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I have my own ghost story. Well kind of one. It happened about 40 years ago. I was working one night about midnight in the upstairs room of an historical building built in the 1800s. This is a very creaky building without plumbing or heat, but it is wired for electicity. So I hear the outside door slam downstairs and I figured it was one of my coworkers. Wait, did I lock the door? Yes, I did. I heard the footsteps across the creaky first floor then heard each step up the creaky first and second staircases to the door to the second floor room. No one came in. I said come on in! No one came in. Huh? Went to the door and opened it and no one was there. Amazing!

I went through the entire building and into the cellar and there was no one there. The outside door was also locked. Very strange! Never figured out what caused that. Anyone coming up the stairs would have been heard going down. Guess it was the wind. I spent many nights in that old place, but never had that happen again.

I mentioned it the next day to an old-timer who worked there and he said others had similar experiences, but no one ever saw anything. Just heard foorsteps.

My children’s high school in Asheville was built on an Indian burial ground. I heard they dug up most of the graves and relocated them. Janitors who worked at the school at night told tales of hearing strange noises in the school when no one else was there. Don’t know if they really did or they just wanted to entertain the students and staff. But who doesn’t love a good ghost story?

Also, a graduate of the high school is somewhat famous now for his ghostly endeavors. His name is Joshua P. Warren.

“Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Joshua P. Warren has lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains his entire life, but traveled widely. At the age of 13, he wrote his first published book. Since then, he has had thirteen more books published, including the regional best-seller, Haunted Asheville, and How to Hunt Ghosts (released by Simon and Schuster), and is the president of his multimedia productions company, Shadowbox Enterprises, LLC. His articles have been published internationally, and he has been covered by such mainstream media as CNN, Fox News, Entertainment Weekly, Southern Living, Delta Sky, FATE, New Woman, The New York Times, FHM and Something About the Author; and made the cover of the science journal, Electric Space Craft. A winner of the University of North Carolina Thomas Wolfe Award for Fiction, he wrote columns for the Asheville Citizen-Times from 1992 to 1995. His first novel, The Evil in Asheville, was released in 2000.

An internationally-recognized expert on paranormal research, Warren was hired by the famous Grove Park Inn Resort to be the first person to officially investigate the Pink Lady apparition in 1995 (the same year he founded L.E.M.U.R. paranormal investigations, of which he is president). Warren also led the expedition that captured the first known footage of the elusive Brown Mountain Lights, eventually resulting in scientific breakthroughs, via experiments Warren led in the lab, that help explain most of the lights and many mysterious, natural plasmas (such as ball lightning) that occur around the world. His work has been praised by the Rhine Research Center, The North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (or NCCAT, for which he gives annual presentations) and numerous scholars such as New York Times best-selling author Dr. William R. Forstchen, Dr. William Roll, Dr. Andrew Nichols, and legendary researchers such as NASA engineer Charles A. Yost, Oak Ridge National Laboratory engineer David Hackett, and authors/researchers Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe.”

http://www.joshuapwarren.com/

Mary Ann Winkowki, the "Ghost Whisperer" author and consultant for the TV show, in her earliest writings had some of her experiences about spirits that might apply to your experience. She wrote about the human spirit (or whatever you choose to call it) as being separate from the body at death. She believes that the spirit is still there until it "crosses over" and some spirits choose not to cross over for whatever reason.

I don't disbelieve that there could be a human spirit that is separate from the body, part of something larger. "Don't criticize what you can't understand" and all that. Mathematically, we're 3-dimensional beings so anything it the 4th or greater dimension is beyond our full understanding.

If possible, you might want to check the history of that house and see if someone lived there who might have wanted to hang around. <^..^>