Paranormal - Ghosts, Monsters, etc.

darthhomeyg · #1 10-04-2008, 11:53 AM

Hey,

Since there is 27 days until Halloween, I thought this would be a good topic for a thread. Do any of you believe in ghosts or monsters (ex. Bigfoot)? I am not a firm believer because I have not particularly seen anything. However, I love any Civil War ghost story! Gettysburg is, by far, the most interesting town when it comes down to paranormal activity. Please feel free to share any experiences or pictures...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WteXzuyBE5g

- Gene aka DHG

phat daddy · #2 10-04-2008, 11:58 AM

I believe in vampires because I am one.

gold_member_321 · #3 10-04-2008, 12:06 PM

For the past year or so some friends and I get together once a month to go ghost hunting in a lot of Maines most haunted areas. We have a lot of fun with it, and believe it or not see/hear/find some pretty creepy stuff on occasion.

I believe in that stuff It may be childish but isn't it in the human nature to want to believe in that sort of thing?

Masher88 · #4 10-04-2008, 12:08 PM

I don't believe in any of that stuff...but it sure is fun!

I went to Salem, Mass. for Halloween one year. It was amazing! The whole town IS Halloween. Every other store is some kind of witch museum or cape/cloak store or spooky merchandise. The day after Halloween, a bunch of the storefronts had signs saying, "364 more days till Halloween"!!! We stayed with someone who did ghost tours during the "season"

The picture is one I took of the old condemned jail that was across the graveyard (no foolin') from the house that we stayed at. SPOOKY!

Croox · #5 10-04-2008, 12:14 PM

I live 10 minutes away from Bachelors Grove.
http://www.prairieghosts.com/bachgrov.html
also this was taken there too
http://www.graveyards.com/IL/Cook/bachelors/ghost.html

I'm skeptic on everything, I'm not saying others are lying about their experiences, but for me to believe it, its gotta happen to me

Masher88 · #6 10-04-2008, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Croox

I'm skeptic on everything, I'm not saying others are lying about their experiences, but for me to believe it, its gotta happen to me

Egg-Zachary! It's just too bad that most of the people with "evidence" are real crackpots, desperate for attention.

hbarcat · #7 10-04-2008, 12:51 PM

Zombies. I don't think they're getting the attention they deserve.

Unrepresented · #8 10-04-2008, 01:01 PM

Fun stuff to imagine and scare oneself with, but I'm with Masher and Croox the stuff is as all silliness.

If only people could see that the silliness of ghost stories in one culture is as silly as the ghost stories in their own.

L-A · #9 10-04-2008, 01:09 PM

I find Centralia (the town that inspired Silent Hill) pretty spooky.

BurningSkies · #10 10-04-2008, 01:41 PM

Yep. I lived in a haunted place for a year. It made a believer out of me.

AlphaMale · #11 10-04-2008, 03:56 PM

No ghosts

IconBasser · #12 10-04-2008, 04:00 PM

no, I don't believe in ghosts or anything.

Matt_W · #13 10-04-2008, 04:06 PM

I believe in active imaginations and fully natural phenomena that create the appearance of supernatural occurrences, but I remain a sceptic of anything unless I am presented with incontrovertible evidence. A lot of the people see what they want to see and hear what they want to here - conformation bias and all that.

L-A · #14 10-04-2008, 04:08 PM

Is this thread about getting a cool thrill out of spooky stories, or about actually believing in paranormal phenomenons?

WickedPissah · #15 10-04-2008, 04:38 PM

my pal is wicked into ghosts and all that fun stuff. i'm not like that much, except for one thing.

viva el chupacabra.

**Ívar Þórólfsson** · #16 10-04-2008, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by BurningSkies

Yep. I lived in a haunted place for a year. It made a believer out of me.

Got some stories?

Grizzly700 · #17 10-04-2008, 08:24 PM

I believe in ghosts because of a personal experience I had but I don't believe in aliens. I could believe in things like Bigfoot.

darthhomeyg · #18 10-04-2008, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by L-A

Is this thread about getting a cool thrill out of spooky stories, or about actually believing in paranormal phenomenons?

Both... lol. It would be cool if people would post some of their stories. Here is a popular one from Gettysburg:

"One afternoon in the early 1970’s, a woman was said to have gone into the National Park Service information center to inquire about the possibility of ghosts on the battlefield. One can imagine just how many times this question must come up and, although the official position of the park is to neither confirm nor deny the ghostly tales, the ranger on duty was reported to have asked why the woman wanted to know.

The visitor quickly explained that she had been out on the battlefield that morning, photographing the scenery. She had stopped her car at the Devil’s Den and had gotten out to take some photos in the early morning light. The woman stated that she had walked into the field of smaller boulders, which are scattered in front of the Den itself and had paused to take a photo. Just as she raised the camera to her eye, she sensed the uncomfortable feeling of someone standing beside her. When she turned to look, she saw that a man had approached her.

She described this man as looking like a "hippie", with long, dirty hair, ragged clothing, a big floppy hat and noticeably, no shoes. The man looked at her and then simply said, "What you are looking for is over there," he said and pointed over behind her.

The woman turned her head to see just what the unkempt fellow was pointing at and when she turned around again, he had vanished. There was no trace of him anywhere.

A month or so later, the same ranger was on duty at the information desk when another photographer had come in and asked almost the same question. He too had been taking photos at the Devil’s Den, only this time, he had taken a photo about a month before in which the image of a man had appeared on the exposed frame... a man who had not been there when the photo was taken!

When asked what the man had looked like, he also described the man as looking like a "hippie" (remember, this was the early 1970’s) and also mentioned his long hair, old clothing and the fact that he was barefoot.

Could this have been the same man? And if so, who was he?

During the war, many of the Confederate soldiers, and especially those connected with the fighting at the Devil’s Den, were from Texas. At that time, this was America’s most remote frontier and most of these men did not receive packages from home containing shoes and clothing as many of the men from states in the immediate vicinity did. Because of this, the "wild" Texas boys were often unkempt and dirty, lacking shoes and new clothing.

Could this reported specter be one of the soldiers from Texas, still haunting the rocks of the Devil’s Den? Since those reports from the 1970’s, this same soldier (or at least one fitting his description) has been reported several times in and around the rocks of the Devil’s Den. According to some of the stories, a number of visitors have mistaken the man for a Civil War re-enactor and have even had their photographs taken with him. The accounts go on to say that when they return home and have their film rolls developed, the man is always missing from the photo."