The Ghosts & Spirits Thread

[RoxyBlue]

Gotta love P.T. Barnum:)

[Johnny Thunder]

Doesn't everyone's hometown have a legend like this?

Speeding drivers attempt to raise motorcyclist ghost

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/motorists-hit-180kmh-near-newcastle-to-conjure-ghost-of-dead-motorcyclist/story-e6freuy9-1225906481476

[RoxyBlue]

Sounds like there are some folks doing their best to join the ghost - not smart.

[RoxyBlue]

JT, I think this one is up in your neck of the woods.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/24/pennsylvania.graves.mystery/index.html?hpt=C1

[Johnny Thunder]

Yup, it is. Interesting story too.

[Dark Angel 27]

wow, that's interesting!

[fick209]

Pretty cool story

[Terrormaster]

Wow, thats pretty cool. Would love to learn more about what happened. Hopefully there will be a followup story to this.

This story would also make a fantastic backdrop to a horror story telling what "really" happened to the Irish RR workers. I'm thinking something along the lines of JC's The Thing but set in the Pennsylvania woods instead of Antartica. I love a good horror story that blurs the lines between fact and fiction. *rubs hands*

[Johnny Thunder]

Did you hear the one about the amateur ghost hunter who went looking for a ghost train, and then got killed when a real train ran him over? No? Well, here’s the story………..

http://www.wxii12.com/r/24782199/detail.html

[RoxyBlue]

We did hear about that one - stupid thing to do.

[Hauntiholik]

Cool - Kane Hodder (Jason) & R.A. Mihailoff (Leatherface) teamed up with the Ghost Adventures crew in last week's show. That episode is being replayed tonight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRYZuX3LgTo

[ScreamReaper]

I love Ghost Adventures. I like how they show you the evp evidence, etc. during the show instead of at the end. I do thing it's funny though how the react to the smallest things, "DUUUUUUUDE! I TOTALY heard a noise over there!"

[skeletonowl]

i'm actually watching the seasons on Netflix Instant! I like how they always yell at the ghosts haha! I think it is more entertaining than Ghost Hunters. I'm a sucker for these ghost shows...

[Johnny Thunder]

Hey kids, let’s go ride the Headless Monk Water Slide!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354393/Thorpe-Park-bosses-Storm-Surge-ride-workers-ghost-headless-monk.html

[RoxyBlue]

Sounds like they may have moved the headstones but left the bodies behind:googly:

[GrimmEverafter]

As far as hauntings go, I've lived in two haunted houses. The last one we lived in, dad kept seeing a little boy appear in the living room, and I kept seeing this cat and hearing harsh breathing in my room. Turned out that a priest died in my bedroom, and we found diaries from him and his family in the attic. Glad to be out of there, since he wasn't the most friendly of people.

In general, I believe in haunting because I'm sensitive enough to pick up on the residual emotions in a place. Makes going anywhere historical very interesting. That, and this photo...

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=105261569528302&set=a.115959178458541.28172.100001333795793#!/photo.php?fbid=1095506200062&set=a.1095506120060.2014952.1598790828 (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=105261569528302&set=a.115959178458541.28172.100001333795793#%21/photo.php?fbid=1095506200062&set=a.1095506120060.2014952.1598790828)

Dad took this at Fort Ontario, and it was just a dark hallway when no one else was there. It wasn't until three months later when my 6 year old brother was fiddling with the light settings that the two soldiers appeared. There were no cardboard cutouts or anything in that hallway, and we even sent the pic to TAPS to double check. It is a legit photo, not messed with in any way or form. We're trying now this summer to get permission to go into the fort at night with some of my friends to do our own investigation.

[Johnny Thunder]

Cool pic Grimm.

Here's some alleged activity at a wedding.

http://news.ca.msn.com/local/newfoundland/ghostly-image-shocks-st-johns-wedding-guests

[oyayubi]

I do believe in the possibility of strong energy being left behind in the form of a ghost. I have never actually whitnessed ghosts however.

My sister and I did go to Salem Mass a few years back and ended up walking through the salem witches cemetery late at night. I felt nor experienced anything except for the excitement of being there. I took some pictures, a bunch of sphere's that weren't there when the pictures were taken but those could really be anything fron dust to tree particles. I don't know why a ghost would appear in the form of a sphere anyway.

Does anyone else think it is silly that the only time a ghost can be seen or experienced is at night? I would believe this to be a huge misunderstanding. If a ghost exists, wouldn't they always be there night or day?

[MorbidMariah]

Actually, of the few ghosty experiences I've had, all but one were during the daytime. I think the ghost hunting shows do their investigations at night partly because you're less likely to have other interferences (noise form daily activities, shadows cast by the sun, etc) but also because it's just spookier and therefore more fun to watch. :)

[oyayubi]

I can agree with the spookier part. It does make those shows more intense.

[pensivepumpkin]

I grew up in a haunted house, and they just showed up whenever. Day or night, but they seemed to have favorite areas.

[MacabreRob]

My first house after getting married was a bungalo built in the 50's in Dearborn, MI. Weird creepy feelings in the upstairs bedroom and down in the basement at times, with no reason for it. Odd knocks on the walls from one of the bedrooms. We later turned that bedroom into the nursery for the twins. One night after my wife went to bed and the kids were still babies, my son was being fussy. I went up (I was in the basement) to quiet him, then went back down. Later he was fussy again. I went to his room and saw the shadowy profile of a woman leanning over his crib. Thinking it was my wife, I turned around to leave when I saw into our bedroom across the hall and saw my wife still asleep. I turned back and there was no one there. He was quiet for the rest of the night after that. Creepy...

So, yes, I do believe in "ghosts", whatever they may be.

I don't think she was trying to hurt him, just checking up on him like a grandmother or something. I do know someone had been killed in the front yard of that house years back, driver came off the road and struck them down. Don't know if that was a man or a woman, however.

[pensivepumpkin]

Interesting. One of ours was a lady who would watch me play with my dolls. The only time she made me nervous was when she got between me and the door. On a side note, I was too lazy to change my Barbies' clothes, so there was a lot of screaming "Off with her head!" in that room while I performed doll-to-doll transplants. Maybe that got the ghost's attention.

[Pumpkin5]

:jol: Hello to all you spooky people out there! I have a question...is there a REAL haunted house in your neighborhood or do you live in one? Tell us a little bit about it. I love the series Ghost Hunters and the few times I have watched when there was actually something that could not be explained I was thrilled!
My sisters tell me when I was very young, (two years old) that we lived in a haunted house in Warsaw, NC. I don't remember it, but my older sister swears she saw a ghost floating down the hallway and none of my three older sisters would sleep alone in their bedrooms. Before my Mother passed away she would talk about it and swear to me that the house had a "bad" feeling about it and that pictures would just fall off the wall all the time. We drove by the house last summer and I wanted to go inside, but there is a family living there now. In the town I live in now there is a paranormal research group and supposedly several houses that have had activity. NC is big with unexplained things like the Devil's Tramping Ground, the Hoof prints at Bath, the ghosts of Fort Macon in Atlantic Beach, and the ghost light of Fremont. I am getting scared just thinking about it all! :eek:

[Lunatic]

There appears to be a mountain of evidence out there that suggests that paranormal activity is real, whether ghostly or not. I am a skeptic first and believer second. I find ghosts to be a fascinating subject but also believe there is a logical explanation to some of it. I don't believe I have ever witnessed a ghost but know people that have and I have no reason to disbelieve them.