Do you believe in ghosts?

[Anonymous]

My twin died at childbirth. I used to pretend he was my imaginary friend growing up. Sometimes I was not sure whether it was make believe or not. I lost the ability to imagine, or is it see him, when I left for college. I miss him deeply.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is giving me the creeps. Thanks DCUM I won't be able to sleep tonight.
I worked at an old, old hospital in new england and we definitely had ghosts, especially ones from recently deceased patients....

Gettysburg. Just walk around. You'll feel a presence of something otherwordly.

[Anonymous]

Yes.

[Anonymous]

My dad, who's very rational and generally a skeptic, told me that when I was very young, I told him there was a man in the other room. He ran to check it out and saw his dad. I don't remember it at all, but my dad is not the type to make this stuff up.

That said, maybe he was projecting his own thoughts and fears onto me. I feel comfortable saying no, I don't believe in any of this.

[Anonymous]

Ford's Theater. I've seen strange things in and around there.

[Anonymous]

I can absolutely guarantee you that Sully plantation House and grounds are haunted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go to Woodlawn Plantation on Route one in Alex., va. You'll believe then and you will understand what "feeling their presence" means.

Ditto. When I went on a school field trip, I was in one room near the kitchen and was overwhelmed with sorrow. It was oppressive. A few moments later, the woman giving the tour pointed out the same room and said that the room was used for childbirth and babies had died there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:anyone have a conversation with their ghost?

When my daughter was four she used to talk to "Sally" in her room. We didn't think anything of it, even though if you asked who Sally was, her reply was "the ghost that lives in my room." Then one day out of the blue she came and said, "Mom, did you know that you can die of Pneumonia?" I said yes and then asked where she heard that. She told me, very matter of factly, that was how Sally died and that she had died when she was five.

I just sat there stunned, staring at my husband. Really, what do you say to that?

[Anonymous]

I woke up last night convinced there were two people at the foot of my bed. I sat up straight and they looked at me, looked at each other and vanished.
My DH was still watching tv downstairs (around midnight) and he asked who i was talking to. I don't remember any conversations, just that I woke up, saw these images and quickly went downstairs. I sat frozen for awhile til he agreed to come up and go to bed.
I am considered a very even keeled, rational person to my friends and colleagues. But this seemed very real to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I woke up last night convinced there were two people at the foot of my bed. I sat up straight and they looked at me, looked at each other and vanished.
My DH was still watching tv downstairs (around midnight) and he asked who i was talking to. I don't remember any conversations, just that I woke up, saw these images and quickly went downstairs. I sat frozen for awhile til he agreed to come up and go to bed.
I am considered a very even keeled, rational person to my friends and colleagues. But this seemed very real to me.

Do you live in Georgetown?

[Anonymous]

Whatever you do, do not call ghostbusters

Call an African witch doctor. He will talk to the ghost softly and convince him to go to another place.

The Conjuring movie experts did their best to antagonize and start a war with them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know about ghosts, but I definitely felt...something...in two places. The first was the Dachau Concentration camp, and the second was an empty field on the outskirts of Berlin that was used by German firing squads. The former just felt so unbearably sad, but the latter was perhaps the more terrifying. It felt evil. No birds or wildlife in either place.

I camped near the Gettysburg battlefield when I was in high school. I felt something similar at night - the whole place had an almost unbearable sadness that just hung in the air. Like the pain and sorrow experienced there was part of the Earth.

[Anonymous]

Jezebel's site has a lot of creepy stories from people: http://jezebel.com/tell-us-your-spookiest-scary-stories-1450881134

[Anonymous]

Go to Woodlawn Plantation and you will never doubt their existence. Also, the Octagon in NW DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jezebel's site has a lot of creepy stories from people: http://jezebel.com/tell-us-your-spookiest-scary-stories-1450881134

Jezebel commenters are nuts tho