Halloween ghosts and things that go bump in the night?

[Shawn Sunshine]

  Have you ever seen or heard or felt or think you possibly could have been around something Halloweenish?

[Jess42]

I investigate the paranormal at times so yeah. Nothing that ever scared me though. Surprised the crap out of me and maybe rattled my nerves a little, but nothing really scary. Believe me, I am way more scared of the living than the dead.

[Edge]

I think I am something "Halloweenish" all year round.
I'm probably insane though.

[Jessica Merriman]

My career was constantly bombarded by the supernatural. You just can't be around death every single day and not see something weird and unexplained. 

[Edge]

Oh does it count that my mom is a grim reaper? She works in palliative care and... I probably shouldn't say my last name.

[Miss_Bungle1991]

BEWARE OF SPOOKY PORTIA!

[Jess42]

Wow, this is gonna' be one of those interesting threads. I can already see.

[Shawn Sunshine]

Well I can certainely sense when a spirit is around, i can also sense when a living person is walking around with negative energy or positive, some of that could be just my perception of thier body language. But truth be told, i have actually seen something green and floating and moving, near me in the early 90s when i was sleeping near a river in spokane.

[Jess42]

OK what got me into the paranormal was when I was 15 years old in a graveyard that was 5 miles off the main road and the nearest house was five miles on that road. It was at the end of a gravel road with a really old church that was dilapidated and collapsing. A guyfriend took me down there and I won't say what we were doing but not really legal except in Colorado and Washington state now. We say a light flash on a tombstone. I got out of his truck and walked over to that tombstone. I looked for anything that caused the flashes and couldn't find it. Too many trees in five miles of woods for car lights. No one else was around. He was scared, so the "little 15 year old girl" was braver than the two hundred pound 18 year old Billy Bad A$$

We went back the next morning and we tried to find excuses or reasons for any cars coming on the main road. I stayed and he drove all the way back and then came back down the gravel road and I could hear him form a long way off. We went back that night and did the same thing and the headlights from his truck never made a reflection on any of the tombstones. When they did I had already heard him coming from a mile and a half away. But he was scared that whole night and we never saw anything. I had to keep telling him it was all right. I can't believe I dated such a Wuss.

But later. I got stuff on cassette tapes and some stuff on VCR tapes in the way of shadows and doors shutting and mists which I don't even count.

But that is probably about the most unexplainable thing I have ever witnessed. And still say it is strange but paranormal? Can't say. It could have been poachers hunting at night even. But it was a spooky place to be.

[King Malachite]

I've seen demons before and I can feel their presence at times.  It's not a fun thing to go through.  :/

[Devlyn]

My neighbors house was built in the late 1700s and has a cold spot in a corner. It's really weird.

[Shawn Sunshine]

hmm interesting Devlyn, I have felt a cold chill in a hotel room, in Florida of all places and it had a sense of like i could not quite breathe right, woke up next morning to ask if anything strange had happen in that room, the hotel manager said someone was murdered in there. 

[Ally_B]

Well, I live in a house where a guy murdered his wife and daughter about 15 years ago. My father passed away here six months ago. I sense/feel odd stuff all the time, but I'm not convinced that that doesn't have something to do with the natural geography of the house, my mental state, etc, etc.... ie, logical scientific expalnations.

I tend to be quite skeptical by nature.... HOWEVER.... About two/three years back, we received some mail addressed to the murderer who used to live here. It was just from the traffic authority asking if he wanted to update his licence (now THAT is bureaucratic efficiency, is it not?). At the time, I didn't know that that was the killer's name (we knew there'd been a double homicide at the house, but the locals were quite hush-hush about it) and idly tossed it on the coffee table while I attended to more pressing things.

The following day, I came home from work after a rough day at work and sat on the couch. All of a sudden, the light in the centre of the room started swinging violently. The shade that was over it slid off the fixture and shattered. I'm not certain my feet touched the ground as I ran outside and called a friend to come and get me.

When I came home later that night, I researched the name on the letter and BINGO! it was the killer's name. The first thing I did was get straight up and throw that letter in the bin.... The bin a few doors down the street. The light has never swung like that since.... and on the odd occasion I get any mail with his name on it, it goes straight in the outdoor garbage.

Give the placement of this room in the household, both my father and I could find no logical reason as to why the light should have done that. It's smack dab in the centre of the house and there is basically no airflow through here at all, let alone something that could have made the light swing in such an extreme manner. Even looking up in the ceiling, there is no way that the light could have been rigged to act that way.

I'm not one to say "it was definitely ghosts" or anything like that.... All I know is that something really bizarre happened and the evidence seems to point in a certain direction. Make of that what you will....

[big kim]

One very cold winter afternoon I wandered round the grounds of Oakley Court,often used in Hammer horror films.It definitely had a spooky feel to it and I began to feel very uneasy and edgy,also very sad.I started crying and left and started to feel better.About 2 years later I read about Oakley Court's history of unexplained drownings(in Oakley Court now a hotel and the river Thames which flows through the grounds) and the sinister hooded figures seen nearby.

[Jess42]

Not to take some of the fun out of it, but high EMFs will make a person paranoid, give them rashes, give them hallucinations and so on if they are sensitive to high electromagnetic fields. A clock radio or any appliance that is older or going on the fritz can put out extremely high EMFs, ceiling fans, older houses built before electricity was common and wired later or a lot of houses that were built about the time electricity was becoming common in homes. Old wiring is really a big culprit. Not to mention rodents chewing through the insulation on wiring. Microwave towers, cell phone towers and radio towers in close proximity can create an EMF hot spot. But there are still things that go bump in the night that are pretty well unexplainable and I am an extreme skeptic and been in some really weird places and 90% of the time I can find a physical cause. Out of that 90% about half I can attribute to physical mixed with parapsychological causes. But there is that 10% though. Even living really close to one of the most haunted cities in the US, with Ghost tours , yeah right. Even been on one and let's just say I got my money back and am not welcome anymore. Never fall for ghost tours when you come to New Orleans.