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Hotel Apparition
Cloud Ghost
Great Aunt's Ghost
Ouija Influence
Nocturnal Visitation
Haunted Restaurant?
Ghostly Influence?
Premonitions
Child Apparitions
Spooky Experiences
Last Visit
Sapping Spirit
My Old Friend

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My Old Friend Submitted by: Tammy Bates Oklahoma City OK USA (14/12/02)
When I was young, about 12, growing up at my mom's house in Bethany, Oklahoma my sister, best friend and I were afraid of an old woman who lived down the street. She lived in a house on a lot on the outer corner of an L-shaped road. On an adjoining lot,which is closest to the corner,used to be a house, but by this time concrete steps were all that was left. Anyway, the old woman had a small dog that wore a collar with a small purple heart hanging on it. We thought maybe she was a witch. I decided I wanted to find out so I went down by myself one day and met her. She was nice and we would sometimes play poker for cigarettes and matchsticks. She also let me smoke,which was something I couldn't do at home at that time or my sister would have told on me. I didn't go to her house often, though, and when my friends started getting cars I was so busy running around partying that I quit going all together. One day when I was about 15 I heard that she had died. Well, sometimes kids say things just to see if you will believe it, so I decided to find out for myself. I thought to myself, "I'm going to pick out one day this week and no matter what happens that day, I'm going to her house." When I got off the school bus that day at about 3 p.m. it was pouring down rain and it was so dark I could barely see my hand in front of my face. I had a pack of cigarettes and a book of matches in my sock. After I dropped my books off at home I ran down to the woman's house. When I got there I saw that someone had boarded up every window before going out the front door and boarding it up also. The back door wasn't boarded up but it was locked from the inside. I was curious and decided to go in and have a look around, so I broke the glass and climbed in. I was in the kitchen and looked at the door to see what kind of lock it had on it. It had no lock, but it did have a butter knife stuck in the trim across the door,which served as a fine lock and which I didn't take out of the door. I realised I had cut my thumb on the broken glass as I climbed in. I walked into the living room and noticed a few cardboard boxes were sitting on the coffee table. I thought I'd have a cigarette so I took the pack and the book of matches out of my sock. The matches had gotten wet and were no good so I looked in a couple of the boxes and found some. I also found a little blue calico drawstring bag that she had made on the sewing machine herself. I wrapped it around my thumb which was bleeding a little. I lit a cigarette and walked into the guest bedroom. There were cardboard boxes stacked up to within inches of the ceiling in a circular maze so that they could easily find and get to any box they wanted. The boxes were also stacked almost to the ceiling in front of and up against the closet door. I walked out of there back through the living room and into the master bedroom, which was empty. I was standing there smoking my cigarette when I heard the back door open and shut and hard-bottom shoes walk out of the kitchen, through the living room, and into the guest bedroom where all the boxes were. Needless to say,I was terrified... (of getting caught in that house and getting into trouble). I went into the only bathroom, which could only be gotten to by going through the master bedroom, and I got into the tub, which had no shower curtain,and I stood there. I didn't hear anything else. I thought it was strange that no-one came to check the rest of the house or left out the back door or anything. I didn't hear them walk, talk or move, but I knew that they were still inside the house.	As I finished my cigarette I thought to myself, "Either I can quietly tiptoe through the house, jerk the butter knife out of the door and run home, or I can just run to the door, jerk the butter knife out of the door and run home." I opted to creep quietly past the guest bedroom and sneak to the door, but as I got to the living room I was curious as to why I still hadn't heard any more movement at all. I decided to go into the guest bedroom and see what they were doing, but there was no-one there. I thought maybe they had gone to call the police so I thought I'd get out while I had a chance, but then I heard the hangers in the closet jangling. I knew the only way anyone could have gotten into that closet would have been to move all the boxes that were stacked up against the door almost to the ceiling, but they couldn't have put the boxes back just the way they were after the door was shut, yet someone or something was definitely in that closet. I said, "Is there anyone in there?" The hangers jangled again. I again said, "Is there anybody in there?" The hangers started sliding back and forth across the closet rod. I said,"Believe me, I'm more scared of you than you are of me." The hangers began sliding back and forth across the closet rod fast enough to hit the walls on both sides. I said, "I can't smoke at home because if my sister catches me she'll tell my mom when she gets home. I was just hanging out here for a while to get out of the rain and have a cigarette." By the time I finished speaking the hangers in that closet were slamming back and forth so hard that they were hitting the walls with tremendous force. When I realised that whatever it was in there was getting angrier and angrier I turned to leave and that's when I noticed there was only one set of wet footprints coming in and they were mine. At least I knew that I had heard the back door open and shut so I wouldn't have to take the time to take the butterknife out. I knew I could just throw the door open and run. When I got to the door and saw that the butter knife was still there and the door hadn't been opened I jerked it out, threw it down and ran home. About 6 years later, when the house was being torn down, my new husband, who is a treasure hunter, and I went to look around. I found a clear glass hobnail vase which I had for about 11 years until my cat knocked it off of the shelf and broke it. I also had the little drawstring bag for about 18 years until my second husband moved all my stuff when I was gone for a couple of weeks and I never got any of it back. [ Top Of Page ]
Sapping Spirit Submitted by: Mystique, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia (14/12/02)
Well where do I start? I have had a number of strange experiences. The experience that seems to have played the most significant role in my life is this: About 5 years ago around the time I was pregnant with my first child my boyfriend and I started seeing a man dressed in like 1800's horse riding gear, he even had the whip in his hand beside him. We used to see him in dark places in our flat, such as the hallway. First of all we weren't able to see his face but as time passed we now could go to a police profile drawer and get an image drawn he has been that clear. This man has followed us to no end. But it was about 3 1/2 years ago things got really bad with him. When we saw him the room we were in would fill up with fog like stuff and the smell of smoke was incredible but this fog was not smoke, it was just, well, fog. We would see him 2 or 3 times a day. Then on a very dreadful night I saw him, standing near the bedroom door where my 3 month daughter lay sleeping. It wasn't until later that evening that I discovered that my daughter had actually died in her sleep.	Until recently I hadn't seen this man again since that night, but now he is slowly returning. I have a 7 month old son now and let me just say I'm scared outta my brain. I have contacted a psychic who tells me he is called a Sapping Spirit.... he saps the energy of children and of weak adults, such as the elderly or ill but isn't powerful enough to sap enough energy from my daughter to cause her death. But I don't know....... Anyway she told me to leave all my lights on and to burn sandalwood incense to drive him away. I am doing this like mad and so far so good. If any of you who read this have experienced something similar take this psychics advice... it is working for me. [ Top Of Page ]
Last Visit Submitted by: Karen, Noosa, Australia (28/11/02)
I have asked to do a review of this website for a newsletter re' ghost tours and the like in Australia and after reading a couple of the stories, I just have to share my own. I'll start at the very beginning I guess. When I was 9 and 10 we lived one block away from our local library where I spent endless hours finding books to read. Any kind of book and many of them just because they had covers that appealed to me, old and worn, mysterious looking, come to think of it exactly like the men I sought out years later, anyways, I remember coming across a book on witchcraft and spellcasting. There was an incantation inside for bringing about ghosts and spirits and so at the age of lets say 9 and a half I conducted my first seance in the pottery room at school, a small dark little room tucked away behind the tuckshop and beneath the two classrooms above. Needless to say that nothing happened, probably because the teacher only stepped out long enough for me to scare everyone including myself. I don't recall having any further interest until the age of 13 when everyone spoke of ghosts. Amityville horror, the old 3.10 on the digital clock and me, a bored teenager with the very vague notion of being something exciting like a medium. We dabbled for a little while at slumber parties and in broad daylight but it wasn't until I was 15 that I had my first honest experience with anything supernatural. It was a Saturday night in July, 1 month after my 15th birthday. All of my girlfriends were going to get dressed up and sneak into the local pub, something not achievable for me due to my 15 year old looks and the fact that my Mum would probably be wherever they were going. Before heading out, a few people had drinks at my boyfriends house, where I stayed on. I remember being slightly intoxicated 11.30pm ?? I was sitting on a chair when all of a sudden it was as if someone walked straight into the room and stood directly ahead of me. I could see them, if this makes sense, but nothing was there. I mean there was nothing, no foggy image, nothing and I knew that someone was there. I told my boyfriend that someone was "standing there" and that they were trying to tell me something.	When I told my boyfriend he just started rambling about how "everyone sees and hears things" - (the wisdom of a 15 year old boy) and I kept telling him to be quiet because they were trying to tell me something and we started to argue and the whole thing just blew to pieces and he called me a taxi and I headed home. The next morning it must have been at 10.00am or so I headed to the beach to hang out with my friends, I'll never forget how scared I got when I saw one of my girl friends crying. My best friend had been killed in a car accident the night before after sneaking out and going to the pub and getting into a car with a drunken 21 year who should have known better. The car accident occurred at around 11.30pm and she died on arrival at hospital. She was with me before she left and no matter what anyone thought about my story in the years that followed I always knew and that's all that mattered to me. Not to ruin one good ghost story with another straight off the bat...I'll sign in again next week "when I was 17". PS: I fwd'd the last posting about my best friend dying in a car accident and visiting me the night of her death. I thought that I would add that this happened whilst in Sydney. I grew up in Manly. [ Top Of Page ]
Spooky Experiences Submitted by: Zza Zza, Sydney, Australia (26/11/02)
When I was about 11 I had my first experience of seeing an apparition of some sort. One night I had a bad dream so I climbed in to bed with mum and dad. I couldn't get to sleep though and just a few hours into morning I rolled over to face the curtains. But instead what I saw was a white shape appearing. At first it looked like a blur but then I saw a face.It really freaked me out and for the rest of the week I slept with my parents. I have witnessed other accounts of 'spooks'. One day I was inside, in my room by myself when I heard a noise of what sounded like the remote-controlled car from downstairs, so I went to see if it was my brother. But when I got there no-one was in sight. AS I turned to leave I heard the cutlery draw open and the knife and forks being moved- I had a clear view of the kitchen and no one was there!	This happened a few more times so and other kind of things have also been heard, not just from me but my brother as well; we've heard footsteps and doors closing and at night you can hear voices. [ Top Of Page ]
Child Apparitions Submitted by: Lisa, Queensland, Australia (14/11/02)
I originally grew up in Sydney and I remember a night when my mother and her two brothers were discussing these two ghosts they used to see as children. Their parents, my grandparents, used to own a grocery shop and a butchers shop on Cleveland Street, Redfern and they lived above the shops. They were saying how at different times they used to wake up at night and see these two little boys smiling at the end of their beds dressed in little blue outfits, like a child would be in around the early 1800's they said they were very pale but they never felt threatened.	Anyway, as they were talking my mothers oldest brother said that their mother had lost twins one time when she was violently hit by my mother's alcoholic father in the stomach. They were all amazed that maybe these were the twins coming back to see their brothers and sister! By the way, the butcher shop is still there to this day it's now a Halal butchers! I wonder if they have seen the boys. Thanks for your time! [ Top Of Page ]
Premonitions Submitted by: Peter, Central Queensland, Australia (11/11/02)
I had a premonition of the Sept 11 attacks on the World Trade Center exactly one week before it happened. But, at that time I didn't know where or when. So I couldn't do much about it.... Well, I've had another premonition. This time I saw a weapon of mass destruction being used on a highly populated western city. Again, I don't know where or when. I can recall, in detail, the observation area and that of a name that springs to mind, but I don't know why. I didn't know who he was. I checked the name out and he, ...Bob Quinn, is (I think) the leader of the Qld. State Liberal party. He was the man, according to my premonition, could tell me where it was going to happen. He seems highly unlikely to me. Beats me?	As far as a time, ... based on the last premonitions time frame, I would guess around the 16th of November. I hope to God I'm wrong! [ Top Of Page ]
Ghostly Influence? Submitted by: Spooked, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (11/11/02)
I would like to tell you about what I have seen and what other people have seen in this particular house. First of all it was the house across the street from mine. A lady named Alice in her early to mid 50's lived there. She was always such a cranky old thing. When I was about 13 and my brother was 10 we used to walk home from school on Alice's lawn along side of the road knowing she would scream out to us to "GET OFF HER LAWN" She would always see us because she sat in this one corner of her dining room and just watch out the window at everyone. Anyway when I was 14 Alice found out she had breast cancer. Towards the end before she died she would come over and visit us nearly every day and stay until late. Anyway she finally died and her place became a rental. When I was 20 A couple and their 3 kids moved into the place. We gradually became friends. We got talking about the house and I asked Julie if she had witnessed any strange occurrences in the house. She said she had. She said that everytime her and her husband have a fight pictures start flying off the wall, saucepan lids get thrown across the kitchen at Mike everytime they argue. That was all she said to me, but I just thought "yeah right, typical ghost story". But, a couple of weeks later I went over for a coffee and Julie said to me that her and Mike were sitting watching a movie one night when she heard the dining chair slide across the floor. Mike looked back and saw nothing. Anyway when the movie finished Julie got up to turn the lights off while Mike went to bed. She tidied up the dining table and pushed in all the chairs, turned the lights out and went to bed. Julie got up later that night to attend to her baby. When she came out she found the dining chair had been pulled out as if someone was sitting in it. She told me that it was only the one chair that did it. The one in the corner of the dining room. I told her that was where Alice used to sit watching out the window.	Anyway not long after Julie found out that Mike was cheating on her so she kicked him out. He got pretty physical but soon stopped when things started getting thrown towards his head. The same thing happened when Mike would get verbal at the kids and start picking on them (2 were his step kids). I didn't think anything of it as I thought it was none of my business what went on between them until Julie came over one day saying she had had enough and asked if we could help her move out. She explained everything that had happened and that's when mum came out with it. She said everything that has happened to Julie sounds pretty similar to Alice. Alice's husband cheated on her. He left and went to this other woman. He would also get very vocal towards her kids and violent towards her. So all these happenings were just Alice looking after Julie. The same pattern happened with the tenants before Julie and Mike. Although they never mentioned any ghostly activity except that Sandra said she'd see a glow under the door of her bedroom sometimes and footsteps down the hallway that would stop outside the bedroom. That was it. But her husband was abusive to her and the kids and also cheated on her. Anyway, as for my experience with Alice. When I was helping Julie pack I came to her bedroom with Julie right behind me. Just as I reached the doorway I turned around from talking to Julie and saw this extremely quick trailing light fly from one side of the room to the other. I went white but Julie told me not to panic coz Alice always did that. I am 21 now and we have new neighbours. I am dreading to think about what is happening with them at the moment. Could Alice's tragic life have an effect on them too......? [ Top Of Page ]
Haunted Restaurant? Submitted by: Elanor, Sydney Australia (02/11/02)
I was at the Ghengis Khan Mongolian Grill in Sydney one night. Throughout the meal, I had a few drinks. On one occasion I went to the bar, and while the barman was pouring my drink, I noticed an upturned shot glass move about two inches along the bench. After rubbing my eyes and contemplating going to an AA meeting, I looked at the glass and it moved the same distance again.	Excessive alcohol or a haunted restaurant? [ Top Of Page ]
Nocturnal Visitation Submitted by: Tony, Liverpool Sydney (24/10/02)
I have had an interest in the paranormal since I was about 12 , I have read many books on the paranormal , I have also read a lot of books by Erich von Daniken , one book that had changed my life was "Transformation" by Whitley Streiber....... from reading his experiences I never thought such a thing would happen to me. One night recently when returning home from a party the only thing on my mind was sleep, being the designated driver I had had nothing to drink (or smoke) that night, ironically my radio would not turn on (I cannot sleep without music) and neither would any other electrical appliance in my room. Thinking nothing of it I went to bed. However I could not sleep that night I knew something was wrong, it was bright night outside and I had decided to try and visualise my room in light, when I turned to look over towards the window I could see 3 black figures about 8 foot tall each , at first I had never felt so much fear come over me in my life, but then I felt a feeling that these were the people I had been looking for my whole life, the people that somehow had answers to all the questions I had ever wanted to ask.	Then within one short second I felt as if everything I ever learnt had no importance what so ever that I have been learning the wrong things. All I could make of the beings is that they were wearing some sort of clothing similar to that of a scottish kilt but pure black. I cannot remember anything after noticing this. I awoke the next day at about midday without a memory of this until 4 days later. Since that night there have dramatic improvements in my self esteem and understanding of society. I have kept this story to myself because I feel it is something sentimental to me. [ Top Of Page ]
Ouija Influence Submitted by: Thrillhouse - South-West Sydney (11/10/02)
After a failed attempt with a Ouija board one evening in late 2001, my home in the city of Campelltown has been acting quite strange (I avoid using the word 'haunted' because I'm not sure of this). I have personally witnessed numerous passing figures through my house, this has also been noted by a friend on a couple of occasions. More worrying was an occasion when I was sitting studying on my kitchen table, when out of nowhere the kitchen sink began flowing. I found this strange in itself, but even more strange was the fact that the flowing water was from the hot tap, which had not been used all day. Another study-related vision occurred in late September this year when I saw a dark figure standing behind my right shoulder as I sat. The most recent occurrence happened on the long weekend just last week. I went to bed at about 2am on Sunday morning, shutting my bedroom door behind me. My brother left for work in the morning at 8am and says that he did not open my bedroom door before he left. I awoke at 9am and saw the door open, but thought nothing of it thinking it was probably my brother.	Then I again woke at 10am and noted the door was shut, at that moment I was a little weary, but became even more weary when I noted that all the windows in the house were shut, taking into account the fact that my bedroom door does not close randomly. Anyway this stuff continues to happen, if it begins to get stranger I will give updated reports. [ Top Of Page ]
Great Aunt's Ghost Submitted by: Kirsten - Perth, Western Australia (08/10/02)
When I about twelve I snuck out of my bedroom window with two of my friends to walk around the streets with two of my friends, we thought it would be an exciting thing to do. As we walked up one particular street, Jura Court, in Duncraig. My friend turned to me and said, "Can you see that man looking at us" She claimed he was wearing a green and Yellow striped rugby jumper and was clean shaven. As I looked towards the place where she was pointing My other friend told me that she also could see a man but he had a beard and he seemed to be standing although she could not see the lower part of his body. I could not see a man, I saw a woman, she had long dark brow hair (waist length) and was wearing a blue knitted jumper. I could only see the top half of her body also even though it was at the height that I should have been able to see her legs. There was nothing obstructing our view. This experience frightened the three of us as we were all looking at the same place yet we saw three different figures. At that point we all turned and ran.	About a month later I was looking through a photo collection of my grandmothers and had told her earlier that day about the experience that we had. It was what happened next that still gives me cold shivers...I picked up a photo of the woman I had seen that night in Jura court. When I asked who the woman was, my grandmother replied that it was a picture of her sister taken when she was in her teens. She commented how close I had been to her before she had died. I do not remember much of this relationship as I was only seven when she died. My great aunt had died 5 years before in a nursing home in her eighties. Maybe she had come to check up on me and let me know she knew I was walking the streets in the early hours of the night and that it wasn't the right thing to do. To this day my friends and I do not know who the two men that they had seen are. [ Top Of Page ]
Cloud Ghost Submitted by: Linda - Melbourne, Australia (02/10/02)
I was walking outside of my house in the middle of the day to the garden. I looked into my window and saw a flash of light in the window. I thought something had caught on fire, so I ran inside and out of the corner of my eye I saw a cloud of dust. As I turned around to see what was there, it had disappeared. At that moment I was in a state of shock. I was very frightened. A few hours later it began to get really cold in the house. It was a warm, sunny day outside and I didn't know why it got so cold. Then I saw the cloud dust again and this time it "floated" quickly into the basement. A few days went by and it was still very cold in every room of the house. I was too scared to go in the basement but I was curious as to what I had seen. So I went very slowly into the basement, and as I got farther down the stairs, I felt the cold turning even more bitter. I saw the cloud thing again disappear behind the furnace.	Scared but still very determined to find out what this thing was, I walked to the furnace and as soon as I got there saw a sort of old-looking wood box. It had dust all over it. I knew that those books were not supposed to be there. So I studied the history of the house and found that the house was used for a cult and may have been used by witches over 50 years ago. Something went wrong and released something in the world it was not supposed to. I had burned the box and never saw the cloud ghost again. I moved out of the house the next week. [ Top Of Page ]
Hotel Apparition Submitted by: Alanna - Melbourne (01/10/02)
I was on vacation with friends in Sydney and we stayed in this really old hotel. Everything seemed fine and we were all laughing and having a good time, it was getting late and we had planned to leave early to see a couple of tours and shows the next day so we went to bed. In the early morning hours I had gotten up to go to the restroom. It was down the hall. As I was walking down the hall I had seen a figure of a man standing on the stairway. It was kind of dark but light enough to see where you were going.I thought it was my imagination so I kept going. I left the restroom back to our room. The figure was still there, only this time it was saying all these blurbs like there was more than one person there. I couldn't see it's face at all and it was staring right at me!!! It started up the stairs, terrified I ran back to my room as fast as I could and got into my bed and hid under the covers. About an hour passed by and nothing happened, so I slowly opened the door and looked down the hall. There was nothing there. I calmed myself down and went to bed.	The next morning I told the manager of the hotel what had happened and she said that many people had complained of seeing this "man" on the stairs. She said she had heard of a construction worker who took part in building the hotel died after falling off the edge of the top stair falling nearly 50 feet to the concrete floor. My friends were freaked and later they said talked about the best part of their vacation - staying in a haunted hotel. [ Top Of Page ]

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