Anyone live in a haunted house?

[We.Are.138]

I had to sell my last house cause I heard voices in the basement and when I would go down there to check it out they would stop. The straw that broke the camels back was when whatever it was called me by name. Ugh. Thinking about it now makes me feel scared.

Also I would set my keys, small items, etc. places and they would get moved over night, just a few feet, but it still scared the fuck outta me.

[A.J.]

Ghosts sound less annoying than my pain in the ass neighbors.

[MC Pee Pants]

The house I live in now is creepy at times. When I was young I was playing trombone in the basement (because my family hates me) & i heard my name being whispered in my ear over and over again.

Another time i was doing laundry and I left the lid open to the machine becasue I dropped some socks on the way down, but when I went to go pick them up the lid was closed on the washing machine. I know for a fact I left it open cuz i had more shit to put in it.

Also my uncle was staying down there because he was visiting for awhile and he said he was reading a book in bed and a plastic bag on the table just crumpled up into a tiny ball and stayed that way.

[We.Are.138]

Also my uncle was staying down there because he was visiting for awhile and he said he was reading a book in bed and a plastic bag on the table just crumpled up into a tiny ball and stayed that way.

That would make me burn my house down and collect the insurance on it.

[Hottub]

That would make me burn my house down and collect the insurance on it.

*I.M. from EliSnow*

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[We.Are.138]

*I.M. from EliSnow*



Can't argue with that. Please adjust.



Sigh....

[Landblast]

my brother in-law's sister moved into a town home where there was a murder in it with the former owners. they are the type of people that didn't really care about it, they were cool with it. anyway, at the time they had twin 3 year olds, and my sister had two kids, 3 and 5, and all four kids would never go into the master bedroom and/or they wouldn't stop crying as soon as they got near the room, and were acting like there was a monster in it, freaking them out. the kids had to sleep downstairs and they moved out after a month.

[Dude!]

I had to sell my last house cause I heard voices in the basement and when I would go down there to check it out they would stop. The straw that broke the camels back was when whatever it was called me by name. Ugh. Thinking about it now makes me feel scared.

Also I would set my keys, small items, etc. places and they would get moved over night, just a few feet, but it still scared the fuck outta me.

the house isn't as scary as your avatar

[tanless1]

mines haunted by a labrador, still bumps furniture , bump around the house. happy to have him. keeps the mean ghosts away.

[cougarjake13]

I had to sell my last house cause I heard voices in the basement and when I would go down there to check it out they would stop. The straw that broke the camels back was when whatever it was called me by name. Ugh. Thinking about it now makes me feel scared.

Also I would set my keys, small items, etc. places and they would get moved over night, just a few feet, but it still scared the fuck outta me.



never had the experience personally but my wife said her first house when she was a kid was haunted

[SatCam]

when I was a young lad and my brothers would turn our room into a haunted house by putting sheets over the windows and turning off the lights. Then we would give "tours" of the house to my parents where we would jump out at them from under a bed or we would have them put their hand in a bowl of spaghetti and say it was zombie guts. So I guess you could say my house was haunted. We moved out a few years later.

[Furtherman]

Rubes.

[We.Are.138]

Rubes.

Skeptic...

[Furtherman]

Skeptic...

Not at all. I'm skeptical about UFOs. Ghosts? Don't exist, especially when it's a fact our brains can be fooled into seeing things that are not actually there and it's heightened by any ghost stories you've bought into and poorly-lit circumstances.

How come you'll never see a ghost at 12 noon on a beautiful day?

It's why we see objects in clouds and abstract art. People are mentally able to see vague objects when the surrounding context in vague themselves. Optical illusions.

And the rube factor. People make a lot of money claiming to see ghosts. And quite frankly, I wouldn't hesitate to part a rube with his money either.

[instrument]

Not at all. I'm skeptical about UFOs. Ghosts? Don't exist, especially when it's a fact our brains can be fooled into seeing things that are not actually there and it's heightened by any ghost stories you've bought into and poorly-lit circumstances.

How come you'll never see a ghost at 12 noon on a beautiful day?

It's why we see objects in clouds and abstract art. People are mentally able to see vague objects when the surrounding context in vague themselves. Optical illusions.

And the rube factor. People make a lot of money claiming to see ghosts. And quite frankly, I wouldn't hesitate to part a rube with his money either.

Tell me all your thoughts on God, cause I'd really like to meet her

[WampusCrandle]

i used to live in a white tutor manor and the previous owners husband died in the house. my mother said that as a child i would have conversations for no reason with a "man". we have this radio from the 1940s that used to turn itself on every thursday night, many times to the same station, but we thought it was fun.

in all honesty, he was like a white ghost dad, he talked to me as a child, and would have fun with the radio at night.

[SatCam]

i used to live in a white tutor manor and the previous owners husband died in the house. my mother said that as a child i would have conversations for no reason with a "man". we have this radio from the 1940s that used to turn itself on every thursday night, many times to the same station, but we thought it was fun.

in all honesty, he was like a white ghost dad, he talked to me as a child, and would have fun with the radio at night.

Did he beat you with a belt when you were insubordinate?

[WampusCrandle]

he used to rape me with jell-O chocolate pudding

[CountryBob]

I grew up in a haunted house. I have previously said in another thread - I lived for years in a house that was haunted by something that I and many other people had seen with their own eyes. Many instances of things that have happened during the daytime as well as at night. I will give you one instance of something that happened.... I was in 3rd grade and was awakened to the sound of crying - my sisters and my mother were sitting on their bed and they were covered in a white dust. They each had black hair and the carpet was 70's shag -red. But now everything was white in the room. Above on the ceiling a large crack had appeared and the white dust was the plaster falling down on the room. Then i heard what was creating the problem. In one corner of the bedroom above (which was where we said the ghost lived) there was a terrible loud bang! it then moved like an elephant stomping across the floor above to the corner with the door. Then, it would stop for a few minutes and then repeat. I witnessed the plaster falling down on top of us and some got in my eyes. My mom and sisters were too terrified to even move. Mom had called my dad (divorced) and he showed up with a gun. He couldnt believe his eyes, went upstairs and found nothing. They repaired the ceiling and we stayed there 2 more years after that - with something happening almost daily.

So, for people who have never experienced stuff like this - consider yourselves lucky. You think of things a little differently from then on. I dont have any agenda to make people believe in ghosts or my experiences but , I lived them so no one can tell me that this stuff dosent exist.

[ChrisTheCop]

I used to live in the basement of an older home.
Above me lived a family with one young son who always ran above my head from one end of their floor to the other, back and forth, back and forth.

Well, they had been gone for a week, and I was downstairs watching tv, when he started. Running from one end of their floor to the other, back and forth, back and forth... It seemed to last longer than usual this time, but what are ya gonna do? I turned up the volume on my tv. He continued his running, til I finally had enough. I went out the back door and walked up the driveway to the front door. No car in the driveway, their mailbox still full.

I figured they stopped in quickly and left for a grocery run or something.

About 2 hours later, they did indeed come home and I asked them where they had gone (no groceries, just luggage). They told me about their trip, but when I asked them if they came home and left, they said no; this was the first they had been home all week.

Later, the wife told me that she had seen and heard the voice of a male child prior to my incident, but never wanted to say anything.

[We.Are.138]

I grew up in a haunted house. I have previously said in another thread - I lived for years in a house that was haunted by something that I and many other people had seen with their own eyes. Many instances of things that have happened during the daytime as well as at night. I will give you one instance of something that happened.... I was in 3rd grade and was awakened to the sound of crying - my sisters and my mother were sitting on their bed and they were covered in a white dust. They each had black hair and the carpet was 70's shag -red. But now everything was white in the room. Above on the ceiling a large crack had appeared and the white dust was the plaster falling down on the room. Then i heard what was creating the problem. In one corner of the bedroom above (which was where we said the ghost lived) there was a terrible loud bang! it then moved like an elephant stomping across the floor above to the corner with the door. Then, it would stop for a few minutes and then repeat. I witnessed the plaster falling down on top of us and some got in my eyes. My mom and sisters were too terrified to even move. Mom had called my dad (divorced) and he showed up with a gun. He couldnt believe his eyes, went upstairs and found nothing. They repaired the ceiling and we stayed there 2 more years after that - with something happening almost daily.



probably the scariest shit i've heard. you are one brave soul.

[Devo37]

Rubes.

plus mental disorder...

[SatCam]

let's be honest. Who in this thread was being serious and who's post was a joke?

[Furtherman]

let's be honest. Who in this thread was being serious and who's post was a joke?

Anyone who is serious story can be explained by simple matter of circumstances and group hysterics. It's a natural defensive mechanism that our brains will form to keep us out of dark places where dangers lie. Throw in old objects that are in a more rapid state of decay and every creek and groan will scare the mind when it is at its most vulnerable. There are no ghosts, only scary stories.

[mikeyboy]

There are no ghosts, only scary stories.

Have you ever seen Fallon without a hat?

http://i-love-cartoons.com/snags/clipart/Casper-Friendly-Ghost/Casper-Friendly-Ghost-3.jpg

[EliSnow]

Anyone who is serious story can be explained by simple matter of circumstances and group hysterics. It's a natural defensive mechanism that our brains will form to keep us out of dark places where dangers lie. Throw in old objects that are in a more rapid state of decay and every creek and groan will scare the mind when it is at its most vulnerable. There are no ghosts, only scary stories.

You know, people like you are the first ones to die in scary movies, usually right after making a statement like that.

[Furtherman]

You know, people like you are the first ones to die in scary movies, usually right after making a statement like that.

No, I'm Caucasian.

[CountryBob]

Anyone who is serious story can be explained by simple matter of circumstances and group hysterics. It's a natural defensive mechanism that our brains will form to keep us out of dark places where dangers lie. Throw in old objects that are in a more rapid state of decay and every creek and groan will scare the mind when it is at its most vulnerable. There are no ghosts, only scary stories.

Explain my situation I mentioned above. There is no possible explanation for those events that night. I have hours apon hours of similar things like that that I lived through in that house. I have re-entered that house as an adult and talked with the current owners. After alot of prodding they told me they have experienced many occurances - most people dont want to talk about it because they seem crazy or weird. When I was a kid living there many neighbors started admitting to hauntings in their houses. I do agree that there are alot of fakers and phony stories that are told - but from this guys personal (and family and friends personal) experiences - I could write a book and have a movie next week.

Believe it or not - I wish It had never happened to me - but I took a better look at the afterlife from those experiences. If there is a heaven and hell and souls go one way or the other, then I believe that some dont go anywhere. I might start writing my experiences before I get too old and forget.

[Furtherman]

Explain my situation I mentioned above.

You were a kid living in a house with all women and no father figure around. He was gone, with the gun, and you probably felt safer with him around both consciencely and subconsciously. It no doubt got quiet and creepy at night.

I have no doubt you believe what you heard and saw, but I remember clearly as a kid a statue winking at me. I remember a picture of a lion in my bedroom and that lion jumping out of the picture. I know it didn't happen, but with my little imagination running wild, I sure as hell believed it until I looked at it rationally.

[CountryBob]

Well that sounds all fine and dandy but how do you explain that there were 4 other living breathing souls that not only witnesses this occurance but were a part of it as well? They will testify today every word is truth. Did I imagine them? Do I really have a mother,father and 2 sisters? Come on dude.

[EliSnow]

Well that sounds all fine and dandy but how do you explain that there were 4 other living breathing souls that not only witnesses this occurance but were a part of it as well? They will testify today every word is truth. Did I imagine them? Do I really have a mother,father and 2 sisters? Come on dude.

That's not uncommon. You can have multiple people seeing something that's not there. Group hysterics may be too strong of a word to describe it, but that idea is essentially it. And there have been studies showing that this exists.

[Furtherman]

I'm not doubting the existence of your family, but when your sisters believe it, then your mother believes it... what's going to happen when Dad shows up? He'll ignore it? He's going to believe that something was going on, therefore strengthening your belief. It's a group mentality, herd dynamics. You have a crowd of people and one or two people start running, people will follow for no other reason but fear. And what all of our memories today are from years and years ago isn't even close to what actually happened.

[grlNIN]

I wonder if CountryBob is a descendent of Abigail Williams.

[dino_electropolis]

No.

No one has.

Ghosts aren't real.


Stop it.

[CountryBob]

I guess that we imagined the repairmen coming to the house and dad spending $$ to fix the ceiling soon after. It is easier to just close your mind and say that dosent exist but once you go throught it for years - and no one in your family would come and stay anymore - after they had experienced things themselves there- you just deal with it.

I love how some people just say that this stuff dosent exist -end of story- how the hell do they know?

Anyway, I have enjoyed writing a little about this - I havent thought of these things in a long time.

Have a good day - non-believers!

[EliSnow]

I guess that we imagined the repairmen coming to the house and dad spending $$ to fix the ceiling soon after. It is easier to just close your mind and say that dosent exist but once you go throught it for years - and no one in your family would come and stay anymore - after they had experienced things themselves there- you just deal with it.

I love how some people just say that this stuff dosent exist -end of story- how the hell do they know?

Because the presence of ghosts is not a scientific proven fact. However, it has been proven that people's eyes can misinterpret things and what we think we see is not always reliable.

I don't think it is any flaw to require that something be proven to somebody rather than just accept what someone else says they saw.

[Furtherman]

You know what else is a scientific fact?

Plaster cracks and falls.

[DOHO@HOME]

I'm married, once a month my house is haunted by the demon Flow which takes over not only my wife but the bathroom trash with bloody nose white mice.:blink::lol::unsure:

[MC Pee Pants]

Not at all. I'm skeptical about UFOs. Ghosts? Don't exist, especially when it's a fact our brains can be fooled into seeing things that are not actually there and it's heightened by any ghost stories you've bought into and poorly-lit circumstances.

How come you'll never see a ghost at 12 noon on a beautiful day?

It's why we see objects in clouds and abstract art. People are mentally able to see vague objects when the surrounding context in vague themselves. Optical illusions.

And the rube factor. People make a lot of money claiming to see ghosts. And quite frankly, I wouldn't hesitate to part a rube with his money either.

Ive never seen a ghost but Im convinced some weird shit goes on that maybe arent ghosts per say. And I have had creepy shit happen in the middle of the day and thats even more terrifying.

[barjockey]

I do but they are more like guardian ghosts. They have saved from falling down some stairs.

[We.Are.138]

I never thought that a post asking for peoples experiences would quickly become a forum for calling people names and basically bashing their beliefs. These things that happened to me/them were very real and I am consider my self to be quite rational. I was a non-believer until I had things happen to me.

[Furtherman]

Why We're Superstitious (http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1890165,00.html)

Excellent article into the insight of why some people believe in ghosts.

Much of your book is about childhood development, and how these ideas about the world are formed earlier than most people think.

Myself and a number of colleagues around the word study infant development, the natural course of development before formal education has had the chance to step in. We're interested in to what extent is stuff built in, and to what extent culture and the environment play a role. What's been remarkable is how, over the past twenty years, our understanding has grown that babies have surprising capacities to interpret the world and make inferences about what they think is going on, in the physical world, about the nature of objects. They're doing all this kind of stuff and no one's telling them how to do it. It's untutored, it's spontaneous. And this leads them to make many assumptions. And sometimes those assumptions are misguided. For example, if you think that your teddy bear can come alive at night when you're not watching it, or if you think that it gets lonely or has feelings of remorse, than you would be misappropriating a psychological property to an inanimate object. So, that would be an example where a child makes a misconception.Those misconceptions can become the basis of adult supernatural beliefs.

[Drunky McBetidont]

my house is spook free. i smudged the shit outta this mother fucker.

[Coach]

1) Look up the Smerl Family in Pittston Pa.'s Story. A guy being sodomised in front of his family at dinner? Mass Hysteria?
2) I saw my Great grandfather's Ghost in his house at his wake...never met the fellow, or saw a picture of him..yet while wandering around his house at his wake he told me to go downstairs..and I described him to a T down to his favorite suit and moustache afterwards.
3) My house in Montana was haunted..doors that were firmly shut would open and if open, close and lock themselves, deadbolts too. I also would hear footsteps in the ajacent house when I knew it was empty..my sister and her kids were visiting and heard and experienced the same Phenomena without my telling them. It was kinda fun.

[Scanty]

The house I live in now is creepy at times. When I was young I was playing trombone in the basement ...

Was it rusty?

[Scanty]

... And the rube factor. People make a lot of money claiming to see ghosts. And quite frankly, I wouldn't hesitate to part a rube with his money either.

That's genius.

I'm a nurse's aid in a hospital, working the night shift, and old people die all time there, often confused out of their wits, and I can say that I've never seen any scary ghosssstts.

[Scanty]

Real or not, those were some very well told stories, I'm very frightened now.

[Furtherman]

1) Look up the Smerl Family in Pittston Pa.'s Story. A guy being sodomised in front of his family at dinner? Mass Hysteria?

No, a very religious family that moved into an old fixer-upper and blamed every creek and groan on "demons". They made some nice money selling their story though, didn't they?

2) I saw my Great grandfather's Ghost in his house at his wake...never met the fellow, or saw a picture of him..yet while wandering around his house at his wake he told me to go downstairs..and I described him to a T down to his favorite suit and moustache afterwards.

Great Grandfather... I'm betting you were very young at that wake. Maybe your first?

3) My house in Montana was haunted..doors that were firmly shut would open and if open, close and lock themselves, deadbolts too. I also would hear footsteps in the ajacent house when I knew it was empty..my sister and her kids were visiting and heard and experienced the same Phenomena without my telling them. It was kinda fun.

All can be explained.

[Coach]

No, a very religious family that moved into an old fixer-upper and blamed every creek and groan on "demons". They made some nice money selling their story though, didn't they?
The guy was lifted off the floor and pinned to the fridge...that's a creak or a groan?

Great Grandfather... I'm betting you were very young at that wake. Maybe your first?
10..and no, my family were funeral directors.That and family I didn't know was dropping right and left..I went to a bunch.

All can be explained. How? If you say vibrations from local mines or trucks driving by, I will give you such a pinch! Because I had that theory tested and it doesn't hold water. Or the change in atmospheric pressure/humidity reasons..had them tested too.

[Furtherman]

The guy was lifted off the floor and pinned to the fridge...that's a creak or a groan?

And... you saw this? Or the family said that is what happened?

[Coach]

And... you saw this? Or the family said that is what happened?
I read it....I find it hard to believe that 7 people, three of which were kids, maintained the same story after all these years without one coming forward to say it was fake, if it wasn't true.

[Furtherman]

I read it....I find it hard to believe that 7 people, three of which were kids, maintained the same story after all these years without one coming forward to say it was fake, if it wasn't true.

I can. Especially kids, who can be taught to believe anything.

[Coach]

I can. Especially kids, who can be taught to believe anything.yeah..I think only one of em was that young..
Hell I'm not going to try and prove it to you..I usually believe that this stuff is fake as well...But I do think that there are things that cannot be explained away with science.