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

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I'll add this, I think that John Edwards has made a killing telling people what they want to hear.
 
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I've told this story before, but i'll tell it again. In college i had 2 teammates that were brothers. I lived w/ one of the brothers the entire time we were in school, and for a lil over a year after we graduated. the other brother was a few years older, well he got married and him and his wife bought a house near campus. they lived there for about 3 years. they ended up selling the house to his brother(the one i was living with) so we moved into the house. one nite me and the guy i lived w/ were talking and he said ur goin to think i'm crazy but i swear i saw a ghost today. he went on to say he came home for lunch and was in his room on the computer. he said he saw an old man walk by his room and walk into our other roommates room. said the guy paused in front of his room for a sec and looked at him before passing by. said he got up to see what that guy was doing but never found anyone. to me this was interesting since a wk or 2 before that i was home alone one nite watching tv in the living room and i swear i saw someone walk from one bedroom to another. i shrugged it off as me just seeing something that wasn't there. anyways we decided to give his brother a call and ask if they had seen anything like this before. his brother said altho they never saw anything he said that every year around christmas time that they would lay out "the manger" scene, or little replica churches, etc on the tv stand and he said every single day when they got home from work that the replicas had been turned around.
 
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volinbham said:
cool place - they do a halloween haunted deal there. Good place for concerts too.
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ya it is cool on halloween. their haunted house is pretty cool. you ever heard of "MADDOG" volinbham? had some college friends who were from bham that swear up and down by it
 
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Here is my post from an older thread.


I heard stories from my father about my grandparents home for years. I spent a lot of time there but never stayed the night until I was around eleven years old. Before this night my experiences were odd but nothing really creepy. I went to sleep very early on the couch because I had a very bad headache. We were suppose to go fishing the next morning. When I woke up it was four in the morning. That was odd because we would always leave about that time. Everyone should have been up an hour ago to get everything ready, but they weren't. I had a very strange feeling that I wasn't alone. We had all my dads brothers there the night before so every bedroom was occupied, but it was dark and I could not tell who was where. I looked for my dad but could not find him. I went down the hall to look for him but saw something out the corner of my eye. As I turned and my eyes focused I started to see what I can best describe as a partially translucent irregular line of blue/gray smoke that extended from floor to mid-ceiling. It was at the other end of the house and moved from one side of the doorway to the other and disappeared from view. I was scared less and stood there frozen. A few seconds later there was a very loud crash of dishes. It sounded like somebody pulled the table cloth right off the table and all the dishes from the night before with it. Only problem was the table was in my view and nothing moved on it. I was scared but relieved because somebody had to hear that and would come to help me. I must of stood there for thirty or forty minutes in one place frozen. Then the sun started to come up and I could see in the house a little better so I continued down the hallway and found the bedroom my father was in. I told him what had happened and he told me he wasn't surprised, he had some things like that happen to him too. He told me some of his stories and before I went to sleep he explained that the battery in the boat motor would not hold charge so they all went back to sleep. We tried the battery later that day and had no problem. Believe my story or not that is what happened.......... Sorry I did not use paragraphs I was in a rush. I leave work in a few.

As I read I forgot to mention that nobody in that house heard dishes fall that night. My grandfather was a notoriously light sleeper. Also a little background on the house. Before my grandparents moved in it was owned by a man who was supposedly sleeping with his next door neighbors wife. He found out and came over to confront his neighbor. He knew the guy had a gun and refused to open the door and while he was telling the man to leave the neighbor leveled the gun and gave him both barrels through the door, killing him. The house had been remodeled. What used to be the front door on that house was my grandparents garage door. There was a huge place in that door that had been plastered, and my uncle told me that is where it happened. My father was the oldest and they grew up in that house so this would probably have happened say around the 1940's. Why they would want to live there after knowing that and all the crazy stuff that happened there is beyond me, but my dad said nobody would buy it and my grandparents didn't have much money and they were offered a very good deal on it about 4 years after it happened.
 
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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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From Darby O'Gill and the Little People. If you look closely at the end you'll see a very young Sean Connery (this was one of his first movies).

YouTube - The Banshee
 
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IPorange said:
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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I read ghost stories as a kid, I always thought it was an interesting topic but never really put a lot of stock into it. I have had a few incidents that I thought were odd but could be explained in other ways. It wasn't until I had the experience I posted that made me believe there was something to it.

My grandparents place always had odd stuff going on. Doorknobs would turn on their own sometimes, footsteps in the house (my father and his sister would hear footsteps walk up behind them when they were kids), whistles would come from various parts of the house, sometimes the whistle would come from the opposite side of the room you were in. All of these things could be explained but with the history of the house and the experience I had I cannot help but believe something was going on.
 
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On a side note I always thought the topic of banshees was pretty interesting as far as the paranormal goes.
 
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Last summer I was painting in the basement of my house getting ready to rent it out. It had been empty for several weeks and there was nothing in it pretty much. I had no windows open and the air was off as well up there. I had went into the house and opened the front door earlier and also opened the basement door. It was the middle of the day - typical hot summer day. I had been painting for about 2 hours when I heard what sounded exactly like someone running from one end of the house to the other. Just loud thump, thump, thump steps.

It scared the ever living crap out of me and I darted out the basement door and up the steps outside and came around the front of the house. Since the house was for sale or rent at the time I thought someone had came in with a kid seeing the door was open. There were no cars outside though. I then went into the house and looked in every room, closet, etc and found nothing. Now, I'm not the easiest person to get shaken up but then I just got this weird feeling of someone in the house with me. I had experienced that feeling a few times in the house when I lived there but nothing that really freaked me out too bad. I just had to get out of the house though and went outside and sat on the steps for about 10 minutes and pulled myself together. I told myself well it could be the paint making me crazy. I went back into the basement. Now this isn't a dank and dark basement - it has 3 outside windows that I had open and a big industrial fan blowing to keep the fumes out best I could. Its very bright in there during the daytime. Not 10 minutes later I heard that same thump, thump, thump sound. I flew up the steps into the house from the basement this time thinking someone is just screwing with me. Again there was no one in the house but again I felt very uncomfortable up there. I did manage to go back down and finish up the painting in about another hour and didn't hear another sound again. I locked the basement up and went around to the front door and didn't even go all the way in - just enough to lock the door and pull it shut.

The wierdest parts in my mind are coming up now. I told my wife about this a couple of weeks later thinking she would think I was crazy. She got kind of white and said I've heard that same thing. I said when? She said the one time she stayed in that house alone. It was when I went to Charlotte to the races with my dad. She said she was downstairs doing laundry one night and heard something that sounded like it was banging around in the house. She said it scared her that a burglar might be there. She said she went out the basement door and went back in the front door and looked around and no one was there. But just like me she said she felt very uncomfortable in the house then but just passed it off as nerves. I asked why she hadn't told me and she said well it was just that one time and I thought that maybe the cat had done something to make that much noise.

NOW, I get a call about 3 months ago from the girl renting my house. She called and asked if I had ever heard banging noises in the house. I said why and she proceeded to tell me because she has heard noises like people running around in the house a couple of times since she's been there. She has 2 little poodle type dogs and thought it could be them one time. But she said the other time she knew it wasn't because she was in the basement and heard it above her head and the dogs were down there with her. She expressed to me the same uneasy feeling when she was in the house.

Now, I don't know if its "ghosts" or what but that's 3 people with the same noises and feelings. Its not the house settling because you can hear the running thumping sounds going from one end of the house to the other. I only heard it that one day myself and my wife has only heard it that one night she was there alone. I've convinced my renter that its probably nothing just some noises coming from the heat pump or something. But she told me point blank that if she keeps hearing crap like that again she's going to move out because the house creeps her out.

And I don't know why the house should be that creepy. It was built in 1960 and its a nice little 1,000 square foot house in a nice little subdivision. But something is going on there.
 
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IPorange said:
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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i don't know, i've always tried to have an open mind about everything. it's hard to dismiss things like this as all having a rational explanation to them when you hear so many people around the world talking about having these kind of experiences.

i just think that there's a whole bunch of this world that we really have no idea about. i find it hard to believe that the process of a human life is just living 75-80 years and then dying and going away forever. i just don't see things as being that simple. just my take......
 
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IPorange said:
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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I understand why you feel this way because I was like that until the event i described happened and now I believe in some of the stuff. A lot of stuff can be explained but somethings cannot.
 
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wounded mullet said:
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..
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they show it on the travel channel every now and then usually on fridays when their show is on. i think it is called "ghost adventures the beginning" or something along those lines.
 
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I'm not calling those who have claimed they saw something liars, per se. I geuss I just prefer psychology books to find answers and justifications to the precieved "paranormal"; not campfire stories.
 
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