re: Do you believe in ghosts/hauntings?

I’ve had a few experiences.
My Uncle (Mom’s brother) whom I loved dearly passed away very suddenly of a heart attack at 56. Me and the wife lived in Walker at the time with our infant son. We made the trek back home for the funeral of course. That night after the funeral me and the wife were sitting at my mom and dad’s kitchen table having a beer and reminiscing, everyone else was in bed asleep. My mom had one of those bookshelf stereos sitting on a small end table in the corner of the breakfast nook. All of a sudden this thing turns on and starts playing Don’t Close Your Eyes by Keith Whitley. This just happened to be my late Uncle’s all time favorite song. Needless to say it rattled me and the wife quite a bit. The next morning at breakfast I told my mom and dad what happened. My mom said that was just your uncle telling you goodbye because you were always his favorite.

Another involved my son who at this point is now walking and talking but not school aged (probably 3). We are still living in Walker at this point in time also. We had noticed that some of his toys like the leap frog learning game and tickle me Elmo would just start going off randomly in his room while he was in the living room with us. When this would happen he would smile and giggle to himself. I asked him what was so funny about his toys making that racket. He said that’s John playing with them he thinks they are fun too. My wife’s eyes are big as saucers at this point and she just blurts out “WHO THE HELL IS JOHN!!!” My son says he’s my friend he’s an army man. Thank goodness I’m a war nerd and had several books on the subject because this is before smart phones. I get one of my books that has pictures of planes, tanks, guns, other machinery and soldiers in it. I bring it over to my son and show him a picture of a Vietnam era American soldier and asked him if John looks like this. He says no. Same thing with WW2 and WW1 era soldiers, a negative response. Finally I flip to a portrait of a confederate soldier and he says John dresses like that. Moral of the story is we sold the house 6 months later