Have You Ever Seen A Ghost?

[Biggbass]

About 30 years ago I almost drowned in a raging river. As I'd reached my last ability to call for help, knowing my next breath would fill my lungs with water,
I saw an old man on the shore, fishing. In what seemed to be slow motion, he put a weighted practice bob on his line and cast it to me. Frantically, I grabbed the line. Then I looked at his face and saw the face of my grandfather, who had passed away 10 years earlier. The old man pulled me in from the swirling water just far enough for me to find footing in the sandy bottom and I crawled out of the river on my hands and knees. When I looked up to thank him for saving my life there was no one there.

Ghost? Apparition? Divine Intervention?
I can't say,
but it is a True Story.

 

[Electric Al]

I don't stand a ghost of a chance of seeing a ghost !!!!!

 

[Electric Al]

 

[DigMe]

I thought I did but then I just realized I was watching a Steve Buscemi movie.

 

[bholder]

I thought I did but then I just realized I was watching a Steve Buscemi movie.

How did he die in this one? My fave is the Fargo woodchipper.

 

[DigMe]

How did he die in this one? My fave is the Fargo woodchipper.

I don't know but he pretty much always looks like a ghost.

 

[Nightman]

Once, I was laying in my bed not been able to sleep, I was probably 16-18 years old. My bed was right in front of the closet. For a moment I looked at the closet which was open and I saw a shadow with human shape, probably 3 ft tall. When I saw it, it was on its way in to the closet and it must have felt me because it turned around a looked at me, it's eyes were red. Then it turned to the closet and in it went. I swear that this I saw. Don't know what it was, I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything, I'm not even a religious person, just telling what I saw. I did go and turned the light on and checked inside the closet and of course there was nothing in there, not easy to go back to sleep that night I tell you that.

I understand your position on this! In 1959 I, too, saw an apparition of a female child when I was young, and I know what I saw and can remember that to this day.

My story: I was 9 and had gotten up from bed to go pee (my stepdad loved tea for supper and we would drink my share - not something young boys should drink that late). We lived in what's call a shotgun house, where you can stand outside the front door and see through the house into the kitchen and out of the back door. It had only 4 rooms, kitchen, two bedrooms, a living room and one bath, with the center hallway from the front door leading into the kitchen, separating the living room and two bedrooms. The bath had two doors, one from the kitchen and the other from the larger front bedroom. My back bedroom, the other bedroom, was on the opposite side of the kitchen from the bathroom and down the hall from the other larger front bedroom, my Parents bedroom.

The house was asleep when I opened the door to proceed through the kitchen and into the bathroom to pee when there hovering (feet not on the ground!) in the bathroom was this long blond haired girl (maybe about 12 yrs old) looking back at me! I stood there not feeling any fear for a moment wondering what she was doing in the house at that time. We looked at each other briefly, she turned toward the other door leading into my parents bedroom and 'floated' out of my view! I ran into the bathroom, turned to follow her into the other bedroom, but that door was closed. I opened it and stared into a dark room and could hear my stepdad snoring. There was no movement in that room.

I mentioned it to my parents and other siblings the next day, but they knew nothing of this nor saw/heard anything. Now, the little girl had long bond hair, being she was white, and we were a black family living in a black neighborhood.

I know what I saw!!

 

[rtslinger]

I have zero issue with non believers, if you never had it happen to you than you can pass it off as hear say
But when you have it happen to you and you know who you are, Are they ghost or other dimensional things something stamped a moment
it time? I can't say, but I have witness things first hand in my own home and it took a very rational thinking non believer and push him to a point he moved out of my home. He was family and he would have rather moved out and pay rent then stay for free with us. This happen a few years ago
I was in my music room and I heard what sound like a moan, I had my cellphone so I put on the voice recorded and start asking questions, I was also trying to locate the source maybe a toy or something, I towards the end of the record as for whatever it was to do it again and it doesn't have to be as loud as I say as loud you can clear hear something giggle at the same time, I did not hear it when it happen only during playing back. I freaked out a lot of people when I let them hear it. This year when my wife's mom past away the family did the re-past in our back yard my security cameras caught a candle on the enclosed front porch being flipped off of a stand it was on. I will hunt it and post it.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/zzgV8s43NUm5LC74A

https://photos.app.goo.gl/D8XuwpuBdP3ULYKX9

Me trying to figure out how this happen
https://photos.app.goo.gl/BY2uNSDs7a5o1qa6A

 

[rtslinger]

one more this was the night my dear friend and bandmate took his own life
this is my front porch it is 2:30 in the morning first it comes from the front door area and flied through the closed windows
than just before I open the door it again flies through closed windows and shrinks as it enters the wall, as I come in it comes out of the wall and again leaves though the glass. I can tell you what it is I just know my security cams caught the movement and recorded it. and it was on the alert email. I haven't personal come across any bugs or insects that can fly through glass or enter a brick wall. I found out the next day Cliff had died
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ysnLKd3HZwSt2zeeA

 

[SoonerBill]

Twice. At a Mexican restaurant I worked at in high school a girl died in a car wreck. There was one room she always worked in when it was open on weekends. It was a small, separated room. After she died the chairs were always straight. You only had to replace the ice you used. What was in the bin never melted. And the biggie, she always got in trouble for leaning back in chairs. A couple of us were drawn to look in the room after closing one night. There was a chair leaning back on it’s own. It stayed until we almost touched it before it went back down.
The other was in Key West. We went every year for a few years and always stayed in the same B&B. One of the original mansions that had been converted. Our second floor room had a small balcony with French doors. We went to the room one afternoon to shower and chill for a while before going out for the evening. I was sitting on the bed and looked at the balcony. There was a very tall man on the balcony dressed in 17 or 1800s sailor garb. I wasn’t five feet away. If I could draw I could do a perfect portrait of him. I rushed to the door and when I opened it, he was gone. There was no easy way on or off of the balcony from the outside.

 

[hbarcat]

I've was diagnosed with narcolepsy in my 30's and I used to experience all sorts of full auditory and visual hallucinations when falling in and out of sleep.

Some were completely nonsensical, but I usually had a very difficult time separating these hallucinations from reality for as long as several hours after being fully awake.

Over the years, I've seen more weird and terrifying stuff than most people can imagine. But none of it was real and it all came from hyper realistic dreams.

Ghosts are rare. I almost never see those. But zombies are common. So are talking animals, plants, and other objects. I see Cthulu type monsters from other dimensions quite a lot. Those are the worst because they typically bring the armageddon with them. I once spent most of an afternoon trying to convince my family that the world was about to be destroyed, the fabric of the universe had been torn apart, and everything in existence was ending.

I once heard the rug on the floor talking to me when I woke up from a nap. The rest of the day, I was terrified of the carpet in the house.


EDIT: I've taken measures to treat the narcolepsy and have been almost entirely free of these hallucinations for almost 10 years now.

 

[Stinsok]

I had a layover in Rome, Georgia. I spent the night in a Days Inn (fairly modern building.) During the night something hit the bed with a huge amount of force. It was not one of those falling dreams! I jumped up, turned on all the lights and found nothing. I was so freaked that I immediately packed my stuff and left.

 

[Tom Bomb]

Have You Ever Seen A Ghost? I confess I haven't personally.

I haven't even seen one impersonally, in over half a century of trudging about. They must be pretty thin on the ground, those ghosts, my guess.

Ghost stories — great way to scare the kiddies, if that's your thing.
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[Tom Bomb]

"BOO!"
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[Lesfunk]

Never seen a ghost (apparition… orbs and lights,yes ), but I touched one once, and know two people who saw him in the same house, in the same room at different dates and times
I also had an experience in college with a ouija board that made me never go near one again.

 

[fhm555]

I can't say for sure I've ever seen a ghost, but I've seen some strange things in our house.

I was working upstairs and when it came time to take a lunch break I went to the head to wash up. As part of my morning chores I'd tidied up that bathroom including tossing a wafer of soap and replacing it with a new bar in the soap dish. When I went in to wash my hands a few hours later, the sink was a mess of splashed water and dirty soap suds, and the new bar of soap was laying in the bowl and had clearly been used to create the dirty suds left on the counter and sink bowl. I'm still as much at a loss today about it as I was the day it happened.

 

[Bassman316]

Not necessarily seeing a ghost, but I did have a weird hallucination while waking up to sleep paralysis one afternoon years ago.

This was about twenty years ago so I was around 17, 18 years old. I was home by myself since the family went out of town for the weekend and I had to work. I laid down for a quick nap one afternoon, and as I was waking up I realized I couldn't move. I could hear the old clock in the living room not far from my bedroom ticking away and even chiming that it was 4:00, so I told myself I'm definitely not sleeping. I tried and tried to move or to say something but nothing. After what seemed like forever of laying there paralyzed I saw my dad come into the room. Now remember that they're all 400 miles away on a long weekend so I was really freaked at this point. He slowly comes over to me, leans over and says "Brian, it's time to go". Then an instant later he's gone and I can move.

After sitting in my bed for a minute calming myself and trying to figure out what the heck just happened, I went out the clock in the living room and sure enough it says a couple of minutes past 4:00, so I was definitely awake and envisioned my dad coming into the room telling me "it's time to go". Haven't experienced sleep paralysis since.

 

[Gorn]

What's the most useless room in a ghost's house?

The living room.

 

[LBS-bass]

I see a zombie every time this thread comes back up. But I've never seen a ghost. When I was little we lived in a house that was supposedly haunted; it was a new house but has been built on the grounds of an old sanitarium. My mom thought that house was haunted because weird things happened there, but I was too young to remember anything like that.

 

[Tom Bomb]

It's a Zombie Acropolis (It's all Greek to me). Kalimera!

I see a zombie every time this thread comes back up. …