We were on vacation in Savannah, GA a couple of summers ago, and we decided to eat at Moon Rivery Brewery. It's supposedly haunted and been the focus of investigations on several ghost chaser shows.
We went to the basement, where the ghosts are, and after about five minutes of sitting in the eerily lighted room, I started having like a panic attack. I started crying, couldn't breathe, and just needed to get out of there. I went back upstairs, and suddenly everything was fine. Later on, I'm told that a sudden influx of emotions like that "means that a ghost/spirit is attacking you."
Not a super fantastic story. But creepy nonetheless.
ive never seen a ghost before or big foot or an alien. Haha
Not to blow the lid off ghost stories but on NPR recently they had an interesting story that the reason home hauntings might have been more prevalent in the turn of the century was that many homes were heated by gas that was leaking into the air and the major sign of carbon monoxide poisoning can be headaches, dizziness, delusions and even hallucinations. So when people thought they saw a ghost it could just mean their house was slowing killing them which in itself is pretty scary!
Also when my older sister and BIL were just dating he used to take us all "ghost hunting" basically just get a couple myth printouts and some flashlights to see if we got killed or not. Well we found this really small cemetery, just one horse shoe shaped path. Halfway around the horseshoe the car started sputtering and the lights and the dash flipped the fuck out. I told my BIL to knock it the fuck off and he put his hands in the air to show that he wasn't doing it. I cried.
I don't know if I believe in ghosts either, but I do get freaked out by the stories and idea of!!
My MIL thinks their house is haunted. Lots of weird things. Their PVR frequently randomly records like 20 or so seconds of random shows overnight. Last Christmas she was home alone and one of her motion sensor decorations in another room started going off. When they first moved in when H was still a kid their dog freaked out one day looking like he was chasing something up the stairs and then wouldn't enter their bedroom and just stood in the doorway barking. The only thing that's happened to H and I while we've been there is we were having an afternoon nap once and we both swear we heard someone knocking on the bedroom door, to the point where we both woke up, asked who was there, and eventually left the room because we thought someone was there. But all we could find was MIL in the kitchen in another part of the house.
I worked at a sporting goods store once and for some reason started randomly thinking there was a girl spirit around. I kept it to myself for a long time but after always seeing what I thought were customers out of the corner of my eye and have it be nothing, I finally told my assistant manager and she freaked out and was like 'I'm so glad you told me that because I think so too!!' The only other weird things I remember happening besides just a weird feeling, was one morning the shipper/receiver was in early working on deliveries in the back and she heard the golf clubs in the display rack clinking against each other, so she went out to the main part of the store to see if a customer snuck in even though we were still closed. And of course nothing was happening. And one time, our boss called us up to the office one morning after checking security camera footage. Our cameras were motion sensitive and only recorded when movement happened, but they didn't move to follow the object, they just recorded. So when he saw a 2am recording he onviosuly was suspicious...the playback was the camera suddenly jolting and facing a different part of the store! So they had to move the camera back.
I swear I'm not crazy, but like I said, I like sharing weird moments lol!!
ive never seen a ghost before or big foot or an alien. Haha
Not to blow the lid off ghost stories but on NPR recently they had an interesting story that the reason home hauntings might have been more prevalent in the turn of the century was that many homes were heated by gas that was leaking into the air and the major sign of carbon monoxide poisoning can be headaches, dizziness, delusions and even hallucinations. So when people thought they saw a ghost it could just mean their house was slowing killing them which in itself is pretty scary!
Turn of the Screw is one of my favorite books. This is such a fascinating idea, I'd love to reread it with this in mind!
Post by holliberry28 on Oct 29, 2015 15:01:45 GMT -5
This isn't a ghost story, but I've had few premonition type dreams. 2 years ago or so, I dreamt that I was on my husband's vespa, and a bee stung me on my left shoulder. The next day, we went hiking and towards the end of the hike, a bee fell from the tree and stung me on my left shoulder. Just thought that was weird.
My sister goes to Medium's all the time and swears her daughter comes through to talk to her. I'd like to believe this to be true, but I just don't believe in anything I can't prove scientifically.
Post by billyhorrible on Oct 29, 2015 15:07:15 GMT -5
I have a couple, but I swear I've shared them before.
The first is so stereotypical "Hollywood" sounding, but for my 13th birthday I had a sleepover and got a ouija board. Basically we all accused each other of pushing the piece around. A couple days later, while I was alone, I decided to try it out for myself to see if it "really worked." It did. Even with my hands not on it, it moved around and told me my grandmother hated me.
I was terrified to throw it out, in case it was possessed or something, so I shoved it in the back of my closet for years, until we moved.
Post by mrsdee1982 on Oct 29, 2015 15:15:34 GMT -5
1) My dad's father had cancer and had signed a DNR. Did not want to be put on life-support. Well, his neighbor didn't know that, found him passed out, called 911. Hospital put him on life-support before they could get ahold of family. We get to the hospital where my dad produces my grandfathers DNR. But there was some legal problem with it and it took the hospital 3 days to allow us to take my grandfather off of life support. It tore my dad up. Like, really destroyed him for a while. About a week after my grandfathers passing, my mom woke up in the middle of the night because she felt someone sit on the end of the bed. She thought it was me or one of my siblings. It was my grandfather. He told her "Debbie, you have to tell Mark I'm ok, and that it's ok. I know he helped me. You have to tell him to be ok." My mom asked him "Jim, why can't you tell him?" and my grandfather replied with "Because he won't hear me." My dad is very skeptical when it comes to ghosts.
And these two aren't ghost stories, but pretty strong "Mother's intuition" stories.
I was in a bad car accident one night coming home from work, but it wasn't late. Maybe 8pm. When I called my mom, she answered the phone crying, saying she heard the sirens and just knew it was me and had already sent my dad in the direction she heard the sirens going. I have no idea how she knew. They live near a busy street with a fire station a block away. Hearing sirens is nothing new for them.
And the one that gives me chills is I was deep asleep one night and all of the sudden I swear I heard my mom whispering "Nikki. Nikki. You have to wake up right now. You need to get up and get out of bed RIGHT NOW." It was about 5:30 in the morning. I woke up, and walked into my living room. I was so freaked out, I called her. She said she had just woken up too, because she was having a very bad dream about me.
When I was 8 or 9 I was playing with a bunch of kids at our church while waiting for our parents to be done with choir practice. We decided to go down to the long basement hallway and walk all the way from one end to the other with the lights off. We all went down there together and from there this is what I remember. There was a glowing, iridescent presence that I interacted with and when I came back up the stairs everyone was in a panic looking for me because I had stayed down there for over half an hour and no one could find me, where as all the other kids went right back up the stairs. To this day I have no idea what happened, why no one could find me, or why I was down there so long.
Also the hotel I stayed at all the time last year when I was traveling for work was supposedly haunted. I did hear something in the middle of one night that sounded like someone in the next room moving boxes, but no one was staying in that room.
In college, my dorm was the oldest building on campus, and was supposedly haunted by a student that committed suicide by hanging herself in the bell tower in the 1950s. Of course the bell tower was locked off, but there was a huge staircase with a big landing at the top before the door to the tower. We used to go up there to drink, but we also would occasionally go up there and tell ghost stories or play with the Ouija board. We lost power a lot in that building- and everyone always blamed it on the ghost, who everyone referred to as "Sarah". I never bought into that, but I do believe that things were moved around. Both my roommate and I would be gone for an entire day, and we'd come back to the room, and things would be obviously out of place and not how we'd left them. Friends of mine said that things were moved in their rooms, too. Other people said they heard things, too. I'm not quite convinced that it was anything other than our imaginations, but it sure did make things interesting!
I worked at an auto body shop for years and nothing out of the ordinary ever happened. But one day we had an SUV that had rolled over towed to us (super common occurance) except the owner of the SUV was a little old lady who told me and my boss 'this vehicle is cursed! I don't want it back!!'
Not a word of a lie, that afternoon we started losing computer programs on our computer slowly throughout the week. Tech support was constantly working. By the 3rd or 4th day the entire shop lost power. No lights, no equipment, no paint booths. All dead. And that afternoon insurance decided the vehicle was a write off and they had it towed to their salvage lot. Everything in the shop started working later that day. Coincidence or not, it was definitely a weird moment working there that has always stuck with me!
Post by tatersalad on Oct 29, 2015 20:02:31 GMT -5
In all spooky seriousness, my house was built in 1920 and after a few ghostly encounters (which gave us a physical description of our ghost and her habits) the neighbors confirmed that one of the home's original owners, most likely their daughter, haunts our home. She is pretty friendly, except that she didn't care for a friend of mine who house sat once and screamed at her from the bottom of our staircase that she didn't belong in our master bedroom every night until she gave up and slept on the couch. I made a deal with her early on that I appreciate her and her presence in the home, but I have no desire to see her or speak to her. I've had dreams about her smoking cigarettes in my favorite chair in the guest/baby's room, but since baby arrived I moved that chair to DS room and he recently became obsessed with ghosts. Hence the Halloween costume.
In all spooky seriousness, my house was built in 1920 and after a few ghostly encounters (which gave us a physical description of our ghost and her habits) the neighbors confirmed that one of the home's original owners, most likely their daughter, haunts our home. She is pretty friendly, except that she didn't care for a friend of mine who house sat once and screamed at her from the bottom of our staircase that she didn't belong in our master bedroom every night until she gave up and slept on the couch. I made a deal with her early on that I appreciate her and her presence in the home, but I have no desire to see her or speak to her. I've had dreams about her smoking cigarettes in my favorite chair in the guest/baby's room, but since baby arrived I moved that chair to DS room and he recently became obsessed with ghosts. Hence the Halloween costume.
A few years ago I was staying at a hotel in Shanghai with a coworker. When we checked into our rooms my coworker said she had an uneasy feeling about her room so because I'm not superstitious I switched rooms with her. I felt isolated in the room because the Chinese government blocks gmail so I had no way to contact my husband or family that night. I fell asleep. I woke up not able to breath and with this feeling like someone was sitting on my body and strangling me. I looked at the clock and it was exactly midnight. I woke my co-worker up and slept in her room that night!
My other story is from when I moved into a new apartment. I had crazy dreams the first week DH and I moved in. A lot of them involved a little girl running around the house with her dad. A while later we made friends with our next door neighbor and she told me that the previous people that lived there were a single dad and a little girl.
1) My dad's father had cancer and had signed a DNR. Did not want to be put on life-support. Well, his neighbor didn't know that, found him passed out, called 911. Hospital put him on life-support before they could get ahold of family. We get to the hospital where my dad produces my grandfathers DNR. But there was some legal problem with it and it took the hospital 3 days to allow us to take my grandfather off of life support. It tore my dad up. Like, really destroyed him for a while. About a week after my grandfathers passing, my mom woke up in the middle of the night because she felt someone sit on the end of the bed. She thought it was me or one of my siblings. It was my grandfather. He told her "Debbie, you have to tell Mark I'm ok, and that it's ok. I know he helped me. You have to tell him to be ok." My mom asked him "Jim, why can't you tell him?" and my grandfather replied with "Because he won't hear me." My dad is very skeptical when it comes to ghosts.
And these two aren't ghost stories, but pretty strong "Mother's intuition" stories.
I was in a bad car accident one night coming home from work, but it wasn't late. Maybe 8pm. When I called my mom, she answered the phone crying, saying she heard the sirens and just knew it was me and had already sent my dad in the direction she heard the sirens going. I have no idea how she knew. They live near a busy street with a fire station a block away. Hearing sirens is nothing new for them.
And the one that gives me chills is I was deep asleep one night and all of the sudden I swear I heard my mom whispering "Nikki. Nikki. You have to wake up right now. You need to get up and get out of bed RIGHT NOW." It was about 5:30 in the morning. I woke up, and walked into my living room. I was so freaked out, I called her. She said she had just woken up too, because she was having a very bad dream about me.
You totally gave me the chills. I guess I wish so much for that to be true but am too skeptical at the same time.
A few years ago I was staying at a hotel in Shanghai with a coworker. When we checked into our rooms my coworker said she had an uneasy feeling about her room so because I'm not superstitious I switched rooms with her. I felt isolated in the room because the Chinese government blocks gmail so I had no way to contact my husband or family that night. I fell asleep. I woke up not able to breath and with this feeling like someone was sitting on my body and strangling me. I looked at the clock and it was exactly midnight. I woke my co-worker up and slept in her room that night!
My other story is from when I moved into a new apartment. I had crazy dreams the first week DH and I moved in. A lot of them involved a little girl running around the house with her dad. A while later we made friends with our next door neighbor and she told me that the previous people that lived there were a single dad and a little girl.
Freaky! Those two stories are right in line with the experiences I had, except our ghost never tried to suffocate me, she just wanted to chat in the middle of the night.
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