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Ghost in the Cheney Mansion Mirror - Jerseyville, Illinois
Accidental Automatic Writing - Pickerington, Ohio
Ghosts in Our House - Clintonville, Wisconsin
The Old Woman Who Passed Through a Car - Lakewood Ranch, Florida
Old Hag Syndrome - Little Rock, Arkansas
Phantom Footsteps at HMCS Acadia - Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, Canada
The Woman in a White Robe - Sheffield, Alabama
Strange Lights on Cuba Road - Barrington, Illinois
Wilderness Battlefield Apparition - Locust Grove, Virginia
Lighting Candles - Rochester, Minnesota
Pulling My Son's Leg - Chester, Arkansas
Mom's Visit - Rockland, Massachusetts
Shadow People Following Me - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
The Girl Playing the Flute - Honolulu, Hawaii
A Haunted Desk? - Stoughton, Massachusetts
Being Watched - Moore, Oklahoma
A Haunting Melody - Nebraska
Two Black Wolves - Goldsboro, North Carolina
The White Glowing Entity - Danvers, Massachusetts
Haunted Person or Haunted Place? - British Columbia, Canada
Tormented - Warren, Pennsylvania
Ghostly Mist at a Pub - Carrollton, Texas
It Crawled Into Bed With Me - Bono, Arkansas
Grandpa Joe's Coma Visit - Cincinnati, Ohio
Ghost Cat Presence - Novat, California
Psychic Impressions at a Victorian Home - Peoria, Illinois
A Disappearing Car - Duluth, Minnesota
Black Mass Filmed During Investigation - Northern California
Mildred's Ghost - Licking, Missouri
Glowing Figure on the Porch - Niles, Ohio
Tag Aboard the Star of India - San Diego, California
Ghostly Image Caught at Gym - Overland Park, Kansas
My Floating Sister - Leavenworth, Kansas
My Aunt's Spirit at Meling School - Bmlo, Hordaland, Norway
A Scary Sleepover - Billings, Montana
Socks Back From the Grave - Kellogg, Idaho
Meeting Great Great Gramma - Freeport, Florida
The Man in Mum's House - Castleford, West Yorkshire, England
Haunting at the Silver Queen Hotel - Virginia City, Nevada
My Haunted Childhood - Norfolk, England, UK
An Angry Little Girl - Valentine, Nebraska
The Girl With the Ring - York, England
Oatman Hotel Ghost - Laughlin, Nevada
The Falling Lamp - Southampton, England
Laughter on the Spiral Staircase - Springville, New York
I Miss My Dad EVP - Northwest Ohio
The Toowong Experience - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
A Glowing Cigarette - Phoenix, Arizona
Black-Hooded Entities - Kentucky
A Civil War Soldier - Gladstone, Virginia
Ghost Boy and Girls - Chicago, Illinois
The Man in Blue - Rock Rapids, Iowa
My Son's Spirit - [location withheld]
A Misty Oval - Los Chavez, New Mexico
An Unruly Customer - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pirate Ghosts - Milton, Florida
Shadow Person Passing By - Medford, Massachusetts
Haunted Chair? - Gainesville, Florida
The Shadow - Pluckley, Kent, England
Various Encounters - Anoka, Minnesota
The Scarecrow and Mr. Lincoln - New Bern, North Carolina
The Boy in the Mirror - Los Angeles, California
Red Flashes on Video - Milton, Florida
Dad's Home Early - Pontiac, Michigan
Old Man in a Flannel Shirt - Millbrook, Alabama
The Old Lady With a Lantern - Tampa, Florida
The Thing From the Ouija Board - Upstate, New York
Civil War Soldier's Ghost - Gonzales, Louisiana
Scared and Annoyed - Grand Rapids, Michigan
Waverly Hills Sanatorium Sighting - Louisville, Kentucky
Angel of Death in the Courthouse - Washington, DC
The Shadow Man and Nun Statue - Cortez, Colorado
The Figure in the Window - Amherst, Virginia
The Hovering Sadness - Alabama
The Girl That Wasn't There - Dunedin, New Zealand
Unseen Helping Hands - Albany, Oregon
The Crash in the Hallway - Lake Charles, Louisiana
Apparition in Williamsburg - Williamsburg, Virginia
The Shadow Behind the Door - Martinez, California
A Hotel Guest's Final Goodbye - Derbyshire, UK
The Little Man in Our Room - Brazil, Indiana
Dark Figure in Chicago Museum - Chicago, Illinois
Thanksgiving Ghosts - Colorado
Three Knocks That Saved Me - Round Rock, Texas
The Man in My Closet - Arlington, Texas
The South Bridge Poltergeist - Edinburgh, Scotland
Shadows in the Closet - St. Theresa Point, Manitoba, Canada
Looking For the Bars - Williamsburg Hill, Illinois
The Man at the Top of the Stairs - Carthage, Missouri
My Fear of the Supernatural - Lebanon, Kentucky
My Friend in Time of Crisis - Waterbury, Connecticut
Old Jim on the Warehouse Floor - Rochester, New York
My Spirit Contacts - Kentwood/Middleville, Michigan
Watch For the Lady in the Bird Cage - Tombstone, Arizona
Faces in the Camouflage - Taqqaddum, Iraq
A Skeptic Near Pinewoods Cemetery - Troy, New York
Shoe Shopping From Beyond - Huntington Beach, California
The Man in My House - Welland, Ontario, Canada
A Haunting Near Channel Road - Sanger, California
Faces in the Mirror - Billings, Montana
Sharing My Bed With a Ghost - Mexico
The Slender Spirit - Pembroke Pines, Florida
Shadows in My House - Ocala, Florida
My Haunted Office - Las Vegas, Nevada
Shadow in the First Baptist Church - Boise, Idaho
The Little Girl's Shadow - Chattanooga, Tennessee
Knocks at 2 AM - Naples, New York
A Possessed Patient - Ashland, Kentucky
A Haunting in The Booter - St. Andrews, Scotland
Ghosts at Union Station Hotel - Nashville, Tennessee
My Family's Haunting - Rio Grande, Puerto Rico
Happy 2008 to the Spirits on the Land - Milton, Florida
The Tall Man Gatekeeper - San Rafael, California
The Evil Force - Marin Headlands, California
Cold Wet Grandfather's Visit - Oostende, Belgium
Haunted Barracks - Dermott, Arkansas
Cell Phone Calls From Beyond - Simsbury, Connecticut
A Little Girl at Stone's Public House - Ashland, Massachusetts
Bones in the Basement - Kansas City, Missouri
A Woman's Voice - Richmond, Virginia
A Dark Mist - Barbers Point, Hawaii
The Hanging Soldier - Nyack, New York
Shadows in My Home - Tijuana, Mexico
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July 11, 2008
Haunted Chair?
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Ellen, Gainesville, Florida, May 2008
My daughter and I have lived in a charming two-bedroom apartment for the
past two-and-a-half years. It felt very homey from the first time we saw it,
and we have loved it here. Nothing strange happened at all until she brought
home a chair about nine months ago. My daughter and her best friend found
some chairs that had been left behind by someone moving out. They were in
perfect condition and very clean -- small, plastic wicker-weave lattice with
black steel legs. My daughter kept one and her friend took the other.
From the first night the chair was in her room, my daughter complained that
she felt like someone was watching her. She had never felt that way before
so I wondered what was happening. She complained about it on and off over
the next few months, but I never felt or saw anything, and our cat would
even sleep quite comfortably on my daughter's bed, even as she had these
creepy feelings, so I wasn't terribly worried. After a while, she decided to
rearrange her room and had no room for the little chair so I took it and
made a little reading corner in my room with it. Immediately, I felt like
someone was watching me from the chair. It didn't feel evil or threatening
-- it just felt unfamiliar, like having a neighbor or a co-worker show up in
your bedroom at night. You know they won't hurt you, but you know they don't
belong there either. I kept the chair in my room, thinking the feeling would
go away but it never did. I had to cover the chair with a blanket to sleep.
Then one night as I was in the shower, I heard a very loud bang on the
bathroom door and it flew open, as if someone had slammed their fist against
it. I jumped out of the shower to see what was going on but there was no one
there. I wrapped a towel around myself and ran out to the living room to see
if my daughter was looking for me. She was sitting at the computer, head
phones on, a blanket draped over her lap, and her legs tucked under her.
There's no way she could have banged on the door and gotten back to her seat
in that time. Our cat was asleep on the sofa. All the doors were locked from
the inside, and there was no one else in the house. I got rid of the chair
that night. My nephew took it, even though I warned him that it was haunted!
He just laughed and thought it would be cool to have a ghost in his
apartment.
I checked with him a while later to see if he noticed anything, and he said
he has seen someone sitting in the chair, and he has also seen the chair
rock back and forth (it's not a rocking chair). He isn't scared of it but he
says there is definitely something in that chair. Once the chair was out of
our house, the feeling went away and all was calm again until recently. My
daughter has the feeling of someone hovering over her bed at night again and
now she won't sleep in her room alone. I told her that it won't hurt her; it
just seems to be a curious spirit that likes to watch her, but she is
spooked. The first night she slept next to me, I felt uneasy as well. When
she woke up in the morning she said, "Mom, it followed me into your room and
sat in the corner by your closet all night." I decided at this point that we
needed to claim back our house and we started talking to the spirit, telling
it to go to the light and that we are the living and this is our space, not
its space. We made salt circles around our beds and invoked Archangel
Michael for protection.
The feeling seems a little weaker now, but we have also started to notice
something touching our hair. First, I felt something tap my hair, as if a
large bug landed on my head. I swatted at my head but there was nothing
there. A few days later, I felt something run down my hair, as if someone
was gently brushing their finger over my head. My daughter also had the
feeling of someone running a finger through her hair down the back of her
head. It isn't a scary sensation -- just odd.
I went into her room one day when I was alone and had a very calm talk to
the spirit, telling it that it wasn't welcome, that we release it with love
and good will but it is frightening my daughter and I can't have that. I
told it to go to the light where friendly spirits will guide it and it will
be safe and welcome there. I turned and walked out of the room and, as soon
as I sat down in the living room, I felt someone very gently, almost
affectionately, run their hand down the back of my hair. Yesterday, my
daughter was in her bathroom fixing her hair when she felt the presence
behind her. She spoke to it calmly and said, "In the name of Jesus Christ, I
command you to leave us." As soon as she uttered the words, her bathroom
cabinet door gently swung closed. It feels to me like a gentle old lady
spirit and it doesn't frighten me but I know it doesn't belong with us. I
have an appointment with a spirit counselor tomorrow who has experience with
these things and he says he can help. I'll keep you posted!
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