GhOst StorIes....

I grew up in a haunted house in a town pretty notorious for ghosts (Alton, Illinois, if you're interested), all of mine and my family's experiences were pretty harmless but I'll write them down anyway

As a really young girl I was pretty fearless, but every once in a while I'd go upstairs at night to play in my room while everyone else was busy on the main floor. Every single time I went upstairs at night by myself none of the light switches would work. I'd go to every single room, try the switch a couple of times, try the lamps, etc., and nothing worked. I'd go back downstairs and have on of my parents (who were watching TV usually since this was after dinner time) come up with me because I was "scared" and the lights would suddenly work! Once when I was a little older (10 or 11 or so) I stomped up there and the lights didn't work so I yelled into my room "This is NOT funny any more, cut it out!!" and suddenly the switches worked... Never had that problem again.

This happened to my mom and I on separate occasions and we only told each other recently about it: once my mom was sleeping on the couch on the main floor (my dad snores like the ****ens) and woke to a shadowy figure stroking her hand tenderly as if she was ill. I had this happen once when I had fallen asleep on the same couch after watching a movie by myself at night. Nothing sinister, if it had to have a "feeling" I would say something comforting but it freaked both of us out.

The basement was really weird sometimes, I won't go into tedious layout details but if you walked through my dad's workshop into the laundry room you'd feel pressure on you from certain corners like eyes watching. I always ran up the stairs as fast as I could because it felt like something was walking up the stairs behind me every single time. Sometimes, if you were in the house alone, you could hear people walking up and down the basement stairs and the stairs from the main floor to the second floor.

One last thing: we constantly (maybe 4 days out of the week) heard dishes breaking in the kitchen/dining room. Didn't matter what time of day, it would happen at least once.

I think my brother had a weird experience in his closet where he got locked in for 10 minutes while we were playing hide & go seek but to this day he swears that I did it (totally didn't, his closet didn't lock in the first place so idk how he thought it was me).

I personally have never experienced seeing a ghost but my daughter always has had different encounters per say.

I can recall her being as small as two years old and she would follow with her eyes different things around the room and point at them. None of us could ever figure out what she was pointing or smiling at and it continued on for many years of her young childhood.

When she became a teen, she always has dreams about talking to people in our family that have passed away. She explains them in such great vivid detail you get goosebumps on your arms and tells us what they have said in words that you can't even imagine where she would have gotten them from.

When her and I are travelling in the car together at night, we are always putting out at least three or four streetlights. Some people say its fluke but it never happens unless we are together!

i too have dreams about deceased family members all the time. they are always happy and "light" usually telling me they love and miss me or to tell another family member something. isnt that sooo strange? these dreams are VERY real. you wake up and feel as though you really visited these people. in my dreams we both know they are "dead" too. i believe your daughter. theres more to this life than just this.

Sounds to me like you are a medium of sorts. Or you are more open to seeing things that normal people do not.

I absolutley believe. I think proof is in EVPS, EMFS, the spiritbox, etc...

I totally believe in ghosts/spirits! I don't have a lot of ghost stories, but there have been a few minor things that have happened to me that make me a believer.

There's two that I can remember that have to deal with animals...one time, my sister and I were sitting on the couch, and we heard our dog (a cocker spaniel) come running down the stairs and slide across the hall in the kitchen before seeing her run past the wall and down the basement stairs. She ran so fast she was like a blur, and she's never like that, so my sister and I both looked at the basement door and said "Pidgeon, what are you doing?" Then we heard her whine from beside the couch. She had been laying in her crate the whole time.

Another time was shortly after we had to put down our dog, Jack (he was 17 and had cancer). Not long before we put him down, my mom bought a bulldog puppy named Stubby. Jack *hated* Stubby...Stubbs couldn't walk past Jack without him yelping like he'd been attacked. Anyway, Jack always had his spot behind the couch under a lamp where he used to lie, and about a week after we put him down, Stubby walked past that spot and I heard Jack yelp, and for a split second, I could see him in his spot. Even Stubby stopped and stared at the back of the couch.

As for non-animal related stuff, back when I was in high school, there was one time I was up really late (4 am or something) telling ghost stories on the computer when all of a sudden, I heard this voice in my ear yell "that's enough!" and my right arm got yanked back. I couldn't move it at all until I stood up and walked away from the computer desk!

Then, when I was 20 and moved into my apartment, my first night there, my boyfriend and I were about to go to bed when I felt someone watching us (creepy kind, not the nice ones) and could see weird shadows in the corner by the closet. I told my boyfriend, who didn't believe in ghosts at all, but he said he could feel it too. He went into the bedroom and got his katana (yeah, he had a sword...he thought he was tough lol) and stood in the middle of the living room and said "I don't care who you are, but get the **** out of our apartment". Right away, the shadow moved across the living room, out the door and jumped off the balcony. Haven't had any creepy feelings here since

Not sure if this is really a "ghost story" and I have always been very much the skeptic. However, I have a dolphin snowglobe (no snow inside, just blue water) that would play music and light up when you turned the dial. I was planning a dolphin themed nursery for my first baby and that snowglobe was given to me as a gift. The excitement of preparing for a baby was replaced with devastation as my little girl was stillborn. I put the snowglobe on a dresser in my bedroom. At night, (at the exact time she was born) this snowglobe would light up blue so brightly that it woke me and my husband up. It didnt play music on its own, just the light.

The first time, I thought it was a coincidence and had to cry myself to sleep again as I looked at the alarm clock on the nightstand and saw "the time" glaring at me in red numbers. It did this every single night for a month. We were always awakened by the bright blue light and it was always the exact time she was born. That was six years ago and it has never lit up on its own since, just for the month after she passed.

I was in a really bad place at the time, completely consumed by grief. Eventually, that blue light became a source of comfort for me as I felt it was her way of telling me that she was never really gone, just watching over us.