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Ok, so the astral projection thread got me thinking about hauntings and spirits in general. I have a few questions for those of you who are more knowledgeable on the topic.

I don't like being bothered by spirits. It doesn't happen often, but when it does to me...it can get intense. I've never had to deal with a violent spirit, they just aannoy the heck out of me. Well, about a year and a half ago, I was being haunted, personally. At first I thought it might be our apartment building that was haunted. There had been a LOT of people who had died while I was personally living there. At first, my ex-boyfriend was seeing a ball of light that would run across our closed blinds. It was 2D, like someone was shining a flashlight onto them, not 3D at all. I didn't see it the first few times and I thought he was just pulling my leg. Then one night, my fiancée, me and my ex were watching a movie at the apartment, when they BOTH saw it. I didn't, of course, and thought they were pulling my leg yet again. Now, my fiancée is not one to joke about these things, he's actually terrified of hauntings and things like that. should have tipped me off. Well, another night when we were all together again, I FINALLY saw this thing. It would start at the bottom right corner of the blinds and zoom really fast to the top left side. It only happened once. It was obviously a light coming from inside, but no matter how hard we tried, we just couldn't find anything that could make it. so, we figured the building must be haunted. A few weeks went by and we only saw it a few more times. One night, I was in my bedroom, laying down in my bed, when I saw it do the same thing along my small window. It was pitch black in my room. Nothing could have made that light. I chose to ignore it. when I started ignoring it, it started getting more...inventive? I was in my room when a can of soda that had been sitting on my desk for some time just moved. About 2-3inches, towards me. I was at dinner with a friend, my full soup bowl moved nearly half a foot in her direction, and she saw it. THAT one freaked the hell outta me. Me and my fiancée took a walk one day, and an old gate at a shut down factory opened (this is a huge gate, probably weighing 300lbs), just slid right open. It's not electric either, I found from a friend who used to work there. I started SENSING it, following me. It would follow me wherever I went, would just...sit there when I slept. It never tried to hurt me, or do anything that would even really upset me. It's like it just wanted me to know it was there. If I were in a room, I could feel WHERE it was, and if it moved to a different area, I could easily tell. I would hear my name being called, and when I'd turn around, no one was talking to me. I even started seeing it. I'd walk by empty rooms and I'd catch a glimpse of it out of the corner of my eye, but never enough to see any features. When I saw it I would think "it's female" but when I sensed it...it really didn't feel feminine or masculine, and I honestly have no idea if it was even human or not. It didn't FEEL human. No one I knew had died, and it didn't feel familiar at ALL. It eventually went away, without me asking it to. I was honestly starting to get attached to it, which is weird because as I said, I don't really like dealing with any kind of spirits. Maybe it wasn't a spirit? I don't know. I would sit up at night and...talk to it. I felt crazy at first, but I always felt better afterwards. At first it was "I'm not sure what you want with me, but it'd help if you'd just let me know somehow." Then it turned into "You haven't done anything to hurt me, and now I'm curious, so if you stay, just try not to move anything when other people are around." Then it turned into me talking about my day...I even said goodnight to it towards the end >.> This lasted about 3 months. From the beginning of October towards the end of December. I'm not sure why it left. I never asked it to. I just stopped sensing it, and things went back to "normal" almost over night. I haven't the faintest idea what could have triggered it. I was kind of sad though sad

Anyways...long post over. I was just wondering, if anyone has any idea as to what my friend may have been, and what its intentions might have been as well.

Personally, it sounds to me like something random wandered across you, thought you were interesting, and decided to watch you for a while. A similar thing happened to me once.

I used to frequently go on walks around my town at, say, two or three in the morning, until the sun came up. One night, I could sense something following me. It didn't feel at all malevolent, only curious, so I turned around and happened to visually see the outline of its energy form. Quickly it moved to hide behind a tree, but I could still sense it. I suspected it was a shadow of some kind, or some minor energy creature and I was fairly certain it meant no harm, so, I asked for its name. The name Tamari ( which I later remembered is a kind of soy sauce -_- ) flashed in my mind, and it's likely that's not 'his' true name. However, 'he' continued to follow and eventually we had a sort of conversation back and forth, which basically consisted of me asking about him and such. I learned little, but he eventually followed me back to my house, where I told him my name and that he could come find me if he ever needed me. One day, a few weeks later ( I had not gone walking since then ) I was walking down into my basement and had stopped at the bottom stair because I felt I was being watched, and I suddenly heard my name called. Rashly, I whipped around, shielded myself and said "Go away, you're not welcome here!"

When I look back on the incident, that was probably my little friend and I probably scared him away, since I didn't sense head or tail of him on my next walk. Makes me kinda sad, since he was a nice little guy. sad