Bumps in the Night

[Sai Joshua]

Halloween is almost upon us. Has anyone here had any experience with the paranormal or supenatural? I would love to hear your stories.

[Daghain]

YES!!!

My husband died in 1998. Not long after, when I was bringing in the laundry (it was outside in another building) I walked in, shut the door, and his picture (we had a set of our wedding pics: him, us, and me on the wall) flipped off the wall and landed FACE UP on the floor. Those pics had been there for 2+ years, and had never moved. I remember saying, out loud and without thinking, "What do you want?" to the picture, with no real reason why.

Not long after, I was looking for a new apartment. I had put all my husband's stuff in storage, except for a small wallet pic of him I had leaning against my computer. The rental market was tight; I could find NOTHING, anywhere.

One day I got fed up and looked at his pic and said, "You need to find me a place to live, and then you need to go to the light, or wherever the hell else you're supposed to be, and leave me alone."

THE NEXT DAY, I had a feeling I should call the place I was on the waiting list for. They had a vacant apartment. I felt my husband fulfulled his "job" of taking care of me before he "left" for wherever it was he was supposed to go. I never felt him "around" after that.

And, it was EXACTLY the apartment he would have picked. Top floor, corner unit. Yeah, he totally picked it. :D

[Sai Joshua]

I guess since I started this, I will go first. When I was a young boy, around 10 or so, my mom moved into an apartment. The previous tenant, an older gentleman, was put in the nursing home because he was talking to someone who wasn't there named Danny(we found this out later). One bedroom was always colder than the rest of the house no matter what time of the year it was. The bathroom had this horrible smell that would come from it sometimes. ( No wise asses, it was not me!) My mom and her roomate heard all kinds of banging and knocking around in the bathroom and when they would go in to investigate, the noise would stop. Funny thing was when they would open the medicine cabinet in there, all the pill bottles in it would be scattered no matter how many times they would be restraightened. i went to stay the night with her one night and I will never forget the feeling of being watched the whole time I was there. The icing on the cake for me was when I was laying on the living room on the sofa and the drop light that she had above the kitchen table started swinging back and forth. I would not go back there to spend the night again. There are several stories I could tell about this presence, but I will stick to 2. My mom's roomate had very long hair. She was watching TV one night and my mom was reading a book when all of the sudden her roomate started screaming. When mom looked up, Debbie's hair was being pulled straight up and something was pulling her out of the chair it was pulling so strongly, although mom could see nothing! Mom called out the name of Jesus and immediately Debbie's hair fell back down. The episode that made mom move was when she went into the apartment by herself one night after a long shift and sat on the sofa. As she was taking off her shoes, she felt like someone was in the room with her. She called out " Is anyone there?" and immediately got a response" Margaret I'm here" from right in front of her. Once again there was noboy there. Mom came and stayed with us that night. Upon researching the situation, there was a guy who lived there right before the old man that I mentionedremember I said he was talking to someone who wasn't there named Danny?) who died of a drug overdose and was put into the bedroom that became the "cold" room in the house. I believe the spirit of the OD victim was the one in the house.Sorry such a long one, but I hope you enjoyed.

[Daghain]

Story #2:

My father died in 2000. I was home to visit, he passed on the day before I was supposed to leave to go back home. It was totally unexpected.

The irony was, the whole week before I had left I had bad feelings about the whole thing. I didn't put two and two together, but I knew it centered around him. I thought I was being irrational, and blew it off. I do remember not wanting to go, and being really upset on the plane on the way out there.

My aunt, after hearing about my dad's death, said to me, "Well, that's why you came home."

She might have been right. I almost burst into tears on the plane ride in, but had no idea why. Now I knew.

ONE YEAR to the day of my dad's death, a firm and final offer came on the house he and my mother shared.

I will never believe he did not have a hand in that. I don't care if everyone thinks I'm crazy, but I believe the pennance of the dead is to make sure their loved ones are okay before they move on.

Just my two cents.

[Erin]

Interesting stories guys. I've got a few myself. I've typed them all out before at another site. I'll go hunt them down and do the 'ole copy/paste because i'm too lazy to type it all out again. :D

[Jean]

great thread, Sai Joshua!

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[Letti]

When my mom and my dad were about to divorce and my dad didn't live at home for some weeks (it was about 8 years ago) my mom my brother and me lived together.
One night my mom wake up because she heard horrible noices from the ground-floor. We used to live in a house with a garden and our bedrooms were on the first floor.
My mom was horrible frightened and she went to the stairs. We had alarm system on the ground floor and there was a panel at the strair on the wall that showed you if there was any movement down there. The alarm system didn't turn on and the panel didn't show any movement but she still was hearing those horrible noices. As if a drunk person had been running up and down kicking the furinture and ruinning the house.
My poor mom was so scared and got a little shock she couldn't move anywhere. It took for some very long minutes and suddenly it quit.
She went back into her room and she tried to sleep but she couldn't manage.

It happened again after some nights (me and my little brother heard nothing we wouldn't wake up for an atomic bomb either) and my mom didn't dare to step out of her room.
After that she told me this little story (I was about 14 then) and she asked me to sleep with her.
She thought it might have been my dead godfather, my dad's brother who died years ago in a car accident, he wanted to tell my mom that she shouldn't leave my dad or divorce. My godfather was the center of my family. We used to celebrate the Chrismas and everything together. When he died our whole family fell apart. He was the roots of our family tree and when he was gone... we like dead leaves fell down from the tree and we let the wind lead us far away from each other.
My mom and my dad often say if he hadn't died it's possible (just very possible) that they would be still together.

My mom was having very hard days at that time and her nerves were weak. She might have dreamt it... anyway she doesn't believe in such things.
We will never know.

[Erin]

Ok...first story:

I'm one who belives in aliens, UFOs, abductions, the whole shabang. I never used to be this way, but i've had several experiences which have totally changed my views. My own personal story happened on a sunday at 10am. It was a really nice, sun-shiny day in June. There wasn't a cloud in the sky. My boyfriend at the time and I were driving to work together. We had just reached the top of a crest of a hill in the road when suddenly ahead of us in the sky was a very strange, shiny object. It seemed to be about 200 feet or so up in the air in front of the car. It was shaped like an egg, and appeared to be about the size of a van. It was incredibly shiny and was just hoovering there in front of us. I slammed on the breaks in the middle of the road (luckily there was no one around) and we just stared at it and did that whole "Oh my god, do you SEE that?" and "what the hell is it" thing. What happened next is hard to describe. After a few seconds, it appeared as if someone reached out from behind the object and just plucked it back into the sky. I've never seen anything move so fast before. It was just there, then it shot backwards up into the sky incredibly fast.

My ex and I immediately called several of our friends and family members and told them about it. When we finally got to work, we also told a bunch of people there. Almost everyone laughed at us (the only person who believed me were my best friend and mom) and said there was a reasonable explaination for what we saw. You know, weather balloon, you were tired, the sun was in your eyes, ect... But none of that was the case. I've never been able to explain what i've seen before. I'm just glad I had someone else in the car with me to see it too, so I know I wasn't just crazy.

[Erin]

Erin Paranormal Event #2.....beware...it's long.

When I was 14 (1998 ), my mom and stepdad owned a beach house in South Carolina (we lived in NC at the time). We used to go nearly every weekend, leaving once school was out Friday and get home late Sunday night. One weekend, my family was planning on leaving like normal, but I had to stay because I had agreed to a babysitting job that Saturday. I didn't want to stay alone, so I was spending the weekend with my friend and her family.

Saturday afternoon, I realized I had forgotten to tell the man I babysat for that I was staying with friends (he would pick me up at my house and drive me over to his). I tried calling his house several times to give him the new directions, but he never answered and didn't have an answering machine. So I just decided to go over to my house a little before he arrived and wait there for him there.

Ok, here is where it gets spooky. My friends mom drops me off at my house. It's dark out and we had a huge house because of the extended step-family (3 story, basement, huge yard, ect...). I go inside and realize I have awhile before he gets there so I sit on the couch in the living room and watch TV. After awhile, I hear a very loud *THUD* coming from upstairs above me. I immediately turned off the TV and just sat and listened. After a few minutes I heard another *THUD* from upstairs. I suddenly got really scared. No one is home, the only light I had turned on in the entire house was the living room lamp. I crept over out of the living room to the stairs and peeked around the corner. Just as I did, I heard another really loud *THUD*. I ran into the kitchen, grabbed a butcher knife(seriously what the hell I planned on doing with it, i have no idea) and the cordless phone and ran back into the living room. The living room was really creeping me out, however, because it was one of those "great rooms" which runs along one entire side of the house and has two entrences into the room, one on the left side and one on the right side. I sat on fireplace, in the middle and across from both doorways, with my butcher knife held out in front of me, eyes darting back and forth between the two doorways. I called my friend and told her how scared I was.

While on the phone, the man I babysat for beeped in to tell me that he wouldn't need me that night because of a death in the family. I immediately told my friend to have her mom come get me.

The next day, when it was bright and sunny out, my friend and I walked back over to my house and went in. We went upstairs and began searching every room (holding hands, creeping about, totally scared, but just glad it wasn't dark). When we got to my bedroom, in the middle of my floor was a large candle and glass holder, several decorative vases, and a few small statues, all the items which had previously been sitting ontop of my 6 foot bookcase against the wall. But there they were, in the middle of the room, not like they had fallen, but arranged the exact way I had them set up on my bookcase. That was the only thing amiss in the entire house. I have no idea how it happened and what the *THUD* noises were. It scared me so badly I slept on the couch in the living room for several weeks after that.

I never saw anything the entire time I lived in that house, nor did anyone else, but one other creepy thing happened to me once more before we moved.

Briefly, I got out of bed in the middle of the night. I have a stuffed monkey doll named Zip that my grandpa made me when I was little. He always sat on my bed when it was made as decoration during the day. At night, when i turned down the bed, I would toss him and some other stuffed animals at the foot of the bed. That was where he was this night. However, when I came back from the bathroom, Zip was PROPPED UP on his stuffed arms in the middle of my bed, LOOKING AT ME. It scared me so badly, I grabbed the first thing I could find off my dresser, which happened to be my deodorant, and threw it at him, knocking him down. I ran and woke up my mom and forced her to take Zip out of my room and lock him in a chest in her room. I didn't take my poor stuffed monkey out of that chest for months, but when I finally did, I tried and tried for hours to prop him up like I had seen him, thinking I had just somehow knocked him into that position while getting out of bed. It was to no avail. I have never been able to get him to "stand up" the way he did that one night, his stuffed arms are just arn't sturdy enough.

[Letti]

Uhhh Erin... :scared:
Small wonder you believe in such things.

Anyway... you are a really brave girls. Others would have run out crying but you... you ran into the kitchen for a big knife.

[Darkthoughts]

About 14 years ago my Dad had a heartattack - it was quite serious, but he recovered and all seemed well. 4 Years later I was living about 10 miles away from my parents house - I'd finished work and was walking home with a friend who's house I was going to for dinner. Before we got to his house I felt like I ought to go see my folks, I said to my friend, "Look, I know this is really weird but, I'm going to hop on the bus and goto my parents for the night." Which is what I did. My sisters were quite young back then and my Mum worked nights, so when in the night I heard my Dad calling me, which didn't wake my sisters (and obviously my Mum wasn't there) I got up and found him unable to move and in great pain in bed. He was having another heart attack and the paramedics kept saying how lucky it was I was there or he'd have been in serious trouble.
I always thought that was kinda freaky!

[Storyslinger]

Wow, these are great, I'll have to post mine when i get time

[Erin]

Lisa....something similar to your story happened to my mom. My grandpa was in Canada on a fishing trip leaving my grandma home alone. One day when my mom was driving home from work, she passed my grandma's house (like she had every other day) but this time she said she felt the overwhelming urge to stop and see if she was OK, even though she had no reason to believe things were amiss as they had just talked earlier that morning.

She ended up finding my unconcious grandma who had fallen down the stairs, breaking her skull, numerous facial bones and her shoulder. She was in intensive care for over a month and even though she's fine now, the doctors said she wouldn't have survived a few more hours without medical care if my mom hadn't found her.

[Storyslinger]

I was in the hot tub at my house about a month ago. It was about 1:00 in the morning, and I had just gotten home from work about 3 hours before. I had the radio going and was just relaxing. After about a half hour, the music cut out. Now, most of yo know that 'its not what you hear, but what you don't'. Well, it was dead silent, I mean nothing. No animals, no crickets, no frogs. Then, as i sat up, the light that i have that shines over the yard went out. With only the light in the hot tub to see by, I just sat and listened. After about three minutes, my eyes had adjusted to the dark and I could see things moving just outside of my yard line. I strained my eyes to try and see what it was. Now I shit you not, as I was looking to my yard line, I saw something out of the corner of my eye that was only five feet from the hot tub. For anyone who has ever seen House on Haunted Hill, it looked like something that moved in that crawling on all fours thing. I jerked my head quick, but what ever it was, was gone. Now here is the toppper. Then i started to hear stuff, like shuffling feet and rustling. After about two minutes of this. The radio cut back on and so did the lights. Needless to say, I got out.

[Matt]

These are great!

I lived in a house that was about 100 years old for a while--it had been owned by one family (and still owned by the same one) when we rented it.

As was fashionable back in the 40's--the land lords dad had died in the bedroom. Still there but not mean.

So here I am sitting on the toilet in the tiny bathroom---it got very cold. Then the toilet paper started unraveling at a very fast rate, straight to the floor like a ghost cat was pulling on it. It was freaky as hell.

He also used to take all the shower stuff out of the little basket it hung in from the shower head and line it up in the tub. I had to put it back before Dora went in there because he REALLY freaked her out.

[Storyslinger]

He just likes stuff in order

[funky dredd]

Currently my son will not stay in the house by himself. He keeps complaining of a girls voice and sometimes we have sleepless nights over this (he'll wake up really scared and won't go back to sleep, he's only 6). Now we also have a puppy who will out of the blue start barking and get really scared and run under the bed. When we turn the lights on to see what is going on there is nothing there and we can't find any reason for her to be scared.

A few weeks ago both my wife and I awoke to to what sounded like two utensils being banged against each other. I went to the kitchen to find my utensil drawer open and two forks laying on the counter. The very next night while sitting on the couch I looked at my sliding glass door and the words boo had formed because of the outside temperature and the inside temperature being different.

One day my wife noticed while leaving for work that our neighbors kitchen light was on, so we kindly asked her why (she is a friend of ours). She came right out and said she kept hearing weird noises and some weird things have been happening in her house.

My wife asked me "Do you think it's because of your Stephen King collection?" :lol:
I said I didn't think so....We built this house so there was no existing house on this lot. But it's freaking her out more and more, I do alright with it and just chuckle. But she is not doing so well with it :(

[Storyslinger]

Weird

[Daghain]

Maybe you're built on an ancient Indian burial ground. :lol:

[funky dredd]

It would not surprise me at all.

[Ikilledthecrimsonking]

a few months ago in iraq part of my company was patroling through a crowded street and i got this weird felling in the pit of my stomic I stayed on the the other side of the street but the felling kep getting worse and worse. after about five minutes of this i couldnt take it anymore and walked into a shop my company just kept on walking without me (i said i had diarea) the rest i can say is a car bomb went off about 100 feet infront of them only one died.

and i thought it was just diarea

[Letti]

Maybe you're built on an ancient Indian burial ground. :lol:

Hope not. :scared:

[Darkthoughts]

But it's freaking her out more and more, I do alright with it and just chuckle. But she is not doing so well with it :(

To be honest, I'm not sure I could laugh it off either - I think I'd be more of the "shitting my pants" camp :D Have you considered having an exorcism? I don't know if you're religious or not - but you can have non religious exorcisms performed too.

[Brice]

But it's freaking her out more and more, I do alright with it and just chuckle. But she is not doing so well with it :(

To be honest, I'm not sure I could laugh it off either - I think I'd be more of the "shitting my pants" camp :D Have you considered having an exorcism? I don't know if you're religious or not - but you can have non religious exorcisms performed too.



:beat: :arg:

How does a nonreligious exorcism work???


"Leave demons in the name of.....science." :lol:


Seriously I'd never heard of one.

[Darkthoughts]

:lol: Ok, maybe it should have a different name...it probably does...but someone like a clairvoyant comes and communes with them - finds out why they're still there and helps them move on. There are also wiccan banishing spells I believe.

[Brice]

Sorry, I couldn't reisist. :D

Yes, I believe there are such things. Sadly, if you are strictly agnostic or atheist you have a far bigger problem.

"You are not real. You are not here, but you must go. " :rofl:

[Darkthoughts]

Well, yes...thats quite a conundrum isn't it...although I think atheists could believe in poltergeists as thats (most likely) some form of kinetic energy.

[funky dredd]

To be honest I don't think too much of it. But she has thought about having someone come over for a look. I'll probably step out at that point though, things have happened but I'm a skeptic.

[Erin]

Yesterday at work the strangest thing happened to me. I was about to call a customer and while I was dialing the number, a song popped in my head. It was that "Bubbly" song by Colbie Caillat. I don't even like the song, I hadn't heard it that day or really any day recently that I can remember, but suddenly the song's tune was running strongly through my head. While I was waiting for the call to connect I was thinking how strange it was that song popped in my head. Then all of a sudden, that song started playing through the phone! The customer had that song set as her phone's "ring". It was so so weird! I had some kind of psychic moment.

[alinda]

:lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol:
"You are not real. You are not here, but you must go. " :rofl:[/QUOTE]

[Mattrick]

I don't see how believing in ghosts, poltergiests or demons has anything to do with believing in God. I don't believe in God yet strongly believe in ghosts.

As for personal experiences:

1. While in the deep end of my pool, talking with friends years ago, a violent splashing happened in the shallow end as if someone had fallen in yet could not swim. The thrashing continued for about fifteen seconds. No one else was around.


2. While doing dishes I dropped a spatula. I bent down and picked it up and when I stood up again, every cupboard in my entire kitchen was open, about 12 of them.


3. Me and my old friends used to use the Ouija Board all the time. Many things happened during it's use; lights flashing on and off, television turning on an off, weird shadows, orbs and having the planchette itself levitate and spin. During an instance with a ghost named Alex, a friend of mine was insulting it and, out of anger, Alex sent the planchette flying across the room where it hit him directly between the eyes.


The following, in terms of getting me chilled to the bone, are the craziest experiences I've had.


4. Walking up the basement stairs someone walked by, wearing black pants with gray pinstripes, like the '30's. I paused, rushed up the stairs and found my brother and my mother to be both wearing shorts.

5. While talking with friends in my room we all stopped and stared at the door. We all noticed the black shadow pass the door.

6. With no stereo I had computer speakers hooked up to a discman. While reading a book loud static starting coming out of the speakers which were on, but not playing music. I shut them off. When the static came back I unplugged them and left the room.

7. One night while trying to sleep my door locked itself followed by light tugging at the foot of my blanket.

Now, for the weirdest, most craziest experience I've ever had:

8. Me and some friends were drinking. My friend Dave had gone for a walk to Tim Horton's (coffee/donut shot for non-canucks) with another guy Rob. On the way back, according to Rob, Dave suddenly punched him in the face and ran a couple of kilometres back to my house. When there he freaked out, puked all over the place and tried to hurt people. When he finally settled down, he looked at me and said 'stop writing me.' I was currently writing a short story based on us and our Ouija Board experiences all fictioned out, he was to be the one possessed by a demon and kill another of us. I stopped writing and plain deleted the story the next day.

[Sai Joshua]

Love to read these. I wanted to share one more with you concerning my Great- Grandmother who lived to be 100. She lived in the house across from us and died when my little cousin was about 5 months old. His mother is named after my Great-Grandmother and she also lived with her for most of her life. My little cousin D was about 2 1/2 and was playing around outside with my Aunt watching him. He would stop at the foot of the stairs gong to my Great- Grandma's and talk to someone although no one was there. My aunt asked him who he was talking to and he would say " Mama Sparks" she just dismissed this for a while, but he kept on and would laugh and talk and talk. Finally, my aunt said " What does she look like?" and he mimicked her exactly. due to age she had stooped over and walked with a cane. he bent his back and was holding an imaginary cane. My aunt then asked her what she was saying, and he said he was telling him funny things and was saying "Howdy Little Asher!" A nickname that only she called him. It freaked my aunt out big time to say the least. Another time all of the grand kids were playing out in her yard and they ran into the house saying that they heard music playing from Mama's house. My other Aunt scolded them, but they insisted that they had heard music, so she went out to investigate. She heard music and ran up to the house. Mama's favorite song, "Beulah Land" was playing and her chair was rocking. I believe my family and what they say, but I am a little confused in all of this, because I believe in heaven and I was sure that if anyone would make it, she would.

[Sai Joshua]

3. Me and my old friends used to use the Ouija Board all the time. Many things happened during it's use; lights flashing on and off, television turning on an off, weird shadows, orbs and having the planchette itself levitate and spin. During an instance with a ghost named Alex, a friend of mine was insulting it and, out of anger, Alex sent the planchette flying across the room where it hit him directly between the eyes.

Mattrick,
This is not the first story I have heard concerning the use of Ouija Boards and ghostly phenomenon. I do not use them, because I do believe in demons or evil spirits and from everything I hear on the subject, it is like opening a doorway for them to cross into your home.

If I am not mistaken, the movie "The Exorcist" is based on a real case that took place in the 50's except it was with a boy instead of a girl. It had been stated that an Ouija Board had been used in the house before all of this occured. It's not my business to tell you what to do, but I would never use that thing again.

OMG! As I was writing this to you, I got a case of the cold chills like you wouldn't believe and heard something moving in my office. I commanded it to go away in the name of Jesus(If you don't believe that is your deal, but I am telling the truth on this one) and the chills stopped and so did the noise. maybe something doesn't want me telling you this. Who knows?

[sarah]

well, i'm reading the shining right now and i had to stop and put the book in the freezer.


(i'm so scared right now)

[Erin]

:rofl: In the freezer?

[sarah]

well not really in the freezer (friends reference) but close enough that I really had to stop reading it for a bit.

[Darkthoughts]

:rofl: I made that reference to Dagger's the other week when I was re-reading IT.

[Daghain]

You can all blame alinda for this one - her question in the spotlight threads gave me the idea. (and mods, I did search for a similar thread, but damned if I can find one - I thought one existed, but my search fu is not working for some reason - feel free to move/merge if necessary).

Post your encounter with the supernatural here!

I'll start:

Ten years ago, my husband committed suicide. About a week later, I had had him on my mind a LOT (naturally) and I used to have to take the laundry out of the apartment down to a separate building. I came in with the laundry basket one day, shut the door, and his picture fell off the wall, did a complete flip, and landed face up on the floor. I was so startled I said "What do you want?" before I even realized I was speaking out loud. (Note, I had our wedding pics on the wall, one of us in the middle, and one of him on one side and me on the other, for almost 2 years. NEVER had they fallen off the wall before then - they never even got "crooked" with the opening and closing of the door).

Not long after, my quaker parrot, who hated him with a passion when he was alive, freaked out and was staring at one corner of the ceiling and screaming her head off. Now, she was a screamer normally, but I'd had her awhile by then and I KNEW she at least thought she saw something. Later on I learned of stories of pets and small children "seeing" the dead, so the fact that she was so fixated on that corner disturbed me.

Not long after that, I was looking to move. I wanted to move to the bigger town next to the one I lived in, and at that time apartments were at a premium - you had to get on a waiting list to get one. My lease was getting close to being up; I was going to have to renew for another year if I could not move out. I had gotten rid of/put away all of my husband's stuff by then, except for one picture which I had propped up by my computer. Frustrated with my apartment search, I looked at that picture one day and said, "You need to find me an apartment before you go to the light or wherever the hell it is you're supposed to go."

The VERY NEXT DAY, I got a "feeling" I should call the complex I really wanted to get into. I had no idea why. Being one to generally trust my instincts, I called. An apartment was available! They had called the person on the list before me and had not heard from her, and were about to call me and see if I wanted it. What's more, it was on the top floor in the corner, EXACTLY THE LOCATION MY HUSBAND WOULD HAVE PICKED HAD HE BEEN ALIVE.

After I moved, the freakiness completely stopped, and I didn't "feel" him around anymore. Previously I always had a feeling he was "around". I can't explain why, I just did. I think part of his pennance was to make sure I was okay before he moved on. Just my opinion, of course - you can draw your own conclusions.

These didn't happen to me, but when my dad died, my sister not long after said she woke up in the middle of the night and saw my dad in her room waving goodbye to her. Now, she is the more emotional/needy of us two, and they were very close when he died, so I could totally believe she would see him and I didn't. He always knew I could take care of myself. He wasn't so sure about her. :lol:

My mom, who absolutely does NOT believe in ghosts, still has no idea how this next thing happened.

Anyone know the Little Ceasar's Pizza Guy? My dad had somehow snagged a little stuffed pizza guy and for a joke hung him on the lamp in the livingroom. This was a running joke in my family and "dad's pizza guy" hung there for several years. My youngest niece had some weird fascination with it, and would take it down to play with it, but my dad had her trained to put it back when she was done.

Well, not too long after he died, Kayla was playing with it and left it on the floor when she went home. My mom saw it but was on her way out too and figured she'd get it when she got back (my dad hadn't been gone long then and she kept it around just because it was familiar).

When she got home, the pizza guy was back on the lamp. She will tell you in one breath she did not put it there, and in the next one will tell you she must have, because of course it could not have gotten there by itself. My first reaction was that of course dad put it away!

The capper was when, after one serious offer on her house that fell through, my mom got a good offer on the one year anniversary of my dad's death.

The first offer had been some college kid dad would NEVER have approved of - parties and whatnot - and the offer that went through was a nice young couple who wanted a big yard and lots of room to raise a family. I was at the closing and they were all interested in how to care for all the plants, etc. around the house. These were totally my dad's kind of people.

I'm quite sure he picked the new owners. :lol:

[alinda]

I love this thread, and cant wait to hear all of your stories.

[Daghain]

See, I knew I could make somebody happy today. :)

And I love a good ghost story, too!

[alinda]

I'd tell you all my story, but I think I am the ghost in it:wtf:

[Daghain]

Well, now I need to hear it!

[Wuducynn]

Ohhhh the right time of the year for this thread especially. Love it! I have several ghost experiences to tell but as I am heading to bed soon I'll save them for later.

[gsvec]

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd293/MrsRoryWeasley/Other/Smilies/Millan%20Smilies/sneaking-1-1.gif

[Wuducynn]

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd293/MrsRoryWeasley/Other/Smilies/Millan%20Smilies/sneaking-1-1.gif

Great smiley :harrier:

[Daghain]

I'd love to hear your stories, CK. :D

[Letti]

Daghain, thank you for sharing you story with us.
You are so strong. *hug*
Cannot wait to read more stories.

[Letti]

At last. It wasn't easy at all but I could find this thread: http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?p=55253#post55253 - Bumps in the Night.
There are some incredible stories in it.

[alinda]

Shall we merge them dearest?

[Jean]

yes, we shall

[alinda]

Thanks Jean.

[Heather19]

What a great thread. I love hearing stories about ghosts and the paranormal.

The only remotely strange thing thats happened to me was back when I was in college. The dorm that I lived in was reported to be haunted. Well one night I woke up and thought I saw someone standing in front of my door. I jumped up in bed and was straining my eyes to try to see, but it was pitch black in the room so I couldn't see a thing. The light switch in the room was right next to the door, and there was no way I was getting out of bed to go turn it on. I also had a lamp on my desk, but that just so happened to be near the door as well. So I just sat in bed staring over there for quite a few minutes before I was able to convince myself that nothing was over there, and I laid back down to go to sleep.
Here's where it gets strange. Later on in the week, I just so happened to be in class with someone who also lived in that same dorm. She asked me if I had heard about these recent sightings in our building. Apparently that same day, there were several other people in the dorm that thought they saw something.
Now I'm still not positive what I saw, or if I saw anything at all. Maybe it was just a dream that I was waking up from, but I've never been woken up before thinking someones standing in the room with me. It was very scary.

[mystima]

a couple of years ago i was at home talking with a friend of mine. we were checking on the kids to make sure they were asleep. she was standing in the doorway of my kids room and i had just sat on the couch when i looked at her there was a face looking at me from behind her...when i saw it it was creepy. she said that i looked like (cliche time) i had seen a ghost. i told her what i saw and she nearly passed out because at the same time she said that the area she was standing in was getting colder...the heat was on. :panic: :scared::unsure:

[flaggwalkstheline]

one time i was walking through the woods at dusk and started hearing coyotes howling, ok not unusual in new mexico but then they started sounding like they were all around me i started running, i heard footsteps and crashing in the trees (i was in a dry streambed which i was using like a road) i kept running and hearing all that howling and crunching branches, when i finally got home i looked outside and saw a pair of red (BIG) eyes attached to a dark shape undefinable mass looking at me from the trees, they dissappeared I dont know what the hell that was but it freaked the hell outta me