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Annual Haunted Thread

Posted on 10/26/2006 4:29:07 AM PDT by CurlyBill

Here is the annual haunted thread. Post your true ghost stories here... This has been somewhat popular ovedr the last three years given the feedback I've received. We just need to keep bumping the thread and keep it active.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Philosophy; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: ghosts; ghoststories; halloween; haunted; hauntedhouses
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To: Kermit the Frog Does theWatusi

Do you remember the haunted library story?

161 posted on 10/30/2006 1:10:39 PM PST by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: mutley

Man I'm glad that's fiction!!


162 posted on 10/30/2006 4:03:42 PM PST by phoenix0468 (http://www.mylocalforum.com -- Go Speak Your Mind.)
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To: CurlyBill
My daughter told me that a classmate from her schools has a statue of Elvis that her parents got very cheap from a garage sale. She went on to say that the girl had a slumber party one night, and during the party the girls heard the dog yelp (she added that the dog liked to pee on stuff). Then they heard heavy footsteps going down then back up the stairs. The next morning the dog was not to be found (they fear it peed on the Elvis statue, which they say was possessed and got mad. LOL.). The girl also told her friends, who told my daughter, that she found some scissors in the guitar of the Elvis statue, and when she tried to retrieve them the statue reached down and grabbed them from her. Apparently the girls parents are afraid to get rid of the statue because they fear it as well. They now call it the "Evil Elvis" statue. Muwahahahahahaha, thank you, thank you very much!!
163 posted on 10/30/2006 4:12:27 PM PST by phoenix0468 (http://www.mylocalforum.com -- Go Speak Your Mind.)
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To: Ol' Sox

That's neat. Really.


164 posted on 10/30/2006 4:18:57 PM PST by phoenix0468 (http://www.mylocalforum.com -- Go Speak Your Mind.)
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To: mtbopfuyn

Now that's freaky but kind of neat.


165 posted on 10/30/2006 4:23:46 PM PST by phoenix0468 (http://www.mylocalforum.com -- Go Speak Your Mind.)
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To: ThomasThomas

LOL. That's a good one!!


166 posted on 10/30/2006 4:26:47 PM PST by phoenix0468 (http://www.mylocalforum.com -- Go Speak Your Mind.)
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To: Publius

Wow!! That's the best one yet!!


167 posted on 10/30/2006 5:46:13 PM PST by phoenix0468 (http://www.mylocalforum.com -- Go Speak Your Mind.)
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To: Wiseghy

Why didn't the skeleton cross the road?

He didn't have the guts!!

HAHA


168 posted on 10/30/2006 5:53:56 PM PST by phoenix0468 (http://www.mylocalforum.com -- Go Speak Your Mind.)
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To: PacesPaines

ROFLMAO!!


169 posted on 10/30/2006 5:56:29 PM PST by phoenix0468 (http://www.mylocalforum.com -- Go Speak Your Mind.)
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To: CurlyBill
A friend of mine moved to a rural North Carolina location with his family. This guy is a rock-solid, no-nonsense kind of guy. Stand-up, true blue and a man's man.

On his land is a sunken meadow. One fine spring day, he was taking a walk with his dog and heard music in the sunken meadow. As he neared the meadow, he looked through the trees and saw a man in a what he described as an "old style long suit coat with a big ribbon-like bow tie". A few feet away was a woman dressed in a long blue dress with a high collar, playing the piano. The music was not something he had heard before, but he said it was sad and the man singing had a pure and beautiful voice.

When he approached, thinking that someone might be filming a movie, the scene "faded" and the music seemed to fade into the woods.

When I asked him what he thought it was, he just said that he sensed someone was mourning "after a war or something", and he did not know why he had that impression.

He never spoke of the incident again.
170 posted on 10/30/2006 6:13:07 PM PST by alarm rider (Casting a large net for new, shiny tag lines...)
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To: misterrob

That's our job.


171 posted on 10/30/2006 8:11:24 PM PST by bannie
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To: All

This post is a thing that goes "bump" in the night .... whooooo ooooo ooooo


172 posted on 10/31/2006 12:39:04 AM PST by Rte66
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To: CurlyBill; phoenix0468; Rte66; bannie; All


Wonderful thread Bill!.. for those who may have missed last years thread it is HERE!-Curly Bill’s Halloween Thread 2005

Also there are a few sharings (including 6th sense happenings) on the Singles Weekend Halloween Thread 2006

If you want to "borrow" some great graphics, the >FInest Pumpkin Parade is starting strong

I personally have a LOT of ghost/spirit type stories from my years of being a Hospice & Hospital Chaplain. I think I am going to be putting the collection together in & for a book....If that gets done will try to preview it here maybe next year at Bill's thread
173 posted on 10/31/2006 3:51:36 AM PST by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: phoenix0468
#168

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!

174 posted on 10/31/2006 4:05:42 AM PST by Anne of DC (A quote from a friend's calander: "I like dogs, they are not political")
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To: CurlyBill

If ghosts were real I can assure you the spirit of Mary Jo Kopechne would be seen nightly screaming for help in Chappaquiddick!


175 posted on 10/31/2006 4:13:07 AM PST by Doc Savage ("You couldn't tame me, but you taught me.................")
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To: CurlyBill

bttt


176 posted on 10/31/2006 5:36:23 AM PST by aberaussie (Ignorance has a cost.)
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To: Doc Savage

Who says she's not haunting that bridge crying for help or for Ted(the whale)Kennedy to pay for his crime of stupidity?


177 posted on 10/31/2006 6:54:48 AM PST by Anne of DC (A quote from a friend's calander: "I like dogs, they are not political")
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To: CurlyBill

We just moved from an old farmhouse here in the north Georgia mountains. It is a little over one hundred years old. We witnessed quite a few things there the three years we lived in it. Some were downright frightful, others merely disturbing.

The house sits up on a hill about fifty yards from the road, with neighbors about one hundred yards to either side. So it's pretty quiet most times. There seems to be a couple of different types of occurrences. The first seems to be a replay of events that happened before, and the second is one of interaction.

One of the things that would replay at times is the sound of a vehicle pulling up the drive, with the accompanying car door. It usually happens after dark. Being far enough from neighbors to be relatively quiet, this stands out as neighbors arriving home is inaudible from inside the house. Every time we've gone to the door expecting visitors just to find out that no one is there, nor is there traffic on the road or neighbors moving about. It's odd, and at times a bit unsettling, but nothing we couldn't live with.

There were a few occasions when headlights accompanied the phantom vehicle. The drive goes up the side of the property and turns in front of the house, so when a car pulls up the drive at night, the headlights always shine upon the living room windows. As we said, a few times when we heard the vehicle, we saw lights play across the closed blinds. We were just sure those were real vehicles only to find nothing out there.

Then there were the occasional knocks on the front door. Once in a while we would get a knock at the front door to find no one there. Other times my wife and I caught glimpses of a man in overalls on one of the porches, and upon turning to find out who was calling would see that no one was there.

Other things, more disturbing things happened in the house. When we first moved in, we would see a small shadow dart around corners. My wife and I both thought we were just imagining things and for the longest time, never told each other. Then one evening while we were both in the same room, saw a shadow dart around a corner. Both of us reacted at the same time and knew we both had seen it. It was always small, sort of cat-like in size and movement, but formless. It stayed mainly in one side of the house. It was disturbing as it always accompanied an uneasy feeling.

The kitchen was bad, especially at night and even more so at three in the morning. You couldn't stand there at the sink with your back to the room as it felt as if someone were staring a hole in your back. One room just off the kitchen was used as mainly a storage room, as it always felt oppressive in there.

We loved that house and intended on being there for good, but things didn't work out for us in order to buy it. So our lease ran out and we found another place to buy instead. It seems to have worked out for the better as we know don't know how we put up with some of the things that went on.


178 posted on 10/31/2006 2:44:13 PM PST by kenth (There are three kinds of people in the world. Those who can count, and those who can't.)
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To: CurlyBill

As promised, here's one from back in my college days. I've told it before and as in all my ghost stories is true.

I had a poltergiest in my dorm room. In the beginning of my college years, I was assigned the oddest assortment of roommates until I learned I could pay an extra $7 (!) and get a room by myself. But with or without roomies, strange things occurred. Actually, the roommates were weirder than the subject of this story - one would coo like a dove 24/7, another was into drugs and porn so I kicked her out in a matter of days, one on full valdictorian scholarship dropped out after 2 weeks of crying for her highschool boyfriend, and the final was a boyfriend stealer. The only roomie that stayed was the poltergiest.

Anyway, things you'd just sat down would be missing and later turn up right back where you'd first put it and all sorts of little funny tricks. The one I liked the best was he'd (I always thought of "it" as a "he") leave me money! About twice a week I'd find two $1 bills folded in forths in my pants or jacket pocket. I swear, I never caught anyone doing it. My friends were broke and couldn't keep a secret if they'd done it and besides none were there every year. Then there was the door that would open on it's own. We had those door knobs that required a key to open the bolt so it couldn't have just blown open. At first, I run to see who was playing tricks but no one was ever in the long dorm hallway, there were no close outside doors, and long tile floor echoed so you'd know if anyone had run down the hallway or into another room. After a while, we'd just smile and say hello to him.

The only time I wasn't bothered with him was when I got fed up with the boyfriend stealer roomie and moved to another floor. The next semester, I moved back to my original room and he was still there, but was ticked because I'd left. One day, I was standing in the room and heard a bang. The top closet storage door was on the floor right where I'd been standing. But here's the zinger, I felt the door *go through me*. Even rationalizing, there's no way that door could have fallen out of it's track and landed on the floor that far from the closet. Everyone knows how small dorm rooms are so I know exactly where I was standing and I jumped before the bang when it hit the floor. I first felt something go through me, jumped, and then heard the bang. In that order. It's the weirdest thing but I was more angry than scared. I think he got the message how angry I was with him and he never did anything mean again.

My dormitory was newer, but was an annex of older dorms so it could be our building was built on the site of another dorm. In the turn of the century era dorms, there was the usual story of the girl who committed suicide (ha, I played her in our haunted house), but there wasn't a story about my room. I've wondered if anyone else had experiences but never went back to ask.


179 posted on 10/31/2006 3:37:24 PM PST by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: Choose Ye This Day

Lol, I like the "busted" one.


180 posted on 10/31/2006 3:48:50 PM PST by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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