Everyone else has seen more ghosts than me
A weird guy I went to school with used to like to tell everyone his endless ghost stories. He had a huge collection of horror films he simultaneously loved and was terrified of - especially me as he knew I hated anything scary or gory. He had endless 'ghost stories'... how he walked down a path near a battlefield with his dog and there was a ghost down there with no head, about his cousin who was haunted every night by something so hideous he couldn't describe it, the endless ghosts in his house, and then when he moved they miraculously followed, and the ghost that stood watching him in Austria while he was sleeping. He claims to 'attract' them.

The worst one was when he claimed the boy who'd bullied me relentlessly in school, emigrated and been killed in a messy car accident was now his spirit guide and was watching over both of us as we talked. Except he chose not to tell me about it until after he felt the presence. And it won't surprise anyone to learn he loves Most Haunted.

My mum has seen a UFO hovering over our house, but she was with a friend who also saw it so I know it's not her seeing things.

My housemate claims a ghost sat on the end of her bed the other night - she couldn't see it but she felt it sit down. And at my parents' house I often see a black cat-shape out of the corner of my eye, or hear purring. I like to think it's the ghost of my kitty, who died about 3 years ago.

My school was rumoured to be haunted by about five ghosts - one of them was a pupil killed in a car accident, another a teacher who hanged himself, vengeful ex-pupils, etc. We all stayed in the classroom it was sensed in most often (the most moved stuff) one lunchtime and all we got for our trouble was a mass demerit and being forbidden to ever talk about the ghost again on pain of suspension. They knew. They had to, and it was all a cover-up to stop us raising the ghost from the dead or something and having it free-roaming the school. I think as my school wanted to be Hogwarts, or as Hogwarts-y as a day school can be, it would have benefited from a few ghosts flitting about.

EDIT: Almost forgot about this... the earlier point I made about the guy who made my life hell in school? Once he upset me so much that I screamed at him "(name), I hate you and I hope you die as horribly as possible!" Scarily enough two years after he emigrated I got a call fairly late at night to tell me he'd been killed in a car accident near where he now lived. I don't even dare think things like that about people now, just in case it happens again.
( Maladicta, Thu 20 Apr 2006, 22:04, Reply)