Have I Ever Seen a Ghost? There was that One Time...

I don't tell this story, very often, because it draws a lot of criticism, but I've seen a few strange things and here is one of my stories.

While in college (Dallas Baptist University, that is) I spent two months in a dorm room over the summer while my dorm room was being renovated. The weird things started happening at night. (go ahead, start laughing.)

I laid down to sleep and heard a rattling sound. I realized that it came from a jar of change (back then I kept all of my change in cups in my room; I had a few of these cups at the time). No big deal, sometimes change settles, but it was odd that the change was settling down into the cup so long after I had put the change there. Still, no big deal.

A bit later I heard a sliding sound and a thump. I shot up and realized that a poster had fallen from my wall. OK, that happens, sometimes the tape falls down, no big deal.

A few minutes later, a pencil rolled off of my desk.

And so on.

All night, every night, weird stuff like that happened. Each individual incident was nothing, it could have been explained by a stray air conditioner draft or something, but the frequency of these events was haunting. How could so many little anomalies be happening all at once and only at night?

One night the person in the bunk above was moving around, a lot, and I woke up wondering, Why can't he be still and stop shaking the bed so much?

Then I remembered, I don't have a roommate...

I got up and no one was up there, but something shook the bed. Weird.

I'm not saying that there was a ghost in there. I'm not saying that someone died in that room and now the ghost haunts the place. I'm not making any claims.

I'm just saying that it was unexplainable.

Tell me your stories.

Going to Court because Your House is Haunted?

A married couple living in Rome thought they had a great deal on their hands when they bought their old house, but soon they will be going to court to sue the previous owners. According to Italian law, any previously known problem with the house must be disclosed when the house is purchased. And what is wrong with this house? It's haunted.

Their first night in the old home the new couple witnessed their first haunting when water seeped in from under the bathroom door.

"The hot water tap was pouring out boiling water and the room was full of steam. My wife was stunned, because she had turned off everything before going to bed."

They claim that the hautnings have continued and go on to describe more incidents. Also, one historian claims that an exorcism was once performed on the premises, or nearby. Anyway, it will be interesting to see if the courts will make any ruling on this, seeing as how they must first admit that a haunting is real before they can hold the previous tenant accountable for anything. Of course, it sounds like a scam to my naturally skeptical ears, but I maintain an open mind.

I wonder if a court of law has ever declared something haunted.