Ok I will go out on a limb here...

Now this may sound odd, I don't belive in ghosts as such, although I have been in some old places where strange and unexplainable things have occured.

Scenario 1.
A friend was looking to rent a house in Melbourne, and she asked me to come along with her. I had never seen this place before, let alone even been to said suburb.

When we first pulled up outside the house I just blerted out, "You can't rent this, someone has died here". This kinda came as odd to her and myself/

We walked inside with said real estate personage, and I just walked straight to a particular room and said 'This is the room'.

What had actually occured was someone was murdered in the house 30 years prior and in this particular room I said.

Scenario 2.
This was actually at a mates place.
He would never stay in there at night, always saying it was haunted, we all thought he just got on the slops to much haha.

I ended up staying there on a permanant basis for sometime, and it was the weirdest place I have ever been in. Lights would turn on by themselves, doors would open and close, things would get moved.

Footsteps on the stairs. First up I thought it was my mate trying to put the wind up me, but after donning a torch and shining it up said stairway (there was no light in the stairway), and still hearing these footsteps coming down the stairs and there was definately no person walking down them that I could see.

I am not the only one who has witnessed these happenings, if I was the only one I would seriously consider booking myself into a mental institution.

Scenario 3.
A lot of people who visit this particular sheep station have experienced this happening.

Me and a fellow worker were sitting outside on the verandah of the shearers quarters having a cup of coffee, she asked me if I could hear crying, we both put it down to cats and continued to yak.

Then as plain as day we both heard 'Help me mummy'.
Needless to say we shat ourselves. Curiosity got the better of us, and from what we could determine it was coming from near an old tree.

The next day the wife of the property came over with breakfast and I asked her about the tree thing, she burst into tears and run off. I felt pretty bad as I had obviously said something that upset her greatly. Later on I was talking to the husband and he told us that his wifes little sister had fallen down an old well where the tree was and couldn't get out, and ultimately died in said well. The well was covered in and a tree planted there as a memorial. Apparently it was common to hear this little girl calling out.

I have been into many other old abandonned houses over time, I kinda like going through ruined places, and been to plenty of presumably haunted houses without anything occuring out of the ordinary.

One of my freinds used to live in a house, and she said there was a ghost in it, and it would tap you on the shoulder if you sat at the end of the table. I thought this was a load of crock, and sat myself down at the end of the table, and about an hour later felt a cold rush of air, like a door being opened and a feeling as if someone was leaning on my shoulder, considering there were only three people in the house at the time, myself and two others, who I could plainly see in front of me, I have no rational explanation for this occurance.

My loved one and me have lived in the house we now own since 1987 and we both firmly we have a ghost. It is a split level house and we sometimes see something hovering down the stairs.The cat reacts and a dog we used to have went ballistic at the same time.Our son aged about 18/19 at the time once came down after showering and asked us if we were playing tricks on him.when we asked why he said him and his girlfriend were showering and a shape of a hand was seen on the outside of the shower curtain.It was not us.The ghost does not cause any problems and while many may think we are mad we see what we see.I have tried to find out if any thing happened in this house but all we can find is a person had taken her own life 2 houses from us.This spirit can stay with us as long as it wants as it is not causing any problems.
Jack

Wow, didnt expect all that,
When I was looking for a house in Melbourne to cut up and move to Bendigo on a block of land I had bought I had my dog with me Bonnie x shepherd with boxer
Looked at about 6 houses always asking if my dog could accompany me with the usual yes in reply
Came to a house in Glenroy and Bonnie refused to come in ,sat on the footpath and wouldnt budge
On entering the house it was a mess, holes in plaster, door hanging of one hinge, windos cracked,
to this day I dont know what caused it but had a deeper insight into the extra senses that our animals have

Good luck with the new hound Mike & Judy, should have got a foxie or Jack Russel, they like to go down holes, would have fitted in with your burrowing etc, lol (just kidding).

She will be great company for you both!

Vic

It's often been said that there is lot more to know than we think we know that there is to know.

Animals definatley have a 7th and 8th senses. They know exactly when it's going to rain and they also seem to have the abilty to sense impending disaster. How they do this is beyond science to understand. Logically nothing can tell the future apart from maybe weather but an animal can't possibly understand the mechanics of things and know that a plane is going to crash or whatever....
If you look at someone like Whitby Strieber, who I put in the category of "total fruitcake" (but it's disconcerting reading) he sites case after case of dogs & cats and horses detecting Alien Lifeforms on Earth. OH YEAH!!! of course they all live in the USA and Russia but he does have some credibilty. The stats of people being abducted are just unbelievable ( around 50000 Yanks a year) yet he has found people who have "implants" that give these Aliens control over the people so implanted. Hubris? who knows a bit like Nessie, I'll belive when I can see a clear in focus picture that has not been doctored, even the fake Nessie photos are fake. and UFO's well I'm not so niave as to believe that we are the only planet with intelligent life in the universe but why do they all speak with American accents and WHY if they can travel so far don't they let us in on the trick.
I'm of to change the germanium crystal in my Phone Box.
Have a look at this and tell me I'm not a fruitcake too;
http://www.greatdreams.com/1953-aliens.htm

-- Edited by Basil Faulty on Sunday 7th of June 2009 01:30:16 PM

I actually find this kind of thing very interesting.
And for every occurance I try to find a rational reason for the happening.

One that comes to mind is my friend (who believed in ghosts etc etc) honestly believed their house was haunted to the point of having moving out into a motel, calling in a priest to "bless" the house, which was funny in itself, said priest also witnessed the occurance and by his rather hasty departure I am more then confident he headed home for a quick shower and change of daks.

Curiousity got the better of me, and I went to the house with a mate and we spent the weekend in there, and witnessed this window that would open and shut it itself, first time it occured we shat ourselves. Although it was quickly obvious that this window opening and shutting only happened when people where in the room, and at no other time - in my twisted mind I concluded it had something to do with us being in the room.

So we walked in and out of the room several times and on cue the window would open. My mate being a builder said that the floor was warped or similar and then he pulled the window apart and apparently the weights on the ropes (it was the old sliding type with weights on the ends of ropes) were not heavy enough and when you walked over a particular spot on the floor it was enough to make the window fly open and then bash back down again.

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