Ghost sightings and hauntings in my area have picked up in a huge way this year. I have always been a very skeptical person when it comes to the paranormal, but this year, my mind is slowly changing. I will never say I believe in ghosts, but I could perhaps one day say that un-explainable beings are real, and not just a possibility like how I have been thinking in the past.

I can safely say about once every 2 weeks, I hear about a new local haunting. Here's one of them, from my own Aunt!


A few months ago my Aunt moved into a new house. Within 2 weeks odd things started happening. First off, it started with the constantly ringing phones, all through the night. Then a tapping on their shoulders. Later on everyone who was living there started having the same dreams about some little girl (typical right?).

Well back then (as in around April of this year), she was recently divorced. She met a guy (who now is her husband) and he eventually moved in with her and her two kids. We'll call him James. She told him about all the odd things that were going on in the house, so he came up with a plan. (a fun one.. so it seemed at first)

James sent my Aunt and her kids to stay at his mother's house for the weekend while him and his buddies buy a few cases of beer, and spend the weekend doing their own little investigation.

James is one of the most closed minded, skeptical person I know of, so I was a bit shocked when I heard his story about his weekend. The first night, every one of them got to experience the finger tapping on your shoulder. Oddly enough, it happened to James first. He said he thought it was one of his buddies simply messing around with him, but when he turned to look, he could see all of his buddies still in the living room.

He kept his mouth shut about, until it happened to two more of them. That is all that happened their first night, which they shrugged off as just them all being way too drunk haha.

The second night... the nonstop phone ringing started. At first though, his buddies were calling his house number with their cell phones in their pocket to mess with him. After awhile he said the joke got old, and it got a little heated which ended up with everyone laying their phones on the table during one of the nonstop rings.

After everyone emptied their pockets, the phones were still going. Every time one of them would pick it up, it was nothing. No static, no dial tone. It was like someone cut the phone lines. So, they went out to check the wiring, and sure enough, they didn't see any problems with it.

So they went back into the house, and with the phones still ringing, he unplugged one, completely. It kept ringing.

Not long after that is what turned James into a believer, which is when they actually got to see the little girl. James and just 1 of his other buddies felt a chilling touch on their shoulders and they both looked at the basement door the exact same time and saw her.

First thing he said he did was throw what was in his hand at whatever he was seeing, which were his truck keys. He said it went through her but didn't make a sound, as if it never landed on anything. They all bolted after that, and he never did find his truck keys, luckily it wasn't his main set, but a spare.

After that, they called in two different times a local preacher to bless the place. Then a week after that, she flew in some guy from Texas to do it, but with no luck. They eventually moved out not long after that last preacher.



This is just one haunting. The story (i heard 3 sides of it by the way) is not what is helping to open my mind more to it, it is what happened after my Aunt moved out. The next family that moved in there, had the exact same thing happen to them, and even the family after that! I'm not sure if she moved out mainly because of the haunting, but I think it was more of anger, as the owner admitted to her that she knew all about it already. The ringing phones, the shoulder tapping, the ghost girl, everything! I guess I would be ticked too.



Now to get back on topic, I don't normally hear so many ghost related stories within 1 year. I would say, on average, I hear about 5-8 new ones each year. This year, I have heard so many I have lost count.

What urged me to finally post my thoughts about this, and share my Aunts story, is that these are all local ones! I thought these paranormal experiences were supposed to be pretty rare. By local, I mean all within my own county, which is about 4 small towns and very old and run down city (which has hundreds of slaves tunnels underneath it, also known as the underground railroads or freedom tunnels).

So with that, I wondered. Have ghost sightings or paranormal experiences picked up a bunch in the places where you live? Please share the story of one if you know it well enough. I have more interesting ones, but the reason I chose my Aunt's is because the story is the same every time I hear it and from different people.

Look into electromagnetism and geomagnetic storms.
Ghost sightings and other paranormal activity increase during these periods.
I've tried to explain the 'why' on other threads.
Keep recording your dindings and try to get photos, film, and collate readings. Use an EMF and record the data on each occurence (make sre you do a prior background reading in order to compare)

As far as recording or using EMFs, I've personally have never had a paranormal experience (alien or advanced government technology, now that's a different story). So I just can't see myself ever getting that deep into it with the research.

Years ago back when I was a kid, my friends and I would go to random haunted spots every weekend and just basically explore and hope to see something. Out of everyone, I was the only one who never once saw, heard, smelled, or felt anything.

So I don't know what it is. Maybe ghosts just don't like me? The chance of me ever catching something on film or with expensive equipment seems rather small to me. If I had ever had a paranormal experience, I might be more keen to try something like that.

Well, not to sensationalize it, but there are countless theories that say all the different realms will merge together nearing a great change.

Maybe there is a rift or a merging of dimensions?

That was a pretty good ghost story......got any more like that?

I've always been open minded, but was skeptical at the same time. Over the years, I've been witness to some strange events, but only a couple real mind-blowers. I can now say I'm completely convinced that authentic "paranormal" activity is indeed on the rise. I recently saw a loaf of bread fly off a shelf and sail through the air in a crowded grocery store! It was witnessed by another person, so I know I wasn't hallucinating! (I posted a thread about it.) Two good friends of mine have experienced some crazy things recently .
One of them said he saw a ghost in our neighborhood cemetery. This friend is someone who is totally honest, virtually incapable of lying. He saw a ghost of a man standing over a grave. It absolutely terrified him.

Two women I know were on a lunch break from their job, sitting in a park near their office enjoying the fall weather.
They were sitting there talking when one of them pointed out something "sparkly" up in the air. They told me they watched as a dime, a freaking coin!!...came floating down in mid-air in front of them! It was turning end over end in "slow motion", and dropped to the ground at their feet. They thought of course that someone was playing a trick on them, but there was no one anywhere near them! One of them, who is an extremely intelligent person told me that she thought someone HAD to have somehow remotely controlled the dime, but how could someone possibly make a coin defy gravity like that?
Yes, my friends, this paranormal supernatural activity is no doubt on the rise.

All the ridiculous "Hollywood" paranormal crap on TV is making the whole paranormal subject 'trendy', which is annoying as hell. I think it's corrupting the legitimate stuff somewhat. There are too many attention whores running around saying they're experiencing hauntings everywhere, and too many gullible people who believe every dumbass 'ghost hunter' running around.

That was a neat story. But the house changed hands 3 times within a few months time period? Is this a rental? Cause I can't see this being bought and sold so quickly in that short amount of time?