Seriously, have you encountered a ghost before?

Here's my "ghost story". It was 1983 at Holloman AFB in southern New Mexico. I was working the early morning shift for line delivery in the Bomb Dump (Munitions Storage Area) and it was around 2 am. To make things even creepier, there were coyotes howling inside the fence (FYI: the week before one approached within 10 feet of me while I was carrying a 2.75 rocket in both hands), tarantulas were crawling on the ground, and bats were flying through the air. So far...a normal desert morning...if just a little bit chilly (which is good because it slows down the rattle snakes). I had just been let into the area by the Munitions Controller on duty and we were the only two people inside a barbed wire fence with a high security lock 7 miles into the desert from the main base. Being a good Airman, I picked up the keys to a Bobtail truck (munitions tow vehicle) and went outside with a flashlight to conduct its daily checkout. I did my walk around, kicked the tires, then popped the hood and reached into the engine compartment to pull out the oil dip stick. At that moment the engine of a forklift two feet behind me turned over. I Literally dove over the Bobtail! When I stood up, I was yelling to whoever was there that "I was going to kill them when I caught them", but there was no one there. The engine then stopped by itself. I walked up to the forklift, saw that there was not a key in the ignition, then lifted the engine access panel. The engine started up again...then it stopped...then it started again...then it stopped. I reached in and pulled the battery cable (which was loose) and nothing else happened. Ghost? Maybe, however it could also have been dew in the ignition system...or space aliens...or a cloaked desert Sasquatch...either way I'll never know for sure.

I cannot say beyond a shadow of a doubt that I have, but I have experienced some pretty weird things in a multitude of different places... Everything ranging from hearing footsteps on the floor above me when no one else was home, items being moved around in my room while away for just a few minutes, to my oldest daughter talking to a mysterious woman she called "the lady" the entire time we lived in one apartment complex to never speaking of this woman again the day we moved out.

I've heard stories of some really weird stuff at a local cemetery. One story in particular gives me chills. A county sheriff was patrolling a county road near a cemetery called the "Fargo Cemetery" when he encountered a woman in a white dress walking down the road. The sheriff stopped and confronted the woman thinking she was in duress. The moment he caught up to her and she turned around, she vanished.

I am not certain I would actually LIKE to encounter an apparition. It would likely scare the crap out of me.

Not that I know of. Oh wait ...