Ghosts - What are your experiences?

We were raised on ghost stories, I used to love them and I have some vague memories of odd incidents when I was growing up. For some reason I can't remember a single story now, maybe spending years studying science has just wiped it all out.

I'm not sure if I believe much of it any more but I'll share my experience anyway. I lived in a particular house for almost my entire 20s, most of that time there was nobody else living with me. I would regularly wake up in the dead of night to find someone standing over me at the head of the bed. I couldn't move a muscle, I couldn't even shout. I could just see them out of the corner of my eye, maybe more sense them than actually see them. I've never been so scared in my life, it felt like it was just pure evil standing beside me and that it definitely wanted to do me harm.

I put it down to sleep paralysis now, I moved out of that house 7 years ago and it might have happened a dozen times in that time. While I was in the house it would happen a dozen times a year. Maybe I'm used to it now or maybe it's that I know more about it but it doesn't seems as bad as it was then. That feeling of pure hatred doesn't seem to be there anymore.

I'm happy now that I know it's sleep paralysis but I had never heard of that at the time. It doesn't really count as a paranormal experience but I suppose I'm just saying I know and have felt the fear, even terror that some people experience in what they believe to be paranormal experiences.

When my niece was a baby, 21 yrs ago, my sister and I woke up in the middle if the night to give her a feed. We lived over an old pub. We heard footsteps downstairs and went for the old man. Dad went down with his gun and my sister, mother and I sat listening to someone walk around below. No one was found, all windows and doors locked.
This was my only time hearing this but my sisters and patents often heard footsteps in the pub. My niece used to hear voices while playing alone too.

Hello again everyone,

I recently met a friend of mine for a coffee. She told me something very strange that happened her about two years ago. She said she was at home and in her bed and fell asleep. In the middle of the night she woke to a young man's silhouette on her bed. He was smiling and had his chin in the palm of his hand and was looking directly at her. She got such a fright she banged her head against the headboard of her bed.

When she realized he was still there and it was not a dream that frightened her even more but as soon as she realized this he began to fade away gently.


She is involved in a musical society and helps backstage with props and lights. Within that same week she was off down to Waterford to help on a show with some of the cast and helpers. On the way down the bus was full of chat and laughter and my friend was near the window seat. She said her breath was taken away as she got a quick look at a poster on a telegraph pole with a missing person picture. She swears it was the same young man in the picture but he was a little older. She said she knew it was him by his eyes- she only got a quick glance but swears it was him.

She told me she prayed for him as if you see someone it means they need prayers and she thinks he was smiling when she saw him first as he was at his happiest then? She said she felt that. I asked her did she see a name but she said it was so quick she did not see the number on the poster or the name but she saw his eyes and that is how she knew him.

Hope everyone is keeping well.

Take care everyone.

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probably the plumbing, in this cold weather things creak alot due to the temperature change

was the heating on? or had it been on? investigated a case a few years back with that very same claim - ended up the wooden floor had expanded in one particular room when the heating was on, and then an hour or so after the heating went off, from downstairs you could hear what really sounded like footsteps from the upstairs room. It was the heating though, cause the boards to expand and the sound was them contracting.

goat2 wrote: »

i was hoping that, but it was not plumbing,
it was in one room only, i have had nothing since then, a once off
it was clearly foot steps

At approx 11.30 last night (Sunday 14 December, 2014) I was on my way into town to collect my son. I had left my house, passed by my neighbours and was approaching a corner in the road that swung to the left. About 100/150 yards from the corner I saw a bright light about 10 feet above the ground (very approximate) that initially was like a car headlight or large flashlight, but which then zipped across the road in a linear shape. It seem to be moving as it went, so much so I initially thought it was maybe the car headlights catching off a bird, or a piece of plastic in the air.

Then as I continued driving, I realised that there was an identical light coming across from the other side of the road - I didnt see its formation as the bend was in the way, but I saw it meet the other light in the middle of the road, and then as one, the combined light shot off to the left. The duration of seeing the lights was maybe 3 or 4 seconds.

Within maybe another 10 secs, I had reached the area and I drove passed very, very slowly, trying to find a bird in the hedge, a piece of plastic or (as I suspected once I had seen the other light) some form of rope or cabling running across the road. There was nothing.

I collected my son, told him of the experience and then repeated the journey. I had a suspicion that my lights may have reflected off the back of a triangular road side which was also on the right side of the road, and in the same area as the initial light was. Driving back up the road, I realised my lights didnt even reach that far. if I had seen the grey back of the roadworks sign, it had to have been illuminated by the light I had seen forming on the righthand side. I have no idea what it was.

mickmackey1 wrote: »

Guys, if ye posted this on the astronomy forum they would all shout the same answer - chinese lanterns.

afaik chinese lanterns dont vanish after about 4 secs especially if they are only about 10 foot off the ground, over a road. skepticism is good, but chinese lanterns would just be a silly suggestion.

I’m not sure what to make of this experience, but I thought I’d post it here anyway to see what people thought. Over the course of the last month or so, on at least four occasions, I’ve woken up in the middle of the night to find my bedroom light on. The room itself has two light switches: one next to the door, and one above the bed. I live with two other people, but I always lock my bedroom door at night, thus ruling out the possibility of someone coming into the room in the early hours and turning on the light as some sort of prank. I sleep with the lights off and always have done, meaning when I fall asleep the room is dark (save for the weak amber glow of a distant street light). Yet despite this, I’ve woken up four times in recent weeks to find that the light is on. Now, I’m perfectly willing to accept the possibility that I’m doing this myself, i.e. reaching up to the switch above the bed and turning on the light whilst I’m still asleep. The troubling thing is, I never have any recollection of doing this upon waking up. So how can I wake up to find the light switched on, yet not wake up whilst in the act of switching it on? I don’t have a history of sleepwalking or anything of that nature, which is why I’m beginning to entertain the notion that a supernatural agent may be responsible. That said, the house in which I live has absolutely NO history of paranormal activity whatsoever, and I have personally never experienced anything out of the ordinary before.
So what do people think? Has anyone ever had a similar experience?

maccored wrote: »

keep a camera, a laptop or your phone video running when you go to sleep.

Was just about to write it!

Simple thing to do!

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

You'd want a camera with huge memory.

many cameras use memory sticks up to 64gbs - thats plenty. if you use a laptop with a built in camera or attach a normal camera to a laptop you'd also have plenty of memory

Thanks for all the replies, guys. I do have a video camera so I'll give that a go.

Here's one of mine,I posted it up a couple of years ago but ill throw it up again,if only to keep this great thread going
After reading the huge(but brilliant) haunted
cork thread from start to finish,i came to
wonder that there must be as many,if not more
experiences people had in Dublin,ill start off
with something odd that happened me.a few
years back i was working as a floor sander/
French polisher,and one particular morning in
2001,my boss dropped me at a house in an
estate off blackhorse avenue to start a job.all
was going as normal,i had finished sanding the
two bedrooms and had started Hoovering up the
dust so i could lay the first coat.the Hoover was
plugged into a socket in the corner behind
me.all of a sudden the Hoover stopped so i looked around and it was plugged out of the wall.so,thinking i had pulled it from the wall myself i pulled some slack out,plugged it back in
and got back to work,and then bang.it was out of the socket again,and no way had i pulled it out this time,as the slack wire was still coiled on the floor.
There was nobody in the house and i
had locked myself in from the inside so i was feeling pretty freaked out now. I plugged it back in and Hoovered the rest up without incident.
I decided it was lunchtime,locked the place up then fecked off for a bite to eat.
When I returned,40 mins later thereabouts,I opened the front door and i was greeted by the sound of the
HOOVER upstairs! i almost sh#t myself.i darted up the stairs in about 3 bounds and there it was,plugged in again.i unplugged it,grabbed it,and i ran outside as quick as i could and locked the
door behind me.my tools were still
inside.
I sat on the low end of a skip and lit a
cigarette and rang my boss and to say he was furious was an understatement.my boss was a big slab of a fella who didn't suffer fools gladly.
As i was pleading my case with him i glanced up at the upstairs window and
froze.there were two figures staring down at me,one of an adult and one of a child,i couldn't tell the sex of either.My boss was still shouting down the phone at me but i was speechless and he hung up the phone,i didn't tell him about
the two figures.
He was on the scene in about 15
minutes, and i genuinely thought he was going to smack me one.Another argument ensued,at one stage he even asked was i on drugs!
nonetheless i wouldn't go back in for love nor money,so it was agreed
he would finish my job, and he drove me to the one he had been on
He picked me up the next
morning as normal,and i asked him did anything happen him in the house,and he grunted no.So,not wanting to incur his wrath again,I wisely left it at that.
Cue three months later,when we were having our Christmas drink,one of the lads was slaggin me over it and my boss,who had a few on him froze.
It transpired that,after he finished up that day he secured the house,and was loading up our gear when he glanced back,and saw a woman and a child looking out the window of the locked,empty house at him,and when he went to collect the
outstanding balance a couple of weeks later,there they were again.makes my hairs stand on end everytime i pass that estate,which is almost daily
unfortunately.sorry about the long post.
Harry.

Now,that was my original post from a few years back,what I didn't mention back then,for fear of being labeled a bullsh1tter was the time and date that this happened me.It was around 1pm,September 11th,2001.I don't know whether that was significant,or purely coincidental,but it was really fkin strange to say the least! And still sticks in my mind,clear as day13 years later.