I like this thread and have spent 3 days reading it.

What was in the ******* kitchen?!

I have quite a few.

The wife and I went to San Antonio on the river walk for our 2nd anniversary. I saw a pamphlet for a ghost hunting tour of the Alamo so I suggested we do it. My wife is not into ghost stuff at all and (used) to think it was all fake.

So we are on the tour. The guide talks about the old buildings/haunted hotels/haunted brothels and then we get to the Alamo. He pulls out a thermal camera. It's 11:00 pm and so the Alamo is closed, no one inside, but there are some hallways which are gated that you can see through and he courtyard u guess (it's been a few years since I have been). The guide starts talking about some of the ghosts people see and the different manifestations and lets us take the thermal camera and scan the area. About 30 minutes later, sure enough down on do the hallways you can look down, a human figure appears, crossing the line of site of the camera.

The guide gets visibly excited. Visually there's nothing there but on the camera you can see a human form cross in front of us and stop in the middle of the hallway. The guide says that there is this one ghost that shows up over there, and all the hunters in his group call the human "shorty" and that he usually pops up when there are women around and that sometimes he responds to it she women flirt with him.

So the guide (who is large, balding, etc) asks my wife to flirt with shorty to see if he will stick around for a bit longer.

My wife is reluctant but I am getting a kick out of how much the guide is tripping. So I encourage her as well. After a minute or two my wife starts falling out "Hey shorty! Mmmm what's a big strong man like you doing over there. I want you to come over here and keep me warm!" Generally stuff like that.

At first nothing happens or appears to happen anyway. And then the damn thing starts moving. It starts coming down the hallway towards us. I am he one with he camera, and my wife can't see the screen. She just has her hands cupped around her mouth calling out. I am stunned because the figure starts to move faster and faster....never quite breaking into a run, but what looks like a fast walk. After a minute or two she gets tired of calling out and asks me if the thing is gone. I show her the screen and it's like the figure is right in front of it, standing there with its hands on its hips, head tilted to one side. It takes its hands out of its pockets and reaches forward to touch her face or head or something. She screams "Oh *****" And runs away. I give the guy the camera back and go to make sure the wife doesn't run into the street or something. I couldn't even get her to finish the tour.

I have got a lot more where that one came from. A lot of crazy experiences. But that one is the tamest I think.

My brother killed himself one night in a different state. When I was packing to leave for his funeral, he walked up to my opened bedroom door to let me know he was ok. I am certain of this.