Oh that's very odd... It could most definitely be some sort of spirit, or from the sound of it, two kinds.

The TV phenomenon could likely be a bored poltergeist, which are known for being able to manipulate the physical environment. I'd be cautious when dealing with this one, because while they are usually harmless, they can become dangerous. Considering how long this one has been here, it may be trapped, so a banishing spell could potentially free it.

The light orbs, however, are their own kind of ghost. These are simply the souls of dead people or animals in their first form, before they take on a full-bodied appearance. They can't cause much harm.

nahhh. The only weird experience I've had is some UFO thing. which probably isn't ghosts.

I love threads like this! I already read the ~spooky~ reddit threads before bed, unintentionally.

I am somewhat of a believer. There are definitely presences I think. What helped me believe this was something that happened when I was younger.

One night when I was 16 I struggled to get to sleep as I had a sudden wave of overwhelming sadness. As I was laying in bed trying to recover myself from this strange feeling it started to surface that I was worried for a family member, my aunt. I started to think that she was sick and or dying. I did my best to reason with myself, that I hadn't heard about her in a while and she's probably just fine and I finally fell asleep.

The next morning as I was getting ready for school, the phone rang and it was my grandmother. I was the only one home at the time and she was looking to speak to my dad. I told her I was alone and she said she would call in the evening instead.

My grandmother did call again in the evening but again, I was the only one at home. This time however she told me the message she was going to pass along to my dad. The message was that my aunt passed away last night. I felt a wave of cold go over me. In conversation I found it would have been around the same time I was hit with the sadness.

I wasn't awfully close to my aunt at all but my family members say that she used to have a special soft spot for me. The day after, I spoke to another aunt and she said, it was probably her spirit giving me her final goodbye.

sounds very well behaved compared to mine

🌈 So far, the only time I've experienced anything was at the Titanic exhibit in Los Vegas, but I definitely felt stuff there. Among other things they've got this massive piece of the actual ship's hull there, and the whole time I was in the room with it I kept expecting faces to appear in the porthole windows.

Then my friend, who's got a lot more stories than I do about this sort of thing, directed me over to a case of recovered belongings--clothes, I think--without telling me anything--but turned out she was watching for my reaction. And oh did I have a reaction! My skin started feeling funny the moment I stood there, like goosebumps, skin-crawly stuff, but at the same time, it wasn't scary at all; I felt no anger or hostility, just... sorrow, I guess. But it was way more than just being spooked, definitely!

So I haven't seen anything (yet; I still kinda hope I do some day) but I've definitely felt stuff.

My aforementioned friend and her family, however, have all sorts of stories of the paranormal, both ghostly phenomena--my one friend has seen a full-bodied apparition vanish before her eyes, and their family lived in a haunted house, with everything from visually human spirits to doppelgangers of their pets and things moving of their own accord, for many years--and ufo/extraterrestrial stuff, which honestly jeebies my heebies worse than the ghost stuff, lol. I think some people are more serious magnets for that sort of thing than others. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

So yeah, I'm not sure exactly what all is out there, but I'm definitely convinced there are things we can't explain!

EDIT: Oh holy heck, I totally forgot, I once caught orbs on my phone camera! It had been taking perfectly normal photos up to this point and immediately after, so it wasn't light reflection, and there was no bugs flying around inside the house to cause the anomaly. But one shot in the middle has great big, very clear orbs. I just found the photo; there's a nearly identical photo on the roll directly after it, with no orbs, confirming it wasn't a weird light artifact. My friends' father had just recently passed away in that house, and they found it comforting rather than spooky, that it was probably their dad saying "hi."

The photo, if you want to see it ↓