The Ghosts & Spirits Thread [Archive]

Hauntful

04-22-2004, 08:22 AM

First of all I would have to say I love looking at Ghost pictures, and hearing about ghost stories they are very fascinating. I have been into them off and on starting when I was thirteen, but as for today I am a little skeptical but another part of me wants to believe. So basically I am in the middle.

Sure I have my doubts and understand that sometimes we could see things like a ghost because we expect to see them, want to see them, frightened, or whatever else, but what if they are real? We have learn anything is possible and we don't completely know everything hidden in our mysterious world which makes it so interesting.

When I was thirteen years old I believe I seen a ghost, but maybe I was just over tiered. How it went was I was sleeping and in the middle of the night I woke up, and look right infront of me which I saw this ghostly figure looking at me. I couldn't make it out if it was a female but I think it was but I quickly left the room. Then I told my cousin who was babysitting me at the time, and she said you are just over tiered leave the hallway light on. So that's what I did and returned to my room and whatever it was it was gone, and that night I sleep facing the wall.

So if it wasn't for that incidence I probably be more doubtful, but even hearing some stories makes me have some belief feeling in them. Like about my aunt's story before she drowned a few months back she had this weird dream. In the dream she was walking along the beach with my deceased grandpa, then he look at her and pointed saying, "You will be next". Then months after she was found dead at her favorite camping spot.

It's pretty creepy but that's what makes ghost stories interesting. I have some beliefs of their existence and disbelief that they are all in our minds, or are products of our own minds.

Sinister

04-22-2004, 10:28 AM

The world isn't flat!?! :eek:

I believe there's an afterlife as well, but I do believe it's possible to have an afterlife without the existance of ghosts. If our spirits are transported to another plane of existance (i.e. Heaven or Hell) then it's possible ghosts on our planet don't exist because said spirits are accounted for elsewhere... unless of course, they escape. :eek:

This is the perfect topic for Raxl to ramble on incessantly over. He's gone on ghost hunts before.I agree entirely with Zombie's first paragraph. However, if souls are "drawn to the light" and either go to Heaven or Hell and it is their time, I don't see how escape could be possible. You are dealing with Unversal Primal Forces here. The Creator of the Cosmos. I don't believe that any of us are able to withstand an irresistable pull as this. I agree that their are unusal occurences here and there on this planet, but I don't think ghosts have been proven to the point that they could be counted among these things.

Non Compos Mentis

04-22-2004, 11:47 AM

I don't know what to believe on this topic. Ghosts may exist or they may not.

The Shape

04-22-2004, 07:55 PM

But legend has it that in the afterlife, there isn't just heaven and hell, but a state of limbo called purgatory. Isn't it possible that being a ghost, and being stuck in once place for a long time such as the house you died in, could be a part of purgatory?

Hauntful

05-09-2004, 08:46 AM

Ghost Talk!

Have you ever seen a ghost? Or is there a family member or friend who seen a ghost? Or perhaps did you see a deceased person in a dream? Or do you have a favorite ghost story or even a favorite unexplained ghost picture? Please share your ghostly stories, and those ghostly pictures for us to see and read.

A Ghost In My Room?

I believe I might have seen a ghost when I was thirteen but that night I might have been over tiered so it's hard to say. How it began was during the night I was sleeping but I had woken up laying in my bed. I was looking straight in front of me and I was pretty sure I saw this ghostly white figure looking right at me. I couldn't make it out too much only that it might of been female. I was scared that I covered my eyes and left my room to tell my cousin who was baby-sitting me. She told me you're just over tiered and leave the hallway room light. So that's what I done. Then I return to my room and it was gone, and all the night I sleep facing the wall.

A Ghost Messenger In A Dream

Before the death of my aunt, my mother had told me a weird dream my aunt had, shortly before she passed away. In the dream my aunt was walking along the shore with my deceased grandpa (He died in the same year as her), and he stop then he pointed at her saying you will be next. Then later on my aunt was found dead floating in the water at her favorite camping spot but apparently she drowned the night before after having a fight with my uncle she left and she might of slip in the water and she didn't know how to swim.

Creepy Ghost Picture

Here is a ghost picture I thought to share. I have seen this picture all over in ghost books, but it is very spooky. Here is a little information about it.

The photograph above of a cowled monk standing by an altar rail was taken in the early 1960s by the vicar of a church in England. At the time he saw nothing that was out of the ordinary. But his developed film showed the tall phantom monk seen here. It appears to be about three meters tall. The film was carefully checked by photographic experts but showed no signs of tampering.

http://img12.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Spiderweb/Ghosts/monk.jpg

Zombie-F

05-09-2004, 09:50 AM

I had a dream with my father in it about a week after he passed away. It felt like it was so real, but was obviously a dream. He came to check up on us and to tell me that everything was going to be ok. My brother and mother had similar dreams around the same time.

Rocky

05-09-2004, 12:56 PM

I've never seen any ghost but my father said he did. One night, everybody was asleep and my mother heard a noise in the house, like someone opening and closing some drawers. So she get up but couldn't see anything. Everybody was asleep except her. Only a few years after, my parents talked about it and my father said he saw a ghost that night. He said it was like a white silhouette and it was walking. My parents thought it was the ghost of the father of a little girl they were babysitting at that time. The ghost would have come in the little girl's bedroom to see if everything was ok. That could explain the sound of all the drawers opening and closing.

RAXL

07-09-2004, 09:56 PM

So, does anybody believe in ghosts and the like?
Seen any? :confused:

Zombie-F

07-09-2004, 09:58 PM

There's already a thread for this topic, so I'll just move it along to that thread...

RAXL

07-09-2004, 10:19 PM

D'oh :o
Guess if I actually looked around, I may have seen this.
Anyways, I guess it goes with out saying that I believe. While I have gone on many ghost hunts, I've yet to see anything.
There is a pretty strong ghostly history to my family though. The house I grew up in was suppoedly haunted, and my grandparents had an exorcism performed. My grandmothers brother was the preist for the Boston Fire Department and he did the exorcism. Apparently something had come down out of the attic and revealed itself to my uncle. It later made another appearance in a closet upstairs. All this happened before I was born, but there was always a fresh container of holy water at the front door for as long as we lived there.
I don't believe in heaven or hell or any of that other nonsense, but I do believe that we have a measureable energy in ourselves, and SOMETHING has to happen to it when we die. It doesn't just "go away". I think that sometimes it can linger in one place, and that that energy can join with other energies, causing all kinds of crazy reactions.
I can't go so far as to say ghosts are the "souls" of any one person, but I do think they are a grouping of energy from lots of people. I think this is why it's so rare to actually see a ghost take the form of any one person. Because they aren't just one person.
Sometimes we can detect these energies with scientific instruments, cameras ect., and sometimes the energies can play tricks on our minds. Science has proven the effects of electric fields on human minds can cause some extreme images.
Anyways, I don't KNOW what they are for sure, but I am sure there is more to this world than meets the eye.
Like Transformers. :D

Sinister

07-09-2004, 10:40 PM

See whattcha miss when you don't hang-out with the old gang? :D ;)

Citizen Tallee

08-08-2004, 07:05 PM

Oh, I totally believe in Transformers, I mean, ghosts. Ever since I put out that bear-trap and caught the Easter Bunny, I'm willing to believe anything it possible. :D

Forbidden Crypts

09-11-2004, 12:09 AM

Can't say one way or the other. I do know I've never seen a ghost. I don't think though that being religious means you have to believe in ghosts. That all depends on the religion I suppose. The Protestant religion mianly teaches that no one can come back to earth in any form after death. That's all I know. You have to put your faith and belief in some teaching or another. So unless we've actually witnessed something ourselves I guess our answer all depends on which one of those teachings we all put our faith into. Who knows though. Maybe one day I'll see a ghost, and my mind will be changed. Until then I have only my beliefs to go by. So I guess that's a big I HAVE NO CLUE...lol.

RAXL

07-09-2005, 10:24 PM

July 15-17th, 2005
The Berkshire Paranormal Conference and Seminar
At the Haunted Houghton Mansion in North Adams, Massachusetts
Info: Sponsored by The New England Ghost Project and The North Adams Masonic Association at the Haunted Houghton Mansion in North Adams Massachusetts.
Event includes dinner with a speaker, tours of the mansion, breakfast, and screening of the movie " The Bell Witch Haunting". Guest speakers include: Jeff Belanger of GhostVillage.com, Dr Michael Bell, author of "Food for the Dead" and Rhode Island's Vampire and Folklore expert, Charles Coulombe author of Haunted Castles of the World and expert fro A & E's Curse of the hope diamond. The NEGP's EVP expert Karen Mossey, whose work appears in "White Noise" and others.
http://www.neghostproject.nstemp.com/catalog.html

RAXL

07-15-2005, 09:02 PM

Published: July 12, 2005 1:15 PM ET

NEW YORK Gallup reports today that its latest poll found that one in three Americans “believe in ghosts.” The numbers: 32% of all adults say they believe that “ghosts/spirits of dead people can come back,” while 48% do not, and 19% are unsure.

An even larger number of Americans believe that houses can be haunted, with 37% holding that position, 46% saying no, and 16% not sure.

There's an ideological twist, with 42% of liberals saying they believe in ghosts--but only 25% of conservatives and 35% of moderates saying this.

Belief in ghosts declines with age, with 45 of those 18 to 29 sticking to that, while only 22% of those 65 and over holding that view.

The poll was based on interviews with 1,002 adults, with a plus or minus 3% sampling error.

Zombie-F

07-15-2005, 09:13 PM

You just want to be a Ghostbuster. That's the only reason you believe. :p

RAXL

07-15-2005, 09:16 PM

Well.
Yeah.
So what?

Found a ghost society right here in Palm Coast. Gonna check out on of their meetings, see what they're all about. :cool:

Zombie-F

07-15-2005, 09:18 PM

I'm williing to bet their all about ghosts. The likelihood they're anything else (like say, a travelling circus) is pretty slim. :p

RAXL

07-15-2005, 09:21 PM

But wouldn't that be cool!
It could be like FREAKS, or something. :p

Or maybe one of those travelling carny's with a vampire in it.
Or something like "THE FUNHOUSE".
Or killer clowns. :p

Zombie-F

07-15-2005, 09:22 PM

Whoah... guess what I just got in from Netflix...

"One of us! One of us!"

RAXL

07-15-2005, 09:24 PM

GAH! :eek: :voorhees: :p

Sinister

07-16-2005, 12:06 AM

You can count me in on that majority that don't believe in all that specteral nonsense. I have yet to see tangible evidence of such and when I do, it will be with the close scrutiny of the self-made skeptic that I view all "evidence."
:D

RAXL

07-16-2005, 12:12 AM

:p "Spectral nonsense" he says?! :eek:

Blasphemy! :p :D

Sinister

07-16-2005, 12:16 AM

Sorry, my Guns n' Roses loving forum bud; I call 'em as I see 'em. :D :p

feral cat

07-17-2005, 11:30 AM

... well not being American I don't count on that poll, but I also don't believe in ghosts (or anything else really)

... funny though I wouldn't mess around with a Quigi Board (... just incase and all that :D )

RAXL

07-27-2005, 08:41 PM

Don't know if anyone else watches this show on Sci-Fi, but season two starts tonight at 8:00. :cool:

SuFiKitten77

07-27-2005, 10:14 PM

the T.A.P.S headquarters used to be down the street from my house in West Warwick .. I have watched it a few times, not to bad. The head investegator Jason is a dick .. but that could just be my opinion ;)

Zombie-F

07-27-2005, 10:15 PM

I read this post at literally 8:00, so I decided to check it out. The show is pretty intense. I think it's got me hooked in just one episode.

I love that they're goal is to disprove, rather than prove, the evidence of paranormal activity.

They picked a great location for their season opener... New Orleans. You can't really get any creepier than New Orleans.

SuFiKitten77

07-27-2005, 10:20 PM

I will give them that, New Orleans is a Great place to start the season off. I watched part of it, but phone call pulled me away.

RAXL

07-28-2005, 09:52 PM

Yeah, Ghost Hunters is a cool show. This is the second season, 13 new episodes. They'll probably start to rerun the first season again soon. They caught a couple of REALLY interesting things on tape in the first season. :cool:

SuFiKitten77

07-31-2005, 01:47 AM

Yeah, they did .. I think it is interesting as I think it was you who stated it before .. that they are trying to disprove the exsistance rather aprove it. It gives it a diferent twist, one I haven't seen before.

RAXL

08-02-2005, 10:00 PM

Seeing, it’s been said, is believing.

Especially when it comes to “spirit energy.”

A.k.a. ghosts.

The soft summertime whirring of cicadias was the only sound as the sun sank over the horizon at the site of the former Massillon Pychiatric Hospital Saturday night. The sky glowed orange, shadows lengthened.

Mental illness was not well-understood when the 250-acre state facility first opened in 1896, Sherri Brake-Recco, director of Heartland Haunted Tours, told the 48 believers and skeptics who stepped off the luxury bus into the still evening air. On the same site that Indian cornfields sprouted and James Duncan’s sheep grazed, patients were “treated” by malaria injections, induced comas, ice water-soaked sheets.

One doctor in particular, she said, was known for his assembly line lobotomies. In through the eyeballs with an ice pick, done in 10 minutes. In the 1950s, there were more lobotomies than tonsellectomies. Despite the boarded up and broken out windows, the impressive architecture of the chapel and the McKinley Hall still demanded attention.

So apparently, did something – or someone.

Erin Lieser, of Bolivar, aimed her digital camera through the window of a classroom. On the photo, a white mist appeared where there was none. Zoom in, she said, and the figure of a child emerged. “Ecotomist” is said to be the sign of a spirit or spirit energy.

“When my mom was pregnant with me, she worked here,” said Lieser, who says she’s learning to develop her own psychic abilities. “I definitely sense an overwhelming depression, sadness and grief here now.

Skeptical, another rider peered into a basement window, saw nothing, snapped a photo anyway. The image of a boy in a ball cap, standing in a white mist, appeared. The photographer’s eyes widened. He looked at the photo again and again.

“There’s nothing fake,” Brake-Recco said. “We don’t pay anyone to hide in the woods. Whatever you sense or see is real stuff.”

Even spirit skeptics, however, can’t help but be intrigued by the stuff of real life past the Canal Fulton woman incorporates into her tours.

“It’s amazing how much folks will learn about history when you weave a good ghost tale into it,” Brake-Recco said.

Like the morbid facts about the Hercules Engine Co. in Canton, another tour stop. Seems during the deadly flu epidemic around 1918, for lack of coffins, hundreds of bodies were stored in the basement of what was then the York Ice Co.

“You could wake up feeling ill in the morning and be dead by nightfall,” the tour leader told the group who started snapping photos of the Civil War-era building. And with no cemetery space, those bodies were buried on the grounds. Their headstones were removed during later additions, she said, “but not most of the bodies.

“In death, as in life,” she said, “everyone wants to be acknowledged.”

“There’s a whirring feeling,” said Laura Lyn, a pyschic who often travels with Brake-Recco. With solar flares occurring, it was bound to be an “active” night, she said.

Margaret Pirri, of Cuyahoga Falls, always considered herself a pretty tough nut to crack.

“I never thought I would feel anything like this,” she said after stepping through the doorway of Keillors Teddy Bear Shoppe in Canal Fulton. “It was like something shot through my head.” She was with a dozen other family members on the tour, including 12-year-old Sydney Pirri.

“When I came through the door the EMF meter shot right to 10,” she said. “I love ghosts. I even did a report on them.”

In Doc Dissinger’s 163-year-old house, now home to A Trip in Time, tour takers walked through the rooms where he pulled teeth, delivered babies, performed amputations and autopsies. Like Sydney, they held electromagnetic frequency meters in front of them. The green light means OK, Brake-Recco said, yellow means caution and red means grab your camera. Is the doctor in tonight?

Brake-Recco’s other ghost-busting equipment includes laser-operated, noncontact thermometers, a night-vision camcorder, digital and 35mm photos, and four kinds of EMF meters.

Jolene Anderson, of Cleveland, is studying psychology at Marietta College. She wants to open herself up to examining the study of the paranormal, too, she said, stepping off the coach, camcorder in hand. She brought with her a dose of cynicism in the form of friend Katie Lantz, of Mentor.

“I’m 50-50 on it,” said Lantz.

As the clock crept toward midnight, Rogue’s Hollow near Doylestown was the site of the tour’s eerie ending. An infant’s cries are said to be heard from the bridge over Silver Creek in the densely-wooded ravine. A boy killed repairing the paddle wheel at Chidester Mill apparently hasn’t been shy about showing himself after death.

Energy was very close to the campfire, Laura told the group. A photo taken at random showed a bright “orb” of light appearing in a grove of trees black as pitch.

One of the most chilling stories of the infamously rough Rogue’s Hollow, Brake-Recco said, is the tale one local told of seeing a headless horse, its rider perched on a tree branch nearby, red eyes glowing in the dark. Of course, she added, there were seven saloons in the area at the time of the report.

Believer or bah-humbug, each participant can decide for him- or herself, Brake-Recco said.

“Albert Einstein said energy can neither be created nor destroyed,” she pointed out. “What happens to our energy after we pass on?”

:jol:

Sinister

08-02-2005, 10:44 PM

Congrats on the new forum Raxl! If anyone can pull this off successfully, then it's you, bro! :D

Is the above an actual case study, or a story? It's pretty cool either way.

There's Ghost tours here and in Pensacola, and I hope nothing is going on where I can't attend either or both this year. I hope it's a treasure trove of history as well as being a novelty, to give the locals a little spook for Halloween. Although I don't believe in them, I find the whole concept of them fascinating all the same. :xbones:

RAXL

08-03-2005, 06:43 PM

:jol: Spirit of Investigation
Stars of Ghost Hunters look into stories of hauntings
Saturday, July 23, 2005

By Tim Clodfelter

JOURNAL REPORTER

LOS ANGELES - More than 10 years have passed since Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson began investigating supernatural phenomena.

The two New England natives formed TAPS, The Atlantic Paranormal Society, which has evolved from a tiny operation run out of a spare room in Hawes' apartment to a thriving organization with its own Web site (www.the-atlantic-paranormal-society.com) and an "alternative reality" show on the Sci Fi Channel that follows them on their cases.

That show, Ghost Hunters, will start its second season at 8 p.m. Wednesday.

"When we go to a case, we're going there to disprove the haunting," Hawes said, "because I want to understand what's making you believe that you have a spirit or something going on in your house.

"A lot of other groups have a tendency to go out and try to prove a haunting. If you're going out to prove a haunting, any picture you take, any anomaly you catch, you're going to think it's proof of a haunting. You're going to put that out, and skeptics are going to tear that apart. You need to be able to try to dismiss all your evidence."

Hawes estimates that about 80 percent of the cases that TAPS investigates can be disproven.

"That last 20 percent that we list as 'paranormal' does not mean that there is a haunting," he said. "'Para' just means 'above,' so 'above the normal.' So there's activity going on that we're not understanding at the time."

TAPS is a labor of love for Hawes and Wilson, and it's also a nonprofit group that doesn't accept money for its investigations.

"The biggest factor there is, first off, I think the minute we charged, it would take away from the credibility," Hawes said. "The year before last, I spent $25,000 of my own money to get us back and forth to investigations, and also for equipment."

That equipment includes a lot of high-tech gear that helps detect such things as fluctuations in air temperature, which is commonly cited as evidence of a ghostly presence.

"One thing we've recently gotten was a DVR system, a digital video-recording system," Wilson said. "We used to use solely videotape. And when the activity starts really going, the tapes would seem to stop or drain the batteries from the flash while we would watch. So we had a problem there. When the activity was really hopping, we couldn't record it.

"So we moved to digital so that there's no tape to stop. We can actually have the computer that's recording it 300 yards away."

Because TAPS pays for its own investigations and relies on an all-volunteer staff, the group doesn't tend to travel far on its cases. Most of the cases they look into are in the Northeast, though the second-season premiere of Ghost Hunters follows them on a case that takes them to Myrtle Plantation in New Orleans.

Past investigations have led to nonghostly explanations that included speakers hidden in walls to fake a haunting and people hallucinating because of new medications. And sometimes their daytime jobs - as plumbers - have even come in handy in their investigation.

"Oh, absolutely," Hawes said. "Somebody claims that a ghost flushes their toilet every night at 2 a.m., and you find out it's a bad flapper valve leaking."

Both men became fascinated with the paranormal after they witnessed events for which they could not find rational explanations.

"That's what fuels us," Wilson said. "Having that experience makes it easier to determine what is true paranormal activity and what is not."

As they began looking for answers, they learned how hard it was to find solid evidence. They also found that it was difficult to find a place to get training in how to investigate the supernatural.

"Really, all you need is common sense," Wilson said, "maybe a little bit of forensic talent, some psychology. That's what it really takes."

Hawes said: "Every position I've held - I was a technician for computers and so forth, and now I'm a plumber - was a problem-solving field. So this is just another field that I'm trying to be a problem-solver in."

RAXL

08-03-2005, 06:44 PM

Figured I'd throw that up there, with episode two of season two, on Sci-Fi, tonight at 8:00. :ninja:

RAXL

08-03-2005, 06:49 PM

It's a real news story, in so far as anything from the internet is a real news story. It's from Indienews.com, or something. So, not real reporters or anything, I'd guess. :voorhees:

Omega

08-15-2005, 09:28 PM

dougspaulding

08-16-2005, 12:25 AM

...how many times must I tell you they are real? I've seen em' ...

Pray, Mr Black, tell us of your adventures with these spooks from another plane. I believe!

colinsuds

08-20-2005, 07:21 PM

hey man even though ive never seen a ghost theres no way every culture in the world could have made the mistake about there being ghosts on earth soTo make this simple I beleave 2.

zombi69

08-21-2005, 01:57 PM

Well, if you have already seen one then you would already know...As for those who haven't, what would be you're plan of action?

colinsuds

08-21-2005, 02:07 PM

Well It dependswhat kind of ghost it would be and if I was with people. if i was with people and the form of the ghost was plain and i could see it i would probly approach it. But on the other hand if I was alone and in an unfamiliar environment i would probly cry like a baby.

RAXL

08-21-2005, 02:19 PM

Try and talk to it, I hope. :jol:

Zombie-F

08-21-2005, 03:08 PM

I don't know. Depends on the situation and what it looked like and how it carried itself.

I'd probably soil myself though, that's for sure.

dougspaulding

08-21-2005, 03:14 PM

Is the spook malevolent? If so, I would probably break my current sprint record.

Is the spirit friendly? Unfortunately, I would probably still take a crack at that record.

I would prefer, however, to have the fortitude to attempt communication and documentation.

Zombie-F

08-21-2005, 03:25 PM

I think it's what Raxl's waiting for. He's definitely ready for an encounter from the looks of it.

Sinister

08-21-2005, 03:30 PM

I would be mentally and verbally cursing myself because I didn't have a camera or cam-corder to film the incident, not that it will ever happen. If I ever went in knowing what I was looking for I would have both of that you can be assured.

Doctorthingit

08-21-2005, 04:04 PM

If I saw a physical ghost, like an apparition, I would pretend as though I didn't see it. To other people. I wouldn't be scared. I would probably think, "this is all I need right now." But if some things were moving by themselves, I would look for the cat high on nip. However, I don't believe in any way, shape, or form that ghosts actually exist.

claymud

08-26-2005, 03:04 PM

Well every now and then my grandmother tells me a new story about the house. Now my grandmother was cleaning up the bathroom, everyone was out and down the street workin at the little shop they own. Well my great grandmother used to live in the upstairs part of their house and in the last years of her life use this strong smelling arthritise lotian.
Well my grandmother told me she could smell the lotion and it lasted about 15 minets.

Now I call this me going crazy... One day I was downstairs on the computer when I started to smell burning wood, and not just like when you sit around a campfire. But when you put it in a wood stove. Now I called my brother down and he smelt it too, but it was a little weaker then when I first smelt it. Well a little while ago, anout July I was lying in bed trying to get to bed, but for some reason I just wasn't able to, I felt like there was something watching, maby staring at me.

hollyberry

08-27-2005, 12:02 PM

I have had ghost experiences since childhood.. many many stories and many experiences. Even in eth new house.. we have already had several experiences.

haunt_master11

08-27-2005, 01:20 PM

Same here, I have been having experiences with spirits since I was adopted as a child.

Sinister

08-27-2005, 07:10 PM

I too, have been have had experiences with spirits; and I must say I still love the pleasure of the company of Vodka, Jack and Jager and any of their friends that want to tag along. :googly:

Papa Bones

08-28-2005, 07:42 PM

You mean before or after I wet myself?

claymud

08-29-2005, 12:04 PM

Again here I am.
I thought I'd tell another story from around here. You see the sudavision I live in isn't that old, I can rember when they put the new school up, witch I just left this year. Well the story is our school is built on what was a Mikma burial ground (I know I spelt that wrong).
Well I hear these storys back in grade 6, but when your young everyone makes these things up.
But when you hear them in grade nine... from your teatcher then you start to belive the storys a little more. Well some thing that have happened over the years. After all the kids are out of course. But the janitors have told a couple stories. One night the elavater just opened, the thing is you need a key to open it and no one else was in the school, one night one of them heard chairs scraping upstairs in the libray, like they were being shoved around, but when they got up there there was no one around. Also they say every now and then at night you could see a cheif standing staring at you out of the corner of your eye.

SuFiKitten77

08-29-2005, 04:56 PM

My mom passed away on Nov. 9th of 2000 from cancer at 12:04 a.m. , and four years before that she had a kidney transplant and took immune suppresent to keep the kindey operating .. one of those drugs was called Neoral. Now, the Febuary after she passed away, I was awoken at around 8:30 in the morning from the pharmacy that we used to fill her perscriptions and they said they had a question about a perscription that was called in that night. I told them she had passed away, and no perscription had been called in. At 12:04 that morning, someone from our house had called in Neoral .. I was the only one home, and no one else had access to her perscriptions. It was strange .. I also have some odd pictures from around that time also .. I will find them and post them at some point.

SuFiKitten77

08-29-2005, 05:21 PM

It would highly depend on the situation, location, and my mental condition at the moment. I have had some strange feelings before .. and gotten the massive chills ..

dougspaulding

08-29-2005, 08:09 PM

Pray, hasten! I believe!

claymud

08-31-2005, 06:25 PM

"Hello sir I see that you may be in need of a new suit... may I interst you in a..."
Ok so maby I wouldn't try and sell him a suit... I'd probly jump up and down a couple hundred times, write a few E-mails to variouse site... post it her and tell everyone I knew.
Then again it may just go tell a few friends and write it down to rewrite later.
My moneys on the first one though. :)

claymud

09-01-2005, 06:14 PM

When you grow up with these stories you can't help but belive... at least for me. My grandmothers told me all kinds of stories and I belive her because first she wouldn't lie about these things, ghosts and the unkown is the one thing I take very seriously... sitting around a campfire and someone laughts while making a joke gets a stare from me.
But even during the year I felt there was something around the house... of course I call that me going crazy... I am looking forward to when I can see somthing else but it seems you can't take one step without finding someplace thats haunted in NS.

In short I've rambeled on while just meaning to say. belive!

hollyberry

09-01-2005, 07:52 PM

Well I absoluetly believe... my first experiences were as early as 4 or 5 years old .. I stayed with my grandmother allot and every night apparitions in white would come out of her closet that was once a fireplace... it still had the chimney above it and was open .. only had a curtain covering it ... they would come out each night side by side and circle the bed loking down at me... would scare me everytime and I'd cover my head til I fell back asleep. I never told because hello... would would believe such nonsense coming from a kid... so I kept this secret until I was a teenager and I was spending teh night with a cousin. We were all telling ghost stories and then she comes out and tells this same exact thing that had happened when she stayed at grandma's house. Later on in years I told my mom and before finishing my story she finished it for me .. the same exact thing had also happened to her. My grandma's house was full of spirits. each night as it got dark it would feel as tho some very evil eyes would watch you from the back of her kitchen.... I would always jump up and lock the door shut as soon as it got dark. Another afternoon my cousins and I were playing in eth basement when we heard footsteps upstairs... we ran up thinking grandma came back from the store.. you know we wanted candy!!!! Well no one was in the house... we ran back outside and grandma had just started up the path to her house about 300 feet away .. well ...lol we didn't stay in the house alone at all the rest of the day .. grandma was outside we were outside... she went in we went in...lol ...
Over the years I've had many many experiences seeing ghosts ... the day after we moved here to the new house I was sitting in teh bedroom floor putting our bedframe together and I heard a kid come down from eth 3rd floor and stop at my door I said "What is it Makayla" thinking it was my youngest .. then I looked up and saw a girl a little taller than Makayla with long black hair .. .she looked shocked to see me and I'm sure I had the same look on my own face....lol.. then poof gone. on teh second floor where my bedroom is .. no one will be in the house but me and a marble will be thron against my door... not sure where that marble keeps coming from .. I go outside my door and no one is there ... I've heard my name being called by a man's voice with no one else in the house and I've seen and felt many other spirits as well.

These are just a few things I've experienced in my life time.

ScareFX

09-01-2005, 10:03 PM

I would love it if we had some scientific evidence confirming the existence of ghosts. I want to believe but without some proof...

Oh well I'm probably going to hell too.

SuFiKitten77

09-02-2005, 04:36 AM

I believe in ghosts, or atleast the energy that is left behind when you pass on. I also believe you won't see anything unless you are open to the experience .. I have had a few strange things happen. One of those things I posted in another thread about when my mom passed away, and another is when I was younger I was taking a shower with the music blaring (no one home) and a music box that was in the bathroom started to play .. louder then the stereo. Jumping out of the shower the music box stopped .. picked it up and it was off. This was the last gift my brother had gave my mom before he died .. it was just weird.

I am big into the reincarnation theory .. it would help explain some dejavu that we experience. Just my thoughts of the topic .. Enough from my peanut gallery ;)

saiynprincess

09-04-2005, 10:12 PM

Well I've had experiences my entire life, but one that really sticks out for me was when I was about 13, there was the man who used to wait outside the bathroom at my parents' home. I would come out of the downstairs bathroom, and have to turn right to go through the kitchen, the dining room & upstairs to bed. As I walked out of the bathroom, out of the corner of my eye, I thought I saw someone standing to my left. A short man, maybe about 5' tall, same as me. I just kind of blew it off, and turned right to go upstairs. As I was walking through the kitchen, I felt like I was being followed. So I moved quicker, and got to the steps and was practically running up the steps, feeling like someone was right on my heels. I didn't turn to look, just ran upstairs to my bedroom, jumped into bed and pulled the covers over my head. This would happen on an off for about 10 years and I never told anyone.
Now for the really weird part....I had just gotten divorced, and was staying at my parents house temporarily. I was in bed in the second bedroom one night, and all of a sudden I heard someone come running up the stairs and slam the bedroom door to the first bedroom. I thought of my ghost instantly. The next morning at breakfast, my whole family was at the table, including my brother and his girlfriend, who had also spent the night. I asked if anyone heard the door slam, and my brother's girlfriend said sorry, it was her. She had gone down to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Then she proceeded to ask if any of us ever felt like we were being chased up the stairs!! I almost choked on my pancakes!! So I related my experiences to her.
THEN, to top the whole mess off....I finally moved out of my parents' house and actually moved into a house across the alley from them. I was thrilled...no more feeling chased up the steps. Until one day I was in the downstairs bathroom, and felt like someone was looking in the window at me....guess who????? My cat started to freak out and ran upstairs. After that night, I could feel him around again, lurking outside the bathroom and again trying to chase me up the stairs!
I'm guessing he followed me over from my parents', since I used to walk over there regularly. But this last move I made, he hasn't been around at all. I guess since I never went back to my first house, he couldn't latch on and follow me again. Part of me wants to knock on the door and ask the new owners if anything has ever happened, but then again, I REALLY don't want him back!!!

dougspaulding

09-05-2005, 03:54 PM

Sounds like you could have used the services of "the largest paranormal removal company in North America"!

DeathTouch

09-07-2005, 01:23 AM

I used to know a guy who's house was on the top 3 haunted houses of Illinois. I will give you the short story version. Any how, he always told me that most the stuff happend in the bathroom. Stuff would fly off and land on the floor. The basic haunting thing you hear from time to time. He told me it was very interesting living in that house. They used to have the camera crew come in to film them. And they were displayed on TV as the 3rd worse haunted house in Illinois. Til one day. He said there was a room in the house that no one went into, not even the dogs. That room he said could be evil. They heard voices coming from this room all the time and something worse. (Remember short version) So, that month or so his dog had a litter of pups. The pups were old enough to walk around and check things out, but never went back in that room. One day that all changed. He was telling me that he heard a big bang and next thing you knew all the dogs came running from that room. So, I thought that the dogs didn't go back there. He told me they didn't, not til this day. He told me that when he walked into the room with his wife both could smell something burning. They checked the radiator and they noticed something wedge in behind the radiator. It was one of the pups. "Was he dead?", I asked. Oh, yes he said, burnt and crushed. There is no way that pup fell back there. He was forced behind the radiator. It was then both decided it was time to move.

DeathTouch

09-07-2005, 11:33 PM

Well, I think I have seen some ghosts. They are more like flashes than anything. But, I remember the image after the flash. Kind of like it was there and now it isn’t. The rest are just strange and strong feelings. More than a warning, but maybe more like deja vu. The first time was in Waukegan Illinois at my roommate’s house. He had bought the house about 5 years before and one night I was alone. I was watching TV that night when I looked into the hall. It was like a flash of light but I could see what it was. It was an old man who was really thin and balding. I had kind of jokingly told my roommate about a week later and his smile turned to fear. I asked him what is the matter? He told me that he bought the house from this guy who was selling his dad’s house. That guy was found dead in the hallway, and he was an old man, very thin and balding. He told me it took him a while to get the house because they were cleaning the hallway from the old man. I won’t give details.

The next was at my present house. I keep seeing the same figure. About three times in 6 years that I have been here. It is the same person. I can’t tell if they are male or female, but they are really short, really thin and their hair is kind of blond and long. The figure reminds me of the blond short guy in the movie Bodyguard. The guy they thought was the kill but wasn’t. Anyway I have seen this person in the living room staring down at the floor. Then I saw them in the bathroom and walking the hallway. After telling my wife what I saw, she thinks it is her mother. Her mother passed away from cancer so she was very short, very thin and she wore a long blond wig. Is it getting weird or what?

So, I don’t know if these are ghosts or have I just been drinking too much Diet Pepsi.

dougspaulding

09-07-2005, 11:45 PM

He told me it took him a while to get the house because they were cleaning the hallway from the old man. I won’t give details.

Pray, give details! Is it horrifying, macabre, and dreadful?

DeathTouch

09-07-2005, 11:49 PM

It wasn't that bad. Well, I didn't have to clean it up. Just when someone dies, sometimes they secrete certain fluids. That has be to be cleaned up. Not like the dog peeing on the floor.

claymud

09-12-2005, 05:28 PM

http://www.nbc5.com/irresistible/4823589/detail.html

I rember seeing somthing else like this.. must have been 3 or 4 years ago and it was a woman in a jukyard. Anyway goes to prove ghost can pop up anywere. In your supermarket, in your school even your bed (Its happened, not to me but it has.) Pretty freaky when you think about it.

RAXL

09-13-2005, 07:29 PM

Yeah. I saw that on the net a couple of months back. Don't know what it REALLY is, but it's pretty neat, none the less. :ninja:

claymud

09-15-2005, 09:12 PM

Well when your hiking up a mountain and you run out of things to talk about and songs to yell so you turn to my subject (Mind you thats other then yelling out the other songs you know.) But then Ghosts come up. Now in Halifax theres a Maritime Musem of the Alantic, That is said... you guessed it to be haunted. Now he said that he was the only other person there, he was going to meet a friend and saw a women in period cloths setting a table, the thing is that the staff doesn't use perioed coustumes or anything of the sort, Well he said he went around a corner looking for his friend, then he went around another corner looking, now this would have brought him face to face with whoever it was. But she wasn't, next he went to the front desk and asked if there was anyone else in the musem and she said no, then asked if she was wearing white... he just nodded.

Also I found a pic that I took of a racing cup, now this pic had a white line curving through it, I think I may be able to dig up the pic and my family said that it was just a reflection. I think it was somthing else but thats just me.

RAXL

09-15-2005, 09:50 PM

I swear, it seems like EVERYBODY but me has had a paranormal experience. :mad: :(

claymud

09-16-2005, 07:55 AM

I swear, it seems like EVERYBODY but me has had a paranormal experience. :mad: :(

I know the feeling... I don't think Ghost like peole who go looking for them.

Sinister

09-16-2005, 08:00 AM

The Dead hate the Living. Get over it. :D

claymud

09-21-2005, 06:24 PM

This is the thread I love and scince no one been posting on it I guess I'll try and start up the ball. I think I'm outta stories though... storys that happened to me or a friend. Local legands, pleanty.

Is there any Great Big Sea fan's out there...? Well theres this track on their Sea of No Cares CD that sounds quite a bit like a old story that comes from the Mariamice area (Thats spelled wrong). There was a smuging captain (The ship the Young Tezzer). And the British caught him, let him go free because he promised to stop smuggling and be a good little boy. Well he didn't.
So one night the British caught up with him and they had a running fight through the bay and around the islands. He finnaly gave up and realized he had lost. Would he surrender?? What do you think?

Well he didn't and he set the hold on fire, well when it reatched the gunpowder... I just have to say it was seen from quite a distance.

So fast forward to around current day, ninteys maby 80's. These fishermen are out and see a burning boat. They don't know what to do but watch it explod. But wait!!! why wouldn't they do anything. Because the boat was from the period of the 1800's, not many of them around these days.

theres the new one by me, mind you that I think is my shottiest work.

HibLaGrande

09-25-2005, 04:58 PM

nope, no ghosts,no demons,no angels, no heaven-hell ,no after life, when you are dead thats it... game over. Your life energy is either sent up in flames or consumed by worms. Some people have a very hard time with this and tip toe through the land of make believe to feel better about their finite lives. The realization of ones own mortality is a very hard pill to swallow, denial is the only alternative. I do get a kick out of these ghost hunter shows on TV though. A bunch of Idiots running around in the dark scaring themselves silly. I don't know who is more pathetic ,the people on the show,or me for wathcing it. :googly:

HibLaGrande

09-25-2005, 06:09 PM

I would be thrilled beyond words. I would pay good money to see a real ghost or haunting. no creepy feelings or cold drafts but an all out ghost,demon attack,flying objects ect. Until then it's just stories.

Any links to such locations?

Anybody paying idiots like me to tempt fate and stay in a haunted house? show me a real amityville horror. I want to be ripped from my bed and flung acrooss the room by an angry spirit,see horrid things of nightmares scratching at the windows, have a voice tell me to get out! That would make me happy. :D

HibLaGrande

09-25-2005, 07:06 PM

It's moths flying around the lights.

Drakemir

09-29-2005, 09:41 PM

Ask him to come to my yard hauntn and help out :)

HibLaGrande

09-30-2005, 01:04 AM

I wan't to believe. I just can't, my brain says NO! The age of reason really stripped me of a bunch of cool stuff. Damn reason anyway! phooey :sick: I kinda liked Santa Claus.

Adcurium

09-30-2005, 08:38 AM

I would cry like a little bitch...

Only joking. I hope. If it appeared to be 'friendly' (or what I have heard on the SciFi station as a residual haunting), I would probably try to enjoy the moment (I know... that sounds strange). If it was demonic, mean or rude, I would run and scream (kinda like on cartoons where they screw out the door and their voice fades in the distance).

dougspaulding

09-30-2005, 12:20 PM

I kinda liked Santa Claus.

Liked Father Christmas? But I don't understand - he exists!

Sinister

09-30-2005, 01:32 PM

Liked Father Christmas? But I don't understand - he exists!

Trust me HibLaGrande, you don't want to field this response. Just let it go. Walk slowly away. Once Spaulding starts in about this mystical mumbo-jumbo, it is much like being awakened at 5 a.m. by the Jehovah's Witnesses pounding on your door to pass you a copy of The Watch Tower. :D

dougspaulding

09-30-2005, 01:47 PM

Sinister is right. Just see my post on Oupires on the thread "Can psychics really see the past/future?" of 7th October 2004. I can tend to get long-winded on certain things.

claymud

09-30-2005, 02:48 PM

I know I'v said my piece on this subject but amlmost everyone has a ghost storie that has happened to them or a friend. I find its hard to belive that there is nothing out there we don't know and ghosts have always been one for me.
The funny thing is that out of my house I'm really the only one who belives. But there have been strang things that have happened while I was around, like the story about smelling fireplace wood I posted on the experences fourm, or the other 3 things that make people look at me like I'm crazy... Also the local Legands CrazyRyan mentioned Darling Lake in Yarmoth, When we stayed there druing my Aunts wedding all the keys for the rooms around our went missing.

I know I know I'm sounding crazy, but if you think the only people who see ghosts are weirdos them Check out

http://theshadowlands.net/ghost/

Also one last note HibLaGrande you mentioned that those ghost shows are funny. There was one on a few years ago called Scary but True and their pilot delt with the Jersey Devil. I read a report from the organazaion that they followed and they said that a lot of the stuff was edited to make it seem scarier.

HibLaGrande

09-30-2005, 07:19 PM

it is much like being awakened at 5 a.m. by the Jehovah's Witnesses pounding on your door to pass you a copy of The Watch Tower. :D

You think being woke up by one is bad, try living with one of those psycho MF's! My mom got sucked into that crap when I was about 14.After burnig all of my music and my entire first and second edition Dungeons & Dragons stuff I got the " live by the JW creed or get out of my home". that was after she booted my dad, he got the same speel. I ended up graduating high school while living out of my car. So those people can take a sweet suck of my cherry red... Uhhem. Well you get the gist of it. :D I guess that could be a major factor in my pure loathing for religions in general.

claymud

10-02-2005, 03:16 PM

Well I said a little while ago I had somthing that could be a ghost, (It could be anything) and I found it! if anyone can anilize this please do. Note these were taken maby a few seconds a part

SuFiKitten77

10-02-2005, 05:50 PM

Seeing as you are a big paranormal fan .. you might already know of this site: http://www.ghoststudy.com/ You can submit your pictures there and they will analyze it for you.

dougspaulding

10-02-2005, 06:22 PM

Well I said a little while ago I had somthing that could be a ghost, (It could be anything) and I found it! if anyone can anilize this please do. Note these were taken maby a few seconds a part

Looks like a spook to me!

HibLaGrande

10-02-2005, 06:55 PM

looks like a puddle of water to me. unless I am missing something.

Sinister

10-02-2005, 07:23 PM

The first photo seems to be disturbed dust or maybe even someone's cigarette smoke.

As for the second, it looks like someone remembered to turn off the lights before they left the room.

dougspaulding

10-06-2005, 01:22 PM

This isn't really a paranormal experience, but it is a spiritual experience, so I thought I'd put it here.

Last Sunday night at the Staples Center, I saw Neil Diamond in concert! Wow - what a spiritual experience that was!

Reminds me of a humerous incident from my youth: Picture it - 1984 (or was it '85? - well, no matter), Pensacola, FL, there's a Sinister, a Doug Spaulding, and a Mormon in a car. Said car comes to a stop at its destination as the radio announcer says "up next, Neil Diamond". Sinister's quick hand flicks off the radio whilst replying "To hell with Neil Diamond!" Maybe you had to be there but the Mormon fairly rolled out of the car in hysterical fits of laughter, and Doug Spaulding knew he had a memory for the ages.

shaunathan

10-06-2005, 08:55 PM

"get her!" That was your whole plan ray... "ger'er!!" lol

I'm with peter vekman on this.
*knock*
"are you the keymaster?"
Peter: no
*SLAM*
*knock*
"are YOU the keymaster?"
Peter: yes.... yes... well, no he's a friend of mine......

feldjager

10-07-2005, 08:42 PM

saw a ghost ! hell i had one pull my arm back in the mansfeild presion during the ghost hunt. no shit. my wife was goign donw the cell block abotu 20 feet in front of me and started to yell at me for pulling on her shirt,then she turned and saw i was that far back. when i got to the same area my arm got pulled back 2 time so hard that i had to keep my balance.

claymud

10-07-2005, 11:15 PM

The first photo seems to be disturbed dust or maybe even someone's cigarette smoke.

As for the second, it looks like someone remembered to turn off the lights before they left the room.

The first one the reason its bright is theres a bit of a old door frame in the shot so thats the reason its a bit brighter. As for smoke no, dust is possible but at the same time I'm sure that neither one of us, me or my friend went in. The second shot is just a refrance to show hey this wasn't there when I took the pic later.

RAXL

10-07-2005, 11:23 PM

Neil Diamond. Nice.
Will Ferrel did a great Neil Diamond on SNL. Talking about the "black Richard Mulligan" with the Rock, who was also Bigfoot at the time.:p :p

Sinister

10-07-2005, 11:42 PM

Reminds me of a humerous incident from my youth: Picture it - 1984 (or was it '85? - well, no matter), Pensacola, FL, there's a Sinister, a Doug Spaulding, and a Mormon in a car. Said car comes to a stop at its destination as the radio announcer says "up next, Neil Diamond". Sinister's quick hand flicks off the radio whilst replying "To hell with Neil Diamond!" Maybe you had to be there but the Mormon fairly rolled out of the car in hysterical fits of laughter, and Doug Spaulding knew he had a memory for the ages.

I had a bad headache that day. It was pouring rain, the windows were fogging and the defroster was for shit. To top it off, we were having a hard time trying to find the right road to the place we were going (I think we were in Ft.Walton as opposed to Pensacola and looking for Santa Rosa Mall.) Anyway, I'm running out of gas, we pull into a gas station and fill up, Spaulding goes into pay and comes back out. My head is throbbing and I'm cradling it in my arms on the steering wheel when I hear over the radio: "Coming up next, we have Neil Diamond..." That was the last straw and I did exactly as DS said I did and switched the fucker off. It wasn't funny at the time (For me, that is but it grows more so with time and the telling) and it may not be to you guys, but like the man said, you just had to be there. :googly:

RAXL

10-16-2005, 08:27 PM

Season one of Ghost Hunters comes out in a three dvd set , Oct. 18th.
Also, a single dvd "most bizzare moments" disk will be for sale.:jol:

I know I'm not the only one on this board that digs the TAPS show, so this is a good way to check out the first season, if ya missed it when it aired.:jol:

Zombie-F

10-16-2005, 09:33 PM

Which I did. I really want to see the prison episode they always talk about. It's a good show and I'm a little pissed I missed the first season the first time around.

Dr Morbius

10-18-2005, 03:40 PM

Isn't that a Sci-Fi channel original?

They have good stuff!

HibLaGrande

10-23-2005, 07:57 PM

Here is a picture of the beach house where my wife and I were married. see if you can spot the ghostesessses.:D
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a228/HibLaGrande/ghost-pics.jpg

DeathTouch

10-23-2005, 08:05 PM

I found many ghosts. There is one in the middle. One off to the left by the chairs. There are eyes on the left hand side, one the wall. And then there is an older lady in the back of the room(in 50s) in a white nigh gown, with short hair.

HibLaGrande

10-23-2005, 09:46 PM

don't forget the ones at the end of the pop machine counter. :D

DeathTouch

10-23-2005, 09:52 PM

The one with the eyes is by the pop machine. I counted that one in with the mess.

RAXL

10-24-2005, 08:26 PM

Yes, probably the one good thing Sci-Fi has done.:p

Also, even though last week was advertised as the season ender, there is still the Halloween special, and 10 new episodes for season two to air in january, that they are filming right now.:jol:
Maybe it's 13 new ones. It's a total of 23 shows for the year.:googly:

HibLaGrande

10-24-2005, 10:43 PM

The one with the eyes is by the pop machine. I counted that one in with the mess.

there are skulls that appear on the side of the pop machine. I know! I put them there...uh, I mean ooooooo Spooky!:D

claymud

11-10-2005, 07:56 AM

Well I guess its time we gave him his own thread... The main reason is the legand is still rolling around in my head, also added to by the fact that I have read recently that he is still kicking around and want to keep updated on any new Reports.

If you don't know who Spring Heeled Jack is you should probly go check the Crypo thread because there is quite a bit about him there. (No he's not Jack the Ripper)

Also just want to add this in, seems that Spring Heeled Jack is well and alive in out culture today and apperently writters and comic people alike have made him a hero... said he's a early batman. Now correct me if I'm wrong Batman didn't go around attacking people right? Why would they turn a villain into a hero? To sell more. I also heard that he appered on a few episoded of the animated Jacki Chan show.

claymud

11-25-2005, 10:45 PM

Everyone I'm back on it again... with two diffrent news articals one in '88 and one in our beloved 2005.

A CONTEMPORARY CASE

Inexplicata: The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
6 March 2005

A Mysterious Character Harasses Santa Fe Residents
Local residents say it jumps from house to house, is dressed in black and has red eyes. After hundreds of complaints, police are looking for it. Listen to the Sheriff's story on Radio 10.

Santa Fe is jumping. Residents of the southern area are frightened by the appearance of a strange entity they've dubbed 'the rooftop madman' and who - according to their accounts - leaps from roof to roof engaging in acrobatics.

Witness claim it stands two meters tall, is entirely clad in black and wears a balaclava; it sports a cape and its eyes shine red according to the information received by researchers. This character is able to cross the streets by leaping from one rooftop to the next, taking acrobatic leaps that can be of up to five meters high and ten meters long.

'He looks like the cat man,' say some locals. 'His outline is barely visible, his figure. He never showed his face, but they say they've seen his eyes and that they have a reddish cast.'

In an interview with Radio 10, Sheriff Gabriel Legstra acknowledged that 'there is a widespread psychosis. In recent days we have received hundred of reports at our radio command center.

'On Tuesday I dispatched 18 units to assuage people's fears. But ultimately there is no other crime than trespassing here. The character goes from one roof to the next, appears inside a house, has pressed his face against a window but hasn't attacked anyone.'

The psychosis is growing among residents of southern Santa Fe in spite of having never been attacked. Police confirm that in recent days calls have multiplied, reporting a man leaping from one rooftop to the next ' like a madman'.

According to the Diario La Capital, he first appeared in Barrio Centenario, only meters from the Colon Stadium, but they say he was seen closer to town, such as in El Arenal, San Lorenzo, Chalet and Santa Rosa de Lima. This is the area most affected by the 2003 floods.

In any event, despite the intense combing of the area by dozens of officers, police were unable to find the character, but advised the public to remain calm, since there are reports within the force that some local residents directly tried to shoot the entity to death.

Mystery grew when several witnesses said that 'bullets won't do anything to it. Its eyes gleam red when it mocks those who try to hunt it.'

A resident of El Arenal claimed having fired 17 times against it without bullets having the least effect, while the ghost did nothing but provoke it, howl like a beast or cry like a child, making dance steps on the rooftops over which it treads like a cat.

'People are afraid of being attacked, beaten and robbed by this man. They fear he will break into their property and are defending themselves," say those in Regional Unit 1 who in turn describe the locals as "expectant and armed with knives and sticks.'

Most locals describe a being that appears to have sprung from a comic book: large in stature, who not only wanders the rooftops but also crosses the streets in a single bound and can climb smooth walls up to six meters high. 'It's the Devil,' say the bolder or more imaginative ones.

Sheriff Legstra said that a woman told him that 'the entity pointed at her with its finger and left her paralyzed.'

Another local woman said that last Monday, during an intense rain, the phantom managed to jam the car doors of a vehicle with 7 passengers aboard, who were armed and ready to hunt it down in spite of police warnings.

Others decided to stand guard 24 hours by the doors to their homes, armed and vigilant. But it has not been possible to capture it up to now.
Residents of the southern section interrupted traffic, claiming greater lighting for the area, since may are afraid to leave their homes alone.

And of course number two...

A LATER PARALLEL CASE?

Toronto Star
29 October 1988
Halloween flashback: How 'phantom' joker terrorized a town,by Mitchell Smith

Provincetown, on the very tip of Cape Cod, is a fascinating summer vacation spot, but for many of us it's even more delightful in the fall.

With the tourist hordes gone you can wander the narrow streets in peace, eat the best seafood around and relax in the little pubs along that centuries-old main street.
Today the talk in those pubs is of the Provincetown Phantom, for it's exactly 50 years ago this week since he was first seen. And once seen, he was never forgotten.
For years the Phantom, also known as the Black Flash, terrorized the townspeople, especially the children.
"We became afraid to be out after dark," Matt Costa, who now runs a fish market and restaurant in Provincetown, tells me. "He'd jump out on people, from behind a tree, maybe, or over a wall - a figure all dressed in black. He was very agile; some people said he must have springs on his feet. They said he was over 7 feet tall."

The Flash first leaped out of the sand dunes just before Halloween 1938 - "an elusive superman, a superhuman leaping lizard dressed in black... but his fierce eyes and long pointed ears were a glowing silver," according to Robert Ellis Cahill in New England's Mad and Mysterious Men.

First the Phantom appeared to lone children, who went howling home to their parents, but by November he'd become bolder and one night he came bounding along downtown Commercial St., pushing people off the sidewalk. Thereafter he was seen several times a week. Some people claimed he spat "blue flames" in their faces.

"One thing for sure, it kept us kids home at nights," says Costa, "or if we were out, we went in bunches. Remember it was dark in the streets then, and kids didn't have flashlights."

And so it went on for six years, from October to March each year. Provincetown was a town in fear.

In two places at once

Once farmer Charlie Farley's dog got the flash cornered and Charlie, "thinking it was some kind of animal." loosed off at him with his shotgun. "The darned thing just laughed and jumped my 8-foot high fence in one leap," Charlie told police.

Then one night Sgt. Francis Marshall and three other policemen chased the Phantom intothe schoolyard, which was surrounded by a 10-foot fence. He was trapped! But suddenly he bolted for the fence, grabbed the top rail and vaulted over.

Marshall, who later became police chief of Provincetown, is retired now, living in Yarmouth, Mass. He tells me: "People wondered how the Flash could be in two places almost simultaneously, as some of the reports indicated. I believe it's because he was actually three men. Yes, I know who they were, but I'm not telling. They're all dead now, but they have relatives here."
The Flash's last recorded appearance was in December 1945. That night he chased some kids into a house. One of the children had the presence of mind to go upstairs with a basin of boiling hot water and throw if over the masked figure crouching outside the back door. The Phantom retreated - never to be seen again.
Those are the facts, ma'am. Just the facts. Of course, if you're in Provincetown the locals may embellish the story. But remember: there are many who don't subscribe to Marshall's view that the Flash is dead.. Maybe the person you're talking to could be the Phantom himself...

The site also has many of the 1800 newsclippings, heres the link http://blackcatpress.co.uk/Spring_Heeled_Jack_Clip.htm

RAXL

01-08-2006, 12:11 PM

Religion loses out to belief in paranormal
PEOPLE are more likely to believe in ghosts and the paranormal than have faith in an organised religion, a new survey has found.

A research by the Scottish Paranormal organisation of amateur enthusiasts showed that more than two thirds of people surveyed said they believed in the existence of ghosts and supernatural spirits.

This compares to only 55 per cent of the 2000 people questioned who said they had faith in a religion and believed in a god.

On Friday, ghost hunters affiliated to Scottish Paranormal will be gathering in Edinburgh to determine where the city's most haunted areas are.

The team has already carried out investigations in Mary King's Close and the Edinburgh Vaults - two of the city's most notoriously haunted spots.

The Close was inhabited in the 16th and 17th centuries but was abandoned and sealed after an outbreak of plague, leading to chilling claims of paranormal sightings of former inhabitants.

Edinburgh medium Ewan Irvine, a member of the team, said: "It must always be the case that these areas are looked at in an unbiased way with both sceptics and believers coming together to look at these locations

Mollins

01-08-2006, 04:07 PM

I think i will be going to both mary kings close and the vaults soon then!

claymud

01-08-2006, 04:24 PM

I guess because they think their more likly to see a ghost then God...

RAXL

01-11-2006, 08:35 PM

DAMN. The TAPS crew was in St. Augustine yesterday, I guess doing some filming for season three. They hooked up with the big ghost hunter group up there, and went around town.
I've walked St Augustine on several ghost hunts myself, and have yet to really see anything.:(

CharlieM

01-20-2006, 03:03 AM

I don't believe in either. But if I had to choose one...definitely ghosts...or Jason Stratham.

CharlieM

01-20-2006, 03:28 AM

That Santa Fe bit is freakish -- almost as scary as the Mothman.

claymud

01-22-2006, 10:10 AM

Hey I was on another message board when I stummbeled on this link. Its a video taken in a spanish Cemetary. If you lisen closly in the backround at the end you hear somthing screaming, really screaming not the guy yelling for his friend.

www.ebaumsworld.com/video...tgirl.html

Mollins

01-22-2006, 12:09 PM

link doesnt work

this does

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/ghostgirl.html

Zombie-F

01-22-2006, 12:18 PM

I still say that's totally fake. It's clearly a woman sitting by a gravestone and the night-vision lighting glints off her eyes as she turns to look at the camera. I'd be willing to be that on a thermal camera, we'd be able to see her body heat plain as day.

RAXL

01-22-2006, 06:35 PM

Gotta go with Zombie on this one. :jol:

feldjager

01-23-2006, 05:26 AM

i saw this one afew times,a 10 year old could have made it!

Johnny Thunder

02-24-2006, 09:03 PM

Really cool and creepy

PeeWeePinson

03-02-2006, 12:41 PM

Stephen King wrote a short story on Springheel Jack, I didn't realize he was considered "real." VERY creepy story.

claymud

03-02-2006, 04:19 PM

Stephen King wrote a short story on Springheel Jack, I didn't realize he was considered "real." VERY creepy story.

I read that story and found it more to be a Jack the Ripper type story, nothing agains Stephen King or his writting.

PeeWeePinson

03-02-2006, 04:55 PM

Yeah, you are right, it did have a Jack the Ripper feel.

feldjager

03-13-2006, 11:39 PM

anyone here stay up for coast to coast am's ghost stories? i love the call ins.

i just down loaded from bearshare the entier g-t-g form feb 2001, working on others

Dr Morbius

03-14-2006, 03:41 AM

yea, I love George Norry (Spelling?)

Alot of kooks call in..Entertaining though!

DeathTouch

03-19-2006, 02:24 PM

I found the site on the internet. You have to give them money to listen. That sucks.

claymud

03-19-2006, 02:53 PM

You know I can't really get behind it now. Art Bell did it and it was good, now it just seems like their only getting crazies on...

RAXL

03-26-2006, 06:41 PM

Convicted Nevada slayer says ghost made him kill

ASSOCIATED PRESS

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - A Nevada Supreme Court panel has voted 2-1 to reject an appeal from an inmate who claimed his murder conviction should be tossed because a ghost made him kill.

Justices ruled Wednesday that Samuel Marquez wasn't insane when he hit bartender Richard Adamicki over the head with a baseball bat in 2001, and that he should continue to serve the 100-year sentence he received for his first-degree murder conviction.

Adamicki never regained consciousness after the attack at a Las Vegas-area tavern, and died two months later.

Marquez stole the victim's wallet and $2,700 from a cash register. The incident was caught on videotape and a few hours later police arrested Marquez, who confessed to the killing.

During the trial, forensic psychologist Mark Chambers testified Marquez saw an apparition during the night of the beating and robbery. He said Marquez claimed he had seen the ghost of a dead woman many times since he was a child in El Salvador.

Chambers testified that Marquez feared the ghost, believing she was responsible for his sister's death and wanted to take him to the afterlife.

While he was in the bar, Marquez again saw the ghost and she demanded he take the money, according to Chambers. The psychologist added the fearful Marquez didn't know right from wrong at that point.

In the decision, Justices Mark Gibbons and Jim Hardesty ruled a lower court properly rejected defense arguments that an instruction should have been given on insanity.

Despite saying Marquez acted because of fear of a ghost, the two justices noted that Chambers also stated Marquez wasn't delusional. A delusional state is one of the conditions for a finding of legal insanity in Nevada.

Justice Bill Maupin dissented, saying a jury instruction on the legal definition of insanity should have been given.

RAXL

03-26-2006, 06:48 PM

OPTICAL ILLUSIONS? GHOSTS SPOTTED AT OPTICAL MUSEUM IN LONDON
By Richard Moss 16/03/2006

Staff at one of London’s smaller museums, the British Optical Association Museum in Craven Street, are on the look out for psychic investigators after a series of ghostly encounters.

The apparitions appeared in a museum gallery and curator’s office during the week of Monday March 13 2006, whilst staff and decorators were involved in a revamp and reorganisation of the museum's displays.

“One of the decorators saw a crouching figure of an old man on Monday,” said museum curator Neil Handley. “Yesterday (Wednesday) he saw another figure of a middle aged man. This figure spoke to him and said: ‘Where’s Mary? I can’t find Mary.’

"He has clearly described the figure as wearing a dark blue frock coat and a tricorn hat with white tassles, so we're obviously talking about quite an old one!"

Neil is now going to look at the records of the building to see if he can unearth any clues as to the identity of the ghost.

“These sightings have only just happened, so we haven’t really had time to investigate them,” he said, “but we’re going to have a look to see if we can find a reference to anyone called Mary in the records.”

He is also keen to find out if there are any scientific groups who might be interested in investigating the ghostly sightings.

“If there are serious groups of scientific investigators out there who deal with this kind of thing, they are welcome to come here and set up their equipment to see if they can sense anything,” said Neil. “Perhaps they can detect a drop in atmospheric pressure or something?"

"To be honest I don’t really know much about these things, I’m a scientist and a sceptic," he added, "so I’m really interested in looking into this from a scientific point of view.”

This week's sightings are the first time a psychic phenomenon has been reported in the museum, although the building, which dates to the 1730s and has been home to the College of Optometrists since 1997, gave off a mysterious odour when the museum opened in the basement during 2003.

“There were some rather strange odour problems a few years ago that can best be described as a kind of rotting stench,” recalled Neil.

Two theories at the time put the smell down to the building’s proximity to the Thames embankment and the possibility of old oyster beds deep down in the building’s foundations. The building was also used for a number of years after WWII as a refuge for stray cats but the true cause of the smell remained a mystery and was eventually masked by sealing the floors.

It is the latest sightings that have sparked the interest of museum staff. The decorator, whose grandmother was a medium, has apparently inherited some of her gifts and he also reported that he sensed the second ghost’s name was George.

“If he had said it just once,” continued Neil, “I would have thought he was just pulling my leg, but the fact that he said it in all seriousness twice and repeated the story to several members of staff makes me want to look into further.”

"To be honest, I often work alone here late at night,"said Neil, whose office is one of the ghostly locations, "but I've never encountered or sensed anything. Whether the redecoration has created a disturbance or something I just don’t know.”

Founded by JH Sutcliffe of the British Optical Association in 1901, the British Optical Museum, or MusEYEum as it is known, houses a remarkable collection of nearly ten thousand items relating to the history of ophthalmic optics (optometry), the human eye and visual aids, as well as the representation of these subjects in art.

Ghost-hunting members of the public will have to wait before they go in search of apparitions at the museum. Currently closed for redecoration and redevelopment, staff hope to reopen with a fresh, brighter feel in late March - and perhaps some

HibLaGrande

03-27-2006, 10:29 AM

trying to drum up some buisness to pay for the remodeling perhaps????

Dr Morbius

03-28-2006, 03:53 AM

Righto! Spot on, ol chap!

RAXL

03-28-2006, 07:04 PM

Rob Rogers

Many people claim to have seen, heard or felt a ghost. But researcher Loyd Auerbach is probably one of a few living people to report being hit on by a dead woman.
Auerbach lectured on the haunting of the USS Hornet Sunday afternoon at Unity in Marin in Novato's Hamilton Square. The event was sponsored by the International Foundation for Survival Research, a San Rafael-based organization that supports research into life after death.

Auerbach says it's not at all surprising that a dead person might be a little flirtatious. After all, he says, ghosts are people, too.

"People who are dead behave the way they did when they were alive," Auerbach said. "They don't become evil, and they don't suddenly gain wisdom."

Auerbach has spent 25 years hunting ghosts, mainly around the Bay Area. His academic credentials include a degree in cultural anthropology from Northwestern University and one in parapsychology from John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, where he serves as an adjunct professor.

But it's Auerbach's training as a magician, mentalist and "psychic entertainer" that he says helps him screen out the fakes and attention-seekers he meets, as well as those who mistake natural phenomena for the paranormal.

"Strong magnetic fields and low-frequency sounds can produce an emotional reaction," Auerbach said. "We investigated one case in Martinez where some nearby power lines were causing people to have an uneasy feeling."

In another case, Auerbach discovered that a series of mysterious footsteps echoing through a couple's attic was really the sound of a squirrel storing nuts for the winter.

"We always look for another explanation than the supernatural, and we often find them," he said.

Other incidents aren't as easy to explain. Auerbach visited a Mill Valley house whose owners were troubled by the sight of a 6-year-old girl who would play with their children before disappearing. His team determined that the little girl was the "ghost" of a woman who wasn't dead.

"When we contacted the family who had lived in the house before, they told us that the 'girl' we were looking for was upstairs (in the family's new house), alive, slipping in and out of consciousness," Auerbach said. "When she would wake up, she said she'd been dreaming that she was herself as a little girl playing with a nice family down the street."

Francesca McCartney remembers the incident well. The president of the Academy of Intuition Medicine, a Mill Valley organization dedicated to helping students develop their powers of intuition, contacted Auerbach about the case in the early 1980s. She says the ghost of an elderly woman continues to appear at the house.

"They never did get rid of that ghost," McCartney said. "They called in a Catholic priest, and that calmed things down for a while, but it didn't really change things."

Of course, Auerbach's claims have a host of skeptics,. One is the former curator of the USS Hornet in Alameda, who told Auerbach he wasn't a believer, even though he's one of those who saw a phantom figure aboard the ship. Auerbach said there might be 50 to 60 apparitions inhabiting the aircraft carrier.

He's convinced, however, that most didn't die in the line of duty.

"They're there to protect the ship; to keep it as a museum," he said.

Most of the ghostly figures Auerbach says he has encountered sound more like Casper than a creature out of "Poltergeist;" from the Livermore ghost who helped a 12-year-old boy with his homework to the spirit of a murdered waitress at the Moss Beach Distillery in Half Moon Bay whom Auerbach believes has a crush on him.

"People say these things are rare, or that they're not normal," Auerbach said. "But almost everyone I meet has a ghost story to tell me. It's probably extremely normal to encounter these things. It's just that we've been socially conditioned not to talk about it

claymud

03-28-2006, 07:59 PM

what... you've never heard of ghosts hitting on people? I rember this one story where a woman was home late at night, her husband was working or the like and she felt a mans hand caress her shoulder. She looked up and no one was there. Well she was a little freaked out about it but went back to sleep. Well she turned over on her side and felt someone lay down on the bed, she felt a soft breath on her neck and again looked behind her. No one was there. She was freaked out and called her friend to pick her up. She later told this story to a neibore and they just laughed... 'The captains up to his old tricks again.' He said.
Appernetly there had been a sea captain who had lived in that house and he had been quite the womanizer.
Now notice how I was able to get both the topics, ghosts and the ocean. I don't know how many ghosts ships I could tell you about, the Mary Celest, the Young Teaser, the Flying Dutcmen...

Sinister

03-29-2006, 12:58 AM

:rolleyes:

RAXL

04-01-2006, 11:58 PM

Anybody catch the new episode of Ghost Hunters this week? :jol:
The whole show was in this old abandoned hospital. Scary place. :xbones:
Love that damn FLIR camera they have. If only I had $10,000 laying around I could pick one up.:p

Zombie-F

04-02-2006, 05:49 AM

It kinda caught me off guard when there was a new episode sitting in my Tivo. I can't believe Brian's back. That kid is a glutton for punishment.

That hospital was pretty damned creepy.

Bone Dancer

04-02-2006, 07:48 AM

I could use a little less personal drama in the show. It would make it a little less like a soap opera and more like a real show. Brian is everbodied pain in the ass little brother who is to stupid to leave.
And if I had $10,000 laying around, I won't be getting a FLIR camera. But I would have the biggest army of buckies you ever saw in you life, that and get my car fixed.

Chapter13

04-26-2006, 07:28 PM

I agree with BD 100%

Brian is a huge pain.

RAXL

04-26-2006, 09:52 PM

Yeah, but really, Jason tore into him for no reason last time. It was Steve that had said all that crap, not Brian.
Oh,well, remember, it is a tv show, and they gotta make it good for tv.:jol:

RAXL

04-26-2006, 11:08 PM

That was a creepy evp they got.:xbones:
I love evp's.
Just picked up my own digital audio recorder.:smoking:

Lotus

04-26-2006, 11:25 PM

That sure was a crazy evp thank god I tivo it

Da Weiner

04-27-2006, 01:03 PM

I haven't seen it in a while. Too much wining going on. :( It was starting to get like the other reality shows on tv. I can't watch them either. I really did enjoy the show and finding out the history behind some of the places they went to but then it just started focusing more on the whining. I got enough of that to deal with during the day I don't want to have to watch it on tv. They do have neat gadgets. I guess I'm going to have to give it another shot.

RAXL

04-28-2006, 10:14 PM

Don't know if anyone else is planning on going to DRAGONCON this year, but Jason,Grant,Steve and Brain are all booked to attend.:smoking:

RAXL

05-02-2006, 07:19 PM

:xbones:
LONDON (AP) - British police responding to a call about a possible break-in at a pub in northern England Monday found themselves in the middle of a ghoulish riddle.

Officers arrived at the Low Valley Arms pub near Barnsley in South Yorkshire, 400 kilometres north of London, after being told the alarm had been set off, but instead of finding any signs of a robbery, they were faced with a shaken landlord convinced he had encountered a ghost with half a face missing in the ladies washroom.

Although they saw no ghoul-described as a woman in flowing white gown-officers were shocked to find toilets flushing themselves, said Insp. John Bowler of South Yorkshire Police.

Pub landlord Roger Froggat, 55, and his wife Kathryn, 49, moved in a year ago and said they had seen nothing before, despite rumours of a resident spectre.

"I heard the alarm go off for a second time, went into the pub and all the television screens had turned on," the pub owner said.

"I went to check the rest of the pub and standing in the women's lavatories was a woman with half her face missing. I was petrified."

Officers found no signs of forced entry and were left quite scared, Bowler added.

Since the ghost story became public, the pub has become the talk of the town, attracting everyone from mediums to a national television film crew determined to catch a glimpse of the mystery woman should she appear again.

Despite their shock, the Froggats said they have no plans to leave their village pub.
:jol:

RAXL

05-03-2006, 10:53 PM

HOLY CRAP!
Who caught tonights episode?:eek: :eek:

Zombie-F

05-04-2006, 01:48 AM

Tivo got it, so I'll be watching it later today. :D

krypt

05-04-2006, 02:07 AM

HOLY CRAP!
Who caught tonights episode?:eek: :eek:

saw it the lighthouse that looked like a candy cane right? if so the call backs were pretty intense...afraid of heights! LOL

RAXL

05-04-2006, 12:55 PM

:smoking: Awesome EVP's, AND video!!!:eek: :eek: :cool:

Lotus

05-04-2006, 11:20 PM

Last night was awesome I watched it tonight again

RAXL

05-07-2006, 09:51 PM

So, has anyone's opinion changed on this topic?
If you still don't believe, have you seen the latest episode of Ghosthunters?

Michigal

05-07-2006, 10:13 PM

I guess I can chime in here with my experience(s):
Back in Michigan, I was a member of the volunteer ambulance. That building was haunted, at least with poltergeist activity.
The kitchen chairs were always being thrown over in the middle of the night. That was a fairly common ocurrence in the place. Especially if you were sleeping on the couch next to the kitchen. One other time, my crew and I were sitting watching TV, and along one wall was a built in bookcase with glass doors. The doors were open, fortunately, because suddenly all the books came flying out. Not falling out, literally flying halfway across the room. Scared the you know what out of us.
Who/what was it? We were never sure, since no one ever saw anything, it was all poltergeist activity.

Do I believe? Yes. No more evidence needed than what I witnessed with my own eyes.

TipoDeemin

05-08-2006, 12:16 AM

I believe in ghosts. I've seen a few, as well... And I've got one currently in my house, though he's been inactive for the past little while.

Otaku

05-08-2006, 01:30 AM

Believe in ghosts? I guess I have to - I have one in my house. He has appeared to my wife, kids and myself, usually very late at night. He will stand in the door of my bedroom, and if I try to approach him he turns and walks down the hall and vanishes. He looks like a 20-25 year old man, wearing a plaid shirt and dark pants. He has short dark hair, but his face is very blurry and its hard to make out any features. My kids have both seen him; they've asked me why I sometimes stand in their bedroom door looking at them at night. He's mostly very quiet, unless my sister visits - he doesn't like her and will start closing doors, turning on lights and such until she leaves. I have no idea who he is. I know how this sounds, but it really is happening.

grapegrl

05-08-2006, 10:05 AM

I'm a believer. I've loved ghost stories and tales of the supernatural ever since I could read.

My sister's house is haunted by its previous owner. He died in the house and wasn't discovered until a couple of weeks afterward. Needless to say, my sister and her husband got a great deal on the place. Poltergeist-like activity started as soon as they moved in. Kitchen cabinets and drawers opened all at once of their own accord (on numerous occasions), lights would come on--without being plugged in, unexplained noises, items moved from one place to another, dog barked at unseen object/person, shadowy figure could be seen crossing the hallway, and lots more. Things were bad enough for my sister to call me and ask me to come over and tell "Mr. Carpenter" to either cool it or leave. :p (She knows what a ghost enthusiast I am.) My brother-in-law was turned from a staunch skeptic into a believer himself. After a while, the activity subsided and now Mr. Carpenter only gets cranked up when they start a home improvement project. We've come to the conclusion that Mr. Carpenter still thinks that the house is his. For some reason, he will not "go into the light". My sister and her husband have learned to share the house with its ghostly occupant since Mr. Carpenter's activity is benign and they've pretty much gotten used to it.

feldjager

05-08-2006, 08:39 PM

guess i never relpyed to this

june 2003 ghost hunt mansfield prison

the wife felt some one pull her shirt, she thought it was me . she yelled stop pulling my shirt. i was 30 feet behind her. when i got to the same spot something pulled my arm,2 times. my vidio camra swung about a foot. no one was behind me,the sun was still up. explain that!

claymud

05-08-2006, 08:49 PM

I've never wavered from my belife.

hollyberry

05-09-2006, 12:04 AM

Ok I didn't read through all 4 pages of posts on this topic and you may think me nuts if you want .. lol.. I'm not worried many already do including myself...lol.. but yes I believe in ghosts.. I see them all the time.. I speak to them and I have had many many experiences beginning at the age of 4 or 5 ... I have had those who have recently passed come to me to pass on messages .. I have seen the spirits of some of my own relatives and have spoken to them and they speak back! ... I have had experinces with ghosts who are nice .. and some who are not .. it would take a very long time for me to sit here and tell you each and every story because there have been many many .. I don;t call fourth spirits or anything like that .. most often they just come to me.. why? Heck if I know.. maybe it's because they know I can see and hear them.. if you want to start seeing them as I do it's pretty simple .. most who wish to see a ghost or spirit "try" to see them.. you can't do that .. you can't wait around in eth dark and in spooky places for them to come out .. they are around us each and every day .. all day not just at night and not just in "haunted" or spooky places.. you have to open your mind .. we all have teh ability .. but most keep that door locked ... to open the door to teh spirit world.. imagine your mind as a door.. see the door and see it locked.. well reach into your pocket and get the key .. place the key into teh lock and unlock that door.. then open it .. open the door in your mind that allows you to see beyond what others see and experience ... for that is where they live.. yeah I know sounds like a bunch of crap.. try it .. you'll see.. you have to say to yourself and actually mean it that you are now ready to see beyond this world ... beyond this realm and you are ready to see into the spirit world or the world of shadows.. now don;t think that right away you will see ghosts .. it takes time .. and you must keep your door open.. don't open it and then close it right away .. but I must warn you not all ghosts are nice and when they know you can see them.. then they start to play up and mess with you .. you'll need to learn how to shut the door when you experience a not so nice spirit .. but if you are actually able to unlock this door and open it .. I can guarantee your life, your world will not be the same.. and you will understand and say to yourself .. well I reckon Hollyberry isn't so crazy afterall.. lol

Ok now go and whisper amongst yourselves about my insanity.. that s ok .. I understand ... if I had not have had all the experiences I've had I would think the same

Sinister

05-09-2006, 12:07 AM

Holly has made me a believer in a few things. Some great ghost stories you sent my way, my dear. Maybe you should try to publish some in non-fiction form. Good, spooky stuff that I'm sure someone would love to pay you for. ;)

hollyberry

05-09-2006, 04:09 PM

I have thought about it .. but even to me I have a hard time believing some of the stuff that has gone on...lol.. so I wonder if anyone would even believe them.. .even if not I reckon it would make some fun reading ..lol

RAXL

05-09-2006, 08:27 PM

Jeez. Did anybody know that Brian was an Air Force MP?
"Dude, run!" in a uniform?:p

RAXL

05-09-2006, 09:00 PM

I think that no matter what a non-believer hears, they will never change their mind.
It's just human nature.
If you're a liberal democrat, you're never gonna change, and become a conservative republican.
If you don't believe in the paranormal, you wont see anything to change your mind. Hell, a ghost could pimp slap you, and you'd come up with some other explaination.
If you like the Beatles, you'll NEVER agree that the stones are the better rock band.
If you like the Red Sox, you'll never like the Yankees.

It's just how people are. They don't want to admit that the beliefs they may have had before, could posibly be wrong.:(

Brad Green

05-09-2006, 11:12 PM

I'd like to believe that I'm open to the possibility that ghosts do exist, I've just never seen one. However, I've never seen a million dollars either, and yet I believe in it's existance!

Brad Green

05-09-2006, 11:22 PM

You're kidding, right? That chin-less geek was an MP??? The 'Dude,Run' episode really shot the hell out of my respect for the group. I'd have fired both there butt's so quick thier jeans would still be smokin today. S'possed to be Ghost Hunters, not track stars!

claymud

05-10-2006, 07:35 AM

I think that no matter what a non-believer hears, they will never change their mind.
(

I think the same thing can be said for belivers, if there is evidence they don't exhist, we'll still belive.

As for beliving in somthing I've never seen... since I've gotten that line so many times... so when I hear it I say that I don't belive in air cuz I don't see it.

Da Weiner

05-10-2006, 11:21 AM

I believe in spirts. When we moved into our house 10 years ago, we experienced activity right away. The house had been vacant for 2 years and looked like something from "That 70's Show"and needed to be remodeled. Weird things started to happen like putting a hammer down on one spot and reaching for it - no hammer only to see it in the spot where you just put it after you combed through the whole room looking for it. Just little things like that. We also have a lot of pictures of orbs. We later found out that our neighbor next door had a son that accidently died in their house.

The boy used to play with the children that lived in our house and had a crush on one of the girls from our house. He was a prankster and was always faking being dead. He would lay on the bottom of the pool and would scare the shit out of anyone that was looking for him. One day when he got in trouble, my neighbor sent him to his room. Back then bedrooms didn't have computers and and tvs like today. He had a bed, bureau and desk. He was mad for being punished that he wanted to scare his mother when she came to get him and he wrapped the venitian blind cord around his neck. He took it a little too far and accidently hung himself. They found him a couple hours later.

From what the neighbors told me that after the funeral, the people that lived in my house kept seeing him in the back yard and upstairs in the kid's bedrooms playing.

It coincides with the things that we have experienced in the house. It's like someone is trying to get your attention and you know they are laughing at you. Two weeks ago, me and hubby were finishing our dinner and we heard three knocks on the front door. This was about 8:30 p.m. No one we know usually comes to the front door and if they do, they use the knocker or the doorbell. This was just three knocks on the door. Hubby got up and no one was there. We checked around the house - nothing. He looked at me and just smiled - we knew he got us again.

We also live across the street from a cemetary. It is the second oldest cemetary in my town. It's mostly filled with dead soldiers. All I can tell you about them is that when they walk through my house to get back to the resting place, their boots are heavy.

We are not the only ones who have experienced or seen spirits - our neighbors down the street have a little girl that comes and visits them and occassionally an old lady will walk down the street and will be spotted.

hollyberry

05-10-2006, 03:11 PM

Have a look at these and tell me just what did all this.. and before you start .. no it's not a bed spring and no it's not bed bugs.. and we have figured it out and have taken care of it and Stacey is finally healing from the scratches.. let's just hope it doesn't come back ...

http://www.hollyberrysworld.com/staceyscratches.html

dougspaulding

05-10-2006, 03:25 PM

We also live across the street from a cemetary. It is the second oldest cemetary in my town. It's mostly filled with dead soldiers.

Cedar Grove Cemetary? Or perhaps Old Saint Mary's?

That's a fine story, by the way - it would make a good screenplay.

Da Weiner

05-11-2006, 11:15 AM

We live across the street from the Old Saint Mary's Cemetary. Only a few blocks up the street is Cedar Grove Cemetary near the high school.

I agree with you Doug. I just wish I could see what the little boy actually looked like in a picture. I would wake up in the middle of the night and see him standing at the edge of my bed looking right at us. My hubby had spotted him a few times also and even though we've seen at different times, we describe the same kid to each other. I have been over my neighbor's house many times and I scan for family pictures and she doesn't have any pictures of her family. I have only been in her living room, dining room, and kitchen. I would like to ask her but I don't want to upset her. She's in her 80's and I don't think it would be right for me to do this even though I'm curious as hell. The little boy we see has a cub scout uniform on and from what I gathered from my other neighbors is that all the kids back then when to cub scouts or girl scouts.

Da Weiner

05-11-2006, 11:18 AM

Hollyberry - Is this the first time this happened or a how many reoccurences has it been.

hollyberry

05-11-2006, 03:04 PM

This was the first of THIS kind .. never have I had or seen physical marks on anyone .. but this house particular has TONS of spirits/ghosts/energies in it .. the 2nd day we were here I witnessed and actual apparition in the middle of the day ... was sitting in my bedroom floor on eth 2nd level and heard a child come down from the 3rd level and to my door.. I said without looking up "what is it Makayla?"( my youngest daughter ) .. and then I looked up when she didn't say anything and it certainly wasn't Makayla.. it was a girl maybe a little taller than her with long dark curly hair and a black and white or dark grey dress that came about mid calf or just above the ankles.. she looked as shocked to see me there as I was to see her..lol.. you hear her all the time playing on the 3rd floor and sometimes she's in the hall on the 2nd floor throwing marbles down the hall. no idea where she keeps getting them ... we don't have any in the house .. you can also hear her laughing, giggling and sometimes even crying .. she sits on the kids' bed most nights or will stand in their door way ... there ar some negative male energies on the first floor ... and a negative female on the 2nd floor.. as well as just a mixture it seems of others that don't seem to stay around just pop in to visit from time to time.... the female energy.. when I moved into the extra bedroom back in December/January .. caeme down eth hall pissed off one night and jumped on me and held me down for quite some time.. once I got her off me .. man I ran my ass out of there and moved my bed to my office on the first floor.. she obviously didn't want anyone sleeping in that room..lol .. thinking about that now as I type this.. the previous owners didn't have that room as a bedroom either .. and it's the bedroom with a private bath ... hmmmmmmmmm ... anyway .. no more scratches since the last ones.. after we found out what was doing it .. we took steps to stop her .. and well for 2 days after since she couldn't get to Stacey to scratch her she would turn up the heat to 75 in her room.. I'd turn it off or the kids would and go back a few hours later the heat would be back to 75 .. after that she's been pretty quiet .. thank goodness..

these are just the tip of the experiences we've had here .. I could almost write a whole book on the experiences from this house alone..lol

Da Weiner

05-11-2006, 04:11 PM

Yeah, I know what you mean. Please be careful. It seems this spirit is being physical with you and your family. Once they become physical, they can become more dangerous.

krypt

05-12-2006, 02:37 AM

heres a few i have had here might be personal error but ill list anyway .....tv cuts off for no reason when remote is no where near me............walk in house and water at sink is cut on ........toliet flushes by no one.....this is one that gets me...... not running b/c flap didnt fit down..... just right out flushes........

Frighteners Entertainment

05-12-2006, 08:24 AM

I goota see one for myself :)

Faustian_Pact

05-16-2006, 10:06 AM

Yes. I do believe.

grapegrl

05-21-2006, 01:10 AM

Local ghosts are up for sale
Haunted Stark building to go on auction block
By Rick Armon
Beacon Journal staff writer

CANAL FULTON - The Warehouse on the Canal -- a magnet for years for ghost hunters and psychics seeking proof of the paranormal -- is up for sale.

The owners of the 19,000-square-foot, three-story brick building decided to close their Let's Mango Restaurant & Tavern about a month ago and sell because of health problems in the family. The 100-year-old structure overlooking the Ohio & Erie Canal will go to the highest bidder during a public auction Wednesday night at the site.

The winning bidder will inherit not only the building -- and possibly the furniture, kitchen equipment and liquor license -- but also the 15 to 20 spirits that believers say live there.

See the full article here (http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/14627340.htm)

HibLaGrande

05-21-2006, 01:24 AM

(from article) Miller, by the way, predicted that a man and woman -- possibly married -- will purchase the property at the auction. As for what the winning bid will be, she said she doesn't know.

LOL what a prediction. As opposed to what? A three legged hairless wombat named frank? :D

Can someone lend me a cool half million $$? I'm good for it.

Bone Dancer

05-21-2006, 01:32 AM

HibLaGrande

05-21-2006, 02:13 AM

I am not beneath accepting pennies. :D I'll pay you back in rubles.

Bone Dancer

05-21-2006, 07:22 AM

Let see now, 160 pennies to the pound, 50 million pennies, I think that makes it 312,500 pounds or 156.25 tons. And I am going to have to ship that COD. Do you want me to use Fedx,UPS, or USPS.You may wish to check the numbers. My math skills at this time of the morning are a little weak.

Dr Morbius

05-21-2006, 04:58 PM

Sending it through US post Office at maximum weight of 70 pounds each package at $36.33 each, you would need to send 4464 packages for a total cost of roughly $14,865.12 shipping from Battle Creek to Baycity MI.

you could pay the postal worker in pennies. Let's see, that would be 1,486,512 pennies at 160 pennies per pound = 9,290 lbs of pennies to pour on the counter. you need a forklift. Let's see, a forklift costs .....

HibLaGrande

05-21-2006, 08:31 PM

Oh hell, you are close enough I'll just rent a fleet of dump trucks. :D

Bone Dancer

05-22-2006, 03:42 AM

just pull them up to the silo out back

RAXL

06-02-2006, 10:57 PM

Sci-Fi and TAPS have announced 13 new shows, for season 3.:D :smoking:

SuFiKitten77

06-03-2006, 08:54 PM

Great show, loved the season finale at the "Shining" hotel .. kicked butt :D You guys see the marathon leading up to finale? Very cool :jol:

Zombie-F

06-03-2006, 08:55 PM

Sci-Fi and TAPS have announced 13 new shows, for season 3.:D :smoking:

That's good news. Whenever I like a show, I always have to worry about its cancellation. I tend to love shows that are not long for this earth.

SuFiKitten77

06-03-2006, 08:57 PM

That's good news. Whenever I like a show, I always have to worry about its cancellation. I tend to love shows that are not long for this earth.

Hehe, join the club .. they always tend to take away the good stuff. I am hoping Ghost Hunters is around for awhile .. very cool show, and very cool people in person

imax

06-05-2006, 10:41 AM

Good news, indeed.

They've captured some scary stuff on that show! Makes me want to do it, but don't really want to send the dough on some decent equipment. I've never found those 4x or 16x video systems, either. Does anyone know what they use?

Da Weiner

06-05-2006, 11:17 AM

I got a feeling that this show is going to be around for awhile. I like their website tooo.

imax - check out the website: www.scifi.com/ghosthunters/tech

I have to catch up on some of the shows in the summertime. I have class on Wednesday nights and don't get home until 9:30. I try to catch the show aired again at 12 o'clock but sometimes it's hard to do that.

imax

06-05-2006, 11:31 AM

Yeah, I had seen that site before, I was more interested in the equipment they use that actually does the video recording and multi-plexing, and any model numbers that may be available...

SuFiKitten77

06-05-2006, 04:31 PM

You can find out more about there equipment at: http://the-atlantic-paranormal-society.com That is there official website.

IshWitch

06-05-2006, 06:14 PM

I bumped into Brian at Horrofind Weekend 5 last year. Literally! We bumped into each other in a crowded hallway! LOL
It was cool.
:)

IshWitch

06-05-2006, 06:19 PM

We've gone on ghost tours there and got some good pics. Lots of orbs around the Castille, orbs in one of the old graveyards, but also a string of orbs in motion there. Double checked for mist on spiderwebbing and everything, but couldn't find anything that caused it. A face in a gravestone. And a bunch of things in the old pharmacy. Those are the best. Not sure if I still even have the pics tho' because our laptop crashed! aaarrrrrrgh!

Did y'all see the 2 eps with St. Augustine? The lighthouse is awesome! My hubby gets creeped out in the jail.

SuFiKitten77

06-05-2006, 07:34 PM

Brian is a down to earth guy, they all are :) They love to meet there fans and really try to be involoved with them as much as possible :D My kind of guys

Da Weiner

06-07-2006, 04:12 PM

Anyone going to watch the Scifi Channel tonight. Ghosthunters at 8 p.m. and/or the two-hour special, "Spooked". I'm glad class was cancelled tonight so I could get to check both out. Both shows are going to be about the Waverly Hills Sanitorium.

RAXL

06-07-2006, 06:36 PM

Got the DVR all set!:cool:

TAPS (Jay, Grant, Steve, Brian) Will also be at DRAGONCON in September, and Brian will be solo at Screamfest in Orlando in October.

feldjager

06-08-2006, 06:47 PM

wish they go to mansfeild prison and say there are no paranormal events

when i went on the ghost hunt there the sun was still up , i was alone and something grabed my arm 2x. so hard that my camcorder swang in the air. of corse it wasnt on at the time. who would have thought 15 mins, in to the nite that would happen!

Fangs

06-09-2006, 02:55 AM

Sweet! Love Ghost Hunters!!!!:xbones: Can't wait for Season 3! :D Wahoooo!

Fangs

06-09-2006, 02:56 AM

Did I just say Wahooo? Now I know it's time for bed!

DeathTouch

06-09-2006, 04:02 AM

Can you sing me a night night song D.F.B.L.? I need to go night night!

Fangs

06-09-2006, 04:12 AM

Heres what worked for my son: Hm hm--clearing throat-- On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair. Warm smell of Colitas, rising up in the air. How's that? That work? I know my spelling wasnt rite but it's 2:30 in the morn. Too.... tired.....to......care!

Faustian_Pact

06-09-2006, 04:36 AM

RAXL's favourite show? Never seen it.

claymud

06-19-2006, 07:23 PM

I found this on another board I'm subscribes to. This was posted this year... so I guess that means he's still kicken around...

PS: I know your gonna love this one Sin

Re: Spring Heeled Jack
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi! I have been fascinated with Spring-heeled Jack for a long time myself. On April 7th of this year, my grandmother saw a man bouncing out of her yard like he was on springs. And this was on a night of a terrible storm that had knocked out the power in the area. She described him in dark clothes and a dark cap but he was bouncing and never ran or walked!
I immediately thought of SHJ when I found out about it.

Regards,

Da Weiner

06-21-2006, 01:57 PM

When does Season #3 start?

RAXL

06-21-2006, 06:35 PM

New episodes start sometime in September.

Reruns are on Sci-Fi every wednesday.

Da Weiner

06-22-2006, 03:21 PM

Sweet. Thanx Raxl!!!!!

RAXL

06-22-2006, 07:19 PM

Oh, and anyone with a few hundred extra bucks in the wallet may be interested in this:

TAPS at the Stanley (Shining) Hotel.
November 2-5, spend the time watching The Shining IN the Shining Hotel, and spend the rest of the time hunting ghosts with Jason, Grant and Paula.
$190 pays for the tour and food, with rooms at the hotel running another $109 each night.

grapegrl

06-23-2006, 04:51 PM

From BBC News...

Ghost in heels back in old haunt
A headless male ghost said to have once stalked a famous Aberdeen theatre appears to have returned - in high heels.
"Jake" was blamed for any minor mishap to hit productions at His Majesty's Theatre for decades.

A refurbishment in 1982 got rid of much of the old stage equipment and apparently Jake with it.

However staff believe a multi-million pound renovation has awoken Jake - now complete with the sound of high heels...

Read full article here...(clicky) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/5097628.stm)

grapegrl

06-23-2006, 04:58 PM

Walking Ghost Caught On Tape?
Created:6/17/2006 4:09:14 PM
Last Updated:6/19/2006 9:58:35 AM

...Over the years, many unexplained happenings were being experienced by the staff and volunteers at the Valentown Museum. Footsteps and voices coming from locked rooms, inside a glass display case magazine pages turning by themselves, suitcases moving underfoot, a shadowy figure passing right through a closed door, spontaneous tinkling of an old-fashioned bell hanging on the General Store entry door and the binging of its security sensor counterpart when the door never opened, a white shadowy presence in a neighboring house, a man dressed in period clothing appearing in either the front or rear windows depending on whether one is coming or going, oil lanterns swaying, lights turning on and off on their own - all are just a few of the accounts documented.

Western New York Paranormal has given us permission to stream this video. To watch the video and read more about the footage and their investigation, click the links under Related Links and Related Video...

See full story and link to video here (clicky) (http://wusa9.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=50214)

claymud

06-23-2006, 05:13 PM

I didn't read the story but looked over the footage. You know the thing looks more like a guy in a sasquatch suit lumbering around.... but over on the left if you look in one of the windows you can see a Orb move from one side to the other.

Mr Unpleasant

06-23-2006, 05:34 PM

I don't understand why it is that every time someone says that there is video evidence of ghosts appearing in human form, that the video is such crappy quality. I have a digital camcorder and even on my worst day, my video doesn't come this bad. I think they're hiding something.

RAXL

07-01-2006, 09:50 AM

Bhopal, June 25, 2006

Villagers of Madanpura in Bhind district are collecting money through donations in order to build a house for a ghost.

The ghost, who was living on a tree, became homeless after the tree was uprooted.

Fear of the ghost has also made many leave their homes in the village, locat ed about 500 km from Bhopal.

"Earlier the ghost used to live on a tree, but it has now become homeless after the tree was uprooted in a storm a few months ago. He now wants a separate place to live in," one of the villagers said.

"They are so frightened that some have started leaving the village for fear of death." Seven families are reported to have left their homes to stay with relatives in neighbouring villages.

According to village head Akhilesh Purohit, many villagers told him that the ghost would come to them in their dreams and ask them to urge the panchayat (village council) to get a new house constructed for him. "But I would take it lightly."

Purohit says that he was frightened after he himself heard the ghost warning him in a dream to build a house as soon as possible.

"The problem is that the ghost doesn't want his new house to be constructed with donation by the villagers. He wants the house to be constructed through the panchayat and registered in his name. But the rules do not permit us to do any such thing," Purohit said.

However, the villagers decided to collect money for a house. The construction is slated to start soon, Purohit said.

Sinister

07-01-2006, 11:42 AM

After reading this post about this sad excuse of a village's "plight" I am forced to wonder how many of its actual citizens live on the street themselves. :rolleyes:

Hellrazor

07-01-2006, 12:14 PM

WTF???? now all Ghosts are gonna want rights!!!

RAXL

07-01-2006, 08:05 PM

Damn, Sinister, you have no compassion!:p

Bad enough these "poor villagers" have to build new housing for a ghost, but then, you make fun of them,too!:D

HibLaGrande

07-02-2006, 07:52 PM

what??? there are no other trees to live on in the area?

Anachronism

07-03-2006, 12:38 AM

This happened just outside of Willmar,
a little town in the back country of Minnesota, and while it
sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock tale, it's real.

This out of state traveler was on the side of the
road, hitchhiking on a real dark night in the middle of a thunderstorm.
Time passed slowly and no cars went by.

It was raining so hard he could hardly see his hand in
front of his face. Suddenly he saw a car moving slowly, approaching
and appearing ghostlike in the rain. It slowly and silently crept
toward him and stopped.

Wanting a ride real bad the guy jumped in the car and
closed the door; only then did he realize that there was nobody
behind the wheel, and no sound of an engine to be heard over the rain.

Again the car crept slowly forward and the guy was
terrified, too scared to think of jumping out and running.

The guy saw that the car was approaching a sharp
curve and, still too scared to jump out, he started to pray and began
begging for his life; he was sure the ghost car would go off the road and
into a nearby lake and he would surely drown!

But just before the curve a shadowy figure appeared
at the driver's window and a hand reached in and turned the steering
wheel, guiding the car safely around the bend. Then, just as
silently, the hand disappeared through the window and the hitchhiker was
alone again!

Paralyzed with fear, the guy watched the hand
reappear every time they reached a curve. Finally the guy, scared to near
death, had all he could take and jumped out of the car and ran and
ran, into town, into Willmar.

Wet and in shock, he went into a bar and voice
quavering, ordered two shots of whiskey, then told everybody about his
supernatural experience.

A silence enveloped and everybody got goose bumps when
they realized the guy was telling the truth (and was not just some
drunk).

About half an hour later two guys walked into the bar
and one says to the other,
"Look Ole, ders dat idiot that rode in our
car when we wuz pushin it in the rain."

TearyThunder

07-03-2006, 01:48 AM

ROTF, That had me going! Good one!

Sickie Ickie

07-03-2006, 04:21 AM

I love it!

Da Weiner

07-05-2006, 12:11 PM

HaHaHaHaHa - that was a good one!!!!

ScareFX

07-05-2006, 01:23 PM

:D I liked it!

Da Weiner

07-05-2006, 03:33 PM

Sounds like to me the ghost wants a house, and, after that, probably a big screen tv and cable! What the hell!!! :eek:

Rocky

07-10-2006, 01:46 PM

^ hahahaha !! :D

RAXL

07-19-2006, 09:30 PM

Owen Tomkinson was a British soldier who died of cholera in the northern Indian state of Bihar in 1906.

Nothing unusual about that, but people of Ekbalnagar in Gaya town where Mr Tomkinson is buried, believe that his ghost stops residents and passers-by and demands tea and cake.

So much so that to placate the dead soldier's ghost, they offer tea, biscuits and home-baked cakes at Mr Owen's grave at a two-acre burial ground, where he lies buried with hundreds of other Britons who died in the area.

Most of the graves are of children, aged between three months to eight years, and who died between 1833 and 1877.

Mr Tomkinson was among the last people to have been buried here - 'In loving memory of Owen, The dearly loved husband of Annie Tomkinson who died at Gaya (sic) on 19 September 1906, aged at 47 years', reads the epitaph.

'Hogwash'

But 100 years after his death, locals of this Muslim-dominated neighbourhood still say that the "angrez bhoot" (English ghost) is a restless soul who can be only pacified with tea and cakes.

Gaya is rife with stories about how Mr Tomkinson's ghost "stops people" and "asks for tea and cakes".

There is a restless soul around with a liking for tea and biscuits

Mehmood Ali, graveyard caretaker

"When darkness falls, the English ghost appears. He is dressed in a very English suit and boots. He stands in the middle of the road demanding tea and biscuit," says local school teacher Mohammad Zamiuddin.

Mehmood Ali, caretaker of the 'European' graveyard where the Englishman lies buried, is not sure of Mr Tomkinson's ghost, but says there is a "ghost in the area who likes tea and biscuits" .

"I have never met the English ghost. But I believe there must be some restless soul roaming around the area with his penchant of tea and biscuit," he says.

Sexagenarian Mohammad Basir says he had an encounter with the ghost some five years ago early one morning.

"He stopped me but after shaking my hand became invisible," says Mohammed Basir, a small time businessman.

There are even stories of how the ghost was "tamed" by a local resident few years ago by "chaining" it to a pillar in the graveyard.

"He tied him with some divine chains and fixed him to iron pillars near the grave," says resident Mohammed Zamiuddin.

But Mr Tomkinson's spirit was free again after the chain was stolen from the graveyard, says caretaker, Mohammed Ali.

Locals say the ghost was once 'tamed' by a resident
The oldest English resident of Gaya town, Arthur Wakefield, is appalled by the ghost stories surrounding Mr Tomkinson.

"This story about his ghost demanding tea and biscuits is just hogwash and part of the local superstition," he says.

But residents of Ekbalnagar - the most backward neighbourhood in Gaya town - still keep queuing up at Mr Tomkinson's grave to offer tea and cakes.

Faiyaz Ahmed, a local resident, says it is a small price to pay to keep the Englishman's ghost happy.

"He is quite unlike other ghosts. He is harmless. Even if you do not serve tea and biscuit, he leaves you if you promise to get it any other day," he says

A ghost that likes to eat.What is he, Slimer?:p
But really, first, a ghost that wants a village to build him a new
house, now one that wants them to leave him
food?!?:eek: :rolleyes:

HibLaGrande

07-19-2006, 10:21 PM

Hey, tea and crumpets, that's not so bad. I've heard of a ghost that demands that you give at least 10% of your weekly earnings to the keeper of his house. It's a regular franchise, this ghost has houses all over the world. :D

Sinister

07-20-2006, 12:13 AM

Lmfao! :D :D

Omega

07-22-2006, 05:28 PM

I have to agree with my pops on this one LMFAO! You know reading this story or article whatever be the case, I am constantly reminded of the Tea and Cake or death gag in Eddie Izzards Dressed to Kill.

grapegrl

07-24-2006, 01:24 AM

Haunted House For Sale In Central Florida
Ghost Of Woman Slams Cabinets, Moves Items

POSTED: 6:54 pm EDT July 21, 2006
UPDATED: 9:38 pm EDT July 23, 2006

SANFORD, Fla. -- A historic home believed to be haunted by the ghost of an elderly woman who moves items and slams cabinets shut is for sale in Sanford, according to a Local 6 News report.

Realtor Ronda Christiansen said a woman apparently haunting the 1921 home is friendly and has listed the home as being a home with a ghost.

"Some people are actually really scared," Christiansen said. "I actually made it a blind ad. I didn't say where the house was in case we…"

Christiansen stopped speaking as a door opened by itself next to her.

"Why did that door just open?" Local 6 reporter Mike DeForest asked.

"I don't know," Christiansen said.

Many people report experiencing strange phenomenons inside the structure, DeForest said.

Mortgage banker Rich Hayward said he has witnessed kitchen cabinets opening and slamming shut with no one in the room.

A penny that was set on a banister mysteriously vanished one recent day and was found in a bathtub when Hayward was alone in the house.

Also, when Hayward brought his teenage sons in to find the ghost, he was startled to see his own reflection in a window.

"For decades, I had a beard and in a reflection, I had a beard," the clean-shaven Hayward said.

The woman also appears in bedrooms at night.

"She has appeared at the foot of this bed," Christiansen said. "(The ghost has appeared) about where the armoire is."

DeForest said a light fixture that does not work has been seen turned on.

"There are more people interested in the ghost than people giving me negatives," Christiansen said.

See article and related newscast video here... (http://www.local6.com/spotlight/9558685/detail.html)

Ghostess

07-24-2006, 10:40 AM

Hmmm..... I wonder what living in Sanford would be like.....

I want a historic house!!!

Hellrazor

07-24-2006, 11:20 AM

Keep in mind, when you accept a "good" ghost - you open the door to ANY Ghost that wants in.. good or evil.

HibLaGrande

07-24-2006, 06:03 PM

I've had my door open for years. they must not like me.

Spooklights

07-24-2006, 08:01 PM

We think we have one.
Give me your address and I'll send it to you.
Free.
(That is, provided I can convince whatever it is to get into this nice FEDEX box.....)
:mad:

HibLaGrande

07-24-2006, 10:27 PM

need to find it's fetish and put that in the box. :D

Spooklights

07-25-2006, 07:16 PM

I know, but it seems to be highly attracted to car keys, and we need them. They just don't make ghosts like they used to. :zombie:

HibLaGrande

07-25-2006, 11:13 PM

you can send me the keys to your car...I don't mind. :D

Spooklights

07-26-2006, 05:24 PM

The ghost is probably in a lot better shape than the car will ever be.

grapegrl

08-03-2006, 11:57 PM

Here's a follow-up article on this story (http://www.local6.com/news/9620365/detail.html). The home was recently investigated by a local ghost tracker group.

RAXL

08-13-2006, 09:18 PM

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - It's the time of the year many Chinese businesses dread -- the hungry ghost festival, when families avoid moving house, couples postpone their wedding plans and tourists shy away from beach resorts.

But businesses may be hit by a double whammy this year due to an oddity in the Chinese lunar calendar that results in two "seventh" months -- also known as the hungry ghost festival, when the gates of hell open and the dead walk among the living.

The festival is widely observed by Chinese in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia, home to many Taoists and Buddhists, who believe that the living are supposed to please the ghosts by offering them food and burning paper effigies of homes, maids and other daily items for spirits to use in the after-life.

For those who maintain these traditional beliefs, all sorts of activities may grind to a halt.

In modern but still superstitious Hong Kong, people have begun to wind down their usually frenzied nightlife.

"All unusual activities must stop. I have ordered my husband to go straight home after work," said Winnie To, an executive at a foreign company.

The peculiarity of the double seventh month occurs because the lunar calendar assigns an extra month every three years to balance the lunar and solar cycle. This year, the Ghost Month runs from July 25 to August 23, with the leap seventh month stretching from August 24 to September 21.

In Taiwan, property and car sales usually enter a lull period during the festival, prompting retailers to provide generous offers or discounts to try to boost sales by appealing to the younger generation which is less superstitious.

"When we were young, our parents used to tell us not to go to the beach during the "hungry ghosts" festival because they were afraid that we might be captured by ghosts in the water," said Kate Peng, 32, who owns a drinks stall in Taipei.

Few people in mainland China, especially in urban areas and among the younger generation, follow ghost month traditions. Many superstitions and traditional practices were stamped out during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, because the Communists frowned on them as relics of China's feudal past.

RARE OPPORTUNITY

But it's not all gloom for Chinese during these two months.

For some Singapore gamblers, this is a rare opportunity to hunt for lucky numbers to play the "4-Digits" (4D) lottery.

"People will often use this chance to ask ghosts for lottery numbers," said Lee Inn Peng, a Taoist medium who has been practicing for 21 years. "These people are desperate, and will try anything. Sometimes they are at the graveyards with talismans, burning offerings asking for numbers."

In Singapore, where 75 percent of the population is ethnic Chinese, business associations often run street performances, known as "getai," to entertain the living and the dead.

Apart from inviting popular singers from overseas to perform, these "getai" shows also include auctions for auspicious items such as oranges, pineapples and charcoal -- which are associated with wealth in Chinese, and which are stacked on gold-tinted plates and elaborately wrapped in red ribbons.

"Some people will bid up to S$10,000 ($6,300) for these items because they believe it will bring them good luck," said Aaron Tan, who runs a company that organizes street performances.

Low said these items are usually packed with a slip of paper with several sets of four numbers, so that winners of the bid can use those numbers to bet in the 4D lottery.

"There are people who have struck lottery on these numbers and believe it is time to pay back the spirits who have helped them, so they don't mind paying a high price at the auctions," Low said.

($1=1.579 Singapore Dollar)