Have you ever had the hairs prick up on the back of your neck or seen something eerie that couldn't be explained?

If so, you are not alone. People have shared their paranormal encounters and creepy ghost stories in a Twitter thread that are bound to give you goosebumps and send shivers down your spine.

The chilling tales feature people talking to 'ghosts', objects disappearing, unexplained singing and seeing shadowy figures in the night.

Journalist Robyn Wilder from London asked her followers: 'Hey Twitter, what’s the "I don’t believe in ghosts, but..." story from your life?,' before receiving hundreds of replies.

People have shared their paranormal encounters and creepy ghost stories in a Twitter thread that are bound to give you goosebumps and send shivers down your spine (stock image)

Journalist Robyn Wilder asked her followers: 'Hey Twitter, what’s the "I don’t believe in ghosts, but..." story from your life?,' before receiving hundreds of replies

One man who used to live in a elderly care home recounted a spine-chilling story about his encounter with a 'resident'.

'We used to live in an old people's home (my mum was the manager/warden) - so you'd inevitably get to know some of the old folk living there,' he wrote.

'One afternoon, my friend and I were chatting to a nice old lady we knew (we were about 10).

'We say our goodbyes... My mum has overheard us chatting, asks us who we were speaking to - we tell her. Mum looks blank. "She died two days ago".

One man who used to live in a elderly care home recounted a spine-chilling story about his encounter with a 'resident'

One woman told a story about how her younger self would talk to her 'invisible friend' Lilibet - which turned out to be more than it seemed.

'I supposedly had an invisible friend called Lilibet when I was about two. Parents heard me chatting to her on baby monitor and talking about "Danny",' she wrote.

'Years later I pointed to my great-grandmother in an album and said "There's Lilibet". Her first husband Daniel had died during WWI.'

One woman told a story about how her younger self would talk to her 'invisible friend' Lilibet - which turned out to be more than it seemed

One woman shared a story of a doctor working in the same hospital as her mother who had an unexplained encounter with a 'patient'.

'My mum works in a hospital, she told me that one of the doctors was walking through the corridors and he came across a woman who said there was someone having a heart attack nearby and needed his help,' she wrote.

'When he got there it was the woman he'd been talking to. He was clearly shaken by it and couldn't get his head around it. They checked the CCTV and saw him talking but there was nobody else there.'

One woman shared a story of a doctor working in the same hospital as her mother who had an unexplained encounter with a 'patient'

Meanwhile, one woman shared her experience of things going missing in her house before they suddenly turned up in odd places.

'Things would go missing, and then days/weeks/months later when you'd given up looking, reappear in obvious places you'd already checked, like in the middle of the carpet. I lived alone,' she wrote.

'If it was something you really needed, you could ask loudly for it back and it would be returned.'

Meanwhile, one woman shared her experience of things going missing in her house before they suddenly turned up in odd places

One husband shared his frightening experience waking up in the middle of the night and seeing an eerie figure he thought was his wife.

'Holidaying in spooky old farmhouse, Normandy. During night, wife (on my lhs) goes to loo on her side of pitch black room,' he wrote.

'On return, she walks to my side of bed, presumably to check baby daughter in cot. She stands there a while. I reach to left & she is still lying beside me'.

One husband shared his frightening experience waking up in the middle of the night and seeing an eery figure he thought was his wife

A woman told a story of how she spelled out an eery sentence - but the meaning of it was only discovered years later.

'As a child I liked playing with magnetic letters on the fridge. One day I wrote "Teg is here". No idea why.

'A few years later we were looking at the deeds to the house and found it had been built on a field called Teg's Pieces,' she wrote.

A woman told a story of how she spelled out an eery sentence - but the meaning of it was only discovered years later

Meanwhile one mother shared a spooky of spotting a figure in her bedroom - only for her young son to seer it too.

'Carrying infant son from the bathroom to his bedroom. Glanced in my bedroom as I passed and thought I saw a man sitting on my bed,' she wrote.

'Assumed eyes/shadows were playing tricks and said nothing - then my son asked, “who’s the old man sitting on your bed, mummy?"'.

Meanwhile one mother shared a spooky of spotting a figure in her bedroom - only for her young son to seer it too

And one woman shared a creepy story about her dog refusing to go into one particular room in her childhood home that was always cold.

'As a child we lived in a house in Cornwall that was several hundred years old.

'Even after the installation of central heating the back bedroom was always cold and our dog refused to go in there, regardless of bribes, and just stood in the doorway, with hackles raised, growling,' she wrote.

And one woman shared a creepy story about her dog refusing to go into one particular room in her childhood home that was always cold

One woman recalled hearing a telephone ringing in the basement of a library she used to work at.

'Used to work in a library. Went down to the basement alone to pick up some old books. Phone down there won’t stop ringing. Answer it. Hear nothing but crackling and breathing for ages,' she wrote.

'Speak to manager. Basement phone had been disconnected 6 months earlier.'

One woman recalled hearing a telephone ringing in the basement of a library she used to work at

While many stories are unsettling, one person believes he is visited by his father's spirit who turns on the light for him coming home.

'My father always put on the same side light in the living room if we were going out at night,' he wrote.

'After he died there were several occasions when my mum and I went out and returned home to find the same side light had been switched on.'

While many stories are unsettling, one person believes he is visited by his father's spirit who turns on the light for him coming home

And another person said her parents heard singing from her sister that had recently died.

After my middle sister died, my parents heard singing upstairs. Mum went up to 'turn off the tv', first step on landing and it stopped. No tv on or radio. Back downstairs they hear it again. A girl singing,' she wrote.

'They both went up and realised it was coming from my baby sisters room. Got to the door handle and it stopped again. Went in and just my littlest sister sleeping soundly. She's only a baby so can't sing yet, but my other sister used to sing her to sleep. It was nice to think she was saying goodbye'.