It's Halloween month. What are some of the creepy/paranormal encounters you've had or heard?

I have to two stories.

We used to have family reunions at my Uncle's. He lived on the lake and there was a forest near by his house. While discovering the forest with my cousin's, who all varied in age from 10 to 17, we came across a house placed very randomly in this forest. It was three stories with white siding, and had no trees near it. It was surrounded by a ditch and the ditch was eroded on both sides so the banks kind of curved like waves. If you jumped down you couldn't climb out, plus it was pretty deep. There was no way of getting across this ditch that we knew of to explore the abandoned house. As we all gazed at the eerie home, suddenly there was a boy in the top window on the third story looking down at us and banging on the window. He was yelling but we could not hear him. I remember it vividly. He must have been looking down at us for 5 seconds before he just vanished, like he was pulled back by someone. We all looked at each other shocked. We ran out of the forest telling every family member we saw. No one believed us. They just reassured us the older cousins were just playing a joke on us. Nope. To this day, 13 or so years later, we can all recall what happened.

Second story that happened to a friend. We'll call my friend J and his brother M. They were both 5 and 4 respectively. They were visiting Grandma's house on a Sunday and sitting watching cartoons intently while the parents sat in the kitchen. Out of the backroom a man walks up to them and says, "J and R, would you like to see a magic trick?". They both look up and see a man wearing a blue hat, a blue button up shirt, and he has the biggest smile on his face. He shows them a coin trick, then he turns around walking back to the back room. On the way home J and M both won't stop talking about the coin trick. Their mom turns back and says, "Who did a coin trick to you?". They both say "The smiling man". Both parents look at each other dumbfounded. She asks what he looked like. They mention his blue hat, moustache, and his blue shirt. Turns out Grandpa had a lucky blue hat. Grandpa loved to do magic tricks. Grandpa only wore his blue button up shirt on Sunday's. Grandpa died 10 years ago.

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