I see that there are lots of skeptics in the audience. I just want to relate what happened to me many years ago when I was a volunteer guide at the Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia. Another man and I told the visitors what had transpired during the Civil War in the Old Stone House: soldiers taken there for medical treatment had suffered greatly and some had died.
Very late one Sunday afternoon as I was by myself closing up the Old Stone House I distinctly heard footsteps on the second floor. At first I thought that some tourist had sneaked up there and I went up to investigate. But there was no one there. Which gave a case of the chills and I quickly did all I had to do and got the hell out of there.
Later I checked with other guides and some told me that they, too, had heard footsteps on that second floor and found no one there.
Yeah, I think a place can be haunted.
OldPossum, speaking for myself, I’m not even skeptical...I know ghosts don’t exist. I just believe God’s word, and He tells us what happens to our souls when we die. We don’t hang around in this world. Believing that we do contradicts what He says.
I’m not saying you didn’t hear what you heard, or that there was nothing to it. I believe in actual cases of what people call hauntings, it’s demonic activity. Satan will deceive any way that he can, and if he can persuade people to believe in ghosts, he’s succeeded in turning them away from God’s truth.