Silent Hill-like experiences

In a recurring dream I use to have when I was a kid, I've been chased by things in the night in a deserted suburb. Once I dreamt about my house's basement where the staircase to the basement never ends and just goes deeper and deeper into the ground and the light switch wasn't working. But other than nightmares, nothing in the real world.

This ones more related to the movie, and fully happened a few days after I bought the movie on DVD!

I live in Melbourne, Australia. And during the summer holidays of 2006/07, I went to see a friend of mine in a town called Lakes Entrance. Now there were some bushfires going on north of the town. It so happened that one day, we went outside, and it was an overcast day, and it was fully snowing ash over the entire town.

The ash wasn't as cool looking as in the movie though. It was clunky and some parts were the size of half your hand. But still, I had to call up my sis and tell her that Lakes Entrance was turning into Silent Hill :P

this happened to me when i was 9, i just got over the freakyness of the game and i had to see a performance for my big sister, i had to go to the toilet which was near the other side of the school, it was all dark and stuff, so i went down the corridors and then i couldn't stop thinking about silent hill, and two big kids (i think they were 13 or 11) and they heard me coming, they also heard about me freaking out to the silent hill game, they played it to and they hid in the shadows and made a freaky sound, i didnt see them and ran like hell back to the hall

: give me 100,000 jumps now!

I have never had any real paranormal experiences, but my dad's boss has a cabin at Drummond Island (a few miles away from Mackinac) that has had several supernatural occurrences. They even called a paranormal investigation crew to inspect (Not the Ghosthunters, some local hobby group) but they found nothing. Some of the thing that went on:

Dogs from the neighborhood would sit outside their house late at night barking at the house for no apparent reason (there would be around 5-6 dogs, all from different owners, and they would all leave at the same time as well)

They could hear a child sobbing in the guest room, even though it would be empty. When they went to investigate, they would find the bed sheets had become very damp (like the ghost had wet the bed and was crying over it).

One night they were startled awake by a loud growling outside their bedroom door, but when they checked they could not find the source of the noise***I think this could be the water pump or water heater, since when I went there I noticed they were right below their bedroom in the basement, but they say no.

The most common occurrence would be that they would hear splashing water coming from the bathroom when no one was in there.

I do not know what to make of it. When my family stayed up there for several days (Great Fishing!) we had no such problems, but then again, I once had a car that would work fine whenever I took it to the shop, but once I drove it away it would start to stall. Long story short, it was the car's CPU that needed to be replaced. That had a logical conclusion, but I do not know what to make of that house on the island.

I once got in to an old elevator (all iron just like SH) in an old building, I was talking to a friend on the phone so I didn't noticed the numbers on the buttons, I just pressed the last one to get out of the building

I had not realized that the the ground flour was names -1 instead os 0, so the door came do 0, and the elevator kept going down, and It really freaked me for the few seconds that it took me to realizes I wasn't entering some hell zone like in SH!