EPenney
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Since Halloween will soon be here, I thought I would share the following with you all:
Our home was built 20 years ago on a former dairy farm pasture, in a small grove of oak trees. Soon after moving into the house, we experienced occasional strange happenings: soft knocking on walls, our cats watching as if something was moving thru a room but we could not see anything, my sister seeing an aparition looking out the guestroom window when she and DW were backing the car down the driveway. My sister won't stay overnight with us since that happened, that's OK with me  Our youngest daughter who is now 25, does not like to stay in the house alone when visiting due to past weird noises in the house. Our three other children say they believe our house is haunted.
After a couple of years living in the house, we were at a party next door, and shared our experiences with an oldtime local of our town. She informed us a son of the family that had owned the dairy farm our house was built on had been murdered 7 years earlier in the oak grove next to our house, about 15 feet from the house.
Fast forward to this past year. After a number of years with only a few unexplained happenings in and around our home, DW & I, who have been empty nesters for 7 years, have experience an increase in unexplained happenings. Examples: hearing soft footsteps on the second floor when we are downstairs, soft vocalizations. I'm self employed, and sometimes when I'm here alone, I get the feeling I'm not.
So this morning, I'm at my desk working, when a movement of air brushed past me and a spare computer power brick on the top of a filing cabinet fell to the floor. That was real weird. 
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slickest1
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That is pretty weird alright! Years ago I found a house that I wanted to buy and fix up. It was an estate sale so DW and I called the Realtor and went to view it. As soon as we walked in the door DW was freaked out. I was quite enthralled with the house but DW finally spoke up and said did someone die in this house? The realtor said yes the old fellow that built it and lived in it for many years had died here in the house. That was the end of that!! DW gets vibes like that I don't. Dead people can't hurt you, can they?
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lwmuddy
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My kitchen is haunted by the previous owner who died in the kitchen and found on the floor. When I walk across the floor in a certain spot I hear a groan.
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Old-Biscuit
Across the USA
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Seeing as I don't believe in 'ghosts, ghouls, goblins' can I visit if I'm in the area?
Lived/stayed in a lot of places that moaned, groaned, cricked and other strange noises went on but no apparitions.
I keep hoping to run into one some day....but then again I'm still looking for Sasquatch.
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Drbolasky
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No human ghosts, but our neighbor is attuned to these kinds of things. She says we have a cat spirit living in the house with us.
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Jarlaxle
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About 100 years ago, the guy that built my house died in it. According to several old-timers that knew the family (who I believe, because they all said pretty much the same thing separately), he was close to 90 years old and wanted to die in the house he built. Supposedly, he has "looked in" on every resident since then.
If he's here, he must be a pretty harmless spirit...otherwise, I cannot fathom why he permitted previous owners to do things like put cheezy fake-wood paneling over tongue and groove mahogany, lay paper-thin commercial carpet (in awful 70's-issue green) over herringbone parquet floors using about ten times as much glue as actually needed, seven layers of shingles on the roof, plumb the water heater with rubber hose, paint one bedroom bright pink, and have another bedroom with no less than fifteen layers of wallpaper. About halfway through undoing that mess, we discovered that someone had PAINTED over the first half-dozen layers (with oil paint), then put about ten more layers OVER the paint.
Whoever did that deserves to be haunted! (This dude only THOUGHT he was Bob Vila.)
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sparki27
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It takes yrs for a house to settle and 20 yrs is not old for a house. Our minds can imagine all kinds of things if we're not grounded in the faith of our fathers.
>>> Slickest1... No, dead ppl can't hurt us.
Harvest time is the end of ripening life from growing things, so we tend to let our minds 'float from working too hard in the fields' (so to speak). It is in our DNA to go into a kind of suspension during this season.
That's why some have chose to 'sucker' others into believing things that are unseen into things that can be seen. It's the devil's playground.
I don't believe in Halloween and I don't worship satan. I guess I'm just a killjoy. Sorry 
I hope I haven't hurt anybody's feelings.
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emzee
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I never say never.
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naturist
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I bought a house to put my photography business in back in the 80s. After buying it, and before moving in, I sanded the pine-board floors to refinish them, a job that is dusty as all get out. One night as I was sanding away, I suddenly got chills up my spine and my hair stood on end. I kinda left in a hurry, although I didn't know why I had to do that, I just couldn't stay any longer. I came back the next day and finished the job, vacuuming everything thoroughly to get up all the dust before applying the varnish.
A year or two later, again in the evening, I was holding a seminar for photo students, and my then-16 year old daughter was upstairs studying, when I noticed she came down and sat with us in the seminar, odd, because she insisted on quiet when trying to study, and we were a noisy bunch. After the students left, I asked her why she'd come down, and she said because she had seen something out of the corner of her eye. She wasn't quite sure what, but she'd gotten the impression there was a lady in white there, that she could barely make out, and it spooked her enough to come downstairs.
A year or so after that, I ran into the couple I'd bought the place from on the street. The first words out of the missus' mouth: "have you seen the ghost yet?"
It seems the lady for whom the house had been built back in the early '20s had quite a reputation as a neatnik, and was known for detesting messiness. Obviously my sanding the floors and raising all that dust had upset her. Dunno why the kid studying had invoked her, but the previous owners had had many encounters.
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Kampinkate
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No, but our last one was and I don't believe in ghosts. The house was built in the 1920's. During our first walk through, we were in the basement and the realtor opened a door that led to an old cistern. Again, I don't believe in ghosts. But I saw something. I turned on my heels and walked out of the house. My husband and I discussed (later) how the house was perfect and I decided if I could revisit and go to that cistern/storage area by myself we should buy it. We went back and I was fine. My husband had terrible dreams the 7 years we lived there. And he doesn't believe in ghosts either.
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