On a whim I grabbed my tape recorder and brought it with me mostly out of fun but I have to admit a little curiosity too! As we walked through the cemetery I held my tape recorder in front of me. Besides the brush under our feet, the birds singing and our voices there were no other noises.
Many of the graves in the small cemetery were unmarked and a few of the headstones were completely broken off leaving no mark of who was lying beneath them. And so towards the end of the walk my sister and I began to joke and hold the tape recorder up to the broken headstones saying, "Who's here? What's your name?" Of course we elicited no responses and so we finally left.
A few days later I finally sat down with my headphones and listened to what I thought was going to be a really boring recording of us walking through a cemetery, but what I heard instead made my hair stand on end. The "things" I heard came at the end of our walk just as we were about to leave. The first was when I jokingly held the recorder up to the tombstone and asked "What's your name?" It sounded as if someone had stuck their face up to the microphone and whispered "look" right into the recorder. I heard that same whisper "look" twice on the recorder. But the creepiest thing I heard was right after my sister went on a tangent about how bad the cemetery looked. She remarked that the graves should be dug up and moved and the cemetery burned (she's 17!), just after she says that something in the background says, "you can't burn".
Were those ghostly voices or just a glitch in my cassette tape? I don't know, the only two things I know for sure: those were NOT our voices and I'm still having fun believing!!
Very good story! I am a believer. I have had 3 or 4 different occasions in my life when happenings could not be logically explained. My family, overall , is very religious. I had 5 brothers and 2 sisters. Only 3 of the boys remain, but I still have both of my sisters.
We all are getting up there in age. My best friend and older brother, "Don", passed on in 2002. Don has always been irresponsible with just about everything. He was at times a worry.
In his younger days, he was pretty much a social drinker that drank, until the sun came up. The last 15 years of his life, he lived alone and was bothered with health problems that included arthritis of the spine. He took lots of pain killers.
He had many stories of people that he had seen at the end of his bed or in his apartment. Of course, these stories were not just in his final years of life, they occurred over his lifetime.
We all just laughed at him and his stories and kind of shrugged them off as his mind playing tricks on him, caused from the booze and pills.
A few years ago, he was in the hospital with heart problems. He had previously had open heart bypass surgery. I went to see him in the hospital on a Sunday. He had another one of his stories. He said at 3AM that morning, a man and 3 or 4 other people came into his Intensive Care room. He said they were all dressed nicely. The man told him that, "he would be crossing over, soon, and they just wanted to insure him he had nothing to be afraid of". He said they, then turned and walked out of the room and immediately afterwards, a nurse walked in.
He asked her about the people and she said , there hasn't been anyone here , but the nursing staff. He tried to get her to call his family, but she would not do it at that time in the morning.
He was visibly concerned about what had happened. There was not any laughing this time about what he had experience.
Five days later, he was back in his apartment and sleeping in his favorite recliner when he crossed over. He had a contented look on his face and the coroner said he simply went to sleep and never woke up.
We believe his visitors were possibly angels and were helping him accept the fact he was leaving this life.
Don was 69 and we tend to believe he is in heaven.
Believe me, you are not a nut! A good friend of mine had his house "investigated" http://www.ghost-investigators.com/investigations/view_inv.php?inv_num=11 earlier this year. It was really my first introduction to ghost hunting. What I heard & saw from that website astounded me!! Listen to the EVP's from his house - they are truely incredible ("is anybody there", "feels good", etc.).
Because of this, I went head-first into learning about "ghost hunting". I bookmarked websites, read, purchased a digital recorder (with a plug-in mic), and EMF meter. My neighbor and I then went to the nearest cemetery and begin to take pictures and recording (picture a 36 year-old and 41 year-old, white-collared professionals, lurking around a cemetery in the dark with a Mercedes parked at the entrance!!).
On the short drive home, we began to listen to the recording: the hair on our heads just about stood up! The first EVP, ever, that we got was at the beginning of the recording. We had just taken a picture after the EMF meter spiked and you hear a child say "thank you"!! Next, we begin walking between the plots and I say hello... about 8 seconds later, as clear and as loud as can be, a deep male voice (imagine Larry King) says "hello". Also, whenever we say the EMF go off or "had a feeling, we took a picture. The bright, moving orbs we photographed are quite impressive.
On our next visit, we were really amazed... two of the EVP's were scary: in addition to the orb photos we took, we captured two more EVP's. We went back to the same spot where the child had said thank you and asked if he was there again - at that point, on the recorder, you hear a LOUD, high pitched scream! Later on, when getting back into the car, you hear a man scream "OUT"!!
Sometimes EVP's have to be listened to again and again, just to be heard - and then are subject to interpretation. So far, all of the EVP's we have gotten are loud and clearly understandable. I have downloaded all of them into .wav files, but I'm not sure how to attached them or post them. If anyones knows how, I would be more than happy to share them. In the interim, check out the aforementioned link and google EVP & ghosts. Almost all of the ghost hunting website post their investigation findings, EVP's, pictures (of orbs, ectoplasm, & vortexes), and video.
Believe me, I was a skeptic that never even thought about ghosts in a serious manner! What I have personally expereinced is nothing short of amazing. What I have realized, though, is that there is another "plane" another "side". The first night of personally capturing and hearing an EVP had a profound effect on me. Although my wife doesn't like my new-found interest and has asked me several times why couldn't have found a differant hobby, I think me and my neighbor might just head back out tonight!