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So...do you? And if you do...do you have a story to go with it?

I do, and I have a whole bunch of theories based on how ghosts can exist...but that isn't nearly as interesting as a good experience story.

My best one happened when I had a business trip to Golden, Colorado. I was staying for a month, so my work hooked me up with a townhouse. I had 3 other roommates. One of the guys there (I'll call him Tom) was one of the weirdest guys I've ever met. He refused to pay his rent, he constantly trashed the place, was a borderline rapist, got the cops called on us multiple times, and was generally the most annoying person I think I've ever met in my life. I describe him for a reason, as you will soon see.

Anyway, one of my first few nights there I was sleeping and having what you might call a typical dream. I can't really remember what it was about, but all of the sudden the whole tone of my dream changed. It no longer felt like a dream, it felt more like I was being held in a dream state. I was looking out the window of the room I was staying in and behind me I heard a girl struggling. I didn't look to see, but I knew she was being attacked by a man. All of the sudden, I was back in my bed and a blonde mid-teens girl in a white dress was next to me. I couldn't clearly see her face, but I knew she was attractive. She was leaning next to my ear and whispering to me. I couldn't understand the words but I knew she was begging for help. All of the sudden (still in my dream), Tom busted in, the girl panicked and I woke up. For some reason, the first thought in my head was "great, this place is haunted..." The dream left me feeling very weird the rest of the day, and I forced myself to shake it off.

So, eventually Tom not paying his rent and generally causing a lot of trouble ended up pissing off the landlord, so he got kicked out. We threw a party in celebration. We didn't know where he would go considering he didn't have a job or money, but he was so inconsiderate of what we had already done for him we didn't care anymore.

A few days later another one of my roommates (who I will call John) and I were hanging out in the living room. This guy is one of the coolest guys I've met. We are the only two people in the house, and we start hearing banging upstairs. It doesn't really bother me and for some reason, I think nothing of it. John makes a comment about it, and I mention jokingly, "haha maybe the house is haunted..." He laughs, but then he looks at me and says, "You know, I really think this place is haunted," I ask why he thinks so and he tells me how he hears voices sometimes asking for help and how everytime a girl sleeps over, she feels very uncomfortable in his room (as if someone is watching) and ends up asking to go in the living room. Then he hits me with something that just blew my mind. He told me about how on top of all this he has these dreams involving this girl...I stop him right there and ask him if this girl is blonde in a white dress asking for help. He looks at me intensely and goes..."Uhh...yeah..." At this point we trade our dreams and though the situations are different, the context remains the same. All the way down to Tom being involved in waking us up. We are both totally convinced of the haunting at this point.

So, back to the noises. The thumping sounds as if it is coming from an empty room upstairs. We never go in this room, as there is no need. John goes up to check it out, comes back down, and mentions how he saw something he didn't like. It turns out Tom had been sneaking back into the house somehow and was currently squatting in that room. As soon as we discover this, the thumping stops. It seems as if the ghost was trying to warn us of Tom. We inform the landlord who has a sheriff friend, and he tells us he will talk to Tom and if he returns to call. We also scour the house for any way he could sneak in and make sure it is securely closed off.

John and I do some research and find out there was a body of an unidentified girl in the river behind our house found in the mid 70s who was blonde and in her mid teens. She was also found to have been raped and murdered. I really feel like the ghost of this girl was trying to warn us of Tom and helped us make sure he was gone and could not cause us anymore trouble.

Well, I hope you found that interesting. Anyone else have some good stories?

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