To start a ghostly Christmas Eve real or not real thread?

[Cherrysoup]

Here’s one I stole from another forum. Tell us a real or fictional ghost story!

There's a young girl home alone, reading ghost stories in bed. Whenever she scares herself a bit, she dangles her arm off the bed, & the dog who is lay under the bed licks her hand so she knows she's not alone. Eventually, she goes to the toilet, & is comforted by the sound of the dogs footsteps following & waiting outside the door. She then turns round, & written on the mirror is 'humans can lick too'.

[quote Fiftyandmore]@Jenasaurus have you told that story before? It sounds really familiar. I'm seriously hoping there can't be two lodges like that ... :)[/quote]
Yes I told it before on another haunted thread on MN. I was lazy and copied my old post on here. Not the one about the fan getting in bed with me though :)

Love these threads

Going to look up the MR James stories.

@GrapeLipBalm

Going to look up the MR James stories.

His stories are excellent, especially Oh Whistle and I’ll Come to You . BBC have made film versions of his stories which are available on dvd. I can’t watch them on my own night or day!

The classic film Night of the Demon is based on one of his stories.

The MR James stories are even more frightening than the adaptations, certain lines and images just stay in your head.

Just watched the Mark Gatiss programme.

We have a ghost in our house .My DC has seen them more than once. We have had things move .There is a very sad back story that someone took their life in a old building which is on our property. My Dc has actually seen them standing in the exact area of the window where they did .They don't bother us so we just bump along together.

My sister is very scientific minded and absolutely does not believe in ghosts or the paranormal at all. She isn’t one for making up stories and constantly calls me out for bullshitting. This incident still creeps me out as I believe my sister wouldn’t lie about this due to her scientific approach to life.

In my parents house, our staircase was next to the front door and opposite the dining room. If you came down the stairs you would walk across the hall and go straight into the dining room (directly opposite the staircase) or turn right and walk down the hall to the kitchen (opposite the front door). I have always felt very odd about the bottom of the staircase and the dining room. I always felt like I was being watched in that part of the house and I hated being in there after dark or when everyone else was in bed.

One evening, when I was about 12, I was in the kitchen with my mum helping her cook dinner. My sister (20ish) had been Christmas shopping and had just come back. She was in the porch and must have noticed the key was in the lock so she rang the door bell. Me and my mum were both in the middle of prepping food so she had to wait a few seconds before we could get out of the kitchen to let her in. All of a sudden she went mad and started continuously ringing the door bell. My mum got really cross and told me to open the door and tell her off, so I did. My sister was really annoyed and when I asked her why felt the need to continuously ring door bell, she said that she saw me come down the stairs, look at her through the window (a small frosted glass window in the upper part of the door) and then walk off into the dining room. I genuinely froze with fear and said “no I didn’t, I was in the kitchen with mum”

She stated that someone my size and build definitely came past the door and looked at her through the window before walking off into the dining room. We were all spooked. My mum said that she had always felt an unnatural presence in the hall/dining room, and I also said that I never felt comfortable being in that room or at the bottom of the staircase/dining room after dark. Since then, my sister has stated that she must have imagined it, although she is still convinced she saw the outline of a face looking at her and has hinted she thinks me and my mum were lying to her. My aunty, who is a spiritualist, has since stated that there was a ghost of a pre-adolescent girl in the dining room (although I’m sceptical about this as our house wasn’t very old, built in the late 40s, early 50s and my parents bought it in the 80s, so I can’t imagine it being haunted).

Ooooh I love a spooky story!

ALL GHOST STORIES ARE FICTIONAL and NONE OF THEM ARE REAL

Depends on your interpretation. The experiences can feel VERY real to the person experiencing them.

Are they experiencing communication from the dead? No.
Are they experiencing something their brain is trying to interpret? Yes.

Absolutely fascinating subject. You can't beat a good spooky story 😁.

We sold a Georgian house and the new owners rolled up to our new house a few months later asking about the resident ghost and why hadn’t we said anything? We looked blank and then they described a running footsteps noise along the ceiling in the kitchen. It took me a while to click that she was talking about the fridge freezer, when all the ice falls into the ice making compartment.