The Haunting
I don’t know about you all, but I’ve been getting into the spooky spirit of the season by terrifying myself with scary movies like The Exorcist and The Sixth Sense and then running around turning on all the lights and hyperventilating. But I have to say, that’s nothing compared with how I would feel if I suspected that my apartment had a ghost.
In honor of Halloween, let’s check in with our Paranormal Experiences board, shall we? (Warning: turn on all the lights before you read this. Serious spookiness ahead.)
sunflowermeadow has seen mysterious shapes in her dining room and heard the disembodied voice of a child in her house. But recently, she was lying on her couch (it was nighttime, and the whole house was dark) when she got that "’I'm being watched’ feeling…All of a sudden, "BANG!!!" It was a VERY loud, single knock on my front door - which was about 5ft. away from me. Scared the living hell out of me. I know I wasn't hearing things, because I turned to look over at my dog (Golden Retriever named Daisy) and she was just getting off the couch to go sniff at the door…Just as we were walking toward the bedroom, again... ‘BANG!!!!’ This time dh heard it, and it was definitely coming from the front door, but sounded like it was coming from the INSIDE of the house. We have a painted steel door with a decorative window on top, then a glass storm door on the outside of that. There was NO WAY the noise was that of glass being struck. It was definitely the metal door. Again we checked it out, and found nothing.”
springolife responds: “My parents had the very same thing (the door) happen to them about a year ago. The next morning the found there was a long black streak on the INSIDE of the screen door, which was locked when they went to bed and was still locked when they got up.”
Gah! Do you have chills? I sure do.
Have you ever felt a strange presence in your home? Positive you encountered some sort of ghost or spirit? Were they friendly or malevolent? Think this is all just a bunch of hokum, but, Fox-Mulder-style, want to believe? Do tell.
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I love this post! Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and I have to admit that I've always been fascinated by ghosts.
I live on the third floor of an old Victorian house that was built by a wealthy oyster baron. The workers' quarters were located in the basement of the house and the oyster shucking facility was out back. When my hubby and I first moved in, we had all kinds of strange experiences: footsteps on the stairs at 3 a.m., unexplained creaks, and the sound of someone up in the attic, footsteps across the floor, searching through boxes. The only entrance to attic is through our hallway.
Things have settled down now, but still pretty strange and spooky!
I stayed over with a college friend once - and when I got up in the night, I had this odd vision of a man in a flannel shirt standing in a doorway... When I described it to her, her eyes got HUGE and she said "That sounds just like my grandfather!!!" BIZARRE!
When we moved into the house we live in now we found out later that a woman had died in our kitchen a few years earlier. My daughter still tells me to this day that the day we were here cleaning in preparation of moving in she saw and spoke with a little girl in her bedroom. There were no other children here that day. My daughter was only 3 at the time but not one to concoct stories or have imaginary friends. Gives me goosebumps. :)