Ghost Stories

jonesbeach10 · Post by **jonesbeach10** » October 30, 2006 3:20 pm

Well tomorrow is Halloween of course. Let's hear your ghost stories, either what you've personally experienced or stories you've heard.

carolinagirl · Post by **carolinagirl** » October 30, 2006 4:07 pm

I live in a 100-year-old house, and the lady who used to live here into her 80s was quite a character from tales I've heard around town. However, she must be in peace in the afterlife because we've never experienced anything.

Except every so often when I lie in bed for a nap in the early afternoon around 2 or 3 p.m., there's a bouncy feeling on the bed, like a cat jumped up. I look for the cat and nothing's there. Hubby's felt it, and so has my son when he's been there alone watching TV. Could be the upstairs floor settling, but the house is 100 years old. I think it's settled by now!

Now, in our last house, built in the 1980s, we had all kinds of activity! We only lived there eight months before moving here. When I'd go upstairs to my son's room to say good-night, he used to ask me, "Did you already come up here?" I'd say no; he'd say I heard you on the stairs. One night I lay in the bottom bunk because he was scared, and I heard step by step someone coming all the way up the stairs. Then nothing. I got up and no one was there. I went down and asked hubby, and he said he hadn't come up.

Also, we used to keep lemon pepper and salt and pepper shakers on the kitchen table. A rush of wind would come through the kitchen and send the lemon pepper onto the floor nearly every day. I'd hear it fall over and roll onto the floor. Weird. (I heard Koreans had built the house and lived there. Maybe they didn't like lemon pepper!)

If I stayed up late on the computer by myself upstairs, the rush of wind would come through the hallway where I was and blow papers onto the floor, even once knocking books over on the shelf! I'd say "OKAY! I'm going to bed!"

I was scared to leave my son to sleep upstairs alone, and glad to move out of there!

Capt.Flock · Post by **Capt.Flock** » October 30, 2006 4:14 pm

I watch Ghost Stories

carolinagirl · Post by **carolinagirl** » October 30, 2006 7:55 pm

For those in the Halloween frame of mind and hungry for real BN Ghost Stories, here's some spine-tinglers: http://www.buffettnews.com/forum/viewto ... s&start=20

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » October 30, 2006 7:56 pm

Go to Gettysburg after dark.......

Some *scary*, some not so scary.... but all with a huge "WOW" factor...

jonesbeach10 · Post by **jonesbeach10** » October 30, 2006 8:20 pm

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:Go to Gettysburg after dark.......

Some *scary*, some not so scary.... but all with a huge "WOW" factor...

That's what I've heard too. I've also heard some stories about the college being haunted. I'll tell some more tomorrow when I have more time.

BTW, what do you guys think of those ghost shows on the Travel Channel. I'm kinda skeptical because you don't really know what happens off what happens off camera. Like if they have an animal and it gets spooked, you don't know that someone is off camera scaring them.

Piratical · Post by **Piratical** » October 30, 2006 8:22 pm

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:Go to Gettysburg after dark.......

Some *scary*, some not so scary.... but all with a huge "WOW" factor...

The whole family was there 2 weeks ago for the weekend. We did a ghost tour one evening. The kids loved it! I thought it was hoaky, but I kept my comments to myself.

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » October 30, 2006 8:35 pm

Piratical wrote:
SchoolGirlHeart wrote:Go to Gettysburg after dark.......

Some *scary*, some not so scary.... but all with a huge "WOW" factor...
The whole family was there 2 weeks ago for the weekend. We did a ghost tour one evening. The kids loved it! I thought it was hoaky, but I kept my comments to myself.

Can't say about the ghost tour, but I've been on the battlefield after dark, and I'm not sure I will EVER go back to the Little Round Top/Devil's Den area after dark. I don't scare easily, when it comes to ghosts, and I was shaken pretty good...

ragtopW · Post by **ragtopW** » October 30, 2006 8:43 pm

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:Go to Gettysburg after dark.......

Some *scary*, some not so scary.... but all with a huge "WOW" factor...

or the Winchester Mystery House..

Piratical · Post by **Piratical** » October 30, 2006 9:36 pm

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:
Piratical wrote:
SchoolGirlHeart wrote:Go to Gettysburg after dark.......

Some *scary*, some not so scary.... but all with a huge "WOW" factor...
The whole family was there 2 weeks ago for the weekend. We did a ghost tour one evening. The kids loved it! I thought it was hoaky, but I kept my comments to myself.
Can't say about the ghost tour, but I've been on the battlefield after dark, and I'm not sure I will EVER go back to the Little Round Top/Devil's Den area after dark. I don't scare easily, when it comes to ghosts, and I was shaken pretty good...

The battlefield during the day is tough enough...at night forget it (and I don't believe in ghosts). 51000 men killed in just three days. That's tough to wrap your head around such numbers.