[merylsilverburg]

Nice thread.

Anyway, I do believe in the supernatural and yeah, they freak me out too. Nothing has happened to me (thankfully) but there is an incident that involved a friend of my parents:

2000/2001:
The friend of my parents has a friend who was renting an apartment. This apartment is near campus area since I live in a college town. This friend renting the apt. didn't know the room was haunted and no one rented that room for a while because the building isn't exactly a popular spot. Plus, I think no one knew the room was haunted. Anyway, my parents' friend is helping his pal move in and they notice dark stains on the wall near a dark corner. They went over to inspect it and it was actually dirt...like dried mud in a way. They washed it off and left it alone and finished unpacking. My parents' friend left that night and the next day, he gets a call from his pal telling him to come over to his apt. because he had something to show him. He goes over and his pal leads him in the bathroom towards the shower stall. The guy looks in and there's dirt all over the floor, like gravel, pieces of grain...mostly dry, nothing like soil or anything. The pal said that he went to take a shower and when he turned on the water, the water was brown and the pieces of dirt kept coming out. He turned on the water to prove it and my parents' friend said that the water was brown and more gravel, sand, grain came out. He also showed my parents' friend the mud-like stain they know they washed off and it was there again. I don't see why these two guys weren't scared sh*tless, but they decided to wash off the dirt again just to confirm. The pal spent the night at my parents' friend apt. and the next day they went back and the dirt was there again.

Yeah, well...the friend decided to move out and find another apartment to stay in. I know this story isn't the most "frightening", but it's still gives me the shivers because it happened in my town and kinda recently.

My mother as a child living in Taiwan had some encounters with ghosts/spirits and that's because my mom does have a sixth sense to sense these sort of things. She wouldn't tell me stories though because it still gives her scares even to this day and she believes strongly in the supernatural.

Well, those are my stories, I hope no one fell asleep.

Azuma and Mena, your stories are interesting and pretty frightening.