Ghosts/spirits/unexplainable happenings??

I always love these threads..keep em' coming. Love it!!! :-)

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If you guys want to do your own investigating, I've tested an EMF meter app on my droid, it works perfectly (tested it with a UPC scanner at work) it reads electromagnetic frequencies very accurately!

so give it a whirl and see what you come up with, I've tested it in the park late at night and gotten some unexplainable things... just remember if you use it in your house, there could be interference from wires running through your walls

I absolutely love ghost stories and the like. So I gotta chime in with mine.
About 20 years ago, I was a student and my program had a quarter that we spent in Washington, D.C. I had to write an article, and, as I have always been the type who has to test boundaries, instead of writing about government or some momentous D.C. event, I decided to write about ghosts.
You see, when I got out to the area, I started hearing all these ghost stories. And, I found out that the D.C. region, from Gettysburg to Richmond, Va., has a great tradition of such stories. Some say it has to do with the Civil War, that there were so many violent deaths in the area that it left its imprint. Indeed, Harpers Ferry has about five or six well-known ghosts, and they are mostly soldiers or connected to the war somehow.
Anyway, in the course of researching this article, I heard of a married couple that had a ghost in their house and I called them up.
The wife told me their story. She said they bought a big, beautiful, old farm house in rural Maryland and fixed it up. Shortly after they moved in strange things began to happen. Objects they were sure they had left in a particular place would disappear and turn up someplace else, someplace where they would never put that object.
They would come home after being out and find that the long rug that they had laid down in the upstairs hallway and been pushed into a bunch all the way down the hall into their bedroom at the end. She said it was just as if a child had come along and noticed the rug slipped, and jumped on it to slide down the hall.
But, here is the really weird thing about it. When they straightened out the rug, they would often find some object hidden in the bunches. Once, it was the tie from the curtains in one of the bedrooms.
She said that the things that happened usually seemed like things a child would do -- like slide on a rug -- and the unexplained events often centered, somehow, on that bedroom with the curtains.
One night, for instance, they were going out. It was during Christmas time and they had put electric candles in each of the front windows. Well, since they were leaving, they turned all the candles out. And, they went out to the garage, which was in back of the house, and got in their car and drove out along their long circular driveway, which curved around by the front of their house. As they passed, they noticed the candle in that particular bedroom was lit. Each of them accused the other of leaving it on by mistake, and neither really remembered whether they had turned it off or not.
So they parked the car and went back in and turned the light out, and then left again. As they rolled by the front of the house, they looked up and the light was back on.
Over time, this couple got used to their quirky house. They did not feel threatened by the happenings, so they started to accept them as a matter of the routine. They learned that there had been a little boy who had died while living in the house, in the garage, asphyxiated because a car was left running -- many, many years before.
A few years later, it was tax time. They had all their pay stubs and receipts and everything related in a small box. One minute the box was on the counter in the kitchen, and the next, it was gone. Well, at first they did not think much of it and they just looked for the box. But, when it failed to turn up, and they got frustrated, they began to suspect it was their ghost. It was the kind of thing he would do.
They continued searching, looking in the kind of places where he would put things, or where he had in the past. They still found nothing, and a few days passed. But now they were up against their tax deadline and they began to get frantic.
The wife said that she had heard, somewhere, that ghosts did not know they were dead, and if you tell them they are dead, and ask them to leave you alone, they often will. So, in her frustration and anger over the missing tax documents, she banged her fists on a counter and screamed: 'Leave us alone and give us our taxes back! This is our house now, not yours. You are dead and you are not wanted here.'
Shortly after, the taxes box appeared mysteriously in the middle of the dining room table.
Nothing ever happened again after that, the wife said, and it made them sad. She said they had gotten so used to their little ghost and his pranks that there was a void in the house when he left. She sometimes wished she had never yelled.
Well, in the interests of writing a thorough paper, I called a paranormal expert at Duke University. Duke, at that time, had a small research group in the larger department of psychology that was devoted to investigating claims of ESP and ghosts and the like. It is gone now; their funding dried up.
I interviewed one of their experts, asking him about ghosts and ghost stories, and he was somewhat vague and circumspect in his answers. But, he said they had not been able to verify, conclusively, any of the stories or purported events they had investigated. So, I asked him: 'Do you believe that any of the stories are 'real' in the sense that there has been an actual, objective event caused by an outside paranormal force of some sort? After your years of study, do you believe in ghosts?'
He answered me: 'All I really know for certain is that these events fulfill a deep need for those who experience them.' But, he did not know whether their need somehow made them more sensitive to actual, objective, paranormal events, or whether their need made their imagination over-active. All he knew was that there was a need.
It got me thinking, so I called the wife back. Yes, she said. They had no children. And yes, they had tried very hard to have children. And yes, she had realized that their little ghost was a source of comfort.

I love everyone's stories! If I have time I will post some of my own later today. THanks so much for sharing!

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I am a bit shy to talk about this, as my parents were very heavily involved in occult when I was young

They would brings us to these rituals every few years, where everyone would dress up in costumes and repeat chants over and over again, with candles burning etc

Actually, every week we had to go to this big old grery buidling, real cold place, badly lite, and on a stage there would be this man, dressed all in black, with a cap, talking about old stories and hell, and punishment. And they'd bribe us with gifts like money etc to keep us wanting to come back

Luckily, when I got older, I was able to make outt he wood from the trees and stopped going to MASS]]

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My house has a couple spirits. When we first moved in here I heard a little girl say mommy and thought it was my daughter until I realized I was home alone. Another time I heard a man coming up my stairs clearing his throat. That one kind of scared me because I was home alone and my dogs were right beside me and wouldn't move. I've also caught what sounded like morse code on my camcorder one night right before the camera was moved and I've also picked up what sounds like a man and women having a conversation. I've also got some good pics of light anomalies , orbs, and mists forming. I recently bought a EMF detector and I've been getting them to answer me with that.. I don't mind them being here but sometimes when they really want my attention they make sure they get it. They have thrown a plastic tub off my washer and they like to tap on stuff right beside me. I've also been touched and my husband thought I was crazy until they touched him a couple weeks later. Which I told him was gonna happen because he thought it was a joke..lol..jokes on him. He's becoming a believer now. My animals also act weird all the time especially my cat. They watch stuff thats not there (well it's there we just cant see it).

The bearded man, was it Santa?

A little more than a year after my grandpa had passed, I was back at their place for a visit. My grandpa was a carpenter and had a workshop in the garage. I went out just to sit in his old stool. Smell the smells, close my eyes and remember him in that context. After awhile I decided to go back inside and as I opened the door I said aloud, "I love you grandpa. Miss you". In that moment I heard him say "Hi sweetheart". The hair on my neck stood up and I swung around to see him but of course, nothing there. I'd love to have that happen again but it never has. That was almost 8 years ago.

Wow! My grandma visited me just after she passed. I never believed in this stuff but I swear it was real. I was crying one morning still in bed but awake missing her and I felt her presence and she put her hand on my forehead. It felt comforting and It still makes me feel choked up like 5 years later...

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