yeah - and it takes half a second to change their mind about it - all they have to do is see or hear a ghost.Too many people out there believe ghosts don't exist and laugh if you say you've seen one.
That's pretty common - the ghost or spirit just doesn't want to leave his house. Usually, you will get along better if you just invite him to stay.
She woke me in the middle of the night screaming, telling me that there was a black image on the wall.
The 75 year old house I live in now has at least two, I believe, although I've never seen them. It's just a feeling I get, and they definitely move/hide stuff!! It can get quite annoying, especially when you're in a hurry!
Geez Pam. These are amazing. What was your father's occupation. May I use these in the book?eldragon said:yeah - and it takes half a second to change their mind about it - all they have to do is see or hear a ghost.
I have lived in several haunted houses - but actually - most houses are "haunted", or we share the same space with spirits - new or old house, doesn't matter. When you can actually see or hear ghosts or other entities .......it's usually because you or someone else is acting as an medium.
My father was a medium - even though he didn't want to be. His IQ was 185 (genius) and he was a near perfect, moral person. (That does sound hard to believe, but he was a very advanced soul). Anyway - ghosts and spirits sought him out - from about about the time he was 20 until he passed at 60.
I grew up in a spirit filled house - that had once been a funeral home. In all my childhood years, I never walked down the stairs.....I always ran. I always thought someone was following me.
At 18, I stayed with my parents in a rental house (thank God it was a rental) for exactly 6 months (the lease was up). The first two months or so were fine - no noises, no nothing. About the third month - my dad saw a pilgrim woman walk down the hall and the craziness started. He saw her several times after that - and at night - the house came alive. Noises of all kinds - doors banging shut all night long (but there were no actual doors banging), animal noises (farm animals), music playing (music box type), the sounds of thunder storms - but clear skies outside. Pillows flew through the air - our pets were picked up and carried for several feet and sat back down. Fireplace logs were taken out of the fireplace and set up into the crawlspace in the garage. WEIRD. Not fun. Radio dials turned while you listened to music.
My dad had a few more incidents after that one - ending with an actual hooded figure staring him down the night before his doctor told him his cancer was terminal. He died 2 months later.
Actually, if you realize that ghosts are people and need help instead of kicking the crap out of them, you might be able to really do some good.Richard said:Alternatively, get your Domovoi to kick the crap out of him.
I would love to see the pictures with the orbs. You can easily tell the difference between spirit guides and ghosts from the heaviness or lightness you feel in the air around you. My guess is that orbs are not ghosts. Now, the black thing, that's a different story. That woman came to your daughter because someone on that side told her the girl was a "sensitive," and she desperately wanted to get a message through.vtwordweaver said:I lived in an old farm house when I was married. The home was built in the early 1800's and had been an inn on the stagecoach route. Someone lived there with us. She never did anything harmful, just let us know that she was there. Doors would slam shut on perfectly calm days, curtains moved, the clock fell off the wall, she liked to turn the knob on the bathroom door when I was in there and of course the footsteps. Once, when my kids were asleep and my ex was out in the barn milking, I was in the upstairs bathroom. I heard someone walk up the stairs and across the floor. When I went out to the barn to ask my ex why he had come into the house, he said he hadn't been in.
My daughters and I did see the ghost once. I was reading to them one night and her image appeared. She never spoke or anything, but we knew she was there.
The odd thing is that my ex never believed she existed until my kids and I left him. He has never admitted it to me, but he has told my kids that she has done things like sit on his bed. I guess she has scared him. My son moved back with my ex and said she was very active. She would throw newspapers across the room and my son saw lights all the time (his room was upstairs and my ex seldom went up stairs.) We have pictures from that house with orbs in them.
My ex's family sold the place and it is being completely renovated. I often wonder what it happening.
My older daughter (she is 15) is extremly sensitive to the supernatural. She tells me that Rebecca, my ghost has moved with me. I am not sure if she is a ghost or a spirit guide and I don't know how to tell the difference.
This same daughter had a negative experience a couple of summers ago. She woke me in the middle of the night screaming, telling me that there was a black image on the wall. She had heard someone calling her from outside, something came in the window. She said she felt like someone punched her on the back. Sure enought, there was a fist size welt on her back that was still there in the morning. I don't know if it was coincidental or not, but a woman who lived on the same road as we do, had died that morning (I didn't know about that until I read the paper the next day).
Now my daughter has moved out of state with my ex and son. They live on a farm and sure enough there is a ghost there, too!
Richard said:Oh, too easy...
Out of interest, and I speak as a person who doesn't believe in ghosts even remotely and has been shown conclusive proof in the form of light glinting off dust particles more than a few times, does anyone have any personal stories of them doing anything even vaguely useful or relevant? Not anecdotes about other people - just something that makes it seem a bit more worthwhile than jangling doornobs and hiding keys.
Richard,
That's what my book was about. AARON'S CROSSING: A True Ghost Story was just released in June and hit #2 on the best seller list locally last week. We're not releasing it nationally until the reviewers are finished, Sept. 1. But yes, something useful DID happen. He wanted me to know he was there. I responded and decided to try to help him. The fear I could have gone to was there, but I knew I'd be no good to him or anyone if I went there. So I took him to my metaphysical friends and...well...it's pretty amazing.
Read my earlier post about the reason WHY they do these things.
Linda
Richard said:Oh, too easy...
conclusive proof in the form of light glinting off dust particles more than a few times
Actually, ghosts have magnetic fields just like we do that can be seen at night especially. And can really be seen when magnetic fields load up with positive ions just before lightning in a thunderstorm. Which is why there are so many ghost stories connected to thunderstorms.
Just another interesting myth that turns out to be a scientifically provable fact.
Linda
This is very helpful. Your neighbor's father was trying to let him know he was there. I too have had the dog experience. Animals are amazing.NitaHelpingHand said:I believe I have a ghost in my house although 'she' is pretty quiet most of the time. We've had many things disappear (never to be seen again) and there have been two separate incidents where our dog has 'seen her'. 'She' likes the area around the stove (the reason we call her 'she').
The first time our dog saw her he was just staring at the top of the stove with this very intent look on his face. When I noticed it I just watched at first, then I called his name and asked him what was wrong (luckily he didn't answer!), but he wouldn't even look at me. I called him several more times and he still wouldn't look at me, then he started barking -- we were kinda freaked out at that point.
The second time was pretty much the same as the first although he started barking almost immediately that time.
Last summer I told her I didn't mind sharing the house with her as long as she didn't do anything to freak us out anymore -- there's been no incidents since.
My ex-husband's neighbor definitely had a ghost their entire growing up years. Toilets flushing, curtins and drapes moving, rocking chair rocking, a cold spot in the basement where his father (who had passed away not long before all this started), coffee pot percolating (it wasn't plugged in), things like that.
I hope this is helpful!
Aunt Karnie,Aunt_Karnie said:About 20 years ago my then boyfriend died. We were together when he passed.
I was worried about a lot of things, money, his children, etc.
Two nights after he died I saw him in my bedroom, at the foot of the bed. He appeared very small, as though I were looking at him through the wrong end of a telescope. He explained to me why I shouldn't worry and told me of some arrangements that he had made with his attorney, and what was in his will.
Everything he told me that night was correct.
Do I believe in ghosts? You bet.