Boy I wish I'd seen this thread before hand. I've been interested in this stuff for AGES! There were several times where I'd seen or heard something that really couldn't be explained. Here's a few of the encounters that have stayed with me for as long as I can remember...
Back in 1997 I had quite a few really startling experiences, ones that haven't left me since. I vividly remember waking up in the middle of the night, and standing, in the corner of my room, facing me was a man, dressed only in what appeared to be some kind of an undergarmet (looked like briefs of some sort). The thing that i remember the most was how LONG his hair, and his fingers were. I sat up in my bed, thinking that he'd disappear, and instead of doing that, he started walking towards me... Out of reaction, when it got close enough to my bed, I kicked with both of my legs as hard as I could. I saw my legs go right through it, and literally crash, with a loud thud to the floor below! My younger brother woke up, and came in to see what had happend... Needless to say that was a very, very strange night.
Another thing that I remember like it was yesterday, was me sleeping and suddenly waking up to the feeling of something crawling on my legs, ontop of my bed covers. When I sat up to see what it was, I FREAKED out, sitting there ontop of my bed was a HUGE SPIDER!!! This thing seemed like it was two feet in length. I grabbed my sheet, so I could get something between the two of us, and threw it ontop of the spider. I felt the damn thing running around under the covers trying to get away from me, and I remember thinking of what I was going to do with this dinner plate sized spider that I was waiting to bite me through the covers I had thrown ontop of it. Then, out of the blue, all the movement stopped.... I slowly unbunched my covers that I'd used to trap the spider in, ready to pitch them ontop of it again in a moments notice, and soon realized that there was NOTHING there! This spider had vanished without a trace, while my hands were holding it in place that is... Pretty crazy eh?
I recently talked to my brother who lived with us at that time, and to my surprise, he'd also had some very, very strange occurances happen to him too. He remembered seeing a shadow walk up onto the porch, step through the window and travel along the inner wall of the room until it got to my brothers headboard.... There it ran into one of your Crucifix, and stopped dead in it's tracks. Cooincidence?
To make matters even worse, my younger brother has actually just recently told me that there were times when he'd be up late at night, sitting on our coutch watching TV. The out of nowhere, he'd hear the sound of some one or something dragging itself down the hallway towards the living room... The coutch he was sitting on, would face that hallway. He always thought it was me, but then he'd realize that I wasn't there to be doing that.
Well, thats about it guys. Pretty crazy stuff.