It was a ghost, honey, I swear!
Posted on 05/06/2005 8:47:06 PM PDT by CurlyBill
By Ilona Carson
ABC13 Eyewitness News
(5/05/05 - CYPRESS, TX) — Houston's police officers usually hunt down criminals, but one lieutenant has been spending his time hunting ghosts -- in his own home.
It has all the makings of a movie, but this isn't fiction - it's a home right here in Texas. In fact, it's just up Highway 249 in Cypress. The home has been drawing ghost-hunters, sight-seers and the curious.
It is quite a story. The couple moved in about two years ago. He is a Houston police officer. He says by nature he is very skeptical but even he couldn't explain what was going on in his own home.
Soon after moving in, Harry and Leslie Zamora noticed a lot of strange things happening in their house – doors opening and closing, chairs moved around at the dinner table.
"We would come back in here and a chair would be out (away from the table)," said Leslie.
A bathroom light turned on so many times, Leslie taped the switch down. They thought they were crazy, but when the eerie occurrences didn't subside, they decided to document them.
The Zamoras set up infrared cameras and they captured images of orbs of light. Sometimes they were still, sometimes they streaked across the image. They appeared in hallways and on walls, and even outside the home, where the Zamoras had placed a cross. What are these apparitions? They say they are only two ways to explain the phenomenon.
Harry said, "Scientists believe it's some kind of energy. Some people think it's spiritual or in that realm. "
The Zamoras believe in the latter, saying they have a strong faith. They had a pastor bless the house and they have hung crosses in every room.
Now Harry is working with other police officers to document similar occurrences. They call themselves the Phenomena Police. Their goal is to help people to make peace with the spirits he says are around us all.
Those officers are spending some of their off-duty time working with a TV production company to start a TV pilot. They start shooting that on Monday.
(Copyright © 2005, KTRK-TV)
What an amazing profile. I like Rowe, especially Gladiator. Watched it about 20 times now. I will check out the Gladiator forum. Not much into Grant. I went to college in Davenport, IA. Good luck on your walk!
Wow - this is close to me! I'm gonna ask my HPD buddies if they know Officer Zamora.
Thanks for the spooky neighborhood ping!
I didn't see the NY prison episode... what happened there?
What's the name of the lightening novel? Sounds intriguing.
I have seen St. Elmo's Fire on cattle horns on a hot night and on a pig's back in the snow.
In our first townhouse on Briar Forest (the Walnut Bend townhomes, for you Houstonians), my fiance and I saw things we still can't explain.
The hair dryer plugged in in the bathroom upstairs would turn on while we were both downstairs. There were cold spots that let's face it, you can't explain in 105-degree Houston, Texas.
The scariest, though, was when he awoke to find a woman bending over him who wasn't me.
Was she hot?
Given that you are known to carry edged weapons, I'd say that was quick thinking on his part ... so long as he sticks with the story!!
It was a ghost, honey, I swear!
interesting
I just was on Briar Forest a few minutes ago. Did the ghost make you move?
Someone had to post it.
The episode you speak of is indeed a Growing Pains episode. The Grandfather dies, and Mike Seaver (Kirk Cameron) sees the grandfathers ghost jogging into the back door and through the kitchen. The Grandfather didnt come into the Kitchen for a drink, but Mike did. He came into the kitchen, takes the milk carton for a drink, watches his grandfathers ghost enter the kitchen through the back door, says "Hi Mike." and keeps on jogging through. Mike drops the milk carton onto the floor in shock.
Growing Pains - I had completely forgotten that title.
The idea that grandfather did not know he was dead stayed with me as I've heard that notion before. I think that WAS the situation, was it not? He did not realize he died?
And Kirk Cameron, I have not thought of him in ages.
Shivers!
This is true. After seeing the Grandfathers ghost in the kitchen for the second or third time, he forces himself to go to the kitchen for another encounter to try to mae contact with the ghost. Mike manages to stop the grandfather in mid jog while still in the kitchen, pointing out to him that he died. And this is news to the grandfather's ghost. He doesnt even realize that he was dead.
This epsiode has stayed with me too. (I have read somewhere that some ghosts dont even realize that they are dead) And if you liked that plotline, then you should see the Nicole Kidman movie: "The Others"
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Pinging to read later! :)
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