My ghost story from today

[Dr. Facebook Fever]

I'm sure a lot of people will think I'm crazy or just lying with this story. That would obviously be the first time that anyone has ever thought that here.

A friend of mine works at a local museum that has a legend surrounding it to be haunted by a housekeeper who hung herself in a spiral stairway many, many years ago. They tell storys of hearing a vacuum cleaner running in one particular room and when they open the door it stops and no one is there.

I actually got married in this building about 19 years ago and on the wedding video there is a part where you can clearly hear footsteps on a large staircase that leads into the main room where the wedding was but the wedding photo album shows pictures taken at that time by the photographer from completely different areas and no one else was walking around... plus no one in the video turns to look at who's coming down the stairs like they don't even hear it.

Fast forward to today. I'm hanging out with my friend in the prep room while she prepares a new item for showing. She needs a new pitcher of water for cleaning and asks me to go to the kitchen for it. So I head off. The kitchen is one floor below and the quickest access is the door to the spiral staircase right around the corner... it goes right down to the kitchen.

I open the door and about 5 feet in front on me is a woman hanging by a rope over the next section of stairs... facing the other direction, dressed in mostly white but wearing a black bonnet or head cover. I didn't panic or freak out. Immediately the storys came back to me.

I closed the door, went back into the prep room, set the pitcher down and told my friend I needed her to come downstairs with me because I'd seen something. She knows all about it so she did. She went first and there was nothing in the staircase... on the way down or on the way up.

She said it was the first sighting in weeks... not months or years but weeks.

Yes I know how crazy this sounds. I wasn't even going to share it but what the hell.

I'm not saying I believe whole-heartedly but I'm not a non-believer by any means. I've had other experiences that make me wonder too.

Call me insane or share your storys and beliefs.

[LiveSteam]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

Nah, nothing at all other than the dog not liking to be in the basement.

Ya thats weird. Those couple times I went with Larry Cook down to his moms old house in Leavenworth Kan. He said the house was haunted & that the dog wont go into the TV room where some lady killed herself after finding out her husband had been killed in France during the first world war. Lil dog would sit there in the hall way next to the room while the rest of us watched TV.

[Dr. Facebook Fever]

Originally Posted by Lumpy

My brothers and I saw ghosts in our house and our dad never believed our stories. Then, a few years ago, my dad called me w/ his ghost story. Needless to say, he's definitely a believer now.

My parents were renting a spot in an old building in their town, (it was an odds and ends store). Anyway, one day my dad was closing up and he was the only one in the back of the store, (my SIL and niece had walked out the front door a few minutes before). He heard a noise towards the back door, turned around, and there was a lady standing there. He started walking towards her to see who she was, then stopped when he got about 10 ft away from her. She waved, then walked through the back door.

Now for the really freaky part... there's an old bar directly behind the store and the owner told my dad about Sarah. She owned the bar in the early 1920's, (IIRC) and she had died in the bar. Anyway, a lot of the people that have gone to the establishment over the years have "seen" her.

When I was in KS a month or so ago, we went to the bar. Before anyone asks, no, I didn't see her. However, I did see a picture of her and it gave me the heebie-jeebies.

Oh, and she was kind of hot. I figured that I would get that out of the way before anyone asks.

Pics or it didn't happen.

[Lumpy]

Originally Posted by Dr. Johnny Fever

Pics or it didn't happen.

You dick.

Just for that... no more ghost stories for you.

[CoMoChief]

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

except for the "foot steps". Wouldn't that be an "experience"
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[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

Nah, nothing at all other than the dog not liking to be in the basement.

Actually, now that I think about it, that's not true. Maybe 4-5 years ago, I went in to the laundry room one night, and it was full of these weird giant houseflies. That kinda creeped me out. I sprayed the shit out of the room with Raid and it's never happened again.

Then just a couple years ago I went through about a 6 month stretch where the light bulbs kept burning out in the garage. One would burn out, then within a few days the other four would burn out. Then about a month later, the same thing. Went through that cycle quite a few times until I said **** it and replaced all the bulbs with CFLs. Not sure wtf that was all about but that's twice that I had strange shit happen with those garage lights.

[LiveSteam]

Burn some dam sage in that garage would ya?

[Dr. Facebook Fever]

Originally Posted by Lumpy

You dick.

Just for that... no more ghost stories for you.

I apologize. Please share more if you have them. I can't believe you're going to hold CP lexicon against me.

[Dr. Facebook Fever]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

Actually, now that I think about it, that's not true. Maybe 4-5 years ago, I went in to the laundry room one night, and it was full of these weird giant houseflies. That kinda creeped me out. I sprayed the shit out of the room with Raid and it's never happened again.

Then just a couple years ago I went through about a 6 month stretch where the light bulbs kept burning out in the garage. One would burn out, then within a few days the other four would burn out. Then about a month later, the same thing. Went through that cycle quite a few times until I said **** it and replaced all the bulbs with CFLs. Not sure wtf that was all about but that's twice that I had strange shit happen with those garage lights.

"Ghosts" are famous about ****ing with electricity/electronics.

[Lumpy]

Originally Posted by Dr. Johnny Fever

I apologize. Please share more if you have them. I can't believe you're going to hold CP lexicon against me.

I've shared enough. I like your ghost story, btw. I do have a question though. Why in the hell didn't you grab a stick and go full-pinata on her deceased ass?

[Dr. Facebook Fever]

Originally Posted by Lumpy

I've shared enough. I like your ghost story, btw. I do have a question though. Why in the hell didn't you grab a stick and go full-pinata on her deceased ass?

A. Well **** you then dammit

B. I'm a nice guy and you know this

[Lumpy]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

Nah, nothing at all other than the dog not liking to be in the basement.

What about the mysterious peony blossom in your mailbox?

[LiveSteam]

Originally Posted by Dr. Johnny Fever

"Ghosts" are famous about ****ing with electricity/electronics.

I have heard that to.

When my POPS died in 2002 he left me that locomotive in a million pieces. I spent the next year working on it. I came to a point where I need an odd ball tool that I knew Pops had ( Boiler flue roller) I looked for months for that dam tool. I couldnt steam it up with out rolling that 1 leaky flue back in. Any ways I looked & looked & had given up on finding it & was ready to buy one from a friend.
I come home from work & head into the shop to do some other things to the locomotive & their it is. sitting next to the rotary vice in between the lath & milling machine. By this time I had hundreds of hours making chips with both the lathe & mill. That flu roller was not there that hole time, I would have seen it, no if & or buts about it.

[Lumpy]

Originally Posted by Dr. Johnny Fever

A. Well **** you then dammit

B. I'm a nice guy and you know this

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by Lumpy

What about the mysterious peony blossom in your mailbox?

Heh, forgot about that one too. That creeped me out far worse than anything else that's happened around here since it had to be an actual living person that did it.

[Dr. Facebook Fever]

Originally Posted by LiveSteam

I have heard that to.

When my POPS died in 2002 he left me that locomotive in a million pieces. I spent the next year working on it. I came to a point where I need an odd ball tool that I knew Pops had ( Boiler flue roller) I looked for months for that dam tool. I couldnt steam it up with out rolling that 1 leaky flue back in. Any ways I looked & looked & had given up on finding it & was ready to buy one from a friend.
I come home from work & head into the shop to do some other things to the locomotive & their it is. sitting next to the rotary vice in between the lath & milling machine. By this time I had hundreds of hours making chips with both the lathe & mill. That flu roller was not there that hole time, I would have seen it, no if & or buts about it.

You may be able to believe pops was looking out for you.