A Personal Account
“Seeing is believing”. I lay in my bed after a long day in a series of several long days of overtime at work. I fell asleep. My wife lay next to me and fell asleep. I awoke, calm and very alert, and turned to see a human like figure faintly glowing and looking down at my wife. He had on a grey suit, grey hat, his skin was grey and he had no mouth. I wondered if it was a dream. At that very moment I had a sharp back pain (from years of working too hard) and I moved my hand instinctively to rub it. I was definitely not dreaming. The figures eyes rose to meet mine. He was in shock that he was seen! He quickly began to move away from out bed, and as he moved, a kind of frame moved with him, with nothing out of the ordinary below or above the frame. It was as if someone moved a giant photo in front of me. He vanished into the wall, and the faint glow vanished with him. Now it was me and my wife again. What had just happened? Was it a ghost?
I do believe that ghosts or something
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Recent surveys have shown that a significant portion of the population believes in ghosts. Numerous theories and anecdotes abound about their existence. There have been many famous cases of unexplained phenomenon’s, such as when; people have seen the spirit of Peter Stuyvesant, the city’s last Dutch colonial governor walking around with a wooden leg after his death in 1672.
A poltergeist, is a ghost that causes disturbing loud noises or can cause objects to be thrown around or fall from the sky. These unseen spirits that communicate by rapping on walls or tables became especially popular during the heyday of Spiritualism. The first poltergeists were reported in Germany. In one case, the ghost of a farmhouse tormented the family that lived there by throwing stones, starting large fires and ruining their