Ghost Ping!!
My Mother-in-Law haunts me regularly. Does that count?
Ghosts and Snakes
(BOO! HISS!)
Spooky bookmark to come back and read later :)
bttt
One time at band camp...
It was a dark and stormy night. The little boy didn’t want to go into the old Simpson place, but he had been double dog dared by his friends, and he had no choice.
He stepped carefully into the basement through the busted window, inch by inch, step by step. And then he heard it…
RAP. RAP. RAP!
Carerfully, he moved up the stairs…
RAP. RAP. RAP!
Through the living room…
RAP. RAP. RAP!
The noise was getting louder…Up the top stairs…
RAP. RAP. RAP!
Through the hall…
RAP. RAP! RAP!
Up the attic stairs…
RAP. RAP! RAP!
It was coming from the closet! Terrified the boy threw open the door! And there…
…was a roll of wrapping paper!
Allright, it wasn't true. BOO! Happy Halloween!
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Things that go bump in the night bump.
I don't believe in ghosts, but here's a scary story:
In the future, Hillary Clinton runs for president...and wins.
I have four authentic stories.
1. When my great grandma Hurst was a young girl, her father died. Later, when she was a young woman, her mother died. On the day after the funeral, she claims she saw a fire ball descend from high in the sky, down about halfway to the horizon. Then, another fireball rose from the sky, met its partner, and both rose and disappeared against the heavens. Of course this was late 19th century Alabama, the olden days, when this kind of thing was quite common.
2. Several years ago, my sister, a rational middle aged school teacher, was having a restless night, unable to sleep very well. After dozing off, she woke up to see our grandpa Hurst standing at the foot of her bed. Strangely, he had passed away some 25 years prior to that. He stood, smiled, and disappeared. (Hursts must be especially "ghostly".)
3. About 8 years ago, a good friend of ours passed away after a long illness. He had been like a second father to my wife and she was very sad. A few nights after the funeral, while we layed in bed, we saw a bright red glow on our window shade. That window faces the back of our house, there are no streets or houses nearby, and we have no reason to suspect anyone was back there. The light lingered and glowed for some time, then rose from the window shade, up the wall (!), then disappeared.
4. I have a habit of listening to the radio before falling asleep. In early 1995, I was listening to CBS radio news at the top of the hour, about 9:00 pm. When the news ended, there was a long spot of dead air. Suddenly, an announcer's voice came on the air and simply said, "In January, you'll go blind." There was more dead air. Then the regular program came back on "in progress."
My eyesight has gotten poor over the years, but I can still see. Each January, however, I'm very careful about my eyes.
One thing that happened to me when I was about twelve or so, I'm still not sure if it was a ghost or what:
I was at our cabin in Canada (Which has a great view of the lake), watching TV with my mother. Then, I turned and looked out the window to see the lake, and I saw the silhouette of a tall man literally running ON the water! He was running kind of slowly, and making big strides. I turned to tell my mother to look out the window, but when I looked back at the lake, the silhouette was gone.
They also have some "ghost cams" (left side of the message board) and some pretty interesting photographs.
I have so many ghost stories. Real ones that I've experienced. Maybe I'll spread them out over the next few days.
Here's a couple spooks that Mr. M has seen. We live in an older house which previously belonged to my grandparents. Before them it was the original builders who lived here, who were older, and her elderly mother so I'm fairly sure no has ever died here. However, Mr. M. claims he's seen things here over the years. Once or twice in Lil' M's room he has seen a white haired woman dressed in red. He knew my grandmother but couldn't say if it was her but he didn't feel the woman was harming anyone. We like to think the woman was just looking after Lil' M.
A few years later and for about 6 months, Mr. M would suddenly stop what he was doing and stare at something across our great room and say, "It's him again." None of us ever saw or felt anything but Mr. M is no nonsense and it wasn't a joke to him. He said it was an old man who would just appear and then vanish. One time, we were watching tv when Mr. M suddenly saw something behind me. I laughed and asked if it was Sam again. The look on Mr. M's face was unbelievable and he asked how I knew the ghost's name. I don't know if speaking the ghost's name out loud did anything but that was the last time Mr. M ever saw him.
It would be nothing to check on the original owner's name but I've not bothered for fear it might really be Sam.
When I bought the house, I installed a set of drop down attic stairs to make it easier to use the attic for storage. I was up there working the day before Christmas, and pried up a floorboard. It snapped in half, created a puff of dust and a small piece of paper flew up from beneath the floorboard and stuck to my shirt. This is what it read:
"Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Frank Bartkovich"
I went right downstairs, I did.
I found this web site cool. It list HAUNTED PLACES STATE BY STATE.
http://theshadowlands.net/places/
Here is a small example from my State of Washington.
Kirkland - Williams / Web Building - Several Residents (upstairs) have seen a short man in a hat, reported footsteps, cold spots, minor moving objects, rapping. A pair of residents (sisters) reported being "sat upon" while sleeping, one resident reported whispers in her ear. Restaurant workers (below) have spotted a shadowy figure
Lacey - Nisqually Middle School - A picture taken showed an orb in the "7b" hallway. Rumored to be the spirit of a kid who attended the school in the 80's who died while he attended. There's a plaque commemorating him in the front-left of the school near the bus lane.
Lake Stevens - A woman was killed while driving through a railing into Lake Stevens. People have claimed to see her floating above the water, staring at people as they drive by.
Lakewood - Thornewood Castle Bed and Breakfast Inn - This is the building that Stephen King filmed the movie Rose Red, but other real life things have been found there. Orbs and Ectoplasm are the most that they have found yet.
Leavenworth - Leavenworth cemetery - this place was once the burial site for railroad workers in the late 1800's, if you enter the cemetery at night you may see the workers carrying their lanterns, and some claimed to have heard the hammering of railroad spikes, and the workers whistling