text: is there really ghosts or spirits  among us?   as a child the chandelier used to swing from side to side, and the radio would turn on by itself in the middle of the night.  one time on a camping trip i was walking back from the bathrooms at that moment right between day and night and i saw someone walk across the front of the site and stop behind a tree. so i figure one of the people is going to jump out and try to surprise me, so i pull out my flashlight, walk up to the tree, turn on the light, and there's no one there.  one time i was alone in a house, and i felt a presence. i looked at a mobile hanging motionless, and said, "if there is anyone else here, make the mobile spin." the next moment, the mobile began to spin.  one time i was driving into ponca state park to set up a large camping gathering, and the sides of the road were lined with spirits. all standing there, clearly visible to everyone, calmly welcoming us back.  on another camping trip, we felt a spirit near the bon-fire. we had a ring of 40 tiki-torches around the bonfire. it was a still and windless night, but all the tiki flames near the spirit bent in. one of the people in the circle had a fancy camera. after the campout she went to get the film developed, and all the photos from before the visitor turned out, but after that all the film was blank. she took the camera in to be repaired. the repairman asked if she'd been in a nuclear power plant. all the innards were fried from electromagnetism  my grandmother died while my niece was in utero. after my niece was born, she would look up at areas where no one was standing, and laugh and giggle. we all knew that she was looking at gramma, so we never showed her any pictures. finally, at about a year old, she could speak, and my sister showed her the family photo album. my niece picked out her photo and said, "that's old gramma."