Has Anyone Ever Seen a Ghost?

Baldy wrote:

txRUNNERgirl wrote:

... but there was some white noise/static on my walkie-talkie

Whoa, No sh*t???

... We were the only people staying there that time too (other than the owners). ... A

... again, we were the only people there.

Let me explain it to you - if the owners were there, then you were not the "only" people there.

Actually, they were our own radios. I had one and my parents had the other downstairs where they were asleep. I wasn't pushing any buttons on it either. When I was in the room, there was static noise, but when I was in the hallway, it was quiet. I walked in and out of the room a few times and the same thing happened. I'm sure there is a scientific explanation though.

txRUNNERgirl wrote:

[.... I'm sure there is a scientific explanation though.

SO am I. I underastand why you mentioned it though. It makes the thread a lot more interesting if it might have been the boogey man ;-).

As a teenager one time, I got caught in this dark place that was like a maze. I kept running and running and running and rarely would stop. But there was no way out. Then I suddenly found a get away to the west but it was as if I entered another dimension and somehow ended up on the east side of this same maze again. There were these four attackers that were chasing me, and they were so fast. But they would change color from time to time. At first they were red and pink and light blue and orange. But every now and then they turned into dark blue ghosts and ran from me. From all that running, I had a voracious apetite and kept eating fruit that I would come upon... sometimes cherries, or apples, or strawberries, or melons. Finally, I discovered that I had nothing to fear as long as I kept eating those power pellets.

When I was a kid, we had a Quija board. We talked with a 'spirit' named Tom. He told me I would marry someone with the first name C (which happened), be wealthy (hasn't happened yet!), and die at the age of 94 (definitely not there yet!).

From a read of Wikipedia, it appears Quija boards have been debunked, but it was fun at the time....

I wonder why ghost stories seem to involve dramatic events of tragic heroism or sentimentality: planes crashing, ships sinking, soldiers being blown up on the battlefield, children dying unexpectedly or jilted brides jumping from bridges that have historically been popular for jilted brides to jump from. Normally, the tales that reach urban legend status (such as the "vanishing hitchhiker" yarn) share the common thread of the deceased being taken abruptly while in a state of extreme anxiety or while still having urgent, unfinished business.

Well, if that's the case, why is it that you never hear of a haunted toilet? Some guy is shot by an intruder while he's on the can and he's destined to forever try to finish that particular business. Somehow that just doesn't have quite the romance of your classic ghost story, does it?

RED RUM! RED RUM!!!

Seeing is Believing wrote:

Well, I woke up in the middle of the night and at the end of my bed a young girl was sitting and just looking at me. It looked like she had on a nightgown or dress. The look on her face was bizarre, like a smirk. I looked away, and when I looked back she was gone.

Dude,

Elvis died on the toilet right? Nobody will let his poor friggin spirit rest now will they? The ghost of Elvis is EveryFreakingWhere....

I do believe in spooks, I do believe in spooks, I do believe in spooks.

My brother lives in a relatively new house (1970s era) with his two sons and wife in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.

The former occupant was an alcoholic the neighbors say and she fell down the stairs, hit her head, and died. The hubby sold soon afterward to my brother.

Well, the lady shows up frequently. Here are a few incidents:

* Sister-in-law tapped on the shoulder while cooking dinner. No one there.

* Boys were infants and my brother walks down to the kitchen one morning and a loaf of bread that had been on top of the refrigerator is across the room on the floor. Two cereal boxes are on the counter, instead of atop the fridge. His wife says she didn't do it.

* Loaf of bread does the same thing the next night. Now they don't keep anything on top of the fridge and all is well.

* Dog will be sleeping then all of a sudden run to the corner of the kitchen and bark wildly, or yelp for no reason, or be eating and then sprint from the room.

* Kids, now older, have asked mom why she comes into their room at night and just stands there. Mom says she's never done that.

* When they remodeled a bathroom, tools kept disappearing, not just moved, or misplaced, but gone. Apparently ghost didn't want things disturbed? Brother says he's sure the kids aren't doing it.

* Liquor bottles lined up along the top shelf of downstairs bar are frequently rearranged. Nothing missing from them, but just placed in a different order.

It's never anything violent, the ghost apparently just wants things the way she had it and maybe wants something, maybe help? The incidents have diminished in frequency as the years have gone by, and oh yeah, they didn't know anything of the house's history until several years after they lived there and started asking questions of the neighbors.