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."
Even you said I wasn't particularly frightening.
;-)
(Got short hair again.*sigh*)
IANAC, but didn't Jesus say something like "I am not a ghost" after the resurrection? Of course, he didn't go on to say what ghosts actually WERE, but it seems he acknowledged their existence.
I'm a skeptic but I do believe that ghosts exist --- that's not the mystery. The mystery is what they are. And it's not anything science could ever prove one way or the other.
You're right; it was a pleasurable haunting :)
Next I'll wear the chainmail and the cape.
That way I can scare the neighbors.
There's so many blue state Freepers! I live in a county that votes 80% Republican, and as far as I know I'm the only one posting here within 50 miles of me! :-(
Hey! You can offer your services to the people in the article!
You can be "The Ghost Whisperer."
Good, some of the neighbors need to be scared.
Please add me to your Art Bell ping list.
I often wake my family up at night with scary noises.
I place my faith in Carl Kolchak. Now that guy could handle excitement!!
bump!
Well, Maryland is a bit deceiving. You basically have a Republican state with three dominant Democrat jurisdictions in Baltimore City, PG County and Montgomery County. Charles County is also bleeding in that direction with some exodus from PG County and Washington D.C. My precinct went for Bush fairll convincingly... thank God! I've only met one other FReeper in person (RebelBanker - a great guy!) There are a bunch of us though!
I loved it when Family Guy took potshots at Dharma and Greg.
"I am surprised there is anything left" -- Brian, commenting on overuse of inserted laughter in Dharma and Greg eps
Zombies are not dead, obviously.
However, I am aware of at least one case of zombie phenomenon...in that occult hotbed of the Caribbean. Somebody has to be loading these guys up with drugs a lot. However, how they get them to be essential slaves is a question....and cases are so rare (again, I only read about one case), I doubt we will ever find out. But, it is just a massive drugging that leads to being stoned out of your mind but still able to follow commands.
Yeah, the lights just happen to flicker at the most interesting times that would most disturb the peace of the house. It is just a wiring connection, though thet lights are fine other times.
Yep, it is just a bad lens even though the camera takes great pictures except for those couple pics. The lens just acts up, again, at the exact right time.
Come on now.
Some people will try to explain away anything using arrogant assumptions about what the events are caused by and make themselves look like morons.
Kolchak was the man!
From a question posed to John MacArthur:
"Do you believe that Christ, as He exist now, is a material being? If so, do you believe that before He was incarnate He also existed as a material being?
Answer
The answer to the first question is, yes, but not a material being as you know it, or I know it, because there is a "body of resurrection" 1 Corinthians 15 again. There is a "body of resurrection," there is one kind of body, and another kind of body, and another kind of body, and another kind of body. And there is a body of birds, and a body of animals, and a body of resurrection. He [Jesus] said, "I am not a spirit, you see the flesh and bones that I have." He went through the wall and yet He was there and they could see Him and touch Him and feel Him and all that. So, He has a supernatural body, which is a visible body--I do not believe He possessed that before the incarnation. I think "a body Thou hast prepared Me," He says in Hebrews. "A body Thou hast prepared Me." So, I don't think He entered into that body until His incarnation and then fully became the Incarnate Christ and now is the glorified Christ--Son of Man, Son of God!"
NOW MY RESPONSE:
Interesting point. However, I think MacArthur is theologically spot on here. He is acknowledging the existence of spirits....i.e...evil spirits, demons, and good spirits, angels. For instance, angels DO NOT HAVE BODIES. They are spirit. Hebrews 1:14. However, they also appeared as people in Scripture, even going so far as to eat with Abraham in Genesis. So, while in their natural state, angels do not have bodies, they can take on human form when necessary.
So, obviously there are spirits. But, the word used was not "ghost." It was spirit....which does not mean ghost in Scripture necessarily; there is certainly no reason to believe that is Jesus' meaning.
No, Jesus, we all will have glorified, new bodies in heaven. These bodies will not be spirit like many think, but every bit as physical as when Jesus appeared in his glorified body to the disciples after the Resurrection.
Keep in mind he ascended in this new, glorified, physical body. So, we do not even need to be in the form of a spirit to float etc. This has implications for what heaven will be like....it won't be a bunch of ghosts roaming around. It will be people with real, physical bodies that do not get sick, suffer pain, age, or have any imperfections whatsoever. But, they will be real bodies.
In this passage, Jesus is not acknowledging the existence of ghosts. He is acknowledging that there are other beings that are not human which ARE spirit, however.
That is why I believe demons, evil SPIRITS, to be forms of "ghosts" which actually cause physical harm, appear in apparitions (not just orbs or other forms of visible energy manifestations.....I see no reason to think that is demons...that is just some unknown energy) etc.
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