Do you think you might have a ghost in your house?

[mvd]

There's no activity in my house. I'm close to a graveyard, not not close enough to get any effects from it. And there's no history of seeing ghosts in my family.

[Love Bug]

1. The ghost of my gall bladder haunts me from time to time

but that doesn't have anything to do with my house!

[mvd]

2. Sorry to hear that

:-(

[Shell Beau]

3. In my mom's house! Weird stuff happens!

[mvd]

5. What happens, Shell Beau?

My dad is the only one in my family who has had any real experiences at all. Thought he felt his late father in his house, and when he was younger, a fan in an old ambulance just started working out of the blue.

My mom got a feeling in a room at the Schifferstadt in Frederick, MD that we were not wanted in that room. They do supposedly have a cranky ghost.

I got a creepy feeling in my aunt and uncle's old house.

Other than that, nothing really to report.

[Shell Beau]

13. Sometimes I think my brother's spirit is there. There is this

light over the stove that hasn't worked in years (and I mean like 10 or 15 years), and we were talking about him while in the kitchen and the light started flickering. It was weird.

One time I was staying at a friend's house, who happened to live in my neighborhood, because my parents were out of town. We walked from her house to mine to get clothes. I made sure I turned off all of the lights. While we were walking down the street back to her house, we turned around and my bedroom light came on. It scared us so bad. I called my brother who was at another friend's house and they came over to check it out. We thought someone was in the house. No one there.

Another time, I was by myself and I heard the front door open and close and then heard someone walking up the stairs. I got so scared. Again no one there.

Those last two incidents were before my brother died so some other ghost was there. Other weird things have happened like TV channels flipping on their own, etc. Freaky!

[mvd]

27. Neat stories

I do think something is out there, with so many stories. I'm a Christian, but I think independently sometimes - it's possible we don't always go straight to Heaven. Ghosts being lost souls or souls that refused the next step seem credible explanations to me.

[ruiner4u]

4. Thankfully no....

I have a weird mindset.. I dont believe in them since Ive never seen one.. However, if I ever do encounter an actual honest-to-god ghost I would flip the hell out.. It would be something close to a nervous breakdown...

I blame all those Unsolved Mysteries episodes I watched as a young child that helped form my ghost phobia..

[texas1928]

6. Not for sure, it is possible...

But have not seen it or heard in about 6 months.


growing up and with that license plate I would have to say...



YES

[av8rdave]

7. I used to stay in a hotel in Louisville a lot that was supposedly haunted..

What a disappointment! No ghosts at all. I think I should get a break on the rate!

[Liberalynn]

8. No.

And though I don't think I believe in ghosts theres's a part of me that wants to, does that make any sense?

I'd probably be scared as hell though if I actually saw or heard one.

[Deep13]

9. If by "ghosts" you mean "mice", then yes, probably. nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. You mean that the constant "whooo" sound isn't a doo-whop record next door?

:scared: ;-)

[Blue-Jay]

28. Maybe you live next door to Ric Flair.

[truebrit71]

11. Not in my house, but my parent's have a very active ghost in their 300 yr-old farmhouse...

...they even know his name...

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

25. Really?

Was the name on some old land records, or did they hear him speak? :scared:

[truebrit71]

26. Old land records..plus they had a cleaning lady that is "in tune" with certain things...

..and when she got his name my folks were able to verify it...

He was VERY active on my last visit there this past spring...

[commander bunnypants]

12. whenever I am on the back deck for a smoke

and no one is home. I hear someone washing dishes

and it aint the damn cats


CB

[SoxFan]

14. That could be helpful

I could use a ghost that helps out with the house work.

[commander bunnypants]

15. ahh

but the dishes arent done

But I hear the jingling of glassess and silverware

strange

CB

[cobalt1999]

16. No ghosts, elves, fairies, unicorns, or any imaginary things in my house.

It would be kind of cool if they existed, but they don't.

[johnnie]

18. "Ghosts" do

But oh well.

[Shell Beau]

19. Yep! They have to! Or else somebody has some 'splainin to do!

[flamingyouth]

17. This house is 93 years old.

Who knows? :D

[abq e streeter]

20. I was a "ghost agnostic"

until two incidents which occurred about an hour apart when I lived a block from a graveyard about 15 years ago. I don't have the time to go into detail, but the first happened when I was alone, and the second with a friend visiting who saw something and told me " I don't want to scare you, but..." , and had no idea that something had happened just before his arrival until I told him after his sighting. We both agreed that there just was no other explanation for this...

[Thirtieschild]

21. Once visited by the ghost of someone who thought he was still fighting the Battle of Atlanta

Had just moved into the house, which was built in 1939 on the site of a battle in the Battle of Atlanta. The day we moved in was - to the day -102 years after that particular battle. I had just gone to bed, hot (July and no air conditioning), pregnant and tired, when I heard someone slam the front door, run across the entry and up the stairs. Figured husband was checking on the children, who were upstairs. The next morning our six-year-old said she heard someone coming up the stairs but when she got up and looked, no one was there. Mr. D said it wasn't him. Must have been some poor soldier, don't know which side, who was still fighting. He never came back so we hope he moved on.

[judaspriestess]

22. I have an older home that was a rental for quite a few years

before we bought it. Anyway, My mother and myself felt there was someone hanging around. Would scare my mom alot. My dog would sit and growl in the direction of the fireplace and on occasion I would here these strange little voices talking. They sounded like chipmunks on fast forward late at night. I cleansed the home on several occasions but our friend wouldn't leave.

So one evening after my dog started growling at the fireplace I decided to have a talk with our guest. I explained to them that it was not nice and it was upsetting my mom. I asked for it to leave, actually I demanded it leave. We had our sliding glass door open slightly but with the vertical shades closed. Kid you not, they moved to the side as if someone had pushed them aside to get out. Then our guest was gone. My dogs haven't growled since then. But my mom is telling me our guest has returned recently. Haven't picked it up yet though.

[CBHagman]

23. No ghosts, but a squirrel got in once.

Frankly, I'd much rather have had a ghost.

[XemaSab]

24. Were we to have a ghost

it would be the ghost of the old fire chief.

He died in the room I am in.

I would think a fire chief would be a handy ghost to have. :)

[XemaSab]

36. Oh, and hopefully it wouldn't be the ghost of the woman

who painted the kitchen purple, the fireplace pink, and the outside of the house mauve. :eyes:

[billyskank]

29. I had heard that graveyards are not typically very haunted places anyway.

If you believe in ghosts that is, but the idea goes that ghosts inhabit places where they lived, not where their bodies were buried. Therefore it stands to reason that haunted places tend to be populated places, not graveyards.

[mvd]

30. I have heard that

There are supposedly many haunted graveyards, but they are probably overrated as places of activity. The graveyard a half block from my house is as quiet as can be. Despite the church being used as a hospital during the Revolutionary War days.

[billyskank]

31. I spent a year and a half living with a graveyard the other side of the road

from my flat. Actually it never even crossed my mind that it was there, but it was. I never heard the slightest disturbance.

[unpossibles]

32. I think the ghosts of the elderly couple who lived and died in my house in the 90's

are still there, although they are fairly passive if so. Nothing crazy happens, but it is a 120 year old house, and I have gotten "the feeling" before that someone was there when no one was. My wife saw some kind of lightball on the stairs one day too. I've never gotten a bad feeling from them though - it's actually more of a comforting feeling usually. I've been rehabbing it the past year and a half, and nothing has happened lately - I hope I did not scare them away.

I did see a ghost once at a restaurant where I used to work. I had been there by myself making pasta, all the doors were locked, and I saw a dark haired woman wearing a white dress walk by in the dining room. I yelled, "hello? Is someone there?" a few times, walked around and checked the doors (still locked), and looked everywhere. No one. I was so convinced I saw someone that I was even looking under tables and behind the bar and in the basement, but no one was there but me. I never mentioned it to anyone else, and assumed I had imagined it until one day I overheard the owner talking to someone about how a woman had killed herself in the building years ago, and that she thought it was haunted. Creepy.

[Xithras]

33. My dads old house was haunted

I am a scientifically literate person, with a college education and a solid grounding in reality. My one vice is that I believe in ghosts, and nobody will ever convince me otherwise.

After my parents divorced when I was a kid (late 70's), my dad purchased a home originally built in the 1870's. Almost immediately strange things started happening. Items would move within minutes of setting them down. Lights would turn themselves on. Doors would close on their own. Lots of little things. When my dad contacted the children of the previous owner (who had died in a hospital), they informed him that "Mom always said the house was haunted".

Then, after a few years, people started seeing him. Yes, HIM. A child, looking about 8 years old, dressed in clothing from the very early 1900s. People would catch his reflection in mirrors, or out of the corner of their eyes. They'd never see him directly, but the descriptions were always the same.

In the early 90's my dad started some excavation in the backyard of the home. He wanted to remove the old septic tank and put in a pool. When they started doing the excavations, the crews almost immediately ran into the old trash burn piles that were used in the days before municipal garbage service (the home was originally built in the countryside, but is now well within the city). My dad, being an inquisitive guy himself, had them stop digging and decided to "excavate" the burn layer. While going through it, he found a large pile of toys, later dated to the late 1800's and early 1900's.

That got my step-mom wondering. She went down to the local historical society office and did some searching. It turned out that in 1909 there had been a scarlet fever outbreak in the area...and one of the victims was a 9 year old boy who had been adopted by the family which owned my dads home. The family owned several homes in the area and there was no way to tell which one he lived in, but standard practice in scarlet fever cases was to burn the belongings of the afflicted to prevent it from spreading.

My dad finally sold the house in 2002, and didn't mention the ghost to the new buyers. Less than a month after selling it, they received a letter from the new owners wanting to know if the house had any history of strange occurrences. They actually apologized in the letter for sounding silly, but the letter said flat out that they thought the house might be haunted.

My dad, not wanting to risk a lawsuit, denied ever seeing anything unusual in the home.

I can't explain it, but I do believe.

[catmandu57]

34. We have a ghost cat

I spot him every now and then, I'll hear a noise and see a strange cat out of the corner of my eye. Old Pearl who lived here and died in the front yard hasn't been around so she must be happily deceased.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

35. Interesting question MVD

My father and I can sometimes feel my mother's presence in the house but it doesn't seem to us like she's a ghost -more that she's watching over us from some place where she is at peace and free from pain and suffering.

My grandfather's ghost may have been present in the house where my grandparents lived He passed away just days before we were scheduled to move to Australia and be closer to him and he hadn't seen us in years. That Christmas, we went to spend some time with my grandmother and I was in the room where he used to live and I believe that I heard him talking to me.

[MilesColtrane]

37. Not in the place I'm living now,

but I lived in a place 8 years ago that made me question my sanity.

This was one side of a circa 1940's duplex.

While playing a computer game one night this very strange voice started coming through the speakers. It didn't sound like radio interference because I heard no static. It was a man's voice and it sounded like it was in a room far away (lot's of ambient sound) It was speaking, laughing, and sometimes singing. I couldn't make out any specific words.

When this started happening, I immediately assumed that the game had become infected with a virus of some type, and somebody had replaced a sound file. I ran a Norton anti virus and trashed and reinstalled the game.
About, 12 minutes into playing it again, the same thing started happening. I just turned it off.

I've played it since then and haven't heard anything weird.

One night, while in bed, I saw something dark and heavy that looked like it was hanging from the ceiling. It was there for about 6 seconds. I looked away. When I looked back it was gone.

My neighbor on the other side of the duplex complained to me that she constantly heard a slamming door coming from my side at night.
The only door in my place was to my bedroom and it was permanently propped open.

Thinking back to when I moved in, the previous tenant had put a crucifix over the entrance to the second room. I took it down when I moved in.

The whole time I lived in that place, I was severely depressed. I contemplated suicide almost every day. I haven't felt that way before or since living there.

These things are all explainable one way or the other, and I'd like to just chalk them up to rational reasons.

These days, when someone claims that they have been haunted, I'm not so quick to dismiss them.