Oooh this is such a good thread. I just read the whole thing through. I've gone from having chills to laughing to crying. I, myself, have never experienced ghosts. I believe in them but I choose to close myself off from them. I'm too much of a chicken to handle that stuff. And I've lived alone for 3 years now and quite frankly would pass out if I encountered one.
BUT... when I was in college my girlfriend and I lived in apartments across the hall from each other. The apartment building was pretty old and hadn't always been college housing. One night around 3am I hear a BANGING on my door. I was totally freaked out, but hopped out of bed and saw her through the peep hole. I opened the door and her eyes were lined with red, she was the palest I've ever seen her and she was shaking. I swear she looked posessed! Turns out, she had been laying in bed and for some reason she woke up. Moments later she heard her toilet flush, the water turn on and off and the bathroom door (which was shut tight) FLUNG OPEN. So she laid there for a minute trying to calm down and heard a kitchen chair scrape across the floor like somone was pulling it out to sit down in it. That was enough for her. She flew out of that apartment.
And it wasn't the first time either.. we had twin beds in college and she said one time she woke up randomly (she's a very sound sleeper) and found herself squished to one side of her bed as if she were laying there WITH someone else and that there was the shape of it too. She also said that whenever the "g-man", as we affectionately called him, was present you would know because it felt kind of like a bubble was popping on your skin.
My mom and her sisters are all very much in-touch with these sorts of things. They have stories that would keep you awake at night for days! I'm really glad that I have no parts in any of that! Now, I just have to promise myself I won't check this thread any more today or I won't be able to sleep tonight!!! |