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

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Again, if anyone has any information on hauntings in Middle Tennessee, please let me know.
 
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First off, all I know is what I have seen or heard. I make no claims about spirits, ghosts or anything else. You guys can debate the subject, but I am staying out of it….. I am not one to take such things too seriously, but my family and I lived out in the woods in a large 2-story rancher house in Kodak. We moved in around 2002-03 and as time pasted we began to notice a lot of odd things about the house.

The house had 7 bedrooms along with many extra rooms. We found it strange that many of the closets and cubbyholes all had solid doors on them with hasps on the outside of the doors. One area by the fireplace in the lower level, you could clearly tell that a space about 5 1/2 foot deep was walled up. It had been built out even with the fireplace, but the room that should have started right behind that wall was buffered by a 5 1/2ft closed in area.
We did not think much about it at the time.

Well things were happening from time to time in the house. We brushed it off to start with. Once we took notice and paid a bit more attention it started to get to the point that we could not explain them. We had 3 younger teen children in the house along with my father, my wife and I.

Many times we would see one of the boys clearly walking through the house wearing a white t-shirt and jeans. We would see them either down the hallway, living room going into the kitchen or walking to the stairwell going down the stairs to the lower level of the house. The issue was that once this registered, we would realize that the boys we not home, or find them in another part of the house or outside. They would be wearing clothes that were not even close to what we had just seen.

The strangest event like this was when my wife was home alone with our then 13yr old son. She had asked him to help her move some things down stairs. He said sure, let me go get my shoes on and headed to his room which was up stairs also. Just a few minutes later my wife came out of the bedroom and walked towards the kitchen to take the stairs down to the lower floor. As she walked through the living room, she saw our son come out of the kitchen in plain sight, hesitate at the top of the stairs and then head down the stairwell out of sight.

My wife continued toward the stairwell just a few seconds behind our son and started calling our son's name. She had some boxes that need to go down stairs and needed his help carrying them. She said she called him 3 times walking all the way down to the lower stair landing. She was getting mad because she was close behind him and saw him take the corner at the landing. She almost feinted when he answered her from the kitchen and came down right behind her. The boy she walked behind down the stairs had jeans and a white t-shirt. Our son was wearing shorts and a blue tank top.

Sighting like this happened all the time..... Every family member had similar experiences. My father came out of his room one day asking me why the boys would walk off and not respond to him. I was working outside at the time. I asked what happened and he told me that a few minutes ago one of the boys walked past his door twice stopping one time like he was looking for someone. He greeted them and then tried to call them back to him and they just walked away. I looked him in the eyes and told him that both the boys were gone and had not been home since breakfast. He left shaking his head.

Got to go for now…. More to come, when I have time to post.

CH_V
 
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chatt-townVOL said:
You saw it?
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I didn't see the apparition itself, but he was said to stay along the fence line of the cemetery, and we got orb pictures, and our K2 was going crazy while discussing the civil war. I'm out to disprove all places, but this was crazy. All of the K2 didn't go off until over there. I was with an actual "ghost hunting" team and they had set up DVR and evp. I have the evp on my computer so I'll check it out later.
 
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That provoked another discussion. What are everyone's thoughts on orbs? I don't buy it personally. I strongly believe in the paranormal but I don't believe orbs are related to it in any way.
 
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#635
Just to wrap up what I posted earlier…….

We lived in this house for about 5-years. In addition to the young teenage boy we all saw in the house which occurred at least a couple of times each month, other things happened as well. A few times things like the kitchen cabinets opening and closing, the facets turning on and then back off, while one of us were in the next room.

You would set something down and then turn around and it would be moved or gone. (These type things I did not put much stock in as we had a large family in the house). But there were times when I knew no one else was there to move the item.

The more worrisome incidents included seeing and hearing a little girl in the house. She looked to be about 5yrs old. She was seen standing in a doorway or crossing from room to room, but all of us heard her crying in the house at night several times. Loud enough to wake my wife and I and even my father up from time to time. I would always check the kid’s rooms, but they were fast asleep if the noise had not woken them up also.

A bunch of similar things happen during the time we lived there. I will say other than being surprised many times, we did not feel threaten. My wife and daughter said that they would feel sad for some reason just before or right after something happened. Not sure about that……

So here is the kicker, I mentioned in my first post that we found it strange the way the house was setup. With solid closet doors and that cubbyholes and closets all had hasps on the outside of the doors. Well we found out why when one day a TV news van and reporting team pulled up in our yard and wanted to do a report in front of the house.

It turns out that the people that had lived there before were the couple (John and Linda Dollar) that brutalized all of those adopted children. It was big news when they were finally charged in Florida and fled to Utah where they were arrested. Here is a link to a site with the news stories. CHILD TORTURE CASE | Pound Pup Legacy

They mentally and physically tortured these children to the point that two teen boys only weighed around 36lbs when the authorities finally stepped in. That link has details that I do not want to get in to. But they were locked in closets and cabinets, not fed and beaten. This went on for a long time, before, during and after they owned the house we were living in.

As for the things that we experienced in that house, I can only guess that due to what those children went through maybe it left an impression or maybe one of the children had died there. I did not follow the case to know if all the adoptions were documented or accounted for.

That is all I got, I would like to hear some feedback on this if you guys are so inclined.

CH_V
 
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CopperHead_Vol said:
Just to wrap up what I posted earlier…….

We lived in this house for about 5-years. In addition to the young teenage boy we all saw in the house which occurred at least a couple of times each month, other things happened as well. A few times things like the kitchen cabinets opening and closing, the facets turning on and then back off, while one of us were in the next room.

You would set something down and then turn around and it would be moved or gone. (These type things I did not put much stock in as we had a large family in the house). But there were times when I knew no one else was there to move the item.

The more worrisome incidents included seeing and hearing a little girl in the house. She looked to be about 5yrs old. She was seen standing in a doorway or crossing from room to room, but all of us heard her crying in the house at night several times. Loud enough to wake my wife and I and even my father up from time to time. I would always check the kid’s rooms, but they were fast asleep if the noise had not woken them up also.

A bunch of similar things happen during the time we lived there. I will say other than being surprised many times, we did not feel threaten. My wife and daughter said that they would feel sad for some reason just before or right after something happened. Not sure about that……

So here is the kicker, I mentioned in my first post that we found it strange the way the house was setup. With solid closet doors and that cubbyholes and closets all had hasps on the outside of the doors. Well we found out why when one day a TV news van and reporting team pulled up in our yard and wanted to do a report in front of the house.

It turns out that the people that had lived there before were the couple (John and Linda Dollar) that brutalized all of those adopted children. It was big news when they were finally charged in Florida and fled to Utah where they were arrested. Here is a link to a site with the news stories. CHILD TORTURE CASE | Pound Pup Legacy

They mentally and physically tortured these children to the point that two teen boys only weighed around 36lbs when the authorities finally stepped in. That link has details that I do not want to get in to. But they were locked in closets and cabinets, not fed and beaten. This went on for a long time, before, during and after they owned the house we were living in.

As for the things that we experienced in that house, I can only guess that due to what those children went through maybe it left an impression or maybe one of the children had died there. I did not follow the case to know if all the adoptions were documented or accounted for.

That is all I got, I would like to hear some feedback on this if you guys are so inclined.

CH_V
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Pretty crazy stuff. Great contribution to the thread. We need more stuff like this.
 
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chatt-townVOL said:
That provoked another discussion. What are everyone's thoughts on orbs? I don't buy it personally. I strongly believe in the paranormal but I don't believe orbs are related to it in any way.
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I don't know if they're a "spirit" or what. But I know they're energy from something. It's hard to tell if it is an actual orb, or a bug. It's interesting to say the least. I think they could represent the paranormal, but I haven't done enough research on the topic to make conversation.
 
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CopperHead_Vol said:
Just to wrap up what I posted earlier…….

We lived in this house for about 5-years. In addition to the young teenage boy we all saw in the house which occurred at least a couple of times each month, other things happened as well. A few times things like the kitchen cabinets opening and closing, the facets turning on and then back off, while one of us were in the next room.

You would set something down and then turn around and it would be moved or gone. (These type things I did not put much stock in as we had a large family in the house). But there were times when I knew no one else was there to move the item.

The more worrisome incidents included seeing and hearing a little girl in the house. She looked to be about 5yrs old. She was seen standing in a doorway or crossing from room to room, but all of us heard her crying in the house at night several times. Loud enough to wake my wife and I and even my father up from time to time. I would always check the kid’s rooms, but they were fast asleep if the noise had not woken them up also.

A bunch of similar things happen during the time we lived there. I will say other than being surprised many times, we did not feel threaten. My wife and daughter said that they would feel sad for some reason just before or right after something happened. Not sure about that……

So here is the kicker, I mentioned in my first post that we found it strange the way the house was setup. With solid closet doors and that cubbyholes and closets all had hasps on the outside of the doors. Well we found out why when one day a TV news van and reporting team pulled up in our yard and wanted to do a report in front of the house.

It turns out that the people that had lived there before were the couple (John and Linda Dollar) that brutalized all of those adopted children. It was big news when they were finally charged in Florida and fled to Utah where they were arrested. Here is a link to a site with the news stories. CHILD TORTURE CASE | Pound Pup Legacy

They mentally and physically tortured these children to the point that two teen boys only weighed around 36lbs when the authorities finally stepped in. That link has details that I do not want to get in to. But they were locked in closets and cabinets, not fed and beaten. This went on for a long time, before, during and after they owned the house we were living in.

As for the things that we experienced in that house, I can only guess that due to what those children went through maybe it left an impression or maybe one of the children had died there. I did not follow the case to know if all the adoptions were documented or accounted for.

That is all I got, I would like to hear some feedback on this if you guys are so inclined.

CH_V
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Quality story. Something wasn't right!
 
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pantone151 said:
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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Can you still visit there at night? Does anyone know?
 
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RockyTop411 said:
I didn't see the apparition itself, but he was said to stay along the fence line of the cemetery, and we got orb pictures, and our K2 was going crazy while discussing the civil war. I'm out to disprove all places, but this was crazy. All of the K2 didn't go off until over there. I was with an actual "ghost hunting" team and they had set up DVR and evp. I have the evp on my computer so I'll check it out later.
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Just legitimately curious... how do you distinguish a "spirit" orb from say moisture, or reflective dust, a small insect, lens flare, motion blur/hand shake etc, especially when using flash?
 
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l3rewski said:
Just legitimately curious... how do you distinguish a "spirit" orb from say moisture, or reflective dust, a small insect, lens flare, motion blur/hand shake etc, especially when using flash?
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You can't. It's just interesting myth that makes you wonder what causes it. You can definitely tell the difference between a bug and an "orb" of energy.
 
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RockyTop411 said:
You can't. It's just interesting myth that makes you wonder what causes it. You can definitely tell the difference between a bug and an "orb" of energy.
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That's what I'm asking though.... what is the difference?
Most "orbs" I've seen were caused by light reflection off of airborne moisture or some kind of particle. Did you physically see these orbs, or did they just show up in pictures?
 
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l3rewski said:
That's what I'm asking though.... what is the difference?
Most "orbs" I've seen were caused by light reflection off of airborne moisture or some kind of particle. Did you physically see these orbs, or did they just show up in pictures?
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I'm not an expert on this by any means, don't get me wrong, but bugs do not have a perfect circle shape. You can tell their differences.
 
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