Ghosts..... Have you ever seen them?

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#26
we don't want you to get banned. who would we give basketball score updates to on gamedays? :)
 
#30
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"Gozer the Gozerian... good evening. As a duly designated representative of the City, County and State of New York, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activity and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension."


God i love that movie


Im sure most people have seen Ghost Hunters, but has anybody seen Ghost Adventurers on the Travel Channel? Its honestly one of the best "comedys" i have seen in a while.
 
#32
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wounded mullet said:
"Gozer the Gozerian... good evening. As a duly designated representative of the City, County and State of New York, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activity and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension."


God i love that movie


Im sure most people have seen Ghost Hunters, but has anybody seen Ghost Adventurers on the Travel Channel? Its honestly one of the best "comedys" i have seen in a while.
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did you see the first documentary that the ghost adventure guys' made? they have actually caught some things that are pretty incredible even though they are some real douchebags. but they are all about the drama on that show.
 
#33
#33
I have worked on all of the Southern Haunts documentaries (except the last one which is in post) as either a producer or actor. We have gone all over the south and filmed. Sometimes, we had to film late because the place does business during the day. These places are supposed to be the most haunted in all of the South. I never saw anything that makes me believe in ghosts.
Who knows though.
 
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blupotato said:
did you see the first documentary that the ghost adventure guys' made? they have actually caught some things that are pretty incredible even though they are some real douchebags. but they are all about the drama on that show.
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honestly i haven't.. Is it on you tube or easy to find online? Im sure they are trying to sell it so i doubt i would ever throw money down on it.

I do mean its an entertaining show, because of the absurdity of the over the top Zack guy who just cracks me up. Did you see the episode when they went to that closed down plant in Birmingham? It made me want to stop by there when im passing through on day..
 
#37
#37
I've seen an actual demon on the news.



OH....wait a minute. That was just Obama babbling about his cockeyed healthcare plan.
 
#38
#38
I'm sorry this is going to be long.

My dad and stepmom live way out in the country. It was back in 1986 when this happened.

During summer break from school my dad and I would sit on the front porch and talk up until 12 or 1 in the morning.

The entrance to his driveway has a light pole. It lights up the entrance and the road. The nearest house is about 100 yards away.

We were sitting out one night just talking. In the distance we could hear a horse running on the road. It was coming from the right of our house. As it got closer you could really hear the hooves pounding the pavement and the horse blowing and snorting.

It wasn't unusual for people to ride horses down there. We had never seen any ridden at that time of night or at the pace this horse was coming.

What ever it was passed our house and it never showed in the light at the end of our drive. At the end of our property line, dad has a barn close to the road. When the sound of the horse got to that point we heard a horrible scream.

It actually sounded like a woman screaming at the top of her lungs. Needless to say, we jumped to our feet with our hair standing on end and covered with goose bumps.

Dad said get in the house quick. I asked dad, " What was that?" He told me that he thought it was a banshee. I asked, "What is a banshee?" He said that it meant death was coming for someone on our road tonight.

I had a hard time falling a sleep that night. The next morning we found out that an old woman down the road had died during the night. The weird thing is, she lived down the road from the direction the sound of the horse came from.

I haven't told a lot of people about this. Most people look at me like I'm crazy. I know what I heard and didn't see. I'll never forget it or the way it made me feel. I still get goose bumps thinking about it.

I'm 38 and dad is 61 and to this day he has a hard time talking about it. I had never been so scared in my life and I've had 2 open heart surgeries.

I've got more that I could tell that happened to my brother and his wife while living in a house in Gravel Switch, KY. It's late and I'm tired. If you guys want to hear about it, I'll post it tomorrow.
 
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#40
not necessarily a sighting, but an experience nonetheless......

A few years ago after graduating high school my father and I took a trip down to New Orleans to celebrate me getting my diploma. We stayed at this place called the Inn on Bourban hotel, which used to be an opera house that burned down around 90 years ago. We got checked in and got this room that was situated down on the very end of a hall. On about night 2 of our trip we were in our room and heard what sounded like classical (or opera) type music coming from the door that leads to the adjacent hotel room. It was weird, but we tried to rationalize it by guessing that there were just some people making noise next door. The same thing happened the next night or two and I even got lucky enough to catch some of the music playing on my camcorder I had with me at the time.

At the end of our trip we went to check out, and just for kicks we asked who had stayed next door to us, which is when the guy that was checking us out goes on to say that the room beside us had been vacant for a few days and nobody had been staying in that room for the entirety of our trip. Freaky, but cool. Just to give some background info on it, here's a link to the place that we stayed........New Orleans is a crazy place......

Inn on Bourbon Hotel -- New Orleans hotel in French Quarter overlooking Bourbon street
 
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I used to be a skeptic on this stuff until I had an experience myself. My school's senior class went to NYC for our senior trip and for the first couple days we did work at a NYC homeless ministry. We stayed in a old abandoned hospital that was built in the 20's and had been taken over and converted into dorms and offices for the workers and administration. The second night we were there and all about to go to sleep. I was staying with three other guys and 2 of the guys were already sound asleep and my friend in the bathroom. I was laying in the bed but had just laid down and he came out of the bathroom and layed down. While I'm laying there I see a second person get out of the bathroom and walk to the end of the room. I thought one of my friends had gotten up to pee or something when I wasn't paying attention and I said to the friend that was still awake "Is taylor awake" and he said no that no hes been asleep for an hour. I'm 100% certain that I saw a person walk out of the room. I kept quiet about this and after a long period of time I finally feel asleep. At about 3 AM I woke up completely terrified for really no reason because I had dismissed it and was able to fall asleep. The next morning some of my friends that were staying right next to us told me that they heard a banging on their wall that started around the time I saw the figure the whole night and it got so loud that at near 3 AM that they were wide awake and just sitting their not really knowing to do. Another strange thing was that between our rooms was an elevator shaft so no one could have been knocking on their wall and I saw it walk towards the wall that adjoyned to the elevator shaft. I would be the last kind of person to think that something like that could happen because up until that point I didnt believe in ghost or anything like that. My story isnt near as crazy as what rockytopvol said but it was the craziest thing I've had happen to me.
 
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RockyTopVol said:
I'm sorry this is going to be long.

My dad and stepmom live way out in the country. It was back in 1986 when this happened.

During summer break from school my dad and I would sit on the front porch and talk up until 12 or 1 in the morning.

The entrance to his driveway has a light pole. It lights up the entrance and the road. The nearest house is about 100 yards away.

We were sitting out one night just talking. In the distance we could hear a horse running on the road. It was coming from the right of our house. As it got closer you could really hear the hooves pounding the pavement and the horse blowing and snorting.

It wasn't unusual for people to ride horses down there. We had never seen any ridden at that time of night or at the pace this horse was coming.

What ever it was passed our house and it never showed in the light at the end of our drive. At the end of our property line, dad has a barn close to the road. When the sound of the horse got to that point we heard a horrible scream.

It actually sounded like a woman screaming at the top of her lungs. Needless to say, we jumped to our feet with our hair standing on end and covered with goose bumps.

Dad said get in the house quick. I asked dad, " What was that?" He told me that he thought it was a banshee. I asked, "What is a banshee?" He said that it meant death was coming for someone on our road tonight.

I had a hard time falling a sleep that night. The next morning we found out that an old woman down the road had died during the night. The weird thing is, she lived down the road from the direction the sound of the horse came from.

I haven't told a lot of people about this. Most people look at me like I'm crazy. I know what I heard and didn't see. I'll never forget it or the way it made me feel. I still get goose bumps thinking about it.

I'm 38 and dad is 61 and to this day he has a hard time talking about it. I had never been so scared in my life and I've had 2 open heart surgeries.

I've got more that I could tell that happened to my brother and his wife while living in a house in Gravel Switch, KY. It's late and I'm tired. If you guys want to hear about it, I'll post it tomorrow.
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Wow. That's pretty intense. I would have had a hard time sleeping that night too
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#44
#44
I did a TV show about Tennessee ghost stories many years ago...

We went to the Bell Witch cave, the Carnton House in Franklin, the Orpheum theatre in Memphis, the Tower ghost at Chickamauga Battlefield....

never saw anything though...
 
#45
#45
The Summer after I graduated High School some of my buddies and I used to go to the Civil War battle fields around Nashville, Franklin and the Boro. One night we went down to the Carnton Plantation just to snoop around (we had been numerous times during normal hours and heard all of the stories). For those who don't know, the Carnton Plantation was the site of one of the bloodiest battles in Tennessee...somewhere around 10,000 soldiers killed, wounded, captured or reported missing. Well, one Friday night we went down to the entrance around 1am just to snoop around. We parked and got out and just stood there for a couple minutes looking at the outline of the house in the distance.

We sat and cut up with one another and just relaxed, leaning on the gate looking at the house for about 15 minutes... The wind picked up, and rustled the huge willow tree next to the cemetary on property. It died down and at that time we heard clanking, like someone walking with tin-cans hanging off of them... This was at the far end from us of the cemetary... The sound shifted from clanking cans to the sound of one can being dragged across the metal fence, at a very slow pace. It started faintly at the far end, and got louder, as if it were coming towards us. It continued until it got to the spot of the fence closest to us, and then it stopped for a second. I never saw anything, but the hair on my neck and arms stood up, and at that point the clanking started again, as if it was going away from us... The sound got faint again, and just as if someone was walking the perimiter of the fence line, it started getting closer again... My buddy and I both scrambled back to his truck without saying a word to each other. We didn't stick around to see if the noise continued its path... On our way out of driveway, a police car stopped us and asked what we were doing up there because it was so late... We told him we just went up to the gate to look at the house.. After he determined we didn't vandolize anything, and we weren't stealing anything he told us a couple stories about his experiences at the house. The one I will never forget was he got a call late night in November about some noises and motion lights going off at the house... He said he walked up to the house from the gate and saw a figure pacing the front of the house, as he got closer he saw it was a younger guy dressed in Confederate grey, as he got closer, the guy just turned the corner and vanished. As he sat there trying to comprehend what just happened, he said he started hearing some faint screams, and a mans voice that kept saying no coming from the top floor of the house. He said there was no sounds of movement, or any signs that there was someone in the house, and just as fast as he heard it, it stopped... He said he got spooked and walked back to his car at a fast pace, parked next to the gate (right where my friend and I had parked)... He said as he got closer, he could hear a clanking sound going across the fence line of the cemetary... I haven't been back to that place since that night.. I got really spooked by everything that I witnessed and was told. I do know the house was used as a hospital during the battle of Franklin, and there are still blood stains on the walls and floors from where they performed surgery on the wounded.

That's my only personal experience I've had with anything that could be considered paranormal, etc.
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#46
#46
Anybody else find it interesting that so many of you had your experiences right at or around 18 years of age?
 
#47
#47
I do believe that paranormal events occur and some have witnessed these events. I am not one of those people though. I think it all has as much to do with your state of mind, as it does the history behind the situation.
 
#48
#48
Carnton House was used as a hospital during the battle. You can still see the blood stains on some of the upstairs flooors. Of all the places I visited, I was most convinced that there really was something happening at Carnton.

Pantone, the curator we talked to said many, many people have had the experience you did. People also say they've seen an old guy(confederate uniform) in a rocker on the top porch...
 
#49
#49
I don't believe in any of it, really. There is always a rational explanation for something, up to and including human fallibility.

I don't know why not believing in the paranormal makes me "egocentric," either.

What's more egocentric, believing that the deceased persist and choose to interact with only a select few, or that we're all equally mortal and there is no spirit world?
 
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orange+white=heaven said:
Carnton House was used as a hospital during the battle. You can still see the blood stains on some of the upstairs flooors. Of all the places I visited, I was most convinced that there really was something happening at Carnton.

Pantone, the curator we talked to said many, many people have had the experience you did. People also say they've seen an old guy(confederate uniform) in a rocker on the top porch...
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Blood stains? Or iron oxide deposits?
 
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