Have you ever had an encounter with a ghost?
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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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No but my bf says he has ghosts in his house a little boy who likes to play trick on his family by turning on lights or stereos or the tv when there trying to sleep and this other ghost who looks like an old man and stares at you when you r sleeping creepy....at first i thought he was kinda crazy or just trying to scare me but one day i was over at his house and his mom turned off the fernis cuz she was too cold and a minute later it was back on and no one touched it! it freaked me out a little
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I see spirits (or ghosts) quite a bit. Sometimes, they do show up in pictures.  You're always going to get controversies over such a subjects, simply because one isn't always certain. I had my picture taken a few years ago with the presence of a loved one who had passed on a few months prior. I knew he was there next to me, so I lean towad him.  It is clear his ectoplasm appeared in the picture.\n\nMy answer to your question is a definite YES!!!\n\n\njoandra_vandowall@yahoo.com
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I've been in more than one. My family members are "ghost senstives" especially me and my mother. I saw the ghost of a little boy of about 6 years old and a mans shadow in a hat and I was hit on the leg in this one house in Pensacola and at another place there was the scent of lavendar perfume and I had a mirror hanging on the left wall that fell twice for no reason and both times it landed on the video case of the exorcist so I moved the mirror set to the other side of the room along with the video rack and once again the mirror fell and cracked the case for the exorcist tape. I took the hint and threw the tape out and the mirror did not fall again after that. When I saw the landlord I asked him if someone had died in the place and he told me no but then a neighbor had heard my story and she told me that an elderly woman had a heart attack out on the walkway and they brought her into the house where she died.  I see images and shadows in the older homes that I've lived in. There was this place that was almost a hundred years old that had sat empty for three years before we moved in and from day one there was an evil prescence felt and my mother was more attune that I was. The focus was in the attic. I always felt a darkness there and my mother said she'd looked up the stairs one day and saw a man sitting in a wheelchair just watching her and she closed the door. Then she said that she saw a woman come through the closed attic door and go around the corner and disappear. That was it for me and I made a cross and placed it over the attic door and my nightmares stopped as well as my mothers. My sister saw a head in the closet and in the dresser drawer.  That house was the worst of all and I was glad when we moved out of it!!
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Yes...\nI haven't seen one,but I've had an encounter with something unhuman/not visible in several cases.
390291
When I was younger I lived in house with a ghost... I Always heard weird stuff and my belongings would be moved around. I never really knew the house was hunted untill after we moved out my father was talking about it.I was shocked other vistors also said they had experinces like mine and some even closer incounters. I rember at night i would here something and get so secard I would freez and not move till i fell a sleep and woke up the next day. I would hear people walking and no one would be there. come to find out the ghost was pretty nice. I think it was girl.
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I do and I have come across MANY haunted place in my life. There was my grandma's house, my moms house, the local hospital, an old house I used to work at and a community building, 2 of my uncles houses, my aunts house and every house one of my aunts ever lived in lol, I think they just followed her around. \nBut I just posted on another question that asked about ghost the place I spent most of my childhood and probably has the most ghost stories in one place that I know of so I will just repost it here. \n\nI didn't actually LIVE in the house but I spent most of my time there. It was the whole location actually. See my great grandparents had this piece of land that they put a house on and later other family put houses up there to so at one point there were 4 houses with people living in them.\nAnd the whole area is spooky between there and over on the other side of the hill where another family had the same kind of set up. \nJust a few of the stories....\nMy great grandparents had 10 kids, one was killed when she was 17 by her younger brother who was playing with a gun he didn't know was loaded and shot her. 1 year to the day after she died the new rocking chair that was put in the place she had died in started to rock on its own, and the piano that she used to play started to play her fav song by itself, you could even see the keys moving. \nI also had an uncle that died when he was 17, he died in a house fire and he had a car that some of the boys from town used to try and steal so my grandma brought it up there so that her dad could keep on eye on it. When my cousin and aunty were walking from the main house to the house they lived in they passed that car, and inside they saw my uncle and he waved at them. \nMy aunt used to watch the neighbors little boy, he was 4 yrs old and would walk over by himself through, and one time he said that a group of braves followed him and another time he got to my aunts crying and said this little old lady followed him and said he was going to be a chief, he said she was still there and tried to point her out to my aunt. My aunt even got down on her hands and knees to look down his arm and didn't see anything.\nShortly after that the boy was killed when he was riding on the hood of his moms car and fell off. \nShortly after that my cousin was sitting at her moms, the one that used to babysit him, and she heard his little cowboy boots walking up the stairs and heard him knocking on the door crying for my aunt. \nThere are a lot of other things that go on there, noises, shadows going from room to room, my brother thinks he saw my great grandpa once because he looked out and could see the outline of a tall man with a crew cut but him and one of my other aunts were the only ones in the house. There are also pounding on walls and doors and my mom heard someone walking around the kitchen while she knew everyone was sleeping.
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I believe in ghosts, but have never seen one. I think I have felt one, however - I think it was my grandma's ghost and she placed her hand on my shoulder but I looked at it and there was nothing I can see. Then, she must have left her hand because I felt something going off my shoulder.
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My house is haunted. Not in a scary, eerie way, just that there is a parallel world going on here. I have actually seen a young boy in the house (not my kid!) who was floating in my daughter's room/doorway. I just happened to look that direction and he was looking right back at me. He seemed sad, or maybe he was in trouble. I looked right into his eyes. And I got this feeling that he was trying to communicate with me. My ex-husband was in the same room and didn't see or feel anything, though he thought I was nuts when my jaw dropped and I couldn't get any words out. My ex was in another part of the room and didn't see him. The ghost just faded out after a second or two, but as my brain was trying to process it, he was gone. He was a good-looking kid, shorter blond hair, brown eyes, white button-down, long-sleeved shirt, beige pants. No shoes or whatever--he looked like he was floating in the doorway. I think he didn't want my ex-husband to see him. The boy generally only makes himself known when I am alone. My present husband saw a glowing orb zooming and zig-zagging across that bedroom one night, 4 or 5 swipes, all the way across the room, over the bed where our daughters were sleeping. Needless to say, he was pretty freaked out by it. He has come to recognize the haunting as a necessary fact of living in this house. \n\nNo I am not a freak. I don't go out and look for strange things to happen. I saw this kid, I know I did. One night, I have heard footsteps come down the basement stairs and call, "Mom?" while I was doing laundry, and I yelled at my son to go back upstairs, that I already tucked him in for the night. NOBODY WAS THERE. I wasn't really paying attention to the kid coming down the stairs, just heard that familiar, "tha-dump dump" coming down the stairs and the "Mom?" It didn't really sound like my son but I was busy sorting laundry, not doing voice analysis. Anyway, I stopped sorting and went up the stairs, thinking my son was up at the top of the stairs. He wasn't. I was pretty upset as it had been a long day and the kids weren't minding and my husband was gone on a business trip. We live in an 80 year old house and the floors squeak. If my son had been out of bed, I would have heard him go up the stairs directly overhead. I called out for him and HE ANSWERED FROM HIS BED. I swear I heard somebody call me and jump down the stairs. That's when the hair stood up on the back of my neck. HE had visited me again. I sure wish I knew what he wanted.\n\nI have been advised to tell the boy to "go towards the light." I usually do this when he freaks me out. Sometimes things disappear and reappear right before my eyes. The house was built by a young couple in the late 1920s and they lived here until they died (she in 1964; he in 1974). There weren't any deaths in the house that I know of (they both died at the hospital). However, I do know their son had a serious car accident in 1965 and the wife and children were seriously injured--the one boy died. I suspect that is who I've seen. \n\nThis haunting is specific to our home. The people who lived here and played here may still be here. I think they like it here and (especially the old grandpa) are here protecting and taking care of the place. I like sharing the house with them, and I've told them so. The stove one time turned on by itself overnight. I let them know that is NOT acceptable. Sometimes in the morning on the weekends we smell food like pancakes, bacon, sausage. Just in the morning before we get up. Strange. That's okay--it smells good. They can make breakfast--just as long as they don't turn on the appliances again!
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i have! i saw it in my house nd not i dunt think i saw da person or even kno them!! i dunt wanna freak u out buh da thing is i still see ghosts all da time... buh there lik shadow's i dunt alwys see there faces... well i dunt think u shud b therrifyed cuz if u show dem ur fear thy'll take dat to there advantage nd thy'll scar u.. nd i dunt think u wan to b scared by a ghost jus dunt show ur fear dat's all i gotta say... o yea nd dunt talk to dem.. its scary nuff u saw one!!
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I've dealt with the spooks for a number of years.  Lucky for us that most of the ones we dealt with were friendly. I say 'us' because I WASN'T by myself with the experiences. \nA few of them were like family and my niece and nephew grew up with them,and are still in contact with them.  Most of our dealings with them were fun,and a few times I've had the hell scared out of me.  Yes,we had some not so nice ones come around from time to time.\n    I know them (the spooks)  well enough,that if I were to read your question to them,they would advise you to leave the ghost in your house completely alone.  You don't know what you could be getting youself into,because he could be dangerous.  I saw someone get  picked up and thrown down a flight of stairs one time.  Good luck and God bless
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Oh man I got one!!  We snuck in around midnight I think and we brought our OUIJA board with us.  So we asked the OUIJA board if it was trying to reach us.  It said yes.  2 seconds later a phone starts ringing somewhere within the cemetary but there was none.  We freaked out!!
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I used to see ghosts all the time when I was around 14 years old.  This occurred at a house my family lived in over 13 years ago.  I never knew until last year that someone was killed in that house (my parents never wished to tell me back then).  But it was weird because I would see little children running down the hallway.  At night, a little girl would stand in front of my door with a cat in her arms.  I know that this is really hard to believe, but it seriously happened.  My daddy used to see ghosts when he was a little boy too.  I guess my sixth sense is inherited.
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I recently started doing paranormal investigations.  I have plenty of EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) recorded.  On these recordings I've heard kids laughing, moans, whispers and clear phrases.  These include:  "Go back", "Interesting" and "Can you hear that?".\n\nI've seen a cat run across my bedroom several times.  One night, I saw a bright light move left to right.  It then turned and went down towards the floor then disappeared.  It was bright but didn't light up the room at all.  One day I saw a large drop of water fall from the bathroom ceiling into a bowl that was in the middle of the tub.  I even heard it land and saw ripples.  There was no sign of water on the ceiling and the bowl was nowhere near the faucet.  \n\nMy 2 yr old son saw what he called a "ghost dog" in my bedroom.  He ran and hid under my covers for quite some time.  My daughter saw a bearded man in army fatigues and a little girl in a white dress.
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I'm not sure what you're asking here...do you want to know whehter any of us have encounter anything paranormal?  If so, I would have to say that almost everyone has...some either don't know that they have or refuse to believe it!
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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, definitely.  I have had 2 that stand out in my mind.  \n\n1.  I grew up in a so called haunted house, but it was not scary.  I was about 14 years old and was lying in bed.  It was nighttime and I was lying in semi darkness.  I suddenly saw a shadow like figure float up my doorway, to the wall, and to the ceiling. I had no idea what this was and hid under the blankets.  The next day, I watched the show 20-20 when there was an episode about how ghosts show themselves as shadows..I had no idea that was true...until then..\n2.  My great grandmother had died and about 5 months after this, my infant daughter's room instantly smelled of Chanel 5 perfume.  Since I never wear perfume because my allergies cant take it, and she wore this, I suddenly thought of her.... then almost 5 seconds later, it disappeared.\n3.  The haunted house I grew up in, things regularly fell off shelves, tv and stereos came on in the middle of the night,  heard footsteps on the stairs, heard my name being called when no one was home, and other things happened quite a bit.