Comments on: ghost stories

By: Cele

Cele — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:40:59 +0000

I believe in spirits. I really don’t have a story, but I love yours.

By: Patricia Barraclough

Patricia Barraclough — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:25:32 +0000

How very lucky you were to have an extra grandmother at your house. I’m sure it was a bit disconcerting, but we just aren’t used to ghosts being an accepted phenomenon. We live in an 1898 victorian farm house. The first night in the house I awoke knowing something was watching from the doorway. Not a threat, just a presence that was welcoming. Our son claims he woke up one night to see a girl about 10 standing near his bed. People who have lived in the house have told us of the white lady that is seen in the upstairs hall before someone dies. Our daughter saw it the night before our cat died. Our middle daughter will not stay in the house. She is the only one who has had a bad experience. She was house sitting with her newborn and sleeping in the family room we added to the old house. She woke in the middle of the night to take care of the baby and felt the hairs on the back of her neck prickle. She felt a threatening presence. When she looked toward the hallway to the old part of the house, there was a green shape taking form. At that point, our lab got up and started growling with her hair on end. The dog headed for the thing in the hallway growling. Just before it got there, the “whatever” vanished. At that point, the dog turned around and came back over to the sofa and my daughter. She won’t stay at our house, but our grandson does all the time. So far, no sightings from him.

By: Jessica Scott

Jessica Scott — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:56:41 +0000

Wow, Toni your story gave me goosebumps.
I haven’t lived with a ghost but I do believe in things beyond the natural. My company went to the St Elijah Monastery last week here in Mosul. Itâ€™s dated to about 600 AD and is still standing despite being used by Iraqi forces and American. Anyway, we were exploring and the time came to move into the actual chapel. As I got closer to it, my lungs seemed to stop working right. I couldnâ€™t take a deep breath and I felt a deep sense of foreboding.
Turns out, the Christian monks had been slaughtered in the late 19th century in the sanctuary. I donâ€™t know if thatâ€™s what I felt or not, but it creeped me out.
I had the same thing happen out front of one our company headquarters, too. We lost a soldier to a mortar attack. I was sitting in the truck out side, waiting for my other half to come out and felt the same sense. Pressure on my chest. Difficulty breathing.
I donâ€™t know if it was something beyond natural or not, but Iâ€™m convinced that something was happening there, reaching out.
I hope that doesnâ€™t come off as crazy but yeah, I believe in ghosts.

By: catie james

catie james — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:05:50 +0000

Wow – just, wow.

By: Karin Tabke

Karin Tabke — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:53:12 +0000

Weeeeel, I kind of sort of do believe in ghosts. I haven’t met any tho’. Not really thinkin’ I want to either. But I think they are out there…

By: Allison Brennan

Allison Brennan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:38:05 +0000

I haven’t encountered a ghost, but I absolutely believe in them. Too many stories and weird events to be random or coincidence. I haven’t met God, but I believe in Him too.

I love a good ghost story. I hope to write some one day . . .

By: Silver James

Silver James — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:01:47 +0000

I don’t think I’ve ever lived in a house that wasn’t haunted. The house I grew up in had a cowboy from the Chisolm Trail hanging around. Our quarters in the Army were…lively. The house we brought The Only home to from the hospital had a friendly ghost who saved Lawyer Guy from getting hurt several times when he’d stumble on the stairs and we’d often hear her talking to him. The house we moved to after that was spook central. Seriously. The second floor landing was like a bus stop or something. Spirits were coming and going all the time. Drove our Newfoundland and Siberian crazy. Our house now is relative quiet, comparatively, though we get the occasional odd haunt passing through.

I should mention that Lawyer Guy’s great grandmother was a medicine woman and had the Gift and there’s a reason I write paranormals, even in my romantic suspenses.

By: Jen Lyon

Jen Lyon — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:11:55 +0000

Toni, loved your story–well except for your son’s colic and your exhaustion. I haven’t run into many ghosts, although I have a couple experiences with my dad who died when I was 13. The weirdest was the time the horse I was riding began to fall. I dove off and as I hit the ground, I head my dad yell, “Roll Jen!” I did and the horse barely missed landing on me.

Never lived in a haunted house though!

By: Roxanne St. Claire

Roxanne St. Claire — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:18:56 +0000

Holy carp, Toni. That story gave me goosebumps. I seriously do not want to believe in ghosts because they scare me. Period. But there are some very strange goings on in my house at times — which, by the way, is practically brand new, built by us 14 years ago, on a piece of land that really isn’t land, but a dredged-up man-made island, so it’s not like we built on ancient tribal burial ground or anything.

I do believe that some people can see or sense ghosts more than others. Unfortunately, one of those people is my daughter, and the evidence of her abilities started before she could talk.

I just don’t want to go there, honestly, but I loved your story and can’t believe you weren’t Freaked Out Of Your Ever Lovin’ Mind.

By: Jill James

Jill James — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:02:10 +0000

I believe in ghosts. I think that the shadow you sometimes see out of the corner of your eye, you turn and nothing is there, is ghosts.

Whenever someone dies in our family I get visited in my dreams just after they pass. I get a final good-bye.