Have you ever lived in a place you thought was haunted?

[Wildflower]

I have enjoyed reading these!

I have a few things but they sound so off the wall! But this happened at our house a few years ago:

On my daughter's 9th birthday, she had her first slumber party and we had 9 girls partying in our downstairs basement. They kept hearing laughter like it was behind a wall but all the girls were in the same room. The laughter was coming from the unfinished part of our basement. The girls started to get scared and my husband went down to look and show them that nothing is there and that maybe the 'laughter' was the wind coming inside somehow.

A couple of hours later, my husband and I heard banging on our back door where the deck is. I went to look outside, thinking that the girls had used the basement door to go out (even though they weren't supposed to) but nobody was there. As I was closing the door, I happened to look down at the deck and in the nighttime dew on the deck, I saw two little footprints that were already starting to fade... there were no footprints leading TO or FROM the door!

So that freaked me out! Never could explain it but the footprints faded away as we looked at them.

My hubby runs a weather station at our house. He has 4 thermometers set up outside measuring the temp. On our back deck, we occasionally get a major drop in temperature with no explanation. Sometimes its quick and other times it'll drop for 5 - 20 minutes. None of the other thermometers register this temp drop.

A couple of times, he had rushed out to see what's causing the temperature drop -- and briefly feels a "cold pocket" but it disappears fast. Also, the smell of oranges is VERY strong. When he comes back in, the temp is up to normal.

He's stayed inside when I've gone out during a temp drop -- and he said the moment I open the back door, the reading goes back up to normal. Again, I've smelled the oranges, too!

It's freaky! And it only happens a couple of times a year...

I try not to think about it too much!

[LisaG719]

Okay so here I am all alone at the front desk reading these posts.....yep goosebumps all over....and its still dark outside....brrrr.

Keep em coming! Nothing better than being scared S less at 6 in the morning.

[chandi]

Yep! I do shamanic healing which accepts that spirits exist (in us) and that therefore when we die no reason for the spirit to stop existing, and the theory is that some get stuck en route to the Light - OMG am in danger of boring on here so will STFU!

Cx

[sparkle67]

Wow those stories are pretty freaky....{{{GOOSEBUMPS}}}

[Sina]

Originally Posted by toiletduck

wow..i love reading about these experiences! i've never lived in a haunted house..been to a few that i suspect were haunted tho. i've had a few ghostly experiences myself...but i'll just tell one. it's not so much about me, as it is about my brother and mom. my mom was 42 when she had kyle, so needless to say, he was an accident. before she even knew she was preganant, she had a very vivid dream one night about a boy walking around her bed, touching her face and calling her 'mama'. in the dream, the boy was wearing the traditional chinese clothing that babies wore about 2 centuries before. (kinda like a silk halter) she said that she couldn't see his face, but that he was very round, chubby and cute. the dream was so real that at 3am she woke up and made my dad switch on all the lights to see if there was a child walking around their bedroom. of course there wasn't. after that, she went and did a pregnancy test and found out she was pregnant. she didn't need the doctor to tell her that she was going to have a son. she didn't tell anyone about this until she was 4 months. my aunt who lives in new zealand had a dream a few days after my mum's dream. she dreamed that a baby boy was standing in front of here, and telling her that he was going to enter the family. she said to him that she's old and doesn't want another child...but the baby insisted that he will be joining her family. the child also told her to insist to the mother (who she thought was my aunt since she was the youngest out of all the women) to keep him as he had waited a long, long time to enter our family. she calls my mum up to discuss this a week later because she suspects that my aunt is preggers...that's when my mum tells her about her dream. kyle is almost 7 now..and my mum swears that when he was 2, he looked just like that child in her dream.

good story! Makes you wonder... have you ever seen the Japanese movie The Eye (part 2). Freaky and I would rather not think about it, but it really does make you wonder!

[VPT]

I believe my late grandparents' house was haunted although they always denied it. As a young kid I used to visit them nearly everyday. I used to play hide-and-seek with my cousin of same age. I was never found as I hid in the deepest darkest corners, under beds, and in crevices. I hid in nearly every room including an old wine cellar, but there was one room I couldn't ever enter, it was the master bedroom. I remember I would stand at the doorway and get this uncanny feeling like there were entities constantly watching me although there was nobody inside. It was particularly dark during the daytime which was pretty strange, while the adjacent room was bright. Years later on another occasion, I noticed my grandfather's chair rocking back and forth as if he just got off it, but he was already out of the house like half an hour ago. Nobody else sat on his chair because he didn't like it.

A couple of decades after their demise, we had a family gathering and my aunt casually brought up the subject of that house being haunted. Mind you up to this point I had not confided in anyone as I believed that these things should never be mentioned on premises. Moreover whenever I questioned my grandparents they would always deny and blame these encounters on my childhood imagination. My aunt quipped that she grew up thinking that her baby cot always moved as if it were on castors. She used to see shadows of people against the wall of the staircase either going up or down and then they would disappear.

Her husband used to be a skeptic but just one encounter in that house during a short stay convinced him never to live there again. He too saw these shadows but they were ascending the stairs, then guess what? At the top of the stairs these shadows would enter the master bedroom then disappear... this part really creeped me out, so the feeling like I was being watched as a small child contemplating whether to hide in there was valid.

My mom related another story about a lost pair of scissors when she was in her teens. Her father searched high and low all over the house for his favorite pair of scissors. He was known to be a merticulous and organized chap, nothing in his possession ever went missing. When he couldn't find it after searching for a few days he blamed his children for playing tricks on him. Although they insisted they didn't take it, he punished all for lying to him because they were known to be mischievious kids. The following morning as he opened the drawer, lo and behold that pair of scissors was right there, standing up oddly on its handles!!

Ok I have other stories on other places.. but it's past my bedtime now :P

[lily25]

All the places I lived are haunted. The current apt i live in has a ghost that reads my books. I kindly asked him to stop it, or at least read them after i finished reading them myself. he is behaving lately.

[caitlin1214]

Yes.


I graduated from Salve Regina University, and a number of the mansions belonging to the university were thought to be haunted.


One of them, Carey Mansion, was my dorm for my junior and senior years.

This link is an article written by a Salve student talking about the various ghosts there are on campus. (The only one I was familiar with was the nun at Carey Mansion).

http://ghosthounds.com/modules.php?n...=print&sid=249

I haven't seen any ghosts. I tried looking for the nun once, not realizing I was looking in the wrong place. In the midst of my 'exploration' I decided I really didn't want to find the nun't ghost. I wouldn't want to piss her off. I figure if I left her alone, she'd leave me alone.

[lil_peanut]

My parent's house is haunted. It's not that old and we don't know the total "history", but my mom has been in bed while my dad left for work and she'll hear the faucet turn on, footsteps down the hall...and a few scary times she's felt someone sit on the bed beside her. She was always too freaked out to open her eyes.

When I lived there I was always seeing someone out of the corner of my eye at the door, or down the hall. It sounds scary, but the vibed weren't bad. It was more like, "Oh, there's the ghost again" kind of thing.

Since the energy in that house was good, I actually did see someone very close to me who had passed away the night after she went, twice. Again, it wasn't scary, just a final goodbye.

I know I sound like a fruitcake, but I've never had a bad experience with this type of thing.

My DH on the other hand...he can tell you stories about his Grandma's old Lake Tahoe house that will curl your hair. They sold it years before I met him, so I never went into that house. Apparently a father and son were either murdered or had hung themselves...bad energy.

[ShimmaPuff]

I refuse to live anywhere that does not seem to be benignly haunted to some degree.

If spirits do not consider it fit for habitation, why should I?

[LouisLady]

No, but my husband who is very sensitive to these kinds of things told me that my parents house ( house i lived since forever) was VERY haunted. that creeped me out but i never encountered anything.

his cousins houses are haunted though.

hes told me stories of how he fell asleep @ one of his relatives house and these 2 kid ghost woke him up & asked him if he wanted to play. he told them no and went back to sleep. they did this every time he slept there. and one time he ignored them and they got mad and started tugging on him.

yikes!

im gettin chills.

[LouisLady]

Originally Posted by lily25

All the places I lived are haunted. The current apt i live in has a ghost that reads my books. I kindly asked him to stop it, or at least read them after i finished reading them myself. he is behaving lately.

omg are u forreal?

its like u have a roommate!

[loveyouu]

ahh i got scared after reading the first page :( but it's so interesting i want to continue reading! but it's 10pm dark out.. maybe in a few days when its day light around lots of people i will continue to read!!!

[VPT]

Ok I used to work in an office located within a building widely known among the locals to be haunted. I didn't live there but since I have worked overtime well past midnight sometimes, I'd consider almost having lived there. Office was on 15th floor, building had 17 floors. We had part of the office located on the 14th floor where some of us had to keep visiting as part of our job.

On my first day of work as my boss was giving me a tour around the different departments, 2 ladies from different departments strongly advised me not to use the staircase past 6pm. One of the ladies recalled an incident of a shadow in the shape of a person cast against the wall going the opposite direction. The other lady saw an apparition of a hunchback old woman crouched in the corner where the stairway took a 90 degree turn. I was like 'don't worry your stories are so bizarre it will never happen to me'.

Months came and went, I used the staircase well past 6pm sometimes like 9pm and I didn't see anything, so I kinda laughed it off. I could have taken the lifts but they were always so slow, it was an old building anyway.

As the due date of my project was nearing, I worked late till past midnight on consecutive days, sometimes alone. One night as I was affixing the lock on the office door after work, one of the elevators went "ding" and its doors opened. Nobody was around me and nobody could have pressed the elevator button, not me either as they were like 10 large strides away from where I stood. Normally elevators in old buildings would automatically open and close on either the top or bottom floor of the building. My floor was neither! I froze for a few seconds contemplating if I should use the staircase instead. If I took the stairs it'd be 15x2 flights of stairs with corners and 30 chances of running into hunchback ghosts. I said a quick prayer and entered the elevator, looking away from shiny surfaces just in case I saw something I didn't want to see. Next day same thing happened at a different time, and then the next. I was gradually getting used to this to the point I wasn't afraid anymore. At the end of my project where I didn't have to stay late, I related the story to some of my colleagues who thought I was crazy, until one fine day when we stayed back for a common project, did we all experience the same elevator opening before we got to it!

When it came to another colleague's turn to work late for consecutive days alone, she had a different experience. She said she heard a fast-paced clicking sound like someone continually depressing the stapler. Out of curiosity she went to investigate the source, it seemed to come from underneath someone's desk located smack center of the department. As soon as she peered under that table, the noise seemed to start from another part of the room across from where she was.

Another paranormal incident occurred at certain days of the week like Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays whenever I was in the office pantry fixing myself a hot cup of coffee or tea. I would hear murmurings like it came from the adjacent office unit behind the wall. Our pantry was located at the far end of the office. It sounded like voices of two men and a woman, and occasionally their baby would wail. I heard the same thing including baby wailing every single time for weeks, always around the same time like 3-4pm. When it bothered me I told a colleague who had experienced strange things about it. We walked to the adjacent office unit and knocked on the door hoping they would shut up. When there was no answer we went to the ground level to have a look at the office directory. To our surprise that unit was vacant, and the security guard said it had been vacant for the past 3 years, the building just couldn't find a tenant for that unit!

Hauntings and strange encounters occurred throughout the building apparently, I've met people working in other offices with crazy stories about how things would go missing and then end up in strange places. How some people located on high floors would hear a rapping on their windows at night, how some would see shadows of people in the corner of their eye, how haunted toilets were on some floors, and how lifts would suddenly stop while they were inside for a few minutes and then work again.

Hauntings weren't restricted to the office building, some people believed the multi-storey car park building about 3 mins walk from the office building was unclean. The 4th floor was perpetually unpopular and if people were late for work they'd only find empty lots on that floor. If they were working late that night, they would re-park their car before sunset. There were 2 newspaper reports about separate incidents where owners returned to their cars parked on the 4th floor after dark met their deaths as their cars reversed instead of going forward out of the lots, and plunged into the face side of the steep hill the car park was situated on.

[angie1024]

omg that is soo creeepy!!!!