Are ghosts real? My story about a ghost

by Lara Whybrow

I think that in some cases ghosts are not always spirits with a conscious awareness of their surroundings but are "spirit memories", fragments of energy from someone, floating around. I also think that many ghosts and monsters are from a different timeline than the one we are are currently on, and something can cause a person to become aware of this different timeline - kind of like watching a TV channel. And I think some ghosts are souls that don't realise they are dead. 

One particular experience really stand out in my mind when I think of ghosts. 

My father had recently died and I was staying with my mother in our house. One night we were both on our way to the kitchen, which was at the other end of the house. To get there, we needed to go from one bedroom through another bedroom and then left and then right down a long passage to get to the kitchen. 

We were in one of the dark bedrooms on our way to the kitchen and my mother was walking in front of me, I was about 30cm behind her, when suddenly she stopped. I couldn't see her clearly because the room I had just come from had been lit up and I had just turned off the light, so I was walking from a light room into a dark room and my eyes hadn't adjusted yet. So she stopped, and I waited for her to continue. All I saw was a dark shape, a little bit taller than me. I could clearly see the shape of a head and the shoulders. But, more importantly, I distinctly felt a presence in front of me. 

Then I heard my mom calling me from the kitchen. The dark shape vanished and I realised it wasn't my mother.