| I want to tell you about a ghost experience that was | | | | encounters with the ghosts, or spirits, of loved ones |
| shared with me by a friend from Ireland, but first a few | | | | have been told. For some, it is a comfort, a |
| words in general about ghosts: | | | | confirmation that there is life after death. |
| A ghost is the spirit of a dead person, or sometimes | | | | For even more ghost stories and paranormal subjects |
| an animal, and sometimes manifests looking very much | | | | visit |
| as they did in life, and is usually encountered in places | | | | Here is a true ghost experience that was shared with |
| the person spent a lot of time while they were | | | | me by a friend: |
| corporeal. The word "ghost" is also used to reference | | | | Well I remember when I was about 6 years of age |
| any spirit or demon. Ghosts are usually found haunting | | | | my parents had bought a small hotel in the west of |
| the area in which they died. | | | | Ireland, I used to get very bad nightmares all the time |
| According to parapsychological circles a ghost | | | | from the time they moved in, one night I remember |
| haunting is the nearly steady occurrence of | | | | waking up in the middle of the night and the curtain on |
| supernatural phenomena associated with a particular | | | | the window of the bedroom was suspended up in the |
| area, like a house or a stretch of highway, and is | | | | air, and something said my surname, the window was |
| attributed to the activities of a disembodied entity, or | | | | shut and there was no breeze, I knew this was out of |
| ghost. The haunting may include the physical | | | | the ordinary and started roaring. |
| appearance of a ghost, or some poltergeist activity, | | | | Anyway we had a live in barmaid from the country |
| glowing orbs, disembodied voices, etc. | | | | and she used to hear noises in the wardrobe at night, |
| Ghosts are a strange phenomena that has fascinated | | | | she would hop out of bed and open the wardrobe |
| mankind for ages. According a 2005 Gallup poll, about | | | | thinking it was mice or something, there was never |
| 32% of Americans believed ghosts exist. The word | | | | anything there when she did open it, things progressed |
| apparition is now used in the field of parapsychology, | | | | so that sometimes she would see the door knob of |
| because the word ghost is thought to be too | | | | her bedroom door turning and she would open the |
| imprecise. | | | | door and there would be nobody there. |
| The belief in ghosts as the souls, or spirits of the | | | | One Night she dreamt she was being smothered and |
| person who has passed on is tied to the very old | | | | woke up with a startle and saw a "habit" (the Robe |
| concept of animism, which teaches that everything in | | | | they bury a dead person in) floating across the room |
| nature has a soul, including, animals, plants, human | | | | and disappear through the wall. My dad did some |
| beings, rocks, trees, etc. | | | | enquiries with locals and it turned out that someone |
| Ghosts, whether you believe in them or not, are a part | | | | had hanged themselves in the barmaids bedroom. |
| of human history. For as long as man has sought for | | | | Needless to Say we didn't stay too much longer after |
| the meaning of his existence and the knowledge of | | | | that! |
| what happens after a person dies, stories of | | | | There is definitely something out there! |