My house may be haunted

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP I have to ask- is this house in Arlington?

I am not the OP, but the one who saw the glowing ball fly from the window into the closet...and that apartment was in Arlington.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it is kind of depressing. When I die, I hope I am surrounded by the ones I love, perhaps at the seat of God. Certainly someplace etherial. I don't want to be hiding out in some closet rattling empty hangers.

LMAO...what an image!!

[Anonymous]

I'm seriously freaked out now! We've lived in an apartment for years and plan to buy a house this winter--now I'm going to worry about ghosts on top of everything else!

[Anonymous]

My DH has forbidden me from telling him any more of the stories from this site. The one that freaks him out the most is the one where the son asked why the old lady kept appearing in his room. Shudder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DH has forbidden me from telling him any more of the stories from this site. The one that freaks him out the most is the one where the son asked why the old lady kept appearing in his room. Shudder.

I posted a question a few months ago about whether people who believed in God also believed in demonic spirits. I asked because I had heard a conservative radio talk-show guest say that her then-5 year old daughter was constantly saying she couldn't sleep because there was a black sheep with red eyes was in her room. The guest chalked it up to a 5 year old's imagination. One night the little girl came out of her room and said the black sheep was sitting on her dresser, talking to her. The mom asked her daughter what it was saying, and the little girl said it was telling her to kill her parents. I COULD NOT stop thinking about that story!! Sunlight, singing birds, NPR -- nothing could blunt my fear!

The talk-show guest also said that she had witnessed a demonic presence when she was a teenager, and that the signs to look for were lights bouncing around doorways and windows and animals acting weird. (In her case, the dog was also barking hysterically at the windows. Shudder....)

[Anonymous]

I never believed in ghosts -- sort of agnostic about it, like: there's no evidence, I'm personally skeptical, but who knows. But then my brother (totally normal guy, with whom I'm very close) told me that my mom had very hesitantly confided in him that she's seen two different people after they've died, which I guess would be in "ghost" form. And my mom is the most skeptical, no-nonsense, with-it, eye-rolling, cut-the-crap woman ever. She has never mentioned ANYTHING about this to me, and my brother said it only came up after a long conversation about something related (spirituality or something), and she seemed really torn about mentioning it, like he was going to think she was crazy. And she asked him not to repeat it, for that reason.

Of course, we tell each other everything, especially about our parents, and this unnerved him a bit, so he did tell me! And it really floored me. My mom absolutely would not make something like this up. I fully believe she saw it, or at least that SHE believes she saw it. I don't quite know how to interpret it beyond that.

And if you want the spooky details, one was a murdered coworker she saw show up in her workplace, and one was her own parents showing up at their gravesite.

It freaks me out to think about it, actually, because I sort of pooh-pooh these things, like, oh, people have overactive imaginations or there must be some other explanation. But I KNOW my mom, and her imagination is not overactive... at all... And I can't think of how to explain visual sightings of dead people. Hallucinations, I guess? Except she's in perfect health and has never hallucinated anything else? I just don't know... It's changed how I think about ghost stuff, though. I'm still "agnostic," I guess, but now I personally know one person who I truly believe is not lying or exaggerating about this kind of thing...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I never believed in ghosts -- sort of agnostic about it, like: there's no evidence, I'm personally skeptical, but who knows. But then my brother (totally normal guy, with whom I'm very close) told me that my mom had very hesitantly confided in him that she's seen two different people after they've died, which I guess would be in "ghost" form. And my mom is the most skeptical, no-nonsense, with-it, eye-rolling, cut-the-crap woman ever. She has never mentioned ANYTHING about this to me, and my brother said it only came up after a long conversation about something related (spirituality or something), and she seemed really torn about mentioning it, like he was going to think she was crazy. And she asked him not to repeat it, for that reason.

Of course, we tell each other everything, especially about our parents, and this unnerved him a bit, so he did tell me! And it really floored me. My mom absolutely would not make something like this up. I fully believe she saw it, or at least that SHE believes she saw it. I don't quite know how to interpret it beyond that.

And if you want the spooky details, one was a murdered coworker she saw show up in her workplace, and one was her own parents showing up at their gravesite.

It freaks me out to think about it, actually, because I sort of pooh-pooh these things, like, oh, people have overactive imaginations or there must be some other explanation. But I KNOW my mom, and her imagination is not overactive... at all... And I can't think of how to explain visual sightings of dead people. Hallucinations, I guess? Except she's in perfect health and has never hallucinated anything else? I just don't know... It's changed how I think about ghost stuff, though. I'm still "agnostic," I guess, but now I personally know one person who I truly believe is not lying or exaggerating about this kind of thing...

If the ghost is someone you actually knew, I'd say it's a good bet it's a case of the mind playing tricks on the observer. (Anyone who's ever lost a pet knows they "see" them out of the corner of their eyes or imagine it's time to feed them, etc.) If it's someone totally unknown to you before the sighting, like the kid kit by a car in front of the house.....?

[Anonymous]

I'm the PP with the mom story. I agree about corner-of-the-eye stuff, but from how she told it, it was a longer thing. Like the coworker walked across my mom's office and sat down in the chair across from her and smiled at her, and as my mom was like WHAT. THE..., the coworker disappeared.

And with the parents at the cemetery, she was sitting by the grave, and she saw them walking towards her from a distance for quite a while until they got up very near her.

I don't know. After discussing it at length with my also skeptical, also confused brother, we can't figure out what it was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm the PP with the mom story. I agree about corner-of-the-eye stuff, but from how she told it, it was a longer thing. Like the coworker walked across my mom's office and sat down in the chair across from her and smiled at her, and as my mom was like WHAT. THE..., the coworker disappeared.

And with the parents at the cemetery, she was sitting by the grave, and she saw them walking towards her from a distance for quite a while until they got up very near her.

I don't know. After discussing it at length with my also skeptical, also confused brother, we can't figure out what it was.

Was it soon after they died? Some cultures (American Indian? Can't remember.) believe that the spirit hangs around for 3 days after death.

[Anonymous]

OP,
For the argument sake, let's pretend that your ghost is for real. But what harm has it actually done to you and your family? If it was really that evil, you will not be around to post this blog.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP,
For the argument sake, let's pretend that your ghost is for real. But what harm has it actually done to you and your family? If it was really that evil, you will not be around to post this blog.

OP, where are you???!!! OP???? OP??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Good news, it's just in time for Halloween

[Anonymous]

I absolutely believe in ghosts. Too many sensible people I know have seen them/experienced them.

For my own situation, I used to work at an old country club in the midwest. The club used to have living quarters on the second floor of the club house where two fo the workers used to live. One of them died there. That was factual. The other guy STILL worked at the club and was an older man (the bartender). He lived in the club when the man died.

There were simply too many people who heard/experienced things to say that place was not haunted (of course, the rumor was it was haunted by the former co-worker but who knows.) There were places in the club that were downright creepy, cold, different energy. That's the best I can describe it. Other workers experienced salt/pepper shakers go FLYING down and off tables. Others heard their name being called from the banquet room when they were the only ones still there (i.e., managers closing the place down for the night). I once worked the night shift and got "locked" in the bathroom . . . the bathroom didn't lock. (Though I'm willing to dismiss the latter as the result of an old building).

Creepy stuff.

[Anonymous]

DH and I like to watch the Science channel and lots of universe/ space science shows. They have recently come up with many theories that would prove the existence of parallel universes. If they do eventually prove these theories, spirits/ghosts would make much, much more sense.

What if what we are hearing/seeing when we see a ghost is simply someone else in another universe seeing or hearing us?

I have had quite a few paranormal experiences...and the theories of parallel universes really makes sense to me.

I believe string theory is the theory that includes parallel universes as well as other dimensions...google it.

[Anonymous]

OP, can you tell us more about the issues of the girl who lived in the house?