Ghost Story

London Free Press ^ | 30 Apr 04 | Ian Gillespie

[Monty22]

"It's funny. We train there about every other Wednesday night. Some nights, I feel so creepy that I can't go in that room by myself. Other nights, like this past Wednesday, I didn't feel the least bit creepy. The nights I feel creepy, I get interesting pictures. The nights I don't feel creepy, I get nothing unusual from my digital camera."

There are times in bed when I just feel.. not right. Like some form of weird terror of something not being ok in the room. Not very often, but it's enough to be very upsetting. It doesn't last long, typically.

I should setup my digital video camera with night shot sometime, but I'd be afraid of what I'd see I think.

[Ditter]

What a story! We have lived in this house over 20 years & except for hearing distant music sometimes at night, we have had nothing happen.

A house where we lived years ago I heard children laughing several times, my dogs heard them too. Also in that house things would show up on the floor. Letters & objects that had been put away for ages would just be laying right in the middle of the room. I didn't think about that being ghostly activity like I did the laughter, but it might have been connected.

I will remember Psalm 93.

[Johnny Gage]

Ok, here's another "outdoor" one. I tend to believe this one is more like angels than ghosts.

Summer of 1980, I was canoeing in the Boundry Waters Canoe area in northern Minnesota there were 10 of us in 5 canoes

We were canoeing/portaging our way out to our pickup point.

After one portage, we started out across a rather large lake, got maybe 500 yards out, when we heard shouting, coming from behind us. We all stopped paddling and looked back to see 3 people waving to us from the portage point we just left. There was a taller person in jeans and a yellow shirt, a shorter person in jeans and red shirt, and a child sized person in what I think was a brown shirt.

We did a quick inventory and realized we had 1 "duluth gear pack" missing. My canoe-mate and I volunteered to paddle back and get the pack.

When we reached the shore, there was the pack, but there was NO ONE around. Figuring that these people were portaging up the trail from the other lake, we hiked back down the trail to the other lake. (about 3 blocks)

We reached the end of the trail, and met no one. We looked out and the lake was empty, with no one on it.

There were no other trails that crossed this portage.

We loaded the canoe and started off to catch the rest of the group, and kept an eye on that launch point all the way as long as we could see it and no one ever came out.

These 3 "people" had simply vanished.

[Kay Ludlow]

Cool story. Add me to your ping list, please ;-)

[Barnacle]

It's a funny thing about dogs. It seems that the ones closely related to the wolf are a bit more attuned to the supernatural.

Some friends of mine had a samoya. It was the most mellow thing ever, until a particular woman would visit their store. Then, the dog would go bonkers. Stranger yet is that it was not reacting to the woman, but rather to something that accompanied her.

Once and only once they visited her home and discovered then that she was fully immersed in witchcraft. She acknowledged that a demon was her companion and went with her everywhere.

I have plenty of secondhand witch stories from another friend who unwittingly became acquainted with a witch when his family moved to West Virginia. Stories that would make your skin crawl. That stuff is as real and dangerous as nitroglycerin.

[Dead Dog]

I grew up with labs, so it took a bit to get used to a dog this intelligent and willful. We've grown to rely on him and what we had considered he judge of character. There are some people he just doesn't like...and many of them are "Earth Muffins" and the type of low class harpies that would dabble in witchcraft. Now you've got me wondering.

Ever notice how stories of people seeing demons tend to involve dark shadow like figures. Biting and hitting also seem to be a common trend.

[bigcheese]

Perhaps something could be done to help him rest in peace

I've thought of that. I tried reasoning one day with it that it should really go on, that there were 'better things' for it to do than to hang around. It seemed it was gone for a few days after that. I really do not know what else should be said or done to help it make its way to wherever it is going next. And I am still not convinced it is a dead soul. Supernatural, positively. Dead soul? I really do not know.

it's not normal to have a spirit reside in your house

Perhaps. I'm always hopeful I meet someone else (a real person :-) that currently has a ethereal visitor hanging around. Until then, it really does not bother me and I guess I really do not bother it. But maybe if I asked it to help with the bills...

[Ditter]

bump for more ghost stories

[Barnacle]

"Earth Muffins" and the type of low class harpies that would dabble in witchcraft.

You're lain' some new lingo on me here. I don't know what Earth Muffins or harpies are. But from the stories I've heard, "dabbling in witchcraft" is like "dabbling in heroin".

[gawatchman]

Please add me to you ping list as well. Maybe someday soon I will have my own story to relate. Thanks.

[ncoaster]

Please add me to your ping list. thanks!

[ikka]

Ummm... the "ectomist" in your flash picture looks a great deal like light reflected by the metal cover of the box in the foreground. ...

[Fudd Fan]

I call that "Cannon Catting".

My parents' cat does that, shoots up the stairs thru the kitchen, every single time he's been to The Box.

[Fudd Fan]

That story sounds like "The Bell Witch." ANyone else agree?

[Snowy]

Ummm... the "ectomist" in your flash picture looks a great deal like light reflected by the metal cover of the box in the foreground. ... I took a few pictures, one right after the other. That's the only one that showed that streak.

[moodymare]

Hi CurlyBill, please add me to your list too!

[Cvengr]

"I believe that Democrats are demonic and possessed by Satan. So, yes, I guess I believe in the supernatural..."

You might be on to somethng,...I do seem to remember Hillary once saying something about Bill awakening with 'sleep horrors' or words to that effect...isn't that what she was talking about????

[Cvengr]

Wow! I posted this article less than 48 hours ago, and we now have a ping list of over 60 people ...

I wonder how many of them are still of flesh and blood????

[Cvengr]

A couple of thoughts.

First, there isn't any Scripture that encourages us to consort with spirits. Quite the opposite, we are warned of fallen angels and of deceiving spirits.

A used car salesman can be very freindly and seemingly benign, especially if it is an attempt to influence your thinking, decisions, and behavior.

Secondly, Scripture tells us plenty about the supernatural and how we today have access to all things through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This doesn't mean one should seek to elevate ourselves by supernatural occurances, rather God has already provided everything we need and more through faith in Him. Those who seek supernatural things outside of His protocol are now dabbling in a domain where creatures who have existed for millenia reside and have also been described as malevolent deceivers in some situations.

Dabbling in that domain is sort of like swimming in the ocean. God has provided eternal life in a regenerated spirit to man through faith in Christ. Sortof like swimming at the beach in his plan.

On the other hand, if we jump in to a shark's nest and rebel from God's protocol for us, we might quickly discover some things exist that are very, very real and not in our best interest.

BTW, since He created all things and has a plan for every man to come to Him on His terms with love, if confronted with such spirits, first pray to God for confession of any known sin and ensure that you are on the right track with Him first. Remain faithful to Him and regardless the occurance you are on the right track. Also remember, God has recorded many situations where he is displeased with man consorting with familiar spirits, to the point of causing physical death of the man involved in that situation. This doesn;t mean all spirits are evil,..we have the opportunity to be endwelt by the Holy Spirit, and there are many testimonials of elect angels having assisted man.

Outside from Scriptural basis, encounters with the supernatural might also invite some very unwanted involvement.

[19th LA Inf]

the toilet even flushes by itself sometimes.

Simple explanation for that one, we have it too. With a slow leak around the flapper valve in the bottom of the tank, when the water level in the tank falls to a certain point the fill valve will open to let more water in, causing the "flushing" sound . . . no, I can't explain the other stories on this thread.