Do you have any paranormal experineces?

[DeistPaladin]

On the off-chance that someone here has experienced some "paranormal happenings," would you like to share your experiences here?

I've always been interested in the idea of ghosts/possessions/demons etc. even though I don't actually believe in any of it. I've talked to a few people in real life who claimed to have paranormal experiences or to have seen ghosts but I never felt like their stories added up and suspected one or two people to just be saying things for attention. One of the girls who told me was a known drama queen and I wrote it off as her just wanting attention from people.

What I'm interested in is people who have legitimately experienced things they can't explain; if anyone here has stories like that, share them here.

When I was a child, I had what I then believed to be an "experience" with a ghost in our basement, which even included hearing heavy breathing, a strange gargling voice and, on one occasion, an invisible hand on my shoulder. I attribute that to childhood imagination. Later as a teenager I went looking for the thing and, as I expected, found nothing. This was my first lesson in skepticism, that reality is the part that doesn't go away when you stop believing in it. 

To what do I owe the vivid experiences as a child? I have no idea and haven't had any such experiences since. I can only speculate that the human mind plays tricks on us if we allow it to and children are especially active with our imaginations. Put in a "scary background" and that's usually all that's needed. 

Some will say it was a real ghost I encountered, one that presumably "went away" by the time I later went looking for it as a teenager. Or perhaps the ghost was a sadistic dick who would rather play with a frightened child than a skeptical teenager. Occam's Razor suggests it was just in my still developing mind. 

So when people tell me of their supernatural experiences, I listen sympathetically. It doesn't mean I believe. It doesn't mean I think they're lying. It doesn't mean I think they're crazy. It only means they had some kind of experience that I can't explain. My inability to explain it away doesn't mean we fill in the gaps with fanciful notions or explanations more complicated that they beckon more questions than they answer.