Ghost stories

[perkyT]

OK, clowns are annoying and scary.

Nurses are only terrifying when we want to be.

I've seen dogs that behave like cats. It's sort of like being in the Twilight Zone. LOL

Here's what makes cats cool in my opinion. Dogs just love ya. They don't have a choice. lol Cats - when a cat comes to you, you know it's because they WANT to be with you. Or they want something from you. hehe

Clowns are not funny.

Nurses still eat their young. *sigh*

Cats? No comment.

*checks the topic of the thread*

Off topic, per usual.

*gropesBeachyBaby*

 

[KalIsBack]

Clowns, cats, and nurses are integral to horror stories.

So we're still on topic.

 

[NotHisLady]

--What is it that makes ghosts scary? Granted I may be a little crazy but I have encountered a couple and they've never scared me.

--Cats are integral to horror stories because they're sensitive to the otherworldly. Nothing creepy about that. Dogs in horror stories eat people or channel Satan.

--I still don't get why clowns are scary and mimes are just annoying.

Enquiring minds want to know!


For as long as I can remember when things have been bad or difficult, when I've been very emotional, I've been able to smell cigar smoke (there hasn't been any to smell but I've been able to smell it.)
I was in my mid to late 20's before I found out that my great grandfather had never been without his cigar. In fact there's a family story I finally heard that the only person he ever put it down for was me--my mom wouldn't let him hold me when I was a baby while he had his cigar. I never met him other than as a baby, he passed before I was old enough to walk. I think it's safe to say he's been around though.

 

[KalIsBack]

What makes ghosts scary? We can't predict them, or control them, or communicate with them like we would with humans.

Cats are kind of creepy when they just stare and stare and stare at you...

Dogs are also the typical 'people defenders.' Personal bodyguards... unless you have a small or toy breed.

 

[NotHisLady]

What makes ghosts scary? We can't predict them, or control them, or communicate with them like we would with humans.

Cats are kind of creepy when they just stare and stare and stare at you...

Dogs are also the typical 'people defenders.' Personal bodyguards... unless you have a small or toy breed.

that description sounds less like ghosts than men!! (Unpredictable and impossible to communicate with)

 

[KalIsBack]

that description sounds less like ghosts than men!! (Unpredictable and impossible to communicate with)

Well, it sounds like women too.

 

[RjThoughts]

I wrote this earlier Cindy's Cake

It involves no cats, clowns, or nurses

 

[NotHisLady]

Well, it sounds like women too.

I have an aching desire to yell "does not"

I think it would get us both into trouble though

 

[RjThoughts]

--What is it that makes ghosts scary? Granted I may be a little crazy but I have encountered a couple and they've never scared me.

--Cats are integral to horror stories because they're sensitive to the otherworldly. Nothing creepy about that. Dogs in horror stories eat people or channel Satan.

--I still don't get why clowns are scary and mimes are just annoying.

Enquiring minds want to know!


For as long as I can remember when things have been bad or difficult, when I've been very emotional, I've been able to smell cigar smoke (there hasn't been any to smell but I've been able to smell it.)
I was in my mid to late 20's before I found out that my great grandfather had never been without his cigar. In fact there's a family story I finally heard that the only person he ever put it down for was me--my mom wouldn't let him hold me when I was a baby while he had his cigar. I never met him other than as a baby, he passed before I was old enough to walk. I think it's safe to say he's been around though.

Part of me believes that spirits and ghosts can manifest themselves by using the energy our emotions can create. The sense of loss when someone dies, people can feel that person around them, or some other loved one.

Part of me believes that ancestors are always around us, watching us, making sure we come to no great harm.

 

[KalIsBack]

I have an aching desire to yell "does not"

I think it would get us both into trouble though

Well let's just skip to the rebuttal...

Does too!!!

(*points finger* She started it...)

 

[talikat]

I wrote this earlier Cindy's Cake

It involves no cats, clowns, or nurses

That was awesome, thank you!!

 

[RjThoughts]

That was awesome, thank you!!

Welcome

 

[BeachMomma]

That's the interesting part. I think that, on some level, we're aware of these supernatural things going on around us, but on a conscious level, the rational, logical level we use every day, we can't explain them so our brain ignores them. Does that ake sense? I liken seeing ghosts to dreaming. We can't dream when we're awake, because the part of the brain that dreams is in use for other things. We can't see ghosts most of the time because our brains, on a basic level, are thinking and rationalising. My take on it, anyway...

I understand and agree completely. It's like I said to NotHisLady earlier. I think there are some things that we can't explain yet, so we rationalize it, look down our noses at it, or just plain ignore it. I think maybe someday we WILL be able to understand it. I hope so anyway.

I've seen enough with my own two eyes that I can't simply discount it. Sure, lots of those things have rational explanations, but just as many don't. I'm around death and dying a lot more than the average Joe. If someone wants to pooh pooh my theories or thoughts, I invite them to hang out with me for a while.

I held the hand of a dying man last week. I hugged his wife. I'd worked with them both for several weeks and we became somewhat close. I stood there and prayed for him to live until I got off work. He died two hours after I left. I didn't want to be the one to tell his wife he was gone, and I didn't want to be the one to send his body to the morgue. His wife will always remember me as the nice nurse who hugged her and let her cry. She won't remember me as the one who told her he'd died.

 

[RjThoughts]

I understand and agree completely. It's like I said to NotHisLady earlier. I think there are some things that we can't explain yet, so we rationalize it, look down our noses at it, or just plain ignore it. I think maybe someday we WILL be able to understand it. I hope so anyway.

I've seen enough with my own two eyes that I can't simply discount it. Sure, lots of those things have rational explanations, but just as many don't. I'm around death and dying a lot more than the average Joe. If someone wants to pooh pooh my theories or thoughts, I invite them to hang out with me for a while.

I held the hand of a dying man last week. I hugged his wife. I'd worked with them both for several weeks and we became somewhat close. I stood there and prayed for him to live until I got off work. He died two hours after I left. I didn't want to be the one to tell his wife he was gone, and I didn't want to be the one to send his body to the morgue. His wife will always remember me as the nice nurse who hugged her and let her cry. She won't remember me as the one who told her he'd died.

No. That's something no one would want.

 

[BeachMomma]

Clowns are not funny.

Nurses still eat their young. *sigh*

Cats? No comment.

*checks the topic of the thread*

Off topic, per usual.

*gropesBeachyBaby*

As OP, I will end the clown argument. Clowns are not funny. They are annoying, and they are, in fact, scary! They're frickin' evil!

Nurses do eat their young, but I was the strange one. I'd been in the business long enough that, even as a new nurse, if a veteran nurse tried to take a chomp out of my ass, I returned the favor. With gusto. I can't say too many veteran nurses have tried the eat their young tactic on me. *I* try to make an extensive effort not only to refrain from eating my young but also allowing any other nurse to do it within my hearing. We're professionals. Even if we are women. That kind of behavior is inexcusable.

that description sounds less like ghosts than men!! (Unpredictable and impossible to communicate with)

Well, it sounds like women too.

I have an aching desire to yell "does not"

I think it would get us both into trouble though

Well let's just skip to the rebuttal...

Does too!!!

(*points finger* She started it...)

I think I should send you to your rooms until you can kiss and make up. I have to say, I agree with Kal. Most of the men I know are very predictable, although their communication skills tend to be limited to grunts, farts, "get me a beer," and "FOOTBALL MOTHERFUCKER!" The men on this board tend to be far less vocally challenged than most men I know. (That's not including the PM asshats. )

Women are almost as unpredictable as cats. Wait. I'm wrong. Cats are almost as unpredictable as women. LOL

So that being said, you're both right. Now go to your room until you can kiss and make up.

 

[RjThoughts]

I'm wondering: With the abnormal amount of nurses in my family, should I write a few stories about the ghosts they've seen, of passed-on favorite/most beloved patients?

 

[BeachMomma]

No. That's something no one would want.

She didn't get to know the night shift nurses the way she got to know me. This way, she got the call from a relatively unknown person. She met the nurse before she left for the night, but she hadn't become attached to her. I wouldn't say we became friends, but we definitely had a rapport.

I'm wondering: With the abnormal amount of nurses in my family, should I write a few stories about the ghosts they've seen, of passed-on favorite/most beloved patients?

You should definitely get them to tell you their stories and put them on paper! That would be so cool! And they'd be so glad that you took an interest in their histories.

 

[RjThoughts]

She didn't get to know the night shift nurses the way she got to know me. This way, she got the call from a relatively unknown person. She met the nurse before she left for the night, but she hadn't become attached to her. I wouldn't say we became friends, but we definitely had a rapport.



You should definitely get them to tell you their stories and put them on paper! That would be so cool! And they'd be so glad that you took an interest in their histories.

I know two cousins would LOVE to tell me their paranormal experiences, if they had any: They would sit around a fire with me and others during the summers when we'd be at one of the family farms, working so some of the hired help could have a day or week off for vacation.

I remember my sister telling me she had a "Goodbye" from one of her clients.

 

[NotHisLady]

As OP, I will end the clown argument.
...snip...
Now go to your room until you can kiss and make up.

Hang on!!

I'll go to my OWN room but you make it sound like we have to share one.
If that's the case I'm bringing BOTH of my cats AND my clown make up.


I'm Southern born and raised and it seems like there are more people who are comfortable with spirits (from the beyond not the bottle) in this part of the country. Have any of you found that to be the case?

 

[BeachMomma]

Hang on!!

I'll go to my OWN room but you make it sound like we have to share one.

If that's the case I'm bringing BOTH of my cats AND my clown make up.


I'm Southern born and raised and it seems like there are more people who are comfortable with spirits (from the beyond not the bottle) in this part of the country. Have any of you found that to be the case?

I'm glad you caught on - and ran with it. I like the way you think!

I've never thought about that before, but I'm a Southern belle too. Hmmm.

 

[KalIsBack]

Hang on!!

I'll go to my OWN room but you make it sound like we have to share one.
If that's the case I'm bringing BOTH of my cats AND my clown make up.


I'm Southern born and raised and it seems like there are more people who are comfortable with spirits (from the beyond not the bottle) in this part of the country. Have any of you found that to be the case?

We can't share a room? We're supposed to kiss and make up.

Fine. Wear the clown makeup, but I'm shutting the cats in the closet... they can play with the resident poltergeist.

Dunno. I've related my one up-close, personal experience with ghosts. I've seen people taking pictures in cemetaries (I used to live next to one), but I've been spirit free, mostly.

 

[KalIsBack]

I'm glad you caught on - and ran with it. I like the way you think!

I've never thought about that before, but I'm a Southern belle too. Hmmm.

You're killing me!

Well, not the Southern Belle part.

 

[BeachMomma]

You're killing me!

Well, not the Southern Belle part.

Pun intended?

I know that New Orleans is very open to the supernatural, but that brings a couple of things to mind - their heritage and also the fact that New Orleans is just a very old city with lots of history. It makes sense that the more tragedies a city has endured, the more it will be exposed to supernatural occurrences.

I mentioned my hometown early in the thread. We have quite a few fascinating stories from the Civil War. Most of the Civil War was fought on Southern soil, so that makes sense too. I'm sure that if we researched it, we could find numerous instances of supernatural occurrences in historical cities such as those involved in the Civil and Revolutionary Wars.

Then there's always the argument that some will make that Southern people aren't as intelligent so we're bound to be more open to "nonsense." Call me uneducated as much as you want; I'll begin working on my doctorate within the next year or so. *shrugs*

 

[KalIsBack]

Pun intended?

I know that New Orleans is very open to the supernatural, but that brings a couple of things to mind - their heritage and also the fact that New Orleans is just a very old city with lots of history. It makes sense that the more tragedies a city has endured, the more it will be exposed to supernatural occurrences.

I mentioned my hometown early in the thread. We have quite a few fascinating stories from the Civil War. Most of the Civil War was fought on Southern soil, so that makes sense too. I'm sure that if we researched it, we could find numerous instances of supernatural occurrences in historical cities such as those involved in the Civil and Revolutionary Wars.

Then there's always the argument that some will make that Southern people aren't as intelligent so we're bound to be more open to "nonsense." Call me uneducated as much as you want; I'll begin working on my doctorate within the next year or so. *shrugs*

Pun unintended, but I like it just the same.

I agree. From what I know, it seems like more violence has taken place in the South, which opens up the door for that kind of ghostly supernatural stuff.

I was reading over a few MAT (miller's analogy test) handbooks, and realised how glad I am that I didn't have to take it. Probably would have scored in the mid seventies to mid eighties....

 

[NotHisLady]

I actually think it has to do with the fact that the South has stayed more rural for longer. We have kept our folklore and traditions alive better than some of the more urban areas have. That makes it easier for a person raised here to incorporate all of that into a comprehensive worldview. Just my opinion of course.