Posted on 01/07/2005 9:14:48 PM PST by CurlyBill
Occupants believe their West Inverness house is spooked
by Joseph M. Giordano
When members of the Meyers family saw a figure in the window of the Jasmine Road house they wanted to buy, they should have known something was up.
But they didn't, and now they may be living with something paranormal.
"His name is Dexter," said 8-year-old Ozzie Meyers V. "And he kept asking me to read to him."
Ozzie's parents, Jennifer, an apparently down-to-Earth woman who works for Johns Hopkins University, and Ozzie IV, a stay-at-home dad, thought it might have been an imaginary friend. Then something happened that sent a chill through their West Inverness household.
"Ozzie [V] came to us about two years ago and told us that the little boy in the attic wanted him to play with his train tracks," said Jennifer Meyers, who bought the house in 1998. "My husband went to the attic to check it out. He found old toy train tracks under the insulation. We were convinced after that."
The house, in the 2000 block of Jasmine Road, was built in 1957 on a plot of land that used to be part of the Lynch family farm, according to Baltimore County land records.
The Meyers family moved in after a series of renters had lived in the home, Jennifer Meyers said.
Though the renters had no problems with anything out of the ordinary, they had an interesting occurrence at a party they hosted at the house, according to a neighbor.
"Just before the Meyerses moved in, there was a party at the house," said the neighbor, who asked that her name not be used. "And they had invited a psychic. During the party, the psychic was at the [dining room] table and told [the guests] that someone had brought a spirit into the house."
The neighbor has lived in her home for 30 years and believes that something is not quite right about the Meyerses' house.
"I believe them," the neighbor said. "I hear something running up and down the stairs when no one is at home. There are thumps on the wall and other noises when the house is empty."
In December, Jennifer and her husband appeared on The Montel Williams Show when celebrity psychic Sylvia Brown was the guest and the topic was "the unknown." The opening to the attic where the family hears strange sounds.
"We weren't too happy with [Brown's] answer," Jennifer Meyers said. "She was contradictory and didn't make any sense."
Part of the show was filmed at the Meyerses' home and featured a clip - recorded by one of the show's cameramen- of the lights above the dining room table rapidly going on and off.
"That seems to happen when we're at dinner and arguing about something," Jennifer Meyers said.
Everyone in the house has had strange experiences they can't explain.
"I hate doing laundry in the basement alone," Jennifer Meyers said. "I have seen the figure of a man downstairs."
Ozzie IV., who was always skeptical, has seen a shadow that moved up the steps from the first floor.
"That's what made a believer out of me," he said. "I also woke up and there was a man in front of our bed. My wife saw it too."
Beside the banging sounds against the wall and noises in the basement, the family has several questionable photographs that include a dark anomily around the children, especially their 17-month-old daughter, Genevieve.
"This black shape appears in a number of pictures of our daughter," Jennifer Meyers said. "We have one of an orb above her head at the christening."
Orbs are photographic anomalies that some believe indicate the presence of a ghost and like any other "proof" of the unknown are highly debatable.
One type of evidence that's harder to explain away is electronic voice phenomena (EVP).
EVP are picked up on video and audio tape but are unheard and unseen while the original recorded interview is taking place, according to the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena's Web site.
Strange sounds were picked up on an audio tape even though they weren't heard while the family's interview with The Eagle was taking place at the house. The sounds crop up over both Jennifer Meyers' and her son's voices throughout the recording.
Though not especially religious, the Meyerses have had everyone from a Catholic priest to a practitioner of Wicca come through and bless the house.
"Nothing seems to work," Jennifer Meyers said. "We've even yelled 'In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, go back where you came from,' but it didn't work."
"I try to keep a sense of humor about it all," she said. "But I want whatever it is to stop scaring my children."
Ghost Ping!!
Ghost Ping!!
FIRST!
I hear EVP's here!
http://www.outoftimeradio.org/ghost.php
Second?
I grew up in a place called Sparrows Point...about a 10 minute drive to West Inverness(the ABC streets).
:)
Dang! Missed it by THAT much!
I'm kinda jazzed that I can boo a bunch of folks. Please, carry on...
You want to hear my ghost story?
I know that place..
I do...go ahead.
I wouldn't go in a haunted house...unless they gave me some Scoobie Snacks.
"Nothing seems to work," Jennifer Meyers said. "We've even yelled 'In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, go back where you came from,' but it didn't work."
Well, you have to have faith in Christ first.
Really?
Sparrows point is such a small blue collar town. I am surprised you know it.
I live in Howard Co. now but my mom and some cousins still live there.
I visit often.
Absolutely. Go for it!
That's right where I am.
Exactly! Notice that they had everyone from a Catholic priest to a wiccan "person" to "bless" the house. Sort of shows where their faith is or should I say isn't.
I would also like to add that I don't believe in "ghosts" as such either.
Yep, using the Wiccan just invited more of what they were trying to get rid of.
Thank you! They defeated the whole purpose.
Do tell!
Darks, are you bothering people again?
Paging Art Bell!
Check this page out:
Creepy
http://www.ghostpix.com/gis/E.V.P.html
I believe ghosts are not actual spirits, but residual energy. Nightline had a real interesting program a couple years ago that showed science providing evidence that energy does remain after we die.
However, I do believe that poltergeists and apparitions etc. are demons.
I do not claim to know what EVP is....could be demons, could be that residual energy or the dead somehow reaching through this dimension.
Wow!
So true. I bet if they researched a bit, they would find that there has been or is, some kind of occult activity there or nearby
Yeah, that's kida how I felt.
There are just so many urban tales and things people have seen, almost everyone knows someone who's seen a ghost. Obviously everybody doesn't leave behind a ghost. It's a phenomenon that's connected to strong emotion me thinks, maybe some people when they die just need more time to let go and move on. Old theaters and battlefields are infamous for their hauntings, the White House is too as a matter of fact. I love ghost stories.
Art Bell/Coast to Coast Ping
My next door neighbors claim to have ghosts in their house. It's quite old, like mine. They are serious people not prone to much goofiness. They claim that the ghosts in their house are quiet all night if I visit the house in the evening. It's gotten to the point where Pete will call me up at 11PM and ask me to come over for a few minutes because he needs sleep. Can't explain it, but the ghosts all take a couple of days off after I come over there. They are trying to sell the house Quite strange.
Very weird. Whatever ghosts are, you can't deny the fact that strange stuff like this does happen. I'm a little confused as to how people can leave behind energy that looks and acts like a person's spirit. Perhaps anyone can enlighten me?
I'm still skeptical, but I'm not wholly convinced that it's hogwash either. There are 2 places within just a few miles of my house that have stories that seem to never die and I always pass those places and wonder. One's an old town hall and ones a bar that's so old it has a dirt basement.
My own experience of when I was about 12 wasn't as visual as yours, but it still made me wonder.
I went into my room and turned on a light to read, and the light bulb flashed and died. I glanced at the clock and it was 7:20. We got a call about an hour later that my great grandmother had passed away and my Mom said she died at 7:20. Our great grandmother and our family were really close. She didn't live with us but she was at our house as often as we could have her there. She surely couldn't have been loved any more than we loved her, so maybe thats what the connection was.
The 7:20 time just struck me as a coincidence, but after that it seemed like everytime a light bulb in the house would go out it would be within 5 minutes of 7:20. That lasted for at least three years, and during the week of the anniversary when she died there were light bulbs popping left and right at our house. When we moved to a new house it never happenned again. But I still look at the clock when a light bulb blows.
Did you see this line?
"Just before the Meyerses moved in, there was a party at the house," said the neighbor, who asked that her name not be used. "And they had invited a psychic. During the party, the psychic was at the [dining room] table and told [the guests] that someone had brought a spirit into the house."
No, thanks for posting. People don't want to believe it, but there is a lot of Satan worship going on in places you'd never expect. I feel sorry for children who are exposed to this stuff
Didn't somebody put a ghost up for sale on ebay?
Allow me a purely scientific point here, even though I do believe in God and I am a strong Christian. Physics tells us that energy can change forms, but does not just disappear. We know there is energy within our bodies which is essentially our personality. It's what keeps our heart beating and our brain working. It's what we are. When we die, there is really no energy there at all. We know it did not dissipate or "evaporate" because the laws of physics tell us that this is not possible. What happened to it?
So you're suggesting that when people die, their personalities, essentially a form of energy, get up and walk around in the form of people and try to communicate? Would that mean that the afterlife is your concious personality walking around the world forever? I'm just trying to figure out how the scientific explanation of ghosts works here. I think if that were the case, all the leftover energy from everyone who's ever existed would be walking around all over the place and would be pretty hard to miss by the average person.
I think that was Scooter Peterson's soul
I'm saying I don't understand it. There is an evergy within us, nobody can deny that. We also know that energy does not dissipate. What happens to it? Is there such a thing as "location" at that point? I really don't know. It's a great mystery, and for me it's very interesting and fun to discuss these things.
That being said, I believe that there are "spirits"of the air-- Lucifer's army if you will. These things can take form and fool you into thinking they are long lost relatives and friends--psychic vampires. A true believer can say to them, per the bible -- "The Lord rebuke you" and they have to go
A good explanation and I agree with it, but I'm curious as to whether or not science can point towards a weird phenomena where energy can take the form of a deceased person after they die, and basically linger around for a while. It sounds pretty far-fetched, but there are scientists that believe it's true. Maybe it's just a bad explanation for what is really supernatural, but are there any scientifically-minded freepers out there that care to enlighten me?
I just looked at that page, it's weird how some ghosts interact with people and some don't. Like some aren't aware they're dead and others have become aware. I think seeing a ghost would be interesting, but if he looked back at me and smiled or looked at me malevolently. Well, as Fred Sanford would say, I'd have a big one lol.
Personally I think it's people who are very attached to this life and need more time to let go. It fits with battlefields being haunted. Of course living out half conscious memories for eternity would be my idea of hell, so there's that theory too.
The scientific explanation: it's all a bunch of hokum. And what isn't hokum is nonsense.
Not if those memories involved a little something with a hot girlfriend. haha
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