Yes. Almost certainly. Probably more than once throughout history. This is not as strange a question as it sounds.

The ghost costume, a white sheet with eye holes, is so embedded in the culture that people have stopped asking where it came from. It came from burial practices. Bodies were wrapped in white burial shrouds. When people started reporting apparitions in white, the shroud was the reference point. The sheet was already associated with death because that's what you put on a dead person before you put them in the ground. So the sheet a child throws over their head on Halloween is, technically, a burial shroud costume. I only recently made that connection fully. I've been looking at Halloween differently since.

Back to the sleeping question.

There are documented cases across several cultures of people keeping burial garments, specifically those of deceased loved ones, in their beds or sleeping spaces. Not as a ghost costume. As a comfort object. A physical connection to someone who was gone. Whether this constitutes sleeping with a ghost sheet depends on your definition. The garment was associated with death. The person was seeking proximity to the deceased. The line between grief ritual and paranormal interaction is blurry in these cases and I think that's intentional, culturally speaking. People have always found ways to stay close to the dead without calling it what it is.

There are also cases that are less ambiguous. Medieval European accounts describe individuals who claimed to share a bed with a spirit that presented in white. The Catholic church had opinions about this. Several of them, written down, which is how we know it was happening often enough to require a formal position. When an institution starts writing formal positions about something, that something has been reported widely enough that ignoring it became untenable. The church understood this. They wrote it down. People were sleeping with something in white and enough of them were doing it that Rome felt the need to weigh in.

If someone obtained an actual ghost sheet, a white garment worn by or associated with a verified apparition, and slept with it, probably nothing good. Objects in sustained contact with spiritual energy carry residue. A sheet that a ghost has been wearing, if such a thing exists and could be obtained, would be among the more charged objects you could bring into a sleeping space. Your defenses are lowest when you're asleep. The contact would be prolonged. The conditions would be about as favorable for an attachment as you could create without doing it on purpose.

Some people do it on purpose. There are ritual traditions, some of them quite old, that involve deliberate spirit contact during sleep through the use of specific objects or garments. I'm familiar with a few of them. One involves materials I won't describe on this blog. Steven knows more about that area than I do and he doesn't talk about it casually, which tells you something about what the materials are.

If someone came to us with a sheet they believed had been worn by or connected to an apparition, we'd assess it. Bryan has equipment for object evaluation. We'd document it, take readings, determine if residue was present and what kind. We'd also strongly advise against sleeping with it before the assessment. Not after either, in most cases.

Object assessment starts at $2. If the object requires containment or removal that's a separate conversation and a separate price depending on what we find.

The idea that someone somewhere has pulled a ghost sheet up over themselves and gone to sleep is not surprising to me. People do stranger things for comfort. Humans have always wanted to be close to something, even if that something is frightening, even if the closeness is a bad idea.

I sleep with the window cracked regardless of temperature. Have for years. I don't have a good explanation for it. It's just something I need. The apartment could be genuinely cold and the window is still cracked and I sleep better that way than I do with it closed and I've stopped asking myself why because the answer I keep arriving at is one I'm not ready to deal with.

The sheet was a burial shroud first. The costume came after. Someone saw something, tried to describe it, and the best they could do was the cloth that wrapped the dead.

That's actually a pretty accurate description when you think about it.