Just interested to hear anyones personal stories about their encounters with ghosts!!

MM,
I had a ghost cat at my last apartment in 2004. I worked nights as a security officer on a gambling ship. I slept during the day. One day I had just layed down and closed my eyes, when I felt the cat jump up on the bed. This wasn't out of the ordinary, because I have two cats that sleep with me all the time. I felt the cat walk next to my legs and lay down. It started purring. I felt the vibration. I didn't actually hear it. So I reached down to pet it, but there was nothing there! I opened my eyes to see if one of my cats was in the room, but it wasn't. The door was still closed. After that the cat visited me all the time. I had to move out later that year because the apartment was unlivable after the hurricanes. I guess the cat is still there because it hasn't happened since I moved.

Sunlion

That's pretty amazing! I've heard of animal spirits inhabiting places, but never experience one myself!

That's pretty amazing! I've heard of animal spirits inhabiting places, but never experience one myself!

That's pretty amazing! I've heard of animal spirits inhabiting places, but never experience one myself!

Ghost cat, maybe that's the kind of ghost I had when I was a teenager. For about a year I had the same thing, I could feel something jump on my bed and lay down, but when I looked there was nothing there. The funny part was that all of a sudden it just stopped happening to me, and when it did my sister started to have it happen to her! So we had a ghost just passing through, cuz after awhile it left her too.

I have a bunch of stories. This one always stands out in my memory. When my mom was a little girl in the Philippines, she had a nanny/maid who she was very close to. Years later, we're living in California, I was about 7 years old, and my mom got a call telling her her nanny had just died. I remember I was wide awake several nights in a row and I could hear my mom scrubbing the kitchen floor. So one morning, I asked her, "why do you keep scrubbing the floor in the middle of the night?" She asked, "someone is scrubbing the floor at night?" I said yes. Then she looked kind of happy and smiled and said it was her nanny coming to take care of us. I don't know if that counts as a ghost haunting, but I remember it fondly.

When i was younger i use to live in Carlisle which is in the north. According to my parents i use to talk and play with people who could not been seen, i also would wake up at night and complain about a marching sound outside. Where i use to live was very close to Hadrian wall so i could of heard roman marching.

Where i live now we have a resident spirit called Ivy who was the previous owner of the house. although i cant see her i can some time see shaddow going around the house usually in the form of a person but also a cat has been seen. Things have been going missing and turning up in diffrent places and our pets act strangly at times by stareing at walls or barking at corners and runnig away in fright.
When we first moved in my little brother saw a white figure hugging my sister kim and thought it was my mam.
Also if i whtch a scary film or action film when something happens the screen goes off or very fuzzy like signal interference. so i presume Ivy doesnt like those sort of things.
I dont think she is here to harm anyone as when she was alive she loved kids and animals and liked playing pranks.
There you have my ghostly experences so far.
I hope for my birthday i can go on a ghost walk in scotland.

I too have a story about a wonderful encounter with a spirit.About 4 months after my mom passed away I was cleaning our library/office putting away all my moms health books . I turned around and ran my hand along the bindings of the books I had just put on the shelf,when I took one out and open it I suddenly could smell my moms perfume,I thought the smell was coming from the book,so I smashed my face into the book thinking it was the book ,it wasn't the perfume smell was all over the room,I felt so loved right at that moment,I carry that memory with me always.

After my cat "Luna" crossed, she would often jump up on the bed. She still does this three years later and with 2 new cats in the house!

An on-line friend sent her ferret's spirit to me, just to visit on his way to the Rainbow Bridge and I saw him several times over a period of three weeks before he moved on.

In my parents' home, there are three spirits. An older lady in floor length blue dress and a young couple. The couple often appear in the livingroom and the young man has appeared at the front door in WW II Army uniform. In this guise, he has also been seen by an uncle by marriage.

Blessings,

We had a house spirit for quite awhile. I would hear it every so often. Mostly it would call out "Mom..." from another part of the house. Less often, I would hear it say, "look at me" or "watch me". I didn't say too much to the family because this sort of thing doesn't sit well with most of them.
One morning, as my husband and I were lying in bed, I heard her say "Mommy..." I sat up a little but laid back down My husband then said, "Is (our son) up already?" He wasn't, of course. After that my husband didn't think I was so crazy anymore.
What is more odd though, when I told my mom about "the voice"
she asked what does it say. I said just that it calls me "Mom" like it wants to tell me something.
My mother who isn't easily drawn into spiritual possiblities got a scared look on her face.
She said she was dreaming a few nights before our conversation and a young girl kept saying "Grandma, look at me. Look at me."
I feel I've made peace with this spirit daughter. It's been much more quiet. I think she just wanted to connect and put some things to rest.

Interesting stories guys!

My 'ghost' experiance sounds like something out of Toy Story. When I was young, I'd go to sleep with all my toys put away and sometime I'd wake up to find them moved around the room, as if someone had been playing with them. It varied from just one or two, and always the animal/people toys.

Only one moved without fail every single time. It was a china doll an aunt had brought me from an antiques store that I wasn't actually allowed to play with, it just sat on a shelf to 'look pretty'. She should have been a lovely thing, bone white china with very realistic red hair and ickle glasses. But something about her always freaked me out. I had two other dolls and they never did, and it was something I could never put my finger on - that doll just radiated sadness.

One day when my mother was busy downstairs so she couldn't catch me, I played with the doll though. Then another day I took her outside with me when I went climbing trees and riding my bike. I was only little, but I sort of figured she was sad because she was not supposed to be played with. But the sense of sadness just grew and grew until I begged for her and the other dolls to be put away in the attic (long before any of my other toys). I can recall wrapping a red ribbon around her hands, because I used them as lucky charms and friendship bracelets back then. I had no idea magic was more than just in storybooks and on television then because I was only about 8 or 9 and raised in a very cynical house - but I do recall bringing in small tree branches and pebbles and small childish charms to chase the sadness away.

Nothing in my room ever moved after the doll was put away and now she's gone. I've given the doll to someone I know who was interested in it after asking my aunt if I could (didn't want her to think I spurned the childhood gift). They think it's hunted by a ghost of a lonely child and they keep it in their study - their papers supposedly move unless they keep some altar stones in a ring around the doll.

I really don't know what to think about it but it's a relief that the negative feeling is gone from our home.

here is the most recent experience. and when i mean recent i mean today.
i got up about 7.10 to throw the dog and the cat outside as i would normally do. i went into the utilityroom which is at the back of the house. i then heard someone say hello. it was like a loud whisper. i looked around to see if any of my sisters were up talking to me. there was no one up andi was a lone except for the cat and the dog.

I decide to look out side in the street to see if anyone had shouted but still there was no one.
then one of my sisters enters the room asking if I was shaking her bed last night. (my sister has a room upstairs by herself and mine is downs stairs and we dont go into each others room due to very diffrent taste.)
I told her that it wasnt me as i was in my room all night which of course was true.

then before i went for the bus to college i said good bye to my mam, when my brother asked my y i was lying on my mam bed last night. i said no as i didnt. he then went to say they it looked like me but i had longer hair. my mam asked him a bit more about it and told him not to worry about it. and then i went to college and have haed a feeling that was been followed all day untill about lunch time.

what do you think to this?
i wounder if it is caused by the sword i got for my birthday as i put it up sunday night before i went to bed. the sword is a wooden alkido training sword and itb is hanggind above my door the only place that is out of reach of my brother and sister.

We had a female spirit in one of the communal houses I lived in that loved to walk through walls and just wake up the men in the house! We women would sleep right through it, but the guys would sit bolt upright in bed throughout the house, all within minutes of each other, and describe a young woman in an old-fashioned white (high neck, non see-through) night gown who would walk in through the wall carrying an oil lamp, look around, and then leave.

We nicknamed her "Amy" and enjoyed her visits. (The women would see her when they were awake or when their male counterparts awakened the women when they were awakened by Amy.) We asked her several times if there was something we could do for her, if she needed help crossing over; you know, the usual; but she seemed to just want to hang out with all of us. She didn't speak, just nodded to yes or no questions. She didn't seem to go with anyone when we all moved, so maybe she is there still, visiting the current owners. We miss Amy!

I've always had a lot of spirits around me. A hooded figure appeared outside my childhood bedroom and that cat would not come near. Faces would appear in the pine and oak trees. Shortly after my mum died, in 98, felt someone drape a warm blanketed cloth over me as I began to fall asleep.

Some of them followed me from florida to missouri, especially the shadows forms and shadow people. I lived in an apartment with my husband for a year or two before we moved into our house. I used to feel and hear someone walking around the apartment. One night when my husband was asleep and I was on the computer, everything was silent until the lamp started shaking and i heard someone running down the hallway, of course I didn't see anyone.

In the house its different. Some of the shadows are still around, but since living here, have attracted all sorts of entities. Sometimes spherical orbs beam over my left shoulder or hover in the kitchen. Sometimes even the shadows beam like orbs. We have also heard a rapping from outside our bedroom door when both of us have been in the bedroom. When I'm alone and downstairs I hear people walking around upstairs. Often times, the basement is rife with the scent of cigars, when neither of us smoke. There's often the feeling of something touching my hand or poking a finger at my shoulder, especially at bedtime.