I've always believed in spirits and ghosts, although I do get freaked out at one of my aunt's place because of their resident ghost. The story was that she was the daughter of the owner back in the mid to late 1800's and she fell in love with one of the farmhands, the father found this out and had the young man killed. She found out and hung herself on the back deck (porch) and her spirit has hung around ever since.
A few years ago I studied at a college where we all lived on a campus and a lot of the buildings were 40-50+ years old and one of the ladies who became one of my friends there told me how mediums run in her family, I told her the story of how a few weeks after my grandmother passed away my mother was in the kitchen and nothing would go right, frustrated my mother called out "Mum this is MY kitchen." and sure enough after that everything went back to normal, my friend said 'Well she is still around.' Then a month or so later a bunch of us were sitting around and this lady was talking about how she could see the auras of our guardians, a few descriptions freaked some out but the description of mine; an older lady, proud of her appearance but not flashy and quiet. I sent my mother a text message to ask if that sounded like anyone, it did, my great grandmother who passed away back in 1998 6 weeks shy of her 99th birthday.
