I believe I have had a very creepy experience when I went to Venice, Italy. My best friend, her mum and I went there in February 2005, shortly before my 21st and my friends 22nd birthday. A nice birthday present I think.

The hotel we stayed in was absolutly beautiful. Real vintage Italy and the food was fantastic.

http://hotelsavoiaejolanda.hotelinvenice.com/

Note that we didn't actually tell each other what we saw or felt until we were on the way home to England three days later. And I am not lying…so rest assured.

The first night my friend and I were in the room I felt that we were not alone. I had some strange and very disturbing feelings and I heard noises. My friend was always bothering me because she was very drained throughout the entire trip. She is never like that. Although she is a self confessed skeptic I did get the impression once or twice that even she thought something strange was going on.

The night I figured that it was possibly haunted was when I kept waking up feeling like someone was standing at the bottom of my bed. My friends bed was directly next to mine and I felt very nervous about looking at the end of where we were lay. I couldn't rest and I had a very creepy nightmare about an old woman. As I was trying to settle my friend suddenly turned and stared right into me. She scared me to death. She screamed at me to turn the light on, so I did. But her eyes looked really weird as though they were not hers. She wouldn't tell me why she wanted the light on and just kept saying "I don't like this room!" I was scared but I didn't want to freak her out more so I just told her she was dreaming.

On the plane home the next day she said to me "Do you think that room might have been haunted?" And I said "Yes. I wanted to say something but thought you'd think I was being silly."

She began to tell me some very similar experiences, like feeling a presence at the end of the beds, the mirror at the end of the bed moving (which didn't happen to me but I remember not liking the area it was in), the bathroom doorway and sleepless nights. She told me that night she awoke with a start, she said she saw an old woman stood at the end of the bed, looking angry and deathly ill. She said she felt like she didn't want us in that room.

That was the feeling I had all the time there. We were not wanted there. I couldn't believe what she was saying. My mouth dropped because I had felt very similar things.  It's hard to explain and it's hard to convince someone that we honestly didn't tell each other anything until we were coming home. The shared experiences were uncanny and it scares me still to this day.

I would however go back for more....