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Ghost Stories: The Paranormal Thread

Postby Mike Rotchtickles » Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:04

Share your paranormal experiences. At some point in our lives; odd things happen, unexplained things, and we start to believe with conviction only when we ourselves experience such events.





And please no posts such as:

"LMAO. Ahh the power of a persons imagination. Paranormal activity is simply a persons imagination and I'll spend the night in any morgue/graveyard/insane asylum/whatever to prove it".

or

"Sometimes deep in the night near the shores of this specific river, you can hear distant gunfire from a war fought nearly 70 years ago. It's true, heard it myself. But I wasn't particularly sober that night." :lol:

or

"When I watch a movie or something on my LCD TV, more often than not,
I see Dead Pixels.......... :shock:





Ok so this thread is not for the non-believers. Anybody that wants to make light of the subject, please refrain from doing so. Rather use your time to go bother Q about something or other. :lol:



So anyway,



This just happened to me LAST NIGHT as I was in bed. TRUE STORY.

My gf and I were watching a movie and she says "What?" I didn't think she was talking to me. "What?" again. "What?" I said back. "You touched me to get my attention, now what?"

"I didn't touch you, I don't know what you mean."

"You didn't just touch me on the side?"

"No." At this point I was a bit confused, but let it go. She let it go, too.

A little bit later I was lying on my right side, arm under my head. Next thing I know I feel this like open handed shove on my right shoulder. Like a heavy short-throw slap (later I realised it had to come from under the bed, not from her).

"OW!" Yeah, I was a bit loud, I thought she had just hit me in bed!

"What?"

"You hit me, why??"

"Mike, I didn't hit you, and I didn't move from this position you see me in."
I had sat up a bit. I thought of the half-asleep visions I had been having since I laid down. Scary, gross things just popping into my head. I had been in a bad mood for a while (current situation and all), so I thought I was just moping.

Anyway, so I tried to dismiss what happened and later fell asleep and stayed asleep until this morning. When I woke up I was in the bathroom busy shaving and my girlfriend says to me "Where did you get that huge bruise on your shoulder?" I said what bruise? I looked in the mirror and saw this ugly looking bump on my right shoulder area.

Now I had taken a bath before going to bed and I know 100% that this bruise had not been there when I went to bed last night.


Ok so the above is one instance of weird sh*t happening.




This next one is the one I most vividly remember from when I was much younger.




One night, quite a few years ago, my parents were out for the weekend, so I decided to just stay in and order pizza or something.

A little later that evening I heard like a slow type pounding on the front door. It was very faint and I am not exactly sure how I even heard it. Naturally, being young and careless, I opened the door without checking to see who it was. I thought it most probably was the pizza delivery guy, so I opened the door.

The person at the door was a little strange looking but not overly so. I mean if I had seen him during the daytime I probably would have overlooked him. He was wearing a black type suit (and oddly because it was evening) he had sunglasses on. I also recall very distinctly that he had pale skin with quite high cheekbones. For some reason I remember thinking he looked possibly like he was from eastern descent. Anyway, he told me he had just been in a car crash and needed to use my telephone to contact the authorities. He specifically mentioned a grey Chevrolet vehicle. Now normally, I would have admitted him instantly, but there was just something wrong about him. The way he spoke was not in any distressed way at all. It was just so calm.

I told him that if he wanted I would call the police for him. He paused for a moment, then he kind of looked backwards with a strange tilt of the head. As he did that, I caught a look at his eyes beneath his sunglasses. This guy had the weirdest eyes. I mean they were quite large and bloodshot. Kinda like a person who hadn't slept in days.

So anyway I assured him that I would call the cops for him if he just stayed on the front porch. I shut the door and went to the phone. As I was dialing, I looked through the peephole to see the stranger, but he was no longer there.

Now the thing about all this is, my dad was running a painting contractors company at the time and one of his newest staff members looked eerily like the guy which had knocked on my door that night. And I remember this person would always kind of give me this kind of weird smile whenever I was visiting at my dad's office.
Anyway, a few weeks later I didn't see him anymore and asked my dad where this guy was? My dad said he hadn't told us so as not to upset us but that this man was killed in a car crash a few days back. The car he was driving at the time? A grey tinged Chevrolet.

Just a strange set of circumstances or was there something "more" to it? I don't know.





So, If you wish to share any such experiences you yourselves might have had, please feel free to do so.....
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Postby Samael » Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:49

Lol... I wonder if anyone will bother reading the whole text you posted.... :shock: I just stopped after the title... :oops:
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Postby AUSSIE_FABS » Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:56

I read up to true story now I want a **** cookie.
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Postby Mike Rotchtickles » Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:15

Seems we have a couple of ADD sufferers here. :wink:


To help them out, here's a condensed version of my original post.
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Postby coke4 » Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:22

If you post a thread like this, you are going to get negative comments.

The second guy was probably some thief, it happens a lot, they make up some excuse to try to get into the house, then once he is in he will take things. His eyes were probably bloodshot and weird as he is some kind of crack addict or something similar and hence why he was wearing sunglasses.
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Postby beltic caldy » Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:55

sorry, i try to keep an open mind on all things, but ghosts and the paranormal? i know i'm from a science background and therefore biased.....but am wholly with hippocrates on this - " To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance" - i don't mean or intend negativity per se.

my nephew luke asked me a while back, as we happened to be passing our local graveyard if i was afraid of ghosts....i gently suggested i didn't believe in ghosts but even if i did, why would i be afraid? because the ghost might want to hurt you, he replied - well, as unlikely as that is, he'd still have a hard time hurting me if he's just a ghost, right? he shook his head wisely and tutted at me....uncle richard....everyone knows ghosts can kill you by scaring you to death :cry:

lol!!!! i thought it was very funny!!!!

i used to say that ignorance was the thing that terrified me most....it isn't tho...it's stubborn ignorance....this desire to believe the fantastic rather than observe and accept the, inevitably more mundane reality. i'm not saying what you experienced didn't happen, not for a moment, but i'll only accept an account like this, if a) it happens to be and b) i can reproduce it or giving someone else the exact circumstances/conditions, they can repeat it.
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Postby Mike Rotchtickles » Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:12

Rich, are you calling me stubbornly ignorant? :lol:

Something along the line of,

What happens if you are ignorant on an important matter, and your feelings of insecurity make you defensive about it and even paranoid? You may find yourself stubbornly defending your own ignorance, refusing to grow in knowledge, settling for a lesser position in life simply as a matter of pride.

Listen, I don't care about any of that. :twisted:

Give me some Ghost Stories, damn it! :lol:
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Postby VillaJ100 » Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:11

The dead can't hurt you. its the living you should be wary of.

Anyway i've had some bizarre things, like once being the only person in the house, coming downstairs and opening the curtains and turning on the tv, then taking a leak and when i came out the curtains were drawn and tv off, and me there like wtf?

Also on xmas day i was in london 2 years ago, and some guy dressed up to the nines in victorian morning dress, so top hat + tails, waistcoat, pocketwatch and chain etc as walking towards me, it was about 8am, and only me and him on the street, he tipped his hat and said 'good morning' and i said the same, then took a few more paces and i thought he was dressed odd, so turned and looked, and noone was there. there wasnt any side roads or alleys for him to walk down and no cars parked and this was less than 10 seconds so he must have literally sprinted into a house to have just vanished. Bit wierd
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Postby Mike Rotchtickles » Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:32

Finally!
Thank you. That's what I'm talking about.
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Postby beltic caldy » Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:58

Mike Rotchtickles wrote:Rich, are you calling me stubbornly ignorant? :lol:

Something along the line of,

What happens if you are ignorant on an important matter, and your feelings of insecurity make you defensive about it and even paranoid? You may find yourself stubbornly defending your own ignorance, refusing to grow in knowledge, settling for a lesser position in life simply as a matter of pride.

Listen, I don't care about any of that. :twisted:

Give me some Ghost Stories, damn it! :lol:


Lol!!! That's quite an extreme example - I mean this desire we all seem to have, to a greater or lesser extent to want to believe the unknowable/fiction/fairy tale almost rather than the cold truth - magicians and the like being a prime example, moviegoing being another : ) we read fiction and immerse ourselves likewise - all groovy but it's the urge/desire that I find interesting : )
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Postby coke4 » Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:06

I just thought I saw a UFO there, turned out it was actually a firework.

When I was in Bahrain one night I had just seen Paranormal Activity 2, and had ordered a pizza, I put my glass of water down on the counter and went to the toilet. A few minutes after coming out of the toilet the pizza guy came so I went and got it, I came in and went to look for my water but it was gone. Having seen P.A that say I was immediately like OMGG its a ghost, I have been wrong all this time, then a few minutes later I realised I had taken my water out with me to get the pizza and left it on top of the bin, and amazingly enough it was there.

I live in a house that is 200 years old, people have died in it, I have never once come across anything slightly ghost like. If there were ghosts, they would be in my house.
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Postby Sherlock 117 » Mon, 14 Feb 2011 04:03

Well, I too like Rich come from a scientific background. On the other, I don't doubt that strange occurences like these occur regularly.

Rich, the reason I may be scared to a see a ghost would be because of what it would mean, and the unexpectdedness of it. I should think the more you don't believe the paranormal exists, the more you would be startled/scared if you found out it did.

Luckily for me I have never been in a situation like this, though a few of my family members have. My dad was sleeping, and he woke up in the middle of the night to see someone sitting on a chair in his bedroom. He turned to wake up my mom and the person was gone. My sister-in-law was driving down the road during the day. She felt something hit her in the back of the head, and when she looked in the rear-view-mirror saw someone in the seat behind her. When she turned around there was no one there.
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Postby Mike Rotchtickles » Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:20

Nice post, Sherlock 117. :)
It's a little more "open minded" than some of the others here. Funny that I've been accused of not being that, in this same thread. :wink:

Now I'm not saying that open minded means that when you've taken a pic of a wall that's perhaps out of focus in low light and you THINK you see SOMETHING. No. You take another photo with the flash and make sure the focus is right. It does NOT mean you run screaming into the night about ghosts. Fair enough. But if this thread were to veer from it's original direction and be shot down (as it currently is by some here) and rather be a discussion of debunking these types of stories by using "logic" and the "scientific approach", then allow me to be a type of Devils Advocate and say that logic and science can be good as long as they are used with full knowledge of their inherent limitations.

I mean it's funny how "scientific evidence" changes its stories every few years or so. I seem to have read that saccharin was scientifically declared to be a cancer causing agent in the early 80's. Nowadays, it has been taken off the list of known carcinogens. Hmmmm.....

I'm not going as far as accusing anybody of "blindly trusting science" because as scientists they themselves should understand that science is fallible and may be proven wrong.
What I am saying is that the same way I've been presumed (or at least made to feel that way) as close-minded with regard to this topic, I can turn the light back on those same people and accuse them of the very same thing.

Just to finish off by saying that whilst I have experienced some paranormal things in my own life, I really believe that some of the "ghost" photos that have been presented over the years are laughable at best. Those photos are really a stretch to say that anything paranormal is going on there. Now, tell me that you experienced a phantom presence or saw other physical signs that were hard to explain, and I'll be right with you on that one because that's something I've experienced myself.


Now can we please get back to talking of stories of Ghosts and stuff? :lol:
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Postby emate007 » Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:59

Mike Rotchtickles wrote:Seems we have a couple of ADD sufferers here. :wink:


To help them out, here's a condensed version of my original post.



haha, I've never seen that site before and flipped through a few **** ones before I found this:

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Outstanding work, gentlemen.

No, I don't have anything to contribute at the moment, but there's been plenty of weird things that have happened to me. Will write it out soon.
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Postby AUSSIE_FABS » Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:51

Not ADD just allergic to bullshit ;) I do like reading paranormal stories because it always interesting to see what is actually behind it. Also you can't be biased to science, considering it just about trying to find explanations with evidence.

Anyway don't want to be buzzkill so MORE STORIES.
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