Ghost Stories & other scary stuff.

I know, a month too late, but I was thinking about a ghost story today & I thought I'd share it. I've had a couple experiences with ghosts, as a matter a fact I feel that a deceased relative of mine visits me quite often. This, I know to be true.

It was about 10 or more years ago. I was house sitting for a relative of mine. At the time, she had a very old and large St. Bernard. An incredibly beautiful & strong dog. It was very protective of spaces and areas in the house. When we arrived there it was about midnight and he blocked us at every door entrance & would low growl in disapproval, since, we were entering his territory. There were two other dogs in the house. Two white boxers. The female dog was very protective of the house & in general of the owner. There were times that she pinned down large pitbulls, rottweilers, and German shepherds that were 2 to 3 times her size.

When I finally, got approval from the dogs to stay in the house, meaning they became comfortable with me. I went into the office, which was situated at the back of the house. No one in sight, since it was the middle of the night & no one was expected since everyone was told that I was house sitting for the long-weekend. I clearly, wasn't expecting anyone. I relaxed and started to surf the web. The dogs had come in to keep me company. The St. Bernard lay on a large leather couch situated against the wall behind me. The two other dogs, lay on the other leather couch situated on the wall to the right of me. 20 to 30 minutes later I hear the floorboards behind me creak, sounding as if someone was swaying their weight back and forth. I didn't turn around, but it did surprise me. At the same time, the female boxer looked up at something behind me and started to low growl. She wouldn't stop. Her eyes were fixed on something. She then started to bark nonstop. She stood up on the couch and keep looking up in the same direction as she had before. I followed her gaze and looked behind me and saw nothing. At this point, the 2nd boxer started barking as well. I quickly shot up, starting to feel fear but I wanted to keep my cool. I sat next to the two dogs to comfort them. I started telling them, "There's no one here you silly dogs, no one is here." I began to rub their heads, ears, and body to calm them down. As I sat on the couch I felt that there was someone outside of the office. I heard more creaking, almost like footsteps outside the office door, which I had closed, being somewhat afraid in an unknown house in the middle of the night. I thought, "Whomever is here, will just open the door. It's probably cousin Ben checking up on the house," I told myself. Finally, after a while the dogs calmed down, relaxed, and resumed sleeping.

When the relatives came back from their trip & I went back to visit them about a week later they asked me if 'everything' was ok. I stated that everything had been fine & there were no worries. The relative hesitated a bit, but began to tell me of ghostly experiences that she had in the house. It seems that the previous owner, the older gentleman who had built the house still came to pay them a visit on a frequent basis. I began to tell them of my experience.

The floor boards creaked like someone was swaying back and forth enough to surprise you, and yet you didn't turn around? Sounds about like every other silly "ghost story". There is no such thing as a ghost.

Yes, it did surprise me, but since I knew I was the only one in the office I didn't pay much attention to it. I thought it was the house settling in. It's a true story & ghosts do exist. The owner's of the house saw the ghost of the previous owner on a frequent basis as well the ghost of a person that the deceased knew.

Does anyone else have a paranormal experience?

Nothing personal to contribute here, but keep the stories coming. I've been a huge fan of paranormal stuff ever since the X-Files was running. Right now one of my favorite tv shows is Ghost Adventures on Travel Channel. They got some really good stuff going.

That being said, I'm more of a sceptic believer. 'Sceptic' as in, 95% of all paranormal events can probably be debunked, being either total BS, make-believe BS (no offense) or scientifically explainable. But I don't want to highjack the thread. ;)

The other 5 %...that's what's really intriguing though.

Calling hipcheck ... he has some great ones that he experienced growing up.

As for me, my sister-in-law used to live in Buena Park. Apparently an older lady who was a previous owner of the home passed away in the home. She also had a cat who passed away in the home. Little did anyone know when they bought the house that the old lady AND her cat continued to haunt the place. I never saw the old woman but my nephew did. He was computer gaming late one night and walked out to the kitchen to get a soda around 2 or 2:30 in the morning. He bent down behind the refrig door and when he stood up the old lady was there smiling at him (on the other side of the open kitchen door)! She obviously startled him and after he yelped she chuckled, turned around and vanished. As far as the cat I think all of the family and any visitors probably saw him/her. I remember I was in my nephew's room, playing on the computer, all alone. When seated at the computer you looked directly out the door of the kid's room. I heard a meow and looked up to see a cat wandering by the open door. And then, like deju vu, it happened like two more times in 5 minutes. Nothing funny when it happened, just the same cat doing exactly the same thing that it had done earlier. I am not a cat person so I didn't know anything was strange and by the third time I just told the cat to move along. My sister-in-law had two other cats so I never even thought twice. Apparently it was the ghost cat that I saw though.

The funny thing is that my sister-in-law, her husband, son and daughter all had experiences with the two apparitions but never spoke of it to each other until after they sold and moved away. An Asian family bought that house and we have all wondered if they have had similar experiences.

Ghosts & spooks? :run:

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Originally Posted by roenick

An Asian family bought that house and we have all wondered if they have had similar experiences.

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Yes they have...except its the Calgon lady and a Siamese cat.

I recently moved out of a rental house that had a lot of strange things happening in it. It was a rental, so I didn't know of any history of previous occupants inside or if they had experienced anything out of the ordinary. Among some of the things I noticed during the year I lived there:

- Lights turning off and on without me (or anyone else in the house) being anywhere near that room.
- Trash can lid spinning on it's own.
- Doors locking by themselves. I was locked out of the house twice when no one else was inside the house. I had to get another key made so I could keep one outside.
- My 3 year old daughter telling me about the little brown haired girl named Allison that would play with her at night.
- Sounds in the attic like 2x4s snapping in half. The sounds would follow you as you walked through the house.
- A Mr Potato Head toy spinning and rocking back and forth on a coffee table as I sat on the couch and watched TV.

I chalked most of these instances up to house issues with electrical or duct problems, or the vivid imagination of a 3 year old... but needless to say, there was some alarming things going on that I had never seen/experienced at any house I had lived in.

About a month or two before we moved out, my wife and I had finally gotten approved for a home loan, which we had been trying to get approved for for roughly two years. It had become a big source of stress for us for some time. The day we found out we had been approved we were talking about how long the process had taken and what a relief it was to be done with it... we then heard a loud bang in the kitchen. Neither of us could find anything that had fallen over in the pantry or anywhere else in the kitchen, so we gave up on it and went to bed. In the morning, she noticed that a large, wooden 'Be Happy' sign that had been sitting on top of our cabinet had fallen backwards. This piece of decoration has a wide base, and had been sitting in this house for 10 months without moving, and had been displayed in our previous house for 5 years, and had never fallen over. My wife thought it was a reminder "from our ghost" that we could be happy now and stop stressing. It was a very strange coincidence in light of what was going on in our lives at that time... and it kinda freaked me out.

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I like this story! :O

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Ed and Lorraine Warren arrived at the apartment and the case begins. "Ok girls, I’d like to hear the whole story, Who here can tell me?" "I can" said Donna. "All right, Lou, Angie, please add any details she leaves out," Ed directed.

"There are two stories," Donna said. " One that began earlier in the week with Lou. The other one’s about Annabelle. But I suppose they’re both about Annabelle." "Who’s Annabelle?" Ed promptly asked. "She belongs to Donna, she moves, she acts alive, but no, I don’t think she’s alive. She’s in the living room" said Angie, pointing across the table. There, sitting on the sofa.

" Lorraine looked to her left, into the living room. "Are you talking about the doll?" "That’s right," Angie replied, "the big raggedy Ann doll. "That’s Annabelle, she moves!" Ed got up and walked into the living room to inspect the doll. It was big and heavy, the size of a four-year-old child, sitting with its legs stretched out on the sofa. The black pupil-less eyes stared back at him, while the painted-on smile gave the doll an expression of grim irony. Looking it over without touching the thing, Ed then returned to the kitchen. "Where did the doll come from?" Ed asked Donna.
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Annabelle, the possessed doll. Haunted toy and strange ghost story.

Heh. I noticed that at least two of these "ghost stories" involve "paranormal activity" while the poster was on a computer "playing a game" or "browsing the web". Just a theory, but waxing the old carrot might cause just enough subconscious paranoia to create hypersensitivity to sound & light. Don't forget to clear your cache too...the "ghosts" are hip to your search history.