Hi - I see you've all been talking about me (makes a change LOL)
I was talking about one type of haunting, as pleasuredome said. I use particular words to describe the difference between the types of haunting.
Ghosts
"Ghost" I usually use to refer to these energy signatures which replay and don't seem to be conscious entities at all. I believe this is something to do with particular energies and I think that this is going to hopefully be one of the first things in the paranormal field that science is able to test. An interesting development was a TV programme which showed how a man saw a ghost when he stood in a certain place in a room (he saw a dark humanlike figure standing there) and they proved that he was in the path of low level sound waves which presumably affected his brain. Maybe some biological explanation will explain how we might see something which previously happened in a place due to residues of "something" left behind. I heard of a woman who saw a roman soldier walk through her lounge, but he was cut off at the legs, as it turned out she had a roman road under her house and if the house hadn't been there his feet would have touched the road.
Spirits
"Spirit" I usually use to refer to the spirit of a deceased person. A spirit can visit a place on occasion or even choose to stay around a particular place. Also I believe that some spirits for various reasons are "earthbound", so in this case they are conscious (mostly, however they appear to be impaired and sometimes don't know they're dead). I believe that we all have a particular energy signature (I use the word energy for want of another word thats better). Therefore when we die we have expectations (which have a big effect on our after death experience IMHO) and we also have a particular "feel" to our spiritual selves. That is why some people would not immediately go to "heaven". Heaven I see as being the highest purest place for our soul to be, the Source, where we were before we were born. Sometimes it takes time of a spirit to resolve things and be able to "move on". Eventually IMHO all of us get the healing we need and move on to heaven (or the Summerlands as pagans like to call it...for some reason unknown to me)
Demons
I do believe that there are many, many entities who were never in a human body, but who are conscious beings. There are nature spirits, elementals, "angels" or guides, and yes, other entities who appear to be less friendly. The less friendly entities generally reside around people and places and some would take advantage of a weak person if they could. Like attracts like aswell, so if a human is engaging in certain things these entities might want to hang around that person. They are not fallen angels IMO but rather they just exist. Just like humans can be nice or they can be harmful. The best advice is try not to be afraid and if you see anything like this, pray first then tell the entity to leave.
As for your question, yes I've had a fair few experiences.
Sirona