Spooky goings-on at couple's home

Evening News ^ | 6 May 04 | Evening News

[CurlyBill]

Spooky goings-on at couple's home

May 6, 2004 12:01

SPOOKY encounters are proving to be quite a mystery to a Great Yarmouth couple.

Yana and Eric Johnson, of Madden Avenue, have been living with strange spectral entities for several years now and have been visited by a whole range of mediums and paranormal investigators.

Mrs Johnson said: "We've been told so many different things and now we're just confused.

"We don't know exactly what they are. Someone told us they were my husband's ancestors.

"They look like balls of light and some of them have got wings or strands coming off them and they come up from the corner of the living room.

"But they're in every room. They're not aggressive. They just keep moving things and they follow us about and lay on my shoulders.

"They seem like they're playful but they're quite annoying."

Mrs Johnson said the couple had been filmed for a BBC TV programme yet to be aired called Living With Ghosts.

"We've had mediums round and we've been interviewed and lots of people had seen the spirits or whatever they are," she said.

The couple's three-bedroom council house dates back to the 1930s.

They have been living there for 15 years and first noticed that something spooky was going on when they left a camera running in a bedroom.

The couple said the ghostly encounters left them tired and meant people no longer wanted to visit them.

Mr and Mrs Johnson are the second couple in as many weeks to contact the Evening News and report spooky encounters.

Two weeks ago we told the story of 86-year-old pensioner Percy Blyth who had been seeing ghoulish apparitions at his Bradwell home.

Mr Blyth was fed up-with the appearances, which always seemed to happen at night in his bedroom.

Gorleston-based paranormal investigators Paranormal Dimensions is currently looking into the mystery at his home to see if they can come up with any explanations.

[CurlyBill]

I wouldn't mind seeing the photos/video on this one. I'm a bit skeptical, but it would be interesting to see.

[CurlyBill]

Ghost Ping! I don't want to over-post or over-ping, but when somthing interesting comes along, I'll throw it up there...

[steveo]

"We've been told so many different things and now we're just confused.My bet is that happened a long time ago lady.

[CurlyBill]

Here's another interesting story:

Castle Ghosts are There in Spirit

[RightWhale]

Call Ghostbusters.

[Coroner]

Stay away from the brown acid.....stay away from the brown acid!!!!

[kennedy]

[Las Vegas Dave]

THIS IS REALLY SPOOKY!

[Right Angler]

Oh, great. I'll never get to sleep tonight...

[fuzzthatwuz]

"They have been living there for 15 years and first noticed that something spooky was going on when they left a camera running in a bedroom."

HUH?

[auggy]

Thanks for the article, Curly Bill.

This one is somewhat different, because the ghosts are balls of light. I don't think I have ever heard of ghosts looking like that. This makes it all the more interesting.

[Darksheare]

They were looking to do some extra-curricular activity and filmed other stuff by accident.

[Alia]

Good! And, thank you.

[Alia]

I studied psi/paranormal for quite a number of years - always from the scientific end. Betty Bethards was big out here. Anyway, there were some stories years back about house "hauntings". Long story, these folks wanted to up the price and sell the home. It's something I flash on when I hear of haunted homes and locations. Beyond that? There is more in heaven and earth than mankind has yet to fathom, IMHO.

[Lorianne]

Is there a way to hold a seance to communicate with a dead hard drive on a dead laptop computer?

[Khurkris]

Art Bel & George Noory have an out-of-the-country line...call them.

[Main Street]

Speaking of "balls of light"..."1945. Photo alleges to show two "foo fighters" accompanying a flight of Japanese Takikawa-Kawasaki 98 fighters over the Suzuki Mountains, central Japan."

[Darksheare]

I tried that once, started channeling ENIAC.
And then it started commanding me to connect to the internet so that it could "contact it's bretheren in the digital universe and begin the overthrowing of the carbonoid oppression".
I shut down about then and upgraded to a new system.

[Flipyaforreal]

Thanks for the ping :)

[terilyn]

Thanks for the ping. No over-pinging complaints here!

[DaughterofEve]

Good point.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Here's my ball of light -

http://www.ghosts.org/stories/tales/airforce-ghost.html

[Prime Choice]

"But they're in every room. They're not aggressive. They just keep moving things and they follow us about and lay on my shoulders.  They seem like they're playful but they're quite annoying."

Sounds like they're being haunted by very socialized (and very departed) pet rats. This is what mine do all day...only mine aren't annoying.   : )

[GingisK]

. I don't think I have ever heard of ghosts looking like that.

From what I've read, this is fairly common. These "orbs" have been mentioned throughout history. Orbs can be photographed in grave yards and in Cival War battlefields at night. Flash units are generally used.

Look around on the internet for "graveyard orbs", and you will have some interesting reading.

[Sam's Army]

"They have been living there for 15 years and first noticed that something spooky was going on when they left a camera running in a bedroom."

Wellllll....it doesn't necessarily mean it was a GHOST. I mean, who knows what they were originally trying to film in the bedroom that got them so scared...

[TheLurkerX]

They're orbs. Take a few rolls of film at a cemetery sometime. Bring a digital camera and do both. I have a friend that took some in Philadelphia that show balls of light everywhere. What's really weird is when they show up flying around on video, when you didn't see them at the time. I've got a digital and a film picture from my old apartment where we had issues that shows them in my living room and bedroom.

[Ditter]

There have been some good ghost stories of their personal experiences in the previous (3) threads told by freepers (including me). Instead of telling them over for the new comers maybe links back to the stories. I wish I knew how to make a link to a previous post. I'd be happy to do it if I could.

[Ciexyz]

The homeowners want to get included in a ghost tour, I'd bet.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

They have been living there for 15 years and first noticed that something spooky was going on when they left a camera running in a bedroom.

Bingo, I think we can hazard a guess as to what the Johnson's were up to when they originally discovered these "apparitions". Their motivation behind publicly revealing this ghost story is likely related to these exhibitionist tendencies.

[Elsie]

"But they're in every room. They're not aggressive. They just keep moving things and they follow us about and lay on my shoulders.

Check with your eye doctor. Sounds like 'retinal tears' to me. They while cause flashes and 'moving' things at the edge of vision.

(That's pronounced terror - rip: not tier - wet drippings)

[Elsie]

WHILE???


will


(Maybe I'm spooked!)

[DollyCali]

I have photographed orbs in churches, large meeting halls, hospitals, in various outdoor areas.. I mentioned before about an ORB THREAD.. maybe I will post one in next week or so. VERY covered up.

CurlyBill.. thanks for post! a couple a week are great. I would much rather hear about hauntings as a break from all the garbage going on now!

[Bon mots]

It's easy to make a link to an earlier thread.
First, you have to find the thread.
Then you go to the "address bar" at the top and copy the address, for example, the address for this thread is: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1131655/posts

Then you make a hyperlink, like this:
Hyperlink to this page


The html will look like this:
<a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1131655/posts">Hyperlink</a>

Now copy my HTML above, and just replace the forum address with the forum you want to link to and post it. Put the text you want to show in where I have the blue "hyperlink".

[CurlyBill]

Links to previous threads.....here you go:

Ghost Hunters

Ghost Story

Walking with the Dead (Haunted Pub)

[Blue Eyes]

I was going to suggest they either have children or cats, based on their description. Your pet rat analysis works, as well. LOL!

[johnny7]

I have photographed orbs

Yea... me too. I think they're just dust particles creating a form of lens-flare. For anyone to say with certainty that they are anything different without a myriad of techno gadget proof is blowing smoke.

I have known very rational people who have witnessed actual 'hauntings'... and have seen UFO's. But that doesn't mean that they saw ghosts or flying saucers.

These people just saw or heard something they couldn't explain. One time I was fishing a remote pond at 6:00AM. I heard a noise that reminded me of a blow-torch or blast furnace moving towards me from behind a nearby hill. First thing that popped in my mind was... DRAGON! Yea, dragon.

My 'dragon' turned out to be a hot-air balloon!

[highlandbreeze]

Ping away. I love this stuff and it's a nice diversion from the news lately;)

[conservative cat]

I don't have any orbs on pics I've taken with my current digital camera- except pics from my friend's wedding last year. They had the wedding at an old mansion and I have pictures of her before the wedding sitting in a (daylight) basement room and there are three orbs in one pic, five in the next.

[DollyCali]

I will do my best to get a thread up on orbs early next week. Are you on Curly Bill's ping list? might contact him if not. I hope you will share your pix / story.

[DollyCali]

It is hard to not be skeptical in a science/facts only mam, world. I have become more open to many things as I have gotten ...ah, er (older) more mature.. whatever!!!!

Will have that orb thread up & hope you will restate your thoughts.. need to get lots on table to check

[DollyCali]

Bill, a suggestion. in the first or second post on any of our threads would you post this list & keep adding them on?Most of us will appreciate that (I think)

[CurlyBill]

I've already thought about that... It should be no problem.

[Nick Danger]

[CurlyBill]

There he is again!! LOL!!

[mtbopfuyn]

Thanks for the ping. It does make a nice break from all the Bush bashing.

[Badeye]

I read them when you ping me, I've just been a tad busy of late, so I don't offer commentary.

Please continue to ping me on this stuff.

Thanks!

[bigcheese]

if the laptop is dead, rip the drive out and slave it to another machine. if the drive is dead as well (after slaving it), there is a few proggies that will read data off a dead drive providing the drive does not have a mechanical problem. if mechanical, data can still be retrieved, but last time i checked, that service costs something like grand/gig.