Well, its not quite Haunted Mansion levels, but I will tell you what happened. Firstly, I should say that I was quite skeptical about the ghost thing, and had NEVER had any sort of "experience" before. DH had mentioned YEARS ago that he could "sense ghosts" due to things that had happened to him as a child. He never talks about this though.
When we arrived at the villa, everything was OK...it was practically a new build. According to the visitors book, it looked like we were only the 5th or 6th family that had used it. We werent too keen on the layout of the villa and it didnt have the "Wow" factor of other places we had stayed, but certainly no corpses in the closet!!
Our DD, 3, decided she wanted the bedroom at the front of the house, my mum had the one next door and DH and I shared the master at the back with our baby son. DD didnt sleep very well and, unusually awoke frequently with nightmares. In the end, my mum moved herself into the front room as well.
One day, we had returned from the parks for a break. Mum took DD swimming, DH went for a nap in the back bedroom with the baby also asleep in his cot. I was making trip report notes in the lounge. A movement caught my eye and when I looked up I saw a semi transparent figure walking into the front bedroom. I blinked and did a double take, the figure remained visable for a few seconds before fading away. I only saw the figure from the back, and it appeared to be a teenage boy or young man wearing swim shorts. As it was a bright sunny, Florida kind of day, where thoughts of ANYTHING spooky are far from your mind, this seemed almost like a dream. In fact after a few minutes, I convinced myself I had imagined it, and didnt mention it to any of the others. Funnily enough, I didnt feel "spooked" even though I had never had a "paranormal" experience before.
That night, DH put our daughter to bed and then came into our bedroom. There was a little crash outside (raccoons in the trash I think!) but I joked "I think this place is haunted". Hubby turned then and said "what do you mean by that??" in a very serious tone. I then told him what had happened to me that afternoon.
What he then told me sent shivers down my spine. Whilst putting our little girl to bed, she had apparantly asked DH "Will that man come into my room again tonight?". DH admitted he had known that there WAS "something" in the villa and that he had felt it from day 1, but hadnt mentioned it. He assured me whatever it was, was Ok and wouldnt bother us. He cant explain how he can sense these things, but says he gets it quite often ( I made him swear we didnt have any at our house!!!). He also said he knew that our daughter could see stuff too as she had mentioned before she had seen stuff that hubby had also picked up on.
Well, thats it. Not had any more spooky happening since. DH still doesnt talk about anything to do with ghosts (he says talking about it encourages appearances
).
I did check copies of the Orlando Sentinel to see if there had ever been any accidents on the Glenbrook site, but nothing ever showed up. For what its worth, my opinion is that what I saw was some sort of "playback" rather than a "ghost" but I guess I will never know for sure.
Allie