Yes ghosts do exist.
I used to work in a restaurant that the owner believed was haunted. Strange things did happen there; table settings would get all messed up overnight, the top bowl in a stack of bowls would somehow fall to the floor and smash (but only the top bowl in the stack), of course strange noises when it's real quiet, etc. We even had an old lady who was a regular who always wanted to be seated at a certain table in the one room of the place, just so she could "talk" to the ghost. That room was also where the table settings always got messed up.
But no one ever saw any of this happen, they could have been pranks by bus boys for all we knew. So it became kind of an inside joke, when we hired someone new we would tell them about the ghost, it was all a sort of joke.
So I'm there for three years, one night after work five of the younger employees are hanging around the bar. It's too late to go anywhere and the owner was on vacation, so we just decide to hang out in the restaurant. Something happened that afternoon that brought up ghost talk again, so we all got the "bright" idea to get an oujie board and try to "talk" with the ghosts. We set the board up in the room where most of the stuff happens, and we took about a half dozen table candles and set them on the floor all around us (so we could turn out the lights to add atmosphere).
So we do the oujie thing, asking questions like what is your name, how old are you, etc., and most of the answers were just gibberish and hard to understand. At this point we are all laughing and carrying on because we all believe that "someone" is pushing the viewfinder around, none of us are taking this seriously. Then, one of the candle flames literally grows to a few feet in height, lighting up the whole room. After about a minute the candle suddenly goes out. Now we are all sitting on the floor looking at each other like what the fuck just happened, when the viewfinder starts to move again. But none of our hands are on it! Then another candle turns into a huge flame and burns out. It was then we realized that as we lose candles the room was getting darker, and the board is still going on its own, I'll bet we just sat there for almost a minute too scared to move. It was when we heard the squeaking of one of the bathroom doors swinging that we all just ran for the door and left.
From that point on we had the revelation that the place really WAS haunted. When we told the owner about our experience she laughed and told us we were idiots for trying to play with an oujie board, but it didn't surprise her at all. She had no doubt that the place was really haunted. No one ever saw an actual ghost in the place, but later I did actually see one of the soup bowls in the kitchen "leap" off of the stack and smash to the floor. One time there were three of us in the kitchen talking when a wine glass slid across a counter top and fell to the floor, right in front of our faces. It might sound scary, but things like this had gotten so common place over the years that it really didn't faze us. It was kind of a relief to know that "bus boys weren't playing pranks".
But I'll NEVER touch a oujie board again. Ever.
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