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Cdbga
Member
10-04-2004
| Monday, June 25, 2007 - 11:46 am
Goodness, all this talk of ghosts (especially my own!) has me worried about my own house. Its a 1965 house, what if it is haunted? Anybody know whether there's a way to tell without waiting for the ghosts to show themselves? I do love the true ghost stories though. I have several books about Haunted Places. One all about "Haunted Georgia" and there is one that breaks the haunted places down by city/state. I love that one, can't remember the name. I have thought about planning our vacations around some of these places! We have been to St Augustine a few times and I've always been too afraid to take the ghost tour there. My aunt and I did visit this old church & cemetary on one of our trips. Not a place from the book, but just something we passed on our way somewhere else. I've always loved old cemeteries. But this place just freaked me out. I don't remember the details at all...what scared me so much...or anything about the church, but it just FELT haunted and it just didn't feel like the spirits were happy we were there. We got out of there quickly. The stories I love so much are the "nice" ghosts. I remember a few from the books about ghosts that did household stuff...one polished the chandelier...another would sweep the floors. Now THAT is the kind of ghost I'd want! One who does the dishes, maybe a little laundry...
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Monday, June 25, 2007 - 12:27 pm
LOL at your "nice" ghost stuff, Cdb! I hear that they only wash the white sheets for you...
I don't want one in my house even if it IS a nice, Casper kinda ghost!
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Monday, June 25, 2007 - 5:48 pm
Welcome Sajo! I just saw your post. CDB, that's true!
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Monday, June 25, 2007 - 10:09 pm
I have no idea if any of you listen to Coast to Coast. It regularly does all kinds of interesting interviews with paranormal specialists and researchers. a while ago they had a researcher who is building a machine to catch EVP electronic Voice projections....Voices from the dead. It scared the beejeezes out of me. Evidently It has already been used to elicit a confession from a murder. When the murderer heard the voice of the person he killed Telling facts about their murder he freaked and confessed. http://www.coasttocoastam.com/ I actually started a Thread under General Discussions hoping others, besides myself, are addicted to the radio show. this is the site I listen to it on. http://cfun.com/ontrel/player/cfunplayer.html
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Monday, June 25, 2007 - 10:13 pm
Oh and there was a Movie in which EVP was a central part...Dead Silence with Michael Keaton.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - 2:13 am
wrong name! 'White Noise' was the name of the show
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Biloxibelle
Member
12-21-2001
| Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - 5:58 am
A house does not necessary have to be an older house to be haunted. I posted a couple years ago about our house seeming to be haunted and we built it brand new about 3 years ago. It sits on 4 acres at the end of the road they just cut in the bayou about 7 years ago. There is no signs of any other housing ever being here. I guess Indians could be a possibility as our property is quite high while still right on the gulf and bayou. A good example is our neighbor on the corner took in 7 feet of water during Katrina while we only took in about a foot. But the vegetation out here is so thick I would think it would be a struggle for the Indians to keep it cleared off enough to have lived on. The ghosts are still here but seem much quieter then at first. Now things only seem to happen once an while. The shadows out of the corner of the eye seem to be the biggest thing now. Plus just the general feeling that someone else is here sometimes. But at least it is not as noisy or as aggressive as before. That or we have just got used to it. I'll post more about what it used to do after I get my little darling off to day hab.
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Dogdoc
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09-29-2001
| Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - 6:13 am
Animal spirits seem to stick around. Many people hear or catch glimpses of pets who have passed on. Other pets in the house appear to see or hear a deceased friend also.
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Cindori
Member
07-25-2003
| Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - 8:20 am
I've seen a few. My grandfather, some guy in my bedroom in my old house twice. The one I find most interesting I saw when I used to clean a funeral home after hours. I entered the viewing parlor to vacuum and happened upon the deceased standing next to his casket looking at himself. It seemed like he was just curious to see what he looked like. I wasn't altogether comfortable hanging out with him - so I just asked him if he could wait until I was done vacuuming. He went away.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - 8:36 am

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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - 8:40 am
Actually, this would be me, Cindori:

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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - 10:21 am
I loved the movie White Noise even though it scared me to death. LOL
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - 11:19 am
Cool stories!! I have never seen a ghost myself, though my Mum has a story. Her brother Doug had been killed in a drunk driving accident nearly twenty years earlier. Mum's parents were very much the root of her mental illness, and growing up it was her brother Doug who kept her grounded. Losing Doug was awful for her. When she was in the height of her illness, she was in the depths of depression and suicidal. She was lying in bed one evening after being released from the hospital. I had just tucked her into bed, wiped her tears away and tried to convince her that tomorrow would be a brighter day. The next morning as we were having coffee at the kitchen table she told me that my Uncle Doug had visited her last night. She says that about an hour after I tucked her in, as she was dozing off to sleep, she felt the pressure on the bed of someone sitting beside her. Then he rubbed her back and consoled her with soft, comforting whispers, telling her it was all going to be OK eventually. I don't remember timelines of that time well, but I do know that there were only a handful of hospitalizations after Doug visited.
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Cheri4angels
Member
11-15-2006
| Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - 1:06 pm
When we lived in Wyoming, on the Air Base there, we had a ghost for a while. My son, me and a friend of my DH's niece were the only ones to actually see it. We lived in a duplex and he would stay on our side til he scared us, then move to the other side until he scared them, move back, ect. We were good friends with the family in the other side but never talked to each other about this til I saw the ghost. We'd notice things like hearing water running, "sensing" something over where I had the dog bowls, the kids coming up from the basement asking "What?" because they'd thought we called to them, and next door they would hear footsteps in the hall at night. I had two Cockers, one was happily dumb, but the other always avoided the area right at the inner corner of our sectional couch. She would stop dead in her tracks and turn around and go the other way. It progressed to my son, who was 10 or 11 at the time, complaining that his brother was standing in his bedroom doorway at night looking at him when we knew his brother hadn't gotten out of bed. One night around Christmas everyone was in bed but me. I heard footsteps right beside me and while I was looking at the spot trying to figure out what the hell was going on I saw something out of the corner of my eye, by the Christmas tree. I looked over and saw a little boy, approximately 8 years old, dressed in blue "Tom Sawyer" type clothes, with blond hair and a straw hat. It scared the hell out of me, I went to bed and he moved next door as usual. Then on Easter DH's niece and a friend of hers came to visit. We put one in each of the kid's bedrooms. The friend, call her Sue, was in my oldest son's room. My youngest son is the one who was looked at, at night. We got up Easter morning and were getting ready to go to the mountains for the day. Sue called her Mom and we could see she was upset and kept stealing glances at us like she was afraid of us hearing what she said. Later that day we finally got her to tell us what was wrong. She said she'd been in bed facing the window, asleep. She woke up and felt someone staring at her. She rolled over and saw a little boy walk toward her then disappear. I asked her to describe him, and got an exact match to what I'd seen. We told her it was a ghost but not to worry, he never had hurt anyone. That night both girls were up all night hearing "Harvey", as we named him, play with the water. We then told the neighbors and my in-laws about Harvey. My inlaws were religious and it was their belief that there are no ghosts, just evil spirits, and wanted us to call in a preacher to get Harvey out. We weren't ready to do that so my FIL asked my DH to say a prayer and tell Harvey to go to Jesus. Only DH forgot the "go to Jesus" part, he just told Harvey to leave. Harvey left and we had no more trouble. Quite a few people at DH's office knew about harvey and a couple weeks after DH did his exorcisim someone he worked with asked if Harvey was still at our house. DH said no, and the guy then told him that someone he knew in another housing area said there was a little boy watching their daughter at night. Shortly before Harvey left our son started telling us he saw a little boy and an old man watching him. The whole base was haunted. It was built when they were building the railroad west, to protect the railroad workers from the Native Americans. There was one dorm that had a ghost cat, 2 haunted hospitals, and several of the older, Officer's houses were haunted. Talking about it was as casual as talking about the weather. I do believe it's the only Air Force base, that if you tell the doc you're seeing ghosts, they didn't put you on pills and send you to the shrink. I wish I could say I was exaggerating that, but, no.
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Racinrach
Member
11-16-2006
| Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - 4:49 pm
I have had two meeting with ghosts. The 2nd time was the most intresting... When I was a little girl I had these nightmares of the thing I called a “fright” when it appeared I couldn’t scream or let out any noise it was so bad I would wake up and hide under my covers for hours. This went on for about 11 years. One night I was having a dream and I was in my aunt’s living room and we were all talking and I look up the stairs and there was my “fright” looking at me. My grandma put her hand on my leg and told me it was ok from now on it would protect me. I woke up and felt a cold wind and felt my grandma next to me she said “I’ll remember” and that was it the cold was gone. I fell back asleep woke up in the morning to my dad telling me grandma had passed away. It still brings tears to my eyes. (Side note that fright I could never figure out was figured out when my sister and I went to Disney world and took the haunted mansion ride. It was a ghost looking in the mirror wearing her wedding dress. Ironic enough! )
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Sajó
Member
06-18-2007
| Wednesday, June 27, 2007 - 9:56 am
WOW !! Lots of people have seen ghosts. Sometimes I think, I see Our Old Kitty who died last summer,(July 20) from the corner of my eye. New Kitty always runs around, like something is chasing him. My husband says, that he has seen Benji a number of times at night, sitting on the kitchen table.
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Biloxibelle
Member
12-21-2001
| Wednesday, June 27, 2007 - 10:20 am
Wow I am happy to say I have never seen my ghost. If I were to ever truly see him/her Forrest Gump would have nothing on me. Mine would/does made noise. But he made his presence known. He even shook up my non-believing husband one day. I had been telling DH for a couple weeks about all the noises the ghost was making. Sometime the noise was so loud even the dog would jump up. Mostly it sounds like glass breaking, such as a window. One time it sounded like a whole wall fell over, the house even shook. The thing that upset me the most was one morning I felt him on the bed. I was sleeping and very clearly felt what I thought was my husband get off the bed and leave the bedroom with the bedroom door clicking shut. When I looked at the clock I realized no way could it have been DH as he had left for work a couple of hours earlier. The day he shook DH up was one day when DH was laying on the bed in our bedroom watching TV. I was sitting in the dining room doing something I don't remember what it was now. Anyway DH came out and asked me if I was knocking on the bedroom window. Of course I wasn't, I wasn't even outside. He said that there were 3 distinct knocks on the window. He thought it was me messing around so he just laid there. Then he said a couple of seconds later he heard the same 3 knocks so he thought I wanted something, he got up and looked and no one was there. He even now says he too see the shadows out of the corner of his eye. That is about all there is now to the ghost. I have no idea why he quieted down, the noises are few and far between. You can still feel him here if that makes any sense. I did tell him (the ghost) I didn't like him on the bed, so that has never happened again.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Wednesday, June 27, 2007 - 10:32 am
I'm fascinated by a few of you who have commented that you asked your ghost to stop, leave, etc., and they did. Wonder if ghosts are bound to some spirit code, where if the human they're haunting knows about them and acknowleges them, they have to stop? LOL.
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Mybbusername
Member
08-22-2002
| Wednesday, June 27, 2007 - 11:01 am
My son is a United States Marine and completed his basic training at Parris Island- which he reports to be haunted! At the rifle range (where they live for a week or two of training) he said he got up one night to use the restroom. The recruit on firewatch called him over. Richard (my son) said the boy looked really upset. He went over to him and the boy told him to look at the cabinet where the rifles were stored. Richard glanced at it and found nothing wrong, both doors closed, both locked in two places with padlocks. He shrugged his shoulders and the boy shook his head and said "no, just keep watching". Richard stood there for about 10 seconds, wondering what he was supposed to be watching when all of a sudden one of the padlocks (there were a total of four) started to violently shake and bang against the doors. The shaking went on for about 30 seconds. This is the only experience he had personally, but upon discussing it with his Senior Drill Instructor the following day, his platoon mates also reported the water in the sink turning on or shutting off, one said that the bathroom door, even when secured, would fly open. The SDI told them that many platoons before them had reported many of the same things, and that the only place that anyone ever sees/hears these things is at the rifle range. The craziest part of his story, to me at least, was his reaction. I ask him what he did when it stopped shaking and he told me, "I went straight to my rack and straight to sleep". I said werent you scared? I thought you had to pee? He said, "Mom, after I saw that I just needed to SLEEP, no peeing, no talking and above all NO THINKING ABOUT IT, just sleeping".
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Saturday, July 28, 2007 - 12:39 pm
A couple years ago, DH and I visited President Eisenhower's former home in PA. Before beginning the tour of the house, we were told by two different tour guides that there is NO flash photography allowed inside the house. All shades are kept lowered at all times. These measures are important in order to better preserve the colors of the carpets and furniture. My dh and dbil were by themselves in the living room and thought they had figured out how to turn off the flash on dh's new camera. They were mistaken, and our tour guide suddenly stopped mid-sentence to holler "I SAID NO FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY!!!!" I was mortified when I realized who the culprits were. Of course, I continued on my way, as though I had no idea who they were. LOL! The camera caught what I like to think is a ghost image in the upper left corner, near Mamie's portrait. It looks like it was fleeing. What do you think???

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Sajó
Member
06-18-2007
| Monday, July 30, 2007 - 9:13 am
WOW !!!! Nice picture. It does look like, something floating through the cabinet door .....Thanks Mak1
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Kstme
Member
08-14-2000
| Monday, July 30, 2007 - 9:59 am
Mak1, that's creepy! My mom passed away before Thekid was born. It really upset me and for months I would cry when I thought about how much she would loved to have seen and held Thekid. One afternoon when Thekid was about 13 months old, we were taking a nap on my bed. Something woke me with a start and I swear to this day, it was my mom at the foot of the bed giving her approval. On July 16, it had been one year since Tommy passed away. On the 15th, Thekid was really on edge, which was expected. I was doing 'ok'. On the morning of the 16th, I wasn't. Mags was the first to notice 'something' around the house. She went absolutely weird on us! She stood by my closet door until I finally opened it for her. She went through it with a vengeance, sniffing everything and stopping at Tom's old police uniform. She refused to move! Wouldn't budge for about 5 minutes. Then she ran out and went to his dresser where she sniffed all around it. Then, over to his bedstand. When she came out of the bedroom, she went to the other bedrooms upstairs and sniffed everything. She came downstairs and began her search. She went ballistic over the room divider thing between the living room and family room until I finally let her through. She went directly to Tom's old chair, curled up in it and refused to get out of it. She stayed in his chair for over an hour. She had not really paid any attention it for a long time. Her behavior, all day, was so out of the norm that I mentioned it to both Thekid and our friend from England. Thekid said she'd felt her dad's presence the day before. I knew I was feeling him on the 16th. My friend and I are sure he stayed around for a couple of days. Mags settle down late afternoon on the 17th.
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Monday, July 30, 2007 - 12:33 pm
Kstme, my sister in law was telling me that on the year anniverary of my Step mothers passing her dog did the same exact thing. it lasted a few days. but she took the dog to the vet and was telling the vet about it and the vet told her that dogs can sense when there is a spirit in the house.
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Kstme
Member
08-14-2000
| Tuesday, July 31, 2007 - 4:25 pm
Dfennessey, I definitely agree! It's amazing how in-tune a dog can be. Truly amazing!
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Alisons
Member
01-10-2003
| Friday, October 12, 2007 - 5:58 am
My grandmother's house is haunted - there have been things happening there for the past 60 years (and probably more, but prior to the 40s when the boys were home, there was always someone to blame odd events on.) I have seen this ghost as a little kid, so has my father, and the ghost has "touched" my two of my great aunts and a cousin. I think everyone in the family has heard the ghost "walking" or had some experience with him. One of the tabloids wanted to do a story on the house back in the 60s, but my grandmother would not allow it because she was afraid it would lower the property value. There was one previous owner to my great grandparents, who moved in in the 20s. Supposedly he hung himself from the rafters of the attic, but I don't know if that is true for sure. I do know that the house is built over a graveyard, because we have found pieces of old tombstones when digging vegetable gardens, etc. (That makes sense because this house is on a hill behind the site of an old church - the church has since been torn down and actually was already in ruins when I was a kid.)
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