READER REPORT: Disturbances and apparitions

"About 12 years ago I lived in a house in the Sardis, Alabama area," reports Nicky, "and had an encounter with doors opening and closing by themselves and cold water turning on by itself. I also witnessed an apparition of an old man in an sparkling black cloak come out the kitchen, pause for a moment, then turn around and go back into the kitchen and disappear out of site. My two youngest nephews have seen it, too, and were scared to tears."

Thanks for the report, Nicky. The phenomena you first describe with the doors and the water sounds like typical poltergeist activity. But the sighting of the apparition suggests that something else is going on. You might indeed have a genuine haunting. The figure in the black cloak seems to fit in the ghost category of hooded beings, which is a mysterious, rather enigmatic type of apparition.

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