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I see (feel, smell, sense, etc.) dead people... (1 Viewer)
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adrenaline
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this thread is like a stephen king or anne rice book. u a writer datonn?
McJose
Footballguy
Willie Neslon
Footballguy
My dog passed twenty or so years back and I've seen her a couple of times in the last few years. I'll be driving and there she is running next to the car. Or one time I saw her in a tree. I was looking up thinking what a big squirrell that was and as I got close I realized it was daisy. I gave her a whistle and as soon as she saw me she walked to the other side of the tree and was behind the trunk. Then she was gone. I told my wife and even she thinks I was making it up. She asked if I had started drinking again. I know what I saw though. It makes you think if Dogs live on, what about all of those millions of other animals and ants and everything else. It's very interesting if you think about it.
Not a writer...although I have been accused of being a wind-bag plenty of times since I've never met a keyboard I haven't liked to try and wear-out.
Osaurus
Footballguy
I have seen some pretty big squirrels.
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awesomeness
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That'll do Willie, that'll do.
McJose
Footballguy
That is one strange alias.
MikeIke
Footballguy
A few days ago my 5 year old son told his mom and me that there was a little boy ghost in our house who is always being mean to our 2 1/2 year old. The little one was already in bed when his brother told us this.
So just now I received a call from my wife at home. She was upstairs going to the bathroom when the youngest starts screaming hysterically. She came downstairs and asked what was wrong and he told her that the ghost roared at him. "What ghost?" she asked and he told her there was a kid ghost that was always mean to him. She asked if it was a big kid like Mitchell or a little kid like Bradley and he said little like me. The 5 year old was at school when this happened.
She called not knowing how to calm him down. I told her to hold him in her arms and talk to the ghost the same way you'd talk to a child who was being mean. Tell him that he's not being nice to Bradley and he needs to play nicely and be a friend or he would get in trouble. She really liked that idea. We'll see how it works out.
I have strange kids. I have an even stranger wife...
So just now I received a call from my wife at home. She was upstairs going to the bathroom when the youngest starts screaming hysterically. She came downstairs and asked what was wrong and he told her that the ghost roared at him. "What ghost?" she asked and he told her there was a kid ghost that was always mean to him. She asked if it was a big kid like Mitchell or a little kid like Bradley and he said little like me. The 5 year old was at school when this happened.
She called not knowing how to calm him down. I told her to hold him in her arms and talk to the ghost the same way you'd talk to a child who was being mean. Tell him that he's not being nice to Bradley and he needs to play nicely and be a friend or he would get in trouble. She really liked that idea. We'll see how it works out.
I have strange kids. I have an even stranger wife...
MikeIke
Footballguy
She called back to say she did tell the ghost to be nice. Our son told her that the ghost went away and he went back to playing trains and watching Maggie and the Ferocious Beast.
Few minutes later my wife hears him talking. He's saying "I'm sorry" over and over. She asks him who he's saying sorry to and he tells her he's saying it to the ghost. She asks why, and he tells her that the ghost keeps saying sorry to him so he's saying it back.
Hopefully this little ghost brat starts behaving. I don't need another Terrible Two in my house - one is bad enough.
Few minutes later my wife hears him talking. He's saying "I'm sorry" over and over. She asks him who he's saying sorry to and he tells her he's saying it to the ghost. She asks why, and he tells her that the ghost keeps saying sorry to him so he's saying it back.
Hopefully this little ghost brat starts behaving. I don't need another Terrible Two in my house - one is bad enough.
Never seen a ghost but we recently lost 2 of our 4 cats over a six month period last year. One of them was mine before I married my present wife. I had her for about 15 years before she died of lung cancer (no we aren't smokers). About a week after we put her to sleep, I was standing in our bedroom doorway talking to my wife one night. She was in bed with our other 2 cats (Ophelia was the second to pass). We have hardwood floors on our main level and we heard a cat running down the hall towards me, and the sound stopped at my feet. You can't mistake the sound of an animal's nails running on hardwood. A couple days later I also heard her very distinctive mewl at my feet. I immediately looked for the other two and they were up on the bed about 50 feet away and they hadn't moved. The first cat that passed before Ophelia was my wife's cat she'd had for 22 years before we had to put her down. My wife felt her jump up on the bed at least twice in the week after she died. Laugh if you want but there's more to this universe than you know.
Some of datonn's posts remind me of A Beautiful Mind. I'm not saying it didn't happen though.
My wife and I enjoy watching all those shows (Paranormal State, Ghost Hunters, GHI, Ghost Adventures) but have come to the conclusion that most of it is a bunch of crap.
I have never seen a ghost, but I did have some strange experiences back when I first started working. I had just moved into my new apartment and was going through boxes one evening. I was sitting in the hall and came across an old pair of shoelaces. I quickly sort of ran my fingers through them to make sure there wasn't a knot and then gave them a back-handed toss toward the laundry room. A little while later I ran to the store to pick up some supplies, and the first thing I saw as I stepped back into the apartment was the pair of shoelaces laying neatly across the hallway, tied in a bow (like you would tie your shoes). I freaked out, grabbed a hammer, and went through the entire apartment, ready to bash someone's skull in. After not finding anyone, I started wondering if I was going crazy. I realized that I had not visually confirmed there was no knot, and I didn't pay attention to where I had tossed the shoelaces. But I had run them through my fingers to the point of being satisfied they weren't tied together, and had sort of crumpled them up in my hand before tossing them away.
I basically decided that someone was f'king with me (maybe a maintenance guy had come in while I was gone?), but there were other weird things that happened off and on. Nothing that I can really remember now (other than the first incident) but the kinds of things that make you scratch your head. It got to the point where I think I actually developed a little bit of paranoia, thinking that maybe someone was surveilling my apartment or something. It never even occurred to me until years later that maybe my apartment had actually been haunted?
My wife and I enjoy watching all those shows (Paranormal State, Ghost Hunters, GHI, Ghost Adventures) but have come to the conclusion that most of it is a bunch of crap.
I have never seen a ghost, but I did have some strange experiences back when I first started working. I had just moved into my new apartment and was going through boxes one evening. I was sitting in the hall and came across an old pair of shoelaces. I quickly sort of ran my fingers through them to make sure there wasn't a knot and then gave them a back-handed toss toward the laundry room. A little while later I ran to the store to pick up some supplies, and the first thing I saw as I stepped back into the apartment was the pair of shoelaces laying neatly across the hallway, tied in a bow (like you would tie your shoes). I freaked out, grabbed a hammer, and went through the entire apartment, ready to bash someone's skull in. After not finding anyone, I started wondering if I was going crazy. I realized that I had not visually confirmed there was no knot, and I didn't pay attention to where I had tossed the shoelaces. But I had run them through my fingers to the point of being satisfied they weren't tied together, and had sort of crumpled them up in my hand before tossing them away.
I basically decided that someone was f'king with me (maybe a maintenance guy had come in while I was gone?), but there were other weird things that happened off and on. Nothing that I can really remember now (other than the first incident) but the kinds of things that make you scratch your head. It got to the point where I think I actually developed a little bit of paranoia, thinking that maybe someone was surveilling my apartment or something. It never even occurred to me until years later that maybe my apartment had actually been haunted?
RudiStein
*Not really a bail bondsman
sjacksonfan
Footballguy
Two words: cognitive bias
sjacksonfan
Footballguy
I watched this show on the Travel Channel (Ghost Adventurers I think?). Maybe the silliest show currently on TV. So they have these guys go to these "haunted" locations. They have all of this high tech equipment that supposedly can measure a ghosts "energy". So they walk around in the dark with infrared cameras and pretend to be freaked out about every 2 minutes ("Oh my God! Did you hear that??!!", "Something just brushed my shoulder!!!") Then they play back audio with the volume turned way, way up and actually caption(!) the sounds to be words or phrases that the spirits are saying ("get out" 
). In the episode I saw, the main ghost adventurer actually became extremely angry at one point and later said he had been "possessed" for a short period. I couldn't stop laughing.
Why is it that these "ghosts" are always so angry and how come when they "speak" it's always in that same barely audible whisper? Dumb.
). In the episode I saw, the main ghost adventurer actually became extremely angry at one point and later said he had been "possessed" for a short period. I couldn't stop laughing.Why is it that these "ghosts" are always so angry and how come when they "speak" it's always in that same barely audible whisper? Dumb.
Hehe. Yep...I joke with my wife and co-workers about that all the time, a la "All work and no play makes datonn a dull boy." Got....crazy?!
I just wish for all the doubters/haters out there, they could experience some of the same things personally sometime and then decide for themselves what they think it is. To just make blanket "false" or "true" five-second judgments from hundreds/thousands of miles away though is dangerous, and awfully narrow-minded.For example, I could read a few posts in this thread from a few different people, and quickly decide they are 30-/40-something trolls who drink/smoke (Mary Jane) WAY too much...and/or have already made their minds up on a lot of facts, regardless of any personal experiences they might have some day. AKA they'll find "facts" to support their own, personal theories/beliefs. Which makes them right, as it supports their world view. Which makes them a "wee bit superior to thee."
However, how can I make such blanket generalizations about people I don't even know? People I have not spent five seconds with personally or ever even given a friendly "hello" nod to as we pass on the sidewalk?
Like I've said about 50 times in this thread though, until people have some personal experiences that they cannot rationally explain-away, you could say/do anything and it won't matter one bit. Kind of like the people who are convinced that Barack Obama is not an American citizen (wasn't born in Hawaii). The "facts" presented in those instances are all loose/vague, copies of copies, scans of scans, some doctor/nurse/admin was paid off to ___________, etc., etc. Someone who doesn't drink/smoke with no mental illness could have a vivid experience, and there will be 100 reasons they (or others) will think of for why it didn't happen or that they simply have an active imagination. Even if one reason is out there that many do believe in might actually be the simplest, most logical explanation.
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Osaurus
Footballguy
Update from my Dog Park experience: link for those who can't go back 2 pages.
I have been somewhat uncomfortable asking some of the other folks at the park if they have seen anything weird. It's "Winter" down here right now and the folks that usually go in the AM when my experience happened are now going later in the day as it is not so ungodly hot and humid. I happened to run into a couple who bring a dog named Chloe to the park almost every Saturday and Sunday morning in the Summer. Chloe is a single minded dog that only fetches and receives a ball before "splashdown" of one of the plastic kiddie pools over and over again. The couple does some volunteer work at the park as well.
I decided I would finally ask them if they had ever seen anything strange or odd at the park (besides all the weird ### people naming their dogs after Harry Potter and LOTR characters). At first they were a little hesitant to talk about it and kind of brushed it off. I then began to tell them my experience as well as Mrs. Osaurus' experience on two separate occasions. They kind of looked at me like I was high or something. The guy then told me that I described this "person" I saw almost exactly the same as he had saw this past Summer three different times with his wife and someone they knew had also seen something else there in the Spring (details to follow).
The conditions were the same, low lying fog and very humid. The person was dressed the same and in the same location as I had seen him (near the tree). The couple also told me they weren't the only other people that had seen this "person" as well. They told me a couple of times they were there during the week in the morning (7 or 8 am) and a few other volunteer folks had seen a partial "person" and one one other woman claims she saw a large orb of light hovering around the tree where this thing had been seen (don't really believe this claim at all). I have not had a chance to talk to them as of yet, but I am planning on it.
I did some research to see if there have been other documented sightings in the area and I have found nothing that matches what I and others have experienced. Still not sure to make of this whole thing, but glad to see that Mrs. Osaurus and I are not alone in our encounter. I am thinking about maybe contacting one of the local paranormal groups to see if they are familiar with this thing or not.
I have been somewhat uncomfortable asking some of the other folks at the park if they have seen anything weird. It's "Winter" down here right now and the folks that usually go in the AM when my experience happened are now going later in the day as it is not so ungodly hot and humid. I happened to run into a couple who bring a dog named Chloe to the park almost every Saturday and Sunday morning in the Summer. Chloe is a single minded dog that only fetches and receives a ball before "splashdown" of one of the plastic kiddie pools over and over again. The couple does some volunteer work at the park as well.
I decided I would finally ask them if they had ever seen anything strange or odd at the park (besides all the weird ### people naming their dogs after Harry Potter and LOTR characters). At first they were a little hesitant to talk about it and kind of brushed it off. I then began to tell them my experience as well as Mrs. Osaurus' experience on two separate occasions. They kind of looked at me like I was high or something. The guy then told me that I described this "person" I saw almost exactly the same as he had saw this past Summer three different times with his wife and someone they knew had also seen something else there in the Spring (details to follow).
The conditions were the same, low lying fog and very humid. The person was dressed the same and in the same location as I had seen him (near the tree). The couple also told me they weren't the only other people that had seen this "person" as well. They told me a couple of times they were there during the week in the morning (7 or 8 am) and a few other volunteer folks had seen a partial "person" and one one other woman claims she saw a large orb of light hovering around the tree where this thing had been seen (don't really believe this claim at all). I have not had a chance to talk to them as of yet, but I am planning on it.
I did some research to see if there have been other documented sightings in the area and I have found nothing that matches what I and others have experienced. Still not sure to make of this whole thing, but glad to see that Mrs. Osaurus and I are not alone in our encounter. I am thinking about maybe contacting one of the local paranormal groups to see if they are familiar with this thing or not.
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jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Carver
Footballguy
The Commish
Footballguy
Don't know if it was a ghost, but here's my story:
Buddy and I were on his family property that had a three story, abandoned house all the way in the back. The city made them put a huge fence up or tear down the house for safety reasons. So they put up the fence. We'd been in it several times prior to this incident just to see what was left. Anyway, we were on four wheelers riding the trails and got to the house where we notices a piece of the fence was falling down. We climbed the fence and went inside to take a look around again. Clearly someone had been living there, but left at some point. We looked around, threw some rocks through windows etc and decided it was time to go. My buddy climbed the fence and I was right behind him. As I got to the top of the fence, for some reason I turned around and looked behind me. There was a huge oak tree in the front yard and the leaves were blowing, yet it wasn't windy. It was in the summer and pretty hot...probably the mid 90s. I look at the tree and saw something that appeared to fly out of the tree towards me and flew right over me. At that same moment, there was a pretty cool breeze that came over me as well. Neither my buddy or I know what we saw that day, but it was something.
Buddy and I were on his family property that had a three story, abandoned house all the way in the back. The city made them put a huge fence up or tear down the house for safety reasons. So they put up the fence. We'd been in it several times prior to this incident just to see what was left. Anyway, we were on four wheelers riding the trails and got to the house where we notices a piece of the fence was falling down. We climbed the fence and went inside to take a look around again. Clearly someone had been living there, but left at some point. We looked around, threw some rocks through windows etc and decided it was time to go. My buddy climbed the fence and I was right behind him. As I got to the top of the fence, for some reason I turned around and looked behind me. There was a huge oak tree in the front yard and the leaves were blowing, yet it wasn't windy. It was in the summer and pretty hot...probably the mid 90s. I look at the tree and saw something that appeared to fly out of the tree towards me and flew right over me. At that same moment, there was a pretty cool breeze that came over me as well. Neither my buddy or I know what we saw that day, but it was something.
Pooch
More Yang than Yin
I'm gonna take a shot at this. You were only seven years old. Perhaps when you closed your eyes and jumped you also spun around so that you were facing the opposite direction when you landed. You actually landed on the same rock you jumped from but facing the other way. I could see this confusing a seven years old mind.
identikit
Footballguy
How old were you at the time?
The Commish
Footballguy
RudiStein
*Not really a bail bondsman
I've had plenty of personal experiences that I could not explain in a 100% rational way. That does not mean I experienced something supernatural.datonn said:Hehe. Yep...I joke with my wife and co-workers about that all the time, a la "All work and no play makes datonn a dull boy." Got....crazy?!zed2283 said:I just wish for all the doubters/haters out there, they could experience some of the same things personally sometime and then decide for themselves what they think it is. To just make blanket "false" or "true" five-second judgments from hundreds/thousands of miles away though is dangerous, and awfully narrow-minded.
For example, I could read a few posts in this thread from a few different people, and quickly decide they are 30-/40-something trolls who drink/smoke (Mary Jane) WAY too much...and/or have already made their minds up on a lot of facts, regardless of any personal experiences they might have some day. AKA they'll find "facts" to support their own, personal theories/beliefs. Which makes them right, as it supports their world view. Which makes them a "wee bit superior to thee."
However, how can I make such blanket generalizations about people I don't even know? People I have not spent five seconds with personally or ever even given a friendly "hello" nod to as we pass on the sidewalk?
Like I've said about 50 times in this thread though, until people have some personal experiences that they cannot rationally explain-away, you could say/do anything and it won't matter one bit. Kind of like the people who are convinced that Barack Obama is not an American citizen (wasn't born in Hawaii). The "facts" presented in those instances are all loose/vague, copies of copies, scans of scans, some doctor/nurse/admin was paid off to ___________, etc., etc. Someone who doesn't drink/smoke with no mental illness could have a vivid experience, and there will be 100 reasons they (or others) will think of for why it didn't happen or that they simply have an active imagination. Even if one reason is out there that many do believe in might actually be the simplest, most logical explanation.
And please don't compare something concrete and viable like a birth certificate with something mythical like a ghost. You're just being silly now.
So you've held Obama's birth certificate in your hands? You can visit that hospital (or wherever) in Hawaii and somehow examine the original under some freedom of information act provision?!
Of course I'm being ridiculous related to the birther thing (because birthers are, in their very nature, ridiculous). I'm being overly dramatic to try and make a point. Some of the experiences I've had are 100-times more real to me than any mythical piece of paper on the island of Oahu. Yet I have faith in the fact that piece of paper is/was out there (if it wasn't destroyed after Hawaii went to digital copies of those certificates). But having faith in that is A-OK, while having faith in some of the other stuff makes me a raging, delusional freak. Since post #1 in this thread, I've not been trying to sell anybody a bill of goods, nor am I trying to all of the sudden get skeptics to drop everything and say that they can now "see the light." Won't happen. Especially not in a place like this. I simply started this thread to share some of my own experiences that I could not explain away (with lots of armchair "PhDs" and "psychologists" doing their best to explain it away on my behalf, lol), being honest about my associated beliefs. The problem isn't myself or others sharing their experiences and talking about it. The problem is trolls with nothing better to do in their lives coming in to take a dump on things. But, such is life in the FFA. God Bless/Curse this place...lol.
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sjacksonfan
Footballguy
I saw something recently about an experiment where they used a place they told people was haunted while also piping in low level sound waves. They were talking about cognitive bias. They had two groups go into this old prison, one group believed in spirits/angels/religion/etc and the other group did not. Then at some point during the experiment they piped in the low level sound waves. It was pretty interesting. The group who was predisposed to believe in hauntings/ghosts absolutely believed the place to be haunted while the other group just kind of walked around. Can't remember where I saw it.
Yep, I've seen that too (I think), or at least heard something similar. And that type of research is spot-on.That's the funny thing about all this to me. I probably throw the B.S.
ten-times more than anyone I know related to this stuff. As soon as I hear "midnight," "3:00am," "haunted house," "Halloween," "alone in the woods/dark," etc., my first inclination is to think that somebody is awfully, awfully impressionable. People putting themselves into situations where they will be predisposed to look for "the supernatural." Then a pipe clangs, or the house settles or a squirrel is rustling around in the leaves, and people think "G-G-G-ghost!" (in my best Shaggy voice from Scooby-Doo).I'll say it again: that's not the stuff I am talking about. At all. Heck, I wish it were a lot of the time...as that would be a lot easier.
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RudiStein
*Not really a bail bondsman
So you've held Obama's birth certificate in your hands? You can visit that hospital (or wherever) in Hawaii and somehow examine the original under some freedom of information act provision?!
Since post #1 in this thread, I've not been trying to sell anybody a bill of goods, nor am I trying to all of the sudden get skeptics to drop everything and say that they can now "see the light." Won't happen. Especially not in a place like this. I simply started this thread to share some of my own experiences that I could not explain away (with lots of armchair "PhDs" and "psychologists" doing their best to explain it away on my behalf, lol), being honest about my associated beliefs. The problem isn't myself or others sharing their experiences and talking about it. The problem is trolls with nothing better to do in their lives coming in to take a dump on things. But, such is life in the FFA. God Bless/Curse this place...lol.
You're pretty loopy.Okay, one more quickie that I've got to share!
Since my youngest daughter (4) was born, I've told family and friends that she is the spitting-image of my deceased grandmother. Told everyone except my two girls, that is. Anyway, one night a few weeks ago after dinner we were playing around where we eat our meals (between the kitchen and dining room), when I noticed my youngest daughter (still 3 at the time) just quietly standing next to the table and staring at me, with the biggest smile on her face. I asked her (by name) why she was smiling and staring at me like that, and she said "My name's not ________, Daddy. My name is Harriet...Harriet ________."
My wife and I just laughed out loud...as the name she gave me was the first and last name of my grandmother...someone she never met and someone who I have maybe talked about in front of her about 3-4 times in her life (never by her first name). Why/How she pulled that out of thin air I have no idea. However, it was pretty cool.
Supernatural?! No...I'm not saying that! Just kind of cool that my youngest daughter put the biggest smile on her Dad's face that evening by mentioning a person he really misses since she passed away.
Since my youngest daughter (4) was born, I've told family and friends that she is the spitting-image of my deceased grandmother. Told everyone except my two girls, that is. Anyway, one night a few weeks ago after dinner we were playing around where we eat our meals (between the kitchen and dining room), when I noticed my youngest daughter (still 3 at the time) just quietly standing next to the table and staring at me, with the biggest smile on her face. I asked her (by name) why she was smiling and staring at me like that, and she said "My name's not ________, Daddy. My name is Harriet...Harriet ________."
My wife and I just laughed out loud...as the name she gave me was the first and last name of my grandmother...someone she never met and someone who I have maybe talked about in front of her about 3-4 times in her life (never by her first name). Why/How she pulled that out of thin air I have no idea. However, it was pretty cool.
Supernatural?! No...I'm not saying that! Just kind of cool that my youngest daughter put the biggest smile on her Dad's face that evening by mentioning a person he really misses since she passed away.
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RudiStein
*Not really a bail bondsman
I wish I understood this. Not in a 'supernatural' way but in a 'what happened?' way?Okay, one more quickie that I've got to share!
Since my youngest daughter (4) was born, I've told family and friends that she is the spitting-image of my deceased grandmother. Everyone but my two girls, that is. Anyway, one night a few weeks ago after dinner we were playing around where we eat our meals, when I noticed my youngest daughter (still 3 at the time) just quietly standing next to the table and staring at me, with the biggest smile on her face. I asked her why she was smiling and staring at me like that (by name), and she said "My name's not ________, Daddy. My name is Harriet...Harriet ________."
My wife and I just laughed out loud...as the name she gave me was the first and last name of my grandmother...someone she never met and someone who I have maybe talked about in front of her about 3-4 times in her life (never by her first name). Why/How she pulled that out of thin air I have no idea. However, it was pretty cool.
Supernatural?! No...I'm not saying that! Just kind of cool that my youngest daughter put the biggest smile on her Dad's face that evening by mentioning a person he really misses since she passed away.
identikit
Footballguy
Wow...No kidding.I wish I understood this. Not in a 'supernatural' way but in a 'what happened?' way?Okay, one more quickie that I've got to share!
Since my youngest daughter (4) was born, I've told family and friends that she is the spitting-image of my deceased grandmother. Everyone but my two girls, that is. Anyway, one night a few weeks ago after dinner we were playing around where we eat our meals, when I noticed my youngest daughter (still 3 at the time) just quietly standing next to the table and staring at me, with the biggest smile on her face. I asked her why she was smiling and staring at me like that (by name), and she said "My name's not ________, Daddy. My name is Harriet...Harriet ________."
My wife and I just laughed out loud...as the name she gave me was the first and last name of my grandmother...someone she never met and someone who I have maybe talked about in front of her about 3-4 times in her life (never by her first name). Why/How she pulled that out of thin air I have no idea. However, it was pretty cool.
Supernatural?! No...I'm not saying that! Just kind of cool that my youngest daughter put the biggest smile on her Dad's face that evening by mentioning a person he really misses since she passed away.
MikeIke
Footballguy
Something very strange happened last week at my house. My wife is convinced a ghost is trying to tell us something. I don't agree, but I don't have a good explanation, either.
I was changing the sheets on our bed. We have this stuff from Bath & Body Works that you spray on the sheets and pillows to make them smell good. It's lavender-scented, we've had the same bottle for several years now and it's almost gone. So I make the bed and spray the stuff on. "Hm, this smells weird," I think to myself. Maybe it's gone bad. I look at the bottle and it's not lavender - it's eucalyptus and spearmint. The bottle is almost empty, just like the lavender is. "That's strange, I don't remember seeing this bottle before," I say to myself. Weird thing is, it was on our dresser next to the TV exactly where the lavender goes. I put the bottle back and the lavender is not there, or anywhere else in the room.
That night the wife lays down and says it smells musty. I tell her about the eucalyptus and how the lavender is gone. She says she's never seen that bottle before, or even smelled it. Neither of us can figure out where it came from, how it's almost gone, or where the heck the lavender is.
A few days later we got a new microwave. I take the old one off the counter and there's some dirt and junk that's fallen behind it. As I'm cleaning it up, I see a small trial-size bottle of lotion that had fallen back there. I pick it up and guess what scent it is? Yep, eucalyptus and spearmint. I say "Woah, look at this" and show the bottle to the wife. She sees what scent it is and literally starts shaking and tears come to her eyes. Also, the lotion was not Bath & Body Works brand, so they came from two different places originally.
Now she's trying to figure out who she knows/knew that might have died and is trying to give her a sign. I just think it's weird and decided to share here, since there's a few other "ghostly" things I've mentioned upthread.
I was changing the sheets on our bed. We have this stuff from Bath & Body Works that you spray on the sheets and pillows to make them smell good. It's lavender-scented, we've had the same bottle for several years now and it's almost gone. So I make the bed and spray the stuff on. "Hm, this smells weird," I think to myself. Maybe it's gone bad. I look at the bottle and it's not lavender - it's eucalyptus and spearmint. The bottle is almost empty, just like the lavender is. "That's strange, I don't remember seeing this bottle before," I say to myself. Weird thing is, it was on our dresser next to the TV exactly where the lavender goes. I put the bottle back and the lavender is not there, or anywhere else in the room.
That night the wife lays down and says it smells musty. I tell her about the eucalyptus and how the lavender is gone. She says she's never seen that bottle before, or even smelled it. Neither of us can figure out where it came from, how it's almost gone, or where the heck the lavender is.
A few days later we got a new microwave. I take the old one off the counter and there's some dirt and junk that's fallen behind it. As I'm cleaning it up, I see a small trial-size bottle of lotion that had fallen back there. I pick it up and guess what scent it is? Yep, eucalyptus and spearmint. I say "Woah, look at this" and show the bottle to the wife. She sees what scent it is and literally starts shaking and tears come to her eyes. Also, the lotion was not Bath & Body Works brand, so they came from two different places originally.
Now she's trying to figure out who she knows/knew that might have died and is trying to give her a sign. I just think it's weird and decided to share here, since there's a few other "ghostly" things I've mentioned upthread.
Statcruncher
Footballguy
I sense that your house was the final stop for a Koala bear who died while drinking mint julips.
Harry Manback
Footballguy
Prett sure its trying to tell you that Bath and Body works is crap and so is the lavender scen.
Mr. Know-It-All
Footballguy
Not sure what to make of this, but my uncle died 19 years ago right after my oldest child was born. He actually baptized her a few weeks before he succumbed to cancer (he was a priest). Flash forward to 10 years ago when my middle child (now 13 year) was three. He would talk about Uncle Father. Uncle father would hang out in his room and they would talk and Uncle Father would always protect him. He looked like Grandpa (my dad) but he had a black shirt and a white collar....this went on for several years then we never heard about Uncle Father again.
Funny thing is, Uncle Father had been dead 9 years before my son met him...although I personally think it was just an active imagination plus maybe having seen a picture of Uncle (Father) Johnny and heard some stories about him.
Funny thing is, Uncle Father had been dead 9 years before my son met him...although I personally think it was just an active imagination plus maybe having seen a picture of Uncle (Father) Johnny and heard some stories about him.
Godsbrother
Footballguy
When my son was around 3 years old, my wife and I were driving past a neighborhood and he says "That's where I used to live".
My wife says "Honey we've never lived in that neighborhood" and he answered "Not with you. That is where I used to live with my other family". My wife was puzzled and says "What other family?" and he answers: "My mommy and daddy before you".
Certainly he was just making stuff up but it was creepy.
My wife says "Honey we've never lived in that neighborhood" and he answered "Not with you. That is where I used to live with my other family". My wife was puzzled and says "What other family?" and he answers: "My mommy and daddy before you".
Certainly he was just making stuff up but it was creepy.
TommyGilmore
Footballguy
Maybe you've got packrats who like to huff lavender spray?
sjacksonfan
Footballguy
Your wife honestly believes this is some kind of ghostly encounter? Wat? Really? Really? Guys, there's no such thing as ghosts or "spirits". Spirit is a made up concept.
MikeIke
Footballguy
We've had quite a few strange things happen in our house over the last few years. Nothing mind-blowing and we've discovered logical reasons for some of them. For others, not so much. I'm content to just say "Huh, that's really strange," but my wife is, and always has been, the type to believe in spirits, psychics, and other supernatural stuff. If there's no explanation for something she tends to jump straight to ghosts. I usually just smile and nod when she starts in about it.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Does your wife know that the Amazing Randi Foundation has been offering $1 million dollars for years to anyone that could prove they were psychic and no one has collected the money? Psychic powers are fake.We've had quite a few strange things happen in our house over the last few years. Nothing mind-blowing and we've discovered logical reasons for some of them. For others, not so much. I'm content to just say "Huh, that's really strange," but my wife is, and always has been, the type to believe in spirits, psychics, and other supernatural stuff. If there's no explanation for something she tends to jump straight to ghosts. I usually just smile and nod when she starts in about it.
glock
"Don't grumble, give a whistle!"
Party poopers....Does your wife know that the Amazing Randi Foundation has been offering $1 million dollars for years to anyone that could prove they were psychic and no one has collected the money? Psychic powers are fake.We've had quite a few strange things happen in our house over the last few years. Nothing mind-blowing and we've discovered logical reasons for some of them. For others, not so much. I'm content to just say "Huh, that's really strange," but my wife is, and always has been, the type to believe in spirits, psychics, and other supernatural stuff. If there's no explanation for something she tends to jump straight to ghosts. I usually just smile and nod when she starts in about it.
werdnoynek
Footballguy
prove that there isn't ghosts or spirits... wise guy.sjacksonfan said:
Radical Larry
Footballguy
James Randi is an American hero.glock said:Party poopers....jdoggydogg said:Does your wife know that the Amazing Randi Foundation has been offering $1 million dollars for years to anyone that could prove they were psychic and no one has collected the money? Psychic powers are fake.MikeIke said:sjacksonfan said:
St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
Your wife is banging a koala bear.MikeIke said:
MikeIke
Footballguy
Huh, I thought he was just a hirsute midget that smelled like cough drops.
videoguy505
Footballguy
Back in 1977 my best friend and his wife stayed at an isolated Colorado hotel in the middle of winter where he was finishing a writing project. His wife took care of the hotel. During the stay their son Danny started seeing visions of the hotel's dark past using a telepathic gift he had from the time he was a toddler. Anyway the isolation of this place started to drive my friend mad. A ghost he had befriended convinced him to correct his family and he set off to kill his wife and child.
