Do I believe in ghosts? Hell yes I do, I've witnessed their activity!!
My last house had a ghost. And I beleive it was a little girl around age 7-9 from the things that happened.
When I first moved into my house (while going thru a divorce) I was talking with a neighbor about the trees in the front yards up and down the street as they were all the same. He told me it was in honor of a little girl who was hit and killed by a speeding driver. The neighborhood put the trees up to remember what happened and to remind people in the neighborhood to 'slow down.' He told me he thought she lived in the house he had (was the 2nd owner), and I didn't give it much thought.
Things happened over time that were weird though. I'd leave, only to come home and find the tv on or the stereo, which were not on when I left. At Halloween I'd have decorations out and ceramic witches that lit up, things with candles,etc. and I'd go out making sure they were all off, only to come home and find them on and candles lit. Now mind you I had 2 kids, and they'd be with me at these times so it wasn't something they did to make me wonder. At Christmas we'd go out and come home to find all decorations, candles on, the tree lights on, outdoor lights on, etc. yet I was the only one with the key.
Also, you could put things down somewhere (being a creature of habit I always put things away and in the same place) only to come back minutes later to find the object gone! Once it was my car keys and I searched for over 1 hour (I was the only one in the house), and my friend came over to pick me up (as I couldn't find my keys) and she looked with me for a while only to then find them right where I left them, but we had both looked there countless times and they were not there.
I also experienced the tv going on in the middle of the night (when I was the only one there besides my dogs), lights going on in the middle of the night, and water or the shower being turned on in the middle of the night when I was the only one there.
Then one night while working in my office I heard a little girls voice talking. I thought my daughter had come by and went to the steps only to see my 2 labrador retreivers sitting at full attention with tails wagging to this voice. There was nobody there. I'd also constantly hear in a little girls voice "Hi there little puppy, how are you today" and I am not the only one who heard this, friends and family did.
We'd also see a 'haze' in the air from time to time and as the haze went by you it would make the hairs on your arms stand up and put a chill in your body!! I spoke with some paranormal people and they said there was a spirit present, but was a friendly spirit 'trapped' and unable to leave. They also asked if any little girls in the neighborhood had died tragically and when I said 'yes' but she lived next door, they told me that she actually died in that house.
Funny thing is that after I moved out I ran into a neighbor directly across the street from me and he asked me if we ever had anything weird happen. I asked him why and he mentioned that after I moved out they got a 'guest' who was a little girl about 7-9 years old. They could hear her, but not see her. As he had a daughter around that age who would live with his ex (but he had a room for when he shared custody of her) he said they would go out with everything fine, only to come home to find the room torn apart. At first they called the cops to report a breakin, but then the room began getting torn apart while they were at home. He said he'd see things getting tossed, but with nobody tossing them. It freaked him out and he called the cops again. After some time he got the paranormal group I used who came out and told him he had a little girl around the age of 7-9 who had died tragically and was 'trapped' here and couldn't leave for some reason. They then mentioned they thought it was the one from my house!! Said she was there as he had a little girl, and when I moved in my daughter was 9.
So, do I beleive in ghosts? Hell yes, I've witnessed their activity first hand. And before this I would have thought someone crazy to think there was such a thing!!
True story!!
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