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Do you believe in ghosts? Have you ever had a weird experience that could be evidence for ghosts existing?
I wouldn't say I believe in ghosts, but I find the idea fascinating, and I admit that I follow a lot of ghost-hunting content. I have had some strange things happen to me over my life, some of which are easier to explain than others.
1) When I was ghost hunting around the house with my cousin as a kid, I had my name whispered into my ear with no one standing next to me. At the same time, my cousin headed into a downstairs that was meant to become mine. Later, he told me that he heard whispers of my name coming from it, which is why he went to check it out. Now, I figure this was just a relative messing with me, hiding in the supply closet that I was a bit in front of, and my cousin was just going along with it. Still, I don't remember ever telling any of the older kids or the adults what we were doing, and I don't remember any of them being gone from their spot in the living room to the right. Also, the whisper was right by my ear and didn't sound muffled at all. When I mentioned it to my dad years later, he couldn't recall any of them playing such a prank. Additionally, I had set down a notepad and pen in the lower level to encourage a ghost to write on it, and later, there were nonsensical scribbles on it. Once again, it could have been a relative messing with me. Still, I thought about it one day years later while hanging out with a friend that claimed she could see ghosts. I asked her if she recognized the symbol and tried to replicate it. She hurriedly crossed it out and told me it was a portal symbol.
2) Many people hated our bathroom in my childhood home, especially the shower area. It had a heavy atmosphere, to the point where my cousin refused to ever take a shower there without one of us accompanying her. It always felt like you were being watched there. I remember taking a shower at one point and, out of nowhere, feeling incredibly lightheaded, but the sensation disappeared as soon as it had come. My friend (the same one from the last point) suggested a ghost might have walked through me. I think it was probably just the steam from the shower. I found out years later that the previous tenants had died on the property and that the man had died in the downstairs bedroom that had become my room by the time we left the house (which had also given me weird vibes). The bathroom and that bedroom share a wall. What's more, the shower is against that wall.
3) When I was around 16 or 17, I was chilling in my bed late at night with my ceramic wax warmer on the corner of my dresser across from it. My sister came in, walked through the small space between my bed and the dresser, and stood to my right. We talked for a while, and out of nowhere, my wax burner suddenly fell off my dresser and shattered on the carpet. I have cats, but none had been in the room to my knowledge, and I didn't hear or see any run out afterward. The cord to the wax warmer was short, so it hugged the wall, making it hard for anything to tug it accidentally, and my sister had already been standing there for a while before it happened. She was nowhere near it. I'd also had the wax warmer for several months by that point, so it doesn't seem like it would be an issue with the dresser not being level or any vibrations. You can sometimes hear a train from the house, but faintly, and it's not close enough to shake anything. My stepdad even measured the dresser and found that it was perfectly level. Coincidentally, I always felt like there was some presence watching me from that area of the room, and I had this weird feeling that it hated the wax warmer since I got it. This is the one experience I have no reliable way to explain.
4) This happened recently. About two years ago now, I think? I was lying in bed, typing away on my laptop, when I heard footsteps come up the stairs around (if not precisely) midnight. My bedroom is right at the top of the stairs, slightly off-center, so I can't see people as they come up, but I'll see them as they pass to their rooms. Curious, I looked to see who it was and there was no one. I didn't hear footsteps proceed into the hallway, either, and I felt like something was standing in the doorway watching me. I called to my mom and sister, asking if they had just come upstairs. Both said no and that they had been in their rooms for a while now. I do have cats, but the footsteps were distinctly human. I tried to ignore the whole thing but felt that same watched sensation, and after a few minutes, it felt like it moved to stand right next to me. The side of my body facing it was cold. Eventually, the feelings receded. The next night, I was still thinking about it, so I decided to keep my light on until after midnight. Around the same time, lying on my bed again with my laptop, but this time I was on my side facing the wall. Now, it's essential to explain that I have a canopy bed that reaches underneath the ceiling fan/light, so the cords drape over the frame. I suddenly heard the distinct clinking of the cords against the metal frame, but I didn't think anything of it because I was used to my mother coming in with folded laundry and turning the light on to set it on my dresser. When it dawned on me that the light was already on so she had no need to do that, I turned over and looked at my nightstand. There was no laundry. I called to my mom to ask if she had just been in my room and she said no. I got up and looked at the cords and they were suddenly crossed over each other when I am very particular about keeping them parallel.
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