ghost stories

i get into this around halloween...anyone have any good (and true!) unexplainable stories to share?

I have a couple...my mother (when I was a baby) was driving with me in the passenger seat.  She went past a small lake near our house and glanced over at it.  For a split second she says she saw an old wwII plane hovering over it, then it was gone.  She swears this is true to this day...i gotta believe her.

When i couldn't sleep one night after fighting with my boyfriend (now husband) i was looking out the window and a light flashed from pretty far away, then again brighter and closer to the window...it was a really 'white' light, like a huge star and took up about 1/3 of the space in the window.  Anyway, the next morning (after being significantly freaked out by it) I looked out the window and figured I'd be able to see the sky from there, but there were trees blocking the view, so whatever it was it was in our backyard floating around (i was on the second floor).

ha ha ha...very funny

 

I am fascinated by ghostly stuff too and anything supernatural. I can also freak myself out a bit sometimes. Mainly because I am a strong believer in the forces of good and evil - probably something to do with a Catholic childhood? Anyway I am terrified of evil spirits and I do realise not all spirits are bad and I wouldn't mind an encouter with a "friendly" ghost. However I could never do a Ouija board or similar just in case. In nature there are opposite or opposing forces in most things, predator and prey etc and I think the same goes for the supernatural - there is too much unexplained bad and good events that happen to people. Okay I am alone in the building at work so better go now before I freak myself out!

This happened when I was very little, around 3 years old or so.

I remember it really well, like it happened yesterday. I used to live in a 30 foot trailer in the Foothills of the Sierra Nevadas with my parents. My Dad was a gold miner back then, so we lived up there so he could mine easier. I had the main 'bedroom' area in one end of the trailer, and tehre were three small steps up to that area, and a folding acordian like door that closed it off when I wanted privacy.

It was late and I was in bed, watching my parents play cards in the kitchen, which was maybe 3 feet from the foot of the steps. I could see what cards my Dad was holding, as he had his back to me. They were playing poker, and I remember thinking my Dad was gonna win (he taught me really young haha). The windows were covered in condensation from how warm it was inside versus the cold outside, and they were all locked from the inside.

I remember feeling something cold on my back, so I rolled over, not really thinking anything of it. We didn't have any inside pets, so I should have known something wasn't right, but I wasn't freaked out until I saw him. There was a pale white boy with a blonde bowl cut and pale blue eyes lying in the bed next to me. He smiled at me, just a small baby toothed grin, and I flipped. I screamed and scrambled out of the bed, hit the floor and rolled down the stairs.

My parents of course, were up in a flash, as I was pointing and screaming at my bedroom hysterically, "THE BOY THE BOY!"

They never found anything. No sign of a boy, nothing on either side of my bed, in my closet, and the windows were still locked tight, with no handprints or streaks or anything. The doorway I rolled out of is the only exit other than the windows from that bedroom, and we were there the whole time.

I remember looking at the cards that they had hastily tossed on the table, and remembering that they were the same ones. IF I had fallen asleep, it was only for a split second.

I don't think I did though. His smile was way too real.

Well, I can be prone to hallucinating, but there was one thing that happened when I was thirteen, before that kicked in...I was hiking with a group of kids from school in northern Arizona, and across a gorge was a ledge with a small cave opening, but no one was there. And then all of a sudden I saw this whole vivid scene, miners coming in and out of the cave, with pickaxes and such, pack mules, women in those long "frontier" type dresses cooking over a fire. And then they were all suddenly gone. I don't think I hallucinated, I think I saw some glimpse of what had been there in the past, this was an area that people mined in at one point.

I was reading these stories and the phone rang and scared the crap out of me. Thanks.