I don't know about you guys, that is, if you believe in ghosts or not. Personally, I try to keep an open mind on the subject. Some videos on the internet for example, are clearly fakes, but then there are others that make me personally question if they exist. Then there are personal experiences.
A few summers ago, when i was 12 or 13, I was out to see my grandparents. They lived in a small outport community, it had only a small population, only a little more than 700 people. Anyway, there was an old house there, which my grandmother had told me not to go to, no one lived there, its falling apart, it might not be safe, etc. etc. The house was beautiful on the outside, old and falling apart, yes, but i liked it. It had an old Widow's Walk on the roof, and was like 3 stories high (attic included i'm guessing) and had an ocean view over the harbour (well all the houses did) Obviously i wanted to check it out after she had said that, so one day I went. It was old, and pretty crappy on the inside (to my disappointment) It was clear that no one had been there in a long time. Eventually I left, been there done that.
That night I was telling my cousin who lived there about it, and she had said she has been there a few times and we should go back. So that night we did, with just a flashlight. We wanted to get to the widows walk on the roof, my cousin said it was "cool" so w/e, we had a plan. Upon entering the house I seen this picture on the wall of a women,(i didnt notice it earlier that day) who i am guessing had lived there. As i was checking the picture out my cousin said she'd heard noises upstairs. We thought some other kids in the town had gotten here (apparently it was quite the drug spot. lol. ) before us, so we went up. Nothing there. We still wanted to get to the roof, so we climbed the ladder thing to the attic, and when we got up in the attic, it was like a hall, with at the end of it a french door kinda thing, and outside was the widows walk. We seen a women standing outside the on the walk, back on to us. We were still inside the house this point, walking towards the door, confused. as soon as we were like 10 feet from the door, the figure turned, and looked at us through the glass in the door. it was a women. We FROZE where we were standing. She then turned back around and jumped off the widows walk from the roof. We BOOT it from the houses, and upon leaving I glanced at the picture again, and that was the lady, the one in the picture was the women we had just seen. We ran out of the house and back to my grandparents, where we got a scolding for being at the house. I have never gone back.
I later was told by my grandma that that women had jumped off the widows walk, as her husband drowned at sea, making her a widow. (Hence the name, widows walk). She killed herself, and we had witnessed her do it, again.
So do you guys believe in ghosts? And have you had any experiences?
PS - I know this probably isn't a "new" topic, but I am new here and havent read through all the old ones