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Ghost experiences, anyone ever see/hear spirts?

question fear said:
I worked in a Borders Bookstore in Framingham, MA for a few years, and we had a few "odd spots" around the store. The worst was the electrical room on the second floor. I remember closing up one night with one of the keyholders, and she basically refused to go into the electrical room, and told me that since I was the manager I should do it. She said it gave her bad vibes. Not every single time I went in there, but often, it just creeped me out. I wouldn't go unless someone else was outside the door.
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That might just be something about electromagnetic vibes and such. Years ago I was out walking with some friends at night. We were heading over some country roads to get to an old pike/beacon place. Apparently (only found this out later) it was a UFO hotspot too and even had witches doing something with it. But it's not about that... :cool:
As we walked up to some pylons I started feeling quite strange. For the life of me I can't describe it but I couldn't continue walking in that direction. Personally, even given my track record, I just think it was the electromagnetic-ness of the pylon making me a little edgy. That said my friends didn't feel the same. *shrugs again*
 
Three events happened to me, no idea what caused them:

1) I was in boarding school my senior year of high school, and the school had a very old steam-based heating system, so there was always a lot of banging noises in the building.
During winter break I was at a host-family's house a couple of miles from school, where I was working on an independent study pretty late into the night in my room. When it was bedtime, I settled into bed and turned off the lights. Then I heard something banging near the head of the bed. I turned the lights on, and there was nothing there and the sound was gone. I went back to bed, a few minutes later the banging sound came back. Again, turned on the lights, nothing was there and the sounds stopped. I looked around the bed, and I moved it way from the wall. Tried to go to sleep, and the banging started again. It was always behind me, and started a few minutes after I settled down. I remember finally just covering my head and closing my ears until I fell asleep.

The next morning I was talking to the family and joked on how loud the steam heater was banging. They looked at me and said "we don't have steam heating". :eek:

2) Same room, same break, days later. I wake up in the middle of the night and I see this light thingy near the door. At first I thought it was a car headlight/day break or something, then I looked at the blinds where all totally closed, the door was closed, and no light was coming from them. I don't remember how it disappeared, but I might have covered my head again. It didn't help that I had one of those sleep paralysis episodes in that room, where I woke up with a heavy weight on my back and I could get up. :eek:

3) I had a black cat at my apartment and I was holding it for a friend (who is now my wife!) :) One day that cat just got so freaked out it started running like crazy through out the apartment. Needless to say, that scared the *&^% out of me.
 
I haven't personally had any paranormal experiences, however this video from Hampton Court freaked me out:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzpYcQ0htfM
BBC News said:
'Ghost' caught on palace camera

Security guards spotted a figure in period dress
Security film at Hampton Court Palace has captured a ghostly image.
CCTV cameras picked up the vision at the 16th Century Surrey palace, which has a reputation for being haunted.

Security guards spotted that fire doors kept opening in an exhibition area, and on one occasion checked the footage and saw a figure in period dress.

"I thought someone was having a laugh but our costumed guides don't own a costume like that. It is actually quite unnerving," said warder James Faukes.

"It was incredibly spooky because the face just didn't look human," he said.

State apartment warder Ian Franklin added: "Someone who appears to be in a full cloak walks forward, brings one door in, another door in and then closes it behind them.


Hampton Court has seen many dramatic royal events
"It is really difficult to come up with a rational explanation for it."

Even before the security film was checked a visitor had noted in the palace's visitor book that she thought she had seen a ghost in that area

The palace, a home of King Henry VIII, has seen many dramatic royal events, from the death of Henry's third wife, Jane Seymour, to the condemnation and house arrest of his fifth, Catherine Howard, for adultery.

Staff, visitors, workmen and residents have reported seeing Catherine's ghost and heard her uttering terrible cries in an area of the palace called the Haunted Gallery.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3336299.stm

Yes, it could have easily been faked, but it is interesting none the less.
 
What about the Ammityville Horror House.

Read about it if you don't know about it. It's soooo creepy.
 
Just thought I'd say...

Last year I spent some time catsitting at my aunts place whilst they went on holiday. Some bizarre things started happening like the DVD player would turn itself on and play a film, phones would ring (1471 didn't report any calls), doors shut tight would be open in the morning, footsteps on the stairs.

Not only that but my aunt said the TV had turned itself on at full volume one night.

And I'm going back there to look after the place tomorrow ;) oh joy. Hopefully nothing will happen and I'll have nothing to report with. It's not even an old house, not a "haunted" area.
 
Abstract said:
Glad you didn't tell me I was a liar, although I'd love to hear Virgil-TB2's explanation for what happens to my family home when we're all gone.
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Could be racoons. They are very strong, and they work in groups sometimes. (I just saw a group of five breaking through some dudes roof last weekend). It's possible they snuck down into the house, and then something scared them off.
 
A small little story to start off:

My family and a few friends and I stayed in a very old hotel in Corpus Christi a few years ago. Weird things would happen all the time, like the TV turning itself on and off, windows would open themselves in the middle of the night, just small things like that. Scared me at the time though.

Just a few weeks ago, my parents were asleep, my brother and sister weren't home, and I was watching TV out in the living room. I heard footsteps in the kitchen. (You can't see it from the living room from the couch I was laying on) A cabinet door banging. The sink turning on. Someone filling a glass. The sink turned off, and I heard footsteps heading towards the hallway and fading. This scared me, because my parents were both upstairs sleeping (The only way up there is through the living room, so I would have seen them if they had gotten up) and my siblings were gone. The dog was in the fireplace and the cats were outside. :p But,I have a five month old sister, who is the only one I couldn't account for.:eek: So either it was her, or...
 
My sister woke up the other night thinking I was in her room because she saw a person standing there looking for something on her desk. She was yelling at what she thought was me asking what was I doing in her room. She turned on the light and no one was there. She got up and walked into my room to see that I was sleeping.

Weird.
 
I sorta got hooked on that Ghost Hunters / Ghost Hunters International show on Scifi channel the other week. I wouldn't call most of the stuff they get "hard" evidence, though every now and then they have some cool surprises.
Their EMP reader thing was going off every time they asked a question in one episide.
They picked up some strange audio a few times and one sounded as if it was saying the name of the guy that lived in the house.
They got a picture of a room and on the side, there was something that appeared to be a face.
And a bunch of other interesting things.
For what it's worth, they only spend one night in any given location and get all the evidence they can in that one night.

I'm still waiting for the episode where we actually see a ghost run across the camera though, haha.

The coolest thing about that show, is they go with into each "episode" trying to disprove the supernatural at first. They look at every way it could be mistaken (possible street light reflections, cable wires interfering with their EMP thing, rats or other animals making noises, etc).
 
And another

For a couple of years now, and only once every couple of months I'd hear a banging noise coming from the floor below. There would be a series of knocks a few seconds apart. I always thought it was our dog going mad and climbing through the mops and brooms and such. But she died a couple of months back and it happened a few days ago again. So it wasn't her this time! And I've been alone in here for a month.

It's as if a mop is banging against the wall. We don't have mice or anything like that. So I moved the mops out from the alcove and laid them on the floor. Only then other things started happening. I shut all the doors in the house before I go to bed, and after I moved the mops doors would be opened. A decal thingy on my brothers door (metal badge thing) had fallen off and had a big impact dent.

So my family came back today and my bro said whilst everyone was out (a while ago) he heard a door slam downstairs in the same area as the mop sound.

It's all quite odd.
 
No. I try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but in the absence of any scientific evidence, I must accept that something else is going on.

I, for one, witnessed just the opposite of a ghost encounter: proof that the mind can play tricks on us. It was late, the house was dark, and as I glanced over I could have sworn the rocking chair was gently rocking back-and-forth. Thoroughly creeped out, I flipped a light on and sure enough, it was perfectly still. ...Just my mind playing tricks on me, but had I not bothered to flip the lights on, I might have considered it a supernatural experience.

Being that the mind is predisposed to detect human forms, I'm not surprised that we often see vague human figures, especially at night when our eyesight is especially poor.
 
Ghost experience...

When I was younger I used to live in an apartment where some one had been stabbed to death.

At any given moment lights would turn off or on, door to rooms would open and close on their own. To open the doors it actually took a good amount of force due to the thick carpet. Once after christmas my mom and my aunt were taking down the ornament and out of no where a christmas tree sphere shot across the room and broke on the opposite wall.

We had the carpet redone and under the old carpet there were blood stains. I dont care what these no scientific proof people say but that stuff did happen. Happened so often we actually got used to it. These no scientific people are actually looking for someone to convince them out of their narrow mindedness.
 
i captured a ghost during my workshop

Hello everyone!

My name is Angela and I am new to this forum. As I was reading some of the posts and with my ghost picture experience, I can tell that they really exists. I took digital photography workshop at IAFT. When my negatives were done, I noticed something strange with one of my pictures I shoot. I captured a strange image of black lady with an angry look right in front of the cams lens. The figure was blurry though, but you can really tell that it was not happy. At first I was not that convinced that there was something in the picture, but when I had my friends take a look at it, it gave them a scare. So then I realized that ghosts or strange things do really exists. I'm hoping to share with you guys the picture once I'm done with my project. But can someone teach me how to post the pic. thanks!
 
Akasha said:
But can someone teach me how to post the pic. thanks!
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Probably the easiest way is to attach it using the Attachments feature – when you're writing your post, look in the panel above it and click this icon...

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...you can then find the image you want to attach on your computer and go from there.

Personally, I'd be very interested in seeing this spooky snap. :)
 
My mom was alone at our house in rhode island last weekend. She said she was sitting in a chair when one of those small wooden painted little flat replicas of a famous building fell on her shoulder from atop of a window molding. I don't know what you call them but they're wooden, about .5" thick, and are painted and cut to look like a building. There are a bunch up there and they've been there for years and they've never fallen down. So anyways it fell on her and startled her. Then a bedroom door slammed open even though all the windows were shut. She got up to go shut it and then the volume on the TV magically turned itself up. The remote was on a table so there was no way the buttons could have accidentally been pressed.

The little thing that fell on her was a model of the Olympia Tea room which is a old restaurant in Watch Hill, a restaurant where my mom had a severe allergy attack years ago to something she was eating and had to get rushed to the hospital.

Kinda Creepy if you ask me.
 
thanks!

Jaffa Cake said:
Probably the easiest way is to attach it using the Attachments feature – when you're writing your post, look in the panel above it and click this icon...

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...you can then find the image you want to attach on your computer and go from there.

Personally, I'd be very interested in seeing this spooky snap. :)
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Hello Jaffa Cake!

Thanks for that! And yup! I'm going to post that picture and also give you a scare of it...anyway I do also have ghost pictures on my mobile phone since my friends and I are so fond of doing ghost huntings.
 
Akasha said:
...I do also have ghost pictures on my mobile phone since my friends and I are so fond of doing ghost huntings.
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For 150-odd years, since the camera was invented, nobody has ever photographed a ghost...yet you have a collection of photos. This I can't wait for...
 
I await too :D Personally I doubt they're real shots.

But like I always say (about UFO's or whatever) - I don't know what these things are. Be they ghosts or people wearing invisible suits. Funny stuff has happened in this house. Everyone has seen or heard something.
 
Seriously, if I ever saw a ghost or a ghostly apparition I would spontaneously sh*t my pants and head for the nearest mental institution. If you guys really believe something supernatural is living in your house how the hell can you go back there every night? :confused:
 
I put "I think I've seen a ghost" in the same category as "I think my Mac has a virus".
 
I may or may not have seen a ghost.

But I have definitely seen Ghost Whisperer, and I for one approve of ghost hunting in tight dresses or flowing nightwear with big cleavage.
 
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