Got ghost stories?

[montyburnz]

Does anyone have a real ghost/paranormal story?

The closest thing I have is I'll think of obscure television episodes or movies out-of-the-blue and then i'll run across them on tv a few hours later.

Sometimes I'll have flashes of deja vu. It scares me to think we may dream the future...I had a dream once where I ran into a hooded home invader trying to get into the house. so i hope that don't happen...

Its probably better that I don't have a personal ghost story...with my luck it'd be meeting Wendigo, the flesh eating bigfoot.

The only decent anecdote I have is secondhand. My cousin lived in a 2 story house as a kid. One night he hears his mom come down the stairs. What surprises him is she never reaches the bottom floor...the footsteps just stop. Later that night he asks her if she ever came down and she says no. This was the same house where my grandmother passed away in her sleep.

[ridestalker]

i stayed at mission records which used to be a mexican bar and supposedly a bunch of people got killed there. i slept in the one room where nobody lived so the ghosts all got pushed into that room, which also happened to be the band room in the back where the stage is. the couch was nasty by itself, it smelled and had cum stains on it, and buzz said he's seen at least three couples having sex on it before. the first night i woke up in the middle of the night to all these whispering voices in my ear. and when i woke up in the morning i had this one long convoluted dream and buzz told me everybody who slept there on the first night had the same kind of dream. then the next night i woke up to all these loud noises like somebody was dropping furniture off the balcony but when i opened my eyes there wasn't anything there except on this one light patch one the wall i saw this weird fucked up shadow moving all slow across it. and then in the morning buzz came downstairs in a gorilla mask and tried to freak me out.

[Mr. Whole Wheat]

I got a few.

My personal experiences:

One night, about 3 or 4 years ago, my family and I were sitting in the living room and watching some thriller video (not the mj music video mind you). We were situated in such a way that while looking at the tv we can see the window on the south wall, which ran almost the whole length of the room, and the windowed door also on the south wall to our right (we were facing east). At a moment during the movie i start to feel a bit uneasy, and soon after i see this shadowy human-shaped silhouette standing outside of the windowed door looking in on us. It lasted for only a moment, i thought it was strange so i puased the movie and asked if any one else saw something outside the window and my brother and my dad said they had. We got some flash lights and went into our back yard searching everywhere but we didn't find anyone.

Ok that one is true and kind of boring, but heh it is a ghost story.

I have also experienced a lot of the 'sitting ghosts' as described by Maxine Kingston. Some people call it sleep paralysis where the mind becomes conscience and the body is still asleep so it can't move. But the freaky thing about it is that you feel, hear, and even see supernatural shite. Once, I think it was the first time this kind of thing happened to me, I was sleeping, then woke up and saw some figure crawling at the foot of my bed, i thought, for s split second that it was my brother going to the bathroom (we shared a room), but then i thought why would he be crawling right by my bed to get to the bathroom, I soon found that i couldn't move and then i felt a weight on my mid region and my bed starting shaking. I tried to call for help, but couldn't talk, until the third attempt, at which time i let out a feeble 'help' and then it all stopped. It freaked me out, and i ran into my parents room, and they told me stuff like that happens. Ah anyways it was scary at the time but i know how to deal with that stuff now.

I have a bunch more..

[invictus]

When we went to Korea after my grandmother died I think her ghost got pissed. We were all set to go out to her grave by bus and then taxi, probably about a four hour trip outside of Seoul, but the busdrivers were striking. Right after my grandfather found that out, I got a nosebleed that lasted for about an hour. I was all faint and sick feeling. Later on the news we found out that one busdriver was killed. The next day we called about getting a taxi to drive all the way out. It was going to be expensive as hell and my mom wouldn't let my grandfather make the arrangements. I got ANOTHER fucking nosebleed for another fucking hour. That night one of my mom's cousins called cause he knew we were visting, and he offered to drive us out there. The nosebleed went away for good (well... it didn't happen again) and I felt chipper and healthy the next day.

We brought lots of goodies for my grandmother and prayed lots and lots. I think she was pissed at us.

I grew up in a large victorian house in Cambridge Massachusetts. It was built on a hill that used to be called Gallows Hill. It was a small hill on which the local gallows was erected to hang criminals and it seems, that some of the crimes were rather petty. The last man hung there was apparently hung for stealing a chicken. The gallows was taken down and my house and another twin house was built around 1860. The twin house burned down. We moved into our house around 1955. We had many appearances, sounds, things moving. But since I grew up among these oddities it all seemed quite normal to me. We had cats and A LOT got blamed on the cats. Our visitors usually noticed that there was something very paranormal about the house. The only time I was very obviously confronted with it was when I was 16 and I had some friends over. My brother, then 15 was there also. We were giving a tour of the house. The third floor is usually where the ghost appeared. I took my friends to the 3rd floor and then came out the bedroom window and down the fire escape, just for fun. Next we went into the Living room and started listening to music. Suddenly the front doors opened. You have to understand these were very heavy, tall doors that take some effort to open and there are two sets because there was a cloak room when you came in the first set of doors. So both sets opened so we went over to see who was there. To our surprise we only FELT something moving past us, kind of cool. We sensed it go into the living room where there was a large chandelier hanging from the cieling. The crystal ball on the bottom of the chandelier turned and unscrewed right in front of our eyes. It would turn and stop and turn and stop and then, BANG! it fell to the ground. So we walked up to the chandelier and then we heard doors slamming and foot steps all the way up the back stair case and into the ghost's room on the third floor. We weren't scared, we were just amazed. We stood there with our mouths gaping. All I could figure was he had followed us out of the house and down the fire escape. He had been locked out and just wanted to let us know that we had disturbed his area? Who knows!

[montyburnz]

Originally posted by Mr. Whole Wheat
I got a few.


Ok that one is true and kind of boring, but heh it is a ghost story.

I have also experienced a lot of the 'sitting ghosts' as described by Maxine Kingston. Some people call it sleep paralysis where the mind becomes conscience and the body is still asleep so it can't move. But the freaky thing about it is that you feel, hear, and even see supernatural shite.
I have a bunch more..

I hope you do reveal some more of your stories...

I remember a story someone told me years ago that is similar to that one. I was talking to a temp at work once and she told me she had awakened in the night to see a small boy standing next to the floor fan by the bed. I don't remember the rest of the story...I think he disappeared in a blink of the eye or something.

[Natecore]

Shit, I totally shouldn't be reading these right before bed, I'm freakin' myself out. I don't have any myself, the closest was me always imaging I saw a shadowy silhouette figure at the bottom of the stairs when I went to the bathroom late at night, but I'm pretty sure it was just my mind playing tricks on me, geto boys style. Some of the best ghost stories I've heard have been from my friends who are Filipino. One girl I know told me a story about when she was in High school her family went out shopping and then while she was taking a shower she heard someone calling her name, but when she went outside there was no one, and her family was long gone. There was some other one similar to those sitting ghost stories, one of my friends cousins in the PI woke up in the middle of the night and saw the shade I guess of his great grandfather or something who walked over to him and tried to roll into his body. I just heard a good one actually 2 days ago. A teacher I know was staying in some old monks house in rural japan, when one night he woke up in the middle of the night and saw the image of an old man standing, but several feet above the ground. He sat up and became totally awake and watched the face recede into the shadows. He got the hell out of there 3 days later. I never used to be that scared by ghost stories when I was a kid cause they were always so fictional and over the top, but now, this kind of experiential ghost story freaks me out. It's the weirdest thing, whenever I hear ghost stories, my eyes get all hot and start to feel strange, never at any other time, just when I'm listening to ghost stories. Does this happen to anyone else?

[invictus]

Koreans have some damn good ghost stories. I'd tell you some of the ones my mom told me when I was a kid if I hadn't had to go through regression therapy just to purge my mind of their horror....

[Ryan]

whole wheat: who is maxine kingston?

nate:
being that the PI is a deeply catholic country, theres a ton of stories about ghosts, ill share some of those later..kinda was expecting ish to go down when i went

mew: do you usually snore? i ask cuz sleep apnea is sometmes related to snoring, if thats the case, then ur apnea probably happens when ur lying on your back..
that sleep paralysis sucks bigtime..i get it once in a while..fortunately it isnt combined with any ghost bumrushes, but i seriously panic because its always when im in an uncomfortable position to breath and all i have to do is move4 inches in order to breath properly..

ok heres my story..i was at a friends house for a bday party , and alot of people where in a room playing ouija board, i was in the room directly below it wtching tv with some of my friends. in the ouija board room they were getting kinda scared cuz of the accuracy of what the "spirit" said. when they asked it the color of the house, it pointed to the sun (the house is yellow) for some reason it freaked them all out and they all went running and screaming out the room .heres teh freaky thing tho, a split second before they ran screaming, one of my friends who was downstairs with me kinda jumped and said she felt a chill..then when everyone came running, i put 2 and 2 together


[Edited by Ryan on 08-14-2001 at 09:54 AM]

[SweetArse]

My friend's family was renting a 3 story house in a stauch Roman Catholic neighborhood. We would play hide and seek and find various religious portraits and freak ourselves out. We'd run into a closet and find ourselves nose-to-nose with a portrait of Joseph or someone. The basement was musty and cob-webbed, so no one ever went down there. We always told ourselves that the house was haunted.

So one night, I was over for a sleepover. We were playing Nintendo or something in his room, adjacent to the bathroom. I saw his dad walk into the bathroom, which had a tricky fluorescent light. Moments later, my friend asked where his dad was. "He's in the bathroom," I mentioned. We went out, looked in the bathroom, and of course, nothing there.

[montyburnz]

Originally posted by invictus
Koreans have some damn good ghost stories. I'd tell you some of the ones my mom told me when I was a kid if I hadn't had to go through regression therapy just to purge my mind of their horror.... Originally posted by invictus
Koreans have some damn good ghost stories. I'd tell you some of the ones my mom told me when I was a kid if I hadn't had to go through regression therapy just to purge my mind of their horror....

That's too bad. My latest interest is ethnic ghost stories.
I haven't done a lot of research yet. I know that:

Philipines - they have creatures that walk on the ceiling
and extend they're tongues to eat the babies of pregnant women.

Japan - ghosts have no legs

Germany - dopplegangers: i think the word means "double."
The story I read was about a Swedish man who wanted to visit this town in Germany for the longest time. He'd read all about it and looked forward to seeing all the sights. When he arrives in the town, everyone at the hotel greet him as if he's an old friend. He asks how they know him and they say he's visited before. The guy tells them that its impossible and shows them proof. The manager of the hotel gives a knowing look and tells the man that his doppleganger has visited the town. I think the Germans believe in dopplegangers, ghostly twins that act out our unconscious wishes

[Zaius]

Originally posted by mewmew


I had the same shit but my sleep paralysis stems from sleep apnea. I know exactly what you're talking about trying to scream for help or wake yourself up. The worst part is that I couldn't breathe. I'd stop breathing and be totally paralyzed for like 2 or 3 minutes, then I'd just snap out of it and wake up gasping for breath. It only happened when i fell asleep on my stomach I think. God sleep apnea sucks... i bet my heart and lungs are getting fucked up every time I sleep because of it. I'll probably die before I turn 30.

I get that all the time, now I'm used to it. I can usually open my eyes but I can't move them so it's like I see a still camera shot of the room I fell asleep in. I can usually groan a little and maybe move my leg or foot. I told my girlfriend about it and now she recognizes the signs and can wake me up. It's strange...you feel like if you fall all the way asleep something terrible will happen so you HAVE to wake yourself up through sheer willpower.

[Mr. Whole Wheat]

Originally posted by Ryan
whole wheat: who is maxine kingston?



Maxine Hong Kingston an author. Her memoirs "The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts" is where she talks about the sitting ghosts and stuff. She didn't coin the phrase but she talks about them. Monty you should read it especially if your into ethnic ghost stories, plus it is just a really good book.

[Mr. Whole Wheat]

Originally posted by mewmew

I had the same shit but my sleep paralysis stems from sleep apnea. I know exactly what you're talking about trying to scream for help or wake yourself up. The worst part is that I couldn't breathe. I'd stop breathing and be totally paralyzed for like 2 or 3 minutes, then I'd just snap out of it and wake up gasping for breath. It only happened when i fell asleep on my stomach I think. God sleep apnea sucks... i bet my heart and lungs are getting fucked up every time I sleep because of it. I'll probably die before I turn 30. [/B]

Man that is some f'd up shite. That must be horrible, not being able to breath. You conscience when this happens?

[Ryan]

Originally posted by montyburnz
That's too bad. My latest interest is ethnic ghost stories.
I haven't done a lot of research yet. I know that:

Philipines - they have creatures that walk on the ceiling
and extend they're tongues to eat the babies of pregnant women.




theyre called aswang(sp?) apparently my friend had a run with one of these when he used to live there. he said that when one of his relatives was pregnant they always kept the door shut and one day they heard and saw a flickering tongue trying to get under the front door..true? maybe not still kinda freaky

that doppleganger thing sounds cool too!

[montyburnz]

Originally posted by Batsu



For example. My Dad's older brother was a huge skeptic and didn't believe any of the ghost stories. One of my aunts said there was a ghost who always sat in a particular chair in the dining room. My uncle wanted to disprove this so he put some white powder on the chair one night. He then bolted the windows and locked the only door. He took the only key and slept with it tied round his neck. The next morning he opened up the room and the powder was disturbed as if someone had sat in the chair. Even he was a bit freaked out but he still refused to believe in ghosts. Tragically he died in the house a few years later and my family moved away.



Thanks for sharing...that was a great story. But can you imagine finding a big butt imprint in white powder? I wouldn't know whether to scream or laugh. :)

[Natecore]

Eric or Martin - The whole ethnic ghost stories or just ghost stories in general would be a pretty interesting topic to cover. This whole thread reminds me of the near death experience bit in robot power.

[montyburnz]

Originally posted by Natecore
Eric or Martin - The whole ethnic ghost stories or just ghost stories in general would be a pretty interesting topic to cover. This whole thread reminds me of the near death experience bit in robot power.

Speaking of Near Death...like I've said I don't have
any stories of meeting Nessie the Loch Ness monster...all
this shite seems to happen to other people.

here's a story of Near Death:
My boss told me this one. He's a Vietnamese guy who grew up in Arizona. So one night he was driving in his pickup truck alone. The guy wasn't wearing a seatbelt, which actually saved his life because the truck tumbled over a slight embankment. He was thrown about the cab until the truck came upright...the driver side was crushed. He was a little scratched up, but that's it. The kicker is he remembers "leaving his body" during the whole accident. He says he could see everything from high above. He remembers seeing the underside of the car as it flipped over.

[YelloKitty]

this one is kinda sad, and not really all that scary. this happened a year ago when my cat died, and obviously i was super duper depressed. i fell into a deep sleep, and in the morning i felt something jump onto my bed, like how my cat used to wake me up in the morning. so i got up, thinking that my cat was still alive, and that i just dreamt he died, but then i realized he was gone when there was nobody there.

[Mr. Whole Wheat]

Originally posted by Batsu
I get this from time to time. People used to think it was a visitation from a succubus (the impression of a looming figure and the weight on the chest) but what happens is you wake up during dream sleep. The brain inhibits movement so you don't act out your dream and you basically wake up while the inhibit is running. For some people it works the other way and the inhibit wears off but they are still asleep. happened. They all took place in the 1950's and early 1960's.



So are you saying that your brain restricts bodily movement during dreams? and if you wake up or sort of wake up during a deep sleep dream your body may still be paralyzed? Tell me more.

When this happens to me my mind is conscience and i have total acess to my will but my body is still asleep i guess. My eyes are usually open, i suppose, because i can see my actual surroundings, but then i see, feel and hear other things that are not supposed to be there. I usually have to use a great amount of will-power to break out of it.

[Natecore]

About that story about the dude flipping in his car or whatever...That reminded me of one I heard about a year ago. Not a ghost story, but hey. I was at a big smoke down at my friend's house, and there was a friend of a friend there who I had never met. The neighborhood he lives in is real woodsy with lots of winding roads. One night, he was driving back late at night like 2 or so and he starts to drift, when his car goes off the road, flips over the guardrail and rolls down a big ass hill into a tree. Somehow, miraculously, he is unscathed (Hey, this is actually a near death story!). The authorities eventually arrive, and he later finds out from the cops that there were some witnesses. Apparently as he had been flipping there was a car right behind him with a father and his young daughter. Apparently when they saw the crash the little girl said "Daddy, Daddy shouldn't we stop and help that man?" to which he replied "Don't worry about it sweetie, that guy's dead for SURE." Crazed!
The same dude also once put what he thought was contact solution onto his eyes and ended up bonding his contacts to his eyeballs. Oops!
On an only semi related note, another friend of mine once managed to flip a Suburban. In Idaho, no less.

[Natecore]

Hey, I just realized I'm a senior robot now! Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!

[dr_pluto]

Originally posted by Mr. Whole Wheat
[QUOTE]Originally posted by mewmew

I had the same shit but my sleep paralysis stems from sleep apnea. I know exactly what you're talking about trying to scream for help or wake yourself up. The worst part is that I couldn't breathe. I'd stop breathing and be totally paralyzed for like 2 or 3 minutes, then I'd just snap out of it and wake up gasping for breath. It only happened when i fell asleep on my stomach I think. God sleep apnea sucks... i bet my heart and lungs are getting fucked up every time I sleep because of it. I'll probably die before I turn 30.




i'm from laurinburg, north carolina and the people here call that "a witch riding your back." It happens to me also. Sometimes I'll be asleep and I can't wake myself up.

There is a lot of strange shit that goes on down here. We have what they call Root Doctors here. Roots is basically the same thing as voodoo. My grandmother, when she was a teen, once burned her hand badly and nothing she could do would stop the pain. Even the doctors couldn't get it to stop hurting. She went to a root doctor. What they do is called "putting fire on ya." The root doctor takes your hands and starts chanting something. My grandmother said as the lady was chanting she could feel a coolness shoot up her hands and arms, and the pain stopped. Her hand healed as normal with no other pain.

One more thing:

This isn't really a ghost story as much as it is just strange. In my town during the late 1800s a guy died in his mid forties from a heart attack or something. They took him to a funeral home but couldn't locate any realitives or even is real name. The city wouldn't pay for his burial and neither would the funeral home so they just embombed him and left him hanging on a hook. Eventually he just shriveld up and kind of hardened. He became known as the "spaghetii man." I'm not bullshitting you. People came from all over to see him, and on certain days the fucking funeral home would charge a fee to go in the house and see him. They never found out who he was and they finally buried him in like the 1950s or something. I thought this was just a legend but when i was in high school I did a term paper on him and actually went to his grave and found old newspaper clippings of him and everything.

My girlfriend calls where I'm from twin peaks. Lumberton, where the david lynch film "Blue Velvet" was based, is only about 20 miles from laurinburg.




[Edited by dr_pluto on 08-15-2001 at 08:59 AM]

[invictus]

Now I'm confused.... is this like when you toss and turn in your sleep cause you're dreaming about something fucked up, or when you talk in your sleep? Or is this something else? I don't have to do experiments on my dog to see him do weird things while he's sleeping. He'll twitch his feet a whole bunch, and his eyeballs will be moving around a lot (with his eyes closed) sometimes he'll even whimper or try to bark.

I just thought that was all normal dream state stuff.

[jardine]

Originally posted by Batsu

Hope that makes it a bit clearer. I think the inhibit only comes on during the sleep phase when you dream (REM sleep?)
I learned a bit about this in a class this past semester--that in REM sleep, your brain is functioning as though it is awake but none of the nerve impulses get past a part in your brain (the basal ganglia?), which controls all of your motor skills. So basically your brain is functioning but you have no control over the rest of your body.

They've done EEG wave studies and stuff, and in REM sleep the waves look just like they do when you're awake and alert--small (in amplitude amplitude) and irregular. In non-REM sleep (also called slow wave sleep) the waves are a lot larger and more spread out. I think the textbook also said you tend to remember dreams experienced in REM sleep the most vividly, too.

[montyburnz]

a great novel about psychic powers is DREAM BABY by Bruce Mcallister. Its about a group of Vietnam-era soldiers who develop psychic powers due to the stresses of war and they are manipulated by the government to perform a suicide mission. I think its has something for just about anyone too: action-thriller plot, excellent writing, a strong female heroine, the Vietnam war is treated with depth and not a "gook vs. GI" mentality. What's neat are these fictional anecdotes the author puts in the beginning of the novel of soldiers having psychic experiences...like seeing dead relatives who warn them of danger or vietcong that are psychic

check it out...

[dr_pluto]

What's your favorite movie involving the paranormal?

Has anyone seen fire in the sky? I heard that was pretty good.

[monsteratomic]

Originally posted by dr_pluto
What's your favorite movie involving the paranormal?

Has anyone seen fire in the sky? I heard that was pretty good.

A great Japanese Cult movie is the Ring. It's out on VCD for pretty cheap (<10 bucks) with english subtitles (or if you have a region free dvd, it's out in the uk on dvd for us in the US) Its an urban legend horror/mystery/ghost story. The movie centers around a woman investigating the urban legend.

The urban legend goes like this... There was this boy who was visiting one of his relatives and he wanted to watch one of his favorite shows but he had to go out. so he taped the show. the thing is he was in another town and he taped the wrong channel so he should have gotten snow on it, but instead there was this really strange video. When he finished watching the video, the phone rang. He picked it up and a woman on the other end told him he would die in one week. exactly one week later, he died.

[dr_pluto]

sounds pretty cool. i'll check it out.


Originally posted by monsteratomic
Originally posted by dr_pluto
What's your favorite movie involving the paranormal?

Has anyone seen fire in the sky? I heard that was pretty good.

A great Japanese Cult movie is the Ring. It's out on VCD for pretty cheap (<10 bucks) with english subtitles (or if you have a region free dvd, it's out in the uk on dvd for us in the US) Its an urban legend horror/mystery/ghost story. The movie centers around a woman investigating the urban legend.

The urban legend goes like this... There was this boy who was visiting one of his relatives and he wanted to watch one of his favorite shows but he had to go out. so he taped the show. the thing is he was in another town and he taped the wrong channel so he should have gotten snow on it, but instead there was this really strange video. When he finished watching the video, the phone rang. He picked it up and a woman on the other end told him he would die in one week. exactly one week later, he died.

[monsteratomic]

Y'know I watched this great episode of Scariest Places on Earth. It was great! It totally convinced me that they caught some real proof of strange going ons. I've never watched the show before this one.

I guess the show takes families and dares them to spend the night in a haunted locale. well in this episode, they take this family to an island that terminal patients would be sent to die. I guess there was a doctor there that did experiments on them. There was even a gas chamber there too. I don't know the full details since I missed the early part of the show. Anyhow the family is armed with several cameras showing you everything around them. They are also given high tech equipment as well as ancient ghost finding tools.

I won't spoil it. It freaked me out (blair witch style). They are repeating the episode on foxfamilychannel this thursday at 10pm. You should watch it and come back and tell me if it convinced you that they captured ghostly activity.

[invictus]

Was it anything like Fear on MTV? Kinda sounds like it.

[Ryan]

its ten times better than fear..that show is a bunch of grandstanders..i saw one episode that got pretty freaky, the family kept shutting a cabinet and i nthe videos it would swing open on its own with no one in the room..

[invictus]

That sounds awesome. That's what I always hoped Fear would be like, but instead Fear is about prissy teenagers getting dirt under their fingernails and crying for their mommies.... although that can be entertaining too.

I'll have to watch the show you guys are talking about though, sounds rad.

[Ryan]

biggest clue fear sucks..

its on mtv.

[Decadent1]

<pre><font size=2>Are you sure you have a job Ryan? You seem to be just posting from 9 to 5.</pre></font>

[Ryan]

Originally posted by Decadent1
<pre><font size=2>Are you sure you have a job Ryan? You seem to be just posting from 9 to 5.</pre></font>

*looks around sees boss walk by*

yup! definitely at work...whoops time for break!

hehe

[invictus]

Originally posted by Ryan
biggest clue fear sucks..

its on mtv.

Jackass didn't suck, and it was on MTV. Real World didn't used to suck, and it was on MTV.

So there.

The problem with MTV today, as so well illustrated by the different people cast for Fear is that they cast the kinds of people that call in to TRL and request Jessica Simpson and Limp Sea Biscuit videos.

[Ryan]

Originally posted by invictus
Originally posted by Ryan
biggest clue fear sucks..

its on mtv.

Jackass didn't suck, and it was on MTV. Real World didn't used to suck, and it was on MTV.

So there.

The problem with MTV today, as so well illustrated by the different people cast for Fear is that they cast the kinds of people that call in to TRL and request Jessica Simpson and Limp Sea Biscuit videos.

ur talkin about two shows versus dozens of others that more than increase the suckiness factor

jackass is going off the air, and the last time the real world didnt suck ten years ago so thats pretty much a moot point

i want my animal planet

[monsteratomic]

why in the hell are we talking about mtv?

let's get back to the ghost stories, aight!

just check out the repeat on thursday because I was totally convinced that they got some good evidence of ghosts!

[mobs]

This happened to my friend. In his old apt that he shared with a roomate in downtown edmonton. One night he was sleeping and kept awakening to the sound of a vacuum. He thought his roommate was vacumming, kept waking up though to the noise. Figuring it was strange for his roomate to be vacuuming at 3AM he checked it out. His hairdryer was turned on and had been going for hours. His roomate was never even home that night.
The lot of times at 6 AM they would hear lots of loud footsteps from the apt above them. Once they went to complain but the manager said no ones lived there for 6 months.
One time he was heading to the elevator, he saw a large native guy go in the elevator, my friend was still down the hall he yelled to please hold. When he got the elevator no one was there.

The only thing that happened to me, about 7 years ago my old cat spider(RIP), was sleeping on my bed, I was reading in bed late at night. All of a sudden he popped up and was staring at the ceiling (his head was folloowing something up there)then ran under the bed and would not come out for 10 minutes. He never did that before or again. That was some scary stuff.
He was an awesome cat

[utinni2]

I buddy of mine told me this one. I can't remember if he said he lived in an appartment or duplex but this is what he said happened. First he said that he would normally hear footsteps and something like a small tricycle or bicycle being ridden in circles in the attic. Also whenever he would come home his alarm clock would be reset back at 12:00. He knew that the building didn't loose power everyday but he could never explain how it happened. Then one day he stayed home, I think he said he was sick or something. As he was lying in bed he felt a sort of 'wave' of energy or something come across the far end of the room cross his bed, temporarily paralyzing him and less noticibly, at the time anyway, resetting his clock. After that he decide it was time to move. As he was moving, a friend of his was sitting on the arm of his couch facing the hallway. His friend got really freaked out and asked as he pointed down the hall "what the hell is that?" What they saw he explained as a silouette that blurred anything behind it, he said it also had a purple tint. He sounded very sincere and although I've never personally had anything of that nature happen to me I do believe him.

[monsteratomic]

sorry folks the scary episode of scariest places on earth is tommorrow at 9pm PST not thursday. i guess it is some other episode that sounds cheesy

[invictus]

Yeah... it was, I just sat through it. The scariest thing about it was Linda Blair... oh and that little woman from Poltergeist reading all the captions.

[montyburnz]

Scientific explanation for NDE?:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/DrJohnson/GMA020108Near_death_experiences.html

[angoraphobia]

yeah that scariest places show isnt really that scary..... it looks as if it should be...but point number one....its on fox family....and point number two....its on fox family...

sometimes on the discovery channel they have some cool stuff about paranormal activity...

#1
gypsies....may sound farfetched....but 3 family members attest to this story...

before i was born, when my family had almost no money...they lived in a small trailer....they were given a few things (a rug, some trinkets) by some gypsy types they had made friends with in the trailer park they lived in....(wow i just realized how white trashy my family sounds!)anyway...my mom started to get strange feelings....like someone was watching her or that someone was present in the room with her even though she was alone...and one of my sisters started to feel the same way...they had this figurine in the hallway....and my sister felt as if it would stare at her as she walked down the hall....and my brother who was like 6 at the time kept saying that there was a dark man wearing a dark hat that he would see...my sister says there was a time she was in the shower and she swore she saw him pass by...my dad didnt really believe them but got rid of the things given to them by the gypsies (he actually burned it all and said that he had a hard time getting the stuff burn)...after that....it was just like normal...my sister says it was like there was this dark heaviness lifted from the house...er trailer

#2
my grandmother lived in a hawaiian plantation house that was at least 80 years old...according to the story....she told us the man that lived there before her had hung himself in the doorway of one of the bedrooms that opens towards the living room....a lot of times we would walk up to her house and hear her having heated conversations....and no one would be there...and when we'd ask her about it....she'd only nod towards that bedroom and say that "he was bothering her again"...she would ask if any of us kids would like to sleep over and we'd always say no because the only bedroom to sleep in was the haunted one...

if you ask anyone in hawaii...they'll tell you all kinds of hawaiian ghost stories about marching troops on the beaches at night, the story of the white lady, or being haunted because of removing stones from sacred places....its pretty creepy


[Edited by angoraphobia on 01-09-2002 at 03:08 PM]

[montyburnz]

Originally posted by angoraphobia
[QUOTE]
#1

before i was born, when my family had almost no money...they lived in a small trailer....they were given a few things (a rug, some trinkets) by some gypsy types they had made friends with in the trailer park they lived in........it was just like normal...my sister says it was like there was this dark heaviness lifted from the house...er trailer



Do you think the gypsies did it on purpose? Were they spying on everyone?



#2
my grandmother lived in a hawaiian plantation house that was at least 80 years old...according to the story....she told us the man that lived there before her had hung himself in the doorway of one of the bedrooms that opens towards the living room....a lot of times we would walk up to her house and hear her having heated conversations....and no one would be there...and when we'd ask her about it....she'd only nod towards that bedroom and say that "he was bothering her again"...she would ask if any of us kids would like to sleep over and we'd always say no because the only bedroom to sleep in was the haunted one...

That's hilarious...and spooky. Did your grandmother say what the dude would talk about?



if you ask anyone in hawaii...they'll tell you all kinds of hawaiian ghost stories about marching troops on the beaches at night, the story of the white lady, or being haunted because of removing stones from sacred places....its pretty creepy



I'd love to hear more ghost stories Hawaii style. I wonder if there's like ghostly surfers or a real evil amulet that could kill a Brady Bunch kid.

[angoraphobia]

monty....i dont know....gypsies are just steeped in spiritism anyway....

my grandmother was crazy...i dont remember what the conversations were about but i know that she wanted him out...this of course was the same woman who thought her neighbors were watching her through her television...haha

as far as hawaiian ghost stories go...i think theyre working on an online site....i think its http://www.chicken-skin.com but im not sure how extensive it is....also theres a book called like Obake Tales or something and that has a lot of great ghost stories in it...

[Edited by angoraphobia on 01-09-2002 at 04:03 PM]

[stryfe]

hawaiian and japanese ghost stories scare the hell out of me. i'll try to dig up some stories.

what island is your grandma on ang?

[angoraphobia]

well...shes passed away but i guess shes still on kauai...my family is from there

and its true....they have the freakiest stories...

[Sleepy Introvert Ninja]

Originally posted by angoraphobia
monty....i dont know....
gypsies are just steeped
in spiritism anyway....


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Jimi Hendrix and his band of</font> Gypsies

[angoraphobia]

hawaiian "little people" are called menehune...and supposedly look something like this...(minus water bottle)

http://www.hawaiiwater.com/menehune_water/logo.gif

"According to legend, the mystical Menehune-shy forest dwellers, were credited as master builders capable of completeing major projects in a single night. The Alekoko Fishpond and the Menehune Ditch, a aquaduct that funnels water for irrigation from the Waimea River, were both attributed to their over night efforts. According to legend, the menehune worked at night so as not to be seen by others, cutting, transporting, and fitting stones for their projects in a fireman's bucket brigade. If they were discovered their work would have been abandoned. Luckily for the Hawaiians they served, the menehune were exceptionally good at remaining unnoticed."

thats from some online tourist site...of course if you talk to the old-time locals they have stories of then menehune being mischevious and downright mean too...

[Mr. Whole Wheat]

The Menehune are aligned with the forces of good.

[incoglido]

yeah, all of those stories are really freaky, but have any of you ever had a paranormal experience while on the toilet?

http://giantrobot.com/forums/showthread.php3?threadid=3942

[Ryan]

den i know what yer talkin about like if your walking by certain places and what not you are supposed to say excuse me or whatever..what about aswang? my friend swears he had a run in that wanted to get at his nephew who was just born , but thats another story for another time..

[Make Room]

Bear with me, this is long. And, no, it's not made up either:

In high school me and my buddy Steev were walking home from skateboarding one night, and as we strolled down the street we went past a stand of trees between a church parking lot and a house's yard. When we were about halfway past this little forested area, we heard a really steady wooshing sound coming directly towards us. It couldn't have been an animal. It sounded really big, and really fast, like some sort of huge body hovering through the thicket. When the two of us heard the noise, we looked at each other, and without saying a thing started hauling ass across the street because we weren't about to find out what it was. When we looked back over at the woods nothing came popping out of the tress, but I wonder what could've happened if we hadn't moved.

Here's the part that makes this story extra freaky. One day when my friend Jeremy (who is from the same town as me and Steev) and I were exchanging ghost stories, he told me about how he and his friend Rick swear by their lives to have seen the Grim Reaper floating through the air by his house. As we got to talking about when and where this stuff happened, we reached a freaky conclusion.

When we looked at the time of occurence of the two separate events that happened to two separate groups of people, they match up. By our calculations, we think the events happened on the exact same night. Geographically, the stand of bushes where Steev and I had our scary experience and the place where Jeremy and Rick saw the apparition is lined up and not very far apart. We concluded that all four of us had a run-in with the harvester of death that night on his way to collect a soul or something.

[DearDieary]

Not really a ghost story, but it creeped me out.

Once my grandpa hired me and my sis to paint an apartment that he was going to rent out. To make the job a bit less painful, we brought a tape player with us. We were listening to this club mix tape my sister had. While I was painting the area where the wall meets the ceiling, I heard really old fashioned jazz coming out of the speaker. I got down off the ladder and fiddled with the volume control. I turned it all the way up to get a better listen, but the volume stayed the same. The play button was still down so I pressed stop and the music stopped. I rewound the tape a bit to check, but it was still the club music. I asked my sis if she heard the old fashioned jazz playing and she did, but she didn't have that stuff on her tape and there is no radio function on the player. After that happened, we got really creeped out and tried to finish painting the place as soon as possible. We listened to the whole tape after we left and there was not even a second of the jazz.

[Sleepy Introvert Ninja]

Originally posted by DearDieary
Not really a ghost story, but it creeped me out.

While I was painting the area where the wall meets the ceiling, I heard really old fashioned jazz coming out of the speaker.

<font size="3" face="System, Small Fonts" color="#400040">
It was the ghost of Duke Ellington .</font>

[Make Room]

I don't remember their description really well, but they said it had a blueish, skull-like face and black body. I can't remember if they mentioned it having a sickle or anything like that, but I'm pretty sure they didn't bring it up. They said it made them freak out, and that dude, Rick, felt sick and turned pale.

[montyburnz]

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/DailyNews/pt_arcticrose_020207.html

[Ryan]

hey i got a question for everyone..do you think ghosts actually have the ability to physically harm people? i guess i believed they didn't for some reason and if so, seeing one and being scared is kinda like a fight with yourself....huh?

[stryfe]

Originally posted by Ryan
hey i got a question for everyone..do you think ghosts actually have the ability to physically harm people? i guess i believed they didn't for some reason and if so, seeing one and being scared is kinda like a fight with yourself....huh?
there have been people who have been physically hurt by ghosts.

people find themselves with mysterious scratches, being pushed, held down, etc.

if a poltergeist causes something to hit someone, that's physical harm as well.

so, i would say yes.

[DangerCabbit]

Originally posted by Ryan
den i know what yer talkin about like if your walking by certain places and what not you are supposed to say excuse me or whatever..what about aswang? my friend swears he had a run in that wanted to get at his nephew who was just born , but thats another story for another time..

what do yo mean, another time?
share the cool stories!

[montyburnz]

Halloween is coming up. Anyone got any new gggghost stories?

[YelloKitty]

i will have to talk with my mom about this. she told me this one story involving aswangs while she was pregnant with my sister... by choice, i forgot what it was about. but now i kinda wanna know again...

[mwt.]

Originally posted by AlaskanKiwi
One of my girl cousins had died from cancer. It was terrible, she was only 17 yrs old and so full of life before she had cancer. She knew before hand that she was going to pass away and had fully excepted it. This happened about 3 yrs ago, so it wasn't very long ago.

Days went by, weeks went by, and months...we all stayed close to her in her last days. However, the night before she died I she knew her time was coming and she got paranoid and her faith broke. She was begging and crying asking her parents to go with her, that she was scared to go on by herself. It was a sad time because none of us could do anything.

After the funeral us cousins (our generation) we were hanging in the rumpus room while the adults were in the lounge. Most of us had flown back for her, and we were talking about getting packed up and things that we needed to get to take back. Than all of a sudden, the radio came on and my cousins favourite song was playing. We just sat there and looked at each other...I have to admit I was scared. The remote was on the coffee table and no one had gotten up to turn on the stereo. After the song stopped, most of the pictures of the walls fell off, one by one...except for the picture of my cousin, it just turned and was crooked.

No earthquake, no hurricane...nothing....gosh I won't ever forget that night.

that one is more touching than sad. a little eerie though. got goosebumps just the same.

some friends of mine used to live in this gigantic civil war era house. one night we were hanging out and they started telling us stories about the ghosts that lived there. they said they could hear faucets running but when they checked the sink it was dry. lamps would turn on and off by themselves.(i actually saw this happen) one guy that lived there thought he saw a ninja dressed in white jump off the third story landing and fall down the staircase. another friend that spent the night swore somebody hit him in the head over and over as he was sleeping on the couch. he though it was the dog playing with him but when he sat up the dog wasnt even in the room. we were like "yeah right". later, as we were leaving, my girlfriend at the time grabbed the doorknob to the hallway and swung the door upon super fast. i was standing directly in front of the doorway and when the door opened i swear to god there was a young girl in a nightgown standing there staring right at me. her eyes were all hollow and i felt like i was being sucked into them. my knees went weak and i fell to floor and couldn't stand up. freaky. later my friends found out that the house used to be a hospital. we figured that explained the ninja as probably being the ghost of some doctor or something and maybe the rest of the freaky stuff were spirits of people that had died there.

[EK-4000]

bump.

this isn't really a ghost story, as i don't think i really have any. but i remember when i was seven or so, i lived in portland and i remember coming out of the violin shop where my cousin's dad was the owner. i remember there was some kind of stairway that lead down into one of those underground bars or something, and it must have been closed, as there were bars blocking off access. i bent down to get a closer look, and i swear to this day that there was a hundred dollar bill lying there on one of the cement steps. i remember getting the adults' attention who were there with me, but for some reason none of them could see it, and that was that.

actually, i'm not even sure what i did. all i remember was that hundred dollar bill.

there was also a room in this church in auburn, wa., where the walls had framed photos of 100, 500 and 1000 dollar bills on the walls. a church. weird, i guess.

ok, so those were kind of lame. i can't think of any great stories. why couldn't my life have been a little more freakier? some of the posts on this thread really spooked me back when i read them. just thought i'd bring it back, in case anyone gots any new ones to share.

[Ryan]

after the new issue of GR came out, i was talkin to Fb's gf about ghost stories in the PI. man! those chills! i gotta post summa them up..

[nikel]

something i shared in chat a while back:

when i was 7 or 8 i swore i saw an image of a native american chief in our garage.
i told my sister about it about 15 years later, and she freaked.
around the same time, she saw someone/something similar walking in the backyard.

one of the people in chat suggested the house might have been built on a burial ground, which crossed my mind as well.

[montyburnz]

I have a friend who tells me a ghost had a "crush" on her. She thinks it stopped coming around when she started dating.

My friend recently hung out at a haunted house with her friend and the owner. They didn't see anything, but all felt a stabbing pressure in their sides. In my imagination, it's like a ghost poking at them.

[montyburnz]

Originally posted by nikel

when i was 7 or 8 i swore i saw an image of a native american chief in our garage.
i told my sister about it about 15 years later, and she freaked.
around the same time, she saw someone/something similar walking in the backyard.


What did the chief look like? Did he have the feather, uh, crown thing? Was the ghost sad or did it look like he was oblivious that he was a ghost?

[Mutterlein]

I swear my old house's basment was haunted. I would always see a dark shadowy figure moving past and through the hallway. Hmmm. I once had a streak where I was watching tv and hoped that this apple commercial that I liked so much would come on then it came on. So I was like "cool, so what if my parents came home right now?!" and then there was knock on the door and it was them!

[EK-4000]

what apple commercial are you talking about?

[mwt.]

my wife has this friend that she went to college with, who's personal account of meetings with ghosts could run laps around anybody else's here in no time flat. basically, she claims to have a sixth sense, like what the kid had in the movie, where she can see ghosts that nobody else can see. she's got a million stories but the one that stands out right now is, when she came to visit last time, she was telling us about how her apartment in colorado is on the second floor and her boyfriend was gone one night and she was reading in bed and her three year old son was laying there asleep next to her. anyway, she heard the sound of a little girl's voice from directly on the other side of the window, like it was right there. she said there was no way that a kid could've been out there unless it was perched on the window sill. of course, she ignored it and was thinking that maybe she should check just in case there was a kid there, but she knew that when she opened the drape, it would've been something waiting out there to scare the hell out of her. she's 30 now and she's been seeing them all her life.

[EK-4000]

freaky. reading that gave me the chills.

[Mutterlein]

Originally posted by EK-4000
what apple commercial are you talking about?

Enza Apples, it had this digital cartoon of a soccer game and they were like "eat great tasting enza apple". It was a british commercial and the apples they showed looked sooo good.

[EK-4000]

oh. and here i thought you were talking about the computer.

[mwt.]

Originally posted by EK-4000
freaky. reading that gave me the chills.

she ended up staying at our house that night! talk about shit-your-pants frightened.

[nikel]

Originally posted by montyburnz
What did the chief look like? Did he have the feather, uh, crown thing? Was the ghost sad or did it look like he was oblivious that he was a ghost?
he was wearing a headdress and had a neutral facial expression. my sister said that when she saw him, he looked at her before walking away.

Originally posted by nikel
something i shared in chat a while back:

when i was 7 or 8 i swore i saw an image of a native american chief in our garage.
i told my sister about it about 15 years later, and she freaked.
around the same time, she saw someone/something similar walking in the backyard.

one of the people in chat suggested the house might have been built on a burial ground, which crossed my mind as well.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0792833201.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

:(

[murderous*bitch]

all that junk is pretty scary, and i guess it wasn't the best idea to read it at like 2 in the morning before i sleep, but i'm sick of having regular dreams. i kind of want to have a nightmare, b/c all the dreams i've been having have been boring.

NEway, i know what u mean about the sleep paralysis thing, b/c that happened to me too. yeh, i was having this dream about living in a barbie house, and then i woke up, but i couldn't move so i tried to scream, but i couldn't. every time i tried, i saw this hugemungus light in the corner of the room.

oh and the ghost story thing, i have two kind of ghost stories.

- last year, me and my family were living in this small-ass town with nothing to do. so one night, i found myself walking through the graveyard with 2 of my friends. we saw these boots sitting on the ground by a gravestone, and i pointed them out. when i did that, we heard this loud scream, and some other weird noise. so we freaked out and started running like hell in 4 inch platforms. my other two friend were running way faster than me, and i fell down about 5 times, but i kept running after them. when i finally caught up with them, i was screaming WHAT THE HELL HAPPENEND TO THE BUDDY SYSTEM? its kinda funny if you look back on it.

- just recently, me and my friend, susan, were playing quijja board (or however you spell it). we were sitting there asking the ghost questions and shit, then we asked what its name was, and it spelled out FUFR4. we started laughing like crazy, then the thing moved and spelled out for us to stop. so we freaked out. then we asked it how many people were in the room. (there were only 2) it said that there were 3, so we screamed and got scared and shit. then something hit the window and one of the candles went out. we freaked out and told it to leave.

oh and i think our new house that me and my family is moving into is haunted.
sorry if this ends up too long

[montyburnz]

*bump* in the night

[EK-4000]

once, when i was feeding a dog, it disappeared.

i never saw it again.

SCARY.

[tonybricker]

this is sort of a weird maybe ghost story, that my mom told me yesterday, it really tripped me out though:

My dad passed away from cancer six years ago. My mom got remarried last year. Last week she was going through some boxes and found an old jewelry box that played the song "the entertainer" (by Scott Joplin) when you opened it. My dad had given it to her a long time ago. She opened it to see if it would play the song, but it seemed kinda stuck and wouldn't play the song smoothly. Dissapointedly, she put the music box down and was going to ask my stepdad if he could fix it when he got home. She forgot about it, and they went to sleep that night without fixing it. The next morning, she checks the messages on the answering machine. She has one message. She played it, and it was no words or voice, just music- "the Entertainer," of course. The tinny music box version, not the real one with piano. Playing perfectly. She went to the music box and opened it, and "the entertainer" comes on, playing perfectly, note for note matching the cel phone message.

She claims she never told anybody about finding the jewelry box, and even if she had, they wouldn't have known what song was playing when it opened. I asked her if my stepdad could have fixed it in the night while she was sleeping and left her the message, but she said that was impossible because they live in Mexico and their cel phones don't work on the Mexican side of the border. You can't call yourself from your own phone, so that means nobody from inside their house had called her. She even went so far as to check the phone bill from their Mexican landline and the phone call came up as an unlisted number.

I don't know what to think about it, but it makes me happy to imagine that my dad is still watching over her.

[montyburnz]

^great story. Sorry about your dad, tonyb.

[tonybricker]

Originally posted by montyburnz
^great story. Sorry about your dad, tonyb.

thanks monty. yeah the story is pretty crazy, it's like from a movie or something. But I was watching her when she told me, she was dead serious and not lying.

[35ft6]

I picked up this girl hitchhiker and dropped her off at home. Later I realized she had left her ring in my car so went back to the same address to drop it off. A woman answered the door, I told her "hello, I'm here to drop off your daughter's ring." "What?" she asked. "Your daughter Sarah, I dropped her off her yesterday." The woman's face turned white and she gasped "she's dead." She didn't mean Sarah was actually dead, she meant "she's dead" as in "I'm going to kick her ass." Apparently Sarah was supposed to be in bed that night but she snuck out to see Incubus in concert. Her mom ran off and I heard her kicking Sarah's ass. On the way home I saw a ghost sitting on a tree.

[montyburnz]

An intense true story takes an unexpected twist:
listen to the "Guns" episode, 2nd story
http://www.thislife.org/

streaming audio: http://www.thislife.org/ra/81.ram or
download from audible.com (free, I think)

[kamenriderv3]

one time i watched casper the ghost cartoons.

the end.

[montyburnz]

Head wound in Iraq ends Army career, leaves soldier lost, disabled
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/iraq/8201424.htm

" Sina Hannah was at home that Sunday, watching CNN, when an Army officer from Fort Benning called.

"I knowed what had happened before they told me," she says. "Mothers have premonitions. And I was sitting here one day, and I saw this white light. It was two weeks to the day before they called me."

[YelloKitty]

anyone have any duende stories? my mom had one that involved my grandfather; i forget what happened exactly... gah duendes are cute tho, if you don't fuck with them.
(learn more about them here (http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext05/8filp10.txt))

[stryfe]

The Faces of Belmez (http://www.thecobrasnose.com/xxghost/belmez.html)

http://members.cox.net/stryfe1/smileys/belmez.jpg

Beginning August 23, 1971, Maria Gõmez Pereira played host to a series of strange events. An expressionistic, painterly image of a man's face spontaneously appeared on her kitchen floor--which was ripped out six days later and re-laid with cement. One week later, another face appeared in the same spot. Again, the family wanted the image destroyed, but the town mayor intervened and had the offending slab of cement removed and preserved. The property was known to have been a graveyard in the past, so the floor was excavated in hopes of finding whatever was causing the phenomena.


Nine feet down, human remains were discovered and given a proper burial, and a new floor was installed. Two weeks later, another man's face appeared, and two weeks after that, the face of a woman surrounded by 9-15 tiny faces.

By this time, the mysterious goings on had attracted crowds of onlookers. Some of these were able to watch the faces appear before them, but there was never a consensus on their expression or meaning. Occasionally, these images would appear and then disappear within the course of a single day, others would last longer. Recordings were made in the room, and when the tapes were played back, sounds of whispering and wailing were heard on them.

The floor was torn out a number of times, but the faces returned every time it was restored. The images were scrubbed with detergent, but though the eyes widened and the expressions changed, the pictures persisted; over time, the faces seemed to age. Chemists tested samples of the cement, but found no evidence of paints or dyes.

Although the events continued through 1972, there is a dearth of photographic and other hard evidence, scientific explanations.were quickly abandoned.

The debate over whether this was a case of fraud, a haunting, or psychokinetic influence (the faces' expression would sometimes change depending on Maria Gõmez Pereira's mood) has never been resolved.

[stinky]

that is some creepy stuff. i would have put make up on the faces to see what they would do.

[shammy718]

i love this thread*

[montyburnz]

Found this on another message board. A marine talking about his time in PI. Anyone else heard of La Llarona?


" Okay, so there I was, on the beach, a klick or two down from were we'd bayonetted a stinky floater a day or two before (another story). We were there for some live fire and we had a Flip Marine along for plausible deniability should anything happen to some local NPA. Well this guy (who shall remain nameless) was quite the character. He was the son of an Olongapo MetroDisCom PC and a drinker. He was also a good shot and somewhat superstitious.

Tired of C-rats, somebody bitched and a three round burst went right up into some cocoa nuts, three of which fell to the ground. We just kind of looked at him like� In any event it provided some welcome change.

That night we all crashed out leaving him on guard duty. About zero dark thirty I got up to piss and was standing off in the jungle looking across a little swampy area toward a hillside. I shit you not, but I saw this eerie, bright white aura of a figure, a woman in flowing gowns and long hair floating over the water. Having grown up working in the beat fields with Mexicans I knew this to be la Yarona, a spirit witch drowns little kids. I wasn't afraid because, well, I don't know why but I wasn't. However, my Flip Marine friend saw her about the same time, freaked out and started hosing down the countryside.

Everybody jumped out of their poncho liners and started taking up positions. When his mag ran empty he dropped his weapon and started running toward the ocean. One of our people tackled him and everyone started holding him down asking WTF,O? He was screaming and pointing and saying some shit about a ghost. I piped up and said it was la Yarona and explained the story. Turns out 400 years of Spanish rule taught some of this shit to the Flips too because he was saying the same thing. He was also very relieved that I backed his story and he kind of glommed onto me after that."

[bpark]

ive been sleeping on the couch in my living room for the past month because ive been getting some really wierd vibes from my room as of lately. wierd shit would happen like it would be really fucking nut shriveling cold, and then all of the sudden it would get sticky icky hot. also, every night for the past 2 months when i slept in that room i would wake up in the middle of the night after having some wierrrrrrrd ass dreams.

eh, i might just be having hot flashes ( but im a boy!) and the bud i must be smoking must be extra great!
________
Tuono (http://www.cyclechaos.com/wiki/Aprilia_Tuono)

[FDM]

hahaha, nut shriveling cold.

that's rough dude.

[more travels]

this will be the last time i read this thread at night!

[t3h1337p3nguin]

This thread's surprisingly scary, but I'm an admitted pansy.

I have no real ghost stories. Just tons of very freaky instances that I can't recall off the top of my head.

[35ft6]

Once, I saw a ghost jacking off.

[HwaRang012]

The phantom penis.

[35ft6]

One time I thought I saw a ghost but it was just a kid under a white sheet with eyes/holes cut out of it.

Another time I thought I saw the ghost of my dead cat, but it was only my living cat. They look a lot alike.

[montyburnz]

premonition dream
http://www.newspress.com/coldcases/didfrank.htm

[Dr Jesus]

Once Upon a time there was a haunted house.
This guy went in and a ghost scared him.
The End.

[Malosi]

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000002WU9.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[Sethius]

so, i was driving around orange county looking for places that sell plastic skeletons. this was around '97.

i had no mapquest directions so i got lost. searching for the 405 to get back to SD. eventually, night arrived and still couldn't find my way home.

eventually, i found myself in the suburbs. driving through the neighborhood, i reached a dead end.

then there it was. in the far corner was a little grassy area that one could consider a mini-park for kids and dogs. a sense of fear jolted through my spine. the creepiness of the neighborhood and the darkness of the night all added to the moment.

i was able to see the ghost because my headlights reflected on it and it was running very fast. the choppiness of its movement added to my fear.

like an involuntary reflex, i pulled my car in reverse and bailed. the tires squeeled and my heart was pounding hard.

in hindsight, i remember that the "ghost" had an archetypical human shape with a translucency as its body. no facial features. i am pretty sure it was a spirit of some sort.

the scariness of it was not the actual appearance. but the fast choppy movement and this unexplainable foreboding. i hear spirits are inbetween dimensions. so probably a thousand days for a ghost is approximately 1 day for humans. so spirits have a lot of time on their hands. and when they want to be left alone, they have spiritual hours or days to design something that will scare the shit out of you.

...maybe it was just some dude astral projecting after watching too much tv.

[beanie]

wow this thread is amazing. i just sat here and read every single story, and I still can't get enough.

[shawgirl74]

hey beanie baby

[mangamonster]

oh damn, I didnt even realise this thread existed.....nice...mabe I should share one of my crazy ass dreams...scares the hell out of me just thinkin about it

[35ft6]

Originally posted by montyburnz
Head wound in Iraq ends Army career, leaves soldier lost, disabled
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/iraq/8201424.htm

" Sina Hannah was at home that Sunday, watching CNN, when an Army officer from Fort Benning called.

"I knowed what had happened before they told me," she says. "Mothers have premonitions. And I was sitting here one day, and I saw this white light. It was two weeks to the day before they called me." I totally believe this woman.

[montyburnz]

I might have heard this anecdote on public radio. A nurse was talking about taking care of elderly patients. Sometimes the weaker ones will get a far off look on their face. She'll jump in, get their attention, and shoo "it" (angel of death?) away.


I ran across this. These nurses actually see something:
http://allnurses.com/forums/f8/whats-your-best-nursing-ghost-story-108202.html

[evillilgirl]

http://www.prairieghosts.com/waverly_tb.html

i live close to here you can buy an all night tour and go through the whole place by yourself with a security guard on the floor for $100 bucks and for a half night tour $50 bucks.. i want to go maybe the midwest robots can plan a waverly ghost hunter meet.

[evillilgirl]

also the louisville ghost hunters do anything that has to do with waverly..
here is there podcast from waverly.
http://www.louisvilleghs.com/SpookedCast/spookedcast.htm

[montyburnz]

A few months ago, I read a newspaper feature on an injured soldier doing physical therapy at a local VA hospital. The poor guy got hit by an IED and suffered a major brain injury. When he was hit he saw his grandfather, a vet himself, who told him it wasn't his time yet.

Here's another one:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/14/MNGBHNIHR71.DTL


"It was a long and difficult road. AP hated the hospital. He hated the smell. He sprayed cologne everywhere to get the stink of antiseptic out of his nostrils. He took test after test, and was frustrated that he could no longer think the way he used to think and remember the simplest things.

He stayed up late at night, going over and over the tests until the nurses forced him to stop, to try to sleep. He was moved to a different hospital, but he kept running away. There's a reason for that, one he's reluctant to share because people think he's nuts.

"I'm seeing people, you know, who are dead already," he said. Not guys he knew. People he never met before. "

[invictus]

Last week my friend told me about the two women ghosts who live in his apartment. Now when I'm there, I follow him from room to room. One's a young woman, and the other one is an older woman named Meredith. She started etching her name "Mere" in the glass of his built in cabinet.

[dionysos]

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[mwt.]

My cousins lived in this creepy house in Galesburg, Illinois. It was really old and cold and big and reminded me of the Amityville house. If I've ever been in a place that was haunted, that was it. I don't really have any specific ghost stories, but I remember it was common to wake up to seeing a shadowy figure in the hallway, or sitting next to the bed.

Anyway, that was years ago and one of my cousins lives here in KC with me now. He posted this story on his blog, only a few days ago:

When I first moved out of my parents house (a short story for another time), I wound up in a front/back duplex just a block or so down the street. The duplex itself was nothing much to speak of… it had 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a living room, kitchen, and an eerie basement. The basement itself had a partially cemented and partially dirt floor. There was also, against one wall, an area about 3′ x 5′ which was bricked up about 2′ or so and filled with dirt. There was really no discernible reason for its existence and my roommate Barb (a long-time friend of the family) and I speculated all kinds of lame things about why it would be there. One thing that always stuck out in particular about the basement was that it was always cold - not chilly, cold. Even in the heat of summer, it was unusually cold. Little did we know about that basement. I’m getting off track, sorry.
My bedroom was, what we would later learn, called “The Infamous Blue Room”. It was a specific shade of dark blue, but not one that seemed at all normal. It was a bizarre mix of a dark tone but oddly brightly hued (if that makes any sense). For the brief time Barb and I lived at the duplex, there was always a feeling that you were being watched… like, watched by the walls themselves. The windows throughout the duplex had all manner of markings that we couldn’t quite figure out what exactly they were. Things all around just felt… off. The neighbor next door was an elderly man who would always glare at us as though we were up to something. Even if we made it a point to stop, smile, and say hi to him, he would just emit some variant of “Harumph” and would continue on with whatever he was doing.
One night, as we were sitting on the back porch, the neighbor who lived in the front of the house (I think his name was Jessie) came home and as he headed towards us from his parked car, we motioned for him to join us for a beverage and to just chat. The discussion eventually turned to the grumpy old man next door and how he would never talk to us. It was then that we learned the awful truth. Jessie explained that the man next door had a very good reason for not smiling - many years before he had been kidnapped and held captive in that house (obviously he eventually escaped, but I don’t know all the details of that part of the story). In fact, several people had gone missing. The occupant at the time, would kidnap his victims and would torture them in what would eventually become my bedroom. The windows had all been nailed shut or boarded to prevent anyone from getting out that way. The bodies were later discarded in the basement in the dirt of that bricked up area. I don’t recall how many bodies they found, but it was more than a few. Now, back to “The Infamous Blue Room”…
Naturally, the police had to examine the crime scene to document everything and apparently the blood in that room had splattered everywhere - so much blood everywhere. The owners of the house couldn’t get it all cleaned from the once pristine white walls and so they decided to paint it. Blue. Subsequent owners tried to scrape off the blue and repaint the walls, but every time they did, the dried blood always managed to show through. So, the only color the room was ever repainted, was blue. It’s my opinion that’s what gave it its eerie shade. It wasn’t long after the night of that discussion that we moved out - partially because our lease had expired and partially because we just couldn’t stand to live in that place again. I was never more relieved than when we left that place.

[35ft6]

^ Not really a ghost story but creepy as hell. Any links to news stories about the crimes?

[mwt.]

Good question. I can't find anything online, but I'll have to ask my cousin if he has any more information on it. That story he told would have been, like 20 years ago (late eighties), and he refers to the surviving victim as "elderly" and, if the crime happened when he was child, it could have been in around the 1920's.

I'm surprised this is the first I'd ever heard about this. I do remember that house, but I don't think I ever went inside.

[FDM]

god damn. why'd i read this. :(

[evillilgirl]

hey we spent the night in waverly hills got some great pictures.
Anyone around the midwest ever interesting in going there I will take you there. 2 hour tours (large group) are 20 bucks
half nights 50 bucks (two groups of 20) and all nights (just 10 people allowed to roam on free will) 100 bucks

its really freaking scary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKRyEoZ0WoI


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXfzuyp2beo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egVZJHTG9Qc

[evillilgirl]

the best ghost pictures ever taken
http://acidcow.com/pics/7602-best-ghost-pictures-ever-taken-26-pics.html

[premium]

"the best collection of double exposures ever taken"

[SweetArse]

Hearsay: My sister told me my stepmother said she saw my dad last Christmas Day, which would have been the 6-month anniversary of his passing. Apparently, he was standing in the living room with another spectral young man, which is widely assumed to be me(!). They appeared to my stepmother Xmas morning, and then walked into the wall. I couldn't believe she didn't get a picture of this, especially since she was camera-crazy just before he died. At minimum, I don't buy the walking into walls part, because I had always read that a ghost could only do that in a renovated building (they are walking through a doorway that used to be there; walking up non-existent stairs also explains floating).

[Iago]

Have I related the story of my sister and I taking the subway when we were young and seeing someone who looked exactly like our grandfather who passed away just a week prior? I was in the 8th grade then. We didn't mention it to each other at first, but related our independent observations after we got off the train. We were both a bit shocked, but the apparition wasn't necessarily scary. Our grandfather used to take us to work on the trains. Our first experience in the NYC subway was through him.

[premium]

A couple of years ago, my wife woke me up in the middle of the night because she had just seen someone in our room standing over our bed looking at us. I got up and looked around but it was nothing. We went back to sleep after I calmed her down.

My Aunt called the next morning to tell us that my Grandmother had passed away during the night at pretty much the same time my wife saw the person in our bedroom.

[beanie]

I don't know if this counts as a ghost story or can be somehow explained but I woke up completely paralyzed one night (I think it was fear) and with a terrible ringing noise in both ears. The sound wasn't just there though, the sound felt like it was going in circles and on top of that, I had this hand like figure covering parts of my left eye. I couldn't read what the clock said, I couldn't even tell if it was day or night out. All I can remember to this day was not being able to move more than a toe or finger, the "claw" the covered my eye and the ringing. The ringing, I think might have been the worst part. It was a lot like the sound a modem makes when plugging into the internet through dial up, but not exactly. It's so hard to put into words. I talked about this to a few people and everyone just kept telling me it was a dream. I'd never had such a realistic dream if that indeed was what had happened. I've moved since.

I imagined that little gadget in MI3 that P.S Hoffman uses on Cruise to paralyze him. That was the first thing that came to mind when I tried to make sense of it. lolz.

[herrokitty]

I don't know if this counts as a ghost story or can be somehow explained but I woke up completely paralyzed one night (I think it was fear) and with a terrible ringing noise in both ears. The sound wasn't just there though, the sound felt like it was going in circles and on top of that, I had this hand like figure covering parts of my left eye. I couldn't read what the clock said, I couldn't even tell if it was day or night out. All I can remember to this day was not being able to move more than a toe or finger, the "claw" the covered my eye and the ringing. The ringing, I think might have been the worst part. It was a lot like the sound a modem makes when plugging into the internet through dial up, but not exactly. It's so hard to put into words. I talked about this to a few people and everyone just kept telling me it was a dream. I'd never had such a realistic dream if that indeed was what had happened. I've moved since.

I imagined that little gadget in MI3 that P.S Hoffman uses on Cruise to paralyze him. That was the first thing that came to mind when I tried to make sense of it. lolz.

http://www.chillystories.com/Sitting%20Ghost.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis
>> In Cambodian, Laotian, and Thai culture, sleep paralysis is called phǐǐ am and khmout sukkhot. It is described as an event in which the person is sleeping and dreams that one or more ghostly figures are nearby or even holding him or her down. The sufferer usually thinks that he or she is awake but unable to move or make any noises. This is not to be confused with pee khao and khmout jool, ghost possession
>> In Chinese culture, sleep paralysis is widely known as "鬼壓身/鬼压身" (pinyin: guǐ yā shēn) or "鬼壓床/鬼压床" (pinyin: guǐ yā chuáng), which literally translate into "ghost pressing on body" or "ghost pressing on bed." A more modern term is "夢魘/梦魇" (pinyin: mèng yǎn).

[angoraphobia]

I don't know if this counts as a ghost story or can be somehow explained but I woke up completely paralyzed one night (I think it was fear) and with a terrible ringing noise in both ears. The sound wasn't just there though, the sound felt like it was going in circles and on top of that, I had this hand like figure covering parts of my left eye. I couldn't read what the clock said, I couldn't even tell if it was day or night out. All I can remember to this day was not being able to move more than a toe or finger, the "claw" the covered my eye and the ringing. The ringing, I think might have been the worst part. It was a lot like the sound a modem makes when plugging into the internet through dial up, but not exactly. It's so hard to put into words. I talked about this to a few people and everyone just kept telling me it was a dream. I'd never had such a realistic dream if that indeed was what had happened. I've moved since.

I imagined that little gadget in MI3 that P.S Hoffman uses on Cruise to paralyze him. That was the first thing that came to mind when I tried to make sense of it. lolz.

I've actually had something very similar happen to me as well, just one time. I woke from a deep sleep while laying on my back. I couldn't move (I could barely move my eyes), that same kind of ringing in my ears. The sound reminded me of the alarm used for the emergency broadcast system but sustained and coming from inside my head. Everything was dark and fuzzy around the corners and I couldn't really tell if it was night or day. I thought for sure I was being attacked by something supernatural but I closed my eyes until the feeling passed. I really can't remember how long the feeling lasted because I forced myself back to sleep.

I was later told that these are similar symptoms to sleep paralysis. Some people who are into the paranormal call it the old hag syndrome.

[evillilgirl]

"the best collection of double exposures ever taken"

yeah lol but there were a few good ones. :rolleyes: i enjoyed the old old pictures. lol i also want to state the post wasn't opinion just the title of the thread of pics..

[evillilgirl]

Have I related the story of my sister and I taking the subway when we were young and seeing someone who looked exactly like our grandfather who passed away just a week prior? I was in the 8th grade then. We didn't mention it to each other at first, but related our independent observations after we got off the train. We were both a bit shocked, but the apparition wasn't necessarily scary. Our grandfather used to take us to work on the trains. Our first experience in the NYC subway was through him.
Me and my sister had something similar happen.. after our dad died on separate occasions we both thought we saw our dad sitting in a car passing by.. finally years later we talked about it kindof weird though especially after his death we lived in separate states.

[beanie]

I've actually had something very similar happen to me as well, just one time. I woke from a deep sleep while laying on my back. I couldn't move (I could barely move my eyes), that same kind of ringing in my ears. The sound reminded me of the alarm used for the emergency broadcast system but sustained and coming from inside my head. Everything was dark and fuzzy around the corners and I couldn't really tell if it was night or day. I thought for sure I was being attacked by something supernatural but I closed my eyes until the feeling passed. I really can't remember how long the feeling lasted because I forced myself back to sleep.

I was later told that these are similar symptoms to sleep paralysis. Some people who are into the paranormal call it the old hag syndrome.
Kindred spirits!

[montyburnz]

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