Do you ever feel like you’re being watched? Or that you’re never truly alone even though you’re the only person in the room? Perhaps it’s because there is someone watching you or there is someone in the same room as you—you just can’t see them.

For 30-year-old *Cristina Tan, that has never been an issue. “I've been seeing other entities as long as I can remember,” she says. “I don't really know the reason why I see them all I know is that I see them, there they are, and they don't go away.”

Entities, in this case, are ghosts.

In the Chinese culture, it is believed that ghosts are given access to the living world during the seventh Lunar month, hence the term Ghost Month. Spirits of the deceased supposedly take the opportunity to visit their families while others try to wreak havoc in the world they once existed in.

The Celtics, too, had their own version of Ghost Month. According to History.com, people used to light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off spirits who could mingle with the living. Now, the holiday is more known to everyone as Halloween.

People with a third eye, however, aren’t restricted or comforted by such holidays. Cristina says that she sees ghosts all the time, even in broad daylight. “In fact, there are times I can't distinguish them from real people, especially when I'm in a crowded area. They don't look any different from us. I will only realize they're spirits when real people pass through them.”

Cristina has since gotten used to sharing her world with ghosts, especially since her own home is rife with activity.

“One of my blockmates slept over once. When we arrived, I told her I was going to change my clothes downstairs (back then, my closet was on the first floor) and that she shouldn't open my room door until I come back. I went out and she locked the door behind me. After changing, I found her sitting on the floor outside my room with the door wide open. She had this troubled look on her face and I asked her why she was outside, she said “I” knocked on the door thrice and called her name, so she opened the door but there was no one there. Let me just say that no one else lives on the second floor but me, and her name is not common at all. Needless to say, we had a sleepless night.”

The blockmate did not return for another sleepover.

Still, there are other far more bone-chilling incidents for Cristina (watch for her encounter with a library ghost in our school special). In general, she doesn’t like talking to the dead or even making eye contact with them because apparently, “they KNOW when a person sees them, and they frickin' move closer and follow you around sometimes.”

While a fan of old gothic stories and Japanese contemporary horror fiction (because “they're freaky as hell”), Cristina isn’t really interested in exploring the extent of her capabilities. She is content to sometimes talk about her third eye with other people who are in the same boat. She finds it “comforting that there are people who see the same things or at least believe them. That somehow, among the living, I'm not alone.”

There was one time, however, when she unknowingly had a conversation with the deceased. “At one point, I talked to a friend of mine over the phone the day after he died,” Cristina narrates. “ I didn't even know he [had] died until his parents informed us the next day, and I was all 'Who did I talk to yesterday?!'”

Interestingly enough, a conversation with a ghost is not as mysterious as you'd think.

“We talked about the usual things we talk about—mostly food,” she says.

* Name has been changed.

(Screencap from Ghost Whisperer courtesy of CBS)