Has anyone here actually had a ghostly experience?

Not exactly ghostly but a bit weird...last year I was sat downstairs watching TV, I was in the corner so there was no way anyone could have been behind me, I felt something pulling my hair, it couldn't have been me because I had my arms crossed, and was sat completely still. Now my hair is only just passed my shoulder so there's no way I could have caught it between my arm or something, & it carried on for about 5 seconds, then it stopped. Was really rather strange.

I've got loads, I'll share them with you when I can bothered to type it all out


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Five years ago, when I was 26 y.o. and single, I lived in a cute little duplex which I absolutely loved; it was the most light and airy apartment I'd ever seen. A couple months after I moved in I had a terrible experience, the most horrifying experience of my life actually. I woke up in the middle of the night (it was 3 AM) and I was lying on my left side. As I awakened fully, I could feel an arm draped over my body (from behind me) and it was caressing my breasts. I became aware that there was a wind blowing in the room -- not whooshing wind, just a soft breeze; I had bangs at the time and it kept blowing my bangs gently against my temples. There were no windows open or fans of any kind on. I was so scared I couldn't move. I could feel the arm draped over my right side and it was just gently rubbing my breasts. I started to pray for God to please make this stop and I think I also stirred a little; after about 10 seconds the arm pulled back and I felt the mattress "give" a little, and then the breeze stopped blowing in the room.

I couldn't move, I just laid there wide awake and completely scared out of my mind for about half an hour. Then I got up my courage, and I reached over and turned my lamp on, got dressed, grabbed my keys and purse and left the house. It was about 3:30 AM and I got in my car and drove to my dad's house and he stayed up with me for the duration of the night. I was completely upset and freaking out. I never went back inside the apartment, but I did call the land-lady to find out about the history of the house and she said it was built in the 1920s and that when she and her teenage son were cleaning the house to prepare it for rental, her son claimed to have seen a black mist form out of thin air in the living room of the other unit in the duplex (the house was originally one home but it was made into two units). Anyway, that night was the most frightening experience of my life. I did not believe in ghosts until I experienced it myself, and to all those who do not believe, I will say that I understand your skepticism of the paranormal, but once you have a spontaneous experience like the one I had, you have no choice but to believe.

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I've got a couple.

my mum passed away 6 years ago, i was 18 at the time, abt a month after her death there was a really bad thunderstorm(from when i was a kid till abt 15 i hated thunderstorms) i was lying in bed crying and i felt the bed go down and felt someone lean over and hug me, it made me jump up and i felt the impression in the bed go just afta i sat up.

a year after her death, my sister, bother and i was all standing in the kitchen, i looked over to the door and there was a mist travling very slowly out of the kitchen in to the hall way in the top right hand corner, my sister looked up and saw it 2. (we wasnt cookin and didnt have the ketle on either so it wasnt down to that)

in the house we used to live in when i was a kid, we moved out when i was 6. we had a living room and a dining room. i used to always go in the dining room at night with the dog and sit under the table in the dark and everytime i was in there a figure would apear at the window and just stand there, i did run and tell my parents many times but they didnt belive me even when the dog was barkin and growling at it like crazy they just thought it was me playin games. Now i would have said this could have pro been a weirdo that wud do this and stand at a window. but to get to the back garden you had to go thru the house, there was a 8ft fence all the way round and the other side of them fences was other ppl's gardens. the figure just always seemed to pop up from the left and just stand in the centre of the window, and it always happened after i had been sitting in there for abt 5mins.

A few years ago I was a manager in a sports shop here in Dublin. The building is about 200 years old and there were a few stories going around about hauntings there, which I took with a pinch of salt (including one of the ghosts of some rebel prisoners who, it's said, were shot in the basement by British soldiers in 1916.)!

On this particular night I was locking up the store with another manager when I remembered I hadn't locked the offices upstairs. The back staircase in the building stretches four of the six storeys(incl. basement)and is open(you could fit a lift shaft down the middle),and poorly lit. I went up, locked the offices and made my way down the stairs again. About halfway down I happened to glance across at the door I was going to go through. There, out the corner of my eye, I'm almost certain I saw a hand coming down on the rail a few steps behind me! I don't know whether it was an optical illusion(it had been a very long day and I was shattered!), the effect of being alone in a creepy staircase or something else but it was definitely 'brown trousers time'!!!

I've had lost but I'll just say a few

1 I was mopping a corridor this mist size of a 7 year old ish walk(the only way I can describe) I was at the corner of this corridor it walked around the corner (so past me) and dissapearded after about 7 seconds I wasn't scaed it was weird.

2 I was working in a day nursery and a tape was on with nursery rhymes and such in the middle was a horrible growling voice saying things that were inaudible I rewound it and it never happened again it was like being talked at from the other side.

3 At work(where this corridor is) whenyour on this certain toilet you can see this shadow race past under the toilet door at speed, it can't be anyone alive because the doorway it runs through is blocked ff by a cupboard with chemicals in it. so it's like a child racing through the toilets (it used to be a school)

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Several.Even more if you count the experiences friends and family have had.It´s too much to write down here really,but it´s interesting to read other peoples experiences nevertheless :)