i have one other personal experience and a story.
1) one night while staying at my grandmother's house, i was typing up a very important document for work. on the same night we had a huge rain storm (this was probably 2 summers ago), and most of massachusetts lost power. well, we also lost power in the house, exept at my computer ( it's not a laptop, and i wasn't running reserve power or anything). all the lights went out, the fridge stopped, even the street lights died, and the only thing i could hear was the faint hum of my iMac. the power strip light was also off, if IIRC. i freaked out after about 5 minutes, saved my files, shut down the computer, and left the house. i still have no explanation as to how this could have happened.
2) this story has to do with an age-old college legend from Gettysburg, where my sister-in-law goes to school. for those who don't know, Gettysburg is famous for its ghost stories. they have tours through the campus and the town about all of the miraid stories through the years. this one is called "blue boy" and it freaks me out everytime i hear it.
one of the dorms on campus which usually houses freshmen, used to be a hospital during the civil war. during one of the coldest nights of the year, the hospital was packed with people with varying illnesses. this one family arrived at the hospital with some flu-like symptoms except their 8 yr old son. the parents spent the night at the hospital and died from the illness. the boy was scared and crawled onto a ledge through an open window to cry and be alone. he eventually fell asleep on the ledge. an unknowing nurse came into the room, closed the window and locked it, and left the room for the mortician to take the bodies of the parents away. the boy woke up in the frigid cold and saw that the window was closed. being too high up to jump to the ground, he banged on the window and yelled for help. since it was late and a violent winter storm had just begun, no one heard his screams for help. eventually, the doctor returned to the room and asked the nurse where the boy had gone, and she had no idea. they looked at the window and could see his hand prints on the glass. when they opened it and looked on the ledge, the boy was gone. they searched the hospital and the grounds and never found him.
to this day, there are several sightings a year at that dorm of hand prints on windows, and the figure of a blue boy sitting outside on the ledges while they are studying or sleeping.
CREEEEEPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
