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[GingerHead]

   Also, I seriously don't know what to believe...I don't really believe in ghosts, per say, but I guess I also don't NOT believe in them.

Like I said before, I'm open to them and welcome sweet ones to visit me. haha

I do believe when people say they've been visited by them, whether they truly were or just believe they were I don't know.

So, in other words, I know I don't know enough to know....and that's true of many things

[Mersha]

@GingerHead   They have ghost tours in Gettysburg, especially around Halloween.

Sign up for one and maybe you will encounter a ghost.

[Enufstuff]

  I enjoyed reading about everyone's experiences. I have never seen anything supernatural, but have had a couple of experiences.

  In 1990, one morning a small music box started playing and woke me up at 7:30 a.m. It was a music box that I had not wound up to play or touched in more than a year.

  Several years before that, I purchased that music box and a matching one that I gave to my mother as a gift. My brother called me around 8:00 a.m., after I heard that music box play.

He told me that our mother had passed away at 7:30 a.m. I think that her spirit came to me that morning, and started the music box.

  Then, five years ago, my ex-husband passed away. On the night that he died, my adult son and I both got phone calls, with no one there, just static. On my next birthday, I got the same call, no one there.

  Also, since he passed away, several times my bedroom lamp

has turned off or on by itself.

[Haoo]

..and I may add that the sagging also triggers the fire alarm in the entire house.

[Critter Friend]

I haven’t seen any ghosts but would welcome nice ghosts to visit me. A few years back I bought a house that was very close to the Trail of Tears. I did a little research and found that making an offering to the land was a custom of native Americans. So after I closed on my home but before I moved in I placed a basket of fruit and veggies out in an open space and said a little prayer.

Seemed to work. The 3 large trees that fell while I was there always missed the house by mere inches.

Another thing that happens is I believe I get touched by spirits. It feels just like someone is rubbing your arm but when I look down there is no one there. Plus I live alone. Happens to my check too.

[Harpa]

We just visited Gettysburg. I never sensed any dark anything. But I've been in historic places where I did sense something undefinable.

[DrakesMomma]

I had a big beautiful cat named Thursday.  He was a mix of Siamese and Blue Russian.  He was just a big cat.  At three months old the vet said he was already as big as most adult cats ever get.  He was 22 pounds of love.  After he died I would hear him walk across the kitchen floor.  I still do. 

About a day after my nephew died I heard him say "love you, Aunt Jenny" just as if he were sitting next to me. 

I smell my Daddy often.  He smelled of Old Spice and salt because he worked in a salt mine.  Always before I smell him I smell oranges.    

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Ok not opening this thread anymore

[Burnsite]

I may have posted this here before; it's a story a work colleague friend told me. 

She was visiting a relative on Long Island and the guest bed was in the finished basement.  She saw a box of photos and and started leafing through them, and felt a hand on her shoulder.  She looked up but no one was there.  Next morning, the family told her that that was their ghost.

The night my mother died, my youngest brother and sister both dreamed about mother and felt compelled to drive to her house.  She had told them that she needed them. That same evening, I was in the hospital getting tested for a heart arrhythmia, which is what she died of.  That's not a haunting, as we see it--it's a consequence of a deep bond that speaks to those we love. 

[Stray]

I’ve had experiences I can’t explain & would welcome a ghost if he/she were friendly.

I was in my 20s & living in NY but went to my father’s house for the weekend. My sister & two kids were living there as well. We ( my niece & I ) heard someone walk up the stairs, open the bedroom door & look in at us. We heard the steps stop at my nephews bedroom, then at my sisters. My father’s bedroom was downstairs. Then, we heard the entity or person go down the steps, walk across the living room downstairs & we heard the front door open and close.

I was bunking with my niece in her room & we were awake & wondered why my father was checking up on us. We could see the person was a man but it was dark & could not see his face & the hall light was behind him. Next morning, we asked my father what was up & he looked at us strangely & said he was sleeping or watching TV & didn’t go upstairs at all. My nephew also so the person & my sister was sleeping.

We weren’t frightened by this presence & didn’t feel threatened & I guess because we thought it was my father.

We still talk about this today. Nothing was taken or moved & the doors were locked next morning. ????

When we visited Auschwitz, I had to leave the tour. A strange feeling overcame me, a smell was very distinctive & foul accompanied the ill feeling. We had headsets on listening to our guide & I heard weeping. I turned to my husband & asked if he could hear over the weeping. He said “what weeping”. I asked fellow travelers later & no one heard it. I don’t know if it was a supernatural event or I was just overwhelmed at the horror of what took place there.