Ghost Hunters Thread & Personal Ghost Experiences & other Paranormal Talk.

[maddhatir]

And I'm gonna keep my eye on Brian - I don't trust his ghost hunting - he always ends up seeing some shadow that noone else sees. I mean, every episode? Makes me not trust him.

And I can't STAND the small guy! Is it Andy? Where's the throwup smiley? Blah! It's one of those instant dislike things - doesn't happen often with me, but when it does... Yuck. Now let me tell you how I really feel....

I always though Brian was "overzealous" when it came to ghost hunting- Not that I did not want to see ghosts on the show- but ITA, he thinks everything is a ghost!

and I agree about Andy- just watch his mouth when he talks- ewwww!

Here you go- save it for when you talk about future episodes of GHI and Andy!

Hi there--can I join in? I just found this thread--used to be a huge fan of GH, but lately it's turning wussy (can I say that here?) I'm so tired of Steve's razzing of Tango. Who has the cat named "Sassy Lashes," anyway? And I miss Donna and Brian. They need to come back to the States!

And do not get me started on GHI. Rob--ugh!

I don't know why I find it funny when those 2 go at it. I especially love Steve's fear of......just about everything but ghosts

We haven't had a good story in a few posts, so I'll share what I think is a past-life regression experience.

When I was about 13 or 14, my parents took us on a two-week vacation to Texas and Louisiana (we are from California, so this was a big trip for us). We flew to Dallas, then rented a van and drove around for two weeks, ending up in Dallas at the end.

One night, we were sleeping in Beaumont, TX, planning to head into Louisiana the next day. I had a really, really vivid dream about an old plantation home, complete with huge white columns, Spanish Moss and the low din of insects buzzing around. I dreamt that the house was mine, and I was sitting in a carriage at the end of a long dirt driveway, waiting for someone. I remembered wearing a very heavy long dress with a hoop in the skirt and lace gloves. Soon, a handsome man in a military uniform joined me in the carriage -- I recognized him as my husband (sort of unusual for a young teenager to dream about, KWIM?). Every detail of the house was so vivid, which I found unusual when I woke up, because other than pictures, I'd never been to a plantation home before. I also had a really weird feeling about me when I woke up -- like I hadn't really been asleep at all, was still exhausted and felt like I'd been doing something all night. I shook it off and got ready to leave with my family.

Later that morning, we decided to go to Lake Charles, LA, where my parents had heard about a beautiful plantation home that was open to visitors. As soon as we pulled up to the house, I felt like the wind had been knocked out of me. This was the house in my dream. We were on a guided tour, and I kept interrupting the guide, saying things like, "This was a little girl's bedroom down this hall, right?" or "The slave quarters are around that corner?" After a while, the guide was laughing, saying, "I guess this isn't your first visit here!" I knew the layout of the house as if it were my own house. In the little girl's bedroom, I got the most eerie feeling, especially when I saw a small dress lying on top of a trunk. It was an overwhelmingly sad feeling.. and the guide said that the little girl who'd worn the dress and lived in the room died at a very young age.

I have absolutely no doubt that I lived in that home during the 1860s, that I was married to a military officer and that my daughter passed away when she was still small. The connection I felt was undeniable and to this day, I remember it all so clearly.

That is an awesome story!!!! Now did you tell the guide about your dream?? I bet they would have loved your story.

If you think YOU lived in the house- you should look up the name of the family who lived in the home around 1860-- and that would be YOU!!!! You could find out your name and maybe more info about yourself! THAT would be freaky- but very interesting!

 

[dolphinrescuegirl]

In case you missed it I posted a pic on page 64 that ended up being the last post. By the way, I have been lurking on this thread since the beginning and love it. I read it for the ghost stories as I HATE ghost hunters tv show. I find it boring and they rarely ever find anything. It's not like the ghosts are going to think "Ok, GH is going to be here on Thursday night so let's plan a welcoming party." They might not be active the particular night they show up as ghosts have their own schedule. Anyway that's how I look at it.

 

[maddhatir]

I do not think I told this story when I first came here to post. It was something that happened at work, of all places!

I few years ago I was in my office. I stood up and was looking at one of the computers, while standing up, I heard someone whisper "HI" and felt a breath on the back of my neck- it felt like someone was right there behind me-

I whipped around expecting to find one of my friends who used to try and scare some of us in the office (she would go as far as waiting for you to go to the ladies room, hide under your desk and when you came back to your desk and went to sit down she would pop up from under the desk and scare the ^%$# out of you )

Well- I whipped around to say something to her and no one was there!!! I looked down the hall and she was at her desk! I had goosebumps!

Nothing like that ever happened to me and it freaked me out- all I could think of was, something bad may have happened to either DH or my mom!

I quickly called both of them to see if they were OK- of course they were- but it was very odd! It left me feeling creepy.

What in the world could have caused that to happen in an office???!

 

[maddhatir]

In case you missed it I posted a pic on page 64 that ended up being the last post. By the way, I have been lurking on this thread since the beginning and love it. I read it for the ghost stories as I HATE ghost hunters tv show. I find it boring and they rarely ever find anything. It's not like the ghosts are going to think "Ok, GH is going to be here on Thursday night so let's plan a welcoming party." They might not be active the particular night they show up as ghosts have their own schedule. Anyway that's how I look at it.

The orb in question looks a little odd- It looks like there are small dots in it?? Most of the orbs you see are usually smooth on the inside. But you never know!

You should look and see if there are any ghost research groups in your area and you can send them the link of your pic- they might be able to help you. Actually, I guess they do not have to be in your area if you are e-mailing them your pic.

 

[Mickey&Donald]

I do not think I told this story when I first came here to post. It was something that happened at work, of all places!

I few years ago I was in my office. I stood up and was looking at one of the computers, while standing up, I heard someone whisper "HI" and felt a breath on the back of my neck- it felt like someone was right there behind me-

I whipped around expecting to find one of my friends who used to try and scare some of us in the office (she would go as far as waiting for you to go to the ladies room, hide under your desk and when you came back to your desk and went to sit down she would pop up from under the desk and scare the ^%$# out of you )

Well- I whipped around to say something to her and no one was there!!! I looked down the hall and she was at her desk! I had goosebumps!

Nothing like that ever happened to me and it freaked me out- all I could think of was, something bad may have happened to either DH or my mom!

I quickly called both of them to see if they were OK- of course they were- but it was very odd! It left me feeling creepy.

What in the world could have caused that to happen in an office???!

Almost the same thing happened to me a few years back, but I think I know why it happened.

My mom was the manager for a restaurant in our hometown that had been a speakeasy back in the '20s. Apparently, the ballroom area had always been used as such, but the back of the building, where the offices are now, were where the illicit drinking and partying would go on. There were rumors that it was haunted, and sometimes the people who worked there would report weird happenings. My mom said there were a few occasions when her office door would SLAM shut without a breeze present, things would get moved, and lights would go on and off. However, it was an old building, so no one really thought much of it. The believers thought it was a prankster ghost, and the non-believers chalked it all up to old hinges, forgetful office staff or faulty wiring.

One day, I went to my mom's office to bring her some coffee on my way to work. After I said goodbye to everyone, I walked through the empty ballroom area to the outside door. From behind me, a male voice said, "Hello!" I thought maybe it was one of the cooks in the kitchen, when I remembered that my mom and her female coworker were the only ones in the building, as it was still pretty early in the morning. I turned to see where the voice came from, and I was totally alone. All the doors from the ballroom to other places in the building were closed. I timidly called back, "Hello.. whoever you are.." and bolted out of there!

I told my mom about it later, and she didn't seem all that surprised. They'd all had a feeling that the ghost there was a lonely young man who didn't know he was dead.

 

[breezy1077]

Oooo, great stories!!

And thanks for the vomit smiley maddhatir!


I wasn't going to tell anyone this story, but - what the hey!

It happened just about 2 weeks ago. I was in the office one day training a new guy (I've taken the summer off, but I'm still responsible for training). We were at the conference table which is about 5 feet from the front door area (small office ). At the time, it was just me, the new guy, and our processor in the office. All of a sudden I heard a man clear his throat in an obvious way - like he was trying to politely interrupt to get our attention. It sounded like it came from the front door area. I stopped talking, turned to the new guy and asked, "did you hear that?" He said yes. I asked what he heard and he explained the sound exactly - I said, and it sounded like a man right? - he said yes.

Weird, noone else in the office, and the front door area is in plain view - noone was there. And if you knew the layout of the place, you would know that there is no other explanation for the sound.

We do have a co-worker who died about a year or so ago - the processor and I joked that it might've been him.

 

[Syrreal]

Hey everyone, I've been lurking here for a while great stuff!

I was just planning to keep lurking but Mickey&Donald (awesome story, btw) reminded me about something that happened in HS. Ever since I was a little girl I have had this one dream at least once a year. There are only 2 parts of it that I remember whenever I wake up. One of them is that it's night time and it's raining. I am wearing a purple/magenta cloak but my hair is outside of it and getting wet. I have long blond hair in the dream. I'm in front of a very tall wooden door and it seems like I'm running away because I'm scared that I'll be caught leaving. Well, in 9th grade, I was in French class and we are studying the chateaus of the Loire valley. We get to Chambord and there is my tall door. Then the teacher starts showing pics of the inside and I turn to my friend and tell her "Oh, to the left of that is a round staircase that's really nice" Sure enough, the next picture is the staircase and the teacher said it was to left of the previous picture. Now, I've never been to France and didn't know anything about the castles of anything beforehand.
I have tried to do a past life regression (the one in the back of Weiss' Through Time Into Healing) but usually am the regresser instead of the regressee so it was hard to disconnect from the words I knew were coming. When I did it, the only thing I saw was a name, Emeline, but I don't know if it was related to that dream.

I am totally in agreement with a pp who said to research that plantation and its families, especially since you have a date to go on.

dolphinrescuegirl- I'm in no ways an expert or anything on these things, but I think the stuff in your picture is dust. Sorry. Like a pp said, orbs tend not to have stuff in them. Also, if you notice a little to the right and down (slightly above the lamp shade) there is a smaller see through circle, which is another reason I think it might be dust.

My little 2 cents on GH. I like it, sometimes. The one here in the US is better because they actually try to debink stuff more than the Intl one, I think. I saw the Intl one last week and thoight it was pretty much on the suck side, although the face at the bar/ballroom thing was freaky.

A Haunting- WAY too melodramatic for my taste. When I saw one where they had an exorcism and the character said that the way you knew it worked was because you smelled roses made me crack up and lost what little possible credibility it could have had for me.

 

[HerdOHuds]

I went looking for it, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv94lBG9FrU

I LOVE IT

I catching up and I had to call DH into see this video! Soooo Funny!!!

Still catching up, though.

 

[Nancy]

I watched it and it was funny BUT what are Jason and Grant doing being on a commercial??? They should be out making new shows so we do not have to watch GHI!! Jeesh if they spent less time doing things like that and more time checking out hautings we would not have to suffer with GHI, old A Hauntings and Paranormal State!

Totally off topic but did you ever notice that the contributors to this thread are predominantly women? Do men not have these experiences or are they just afraid to post so they make up the approx.15,000 or so views ( I subtracted approx 1000 views to account for posts)? LOL!

more woman on the dis than men, plus men are too "manly" to admit to seeing ghosts.

I think it's because the DIS is overwhelmingly comprised of women. My guess would be 85% women, I wonder if there's a way to find the real stats.

Great minds think alike.

In case you missed it I posted a pic on page 64 that ended up being the last post. By the way, I have been lurking on this thread since the beginning and love it. I read it for the ghost stories as I HATE ghost hunters tv show. I find it boring and they rarely ever find anything. It's not like the ghosts are going to think "Ok, GH is going to be here on Thursday night so let's plan a welcoming party." They might not be active the particular night they show up as ghosts have their own schedule. Anyway that's how I look at it.

I think it's dust on the lense or a water spot on the lense. Orbs are supposed to look like they emit their own light and I also don't believe there would be a texture per say to them.

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

Do you guys think this is an orb? This was taken with a digital camera a couple of years ago.

GH kind of pooh, poohs orbs and usually discount them as dust.

I have a digital camera and I had gotten a couple of those spots also but it has something to do with the pixels but I do not remember what it is . I think it has to do with concentration in one spot.

I thought I had an orb on my photo too (taken at Sturbridge Village last year)but then I realized it was a quirk of the camera.

 

[breezy1077]

GH kind of pooh, poohs orbs and usually discount them as dust.

I have a digital camera and I had gotten a couple of those spots also but it has something to do with the pixels but I do not remember what it is . I think it has to do with concentration in one spot.

I thought I had an orb on my photo too (taken at Sturbridge Village last year)but then I realized it was a quirk of the camera.

I Sturbridge Village. We went when I was a little girl and we stayed at the Publick House. It was stormy the night we stayed, and it still goes down as one of the scariest nights of my life. I don't know if that place is haunted, but I was about 6 at the time, and I just remember being spooked the whole time we were there.

ETA, I think we stayed at the annex or something - it was like an old bed and breakfast. It was in an old house and there was a common room that everyone gathered in the evening.

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

I Sturbridge Village. We went when I was a little girl and we stayed at the Publick House. It was stormy the night we stayed, and it still goes down as one of the scariest nights of my life. I don't know if that place is haunted, but I was about 6 at the time, and I just remember being spooked the whole time we were there.

ETA, I think we stayed at the annex or something - it was like an old bed and breakfast. It was in an old house and there was a common room that everyone gathered in the evening.

I love Sturbridge also, I took a summer course last year and part of it took place at SV! One of the parts of the course was to learn to cook in the fireplace. IT was fantastic and the food was unbelievable. I do not know if it is haunted either but with all the old homes there has to be SOME sort of activity!

 

[danalee]

So did anybody catch tonights GHI?

 

[sha_lyn]

Yep off and on. So I take it Donna had to go back to the States because her crohn's is out of remission. I heard the tail end of what she was saying and my 10DD tried to fill me in.

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

I was thinking this was a ghost rating. Did no one catch it tonight. I will not see it till tomorrow night.

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

Okay I got one that I forgot about. My friend told me but I will tell it anyway. Years ago my friend Mary(alias) was friendly with a girl Sue(alias) who lived up the street from me. One night I was home and heard this loud crash. ON the next street over someone hit a van and SUE was killed on her way back from a youth group meeting. She was very young middle school age. Mary had been friends with her since they were 5. They did everything together. They always planned they would go to WDW when they graduated HS. Mary and her friends actually did that. They took lots of photos and one night they were discussing how Sue would have been their age and come with them. Unbeknownst to Mary when she had the one of the group photos developed there was the outline of a face in the middle of one of them. It freaked them out b/c the photo before and after did not have it. My friend is now 45 so this was a long time ago. The thing is she said that the night they took the photo they had just been discussing Sue and said something to the effect of Sue this one's for you (yes they were drinking). I have seen the photos and they are pretty freaky. They are not digital but rather the old film type(obviously) and they are close to 30 years old.

 

[MontanaZoo]

Saw the GHI tonight (mostly) .....boring and yes Andy is annoying and Brian "sees" way too much.

Here's a story I'll share, it's not mine but was told to my by my friends who currently live in Tanzania (he's Tanzanian and she's from the Northwest).

My friend who is one of my best friends from college but went to Tanzania on exchange her last year of college told me that ghosts, voodoo, all of that stuff is totally different there than here. When they were living in Tanzania, she said that they would have their doors open and close and hear running footsteps a lot through the room. Her husband who grew up in a village and then moved to Dar Es Salaam said matter of factly that his sister-in-law is occasionally possessed by a friendly Arab spirit. He said it in the same manner that you would say oh she's a dentist or something. He said that it is a friendly spirit that protects her because it likes to live with her. He asked her to call forth the spirit to consult with it about his thyroid condition that was possibly life threatening, the spirit said to have it removed and he did (and he showed me the scar). I asked what happens when someone is possessed by a non-friendly spirit and he looked at me like I was crazy and said you DO NOT stay around to find out what happens. I pretty much got the same look when I asked if he camped in Tanzania and he told me that um no the big cats will eat you (yeah, duh on my part).

He's a highly educated guy who had a Christian upbringing and taught calculus at a university here for a while.

I think I saw from a preview that GHI is visiting South Africa. Maybe that will finally be a good epsiode.

 

[HerdOHuds]

My ghost rating for GHI would be 3 or 4 ghosts. They caught an evp at the first place and some lights at the second. Rob could barely contain himself to say there was some 'paranormal activity' but need more info for full on haunted. And Andy was bouncing in his chair wanting to say IT'S HAUNTED!!!

He is sooooo annoying!

Honestly, the personalilties on that show distract me so much, I can hardly watch for wondering what was edited out. Like when they show the first guy the evp, they never showed his reaction til the very end. It made DH and I think that he must not have been able to hear it at all and they didn't want to discredit the evp when the guy says, "Nope. Can't hear a thing!"

 

[danalee]

I just watched it this morning and 3 ghost is plenty, but your right I think it has alot to do with them.

I hope Donna makes it back, and I like the addition of Dustin I always liked him on GH. It just seems like it should be sooooo good, from the locations and places they get to go, but each week I'm like "well it was ok"

 

[DL55]

I agree with the low ghost rating. I thought the evp recordings were too noisy. I couldn't make out most of them. Hope Donna gets better quickly.