Our 120 year old Victorian is supposedly haunted. We get a lot of wide-eyed kids at Halloween who've been told by the parents that it is haunted. My kooky aunt insists that she can sense a "presence"
We've never seen, heard or sensed a thing.

Our c1850 farmhouse doesn't seem to be haunted. Oddly enough though, the past two owners only spent 2 years in the house, each. I joke that the ghosts are finally happy because we are fixing up the house and getting rid of the really really bad wallpaper that the previous owners put up!!!
The fact that I have never heard a peep in the house makes me happy, maybe like they accept us and like what we are doing!
-renee

When we moved into our house 24 years ago, I had a few strange experiences. We bought the house from a woman whose husband had recently died of lung cancer. She told us he died in the master bedroom . After we moved in, the downstairs toilet would flush by itself. Twice I thought I saw a man standing just outside the bedroom door. I used to hear someone walking around at night. Once, when my brother was visiting, I was sleeping on the third (top) floor, he was on the second floor. I heard him stomping around all night. The next day I asked him why he was up so much of the night, he said he was asleep all night and never got up. Gave me such willies, I started keeping a knife under my bed. Over the years, the noises stopped. I think all our pets (currently a dog and two cats) and the children (two teen girls) make so much moise and mess, the ghost decided to leave. It wasn't peaceful enough for him anymore.

oops I didnt see this thread I just posted one above about what I think I saw sunday night.

I too didn't see this thread first and posted a reply to Bulldinkie's thread.
Mary Lu

The first time I walked into this house I felt is was friendly. It is.

We've had a number of visitors and cat sitters over the years report sightings. One cat sitter was matter of fact and said she only came by during the day after the night she saw "the woman walking around." Ooooookay.... as my DD would say!

She's usually in the dining room.

Not much action recently, maybe due to increasing teenage commotion.

The house next door sprouts marbles. Several who live there report marbles dropping from the ceiling, see a little boy, or hear footsteps at night. Once, during a birthday party for one of the boys living there in the present, marbles dropped down from a chandelier. That's what they tell me! I've helped with the gardening, and yes, I've dug up marbles which I leave for them on the porch.

Wow bulldinkie, that's pretty intense. I've never seen anything , but have had weird things going on with the attic furnace turning itself on and off and the first floor thermostat. I do have psychic dreams thou, and it's strange that you had that happen Sunday, and I posted my post Monday. I don't even know what made me post it! Oooooo-Ooooohh.......

I'm pretty sensitive to this sort of thing - the old farmhouse I grew up in had a strong, not very pleasant, but harmless presence in the upstairs hallway and one of the bedrooms. But I've never sensed anything in my 125 year old Victorian except a sweet-natured feeling.
But, a few years ago I rented the upstairs apartment to a young woman. Within three days she was on the phone reporting a shadowy man in her bedroom. Then mysterious black crosses were falling from the ceiling. Then the ghost tried to strangle her in her sleep. Each day brought a new horror story.
At first I was sympathetic and soothing. But after two weeks and many phone calls I decided I just needed to get her out of my house. I offered her out of the lease and her deposit back if she would move asap - which is what I think she wanted all along!
That was five years ago and I haven't had any "hauntings" since.

I don't have any ghosts in my house, I'm the second owner and it was built in 1962. But....

My Mom passed away three years ago. She always said that we would have our hands full with my Dad if she died before him. How right she was! Dad still lives on his own, has his wits about him, still drives well. But I can't believe how clueless the man is! Mom must have told him what socks to wear each day! Also, he kept signing the grandkids birthday cards 'from Mom Mom & Pop Pop' until my sister told him to cut it out.

Anyway, after she passed away I felt her presence a few times. It felt like someone was sort of gently mussing my hair - what's left of it. I haven't felt it for a long time. Well, we were talking about ghosts at a family get together a week ago and my youngest niece (10) said that when she spent a night at Pop Pop's (my Dad) house, she saw Mom Mom's face in the mirror. She said she was a little scared at first but knew that Mom Mom would never hurt her. She was just watching over her. I took her aside a bit later and said 'You didn't tell Pop Pop about it, did you?' and she said that she hadn't. Good thing, I don't know how he'd have reacted!

The funny thing is, I was deliberating wether or not to add this to the forum but sort of passed on it. I was looking at another forum and I felt my hair being mussed with, which as I said has not happened for well over a year. I took it as a sign that she wanted me to, so here is the story.

The year my dad died DH decided to redo a bad spot in some concret using Dad's concret mixer. DH & SIL were working without a permit. (You need a permit to sneeze.) SIL swears to this day that he felt my dad's presence especially when a neighbor several houses down started doing something very noisy at the same times the mixer was running.

One of my then teenaged sons said a naked lady was in the bathroom, but I thought that was wishful thinking.

Two of my other kids said they SAW a smokey looking form come out of the wall. My daughter and husband have heard knocking sounds. Several of us feel like an area of the hall is a little spooky. But most of the time I feel like our house is not scary. Oh, my daughter once saw a piece of paper fly slowly through the air, and our dog was kind of alarmed with it.

One day my husband and I were sitting on the couch and the dog started barking at something invisible in the hall, and backing away from it. That went on for several minutes and was pretty spooky.

Our house used to be owned by people who were partners with the funeral home, which is catty corner from us. Some people have told us they kept dead bodies under our house. The spooky feeling in the hall is near a door that no longer opens, that used to go to the crawlspace. But there's a new ghost show on tv..I forget the name but it's pretty good..Ghost Whisperer I think. She says ghosts don't haunt places, they haunt people. ( authoritative fictional statement)

My son goes out taking pictures of "ghosts" at night. He uses a digital camera, and gets these glowing orbs that can't be explained and can't be seen with the naked eye. He also got a spooky looking picture of a shadowy form with a skeletal look to it over at the funeral home. I'm pretty skeptical of all of it but am not entirely closed to the idea that there could be ghosts. Someone told me digital cameras pick up different kinds of "energy".

My house in Fl was built in 1963, I was told(don't know if true) that the people who owned it in the 70s had a daughter who went out west and got in a bad wreck so they rushed out to see her and were gone a couple of months, when they got back neiborhood kids had trashed the house.It upset them so much they called a Realtor and put it on the market,did not even take their personal stuff even left false teeth by the bed.Their daughter died.We moved in back in 1985 and we have all seen a little girl in the house.Also my daughter used to hide from her dad when he came home from work and he would look for her. One Friday Ronnie came in the door smiling and said where is she, and I asked him where is who? He said where is Jackie, I said she is at her Grandmother's, he said yea right I know she is hiding from me.It took me telling him 3 times no she REALLY isn't here. He turned white as a sheet and flew out to the drive way to look and I asked him what was wrong and he said when he got out of the car a little girls voice said clear as a bell "HI DADDY" He said he thought it was Jackie. I tell you he was shook up and still tells the story.Then one night his brother was living with us, he had a drug problem and we were trying to help him. He slept in the same room as our son who was 12 and they were in bed when my husbands brother said to my son "do you see what I see" he did not explain what he had seen he just asked the question.My son said very quietly yes,what should we do? Paul said I don't know about you but I am going to pull the covers over my head AND GO TO SLEEP. That is what they did.The next morning they both flew out of the bedroom talking at once and my husband told them to stop and took each one aside and asked them what they saw, The both described a man in a robe you could not see his face but he was evil or death.They were as afraid as I have ever seen two people be.I believe God was sending a message to my brother in law that if he did not stop the drugs he was going to die.Whatever it was we stopped seeing the little girl except once in a great while.

My mother says that when I was about 3 years old, we visited a friend's house and I told her I was playing with a ghost. apparently I described exactly what was seen by the friend and also apparently I helped the ghost and she left.
I now live in a 105 year old house, no ghosts seen, but one night me and a friend were workign with our backs to the house, and we heard someone walking up to us on the gravel driveway, we both turned around at the same time to see who was coming... no one was there, we looked at each other and both said at the same time did you hear someone comming?
closest I have come to seeing a ghost.
John

We did in our previous home which was built in the 1920's. Eeery things started happening when we moved in. Doors and drawers being left open even though we know we closed them. Our cat spending endless hours on the third floor howling at something. Voices being heard. The television going on without us touching the remote.

I suspected something; dh was a bit skeptical. I would see shadows against the wall at night. Dh and I finally did see our ghost together when we were awoken by our cat. She was an elderly lady dressed in a nightgown who was standing by my side of the bed with her hand reaching toward me. After that, dh was a true believer.

Dd had a friend for a sleepover who asked us if we were up on the third floor during the night. We weren't; we were sleeping. She heard voices.

I did some research and found out that two maids had died there. One was elderly; the other was young. We lived with these presences for almost 12 years. They were not bothersome but more playful. The entire time, we never had to change the lightbulbs in our fixture in the masterbath. It flickered constantly but never went out.

When we sold the house, we told the new owners about the ghosts. They thought it was rather cool.

You can tell your ghost stories on www.ghostplace.com, they have a forum just for real stories.

Second, I loved to read ghost stories as a kid, but never believed they were real. I thought to myself "Why do people keep writing ghost stories and making ghost movies?" Then I thought "Because it makes money!" So I figured it was all about the money. Until things started happening to me.

Weird unexplainable things, happened mostly at a local abandoned cemetary. One event had 3 other witnesses, another had 4 other witnesses. Another even had 1 witness, and none of us were drinking or using drugs at any time. Plus the local kids all reported they had had some experience at this cemetary. (Teenagers hung out there to party and drink because it was remote.) And many people shared the same story: they heard kids voices and had pebbles thrown at them at night.

The latest dates on the gravestones were about 1920s. Word has it the town became a ghost town after a smallpox epidemic swept through and killed most of the kids and many of the adults. Then the weather went bad and real dry, and the wells dried up. The town was far from any river or stream and they relied on their wells for water. Then, during this very dry season, a fire swept through town. With no water to quench the flames, the whole town burned to the ground. No one bothered to move back.

Yes, I think we do. Both of my sons, when they were around 2 or so, would stand in my bedroom doorway and say 'who's that little girl? Can I go play with her?' to me, both doing this at different times, as they're 4 years apart in age, the second son introduced me one day when I was getting him up from his nap 'this is my momma!' while looking over my shoulder. One night (I swear this happened!) we came home from somewhere, and the entire house smelled of flowers-in January!! I mean it was overwhelming! Those were all okay experiences, if just a little creepy. For a long time, every once in awhile, I'd be downstairs in the livingroom, which is just below the boys' room, and I'd hear this crash, then walking around. The first time I heard it I literally about fainted. I would've put my life on it that someone had broke in up there. I don't know why, but I just froze until my husband got home about 20 minutes later. Don't know why I didn't call the police if I thought someone broke in. The kids were up there sleeping one time when it happened, and I went to check on them, and they were sound asleep. We also have toys that start playing by themselves that are supposed to be motion activated, but I always wrote that off as faulty toys :-) We also have stuff fall off shelves that shouldn't be able to fall. For whatever it's worth, we have a picture with the house in the background, and it looks like there's a face looking out at us. It could very well be reflection, though I don't personally think so. There for all to see is a mans face, complete with wire-rimmed glasses, a goatee and a smile. These happenings don't scare me-except for the first time I heard the crash, anyway. Our old house creeped both of us out though. It just always felt like someone really cranky was there giving us dirty looks. Kids are weird to be around sometimes. My daughter is too young yet, but both boys would say the weirdest things. We aren't really that religious, but the oldest informed us once when he was around 3 or so that he 'spoke to Jesus', and the youngest one piped up one day out of nowhere and informed me that 'sometimes when people die, they forget to say some things'. Looking forward to what the little girl has to say on the subject :-)

Kristeen, your story reminds me of my sister's house which I didn't mention in my own ghost story.

Hers was built in the 1700's. The owners over the years have added to it, but the bedrooms are in the original part - not the same as first built but still original, if you know what I mean. She, too, has had what you described. My niece and nephew have seen children at the foot of their bed at night. Things seem to rattle and shake all the time. And the creepiest thing of all, when my sister and bil remodeled their bedroom and bathroom, both of them saw an image of the rooms as they were back in the 1700's. They were so freaked out that they could hardly explain it.

I never get anything as forward as seeing things as they used to be, Romy. All of the things that have happened here are things that could, if one stretched their brains enough, come from a rational place-the house settling, cheap toys, a child's vivid imagination. I'm a rational person-okay, old houses settle. But try as I might, I can't come up with what on earth would be settling that would cause it to honest-to-pete sound like an intruder broke the window out and is stomping around upstairs. It's this loud crashing noise that makes the windows downstairs shake! I don't usually share these things with anyone because I know they'll just think I have an overactive imagination. I guess the main reason I think it's more than settling/cheap toys/etc. is because there's just this strong feeling when they are here. It comes out of the blue when we least expect it. I know I should be creeped out, but oddly, I'm not anymore. Oldest son must be on to something though-he's now decided that the medicine cabinet must be open at all times.... Overall, I have decided they must be nice. Why on earth they'd want to hang around this nuthouse is beyond me, though ;-)

Since we're on the topic, has anyone ever had an evp or anything like that done? I don't know if I put much faith in that kind of thing, but who am I to say it's not so.