re: Do you believe in ghosts/hauntings?

I have never been opposed to the notion. I used to see things when I was a kid when I'd wake up, but that's probably just leftovers from dreams.

I have had one experience, I didn't see a ghost, but I felt the presence of death and it scared the ever loving frick out of me. Paralyzed with fear and unshakeable dread.

I cannot even fully explain this. A few years back, my father in law was on home hospice care for the cancer. I knew the end was very very close, we were on death watch at that point. Everyone was upstairs with him, except me and my brother in law. Bro in law was in a different room. I was in the den, had double french doors to outside with the built in blinds, which were closed. I'm sitting there, no tv on, late at night, just thinking, when I notice the patio light go on and off, and the door shook a few times, light kept going on and off. I immediately thought "I need to lock that fricking door", but then the dread just took over. It was death, and it was trying to get in. I knew that as soon as I approached that door, bad shite was going to happen. I just sat there, terrified. Eventually it stopped, I got up, backed out of the room, again knowing that if I turned my back on it, it was coming in. Eventually I found my bro in law, asked him if he had went out the front door around to the back, and he hadn't.

Father in law passed away the next night. I've only ever told my wife and one of the kids the story. I've never been that scared, ever. and I KNEW it was death.