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by **Utem** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 6:26 pm

Do you?

FYI - spirits does not mean the liquid kind...just in case :wink:

by **Amsha** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 6:36 pm

Ah damn! I *SO* believe in drinkable spirits! :wink:

by **Apples** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 6:37 pm

Yes, and I believe in magic too.

by **Utem** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 6:47 pm

Ah damn! I *SO* believe in drinkable spirits!

I know you too well....

by **Mitch** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 6:54 pm

Growing up in my parents house made me a believer, now my husband and sister in law believe too! People think I am nuts if I am tell them I see ghosts. I wouldn't believe if I hadn't seen. My new house has a cat ghost and I have only seen a man ghost once, overall its pretty peaceful. My last house used to be my grandparents and after Isaid I was moving out we had a lot of weird things happen. Basically my whole family sees them wherever they live. Just lock us all up for being crazy!

by **horsepepsi** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 7:08 pm

I do beleave i spirits of those who have passed before us will on occasion return to 'tell' us something. good /bad/ indiffrent.

I konw when my mom passed away she did 'visit' me and told me not to worry she was out of pain now and to no matter what happened to stay close to my dad... < grn guess she was worried about him>.

she visited me about 4 months ago ( mid may) and let me 'know' something was wrong with me dad. Later in the day ( like 8 am) my dad's wife called to tell me my dad was in the hospital not in so wonderul condition. And he in theory probably shouldnt have been coheriant when I got up to see him.. He has something called idopathic automunie hemolitic anemia ( hope that is spelled correctly) and the level which his wbc/rbc were the dr said he should have been in a coma, but as my mom had told me for what ever reason he was 'ok' but still ill.

so yeah I do beleave that spirits do visit us when they feel it is necessary.

by **domak101** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 7:29 pm

Yes I do - BUT, I am very careful with whom I discuss this. Some people will look at you like you are just plain nuts. My father passed away in the early 80's and I was having a really rough time accepting it. One day he appeared to me with the biggest smile on his face. I was fine after that. Who knows - maybe it was my mind "playing tricks" on me, but I prefer to think that he came to see me to reassure me.

by **Utem** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 7:35 pm

Who knows - maybe it was my mind "playing tricks" on me, but I prefer to think that he came to see me to reassure me.

I think it doesn't really matter as long as it gave you some peace - that's the important part... :-)

by **allegra** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 7:37 pm

NO- I absolutely do not believe in that nonsense!

by **fetch33** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:17 pm

Yes, I believe that people in the after-life can communicate with the living. My grandfather has appeared to 4 separate family members, one appearance was during my wedding (I got married on his anniversary!) My deceased SIL frequents dreams of different family members. I once was feeling very sad after her untimely death and asked her to talk to me in a dream... only I work night shift. She was in my sister's dream that night! It was really too freaky, as my sister just happened to mention it the next day. I believe that some people are just more open or sensitive to experiences like that.
Lisa

by **magicharm** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:18 pm

No way, no how...absolutely do not believe in any of that.

by **Vanna** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:21 pm

I completely believe--one of my best friends sees ghosts all the time, although it totally freaks me out!

by **Horsezee** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:21 pm

I have had an out of body experience...

I have been visited by the spirit of a former co-worker and my step-father...

Horsezee

by **Lise** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:22 pm

I was sick once and I still managed to go to a friend's mother's funeral. That evening I heard a noise in my house - got scared especially when I felt a presence come my way from the other end of the house. I did not see her but felt her and she reassured me that I would be o.k. I was a non believer before and got scared s...... I since read a lot on the subject and I do believe spirits are around us.
After a long painful period trying to make a decision, I had a light grey mare euthanized and I felt quite bad about it but she had cancer, etc..
Two days later, I see what I thought at first to be a small moose. Then I realized that it was light grey like my mare. And that the image I saw from far was so light and nearly transparent, I figured it was the mare trying to tell me it was o.k. that she was no longer suffering. To this day, I am still wondering if these were from my imagination.

by **knz66** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:36 pm

My mom, aunt and I all believe. LOL After my grandfather died, I aquired alot of his furnature, including his favorite recliner. There were many times I would walk into the house and see that chair rocking like someone just got out of it. Nope, no cats, dogs, persons around to make it do that. At other times, I'd smell his pipe tabacco, something he hadnt smoked for 15 yrs.

Then there are the times my grandma helps me make gravy. I swear that woman could make the most fantastic gravy out of anything... Sometimes I can make it and sometimes its gross and every batch that is a success, has that familiar taste...

One of my favorites is a former customer of mine that passed. She always told me to follow my heart and dreams now, whenever possible and her "guidence" has always been good, even to this day. She was one of the few supporters I had when I got back into horses. At that time I was working for my mom, and Anita stood up to her one day and told her, "hon, you gotta let that girl be happy. If smellin like horse sweat and manure is what does it, then consider yourself lucky.. It could be booze and drugs." From that day, my mom has never boo-hoo'd my horse involvement. I think it helped her to understand.

I am a firm believer that we are surrounded by spirits, good and bad... its up to us to decide how to interpet them...

by **Utem** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:52 pm

These are some really cool story - I have not seen any ghosts myself, but some things just can't be easily explained away... :-)

Thanks for sharing!!

by **Katherine** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 9:21 pm

There are many things that we do not notice...fantastic coincidences that if we were watching a movie we would call the plot contrived. Most people choose not to notice because acknowledging the event scares them. I believe we are given free choice up to a point, but if we turn the wrong way, some of us are lucky enough to have our paths altered in a way we never anticipated...a way which feels very contrived. Sometimes these episodes occur over long periods of time so the interconnecting links are not really noticed either. I had one chain of events that took almost 10 years to unfold. I have also been the appliance used to create such events for at least two other people during crisis times within their lives.

by **equinesky** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 9:55 pm

I voted no. My ex-sister-in-law used to see ghosts all the time. It was really just relections in the windows at night. She doesn't see them when she's on her medication, which is rare.

by **MJC** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 10:22 pm

I voted that I believe. I think there are a lot of people out there who make up, "I saw a ghost" stories, but there is definitely a supernatural realm. Just watch Silvia Brown on Montel...

by **Posse977** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 10:59 pm

I do believe. The last house I lived in had ghosts- never saw them, but most people who came over could *feel* them. We also had a pookah in tha barn at that place.

Strangely enough, the house I currently live in, that is 175 years old, is very quiet. My roomie says he thinks there may be a cat there (spirit, there are 5 live ones), but he only sensed it once.

My old roomie's mom used to bang the kitchen cabinet doors after we went to bed, and she moved her favorite chair to a location she apparently preferred better.

by **olympicprincess** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 11:43 pm

Not when I'm in my rational mind. But I REALLY want to other times!!

I LIVE for Halloween and love to get scared as He**!! :lol:

by **domak101** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:32 am

Many years ago, my mother continually saw and felt a ghost in her house. It really freaked her out. She would find clothing storage bags shredded, things in the house would be moved from place to place, doors would open and close, etc. One night, she was having a conversation with her husband and saw a "being" rise up above him - she lost it. Also, one day when she was coming home from work, she saw the "being" in the picture window. Her husband never saw any of this, nor did I. It turns out that the previous owner had been stabbed to death in the kitchen. That was back in the days before this stuff had to be disclosed in the sale of a house. She finally moved. :shock:

by **Loula** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 2:49 am

Angels too. I believe in them...

by **digihorse** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 6:21 am

Yes I do. I've had many experiences over the years. One of the most interesting was at a barn I leased here in CA. I kept getting this "feeling" at night when I would feed... that I was being watched... that I was not alone... and except for the horses, I was alone :shock:

Finally, after about 3 weeks, I "saw" the person who had been watching me. He wasn't "there" I just saw him in my mind's eye... He "told" me not to be afraid, that he had no intension of harming me. That he had been killed by his partner many years beforeI ha. It was so clear, I actually drew a picture of him. He was dressed like a miner.

I "saw" him several times after that... but never had that feeling of "dred".. I'd get a little prickly, and then "know" that it was him, and then everything was ok. It was almost like he was my protector and would come and sit and watch while I did chores. It got where it was rather a comfort than a scare.

by **David Z** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 7:39 am

Ugh... . Why do people insist on deceiving themselves by believing in such nonsense?? Sylvia Brown, John Edward and other such filthy con-artists feed off of the unresolved grief of people. There can be no lower scum.

by **breakk** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 7:48 am

My husband and I lived in a rental with (possibly many) at least one ghost. It was a two story house and you could hear the stairs creaking all the time like someone was walking on them. You could follow the sound... up or down the stairs!

At first we just though it was creaky stairs... then my sister moved in and stayed in an upstairs bedroom... within days she was convinced that there were ghosts in the house. My bedroom was downstairs so I didn't go up much... but everytime I would go upstairs, I would get a little weirded out. Always felt like I was being watched. Then we noticed that the cats who liked to lay on the upstairs landing, would start hissing w/hair raised and teeth barred for no reason! That always freaked me out.

One night I was sleeping and woke up very grogy and there was an old woman w/glasses looking at me. She had a book (I though it was a Bible) clenched to her chest and was just staring at me, she had a very peaceful look on her face.... and no I was not dreaming... the weird thing is, that I wasn't scared... I just rolled over and went back to sleep. I woke up in the morning a little scared...

I was scepticle about ghosts/spirits... before that, but I'm a firm believer now.

Guess it's time to go take my medication now!

by **3Sisters** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 9:22 am

Yes, absolutely. My mother wore a hand creme that they no longer make that had a very distinctive odor. I actually never liked it, but she was fanatical about putting hand creme on daily. I woke up one night to that very strong smell.

A few years later, I would sustain a major personal loss and was out in the barn late at night tucking the horses in for the night. The hair on my arms stood up and I peered down the aisle to see my mom and dad come out of the first stall holding hands. She had on her house dress that she always wore when at home. They didn't stop to chat but just looked at me. Actually they looked happy which lifted my spirits. I really wasn't surprised since I have seen other family members before that are deceased. But that sighting allowed me to let go of my grief.

by **Utem** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 9:54 am

the cats who liked to lay on the upstairs landing, would start hissing w/hair raised and teeth barred for no reason!

I also believe that animals are much more sensitive in feeling those anomalies - they will tell you if something unusual is there.... :-)

by **cormayk** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:03 am

Don't really have a choice now, I lived in a haunted house, went to college known for their ghosts, and have had experiences happen to me that can be explained no other way. The creepy thing about "ghostly" encounters is that it can affect any of your 5 senses. For example strange smells (turkey dinners in the middle of the night), sounds (piano playing Bach when no one is actually sitting at the piano) sight - (watching the faucet turn on while at the sink) touch - (that extremely COLD feeling for no reason) . . .and taste (have you ever tasted gunpowder before? Try sitting at the Penn. monument at Gettysburg Battlefield at sunset and not only do you taste it but you smell it too.) :shock:

by **lgoes** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:23 pm

One way to get yourself labeled as a nut job is to tell your ghost encounter stories. I really only have one, but I have absolutely no doubt in my mind what I saw.

Years ago a roommate and I rented an apartment in an old house in Memphis. We lived there a year with no incidents, until the weekend we were packing up to move. I had just gone to bed, when my door, which was half open, creaked. I watched a shadowing figure move across the room to the window. To this day, I can still see him clearly. Though I saw no more than a silvery shadow, I could tell it was a young, small framed man. He appear to be dressed civil war era, civilian/not military. He disappeared moments after reaching the window.

I didn’t say anything to my roommate, because I was having trouble believing it myself. We moved that weekend. After we were in the new apartment, my roommate confessed to me that he had seen a figure enter his room that weekend. We compared notes, and described the same thing. Call me a nut, but I am certain what I saw.

I work with a guy that has done civil war reenactments for years. They have become nonchalant about the spirit sightings they have had on the battlefields because they are so common.

by **neVar** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:42 pm

Yes. I"ve had my grand father visit me (ironically his daughter (my mom) does not believe everyone becomes an angel or in ghosts (She's a J. witness).

We've had ghost activity at another barn that i was witness too- had the place blessed- been quiet ever since.

I have seen a ghost as a teenager at a friends house. It was once upon a time a burial ground. This 'man' was a blue shape who used to come out of the bedroom in the basement- stop walk t hrough you (we were sleeping in the living room in basement- sleep over). then up the stairs and disapear through the door. The room would go REALLY cold (thermostate in the basement was sepearte as it was once a suite and it would read just a few degrees above zero). Last time i slept over there!

by **knz66** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:10 pm

Oh yes, I forgot to mention my daughters story..

She was 5 or 6 at the time.. I went in her room to wake her up to find her sitting up at bed, giving me a dirty look... I asked why was she looking at me like that and her answer was, "because you scared the cat away." Well I knew it wasnt our cat because I just passed him sleeping in the living room. So I asked her what cat. "Mouse, Bob's cat" I was kinda shocked to hear that.. Mouse was my stepdads cat that passed away maybe 5yrs before Chloe was born. She never met Bob, he passed 1 yr before I had her and was too young to remember us talking about Bob in depth because we really hadnt talked about him for a long time...

So I asked her what Mouse looked liked.. "He's all white, mom, like a mouse, pink nose, pink skin. But he has funny eyes."
I sat down on the bed at that point.. kinda shocked...
Mouse had one blue eye and one green one... So I ask what she and Mouse where doing.. "he was squishing my legs" she says. Mouse had to sleep on someone, anyone, as long as they held still long enough... So I guess he was sleeping with her that night..

by **SarMoniet** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:48 pm

I believe quite strongly in the "supernatural," although I've never really had a personal sighting or experience. In high school, though, we had a fairly frightening experience with an Ouija (sp?) board. We played with it often, but there was one night in particular that scared the crap out of all of us. We thought SURELY someone was making that thing move until that one night.

There were three of us at the board, talking to random "strangers" that would "visit" us. Then one seemed awfully familiar with my friend, Sarah. Curious, we started to ask more personal questions. This person had been witness to a personal attack on Sarah years before and had died in a house fire (questionable arson) not long after. Sarah got freaked out right away and left the board, but her friend kept talking. Myself and the other girl knew *nothing* about what happened, having never heard about it before. We finally had to put the board away when Sarah got hysterical and started sobbing uncontrolably. Everything that the other girl and I were spelling out was true and it was all news to us. You know, I haven't touched an Ouija board since that night...

My aunt bought an old farmhouse about 12 years ago and she feels quite strongly that they have spirits living with them. She feels that they're quite friendly, though. Personally I got a little freaked out when I lived there by myself one summer and I've never been able to explain it. I've never seen anything, but the house does feel a bit different.

by **Sammi** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 2:44 pm

I didn't until my friend told me this story. Her brother died last year, took a drug overdose. At the funeral, at his mum's request, nobody was allowed to see the body, not even the family. SHe wanted him remembered as he was when he was alive, not lying in the casket. She was the only person (and the undertaker of course) who knew what clothes he was wearing in the casket. For months after his death, his mother kept telling my friend that she thought he was lost, and didn't know where he was going. This confused my friend, but her mum stopped it after a while so she never said anything more of it. Then, her mother told her something which she then told me, which IMO proves that ghosts/spirits/afterlife exists. She was called at work by a medium who she had never met before.THe medium told her that her dead son had contacted her and asked her to contact his mother. He said he was lost, and scared, and that was why she was feeling so tense, and that when the tension went she would know he had found his way. The mum didn't believe the medium to start with, but then the medium passed on another message - that her son thought the clothes he was wearing were 'cool'. The medium then listed EVERY item of clothing he had been wearing in the casket. Suddenly the mother went cold and numb all down her left side. 'Are you ok?' the medium asked. She said yes, not mentioning the cold feeling. The medium then said 'That cold feeling you're experiencing - that is your son. He's standing next to you right now'.....proof enough?

by **Sue Grimm** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 2:56 pm

We bought an old farmhouse on 5 acres about 3 years ago. The house had been added on to many times over the years, with the last addition dating back to around the 50s. The original part of the house is about 130 years old. The main barn dates back to around 1930.

On the day that we moved it, my parents dropped by while we waited for the moving truck to arrive. Mum and I were standing in the kitchen when she said, "Oh the movers are here". I was caught off guard as I hadn't heard any sound from outside and my husband and father were in the front of the house and would surely have seen the truck coming up the driveway. I told Mum I thought she'd made a mistake but she insisted that she'd seen a younger man with light brown hair and blue overalls walk past the kitchen window and walk towards the back door. I checked and there was nobody there and no moving truck either. However Mum was adamant about what she had seen.

The house desperately needed some renovations so just after we moved in, we hired a contractor to redo the main floor. After about a week, one of the workmen told me that when he was alone in the house, he would hear voices in the upstairs bedrooms. His partner told me that this poor guy was quite upset by this and refused to be left on his own for any length of time. If he had to be, he'd turn on the radio really loudly so he wouldn't hear the voices or he'd take a coffee break and sit outside.

Right after we moved in, I was on foal watch would hear the weirdest sounds coming from the baby monitor that I had on the bedside table. I would hear the very distinct sound of a shovel scraping along a cement floor. It was a very unmistakable sound. What made it weirder is that all my stalls are rubber-matted and the only exposed concrete area is the main aisleway. I later learned from an elderly neighbour that many years ago, the barn housed cows in tie stalls and their backends would have been standing on what is now my concrete aisleway.

In addition to the shovelling sounds, I have heard footsteps and voices in the barn - both in person and via the baby monitor. I heard a conversation between 2 men on the baby monitor one night which was really creepy as my husband was out of town and I had to checkout the barn in the dead of night alone - nothing there of course other than 4 rather confused horses. I had a friend board her horses with me for the first year and she would stop by to clean her stalls on her way to work in the mornings. Many times I would be cleaning a stall and hear somebody walk into the barn and I'd assume it was her only to find out later that she hadn't even arrived. Plus in the first few years especially, I would get an overwhelming feeling that somebody was standing directly behind and watching me when I was in the feedroom or cleaning stalls. It was very unnerving at first and I'd ask out loud that whoever it was stop doing it as they were scaring me. It would immediately stop and hasn't happened for at least 8 months now. Doesn't seem to bother the horses though as they are super relaxed in their stalls.

I've never seen or felt anything in the house but my sister and her eldest daughter won't spend a night with us. They did once and my sister was so scared she didn't sleep a wink and her daughter (in her mid-20s) was utterly convinced that she saw a man standing by the fireplace in the living room.

We have done a lot of renovations to the property so far - although there are still lots left to do - and my guess is that whatever or whoever is there must approve of all the work as things are much less "noisy" then they used to be.

by kt » Mon Sep 13, 2004 3:22 pm

There was the BEST thread on this subject a couple of years ago, when a poster (breezexit, I believe) had a ghost in her house. I am terrified of the supernatural but strangely drawn to these stories!

by **Bonnita** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 3:33 pm

Yes - I believe! My very first boyfriend (he was all of nineteen years old) was killed one late night in a car accident... I was a basket-case until he "visited" me in a dream six months after... I asked him he was happy and if he wanted to "come back" and if you could've seen his smile... I do believe in spirits and most especially in that there truly MUST be something after this world for us...

by **class** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 4:10 pm

my sister was engaged to a fellow who had a spirit that had followed him all his life. i thought it sounded maybe more like a poltergeist thing? she would come home to find the television on or the gas fireplace would be going, etc. she hated being by herself in that house. their dog would sometimes look up at a corner and growl. when things started getting too hectic they'd have a priest come in and bless the house and things would settle back down for a few months and gradually escalate again then they'd call the priest again, etc.

when they were having a fight one night his heavy silver bracelet that was laying on a dresser flew off the dresser and hit a wall. :shock:

by **etk** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 4:29 pm

I don't believe in any of that stuff.

by **horsepepsi** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 10:12 pm

like i said before I do belave that some of us are visited. i also belave that some of us are not visited.. maybe it is something in the way some of us area 'wired' in the subcousious that allows us to be more 'intune' with those who have passed on before us. while others of us are 'wired ' normal ie not 'suspetable' to the visits. I also think it depends on our own past experiances wether in this or who knows maybe thereis a pervious life for all of us that we are not aware of... but just waiting for the right time to reviel itself.. like knowing something is somewhere though you have never been there before.. or something in history was some place ( ie a shop in a town) that isnt there any more but yet you know about it and can tell someone what it was and who was there etc.
I had to do some thinking on this thought on how to say it with out sounding like a nut.. but when i was in the 7th or 8th grade i had a really bad argument with my history teacher over soething in Boston at the time of the revolutionary war.. I have not ever been to boston even now i have only been around it on the by pass. He said something about a place on such n such 'road' who someone ( cant remeber right now who it was but would guess it was one of the 'sons of liberty ppl) ran. and how it was used etc.. I guess i said ' no that isnt right that is not what happend there' a bit to loudly for his tastes because he o course 'asked me to share withthe rest of the class what i said.... so I repeated what i said and he said you are wrong i know yadda yadda yada.... this 'conversation' continued forthe rest of the class period and for several days... Finally he got the idea to contact the historical society in boston to 'prove me wrong' guess he paid a nice hefty ups bill becaue the historical society information ws there in about a week( this was before fex ex so no absoultly positivly has to be there over night stuff). He waited till class to open the material maps, of markers , maps of old boston, who lived where and who did what where type of stuff... I had an "A" riding on hte information because I was so sure i was correct and he was so wrong... well i got the A and he ate crow and apologized to me then asked how did I know.. I had to tell him the truth I didnt know I just knew he was wrong and that the stuff he was saying was wrong... To this day I do not know why i knew he was wrong i just did... This has happened to me more then once andnot just from boston but like WWII, greece (pre AD), and other places.. i just know things about those times and dont know why... and no im not saying i was a quees or mayor or anything like that heck with my luck i was probalby a slave or a scullary maid or some other low society person who just happen to be there.. kwim...
but i am thiking that those of us who are 'visited' may have had clues to our past that just flash across when needed even if we do not realize it at the time.. and those of us who havent been 'visited' have not had falshes of our past.. does that make any sense???

by **Frogling** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:46 pm

Nah, I'm not really a believe but I won't discount anything. I try to keep an open mind about it and I love the stories but deep down I don't really buy it. But hey, maybe someday I'll be proven wrong and that's fine.

by **Utem** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:48 pm

Wow, those are all great stories....especially the one about knz66's daughter & the cat. Thanks for sharing!!

by **Peter_S** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 3:21 am

Some of my long dead rellies lived in an old house that was built on the site of a Moari inter-tribal massacre. They used to see the door handle being turned on her front door with nobody being there. They used to hear somebody poking the fire and footsteps running up and down an external staircase that had been removed long since. :shock:

They got the place blessed by a Catholic Priest and the noises and stuff went away.

by **sweetas** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 6:31 am

When we moved back from overseas, we had to stay in a hotel for 6 weeks. (This hotel isn't all that old, but it's been there 20 years - alot of older people stay there). My baby girl, about 4 mos old, was in a crib in the room with my husband and I. One night, she woke up screaming, not just whimpering or what-have-you that escalated to screaming, but immediate screaming. She hasn't done that before or since. Anyhow, I bleerily looked toward her crib and saw someone bending over the crib. Thought it was my husband and I started to lie back down, but then I saw him walking around the end of the bed toward the crib. Funny, it didn't really creep me out, but it sure did my husband when I told him about it! We left a few days after that, so I didn't get the chance to find out anything more...

by **Katherine** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 6:39 am

Have we lighted the "campfire" yet? :lol:

by **copper bay farm** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 7:04 am

Yes. When I first met my now husband he was living in a house that originally belonged to his grandfather who had passed away in the living room from a heart attack. For some reason my presence seemed to trigger him and after we were married and moved in, he got *noisy* - there were lots of odd sounds you could dismiss in the beginning as an older house settling, but then we got a puppy who would now and then stop and turn around in the living room and stare at the couch at eye level as if someone was sitting there.

To be honest it didn't really bother me - I can't explain it, but he wasn't "scary", we would just joke about Pop Pop being there and we would talk to him. However, the "noises" started to escalate and one night when I was cleaning the kitchen the pots and pans I had setting on the counter were flung accross the room. :shock:

The next night we had friends over and were watching a movie, and the dishes in the sink rattled just as we got to the scary part - he had a sense of humor.

The last straw or me was the night the floorboards next to my bed started creaking back and forth - the only way they did that was if someone was standing one them and shifting their weight. That was it. We sat down at the kitchen table and talked to him and told him that it was our house now and he was welcome to visit, but that he had to be quiet and it was his time to move on. No candles or holy water or anything. The noises stopped immediately, and I only had a sense of him occasionally.

We have since moved to our farm and I did take one of his favorite things - an old outdoor thermometer and put it in my barn. Pop Pop was a farmer and loved it, so I think that is kinda why he liked me - the animals and all. So he is welcome to visit us here.

Oh, and a lot of people thought I was nuts too - I was careful who I told about this. Before it happened to me I wouldn't have believed it either.

by **TBarsT** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 8:22 am

I have had an experience where I have seen what I believed to be a ghost.
I was in a hotel room with my younger brother's girlfirend. We had traveled down to NJ to attend my older brother's wedding. We were both asleep when I was suddenly awaken by a "feeling". I looked around the room and saw a figure hovering at the end of the bed my SIL was sleeping in. I said to it "Who are you? What do you want?". This woke my SIL up, who saw the figure as well. The figure simply looked at me and then at my SIL. I then turned on the light and it disappeared. FREAKED ME OUT that is for sure.

by **Amanda-DVM2B** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 6:34 pm

I used to share a house, which had been built on the site of an old dairy barn, with a ghost. I'd be the only human on the 130 acre farm and here footsteps. I was only one in a long line of people who lived there and had the experience.

by **Utem** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 8:55 pm

Love your story too, copper bay farm... :-)

by **Vanna** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 9:43 pm

great . . . I am alone tonight and after reading this thread I am not going to be able to sleep! I am bringing the cat to bed with me.

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