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Ookay this is going to be a long post because some pretty freaky sh!t has happened to me!!! All of the following happened at my parents house over the course of about 5 years. No one was killed there, it's not a graveyard, the land was originally swamp land before it was backfilled and houses built in our neighbourhood.

So first, we'll start with my sister. She was packing to leave for university and was talking on the phone with a friend (this was like 17 years ago). She happened to look up at her mirror. She was at an angle where she couldn't see herself in the mirror, but could see other parts of the room. Looking back at her was an old man. He wasn't totally opaque, and he was just sort of staring at her curiously. My sister started SCREAMING, the man looked really sad, and then turned and walked away, disappearing from the mirror. Of course the girl on the other end of the phone flipped out and threatened to call 911 until my sister told her what happened. Weird. We never had another siting of the old man.

A couple years later, my parents decided to renovate the house. We dug up part of the yard to extend out the back, and built a second floor on it. Nothing weird happened during this time, nothing was found. BUT after it was all done, weird stuff started happening. I'm not entirely sure of the order of events, but it all happened within 5 years. I think we p!ssed off something/someone when we built, I have no other explanation as to why all this happened.

One day I was studying for a test on my bed. A weird ball of light flew in through my window, zipped around the room, stopped and hovered for a few seconds over my textbook in my lap, and then zipped off and disappeared about a foot from the wall. The light was a bit smaller than a basketball. I was totally frozen, couldn't move for a good few minutes after it happened. I went and told my mom, her explanation was swamp gas. There hasn't been a swamp there for 60 something years, I'm not sure I buy it, I just know what happened.

I had a lot of friends who stayed at our house REGULARLY, mostly a group of 5 guys who were like my big brothers. One night we were all hanging out talking in the loft space upstairs. We had a big sectional sofa that had a pull out couch so it was more like a big square. We were all stretched out lounging and talking like teenagers do, and one of the guys had his arms stretched over the back of the couch (there was about 2' of space between it and a wall). All of a sudden he looked really alarmed and was like, I can't move my arms. He couldn't pull them back over the couch. We looked behind the couch to see if someone was playing a trick, but there was no one there, and we started tugging on his arms and we could NOT move them. He wasn't exactly a big guy, so there's no way he could have resisted the strength of the rest of us pulling his arms. This lasted a good few minutes and then stopped.

We had a good stereo system in our basement. It would randomly turn on FULL blast in the middle of a CD in the middle of a song at all hours of the day and night. We tested it and there was no way the remote made it work from any other area of the house other than if you were in that room, nevermind starting it at random spot on a CD.

In that same room, my mom had some fake flowers. I was in that room one day with a friend when the music turned on full blast by itself, and the flowers started opening and closing. I don't know how you'd explain that.

Another day, I was home alone, having a shower. Someone grabbed my shoulder from behind (so fingers hooked over onto the front of my shoulder, palm on my back). I looked and no one was there (thank god) but it's the scariest thing I've ever experienced.

I also had some really vivid dreams that would best be described as out of body experiences, but those are debatable really, because who knows if they were just really crazy vivid dreams or real, but I can tell you they FELT very real.

Oh and things would go missing all.the.time. My sister and I both lost items of jewelry only to have it appear YEARS later sitting on the floor in the middle of the room.

I had a Ouija board experience as well. I remember my girlfriends being over, us being really hyped up, getting the board out, and then I can't remember ANYTHING else (like I blacked out or something) until I pulled myself away totally drained of energy and completely out of it. I think I slept for like 14 hours after. I haven't touched one since.

Oh my gosh, this is bringing back so many weird memories now. A couple more things and then I'm done I promise! So another night at my parents house, my parents were out and a few of my friends were over. We were all in the basement and it was getting cold in the house, so I went upstairs alone to close the windows. I was closing the window in the diningroom when in the reflection I saw three people sort of peering in from between the french doors on the opposite side of the room. I spun around and no one was there. I ran downstairs and asked if anyone had been upstairs and they all swore up and down No. Lots of my friends also saw "shadow" type people in window reflections over the years.

Now the last thing. I constantly find dimes. Everywhere. Like I'll be working at the dining room table, leave for two minutes to grab something, come back, and there's a dime on the table that wasn't there before. They pop up everywhere, not just around my house. I always find them on the ground or if anything falls out of my pockets, it's always a dime or two but no other change. It is the strangest thing ever and since I've told DH about it, he's noticed it too! I think it's from my uncle. He died when I was 12 and I didn't know him all that well, although he was involved in some shady dealings (he was a biker) so I don't know the true circumstances of his death. At my grandparents cottage (he and my mom's parents), we used to have this "piggy bank" of sorts, that was a big thermometre on the wall that you put dimes in (it ONLY fit dimes). Every time you put a dime in it, it would make a little dinging noise from a bell at the bottom. I have to wonder if it was there when he was a kid too and this is the element we have in common, loving to put dimes in this thermometre growing up and so now he leaves me dimes everywhere. I absolutely love finding the dimes though and knowing he's with me. I often find them when I'm really happy or when I'm having a bad day. It always makes me stop and smile.

I'll stop now. I know, it's a lot. It freaks me out ;)

@CorgiTales: Dude. I don't watch scary movies anymore. Trust me. I'm thankful the stuff that happened at my parents house was more of the "curious and quirky" nature and "not the spirits trying to hurt me" variety. It stopped all of a sudden, although I don't know why. My mom also said that if she had stuff in the oven and didn't hear the timer she'd feel a pinch on her back to remind her. Creepy!!

@MissBoston: I know! And I thank heavens a lot of my friends were there with me to experience it too, otherwise I'm pretty sure I would have thought I was losing my mind!!! I had a psychic tell me later that I should never play with Ouija boards because I'm a really receptive person or something like this, so I don't touch them at all. I don't necessarily think she was a great psychic or anything, I just think I've experienced enough that it's common sense to avoid it just in case ;) It's not like I'm going to miss out on anything! LOL! I find it all really intriguing though. I've heard there's a freaky good psychic that does readings on Friday/Saturdays in Toronto at a restaurant and I'm dying to book an appointment with her for fun!! She told a friend of a friend that she would get pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl, within a year. The girl wasn't even trying (or wanting!), but guess what? Within that year she and her SO were pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl. Crazy!

@missmouse29: The best I know about the house is that it was built by the builder who did our whole neighbourhood and he lived there himself until he sold it to my parents. I'm not sure how long he lived there, but my guess would be 5-10 years? So it's not a 100+ year old house, it was relatively new when they bought it. They live in an area that was inhabited by Native populations many many many years before, but we didn't dig up any ancient burial grounds or anything when we dug out the yard for the new part of the basement, so I think that isn't really an issue. My parents have lived in the house for 30+ years and, like I said, were only the second owners. We don't have any big hydro towers or anything else around. It's just a house in a nice neighbourhood. Lots of trees. Parkland nearby. Nothing out of the ordinary!

@MissBoston: You're totally giving me goosebumps! I think your story got cut off about the grandmother. Unless she interrupted  ;) I want to hear the rest!

@Wonderwoman217: I've definitely had the most experiences of anyone in my family that I know of. As far as I know my sister just had that one sighting, my mom gets the pinches, and my dad has never said anything. My mom loves the things with the dimes that I get. Funny one the other day, I went to pick up FIL's dog from the breeder (totally unexpectedly), and when I was bringing the dog back to the car, there were two dimes on the driveway right outside the car door. I should really start myself a dimes only piggy bank and save up how rich my uncle is making me! Dimes go a lot further than pennies! LOL!

@nqz100: That is all crazy!!! Omg!!! That doorbell story is NUTS!!!

Your fire alarm story reminded me of something that happened here in our house. A few months ago, our fire alarm went off in the middle of the night, DH ran out to see what it was, there was no fire, nothing was wrong. Weird. Okay, whatever. The next day we're talking to DH's stepmom who tells us that at his cousin's house (they're about a half hour away), they're smoke detector went off in the middle of the night, and it turns out it was at the same time. Weird!

Oh, one other thing. There was a huge mirror in my parents house in the main bathroom. It likely weighed 100+ pounds. One day it literally jumped off the wall and shattered all over the floor. The clips were still intact on the walls, on the pieces of the mirror, there's no way it fell because something broke. It would have had to jump off the wall to fall. There were no big bangs or bumps or earthquakes that could have jarred it off the clips. And no, this wasn't the mirror my sister saw the old man in. That mirror was thrown out ;)

@MsJ26: Omg insane!!! I totally have goosebumps and am freaked out now and DH is at work! LOL! I've heard a lot of stories about texts/phone calls from cell phones after a person has passed. I think there were a lot of stories like that post 9/11 as well.   That hotel room story is insane. Why in the world would the waiter tell you?! I would have left the hotel!!!