Real-life Ghost Stories

[swedeace]

Do you know of a real-life ghost story on a particular building or home? If so, share!

I have one. This may sound Poltergeist-related, but it's true. It seems around every couple of Halloweens, our college newspaper likes to run a story about two buildings and how there are accounts of some ghost encounters. Nothing physically but litte things like movement and stuff.

Prior to where two of our buildings are standing, there used to be a paupers graveyard. Family members did get consent (unlike Poltergeist) to move the deceased to another location. I think what's kinda creepy is how they found like this glass coffin with a preserved little girl in it wearing a velvet dress who had long hair. Well, it creeped me out...

But anyway.... there have been accounts during nights where the janitors and security doors swear they hear doors opening/closing and the elavator going up and down when there's no one else in the building. They also mentioned about stacks of paper "suddenly" falling onto the floor without anyone near the building. Security locks up late at night and only the janitors are in the buildings.

One of those buildings is the same building where all the fitness classes are taught, and I am taking Step Aerobics. Therefore, I have been kinda creeped out hoping that after I shower when I get dressed in the shower stall that the shower doesn't turn on by itself. *thinks of the little boy in the shower scene in the movie "It!" :lol:* Hahahaha... I know... it won't be that dramatic, but I still kinda fear it since I'd be in trouble if my work clothes got wet.

There have been some articles on our newsletter, but they are not online yet. When they are, I will post the links here.

What about anyone else?

[Kazza]

I was home alone one day cleaning the dinning room table. My back was towards the kitchen sink/ cupboard area. I turned around and see the cupboard door opening and closed in a slam. I just stood there holding my cleaning tools.

[Number 9 Dream]

I've had a LOT of experiences, actually. It's so weird, but I think I'm just open to seeing these things. When I was really young, maybe 6 or 7, I was playing in my backyard and I remember feeling the urge to turn around. When I did, I saw the vision of my cat (who had just recently died) standing on top of his grave. There was no way this could've been any other cat around the neighborhood since ours had been a Manx, which are cats born without tails. Pretty rare, if you ask me. In fear, I looked away real quick, but out of curiousity, I had to turn my head back to look, and saw it was gone.

Another time when I was around the same age (6 or 7), I was running down the hallways at my old house, pretending I was flying by flapping my arms. Suddenly, I remember someone lifting me up and it really felt like I was coming off the ground. For some reason, I just knew it was a male and I had a gut feeling that it might've been my Poppy, who died in that very same house in 1984. My Dad tells me stories how I was always Poppy's favorite, so it makes sense he might've wanted to hang around a bit :)

Ok, fast forward to when I was 14 years old: I had gotten really sick in September of that year and that was the year I had started my new high school (my family had moved that year). I had to stay home a lot and was just feeling overly stressed out from being so sick all the time. I remember one night my brother had a sleepover with his friends from our old town and I was up all hours watching them play video games in the living room. Around 1 in the morning, I decided to head to bed, exhausted as anything, and I pretty much conked out within minutes. Some time in the middle of my slumber, I felt someone shaking me out of sleep and giggling. I awoke very quickly, pissed off and thinking it was my brother's friends pulling pranks on me as I was sleeping. As soon as my eyes opened, I saw a young, blonde guy wearing a Hawaiin type shirt. He was smiling down at me, and as soon as I rushed up to turn on the light, he was no longer there.

And that wasn't even the last time I had all these experiences either. I'd say from 1996 on to 1999, I had about 5 more experiences like that. It's all very strange, but I'm not really afraid anymore. I believe in the afterlife and I know there's more than meets the eye when it comes to our own realm of understanding.

[passionsfan79]

Well I never had really experinces but wish I have though :) But I was living in my old Apt once and I was in the kitchen away from my tv control watching a movie on tape I remember it turned off twice by itself. There could be an explanation for that though. I wish I could go to a real haunted house I think it would be awesome not one of those fake ones though.