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lynx
March 19th, 2001, 03:06 AM
Do you believe in ghosts?

I didn't until about two years ago.

By my location, we have a house called the "Unity House". This is an old school house that when asked about to the older folks, no one can seem to remember it or anything about it. Save, the stories.

It is said that ghosts haunt this place. Evil spirits. No one knows why or who they were, so it is left at that. A mystery.

My husband, our dog Patches and I went to this house, during the day of course. We had to be carefull because of the farmer who we think might own the land. I hear he doesn't like tresspassers. Any ways. The land layout is like this.... you have a gravel road going north and south. A small crick running across the road and on the north side of the school. A corn field to the south and east. And a lot of trees following the crick along the north side. A path leads up to the place from the west to east.

While we were walking up to the house, in the background you could hear a tractor off in the distance, a pretty good breeze blowing, birds churping and the sounds of water from the crick. We noticed a squirl running about twenty feet in front of us. The odd part about that was when the squirl reached the barbed wire fence surrounding the land on which the school sat, it stopped dead in it's tracks, looked ahead, and ran the other way. It hadn't even seen us yet. And the breeze was carrying our scents the opposite way.

Patches was acting just fine though. So we went on ahead. We came to fence and noticed how all of the grass seemed to have been laid over towards the ground. We could still hear the sounds in the background. The minute I stepped over the fence it was deathly quiet. There was no wind, no birds and no tractor. That was the third thing to strike me as odd.

All of the trees that were further away from the crick were all dead. They all looked pretty mangled too. The school must have been constructed back in the early 1900's due to the large door like windows and the aspestis siding. And other things.

Patches started acting a little funny, but we took it as excitment. As we drew closer to the house it was as if time itself had stopped. I felt as though we were being watched. We continued to the front of the school, which is on the north side by the crick. Odd, most of the entrances and exits are all on the south side due to the north winds that blow in the winter. The crick was only ten feet from us and you still couldn't hear it. There also no bugs. No mosqitoes or flies. That really got me to thinking. Along with the way that the dog started acting when we came to the front door to the school.

Normally she would sniff around, this time she was wanting to just go back the other way. When you look into the front door, the parlor has four other door ways leading to other rooms. The first thought I thought of was the upside down star. Not good, I thought. In the room off to the left there were holes in the plaster like those of when a person is thrown into it. There were different sizes and they increased in shape from the far left to the right. There were also stairs leading to the second floor in the second doorway going counter clock wise. You couldn't notice them even with a window right there from the outside. Odd.

My husband wanted to take something that would give us some evidence. He decided on a piece from the door. I think it was the striker plate, I'm not sure. I still had the funny feeling that someone was watching and almost waiting. :eek: I wouldn't go in the school and so neither did my husband.

After collecting the peice, we turned around and went the way we came. After I crossed over the fence I could hear the water, birds, breeze and tractor in the distance. Time seemed to have started up again.

When we got home we used our quij board to find out what it might say. The info was startling. :eek: It knew what the object was and where it was from. It also said that the object was a piece of a school and in the early 1900's it supposedly burned to the ground killing children trapped inside. I don't remember how many died but atleast three stayed behind. It also said that they were there watching us and that the dog saved our lives. By being a guard, we were able to leave. It also told us to get rid of the piece which it said was evil. So, my husband took and threw the piece in the neighboring cornfield.

About a week or so later, a car stops and someone gets out of it and runs directly into the field and location of which my husband threw the piece from the school. The day that happened it was just beginning to storm and the person I saw was wearing old stripped bib overhauls and a white t-shirt. Something just like my great uncle always wore. I also didn't see their face. The driver was unveiwable too. I don't know what exactly happened, but I know it was really strange.

I still won't even drive by that school or even think about going back.

Lynx

richardcranium
March 19th, 2001, 03:27 AM
I believe in ghosts. I actually "speak" with one on a regular basis. A very dear friend of mine at work died a couple of years ago. It was a couple of days before my birthday and we had planned on her and another lady to sing Happy Bithday for me over the intercom at work. She was the first one to help me at work and was a very good friend to me and to all the other workers. We used to call her grandma because of the way she would always have some good advice for any problems anyone had. About a month after she died we started noticing that her machine would act up from time to time and nothing would be wrong with it. It took a few days and then we realized it was her. If something went wrong with the machine we would tell her to leave it alone and that we would talk to her later. We always freek out the new people when we talk about her like she is still there. But in our hearts she is still there giving us her good advice and messing with us from time to time.

Thank you Faye for all the wonderful memories of the past and still to come.

Carmelo
March 19th, 2001, 09:49 AM
Do I believe in ghosts? :rolleyes:Boy do I.

I grew up in a family that performed quite a lot of spiritual rituals. Ghosts and spirits were always a part of these. Society would call what we did 'Seances', but we knew different. The way it was understood, seances were for talking to past loved ones (which we did do on occasion).

However, these particular rituals were used to call on the Holy Spirit and Angels for guidance and cleansing. I can recall times when I would see things happen that seemed to appear from nowhere. In some of our rituals, we would dance about in trances. Occasionally, I would come out of my trance to see 'people' dancing about with us. The way they appeared to me seemed to be a lot like past ancestors. Sometimes, members of my family would levitate without the use of their own will. On a couple of those occasions, I saw my native ancestors holding those members up as if making an offering. Other times, I would see bite marks and handprints appear from nowhere. The weird thing was, what should have frightened me...didn't. It was as though a part of me, some deep inner conscience, knew what it was seeing and was able to keep me calm. I figured it was because it knew I would scare them away.

Do I believe in ghosts? Dern tootin'. They have somehow managed to become such a part of my life, that I no longer really pay them much heed. Maybe that's wrong, but then what else was I supposed to do. Occasionally, I encounter one...but it sure does not throw me off.

Dextra
March 19th, 2001, 01:25 PM
Not only do I believe in ghosts, I live with them. Well, one anyway. I brag about my twins a lot, but a lot of people don't know that I was born with a twin. This was nearly 24 years ago, so medical technology wasn't advanced enough to support extremely underweight babies. I weighed 3lbs 2 oz at birth. My sister was just a hair over 2 lbs, and had a plethora of problems. She died within minutes of birth. I was in the hospital for a very long time before I came home.

I can't really remember when I first started hearing my sister speak to me, but as far as I know she's always been there. She's a part of me. I didn't know that she was an actual person until she directed me to look in my mom's box of records. I found our birth certificates when I was 13, and questioned my mom about it. She said that she was going to tell me when I was old enough.

So I share my body with the spirit of my sister. I get quite a few funny looks when I say that. But I do. I have even gotten her to speak to a few people through me just to prove her existence. And anyone that's ever spoken to her knows that it's not me. They say our personalities, body language, and even our voices are completely different. I can't replicate it. And she's tried to pretend to be me a couple of times, but never could get it right.

I know there are a lot of people who thin this is a bunch of hooey, or say that I just have multiple personalities. But, I've been to shrinks, and they have found no evidence of that disorder. So then how do you explain that?

Earth Walker
March 19th, 2001, 02:56 PM
How about christmas past & christmas-to-come. :eek:

Ozymandias
March 20th, 2001, 01:20 AM
I have known spirits and may have been in love with one. It was a weird situation, but we don't speak anymore. I have lived far too strange a life not to beleive.

bluecat
March 20th, 2001, 01:26 AM
Yes, I do believe that Spirits walk the earth. I am the happy recipient of a guardian in the form of an Aunt that passed away quite some time ago. Her and I were kindred spirits.

I have spent a few nights in houses that were said to be haunted with no ill effects while other people were said to be bothered. I used to wonder why this was until I was with a friend who asked me how many times I had been "brought back." This person had only recently met me and had no idea that I had been "brought back." I responded that I had CPR done on me once and was "jump started" twice. I also told her about how I was not afraid of the dark, cemetaries or other such things, included haunted places. She told me that it was probably because of being brought back like that. I told her that I had no memories of anything during these "near death experiences." No OBE that I could recall.

Dextra, your experiences with your sister are not to be discounted, it's very possible that she is one of your guardians, if not your chief guardian.

The Aunt I have spoken about has "walked" right into my room and spoken to me about certian things. Yes, I do believe the spirits are among us.

BlueCat

Carmelo
March 20th, 2001, 09:26 AM
Believe me when I say that I know about spirits that inhabit your mind and body. I know of a few that reside in my head. Ask Dextra, she can tell you because she has met two.

One of them seems to be more like a moderator/mediator who goes by the name of Harold. The other one, the one she commonly calls the bastard, is more like the dark self I knew I had. The dark one seems to think that he owns me and that human beings are useless monkeys. Of course, I think he might be a little afeared of me because a couple of days ago I was reading a book on Celtic Shamanism which told me I would not only have to meet my shadow self, but that I would have to learn to integrate it into my entire being. To say he did not like the sound of that would be putting it lightly. Apparently, he accused Dextra of trying to basically bring about his ruination. Of course, she scared him off. (Mostly because she does not take him seriously whereas others , i.e. my ex and some of her friends, did.)

So there's my story. Other than they having been with me since before I could remember, they have been around to see me through a lot of ordeals that I found, or put, myself in. (Bluecat, now you see why I agreed that Uncle Sam likes the guiltless soldiers in his ranks...the bastard saw me through some crap!)

Amora
March 20th, 2001, 01:02 PM
I absolutely believe in ghosts!!! I have a haunted castle by my house that is the most amazing place I have ever been to... The first time I went there I went to go to the restroom and felt major chills and goosebumps to the point where I turned around and bolted out of there! Later I found out that the resisdent ghost there haunts the womens restroom.

I have seen numerous other spirits during seances and quiet time at home. It's too obvious they exist to pretend they don't.

Fairywolf
March 21st, 2001, 06:14 PM
:crazy:

lynx remember the time our young men were talking about the ouja board experiance? They had a friend who used to play in a band and they would go up there to practice well he got a door knob for the other young men. He got the door knob one night when they were getting drunk and they were leaving with the door knob in hand when they saw a guy who was coming out of the celler/basement and decided to chase the friend of our men . As "kenny" was being chased the guy grabbed at him and ripped his shirt but quit chasing as soon as "kenny" reached the other side of the creek. The chaser stopped dead in his tracks and turned aroud back towards the "house". Later when our men got the door knob they placed it on the board. The spirt they talked to told them it was evil and where it came from. the knob started to get hot and the spirit stopped conversing with them. The eye piece started to spin real fast and get real hot. It flew off the board and went around the room really fast. It just missed my husbands head. They got rid of the door knob and the spirit started talking to them agian. Our men did not know of the origan of the door knob untill after they played with the board. The spirit they were talking to told them the only person safe to go to the unity house was "kenny"or who ever was with "kenny" . Afterwards they never played with the ouja board agian and you and your husband still have that same board.





Now another story to make you ponder. You are probally wondering if the house burnt down how can you go and see a building? Well from the story I have heard the house burnt down and was rebuilt over night by the spirts who live there:eek: It is said that if you go up there at diffrent times you will see that there are sometimes two chimneys and at times there is only one and that the windows change places. or are not even there.

Aventurine
March 21st, 2001, 08:16 PM
I for one -don't- believe in ghosts. I just haven't been able to reconcile the idea of spirits walking the earth with my firm belief in reincarnation. I can believe that events can leave empathic traces on the areas they took place in, but that's about it.

On the other hand, my mother is absolutely convinced that our house is haunted. Every cat we've ever brought into this house as a kitten has turned paranoid on us; they jump at the slightest sound, they dislike people and they're terrified of the outdoors. We have two cats from a previous house, and they're just fine.

... but I still don't believe it. ;)

- Aventurine

bluecat
March 22nd, 2001, 01:08 AM
Originally posted by Aventurine
I for one -don't- believe in ghosts. I just haven't been able to reconcile the idea of spirits walking the earth with my firm belief in reincarnation. I can believe that events can leave empathic traces on the areas they took place in, but that's about it.

On the other hand, my mother is absolutely convinced that our house is haunted. Every cat we've ever brought into this house as a kitten has turned paranoid on us; they jump at the slightest sound, they dislike people and they're terrified of the outdoors. We have two cats from a previous house, and they're just fine.

... but I still don't believe it. ;)

- Aventurine

I can understand your not believing in Ghosts because you believe in reincarnation. I also believe in reincarnation, but I also believe that these are spirits who either have not or cannot make the transition because of one reason or another.

Just the way I was taught and believe, it does not diminish your beliefs.

Steve