Topic: G-G-G-Ghosts! (Read 29056 times)

Lunchbox · « **on:** 05 Jun 2008, 18:39 »

So some people started talking about ghosts in the Blog Thread, and I was kind of intrigued.

The paranormal both excites and terrifies me, and although my exceedingly scientific and logical brain has decided that they are not real you silly sally, I still find the time to look up ghost encounters and the like on the Internet, and won't go anywhere in the dark by myself. I'm scared of graveyards, I'm scared of bumps in the night, and I'm terrified of looking out my window and seeing something that shouldn't be there.

I myself have never had any actual 'encounters' or even anything remotely scary happen to me, aside from... okay, well I lie. When I was small we lived a little house that was probably ten or twenty years old. It didn't have any creaks or groans, no trees scratching against the window, but late at night, if you woke to get a glass of water or use the loo, there'd be footsteps up and down the hallway. Everyone in my family heard it. Sometimes my Dad would get up because he thought it was my brother, only to find him out like a light. Occasionally it would turn the kettle on. That's pretty much it.

What scary things have happened to you guys, and what do you think of the paranormal?

Jposh · « **Reply #1 on:** 05 Jun 2008, 18:44 »

I'm about the same as you. I've never had anything paranormal happen to me, except that the house I lived in last, apparently had the Ghost of my stepdads mother, who would occasionally move things.

0bsessions · « **Reply #2 on:** 05 Jun 2008, 18:53 »

The freakiest thing I ever dealt with was in the same town as I mentioned in the blog thread.

I was staying at my then girlfriend's house and our dog was sleeping at the foot of the bed. All of a sudden her fur stood up on end and she started flipping the fuck out, eyes focused on the corner of the room. This was the only time I ever saw her growl.

Dissy · « **Reply #3 on:** 05 Jun 2008, 19:08 »

I've had a few "unexplained occurances"

The most recent one is ongoing.

I move back in with my parents every summer, last summer, they were moving, and had a lot of valuables in the new house, so they asked me to stay there. I'm not scared of just about everything (only needles...), and I've had my fair share of bumps in the night, as well as sleeping alone in large empty places. Now, the previous owner's father-in-law had died about a year previous, and his son had been cheating on his wife (the previous owner), and the father disapproved. My first night there, I am abruptly awakened at about 2:45 in the morning by a loud crash in one of the bathrooms. There was a guy yelling and cursing, and hitting the toilet, trying to make it flush. I grab the nearest and largest object (which happened to be an aluminum baseball bat, although a katana was lying not far away) and proceed to announce my presence. "Hey you asshole, I own this damned house, and am armed. Now I'm going to give you to the count of five, then I'ma gonna cave your skull in. Come out with your hands showing, and you won't be harmed." I walk over to the bathroom, and there's a guy standing there. And I can see the mirror behind him, and there is no reflection. He looks at me, says, "You aren't my son," and promptly vanishes. Now this bathroom has one doorway, and no windows. I spend the rest of the night trying to figure out how my friends/family members played the trick on me. There was no trick.

A few nights later, I drag my friend over, mostly to hang out, and the noises start again. I explain to him the situation, and we proceed to take a side to the hallway in which the bathroom lies, the only way to exit and enter the bathroom is to go by us. The voice is yelling and hollering, and finally, it calms down and with a "Hrmph, I'm going to bed" it stops. My friend and I slowly walk towards the bathroom, I left him peak in first, to nobody there. Later that night, after I headed downstairs, he begins screaming down the stairs, yelling for me to come see something. The ghost had reappeared and was yelling at my friend about going to hell for cheating on his wife, and blah, blah, blah (my friend is single, never married), so we just watch the scene unfold. I pace around the apparition, and he takes no notice of me. I stick my arm through him, then decide to stick my head through, and start making faces.

jeph · « **Reply #4 on:** 05 Jun 2008, 20:14 »

I do not believe in ghosts.

OR HAVE I BEEN DEAD ALL ALONG

Dimmukane · « **Reply #5 on:** 05 Jun 2008, 20:58 »

I was at my friends house on Monday, and the dog bowl looked like someone dropped it, except it was already on the ground, and there was nobody (including pets) near it. Later that day his basement door clicked open and swung out a little less than 90 degrees, as if someone was coming up. But again, nothing. The basement was deserted. About a year ago we were watching Clerks 2 and the TV started whispering to me.

I dunno, his house has some REALLY strange quirks.

MadassAlex · « **Reply #6 on:** 05 Jun 2008, 21:11 »

Ghosts really intrigue me. Much like Lunchbox, I know that ghosts aren't real and can't logically exist but I actually secretly believe in them.

I've never had a confirmed sighting, though, and the only ambiguous terrifying experience I've had is covered nicely by sleep paralysis.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #7 on:** 05 Jun 2008, 21:14 »

Despite never having a single experience or ever seeing one I like to believe in ghosts. I guess it is just wishful thinking, but I like to believe that every little noise I hear at night is some how ghost involved.

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #8 on:** 05 Jun 2008, 21:19 »

I have never had a supernatural experience and it pisses me off. No ghosts, aliens or anything. Maybe it just means that everybody else in the whole world is lying.

Jposh · « **Reply #9 on:** 05 Jun 2008, 21:22 »

As interested as I am in this topic, I really kind of hate it. I'm always on edge for a few days after reading or talking about it...

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #10 on:** 05 Jun 2008, 21:28 »

Okay...?

est · « **Reply #11 on:** 05 Jun 2008, 21:37 »

Quote from: Cartilage Head on 05 Jun 2008, 21:19

I have never had a supernatural experience and it pisses me off.

Sometimes I wonder why there are so many reports of people seeing ghosts and supernatural stuff and so forth, but then I remember that people are stupid and will believe whatever the fuck they want, regardless of whether or not there's any tangible proof for it.

tania · « **Reply #12 on:** 05 Jun 2008, 21:42 »

i don't think it's stupidity, i think people are just afraid of things they don't understand. saying something was caused by ghosts is easier than admitting "i don't know".

personally i don't believe in ghosts or god or spirits or any of that fun stuff.

RedLion · « **Reply #13 on:** 05 Jun 2008, 21:46 »

Just like in the old days explaining everything with "god wills it" was useful.

Anyway. I don't think there's actually physical "ghosts" who take the form of humans and walk around. But I do believe in a lingering...something. A residual presence.

Johnny C · « **Reply #14 on:** 05 Jun 2008, 21:48 »

Quote from: jeph on 05 Jun 2008, 20:14

I do not believe in ghosts.

OR HAVE I BEEN DEAD ALL ALONG

It was the comic forum that did you in, wasn't it.

MadassAlex · « **Reply #15 on:** 05 Jun 2008, 22:02 »

Quote from: est on 05 Jun 2008, 21:37

Sometimes I wonder why there are so many reports of people seeing ghosts and supernatural stuff and so forth, but then I remember that people are stupid and will believe whatever the fuck they want, regardless of whether or not there's any tangible proof for it.

Not 100% true.

Dr. Whatshisface did a sleep-based experiment to test for out of body experience. He found a very rare kind of person who claimed to have out-of-body experiences every night while sleeping. The experiment took place in a sleep lab with a very, very high shelf. Using a double-blind procedure, a random number was written on a piece of paper and placed on the shelf and the participant was asked to see it in their out-of-body nighttime experience.
Note that the participant was hooked up to a whole bunch of scientific apparatus such as an EEG, EOG and EMG, so if she was to get up she'd interrupt the measurement of her body electrical signals and the researcher would know the whole thing was over.

That didn't happen, however.

The devices took readings over the night, and as usual, she entered the various NREM and REM stages of sleep. In the morning, she correctly gave the researcher the number. I believe the researcher even took repeated measures to make sure it wasn't just chance, but the participant kept getting it right. Craaaazy.

So ghosts probably aren't real, but in the future I believe our perception of the paranormal is going to get more narrow as we research the full capabilities of the human mind.

Dollface · « **Reply #16 on:** 05 Jun 2008, 22:06 »

Only ghost i have seen is my dead social life, I still remember that time when i shot it in the face and still i can remember that look in its eyes.

But seriously some nights i can feel that someone is in my room and watching me and some mornings i find my other pillow next to me and it look like someone has used it but i'm fine with that even it creeps hell outta me.

CamusCanDo · « **Reply #17 on:** 05 Jun 2008, 22:09 »

I just realized what your avatar is Est.

I've had experiences where I think I might kinda could've probably had a paranormal experience but never a 100% Oh Shit That Was A Fucking Ghost moment. Most of them being when I was a kid. For example, when I was five I woke up in the middle of the night with someone touching the side of my neck, or what felt like someone touching the side of my neck. Whether or not that was actually a ghost or a really trippy dream I really couldn't say for certain but it did freak me the fuck out enough that to this day I can't sleep without having a blanket over my neck while I sleep.

A few others are mostly memories of me being completly home alone and having someone standing or sitting behind me, also being very young I chalk this up to having an over active imagination. A few recent ones have left me pretty freaked out though. One night, a couple of years ago, I was taking a shit on the toilet when I noticed that there was a piece of string poking out down under the door to the hallway which I thought was pretty weird because I'm certain I didn't see it there when I first sat down. When I had finished I went to walk out the door to the hallway, when the piece of string along with a big mass of blackness fludidly moved down the hallway and around the corner to the kitchen.

I must've stood there for about a minute looking up and down the hallway trying to figure out what the shit I just saw. It was very likely a rat or a mouse but the way it moved had me think it could've been something else.

I just asked my dad now if he's had any weird experiences in this house, which I've lived in my whole 19 years and he and my family built, and he said no. So maybe it's just me. As to whether I believe in ghosts and things that go bump in the night, I definitely do.

ThePQ4 · « **Reply #18 on:** 05 Jun 2008, 22:42 »

I've always believed that my house is haunted, for several reasons. Firstly, my house and the surrounding farm land around it was developed by a wealthy family (at the time) called the Diamonds. I'm sure there is actually information out there on the Hay Creek Diamond's, but anyway... Basically, in lateish 1870s and the original house was renovated by my parents when they were in their late teens, early 20s (1972). Well, in the early 1900s, Mrs. Diamond and two of her daughters died of influenza or something like that, and Mr. Diamond burried them in the backyard under some rose bushes... Well, guess what, those Rose Bushes don't exist anymore... And we found a lot of interesting artifacts including broken china plates (apparently Mr. Diamond liked to through them at his daughter's suitors when they came around, I don't know if this claim is true, but it's funny to think about), purfume bottles, and a rather "grotesque" drawing inside of the outside wall of our house, when we built our additions.

In old sections of the house, particuarly the old master bedroom, seem to be a habitation ground for the disturbing. Every so often, when I would be reading, or watching television I would just feel like someone was watching me or, touching my shoulder or something, even if nothing was there. One of my mom's cousins, who lived with us for a few summers, claims to have been woken up by a shadowy figure coming up from our basement before disappearing. Stereos and televisions have also been known to get turned on or off, when no one is around. I shut off my television to go to school one day, and as I was walking back out of the room, it flicked back on...I started towards it to shut it off, and it turned back off. Like they were toying with me!

Even if we do have ghosts, they're at least friendly. When one of my Aunts was in her crazy-paranormal phase she claims that Mrs. Diamond (I want to say her name was Katherine) is like a protector over my Mom and her kids -and that she disapproves of my father. But I think that's kind of BS... I'll accept ghosts, but I don't think they have any kind of motives.

Ã¶de · « **Reply #19 on:** 06 Jun 2008, 04:53 »

My old TV started turning itself on and off, and doing random things like changing channel and volume by itself. Ghosts or crappy old TV malfunctioning? YOU DECIDE.

It was because it was a crappy old TV, by the way.

axerton · « **Reply #20 on:** 06 Jun 2008, 05:04 »

While I am 'sure' that ghosts do not exist, I would love to find out I am wrong because then I would know that there are some things that science can't explain, somehow this knowledge would make me feel a whole lot better about the world.

That said, my mother, normally one of the most logical people you will meet, will when pressed swear that a poltergeist lived in her childhood home, doing all the normal things poltergeists do, until one night a series of very loud thumps coming from the direction of the stairs, after which nothing ever happened again. She has decided that the ghost must have fallen down the stairs and broken it's neck.

Then again mother will also claim - some what more light heartedly in this case - that her grandmother was a witch.

Nodaisho · « **Reply #21 on:** 06 Jun 2008, 05:05 »

I don't get any experiences like that, my house makes a lot of noises, but it was made in 1920, expanded in 1930, and again in '99, but most of the upstairs is old, and there will be noises when nobody is up and around. No footsteps, though, unless it is my dad coming in from the garage or me getting a midnight snack.

Est, I remember reading the thread on that comic, and one of the things that people brought up is how supernatural is a somewhat difficult term. Once it gets explained, it is a natural phenomena, so there can't be anything supernatural.

I don't think that ghosts are that unthinkable of a thing, I can't think of a reason why there shouldn't be ghosts. We do not know nearly everything there is to know, so I don't tend to think of things as impossible.

Dan, things like that also happen when someone else has their remote to the same frequency as you, that happened at my friend's old house, his tv kept getting changed to pay-per-view porn channels by the neighbor one house up.

jhocking · « **Reply #22 on:** 06 Jun 2008, 06:11 »

Quote from: axerton on 06 Jun 2008, 05:04

While I am 'sure' that ghosts do not exist, I would love to find out I am wrong

I suppose it depends on how exactly I'd be finding out. If I'm reading a study about it, sure that's cool. However, I'm not too keen on being in the middle of Poltergeist.

Lines · « **Reply #23 on:** 06 Jun 2008, 06:30 »

My stereo turns itself on and off all the time. But this is only because I need to get some batteries for the remote so I can reprogram it. (When it's not programmed, it does weird shit, but I'm too lazy to go buy batteries.)

The only weird thing that's ever happened to me was we had this old alarm radio and when it was towards the end of its life, it didn't like turning off. You could unplug the damn thing and it would still play. Though rather creepy, I don't think it was ghosts. Especially since nothing weird happened when I put the thing out of it's misery by smashing it.

The only weird things that have happened to my friends is growing up there was a girl I played with and her whole family thought their house was haunted by some little girl. Nothing scary, they'd just see her hovering around sometimes. I didn't see anything and never had any weird vibes from the place and the only thing to suggest that it could have been haunted is that no one stays there for very long. (She moved away after a few years.) But I think this is because the house is really old and the only bathroom is downstairs next to the kitchen, which would be rather irritating, I expect.

Basically, I don't believe in ghosts, but I do like ghost stories and movies involving ghosts. They're kind of interesting.

Katherine · « **Reply #24 on:** 06 Jun 2008, 07:15 »

I guess I would say that I believe in ghosts but I don't want to. The possibility that they exist frightens me, and I'm a lot like Lunchbox in the sense that I am afraid of looking out my window and seeing something that shouldn't be there (or in the mirror and seeing something behind me!)

I have never had what I would call an encounter, but my father says he has. He moved in with his sister a few years ago to help take care of her while she was undergoing treatment for cancer. She had lived in that house since before I had been born, and her husband had died there while I was in high school. My aunt lost her battle with cancer on New Year's Eve about a year after my father moved in with her, and my father was asked to stay in the house to keep an eye on it until it could be sold and her estate settled and distributed according to her will, which took about a year and a half all told. Right before the house was sold and my father moved out, he told me as I was visiting him that every night during the week between Christmas and New Year's, he saw the ghost of my Uncle Bucky. He came up the stairway from the kitchen to the upstairs hallway and walked to their old bedroom, then turned around to go back downstairs again.

I'm not sure what to make of it. I don't want to believe him but my father isn't the kind of person who is prone to fits of imagination or being a drama queen. At least not before he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. If he told me the same story today I would just write it off as the disease talking but this was years before he first started showing symptoms.

clockworkjames · « **Reply #25 on:** 06 Jun 2008, 09:15 »

Eh guys I hasten to point out there is not much to be worried about as far as ghosts go, it's zombies you need to look out for.

Apparantly in the house I lived in for the first 6 months of my existence there was a ghost that visited my sister who was about two years old at the time, she was not scared and didn't find it unnusual most likely because she was two and shit and the girl wore a white simple dress and talked to my sister or something, I dunno I was trying to learn to focus my eyes and could not eat solid food at the time also I would shit my pants frequently...

I dunno about that but apparantly the house was on pagan burial grounds or some shit.

Personally I have not had much experience with ghosts.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #26 on:** 06 Jun 2008, 10:24 »

we lost several coffee mugs to a Judas Priest-loving ghost when i lived in Arizona. we had a tape player in the bathroom with all these old buttrock and metal tapes and no matter what tape we left in the player, every once in a while it would turn on to full volume playing Judas Priest.

but anyway, both my roommates and i saw several coffee mugs literally fly out of the cupboard and shatter for apparently no reason at all. someone would open the cupboard to get a dish or something and they'd leave the cupboard open for moment while they were doing whatever they were doing and on several different occasions a coffee mug would fly out and smash to bits.

i don't believe in ghosts or any thing but i still can't explain any of that stuff.

Ã¶de · « **Reply #27 on:** 06 Jun 2008, 10:37 »

Quote from: Nodaisho on 06 Jun 2008, 05:05

Dan, things like that also happen when someone else has their remote to the same frequency as you, that happened at my friend's old house, his tv kept getting changed to pay-per-view porn channels by the neighbor one house up.

I live in a detatched house! SPOOKY.

pwhodges · « **Reply #28 on:** 06 Jun 2008, 15:45 »

When I was 10 my younger sister claimed to see a poltergeist in the house a number of times. As my family was religious (I have rejected that) we actually had a full-blown exorcism of the house.

Pah!

Leonidas · « **Reply #29 on:** 06 Jun 2008, 15:54 »

I've never personally had any ghostly experiences, but my Dad has a good friend who is a big believer in the spiritual and paranormal.

He always has been into that kind of thing, though over the past year his beief and experiences have become even stronger. About 6-7 years ago his 19 year old daughter died in a car crash, and of course he was absolutely devestated. His daughter was his life. Since that happened however so many different things have happened to him that have convinced him that his daughter is still around in some capacity and watching over him.

He tells me the story of how he keeps his daughters old works name badge on the dash-board of his car. One day going to work it fell off, falling into the vents of the air filter. Annoyingly he couldn't quite reach it to get it out with his fingers, and left his car to go to his work in a shitty mood because of this. However, when he got back to his car he found the name badge back exactly where it had been.

He'll also tell of his car/house radio changing at times to a different station without him touching it, and always when certain songs that his daughter or himself liked, giving him the impression that his daughter is there with him and letting him know by doing this.

Whether true or not I have no idea. It gives him comfort however and that's got to be a good thing.

dennis · « **Reply #30 on:** 06 Jun 2008, 16:08 »

Quote from: MadassAlex on 05 Jun 2008, 22:02

Not 100% true.

Dr. Whatshisface did a sleep-based experiment to test for out of body experience. He found a very rare kind of person who claimed to have out-of-body experiences every night while sleeping. The experiment took place in a sleep lab with a very, very high shelf. Using a double-blind procedure, a random number was written on a piece of paper and placed on the shelf and the participant was asked to see it in their out-of-body nighttime experience.
Note that the participant was hooked up to a whole bunch of scientific apparatus such as an EEG, EOG and EMG, so if she was to get up she'd interrupt the measurement of her body electrical signals and the researcher would know the whole thing was over.

That didn't happen, however.

The devices took readings over the night, and as usual, she entered the various NREM and REM stages of sleep. In the morning, she correctly gave the researcher the number. I believe the researcher even took repeated measures to make sure it wasn't just chance, but the participant kept getting it right. Craaaazy.

So ghosts probably aren't real, but in the future I believe our perception of the paranormal is going to get more narrow as we research the full capabilities of the human mind.

Ohhhhh. Dr. Whatshisface! Of course. Why didn't you say so?

Unfortunately, the vast majority of research into the paranormal is conducted by people who would like nothing more than to verify the existence of the paranormal, and those experiments are rife with error and bias.

Boro_Bandito · « **Reply #31 on:** 06 Jun 2008, 16:36 »

Hmm, can't say I believe too much about the supernatural, with shows like Ghost Hunters on Sci-fi being a total waste of human existance, but I think every person has a couple of childhood experiences that they can't explain, and never will be able to for whatever reason. In my case for instance, When I was around 4, living in Springfield, Missouri, I fell off of the top of a slide that was in my backyard. Something caught me and set me down gently, no clue who or what it was. I remember being confused, because I looked around and no one was there, even went inside and asked my parents, who were both immediately concerned for my safety and thought I had gotten a concussion or that someone had been in our backyard for some reason, but I hadn't hit the ground, wasn't dirty or had as much as a single scratch on me. Meh, who knows.

I claim to be a person of rational thought, and I know (or at least think I know) that there is nothing supernatural of any kind and I'm very much an atheist. But at the same time I sort of lament the fact that nothing supernatural or magical exists in the world. I read a lot of fantasy/science fiction and I enjoy pretty much all ghost stories, even watching Ghost Hunters if there's nothing good on. I think this is part of why I want to play a pen and paper RPG so badly, because I like to pretend. It doesn't help that I keep buying those damned World of Darkness books, which seem to me to be so freakin' cool.

Tom · « **Reply #32 on:** 06 Jun 2008, 16:44 »

Boro, you were touched...touched by an Angel.

Boro_Bandito · « **Reply #33 on:** 06 Jun 2008, 16:50 »

Should... should I sue?

Tom · « **Reply #34 on:** 06 Jun 2008, 16:55 »

No..no you shouldn't God looks after his own. There...there will be a tribunal but the angel will get his job back.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #35 on:** 06 Jun 2008, 17:38 »

I hear the bureaucracy for extraditing somebody from the Astral Planes is a bitch.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #36 on:** 06 Jun 2008, 18:35 »

You've got to give her the locket, then return her bones to the same grave as her mother and father.

Wait, I think I've been playing too much Fallout.

jhocking · « **Reply #37 on:** 06 Jun 2008, 19:18 »

Whenever I see this thread I imagine Scooby-doo saying it.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #38 on:** 06 Jun 2008, 19:37 »

I did a class on the psychology of paranormal beliefs and superstitious behaviours. Basically people who believe in ghosts are usually people who can't handle not being able to provide an explanation for things so they have to invent things, even if they would sound silly to others. I was going to say that all the experiments that seem to prove the existance of paranormal activity are rife with bias and error (and sometimes downright fraud) but Dennis beat me to it. There's almost always a rational explanation for everything, which is way cool, I think.

clockworkjames · « **Reply #39 on:** 06 Jun 2008, 21:36 »

Quote from: Leonidas on 06 Jun 2008, 15:54

He always has been into that kind of thing, though over the past year his beief and experiences have become even stronger. About 6-7 years ago his 19 year old daughter died in a car crash, and of course he was absolutely devestated. His daughter was his life. Since that happened however so many different things have happened to him that have convinced him that his daughter is still around in some capacity and watching over him.

He tells me the story of how he keeps his daughters old works name badge on the dash-board of his car. One day going to work it fell off, falling into the vents of the air filter. Annoyingly he couldn't quite reach it to get it out with his fingers, and left his car to go to his work in a shitty mood because of this. However, when he got back to his car he found the name badge back exactly where it had been.

He'll also tell of his car/house radio changing at times to a different station without him touching it, and always when certain songs that his daughter or himself liked, giving him the impression that his daughter is there with him and letting him know by doing this.

This post made me really really happy.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #40 on:** 06 Jun 2008, 21:52 »

Quote from: jhocking on 06 Jun 2008, 19:18

Whenever I see this thread I imagine Scooby-doo saying it.

I always hear Shaggy saying it in my head.

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #41 on:** 06 Jun 2008, 23:26 »

Quote from: jhocking on 06 Jun 2008, 19:18

Whenever I see this thread I imagine Scooby-doo saying it.

But he can't pronouce the G's. It'd be like R-R-R-Rosts

SilentJ · « **Reply #42 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.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #43 on:** 07 Jun 2008, 03:35 »

I'm imagining some completely mashed stoner trying to dial for a pizza, not realising that his telephone is upside down.

I is Grammar · « **Reply #44 on:** 07 Jun 2008, 08:10 »

I've always considered myself a fairly logical person, but I am the first to announce that there are things in this world that I do not understand. My house, since we moved in, has been relatively annoying. From the third day we lived there we have heard walking around upstairs, knocks on doors with no one there, our french doors rattling when we are standing right there looking through them, things like that. The creepiest thing that has ever happened was when my entire family was sitting in our living room and we heard what sounded like every china cabinet in the dining room crashing to the floor and everything breaking. We even felt the vibration of it in our feet. Naturally, we all go run to see what had happened, but nothing had been touched.

I don't want to outright say that I believe in ghosts, because I don't. However, I know that the things that go on in my house are things that I can not explain. But just in case, we don't allow burning sage, ouija boards, seances, or anything of that nature in the house. Just doesn't seem like a good idea.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #45 on:** 07 Jun 2008, 08:14 »

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 · « **Reply #46 on:** 07 Jun 2008, 08:53 »

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 · « **Reply #47 on:** 07 Jun 2008, 09:20 »

Quote from: RedLion on 05 Jun 2008, 21:46

Just like ~~in the old days~~ explaining everything with "god wills it" is useful.

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 · « **Reply #48 on:** 07 Jun 2008, 14:00 »

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.

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 · « **Reply #49 on:** 08 Jun 2008, 01:53 »

Quote from: dennis on 07 Jun 2008, 14:00

The beeping is it going "I'm a fax machine. Are you a fax machine?"

It's a lonely fax machine

IT JUST WANTS TO BE LOVED.

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