1) The only thing I can remember was when I was a kid: something used to pull my hair EVERY night in the middle of the night. I told my mom about it, but it kept happening. Finally one night I reached back and pulled, only to find some white hand. My mom said that when I told her I saw someone dressed as a "clown" in my bedroom, she finally went to see a local psychic. The psychic told her it was a young boy who died on my bed during the colonial period from some illness who was simply trying to "play" with me.
The boy was dressed in clothes from the era, hence why I though he looked like a clown. She told her to open a window in my bedroom and tell the boy to leave, to go to the light. After that, the hair-pulling stopped.
I still remember the nuisance to this day.
2) My mother told me that when she was a child, her brother was killed when he crossed the road to get the mail by another car. A few days later, she was in bed and saw a pair of white legs at the foot of her bed. The next night, the legs were to the side. The next night it was on the other side. The fourth night, she looked around the room, and didn't see the legs. She then looked straight up in the air and saw them floating above her. Finally, on the fifth night, they were floating in the center of her. Over those five nights, the legs make a "cross" over her.
3) My uncle years ago used to live in this old house. He used to go down in the middle of the night to get a drink every now and then. One time, as he left the kitchen and started to head back upstairs, he heard a noise in the kitchen. When he went back downstairs, all the chairs were stacked on top of the table.
The other story with this uncle was that when he would drive, he would occassionally see someone sitting in the backseat of his car. All he could say was "well, would you like to know where we're going today??"
4) I also have a cousin who bought a house a couple years ago. He rented out a room to a friend, and his friend hung up an old confederate flag somewhere in the house (don't ask). Shortly after that, strange stuff would happen, like both, my cousin and his roommate, would watch an ashtray on the coffee table move around. There was also something else that was more freaky, but it seems to have slipped my mind. But when they took down the flag, all the weird stuff stopped.
5) I went on a ghost tour in St. Augustine in 2005, the country's oldest city. Using my new Canon SD200 camera, I proceeded to take as many pictures as I could during the ghost tour.
The second-to-last stop during the tour was at the historic gates to the city. I believe the original wall burned down years ago, leaving only the stone gates. The tour guide told us that in the 1500s, there was a young girl named "Elizabeth" who would stand at the gates, waving to the ships arriving at the city. When they would dock, she would ask them "where are you from, what exotic goods did you bring?!" Yellow fever struck the small town, wiping out something like half of the town, including Elizabeth and her entire family. Today, on some nights around 2am or so, passing cars will see a young girl dressed in a nightgown, waving to the cars driving by. People will see this young girl, and call 9-1-1 for being concerned about a young girl by herself in the middle of the night on the streets. The St. Augustine police are used to these calls (the tour guide said they've had 8 calls like this so far). The police will park their car a block down, get out, and walk over to the gates. Sure enough, they see this little girl waving to the cars. As they walk closer to her, she vanishes.
After the story, the crowd began walking to main street to the next stop on the tour. I was last, so I stopped, and took this picture of the gates, then hurried to catch up with my wife. Two days ago, I downloaded the images to my computer. I found nothing remarkable with any of the pictures except this one. The left gate looked a bit odd to me. Either the stone wall is colored randomly producing a strange image, or there's something more. If you've adjusted the brightness & contrast, you'll see what looks to be a girl in a nightgown. I can make out her hair, shoulders, and even arms & hands.
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Someone sent me this link. Try looking up your state to see what reported ghost sitings are in your neighborhood:
http://theshadowlands.net/places/If you want to increase your chances of seeing one, try buying an old house.