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G-G-G-Ghosts!
KharBevNor:
You should let me exorcise your house.
Warning exorcism may consist of me sitting on your couch tinkling a bell, smoking dope and listening to recordings of Aleister Crowley for half an hour then charging you 800 quid.
JediBendu:
Last year a friend and myself went down to a town around these parts (Arkansas) called Gurdon, which is known for only one thing, and that's the Gurdon Light. On a stretch of train tracks that runs through the town there's an unexplained light that shows up with quite regular frequency to people who either walk down or sit on these tracks. Even to people who go there to specifically seek out the light. My friend and I were told that you walk down a certain direction and eventually you should start seeing the light, and if you don't, then whatever, you don't. So we started walking, and were walking for probably half an hour to an hour, I dunno, I lost track of time cause we were just talking and walking down these tracks for ever. Also, rarely, there was nobody else there, there's usually at least one other group you'll run into on the weekends ghost-hunting as well.
So anyway, we hadn't seen the Light and after a while we were starting to think about going back. And we were both talking about whether or not we thought we would be scared and run if we saw it (after stories we heard from others, but I'll get to that later). I guess we hadn't realized how far we had walked, but we both turned back around to look at how far the road and our car was away, and we couldn't see anything but woods and train tracks. But that's when we finally saw the Light, behind us, instead of in front of us. For a second we both didn't think about it too much we just both were thinking "What is that?" It was a little ball of white light moving smoothly and slowly through the air. Definitely not a firefly either. Definitely not a distant light from the road. Definitely not a distant light from anything really. And then it started moving towards us. It would dissapear and reappear, the exact same light, a few yards closer to us at a time. It did this until it was probably no more than 10 feet away from us, floating over our heads, at which point I shined my maglight at it to make sure it wasn't a firefly, because at that range I would've been able to see the bug in the light, as soon as I turned on my light the Light dissapeared and reappeared past us and continued on its merry way.
Now, in high school we had a teacher who had lived in Gurdon as a kid, so he has had many experiences with the light, which was mostly where we were getting our information. Why we were considering whether or not we would run is due to one story of this teacher in particular. He said the only time he ever ran from the light was once when it got up close to their group and was about the size of a volleyball. In our case the Light just kind of meandered past us and didn't seem to pause.
DonInKansas:
--- Quote from: RedLion on 05 Jun 2008, 21:46 ---Just like in the old days explaining everything with "god wills it" is useful.
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Fixed for you.
I won't believe in ghosts until one comes and visits me personally; even then I will be skeptical. Old houses creak, stuff moves, it happens.
dennis:
--- Quote from: SilentJ on 07 Jun 2008, 01:32 ---Earlier tonight I got a few calls from some random number I didn't recognize with an area code of like 916 or something like that. Every time I wouldn't hear anybody else on the other end, just beeping over and over again.
Does that count? Other than that I haven't really gone through too much supernatural things in my life.
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You got called by a fax machine. They autoredial if they don't connect successfully and usually attempt 3-5 times before giving up.
The beeping is it going "I'm a fax machine. Are you a fax machine?"
A ghostly fax machine.
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Memory is extremely unreliable, especially memories from long ago. Everyone remembers a few things that didn't actually happen. Even memories from traumatic incidents are often corrupted by time.
Also, if you're interested in house creaks and things that go bump in the night, google up "pareidolia".
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: dennis on 07 Jun 2008, 14:00 ---The beeping is it going "I'm a fax machine. Are you a fax machine?"
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It's a lonely fax machine :(
IT JUST WANTS TO BE LOVED.
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