Ghosts/spirits/unexplainable happenings??

I have a few stories from my mother.

1) We had just moved into a new house. While she was unpacking the pots and pans in the kitchen she heard a child playing behind her. Thinking it was one of us kids she turned around... only to see a strange little sitting in the middle of the kitchen playing with the pots. "Who are you?" she asked but before the little girl could answer she was just gone.

In that same house my mother used to be woken up in the night by the sound of a child screaming (this is the same home where I heard and saw the screaming woman). She would check on us kids one by one but of course we were all fast asleep.

AFTER we moved out of this house we found out the entire family had been murdered by the father. Of course no one told US this until AFTER we moved out. *shakes fist* Jerks. The house still stands. I'd really love to visit it some day!

2) Our house had ONE entrance. One afternoon while my mother was washing dishes she saw my dad walk behind her and down the hallway. She called out but he ignored her. A moment later he walked into the kitchen (from the same direction he'd come before). "Didn't you just go down the hall?" she asked.

"No. I was out in the barn. I just got in." he reported.

There's no way he could have gone down the hall and made it to the front of the house to re-enter again in the time that she saw him and then saw him... if that makes sense.

This was the same land where we had cows mysteriously dying all the time. No injuries. No sickness. They would just lay down and die.

PS: We moved a LOT... so we've lived in a lot of houses.

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Back when I was a single Mum and trying to get used to living in a new house on my own with two little girls, the youngest came into my bedroom at about 2.30 in the morning. So I asked her why she was up and she said "Mummy, why is there a man in my room?"

I can safely say that I have never had such a heart leaping terrifying moment since, I threw back the covers and ran into her room fully expecting to find that someone had broken into the house. When I couldn't see anyone I whirled back around to run into my other Daughter's room when the little one piped up "Can't you see him, Mummy? He is there in the corner?" and was pointing back into her bedroom.

They both slept with me that night but it was for my benefit as much as theirs :embarassed:

loved reading all of your stories! I do love all this stuff, although I still need convincing..

I think that when someone dies your mind can WANT to hear or see things.. the mind is a wonderful thing..

saying that.. a couple of things have happened to me.. I dont know if my mind was playing tricks or what but I know they happened.. or did i want them too.. I dunno.. but after reading all these stories on here I wanted some opinions..

but one thing is sure, it does seem to happen to most people after loosing someone close and when you are grieving..

1) - My close uncle died when i was about 12.. when he died he used to visit me.. at the time i told my mum every time and it really freaked her out, she said the dog would sit outside my room staring at the door and also the lights would flicker in the rest of the house, one time I came out after a 'visit' and she said 'i know he has just been, the lights went out!' - I will be honest, I dont remember the visits much anymore.. and maybe i just wanted to believe he came.. I dont remember.. it was a long time ago now.. 20years...

2) Me and my Boyf moved to an old Lodge house that was hundreds of year old.. and I would always see shadows in the kitchen which was in the basement but i always put that down to he shadows of people walking past the window.. although one day i saw a shadow out of the corner of my eye and it was too far across the room to be someone walking by.. that freaked me out.. i wont lie!

3) After my nan died, I was always very sad..it was very tough. A couple of times I would be upstairs and hear the kettle start to boil downstairs in the kitchen.. not weird no, could have been the plug, faulty kettle.. yes. any of that. I was washing up one day next to the kettle and it started to boil again.. I like to think it was my nan telling me to stop washing up and sit and have a cuppa.. she was a masssssive tea drinker it only ever happend twice though, soon after she died.. so doubt it was a faulty plug or kettle.. if it was then the problem fixed itself!

4) the same bloody kitchen..!!! dfferent plug! so that in its self was weird.. I would be sitting upstairs and all of a sudden the microwave would start beeping.. like something was ready.. this happened a lot.. i had to unplug it in the end because it was freaking me out.. i just hoped that once i unplugged it, it didnt beep again.. haha.. it didnt.

5) Now this is the most odd.. and one that I like to think happened the way I am going to tell it.. but i know there are many explanations really...
again someone died.. this time my granddad.. my granddad and I were extremely close! he was the one that taught me how to play guitar when i was young.. and when i was older I taught him a few Nirvana songs and we used to play together,.. even though he much preferred country music. I was devastated when he died, like my world had closed in on me. I went to see my grandma one day and she asked me if i would like his guitar, of course I did! It stayed in the living room on display next to our spiral stairs and I just couldnt bring myself to play it... well one night while my boyfriend was at work I decided it was time and my granddad would be annoyed if i left it to get dusty! i just sat n front of the TV tuning it up a bit and then started to play the silly tune he always played.. and then the sound on the TV COMPLETELY turned down! i stopped and sat for a minute.. it was such timing! the tv wasnt old and it was given to us by a friend.. we had had it for a year and that had never ever happend.. i called her straight away to ask if it had happened to her and she said no never.. so all I could think was that my granddad was enjoying listening to me play and didnt wanna have any silly tv on in the back ground..

Still not a massive believer tho

No more stories??? Wahhhhh :sad:

If I share all my stories people will be confirmed in thinking I'm nuts. :P

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There's a ghost at my workplace.

A year or so back I had an APPLE thrown at me. (sailed straight UP from the apple display, and then slammed into the wall directly behind me. No one was around. It was just me and that damned apple).

I've seen a 'man' walking in the office but when I go to check no one is ever there (there's just one exit and no way they could have left without me seeing).

AND we caught it on the security camera! This time it threw meat at one of our clerks. Same thing as with the apple. It went straight up and then straight at him. Hah! Scared the crap out of him and of course we kept the film to share with all the employees to freak them out with. :P

Often when I'm there I feel like there's someone behind me. Last night it was so strong I kept turning around but of course no one was ever there.

And finally, one night while I was alone in the office one of the packages started rocking VIOLENTLY back and forth. It kept going for some time. When it stopped I went over and tried to recreate the event but it was a solid, flat package and would NOT rock.

So yeah. I'm pretty convinced there's some weirdness going on there.

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My cousin, who was 7 at the time (I was 10) was standing at the top of the stairs at a cabin my family rented one summer. It was an old cabin and had a creepy play house outside. So my cousin was standing at the top of the stairs alone, everyone else was downstairs, she started with her first step down and all of a sudden I saw her back arch like someone pushed her hard and then she fell down the stairs!! I was frecked out ~ no one else saw it or believed me. My cousin said she felt a push but her parents just shrugged it off like it was an accident. Clearly a spirit pushed her or something. Not a good ghost experience :-(

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During my youth, we had a drive in theatre that was next to an old cememtary. There were many stories about a "faceless" ghost that would appear in the ladies restroom. I feared this place as a child, and never had any encounters with anything "unexplained". The drive-in theatre closed a couple of years later (when I about 15 years old). A couple of years later, I took a short cut through the abandoned drive in to get to the nearby shopping center. This place was located in the middle of the city, so there were houses and buildings on the perimeter of this huge empty lot, which was still next to the cemetary. There were street lights on the outside, but it was completely dark in drive-in. I wasn't planning to take this route, and didn't think that it would be so dark and the distance traveled was less than a 1/4 mile. I was halfway through the drive (at the darkest part), and couldn't see more than a couple of feet in front of me. That is when I heard foot steps behind me, like someone was dragging their back foot in the gravel road! At first, I kept walking in the dark, then I could tell that the pace was picking up. I turned around and couldn't see anyone, so I started to pick up the pace into a jog. I swear that the sound got closer, so I sprinted the hell out of the dark into the closest area with lights. I turned around still didn't see anyone in the distance, but ran another 100 yards to the nearest street. It was so comforting to see cars and traffic lights.

I never went through that place again. Would you believe that they built houses on that property? Just like that movie the Poltergeist!!!

Was this on Oahu??