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Halloween: Paranormal Experiences Post (The Unrated Version)
CCM:
I'm a skeptic and have had no personal experiences of my own. My wife is a strong believer in the paranormal and claims to have lived in a haunted house when she was a kid, things moving around, unexplained shrieking and screaming, etc... She was born in Amityville, NY so who knows.
We do watch Ghost Hunters every week and they seem to have had some pretty hard to explain evidence. Anyway, they are doing a live investigation tonight (they've done one the last few years on Halloween) starting at 7pm on Sci Fi. So, that's our big plans for this evening.
http://www.scifi.com/ghosthunters/live/
ark_ader:
I do not have much luck with spooks or ghosts, as I really have no active imagination to get my senses going - like terror from watching movies. I mean when I go to a horror show I laugh a lot and I guess it spoils it for others. Maybe it was my extensive collection of Fangoria magazines that made me immune. Rob Bottin was a hero of mine....
But I had two experiences that would wig you out if it happened to you, and one scenario that scared several family members to a point (well not my immediate family members - just to make it clear first we are not blood related) where one of my in-laws is in the nut house because of it.
First example was when I was 13 years old. I went to sleep one Sunday night (as there was no adult movies on Select TV that night - I had it in my room and my Dad didn't know what was on late at night) and had a very good sleep, woke up ready to go to school. Except when I woke I was totally blind. I was awake, stubbed my toes on the end of the bed, looking for the light switch, flicked the switch on and I still could not see anything.
Talk about panic. I was crying for my Dad, who came in and put me back into bed and told me to go back to sleep, so it must have been still early in the morning, so I went back to bed and went back to sleep. When I woke my sight had returned, but I had to miss football practice as I broke 3 of my toes. I do not sleepwalk and my Dad said my eyes were wide open, and it freaked him silly. Figure that one out. Blame it on Select TV.
Second Experience was at work. I used to work at an old textile mill, converted to a call centre. The mill had several accidents in its famous past. A fire in the basement killed several people, and it was claimed that it is near impossible to go into the basement as the feeling of "something in there with you" is pretty strong.
But I digress... In one of the woman's bathrooms (as used today) used to be a store room. In that store room a little girl died of strangulation with the fibers or cotton, rope -whatever. And the little girl's presence is still in the same place. It was not unusual to hear screams from the ladies going in there.
Apparently the stall doors open or close on their own and they can hear a whimpering voice. It happens in the evening so when you are on the night shift - you can get some pretty upset women running out of there on occasion. I always wanted to know why they went in the bathroom in twos and threes...
I went in there with two male managers - and it was a feeling like someone was watching you. Probably some pervert with a camera and a speaker... :laugh2:
Finally our famous in-law family spooky story. To make a long story short - My sister-in-laws parents were German, and escaped Germany at the start of WWII. Either they were Jewish or Gypsies they fled Nazi Germany aided by a priest. They escaped Germany and settled in the USA, but the priest was captured, tortured and executed by the Nazis.
So years on before my Brother married my sister-in-law, my brothers grew up and went to school with their family, and when I came along my future sister-in-law looked after me and was my babysitter on many occasions. It was through this time I learned about the garage.
Now they were a large family many brothers and sisters, and they did not go into the garage alone. I was not allowed unless I was accompanied. It appeared that the kind priest's "spirit" was somehow in the vicinity of the garage as things move about, odd noises loud enough to hear outside. You ask a question about it and they hushed you up. I thought it was a cat or animal caught in there. I opened the garage door once and had a look around. Nothing but cobwebs. But you would know something was up. Something you could not put your finger on.
The Spirit interacted with you when you least expected it to. My brother-in-law told me of a time he was asleep and woke to find he could not get up, and the record player started. All he had to do was say "leave me alone" and he was released. The sowing machine started once when I was there, while it was unplugged.
I never had any bad experiences there as the family was like my own family. We had so much fun together, fishing, BBQs etc. That the garage wasn't even mentioned. Something must have happened to that in-law who is now institutionalized.....
I would have moved, but they lived there until they all got married and moved away. I guess it was a legacy they all endured, or at least one does still.
I do not believe in Ghosts. But life serves up some pretty weird stuff that I cannot explain. :dizzy:
grbgemen:
when i was younger, maybe 7 or 8, i was sleeping on the floor next to my mothers bed. in the middle of the night, i sat up and at the base of my feet was a girl reading a book with her legs crossed. she was all white and had sort of glow to her. i quickly pulled the covers over my head and told myself it was a dream. however i was sure i was awake. i let the covers down slowly and she was still there. again i pulled the covers over my head and remember lying there, squeezing my eyes shut as hard as possible. i eventually fell asleep.
a short time after that, on a different night, i was again sleeping on the floor. i awoke again in the middle of the night and saw the same girl. only this time she was sitting on my mothers hope chest. again reading a book. she never said anything, nor did she ever look at me. i dont know why but when i saw her the second time, i wasnt as scared and i remember i just rolled over and went to bed. it was as if i felt safer that she was there. my mother to this day thinks she was watching over me.
have never seen her again since then.
other than that, ive had a few situations that were just strange. only one i really remember was it was late at night and i had been looking for something under the stairs. my father was getting ready for bed and told me to do the same. on his way up the stairs, he told me not to forget to shut the light off under the stairs before i went up. i went ahead and shut the light off, shut the door, and headed up to bed. while upstairs i remembered i had forgotten something downstairs. i went down and there stood the door wide open with the light on. and i know i shut it off.
Ummon:
--- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on November 02, 2006, 01:03:44 pm ---We both used to have horribly bad dreams when we lived there, and our bedroom, the one with the closet, was always 5-10 degrees colder than the rest of the house. Even in the summer.
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Man, gotta get me some o them for next summer. All them folks hangin and goofin around when they could be of some sincere help.
--- Quote from: rhoelsch on October 31, 2008, 08:14:32 am ---Back again!
... because sometimes, things
just
won't
DIE
(the power of Christ compelled propelled me)
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Fixed.
--- Quote from: pinballjim on November 01, 2008, 12:03:57 am ---I can't hardly wait until I'm dead and have nothing better to do than float around and screw with the living.
::)
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I know, huh? Basically, it's been described to me that these things are attached to life they no longer are a part of, and the best thing to do is to wish them off well.
--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on October 26, 2007, 09:45:35 am ---Pretty cool.
Time to get Amazing Randi involved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_Randi
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I don't recommend hanging out at his forums unless you're into the the nazi brigade thing. It seems to be the ultra-anti-anti-science haven. Many of them are scientists, too.
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on October 26, 2007, 02:10:17 am ---...but what I mean is, it isn't a dead person, it's something else. A rip in a dimensional barrier, unique properties in a room "recording" an event, ect... but NOT a spirit of some person.
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A...dimensional rift. Like, that's any different? Maybe they're the same thing?...or go together??
There was a time with a girlfriend and her daugher some years ago. This was in the mid afternoon, actually, no blinds on the windows, fully lit: we're in her daughter's bedroom, and all of a sudden she starts freaking out about someone coming to get her. Like she could see them, but they weren't there in the room. Like in a different space-time but viewable to each other. I got a little spooked, because I didn't think she was playing or was mental, and it wasn't something I was into if it was going to be a bad thing - you know, like not wanting to have to fight someone but preparing for it if it's seen coming - so we tried to assure her nothing was wrong and she eventually calmed down on her own.
My own direct experiences have mostly been of the mystical sort rather than horrific, which I think is partly because I don't have a mind and preference for the horrific.
mameotron:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on October 26, 2007, 02:48:26 am --- This is most disturbing and too hard for most to swallow, because that would mean
they would have to shoot down their own ideas about religion.
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I guess that depends on what religion you believe.
As a christian I know there are no ghosts. When people die they go on a one way trip upstairs or downstairs. Nothing remains here.
There are "demons" that inhabit the earth and we generally can't directly interact with them. Why? I'd say they've changed their methods and don't really need to anymore to accomplish their purpose.
The point I'm making is that my religion identifies and describes supernatural phenomenon, but offers a different explanation than "ghosts". I don't know what religion you're referring to, but I think you may need to shoot down your idea of religion.
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