Have you ever met a ghost?

[KrazyKoen]

Do you think you've ever met a ghost, or do you believe in them in general?

I'm open to the idea of ghosts. I wouldn't say I believe in them super strongly, but I think they're possible, I do believe in the soul after all. I'm more inclined to believe that certain places grow a sort of 'spirit' based on their history. I openly admit my belief in these sorts of things is irrational and I certainly don't place alot of faith in these things.

Despite not being religious, I've always had a very spiritual perception of the world. I've had alot of experiences that I feel were to some extent spiritual. But I'll give my most ghostly one, even though I'm incredibly skeptical that it's anything other than a weird dream along with a bunch of mixed up memories.

When I was young - very very young - no older than four years old, I slept on a tall bed, not a bunk bed just a tall one (there was a slide on one end to get down, it was awesome). I remember waking up late at night and seeing a translucent white woman floating beside me. I felt more curious than scared, I just stayed still and looked at her. I think I remember her saying something but I don't remember what it was. She scooped me into her arms and gently carried me off my bed and to the floor before disappearing. I went back to sleep again, and the next morning - I woke up exactly where she set me down.

The strangest thing about this memory is that my parents (especially my mom) were very wary about letting me watch anything too scary. I shouldn't have had any frame of reference to dream up a classic ghost encounter like that.

[Nikodile]

I feel like most people have one "unexplainable" occurrence in their life at least.

To preface this, I was a middle schooler and we moved, I missed my friends, I had other kids joke about the new house being haunted as we bought the home from an older lady who died at a hospice. I was probably already on edge with all that going on.

REGARDLESS, I still think something uhhh WEIRD happened.

I remember one afternoon having to go to the bathroom, as many humans do, popped a squat, did the deed. I got up, turned around to wash my hands in the sink, turned the faucet on, looked at myself in the mirror and right behind me I see a VIVID vision of a bald headed man with black makeup, hook nose, little bit heavier set, white robes, pale skin smiling at me... I just did not process that at the split second, I looked back down to finish washing my hands. Few seconds later, I had the realization of what I saw, I look back up and in true ghost story fashion, he wasn't there. I remember his face to this day, decades later. He almost looked like Danny DeVito as The Penguin in that 90s Batman movie. I still think about that day sometimes, my only "ghost story".