My mom also told me to tell the dog that he was dead, and that I couldn't help him. I just hope that he rests on peace in his grave that his master had made for him. We did all of those things, and I never heard those beastly noises ever again.
Why So Angry, as You Lay Here Dead?
I've chosen this second experience, because it comes close to what we know of as ghosts.
Forty-five years ago, I was with my boyfriend visiting a coastal bay where there was a church on a headland. We went to visit the church. I felt a strong sense of foreboding coming from the churchyard. We were outside the churchyard wall. There was a lynch gate. The sense of powerful threat I felt was incredibly strong. Kind of "Do not enter".
My boyfriend wanted to go in, and we did go in through the churchyard into the church. I felt there was no threat inside the church, but could feel anger and fury outside it. When we came out it was as if a whirlwind of fury and rage that had come in followed us back to the gate. It did not come beyond the gate.
We walked on up to the headland and I felt a furious presence constantly watching us from the other side of the wall. I have since learned that others have experienced this there too. My boyfriend felt it but just slightly.
A Mischievous Look
At my previous address there was a little girl who appeared every so often at the bannister of the staircase.
She used to live at the address many years ago. She had shoulder length brown hair, brown eyes, and a sad expression on her face - or so I thought. It actually turned out to be a mischievous look. She would go into my eldest daughter's bedroom and turn on her cd player, or she would move a certain ornament that I had. We never saw her actually move the ornament; it was just facing a different way.
Now that we don't live there any more I miss seeing her but I know that she belongs in that house.
In my opinion she comes back to make sure that the house is okay and to ensure that the people living there are looking after her home.
Maybe Not the Fat Cat I Thought
I was in bed reading a book before falling to sleep. I have a cat that is pretty over weight. As I was reading he jumped up on the bed. Since he is so heavy the bed moves a bit when he does this and I can feel right where he is without having to look.
On this particular night, I continued reading paying no attention to him. I was about to turn in, and when I went to place the book on the nightstand I looked and realized that the cat wasn't on my bed.
As a matter of fact, he was not even the house. I know that someone or something sat on my bed. I was rather too scared to fall asleep after that.
Not the Christmas Visitor I Expected
I was about 8 years old. It was Christmas time and we hatched a plan to hide behind the living room couch to see Santa. We lived in the middle of the country so it was very dark. We hadn't been behind the couch long when we both noticed two orbs of light that floated around the room and then moved into the kitchen and back again. We both freaked out, and ran to our bedrooms.
Who or What Are All These People?
I was walking home and every streetlight that I walked past went out.
I took this as a sign that something was coming, and I knew that something would be round the corner so I prepared myself.
I rang my friend and just kept talking and, as I got round the corner, sure enough there were about 20 figures on all the corners of the next intersection. They all had mushed up faces that were blurred and it looked like they were wearing dark robes. My instinct told me not to run but not to acknowledge them either. I thought if I carried on as normally as I could they wouldn't know I saw them. So, I kept talking to my friend until I reached my house; then I told her what had happened. I told her that I felt I wasn't meant to see them; I felt like I had interrupted something.
Coming or Going?
I had just put my baby to bed and returned to the living room to watch some TV. My husband had already gone to bed. He yelled out for me to check on the baby, to make sure it was covered up properly, before I came to bed. I looked in towards her room from the sofa where I was sitting and saw the ghost of an old man walking from one side of the room toward the other. It was moving towards the outer wall of the room.
With or Without You
The next day I went to work and asked an older co-worker who grew up in the area, if she knew who lived in that house before.
She said when she was younger and dating and they used to drive by that house and there was an old man always sitting on the front porch, in a rocking chair. This left me wondering if that was who I saw.
My husband had previously told me before I had this ghost sighting (other strange things had happened in the house like TV channels changing, and lights going off and on) that if there was a ghost in this house he would leave. A few nights later we were laying in bed and talking about my ghost sighting when we started to hear a huge square electrical plug being slid out of the wall, as it was being pulled out of the electrical socket.
It took several seconds; we heard it slide several times; then we heard it thump on the floor, right beside the bed we were laying in.
Within a day or two, I came home from work to find my husband with a borrowed truck, moving our furniture out. He told me he was leaving with or without me. He said he was taking the baby with him; that left me no choice but to move with him.
After seeing the ghost of this old man, I had personal confirmation that our spirits must live on after we die.
Same Time, Same Place
My mom, Dad and I all smell cigarette smoke at three different times of each day. I smell smoke and alcohol at 3:15 a.m. every day/night. No one in my family smokes in our house, or drinks much alcohol.
Same Sound, No One There
About 5 years ago my wife and I started hearing noises in the house. One morning in particular, about 4am we both were startled awake when apparently the kitchen/hall door slammed shut, twice.
I went to see about the noise; the door was shut and our two cats were on the counter tops with wide-eyed expressions.
I opened and shut the door hard. It was the same noise we had just heard.
After a search of the house, when all the doors were found to be locked I return to the bedroom and was about to get back into bed. I heard something like a window sliding shut behind me. I turned; it was barely light, and saw nothing. I went to the window and it was locked shut. I reached out to the sliding glass closet door and moved it. That was the same sound we had just heard. There was no one else in the room.
A Lot of Activity
I lived in an apartment with my husband and children for four years and the last year I experienced a lot of activity. I heard footsteps, voices, saw shadows, lights turned off and on, and I saw a small girl standing on the stairs. My daughter also experienced these and would not go upstairs to her room alone.
Who Hangs Around the Parking Lot?
I started work about 4 am; I parked my car in a well-lit parking lot. As I was pulling in, I saw a very bright figure suspended near the edge of the lot.
When I parked my car this figure brushed beside my car and floated in front of me for a brief second, then disappeared.
I had a very strong feeling that this thing knew me. It freaked me out, but not in a panicking way.
Why Hate?
I woke up while watching TV and a dark skinned Indian woman was standing in front of me, wearing a burlap bag dress. She had hate in her eyes and as I blinked a couple of times she faded from view.
A Wedding Gown Perhaps?
This is in a different house and a different country than the one I noted before.
I was on the bed and I looked up to see a blond woman dressed in a white gown standing in the doorway.
My wife and children had previously reported seeing this woman, but this was my first, and only, time. As I started to get out of bed, she turned and walked away.
Who Was That?
I was watching TV in my mother's room and I turned it off and started to walk out. As I walked out, I saw this girl with long, black hair in a white nightgown walk by me. It seemed like the whole thing was in slow motion. She looked at me as she walked by; she opened the door to my room, turned on the light and then closed it.
I thought it was my sister, so I ignored it. I went to the living room and saw my sister sitting there and when I looked into the hallway I didn't see any light coming from my room.
Strange Things Happening Around Here
Well, my daughter has been experiencing strange things for a while now: voices in her room, things moving - ever since we moved in with her.
I have just recently been experiencing these things also. As examples: someone saying things to me in a soft low voice, me seeing shadows, things being moved in the rooms.
Just this last Saturday night, my daughter and I were upstairs and we heard something speaking to us in a very low whispering sound. We were in different rooms but it happened on the same night. That same day I went up to my room to get laundry to wash, and I noticed my daughter had her clothes basket full too, so I took my stuff down and went back up for hers. In that short time that I was away, the basket moved from sitting at the foot of her bed to over by the door!
Hi Mom and Dad
I bought a house from my parents. Both of my parents had died while living in this house, but did not actually die in the house.
On numerous occasions both myself and other people had experiences of hearing footsteps, seeing doors open for no apparent reason, noises in unoccupied rooms, windows blinds moving without explanation, hearing their names whispered, and even an apparition witnessed by two people.
Are Some People More Prone to Seeing Ghosts?
I have had experiences several times with apparitions.
I lived in a house that had a twelve-year old girl haunting it. She was playful, but had a mean streak.
The other experience was more recent. I bartended at the…. assembly building and there is definitely an apparition who likes to appear there. I saw him three times, and another bartender has seen him, too.
Black pants, white shirt, he appears as a reflection in the glass door, and walks through the canteen to the back office.
It Was Creepy
Occasionally things move by themselves around my house. The dogs seem to interact with something that I can't see.
My daughter took a picture of herself in her room using her phone, then came running to show me there was a man standing behind her in the pic. Her phone's memory was full so she was unable to save the pic, but I did get to see it.
It was creepy; he was posing and grinning for the camera.
This old house has had many strange things happen. It will be quiet for months then out of the blue something will happen that I cannot explain.
Is It a Comfort Having Them Around Still?
We lost two cats in the course of a year. After they died, I started feeling them jump up on the bed and crawl towards me. I started to hear them jump off the counter in the kitchen. It was so loud that I would turn to look.
My husband - not a huge believer in this - mentioned the fact that he hears the cats jumping off the counter all the time, and casually asked if I do too. I said yes and he never mentioned it again.
The Prison and the Hanging House
We lived in a haunted house as children, and we all experienced lots of goings on: not only did we see things, we heard, smelt, and felt a lot of things that were just not ordinary. Of course we as children knew about ghosts etc. so obviously we were scared.
We did have some really frightening experiences. One day I will write down all that we witnessed. Our house was the old jail built by the British; it was the house of the Superintendent of the then British Jails. It had massive grounds; the prison and the hanging house were just beyond our gardens and grounds. We witnessed some strange visitations and most of them were not nice. This is all for the time being.
Boys Will Be Boys
Lots of friends used to sleep over at another friend's house, and use his room. I experienced the feeling of someone sitting down on the end of the bed and saw an impression as if someone was there, but saw nothing. Five other friends I talked to had similar experiences in his room while sleeping over.
We all wondered if it was his mother who passed when he was young seeing who was in his room?????
No Wind, No Breeze, No Explanation
I worked for a friend part-time at his "witchy" store.
Whenever I closed & walked back to turn off the lights, there were these rooms used for storage with windows facing the hall. It terrified me to go past them. I picked up some vibe that there was something there, watching me. Others had the same experience.
