Ghosts?!?

[Hawkeye]

OK, I seriously do not believe in Ghosts until tonight.

I mean first lets get things out of the way- I can rationalize just about anything. But you all also know I'm a very deeply spiritual person.

Now I have NEVER believed in ghosts. I mean I'm one of those people who will always say the mind is playing tricks on you etc.

Well not tonight.

You see one of my dad's business partners mother died. (I'll just call her Carol) and so we all went to the funeral home.

Well I do not like large crowds and I didn't have anything to do with my hands so I would at least not show my fear of people. I had no pockets and no keys to jangle.

So I happen to walk into the room where the Carols mom was and stood by a chair. I saw this picture of Carol's mom and dad (the dad died about a year ago) with Ronald Reagan! And I'm just admiring this picture when I feel someone touch my hand that was closest to the chair. I'm a little perplexed because there was no one around me. I mean there was a good 4-5 feet between me and the next person. So I figured I ran it against the chair subconsciously wanting to do something with my hands.

So I then happened to watch it and I felt a hand wrap around mine. I looked around and there was NOBODY there and it was the same hand that was closest to the chair. I thought it was odd but again dismissed it to my imagination.

Well then Carol came in with my parents. She saw me looking a little perplexed then came over and said, " What are you looking at?" I told her I was looking at this picture of her mother and Ronald Reagan.

So the grip on my hand began to tighten as Carol told me the story of how her mother and father got some books that Reagan really wanted in his library or something like that and the picture was of the two presenting it to him.

The grip from the invisible hand began to tighten as I felt a strange tingle in my entire arm. I wasn't sure what I was feeling. But I felt a nice tap on my arm and then my mom said something that startled me.

She told Carol that it was so interesting where that picture was because my mom remembered the last time we were at that funeral home when Carol's dad died (about a year ago) and Carol's mom was sitting in that exact chair I was standing next to telling my mom the story of how they met Ronald Reagan.

By now I'm really alarmed because I'm trying to think of all sorts of rational thoughts but then I felt a gentle pat on my arm and as everyone walked away I felt someone hugging me. Then I got this crazy idea to tell Carol that her momma really loved her family.

I had no idea why because I didn't know Carol's mom at all nor am I one of these people who thinks they can tell people all sorts of crazy stuff. Well it was irrational and everything but I felt like I was being "dragged" to Carol. I told Carol that it was kinda neat that it was obvious her momma loved her family very much and then Carol's eyes just filled up and she fought back tears.

See I gotta let you all know that I am not that emotional at funerals and funeral homes. I've been to so many in my life with everyone I love that I'm kind of indifferent to death (I know it sounds horrible) but I just view it as another part of whatever.

No sooner had I told her that then I felt a gentle pat on my shoulder, again the nearest person around me other than Carol was a good ways away (not within arm reach) and then another squeeze on my hand and then nothing.

It didnt scare me as much as it alarmed me because again I am a very rational person when it comes to death and ghosts. I just never believed in them but I think I felt one this time around. Which is insanity but in a way a great compliment.

So anyway-Tell me your ghost stories!

 

[YvetteJeannine]

I've always believed in "ghosts" or, "other world spirits"...As much as the rational mind "wants" to explain it, sometimes there just ISN'T an (rational) explanation.

 

[GODDESS]

Hey,

Ghosts are REAL!!! I grew up in a haunted house. It was horrible!!!!!

Just pray and believe and trust in God, that is all you can do!

 

[User34]

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Originally Posted by GODDESS Hey, Ghosts are REAL!!! I grew up in a haunted house. It was horrible!!!!! Just pray and believe and trust in God, that is all you can do!

heck yea I grew up in one too and it was not fun at all.
From nightmares to being choked at night. I was not the only one either my brothers would be bothered and no one would ever walk past a certain room in house house with out feeling like somthing was watching you. I actually used to run past it.
I am just thinking about it and getting freaked. I moved out when I was 23 but my mom and brothers still live there. It's been so hard for them to get out of there. Somthing always happens when they try to sell the house.

 

[Hawkeye]

OK Now I'm intrigued. With those of you who grew up in a haunted house, please tell me more. I wanna hear all about this!

 

[User34]

My mom is deep into spirituality and she has been to a number of people who read cards, pyschics etc.. all these people she has never met before but they always tell her the same thing. "your house is corrupted" "your house is unsafe" etc etc.. One day we get the story about who a lawyer and his fam lived there ( our house is over 100 years old) and supposedly, as vengence, someone he put in jail got out and killed his whole family in the house. 2 little kids, the lawyer, his wife and the mother in law.
I remember when I was little and we first moved in there I kept telling my mom that there was a lilttle dead boy in the yard and that he used to swing on the tree in the front. ( I guess my mom thought I was just being weird).

 

[MxAxC-_ATTACK]

I grew up in a haunted house. Not evil spirts though. I would see people standing in my doorway at night. and when i was little i would talk about the children in the backyard. my mom also thought i was being werid. I never felt threatend untill I moved to Arlington washington, and my boyfriend and I found an apartment. which was the bottom story of a 100 year old house. it was huge! and i never felt right in that apartment.. then i found out it was once used as a mortuary.where they store dead people before funerals, and things of that nature..
One morning i was in the bathroom and heard someone let out a huge sigh behind me. i turned around thinking it was my boyfriend. but he wasnt there. Later i found out the same exact thing happend to him but he didnt want to tell me about it. then one night while we were in bed, we were laying there talking when there was a huge crash in the bathroom , allll of my makeup from my traincase went crashing to the floor.I didnt go see what it was untill the next morning because i was scared shitless.

also

My friend and I went to check out this haunted INN here in town. and we went to the haunted room that was rumored to have 2 or 3 deaths occur in it, so we checked it out and i said "DO you hear water running?" and she did. but the room had not been rented out for years . so the sink and tub had spider webs in them and deffinitly no running water. we got a little creeped and as we left and she turned to lock the door the fire alarm on our end of the floor went off , we flipped out and ran towards the staircase.. and the big metal firedoor that seperates the sections of the floor so fire doesnt spread, slammed in our face. we screamed once again, and had to run for the 3rd floor fire escape, eventually we got downstairs and since each room has a detector in it, the lady at the front desk asked us if we had set off the fire alarm in room 307, because thats where the sensor said it was set off.. freaking creepy!! I havent been back there since.

 

[MxAxC-_ATTACK]

also i wanted to add that Evil beings are called Poltergiests. and are differnt than Ghosts.

Ghost generally can do no harm

 

[pumpkincat210]

We live in an old house..85 years, and i'm sure its haunted by a mischevious little poltergeist. It plays tricks on us. It hides stuff and then puts it back to where we'd looked. We felt like idiots at first, but now are theory is if its not there now, wait an hour and check back.

 

[Chic 2k6]

i dont have a haunted house or seen any ghosts, but my old school Gramercy Hall was a mansion of a rich family and housed servants in where the car park is now, and my school is so haunted that it featured on Most Haunted Live tv show, lol creepy, ive been down into the basement of the school and boyyy theres alot of presence there eep

does seeing a ghostly figure crawl down the stairs count as seeing a ghost? or is it a figment of my imaginating as i saw it after watching The Ring? lol

 

[queenofdisaster]

i have stories about scary stuff from the house my aunt used to live in, but i can't even bear to think about it so i'll spare myself.

my daughter currently has a friend that she babbles to at night and in the morning. i personally think it's my grandfather. all the small children in the family that were born after he passed have had experiences with him.

meanwhile, i see persons standing in my doorway in the mornings after my hubby goes to work. when i close my eyes, i see their images. i just tell them to go away b/c i don't want them to be able to communicate with me or through me in any way. i just want them to go away. it doesn't really scare me, i just don't want to share my bedroom with them, lol...

sometimes out of the corner of my eye i see a dark figure in my daughter's doorway or walking through my hall. i really do believe it's my papa though b/c most of the time i'm covered in this overwhelming sense of tranquility. it's nice to know he's still taking care of us

 

[Hawkeye]

queenofdisaster-aww thats so sweet!

I gotta admit all these ghost stories are truely fascinating. I mean I have to admit I've NEVER believed in ghosts but I've always believed in the spirit world and the strong connection it has with the physical world (Weird I know) but it just is so strange to me.

Any other stories that happened I'd love to hear about it. MORE STORIES PLEASE

 

[Shavwi]

Very interesting stories - I am sorry for those of you who have had bad experiences. I've nevre actually had an experience with a ghost, but I do believe I have had messages from family members who have passed. When my grandfather passed away last year I was really upset and asked him for a sign that he was ok and two days later as I was at a stoplight and happened to look down at the bumper of the car in front of me and on it was lettering that spelled Herbert, which was his name

I like to believe that was his sign to me that he's in a better place. I wanted to tell my mother about that (he was her father), but she doesn't believe in that sort of stuff and would probably just roll her eyes at me. I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one with such stories!