"Real" spooky stories for Halloween

Yep,

My wife (who was then my girlfriend) lived in a haunted apartment/house for a while in college.The house was built sometime in the teens or twenties, and had been converted to a duplex. Wierd and random stuff went missing, only to turn up later in very strange places.

• cast-iron skillet went missing, only to turn up in the bottom of a closet under boxes that had been used for moving in
• set of keys of a roommate's brother went missing, only to show up months later in some wacky/seemingly impossible place

Then there were the noises......It was usualy footsteps or thumping that sounded like someone walking up and down the hallway. Skeptic that I am, I was quick to blame the cats who were at that time fairly young and playful. Until one night I was sleeping over and heard the noises. All the roommates were gone, and the cats were in the bed with us!!

The cats knew something was up too. One of them would sometimes just stop in his tracks and start to stare at "something". Again my skeptical nature, I just blamed it on the cat being a little retarded. Maybe not.

Another of the roommates, one who moved in later, would not stay alone in the place. She later told us that she always felt like someone was watching her whenever she was there.

That's my closest encounter with ghosties. I have to say that I do indeed think that there are phenoemna that are in fact real, and that we modern folks with all of ur science and such  have no good explanation for, and the whole poltergeist thing is one of those. That's not to say that a non-supernatural explanation does not exist, just that we don't know it yet.

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Wow...that gives me the chills. I've heard a lot of stories about things like that happening when people die.

I'd just like to scare the shit out of someone I didn't like. That would be funny.