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ggmae

I am watching one of those ghost shows on The Travel Channel and it's freaking me the hell out. DH is sitting here laughing at me because he doesn't believe in any of that stuff, but it always freaks me when I watch them. I have no idea why I continue to watch!

Has anyone ever had an encounter with a ghost/spirit?


EDIT - I just realized the time, so I'm assuming there aren't many people around.

tortis

gg I think it's just us!

I'm weird about those shows. When MTV used to have them, they scared me beyond belief. Now, sometimes they freak me out but other times, especially when they prove it wrong, I think its really cool how things can be explained otherwise. 

Have you had any personal experiences? If that will freak you out, pick a dif topic! I'm bored!

ggmae

I am pretty sure I had an experience with the paranormal. When I was in Australia 3 years ago, my friends and I took a week-long trip to Tasmania. While there, we visited a place called Port Arthur, where Great Britain sent many "convicts" during the 1800s.

On our first day, we took a tour and then went on a "ghost walk" later that night. The second day, we re-visited many of the houses we had seen before and went to one in particular that was apparently "the third most haunted house in Australia and top 10 in the world." My 2 friends and I each took a picture of the outside of the house and walked in. We roamed around, reading things and chatting and then decided to start taking some pictures. We got our cameras out again to take pictures and they all started malfunctioning at the same time - my friend's wouldn't turn on at all, my other friend's screen had little blinking white patches all over it, and mine wouldn't open all the way. We had JUST used them not 10 minutes before outside and knew it wasn't a coincidence that all 3 cameras had malfunctioned at once. It really freaked us out and we left after one of my friends took a picture with his semi-functioning camera.

That's all I've got though. I've never had any other experiences.

EDIT - I did think of another time actually. I used to babysit a young girl who had lost her older sister in an awful car accident. Her mom went away for a few days, so I babysat her and slept over. After putting the girl to bed, I walked around checking everything and turning lights off. I flipped a switch to turn it off, and it came back on. I turned it off again, and it came back on. This went on for a minute or so until I just got so freaked out and ran to bed! I told the girl the next morning and she told me that it was her older sister doing that because she knew that the young girl was afraid of the dark. Weird, huh?

tortis

That would have creeped me out big time. My college campus is supposed to be one  of the most haunted places in the US, and I actively avoided the "bad" sections.

My only "experience" was when my grandfather passed away. He was in and out of a diabetic coma until he died. He managed to hang on until all of his children were there and then kind of looked up into the corner and said "Olive (my grandmother), I'm coming". That's what my mom told me at least, I was pretty young. Also, that same grandfather swore he wouldn't live 10 years past my grandmother and he passed away about 9 years and a few months. Plus my mom always says she thinks her mother is our guardian angel. That's a more positive experience though.

Even though I fully believe in ghosts/ spirits and the idea scares me beyond belief, I watch movies like that all the time. Did you see paranormal activity?

ggmae

Yeah, that's a pleasant story. I tend to think my grandma is my guardian angel now too.

I haven't seen it, but I've heard it was scary!! Have you?

tortis

We saw it! A few parts were really creepy to me, but not the parts that were creepy to most people (I don't want to ruin it if you ever see it, but the parts that scared me were smaller parts that got into my head). Fi didn't think it was that scary. I liked it though. It freaked me out for a few weeks. 

thesuninherhead

Now you girls are scaring me!

 

That said, I don't actually believe in ghosts. If I did, I'd probably have a nervous breakdown given the crazy scary dreams I have which from time to time result in me opening my eyes, awake, and seeing things in the room (not just dreaming I'm awake, nor seeing something in the shadows, but literally seeing something clearly until I turn on the light and wake up enough for my subconscious to stop messing with me). A few weeks ago, I woke up from a round of scary dreams and swear to god, there was a kid standing by the end of our bed. He smiled at me. I blinked, and he was still there. I reached for the light and turned it on, and there was nothing. If I believed in ghosts, I would be highly traumatised right about now!

ggmae

Sun - That would freak me out too! I'm on the fence in terms of what I believe, but what happened to us at Port Arthur was freaky. Have you ever been there?

katiewhompus

I've had a couple run ins (as crazy as they sound)
The creepiest was in a cemetary (of course). My dad had driven me there one night after work (around dark) so I could go say goodbye to one of my friends (she had died in a car accident while I was out of town). So he was hanging back to give me my space while I sat in front of her grave crying and talking to her. All of the sudden I got huge chills up my back and turned around as I heard my dad yell "Hey, get away from her". There's no one there and dad looks freaked ( he never believed in ghosts prior to this). He said he had turned to look at me and saw a very tall man in a formal suit with a top hat walk towards me and then reach for me, then dad yelled and he disappeared.

One of the houses I grew up in was also haunted in a bad way. I had a playroom upstairs that I never went in because it was freezing, even though everyone else thought it felt fine. I also never slept in my bedroom (I was 9-13 in this house) because I had dreams that someone always came through the window and tried to kill me. The kitchen light would also randomly turn on in the middle of the night. We moved out and found out that the tenants before us had 2 kids. 1 was killed in my playroom, the other was killed in my bedroom by (get this) a guy who came through the window.

The house I lived in in high school was haunted by a happy ghost. The house had been vacant for years but the landlords couldn't sell it because their dad had built it. So about 2 months after moving in we would always randomly smell cherry tobacco smoke from a certain corner in the room. No one in my family smoked and we could all smell it clearly. We asked our landlords about it and they went white. Their father would sit in that corner and smoke his cherry tobacco in his pipe when he was happy.