Ghosties, ghoulies, and things that go "bump".

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Being atheists, I would imagine the vast majority of us don't believe in ghosts, spirits, hauntings, or the like,

I don't either, but that doesn't mean I'm not interested in reading about them.

So, does anyone have a favourite ghost story they'd like to share?

How about a personal experience you or someone close to you have had that you just can't explain?


I'll start:  When I was younger, my brother reported waking up in the middle of the night and seeing my father and grandfather standing in the doorway of his bedroom looking at him.

At the time my father was in Perth and my grandfather had been dead a couple of years.

Being the supportive older sister, I told him that he was either drunk or stoned (he was 12 at the time), 

We put it down to a dream, but he still believes what he saw was real.

Seeing someone who is in Perth qualifies as a nightmare, not a dream. 

My story:  I used to live in one of the older houses in Belfast - it started life as a smithy in the early 1700s. For the first few months I lived there, a couple of times a week you could a voice say, very distinctly, 'It needs to be put back. It needs to be put back.'  Never found the cause. 

Boru