Gisela, we wish we had known you too. Houses like your old one can be rare to find directly for the reason you would imagine. People are afraid to come forward for fear IT will get worse. Our experience has been that what or who ever is haunting a house is going to do whatever it is doing regardless of whether a ghost hunting team investigates. Granted sometimes things tend to get more active a few hours/days later but that is expected. If you were a ghost and someone said out loud they were here to speak to you, instead of ignoring you wouldn't you try even harder to get the occupants attention after the fact. Of course that is supposing the haunt has intelligence. So I envy you the plastic bag experience. I recently was touched and it was so weird. Those situations are rare as I say but I think it does give us insight that our bodies are truly nothing more than pure energy played out in the scenarios you describe. That's really neat!!

I lived in a house in Quartz Hill a few years ago and I wish I had found this site back when I was still in that house. I often heard footsteps, doors opening and closing, etc. Every night I would check that the light in my walk-in closet was turned off before going to bed and almost every night I would awaken to find that the light from that closet was streaming into my bedroom. A cousin of mine once stayed overnight in my daughter's bedroom and the next day he told us that he hadn't slept very well because a lamp in the bedroom had been turning on and off. As a skeptic and an atheist I tried to rationalize the experiences I was having. I had to admit that there was something going on when one night I heard noises coming from my bathroom. I listened for a minute or so and heard what sounded like plastic bags being scrunched up. I got out of bed and walked to the bathroom and found that two grocery bags that I had left on the sink earlier were moving around all by themselves as if someone were holding them by the handles and lifting them and then letting them drop. I'll admit I am a chicken and this terrified me. I had other experiences besides the ones I've written about here that made me very afraid of ever being alone in that house. I rarely spent time alone in any room of that house after dark because I always had the feeling I was being watched and a few times I actually felt like I was bumping into someone as I tried to go up or down the stairs. We sold the house about 7 years ago and I haven't had any strange occurences since then but I always remember what it was like to live in that house and wonder if the people living in it now have had any similar experiences.

Yes BLIPS, that would be very cool.

Great site you have here, we're another paranormal society from the AV, maybe we'll have the chance to work together sometime.

Man this is awesome Ive always been passionate about ghost hunting..sadly no resources. you guys rock. Ive been afraid of heights, rats (wild), clowns, but I have never been afraid of ghosts Ive always just dived right into the paranormal.