As we get closer and closer to Halloween, new scary movies and haunting classics become popular, but for some people their own haunting experiences are enough to remember.

“When I was younger, my mom passed away and we had a funeral,” senior Kayla Nichols said. “At the funeral we took pictures and later on we discovered that there were blurs in the images. At the very end of the ceremony the gates opened and closed (by themselves).”

Senior Alyssa Medina said she experienced something creepy as a child too.

“I was about 10 and we lived in this really old house, and I saw some man sitting in the living room when we came home,” she said.

Knowing her dad was at work, Medina and her mom ran inside to find the man.

“When we ran in there was no one there, so my mom called the police who came and searched everywhere in my house and found no one,” she said. “The next night we saw him again and he was sitting on our front porch. You couldn’t see his face. (He) was just really dark and creepy, and then (he) just left. (He) just disappeared and didn’t come back.”

Senior Brittany Watson said she had a strange case of moving objects.

“We have this horse in our house,” she said. “It’s plastic and when we leave the house it’s in a room, but when we get back it’ll be in another. Yet, no one would’ve been home to move it.”

Not only does this horse move when her family is away from the house, but also when they’re in the room, Watson said.

“I fell asleep one day and when I woke up the doll had moved from the closet where I put it, and then it was in front of my bed,” she said. “It was terrible.”

One of the most common places for a haunting is the theater, according to theater teacher Melissa Danforth who’s experienced it firsthand.

“I was working on lights in a booth at the old school I use to teach at in East Texas and our choir teacher often had her children with her so I had thought they had come in there because the PAC was completely dark and I was hearing little children running around laughing,” she said.

Danforth told the kids to get out of the PAC because it was too dark then carried on with her business.

“I walked back to my classroom and saw the choir teacher’s room was locked and the lights were off in her room and in the hallway,” she said. “There was no one in the building and there were no cars outside, so I was like ‘who has been running around on the stage?’ (but I still was) not scared.”

Danforth said she went back to the booth to continue working.

‘It was quiet and I completely with all my heart and soul, I’m not lying, heard a little girl say ‘hello,’” she said. “It was a real clear voice not a vague ghostly voice, so I turned around. I did not get scared until I realized that there was no one there, so I just left as fast as I could.”