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<blockquote data-quote="cignus_pfaccari" data-source="post: 1159470" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>I have several stories. The most interesting (and least weird):</p><p></p><p>Bob: This is what I called the ghost that followed me around through several apartments.</p><p></p><p>First I noticed Bob was one day in July '97. I was going to go see Men in Black with a friend after work, but late enough that I could run home and shower and change. I go home, get undressed, and make sure the front door's locked. I throw the deadbolt, but I don't set the chain, because (and I distinctly remember thinking this RIGHT THEN), frankly, that chain isn't going to do anything, right? If somebody can go through the deadbolt, they won't care about the damn chain.</p><p></p><p>So, I'm fixing to get into the shower, and I hear a click from the front door. O-kay. Go and look. The chain's set. I didn't set the chain. No one else could possibly be in the apartment, since I live alone at this time. It couldn't set itself, so obviously something had to set it. I freak for a second, and then rationalize that it can't be bad, can it? So, I go and shower and go see the movie. No problem. Couple days later, I notice some stuff I'd left out on the floor had been moved such that I wouldn't trip over it in the night (like a ruler, a surge protector...which had been prongs-up but's now prongs-down...). That may've been the ghost, I dunno.</p><p></p><p>A little over a year later, I moved to a new apartment with a roommate. Now, I fidget. I've gotten into a habit of playing with these empty mechanical erasers, and I'd had this one out in the living room. Then, one day, it disappears, and my roommate (admittedly, a neat freak) doesn't remember doing anything with it. It sure isn't in my room. So, I go to bed. Wake up around 2, 2:30 to go to the bathroom, and by a strange coincidence, roommate's up, too. Talk for a second, go back into bed, and right where my foot had been before...was the eraser. The eraser hadn't been there before, either. So, I'm pretty sure that Bob moved with me.</p><p></p><p>A couple of months later, I was doing laundry. I'd been sitting watching TV, and got up to change loads. Come in, go back to my room...and I get the feeling that I really should turn around. I do so, and there's an outline of a person, sitting on the couch, which promptly disappears.</p><p></p><p>I haven't had any contact with Bob since, so I'm afraid he's run off, decided he wasn't needed, or discorporated naturally. Now, almost all of that is explained by either optical illusion or sheer forgetfulness...except for the door chain setting. I do prefer to believe that I had a ghost for a while, though. A friend of mine with MUCH more experience with the occult speculated it was a guardian spirit or ancestor of some sort (like a genius from GURPS Voodoo).</p><p></p><p>I was always convinced that we had a ghost in our house, for no good reason. I never saw anything, except once when a cat decided to track something over my shoulder one night. My mother, though, kept seeing a man at the foot of the bed. She didn't have any problems getting up to shoo it off, so she wasn't being hagged.</p><p></p><p>I've had a few other things happen...seeing shadows cling to a roommate's friend way longer into the light than they should have; having a voice laugh at me from the shadows of my bedroom; having what might be called psychic assaults in college, and having to ward my dorm room against same. </p><p></p><p>Brad</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cignus_pfaccari, post: 1159470, member: 14557"] I have several stories. The most interesting (and least weird): Bob: This is what I called the ghost that followed me around through several apartments. First I noticed Bob was one day in July '97. I was going to go see Men in Black with a friend after work, but late enough that I could run home and shower and change. I go home, get undressed, and make sure the front door's locked. I throw the deadbolt, but I don't set the chain, because (and I distinctly remember thinking this RIGHT THEN), frankly, that chain isn't going to do anything, right? If somebody can go through the deadbolt, they won't care about the damn chain. So, I'm fixing to get into the shower, and I hear a click from the front door. O-kay. Go and look. The chain's set. I didn't set the chain. No one else could possibly be in the apartment, since I live alone at this time. It couldn't set itself, so obviously something had to set it. I freak for a second, and then rationalize that it can't be bad, can it? So, I go and shower and go see the movie. No problem. Couple days later, I notice some stuff I'd left out on the floor had been moved such that I wouldn't trip over it in the night (like a ruler, a surge protector...which had been prongs-up but's now prongs-down...). That may've been the ghost, I dunno. A little over a year later, I moved to a new apartment with a roommate. Now, I fidget. I've gotten into a habit of playing with these empty mechanical erasers, and I'd had this one out in the living room. Then, one day, it disappears, and my roommate (admittedly, a neat freak) doesn't remember doing anything with it. It sure isn't in my room. So, I go to bed. Wake up around 2, 2:30 to go to the bathroom, and by a strange coincidence, roommate's up, too. Talk for a second, go back into bed, and right where my foot had been before...was the eraser. The eraser hadn't been there before, either. So, I'm pretty sure that Bob moved with me. A couple of months later, I was doing laundry. I'd been sitting watching TV, and got up to change loads. Come in, go back to my room...and I get the feeling that I really should turn around. I do so, and there's an outline of a person, sitting on the couch, which promptly disappears. I haven't had any contact with Bob since, so I'm afraid he's run off, decided he wasn't needed, or discorporated naturally. Now, almost all of that is explained by either optical illusion or sheer forgetfulness...except for the door chain setting. I do prefer to believe that I had a ghost for a while, though. A friend of mine with MUCH more experience with the occult speculated it was a guardian spirit or ancestor of some sort (like a genius from GURPS Voodoo). I was always convinced that we had a ghost in our house, for no good reason. I never saw anything, except once when a cat decided to track something over my shoulder one night. My mother, though, kept seeing a man at the foot of the bed. She didn't have any problems getting up to shoo it off, so she wasn't being hagged. I've had a few other things happen...seeing shadows cling to a roommate's friend way longer into the light than they should have; having a voice laugh at me from the shadows of my bedroom; having what might be called psychic assaults in college, and having to ward my dorm room against same. Brad [/QUOTE]
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