I have to say right off that I have never believed in ghosts or ghost stories. I've always figured they were just entertaining stories and never took them seriously. Until now.
I have been working at my laptop burning some Linux distro discs and copying some stuff to flash drives. Just basically giving me something to do to amuse myself. I bought a new HP external CD/DVD burner today and have been playing with it. As I was burning an ISO onto a disc and watching the progress I got that feeling you sometimes get when you feel like someone else is in the room with you. I know we've all had that feeling.
I looked around and of course didn't see anyone. I shook it off and continued with my work. I edited a bash script on my Linux system so that it would play an ogg file during shut down, tested it, and restarted the system. As the system came back up I heard a man say "That is very interesting". I about jumped out of my seat and turned around to see a man, probably in his early 30s standing right behind me. He was dressed in a very outdated suit and had mutton chops of all things.
Naturally I was freaked out and started to get up to slug the guy for being in my room (at that point it hadn't occurred to me that I never heard him come in) but of course my back problems prevented me from getting up quickly and I got a bad muscle spasm that sat me down again real quick. I got up again slowly but the guy was gone.
It was a really freaky thing and I still kinda have the willies over it. I'm still not sure I believe in ghosts, but this now has me really wondering WTF just happened. I guess you just had to be there. This was a really weird thing and I'm just not sure what the hell to think.