GHOSTS!! Anyone had any frightening encounters?

Answer 1

I have. It scared the daylights out of me. I was a cook in a restaurant in my hometown of Lakewood, OH when I was about 19. When I became the opening cook I would have to be there at 5am and the night before my first opening shift my boss mentioned something about Fred. I asked who Fred was and she sounded suprised that I had not heard of him. He was the ghost. Apparently some guy 20 years earlier had just gotten out of the hospital and came to this restaurant for a burger. He had another heart attack in the restroom and died there. From that time on, people had heard him and had had things moved by him. I thought she was just giving me crap to scare haze the new opening cook. Next morning I got there at 5 am and locked the door behind me since the first waitress wasn't due till 5:30. I went about my business till about 5:25 when I proceeded down the back hall to unlock the door. The shoes I wore made absolutely no sound on the floor but I could hear the sound of a man's hard soled shoes pounding the floor RIGHT BEHIND ME! I turned around to look but saw nothing. I unlocked the door and walked out to the parking lot and sat there waiting for Marcy, the first waitess. When I told her what had happened, she sounded suprised that I had not known of Fred. She explained that no one ever saw him but he made his presence known by moving things and that you could hear him walking up and down the back hall. The manager that I thought was hazing me mentioned later that day that she walks down the back hall sideways looking back & fourth in each direction trying to see him, but never has. After that, I too noticed that things that I KNOW that I put in one place often ended up in another. I ceased being afraid after the first day when everyone explained that they had also been visited by Fred.

Answer 2

Yes.
Several years ago at my parent's home in the country, I was sleeping in my old bedroom, which is in a very old shed/barn like bungalow/house, behind my parent's house. The whole structure has corrugated iron on the roof and the outside walls.
I got up in the middle of the night to have a pee pee, and when I opened the bedroom door (which opens out to the old kitchen), I came face to face with a reasonably young woman wearing solid framed, round glasses. She had no body, just a head. I got a real fright, and then she faded away over two or so seconds.

When I was growing up, myself and my siblings believed that the rear bedroom (another room in the old bungalow/house) was haunted, as it was always cold, and had a creepy feel to it.

About 25 years ago (I'm now 41), I was sleeping in the 'haunted room', because I'd had an argument with my brother (who I usually shared with in the other bedroom). Sometime during the middle of the night, I was woken by a slow, rhythmical banging noise, which sounded like someone was banging against the corrugated iron wall on the outside. It was very loud.
I was very frightened, and became more so as the rhythm of the banging sped up and became louder and louder. After several minutes of the banging, I moved very, very slowly out of bed, and ran out of the bungalow, and into the main house to alert my parents, who were in bed asleep. My father inspected around the bungalow, and checked on my brother, who was sound asleep. My father found nothing, but on the following day I discovered an old door on the outside wall of the bungalow, behind some ivy. The old door was blocked by an interior wall in the 'haunted room'. I figured that a ghost who once lived in the old house when the interior wall wasn't there, was the culprit. All these years later my brother still denies being responsible for the banging.

I have a far more scary and creepy ghost story that I experienced more recently. But I'll spare you of it.

Answer 3

I wouldn't say frightening, more irritating. The on-campus apartments I lived in in college had some issues. I lived on the top floor and often the neighbors downstairs would call in the middle of the night and tell us to stop running up and down our apartment hallway when we were all in bed. My TV would blitz with the channels rolling and the volume moving up and down. The apartment two floors down had problems with banging on the internal walls, coffee cups getting knocked over, temperature control issues and items disappearing and reappearing in really odd locations (a text book would be on the table one moment, gone the next and turn up in the bathroom cabinet). The rumor was the building was formerly part of a convent and a teenage girl whose parents put her in the convent hung herself. So we nicknamed the ghost Hanna and just worked around the odd occurances.

Answer 4

The fastest shower I ever took when I lived in GA was due to someone knocking on the small winow over the toilet. They knocked on the window (husband watching TV, baby in the bed), it sounded like a small boy, two women, and a man. They just couldn't find their way in. I don't know what their intentions were, but I got the heck out of the shower and dried off in the living room where my husband was and didn't leave his side the rest of the night. I even made him stand in the door when I had to potty. It was freaky, but I prayed and it never happened again. I'm still curious who it was, cause the house was inherited to hubby from grandfather, so the house has a lot of history and is in the Chickamauga Battlefield where the Civil War took place...who knows?

Answer 5

I've had experiences that have certainly caught my attention but nothing that I would consider frightening. More pesky than anything else.

Besides, I don't generally share those things on public boards. I've had too many people take my experiences only to find them show up on some ghost story board where they've made my stories their own. Sorry!

Answer 6

YES!!! I was 5 or 6 years old 1955 it was, at my cousin, Trudie's home , we were all sitting in my cousin's bedroom floor, playing Old Maid, me, Vicki Lynn, Davy, Beverly, Stephen and Trudie, it was around 11 on a Saturday night, I remember thinking it was my mother who came in to check on us, but we all looked up and saw the ghost of a woman just staring straight ahead, and walked through the room and right into the wall and disappeared! We all jumped up and ran screaming to our parents telling them what we had seen, of course no one believed us but to this day, my cousin Trudie refused to ever sleep in her room ever again! But that's okay if no one believes us , we still remember it like it was yesterday! She had her hair up, she wore a long dress, and she was translucent and I was so glad we all saw it, so that was enough for me! I don't need a Psychic or Ouija board to tell me there are ghost out there!

Answer 7

Why would you automatically suggest that a supernatural encounter be frightening? Could there not be benevolent encounters?

Answer 8

my uncle great uncle died in his rocking chair, inside of his house. my regular uncle bought the house from my great aunt. me and my cousin are like best friends, so i stayed there all the time. one night i had to go into the basment to get some garbage bags, and i saw the chair, along with all the rest of my great uncles old stuff. there wasnt much light, but i could see, and hear the chair start to rock. i didnt take the time to make sure, i just got the hell out of there. from that day, every time i stayed at the house, i would hear small sounds from the basement. i won't go down there anymore, i just stay on the stairs, and none of us are brave enough to get rid of the chair. my uncle tried moving it to the very back of the basement once, but he tripped after taking two steps towards it, so we just leave it be now.

Answer 9

I don't believe in ghosts so, no. Well I believe in the Holy Ghost because I am Christian but that's different from the "haunting" ghosts.

Answer 10

Yes. I went on a ghost tour with my friend, and she got a 3'rd degree burn on her back. She went to the hospital, and it was gone the next day!