Gaelic-speaking 'ghost' caught on recording

The Scotsman ^ | Fri 17 Jan 2003 | CLAIRE SMITH

[Defiant]

I got this via email from a friend. Got me hook, line and sinker, made my heart skip several beats. So naturally, I had to get the kids and the wife, one by one, and then send it out to everyone I know. No one has gotten mad, and all have been eager to get the next guy with it.

[savedbygrace]

This thread was real creepy till you went and posted that picture of the ghost at #2. LOL.

[inflorida]

LOL! That one got me a few months ago and right away I wanted to show the site to all of my friends - that is, once my heart beat returned to normal :-)

[lizma]

one by one

LOL! I did the same thing!

But when I sent it to my parents, I got a tongue lashing from my ma that rivalled the ones I got thirty years prior. She was not a happy camper and made sure I knew it!

Wonder if I can catch her again next year?

[Defiant]

Hopefully, your mom will still open your emails. Just not the links inside.

[Cachelot]

Debbie McPhail claims to have made a recording of a ghoulish voice hissing the words: "Get out" or "Go away" in Gaelic.

Probably just skinheads. Fumigation, air, cart away, repeat as necessary.

[Turbodog]

Can we say publicity stunt!

[HennepinPrisoner]

LOL!!!!!!!!

[ChemistCat]

It was actually saying, "My precioussssssssss...."

[thescourged1]

LOL....good one!

I knew something was up when I saw the .swf extention on the link. ;^)

[Kevin Curry]

That could kill a person who has a weak heart.

[Karsus]

FR is turning into DU more and more each day. If you didn't wish to respond, you didn't have to. Responding to a legitimate question with such a childish response it what I would expect from slashdot.org or du, not FR.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

can someone post a pic from the website? It wont load for me

[Defiant]

It requires Flash player to view properly, I think.

[DBtoo]

You silly!

[zygoat]

You have caused my computer chair to fly backwards into the closet door,the sudden stop caused the coffee to fly all over the contents of the chair,which is me.I am now wide awake.Thank You.

[cricket]

'If walls could talk'. . .

. . .maybe we just need to 'listen up'.

[cricket]

T h a n k s. . .for the heart attack!

. . . and now some Excedrin. . .

[Morrigan]

I've got a personal ghost story that is really creepy--unbelievable, but it is the honest to God's truth.

I was doing a paper on a mental hospital in Maine for college a couple of years ago. It was called Pineland, in Pownal Maine. It had been shut down for a long time.

When I looked into the long history of Pineland, I found all kinds of horrible things. The patients sat around naked in their own feces for days, or just chained up and forgotton about. The conditions there were extremely bad for a long time--mostly because they had no staffing, but also because of the view the medical establishment had about mentally retarded folk back then. There were a number of sadistic doctors that worked there, and many people died at a young age in Pineland. I don't think that place saw many happy days.

Well, I found out that a humanitarian group had bought Pineland and decided to renovate it. I decided that I could augment my paper by taking some video footage of Pineland before it was gone forever. So I rounded up a friend and we rolled out around five, after we knew the construction workers would be gone.

Now, Pineland is huge. It is not one building, but a cluster of about fifteen buildings. So the property is huge. We get on it and start looking around. A lot of the buildings had already been gutted, windows and doors gone but boarded up.

I started filming, talking a little about each building and what it had been used for. It was then that we heard some noise in the building.

There was no wind that day. We heard loud, loud pounding inside the building I was filming. But no one was inside! You know how I know? The doors were all padlocked and the windows were boarded. There was no way in.

Sufficently creeped out, we began to stalk around some other buildings. We found a ground window without a board, and stuck the camera in it. We heard the same pounding noise. Then, nothing. Then, BANG! Right next to the camera!

I screamed and pulled out of the window. We decided to do the ultimate test--get into one of the buildings.

We looked around for a building with a way in. Finally we found a forgotten back door on the side of what had been the hospital. We squeezed through the opening and went up some stairs.

We were in a huge, empty room. There was a wide corridor to the left, and then an identical large room. We were silent as I slowly panned the camera around.

Then we heard the banging. At first it was above us. Then it was quiet. Then the banging started in the other room. We edged to the stairs. Then came a bang in the hallway, and we ran for it.

We ran out the building, down the driveway, and into the car. When we got home, freaked out, my friend and I decided to make my husband watch the tape.

On the tape, all the noises can clearly be heard, and even some weird noises that I didn't hear while there. The creepy part? On the tape, when we enter the hospital and are going up the stairs, you can see little balls of light zipping around the screen. Diagonally, horizontally, and vertically. They form clusters and are sometimes lone. They were going across the screen the entire time we were in the hospital. When the noises occured, the balls of light intensified. I DID NOT SEE THIS WHILE FILMING.

My friend took her video camera home with the tape in it. She was going to make copies of it for me. While she was at work the next day, her teenage son used the camera to film some footage of their new dog. He taped over our Pineland visit.

So, I had proof but the tape was destroyed. Argh!

[Kenny Bunk]

God that pirate outfit and the snaggle tooth sure were scary! It looked a lot like Big Pussy from the 'Sopranos,' with quite a bit of Web Hubble or Chelsea Clinton arond the mouth.