Posted on 01/07/2005 9:14:48 PM PST by CurlyBill
Occupants believe their West Inverness house is spooked
by Joseph M. Giordano
When members of the Meyers family saw a figure in the window of the Jasmine Road house they wanted to buy, they should have known something was up.
But they didn't, and now they may be living with something paranormal.
"His name is Dexter," said 8-year-old Ozzie Meyers V. "And he kept asking me to read to him."
Ozzie's parents, Jennifer, an apparently down-to-Earth woman who works for Johns Hopkins University, and Ozzie IV, a stay-at-home dad, thought it might have been an imaginary friend. Then something happened that sent a chill through their West Inverness household.
"Ozzie [V] came to us about two years ago and told us that the little boy in the attic wanted him to play with his train tracks," said Jennifer Meyers, who bought the house in 1998. "My husband went to the attic to check it out. He found old toy train tracks under the insulation. We were convinced after that."
The house, in the 2000 block of Jasmine Road, was built in 1957 on a plot of land that used to be part of the Lynch family farm, according to Baltimore County land records.
The Meyers family moved in after a series of renters had lived in the home, Jennifer Meyers said.
Though the renters had no problems with anything out of the ordinary, they had an interesting occurrence at a party they hosted at the house, according to a neighbor.
"Just before the Meyerses moved in, there was a party at the house," said the neighbor, who asked that her name not be used. "And they had invited a psychic. During the party, the psychic was at the [dining room] table and told [the guests] that someone had brought a spirit into the house."
The neighbor has lived in her home for 30 years and believes that something is not quite right about the Meyerses' house.
"I believe them," the neighbor said. "I hear something running up and down the stairs when no one is at home. There are thumps on the wall and other noises when the house is empty."
In December, Jennifer and her husband appeared on The Montel Williams Show when celebrity psychic Sylvia Brown was the guest and the topic was "the unknown." The opening to the attic where the family hears strange sounds.
"We weren't too happy with [Brown's] answer," Jennifer Meyers said. "She was contradictory and didn't make any sense."
Part of the show was filmed at the Meyerses' home and featured a clip - recorded by one of the show's cameramen- of the lights above the dining room table rapidly going on and off.
"That seems to happen when we're at dinner and arguing about something," Jennifer Meyers said.
Everyone in the house has had strange experiences they can't explain.
"I hate doing laundry in the basement alone," Jennifer Meyers said. "I have seen the figure of a man downstairs."
Ozzie IV., who was always skeptical, has seen a shadow that moved up the steps from the first floor.
"That's what made a believer out of me," he said. "I also woke up and there was a man in front of our bed. My wife saw it too."
Beside the banging sounds against the wall and noises in the basement, the family has several questionable photographs that include a dark anomily around the children, especially their 17-month-old daughter, Genevieve.
"This black shape appears in a number of pictures of our daughter," Jennifer Meyers said. "We have one of an orb above her head at the christening."
Orbs are photographic anomalies that some believe indicate the presence of a ghost and like any other "proof" of the unknown are highly debatable.
One type of evidence that's harder to explain away is electronic voice phenomena (EVP).
EVP are picked up on video and audio tape but are unheard and unseen while the original recorded interview is taking place, according to the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena's Web site.
Strange sounds were picked up on an audio tape even though they weren't heard while the family's interview with The Eagle was taking place at the house. The sounds crop up over both Jennifer Meyers' and her son's voices throughout the recording.
Though not especially religious, the Meyerses have had everyone from a Catholic priest to a practitioner of Wicca come through and bless the house.
"Nothing seems to work," Jennifer Meyers said. "We've even yelled 'In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, go back where you came from,' but it didn't work."
"I try to keep a sense of humor about it all," she said. "But I want whatever it is to stop scaring my children."
I have been to the Battle of the Little Big Horn State Park and I don't remember any place to stay around there. Were you in a motor home?
The record of the Saints, in this biography and that, over centuries and centuries, is of battle with the demonic. They didn't cower. They understood the evil, and the folly of the demonic. They prayed and spoke as Saints the Holy Name. They were beaten, injured, assaulted, etc. by spirits.
It's the superstitious moderns who fear the demons, in whatever form, whether visible or not, because they don't know what to do. They are not Saints, and may even REFUSE to confess God and His Church. 500 years of Protestantism, Revolution and then socialism had a way of doing that to the human race.
But the idea of ghosts and demons, of horrible odors and violent noises, even physical assaults by unseen assailants, are the very stuff of exorcisms, and again the lives of the Saints to whom the demons particularly were sent to make miserable, if it were possible.
"Absent from the body, present with the Father" They're demons. No doubt about it, IMHO.
Whoa! I never said that this was proof. I just repeated what I heard from a couple of scientists/physicists on a show some time ago.
Well, the scientists/physicists that spoke of this talked about the electrical energy that powers the heart and brain, not the static nutrients. There is no question that when we die this "energy" that powers our body changes form in some way. I don't pretend to understand this, but it is very interesting.
Well... don't let the dog play with the stovepipe!!!
They say the young do not rest. I believe it was a visit. You should not be scared. When my dad died three years ago I had the smell of his pipe tobacco in my room also I had a smell steak on the BBQ in the middle of the night. I have not had a visit since in smell but he does pop up in my dreams as a young and health man. :) I ask him to visit me. I'm sorry about your brother :(
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Hi I love the Ghost pings! I wanted to mention two things:
1) One day many years ago, I came to the conclusion that the Ouija board I had was eveil so I threw gasoline on it and burnt it. As it was buring it hissed. Yes it made a hissing noise.
2) I found and bought a copy of the movie "THE SENTINEL" - Please get it. Its about a woman who moves into a house and meets many "neighbors". I dont want to spoil it but I will say that the movie has been scaring me since I was a kid but it also reinforces my strong belief of good over evil. Its inspiring to see the power and love of Jesus prevail over the most horrible of things. Its a great movie and its on DVD!
I've seen the Sentinel, and it's a very good movie. I may have to get that one on DVD. As for that hissing noise, I've heard the same from logs in my fireplace. I wouldn't read anything into that.
Great. get the DVD it has a couple of extra scenes that I dont remember formt the VHS.. Hissing wood sounds better that Satan thanks!
There was a show on the Discovery channel called "A Haunting in Georgia"
It was about a young girl that started to experience phenomena that scared them.
They contacted priests, psychics, etc, and most all agreed something strange was going on.
As part of the investigation, they brought in a local college scientist type, who set up all sorts of electical monitoring equipment.
The show was quite lengthy, and he was interviewed quite a few times. During all his interviews, he would blather on about electrical fields, gravity, psychological effects, etc. etc. He certainly made his case that he didn't in any way shape or form believe in ghosts or spirits.
Finally, in the last two minutes of the show, he has his last interview, and he says "We are forced to believe that after someone dies SOMETHING RESIDUAL REMAINS"
Totally blew me away when he finally admitted what others have felt for years. And quite alternative-open minded to have DC even ait the show.
Wow! Thanks, that was eerie.
Why there are no Black people in Ghost movies.
Dad: Honey we are so lucky. Great house. Great lawn. The best school system in the state. Nice neighbors.
Mom: Yup.
Spooky voice: GET OUT!
Dad: To bad we cant stay!
From author Dave Hunt:
"Man is a spirit living in a body through which he participates in physical events. The spirit in man distinguishes him from animals and makes it possible for him to know God. Neither man's body nor soul is in God's image, for God has neither. Man's spirit is in the image of God. Separation of man's spirit from God's Spirit brings spiritual death to man...
AT DEATH the body goes into the grave and 'the spirit shall return unto God who gave it' (Ecclessiastes 12:7). Taking the Bible as a whole, this can only mean that man's spirit is at God's disposal to be sent either to heaven or hell. The spirit of a dead person would not be floating about, haunting or appearing to those on earth, as the world of the occult would have us believe. 'Ghosts' can only be masquerading demons."
Any apparent communication from an alleged discarnate is taken as evidence [if believed] to support the serpent's lie that death is nothing to fear. Having 'proved' its identity, the alleged discarnate invariably proceeds to present...lies...that souls and spirits are free to flit about on the astral plane and have become communicators. One cannot believe in communication with the dead and at the same time believe in God's word:'...it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgement' (Hebrews 9:27).
For a fascinating read, pick up Hunt's book: 'Occult Invasion -- The Seduction of the World and Church'
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