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What's the spookiest experience you or someone you know has had?

I have had quite a few, including seeing a shadowy figure in a hotel room (the hotel was based in a 16th-century coaching house) which started walking towards me, and hearing of a ghost a friend had spotted in a dorm where we stayed on a high school trip - she said the room went icy cold and then she saw a Quaker lady walk across the room and through the wall - we were staying in an 18th-century building which is now a YHA.

But the spookiest of all is this: My brother once had a few close friends round to stay. One of their younger brothers also came. They all slept downstairs on various quilts, blankets and mattresses and my brother slept on the settee. In the morning, the younger brother that had come was beside himself and had not had much sleep. He was very reluctant to tell us what had happened to upset him. Eventually we got out of him that he had seen a black hooded figure walk in through the (closed) patio door, walk over to our hamster's cage on the sideboard, and tear up lots of bits of black paper over her cage. It then stood and watched my brother snoring and copied him for a few minutes. The younger brother could not see a face but he saw eyes. He pretended to be asleep and the figure went back the way he came.

The younger brother never slept over at our house again - though I don't think this figure is particular to our house. Three days later, our hamster died of old age. We are pretty well convinced that he saw the angel of death, the grim reaper or whatever else you wish to call it, that night.

I think the spookiest experience was when a friend and I were watching stir of echoes in my room at our old home (the one that was haunted) and we started smelling something burning. Just after we started looking for the source of it we heard a knock on my bedroom door (we used to get a lot of random disembodied knocking lol) and I went to open it. No one was there, but it made me realize that one of us had left a book on top of my space heater in my bedroom. Since it wasn't originally made for a room, it was for a bathroom, it didn't have the same heat treated materials and was burning the cover of the book.

So it was spooky, but very helpful.

Wow Silverla. That experience would completely freak me out.

When I was a preschooler we were spending the night at my Great Grandmother's house which was built in the mid to later 1800's in the middle of no where Wisconsin farmland. Across the street was an equally old barn that was very delipatated. I woke up out of no where and in the upper left window saw a figure in the window a misty semi-opaque one... screaming for my great grandmother & mom, they came and of course it wasn't there!

I've had quiet a few experiences over the years including seeing Edgar Cayce walking thru the back half of the Heritage Store where I worked at. It was from the boiler room towards the hallway thru an area that used to be used for production of Cayce products. He actually had lived about 5 or so blocks over from the store for years and years before he passed.

and the list goes on...

the spookiest to me to this days was when I was a child at my great grandmothers.