Actually, it's kind of funny when I really think about it - maybe Hawaii really is full of ghosts.

My sister always experiences weird things in her house, another sister of mine used to experience the "pressing" ghost when she was younger. She also used to say she had these weird out of body experiences - where she was floating above her body and could see herself sleeping. One of my old firms brought someone in to do a blessing at the office after people working late started freaking out.

When my daughter was really young, she used to talk about the man in her room that stood by her bed at night. That's when we put the Hawaiian salt and ti leaf in her closet and my daughter said he never came back afterwards.

But back to the OP's question. The only time I've ever "felt" anything was at this hotel in New Zealand. I just had a very uneasy feeling about the place and actually slept in my room with the lights on - something I've never done before. When I got home, I Googled the hotel and found things saying that the hotel supposedly was haunted - this was something I didn't know until I got home. Had I known about it earlier, I would have made reservations elsewhere.

I've had the floating thing, too. I'll tell you more about it when we have our next GTG.

MelissaHI - re the pressing ghost, I wouldn't think positive thoughts when it arrived, I would get furious...and it stopped immediately. Nothing, I repeat NOTHING, is going to stop me from getting a good nights sleep :D ...don't ever try anything with me when I'm really tired, because even if you're dead, you'll wish you were. Grrrrrrrr X(.

Please let us know if you ever find anything else about the Falls of Clyde.

A friend of mine from Hawaii who died way too young, was on the original voyage of the Hokuleia. He's been to visit me 3 times since his death, though I don't consider him a ghost, more of a spirit.
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There is a valley in Northern Pakistan close to Nanga Parbat the 9th tallest peak in the World. They are called mountain cups in local language and its at around 9000 feet. It is 15 miles from the closest dirt road. There are a few huts there that are usually vacant except for a couple of months a year. Me and one of my freinds stayed there for 10 days in March last year. I dont knwo if it was the isolation or the snow or what but we were both convinced there was something odd and active about the place. Our things would constantly end up at places where we cud have sworn we didnt leave them. We both felt like we were being watched at times. We both had similar dreams.

Initially we thot it was the place, altitude and the solitude. But in a couple of days we realized that we were both undergoing very similar experiences and we are in fact very different. We thot about leaving but an adventure is a adventure. We stayed there for 8 more planned days. It was very strange and we both didnt say a single word 2 each other in the last 4 days. There was somethign really oppressive about the place. I want to go back some day. I want to go alone but am scared. But I will do it alone some day.

This sounds like a real nice place to spend a couple of nights if you're into that kind of sightings. www.gravesociety.com/StoryInn.html

Very interesting that you would post that particular link, mcales! It was a link to their restaurant, posted in my Blooington, IN thread, that got me started on this train of thought! Spooks, ESP or just coincidence? :D

I guess with all the corn in Indiana that it got me to thinking spooky thoughts.

Kaimanahoku: Would that be Eddie?

My husband and I were staying at a Chateau outside Avignon and in the middle of the night, he woke up to discover this elderly woman standing by our bed. He said she just looked at him for awhile, then nodded politely, smiled at him and left. I would have utterly freaked if I'd woken up, but he was quite comfortable with her visit. When we inquired of the proprietor whether there was an elderly woman who lived on the premises, she said, "oh, you must have had a visit from Monique, she used to live here in the 1600s, and she's quite harmless." Haven't been back there since, although it was a lovely place...perhaps I'd consider staying there again with the night light on??!!

No MelissaHI, it was (is) Tommy Holmes.
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MelissaHi - In case you didn't know who he was, see the following (he's the 3rd one down):
http://starbulletin.com/2006/07/07/special/story02.html
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I don't really believe in ghosts, but there is this one story that simply doesn't jibe with my non-belief.

My uncle had a dream one night that he was in a coffin and my Grandfather, his father, who had died years previously, appeared next to the coffin holding flowers and said to him, "You are coming to join me now". Needless to say, the dream scared him so badly it woke him up, and he told his wife about it. He was young, 51, and seemingly healthy, except that he awoke from this dream with a headache. Hours later he had a massive stroke and died! yikes.

So...although I'm not really a "believer", neither can I reconcile this experience with my belief system. It could have been just the strangest of coincidences...but then...who knows?? (Only the Shadow knows... :) )

Bloomington has hauntings? OOoooo, I'll have to look.

I like Charleston SC--I really feel "things" there. I did not, however, get a sense of the vortexes around Sedona. Closest I got was dizzy at the pizza place.

The Cashtown Inn in Gettysburg PA is haunted. Friends of mine have stayed there and had some weird things happen. One thing that I remember that he said was that when he got up in the morning, one shoe, just the inside was soaking wet.

I will tell you that I have had numerous unexplained things happen to me my whole life. I guess I must be very receptive. I always trust my gut feelings because 99% they are always right. Many times these hunches have helped me, and or saved me from harm and danger.

My house has at least three presences. One, I think is a child. One, I feel is malevolent. I think male. Not happy, and really bitter. (I recently found out a man committed suicide by hanging himself in the barn. I feel it is him). One I think is named John. Who is the former owner of this farm. We had children killed by Native Amercians at this farm.

I had a woman (psychic) come in and she saw the same description of "John" as other people who have been to my house have seen him appear. Now, I am really skeptical, despite all the things that have happened to me. I told her nothing of what I and others have experienced. But yet she gave a description of John the way that he has appeared to others. Long coat, wide brim hat and boots.

I had 13 dinner guests at my house at the table for dinner. We saw something walking up the walk way out the dining room window, and I got up to let who ever it was in the door. As soon as I got up, the garage door opened then slammed. I thought they went into the garage. When I got in there no one was there. I live on a 90 acre farm. We don't have close neighbors and the folding garage door was closed. No where else to get out.

On my step mom's birthday, which is September 11th, we had just lost her sister the year before and she was upset. I told her of a traditon I had heard from another family, where you set a place at the table in memory of your loved one. I said that she could be there in spirit. She did not do it though. When we were all at the table we heard the door, just on the other side of a partition, open and close. I told my step mom she just got her birthday visit.

I could tell you many things I cannot explain. I honestly wish that I did not see or experience them. But it is something that you cannot just shut off.

Now that you all think I am nuts, I will also tell you that I also see auras and energy around people. I thought that everyone saw it, and did not realize that it was not that way for everyone. I was sitting there with a bunch of friends on a back porch. I was moving because I was trying to talk to "J" and I was getting distracted by the side of her head. Where I normally see a whitish glow around a person there was something else. My friends could see me distracted and looking at it. They asked what I was doing. I said something about the side of "J's" head, that it had a redish bit on the side. I was trying to position myself so I could not see it. Everyone looked at me like I was nuts. No one else saw it. Even when they sat where I sat and I explained what I saw. I was incredulous that no one else could see it. My friend was like, why didn't you ever tell me that you can see auras? I guess I never knew. I thought every one could see it. It turned out that "J" had a stroke the week after. Very mild, and she has tumors on that side of her head.

Any way, there are many places in Gettysburg that are haunted. I know that some of you will think I am nuts, but I only know what I have experienced. There are so many strange things I could list that have happened to me and other people I know. Something must be out there.

Believe me--anyone posting on this thread does not think you are nuts!

Valerie -- I, too, went to Sedona and hiked in an area rumored to have a strong energy vortex. I figured, if I'm sensitive now, I should feel it, right? Nuthin.

Earlier today, at Border's (too chicken to read it at home!), I was reading "Ghost Hunting Illinois". Got me in the mood to top this thread just to see if anyone has anything to add.

I once woke up in the middle of the night and thought it was my husband walking around the hotel room. I sat up and asked himwhat the heck he was doing and imagine the shock when he answered me from the other side of the bed. It was in a hotel in Victoria British Columbia

I traveled to my computer and read posts by two Fodorites obviously posting from a parallel universe. Truly, truly scary.

Starrs, LOL!!!

Very scary, gunk!

Only two, starrsville? :D