I’ve always had the occasional mild ESP type experience since I was a teen, but only in the past 3 years have I ever seen what I would call a ghost.

It started out with a sort of ghostly image of a happy young greyish-colorless cat in my upstairs hallway. Frisky and mischievous, I could hardly believe my eyes! It was a fantastic sight. It ran from me like a cat that knows you but does not want to be picked up at the moment. It ran to go up my 3rd floor steps around the corner and when I got down there I could not see it anymore. I knew it was not real, but I went back downstairs to see all my cats still eating in the kitchen.

Then months after that while washing an aquarium filter out in my claw foot tub, I was looking into a big mirror leaning against the wall behind it. I was looking at one of my cats, when suddenly a dark wisp 5 or 6 feet off the ground, could be seen behind me (in the mirror), and in front of my cat. It only lasted a few seconds, and I might have dismissed it, but my cat and I looked at it at the exact same moment. We both lifted our heads up to see it, and it was gone within 2 seconds. The cat just looked away and I was still stunned looking around for it but no luck. I must say I didn’t get a pleasant feeling from it. It sort of creeped me out.

Last summer while visiting a friend in Cape Cod I saw a man in her living room. I could see his short sleeved shirt and kaki pants, but I could not see his face. Then he just moved in a blur out of sight past the door way. He gave me the impression by his clothes that it was 1940s to 60s.
Later trying to make sense of who it might have been I wondered if it was her father, since she had placed a small piano that her father made for her when she was a child in that area of the house, just the day before, to see if my guy might be able to repair it.

My most recent experience was this summer with the same friend only at her Pittsburgh home. She was sitting outside on her back porch when we arrived.
I glanced at her face but my eyes were immediately drawn off to the side of her to the face of a Schnauzer up in the air.
It all happened so fast. She used to have a beloved Schnauzer years ago that I’ve never met.
Strangely she was sitting with a life sized antique statue of a dog she is fond of and has named it as if it were a real dog. It had been water damaged recently. It was on it’s side with paws up in the air to dry. The face I saw was up in the air above the paws. So I do question if my mind was trying to fill in some sort of blanks, yet I wonder if her beloved Schnauzer sort of hangs out around the statue of the dog that she dotes over as if it were alive.

I hope that was not too much to share….it was sort of long, but I think some detail helps people understand the experience.

Please, please tell us your stories of your ghosts, with details!

My mother & aunt have had supernatural stuff happen to them. At 16, my mom predicted her father’s death & told my grandmother “daddy’s dead” at the exact moment (they found out later) that he had died of a heart attack on the street. She & my aunt have also had several “visitations.”
Because these stories scared me & I felt like it ran in the family, I actually grew up announcing to empty rooms “I can’t handle anything scary – please don’t visit me” & nothing ever did (although I’ve had some very weird, very vivid dreams that felt like visitations.)
Sometimes I’ve felt strange, uncomfortable energy in places, but nothing manifested & I was grateful. (I found the real world enough of a challenge w/o taking on the unreal world.)

When my dad died, I felt like a door opened & it’s never completely shut again. As a result, I’m more curious about supernatural experiences than I used to be & maybe a bit less scared.

I have ghostly encounters to recount from the NOLA castle as well. You and Carrin and I should put something together about it…

My mom also sees the dead in dreams in the same way that you do. .

i created the séance room http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Seance-Room/150797534511 as a small gathering place for favourite conjuring stories and images (co-administering with miss rebecca/undream who started the vintage spirit photography flickr group – so many ghostly images and ghoulish trickery http://www.flickr.com/groups/877262@N20/).

There are many Ghost tours in the town but my husband and I always find we see more and feel more when we just walk through the old city and let it pull us to the spirits. It’s wild how full the city is. Abandoned houses have faces peeking out of windows, that’s something we’ve seen a lot, especially this one house we always visit but the girl never shows on our camera. I think she’s shy. The cemetery has a little boy that people always see. Usually he is up in a tree, he likes to climb them. I always wonder what keeps a spirit grounded, why do they stay here. Why are so many in St. Augustine? It intrigues me to no end….

AS IF I needed to peruse any more fashion related blogs! But with names like sea of ghosts and hammer of witches, what am I suppsed to do – ignore them? HAHAHA…no. Of course not. Thank you, as always, for the bewitching links!

PS
If you like ghostly photography (usually sans ghosts, but eerie still), try Simon Marsden:
http://www.simonmarsden.co.uk/