Come on man.
We are not only fellow gun enthusiasts, but also BOTL so I think I can be frank. The idea that ANYTHING can be haunted is very much outlandish.
There is a good way to tell if your firearm (or anything else) is haunted. IT ISN'T.
Carry on.
I completely understand, and respect, those who feel this way. I was an ardent skeptic and critic of that kind of stuff, too.
However, from my own life experiences in a previous apartment I lived in (converted attic of a house from 1890), I was forced to alter my perspective on the matter.
I will not spend the time to fill this thread with examples, but a couple of things that helped solidify it for me, personally:
My friend downstairs left the house, with only his cat left. I saw him get into his car and drive away, watching from the front window. I thought - I was going to ask him something, oh well. Minutes later, there was a series of knocks on the door to an interior stairwell down to his place. There is no other access to this stairwell except within our place, and both doors to the stairwell were locked.
The knocks were in the "shave and a haircut...two bits" pattern. Distinct. Quiet, but somewhat slow and deliberate. Just as my friend would knock to come up to my place (I initially thought somehow he was messing with me). But...he was gone. I saw him drive away in his car. And his cat isn't smart enough to unlock a door and knock in that pattern! Oh, and the knocking happened a second time, too. A tad louder, and a bit more distinct. So go figure. No, I did not open up the stairwell door to see who or what was knocking.
I also awoke one night to the sound of my bedside table lamp clicking on and off. Half awake, I yelled STOP (and this woke me up a bit) because it was a really annoying sound. The sound stopped and I fell back asleep. Early morning I opened my eyes, and the light was on in my room. But it was off when I went to sleep. I checked every inch of the apartment. No one in there but me...and a lamp that turned itself on. Never had that behavior before or since with that lamp. It still resides in our home, and has never done that again.
So anyways. I understand people dismiss ghosts and hauntings. I used to. But I became a believer that weird things happen in this world when I lived in that apartment.
Enough things happened in my old place to utterly dissolve any skepticism in me. Now that stuff on TV - I think that's all bunk.
Anyhow, thanks for satisfying my curiosity on this one folks.
