text: have you ever had personal experience with a haunting - ghost, poltergeist, etc? i heard somebody downstairs making repeated loud whistling noise in the middle of the night.  it woke me from my sleep.  when i would move to walk towards it, the noise stopped.  when i stopped, the noise would start again. this went on for about 10 minutes and scared me quite badly. i called 911.  the police arrived and searched the house.  they couldn't find anyone, and the noise did not recur -- until they left the house.  the exact moment the police car backed out of the driveway, the whistling noise started again.  since i knew nobody was in the house, i tracked it down by walking towards it, stopping and then waiting for it to start again.  it was my daughter's care bear castle, which operates on batteries.  i can understand a toy malfunctioning, but can't explain the timing of it starting and stopping, especially during the whole 20 minutes the police were in the house.  i think a poltergeist was playing with it!!   how about you, any ghosts at your place? well i don't know if it was a ghost or a spirit or maybe just an energy, but i had an interesting experience a couple of years ago.  i was living at my parent's house at the time and they were away for the weekend so i was home alone.  i had a friend come over to my house and we were just hanging out, drinking some wine and chatting.  we finished the bottle of wine and i placed the empty bottle on the kitchen table next to a candle i was planning to put in it.  we decided to go out to meet some people and came back about 2 hours later.  when i opened the front door i saw the candle was placed in the neck of the bottle and it was lit with only one drip of wax running down the side.  i had an alarm set with motion detectors when i left the house.  these candles burned very quickly, so it must have been lit just moments before i got home.  i'm so glad i had a friend with me to vouch for it because no one believes it when they ehar it.  funny thing is, it was almost comforting to me because i think it was my grandmother telling me she was there to watch over me.  i felt very peaceful for a while after that happened.  i've been waiting for something like it to happen ever since, i have a fascination with it.