I've many a tale to tell....
May as well tell them all in one sitting. Apologies in advance for length.

Me, my sister and my mum have always felt people downstairs. Sometimes you hear things moving such as the tv remote scratching the glass of the table or a quiet thump when you're trying to sleep. Whoever they are, they're not noisy but sometimes you can sense them when you walk through the living room or the upstairs hallway as if they're waiting on the stairs. I used to hang on to bannisters as I walked past but found that just saying a cheery hello or goodnight makes it better.

There is also a cat who my mum and sister fall over. They saw it quite regularly for a while, despite the fact we've never had a cat.

A year or so back my family went on holiday and I was left with the whole house. I'd chat away in case anyone really was there, as I imagine being dead can be a bit lonely, but liked my lie-ins as I always have done. One particularly lazy morning I head the scuff of someone's jeans as they walked up the stairs. Thinking it was my sister come to call me lazy I rolled over only to remember she was gone and that I must have made it up. Then it knocked on my door. It wasn't creaking, it was loud and precise. Even the ghosts think I'm a lazy sod. So I told it I was getting up.

We also sometimes find broken matches when cleaning. This is from when mum was a wee girl and despite no one smoking they used to find broken matches littering their house. It seems to have joined us here.

There have been bad experiences too.

For instance, sometimes there are figures standing beside our beds. My sister once saw a man standing over my bed, my mum saw a figure at the bottom of her bed and I once felt that there was someone in the hall. I didn't go to check if I was being a mental person because of being bloody terrified. When I was wee and in my own room I awoke to find a bodiless head floating beside my bed. Now this I have to admit could have been my little self dreaming but it felt so real and I lay awake in a sweat for an age and a half terrified. I kept my eyes screwed up and it kept looking at me as if checking to see if I was awake or not. It seemed to be waiting for me so I hid under the covers.

There have been plenty other things in the family such as my sceptical dad waking up to find the previous owner of his friend's house, a little old lady who'd died, peering over him to see who he was, my gran who had men stand over her bed talking about how she was not the one they were after, and my gran and papa surviving in their little tent on a hill during a storm as someone seemed to hold their tent down although nobody was there.
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Sat 5 Jul 2008, 1:00, 2 replies)

Fnar
"Click* for feeling people downstairs.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Mon 7 Jul 2008, 9:23, closed)

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I must get some glasses, I read part of this as "a little old lady who had died, pee-ing over him....." Wha-hey, I thought, Ghostly Golden Showers!!
(Rsoles, Tue 8 Jul 2008, 21:28, closed)