Do You Love a Good Ghost Story?

Submitted by Samantha Hunter on Wed, 2008-03-05 13:23.

Among the vampires, witches, and werewolves remains the lowly ghost -- but ghosts have been around, well, forever. Are ghost stories too tame for the likes of current fiction, or do they have the same attraction as they always have? For myself, nothing can hold my attention more than a good ghost story.
I have only had one experience that made me think I’d seen a ghost. I was living in the house we rented before buying this one, and I was waking up one morning when an older man poked his head through the bedroom door. I can still see him, in my mind's eye. I watched him look around the corner of the door and peep around. He turned his head and saw me, and we saw each other, and it was one of those “ET” moments where I kind of gasped and he kind of gasped and then he disappeared.
A dream? Maybe. Though I don’t know why I’d be dreaming about this guy peeping in our room. I had the distinct sense he was wondering what was going on, who was there. It seemed real enough. I woke my husband up and told him I thought I’d seen a ghost of someone who used to live in the house. I wasn’t fearful, and had no eerie feelings, but it stuck with me. My sister and her family have several ghosts up in Maine (New England seems ripe with ghosts). There's a local hotel in our area which says it has a ghost, but in the hundreds of times I've passed by (supposedly a woman looks out a window, classic), I've never seen it.
How about you? Have you ever seen a ghost?
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