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Re: haunted houses
< Reply # 20 on 8/16/2005 2:10 PM >
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Okay. Thanks, that kinda answers some of my questions.

I'd still like to know how someone "abuses" the Ouija board.

And, in consideration, there's only one haunted property that I've ever been on, the Crystal Lake Barnes and Noble. It's part of a larger shopping mall on the former site of a large farm. The owner of the farm, a Mrs. Bohl had the land willed to the Lutheran Church, upon the condition that a Christian youth center was built on the property. Needless to say, the curch sold the land to devlopers, and it was covered in pavement. Shortly after the opening of a Barnes and Noble on the site, employees reported seeing a woman roaming the aisles when the store was closed, and also seeing things like books falling on the floor, etc... Of course, people said that she was ticked that they had sold and paved over her farm, and not built the youth center. About four years later, a small center was built on a corner of the former farm, and people haven't seen the lady since.




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< Reply # 21 on 10/12/2005 2:28 AM >
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I noticed that many of you liked hauntings the best, so that put my in mind to ask a question...

have any of you lived in a haunted structure? i have, a few times - with some strange experiences that can be backed up by multiple witnesses.

i will share more when i have time for a longer post...


My dad bought a house in Bedford, TX back in 1989 that was haunted. I lived there with my dad till I got an apartment in 2001.

My first night there, when I was 12 years old, I woke up in the middle of the night, hearing muffled music, people murmuring to eachother, and pool balls clacking against eachother. I was about to go to sleep thinking my dad just had company over, but then realized "Hey, my dad doesn't have a pool table!". I step out into the hallway and I hear my snoring from my dad's room, so he's obviously asleep. I run into the living room, where the noises seemed to emanate from, but it was pitch dark and nobody was there, yet I still heard them. For the next eleven years living in that house, I had to sleep with the radio or TV on to drown out those phantom sounds.

My dad moved out a few months ago and is in the process of fixing the place in Bedford up so he can sell it.




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< Reply # 22 on 10/14/2005 3:09 PM >
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Well, I've heard footsteps in empty rooms and sometimes people talking when nobody is there in my house. Sometimes I think stuff gets moved around when we're not looking. A few times, I think they have even thrown things at me. I cannot *prove* a paranomral cause for these events, but I have trouble finding a normal cause for them too.

The best ghost story I have, though, happened to my wife when she was a little girl. They lived in an old house somewhere in Iowa. Every time they would turn on their bathroom light, they would hear a little kid crying. They looked everywhere for the kid, but couldn't find anyone around.

My wife's dad was an engineer. Inexplicable events annoyed him greatly, and he tried all sorts of tests to see if he could find out what was causing this odd phenomenon. He never found anything regarding the crying or how it happened. But he did find that the light in the bathroom was very dangerous, that it was on the verge of causing a fire, in fact. Every time they turned on the light, they were in danger of burning the entire place down. Even so, there was nothing about it he could find that would cause a sound like the one that they heard. He fixed the light. They never heard the crying again as long as they lived there.

She also has stories about her Uncle George and the hijinks that he got up to after his death. They are quite a bit harder to swallow, but I have no reason to doubt her word. One time, her aunt's family went on a trip, locked their house up tight, and returned to find that George the ghost had apparently opened and examined the newspaper every day while they were gone.




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< Reply # 23 on 10/15/2005 8:03 PM >
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The best ghost story I have, though, happened to my wife when she was a little girl. They lived in an old house somewhere in Iowa. Every time they would turn on their bathroom light, they would hear a little kid crying. They looked everywhere for the kid, but couldn't find anyone around.

My wife's dad was an engineer. Inexplicable events annoyed him greatly, and he tried all sorts of tests to see if he could find out what was causing this odd phenomenon. He never found anything regarding the crying or how it happened. But he did find that the light in the bathroom was very dangerous, that it was on the verge of causing a fire, in fact. Every time they turned on the light, they were in danger of burning the entire place down. Even so, there was nothing about it he could find that would cause a sound like the one that they heard. He fixed the light. They never heard the crying again as long as they lived there.



Sounds to me like someone was warning your wife's dad about the light.




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< Reply # 24 on 3/24/2006 9:15 PM >
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There was some sort of ghosthunter show on when i was very small that i always remember. It may have been absolute shit but it was currently a pub and the owner had always complained about hearing noises and knockings.
These people found out that the site was an old courthouse and analysed a part of a wall. It was an old Tudor beamed property but they found that the main ingredients in the wall were two of the ingredients used in audio tape and they hammered two nails into the wall and ran an electric current through them and the wall played back some knocking sounds, supposedly a judges gavel. The wall had acted as a large recording device.
I can't remember anything about the show so have no idea whether this is true. I was wondering if an electric current could cause vibrations in the wall sufficient to create sound waves.




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< Reply # 25 on 5/2/2006 11:30 PM >
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There was some sort of ghosthunter show on when i was very small that i always remember. It may have been absolute shit but it was currently a pub and the owner had always complained about hearing noises and knockings.
These people found out that the site was an old courthouse and analysed a part of a wall. It was an old Tudor beamed property but they found that the main ingredients in the wall were two of the ingredients used in audio tape and they hammered two nails into the wall and ran an electric current through them and the wall played back some knocking sounds, supposedly a judges gavel. The wall had acted as a large recording device.
I can't remember anything about the show so have no idea whether this is true. I was wondering if an electric current could cause vibrations in the wall sufficient to create sound waves.


Yeah that's pretty much one of the most common kinds of hauntings. Basically an event "imprints" itself in an area and plays itself over and over and over. The most common places these happen are historic battlefields.




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< Reply # 26 on 7/17/2006 8:38 PM >
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It is my opinion that ghosts do exist and are all around us on a completely different plane than us. For the most part they can't see us and we can't see them. I've got no idea why sometimes people see them, but that's my opinion from what I've heard/read about them. Also, as somone previously stated, I think they are kinda like wasps, you leave them alone and they will leave you alone. If you don't invite them in or anything (for example, by doing a seance or using a Ouija board) than you don't have much to worry about. That's just my opinion though.




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< Reply # 27 on 7/19/2006 5:51 AM >
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so i was aout ten or eleven and mymother and me have just moved in to the downstairs of a house. we had lived upstairs, ut the heat was too much so when the previous tennent passed we moved in withen a month. at first there were the small umpings of a settling house and such, ut things got stranger and stranger over the net year or so.

durring showers we would hear wistling, not pipes wistling, But the same tune, ever shower, every day. after a while we grew accostomed to it, we would even shut off the shower trying to play with it.

our Back door in our kitchen was an older half screen door that swung inwards Behind a sturdy woden door.
on many nights we would hear the inner door slaming 4 or 5 times in succession , us mear feet from it every time.

for a long time we thought it could have Been the older man who formerly lived there, But we then found that the house across the street had formerly een a fueneral home in the 1800s. things never really made sense, But we still to this day talk aout it with our family and others who were there to witness some of the events happen.




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< Reply # 28 on 9/13/2006 6:28 PM >
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have ya'll ever considered you could be the one haunting a site?
example: just last night i was dancing atop an abandoned high-rise. i sensed someone, looked to my right, and noticed a guard atop the neighboring high-rise (across the street) turn and hustle into a door.
What did the poor man think?




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< Reply # 29 on 9/17/2006 5:11 PM >
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have ya'll ever considered you could be the one haunting a site?
example: just last night i was dancing atop an abandoned high-rise. i sensed someone, looked to my right, and noticed a guard atop the neighboring high-rise (across the street) turn and hustle into a door.
What did the poor man think?



dancing eh?
im sure he was thinking: "hey buddy wait there ill be right over."





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< Reply # 30 on 12/2/2006 7:57 PM >
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I live in one right now. We're in a converted duplex and he seems to stay on one side. He's not violent or anything though.




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< Reply # 31 on 1/24/2007 7:26 AM >
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Several members of my family had ghost experiences in my grandma's old house.

The house was built in the early 1900's and had quite a history, most of which I can't remember. (I was only 5 when we stayed there) The only stories I remember are ones my grandma told me a few years ago.

One story was about a boy who drowned in a swimming pool that used to be in the backyard. Several people saw the boy come in the back door dressed in black swim trunks, and go into the kitchen.

Another story was when my aunt and her boyfriend were in her room lying on the bed. They heard a man's voice yelling something in an angry tone, but they couldn't make out what he was saying. Apparently that room was used by the guy that built the house as a den, and Grandma's theory was that he didn't like them using *his* den for their hanky-panky.

Grandma has tons of stories about the house, as she lived there for quite a few years. (I remember something about an upstairs bedroom -- I only remember that the room was filled with junk and it had a weird hatch in the wall behind the door. I wasn't allowed in the room so I never found out where that led to)She told me that nobody else has lived in the house for more than 6 months at a time since she left, and that the house had been empty for quite a time the last she heard. I would like to go back up there and at least drive by the house -- if it is indeed empty I would be severely tempted to go in.



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