my life. Some of my cousins have told me they've seen ghosts, though, but I can't remember what exactly they've told me because they were talking in a desperate way, I couldn't understand what they were saying.

lol

I THINK I did once. Not sure.

There was this old abandoned house where I used to live (like right beside us - it looked like a typical haunted house o_o), and once, me and a friend - and his cousin - wanted to see how it looked inside. And since I was too scared I stayed in the front yard while they would go inside.

But as they started walking to the front door, I was looking at one of the windows, and saw a white figure of some sort pass by it and go to the back. I screamed, and as a result they both ran away from the house XD

Honestly, I don't know how to explain that - It could be explained as being a curtain blown by the wind, but I'm fairly sure the wind was not that strong that day, and the place didn't even have curtains on the windows. So... white thing running around? wut?

This all doesn't make sense, since it took place in the afternoon. :(

TL;DR version: WHITE THING

Ive had a bunch of freakyass shit happen to me over the years, but I've never actually SEEN anything. Anyway, I'll tell you these stories if you want, haha.

sure

Uh... Now I'm wondering what brought this up your mind.

It's been a phobia of mine ever since an episode of unsolved mysteries when I was little.

I kinda wanna rid myself of the phobia by encountering one :X

I thought I saw a ghost
It was just a small child who was tangled in a bedsheet though.

I thought I saw one once, little orbs that I could only see in my camera.
But they were just reflections of dust in the air 8[

Orbs are a royal pain. Most of the time, it's dust/bugs that reflect in the lens and such. There are some distinct traits of an orb in photos/video alike but I don't remember what exactly.

I haven't seen a ghost, but the other night at work, I came out of the bathroom, and my mind completely failed to properly interpret a book rack, and read it as a pair of legs walking towards me. Only lasted a blink of an eye before I managed to properly interpret what I was seeing, but it scared the hell out of me. XD

It was exactly the same kind of 'mixed signal' as deja vue - which is mistagging what you experience as "memory" instead of "perception". I immediately *knew* what had happened, and yet at the same time I had a distinct memory of this flash of someone's legs walking. (Just like you can know you're having deja vu, and it STILL feels like you've seen this before)

So anyways, I imagine seeing ghosts is something like that.

i have and it scared the hell out of me XD

tell me

was at my grandparents house one night watching tv with them and all of a sudden we all see this shadow run through the hall and there were no cars going by outside or anything and it looked human

Holy shit! That is Scary.

I heard a ghost and have friends that have photographed them....does that count? XD

it was old man jones


he tried to scare me away from the inheritance

And he would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you darn kids!

and those jews

scooby jew where are you

Lived with one when I was very young. A soilder and his daughter. Nice ghosts too.

I'm not spiritual or superstitious-- but there was some weird occurences in the home I grew up in. I almost want to discredit ghosts, but everyone in my family had some sort of scary experience in that house.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/.....lightning.html
:)
Maybe?

While I haven't SEEN a ghost, I do feel that I MIGHT have witnessed some paranormal things in my house, oddly. I do try to debunk it, much like how TAPS does (Ghost Hunters, on the SciFi channel).

Basically, there's creaky floor boards upstairs, since it was converted from an attic.. And occasionally I'll hear noises that are made to sound like footsteps - the cat we have isn't heavy enough... And this'll happen when NO one is upstairs - and still, it'll sound like one footstep to several. I would say that it is just the floorboards - and as someone pointed out, possibly nothing more than gravity but I don't know.

A few times people heard what sounded like screaming (apparently they heard a woman screaming, and I supposedly said "are you alright" late one night.) and I had actually heard a scream like a month later (only to see nothing outside - and it came from in the house - no one in the house screamed. I chalk it up to me mis-interpreting where I hear the scream from, and possibly not seeing well enough outside or something, but again, I'm not sure about that.

I've felt like I've been watched/held down in the past by something... I dunno though. That's iffy. Chances are, I have just been too tired when I felt this.

There's other things but it's hard to explain.

personally i believe in ghosts. of course there is absolutely no proof that there is. i think i believe because id like to believe. that and i have no other way to describe weird ass shit. my sister thinks that our house has a ghost. i cant see how we would but we have had some weird things happen. especially after my moms uncle died. although we lived two states apart.

one thing that has happened though, happened to my sister. now i was in my room when it occurred so my story is through that of my mom and sister. so i was in my room when i heard my sister kinda scream. more or less some paranoid shouting. i went into the kitchen and asked what that was all about. my sister was all freaked out and said that someone had thrown something at the back of her legs. but me and my dad were both in our rooms and my sister was talking to my mom when it happened so there was no one else around. i asked her what hit her and my mom handed me a couple of my GameBoy games (pokemon gold and super mario world...weird and random right?) and she said that they were on the floor next to my sister. now whats weird to me is that at the time i either alwasy had my games in a little bag, left out on the coffee table, in my pocket, or actually in my gameboy. and since i hadnt played gold version in years, it would have had to been burried away in that little bag.
kinda weird i guess... oooooh mysterious flying games. too friggin long of a short story.

a few weeks later my mom yelled for me, freaking out that she said she just watched a mountain dew can move across the counter.

oh and this one time, it was maybe half a year after we had moved into this house, i had been awake around 4 in the mornign when it happend. i was in my room when i heard a loud, definable crash coming from our garage. we still had a bunch of shit from moving in there so it was probable that something had fallen. but what i was think at the time was that someone had broken into our garage. i immediatly woke up my dad who went out there (armed of course). he came back and said that there was nothing. everything was locked up, everything was still stacked up, and nothing had fallen.

another time i was in my bathroom which is directly parallel with my parents bathroom on the other side of the wall. when i was in there i heard what sounded exactly like if someone had hit the shower door rather hard. that definalble kinda of a Bang-wah-wah-wah of it being hit and then bouncing around. went in there and there was nothing. nothing had fallen over either.

i really dont have any other "stories" but in general, this house gives a weird vibe. its just a normal Cali home, the kind that they mass produce and replicate the design every five or so houses. nothing weird or out of the ordinary... but i just cant help shake off these weird feelings. sometimes i get the feeling of being watched. sometimes its the feeling that somethings there. the feeling that somethings lurking in the dark. and sometimes its the feeling that somethings right next to you.

the worst place, or rather, the best place to get these feelings... is in our hallway. that fucking hallway. i dont know what it is about it that freaks me the fuck out but it does. i swear i run down it at night just to hit on the light. and its not really the hall itself i guess but its where it leads. one end leads to the bathroom and laundry room. the other end leads to the living room. both places are where i really get that feeling. especially in the dark. either end you go, you feel that somethings there in the shadows watching your every single move. *shivers*

my sister agrees with me about the hallway. she hates it too. she whole heartedly belives that something watchers her in her room. i dont blame her.

there was a brief time that i had thought that there was something living in my room with me. i always had the feeling that something was right next to me and watching me. i could sense the presence of something but nothing was there. you know that feeling right? like when youre with someone and you just kinda feel that theyre there. or youre alone but can feel someone there so you turn around and it turns out your friend or something is there. that feeling. and what weirded me out even more was that one day, that feeling of their presence was moving around me. usually or was on my right side and stayed there. but one day it began moving around me until it stopped. although i wasnt afraid. it gave sort of a comforting presence. eventually i got the impression that it may have been an older caring female. thats what i felt anyway. eventually this feeling went away.


*looks at all the shit he typed* oh dear god. ive wrote a little too much. guess i just got carried away. im really sorry to waste your time like that. considering i didnt really have any proof of their existence. just feelings, sounds, and third person experiences. well i hope it helps with whatever you wanted.

Well I believe that its your mind playing tricks but at the same time my dad is HALF native american (Can't remember which one though). When we was younger there was a ghost in his house and kept running up and down the stairs and he had a cat I think and it knew where it was and always looked at it.... Freaky. I believe in both sides hun but sometimes science may be too hard to understand... Well hope you do not have ghost problems. *Wraps my foxy tails around you*

goasts

I saw a ghost!

But then I realised they don't exist so I didn't see one :(

If you feel the need to know anything about spirits, I know a person you might want to talk to. Said person sees them on a regular basis, it's their "gift"... but they don't like talking about it because of skeptics... They only bash her for it. :/

Yes, I have felt, heard, seen, communicated and felt the presence of ghosts. I'll submit more about it when I'm a little more awake...come to think of it...do you have MSN?

Well sometimes I hear those voices calling from far away, and wake me up in the middle of the night, just to hear them say...
Welcome to the Hotel California and er... Maybe i should turn the radio off before bed :p (havent seen a ghost yet ^^)

I'm a paranormal investigator, and yes, ghosts do exist.

I've had many encounters, but the worst case I did was go to Emily's Bridge.

The legends:

The legend is a well-known one, and everyone has their own version. It was a surprise for me to discover, however, that these legends were virtually unknown here thirty years ago, according to long time Stowe residents who had lived there all their lives. Most people in their fifties and older tell that they never heard of Emily's Bridge when they were in school, although by now almost everyone has read a version either in the local paper, or in Joe Citro's books, or on the news during October, when television crews enjoy exploiting frightening stories in their preparations for Halloween. Here are the versions that most people by now have heard:

In one version, Emily met a young man that she fell in love with. For whatever reasons, her parents did not approve of the young man, or his did not approve of her, and she was forbidden to marry, or even see him. But the emotions of the young can rarely be tempered by the old, and she made plans to elope. The meeting place for these two lovers, was, as the legends go, the Goldbrook bridge. Emily quietly left her house on the appointed night, and no one in the family heard her leave. She waited on the bridge for her young paramour, but he never showed up that fateful night. Emily was heartbroken, and she took her own life by hanging herself on the bridge that very night. Her lonely spirit now haunts the bridge waiting for the lover that has never arrived. It is said by the teenagers of the area that if you were to drive your car through the bridge on Halloween night, you can hear Emily's toenails dragging along the roof of your car, and according to a gentleman that lives very close by the bridge, spectators become quite loud there on Halloween waiting for Emily to put in an appearance.

Another version of this Vermont legend is that she met the man who stole her heart, and the couple made plans to marry. The fateful day arrived, and Emily went to the church in her beautiful red wedding dress ready to give herself to the gentleman in holy wedlock. The groom never arrived, and the jilted bride took the family wagon in a frenzy of anger and sorrow. She was merciless on the horses, and whipped them until they were traveling at an incredible pace, planning perhaps to confront the faithless groom. As she approached the bridge she failed to negotiate the turn right before the bridge and drove the horses and carriage over the bank and onto the rocky brook below. Both the horses and Emily were killed in the accident. In this legend we understand that she was a victim of a horrible accident, and yet her angry, vengeful spirit still resides on the bridge.

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When my team went there, we brought a few things with us, our cameras, EVP's, voice recorders and of course my friend who's a psychic. Now, when we went upon that bridge, I gathered up to waken upon Emily, asking her why did she do what she did...I guess she didn't like my team's man and made a slice down his face. It got worse. We were taking pictures of the place and having a circle formed about, just silently thinking. We all got shoved as my friend felt someone choking her. After that, I scanned the waters below and almost was pushed off the bridge with a large force. End of it after a few hours of abuse, we decided to head home. When we came back to my team's mans house, we got out and saw that claw marks were made upon the sides of his car. Deep ones, at that. Emily doesn't like visitors at all.

I've been to a few other places where portals weren't closed by Ouija boards and poltergeists thrown things about, scaring children, moving things about, hurting the family members or college students. Many places in Vermont and upstate ny that are HIGHLY haunted. If you want to know more, or maybe learn more of my quests, please pm me before you EVER play with a Ouija board or go ghost hunting. Don't want to hurt yourselves...

I don't really believe in ghosts. I don't so much unbelieve in them either. I just don't have enough shrewed evidence/information to draw a concrete assumption yet. But I lean towards the 'it's my imagination'.

That said- there have been some freaky things that happen, and some less freaky.

1. I was about 13, I was staying at my grandmothers. I preferred my mother's old room, but she liked sticking me in Pamela's old room when I stayed the night. It's an 1860's farm house, so the parts of the house are all rather disjointed and sprawling. Aunt Pamela's room is not in the main part of the house, it's over the kitchen, that's the only thing below her, the kitchen. It looks out over the middle part of the yard (there's not front back here because the house is sideways on the lot. A brook runs behind it at the bottom of a hill (which is an old dump, the things I found there were awesome!). This night I was trying to go to sleep when I heard little girls giggling. It was strange because there aren't any girls nearby, just boys, my age. I looked out the window and the neighbors were asleep or not home. Huh.

2. The freakiest place I've ever lived. It was an old town house, probably built early 1900's. Whenever that flood in Bellows Falls VT happened, this house was already built. Just checked it- 1927 was the flood. So anyhow, it sits in the middle of a downtown, neighbors are whispering distance. It was me and my boyfriend, I was a latch-key kid by now, and 16. I hear stones clacking, it sounds like its in the basement. I wake up the bfriend, and he tells me I'm crazy, until he hears it too XD I hate that place. I would run to the bathroom at night flicking on all the lights and repeat on the way back imagining nasty skeletons following me O_o

3. This happened just a few months ago. We're in a 'new' house. It was built around the 60's. I think there's only been one owner. I have three cats. So it wasn't surprising to me when one walked into the bathroom at night to visit me when I went. I don't turn on the lights, I like my night vision. I reached out to pet who I thought was Rasmus, she's the only one who's long haired. Only, I hit nothingness. Huh. I got up, paying attention to the door. I saw no kitty walk back out, but that doesn't mean she didn't do so and I'm just blind, it was dark. I flick on the light and check the whole bathroom. I go out and she's in the living room....

That's all I've got. Probably completely explainable down to an overactive imagination.

Hah, Bellow Falls has a few spots of ghost activity.

Also, like I said below, some ghosts spottings are usually residual(repeating) no matter what time of day and it will do the same thing over and over. If you build onto a unknown grave or area that ghosts have been claimed, activity will grow more frequently due to new changes. Poltergeists usually havoc these. After a while, it'll calm down.

it happens at my house all the time. the doors will unlock, the closet will open and close, I have EVP's of a ghost girl in the basement saying "hello?". Also she chased me the other day. v.v Not a nice ghost she is.

This was across the river from BF. What a dirty pair of towns :-/

And yet, I miss Fall Mt.

Yea, I'm near Rut-vegas(rutland). I live on the border of vt and upstate ny.

For about a year I spent weekends in Woodstock/Queeche. My mother was renting up there, but I was still going to school in Fall Mt. :) I miss it there a lot.

You know the sound a dog's nails do when they walk on marmol floor?
After my grandparents dogs died, you could still hear them guarding the house at night.


All I could think of :l

I probably wouldn't believe, if I hadn't had freaky-ass shit happening to me since I was a kid. Spoke to a woman who wasn't there while I was brushing my teeth in the bathroom. One time the ceiling fan in my room started shaking like somebody was trying to tear it down while it was off; I have a witness to this, myokitsune. Had it not been for her presence, I would have sworn I was just going crazy.

Beyond that, weird stuff happens in my current house all the time. I keep seeing a weird shadow moving about; one time it ran between me and my boyfriend while we were standing in the dining room. He thought it was my cat until he realized that cats don't come up to your waist. A friend of mine thought somebody broke into my house because he saw a man at the end of the hallway, and another friend has seen the same thing multiple times. In various rooms. She now refuses to be anywhere by herself except next to the door.

Then my boyfriend recorded it by accident. We had been joking it was so cold in my room because the "ghosts" and he kinda called out into the air for them to cut it out. Lo and behold, not too much long later while recording he picks up a bunch of static. He thinks he hears something through it and reduces the noise.

All it said was, "Sorry for the inconvenience."

Hahaha, I don't mind talking about it either. Family keeps telling me, "Oh, people will think you're crazy." Hasn't stopped me from talking at great lengths about it to my 100% logical friends who probably now think I have a far too vivid imagination. Or need to be medicated. Possibly both.

Heh, some spirits will acting communicate with the alive and know that they are dead. There are a few types of ghosts, residual, intelligent and poltergeist.

Residual will repeat the same thing, over and over. It can be during the day as well.

Intelligent are those that know that you are there, will communicate with you. It will not harm you.

Poltergeists knows that you are there and will harm you in some way, because they think it's still their own surroundings.

So, you may have an intelligent spirit in your midsts.

Ghosts will also pull energy from electrical sources to manifest themselves. That's why sometimes you'll get that heavy feeling like you're walking in water, also the cold feeling.

Also, some people will not go into an area due to uncomfortable feelings, like someone's watching you. Could be due to a high level of EMF(Electro Magnetic fields) from appliances.

I believe in ghosts and the paranormal and while there are some real world or scientific explanations for some things, there are still those few occurences that can't be explained so easily. I had an experience when I was about eleven years old. I know I was young and it is possible it could have been my mind playing tricks on me, but it still leaves me scratching my head and looking over my shoulder when I recall it.

It happened in the evening, when my family and I were watching TV. My younger brother, six at the time, was already in bed and I was sitting on the steps leading into our kitchen. While watching whatever sitcom was big at the time, I felt all of a sudden, that someone was staring at me. Seeing my parents focused on the TV, I turned to look to my left, down the hallway to our bedrooms, the hallway light on for my little brother. Standing in the hall was a man that had to be at least six and a half feet tall. He was wearing a black suit and his skin was pale. He had no eyes and he was grinning very widely, mouth full of sharp teeth, his white hair wild, kind of like Einstein. I screamed my head off when it stepped into the room my brother and I shared at the time. My parents looked at me and when I told them someone was in our room, they bolted in there just as my little brother started screaming. No one was in there and my brother had shoved himself into a tight corner, yelling at something in the adjacent corner. It was a long time before we could sleep in there by ourselves. Later, my brother described the exact same thing I saw without hearing me say one thing about it.

It's possible we were imagining it, but with as clear as I saw it, and in a well-lit room, it still leaves me wondering who or what it was. We saw it only a couple more times over the years and have yet to see it again. I'm no hurry for that either.

I have, and know personally of people to have seen 'similar' things. :0

I haven't, but my mother has.

I was a baby, and this was in our first house. She was in her bed and woke up in the middle of the night to see a man in a long coat and a wide brim hat standing over her bed, just staring at her. But he was a ghost apparently. My mother was so terrified she pulled her sheets over her head and just whispered for it to go away.

She never saw it again after that.

I haven't yet seen a ghost but I have seen one of thoes spirit orbs floating around my great grandmas old house. I've got a picture of it somewhere. I'll post it if i find it

Nine out of ten times the sppoky noise you hear is the house settling or the very soft fuzzy kitty cat roaming around outside your window!

I'd tell you, but I see you have debunkers claiming their beliefs as fact and jumping on others, so I won't put anything public.

When I was 12 I began practicing in the Wiccan religion. I got more serious as I turned 13 and 14 years old, and one day when I was meditating, I started hearing the voice of my best friend's grandfather. She was in the room with me, and at first was skeptical, but when I told her he said his favorite place to be was by the water, she told me that his ashes were sprinkled in his favorite spot ever, a lake up in the mountains in upstate New York. As I grew older, my abilities grew to hearing more and more, and eventually to seeing things as well. When I hear the ghosts, it is not an outward voice coming in, rather a different person's voice manifested in my head.

The visions of ghosts to me range from a large cloud of fog-like material to an almost real-appearing creature that no one else sees. I have seen people's deceased pets in their house pretty much materialize and then disappear in seconds. Most people do think I am crazy, but over time I have learned that I see what I see, and as I do not have any signs of psychosis, I do not think I am a mental patient lol. Over the years (I am 21 now) I have learned to turn off seeing things, and really only lose my control when I get tired or it is an overwhelming apparition. Animals also appear more often to me than humans.

Overall ghosts have a view to me that is very similar to what is seen in movies: foggy, and sometimes shimmery (but not shiny) shapes of human figures. Sometimes features can be seen, sometimes they can't. It really all depends.

Sorry to keep going on and on. I hope I helped though.

I have an imaginary friend. My sister in law said she saw him stalking around behind me like a shadow, or if I wasn't home, sometimes he'd wander around the house, looking for me. Opening doors, waiting in the garage, even getting bored and watching tv. My brother saw him sometimes, too. I should note that this was before I ever talked about my friend with family. He's been coming to see me in my dreams for years and years, as far back as I can remember, actually, but a handful of other people have met him. One woman told me that he was waiting for me to die, and I laughed about it, because he's always fussing at me when I'm depressed. Although, I asked him about it later, and he says that we'll be together when I die. but I can't die before my time. I have to take good care of myself and live the best life I can until then. I told my mom about him and she thought that maybe he's some type of spirit guide, since his totem is snake, and he looks a lot like me, so maybe he's a brother. She's like 1/4 Cherokee so she's into that stuff. My grandfather actually gave me my totem, cat. Pretty cool, not many furfags can say that. and that's the story of how I got a snake brother. He warns me of upcoming rocky patches in my life, and scolds me when I don't take care of myself, and even leaves me little gifts in my real life. He hates my boyfriend though, and hides things from him. He once lost an important document, and finally found it in the trash, inside of a closed cereal box. We live alone, and have no friends, so no one else could have done it. I tell him not to worry about it though, because my snakeface hates everyone that could potentially hurt me. He's completely over protective. He's also an attention whore, and loves when I talk about him. Yesterday, I mentioned that I wanted some apple juice, and later I found two dollars in my pocket. That's an example of a gift he'd leave me. I've also received gifts mail-ordered, things that I didn't buy, and thing that the sellers refused to take back, insisting I was the intended recipient. It's a simple relationship, but at the same time, it's complicated. He won't tell me his name, so that's why I only call him by his totem. I'm not sure if he even knows his name. Also look into doppelgangers, I've considered that.

I'm also open to the idea that I am completely insane.

I dont believe in ghost...but many times have unexplained phenomenoms occured in my house which was built in 1919. A young girl died in my old room due to a serious case of the common cold. Many times have my sisters and I seen a figure about the house either reflected in our hallway mirror, sitting on my couch in my room, walking in the backyard, or standing at the livingroom door that looks like the figure of a little girl. Many times have I heard a series of knocks that sound like music rythyms coming from the basement under my new bedroom.

Oh and the young girl was one of the original people who lived in our house way back when

When passing through Montana, I stayed the night in this empty house with the owner's permission. The wife & I had just turned out the lights when we started hearing loud banging noises upstairs and the lights started to blink on and off. Then, we heard an old woman's voice start to scream 'OUT OF MY HOUSE!!!' as we heard what sounded like footsteps coming down the stairs angrily. We apologized as we gathered our stuff and RAN to the car, started it, and didn't stop doing 90 until we got to a motel.

Side note to this story is we were charging our phone at the time. Since that day, it NEVER would keep a charge again. So, I didn't SEE a ghost, but i know i experienced one that was PISSED!