What is your best ghost story?
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After my father died of cancer we could not keep the doors locked.  They never opened, they just would be unlocked ten minutes after we had locked them.  I also came into the house one day and smelled that familiar "cancer" smell (anyone who has been around a cancer patient will know what I mean) and saw my dad's favorite hat hung on the back of the chair that he would always hang it on.  I know for a fact that my mom had put all his clothing and belongings in his closet in their bedroom.  We also had a cup that if you lifted it up, it would play happy birthday.  The cup played by itself, no one near it, on my sister's birthday and on my daughter's birthday.  I sent the cup to live with my sister.
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Yes to both..I have seen and lived with a ghost for a number of months..as for UFOs ..yep again..I have been wittness to these amazing crafts all my life...I know they are real..
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I lived in an old NYC hotel and had several ghostly experiences. One of the strangest was the image of a painting of a woman in vintage apparel (1890s) that would "enter" my room every night when I turned off the lights. It would appear in a certain corner of the room as a small square of misty light, then it would gradually move closer and become larger and more distinct until I would finally sit up and switch on the lamp by the bed. It was the strangest thing - being haunted by a ghostly painting. I tried to convince myself it was my imagination, but it really happened, every night. After I tired of sleeping with the light on, I finally asked for a different room. The proprietor said, "Oh, that room - yeah, it's haunted, or so I've been told."
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I like www.ghosts.org/stories/n.html for ghost stories, it is a ohio page, but its got some good ones on it, and for crime stories(serial killers) try crimelibrary.com, for true ones that is, its very interesting atcually, they got all sorts of weird crime stories. including the amityville horror story, with orignal pictures of the house.
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My house is haunted. Not in a scary, eerie way, just that there is a parallel world going on here. I have actually seen a young boy in the house (not my kid!) who was floating in my daughter's room/doorway. I just happened to look that direction and he was looking right back at me. He seemed sad, or maybe he was in trouble. I looked right into his eyes. And I got this feeling that he was trying to communicate with me. My ex-husband was in the same room and didn't see or feel anything, though he thought I was nuts when my jaw dropped and I couldn't get any words out. My ex was in another part of the room and didn't see him. The ghost just faded out after a second or two, but as my brain was trying to process it, he was gone. He was a good-looking kid, shorter blond hair, brown eyes, white button-down, long-sleeved shirt, beige pants. No shoes or whatever--he looked like he was floating in the doorway. I think he didn't want my ex-husband to see him. The boy generally only makes himself known when I am alone. My present husband saw a glowing orb zooming and zig-zagging across that bedroom one night, 4 or 5 swipes, all the way across the room, over the bed where our daughters were sleeping. Needless to say, he was pretty freaked out by it. He has come to recognize the haunting as a necessary fact of living in this house. \n\nNo I am not a freak. I don't go out and look for strange things to happen. I saw this kid, I know I did. One night, I have heard footsteps come down the basement stairs and call, "Mom?" while I was doing laundry, and I yelled at my son to go back upstairs, that I already tucked him in for the night. NOBODY WAS THERE. I wasn't really paying attention to the kid coming down the stairs, just heard that familiar, "tha-dump dump" coming down the stairs and the "Mom?" It didn't really sound like my son but I was busy sorting laundry, not doing voice analysis. Anyway, I stopped sorting and went up the stairs, thinking my son was up at the top of the stairs. He wasn't. I was pretty upset as it had been a long day and the kids weren't minding and my husband was gone on a business trip. We live in an 80 year old house and the floors squeak. If my son had been out of bed, I would have heard him go up the stairs directly overhead. I called out for him and HE ANSWERED FROM HIS BED. I swear I heard somebody call me and jump down the stairs. That's when the hair stood up on the back of my neck. HE had visited me again. I sure wish I knew what he wanted.\n\nI have been advised to tell the boy to "go towards the light." I usually do this when he freaks me out. Sometimes things disappear and reappear right before my eyes. The house was built by a young couple in the late 1920s and they lived here until they died (she in 1964; he in 1974). There weren't any deaths in the house that I know of (they both died at the hospital). However, I do know their son had a serious car accident in 1965 and the wife and children were seriously injured--the one boy died. I suspect that is who I've seen. \n\nThis haunting is specific to our home. The people who lived here and played here may still be here. I think they like it here and (especially the old grandpa) are here protecting and taking care of the place. I like sharing the house with them, and I've told them so. The stove one time turned on by itself overnight. I let them know that is NOT acceptable. Sometimes in the morning on the weekends we smell food like pancakes, bacon, sausage. Just in the morning before we get up. Strange. That's okay--it smells good. They can make breakfast--just as long as they don't turn on the appliances again!
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This was a very good episode and Ghost Hunters is my favorite show! It was really good evidence especially the one where they see a ghost lean over the railing. It was cool to see Jason finally say a place was haunted. The video and audio evidence couldn't be disproven so it was very shocking. There's a new episode this week!
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i love ghost hunters, i have never missed an episode. the one that scared me the most is when they went to that motel in arkansas, and the image of some dude in a hat was standing their, it freaked me out. he didnt move or leave. i believe it was in the morgue. that one was my fav.
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I know my mom and dad's house is haunted and I think mine is occasionally. The other night my husband went to work and about ten minutes after he left I heard a door close (no one else was home) that we normally keep open. Then our dog actually got up thinking my husband returned when he heard the door shut. I could not see the door from where I was so I did not get up from the kitchen table. Our dog looked down the hallway toward the door and just stared for about three minutes. I called my husband to make sure he did not come back in and he was already at work. We also have a light in our family room that constantly flickers- our house is not that old so I wonder. \nBut at my parents house when I was 15 my mom called up to me that dinner was ready- I was napping in my bed but could not get up -a force held me down and would not let me answer her. My bedroom was once my grandmother's master bedroom where she gave birth to 12 children 2 of whom died at birth in that room. I also had and uncle who died in the house a the age of 26 from black lung (coal in his lungs (something like that)This experience came after I painted the walls of the bedroom and took off layers of old wallpaper. I never told anyone right away about being held down but it scared the crap out of me. I told my neice who comes to visit about it and last year she stayed in the same room with her boyfriend. She asked to stay at my house after the first night because her boyfriend got up in the middle of the night hungry. My mom left some chicken for him in an upstairs kitchen that is no longer used(was once an apt.) He could not find a trash can in the upstairs kitchen because it is not longer used as a kitchen. He left the plate (with some bones still on it on a counter so as not to disturb anyone by walking downstairs with it. When he walked out the door slammed behind him as he reached the bedroom down the hall. He was so frightened he woke up my neice and the two of them could not sleep the rest of the night. \nI believe in ghosts after hearing other stories from relatives and co-workers and have thought about having a group of local ghost researchers go to my mom's house. Nothing done yet though.
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I WROTE A POEM FOR YOU TO EXPRESS MY EXPERIENCE:\n\nIt was in Jersey; I saw Ghosts; they are true,\nI believe them, I'm scared, my name is Drew.\n\nI used to live in a home that had Ghosts,\nThey whistle time to time, Evenings the most.\n\nThey attacked the nanny, they attacked my son,\nI was fed-up, was raged, showed my anger by shooting a Gun.\n\nI called a Priest, called a Monk, nothing seemed to work,\nI decided to leave'em alone and just moved to New York.\n\nI believe them, they are true,\nI'm scared, my name is Drew.
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One time on a camping trip I was walking back from the bathrooms at that moment right between day and night and I saw someone walk across the front of the site and stop behind a tree. So I figure one of the people is going to jump out and try to surprise me, so I pull out my flashlight, walk up to the tree, turn on the light, and there's no one there.\n\nAs a child the chandelier used to swing from side to side, and the radio would turn on by itself in the middle of the night.\n\nOne time I was alone in a house, and I felt a presence. I looked a mobile hanging motionless, and said, "If there is anyone else here, make the mobile spin." The next moment, the mobile began to spin.\n\nI rarely ever actually see ghosts, but one time I was driving into Ponca State Park to set up a Pagan festival, and the sides of the road were lined with spirits. All standing there, calmly welcoming us back.
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Yes. the first ghost I witnessed was during the day. It was in my sisters house and my mother and nephew were in another room. I saw a child about 7 years old. At first it was annoying until I realized he wasn't living then it was scary. \nLove & Light\nSharon
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I do and I have come across MANY haunted place in my life. There was my grandma's house, my moms house, the local hospital, an old house I used to work at and a community building, 2 of my uncles houses, my aunts house and every house one of my aunts ever lived in lol, I think they just followed her around. \nBut I just posted on another question that asked about ghost the place I spent most of my childhood and probably has the most ghost stories in one place that I know of so I will just repost it here. \n\nI didn't actually LIVE in the house but I spent most of my time there. It was the whole location actually. See my great grandparents had this piece of land that they put a house on and later other family put houses up there to so at one point there were 4 houses with people living in them.\nAnd the whole area is spooky between there and over on the other side of the hill where another family had the same kind of set up. \nJust a few of the stories....\nMy great grandparents had 10 kids, one was killed when she was 17 by her younger brother who was playing with a gun he didn't know was loaded and shot her. 1 year to the day after she died the new rocking chair that was put in the place she had died in started to rock on its own, and the piano that she used to play started to play her fav song by itself, you could even see the keys moving. \nI also had an uncle that died when he was 17, he died in a house fire and he had a car that some of the boys from town used to try and steal so my grandma brought it up there so that her dad could keep on eye on it. When my cousin and aunty were walking from the main house to the house they lived in they passed that car, and inside they saw my uncle and he waved at them. \nMy aunt used to watch the neighbors little boy, he was 4 yrs old and would walk over by himself through, and one time he said that a group of braves followed him and another time he got to my aunts crying and said this little old lady followed him and said he was going to be a chief, he said she was still there and tried to point her out to my aunt. My aunt even got down on her hands and knees to look down his arm and didn't see anything.\nShortly after that the boy was killed when he was riding on the hood of his moms car and fell off. \nShortly after that my cousin was sitting at her moms, the one that used to babysit him, and she heard his little cowboy boots walking up the stairs and heard him knocking on the door crying for my aunt. \nThere are a lot of other things that go on there, noises, shadows going from room to room, my brother thinks he saw my great grandpa once because he looked out and could see the outline of a tall man with a crew cut but him and one of my other aunts were the only ones in the house. There are also pounding on walls and doors and my mom heard someone walking around the kitchen while she knew everyone was sleeping.
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I have been doing extensive study on just that. Spirits of all kinds. There are stories in my family that go way back to my father's childhood and service in Vietnam. Examples:\n\nSeance:\n\nMy father and his friends used to help and elderly lady with her yard work. She always rewarded them with cookies and lemonade while they worked. They never charged her. After she died, they decided to try a seance. They lit candles and called out for her to come and see them. They were in her basement at this time. Supposedly, she came walking through the wall carring a plate of cookies with a blank staring smile. They all ran for their lives. \n\nGermany: \n\nDuring his tour of duty, my father took a leave in Germany and stayed at a bed and breakfast there. He was told that the place was haunted by the owners pet, a three legged dog that had gone out an upperstory window to it's death. He and his friends laughed this of until they saw the dog run through the room and up the stairs. They couldn't find it again after that, but it is reported to run up the stairs and out the window it fell from every four or five days.\n\nMyself: 7 years old:\n\nI was seven when I had my first experience. I was a kid who buried himself in the covers and I woke up in the middle of the night to find my blankets neatly folded over at the end of the bed. A figure stood in the shadows of my bedroom door. I couldn't see clearly, but it looked like it had on an army helmet and wore rags. I dived for the blankets at the end of the bed and covered myself back up again. I fell back asleep and woke again about an hour later. This time the figure stood right next to my bed and and motioned with its fingers flexing seven of them, bony looking, at me three times. I can't be sure, but I thought I saw a skull in the helmet. My covers were folded at the end of the bed again. I dove for them and covered up again. I can't explain why I didn't cry out. I guess I just couldn't.\n\n14: When I was fourteen we moved to Utah. I lived in the basement. I was awakened in the night to see a figure in my doorway again. This one was large and looked like it had a pair of giant bones sticking out from a medeival helmet. I couldn't see any other details. I covered up and hid. This time, I was grabbed and thrown out of bed against the wall. I got up and ran upstairs. No one was found in the house though.\n\nSo what happened? Was my father smoking something? Was I dreaming? We aren't totally sure. I have found excessive trauma in my families past and have endured quite a bit myself. My father and some of his soldier buddies apparently took up some study of black magic while in Vietnam. I can't vouch for it all, because I wasn't around yet, but it's hard to say what did or didn't happen then. War creates horrors beyond explanation.\n\nDo I believe in good or evil spirits? Absolutely. I have studied several hauntings that you can even look up on the internet.\n\nClearfield Job Corps: E Dorm is supposedly haunted by two ghosts. One is a little girl with a ball. I stayed in E dorm while I was in Job Corps. I wasn't the only person who heard a bouncing ball sound in the halls occasionally. The other is a Residential Advisor who is supposed to have died after I left. So I never saw that one.\n\nJust to note. I do not drink and I have never touched illegal drugs.\n\nSo there you have it, not all of my experiences, but a couple. I have also studied removal of spirits. But those are other stories. Good day to you.
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GHOSTS? Yes. In the summer of 1977 a ghost took up residency in my electric fan. It was very entertaining. Had a penchant for ABBA tunes and sang to me in a weird electric voice. It lasted for just a few months then disappeared. I still miss the ghost.  \nWITCHES? Yes. I went to elementary school with a girl whose father was a Warlock. Nice guy but those big bushy eyebrows made him look scary.  \nKELPIE? Yes. When I was very young I saw a "pony" swimming in a bayou in Baywood, Louisiana. I ran home and told my Grandad about the swimming pony. Grandad asked me what color it' eyes were. Red I told him. Grandad became excited and told me it wasn't a pony at all. He called it a Kelpie. He said a Kelpie was a water "imp" that took the guise of a horse to entice innocent folk into the water with it. Once the victim entered the water the Kelpie would return to it's true demonic form and drown the happless swimmer.  Grandad forbade me to return to the bayou ever again and I never did.\nBLOODY MARY? Yes. I remember some years back I was dining at a truck-stop. A drunken trucker was dared into saying "Bloody Mary's" name three times. He did. After the 3rd time he excused himself to use the bathroom. He never returned. The cook went into the bathroom to see if he was ok. The bathroom was empty and quiet except for a broken mirror over the sink. No trace of the trucker at all. I heard his Semi stayed parked at the truck stop for 4 days before it was towed.\nVAMPIRES? Yes. I saw one years ago as a spectator at a carnival. He was a pale, bald, bony man dressed in black & gray. He was wiping his mouth of what looked like ketchup. He caught me watching him. I felt uncomfortable and turned to walk away. As I did I faced a Fun-House mirror. There was no reflection of the strange man. He was right behind me! Surely there would be a reflection! There wasn't. That's when I realized he was a vampire. I ran through the mid-way until I caught up with my friends. I never told them about the vampire because I knew they would never believe me. \nJACK the RIPPER? Yes. There is documented proof Jack the Ripper existed. The question is who do you believe he was? Some Historians say he was a respected Surgeon others believe he was a prominent member of High Society while others claim he was a member of Brittain's Royal Family. Me? I'd have to go with the Surgeon theory because of the proffessionalism of the knife wounds. Experts claim the wounds were very precise and were administered with expertise. \nCANDYMAN? Yes. The legend of the Candyman is just a variation of the "Bloody Mary" legend. They are one and the same theory but the Bloody Mary legend is much older than the Candyman .  \nBLACK CAT THAT CROSSES YOUR PATH? Absolutely. A black cat has no supernatural powers ......unless it is a "Familiar" sent by a witch to cast a spell. A familiar is an animal (cat, owl, rodent, wolf, etc.) charmed by a witch or other sorcerror to cut-off or "cross" an intended victims path. By doing so the essence of the spell or curse will possess the victim. Folk-lore has it....since the animals were small or at least not very large they were only capable of containing mild spells like clumsiness or "bad luck". Fortunately A cursed black cat is the only supernatural element I have not encountered in my strange and very eventful life (aside from Jack the Ripper that is!)...So far!
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I am a Paranormal Investigator, so I've definatley had experiences in that capacity.  I also grew up in a house that had some strange "goings on."\n\nHere are just a few of my experiences:\n\n** When I was a little girl my bedroom was downstairs by the staircase going up.  I hated to sleep with the bedroom door open because I would hear strange noises coming from the kitchen and the staircase.  I made my Mom move my bed to the wall opposite the staircase because I would swear that something was standing on the stairs and trying to reach through the wall to get me.  Granted, I was 6 years old at the time.  But I remember very clearly one night in particular.  I was deeply asleep when the bed started to shake.  I woke up and yanked the covers over my head.  I lifted up a corner to glance out and saw a black hand reach up towards me.  The hand put one finger at a time on my blanket until four long, pointy black fingers were within inches of my nose.  I was so scared I couldn't even breathe.  Suddenly the hand yanks on the covers.  I yanked back and screamed with all my might.  My parents came running and finding me sitting up and screaming for help, tried to convince me I had a nightmare.  To this day I don't know if it really happened, but even just thinking about it gives me the willies.\n\n** When I was about 17 my parents went away over night.  I was in command of the house for a full 48 hours and was thrilled.  I borrowed a bunch of movies, popped some popcorn, and settled in for a night of relaxation.  Halfway into the first movie I heard a strange scraping noise coming from the front window.  I turned my head and watched in horror as the window slowly opened.  My rational self was telling me the window was unlocked and probably warped, so not to worry.  My rational self quickly gave up that opinion when the window slammed shut very quickly.  My reaction probably would have been funny had someone been around to see it.\n\n** One night at my aunt's house, at least 9 of my family members and I were sitting around the dining room table playing Taboo!, which is an extremely loud game to play.  Suddenly all of us became quiet at the same time.  Footsteps could be clearly heard from the floor above us, but everyone in the house was around the table.  Somehow I was elected to go check it out.  As I'm walking up the steps a blast of cold air comes by me and the bathroom door at the top of the stairs slams closed.\n\n** While staying over night in a haunted B&B with several fellow investigators, my roomie and I very clearly heard the sound of snoring in the room.  We walked around to every room in the building, but could not find the source of the snoring.  Once back in the room the snoring ghost continued to keep us company for several minutes.\n\n** During the course of a paranormal investigation of a private residence I said to the homeowners, "We haven't been able to find anything yet tonight."  Immediately after that we heard several loud bangs on the ceiling over our heads.  We were on the second floor and everyone in the house was within my line of sight.
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http://theshadowlands.net/ghost/
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wow that is some story.  but i dont believe in spirits ( ghosts ). i think those are imaginary and in your head. now about that guy who slept in the room after there was a murder in there, i cant explain that. he might believe in ghosts and maybe had it in his head that there was something wrong. \nbut i dont believe in ghosts and these stories that people tell about ghosts and spirits are like made up stories from their heads or minds i should say.\ni am a christian and i dont believe that after someone dies that it could be possible for their spirit to stay on earth and haunt others. i believe that either your spirit goes to Heaven or Hell and your body stay on earth.\ni do believe in Angels. we all have a gaurdian angel that is always around us.\ni really dont know what to say about your story. i think it sounds freaky in someway and also made up. not by you, but maybe by the guy who slept in that bed after the murder.\nwho knows.