Round about the time of me being 18-19, my Mum and Dad went on holiday. I was home alone one night ( my brother who was a year or so younger was at work at Maccas.)lying in bed, around 9-30 by the clock radio sitting on my bedside table , just about dozing off when I heard something much like shuffling footsteps in the hallway.
Now being home alone it kind of spooked me. The carpet in the hallway (which was just outside the bedrooms at the front of the house) was that ripply type that made a funny sound when you dragged your feet on it. The noise continued from the master bedroom direction right down to the door which separated the hall from the lounge room. The door was closed at the time and I distinctly heard the door handle rattle for a moment or two, then stop and the sound of shuffling feet coming back up the hall. I cowered under the sheets and blanket and just hoped that whatever it was went away. After a while, I am not sure how long, it did stop and then there was nothing. While later the key rattles in the front door about 10-00 and my brother walks in. He turned on his bedroom light across the hall from my room and up I jumped raced in and asked him if he had been in the house earlier. No he said. When I told him the story he went white and said that about a week prior he had woken up middle of the night and saw my Grandma sitting on the end of his bed. Only problem being she had been dead for the past 15 years and had actually passed away at home in that very room. . He said he spoke to her and she disappeared. On an earlier occasion he too had heard shuffling in the hallway but dismissed it all as his imagination.
A few days later I was putting some things away in my parents room and I swear I saw her reflection in the mirror which sat over the dressing table..I said 'is that you Nanna' and the reflection disappeared and I never saw anything of her again. To this day I wonder if what I saw was actually her or just a figment of my imagination.
Pretty creepy, but many years later whilst recovering from surgery, I was back in my hospital room and was sure that I saw my Mum sitting on the end of my bed smiling at me, many years after she too had passed. Apparently there was a complication with my operation which caused me to bleed ( they nicked an artery whilst removing my gall bladder) and I had to have a transfusion ( of my own blood thankfully which the surgeon suggested I have ready just in case, as the possibility of a incident causing a bleed was of a certain percentage). I spoke to someone who interprets this type of thing and she said it was more than likely Mum reassuring me that I was going to be okay after the problem with surgery. I don't know what it was but it did not creep me out as much as the previous one with Nanna.