After one of my SEO seminars a couple of years ago, a bunch of us were hanging out at the hotel bar. One of the guys who attended the seminar was with us, and proceeded to tell us how he "chased ghosts." We all sat around swapping ghost stories, and had a lot of fun. It was suprising to hear how many people seemed to have some sort of paranormal experiences in their lives.
I thought it might be fun to swap stories here in this thread, so I'll go first!
In my town of Ashland, MA we have a very old restaurant formerly known as John Stone's Inn (now called
Stone's Public House). It has been said to be haunted for some time.
One time, probably 10 or so years ago, I was at a family dinner in the upstairs function room. There were probably 12-15 of us around the table enjoying drinks and dinner. At one point I looked across the table to one of the windows and saw a little girl sort of pointing in and laughing. I thought it was cute, and started to nudge my husband who was sitting next to me, but speaking with my cousin who was on his other side. When I looked back at the window, the girl was gone.
I really didn't give the incident another thought until later that night when I was laying in bed. I suddenly wondered how a little girl could be up there looking in the window. At the time, I wasn't sure if there was a balcony or what was there. I suddenly got really creeped out in my bed, but finally fell asleep. Later that week when I was near the restaurant, I took a look to see if someone could have been looking in the window. There was indeed a balcony around the outside of that floor, but the stairway up to it, seemed to be gated up. It certainly was nothing that could stop a rambunctious child if she chose to run away from her parents for a few minutes, but it didn't seem all that easy to do. (And it had been somewhat late that night, like maybe around 10?)
At any rate, I did read later that one of the supposed ghosts at the inn was indeed a little girl who has been spotted laughing!
I really do think that maybe it was a ghost, but my skeptical side will always wonder as I don't think there's any way to know for sure.