The Paranormal

[Lady Pamela]

2nt video clip of moving orb we got during hunt

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgBHNpJq-kM"]YouTube - Orb 2[/nomedia]

[theoddz]

Well, I didn't think I'd be posting in a thread like this. I really haven't had much to post about these sorts of things, even though I grew up in and hail from what is probably recognized as one of the most haunted cities in the United States.....Savannah, Georgia.

Last night was Halloween. In the past years, it's become a bit of a tradition between my Pop, my stepmother and myself that we'd meet down at the casino for dinner and a night of gambling, as an alternative to staying at home and handing out candy to the trick or treaters. Well, as most of you (may or may not) know, my stepmother had a massive stroke in September and Pop has had to make the difficult choice of having to have her placed in a local care facility because he cannot take care of her himself at home. So, last night, Pop and I met at the casino for our evening meal. Just him and me. I want to say that, over the past years that I've lived in Las Vegas and been able to spend more time with my father and stepmother, I've come to know them both, as people, much better. I'm a lot like my Pop in many ways, introverted and pretty shy in my ways, keeping a lot of my thoughts and emotions to myself, so it's just been in these past few years that I've really come to get to know my father as a person. He's quite a guy!!

So, to get on with my story.....

Mother and Pop divorced when I was 12, going on 13. Pop moved out of our big house and eventually bought a small house in one of the old established neighborhoods in midtown Savannah. I researched his house a bit and found that it had been built in 1922. It was a simple frame house, only 1 story, with 2 bedrooms and one original bathroom. It had a tin roof, of all things, and you could hear the rain plinking against the tin on quiet rainy nights/days. Pop had another private bathroom added to his study, which was off of his bedroom, after living in the house for a year or so. My sister and I would visit him regularly, but mostly me, because my sister took the divorce much harder than I did.

After I was discharged from the Marine Corps, I lived with my father for 2 years in that house, while I worked at a local television station. I was living my "party years" and was having a great time working and spending many of my evenings at the local gay bars. My father hadn't retired yet and was still working for the US Dept. of Agriculture as a research scientist and he had his own social life and professional activities that he kept busy with. On Saturday nights, he'd play poker with the Chinese Club and would be gone until the wee hours of the morning. I'd hit the bars. Although I loved to party, the main reason I'd head to the bars every Saturday night, in particular, was mainly because I felt very uncomfortable in Pop's house at night, particularly when he wasn't there. During these years, Pop had a big, loveable black Labrador Retriever named Nani, but I called her by her nickname, "Booger". She was well trained, friendly, smart as all get out, and just loved to spend time with our family. She also felt and saw "things" in that house. I witnessed her, on many occasions, stalk things that weren't visible (to me), bark at "nothing" and sit and tremble in front of unseen things.

Last night, at dinner, the dinner conversation with Pop rolled around to memories of Booger and that house in Ardsley Park. After all these years, I told Pop about how uncomfortable I'd felt in that house when he wasn't around, and how I watched Booger's reactions to things that were unseen. I finally just came out and asked Dad if he had ever felt uncomfortable in that house, or if he'd ever seen or felt anything unusual. I expected him to say "no", so you can imagine how shocked I was when he stopped eating, put his fork down gently, then looked up and said, "Yes, I have. I was awakened out of a dead sleep one night to see a figure standing beside my bed." He went on to say that the figure then disappeared, right in front of him, as he started to get up. He thought he had had one of those vivid dreams, as they call them, but decided that he had probably seen something paranormal.

Even thinking about that house now kind of gives me the creeps. I know there was something in there, but I don't know what it was. I think Pop saw it and I'm sure Booger saw it many times. I just know that I felt it, because that's how I experience these things.....I feel them. One of my friends, who is a self-described Medium, says that the reason I have never seen anything is because I don't want to see them. She's right. I don't want to see anything, so I shut down and don't open myself to visual manifestations.

Maybe, one of these days, I'll happen to see something in the hospital where I work. I hear the stories all the time about others' experiences, such as call lights going off in empty rooms, disembodied voices and "shadow people". It's all so creepy. I keep telling myself that I cannot really be a "spiritual" believer about my faith without believing in the existence of other kinds of spirits. I haven't reconciled this thought yet.

Anyway, that's my Halloween ghost story.

~Theo~

[Lady Pamela]

Originally Posted by theoddz

~Theo~

Whoever the psychic is that told you that you simply don't want this was right.
What I felt while reading this was fear. Sometime throuout your upbringing you ADOPTED fear of the unknown. Or took on the belief from a christian based belief of evil. Don't worry many are the same...smiles

I loved the fact you were willing to share your story reguardless though. Thank you. It just may help another going though the same one day..Ya know what I mean.

I worked many years in the medical field as well and know exactly all the paranormal that happens in there. Actually in a care facility was the first time a spirit materialized to me and I didn't know it was spirit..lol
I was shift change and I had just looked at the log book and seen everyone was doing well. So I proceeded to do rounds.

I stepped into the restroom first and in there was a woman. Bright orange polyester suit on with a paisley muti-colored scarf tied around her neck and flowing down.

We smiled at each other as I went into the stall.
And as I came out, I was going to say hello and ask if she knew this was the employee's restroom. But she was gone. I didn't even hear her leave.
Though odd, I let it go.

So I started down west hall and felt the odd feeling again. Asked my co-worker to do the hall with me because things felt odd.
As I aproached the second room, a 106 year old man we all called grandpa.
"Which btw had suposedly been in the dining room eating last shift, we seen he had passed. They had lied in the log books.

Long story short, I was cleaning his stuff out to prepare for family after getting him ready, and in the top drawer a picture fell to the floor as I was cleaning it.

I picked it up and it was the woman in the bathroom. Same clothes, same smile, same everything...Freaked my lil world..lol

I asked his children who the woman was and they said, OUR MOM. She had passed many years ago.

The moral to this true story is this:
It scared the crap out of me at first because it was unknown to me in that degree...But afterwards it was beautiful because not only did it validate to me that this was her coming to greet him. But also I was able to help others know she had come to greet him.

Things aren't always how the apear to be. In many times since I have been spiritually working with others, this has been a lesson over and over shown to me.

Just saying...Ok Rambling...lol

[Scuba]

I won't spoil it, but I'll say that I can't believe ****** is leaving Ghost Hunters and TAPS. I think the show has gone downhill since the 3rd season. It's going on like 8 seasons now so maybe time is time and they should end it on a high note.

IMHO

Scoobs

[Lady Pamela]

Originally Posted by scubadyke

I won't spoil it, but I'll say that I can't believe ****** is leaving Ghost Hunters and TAPS. I think the show has gone downhill since the 3rd season. It's going on like 8 seasons now so maybe time is time and they should end it on a high note.

IMHO

Scoobs

DITTO...smiles

They came here to the assylum last summer...and something just did not feel right.

My team got more in one evening than they got the entire weekend..Not cutting them down by any means..Just stating a fact.

[princessbelle]

Originally Posted by scubadyke

I won't spoil it, but I'll say that I can't believe ****** is leaving Ghost Hunters and TAPS. I think the show has gone downhill since the 3rd season. It's going on like 8 seasons now so maybe time is time and they should end it on a high note.

IMHO

Scoobs

OMG who's leaving???? I hate that it won't be the same. I love that show so much. Even if the reviews, especially on youtube, try to say it's mostly fake. I don't believe that it is.

But, wow they sure do have a huge turnover rate. Remember Brian? I was sad to see him go as well. Someone pm me with who is leaving...please?

[smouldering]

Originally Posted by princessbelle

OMG who's leaving???? I hate that it won't be the same. I love that show so much. Even if the reviews, especially on youtube, try to say it's mostly fake. I don't believe that it is.

But, wow they sure do have a huge turnover rate. Remember Brian? I was sad to see him go as well. Someone pm me with who is leaving...please?

I am sure by now that someone has PMed you.. i am sad to see it change too But it sounds like it may be the best for him anyway..


I just had a quick question, really mostly out of curiosity, Anyone else who is sensitive, do you ever have issues where there are certain people you just can't be around for any period of time or even certain places you can't go because the energy within them is so negative it just completely taps you out?

[Rockinonahigh]

Originally Posted by smouldering

I am sure by now that someone has PMed you.. i am sad to see it change too But it sounds like it may be the best for him anyway..


I just had a quick question, really mostly out of curiosity, Anyone else who is sensitive, do you ever have issues where there are certain people you just can't be around for any period of time or even certain places you can't go because the energy within them is so negative it just completely taps you out?

Oh yes,I know folks who just walk in the room and I get this ickey,creepy feeling,the close thay get to me the more drained and agravated I become.I usely just leave the room or completly leave the place caue its like I have the radar that points to them that is vry unsettling.

[princessbelle]

Originally Posted by smouldering

I am sure by now that someone has PMed you.. i am sad to see it change too But it sounds like it may be the best for him anyway..


I just had a quick question, really mostly out of curiosity, Anyone else who is sensitive, do you ever have issues where there are certain people you just can't be around for any period of time or even certain places you can't go because the energy within them is so negative it just completely taps you out?

Yes i did get the info i was seeking. Makes me sad, but i had lost a little faith in this person, so, the show must go on.

As far as your question......a big ole "yes".

Many times i get the dark, almost death feeling around folks. I can just stumble upon someone in a store and i've changed lines before when someone like that was near me. Once i had a feeling like that from a neighbor who wanted to be my friend. I had to nip that real quick. I think "that feeling" is there for a lot of us more than we know. If we really stop and think about them and "feel" them, we can tell pretty quick the dark from the rest.

I also see colors and the darker colors always make me steer clear from certain people. Always has, even when i was a small child.

[foxyshaman]

Originally Posted by smouldering

I am sure by now that someone has PMed you.. i am sad to see it change too But it sounds like it may be the best for him anyway..


I just had a quick question, really mostly out of curiosity, Anyone else who is sensitive, do you ever have issues where there are certain people you just can't be around for any period of time or even certain places you can't go because the energy within them is so negative it just completely taps you out?

Yes and Yes.

Can others tell what it is about said person that might creep them out?

Sometimes, my body reacts so strongly to places, I get physiological responses. Sweaty palms, heart racing, tight throat. I have been able, over the years, to usually pin point what my responses reference. I remember once going to houses with my sister, when she was house hunting. I went into one basement and I got TOTALLY CREEPED OUT. I had visions and knew a particular room had been used as a place to beat the wife and kidlets. So, I casually asked the realtor some leading questions... and from her responses could piece together that that was exactly (or as near to exactly as I could deduce) what led to the divorce, and splitting of matrimonial property.

Sometimes, people are just so unlike me, my body tells me. Sometimes, I instantly can't stand someone. And I never know why. And sometimes, I see others react very strongly to me. It makes me wonder if they sense my 'helpers' and they are afraid of them, or ... insert any other reason here.

Or it could just be that I am super cute with dashing blue eyes and they want me so much, can't have me, and have to run away... that could be it... right??

[Blade]

Guess I haven't mentioned that not only does Mom have boogers in her yard she also has them in her house. She text me the other day and told me her hall light kept coming on during the night. She finally got up and unplugged it. It is a motion light....she lay back down and the light in the bathroom started coming on and would go off then come back on several times. So she got up and unplugged that light. Course then she was so spooked she couldn't get back to sleep. Then when I had supper with her yesterday afternoon, she told me that the hall light had also done that the night before. She said SKEEEERRRRRY LOL...I said hmmmm somebody's knockin...

[Rockinonahigh]

Last week our local news paper had a story of the pizza store in Haughton Louisiana,it's about 20 miles from hear,was/is haunted.On yahoo they had a vidio of the things that were happening as it happened,a couple of heavy duity ice scoops flew off the shelf and fell across the floor the it showed a bottle of snaitizer falling off a shlef like someone pushed it off.Someone should check it out,shoould be intresting.

[Lady Pamela]

Stopping in to bump the thread..see if anyone wants to post in it...and to say hello to everyone...smiles

[Lady Pamela]

Just came by to share one of our latest pictures from Spirit/ghost investigations.
This was taken last weekend.
With my niece, my daughter Reah and myself present.

Don't know how to add evp's here or I would...smiles

[cinnamongrrl]

great thread...im so glad to have found it.. ive had many experiences with the paranormal....its a fascinating subject for me...i will be back....

[rustedrims]

Originally Posted by cinnamongrrl563

great thread...im so glad to have found it.. ive had many experiences with the paranormal....its a fascinating subject for me...i will be back....

I would love to hear your stories.I do believe sometimes i am not the only one in the room.

[JustLovelyJenn]

Originally Posted by rustedrims

I would love to hear your stories.I do believe sometimes i am not the only one in the room.

What a great idea to share some stories...

I have one from my past I could share tonight.

As a child my family went every memorials day to visit the graves of my ancestors. We travels all over Utah and Idaho on various years. One year while visiting a cemetery in Logan, Utah, we noticed a man on a motorcycle as we entered the gates. He was sitting on his bike and as we moved through the different parts of cemetery, putting flowers on a number of graves he began to follow us at a distance. I remember that I could not distinguish any specific details about this person, just that it was a man riding a motorcycle in a leather jacket. My parents became concerned and we left the cemetery. He followed us as if he would continue out onto the road behind us but stopped at the gate. I turned in my seat and watched the gate and the strange man in black until I could no longer make him out.

My mother at the time joked that it was a ghost, but as I grow older, I am convinced that far from a joke, it was the truth.

This is probably one of my earliest encounters with a spirit.

[Girl_On_Fire]

Okay, here's a story:

A couple of years ago, my partner (at the time) and I were home alone. I was on the computer in the office and she was in the bedroom watching TV. At about quarter after 11 or so, her brother came home. I heard him put the key in the door, open it, sigh, put his keys down on the table, and go into his bedroom. A couple of minutes later, my then-partner got up and went into the kitchen to get a snack and started making a bunch of noise.

Since her brother's bedroom is right off the kitchen, I went in there and told her her brother was sleeping. She looked at me puzzled and said that wasn't possible because he wasn't even home yet. We both looked toward the bedroom door and heard obvious movement and breathing coming from that room. We both went outside to see if his car was there but it wasn't. We freaked. The breathing coming from the bedroom was so loud, it sounded like it was coming out of stereo speakers. When her brother actually DID get home, we told him what was going on. He went in there with one of his swords to check it out and nobody was there. Nobody had been there.

True story. This happened two years ago and was one of the oddest, most obviously-paranormal experiences I've ever had.

[Stud_puppy1991]

I am a firm believer in the paranormal and have numerous experiences, not to mention I have went on investigations and I'm an active member of my school's paranormal society and some around my town and state. Plus, I also do research.

[theoddz]

My dear friend, April and her wife, Denise, now own this property in Vermilion, Ohio. April and began our 39+ year friendship while we were serving together in the US Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton, CA. We were the best of friends then, and we remain the best of friends now. She and her wife purchased this historical property, which used to be a large farm, several years ago and have been restoring it. They rent it out, or portions of it (specifically, the ball room) on occasion....and it is haunted!!! Here's a documentary about the property and the haunting, when April and Denise had a paranormal group in to investigate the property. I thought a few folks here might be interested.

Oh yes, and April tells me that her ghosts are entirely friendly and seem to really enjoy it when April does her baking!!! There's a part here, in the video, where the group catches an EVP that is saying that they (the ghosts) love it when she bakes!!

~Theo~