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Ghost Sightings?

cornicopia — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 21:46:44 GMT

With Halloween being right at the corner, does anyone want to share any true ghostly encounters? I have never seen a ghost myself, but I have heard of others having such experiences. Happy Halloween!!!

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pupwhipped — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 23:03:26 GMT

Well, I'm going to share a story that may not have had a ghost sighting but it was certainly eerie...in a good way. I think actually guardian angels were involved. Hope you don't mind.

Years ago when I lived in Atlanta my neigbor and I were in charge of Christmas decorations for the entry to our subdivision. We had a tight budget but that day I found the perfect wreaths, garland, flowers, etc. at dirt cheap prices and bought them. I was so excited, rushed home, pulled into the garage and ran in the house to call my neighbor (pre cell phones) and tell her about it. As we were talking someone rang her doorbell. She wasn't presentable and didn't want to go to the door. The side of my house faced the front of her home so I told her I would look out my window and see who it was. We were both expecting to see the usual door to door salesman. When I looked out, OMG, my little dog was sitting at her front door!!! I dropped the phone and bolted over there to get him before he took off. Turns out I had left my garage door up and didn't close the house door securely and he escaped. The weird thing was she and I both looked everywhere but never saw the person who rang her doorbell.....there was nobody.😲

I will never, ever forget this story. And I'm so grateful to the "spirits" who were watching over me and my little dog that day. Oh, and the Christmas decorations turned out great, too. Ha!

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fthunt — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 23:37:44 GMT

@pupwhipped Great read - interesting...........leaves many questions.

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fthunt — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 23:48:13 GMT

Hubby and I stayed one night in an older house that had been made into a B&B (bed/breakfast). Settling down for the night, lights out hubby snoring..... I sensed something or someone came through the locked door and was at the end of our bed. Me - could not sleep.

At breakfast - the owners a young couple mid thirties - went on about the friendly ghost that lived in the cellar. Came with the house and they told stories about their encounter with him on the basement stairs.

Only then did I tell what I had felt - owners said they didn't doubt it.

This spirit had once owned the property - but didn't have a bad 'ending' as far as they knew.

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Icegoddess — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 00:00:39 GMT

Nope, never saw a ghost, and I have been on several Ghost tours around town.

However, I was staying with my Dad, and he asked me to take him to the hospital. Turned out, that was the last time he was at home. They had to transfer him to the VA Hospital which was about 2 hours away from his house, so he went ahead in the ambulance and I stayed overnight the house to wash some clothes and pack before driving over the following day. I stayed with him at the VA a few days and then my sister took over after their family got back from a vacation.

I had previously given him for Christmas one of those digital picture frames loaded with some pics. On the day of the funeral we all met at the house. When I walked in the pictures were scrolling in the picture frame. I asked had they turned it on and they said no. Only one other person, a neighbor, had a key to the house, but he said he had not entered it. I know the frame was off when I left to go to the hospital because it was not on the entire time I was there with my father.

Then, the next time I showed up at the house I found 3 pennies on the floor in front of the chair that I always sat in. I called them Pennies from Heaven.

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Desertdi — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 00:02:21 GMT

I think I may be living on top of an ancient burial ground....

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mistriTsquirrel — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 00:59:48 GMT

@pupwhipped wrote:
When I looked out, OMG, my little dog was sitting at her front door!!! I dropped the phone and bolted over there to get him before he took off. Turns out I had left my garage door up and didn't close the house door securely and he escaped. The weird thing was she and I both looked everywhere but never saw the person who rang her doorbell.....there was nobody.😲

@pupwhipped Maybe someone saw your little fella at the door and thought, "look at that short little guy!! He's never gonna be able to reach that bell. I'll run over there real quick and help." 😄

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fthunt — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 00:16:29 GMT

@Desertdi Tall us more..........................please LOL

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mistriTsquirrel — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 00:57:14 GMT

An uncle of mine died unexpectedly. My aunt found him when she arrived home from work.

One of my cousins lives in a care home. He is childlike in a lot of ways. The care home is quite a distance away from the house where my aunt and uncle lived. I guess my aunt could not get there to tell him in person, so she called.

After he was told, he said his dad had come to see him, and had told him everything would be alright.

His dad was already dead at the time he said the visit occurred, and the staff had no record of my uncle visiting since the last time my aunt and uncle had gone there together.

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SXMGirl — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 01:21:28 GMT

Here is my story.

My grandmother lived in a home at the end of the city limits in her town. Previously, there had been another home on the property and the rumor was that the ghosts scared the previous owner to the point that she ran out of the house screaming and refused to go back in. Not long after, the house burned down.

My grandparents bought the property and built a small house. I always spent the summer with my grandmother and one summer afternoon I was waiting for my grandmother to come back in the house after tending to her large garden. I heard the wooden screen door slam and when I went to the back of the house to see my grandmother, she was in the far back of her yard. No one had been anywhere near the house.

Visitors to her home who spent the night would say that a woman would come into the front bedroom during the middle of the night but did not try to frighten them. However, my uncle and his Navy buddies refused to stay in the house after dark. I cannot remember the stories that they told, but none would stay there either with another person or by themselves.

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KathyM23 — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 01:35:03 GMT

I am Irish and definitely believe in spirits and Guardian Angels. I can think of several incidents in my life that I know only turned out OK because of my Guardian Angel.

Ghost stories: When my Mother died my brother and I were just beside ourselves wondering how we were going to get through the burial. I was standing at the grave and I felt this "touch" on my shoulders that I can't describe and I immediately felt that "peace that passes understanding" Later my brother called me his den to talk in private and said he wanted to tell me something. Well the same thing had happened to him, he described it exactly as I had felt it. I know it was our Mother. I would love to have that feeling again but I know it is not of this world.

My uncle was in charge of a division on an Island during World War II. He didn't tell me this story until I was in my 20's. But during the night he was awakened by a touch and saw my mother's dead husband who was his best friend standing there. He had just died of pneumonia right before penicillan was discovered. Turns out they were surrounded by enemy forces ready to attack while they were sleeping. My uncle was a rough tough guy and kept this to himself for a long time.

After we graduated I went out with a boy I went to high school with. His father had died when he was 14. One night he felt he could tell me this and I would understand. He said that his father would come to sit on his bed some nights.

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MoJoV — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 02:03:34 GMT

Here is my true ghost story: When my daughter was about 8 we had a cat named Rocky. A little grey striped cat with a stubby tail. Well, one night he didn't come home. After awhile we knew he wasn't coming back. My daughter would tell me she could see Rocky sitting behind her when she looked in the full length mirror in her bedroom. I told her she only imagined him there, we all missed him. She and that cat were crazy about each other.

One day I watched my daughter walk into the bathroom and right behind her walked Rocky...he was kind of misty looking but he WAS there. This is something I will never ever forget. I know what I saw. It wasn't scary just inspiring.

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Xivambala — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 04:24:38 GMT

I have had many experiences, all with family members who have passed. A recent one was a sighting of the former owner of my condo; at least I believe it was him. While I usually sleep on my back, this night I was sleeping with my back towards my bedroom door. Something made me wake up. When I turned over I saw a tall Caucasian man standing in the door. He said "hmmpft", turned, and left. After a second or two, I went back to sleep. It never occurred to me to get up to investigate at the time.

When I purchased the condo in late 2018, this man did not attend the closing due to ill health. When searching on the internet for a picture of him, I could only find that he was at least 90 years old. I asked a maintenace man here who knew of him if he could remember what he looked like, but he could not.

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Jacie — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 19:16:18 GMT

A little long but here goes.

My Mom passed in her home in 2019. A day later I was in her house starting to make arrangements, heard a knock at the door, went and opened it and no one was there. Went to the back door thinking they might have gone to try there. No one.

The following day, my best friend was there with me, I was on the phone, she motioned to me that someone was at the door. Phone in hand I opened the door and, you guessed it, no one! I then told her what had happened the day before. We got a shiver. So happy my friend had heard the knocking too!

An hour or so later I realized Mom's antique pendulum school clock in her kitchen that we always called "the heart of the house" had stopped. It was an old school clock that had a date hand in addition to the time hands. My friend was still with me as I climbed up to try to re-wind the clock. No matter how many times I moved the hands that date hand wouldn't move. It was stuck on the date 2 days prior, the day she died. I had to use force to get that hand to move on the dial. My friend and I were a little shook. I said "Hi Mom, glad you are here with us!" Nothing odd happened after that. There was an estate sale and the house was sold. I assume she moved on.

I knew it was her and I miss her everyday.

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LindaSal — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 14:34:58 GMT

Wow, some of these stories gave me goosebumps!!

I am a true believer in ghosts and have had a few unexplainable events in my life.

I'll just give one example. In my previous home I would wake in the night and see my grandmother standing at the end of the bed. It was never scary, it was just her , standing there smiling. This happened quite often. Several years ago I went with a bunch of girls from my office to listen to a spiritual speaker. I sat very quiet and listened as the stories were quite intrigueing as are these. I didn't want to participate, just observe. The woman came over to our table and said to me, "your grandmother visits you doesn't she?" I almost fell off my chair........

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Spurt — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 17:23:46 GMT

The EMILY MORGAN HOTEL---San Antonio

The hotel is considered the third most haunted hotel in the world due to the number of mysterious reports people have given.

Mysterious Occurrences

The staff and guests of the hotel have shared their stories about weird occurrences at the hotel. These moments of weirdness have led some to conclude the hotel is haunted. For example, the phone will ring in the middle of the night and when picked up, there is no one on the other end of the line. A room attendant will clean a room and after emerging from the bathroom, will find the pillows from the bed were tossed to the ground.

A sales manager spending the night returned to her room after dinner to find the bathtub had been filled with blue water.

The staff has made several reports of seeing doors close for no reason and feeling a presence on certain floors with no one else around.

At one time this was a Medical Arts Building, with a morgue in the basement. Guests have heard what they describe as hospital carts outside their door, and the 14th floor has a distinct smell of antiseptic or a bandaid odor.

The elevators will stop at various floors for no clear reason. Video cameras have captured "orbs", a term used by paranormal investigators to describe bright floating lights, around the hotel.

Some guests have reported seeing a woman in white walking the halls and others have reported shadows moving along walls where no shadow should be.

Emily Morgan hotel follows the traditional superstition of a lot of other hotels and does not have a 13th floor. What many people do not know about the hotel is on the 14th floor, there isn't a room 1408. The room numbers stop at 1407, by design, and the next room is the Duke Suite. When you add the numbers 1408 together (1+4+0+8), you get the number 13.

EMILY MORGAN

Gargoyles at the tower of the Emily Morgan Hotel..........