[Joaco]

I was wondering if any of you ever saw a ghost or spirit, or any other experience of that kind? or do you even believe in them? ever had a scary experience in a cementery or using a ouija board?
Just curious...

Joaco

[Joaco]

I could tell you one about a very good friend of mine who lives in Jacksonville. It's about a man who hung himself in the appartment she rented, before she rented it.
Don't know if the story is true, but she is a person I trust a LOT, so...

Joaco

[thezookeeper]

Hi there! Off topic...it's nice to see you posting again!

I absolutely believe in ghosts, spirits, paranormal, etc, etc. No I have never seen a ghost and truthfully hope I never will. But I have experienced heightened levels of awareness where I believe that there was a presence. And, unfortunately, I did have quite a freaky experience on a ouija board ONE time.

I used to volunteer as an EMT, and one night we had the bright idea to play with the ouija board in between calls (slow night for a change). Anyway, I was on with one other person. I asked it to spell out my middle name, which NO ONE knows...and I mean no one...and sure enough it did. I was so freaked and thought that perhaps I subconsciously guided the pendant to each letter, but don't think so. I know for 100% that the guy I was using the board with did not know my middle name. After that I quit playing and decided it best not to dabble in those things which I have no business doing. I could go on and on talking about this stuff, but I'll just sum up that the mind has powers that we do not know about. Powers that most people do not know how to channel. And probably never will. I say most people because I believe that those who do know how to channel them are around.

Anyway, enough sunshine for me tonight!


Joanne

[icemark]

Yep seen them... didn't want to.. they (and death in general) disturb me

[schrocat]

Originally posted by Joaco
I could tell you one about a very good friend of mine who lives in Jacksonville. It's about a man who hung himself in the appartment she rented, before she rented it.
Don't know if the story is true, but she is a person I trust a LOT, so...

Joaco

Jacksonville Fl?

[ravenmore]

I had an experience. I was extremely skeptical before my experience, but not so sure now. I consider myself pretty rational but this was kind of weird.

When I was in my early 20's I was living in Austin and dating a girl who lived in Waco. She told me more than once the house she was staying in was haunted. I thought she was just bs'ing me. She was of Asian decent and had moved to this country as an adolescent, and it seems that ghosts are ingrained in her culture - so I simply thought that had a lot to do with it. Well, I decided to go stay with her one weekend. It was in the summer, hotter than hell in Texas. The house was old, and didn't have central AC. (this is important to the story). The only AC came from window units in the bedroom and one in a bedroom that had been converted into a living room. The ac unit in the main bedroom was broken, and it was too hot to sleep in there. So we went and made a pallet in the "living room" and crashed there. As I faded off to sleep I heard/felt footstep vibrations in the floor. I dismissed it at first. I've lived in apartments since I left home and it's a very common thing associated with apartment living. Then I bolted upright, as I realized we were in a house and no one else was supposed to be there. I felt/heard the footsteps after I sat up again. My thoughts were a burglar or some other kind of intruder was in the house. I was scared sh$tless, so my adrenaline was pumping and I was wide awake. I opened the door of the "living room". Outside was a narrow hall that led to the other bedroom. I didn't see anything so I started walking down it. About halfway down the hall, I walked through a pocket of cold air. Under different circumstances it would've been enjoyable - the rest of the house was uncomfortably hot. I pretty much ignored it, pushed it to the back of my mind as perhaps coming from a vent. When I realized that I stopped - 'cause I was way away from either of the ac units and there were no vents of any kind in the hall. I turned back around and felt ahead of me to where the cold air had been. It was gone now.

That's it, maybe not much of a story. But it was a truly odd experience. Of course I searched the house and didn't find anyone in it. Some of the stories my girlfriend told me were much more "dramatic". Things getting moved. Finding stacks of stuff in the middle of a room she had just been in and had been empty moments before. Typical poltergiest stuff. I never saw anything like that.

You know, ghosts are typically portrayed as being "mist-like" apparitions. Well, I got to thinking about it later. If you have a pocket of cold air moving through warmer, humid air, what would happen? You'd get mist or vapor - maybe in the "shape" of the cold pocket of air? That's pure speculation on my part, but I thought it was interesting speculation none the less.

Anyway, the house is in Waco off of 18th st., I believe. I've often thought about revisiting it. Not sure exactly of the cross street. It was on a corner, I remember that. You took 18th from I35 - it ends at a big building (the hospital?) but picks back up on the other side of it. I remember you went over a big bridge. Don't think it was over water though - maybe railroad tracks. The house was on the left side.

Anyway, true story. Kind of a fun topic though with Halloween coming up.

-Mike

[Reinhold]

I was working in the ER on a patient (a colleague of mine who himself was a physician) with chest pain. Because heart attack patients can breathe easier sitting up, he was reclining on the cot with his head up about 45 degrees. Suddenly, he reached out, called out the names of his wife and kids, and proceeded to go into V-fib and cardiac arrest.

Fortunately, we resuscitated him successfully with no brain injury. A couple of weeks later, I visited him in cardiac rehab. He pulled me aside and said "Reinhold, tell me the God's honest truth. Were my wife and kids standing at the foot of the cot waving goodby to me?" I said no, that they were in another town 200 miles away, and that I had called them at a hotel to inform them of his heart attack.

He shook his head and said that he clearly saw them waving at the foot of the cot in the ER that day. To this day, he will swear that they were there.

[Joaco]

Originally posted by schrocat


Jacksonville Fl?

Yup, ZIP code 32222, I believe it's very near a local Air Force base. Actually I have been there about 2 years ago visiting her family, I was in Ft. Lauderdale on vacations and since it's not that far...

Joaco

[Joaco]

Originally posted by ravenmore
She was of Asian decent and had moved to this country as an adolescent, and it seems that ghosts are ingrained in her culture - so I simply thought that had a lot to do with it.

wow, now that you mention that, back in 1989 when I lived in Oklahoma City for 3 months I had a Japanese friend that told me a lot about it. Since I was young and foolish I also thought he was BS'itting me (now I'm older and still foolish... ). From the things I remeber, he told me they could see ghosts as kids, but when they grew up, as the innocence of a kid vanished, this 'power' did too. So basically kids saw ghosts, but very few had this 'gift' as teenagers or adults.

Now listen to this:
one day we were going home after watching a movie (I still remember it was called Dark Angel, bad movie but I won't forget that night). He was driving, and he made a turn were he never made it before (we went to the movies at least 3 times a week). I asked him where we were going, and he said home. But this is not the way home, I said. Don't worry, there has been a car accident on the Avenue we always use, so I'm using this shortcut.
What the heck are you talking about, we are durn lost, we have never been here, I told him.
Around the corner there is a police car, we can ask them if you don't believe me, he said.
And believe it or not, there WAS a police car and I asked my friend to stop. I asked if we were on the right way (we lived in a neighborhood called The Village), they said yes, and out of curiosity I asked if there has been a traffic accident in the area we were driving from, they asked how we knew that if we took a shortcut. I asked my friend how he knew, he wouldnt answer.
I swear I interrogated him for at least a week in a row, he wouldn't say. He just said someone told him, I wouldn't believe him anyways so there was no point in explaining details.
A month later at the airport (we were returning), he told me to think about the accident and what he told me about kids, and I would understand.
I swear it freaked me out, could be a *LOT* of coincidence, but what if not??

Joaco

[Joaco]

Originally posted by thezookeeper
Hi there! Off topic...it's nice to see you posting again!

I asked it to spell out my middle name, which NO ONE knows...and I mean no one...and sure enough it did. I was so freaked and thought that perhaps I subconsciously guided the pendant to each letter, but don't think so. I know for 100% that the guy I was using the board with did not know my middle name.

Hi Joanne, thanks!

my friend had similar experiences, asking the spirit (?) about things only she knew. After a few tries she came to the conclusion that it's not a spirit or being, but your own mind. That would explain the answer to questions only you know. Anyways, she had some freaky experiences as well, but only when another friend of her was present. This include the board spelling in foreign languages, when none of the present spoke other than English. They wrote down some of the sentences, and asked around, that's how they found out.

A friend of mine over here used the board with friends and someone asked who would die first, the board went crazy, he said, and pointed at a friend of him who 2 years later was the only one in the group who died so far. He hung himself. Coincidence? Probably...I have no idea and I don't want to find out either....

Joaco

[ravenmore]

My ex once said that ghosts were very common in her country. (she was from Cambodia so that's a little spooky if you know the history of that country). Everyone could see them. She made it sound like it wasn't an uncommon occurence. She was from the rural parts of that country.

[Joaco]

Here goes another one, could be another coincidence...who knows:

About 3 days before my wife and I returned from our honeymoon (1996), my mother died of cancer. That day, my wife was crying all day, we were shopping in Sawgrass Mills, Ft. Lauderdale. I asked what was wrong, she couldn't explain what she was feeling. She had to sit down from time to time and just cried.

When we came back and found out what happened, I thought for myself -oh no, I married some kind of witch-...turns out the real witch is her mother!!!, LOL

Anyways, all the above is true of course.

Joaco

[Joaco]

Originally posted by Joaco
I could tell you one about a very good friend of mine who lives in Jacksonville. It's about a man who hung himself in the appartment she rented, before she rented it.

I just e-mailed to hear the story again, since I don't remember it very well. Was some spooky stuff, good story for Halloween as well...but she said it happened so...

Joaco

[thezookeeper]

I also know of someone who will swear their grandfather and grandmother have appeared to them since their deaths and had full conversations. This isn't a person I would consider to make up stories like this. Kind of strange. I always kinda hoped that only those people who can "handle" seeing an apparition WILL see an apparition. Me? I'd still be running...don't care WHO the ghost was or had been to me!

Joanne

[JustPhish]

Actually I believe in them to an extent. Here in my state we have a town which used to be inhabited called Dudley Town. It's got quite the story behind it and is all over the internet. It's constantly being visited by paranormal groups. I too have been there and noticed a lot of the weird stuff that happens while there. For example I took a picture of the street sign Dudley Town Rd. and when I got it developed it looked as though it was on fiure. It had quite the orange/red aura around it and what appeared to be flames. Pictures taken from within the actual town and standing in some of the ruined foundations of buildings had some interesting things appear on them once developed as well. Lots of globules and things of the sort which many claim are actually spirits. A visit to the graveyard where all the dudleys are buried yielded some pretty interesting events as well.

Then just yesterday as a matter of fact I was showing a woman some of my pictures I took from WTC while helping recover bodies a few weeks ago and the firs tthing she commented on were all the globules and spots everywhere in the pics which I never even really noticed. She swears these are the spirits of some of the people who lost their lives there.

Who knows.

[Firefish]

post the pics, post the pics!

[JustPhish]

I've got them. I will post their URL if not later today then def tomorrow as I have to uplaod them

[Firefish]

Hi Justphish, you can attach them to your post...just click on the attach file Browse button on the reply screen and enter the path...