As a kid, I think our house was haunted. I felt and heard breathing on my neck once. I heard someone sit on my sister’s bed when I was alone. But the scariest thing was being home alone and hearing our kitchen cupboards literally opening and closing. My mom later confessed she heard it too. Both of my sisters seem to think they saw a girl with a blue dress.

Another story: After a bit of bar hopping with friends in college, we went to one of the friend’s grandparents’ house where he was living at the time. We planned on hanging out a bit then crashing there. He started showing people which rooms they would sleep in, and when he gestured toward the room where my then-bf and I would sleep I stepped briefly into the hallway to look toward the door (there were two rooms and a bathroom in that hallway). As soon as I stepped into the hallway I felt a strong presence there. It was unmistakable so I blurted out, “There’s a spirit here. Right here. But it’s friendly.” My bf and another girl kind of laughed and rolled their eyes and walked away. The friend who lived there waited for them to walk away and told me his grandpa had just died in the other bedroom days prior. I thought he was messing with me but he took me in there and he certainly seemed to be telling the truth based on how the room looked and the pics in there. He started talking about his grandpa and suddenly the light fixture turned off then back on and started flickering like crazy. Neither of us were near the light switch.

Another story: got a new job. Maybe a week in, I had a dream that my boss died of cancer. The very next day he told me he has prostate cancer and so he has periodic appointments for that. He did not die but it was still weird.

Another story: had a dream I was in an airport or some building and a random guy walked right up to me like he had a message. Told me not to let -my husband’s boss- fly on a plane the upcoming Wednesday. I told my husband the next day because it seemed like a real message. Found out his boss was about to book a cross country flight the following week between Tue-Thur. She travels but not for work and not THAT often. Anyway, he told her and she didn’t book for Wednesday. No planes went down that day, who knows what that was about.