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I don't know if any of you remember me, but I posted a lot last spring but then I was out of school for a while and this is my first chance back. I have had a lot of experiences with ghosts, I have seen them and communicated with them. It's an ability that seems to run in my family. For example, when my mother was in high school, her grandfather died. I remember her telling me about it. I guess one night around 2 am she was awakened from a deep sleep and when she opened her eyes, she saw this figure sitting at the end of her bed. It looked like her grandfather and she couldn't understand why he was sitting there or how he had gotten there. (I guess he had been very ill and had been in the hospital for a long time) Anyway, after a while, it looked at her and told her to take good care of the family then it faded away. She eventually fell back asleep and when she woke up the next morning, she had thought she had dreamed the whole episode until her mother told her that her grandfather had died about 2 am the night before. My mother isn't the only one in the family that has had experiences with ghosts . One of the first things that I ever remember happening to me was when I was in eighth grade and I was at a Girl Scout sleepover for girls that wanted to be junior conselors. That night there was a really bad thunderstorm outside and when we went to bed, we were all a little bit spooked because of all the thunder. Anyway, I remember thinking I had fallen asleep and having a really bizaar dream. I remember hearing this voice that sounded like my grandfather's voice (my mother's father who had died about 3 months before and who I had had a very close relationship with) and the voice was telling me that it missed me and that it wanted me to come with him to this beautiful place. I remember telling it that I didn't want to go with him because I was scared. This voice kept trying to convince me that it missed me and I would really enjoy the place that it was and it wanted me to be with him. I kept telling it no and that I wanted to stay where I was with my friends and family. Finally, after it being a bit pushy, I yelled at it and told it that I wanted to stay where I was and I wanted to enjoy the rest of my life and that I would see him when the time was right. At that moment, I remember a huge thunder sound and a really bright bolt of lightening and then the rain dying down. I woke up, sat up and looked around. My friend was laying next to me in her sleeping bag just staring at me. I asked her what had happened and she told me that I had been glowing in a greenish color and that I had been talking a lot. She also told me that she had tried to touch me and when she reached towards me, she had recieved a shock. I now believe that that "thing" was definitely not my grandfather, but something else, and I don't know what would've happened to me if I would've decided to follow it to whereever it was. Well that was only the beginning of the experiences that I remember, if you would like me to I will post other things later on.. Just let me know. I don't want to bore anybody with anything so I will only post if you all want me to. Sarah Peterson bink@vax1.mankato.msus.edu