Hi everyone
Good story Barb
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Where is everyone? It 's like a ghost town around here.
Ok - ya'll pulled it out of me
About the "shadow people" - Waverly Hills is notorious for having them. If you saw any of the GH episodes at Waverly, the "shadow people" are very often discussed.
What we saw the night of the tour was odd. I was 99% sure it was an optical illusion .. up until the very last moment.
The structure itself is long and narrow - long hallways with rooms on either sides. One side of the building also has many windows on most floors; it's said that the patients were wheeled out onto the open areas as a part of their treatment for TB (even with snow sometimes falling on their feet).
Anyway - if you stand at the end of one of these hallways, you can very often see a dark form "breaking the light," as if something is crossing the hallway in front of you. You have to look closely and your eyes have to adjust to the darkness in order to see this. There was a group of about 20 of us all standing in this hallway and, after a few moments, you started to hear people saying, "OH! Did you see that??" and other exclamations of surprise.
So, I'm standing there and I start to see what they're talking about. But I'm thinking to myself that if you stare at something long enough, your eyes start to play wonky tricks on you. So I was pretty dismissive.
We watched "it" for a long time and then it seemed to become a bit more clear. It really looked like a human form walking from one doorway at the end of the hallway to another. We were all pretty engaged and the group became extremely quiet.
So we watch it walk across the hallway and then we don't see it again for a bit. So the crowd started whispering a bit and we thought it was gone.
Except -
The shadow "peeked" around the corner. We all saw it - it was extremely clear. It had been moving back and forth and was still a bit "questionable" as to if it was a trick of the light. But to see a head peek around the corner and look at you - WOW. It freaked the entire crowd out! Some people started screaming and everyone ran the other direction. Lucky me, I was at the back and took the brunt of the impact.
So that's my experience with shadow people. I've not seen one before (not that I remember) and I've never seen once since. I really thought that I would see it again on the overnight I spent there but no chance. We saw and experienced absolutely nothing.
But I bet on a quiet night, without a lot of people around, you can see them there. On the "tour" I took (the night I saw "him"), I actually felt scared to be there. I don't scare easily and I never have been afraid of "ghosts." But there was something in the air - something frightening. I stayed close to the group.
The night I stayed there it felt just like any other place in the world. No scarier than my kitchen. I often wandered off by myself and didn't get the "heebie jeebies" at all.
I guess even spirits have "off" nights
I'll come back and share my personal ghost experiences from when I was young. It'll be nice to share them with people who actually find them interesting
It's become a true addiction. ANy suggestions?
We've had all the stuff that was willed out to DH's cousins from Grandma's house (she's the one who died in Dec that I had a couple of stories about) down there along with my regular junk.Computerless?
Now THAT is scary!!!Hey, where the heck has ward been lately - she talks about a ghost town - and she's the biggest ghost (yes ward, I'm talkin' 'bout ya!)
I'm just doing another drive-by tonight. I didn't even read the stories yet, I'm saving them for tomorrow at lunch time.I've been working feverishly for the past 3 weeks during every spare second trying to get my basement cleaned out for DD's birthday party this Saturday.
Computerless?
See above.
Hopefully everyone will have some stories for a Ghost Story Saturday night this week.
I just started reading this thread tonight. I love ghost stories, always have, even though they really creep me out. While I have seen the Ghost Hunters show I don't watch it religously but do tune in from time to time. Mostly I don't watch shows like that because I am home alone often and I wouldn't sleep
I do have a real life story to share. The house I grew up in was on the corner at the bottom of a hill, the storm drain was at the corner at the bottom of our yard. The drain was a large metal tube that ran under the street and down to the creek, probably 100 yards or so. Leading to the drain beginning at our driveway was a concrete half-circle to catch all the run-off water and guide it to the drain. Sorry for the boring details.
One summer night at dusk when I was about 8 or 9 years old, I was sitting on the porch of the house directly behind mine and on top of the hill. My friend Jennifer lived in that house, she was the same age as me. Next door to her lived Brenda who was 2 years older than us. Jennifer, Brenda and I were sitting on Jennifer's front porch, enjoying a summer evening and talking about whatever young girls talk about. I can't recall who noticed first but it seems as if we all shouted at the same time "do you see that?" A black shape had emerged from the drain pipe. It was sort of human shaped in that it had a head like shape then was larger around the "torso" area and tapered off near the bottom, but it did not have distinct human characteristics such as limbs. It was a shadowy figure. It "walked" (floated?) half-way across the street and then just completely disappeared. We were all terrified and ran to our own homes.
The next day we went to the drain to investigate. There were muddy "footprints" that went half-way across the street and disappeared, just where the figure disappeared the night before.
Over the course of the next few years we thought we saw that figure again from time to time in yards around the neighborhood, always around dusk. I think that was most likely our imagination.
I've totally lost contact with Jennifer but Brenda and I have kept in touch but we never talked of this incident since we were about 12 (I am 35 now). But a few years ago we were talking and out of the blue, she asks if I remember that thing we saw come out of my drain. I don't think it is something I will ever forget.
OH and I neglected to mention that is an adorable dog in your signature. Not kissing up, really he is adorable but if you feel so inclined to reward me for noticing how cute s/he is then it would be appreciated.
Good Evening All!
You guys visiting the freaky places have more guts then I!
ME TOO! 
