I'll bite.
Yes, I believe. My current house is haunted, although with friendly spirits. My wife and I hear footsteps through the house after we've gone to bed. Sometimes we smell pipe smoke in one corner of the living room near the wood stove, even though no one smokes in my house. The spot we smell the pipe smoke in would be perfect for someone to place an easy chair and put his feet up to the fire. Sometimes my wife and I will be laying in bed and I'll feel the hair on the back of my neck stand up, that I'm-being-watched feeling. At the same time my wife will stiffen and ask if she thinks we're alone, obviously feeling the same thing. I'll say outloud "This is our bedroom, may we have some privacy, please?" and the feeling will go away, leaving an air of apology. Same in the bathroom sometimes, though very rarely. Lights occasionally turn themselves on when rooms are entered and doors occasionally open themselves when approached. I always say "thank you" when that happens. At first I was just saying it as a general thank you to the world at large for making life more convenient for me by that much, but I've since gotten the impression that the light and door spirit is a child, or sometimes children. A boy and a girl, the girl a couple of years older than the boy. What else? Sometimes one of my cats will be curled around on the sofa with his belly in the air purring loudly(he sounds like my truck idling) as he usually does when having his belly rubbed, but no one's there. Other times both cats will watch something move about the room, something which they can both plainly see and track. I'll look close and see a hint of movement or a change of shadow, sometimes a fleeting shape, but nothing more. Shining a flashlight on it makes it disappear. The cats don't seem bothered by it, the way they are when other cats or dogs or certain people are around, which reassures me.
I don't feel any malice, anger, or danger from any of these people. I don't feel that my wife and I are in any way unsafe here because of them. In fact, I do believe they would help as much as they could should we be in danger. They're quite welcome in our home, so long as they stay out of the bedroom.
Cheers all! :buddies:
