Have you ever felt like you saw a ghost?

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(For the record, I don't fully believe in such things, but I'm not firmly in the ghosts-are-not-real camp either.)

When I was in middle school, I thought I saw the same ghost twice. The first time was when I was walking out of my room; I looked back at it for some reason, and for a tiny fraction of a second, I saw her getting off my bed like she had just been sitting on it. The second time was when I was in the basement practicing piano; I looked behind me into the laundry room, and I saw her sitting on something. She was looking at me at first, but in the minuscule amount of time I could see her, she looked down at the floor with a sad look on her face.

As for her appearance, she wore a dress, and she had a light-blue hue about her. Judging from what I remember of her face, she looked about my age at the time (12 or 13); maybe slightly younger.

This was the time in my life where I first felt the need to find a romantic partner, so I think these moments were just manifestations of my loneliness. But a small part of me still wants to believe there's a ghost girl who loves me and has been with me for years. That would certainly be a nice surprise if I end up dying alone.

I've had a strange encounter before that I think could have been the ghost of my young cousin who died in a car crash a few years ago. I think he was about 4 or 6 years old when it happened.

I was staying at my aunt's house at the time and one night I was there alone by myself and I heard strange noise that sounded like little feet running up and down the big hallway by the stairs. I went to see what it was but there was nothing there and then as I left and went back in the living room i heard the same noise again.

Also one night while I was staying over there I went to use the bathroom at 3:00 am and I could have sworn I heard what sounded like xylophone music coming from his old bedroom.

When I was a boy I also thought I once saw a man in a red flannel shirt walking a dog in the woods and he vanished when I turned around.

Not sure if that really was a ghost or just my imagination?

Yes, I saw a man step out of a wall but I was 3,500 meters above sea level and had altitude sickness.

I used to go to the library at night (open 24/7) to get work done, and stay up all night. When walking back to my room early in the morning (5-6 AM) due to it being dark + sleep deprivation, I would sometimes see what I thought were dark figures watching me.

Again though, that's only because of sleep deprivation. I don't otherwise believe in ghosts.

The only time I ever actually SAW a ghost, I couldn't make out any of the features: it was just a light-colored, portrait shape. It was standing perfectly still, and I couldn't look away from its "face", but it looked like the legs just kind of faded away into darkness.

I turned on the light, expecting it to be the vacuum cleaner or something, but absolutely nothing was there that would have cast that silhouette. Our dog was right there, sniffing the ground where it had been standing.

As far as I can remember, the only other ghost I ever saw was a small dog, who ran towards me and hid under my computer desk. I felt it jump up and pat me on the thigh as it ran past.

Or at least, that's what it seemed like happened...it happened so fast, and was kind of out of the corner of my eye, so I'm not exactly sure what it was. But it looked and felt like a dog.

One time while in the south end of a woodland park called Paradise Valley I got a vision so to speak of a woman with two children. Sometime later I happened to read about an old private cemetery in that area that's supposed to be haunted by the ghosts of a woman and two children.

What explanation can there be of me seeing three documented ghosts if they don't exist?

There's been other times when I have sensed a presance without seeing anything. One time I saw / had a vision of a woman gliding past me in a school hallway. When she got to the end of the hallway where it turns left, I heard something fall on the floor as she went around the corner. I figure it had to be an object in one of the adjacent rooms. The school building is over 100 years old.

No.

Dear Fnord, what type of evidence or experience would make you a believer or become more open about their possible existence?

Obviously there are many hoaxers, unreliable memories etc, but what if some encounters are real?