Haunted firearms

I have a Colt SAA from 1883 with 4 notches in the wooden stocks. I have often wondered if this means that someone killed 4 individuals with it a long time ago...

It doesn't bother me if that is the case. But, I will never know if this means it killed humans, hares, tin cans...

rcmodel said:

No.
I never believed in haunted objects and the after-life.
Especially guns that might have played a roll in someone's death at some point in time.

Never seen it in 70 years.

Except for my dad's old Buliva watch he wore for half his life.
That woke me up in the middle of the night rattling & slapping the metal watch band back & forth on my moms kitchen counter!

Two hours after I brought his personal effects home from the hospital the night he died and placed them there.

I still have no reasonable explanation for that deal right there 35 years later!!!

rc

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Kind of scraping here but was there a dishwasher under the counter?

Some of those really old dishwashers had motors on the top carrier. They, most certainly would have the magnetic capacity while running to move a watch around through less than an inch of counter top... just a thought.

I have never had a haunted firearm... I bet a lot of anti 2A folks think guns are haunted since they seem to be very scary and shoot people frequently with no human intervention

While not strictly THR material, I would like to throw my .02 in as far as the supernatural is concerned. I do believe in an afterlife, a God, and miracles but I have never believed there to be anything supernatural or magical about any of it. If there is a God, I believe he uses science and certainly has a better grasp on it than we do.

If it were a military weapon or a police weapon used in justified shootings... no absolutely not it wouldn't scare me to own the gun and I don't think it would be haunted.

Now anything used for suicides or to harm a family member... no thanks. It's not because I believe in spirits, but just seeing the gun could bring up negative memories.

I have never had any reason to believe any of my firearms are haunted. However I have observed things & been told of enough things happening to believe there is a spirit world & some people have encounters with it. There were several things that happened in the house I grew up in. Then all the things that had been happening stopped. After I was grown I said something to my Mother about it being strange that all of it suddenly stopped. She told me that nothing else had happened after she prayed over the house.

I have a Colt SAA from 1883 with 4 notches in the wooden stocks. I have often wondered if this means that someone killed 4 individuals with it a long time ago...

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More than likely it was a wet behind the ears tinhorn who wanted people to think he killed 4 people with it.

But it's still cool to have a 1st gen SAA like that.

Afraid of haunted guns just buy new, but then you run the risk of cursed.

Kind of scraping here but was there a dishwasher under the counter?

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No, there was nothing.

It was an old house with barely functional indoor plumbing, let alone a dish-washer I would hear running.

The 'Counter' was a free standing island sorta thing in the middle of it with bar-stools.
Off separate from the regular counter, gas stove, microwave, & sink along the wall.
No ceiling fan over it, no nothing under it except pots, pans, and 'special occasion' dishes.

The gold Buliva was a totally anti-magnetic, battery powered Accutron.
No escapement wheel movement or clock movement ticking to go beserk and slap the watch-band back and forth on the counter.

And, there was just no logical explanation for it, or outside influence on it that I could figure out!

I even figured I was dreaming after all the stress over the loss of my dad that night.
Except my wife got up right after I did and came in the kitchen to see what was rattling so loud.

We thought my mom was in there doing something in the middle of the night?
But she was sound asleep in bed when we checked on her.

I would be one of the last people on earth to believe that story too.
If I hadn't see it with my own eyes.

rc

Ever notice how many 'hauntings' take place right after the 'hauntee' is suddenly awoken? There's your explanation

I suspect guns aren't haunted so often because they are simple. Unlike houses, with hidden nooks and crannies, and boards that go 'squeak' or rattle, guns don't (can't) do much on their own. No activity = little chance for them to be mistaken for housing mysterious phenomena. One caveat, however, is concept of 'energy' that people can 'sense' from inanimate objects. Knowing or guessing at the history behind relics, emotional feelings can be imparted onto the object giving it an 'aura' of evil, nobility, etc. The closest to 'haunting' that can (ir)rationally be attributed to firearms by the ignorant/mistaken is the notion of possession, where the firearms' 'will' affects or supercedes that of its owner or people near by; the old cinema story of the 'sinister trinket' that brings misfortune on those who come by it.

...and that's where 'evil weapons that must be banned' come from . If you chase it down all the way, much of the core of gun-phobic sentiment really is straight out of fairy tales*

I haven't been unduly affected by the potential history of any of the old guns I own (which could be anything from the gruesome death of a French Officer in some awful trench during WWI <Mle 1873 revolver>, to brutally suppressed Zapata revolutionaries/terrorists <Mexican 1902 rolling block>, to cozy but nervous Swiss reservists observing WWII <K31>, to enforcing Party edicts against disarmed civilians <Mauser C96, possibly of Chinese history>) but I have to admit to some very low-level discomfort about the MP34 kit I picked up from a Polish guy recently. These were likely the finest SMGs ever made at that time or since, which is why I would like to build an example as a semi-auto replica. However, their history was tarnished by their frequent use by German SS units, specifically by concentration camp guards. This kit is most likely not of that issue set (I think I'd have had to pay more than I did for that kind of 'history') but rather an export model. Still, it is iconic as one of the 'big bad' guns of WWII, associated with the most guilty actors, and surely carries great meaning for a lot of people even today, not unlike the Luger. I'm sure a lot of people would rather the parts kit be fated to never fire another round, and instead be utterly destroyed. I think that is a childish waste of everything it represents, good and bad.


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*see? I managed to tie it back to THR-related content, even if it took a few turns...

This is the kind of superstition that... oh noooooooo...........

What a silly thread. Everybody knows that it isn't the guns that aren't haunted.

Spent bullets are another matter entirely, however.

Pretty much my take, never a haunted firearm but I have seen things over the years that cannot logically be explained. I am not a drinker or drug user. In my parents house growing up so many weird things happened to family members, neighbors visiting etc... They occurred at random times with no discernible pattern. My parents still live there and weird things still happen but are pretty much ignored at this point. But no haunted guns.

Pretty much my take, never a haunted firearm but I have seen things over the years that cannot logically be explained.

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Don't confuse what YOU cannot logically explain with what CAN NOT be logically explained.

My yugo mauser once started saying mean things about croats.

I let a peach go - no regrets.

Had a first year commercial Colt 1911 - what was that, 1912/13? - that had this awful hand print on it as though a person at whom the pistol was pointed grabbed it or someone used it as a bludgeon.

Grab your 1911 from the muzzle as though you were going to try to pull it from the firer or whack the bejeepers outa someone with it - that's the hand print.

Now the rub, if you've ever seen the effect of left on blood on a high blu gun whether in hunting or ugliness... that's the degree of finish deterioration.

Aside form that, that damn pistol not only gave me the willies but several folk who wanted to look at it handed it almost immediately back.

That pistol was frikkin' WRONG! Every now and again I get a pang of regret to have let slip so parts-perfect a first year example. Then, I recall those creepy feelings.

Haunted? Not a little!

I`ve met several people who seemed to be haunted by things they did or failed to do, but never encountered a gun or other object that I thought was haunted.
Some people following this thread might enjoy reading Rudyard Kipling`s piece titled :
My Own True Ghost Story ( which was based on his experiences in India. )

I don't believe in haunted objects, nor have I ever had any legitimate reason to second-guess that.

"Ghosts?" Well, certainly not in the pop-culture sense. But that's neither here nor there.

Ghost Liquidator - I am now accepting all firearms, watches, gold rings, high end jewelry, coins, and other small valuable objects to dispose of in a way you don't have to ever worry about their effect again.
Just PM me for a mailing address.

This post fits in with this thread...

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=764960


"Westmoreland County PA has acquired about 100 firearms over the years from suicide and accidental deaths. Apparently he's auctioning them off November 8th.

I know folks go back and forth about bad karma and what not, but there could be deals to be had if anyone is up that way and doesn't mind a gun's potentially darker past."
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it depends on the gun. I do believe in the hereafter and I do believe in some paranormal/unexplained things (hauntings?).

If someone was very attached to a particular firearm, for example, carried every day for 25 years, I believe some of the person's energy is attached or drawn to the object. With that said, I wouldn't have a problem owning or purchasing firearms from estates or military surplus. I would have a problem with buying/owning something from say a serial killer.

Police: "Why did you shoot that man?"
You: "I didn't. My gun is haunted."

I think my 1913 Norwegian Krag is haunted. Well, maybe possessed. It never shoots to the same place twice, and keeping it on the target at 100 is work.