Do You Have Any Scary Ghost Stories You Would Like To Share?

With Halloween just around the corner I was wondering do any of you have any ghost stories you would like to share or maybe some of you have seen a ghost or experienced some sort of paranormal activity. When I was young my parents and old neighbours would have us shaking in our boots especially around Halloween with some of the ghost stories they told. So let's get In to the Halloween spirit no pun intended and make them as scary as possibly. To get things going here is one my late dad told me and my brothers and sisters. When he was in his late teens he had arranged to meet a girl he had met at a local dance one night. Before he went out his dad said to him what ever you do be home before midnight. Of course he agreed but as you all know when you are with a girl you can loose track of time fairly easily. Anyway to make as long story short been the perfect gentleman he said he would walk his girlfriend home. She lived about two miles outside the town and the lighting was non existent once you went outside the town. After dropping his girlfriend home he was walking a long the country road when he heard a noise coming from the bushes. He walked a couple of more yards and said he felt something or someone was following him. He turned around and saw a black dog just staring at him . He kept on walking for about a mile and again turned around and there was the black dog staring at him again. At this stage he said he was very scared and couln'd wait to get home. On the rest of the journey home he said every couple of seconds he would look back and the black dog would be there and then he would vanish in to thin air. Eventually he got home but when he was just about to turn the key in the front door he got an errie feeling and just as he was about to close the door there was the black dog standing outside the gate staring at him again. The next morning he told his dad what had happened and all he said was now you know why I told you to be home before midnight. We asked our dad if he knew what the black dog meant and he said it was the sign of death and a couple of weeks later his brother passed away. Before that happened my dad never believed in ghosts but it really got him thinking was there really ghosts or something else out there that could not be explained.