Lake Arrowhead Poltergeist - by James Chase Back in April of 2013 I decided that I needed a break from the noise and smog of Los Angeles . I searched for remote places to stay and decided on Lake Arrowhead about two hours east of L . A . I looked on , Craigslist and found a lovely sublease in the mountains off Kuffel Canyon road that was owned by a sweet old lady named Mary . I packed my car once I confirmed I had it a went up there . The house was not a mansion by any means but was still big and imposing . It was a three bedroom three story tudor with a gazebo and deck overlooking Kuffel Canyon . Mary seemed nice enough , even though the rent was pricey and she only let me stay in the recreation room on the bottom floor . It had a pool table and a small makeshift kichenette , with a couch , chairs , TV , and a bed . I could tell nobody had used it much lately because there were cobwebs and the place was dusty . Mary lived on the second floor of the house , with the living room and full kitchen adjacent . There were much nicer guest beds on the third floor , which struck me funny because they were way better than the basement I was staying in . I figured oh well , she must not want people stomping above her . I settled in , and for the next few days toured Lake Arrowhead and took in the scenery . Lake Arrowhead sits close to 5 , 500 ft , and even at that low altitude , I discovered oxygen is less than below 3000 ft . I noticed the difference because you get tired much faster doing any physical activity . I was really having a good time , and loved the woods and lake . The village didn 't have much to offer , so I mainly stayed at the house or explored the lake and woods . Mary gave me a tour of the lake and showed me the famous Bugsy Seigel hideout that was once a speakeasy and pool hall . The first thing that struck me odd was the year round Christmas tree that stays up near Bluejay . The thing odd about the tree was that the star was inverted like a pentagram . I always notice details like that . Mary called me a week later and said she had to go toThat night the temp got even colder and a rolling fog came over Kuffel Canyon . I was in the basement about to sleep when I heard scratching and rustling either on the deck above me or on the second floor . The house was dark , so I grabbed a pool stick and went upstairs to investigate . When I got to the second floor it was dark and I got that same creepy feeling as I did at the cellar of the rear house . I looked around and saw nothing , then I went to the third floor and looked around . I became frightened at this point , but I pressed on looking around . I saw nothing amiss and went back downstairs . Thirty minutes later , I heard the scratching noise again . I of course thought maybe it was a raccoon or some animal outside that was making the noise , but the sounds of the scratching and bumping were unnatural and out of place . I also considered that someone was playing a prank on me . I went back upstairs in the darkness again with my pool - stick in my hand . When I got into the living room something startled me and I jumped about six feet . A bird ornament went off suddenly making a weird chirping noise and really loud . I was freaking out , because I couldn 't find the source of the noise . Finally I found it and when I touched it , it went quiet . This was also odd , because I didn 't see an on / off switch and I didn 't see any battery ports . I then proceeded to turn on ALL of the lights in the house . I lit it up like a Christmas tree , but I didn 't sleep until sunrise . The next afternoon I decided I couldn 't take another night of that so I packed and left . I found a nice lodge in nearby Twin Peaks , and prepared for a peaceful , quiet night . I had called Mary to let her know I moved out , but got no response . I had kept the key to the house , and planned on mailing it back . That night the rolling fog returned even more thick than the previous night . I couldn 't see two feet outside my window . About the time I was going to sleep , to my horror , I heard the scratching noise and bumping again . I thought I was losing my mind . Was it the low comments One day me and my girlfriend was at her sister 's house with about 5 extra people . Her sister 's boyfriend went to go pick her up from work and everyone left with him except for me and my girlfriend . We were upstairs in the room talking when we heard the front door open and slam . I ran to the window to see if they were back , but the car was not there , so me and my girlfriend started freaking out . We then heard the ghost walk in up the steps . When I got to the door I could see his shadow under the door , so I yelled , " Get out , " then he went back down stairs and slammed the door again . My story takes place in a coastal village in Bulgaria . My parents had a house built in the village in 2003 , originally just as a holiday home . At the time , the fact that the village graveyard was just a ten minute walk from the house never bothered us . The graveyard itself had a strange story surrounding it , though to this day I 've never found out exactly what it was . Directly behind the graveyard there is a large hill with a dimple in the top . It 's easy to see that it is ' man - made ' ( I . e : someone has piled earth there , and the grass has grown over it ) . Whenever we asked anyone in the village about this hill , they became very vague and shifty , and mumbled something either about treasure , or the bodies of soldiers . Clearly there are two versions of the story ! Anyway . . . In 2008 , my parents decided to move permanently to Bulgaria to start a restaurant business , and we moved into the house to live full - time . I was 15 at the time . Almost straight away we began to notice odd things . Mostly it was just noises . We would be sitting downstairs and hear a creaking overhead as though someone was walking . We knew perfectly well no - one was up there . Other times we would hear a clatter from one of the bedrooms , as though something had fallen on the floor . I remember distinctly that I once heard something metal fall to the floor . It sounded like a deodorant can , or something similar , and the noise came from my room . When I got up there , nothing was on the floor , but my can of deodorant was in the middle of my dressing table , spinning slightly as though someone had just put it back there a bit carelessly . Then came the arrival of ' my silhouette ' , as I took to calling it . One night I turned over in bed to face the bedroom door , and it just seemed to materialise . It stood in the space between my door and my wardrobe . I understand if this is difficult to imagine , but it was darker than the total darkness around it . It was definitely human in shape , and seemed to be standing as though on guard . Gradually as I watched I could see that it shrank to a child 's height , then rose up again to be almost the same height as my wardrobe , then back down . It did that all the while . Strangely , I did not feel scared . And I never did feel scared of it , all the nights after that . It was there every night without fail and I was convinced that it was protecting me . That 's why it became ' my silhouette ' . When I was about 17 I got a boyfriend , and eventually he came to live with us in our house . His family would sometimes come around to visit , and he had a little sister who was about four . Now , one sunny afternoon , I was suffering from a terrible migraine . I took some tablets and went to bed , but couldn 't sleep . It was too late , and there were people being noisy in the hotel next our house . So I was just lying there with my face buried in the pillow trying to block out the light . All of a sudden , I heard my door creak open , and little footsteps walking into my room . Without raising my head from the pillow , I said ' Well , please go back downstairs to your mummy , Krisi . I 'm really not feeling good ' . And she left . I felt her get up and heard her footsteps again as she left the room . Later , in the evening , my boyfriend came to see how I was . I was a little better , and sat up and asked if his mum and sister were still here . I got a blank expression in reply . ' But . . . Krisi was here , she was talking to me ! ' And I told him the whole story of what had happened . He just kept shaking his head more and more violently , and when I 'd finished , he explained that his mother had been working all day in the city ( a good half hour away by car ) and that Krisi had been at nursery . It was impossible that they had been here . Absolutely and completely . He said I 'd been dreaming , but I know I wasn 't because it had been to light and noisy for me to sleep through my migraine . Was it a hallucination brought on by the migraine and the heat ? Possibly , but mixed together with everything else the house was throwing at us , somehow I doubt it . And how is it that a house which even now is barely ten years old can be haunted ? Does it have anything to do with the mysterious graveyard ? Are there soldiers buried in the hill , and is it one of them that guards my door each night ? So many questions . . . About 10 years ago when I was seven years old , I used to live in an old brick house . I 'd say it was probably built sometime during 1920 's - 1930 's . Anyway , there used to be a lady that lived there before my family and I moved in . But I heard that the lady that moved in died in a car crash . But we found out after awhile of living in the house . My siblings ( I had 7 of them ) and I moved into that house with our parents . Of course I was so young and I liked new things . But ever since we moved into the new house , strange things began to happen here and there . Also , my siblings played the Ouiji Board when we moved in too . This might have lead to these experiences . In my first experience , my little brother ( 5years old at the time ) and I were put into time - out ( I don 't remember why ) but we were put in our parent 's room because they 're room is small and there was only a bed and a closet and not really anything else in the room . As we sit there , I see something start to form under the blankets , like someone was actually under the blank . It crawled towards us and we tried to open the door to get out but it was stuck for some reason . As we banged on the door , the blanket came closer and closer . Finally it reached us and we were scared to the max . Then whatever was under the blanket , it had teeth and it started to gnaw on us . I didn 't even know that was possible , but it probably bit me 3 or 4 times and suddenly the door was opened and whatever was under the blanket . . . wasn 't under the blanket anymore . It was like something just disappeared like that . And i obviously didn 't know how to explain it to anyone , I was 7 . No one would believe kids . My next experience would be when I was sleeping with my youngest sister ( 11 years old at the time ) . My sister JUST turned out the lights . I was in the middle , my sister was on the right of me and there wasn 't anyone on the left . I turned to my left side to keep myself comfortable and stretch my hand to that side . There were something soft . But then I realized that it was really long hair . It felt like my sister 's hair but she was sleeping on the opposite side of be . As confused as I was , I thought maybe it was one of my sisters trying to scare me , or maybe my sister snuck in when we weren 't looking . I told her to turn the lights on and she did . There was nothing there . I was so scared , i knew something was there but it just did not want to be seen . I told my sister I was going to sleep with my parents so I just left the room . We had a scream costume that my older brother would wear for Halloween . But everytime I saw it , something would not feel right . This one time my younger brother and I were playing games ( Super Nintendo 64 ) and we were in the living room by ourselves , while everyone else was out of the house and my oldest brother ( 15 years old ) was upstairs . As we enjoyed playing the games , we hear this " creek " come from our parents room . We looked , it had opened about 5 inches , but we were kids and we just went back to playing games . Then we heard it again , and in surprise , there was something standing behind the door . And as scared as I was , I also felt that something was not right . All of a sudden , it walked out . It was the scream costume and someone was wearing it , and for a second there , I thought it was my brother . But my brother would NEVER pull a prank on us . He was mature and I remember he was upstairs . It basically ran towards us , it had teeth , this was the thing that was chewed on me before . The atmosphere got really heavy . My brother and I was basically screaming and running around like crazy people . But then as my brother was walking downstairs to see what the fuss was about , whatever was in the scream costume , it ran back inside my parent 's room . And I told my oldest brother to check and there was nothing in the room . The scream costume was in the closet and it looked like it was folded . My brother and I weren 't the only ones experiencing these things . There was this one time where my family were in the living room and we were talking and watching movies and stuff . And my sister ( 18 years old ) was going to go out and my mom got mad . My sister went upstairs . ( To get upstairs , you have to go through the bathroom in order to get to the steps . So the kitchen connects to the bathroom which connects to the stairs , weird I know . There were two doors in the bathroom to the kitchen and the stairs . ) And so as my sister walked upstairs , my mom locked my sister , from the bathroom , upstairs so she couldn 't leave . So my sister was mad and she went to her room upstairs and my mom went back into the living room . Then after a while , I needed to use the bathrooom . And I was surprised it was locked and I was waiting for someone to come out . After about 15 minutes I knocked and told them to hurry . No answer . Another 5 minutes pass and everyone started to get concerned . Everyone started knocking and still , no answer . We basically had to break the door down to see if it was my sister that locked us out . But after breaking that door down , there was NO ONE in the bathroom . And to lock the bathroom , you have to lock it from the inside . My mom unlocked the door to the stairs and was surprise to see my sister sitting there waiting for the door to be unlocked . My second oldest sister ( 20 years old ) has a sixth sense . She sees a lot of stuff in the house and can feel it better than any of us in the house . This one time she was sleeping upstairs , she awoken up to someone crying . She thought it had been my sister that was crying , but my sister was sleeping next to her sound asleep . She still heard crying and she wanted to see what it was . She got up and walked towards where the sound was coming from . It came from the window and she turned the corner and she saw someone sitting on the window ledge . She stood there in shock , the girl was wearing a white dress as she described it . She picked up this sad feeling / energy . She felt like something wasn 't right either , and wondered who was sitting at the window . And then the girl jumped out the window , she ran back scared to her bed and sat there thinking for an explanation . I think that someone committed suicide there before we moved into the house . But we moved after about a year later and found a house with no strange things that happen . And to this day , we still haven 't sold the house , but it 's rented to this other family we know . My little cousin who is currently 12 years old , goes over and hangs out with her friend that lives there now and she says she sees stuff there all the time . But you know , there 's not really anything we can do . These are just some experiences that I 've had in the house . There are more unexplained phenomenons that happened as we continued to live in the house . Now , I 'm 17 years old and I can remember these things like it was just yesterday . Now I know these things exist , it makes more sense now than back then when it happened . Also , remember the Ouiji Board I told you about earlier ? That was probably also the key that lead to these weird experiences . Don 't play it ! Even if it 's just for fun . You might unleashed something you might not have control over . Anyways hope you guys enjoyed my story ! : ) When I was young my sister , cousins and I found my grandmother 's antique , ouija board in an old trunk at our cottage . I can 't remember specifics but I remember weird things would happen . We would try to summon our grandfather who had recently passed . When we asked for proof that the spirits were there , certain objects around the cottage would shake , like the TV . That 's when my grandmother took the board away . Locked it up and hid it . But I got my parents to get me one . Again I don 't remember specifics but I remember my friend and I " communicating " with some spirits who started off being nice but I remember them getting angry , and again things would rattle and shake . We didn 't play it much after that . I have always been really easily spooked / startled . I always see glimpses of someone there in my peripheral , otherwise . I would turn around and seen someone , being scared as hell , but when I looked again they would be gone . I have had a few moments of certainty that something is in fact there and that I remember vividly . Once I was sitting on my porch when I was young , probably around 7 . I was looking across the road at my friends house . I saw this young woman , probably around 18 and she had long , blonde beautiful hair , very pale complexion , a long white dress almost like a nightgown . She was just sitting there , smiling at me and rocking in the rocking chair . I didn 't feel scared per se , maybe just a bit uneasy ( not like other times I have seen glimpses of something or someone ) . I looked away , looked back at her and she was gone and the rocking chair had stopped rocking . I can slightly recall something happening like this before but not confident enough to say . I 'm now 27 and a few weeks ago I saw the young girl again . I went to a ski resort with my bf and his family . One night I woke up from a nightmare and being really scared I didn 't want to close my eyes , and go back to sleep . I looked over to my side and standing in the bathrooms doorway was the young girl , looking just as she did 20 years ago . She was standing there just staring at me . I wasn 't scared or uneasy at all this time , in fact quite the opposite , I felt a calming sensation . I looked away , I looked back , and she was gone and I drifted off to sleep ; which is not something that comes easily for me . I have no idea who this girl may be or what she might represent to me but it has to have some sort of significance , no ? Now , something off topic but on . My bf and I like to go to this certain steak house , for dinner . Twice that I 've been there , in a row , I have tripped down the stairs in the exact same spot , in the exact same way . I found it quite strange but figured it was a coincidence . So this last time we were there ( which was the second time I tripped on the stair ) , we were upstairs at the bar waiting for our table to be ready . There was a couple beside us , they got up and left , but the girl left her purse there . I couldn 't believe she so easily left her purse to the point that I was ragging on her to my bf about it . We were then called to our table . We went downstairs , I was still going on about that lady leaving her purse and how could she not be more careful . Then I overheard the waiter talking to the table beside us . He was giving them the history of this steak house ( it 's an old mansion ) . I heard him tell them that the young woman who lived there died in her bedroom , which is now the women 's washroom . I thought it was interesting what he was saying but didn 't think anything odd about it . Then a few minutes after that I went to get my phone out of my purse and realised my purse wasn 't with me . My bf went and checked upstairs at the bar and lo and behold it was there . I left it in the exact same spot as the last girl did . I couldn 't believe it . I went home and googled the steakhouse . I then come to find out , it 's on the top of the list of haunted houses in Canada . A lot of people have claimed that a lot of weird things have happened to them in the women 's washroom ( which is where the woman died ) . Also the maid hung herself at the top of the staircase and apparently people have claimed to see a little boy playing on the stairs as well as looking down at people eating their dinners . I 'm now convinced it was the little boy who tripped me on the stairs both of those times and who knows about the purses ; also a weird happenstance . My name is Lisa Gutierrez - Haley , and I am a psychic - medium and I specialize in exorcisms and cleansing ; anything paranormal . I have been helping people for over 30 years . I was born with the gift to see , hear and interact with spirits etc . It defines the person I am , I don 't really relate well to the so called " normal " world . My life has always been surrounded by spirits , the good the bad , the evil and the demonic . Some of my closes friends are dead . ( But true ) I have so many experiences that I have had throughout my life time , I don 't know where to begin . So I think I 'll start with something simple , yet interesting . Souls in a box . That 's case I did a few months back . For me a really simple case , but one I really enjoyed . I love cases where I can show without a shadow of a doubt my skills by using my gift . I received a call from one of my husband 's employee 's . He claimed he and his wife and little daughter were being plagued by some spirits in their house and it had been going on for years but it was getting worse . They ( the spirit ( s ) ) were getting more aggressive and pushing , grabbing and scratching them . They feared for their child 's safety and their own . They also said the feeling in the home was so negative and over powering it was causing negative reaction with in their family . They were fighting and arguing and always overwhelmed with sadness . When it comes to children I try and get their as quickly as possible . Nothing is worse then a child living in fear . We , myself and husband arrived to the location , the only information I had was what he had told me on the phone . As soon as you walked in the home you could feel the overwhelming heaviness and pressure of being pushed down on . I Could hear two voices , one saying " She 's going to have a baby , tell her , tell her . " and another voice which was very harsh and mean and negative swearing up a storm and complaining about everything and anything . The second voice kept complaining about how cramped and dark and hot " They were " and she wanted " them " out . She was anything0 Hi my name 's Becky , I 'm 26 years old . I would appreciate it if someone could shed some light on this , and help me understand . Ok so when I was 9 I 'd heard stories about " white lady " and that if you called her name three times on Halloween night with a candle she was " supposed " to appear to you . I did just that in the spare room of one of my old houses and nothing happened . Or so I thought . A few months after Halloween I was sleeping in the spare room , and could hear rain on the window , but when I looked outside it wasn 't raining , I thought nothing of it at the time . Then one night I was in my own room in my own bed when I 'd woken from a nightmare , to find someone standing in my room with a hockey mask on , both my partners assured me that it wasn 't them and still to this day I ask and they still say it wasn 't them . Nothing happened after that for a few years , then my step brother came to stay , in the spare room , and the next day told my mum that something heavy had sat on him on the night I then overheard my mum telling him that when she and my dad had argued she had gone to sleep in the spare room , and in the middle of the night turned over to see a white hag laying next to her with a horrible grin on her face . I freaked then , no one knew what I had done on Halloween night ! As I got older it seemed to get worse , we even moved , but strange things still kept on happening , like I 'd be in bed and I 'd hear a bang like it was right inside my room , I 'd freeze in bed not wanting to make a sound . I kept thinking GET UP AND RUN TO MUMS ROOM , when I family ran into my mums room , it sounded like my room was being turned upside down . The next day nothing was out of place in my room . I had to tell my mum what I 'd done at our old house and she just went white because of her experience in that room . Stranger things happened , I 'd hear whispering , muffled voices , the attic door opening on its own , the living room door came off its hinges when it had been fine the night before . So we moved again , in the new house I 'd see dark shadows comments Hi , my name is Devyn . I am only 13 years old , I know pretty young . But anyways when I was just 7 I made a big mistake , I had played on the Ouija board . Not knowing what would happen later on , I kept playing . Me and my friends thought it was fun , since we were talking to an invisible person . About a month after we stopped playing on the Ouija , strange things started to occur . Like one night I was sleeping on the couch , since I usually got an eerie feeling in my own room . So there I was sleeping peacefully until I got a rude awakening . Something got knocked over . I have to admit that I was a little frightened but then I fell back asleep . About a few minutes later our pantry door slowly opened and slammed shut . Now I was fully awake and I ran to my parents room . About a few weeks later more strange things started to happen , like my parents would hear people running upstairs , and when they went to go check on all us kids , they would only find us asleep . One of the things that freaked me out was that one day when I was asleep my mom heard a little kid 's voice say " mommy " ! ( Usually my parents would be drinking in there garage and when I needed something I would knock on the door and say " mommy " ) but this time it wasn 't me . When my mom went to answer the door she found that no one was there . So she went to go check on us , and we were all asleep . After a few weeks of this happening , things started to change up . People in our house got more angry and the house just got more uncomfortable . One night when I was only 8 I was awoken by a thumping noise , I looked up and a shoe flew across my room and hit the wall . I got so scared that I ran to my parents room . The other thing was since all these things were happening I got a cross necklace from my grandma as a present to keep me safe . One day I put the cross on my bed and spent the night at my grandma 's . Now nobody was home at this time not any of my siblings . And when I came home the cross was on the floor broken ( we didn 't have any pets ) . Now I was so scared that I was sleeping in0 The following happened to me in July of 2007 while a US Army employee working at Daumerie Caserne in Belgium . My family and I lived at Résidence de Milfort 86 , 7011 Mons , Belgium for about 16 months before the incident . My wife and I were asleep . Between 3AM and 4AM I woke myself because I heard myself say , " yes " . I didn 't hear a question or hear anyone speak . I rolled over and there was a whitish gray being with black eyes directly above me looking me directly in the eye . It / he was a male . He had no hair on his body . He was humanoid and didn 't have any of the stereotypical alien features . I didn 't feel any temperature from him . He was looking at my face up and down . He then turned and looked to his left . I didn 't look to see what he was looking at because I wanted to stay focused on him . He turned back to me and opened his mouth wide and grimaced . While still looking at me he rose up and got smaller and disappeared . I was not scared . I believe I wasn 't scared because I was trying to absorb what was happening . I don 't believe the being was a ghost or an alien . I believe the being was a spirit of some type but not of a dead person . After the incident I felt depressions on my bed twice . The next evening my 26 year old son was upstairs on his laptop sitting in a chair with his back against the wall . He said that a being / spirit in black rope looking material came out of the wall and hovered over him and looked at him with " disdain " and then moved in front of him towards the bed and disappeared . Approximately about a month prior to the incident I purchased an African charcoal carving of a human head from Troc International sprl at Avenue du Régent 5 7011 Belgium . After my son 's incident I threw the carving in a dumpster . I 've often wondered if the carving was possessed by a spirit and that 's what triggered the incidents . I was born hard of hearing . When I was 5 years old , I got my first hearing aids . Hearing aids are an electronic device that uses a small battery to enhance sounds . It was when I was 12 years old that I moved into an old house . All was well for a week till my hearing aid was wailing feedback and screeching . I removed my earrings and all was well . Later on I heard voices clear as day and I heard a woman yelling , " NO ! Please don 't kill me ! " But nobody was in the house . I heard a woman whisper Help me ? And a name Eugene Cowden . I did research and could find nothing except that a woman and her kid was killed by being stabbed to death in that house . I told my grandmother who is a Medium , about what has happened over the phone . She called police with that name and police caught him and he confessed to the murder . The day after I heard voice say thank you and never heard anything since . Late one night as I was closing the door behind me from the utility / garage , I suddenly heard knocking from the other side ! Well , more like a pounding actually ! I was getting pretty freaked , because there had been nobody with me in the garage . I opened the door and looked inside . To my relief , there was nobody there ! I looked to see if perhaps there was something that got knocked over behind the door , but there was nothing found . Nothing was hanging on , or even touching the door . I remember thinking to myself , I hope there 's a logical explanation for this because my husband wasn 't getting back from training until the morning ! To ease my fear , I kept telling myself it was probably just some hardware mechanism with the door , or perhaps a draft had caused the sound . I 'm not too familiar with the usual house noises yet , because we just moved here not too long ago . As a precaution I had someone do a house / perimeter check . There was nothing found . After that , I wasn 't so freaked out anymore , but who or what could have been banging on that door from the other side ? 0 My mum and I were driving to our local news agent at about 5 : 30pm . It was dark by then and she told me to wait in the car while she got her cigarettes at the shop . I sat in the passenger seat with my elbow leaning against the window looking at the mirror on the side of the car . Then I saw a dark silhouette in the back seat , I then panicked but didn 't want to look back because I was so scared . It really felt like I was being watched from behind me . . . then all of a sudden the car made a really weird noise like it was the windows coming down . The head lights were left on facing a brick wall in front of the car and the lights were going all over the shop , making a really weird noise . I was terrified now . Then a man and his dog walked past in front of the car . He stopped walking and looked oddly at me , and lifted his glasses up . He saw the lights going everywhere but I just sat still , not touching anything . He pointed at the back seat as if to say , " watch out look behind you ! " But I didn 't do anything because my mum was coming . Then the man started running away . . . I then turned to my mum and told her everything and she said , " I told you my car was haunted ! " And she said she had the same feeling of being watched from behind but no one was there . . . . It all started 2 months ago when me and my friend were out back eating mac and cheese . yum ! So we started to feel watched and so we ran in screaming . So it came off of our minds until 2 weeks ago , the 29th of Dec . 1999 . We were talking and so we got that feeling again . Ever get that feeling ? And then a little girl walked up and I only saw her out of the corner of my eye , and we both heard her say , " Who are you , " over and over , but when we turn around it stopped . So we tried a trick and took some pictures to see if a ghost shows up , and turns out there was one . So from then on , the ghost has been sighted at my house and she 's haunting me and her . So back to the day before me and her wanted to prove ourselves right so we downloaded some apps to see that our ghost is circling our houses inside and out . We cant sleep at night , and especially for the fact that she is at Savannah Pirate House . . . and its haunted . . . Please let me know what 's going on . . . I have a friend named Lola who told me one day that she has been having experiences with an incubus . She even knew his name ! ! ! ! His name is Micheal . I 've done everything I can to help her . . . in fact I think he 's also haunting me now . One night , I was laying in bed and I felt . . let 's just put it at sexual things . . . happening to me . I actually could barely move for about 10 seconds . It was creepy . It happens almost every night . Lately I 've heard things calling my name and tugging on my clothes in school . He even tries stuff with me in class ! Lola told me she swore she heard Micheal whisper my name . She 'd completely dropped her cereal box and bolted when she heard it . When I 'm around other guys , I can feel him getting angry . I get chills up my back . He follows me and watches me 24 / 7 . I can feel him . I see him with tan skin , green eyes , and flippy hair . When he 's angry he 's scary . I woke up one morning and there was a huge cut down my comforter . All I 'm asking for is a little help . Anything that could be an answer . I beg you . Plz help Lola and I . 0 Just want to share this part of my life , because I just feel like I need to tell this story . First I will tell you a little about myself . I am currently 18 years old and I have recently " came back to reality " after about a period of darkness . I was a junior in high school when I started to meet some of the wrong people . I was making tons of friends outside of school , who weren 't in school . So I was beginning to be influenced by all these people . My grades began to drop dramatically and I was very withdrawn from my family . I come from a big family a family where no one does drugs and I really do feel blessed to have such an amazing family . So the fact that I was beginning to go to the wrong path was a horrible thing . Both of my parents are the first born children of their families , and I am the first born boy into the family , on both sides of my family , out of 18 cousins . So I am in a position where I have an influence over a ton of my cousins . I am a Native American ( on my dad 's side ) and my great grandfather was the healer of the family . He was a chairman for Natives . When I was a child we had a ceremony where he said that when he dies I am going to be the healer of the family . He passed away when I was about 5 so I have been raised being told I would be very clairvoyant . I didn 't ever really understand it growing up . Also another thing I feel like everyone should know about me is growing up ; I had extremely bad night terrors where I would experience the presence of extremely malevolent entities . So I have always known what evil is like because I 've been a target my whole life ( as everyone is ) . My great grandfather explained how I cannot ever use drugs or be on any type of medications . For some reason this was emphasized . Growing up I was the centre of attention and I was always that " sacred " child . I was raised by many different family members , because my parents were 18 when they had me . So I was pretty much raised in the middle of the family rather than just by my parents . I just wanted to tell you all of thi0 Creepy Lights - by Heather Hi . My name is Heather and this is my ghost story . My family friend that I thought of as a grandma had cancer . Then , sadly , she passed away in July of this year ( 2012 ) . I was devastated . I have known her all my life . She made me into a Christian and go to God . It all started the day I found out she died . It was in July after my friend went home from spending the night at my house . I checked my Facebook and I saw my sister messaged me . I checked and she said that my grandmother died . I logged off and ran to my room crying . Then , that night , I was in bed . Then , all of a sudden , I felt someone touch my leg . I jumped and said , " Who 's there ? " No response . I was terrified . So I finally went to sleep and I was dreaming about my grandmother . She told me , " Heather , I know you miss me and don 't worry . I 'm fine . Believe in Jesus and His faith . I love you . " Then everything was fine . . . . until today . ( November 20 , 2012 ) I was home alone and I was talking to my BFF . My dog was next to me and my bearded dragon was in his tank . All of a sudden , I saw a skinny white light shoot up from the floor to the ceiling . I was so scared . I screamed and I was freaking out . My friend told me to forget about it . So I did . Then I saw a ghostly figure in the doorway after 10 minutes . I screamed again and my heart was racing I was so scared . So my friend told me I was seeing stuff . I laughed at it and continued to talk to her . So after 2 hours , my friend called me back and we were talking . I went upstairs with my dog and then I saw a blue light next to the bathroom . So I was scared again and then my friend told me she had that same experience and she had no explanation for it . Now I 'm sitting here , typing on my phone , and waiting for my mom to get home . Hope you liked my story ! 1 comments I have had an experience of a hooded / cloaked figure with a haunting , all - white visage . I have been noticing odd things for a while now . The eyes are large and diamond shaped , with the tiniest beaded eyes . The mouth is a gaping maw that seems as if it could stretch and stretch and stretch and engulf you . There is a nose , a forehead , and a jaw / chin . I recently purchased an iPhone 5 and last morning I woke up and went to the toilet with my phone . I was scrolling through the pics and I saw what I have described to you . That night before the morning when I saw the pic , I had a lot of trouble getting to sleep even though I take sleeping pills and have been sleeping great for the last month . I sleep on my bed right next to the bathroom . It 's around a corner from where I sleep and I felt a presence waiting there . Link to the pic . http : / / www . imgur . com / gFj82 . jpg Now , this is not only me . I have one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , NINE friends or acquaintances that have experienced something in my house or room specifically . Some experienced the same phenomena while others experienced different phenomena . I have heard one of my housemates calling me from my room . He yelled " ayyyye ! " Trying to get my attention and it also happens to be one of his catchphrases . I walked into my empty , lit room , and saw nothing . I walk downstairs and see that housemate and ask him if he just yelled . He said no . This is one of the weaker stories as I could have been hearing things and I even doubt that I heard it . But I still think I could have been called . Also , I was the only one upstairs at the time and when I heard the call I knew it was for me . End of story one . Second story I actually wasn 't present for . My friends from college were chilling in my room and I have a whiteboard that sits atop a bookshelf . I leaned it at about a 30 degree angle with the bookshelf and it was touching the wall , picture a ladder . Well , two of these friends say that the white board flipped its top and fell off . They say all of the doors and windocomments Ok so it was just me and my mom at home alone with my cat . When we were all out in the living room . My mom and I were watching tv when I turn and look at her , her and my cat were staring at my bedroom door . I asked her what was wrong and she said she heard something move in my room . I kept asking her what she thought it was and that 's all she said . So I went to open my door and nothing was in there and my cat went running into the room ahead of me and so I picked him up and walked out . Then when I sat down I had two big scratch marks on my inner thigh but near the back and my mom said it could have been Fred , the cat , but I know it wasn 't cause he never came close to scratching me , especially in that place . They were distant and my mom asked me if it stings and I said yes and it was really red . She said the redness was going down and so that meant it just happened . I don 't really know what to make of this but through out my life I 've always had strange things happen like ghostly to me and no one believes me and they make fun of me saying I see things and hear things but , it wouldn 't carry on that long . 0 It was almost a year after I had witnessed my Grandfather speaking to me and my Grandmother suiciding . I had moved into a new locality and a new high school . I hadn 't told anybody about the whispers one year back but the incident remains fresh in my mind . On the night of my Grandfather 's death anniversary , I lay in bed awake . My Grandmother had left to Kashi to visit my Grandfathers ' brother and five sisters , and my boyfriend and me were staying in my Grandfather 's ansectral home . The windows were closed and the A / C on , because summers can get very hot . Derek , my boyfriend had gone to sleep long back but I was still tossing and turning . Suddenly , I heard somebody banging on the window in the living room . I stepped into the hall and realized it was sixteen minutes into midnight . I felt a shiver as I felt a wierd sense of deja vu . The pounding became louder and abruptly stopped when I touched the glass . But when my hand left it , it pounded again . I opened the window to find nobody there . I turned around to go but the pounding started again . I opened and closed it hard with frustration . this sound must have awoken Derek because he opened the door and stood there , surveying the scene to see what was wrong . I made him go back in and went and joined him . I forgot the incident soon after . Well it all started when my mum bought a new wardrobe for my room from the auction . We took it home and I put it in my room . When I went to bed that night I was woken up several times by banging and scratching from underneath the wardrobe . I first thought it was my pet hamster , which has often escaped , so I went over to the cage . The hamster was asleep so I went over and looked underneath the wardrobe and realized there was nothing underneath there , so I went back to bed . A few weeks later we decided I needed a new carpet because my carpet was tacky , so we went into town and purchased a carpet . When my mum 's friend fitted it there was a small trapdoor under where my wardrobe was . I immediately thought of the banging and scratching that I heard that night . This made me very scared , so I stopped my mum and dad from going down there and begged them to board it up , so they nailed a sheet of plywood over the trap door . This reassured me that no one could get in , or more importantly get out . That night I made a diary about what was going on in the house , but as I was writing the days passage I heard another bang . I was so disappointed that this was happening again , so I yelled , " GO AWAY YOU STUPID THING ! " When my mum came down stairs and asked me what was going on , I said it was fine , I was just talking to myself . She came over and sat on my bed and gave me a hug . As she was about to leave there was three bangs . These were the most violent bangs I had heard because I saw the wardrobe shake . My mum was shaking , she walked over to the wardrobe and opened it and there were cracks in the bottom of the wood . When my grandfather died , the whole house was set into mourning . My Grandmother refused to bury him or even let him go . When midnight fell , we were forced to give her sleeping pills , because she was trying to kill herself with a blade . She immediately fell asleep , and we buried his corpse in the backyard . I stayed over , for keeping her company , and after checking that everything was in order , I went to bed . Sixteen minutes into midnight , I was woken up by the sound of footsteps . I cautiously went into the hall , and saw . . . nothing . The hall was innocently empty . I was about to turn , when I saw blood streaking out of my grandmother 's room . I ran in there , and I saw her wrists slit open , and her blood all over the bed and floor . I called an ambulance , and my mum and dad , and after she was safely taken into the ICU , I heard a whispered ' Thank You . . . . " into my ear . To this day I don 't know whether that was my imagination , or my grandfather 's soul speaking to me . 0 I 've always had paranormal activity in my life . I never really spoke about it because most people find the subject of anything paranormal taboo . The first house that I grew up in was a green two - story house . The activity wasn 't really scary . It would do the normal little things . If someone sat an item down , it would go missing . The item would magically turn up in the same spot about 10 minutes later . It wasn 't uncommon for someone to see shadows walking by and there would be footsteps when no one was awake or if you were alone in the house . I have two siblings that are older than me . I have an older sister that is 13 years older than me . I have a brother that is two to three years older than my older sister . The green house was getting cramped so my father thought that it was a good idea to buy a bigger house for our family . He found a two - story white house that was slightly bigger . He met with the woman that was selling the house and she offered to sell it to him for really cheap . My father told me that he never really questioned why it was so cheap and why she was in a hurry to sell it . It was a deal , why not ? Well we had activity happening in this house . Stuff would go missing . Our pictures hung up on the wall would be hanging upside down . A sobriety medal with the Lord 's prayer would end up in the fish tank . We 'd get this really strange smell that would only happen every year around October . It wasn 't the sewer . This would happen right around the same time each year . Things got so bad that we had to talk with the woman that sold the house . She 's from Haiti . She claimed that she would work " roots " to keep the thing from coming to her bedroom . We asked her if she caused it to be there , she denied it . We lived with this activity for a while but things got even worse . My older siblings decided it was a good idea to play with a Ouija board . It was them and their best friend . They would ask the thing questions . It told them that it was a little boy that had died in the 1950s . They said that it was too witty to be a little kid . It would make really intelligent comments to them . It constantly wanted them to ask it a question . When they didn 't ask fast enough it would spell out " L - A - L - A - L - A " like it was singing . They finally reached the question of how it died when it replied it never had been alive . They had enough of that so they stopped . But they had already done the damage . The crap had hit the fan . The activity had picked up a lot . My brother had found his pet mice that he breed for pet stores literally ripped apart . Items would be found smashed and broken . My brother 's dresser was sent flying across his room while he was at school . Their rooms looked like a tornado had hit them . Clothes tore up and thrown across the room . My mother was fed up with it . This one night , I slept in my parents room in my bed . I was about 3 or 4 at the time . I woke up and asked my parents if I could sleep in bed with them . I climbed out of my bed . I got in the bed with them . Things were calm until after I fell asleep . They said that they heard the thing stomp down the stairs and push open the bedroom door . It hopped on their bed . The weight of it almost knocked them out of the bed . It climbed into my bed and was walking around in it . My parents said that it sounded very heavy . It jumped out and disappeared . My parents were afraid to look up to see what it was . My mom practiced a bit of witch craft . She did things to keep it from entering their bedroom . My older brother was 18 and he was in the transition of moving out . My older sister was 15 or 16 . My parents offered her the opportunity to move into their bedroom because things were more calm in there since my mom blocked it from entering there . She refused . She was too old to be sleeping in our parents bedroom . Well her refusal lead to her seeing the thing . It was this one night . She was sleeping in her room . It was pitched black with the exception of the light from her stereo . She said that she heard something walking in her room . The thing stepped into the light of her stereo and she seen it . It was short , about 3 feet , dark , old looking , wrinkles , and large black eyes . Really sharp white teeth . It took a step towards her and she ran from her room and jumped down the stairs . She hurt herself in the process but she wanted to get away from it . She said the crazy thing about that situation was that she heard its footsteps running after her . She slept in my parents room until she hit 18 then she moved out . Well hello ! ! I 'm Dylann and I am 10 years old ! I want to let you know that some of your relatives that have passed away always loved you and always will . So , I tried out a Ouija board ( wee - jee board ) and a few months before our 12 year old bulldog , with brown fur , named Oliver passed away . . . : ( And now let 's skip back to the Ouija board . So me and my big sister Aaveri , and our best friend Taylor did it together . He said his name was Oliver and he was brown and was twelve years old . AMAZING ! And we asked what it was like in heaven and if our other dogs who died were there to comfort him , and he said yes and then we asked if he watched over the family and again yes was the answer . Then he said he loved my sister and not me . I asked him why he did not love me and his answer was , " Because " . . . . . . . . . . . . I was crying all day and half the night , but I knew he loved me a little bit . . . . I sure did love him , more than infinity and beyond that . This weekend I was at the place in the title , room number 125 . In the bedside drawer is the start of a series of notes " DON ' T READ THE NOTES , " that 's how it starts . The first is in the bedside drawer , each one the handwriting gets more and more scribbled and violent , you start hearing noises and seeing things and it just gets worse and worse . I 'm too afraid to explain because it followed us home . I don 't know how many there are because we stopped before the end and checked out . I don 't think we 'll ever return to there or lake of the Ozarks again , please don 't try this , don 't be brave . He can be anywhere at any time and he will enjoy torturing new victims . I think he 's even influenced me to write this message DON ' T GO IN THIS ROOM . If you absolutely have to , at least avoid the notes , don 't open the drawers , don 't start his quest , that 's when he has you . So , up until this year , I didn 't really believe in the paranormal . I was cleaning my mother 's bathroom as a Mother 's day present . I had the door locked so she couldn 't get in and it would be a surprise . I was cleaning the sink when I heard a door handle turn . I went over and the door had opened by itself . I tried to turn the door knob and it wouldn 't budge . I closed the door again and left it unlocked . Later that evening at supper , my dad asked who had touched his gun . We all sat there confused . None of us had touched it . His 9 millimeter pistol had been removed from the safe and laid out where he could see it . I realized that where he had found it laying was less than 10 feet from the bathroom door that had moved itself . I haven 't had any reoccurring incidents since with the bathroom door , but I have noticed that when I close my bedroom door there is a loud knock . I always open the door to find nothing there . Hi my name is Sunil Murmu , I live in Sidhgora Jamahedpur India . Many people had warned me that there was a ghost in my attic , but I didn 't believe them because I hadn 't experienced this kind of thing myself . That is until last night , when I was frightened by the same ghostly encounter . Yesterday , April 14 , 2012 at 11 : 15pm , my girlfriend called me . I didn 't feel very comfortable talking to her in the house , so I went up into my attic , where I could feel more relaxed . After 8 - 9 minutes , I heard a sound like the playing of a voice recorder to my back . I looked behind me but nothing was there . I felt like something wasn 't right , so I moved to the other side where I could see the entire attic , and from there I continued my conversation . After a period of time had elapsed , a point of light started burning from the center of the attic and traveled over to my side very quickly . I was so startled that I quickly ran from my attic . This summer started off like any other summer . It was the summer before my junior year , and my friends and I were just ready for some crazy fun . We spent most of the time together , especially me and my best friend Alyssa . Since our parents did not care about curfew , Alyssa and I would leave the house at anytime . Upon leaving , we would always go the the park at an elementary school down the street from us . One night we found a cat . This cat was quite friendly towards us and we noticed that it was probably a stray because it was so skinny . We began to feed the cat every night around the same time at the park , and named it Snickers . After a couple of weeks Alyssa and I were talking about ghosts , after watching Paranomal Activity . I mentioned how I had always wanted to use an Ouija board . To our misfortune , Alyssa 's mom actually owned one and allowed us to borrow it . Alyssa came to spend the night at my house and brought along the Ouija board . We waited until everyone was asleep and the house was quiet before we went to the living room . We lit two white candles and set them on both sides of us . We then place our hand on the mover and proceed to ask the normal expected questions . Right before we decided to just give up we got a response . The mover moved to yes . We asked who was there and the answer was simply " B " . We asked what their name was and the response was " B " . We then asked the spirit what it 's whole name is and it produced a sting of letters we couldn 't decipher . We asked if it could prove to us they were really there . The answer was yes . I said " blow on this candle " . Immediately after the flame began to flicker , while the other candle 's flame stayed still . Keep in mind that the candles were neither close to Alyssa and I or any other source that could make the candle flicker . Throughout our session we learned that " B " was a young boy , who had siblings still alive . We asked how he died and he simply said knife . We then ask who killed him , where he said his uncle . I taking had asked what his uncle 's name is , and asked if " B " would like for me to find him . He gave me the name and said yes . I wrote it down and later did an internet search with no success . After awhile we began to become tired and asked if we could talk with " B " tomorrow . With the answer yes we said goodbye and the mover moved to goodbye . The next day I told my friend London about our experience . She was very interested so I invited her to join . She accepted and that night she came to spend the night . Around ten it was time to bring Snickers food . We all headed to the park but when we arrived Snickers was gone . We pushed it aside an ignored it . We just went back to my house . That night after everyone went to bed , we went and set up . We began by asking if " B " was present and after it moved to yes we began to ask the same questions as before . After awhile something weird began to happen . " B " became very hostile . He was not happy about London 's presence , and when Alyssa asked if " B " wanted anyone dead , his answer was yes and she asked who and his response was . . . You . I was alarmed by this and immediately asked if we were still talking to " B " . The answer was not surprising , it was no . We asked who it was and the board started to spell . D . E . M . At this point I took my hand off the mover . O . N . I quickly said good bye and ended the session . After that night weird things began to happen . Alyssa became very demonic , saying that she wanted to summon the demon and to witness its wrath . I told her that 's not a good idea , and she told me she wanted to know how it felt to have your soul ripped from you . Lodon 's pair of skull gloves that were under her bed we 're folded neatly on her desk when she came home one day . Her mom said no one had been in her room . Alyssa after coming to my house , went home to find coke cans she had thrown away were placed upside down and arranged in a circle . Her family was at her grandma 's all that day . Late at night when I was in bed my door began to open and close . I just assumed it was the house shifting or the air conditioning . Until I turned the TV off and the door flew wide open and stayed that way . I was so scared I start to sing Jesus Loves Me until I fell asleep . When I woke up again the door was shut . We continued to go to the park but we could never find Snickers . There was always an eerie feeling falling over the park now . One night when we went to hang , Snickers appeared but she wasn 't the same . She was different . Creeping us out we began to just ignore her . She began to follow us one night , not wanting to take her to my house we began to run . When I look back I saw she was running too . The rest of the summer she would be anywhere I went , I referred to her as my stalker cat and tried to scare her off . She always stayed and was always giving off that eerie feeling . The creepy things seemed to almost stop after I talked to a friend named Brian and he told me to put salt around the walls . But still to this day there 's an occasional incident . Like a few weeks ago when my friend Sarah spent the night she said she could sense it and then my little brother began to tell her about the other person in the room . He made jumping movements . I 'm no longer friends with either London nor Alyssa . My two best friends and one day we just stopped talking . I was upset for months . I don 't know if our loss of friendship has anything to do with the events that happened this summer or is because of something else . I haven 't seen Snickers for a couple months . Maybe she died or was just tired of following me around . Maybe one day she 'll show up again , I don 't know . I do know though , that this summer was unlike any other and that my experience with " B " and this " demon " is enough to last me . Hi my name is Noel . I know that the story I am about to tell may seem a little crazy and sometimes I think I am going crazy , but it really happened . I am just looking for anyone else who has had a similar experience . I live in an apartment with my fiance and our 5 year old son . Not long after we moved into this apartment I started to become very depressed . We lived in the apartment above the one we do now for about a year , I have never been one to be depressed . I have always been on top of everything , very neat and organized , my son is my world . Since the day he was born I would take him for a long walk every day in the summer . I spent my whole day playing with him , taking him to the park , etc . . . Not long after we moved downstairs I started to become very depressed , very slowly I just stopped doing my every day routine . It has gotten to a point where I will lay in bed all day , I have no energy or ambition to do anything more than what I have to do . My fiance has seen a very big change in me , he asks me all the time what the hell happened to me . I can 't give him a good reason on why I have turned into the person I am today . No matter how much I try to shake the feeling of depression I can 't . My doctor has put me on meds but they make my depression even worse so I stopped taking them . I have a very hard time falling asleep and once I am woken up by something , I can 't get back to sleep no matter how hard I try . My fiance gets up every morning at 5 am . Once that alarm goes off I am awake and can 't get back to sleep . After a few months of moving in this apartment I would lay in bed and try to get back to sleep after being woken by the alarm clock . I would lay there and after a while I would feel what felt like someone was bouncing on my bed , so I would sit up but there was nothing there . Every time I lay back down the bouncing would start again , most of the time I would get up and go lay on the couch in the living room but as soon as I closed my eyes it started again . For months it was as if something was just taunting me , it never went any further than the bouncing . A few months ago I was laying in bed trying to get back to sleep , I lay in the same spot for about 20 minutes , I then rolled over . It was as if there was someone just watching me , and as soon as I rolled over I felt the thumping on my bed . It had been a while since the last time I had felt it so my first thought was that my dog was trying to get up on the bed . Our dog is only a puppy and at the time she had a hard time getting on the bed , so I thought it was her , , but I knew that my fiance put her in her cage when he left , so she wouldn 't chew on things while I was sleeping . Her cage is to the left of my bed so I pushed myself up and went to turn my head to see if she was in her cage , but before I was able to turn my head I was attacked . I was pushed face first into my pillow , I couldn 't move or speak . This experience was as if I was dreaming . I heard a woman say my name in a scratchy voice , I couldn 't see her face just her arms and body , she lifted me up in the air , however I was not in my bedroom anymore , I was in my living room . The women told me in these exact words , " Noel I can pick you up and slam you down . " I was scared to death begging her to put me down . This lasted only a few minutes and before I knew it I was back in my beAfter we moved into this apartment our landlord told us that his mother died in our living room . That morning I called him and asked him what his mother sounded like , what she died from , and if she was depressed before she died . He described her voice and I knew right then that it was her talking to me . He also told me she died of lung cancer , which would explain the scratchy voice . He also told me she was very sad and depressed before she died , she was very ill from the chemo . So I now wonder if her presence is in this house , and I am picking up on how she felt before she died . I don 't know if it 's possible for that to happen and wondering if anyone has ever experienced anything like this . I know that I was not sleeping when she attacked me , I had gotten up that morning to make my fiance 's lunch while he was getting ready for work , before I went back to bed and tried to fall asleep . Since then I have felt her pin me down but nothing like what I just described . I have learned to just let it happen and wait for it to pass . Sometimes I wonder if a spirit can sense your fear and feed off it , so I am not afraid anymore . If anyone has ever experienced this please let me know . Please feel free to contact me When I was about five or six years old , my family was living in an old , beautiful two story house in a very quiet neighborhood . I 'd known something about me was different . I knew this because of the trauma I suffered when I was two years old . My mother had passed away , but I would see her every morning and every night , as though she were still there . I 'd been told stories by my grandmother , however , that when she would be outside talking to the neighbors , I would be standing under the tree in the front yard , talking away to someone who wasn 't there . There are few things I remember about my childhood , but there is one experience I will never forget . I was about six at the time , and I had woken up one morning , hearing commotion in the kitchen as though my grandma was making breakfast . I could smell the bacon , eggs , and biscuits cooking , so I got right up and ran downstairs . To my surprise , there was a lady I 'd never seen before in the kitchen , cooking breakfast . She had spoken to me , " Good morning , Kristen . " She 'd said my name as if she knew me . Two or three years had passed , and we still couldn 't figure out who - - or what - - I had seen in the kitchen . That is , until my grandma and I began going through some old photographs of the family . She had pulled out a photograph , and I knew right then . " That 's the woman I saw in the kitchen . " I had said to my grandmother . " That 's her ! " As it turns out , the woman I 'd seen was my grandmother 's mother , or my great - grandmother . She had passed away before I was even born . We still can 't figure out why she would have been in the kitchen that day , or why I was the only one who 'd seen her . But it is a memory that will stay with me for the rest of my life . So all my life I have had experiences with the paranormal and have experienced physical manifestations of otherworldly spirits numerous times . The first ( and only ) time I actually " saw " a spirit with my own two eyes was when I was six . Since then I have had many encounters . The most recent , happened less than a year ago . All of this is true , I have no reason to lie and am a professional person . I live in a small city and my friend lived in a major city , about four hours away . On one of my weekends I booked flights to spend the weekend catching up with him and another friend . So I arrived Saturday morning and spent the day shopping till he finished work and we met up with his friend and all went back to his place that he shared with his dad who was overseas at the time and their room - mate who was also away at the time . We sat around chatting till dinner time when we all decided to go out to the heart of the city for dinner and we left , but not before switching off every light in the house . I remember this specifically because my friend has a little dog and as a dog lover and someone who hates the dark I felt sorry for the poor little thing being all by herself in a big dark house when we were out . We went out and had our dinner and returned and when we got back , the lounge room light was on . This was so strange it made my friend think that one of the house 's other occupants must have come home early - because we definitely turned all lights off . But no one else was there . We kind of dismissed it and assumed we must have all forgotten that we left that light on . So we were out on the back balcony chatting and listening to music through my friend 's iPod hooked up to speakers . At one point we figured it was a bit late so we 'd turn the music off . We kept chatting about an hour and then the music turned itself back on - this time my friend really thought the room - mate had returned because the iPod had actually been switched off . But no one else was in the house . We thought it was odd , but at that stage I didn 't give it0 I 've always enjoyed ghost stories since as far back as I can remember , but have to admit that I was extremely skeptical at one time . Something I 've learned over the years however , is that it 's good to keep an open mind . Hauntings for me didn 't always occur in a spooky setting or at any particular convenient moment ! The amazing thing about my experiences is that they usually caught me totally off guard at moments when I was simply living out my day . Not being a total believer never protected me from the reality of what was . I can 't say I 've had a lot of ghostly encounters , but there have been 2 or 3 moments thoughout my entire life , where something totally shocking and unexplained has happened . Most people can think of a few of their own tales I 'm sure . If you 're one of those people who has experienced something strange . Something you might possibly consider a ghostly enounter , please feel free to share it ! Just by simply sharing YOUR ghost story , you help to make so much of a difference ! No story is too silly , as long as you 're honest . If you have a story , I not only suggest but I ENCOURAGE you to share it by Clicking Here .