What's your best personal ghost encounter story?
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Wow, it almost sounds like something is following you.\n\nOne of my ghost stories is from New Orleans (where ghost stories are born). My friend and I were staying at the Hotel St Louis. At about 3am, the alarm on my digital watch started going off, but I didn't even know how to set it so I knew I hadn't done it. \n\nThen, we went out for breakfast (there were only 2 of us in the room) and came back and the deadbolt had been locked from the inside. We had to have someone from the front desk use a special key to open the lock. He had to lay on his back and unlock the door from a hidden lock under the door knob.\n\nMany other experiences, there, too. Luckily all were friendly.
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Try ghostsoftheprarie.com It's a pretty good sight. Also try ghoststudy.com They have not only stories but photos as well.
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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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Funny you should mention that, I had an encounter just this evening. No kidding, it really scared the cr4p out of me. I am due to have my home investigated by a paranormal team this coming weekend and they did warn me that the activity here would probably increase 10 fold. It sure has done that in the past week or so.\nThis is only the second time I have seen a shadow figure in my home and I am sure it won't be the last either.\n\nWhy do you ask this question. Email me if you wanna talk ok?
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I have had a similar experience.  In the house I grew up in, we had a ghost that we called Casper.  He didn't do anything bad, just relocted items to new places temporarily.  He always put them back eventually.  I do beleive that spirits linger here with us.
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Many years ago, while I was in my late teens, I married a man my family hated. We lived in my uncles old house, no plumbing but we did have ele. One night, after putting my daughter ( 9 months old ) down for the night and going to bed myself I was awoken to a banging noise from my daughters room.  I went to her and cracked her doorway just a bit and found her sitting up in the middle of her crib laughing and babbling. Her crib had been moved from one side of the room to the other side, next to a window. I thought I was dreaming and couldn't understand how she had moved her crib. I moved it back . then I went back to bed only  to be woke up again about 30 mins. later  Again I found  my daughters crib on the other side of the room with her babbling and laughing. This went on for near 2 hours. Finally I was woken up with a voice telling me that I was hungry. And for me to get my baby and go get a hotdog. The third time this happened I got my daughter wrapped her in a blanket and started out the backdoor. My husb. was telling me that he would go get us some food and that we were to go back in the house.  By this time I'd had enough and wanted out of this house right then. I got in the car and refused to get out. My husb. had no choice but to get in  and drive us the half mile to the rest.. We went thru the drive thru aqnd went straight back. When we got to the begginning of our road the sky was lit up as if a ufo was above our house. The closer we got the more we could see what really was happening. Our house was burnt down to the cinder  blocks house. We had been gone only 20 min. The fire department, my uncle and aunt  were standing around crying because they thought me and the baby was inside.\n   If that voice hadn't woke me up when it had, we would've been inside.\n  To this date I firmly believe in ghost and Angels.
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Okay, here's at least some of my ghost stories.  I just got permission from other people in my family to tell these stories.\n\nAs I have stated in other answers.  I have seen ghosts, mostly when I was a little girl.  I lived in a farmhouse that had been past down from generation to generation for approximately 145 years.  \n\nI didn't know this when I was a little girl (my aunt, the family historian told me this when I was about 17-18 years old), but an ancestor had violently died in our house, and of course many deaths had occured since then. In true Germanic tradition, everytime someone died in the family, a wake would be held in the living room of the deceased, or until recently, when funeral homes became more abundent.  In homes like ours, the coffin was either placed in a corner, feet facing the center of the room or sometimes in the middle of the room, but slightly off center.\n\nWell, every Christmas, our family would decorate a Christmas tree in the living room.  If the Christmas tree was placed in a corner, without fail, the tree would fall over.  It didn't matter if it was placed in different tree stands, or how the tree was cut and placed in the stand, down it would go.  I don't believe the tree tipped over because the floor was uneven either or motion caused by walking.  The foundation under that part of the house is pretty stable, considering.  It got so bad that we had to tie the tree itself to the windows!\n\nThis account isn't too scary.  If you want really scary read on.\n\nI always had a forboding feeling everytime I went into the living room.  It felt as if an unfriendly presence was there.  In that same living room my mom placed a long rectangular coffee table, practically in the center but just slightly off (she didn't know about the wakes held in the house until much later).  Whenever the coffee table was placed somewhere else in the room, the sense of uneasiness would increase.  And I would never, ever under any circumstances, cross the spot where the coffee table was before. If for some reason I absolutely had to cross or step over it, I got the tugging feeling pulling me down.  It wasn't a physical tug, so it's kind of hard to explain.  Let's just say...it was unpleasant.  I also heard knocking noises on the coffee table and endtables that were in the corners.\n\nIt gets scarier.\n\nWe had two very reliable, steady watch dogs in our house.  One of them would I honestly believe would give her life for the family, but she wasn't particularly vicious or anything.  She would stand in the corner of the dining room (adjacent to the living room, conected by huge french doors) and growl.  It wasn't a normal dog growl either.  Every piece of fur on her body would stand up, her ears would be back and teeth bared.  We would literally have to drag her away from the corner when she did this.\n\nIt gets worse.\n\nOur kitchen is connected to the dining room.  The kitchen itself seemed to be void of any negativity.  But things really got scary one night.  This time, I was alone in the house, something I didn't like.  The room right next to the kitchen is a sort of mud room, my parents hung their barn clothes there.  Well anyway, I was walking out of the kitchen into the dining room, when I felt something behind me (I don't know how to explain it any better but a presence behind my head and neck area).  I turned around quickly, saw my dog standing and facing the wall and window the mud room and kitchen shared, snarling and growling as described above.  Only this time I saw a black figure (that's the best way I can discribe it) cross the window.  The figure had to have been at least six feet tall because I couldn't see the top of it.  As I said before, no one was in the house!  Of course this freaked me out, but I still refused to tell my parents because even at that young age I thought they would think me crazy (which I found out later, wouldn't have been
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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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a ghost that can interact with the living is called an intelligent haunting and yes they do exist.\n\nI've heard stories of ghosts asking the living owners to "Get Out" or say "Help me"\n\nI read one encounter where a person was knocking on the door of a house waiting on the owner when a female voice said "Just a second, I'll be right there" just as the owners of the house pulled into the driveway.  (the voice was coming from the empty house).\n\nSo yes ghosts can interact with the living, but i think its very limited.\n\nhere's a really good example thats been documented\nhttp://www.paranormalsoup.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=22950\n\nPlay the evp link.
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As 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 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\nOne time I was alone in a house, and I felt a presence. I looked at 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\nOne time I was driving into Ponca State Park to set up a large camping gathering, and the sides of the road were lined with spirits. All standing there, clearly visible to everyone, calmly welcoming us back.\n\nOn another camping trip, we felt a spirit near the bon-fire. We had a ring of 40 tiki-torches around the bonfire. It was a still and windless night, but all the tiki flames near the spirit bent in. One of the people in the circle had a fancy camera. After the campout she went to get the film developed, and all the photos from before the visitor turned out, but after that all the film was blank. She took the camera in to be repaired. The repairman asked if she'd been in a nuclear power plant. All the innards were fried from electromagnetism\n\nMy grandmother died while my niece was in utero. After my niece was born, she would look up at areas where no one was standing, and laugh and giggle. We all knew that she was looking at gramma, so we never showed her any pictures. Finally, at about a year old, she could speak, and my sister showed her the family photo album. My niece picked out her photo and said, "That's Old Gramma."\n\nI do spiritual healing with singing bowls. I play the bowl in someone's hand, and feel the vibrations as they extend through the person, and can tell them where the vibrations are and what they're doing.\n\nI used to work with a Reiki master who could tell people many details about their lives while we were doing our energy work. Very specific things\n\nOne time on a camping trip, we created a psychic link which allowed us to keep tabs on each other without needing those family band radios.\n\nOne time, while engaging in on-line activities, a witch and I played a game of "where am I touching you" and we were able to correctly identify where and how the other person was touching from thousands of miles apart over IM\n\nFor a while, a friend and I maintained a karmic connection, and sometimes I would smell something, and call her up, and it was exactly what she was smelling.\n"Did you just make cookies?"\n"Was the dog just breathing in your face?"\n"Did you just disinfect something?"\n\nOften times when I'm driving, I'll see someone walking who doesn't look as several cars go past, and I'll look at the person, and they'll turn to look as I approach. Whereas people with the person (the ones I wasn't looking at) don't turn.
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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\nOne time I was driving into Ponca State Park to set up a large camping gathering, and the sides of the road were lined with spirits. All standing there, clearly visible to everyone, calmly welcoming us back.\n\nOn another camping trip, we felt a spirit near the bon-fire. We had a ring of 40 tiki-torches around the bonfire. It was a still and windless night, but all the tiki flames near the spirit bent in. One of the people in the circle had a fancy camera. After the campout she went to get the film developed, and all the photos from before the visitor turned out, but after that all the film was blank. She took the camera in to be repaired. The repairman asked if she'd been in a nuclear power plant. All the innards were fried from electromagnetism\n\nMy grandmother died while my niece was in utero. After my niece was born, she would look up at areas where no one was standing, and laugh and giggle. We all knew that she was looking at gramma, so we never showed her any pictures. Finally, at about a year old, she could speak, and my sister showed her the family photo album. My niece picked out her photo and said, "That's Old Gramma."
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Yes, my last house was haunted by the spirit of the woman who had died there in 1999.  I had never seen a picture of her.  My mother in-law inherited the house from her, and we moved into it.  My infant son was staying in the room next to ours which was in the process of being changed from the office.  This room held a few computer cables in the box about two feet from his bed. \nAt four thirty in the morning, I heard a woman say very clearly, "The baby..."  I figured I was dreaming and went back to sleep.  A very cold hand touched my arm and shook me.  I woke up and there was a woman I'd never seen before with curly shoulder length red hair in a blue bathrobe.  As I realized I could see through her, she pointed and said, "The baby is in trouble." \nI'm pretty freaked out by this point, but I run out to the baby's room.  Somehow, he'd managed to pull a cord out of the box and it was wrapped around him.  He couldn't move.  He couldn't cry.  I unwrapped him, picked him up, and turned around, crying.  The woman was still there, crying as well.  I said, "Thanks..." in a very shaky voice.  She nodded, and vanished.  My husband walks into the room a few minutes later looking for me.  I told him what happened.  He asked if I was very sure of what she looked like.  I said, "Of course I am.. the woman saved our baby!"\n\nThe next day his mother arrived with a photo albumn.  Looking through it, I saw a picture and asked her who it was.  It was the woman she inherited the house from, a friend who happened to be a former elemenentary school student.  She died in the very room where my son was staying.  Her grandson also used to stay in that room.  And yes, that was the woman who woke me up.
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Yea I was at a really old hotel and it had been turned into an apartment building, but it was haunted! I was creepy if you went into the ballroom you could feel them everywhere! We even got pix of it looking out the window when we knew no body was in the room!
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i wouldnt call them ghosts rather spirits or energies. I use to live in an appartment block which use to be an Old County Infirmary- it use to be the place where they cared for leapers. And I can definately tell you they are real!\n\nLots of weird things happened, once I was watching tv alone and a knife fell off the draining board of its own accord. (there was no vibrations coming from any applicance at the time to have knocked it off). \nAnother time my self and my boyfriend we just nodding off to sleep and right up in the corner of the room a huge dark shadow appeared and swooped over the two of us and away over the headboard-the two of us saw it at the same time.\nAnd there was always thumbing and dragging noises coming from above us although we lived on the top floor.\n\nAnother thing that makes me believe in spirits is that my own mother died 2 years ago, and recently I was at home and heard her bed squeek as if some1 sat on it -thinking it was the dog jumping on or off i went to see there was no one there, all of a sudden I got an overwhelming smell of flowers (she was a keen gardener).\nAnd the most amazing of all is, I had a picture of my mother and myself hugging on new years 1999, I loved the picture as we both looked so happy, I kept the picture in my diary and never ever moved it-no1 else knew where the picture was let alone remember having the picture. \nOne evening I was feeling really down, it was a particular bad time in my life and I asked my mother for a sign that she was looking after me. I was busying myself by clearing out some cupboards that hadnt been touched in years and low and behold the exact picture feel out of an old book- i know it was da same picture as I had written on the back. I reckon it was my mothers way of telling me she's still here in some form still looking after me.
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Yes,  I have had experiences, with entities, paranormal and I know of people who have had experiences with ufo's.. \nwill check out the website.
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Yes, ghosts are real.  I have felt them, and I have dealt with several of these poor souls.  \nHere's one story, but it isn't much, it's something that happened to me:\nMy good friend Tyler was killed in a car accident in fall of '99.  The last time we spoke, I told him that he HAD to come visit me in my new apartment.  He promised he would.  A few days after his funeral, in the middle of the night, I was awakened by the sound of someone coming into my apartment.  It sounded like the door opened, but it was still closed.  Whoever it was walked throughout the apartment, taking their sweet time, then they came and stood by me, where I was sleeping on the couch (one hand wrapped around my baseball bat).  \nI couldn't see them, but I could feel them.  It was Tyler, I know without a doubt.  After he was gone, I sat up and smoked a cigarette, wondering at what had just happened.  Then I went back to sleep, feeling very peaceful, and happy that Tyler had kept his promise, even in death.\nIn the morning, I started to think it was a dream...but there were three cigarette butts in my ashtray (I always emptied all of my ashtrays before going to bed).  Two were Marb Reds, which are what I smoke.  One was a Marb Light, which was what Tyler smoked.  \nCoincidence?  I think not.\nI have had other encounters with spirits (including more with Tyler), but that one is my favorite, because it was so personal.  No one else can back me up on it, but people can back me up on the others; they were there.
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I lived in a haunted house for about four years. A guest who stayed the night in a room on the third floor said she woke up in the middle of the night and saw this white shadow that slowly changed shaped into a skeleton. That room always gives me the creeps.