So what if Halloween is officially over? Ghost stories never go out of fashion -- especially the true ones. Personally, I believe in ghosts, and I honestly think I've seen one before. Call me crazy, but here's my story. But before you read, know that I expect you to leave your ghost stories and eerie encounters in the comments below. Fair's fair. Click through to read mine.When I was 21, I was on vacation with a then-boyfriend and his family. We were staying in a rented house and he and I had the basement. I woke up in the middle of the night and saw a small child wearing blue pants, a red shirt and a baseball cap -- I couldn't see his face. It wasn't that his face wasn't there, it was more like it was in complete shadow. There was some exercise equipment in the basement, including a rowing machine and an exercise ball. The child started walking around the rowing machine toward the exercise ball resting near the back of the machine.
Thinking I was seeing my boyfriend's little cousin, I woke him up to bring the kid back to his parents' room. But he didn't see anything and told me to go back to sleep. When I looked back toward where I saw the figure, he was back where we originally started. The child -- with the same, shadowy face -- again started walking around the rowing machine in the exact same pattern he did the first time.
Now I was flipping out. My first instinct was to turn on the TV to get some light in there -- we were on an air mattress, so no table lamp or wall switch was nearby. I'd fallen asleep to a VHS movie, so when I turned on the TV, it was all static. Poltergeist-style. Of course, that scared me even more. But when I looked back, the kid was gone.
To this day, I have no idea what it was I saw. Was I in some gray space between waking and dreaming? Maybe. Was I totally imagining things? Possibly. But I like to think it was a ghost.
Ok, that's my story. Now spill yours. Please include tales of ghost-hunting in your neighborhood graveyards, exploring weird "Satanic" worship sites in high school and other activities that involve scaring the crap out of yourselves.
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Friday 30 October
By Maria Papadopoulos
I have actually seen a few ghosts, not at the same time of course and I was wide awake! I will just tell you of 2 right now.
When I was living at home, probably about 6 years ago, I was sitting in my room and watching tv. I had my door wide open when I saw a guy (an old friend of my brother's) walk by my room. I got up but didn't see him again and asked my brother if he saw him but he didn't. I think only certain type of people are able to see. I don't know what type that is other than having the belief that ghosts do exist. If there are other reasons I would love to know what they are.
The other ghost that I have seen and twice at different years started about 2 1/2 years ago. My partner, son & I were living in my partner's place. We were in our bedroom when I looked down the hall way and saw a guy dressed in black ( I didn't see his face) walk from the lounge room to the kitchen. That was the first encounter. The second time was 1 1/2 years ago in the unit where we live now. I was standing in the kitchen & saw the same person dressed in black walk towards the hall way. I didn't get to see his face though. & so far I haven't seen him since.
So I do believe and it's not because I have seen them but because I believe the spirit never dies.
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Saturday 31 October
By Tayla
hi,
At one of my old houses my nan and grandad built we heard noises on our front decking...when i finally built up the courage to look out the window i saw a old man walking up and down the decking some nights he would be rocking in his rocking chair but other times he would walk up and down the decking...one night when i had another look he scared me cause he was really close to the window and he was looking right at me the next night after that he was walking up and down our hall looking into my mums room my sisters room and my room
Later when i asked mum who it was she told me that it was her great great grandfather or somthing so i asked why is he was always on the decking and mum said that he was making sure no-one was trying to harm us...
we moved houses and i havent seen him since..but now we have another ghost in our new house i dont know what it looks like but it locked the bathroom door me and my sister got blamed for it...
Monday 01 March
By Deb Rose
About 29 years ago I was in a deep sleep dreaming about going to nan's fridge for some of her amazing apple pies. I woke up with all the hair on the back of my neck standing up. On the end of my bed, that I shared with my boyfriend at the time was a man (spirit) sitting there looking straight at me, shufling cards of all things. He was clearly visible, he had glasses on his face, and a lovely smile. I was not scared, but I didn't know what was happening, I said to him "who are you*, he continued shuffling the cards smiling.
I woke my boyfriend and turned on the light, but he was gone. It was about 2.30 pm, every night after that, the tap under our bedroom window would turn on and my boyfried would go out and turn it off, It was a truely amazing experience and I have many more that I would like to share
Friday 30 October
By Lenore
My grandmother lived in this house that an old couple used to live in, she knew the old coupl, they were family friends and she was allowed to stay whenever she wanted to, she thought of them more like uncles and aunt then just family friends, anyway, she swore on her life that this happened.
A lemon tree stood outside her front door, the lemon tree was always full with fruit and was healthy but one day, when old woman passed away the tree died, the husband never could figure out why it happened, he called in a few experts, they said the same thing, they couldn't find out why the tree that was once such a healthy tree could just die like that and so the old man just left it, he would call in someone to take it out later. Over the next few weeks or so the old man had still not called anyone in, he had gotten ill and didnt have time to call anyone but moving walking out to the kitchen he noticed the tree had came back to life, as if it had not been dead at all, it had healthy green shoots, the leaves were all beautiful and green and it was just like it was before it died, finding it strange the old man called in the experts again and once again they said they had no idea why this happened but counted it as a good thing and just ignore what happened.
Time moved on and the old man passed away, when he passed away the lemon tree, once again, died a few days later, my grandmother, curious as to why it died after baring such beautiful fruit called in the experts and they said they had no idea so my grandmother made plans to get someone in. In the next several weeks or so the tree, like it had before, come back to life as if it had never died, her daughter and husband were curious and questioning how this could happen but still, no logical answer but it had never happened again from that day onwards.
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Friday 30 October
By Maria Papadopoulos
Hi Lenore,
Love your story. Amazing isn't it! Science surely does not have all the answers!
Friday 30 October
By Lenore
Hi, Maria.
I liked your story as well, though a man dressed in black doesnt exactly sound great, I wonder if it means anything, I have always belived the spirt never dies, especially when there has been proof that ghosts do exsist.
And yes, it is amazing and science deffinatly doesn't have all the answers, I just wished that science wasn't so close minded on things, I know they just belive what they can see but still, you would think, even in the science feild they would have a bit more of an open mind concidering.
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Thursday 11 February
By e
You're all idiots, ghosts aren't real.
Saturday 31 October
By jordan
about 3 months ago me and a friend went to alavby creek grave yard to make a spoof of a ghost hunter show.
we walk around the grave yard for awhile plabibg our where we should film it.
we came to a small hill and on top of the hill was the oldest graves in the grave yard some going back to the 1800's.
we looked up there sine we thought it would be a gd place to film when with looked up we saw a figuer that seemed to produce it own light as soon as we saw this we ran as fast as we could awqay from the area.
Thinking the we might of just mistaked it for something else we went back and saw nothing there was no more light up there NOTHING.
so the next day we decided to go back and see if anything up there could produced the image we saw like a flag balloon or something but there was nothing at all.
is Brisbane's albany creek grave yard hunted or not check it out for you self one day
we are planing to go back next month to see if we can see the figer again
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Saturday 31 October
By lana
When i was younger like 2 mayb nearly 3 (my mum and dad have told me this story)
we lived in a old house for not that long and mum told me i would come into their room crying and really screaming they would ask what was wong and i said there are people fighting in my room and ovcourse my parents were like ok lets go and see but they couldnt see anything and they aksed me where abouts are they and id point up into the roof and scream and cover my ears.
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in the same house my dad was making a bath and you know how the room is reasonbly hot and the water is ment to be hot or at least warm well he left the water to fill up and when he came in to get into the bath the room was freezing and the water was freezing cold after the hot tap had been running! then we moved out very soon after that.
my mum has also told us when she was younger she could see orbs of light!
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Saturday 31 October
By piaf
I have seen ghost and some were really scary and some not so. I used to live in this hotel with my parents and where the hotel was built in the 1800's was a sort of halfway place for people travelling on horse and cart to different towns which were hours away from each other and also where the police would rest from transporting prisoners. The hotel was originally built on a well and as the story goes a woman fell down and her body was never retrieved. Also a man was killed by horse and cart out the front.
One night I was sleeping and all of a sudden I was woken to find this woman floating over me, in this long white gown. It was screaming at me but there was no noise. I was looking into this face that was so full of hate and had very big black eyes. I closed my eyes a sat up and there was nothing. Very weird.
Another time was one night when I was sleeping I woke up to here very old classical music. it was coming from the room next door to me which was a guest room. i knew no one was in the room that night so i grab the master key as i was opening the door i saw a man sitting on the edge of the bed with the music still playing. i must of blinked because when i opened my eyes he was gone but the music still playing. i walked in to see if the radio was on, but it wasn't. i pulled the plug out of the wall but once again it still played this music. i left the room and as i was walking out the music stopped. freaky i know but i think if anything was to happen, it would of.
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Sunday 01 November
By Shane Kumar
Hi
Haven't seen a ghost.....but I went ghost hunting wif my gf (ex gf now) and her cousin. Was pretty exciting at first. We visted this wathway (by cockle bay beach, NZ) which was ptich black, so you couldn't really see much infront. We walked in bout ten metres, well technically my gf n her cousin did, I was just behind them and what freaked me out the most was they both stopped at the same time. It's like they saw something and frooze at the same time, not saying anything they headed back to the entrance of the walkway. My gf an her cousin were Maori originated so they had some sixth sense ability thing going on like they could pick up spirits and stuff. I got drawn in listening to footsteps though but my gf pulled me and told me to get in the car and go. I kept asking her whats wrong, what happened, she didn't want to talk about it. When driving they had seen red eyes on a dog which is the sign of danger that will come ahead. Like a premonition. They told me to drive safely, don't speed, no running red lights and watch the road. I though they were just over exaggerating but just out on the main road there was a rav4 (van) with four guys. They were acting were, sure they were drunk or on something but they were screaming and doing all sort of weird things. They were driving close and everything. I thought about losing them, but my gf and her cousin said ignore it and watch the road. I slowed down so they could leave and go on. That night I got to my gf's place, with her telling me to stay over there could be danger still out there. I didn't sleep that night, what I was think is that their really was something in that walkway that affected my gf and her cousin and their premonition was true. I normally go out late with my gf and nothing would ever happen, but that night she was right about everything. Their are stories that a girl had been murdered or something there, I've been their during the day and I have seen a cross which means someone did die there.
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Monday 02 November
By Rebecca
To be honest I see ghosts or spirits as I prefer to call them at least weekly, some nites i see many ghosts. Sometimes the spirits are scary and sneak up on me and Iwill scream and then have to perform rituals to rid such entity's; when these dark spirits enter our house my husband dosn't 'see' them as such but can feel thier presence ie: cold shivers etc and will franticaly run about the house collecting what I need to banish them. About 5 weeks ago we had to moove from our residence of 4 years as the paranormal activity was becoming extreme and it was the type of evil spirits rather than your regular harmless spirits that prompted this moove. For approx 6
weeks prior to moving our black cat started to behave strange, he became not himself at all he would growl and moan when inside the apartment and could not bear to be inside fof more than ten minutes. There was some recent history in the place... the tenant before us became very unwell and abrubtly mooved out she returned to full health within a few months. From a reliable source Iwas told the tenant before that commited suicide in the apartment.
Since we have mooved I still see spirits/ghosts but they are not threatening like our last residence. Our cat is back to normal and happy once more. Although I think I will always do odd things like on friday night last - i stopped at a crossing and admired a lady and small girl walk in front of me dressed in white victorian outfits complete with beautiful hats and ruffle skirts, I had stopped the car and they were almost in front of the car when my husband started asking what the 'bleep' i was doing. What is often so blatent and real to me others don't see however my husband believes in ghosts and wishes he could see them. I could talk for hours about my sightings but that's it for now.
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Saturday 09 January
By nakinna atkins
it was a monday morning i was at home and i had just woken up suddenly i looked out my window only to have the view of my next door neighbours house blocked by a young boy im assuming african no more than about 11 or 12 id say sitting on the inside of my window sill with his legs on the other side of the window as if there was no glass there looking straight at the neighbours garage he said nothing and didnt look at me and i said nothing back i just closed my eyes in the hope that i was just dreaming and when i opened them again he was gone one day the next year in english class we were asked to write a story for an assignment and i immedately thought of this experience and wrote my story about it and based the story around the ghost that i named sam a young boy who was looking for his biological father who was on the run after murdering sam and his mother in the early 70s we worked together to find sams father and had him finally arrested i have never seen him again and by the way i didnt just name the ghost in the story sam i did in real life as well as i dont know his real name
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Monday 01 March
By christian de koning
i went down a cave here in the south east of mtgambier and what i have on camera films candle light going 10 feet in the air translation old bible code ghost in walls some with horns in the middle of there heads thousands of orbs some with faces dog walking on hind leg and the spirit him self from the underworld with black clock on 54 fhotos to prove the lot
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