Stores have their Halloween stuff out already, so I thought that might provide opportunity for a "lighter" thread than we've seen of late: What ghost/supernatural stories do you have to share?
I'll start with two.
- Though the house we were raised in was haunted according to my many siblings (11 in all) who all said they saw ghosts, usually an old women walking the upstairs hall. I never had any such an experience. But I did notice one day that one of the cats was staring at a corner of the living room, at a spot about five feet from the floor, where we couldn't see anything. So I picked up the cat and started walking with it toward the spot. The cat went spastic as I neared it, its eyes fixated on that spot. When I got close to it, the cat went ballistic to the point I couldn't hold it anymore and it ran from the room.
- Shortly after we married, I told my wife while sitting in an upstairs bedroom of our first house, which was 150 years old, that I thought I could hear a child crying. I later heard it on several occasions, not out loud but sort of in the back of mind mind. Years later, we were at the VFW and I met someone who asked me where I lived (small town, everybody knew where everyone lived.) I told him the address and he turned to me and said he used to live in that same house, and asked if I ever hear a child crying upstairs. I damn near fell out of the chair. And just last year, I discovered in my genealogy research that 100 years ago, an ancestor lived in that same house, and had a 7-year-old daughter who died in an upstairs bedroom of diptheria.
So jump in folks. What do you have for us??