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Posted by Richard Hamilton (Member # 321) on 04-11-2011, 11:46 AM:

I tried watching Paranormal Activity last week but couldn't get through it. Years ago when I returned from my honeymoon, we had to stay at her parents house. (her grandparents were still in town and staying there).

We stayed on the 3rd floor which used to be a ballroom. Half of it had been remodeled years before. When you walked up the stairs, the left side was the bedroom, and the right was the ballroom that was never refinished. My first time walking up there, I got chills and weird feelings. The original owner of the house hung himself there.

The first night, I woke up and saw someone in the doorway between the bedroom and "ballroom". I did what every grown man would do....jump up turn on every light in the room and dive in bed on the other side of my wife so she was closer to the door. The next night I woke up in the middle of the night just so scared that I couldn't move or speak, I just layed there. That was the last night I stayed at that house, scared the crap out of me, I know when my mind is yelling "get out", I get the fuck out!!

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-11-2011, 12:00 PM:

I'd have the furnace checked before I assumed that there were ghosts.

Most old houses that have ghosts also have old furnaces that leak carbon monoxide.

Carbon monoxide can make you sick and cause hallucinations without even realizing what's happening.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-11-2011, 01:01 PM:

I dunno, I've always wanted to stay a night at the Amityville house.

Posted by Richard Hamilton (Member # 321) on 04-11-2011, 01:53 PM:

I was able to find that picture,which was their home, from a historical site for downtown Evansville. Just looking at it gives me the creeps. Ghosts and in-laws, and memories of having sex in a haunted room [uhoh]

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-11-2011, 03:37 PM:

That sounds fun. I'm going to have to adjust my furnace to leak some carbon monoxide. But what about the summer? How do I see ghosts then?

Posted by Robert Minichino (Member # 3495) on 04-11-2011, 03:49 PM:

During the summer? Water heater.

Posted by Tom Petrov (Member # 1534) on 04-11-2011, 03:51 PM:

No

Posted by Robert E. Allen (Member # 1351) on 04-11-2011, 04:36 PM:

I believe in a spiritual world but not ghosts as is the popular belief. Most are the work of this guy.... [evil]

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-11-2011, 05:27 PM:

quote: Joe Redifer
That sounds fun. I'm going to have to adjust my furnace to leak some carbon monoxide. But what about the summer? How do I see ghosts then?

Take a shower:

quote:
In 2005, a 23-year-old victim of carbon monoxide poisoning was found delirious and hyperventilating. She told the paramedics who found her that she saw a ghost in the shower. One week before the accident occurred she had a new water heater installed in her house. It was installed incorrectly and was flooding excess carbon monoxide into the house. The ghost was a vision created out of her carbon monoxide induced hallucinations.

Source: http://blog.frightcatalog.com/2011/03/24/carbon-monoxide-poisoning-the-explanation-of-ghost-hauntings/

Posted by Frank Angel (Member # 248) on 04-11-2011, 11:58 PM:

I don't get it. Don't you think if there were really a ghost, he'd be a lot more afraid of a LIVE human...a big strapping manly man than that man would be of him? After all, he's just an image, barely there, and not for nuthin, the dude HUNG himself....what a wuss; how much of a threat can he be?

Even if I believed in them, I am wouldn't assume it could do any physical harm except like doing all that ghosty stuff like APPEARING and popping out in mirrors and Ooooooh-ing....making dumb noises here and there; big deal. I say you should have hurled a shoe at it. Tell it to get the hell out of your house. Or say, "Hey bub, is this where you off-ed yourself, in that ballroom there? It is, isn't it, huh? I bet THAT had to smart. Hey, you want me to get you another rope, let's see a demonstration; let's see how you did it, asshole."

I mean, he was totally ineffectual in life, what makes anyone think he's gonna be more macho beyond the grave?

It's all just a matter of attitude. We don't put up with no stinking ghosts here in Brooklyn.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-12-2011, 12:11 AM:

I don't believe in ghosts but I WANT to because they seem fascinating to me. I like being spooked out like that. And I think a ghost would be less afraid of you than you would be of it. Here is my scientifically researched reasoning as to why: Ghosts are strange to humans. Strange things that cannot be explained = spooky. Ghosts know what humans are. Not spooky.

Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 04-12-2011, 07:24 AM:

I visited the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam a few years ago. To enter I bought a ticket in the adjoining house and proceeded through a doorway to the left side. As soon as I crossed the threshold I was overcome with this feeling of extreme sadness that prevailed throughout my entire visit. As soon as I exited the sad feeling went away. Later, I told a colleague about the experience, and the next day he reported the same feeling after he visited. Ghosts - No, residual energy - Yes.

Posted by Frank Angel (Member # 248) on 04-12-2011, 10:51 AM:

Oh, that's just the time/space displacement and as you say, energy from the parallel universe. You are in the same place but feeling the energy from a different time. There are a couple of STAR TREK: NG that explain all that.

Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 04-12-2011, 03:47 PM:

My apt. has the ghost of a past tenant who passed away in the living room. (Ironic really.) The spirit is very playful, he likes to knock down my motorcycle models sometimes. The first time it happened I thought it was my cat, but all the subsequent times it happened the cat was sleeping on the bed with me so it wasn't the cat.

Also my cat will sometimes sit in the hallway and meow and stare at the ceiling.

Posted by Jim Bedford (Member # 4) on 04-14-2011, 11:57 AM:

No ghosts, including the so-called holy one.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-14-2011, 05:35 PM:

[Smile]

Posted by Troy Powell (Member # 5505) on 04-14-2011, 05:43 PM:

On the picture of the house, who is the lady to the right holding flowers? And why is it that only white people keep sticking around after an episode like that?

Posted by Richard Hamilton (Member # 321) on 04-14-2011, 06:16 PM:

quote: Troy Powell
why is it that only white people keep sticking around after an episode like that?

quote:
That was the last night I stayed at that house, scared the crap out of me, I know when my mind is yelling "get out", I get the fuck out!!

Posted by Jonathan Goeldner (Member # 4854) on 04-14-2011, 08:39 PM:

I DO want to believe in ghosts, so when I die, I won't go to the light but stick around and haunt a movie theater ... [Wink]

Posted by Ed Alvarado (Member # 2760) on 04-19-2011, 06:10 AM:

oh im a big time believer in Ghosts. it started off at my aunts house and at 3am I'm getting a late night snack and then i hear a kid laughing but quietly and i can actually hear the foot step in the hallway. so i checked to see what it was and i see the shadow lead to the leaving room and as i walked into the living room i see a shadow figure of a kid and glowing eyes and i thought it was my little cousin and as i was telling him to go back to bed he just laughed so i turned around to flip the light switch and as i looked back at the couch it was nothing. so i ran to my cousins room my cousin was asleep. and my aunt asked me what i was doing and i told her what happen and she told me that the apartment has ghosts and that it happen to her when she moved in.
also in 2002-2009 working at the movie theater and as a projectionist you tend to stay in the booth for the majority of the time. and as i was doing maintenance i heard my name being called out in an area that nobody is allowed to enter unless your a projectionist or manager. so i get up to see who's calling my name i see a silhouette of a tall shadow figure. and as i get closer to turn the lights on and looked around the sound rack the figure disappeared. i thought it was a prank at first from the co-workers and as i called them on the cell phone they all told me that they were at home or asleep. after the years i noticed that it only happen after 9pm every night so i told them what happen and they all laughed and told me that im just going nuts and developed "BOOTH MADNESS" and that it was all in my head. well we had an older lady who been working at this theater for ever 16yrs and she told me that before it became a movie theater it was a stage play theater and that one of the actors hanged him self and nobody knew if it was a murder or suicide but either way it happen in the late 70's. now over the years the clean up people have complained that they seen ghosts and in 2008 a clean up crew quit because the main person was scared to come back to work. i told them that there's a ghost but that all he does is either whisper your name or show up in a shadow figure or just moves things around but never does anything crazy like you see in movies. well in 2007 the place had security cameras installed in every corner and none of the new management believed me until June of 2009 at exactly 12am when everybody is starting to exit the theater and the cameras pick up movement at the downstairs area where the bar is located and a White/gray fuzzy orb rise from the floor and you can see white lines in the orb that resembles legs and arms and also the torso. but it circled the downstairs and you can actually see it climbing over the BAR and searching around the bar area looking at the bottles and then it sinks back down. and then at 1:20am the white orb reappeared from the ceiling and actually followed an employee to the exit door and stopped right as the employee was walked out. not sure if its a funny thing but days after that happen that same employee just died out of nowhere on his way to work. Sad but all true story dude

Posted by Frank Angel (Member # 248) on 04-19-2011, 10:42 AM:

Jim, the holy one's wisely had his name officially changed for awhile now, not wanting to be tainted with the bad charma associated with the ghost riff-raff, or the possibility of encountering the Ghostbusters. "Ghost" is too closely associated with demon. There are no spirit-busters out there to worry about. And "spirit" has a much classier sound to it...more benign. The very media savvy Big See...you know, the Curious Curia....they knew the importance of what's in a name. On the downside, you don't get a song sung or a movie made about you if you are a spirit. I mean, Who Ya Gonna Call if a spirit is encountered and why would you even need to? Spirits don't haunt anything, although they can muck up one's tongue....babble, babble, babble.

Posted by Caleb Johnstone-Cowan (Member # 3710) on 04-19-2011, 11:45 AM:

I read this thread and a couple of days later I was on my own closing up one of the Cinemas I work at. The building is 85 years old and has had loads done to it (good and bad) so is a bit noisy in places. A new creak has developed so when you walk up the small staircase to the office it sounds like someone is following you. I'm blaming you guys for really creeping me out!