Completely NBR: What do you think about ghosts?

goosh24 · January 2012

A couple of posts from the SAHM board had me thinking about this, do you believe in ghosts? Any experiences?

I don't really have any strong beliefs about ghosts that they do or don't exist. I grew up in an old farmhouse and never had any experiences. This random lady that used to live in my parents house (while she was growing up) told us about how they used to have funerals in what was our living room. We've lived in our house for almost 3 years, and it's almost 200 years old and again no experiences. I'm not complaining that it hasn't happened, but if ghosts do exist, I would have expected it by now.

We have a friend who owns a house that the former owner committed suicide in and there were all kinds of weird stuff going on there, but almost all of it stopped when our friend's fiancee moved out. DH was there for one of the events so I know he's not making it up.

Told you guys this was a completely NBR, random post Smile

Irisheyes1247 · January 2012

A woman at work is having a lot of weird things going on at her house in the past year. It seems connected to her children, because they both moved out in September and things really slowed down and now her son is on break and home for a month and things have started again. When she is telling me the stories, I believe that she believes what she is telling me is real and if things like this happened to me, I would be super freaked out. At the same time, I am not 100% sure I do or don't believ in ghosts and think that because of that, I would be quick to brush experiences off to my own absent-mindedness or something like that.

Ashnmike528 · January 2012

I am one of those "I have to see it to believe it" people, and now I totally believe!

My first experience was in college, I used to work at a pet store in Buffalo. I heard it was haunted, and someone had told me the road it was on was built on or near (I can't remember) an Indian burial ground, but I totally dismissed it as rumor. One night, I was closing with another employee and I heard the sound of kids laughing and running around, right outside the office door, I thought we had locked customers in the store! I poked my head out and there was nothing! The other employee turned to me and said "Now do you believe us?!"

The second time was when DH and I were living at my dad's house for 6 months when we first moved back here. He lives in the middle of nowhere, in a 150+ yr old farm house. The doorbell would ring randomly, the break lights on the cars would go on and off (we could see it from the porch) and the one that still gives me the chills is I was home alone and went to the bathroom, came out, and heard a man sneeze in the kitchen. I thought it was my dad so I said "wow you're home early!" Nothing. No dad, no DH, nobody. Just me and whoever hangs around his house. GOOSEBUMPS!!

missyjg · January 2012

Yes, I believe in ghosts. I've seen both of DH's parents after they passed away, a few different times. It's always been times when it's been really rough in life. I think they are watching over us in a weird way.

And the connecticut street armory in Buffalo: Totally haunted! Well not just by the dealers either. I went to D'youville College and my apartment was right on the other side of the armory next to this old abandoned church. Me and my roommate saw a ghost at the same time while walking by one of the side doors down Niagara street. It was a man, dressed in a military uniform and he literally walked right through the bricks/side of the armory. Freaked us out, we drove the block to school the rest of the time if we had night classes!! That place is creepy.

TinyPinkBug · January 2012

This and my last house were the only ones I have lived in that didn't give me the creeps on a regular basis. I had some issues with one room when we first moved in here, like voices over the baby monitor, curtains moving, door slamming shut or opening on its own... But we realized that the way our garage/driveway line up with our across the street neighbor, it amplifies sound that is further amplified by the large double window so the voices were our neighbors and people walking by. The curtains and door were caused by a passthrough to the attic in the closet that wasn't closed properly. So I moved Bri to a different bedroom and made that one an office, problem solved!

The house I grew up in was very old, 150+yrs and kitty-corner to a cemetary, I swear there was something tormenting me when I was about 12-13. My stuff was always in different places, electronics kept coming on, noises in the walls... I remember calling my dad at work a couple times in tears I was scared. My older sister saw things but not as much as I did, she swears she woke up to eyes staring at her. My dad confided in me when I was older that he thought there was something in the house when we were babies, but in a positive way. He said on many occasions he would put me as a baby in the crib and I would throw out all the blankets and cry, he would come back in to tuck me in after I fell asleep only to find some blankets back in the crib and me all tucked in perfectly. He started to tell other stories, but refrained.

I also lived in a house near SU that I swear had the occasional occurance. There were old cemetaries within a mile in just about every direction. I was afraid to sleep upstairs by myself, bought a futon for the living room and slept on the when DH (then my BF) wasn't there.

All that and I am still not completely convinced that ghosts exist. I think I could just be mildly crazy.

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