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[reformed_dem]

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My brother and sil lived in a house where odd things happened. My sil often woke to a mist filling the whole house. She once saw a young girl era 1920's clothes, another time, a man standing at the foot of their bed - my brother never saw those apparitions. One time even, all the battery-operated toys in my nephews' room all went off at the same time in the middle of the night. Kids sleeping peacefully. My brother picked up one of the electronic devices and it hummed in his hand. They would often hear footsteps creaking across the living room. Once when he opened the medicine cabinet in the bathroom, one by one, everything in there flew off the shelves. Weird.

[auggy]

When people get as old as, some of us, it is likely they have experienced ,at least once, an event that can only be labeled as, defying logical explanation.

I have had several in my lifetime. My most recent one was about 4 years ago.
My wife and I had been in bed about 30 minutes. I had already drifted about 50% asleep. The time was 11:30 pm.
Suddenly, there was a noise, sounded like a crash, that immediately woke me up, and my wife too. I am very hard of hearing, but this was super loud. No one , but us live in the house. I jumped out of bed and grabbed my handgun. I then cautiously walked down the hallway into the living room. The crash was so loud, I thought I would see a car had crashed into the house. When I flipped the light on, one of two china cabinets doors were wide open, with the second,(from the top)shelf broken on the floor. The shelf was made of glass, and every item on the shelf was glass, all busted to tiny pieces.
I called for my wife, and we immediately started cleaning up the mess, without thinking how it could have happened.
It then hit me, no way this shelf could have come straight out of the cabinet and then fall straight down and bust on the floor without someone doing it.
The shelf above and below, were not damaged, nor were any glass items or trinkets damaged, not even knocked over. The items on the shelf below the one that had broken, were only about an inch from the shelf above it.
No way in hell, the shelf could have slid out or broken in the cabinet and then fall out, and not touch any of the items on the other two shelfs. The cabinet was actually, tilted backward slightly, up against the wall. That would have made it less likely to have slid out toward the front..
When this occurred to me, my heart felt like it had quit beating. To this day there is no explanation to how this could have happened.
One thing I have left out. My wife's aunt had passed away 5 years before that night. It was the aunt's birthday, on that day. Her aunt had left us with a fair amount of money. Two days after this happened we left on a cruise to Europe. We paid for the cruise with the aunt's money. She was a thrifty woman, who didn't go a whole lot, because she was too tight to spend the money.
Was she somewhat Pi$$ed, or jealous of us, for spending her money for to go on that cruise? It could have been her ghost that did this. Guess, we will never know.

[Fester Chugabrew]

This has been an amusing thread to say the least. I appreciate the personal accounts found throughout.

I remember visiting a very old home in Naples, IL. Some friends introduced me to the folks who lived there. I'm not sure ow the subject of ghosts came up, but it did. The homeowners said, without reservation or drama, that, yes, ghosts have manifested themselves occasionally. One was a lady. The other a small boy. Both on or near the stairwell. They were not frequent occurences.

If it is true that ghosts typcally reside where great tragedies or violent deaths occur, one can only imagine what strange things will be seen and heard in the years ahead at the Pentagon and former World Trade Center locations.

[Badeye]

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[BSunday]

I enjoy a good ghost story. Please add me to your ping list.

[weave09]

I have had a few encounters in my life. The most frightening one was about 10 years ago. It was about 4 AM and I was awoken by my oldest stepdaughter's scream. I ran down the hallway and into her room to find every piece of furniture in her room stacked together. There were two endtables, lamps, a small TV and a stereo all nicely stacked in one pile. If that wasn't frightening enough all the eletrical items were still plugged in the sockets. The wires were about as taught as they could be without coming out. Weird.

One time I could not locate my wallet before going to work in the morning. I leave pretty early, 5AM, so I was getting frustrated as hell trying to locate it. I tore the house apart lookin for it, moving and toppling chairs, the whole nine yards. I went down to the basement for something and when I came back up and turned the corner I saw the wallet resting on one of the arms of the dining room chairs. There was no way it was there before.

Another one involved Pots and pans. My wife and I had a set of pots and pans literally vanish. We couldn't find them anywhere. About a year later they showed up in the sink, clean.

The last one involved a pair of socks. Yeah I know, socks always disappear. Not like these, I tore my house apart looking for these damn things, it became a quest. About a year later out of nowhere they turned up on top of the dryer.

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[lilylangtree]

Saw something similar on History Channel about lighthouses, particularly one in OR. Supposedly a woman is searching for her dead child's grave which no one can find. As a result, she's haunting the caretaker's residence that is now a B&B.

[highlandbreeze]

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[Kay Ludlow]

Cool story. Add me to your ping list, please ;-)

[gawatchman]

Please add me to you ping list as well. Maybe someday soon I will have my own story to relate. Thanks.

[ncoaster]

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[moodymare]

Hi CurlyBill, please add me to your list too!

[Pepper777]

I've spent the past several hours reading some very interesting stories.

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