Your ghost stories...

eeww scary. I havent got any stories, but Id be interested to hear of anyone elses!

In my flat in London there was one bedroom where the person who had that room never slept very well, we couldn't figure out why.
Anyway, my dad was over visiting and my flatmate was away so he slept in his bed. In the middle of the night he woke up to a feeling that someone was stroking his face, thought my other flatmate was coming on to him or something anyway he saw nothing and went back to sleep. Then when he got up in the morning the shoelaces of his shoes had been tied together which he would never had done, again he just thought my flatmate was playing a practical joke on him. He never mentioned either incident to DH or I but did tell my brother when he went home who eventually told me.

When we were moving out of the flat the landlord said to me "so did you have any weird happenings", having forgotten about my dad's incident I said no. He said "well you know the place has a ghost" to which I gave him a sceptical look. Anyway, he said that the little room has a ghost resident that many people have encountered (he lived there before he rented it out) and that they think it is a spirt of a child because it would do playful things like hide things, turn things upside down and.... tie your shoelaces together. He also said that lots of people commented that they would wake up in the night with a feeling that someone was tugging on them or touching their face.......

He did not know about my dad, up until then I had totally forgotten about it. So, I never believed in ghosts but what he described was exactly what dad had said, they'd never met and nobody had spoken with the landlord as I was the one who had contact with him.

I have multiple! I'll come back here in the dark of the night and relay some of them....

I should start this story by saying that i don't believe in ghosts at all. And explain that i work in a large hotel and currently live in shared accomodation - and at the time of this story i lived in a block of single rooms w/ ensuite, about 30 rooms in the one building.

So i was walking home, and about 5m ahead of me was a girl - i dawdled back because i was tired and didnt want to make that awkward conversation you have to when you end up walking with someone. Then, just at the entrance to my block she.....vanished!! It was dark, and i'm a total wuss so i bolted right past the doorway, heading for the next block my friend was in. As i paused to open the door the small tree next to the doorway broke in half!! It was a windy night but the tree was sheltered by the L shape of the building, no way it was a wind gust. I fled to the safety of my friends room - he said he has never seen me so white or worked up. Again - i don't believe in ghosts, but i was only 5m behind this girl and she looked SO REAL.

As an aside, the hotel i work for is historic, and we are right in the middle of nowhere (mt cook national park) and we have a couple of local ghosts. After telling people the story of my vanishing girl they casually mentioned a housekeeper killing themselves in that building and that she is seen often!

There is also a man ghost who haunts the bridge (of all places) and the 8th/9th floor of the hotel. Apparently he was a hiking guide here (for the nutters that want to climb Mt Cook) for over 20 years and when he died just never left. Cars are known to stall or have electronic faliure when driving over the bridge - it happened to us once at night, if i wasnt with friends i would have filled my pants.

Some time ago an elderly woman broke her ankle - she awoke in the middle of the night to see a ghost (suspected by staff to be the man mentioned above) in her room, she jumped out of bed and hurt herself.

I am a total sook - but all this sort of stuff gives me the creeps, man.

ETA: a link that talks about the ghost of mt cook Darby

Also, just totally creeped myself out.

Edited by bowie

I've got a couple, mostly from DH, his Dad passed away 6yrs ago and he likes to play tricks on the family since he passed! The first thing happened to DH on the afternoon of his funeral, he was in the toilet and didn't lock the door but when he went to open the door it was locked, noone could open it so they pulled the lock off (and never put it back on) everyone else was outside and it could only be locked from inside.
Another time when we went down to stay a couple of years ago, the car was parked in the driveway with the doors locked and headlights switched off, keys were inside the house, we went outside the next morning and discovered the headlights were on but the knob was still switched off, as soon as we grabbed the keys the lights went off again.
And finally, on our wedding day we had a 1957 chevy as our wedding car that belongs to a family friend, after the ceremony when we were heading away to have photos the horn started tooting then stayed on, we pulled over and the driver had to unplug it, he didn't start tooting in the first place!! Told S-MIL about it afterwards and the said it was the sort of thing he would do.

This happened when I was 11 or 12, didn't actually see a ghost, but was equally as freaky!

I was hanging out at a friends place and we were sitting on the end of her bed just talking.. in front of us was a white bookshelf with a few books etc and a lamp right up on top. It wasn't really used so it wasn't plugged in. All of a sudden the lamp goes flying off the top of the shelf into the opposite wall, smashing the bulb before falling on the ground. It gave me a bit of a fright, but I thought maybe my friend had accidentally got the cord wrapped around her foot and made it fall somehow. Then I realised the cord went down behind the bookshelf, (the opposite wall was only a few feet away from the bookshelf, and the plug itself was still stuck between the bookshelf and the wall), so it wouldnt have been able to get tangled up with her foot.   

Anyway, we jumped up on the bed to have a look on top of the bookshelf, we thought maybe it could have been sitting a bit too close to the edge or something and just fallen.. and right there through the middle of the dust we could see 4 long lines, as if somebody had run their fingers all the way through it.

The whole thing was just really creepy. I still get the heebie jeebies just thinking about it now!   

ok.. some of these are really freaky!! mines not and Im going to try and type this without crying

My Mum died almost 4 years ago, from melanoma, when she was a bit out of it on morphine she would talk about a monkey in the tree. A few days after she had died I was feeding my 5 week old nephew in his room, and he stopped, like was distracted by something on the wall, I looked up and it was a toy, a monkey in a tree.
And I could smell my mums perfume, and I think I just smiled, I wasnt scared, I kinda figured she still be in the house

I nursed mum through the last month, she was really only 'sick' for that long, and over the years we hadnt had the best mother /daughter relationship, so it really helped me heal. I held her as she took her last breath, and slumped into me, and while the family surrounded her, bursting into tears and saying goodbye, I felt the most over wheming feeling , like she had left through me , I cant think of any other way to describe it. It was a nice feeling. At the time to be honest I thought maybe relief, or she was maybe letting me now she felt better at once.

At her funeral I played her a song, 'the universe and I' one line says, and when your alone I will send you a sign.

I hadnt had children then, and infact, 8 months later we concieved Milla, on what would have been my mums 51st birthday. As some of you may know, we almost lost our little girl, she has a serious heart condition. It took me a few months to allow myself to breath out and realise how much I loved her, and oneday alone in my room gazing at my beautiful little baby girl, I felt that same feeling. My mum had left me with a parting gift like no other, the love of a mother.



Edited by Raspberryjam

What an interesting thread!

My Mum and Dad brought a real run down house when I was a baby and an old lady had died there, one night mum woke up and saw the old lady sitting on the end of their bed! Mum said she was not frightened (God only knows why!), After they had done the house up with an extension they never saw her again!

The other night I got freaked out I was up feeding Belle in the lounge and our laptop was on the dinning table, I happened to see it light up and turn on! Then it logged on and opened up something I very quickly finished up feeding Belle and went running in to DH and told him something wss going on with the computer he went and checked apparently it was only doing some update or something! Dumb me!  Freaked me out tho!