ghosts

[ST1Doppelganger]

This will be the second story I have that includes my wife thy was my GF at the time.

So my wife and I were doing a long distance relationship she lived in OC and I lived in SD so it was about an 1-1.5 hour drive.

Like i said I had close friends over most of the time and she came knocking on the door and said she saw something outside and thats when my best friend and I said yeah it's just the chupacraba and she said no I'm not joking and we said we weren't either.

After dating for over a year she moved down to my place (i still lived at it because I was helping my mom with bills and the cheap rent wasn't bad as well so it was beneficial for both my mom and me) and thats when the activity kind of went nuts. It started getting to the point that on a weekly basis there would be banging against the side door, roof and walls. This scared my wife and I would always say it was a raccoon or opossum that was on the roof.

Well one day I couldn't play it off anymore because the activity went haywire. All the walls and roof were being banged on to the point that my german Shepard, cats & goffin cockatoo all were scared with big eyes and my wife was curled up on the bed with the blankets covering her face.
I was laying in bed comforting her and starring at the window that was across the foot of the bed where I kept seeing shadow orbs in the window and was just thinking of how i could debunk this. After about 3 minutes of this i saw why looked like a human silhouette in that window and thats when I told the wife I had to get something. I got out of bed and turned the light on and thats when my wife screamed someone's in the window and I said I know I've been watching it for the past 3 minutes. I grabbed my mag light made sure the batteries worked by testing the light in my hand then turned off the room light layed back down in bed and had the mag light aimed at the window. When the silhouette formed again I turned the mag light on only to have it flicker and thats when I said screw it I'm going to sleep.

The next day i investigated the outside window for any evidence of an intruder. Since the room had a car port attached to it the window faced the car port and underneath the window there were piles of corvair motor sheet metal and other car part that weren't moved and the dust on the seal and ally the surrounding parts were flawless if it was a physical being they would have had to climb over the car parts to get to the window. (I saw one large an two smaller shadow figures in that window the night before.

Needless to say after that I cut some thick styrofoam and placed it in the window as an insulator and to block view then simply covered it with the curtain and never had that window exposed again.

This is the single incident that made my sarcastic skeptic brain believe there's something else out there that we can't explain with logic.

P.S. This incident out a real monkey wrench in the gears of my relationship with the wife and i because she hated living there but we both over spent on car loans and credit card debt and weren't in the best of finances to move out so we were there for a couple more years dealing with activity and me dealing with a scared angry wife.

I have many more stories but thats the one that changed my opinion on everything having a logical excuse.

 

[wingchun100]

the only balls of light circling that i normally see are when i've been knocked out in sparring

LOL what about if you rub your eyes too hard?

 

[donald1]

The only time I seen a ball of light was from staring at the sun and looking away(when i was younger...)

 

[donnaTKD]

you haven't been hit by emily's right hook --- omg --- she's about 8 stone and punches with the force of a bus lol ---- found that out the hard way

grandad closed my open bathroom door this morning - guessing that he didn't like the smell of the shower gel that i'm currently using he doesn't go into my bathroom at all which is a shame cos after last night it needed a right good tidy up - i put my dog in my shower cos he smelt a bit

 

[wingchun100]

I just remembered an encounter I had with what I thought was a ghost. It was when I was maybe 5 or 6. It was Christmas Eve. My bedroom was just off the dining room. For some reason I woke up around midnight. When I looked out my bedroom door, I saw a little girl that looked to be about my age. She had pigtails and ribbons in her hair. She went to sit down (even though there was no chair there). By the time she reached a sitting position, she vanished.

I don't really believe in ghosts, but I can't explain what this was...and I still remember it vividly to this day, over 30 years later.

 

[donald1]

Once when me and two of my best friends, Jackson and David(we were all 3 around 12) and we're walking by a large building (it looked like a project or some type of abandoned building with a boarded up door and either broken and or boarded up windows with graffiti on much of the buildings exterior) we went down that route almost every day because school but one day we were walking and Jackson accidently threw his football over the fence me and him climbed over and David climbed over cause he didn't want us to get in trouble. We got the football and I noticed the back door was had boards when we got inside it was mostly empty. There was holes in the wall and David thought they were some type of gun shooting and we found a couple. 22 magnum shells laying on the ground. There were faded lights up stairs and a shadow moving down so we just left (David was scared) i remember cause we were making made jokes about it for at least a week

 

[ballen0351]

Interesting thread. Ive had some strange things happen to me at work.

When I was a new cop with less then 2 years on the job we get a call for armed man at the elementary school. Long story short he left prior to our arrival and we track him down to his residence which was an 100+ year old house that was converted to 1 bedroom apartments with a shared bathroom on each floor. At that time I worded for a very small department we only had 5 cops working at that time. So we are walking through the house looking for him and he starts walking out of the bathroom as Im walking past the door. We look at each other he slams the door. Me being new and stupid quickly shove my foot in between the door and frame holding it open. About 10 min go by like this as Im trying to talk him out. Im standing there and I hear from behind me some say "duck." So I do I squat down 2 seconds later a bullet comes through the door right where my face was. After its all over I go up to the officer that was behind me to thank him for telling me to duck and he says he didnt say anything and I was lucky. So I ask everyone else that was there and nobody says they said anything to me. Ghost? Guardian Angel? who knows.

Another time Im searching a funeral home in the middle of the night. Alarm went off and the back door was unlocked. 3 of us were inside. We are searching and come to a door we cant get open. We assume its locked from the other side. The room the door is in was much cooler then the rest of the building. We think nothing of it and keep searching. We head up to the attic and I hear someone say "get out". Now I think my minds messing with me so I dont say anything about it. We clear the attic and go back down stairs and are back in the cool room. We are talking and waiting for a manager to show up to lock the back door. While we are standing there that door we couldn't open slowly swings open. It was a storage closet and there was no lock on the inside of the door. So we all go outside and wait for the manager to arrive . One of the officers looks at us and says "did you hear anything on the stairs going to the attic?" We both say yea did you? All of us heard the same thing "get out."

Another night Im sitting in a Golf Course about 3 in morning writing a report on my computer. There is nobody around and its pitch black outside. I hear a Hand slam my drivers door hard and loud. I jump out with my flash light and see nothing. I shrug it off thinking I imagined it or something and sit back in the car to finish paperwork. Then boom same thing on my passenger door. The golf course is built on the grounds of the old state mental hospital and there are like 90 graves out there from unclaimed dead from the hospital. When they bulldozed the hospital they built a resort and golf course but never removed the bodies.

 

[ballen0351]

That hospital was bulldozed before I ever worked there but talking to guys that worked there when it was abandoned they had to keep checks on it at night because it was old falling down and they didnt want kids hanging out and getting hurt. They would say sometimes you drive into the complex and rooms would have lights on yet the building hadnt had power in a decade

 

[Tames D]

One restless night while I was just about to fall asleep one of my curtains over an open window in my bedroom shifted slightly. Then I heard when sounded like whispering noises. The noises turned in to a voice and the curtain slowly contorted in to a face. The voice hauntingly whispered, "Research pareidolia. Really, you check it out along with apophenia. I think you will find it all quite interesting." and the voice faded away and the curtain returned to normal.




I did when I was a child. Adults and other authority figures would talk about them, so they had to be real...right?

Peyote is nasty stuff.

 

[tshadowchaser]

That hospital was bulldozed before I ever worked there but talking to guys that worked there when it was abandoned they had to keep checks on it at night because it was old falling down and they didnt want kids hanging out and getting hurt. They would say sometimes you drive into the complex and rooms would have lights on yet the building hadnt had power in a decade

Have heard of this happening to a few people I know and a building in my town but have never seen. But I know it has spooked a few of those people