ohh thats creepy!!!

Im the same mojo, didnt really think about it till you just said that though.

i used to be such a wuss and would hide under my blankets if i got scared. Id jump at shadows and rarely get out of my bed at night and if i did i turned the light on. Any little noise would freak me out lol.

But since having Briahna im much calmer and can get up without the light on. I still get my scaredy cat moments but thats pretty rare nowadays!

I don't like having wardrobes or cupboards open either and I always used to check under beds (although that has more to do with living intruders rather than ghosts). 

When DH started travelling a lot for work, leaving me at home alone, I would go and check every single room and ensure all the doors and windows were locked before going to bed.  One night I heard a door upstairs slam and I was so freaked out, I called DH and kept him on the phone with me while I checked the house (holding the vacuum cleaner pole).  There was nothing there and since we lived in a townhouse with crappy soundproofing it's likely it came from next door.

TBH I think I've become a lot braver about that sort of thing since Michaela was born, especially now it's just me and her at home alone every night until 10:30pm.  I think the saying is something along the lines that you should never get between a lioness and her cubs and that's definitely the case for me.

You've reminded me.  After my fur baby died I was devastated (I took a few days off work I was so upset).  The first night after she died we didn't got to bed until really really late and then when I awoke in the morning I got so excited because I could feel her weight on my feet, where she used to sleep.

I wonder if it was just a memory of her - my sleepy body playing tricks on me, like when people who have lost limbs feel an itch on a part of their limb that isn't there anymore.

.Mel wrote: I just wanted to add, that when I get up at night, I can't look at the windows and I can't look at the mirrors, I'm terrified that there will be something there that will look back at me.

Mel, did you watch the Ghost Whisperer episode on Bloody Mary?

I always make sure my curtains are closed when it gets dark but that's only because I've had a stalker before (when I first went flatting) and the idea that people can look in and see me but I can't see them freaks me out.

Im like that too Mel! I also have to close closets etc cause i get a bit creeped out.

Especially lastnight cause i was reading this thread before i went to bed! lol! Bad idea i think.

Emz that has happened in some barracks in Waiouru. And later on it came out that a guy was shot in there by another solider and it was confirmed a few years ago on the news (something about compensation and saying sorry to the family).

Our bach in Waihi Beach is apparently "haunted". My dad has said hes seen spirits, same with my mum and Aunty. But im not sure if they were just telling stories you know? Just to scare the kids kind of thing (i used to hound my dad to tell me his ghost stories lol weird child i got off on freaking myself out lol). 

But me and my cousin have always felt like theres something there. We've both heard things while sleeping in the lounge, stuff that isnt your usual creaking and fridge noises ya know? (its a small bach). But one time my cousin, her friend and i were there and having a few drinks sitting at the table talking about it and we said "what if the light just turned off?" and honestly, no crap 2 mins later the light turned off! We were a bit freaked out after that.

Its never been a scary presence though, i think cause we've grown up with it. And for all i know it could be a family member cause my pop built the bach when my mum was about 8.

Another time i was asleep in my room in Waihi and woke up randomly and i saw this figure standing at the door, then it ran from the door to the middle of my room. I thought it was my mum or something and i turned on the light and no one was there.

OMG Mel, that last one in particular is freaky! 

I have a couple of experiences where I'm now mostly convinced I was just freaking myself out with my overactive imagination but I think some of the experiences are very real.

Wow Kelly that is so cool that story that your grandma told you.

I can't even see the picture all I get is a red cross in a square

I just read over some of your guys posts and you are all giving me the shivers! Eek!!

MrsMoJo that is totally weird about the old lady! Wow!

Okay im sooo sleeping in the lounge with the flattie tonight lol (j/k )

My first experience I was about 12 and we were staying in a chalet in Queenstown (on a family ski trip).  I woke up because someone was calling my name, I went downstair to my parents (where the voice was coming from) and they were both asleep.  I went back upstairs and all my bros and sisters were asleep so it could haven't been one of them either.

When I was 19 I was in town with DH and some friends and DH and I had an argument, I stormed off angry with him and decided to walk home (about 20 mins away).  There was a short cut through a park and a long dark alley which I decided to take.  I crossed the park and got to the bottom of the alley where I met an elderly lady standing by her gate we spoke briefly and she suggested that I should take the main road instead of going up the alley so I turned around and went back to the road.  As it turns out the house was a student flat with no elderly lady living there.  I believe this lady was an angel protecting me (we all know that young girls and dark alleys don't always mix well)

Also Michaela, especially as a little baby used to stare at and chatter away to a spot in the room.  One day she was crying and screaming as I changed her nap and DH, trying to calm her, asked her where grandad is, she stopped crying and looked at the spot.  DH's dad, her grandad, died when DH was 3.

Wow Clare, now I have goosebumps.  I've had a couple of "ghostly" experiences so totally believe in that sort of thing but I wouldn't put money on any pics being real.

Paws I agree - I'm such a cynic - I looked at that and immediately thought 'photoshop!'

omg thats wierd. so i wonder who the boy is. someone related to one of the girls there or something. **shudder**