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Offline fbWldcat

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Re: Ghost Stories, read.... If you dare
« Reply #15 on: October 18, 2010, 08:42:40 PM »
This one is really creepy. My sister had just moved out of the house and into her new house with her new husband. She was still getting used to not having everything at her disposal in the house. She had turned everything off, left the building and forgot something and came back. Well, we used to have a mirror across to the right of our stairs leading up to the living room. The huge big screen TV was exactly across from it. My sister saw the TV on in the mirror... And it was on. As soon as she hit the top step... it turned off and it got a bit chillier. She told us about it and it creeped me out. Actually happened to me, once, same occurance.
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« Reply #16 on: October 18, 2010, 09:03:40 PM »
Something ELSE creepy just happened, my dad was downstairs and I was on the computer, just as I clicked POST, a loud THUMP could be heard from the kitchen... where he was, he looked out the window, in the fridge, nothing fell.
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Re: Ghost Stories, read.... If you dare
« Reply #17 on: October 19, 2010, 09:08:31 PM »
First One: Your TV takes time to turn on and off, and thus as the last thing turned off, it could have simply still been on

Second One: That's your ventilation, in my house I could say that I hear a man walking around the attic, but I know that it's just my thumping A/C

Just because something isn't practical doesn't make it impossible.  Ghosts don't even have a reason to exist, we have yet to prove that you live on, post-mortem.

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« Reply #18 on: October 19, 2010, 10:27:58 PM »
Penguin is right about the brain patterns, most people have trouble grasping chaos theory.
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« Reply #19 on: October 19, 2010, 10:35:06 PM »
I've taken pictures of water dripping from a ceiling and told people they were 'orbs', about 80% of the people who see them say they can see a face in it. And a lot of them argue with me that the photo is completely genuine when I took it and know full well what it's of.

This one is perfect example- I took it at Fort Ontario in June of '08. Most people I show it to see a 'face' in what is just condensation dripping from the ceiling. And don't believe me when I tell them what it really is, they just tell me I'm a skeptic.



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« Reply #20 on: October 19, 2010, 10:38:18 PM »
I dont see a face. Can you draw a circle around it please?
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« Reply #21 on: October 19, 2010, 10:47:44 PM »
The white circle just right of center. I suggest you save the image and then zoom in on your image viewer, photobucket shrank it.
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« Reply #22 on: October 19, 2010, 11:49:47 PM »
I wish I had cool stories to tell, but not once in my entire life have I ever experienced anything that remotely seemed supernatural.

I have family members that swear they've witnessed "spooky" things.

I'll allow for possibilities, but I'll only be a true believer when I see it myself.
 

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Re: Ghost Stories, read.... If you dare
« Reply #23 on: October 20, 2010, 12:19:16 PM »
When my mom was a little girl she lived in Paris, Texas. On several occasions, when she was alone in the house or her room, she would see the figure of a man walk by her doorway out of the corner of her eye. As she would turn to look, she would be able to see brown shoes and a brown pair of pants, but the man would walk by too quickly for her to see his face. She would then run to the doorway and look out into the hallway...but it would be empty.
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Re: Ghost Stories, read.... If you dare
« Reply #24 on: October 20, 2010, 04:58:55 PM »
First One: Your TV takes time to turn on and off, and thus as the last thing turned off, it could have simply still been on

Second One: That's your ventilation, in my house I could say that I hear a man walking around the attic, but I know that it's just my thumping A/C

Just because something isn't practical doesn't make it impossible.  Ghosts don't even have a reason to exist, we have yet to prove that you live on, post-mortem.

Remember, your brain loves patterns, and when it's scared, what it comes up with makes a polar bear seem like a teddy bear.

Don't assume I haven't taken things into account. Our A/C has never made a noise in the time I've been at the house, nor has it since the incident. The A/C doesn't even run through the kitchen, the closest it gets is about 20ft away. It came from the kitchen facing AWAY from the A/C unit. So it wasn't the cooling system.

I don't know what TV you have been with your entire life, but ours powers off instantly. My sister came back in the house after several minutes being away. I've already thought through all the possibilities, thanks.
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Re: Ghost Stories, read.... If you dare
« Reply #25 on: October 20, 2010, 07:27:39 PM »
Don't assume I haven't taken things into account. Our A/C has never made a noise in the time I've been at the house, nor has it since the incident. The A/C doesn't even run through the kitchen, the closest it gets is about 20ft away. It came from the kitchen facing AWAY from the A/C unit. So it wasn't the cooling system.

I don't know what TV you have been with your entire life, but ours powers off instantly. My sister came back in the house after several minutes being away. I've already thought through all the possibilities, thanks.

Always happy to help, but I know that you know that what goes "Bump!" in the night is usually your house, mine does it incessantly.  The TV being on?  Perhaps she was wrong, memories are changed each time that they are recalled.

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Re: Ghost Stories, read.... If you dare
« Reply #26 on: October 20, 2010, 07:32:30 PM »
I've taken pictures of water dripping from a ceiling and told people they were 'orbs', about 80% of the people who see them say they can see a face in it. And a lot of them argue with me that the photo is completely genuine when I took it and know full well what it's of.

This one is perfect example- I took it at Fort Ontario in June of '08. Most people I show it to see a 'face' in what is just condensation dripping from the ceiling. And don't believe me when I tell them what it really is, they just tell me I'm a skeptic.

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Re: Ghost Stories, read.... If you dare
« Reply #27 on: October 21, 2010, 03:24:45 PM »
Always happy to help, but I know that you know that what goes "Bump!" in the night is usually your house, mine does it incessantly.  The TV being on?  Perhaps she was wrong, memories are changed each time that they are recalled.

She told us the very day it happened.
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« Reply #28 on: October 21, 2010, 05:58:41 PM »
I have pics of ghost orbs from inside a 15' deep kiva at Mesa Verde near four corners.  Nothing reflective in the kiva and over 2,000 year old religious kiva.  VERY distinctive ghost orb.


We lived in a house in Midlothian, VA that was definitely haunted.  It was a contemporary and less than 15 years old.  Our first night there the wife made dinner.  As we both looked at the rice she was making on the stove, the crockery pot with glass cover violently cracked, sending almost done (and only on low heat) rice and broken pot all over the stove and floor...weird event #1.

Same house a few weeks later, my radio co-host comes over with her deaf Dalmatian so we can dog-sit for the evening.  The dog comes in and looks up near the ceiling and won't stop barking...then seems to "follow" something into our bedroom, still barking and looking near the ceiling.  The dog seemed to "see" something and bark at it...chasing it up the stairs at one point on & off during the evening....weird event #2.

Same house a few months later, my kids (then 9 and 10 at the time) keep telling us that in the evening and in the night that a "dirty light ball" comes up the stairs slowly and that they can hear footsteps on the stairs but no one is there.  This happens every few weeks or so the whole almost 2 years we live there...weird event #3.

Same house a few weeks later, we are all sitting at dinner, talking about the strange haunting events when a 5" glass snow globe violently cracks and the water starts dripping slowly at first and then cascading down the cabinet.  It had been up there for months, untouched.  After it first  cracked, we were all looking at it...weird event #4.

Same house---every family member tells of times they are sitting watching television when out of the corner of their vision to the left, they see the dark shadow of someone walking from the dining room to the kitchen.  Always happens in the late evening to late at night...always a dark shadow....weird (ongoing) event #5.

There was a dark brown stain on the ceiling of the living room.  The stain would have originated in a bedroom we never used (when we initially moved there the kids wouldn't go in there) that I had for a Exercycle room.  I only worked out in there once when we first moved there and felt creeped out--like something was watching me--and I was the only one in the room with the door closed.  It would also turn cold, even in the Summer when we weren't running the A/C.  The next time I went in to work out the Exercycle was broken...almost like "something" didn't want me in the room....weird event #6.


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Re: Ghost Stories, read.... If you dare
« Reply #29 on: October 21, 2010, 06:51:18 PM »
I've debated wether I should tell these stories. Some may call me crazy, but i feel that others may be interested.

Several years ago my wife and I were living in an old mining house down the street from our current home. We were settling into bed for the night when we heard....Thump......Thump.... ...Thump coming from downstairs. I grabbed my Mossberg and headed downstairs.

Thump....Thump.....Thump....

As I got further down the stairs I realized that I was hearing the rocking chair in our living room as it banged against the wall. (As if someone were sitting in it, rocking back and forth.)

At the bottom of the stairs I could still hear it. Thump....Thump.....Thump.... I took a deep breath, steeled my nerves for a confrontation, and turned the corner.

I watched as the rocking chair slowly came to a stop. I immediately cleared every room in the house and checked all the doors and windows. (All locked.)

A few years later, while our daughter was a newborn, we set her in her crib for the night and went out to watch some t.v.

After a few minutes we heard music playing in her bedroom. She was sound asleep when we laid her down, and we DID NOT have any music on.

We immediately recognized the song that was playing. It was her favorite lulliby. (The one that always made her smile and feel very relaxed.) This particular song also just happened to be the LAST track on the c.d.

We turned it down and stood in the room until it finished, at which point we left. The fact of the matter was that we felt no fear or ill will was involved.

These are 2 examples that I have. Now I gotta get the hair on the back of my neck to lay down again.

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