haunted houses

[HARDKOREBJ]

there are some in my town to believed to be haunted for real.do you believe that it can happen.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Does anyone really want me to go on and on about why there are no ghosts, or do you all just want to tell your ghost stories (we all have one) in peace?

 

[enslaved lioness]

yes, I do. i lived in a house where unexplained things happened and the history of the house was consistant with what would make a "haunted house".

i dont know if i buy into some of the theories of why houses are haunted or what the "ghosts" are actually supposed to be but i do believe that there are more things in this world than we, in all our scientific knowledge, will ever know. and this is one of them.

 

[enslaved lioness]

Does anyone really want me to go on and on about why there are no ghosts, or do you all just want to tell your ghost stories (we all have one) in peace?

~laughs~

i am afraid it all comes down to personal beliefs and no matter how much you tell someone why your views are right and theirs are wrong some people are going to believe in hauntings and some will never believe they exist.

 

[miz_understood]

Am not really sure if there are such things as ghosts but I do think that sometimes the atmosphere in a house can really give you the spooks. A couple of months ago we went on a weekend break at a castle out in the countryside, we were given a guided tour around the place and my hubby and brother in law messed around during the whole thing, hiding behind suits of armour and jumping out on us silly things like that. After we had a few drinks my sister dragged me up to their room and pulled a couple of "Scream" masks out, when we heard the guys outside the room we hid in the wardrobe and jumped out on them. Really funny at the time but the rest of the time we were there I think I lived on my nerves wondering whether every little creak I heard was a ghost or the guys trying to get their revenge.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

i do believe that there are more things in this world than we, in all our scientific knowledge, will ever know and this is one of them.

Well, I certainly disagree with that -- it's entirely easy to refute preternatural phenomenon. But, in the spirit of Halloween I think I'll stay out of this one, and just add a quote from my favorite ghost story:

"Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail."

 

[Starfish]

Bah hu...

You know. Let the fun begin, I say.

 

[enslaved lioness]

Well, I certainly disagree with that -- it's entirely easy to refute preternatural phenomenon. But, in the spirit of Halloween I think I'll stay out of this one, and just add a quote from my favorite ghost story:

"Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail."

and i respect your right to disagree. the world would be a very boring place if we all thought along the same lines. i am sure i will sometime find myself in a position where i agree with you and i wait patiently for that time.

 

[Chuckus]

I say anything is possible, sometimes not probable but possible in any event.

 

[Starfish]

What? No Ghost stories? BORRRRRRIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNGgggah!


I will dig up some grimness for sure! BOO!


Ahhhh ha ha ha......

Here is a mild Japanese Ghost tale for ya....

Something in the Attic


My friend who told me the story of her Totoro no Babayan one evening when I visited her home and we had a drink together. Naturally our conversation drifted from there into the realm of the supernatural.

My friend confided in me then that she had "something" in her attic.

"Something?" I asked. "What exactly do you mean by 'something' ?"

"I don't know. Just something. I think it may be a child. I've never seen him. I've only heard his footsteps."

"Is he some kind of Zashiki Warashi? " (This is a spirit haunting an old house. It is a good spirit, a child like spirit which is said to protect the house and family.) *

"He might be, but he's really very naughty. The attic is where I go to work or read books. He's always trying to distract me and get my attention by dropping books or making strange noises."

"But why does he live here? Usually spirits live in old houses, where they've lived in the past. This is a brand new house!"

"Well," said my friend, "I picked him up one night. Before we moved into this house, I was walking home alone one evening and I suddenly heard footsteps following behind me. I stopped and looked, the footsteps stopped, but there was no one there. I began to walk and the footsteps behind me began again. Well, finally I just told him to come along with me to my home."

"Never pick up something you don't know," I told her. But I felt relieved to hear that thinking it was not the attic of the house where I sat now. People say, if you talk about supernatural matters, spirits good and evil might be attracted. Actually I began to worry if he came downstairs. "So this happened when you lived in your former house?"

"Yes," she said, "But when I moved into this house. I invited him to come and live with us if he wanted to. He did."

Then she told me, that a few months ago he was getting out of control. "I was reading a book one evening. Suddenly I burst into tears and couldn't stop crying. I wasn't sad. I wasn't depressed. After awhile I became emotionally unstable for no reason. I knew he was doing this to me. Finally I ran to my friend's house in the middle of the night, just crying uncontrollably over nothing."

I knew this friend she was talking about. Her husband is a Shinto priest. "He has the power to exorcise spirits," she said, "and she (her friend) has the ability to prevent the exprcised spirits from returning again."

Her friend was a garrulous, friendly, good hearted person, but I couldn't believe that she would have this kind of spiritual power. "They tried to exorcise him but they failed. He won't leave me. Instead the priest gave me a mantra to chant which calms the spirit down."

"Soooo, he's still here?" I said nervously, sitting in her room, looking around with my drink in my hand. "In this house?"

"Yes."

"Now??"

"Of course."

Her two daughters were asleep, and at this late hour there was no one awake but ourselves. And maybe one other. Maybe.

"You're scaring me!" I said. "Does he ever come down here? Where we are now?"

"No," she said. "He always stays up there, in the attic. And lately at least, he's been behaving himself."

When I left her house that night I stopped, listening for footsteps just in case. "If you're there -" I whispered "please don't follow me!"



Kawaidan Japanese Ghost Stories

 

[freakygirl]

*sees the posts of Dixon and decides to back out of the thread*

Hi Dixon *waves*