I've had a couple of strange encounters . But yes, people are reluctant to share, because who wants to be made fun of ?

Most of my encounters happened when I was alone (I know, most will say, go figures...)

There was a lamp in my daughters (newborn) room that you could wind up and then it would play this loud and annoying melody. I never wound it up, because of that. One night I woke up, it was around 2 am. I was wide awake, but not sure what woke me up.

As I'm trying to go back to sleep that dang melody starts playing in her room. I felt frozen in fear, I kept thinking I should really go check on her, in case it was a "sign" or something (you think strange things in the middle of the night) I finally made myself go into her room, and of course there was nothing and no-one there.

I would sit there and watch TV and suddenly the TV would shut off and on , or the VCR would come on. I wasn't anywhere close to the remotes. I always got a weird feeling before things like that happened. Like my stomach tightening up. Hard to explain. And yes, there could be perfectly normal explanations for those things.

Also, when I was a child, I kept hearing distinct noises from the kitchen. It was in the middle of the night and I wondered how noone else heard them or woke up. It was the noise a plastic cup would make if you dropped it on the floor. Over and over again.

I got up and went in there, thinking my brother was playing a trick on me. But I passed his bedroom on the way and he was fast asleep. The noise stopped when I got to the kitchen. We had no plastic cups.

Even now I don't like thinking about those events. They didn't give me the warm and fuzzies.

There were other things, but really, I don't even like remembering them.