Fire Yagamore asked Darcy Coates:

Have you ever actually seen a ghost or anything supernatural? And if so do you mind telling us about it and what happened?

Darcy Coates Thanks for this question - it's a good one!

I only have one (fairly minor) experience. I went on a ghost tour about two years ago. The guide stopped outside a house that supposedly had many spirits lingering inside and around it. I was at the back of the group, but heard a man clear his throat behind me. When I turned the street was empty. It spooked me pretty badly!

All of my other stories are second-hand, but here are a couple of my favourites. My mother used to work as a nurse and says the hospital's staff had caught security footage of what seemed to be a ghost in the parking garage. The tape had been played so many times it was starting to break down, but she says the figure was transparent and walked 4-5 paces before disappearing.

Another friend worked in a building that had once been an institute for patients with mental disorders. She and the other staff often heard footsteps running down the hallways during the night.

A very generous paranormal researcher let me listen to some audio he'd captured in Sydney's Q station (an old quarantine station where hundreds of settlers died). It sounds a lot like a hoarse man saying "Got a cigarette?"

Sometimes the truth really is stranger (and creepier) than fiction. =)

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