I've had a few discussions with friends about haunted places.... places where Ghosts supposevily occupy & unexplained things happen. Almost every person I've talked to believes in it. But personally I can't say I do. I've been in several places that are supposevily "Haunted" but have never felt anything weird. I mean, there's always been a thing here or there that happens or a noise that's out of the ordinary... but when isn't there? I worked at an old Military Reservation for about 15 months. I've heard a million stories from people who work there about the "haunted" places, many which I frequently everyday. There is even a "Haunted Tour" that they do every year, going to the different buildings built in the 1800's. But I've never experienced anything. Another instance is a supposevily popular haunt located on the locally popular "Diptheria Hill", just outside of town about 10 miles. It's a rugged 4-5 mile section that is almost untouched... and awesome hunting BTW. Back in the 1800's several people were buried there who had diptheria..many which were supposevily alive and some which were children. The graves are still there to prove it, overgrown with trees on the hillside. They were buried out there away from anything because people feared it might get into the water supply if buried elsewhere close to where anyone live. I've hunted around the area several times.. even once about 10 days ago. Been there during dark and night, but still nothing. I also live about 1/4 a mile from a little cemetary dating back to the 1800's. My farm is the only house on the 1 mile section with the cemetary. Many of the tombstones are unmarked chunks of limestone. After reading some of the tombstones I realized that many of them were children. Actually one tombstone had 3 children on it...all under the age of 2. Child death was a lot more common back then, in the life on the undeveloped Kansas Prairie. But to make a lot story short... I've never felt anything ever from it. I've been by it countless times at night and nothing. I've also been by a countless amount of old farmsteds in my life... never really had anything alarm me. Whether I believe in that stuff or not.. I don't know for sure either way. But I do feel that a vast majority of "feelings" or unexplained "occurances" are either just a coindicence or are self-manufactured. If you take 30 pictures of a haunted place and one comes out extra bright with white spots.. Is it a presence of something or just an overexposed picture? Very likely the latter. Or when somebody brings a tape recorder and hears a strange sound... I challenge that person to do the same thing in a non-haunted place and see what other "strange sounds" they hear. And when it comes to feelings... well, it's easy to feel something for a lot of reasons... starting with the fact that you're in a haunted expecting things to possibly happen. I'm not saying everything is fabricated or self-manufactured.. I just think you can help make something happen that you expect "might" happen. So... have you had any experiences with haunted places? If so, what happened? Would love to hear the stories...
Joey, I've got a house in our family (now abandoned but used for vacations by multiple family members) that is most definitely "haunted" for lack of a better term. Wait till Rob or Matt chimes in on this one, I'll post more info and pics later tonight. I'm sure one of those two will see this though and chime in.......
Our messhall in Okinawa had reputation of being haunted. We used to get cat footprints inside the lights on the ceiling. They were the flourecent 4-5 bulb recessed lighting, and the plastic panel that covered them would have the prints inside the fixture. Other times, pots and pans would start moving around mysteriously. There was a Cpl. that refused to be the one to turn off the lights at night. He only did it once, and I had never seen anyone move that fast in my life...
Very interesting place, very! And RJ and I had Matt hustling in and out of the shower and out of the house! I'd love to stay there a couple nights to see, Matt / PA said no way in hell! I had an encounter when I was a teenager that will forever be with me. No one will ever convince me they don't exist.
There is a place on Elkin Mountain in NC... NCCrittergitter may know of the place, I'm not sure though... Anywho... You go DOWN this little side road right off the mountain, slightly inclined, Turn around go up a little ways, Stop. Put your vehicle in Neutral and your vehicle will be "pushed" up the hill. I didn't believe until I experienced it... I'm thinking some sort of magnetic/gravitational disturbance....
Let me first start this post saying that before my experiences in my Great Aunt's house, I did not believe in anything of the sort. My experiences there though have now got me convinced that there may be a presence of some sort, that I cannot really explain. The hill that my camp and property are on has multiple other family members that have been there for generations. The entire hill when first settled in the very early part of the century consisted of a very large apple orchard, and several very large houses built by people mostly from NYC as summertime vacation homes, they would ride the train in from NYC and vacation there. One of the few vacation homes still left on the hill is currently owned by my Great Aunt, she bought the place as the third owner back in the 1950's. No one currently lives there today, she is in a nursing home, and all of her kids live out of state. My father and I are the primary caretakers of the place, it's also where my hunting guests and I shower in the mornings when we stay in my cabin. I've also stayed there many times before I got the cabin, it was actually deer camp for quite a few years for me. The house fits the exact picture you think of when you think of a haunted place, it is the last house on a dead end dirt road in the middle of nowhere, has 7 bedrooms, 8 fireplaces, servants quarters, well over 5000 square feet, detailed stone work on the exterior of the house, etc. The family that owned the place previous to my Aunt, had a son nicknamed Eagle that had quite the reputation as a trouble maker. My great grandfather knew the family and his stories have filtered down through the generations. He was constantly in trouble with the law, etc. He ended up hanging himself in the attic during the mid 1920's. Also in the attic of the house, before his death he built himself a small room. It is still there today, with all of his belongings. His parents and my family have left it exactly the way he left it to this day. There are still cut out magazine pictures of women on the wall, a diary, a large book 5"+ thick with court citations and arrest warrants in his name, a small collection of smoking pipes, and a window that look out over the field next to the house. If it wasn't for the creepiness of the whole thing, it would actually be a pretty cool place to hang out (no pun intended :d ). I can tell you though that in all seriousness, when you stand in that room, you feel his presence. I have felt it, I can't describe it, but everyone I've brought into the room has felt it as well. Matt doesn't even like showering there, because you can just feel it in the house, and much more intense in that room. My step mother grew up in the house running around with her cousins, and she claims to have seen him on 2x seperate occasions. She also claims to have heard voices there. I've personally waken up at night sleeping in the room downstairs from his room to distinct footsteps in the attic on one occasion. I know most of this sounds pretty crazy, but if you were in the house, or his room......you would understand. Below are a few pics to share of the place. Video showing outside of the place: Picture from the outside: Picture looking into Eagles room: Old citation he has pinned on the wall: His pipe collection:
I've had some spooky encounters...but I was always more afraid of real things than the supernatural....like when I was in an old abandoned house, I wasn't thinking about ghosts...I was thinking about some guy with a chainsaw around the corner. LOL I don't believe in "ghosts". Not calling people who have seen them liars, I believe they THINK they saw them....but minds can do weird things. People see what they want to see. heck, when I was 7 years old I used to think a witch lived in my closet, and every night she would sneak out and hide under my bed....one night, while laying there I had one hand on my chest, so I thought, and one at my side..I was thinking about something, when it popped in my head, BOTH my arms were at my side...and simultaneously when I thought I realized there was a third unaccounted for hand on me, it jerked away real quick.....I STILL remember how scared I was. I SWORE for years it happened, but I realize it was just my mind making me feel what I wanted to feel. It's kind of like, when creeping through a haunted house, and every thing is dead silent...you whisper "did you hear that moaning?" (not ever hearing a noise)...and they all agree "YEA, that was freaky!" I always find myself laughing during scary moments in the past...guess it is my way of calming myself, but mainly I did it to freak out the people with me even worse. I LOVE seeing people scared, it is hilarious. The most scared I have ever been in my entire life was when I was 13 years old, staying with my grandparents with my cousin....we snuck out one night and took off on our fourwheelers, 7 miles down the road to this 150 year old cabin on the river back in the woods that everyone swore was haunted...we took a lantern, and were bound and determined to check the house out at midnight. We got there, and walked in the last 500 yards....we began sneaking around the old shack, and as we rounded the last corner to see the back bedroom where a little girl was supposedly killed, A man stepped out in front of us, dressed in tattered clothes...Talk about running! We BOOKED it out of there...drug my grandad down there two days later in daylight to talk to the landowner, and we cooly asked about the old cabin...and he told us about catching a hobo staying in there the day before and sending him on down the road. Gave us an explanation for what we KNOW we saw, but man alive were we terrified.
This site was shown to me by one of my Sgt's in the Marines. I guess that doesn't really mean anything, but I have heard a couple of the stories on there more than once. Particularly the one in Lake Elmo - MN. http://www.theshadowlands.net/places/ I know there is other sites that are better than that one, but It's all I can do for now.
Good stuff guys. RJ- You're right... looks like the typical haunted house you hear about. That is some really neat history you have with it. I love hearing that type of history. I could research that stuff all day. Tembry - LOL, Good Stuff. I think anybody in your shoes would've been scared the same. There is actually one more place that is supposevily haunted close to here that I have yet to check out. It was the biggest multi-murder in the history of the county...all done with a hammer & nearly all children. The odd thing is that it has a lot of ties to my property...but after a lot of research, fortunately, it didn't happen on my property.
Im a little more interested in Sasquatch personally. The facts are this, people are seeing SOMETHING out thier that is not a bear or human, but.... With todays technology and Americas population..we should have already found it. Its too big to escape hunters and deer cameras this long. So that brings up the alien theory.
I didn't believe in ghosts or haunting until we got on our latest deer lease a couple years ago. The ranch house was built in the mid 1800's by Irish men. In the late 1800's a guy raped and murdered a little girl upstairs. In the 1920's the ranch owner shot and killed a guy trying to break into the house. Then he buried him by the back gate. I've heard some crazy stuff in that house, which worried me but didn't scare me. It wasn't until one of the guys on the lease woke up to someone stomping around upstairs. He went to turn on his flashlight and it didn't work, even though it worked two hours earlier. Come to find out the batteries somehow got flipped over....... There are certain pictures in the house that won't hang on certain walls. There is probably a logical explanation, but its still freaky as hell. The room I stay in there are two queen sized beds. I sleep in one and my buddy sleeps in the other. Both have pistols and I sleep under a picture of the Pope.......I'm not even Catholic Did I mention that this place is 30 miles from a town, 7 miles down a dirt road through other peoples property.......
I am not a fan of ghosts. Whether they actually exist or not, I hope I never confrim it to myself because it would freak me out to no end.
That travel trailer I just bought was only $500 because the guys dad died in it 5 years ago. He wasn't found for a few days and it was in the heat of a Texas summer. It got a bit ripe in there from what I'm told. My nieghbor spread 150 lbs of lime throughout the trailer to combat the smell. 5 years later I have cleaned it up and the smell is gone. The camper is in good shape and $500 was a great deal, well, as long as I don't have any bumps in the night taking place! I've joked about it being haunted. I really hope its not. I haven't yet spent a night in it. I still have to put down new tile and fix a bit of plumbing before it gets moved to the lease. The first couple of nights will have me sleeping with one eye open!
