Like Steellover, my story doesn't fit what ControlYourHole is looking for but it is nevertheless real.
I mentioned in a forum thread recently that I have no reason to deal with dark things anymore, but that doesn't mean that they don't have dealings with me.
My sister seems to be a ghost or spirit magnet. Since she divorced her first husband, every home she's lived in (3 now) has had strange happenings occuring.
In the first house this started happening in there definitely was a spirit there. Not only did her family experience it, but the previous family said that their girls would wake up in the middle of the night and see a man in a hat and trench coat standing at the end of their bed.
I experienced that presence one day when visiting my sister. She was at her kitchen sink, and I was just outside the kitchen hanging out in the doorway talking to her. I heard footsteps upstairs since I was at the foot of them.
I asked her if her husband was home and she said no. Then I asked if her girls were home and she said no. So I told her I was hearing footsteps upstairs. She said yep. So I made a beeline into the kitchen away from the stairwell. Lol.
They also were cleaning their garage out one day and found a tombstone in it.
Creepy all the way around.