Heh, heh, heh...
Hey Beavis, do you believe he fell for THAT?!
Posted on 10/21/2005 3:53:47 AM PDT by CurlyBill
Okay, it's Halloween month. Time to post your true Ghost Stories...
Boo Bump.
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Heh, heh, heh...
Hey Beavis, do you believe he fell for THAT?!
Goody!!!
(Is it unseemly for a 50 year old woman to say 'Goody'?) LOL!!
I just love true ghost stories!
He was only a kid then... about 8 or 9... sitting on the front porch of his grandfathers house. His grandad was with him and they were just staring down the frontwalk... sipping lemonade on a hot day.
As my friend looked to the front gate, he saw a man in a grey, confederate uniform walk up from the sidewalk toward them... but he was kind'a 'transparent'. Turning to his grandfather, my friend asked him “ ...who was this strange man.”
The old man simply replied... “He's just an old soldier... 'comin home.”
I have experienced the phenomenon described in the following link while renting a room in an old supposedly haunted farmhouse from a family during college. Never happened to me before nor since. Very scary.
http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa112000a.htm
Thanks to you all for some great ghost stories! I have told my small ghostly encounters here several times so I won't bore you all with them again. Thanks!
I was working for a publishing company around 1989 or so in Columbia MD.
My then boss told me a story I will never forget.
He had the habit of working late. The office was located in a kind of strip office park complex off the main road.
Not the kind of place people would be likely to be strolling and well apart from any restaurants or residential buildings.
His office was situated in the front of our section with large glass windows all along one side that faced the parking area. The whole wall
was windows.
According to him he was working very late one night and as midnight approached he just happened to glance over to the window and noticed
two couples standing there looking in at him.
He described their clothes and the strange distant expressions on their faces.
Because it was so unusual for anyone to be around and that they seemed like just normal folks either lost or their car broke down he got up and went
around from his office to the front door also facing the same parking area.
When he opened it they were gone.
The building stretched out in both directions quite a ways and there is no conceivable way a person could run away in the time it would take to walk 5 steps and open the front door.
The next day he had found out that a car accident had claimed the lives of two couples in that area.
I remember him telling me this story, and he held out his arm, I looked at it and he had visible goosebumps all over it.
At least provie a link to 'em!
Your story was great and yes I had this happend to me like 10 years ago. I was walking to work when this man jogged passed by me that gave me the worst feeling in the world. He disapeared around the corner. I felt at the time that it was the devil himslef. Just a gut feeling.
Also in reference to Thermalseeker story..that scared the heck out of me. If I saw some creepy old guy in the back seat of my car, I'd be shrieking like a little girl...
Dibbuk Haunted Jewish Wine Cabinet Box for sale at Ebay. I read about this a while back. Very Weird!
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/rubyc/eBay_dibbuk.htm
My Grandmother passed away in 1969. I was only 7 and had not been allowed to see her while she was so sick. She had lived in a cottage on Lake Huron and we would take vacations to that cottage every summer.
A year or two after my grandmother died, we went to the cottage on vacation. My sister and I were in bed giggling and singing, anything but going to sleep. At the end of the bed there appeared a mist which turned into our grandmother. She was in a white cotton night gown and cap and had a yellowish tint to her skin. She told us not to be afraid, that she loved us and that she had left a bag of Lemon Drops in the kitchen cupboard.
We had just arrived at the cottage that day and had helped my Mom unpack the groceries and put everything away in the kitchen. There had been no lemon drops.
My sister and I fell instantly asleep then woke early. We quietly snuck down to the kitchen and in the very first cupboard, right up front, was a bag of Brach's Lemon Drops. When we asked our mother about them, she did not know how they had gotten there, but didn't believe we had seen our grandmother. She did explain that Grandma had died of pancreatitis and her skin had been yellow, but we must have overheard them talking about that at some point.
In 1977, a cousin and her new husband used the cottage for their honeymoon. They arrived late at night and had to go down to the basement to turn on the electricity and get the water pump running. My cousin couldn't remember how to do this. Her husband went out to the car to get a flashlight. Suddenly my cousin saw my grandmother and she was able to remember how to turn on the utilities, then ran screaming from the basement! When we heard this story, years later, we made our cousin tell our Mom, so that she would finally believe that we had seen her too.
One final story: One night, my father woke up feeling a need to go check on us kids. As he approached the steps, he saw his long-deceased father already heading up the steps. He turned to my father and said "Don't worry, I'm keeping an eye on them" so my father turned and went back to bed.
Rather than ever being frightened, it was almost comforting knowing that my grandparents were still keeping watch over my family.
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You really deserve a case of hemorrhoids for that.
I love Ghost Hunters! If I have to work in the evening, Mr. Sneakers tapes it for me. I also watch "Most Haunted" on Friday nights (Travel Channel). It's British. I'm not so sure about that one though. In one episode, a table kind of 'jumped' when they were doing 'table-tipping'. The camera man, apparently, has nerves of steel or knew it was going to happen, because the camera shot never wavered in spite of the fact that the three guys doing the table-tipping shocked and jumped back!
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