Telephone repairman Bill Olsen of Sugar Grove was working on phone lines in the basement of a house in Naperville some years ago, and he said he encountered a ghost.

“I heard footsteps come out of the door behind me. I heard heels on the floor. And as I turned to see who it was, they stopped,” Olsen said. “They started again and continued from where they left off. Then I felt somebody breathing on my back. I went back upstairs and told the lady. ‘It’s working OK, see you later.’ ”

Though people enjoy ghost stories – as evidenced by the popularity of ghost tours, books about haunted places and cable shows about paranormal activity – many also have personal ghost stories to tell. Olsen and other readers agreed to talk about these personal paranormal experiences for the Halloween edition of the Kane County Chronicle.