I'm just curious to what other people think of the matter, here's my little story
When we first moved to this house it was the largest house we'd ever lived in, I think we moved here when I was around 10, the place was a wreck, a dump and needing a lot of work, my parents fixed it up in about a week and we loved it, we used to live in a bad area so it was a big upgrade, anyway about a week after the renovations were complete, some strange things started happening. A few examples; The stereo would be on full volume when turned on, same for the tv, my parents keys would go missing and they would find them in places such as in the refrigerator, on top of cupboards and various places, we had to run an de-humidifier in one room because it was damp, one night they left it unplugged by accident they came downstairs the next day it was plugged in and turned on.
After a while they thought they thought it was each other messing about trying to freak one another out, then one day all 4 of us (me dad mother sister) seen a shadow just go right across the living room we were like O_O what the hell.. the strange stuff stopped for a while (about a month or so), then one night my sister started screaming, we all jumped out of bed and ran into her room she was standing in the corner of her room tears pouring, we look at the bed and we see a set of hand prints embedded in the memory foam. My parents thought she was doing some stupid joke. (I knew it wasn't, the hand prints were fairly small, the size of mine at age 10, she was 16 and her hands were a lot bigger).
Then the next night I woke up to noises, I could hear whistling, faint whistling, I got up and being the adventurous little boy I was I journeyed down the stairs, as I got closer to our front living room it got louder and louder, I looked inside and could see no one, I walked in and it was right inside my ear, then I felt something touch my shoulder. I collapsed on the floor and woke up at 8am to my mother asking me why I was down here.
I continued and asked her are ghosts real, she asked why and I told her what had happened. The next day our father took me and my sister out to a theme park while my mother got our local priest/father/whatever they're called in to get rid of it, my mother told me he said it wasn't a bad spirit, maybe a child, a naughty child (first thing he said when he walked in without my mother explaining a lot of the situation). I always thought it was just some strange unexplainable medical condition with the fainting (that's what they told me up until I was 15).
SO, why did I make this thread your probably wondering, well, about 30 minutes ago I was standing in the kitchen and then I started hearing a whistle, thinking it was my father I look through the kitchen door and see he wasn't their, I proceeded to move to the hallway to listen for his snoring (He snores like a gorilla, can hear it through the roof), and I could, if my mother was up she would of made a louder noise. I ran to the kitchen and grabbed a knife, since a couple months ago someone broke into our home (but strangely took absolutely nothing at all we've been more wary), I grab the phone ready to dial 999, by this time I'd moved closer to the front living room to see if anyone was their, nobody, I walked in and the whistling was in my ear, had really bad deja vu then I remembered what happened when I was younger, I felt a bit colder and just instantly ran up to my room before some more freaky shit happened.
Now I know a lot of you are going to be thinking PFF YEAH RIGHT LIKE THAT HAPPENED and that's fine, if you choose not to believe in such things or believe my own experience that's your own choice but please keep it to yourself, also don't turn this topic into a discussion about religion, I personally have no solid belief or faith in science, religion, nothing of the sort, I don't know what I believe in.
SO have you had any experiences? Do you believe in ghosts/spirits?
TL;DR: I'm creeped out, want to know other peoples stories/opinions ^^.