Do you believe in ghosts?

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

...or spirits from the netherworld...or at least that some kind of "energy" exists that we can't explain? Ever seen a ghost...heard anything go bump in the night? Ever felt a presence that you couldn't explain? Afraid of the dark, old empty houses, graveyards or being home alone?

Anyone got any ghost stories?

I believe there is something out there that exists between this life and the next "place" we go when we die. I don't know what it is...whether ghosts are real or just in our minds.

I do know that my wife and I were married in an old museum that is said to be haunted and there is a place on our wedding video that you can clearly hear footsteps on the stairs leading into the room we were married in. No one heard any footsteps during the ceremony though...and they're too loud to have been missed. We thought it may have been the photographer...but there are pictures taken at the moment of the footsteps that are in a totally different place. Not to mention everyone was seated and no one left or entered in the middle of the ceremony. We all could have seen them if they had.

I know that my wife, kids and I have all heard footsteps in our hallway and the pages of a newspaper being turned out in our living room early in the morning on various occasions. I know too that my youngest daughter hollered out to my wife and I after she went to bed one night and asked which one of us just walked past her room. We were both sitting in the living room watching tv at the time and neither of us had gotten up or walked anywhere. My daughter is absolutely positive one of us walked by her room and into our room though. I even had to get up and go search to convince her that no one was in there. The good thing is she wassn't even scared. I also know that once we took the nameplate of the former owners off of our front door, these things seem to have all but stopped.

Here's a pretty cool story someone sent me with a pic on the next post...

> On November 19, 1995, Wem Town Hall in Shropshire, England burned to the
ground. Many spectators gathered to watch the old building, built in 1905,
as it was being consumed by the flames. Tony O'Rahilly, a local resident,
was one of those onlookers and took photos of the spectacle with a 200mm
telephoto lens from across the street. One of those photos shows what looks
like a small, partially transparent girl standing in the doorway. Nether
O'Rahilly nor any of the other onlookers or firefighters recalled seeing the
girl there.
>
> O'Rahilly submitted the photo to the Association for the Scientific Study
of Anomalous Phenomena which, in turn, presented it for analysis to Dr.
Vernon Harrison, a photographic expert and former president of the Royal
Photographic Society. Harrison carefully examined both the print and the
original negative, and concluded that it was genuine. "The negative is a
straightforward piece of black-and-white work and shows no sign of having
been tampered with," Harrison said.
>
> But who is the little girl? Wem, a quiet market town in northern
Shropshire, had been ravaged by fire in the past. In 1677, historical
records note, a fire destroyed many of the town's old timber houses. A young
girl named Jane Churm, the legends say, accidentally set fire to a thatched
roof with a candle. Many believed her ghost haunted the area and had been
seen on a few other occasions
>

[CosmicPal]

Originally Posted by crispystl420

wow cosmic that is some scary shit how the hell did you sleep at night? Did you move to another place?

Are you reeruned? I didn't tell you any stories.

[crispystl]

Originally Posted by CosmicPal

Are you reeruned? I didn't tell you any stories.

oops my bad I meant Iowanian

[Lightning Rod]

I have worked in a number of places where people said their was a ghost. I live in a house where someone was murdered. ( yes before I lived there). Never seen a damn thing.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by CosmicPal

Are you reeruned? I didn't tell you any stories.

OH, MY GOD! THEN WHO WAS THAT IN THE PROM DRESS THAT HE PICKED UP ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD?!?!?!

[David.]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

OH, MY GOD! THEN WHO WAS THAT IN THE PROM DRESS THAT HE PICKED UP ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD?!?!?!

...rep(the neg kind if that's what you want )

[Wile_E_Coyote]

The ghosts of murdered kittens will haunt you all to an early grave

[CosmicPal]

Originally Posted by crispystl420

oops my bad I meant Iowanian

No problem....I figured you were talking about his story, but didn't quite know.

My story gets a little tedious and there's nothing really to say other than you just had to be there.

I worked at that airport for 3 years in between when I was 19-22 yrs old. It started off as a summer job, but I kept it while going to school.

The first year or so I always heard and felt weird things, but always blew them off as the wind or some animal or bird or something I just couldn't explain. I worked nights and sometimes you'd be on the grounds of the airport and you'd see something lurking in the shadows.

But, the fact is - as long as somebody didn't jump out and attack you- you just blamed everything on the wind or your eyes/mind playing tricks in the dark. Sometimes, you'd be driving by the abandoned hangar and you'd hear something break- and even then you would think something just fell as the building was abandoned after all.

Never once did I think the place haunted until one night I was fueling one of the trucks. It was around midnight and it remained to be a very humid and warm night in the midst of summer. I was on top of this jet fuel truck watching as the fuel filled the tank when I swore someone came out of nowhere and flew by the trees or something. It freaked me out. And then some indiscernable noises as though someone was talking, but I couldn't quite make anything out of it. It then felt like someone was standing right next to me- embracing me and then- instataneously- it got freakin cold.

When I say cold- it was so damn cold, so quick- I was literally shaking like a leaf on a tree. There is no freakish weather condition that can account for this. The world around me was a blistering cold, and I literally freaked out. Stopped the fueling process immediately and drove like a bat out of hell (pun not intended).

I shook for the next few hours. And it was then I learned from everyone else how haunted the place was. It was then I finally understood all the previous experiences I blew off....

You simply had to be there...Go there sometime this weekend late at night. Trust me. You WILL experience something for it happened quite often when I was there....

[Iowanian]

Sounds like maybe you just took an extra shroom, cosmic.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by David.

...rep(the neg kind if that's what you want )

Actually, I posted somewhere yesterday that I didn't want neg rep any more, and that anyone who gave it to me would get nuclear-neg-repped into a glowing mound of glass. Hopefully you got the message.

[CosmicPal]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

Sounds like maybe you just took an extra shroom, cosmic.

Nope...they would give you better stories than that.

[David.]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Actually, I posted somewhere yesterday that I didn't want neg rep any more, and that anyone who gave it to me would get nuclear-neg-repped into a glowing mound of glass. Hopefully you got the message.

haha

[C-Mac]

Folks their as real as we are.
Its much easier to understand so many things accepting their existance rather that try to explain without. Also anyone who believes in God, Jesus or the Bible must also believe in spirit creatures and demons.

[yunghungwell]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

hungwell........tell em about your boogy man.

I am not sure if I am a believer or not, but it does make me a little nervous telling my story because I still live in the house.

We bought our house from an old lady and her husband had died a few years prior. As far as I know he did not die in the house.

A few things have happened in our house that were a little weird, but nothing too scary. Mostly thinking that someone is somewhere that they are not.

1.) I carried a basket of laundry up from the basement and was standing at the top of the stairs in the doorway to our bedroom holding the basket an watching Letterman. I thought that I could see a shadow out of the corner of my eye. It felt like my wife had just walked behind me. When I turned around to talk to her she wasn't there.

2.) I was sitting on the couch in the living room watching TV and my wife was in the kitchen. She though that I had gotten up from the couch to go the bathroom or the office when she noticed that I was still firmly planted on the couch. She grilled me with questions, asking if I had really been sitting on the couch the whole time. She really thought that I had gotten up, went in the other room, returned, and was now messing with her head.

3.) Our TVs change channels and the volume turns up on its own sometimes. I don't know if this is part of the story or not. I suppose it could be some type of electromagnetical noise in the infrared part of the spectrum, but I don't really know. I haven't had this happen at other places that I have lived that I recall. If it did happen, it never happened with the frequency that it happens at my current home. Maybe the old man doesn't like what we choose to watch on the TV sometimes.

Anyway, I hope that this doesn't bring on the bad mojo, but the story was requested.

Oh yeah, there were those coffins that we found buried in yard when we had to fix the sewer. Do you think that has anything to do with it?

[Iowanian]

Its not that that indian burial ground was in your yard so much.........but probably peeing off of your back porch onto them that stired up the natives.

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

Originally Posted by yunghungwell

I suppose it could be some type of electromagnetical noise in the infrared part of the spectrum

wow....you sound like a real ghostbuster or something...