[delnisfernan]

Ok, so my boyfriend and I took a vacation last week at a place along the bay on the east coast US. We stayed in a 3 bedroom remodeled 'trailer' in a super nice community. We stayed 7 nights.

Anyway, our bedroom was at the end of a long hallway. If you looked down from the bedroom all you could see was a comfy blue rocking chair with a little end table next to it, and a light was always on in that room at night. I always wake up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, so every time I did I had to enter the hallway and see that chair at the end. It didn't start to spook me until after a few nights, and my feeling continued to grow each night thereafter. I'd just look at that chair, and from that angle, and see in my mind an old grey man with a pipe, as if he was supposed to be sitting in that chair. On the last 2 nights we stayed I felt an enormous sense of that 'freaked me out', chills, run to and from the bathroom type deal.

On a couple occasions my boyfriend told me he woke up in the middle of the night be because he heard footsteps in the hallway. So he'd get up to look but nothing was there. This freaked him out. And he doesn't spook easily.

Luckily it never got so bad that we felt we couldn't stay there. But I want to know if you think this was an experience with the paranormal, a spirit, whatever, or if it's us just being excited. I want to know why our mind comes up with certain ideas of people. Why an old man? Ya know?!

On a side note, it also felt eerie to me to look down that hallway while my boyfriend was sitting in the chair. As if he was meant to be there. Was as if he filled the part but in a younger body. Oh I dunno! Once in a while throughout life I'll feel as if something is meant to be there but I always thought I fabricated these things. How do we distinguish overactive imagination from real?