Ghost stories?

[Dodge7]

Uh, no, I am not talking about Norton Ghost. Seeing it is close to the 31th, I thought I would start a thread for ghost stories - that you all have experienced or that a person you knew experienced.

One of the more dramatic stories was told to me by a co-worker at a defense company. This guy was in his 40s and one of the most down to earth people I knew. I remember being quite surprised that he believed in the paranormal - and then he told me why:

In early 1970s he had bought a house outside of Seattle that was in a fairly remote location. It had been built in the early 1900s or so, had gotten run down, and he was going to refurbish it. It was a typical old style house, two stories, with keylocks for all the rooms, and a covered porch.

He had a German Sheperd that at first stayed out on the porch. At first, eveything was fine and he got on with fixing the place and such. Then one evening he was in bed reading [on the second story] when he heard his dog start barking. The dog keeps barking and them suddenly yelps and is quiet. He gets out of bed, goes down stairs and out to the porch and finds the dog huddled in a corner obviously frightend [not like this dog to be frightened of anything he tells me]. He wondered if a person didn't hit the dog or throw a rock and hit it... but that seems unlikely since he is in a fairly remote location, where people don't pass through.

A few weeks go by.. this time the dog is sleeping in the kitchen. He is about asleep or asleep when he hears these noises coming from downstairs, like things being moved around. So he goes downstairs. First he finds the dog was on the stairs, once again terribly frightened. And then he finds the dog left a trial of "droppings" when it ran out of the kitchen, over to the stairs. It must have been totally freaked out by ... whatever. He goes into the kitchen. The iron pot belly stove, that came with the house, was moved several feet across the floor. He said it was heavy and it took two guys to move it, it didn't just slide across the floor. And he could find no sign that anyone got into the house. As I said, he is a down to earth guy, he thinks this is interesting, but didn't think too much about it.

A few weeks, maybe months go by. Once again he is in his room reading or watching TV. He hears a from downstairs, from the room almost directly below him, a lot little sounds, sort of a tinkling sound. That is followed by a loud "wham" sound.

He goes downstairs. At first everything looks find. Then he unlocks a room right below his bedroom [he kept the interior rooms locked for extra security]. This is a room he had been working in, fixing and painting. He had found a bunch of old costume jewerly lying around so it put it in one of those old time heavy metal ash trays that was in the house. First he notices the costume jewerly is scattered all around the floor of the room. That was the first noise he heard. Then he starts looking for the ash tray...he notices the metal ash tray is *flattened* on the floor. That was the "wham" noise he heard. He said there was no way a person could have just flattened that metal ash tray. Especially in one jump. Morever, he checked the window, it was still painted shut, and he knew the door to the room was locked.

At this point he turned all the lights on in place and just sat on the stairs, trying to figure out what was going on, but this time he "got the creeps".

He actually stayed in the place a few years, mostly becuase the phenomenal stopped right after the above incident, with one or two lessor events occuring. Personally, I don't think he actually let himself consider the implications until after he got out of the house.

Dodge

[Dodge7]

what, not even a comment?

[Force Flow]

Have a little patience. Wait a day or two. It's only been a few hours.

[Jaggannath]

Much though I'd love to contribute, I don't have any stories to tell

[DragonNOA1]

I just saw some ghost stories on "Unsolved Mysteries." They were kinda creepy. And even though I know I would be scared to death, I still want to go to a REAL haunted house.

Edit:
I did just remember 2 stories my old babysitter told me, who was very religious. I'll keep it short.

She said she knew someone that had a ghost in their house that would make the corner of their bed wet and just sit in front of the fireplace in a rocking chair and just rock.

Another one was more agressive and actually happened to her. She had curtains move while watching them! And cassette players play with no batteries in them! She even said once that while in bed it felt like hands were under the mattress touching her and one time even had the spirit throw her off a couch! She said she did an exercism (sp?) and that got rid of everything. I believe her too, she was an older lady who was very religious. I need to give her a call. That's some creepy stuff.

[Punked Out Comp]

Wow! I have a feeling thats bs but thats because this is the internet and Im not very trusting on the net. However there are also very respected truthful people on this site, soo I dont know what to think.

[DragonNOA1]

I'm the same way, won't believe it until I see it. But then I wonder, do I really wanna see it? I would call the person who told me that stuff but she lives all the way across the country and it would be weird to call and just say tell me some ghost stories. When I talk to her again I'll post back to this thread, whenever that may be.

[Dodge7]

I probably should have called this "paranormal stories" since "ghost" is a pre-defined concept.

punked out: It is good to be skeptic, escp concerning anything on the net. I am still amazed by peopole who repeat things on they read on the web... or the same disproven rumors, that they haven't checked.

I can relate that a pretty down to earth person told me this story, but you only know me through the internet which means you have it more difficult to decide if the story is possibly true at all.