This was a great post. I really enjoyed reading about other people’s experiences. I guess there’s a kinship there, since so many poo-poo the whole concept.

Jacquie

We had a similar little old lady in our last home (same one with “the man” in the bedroom – it was a lovely little house, honest.). She used to stand at the top of the stairs just outside or in the doorway to our bedroom. I think she also used to hide things on us. She lived in the house from the it was built until she died, about 50/60 years or so. She was the first owner.

Never tried to assault anyone though!

I’ve had a couple experiences with ghosts. Here’s one:

We’d just moved into a house built in 1903 and owned by one family for over 80 years. The old lady who’d lived there died. She was only 4 years old when they moved in, and had raised her family there, and another generation as well.

The house had been vacant for a couple years while the heirs probated the place. We bought it and were cleaning it. I was downstairs, in the kitchen washing cupboards, which required me to stand on a ladder (12′ ceiling). My dh was upstairs in the bedroom which led into the unfinished attic.

I was working away when the hairs on the back of neck prickled, and I just knew someone was there. I turned around and there was a lady with thin white hair, holding a leg to a Queen Anne coffee table, posed to cosh me over the head. After about five seconds, she disappeared.

Then my dh came downstairs and I told him what happened. He said he wanted to show me something. He went upstairs and came back with the very same Queen Anne coffee table leg that the old lady was holding.

Needless to say, I was a bit stunned.

Jacquie