i do believe, but i think skepticism is healthy because there's often a reasonable explanation for things. but i've shared an experience with someone where we tried to recreate the circumstances to debunk that night several times, and every so often again over the years, to no avail.
my brother's a skeptic but he said weird things happened in the house when he was a kid--stuff moving, bells ringing, and one time he and his friends went running out of the house without even stopping to put their shoes on because they heard a voice shout at them when my parents weren't home. the family dog would also stop and appear to be looking at something in the upstairs hallway and start growling or barking.
this would've been going on when i was just a baby, so i don't remember anything like that, but apparently might've been still been experiencing something. Mom says i never cried as a baby, except for at a certain time: 3:00 A.M., on the dot, every single morning. one night Mom couldn't sleep and was downstairs on the couch watching tv when she said she saw a male figure in a suit and top hat appear at the front door. it rested a hand on the banister,then appeared to ascend the stairs. Mom said to herself, "if the baby starts crying in a minute, then i'll know it's him."
when baby me started crying a minute later, Mom ran upstairs, looked around the room and said, "i don't think you mean any harm, but please stop. can't you see you're scaring her?" she says i never woke up crying again after that.
Mom also said one night a pair of ladies rang the doorbell and said they'd heard there was haunting activity in our house (from whom, they didn't say--probably my brother's friends went around telling others stuff that happened and it got back to these ladies) and they wanted to know if the spirit was a little girl. they lived further up the plan as next door neighbors, and both of them were seeing a little girl spirit on the regular. finally one week one of them didn't have any experiences, as she told the other lady when the latter got back from a trip. said the returned vacationer, "she wasn't at your house because she followed us on our vacation."
there've been several sightings of an army battalion in this plan over the years, heard through the grapevine; my personal experience was on the street that turns into the one where people have seen that, so idk, maybe it's on a leyline or some shit?
Re: today's theme: ghost stories
my brother's a skeptic but he said weird things happened in the house when he was a kid--stuff moving, bells ringing, and one time he and his friends went running out of the house without even stopping to put their shoes on because they heard a voice shout at them when my parents weren't home. the family dog would also stop and appear to be looking at something in the upstairs hallway and start growling or barking.
this would've been going on when i was just a baby, so i don't remember anything like that, but apparently might've been still been experiencing something. Mom says i never cried as a baby, except for at a certain time: 3:00 A.M., on the dot, every single morning. one night Mom couldn't sleep and was downstairs on the couch watching tv when she said she saw a male figure in a suit and top hat appear at the front door. it rested a hand on the banister,then appeared to ascend the stairs. Mom said to herself, "if the baby starts crying in a minute, then i'll know it's him."
when baby me started crying a minute later, Mom ran upstairs, looked around the room and said, "i don't think you mean any harm, but please stop. can't you see you're scaring her?" she says i never woke up crying again after that.
Mom also said one night a pair of ladies rang the doorbell and said they'd heard there was haunting activity in our house (from whom, they didn't say--probably my brother's friends went around telling others stuff that happened and it got back to these ladies) and they wanted to know if the spirit was a little girl. they lived further up the plan as next door neighbors, and both of them were seeing a little girl spirit on the regular. finally one week one of them didn't have any experiences, as she told the other lady when the latter got back from a trip. said the returned vacationer, "she wasn't at your house because she followed us on our vacation."
there've been several sightings of an army battalion in this plan over the years, heard through the grapevine; my personal experience was on the street that turns into the one where people have seen that, so idk, maybe it's on a leyline or some shit?