Posted on 08/27/2022 9:23:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It seems like every vintage building still standing in Arizona has a story to tell – and sometimes these tales include a ghost or two. Just ask the proprietors of Casey Moore’s in Tempe, Tombstone’s Birdcage Theatre, or the Hotel Monte Vista in Flagstaff, all of whom claim their places are the domain of specters, spirits, or other supernatural phenomena.
You could also hit up Marshall Shore, the local “hip historian” who's familiar with many of these tales. It’s one of the reasons he conducts walking tours around downtown Phoenix every October that explores some of the city's more infamous haunts, like the Hotel San Carlos and Orpheum Theatre.
They aren’t the only locations where ghosts are reportedly known to frequent. A number of historic locations around the Valley and throughout Arizona are widely considered to be haunted, ranging from old hotels and theaters to mines, prisons, and even airplane cemeteries. Here’s a look at 13 of the most notorious spots in our state that are widely considered to be haunted.
Morton Hall at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. NAU Northern Arizona University's Morton Hall 224 McMullen Circle, Flagstaff 928-523-2561
The near-century-old women's dormitory on the forested grounds of Northern Arizona University is said to be haunted by the forlorn spirit of a heartbroken student named Kathy, who supposedly hanged herself in a stairwell during a winter break back in the early 1950s. Depending on who's telling the tale, she was either abandoned by her family or had a boyfriend in the armed forces who died in combat. Over the decades, the alleged apparition has been blamed for a litany of phenomena, including lights flickering, radios and televisions malfunctioning, posters flying off the walls, and blankets being pulled off beds.
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I ain’t afraid of no ghost but would just assume not meeting one.
lights flickering, = bad wiring
radios and televisions malfunctioning, = again bad wiring
posters flying off the walls, = chewing gum used to hand posters has lost it’s stickiness
and blankets being pulled off beds. -= restless leg syndrome- blankets wind up on floor- person is asleep when it happens
Much so-called ghostly activity can be explained naturally. But some can't.
Much so-called ghostly activity can be explained naturally. But some can't.
I’m surprised the Copper Queen in Bisbee did not make the list.
Gozer!
The light in our refrigerator is flickering. The Refrigerator Ghost is telling me “have another beer.”
I’ve been to several of those places and never saw any ghosts. Even when I lived all alone in one of the spooky old buildings in Jerome for several months, no ghosts, though a lot of the locals assured me it was haunted.
I guess ghosts just don’t like me.
Lol I sp3ak ghost and I agree
Agreed, but the activity is due to demon Activity, not ghosts. Ghosts don’t exist. One is either in the grsve awaiting hell or in heaven when they die
The Bible seems to take the existence of ghosts for granted. It reports and mentions them, and commands us not to have recourse to them, but it never says they don't exist or that they are always demons. The most famous example, of course, is the ghost of Samuel that is conjured up by the witch of Endor at the command of Saul and God permits it. Isaiah matter-of-factly mentions ghosts in Isaiah 19:3 and 29:4. When Jesus comes walking across the waves in Matthew 14:26, the disciples cry out that "It is a ghost!" and neither Jesus or Matthew offer a corrective saying there is no such thing. Jesus himself refers to the properties of ghosts when he appears to the disciples on the evening of Easter in Luke 24:37-39. They think he is a ghost, but he reassures them by reminding them of the qualities that ghosts possess. He doesn't dismiss their belief in ghosts or even qualify it by saying something like, "as you imagine a supposed ghost might have," but, again, uses the term matter-of-factly.
True appearances of ghosts do not seem to be common, and they are definitely out of the normal or natural order of things. But as in the example of Samuel, God in his singular Sovereignty and Omnipotence for his own Omniscient reasons, can and apparently does, make exceptions for his own purposes. But careful discernment is necessary on our part to differentiate between the apparition of a human soul (ghosts) or deceitful and malevolent demonic activity.
Samuel was a very special instance. The other mentions of ghosts were by citizens, who had their cultural superstitions, but it doesn’t, mean they are real. As mentioned, when the soul departs the body, it either awaits hell, and “knows nothing” until that time, or is immediately in heaven. Can God cause a spirit to visit someone? Sure, he his able to do supernatural things like that, but I suspect it is very very rare, a d for very specific purposes. A humber of “ghost hunters’ note that they became possessed, or “haunted” as they call it, and that is indicative of demon possessikn/attacks, souls that depart would not have suoernatural power like that almost assuredly.
Abraham said: “And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.”
Demons are not bound by such restraints however.
We are not told that, here or anywhere else in the Bible. As I said, the story is related matter of factly with the presumption that ghosts exist.
The other mentions of ghosts were by citizens, who had their cultural superstitions, but it doesn’t, mean they are real.
Again, if they were exercising cultural superstitions in these instances, it would have been a perfect time for Jesus (or the Gospel writer) to offer a correction, which they do not, instead responding with the assumption ghosts do exist.
Can God cause a spirit to visit someone? Sure, he his able to do supernatural things like that, but I suspect it is very very rare, a d for very specific purposes.
A humber of “ghost hunters’ note that they became possessed, or “haunted” as they call it, and that is indicative of demon possessikn/attacks, souls that depart would not have suoernatural power like that almost assuredly.
The fact that these people end up demonically afflicted does not disprove the existence of ghosts. Most "ghost hunters" are frauds and the ones might happen to stumble upon or expose themselves to supernatural phenomena are probably not the best persons to discern if that activity is from God or from Satan. I personally think anyone who deliberately goes looking after ghosts (especially for the sake of a TV show) is opening themselves up to demonic activity and is a fool.
We are not told that, here or anywhere else in the Bible. As I said, the story is related matter of factly with the presumption that ghosts exist.
The other mentions of ghosts were by citizens, who had their cultural superstitions, but it doesn’t, mean they are real.
Again, if they were exercising cultural superstitions in these instances, it would have been a perfect time for Jesus (or the Gospel writer) to offer a correction, which they do not, instead responding with the assumption ghosts do exist.
Can God cause a spirit to visit someone? Sure, he his able to do supernatural things like that, but I suspect it is very very rare, a d for very specific purposes.
A humber of “ghost hunters’ note that they became possessed, or “haunted” as they call it, and that is indicative of demon possessikn/attacks, souls that depart would not have suoernatural power like that almost assuredly.
The fact that these people end up demonically afflicted does not disprove the existence of ghosts. Most "ghost hunters" are frauds and the ones might happen to stumble upon or expose themselves to supernatural phenomena are probably not the best persons to discern if that activity is from God or from Satan. I personally think anyone who deliberately goes looking after ghosts (especially for the sake of a TV show) is opening themselves up to demonic activity and is a fool.
In the story of Lazarus and the rich man, the chasm spoken of was the chasm between the Sheol of the damned where the rich man was, and the Sheol of the blessed (the "bosom of Abraham") where Lazarus was. It was not, in that case, talking about the separation of earth and the afterlife.
As was mentioned before, however, any of these chasms, while not being able to be crossed over at will, can be (as we saw in the example of Samuel) be allowed by God for his own purposes.
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