I do not like ghosts...I do not like ghost stories...I wont go see any movie that is in the least bit "ghosty" any more - last scary movie I saw was "Damien" - I couldn't sleep for a week with out the lights on - we lived on the edge of a cornfield with mature oaks and it was windy, fall & scary --- in the movie, the wind blew when bad things were going to happen....you can imagine my fear!!!! Only exception since high school was "Ghost"....and that one took me a long while to watch all the way thru while cowering on the couch under a blanket - good thing my younger brother & his wife were in the room!!!).......
I don't know what kind of sick fascination made me click on this thread and read all your stories..I won't be able to sleep tonight without the lights on......here's mine....these aren't really haunted "places"...just hauntings that have occured throughout my life.....
My first memory of encounters with the spirit world was when I was 4...I slept downstairs in a wonderful room all by my self - my 2 older brothers were across the hall, my little brother was upstairs (little sister wasn't born yet)....one morning I'm having a dream that someone is in my room...I wake up because I'm being poked in the back near my right shoulder blade, and I started crying because when I looked no one was there, but I could "feel" someone in the room with me....between then & college this same spirit visited me many times...scarin
g me so much that many nights I slept with the lights on just so "he" wouldn't visit...don't ask how I knew it was a "he"....many times the weight of the spirit would have me pinned in the bed - unable to move and so scared my scalp would crawl & I could hardly speak to try to call for help...when I started praying to Jesus for help...everyth
ing would go back to normal....I get to college, freshman year and the number of "visits" goes way up....on night before I'm supposed to go on a canoe camping trip...the spirit visits in the middle of the night, I wake my roommate & best friend up crying out for help, she turns the light on & no one is there....neith
er of us got much more sleep....I leave for the trip, she goes back to sleep & is woken up by the spirit sitting on her bed & patting her legs....she freaks & calls an older friend who is a pychic to come & help...when I get back from the trip the 3 of us plus my roommate's bf get together & the psychic asks me to "call" the spirit...I asked her if she were nuts!!! I've been terrified everytime this thing visited for nearly 14 years.....afte
r arguing that I have no clue how to call it - she says just to think about the last time it came....needle
ss to say, as she goes into a trance, I think about the last "visit" and next thing....there "he" is....terrifyi
ng pressence & all, and her arm makes a grab & catches him....she later told me that "he" had been pestering me that whole year to make me call her 'cause he had something to tell her and could only speak thru her.....it get's wierder....psy
chic says his name is "Kerathalon" and he was a gladiator for my family in Roman times...he worshipped the ground I walked on and just wanted to be with me & had no idea that he was nearly frightening me to death......goo
d thing is that after he realized he was scaring me, he only visited a couple of times more...
I have dreams that come true years before the event happens....dej
a vu is such a common part of my existence that it doesn't surprise me anymore....
(My oldest brother knows who is on the phone when it rings & likes to freak people out by saying hello to them before they say anything .... this has been happening way before caller id!!)
I've seen demons outside my windows looking in - after that started happening, I started praying a hedge of protection around the house & making sure that the blinds were shut!!!
I've seen a demon sitting on the roofline of my neighboor's house (they didn't like my dogs, so I thought that was poetic justice) - they weren't happy people, & they gave away their 10 year old's dalmation when he chose to live with his mother instead of them (father & step-mother)
I've seen Jesus (that was a life changing experience for the better AND IS NOT A GHOST STORY!!!)
When I went to Ireland this past Feb for a church retreat, I had nightly visits from demons that were trying to disrupt the retreat....
 Praying was the only thing that made them go away...
When I put Sammy Jo (my horse) down because she had an extremely arthritic "ankle" joint, it was terrible - she was happy hobbling around munching grass, I let the vet convince me that this was no life for a horse & made the terrible decision....it was only supposed to take 2 injections - he scared her (she was head shy) when he put the iv in her neck & she fought the drug - took 5 injections...w
ith me crying hysterically & trying to comfort her....when she drew her last breath & her heart stopped, I had a vision of her - she was standing, whole & healthy & happy in a meadow with green hills behind it....I knew she was okay & although I grieved (still do) her passing...I know she is in a better place....
When Miko died in the spring of '04, he came and visited me in church - I was sitting there missing him dreadfully the first Sunday after I'd had to put him down (old age, arthritis & a herniated lumbar disc that eventually paralyzed his back legs) and he was there, jumping up & licking my face & going crazy with joy to be there with me....he also visited me later in the week as I was driving to work....he liked to ride "shot-gun" - it was his seat & no one was allowed to sit there except him when he was in the car....this morning, just like in church, he was there - sitting in his seat, & leaning over to lick my right ear, then laying his head across the console & leaning it on my hand as it rested there....
A good friend's father died & I went to the wake & funeral...I could sense the friend's father in the room at the wake...he was angry & came & talked to me a couple days while I was driving home from work....seems he thought I was a relationship threat for his son & son's wify....I told him to go check with Jesus & that I don't date married men (or those that have SO's).....and he left the car pronto.....
After being terrified by "Kerathalon" for all those years while growing up, and seeing demons as a grown-up, I don't like ghosts or their stories...I think they are sad spirits that chose to remain here instead of going to a better place.....
 Pray for them y'all - they need all the help they can get!
Added later:
Oh, and how could I forget? At my Grandmother's (Dad's side) funeral I saw her & Gr'pa standing there holding hands & watching us....and my grandmother on my mom's side visited after she died to tell me that she loved me.....
All of the above is Wierd - yes! and True - yes!
