Reading this thread got me remembering one instance I'd forgotten. I was very young, probably 5 or so, living in the spooky old house I mentioned above, where others have had strange experiences.
I remember being half-asleep, I think with my mother in her bed, and seeing a tall skinny dark figure in a dark long coat, like a trench coat, wearing a top hat, standing in the corner of the bedroom. I could only see a dark outline in the unlighted room, as my eyes were only able to pick up the ambient light. It was a motionless figure. That was my experience. I asked my mother about it the next morning, and she brushed it off saying it was just the standing coat rack. It was an answer I accepted at that time, as a child. I'd forgotten about it until now.
The punchline, as I think back on it, there was no coat rack in that bedroom or that location, or anywhere in the house. We had a wall mounted coat rack, by the front door, nowhere near visible from the bedroom...
I'm rather creeped out by this suppressed memory, to be honest....
I remember being half-asleep, I think with my mother in her bed, and seeing a tall skinny dark figure in a dark long coat, like a trench coat, wearing a top hat, standing in the corner of the bedroom. I could only see a dark outline in the unlighted room, as my eyes were only able to pick up the ambient light. It was a motionless figure. That was my experience. I asked my mother about it the next morning, and she brushed it off saying it was just the standing coat rack. It was an answer I accepted at that time, as a child. I'd forgotten about it until now.
The punchline, as I think back on it, there was no coat rack in that bedroom or that location, or anywhere in the house. We had a wall mounted coat rack, by the front door, nowhere near visible from the bedroom...
I'm rather creeped out by this suppressed memory, to be honest....