To believe in ghosts?

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Starting a woo thread for spooky, creepy, strange experiences! Has anyone got a true ghost story they would like to share to liven up a dull Monday morning? 👻

Years ago I had this freakish vivid dream that I had to tell my grandad his sister had died. It was so real. But my grandad hated his sister and hadn't seen or spoken to her in years, and I'd never even met his sister. I woke up feeling utterly confused as if the dream had actually happened. My DH thought I was bonkers. A few days later I was chatting to my mum on the phone and at the end of the call she said "not that you knew her, but just to let you know that your grandad's sister died the other day".

I’d like to believe in ghosts.

I have two experiences but neither are very convincing evidence!

1. I grew up on a farm and had horses. One evening when I was doing horse jobs, I felt like someone was watching me, a shivers down the spine feeling. I put it down to the nights drawing in, and being a bit late that evening, so it was pretty dark and shadowy. I put the horses out and went back to the yard, and heard a sound from the old workhorse stable. It wasn’t being used for horses at the time. It used to be where the farm horses were kept, and it has a raised section between the feed troughs at one side and the muck channel at the other. That raised section is brick with a thin concrete layer over the top and it makes a really distinctive noise when a shod horse is in there. I swear I heard a horse shoe on the floor and a low whickering, exactly the sound of a horse seeing a person and expecting a treat, or a scratch, or to be taken out to the field with the others. I instinctively started to go to the stable before realising I had put all the horses out, there was no one left to be making noise in the stable. It was a really still night so it wasn’t a noise created by the wind.
   of course it could have been overactive imagination on my part, or a sound that carried from a neighbouring farm because it was such a quiet, still night. But I’d like to think it was a ghost horse, and I don’t see any harm in believing that.

2. My parents used to have a dog, which absolutely adored my mum. She (dog) would follow my mum everywhere. She always followed at the same distance, about 3 or 4 strides behind. She died a couple of years before my daughter was born. After we lost her we often heard sounds like claws on the lino from the place behind the sofa where she liked to snooze. We were always turning around expecting to see her before realising she definitely wasn’t back there. After a few weeks we didn’t hear them any more.
   When my daughter was small and just learning to talk, there were two occasions when my mum was carrying her up the garden path to the house, when DD turned and pointed back over my mum’s shoulder, at a point 3-4 strides behind, and said quite clearly “doggy!” when there was nothing there. The dog had died before she was born so she’d never seen the dog following my mum.
   Again, logically, toddlers are not reliable witnesses and have vivid imaginations, but I want to believe that that beloved dog is still happily and adoringly following my mum about, supervising farm jobs as she used to do. My mum hates it being mentioned and says it gives her the creeps!

For me it was a man, not see through, not floating but he did have a grey film over him. He didn’t interact with me at all other than to look down slightly.