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
>

[Eleazar]

No, but I believe in underpants gnomes.

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

the little girl in the fire....

[cadmonkey]

I believe in ghosts. A lot have weird sh*t has happened that really can only be explained by ghosts. Not stuff floating through the air or anything but weird sh*t.

I caught my dog barking at nothing one night, but he was following something across the room. Kinda strange.

[crispystl]

wow that picture fuggin freaks me out

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

Originally Posted by crispystl420

wow that picture fuggin freaks me out

Even more than my avy?

[CosmicPal]

Yes....

I didn't before. But after working at Johnson County Ind-ustrial Airport years ago- I've come to experience on more than one occasion.

I've talked about it before here on the Planet.

[crispystl]

Originally Posted by beer me

Even more than my avy?

that dancing barney is the scariest thing

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

Originally Posted by cadmonkey

I believe in ghosts. A lot have weird sh*t has happened that really can only be explained by ghosts. Not stuff floating through the air or anything but weird sh*t.

I caught my dog barking at nothing one night, but he was following something across the room. Kinda strange.

maybe your dog is just stupid....?

[Bwana]

Originally Posted by beer me

maybe your dog is just stupid....?

I was thinking the thing may have been chasing a small bug, but that could also explain it.

[cadmonkey]

Originally Posted by Bwana

I was thinking the thing may have been chasing a small bug, but that could also explain it.

It was the middle of winter, in Mass. no bugs live past Oct., and he was following something like a dog following a person across the street

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by cadmonkey

It was the middle of winter, in Mass. no bugs live past Oct., and he was following something like a dog following a person across the street

One of my cats will sometimes just stare at the ceiling. Then when I look, he grins and walks away. Cats have a funny sense of humor.

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

Originally Posted by cadmonkey

It was the middle of winter, in Mass. no bugs live past Oct., and he was following something like a dog following a person across the street

Maybe it was Satan...or Babe Ruth...

[Iowanian]

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

[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?