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Originally Posted by LuvablePsycho
I'm of course talking about things like ghosts, UFOs, Bigfoot, etc. You know, the kind of things that have never been proven to exist but people around the world claim to have seen.
One time when I was staying at my Aunt's house a couple of years ago I had something very strange happen to me. My Aunt lives in a very old house that was built in the 1800's but not only that her youngest son also died in a car accident a couple of years ago when he was just a little kid.
So anyways one night I was staying there by myself while everybody else in the house was gone, and I swear I am not making this up, but I heard a sound like little feet running up and down the wooden floors in the big hallway by the stairs. I went into the hallway to check and see what was making that sound and nothing was in there. Then once I went back into the living room I heard the same noise again.
There was also a night when I woke up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom in the same house and I could have sworn that I heard what sounded like xylophone music being played.
Now like I said before I am an atheist, but that seemed very much like a ghost phenomenon to me and nobody believes me when I talk about it. I mean how can you explain something like that? Maybe there really is an afterlife when we die...
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I believe you heard those sounds. I don't know why anyone would doubt that. Maybe they just doubted your conclusions. Having lived in a big old house, I know sounds get thrown around through the wood, airducts, pipes, echoes bounce around... that is to say, when something is running on the roof (like a raccoon/squirrel) it's really difficult to pinpoint it's actual location. And of course a house makes sounds that mimic other sounds, so settling and house functions can sound like footfalls.
Just saying, you know what you heard, but it's really difficult to make any conclusions beyond what you heard. If you must, I'd suggest Occam's razor: the simplest solution tends to be the right one. You looked and didn't see anything with little feet, so the sound was unidentified. The next most logical, simplest solution would be animal running on the roof, branch tapping, or a house structure or function sound that sounded similar to little feet running. House sounds are something you've actually verified experientially, whereas ghost footsteps are not. You probably know when we perceive something, our brains are quick to fill in the blanks.
Incidentally, bathrooms are a place people often hear music or voices, which I assume is particular to the bathroom exhaust structures, also the small room and a higher likelihood of bare walls, and no less our stricter attention to sounds.
Still, life after death is a fantastic study. There are actual published experiments in this and related fields. Coming to a conclusion, or not, on the house sounds need not tilt your conclusions on the afterlife. = )