Do you believe in ghosts?

I always have. To an extent.
My bestest long time friend, Rachel, and I could tell you hundreds of stories about the things that we have seen and experienced.
Let me just fill you in on what happened to me last night.

I sleep with the TV on every night. I am afraid of the dark and have a hard time sleeping in silence. So having the TV on is like, two birds, one stone. Before I fall asleep I turn the volume on my TV down between 6-8. Then I set both clickers, the volume clicker and the clicker that plays my DVDs, on my night stand. Then I am fast asleep. Last night was no different. I did everything how I usually do. Got tired, turned the TV down, and set the clickers on my night stand. When the DVD stops it always wakes me up so I just have to reach over and press play then I'm back to sleep. Well, last night I did this. I woke up (it was around 3:30am) I reached over and pushed play on my DVD clicker. Turned over and was falling back to sleep when the DVD started playing and it was LOUD. I reached over for the clicker to turn it down and it was set to volume 12. What in the world? I turned it down to 6. Turned over and started to fall back asleep. Then I hear my phone: "Voicemail received." Why didn't it ring? I opened my phone and saw the new updates, all that was there was a new voice mail. Not even a missed call was on the list like usual. I checked it. Nothing new. The last voice mail I got was from my dad a couple days ago. And that was the last voice mail on my phone. I was a little confused. But I put my phone down and tried falling asleep once again. As I was laying there I could feel something. Something there with me. I wanted so badly to sit up to look around but I couldn't move. I felt like I was frozen, or paralyzed. I was trying with all of my strength to move and I heard a girls voice. I'm not going to say what she said because I will sound like more of a weirdo, lol. But it sounded like a young girl. I couldn't see her. Still couldn't move. Felt like it was hours I was stuck like this. Finally mobile, I moved around, looked around. Nothing. I didn't see anything. I tried to figure out what just happened. I'm still unsure. To top it all off, I got home tonight and was eating dinner and facebooking. And my disc drive opened on its own. I thought, maybe I accidentally hit it with my plate or something. Anything so it wouldn't tie together with anything that happened last night. I was scared so I ran to the living room to find my gram. She wasnt in the living room or kitchen, so I turned to go back down the hallway and BAM there she was. We scared each other SO bad! We screamed at the top of our lungs, I jumped back about 10ft, and then we started laughing LOL.

But now, I am freaked out over every little noise. I have as many lights on that I possibly can. I feel like a little kid. Jumping onto my bed so nothing can grab my feet as I make my way onto my bed, or off. I will be sleeping with my lights on tonight and Russ, my stuffed panda that I have had for over 15 years, close by my side -- and with one eye open. I'm scared!

Has anything like this ever happened to you? How do you explain such things that go on? A TV turning itself up, a phone receiving a voice mail that isn't there? I can't explain it. It sure does scare me though.