Things that go BUMP! in the night

Promised JB earlier that I'd write a post about my ghostly experiences, so here it is. To be honest it's not exactly Exorcist-worthy, but nonetheless it does explain in part why I believe there's 'something out there.' Okay, first up, when I was three, my mum took me to a stately home in Oxford. Running along the (apparently haunted) main corridor upstairs were a series of portraits from years gone by. Mum was leading me along said corridor by the hand when I stopped in my tracks, froze solid and refused to walk another step. The strange thing about this is I remember EXACTLY the feeling of terror - indeed it was me who recalled the memory of this place to my mum, and not the other way around. She only remembered it because I described it in such detail, and even then said I couldn't possibly remember it as I was so young at the time. Far from conclusive evidence of the existence of the paranormal, I'll admit, but certainly a bit strange..

Next up, a strange series of occurrences at my old house in Oxford a few years later. Firstly, I had a sign on my bedroom door that I had made myself. It was stuck on pretty hard. One morning, I got up for school to find the sign had been taken off, turned around, and stuck back on the other way around. Neither of my parents would admit to having done it, nor our cleaning lady at the time, and nobody else had been in the house. Two days later mum washed one of my stepdad's shirts and hung it up in the spare room, in the doorway to the ensuite bathroom (too much information, perhaps). I went in there to get something minutes later and the shirt sleeves had been tied in a knot. I called her upstairs and we both just stood there staring at it; completely inexplicable.

My ex-boyfriend's brother also told me that he and a girlfriend once came home to their family home (an old, supposedly haunted farmhouse in rural Oxfordshire) for the weekend and started a jigsaw on the kitchen table. When it got late they abandoned it and went upstairs to bed. When they came down the following morning the jigsaw was on the floor......complete (it was one of those 2,000 piece jigsaws rather than a pre-school four-parter, in case you were wondering).

As I said, none of those stories are all that terrifying in themselves, but they do suggest to me there are some things that just can't be explained through scientific reasoning alone. The truth IS out there.....