Halloween Ghost Thread

[CurlyBill]

Okay, it's Halloween month. Time to post your true Ghost Stories...

[KateatRFM]

Cool! But in that case the ghost was not 'undisclosed' was it? So how could they void the sale?

[poindexter]

If I had a bodice, it would surely be ripped!

[KateatRFM]

We had poltergeist in our farm house; a ghost-hunter type person who came to look at it told my folks that this was a force field kind of thing generated in a household with a lot of teenagers, and since we had four teenaged girls (two of us 16, a 14 and a 12 year old) that was probably the reason for it. Two times after I grew up and left home I have seen that poltergeist work again: once when I was in the home of a boyfriend in Minnesota, when his dryer switched on by itself and then the door closed; once when he was at my house and my youngest sister was there to pick up something that had belonged to her late husband, when a small object moved straight off a shelf out about six or eight inches and then dropped to the floor. All three of us saw it. We were all in our thirties at the time but maybe that was a grownup poltergeist. Did you find out anything about that one of yours?

[mass55th]

"...although I was a bit impressed with the infrared signature soldier looking "ghost" they caught on camera this week."

I've watched Ghost Hunters each week and I must say that I was equally impressed by what they'd caught on infrared camera at the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Ak. The more I viewed the video, the more I became convinced that it was a Civil War soldier wearing a kepi and holding his musket. To me the figure appeared to bow his head down at one point during the video.

[Paradox]

To me the figure appeared to bow his head down at one point during the video.

My wife and I both thought we saw that motion of his head, pretty creepy!

[RckyRaCoCo]

Anyone who is/was a Dale Earnhart fan remembers the news organizations showing the in-car video at the exact time of the accident over and over again. I happened to tape one of the many tribute programs and while viewing the in-car video I noticed what appeared to be the image of a man's face. I ran it back, then forward, using the slow-mo/frame by frame feature and sure enough there seems to be an image of a mans face, with beard, that had one distinct feature in that his eyes were much larger than normal. It appears during the moment of impact and comes out of nowhere, then disappears. Probably just one of those visual illusions I thought and I just gave it up as a case of light/shadow/debris causing reflections in the car during the accident. However, what made me think about it again was the interview of Dale Jr.'s vette accident where he almost lost his life in a tremendous fire. He told (Mike Wallace?)on 60 minutes(I believe)that shortly after the incident he wanted to know the name of the person that helped him out of the burning car, but later he was told(and the video clearly shows)no one actually did and that he had pulled himself out. Wallace asked him if he thought it was his Father who had helped him, I think Jr's response was such that he thought it might have been. If you look at that video of him coming out of the fiery wreck of the vette(the way his arms are extended coming out of the car?)almost as if someone is pulling him out?

Who knows

BTW, i've got my own ghost story but that I think I posted on one of Curly's Halloween Ghost threads last year(or year before) so I won't post it again. However one story that was rumored to have happened to a friend of mine(who unfortunately was murdered a few years later)was that of his father and uncle(fathers brother)going into the house where their parents had lived, shortly after the one remaining parent had died. Rumor has it that when they stepped in the house the mother/father(don't remember now)appeared and began yelling at my friends Uncle to get out of the house. Perhaps they had been feuding before, not sure. Again, it was only rumored.

[CurlyBill]

To me the figure appeared to bow his head down at one point during the video.

Okay.... I watched it and that's what I saw as well. I was frustrated because nobody mentioned it. The fact that the number "2" was on his shoulder (as though he was standing in the same space as the locker) and that he looked far different from any human in terms of the thermal response was freaky!! Forget the garbage psychics... this is the type of scientific evidence that needs to be examined further.

[BigCinBigD]

Yes. I'm thinking of taking up "paranormal" investigation as a hobby.

[md2576]

I WANT MY BIG TOE!

[Larry Lucido]

Click here for a real scare.

[Black Tooth]

This lady came home from work, and found her Dobbie choking, she rushed her dog to the vet and the vet told her to go home, and he'd call her.

As soon as she got home, the phone was ringing. She answered and the vet told her she was in danger and to get out of the house. (He didn't tell her the dog was choking on human fingers). The vet had called the police. They later found a burglar in her upstairs closet, shaking with fear, bleeding to death, with three missing fingers!

[ArmyTeach]

A gracious old Southern house built in the early 19th century in Georgia - built of wood and not meant to survive the ages. My father grew up there and he had stories. The Yankee soldier killed on the premises who rode in rings Aron the house at night - but only when the Chattahoochee River was in spate. More seriously, my father's family would exit the riverside city for the mountains each summer to avoid the mosquitoes and malaria. My grandfather the mayor asked the policeman on patrol to keep any eye on the house, which he did. But when the family returned, the policeman reported that he felt he didn't feel he needed to check the house because the lady was always on the balcony each evening - My great-grandmother, dead since 1905. She would also appear on the landing when my grandmother hostessed a tea for the ladies of the community. When my aunt and uncle returned from their honeymoon and visited the house, my aunt retired early to bed only to have all the latches on her steamer trunk spring open one by one. They didn't stay the night.
After the house was torn down in 1948, the same aunt and uncle salvaged usable and sentimental materials from the house and build a lovely home in the country. When we visited we heard footsteps on the patio outside our room late at night. Upon inquiring the following day, nobody was out there. True - except about the Yankee raider.

[KamperKen]

For other urban legends like this one, I recommend "The Choking Doberman" by Brunvand, currently in print and available through Amazon. I believe I got my copy around 1988.

[TXBSAFH]

The old saying is that there is ghost for every mile of the Mississippi river.

[Cagey]

One of these days I gotta get one of those "8-ball" leather jackets.

[CaptRon]

The prospective owners were not local and claimed no prior knowledge.

[gopheraj]

LOLL Yeah.