the "art bell" thread, my gun/ghost story

[GrammatonCleric]

Ghosts

I myself have only been to one battlefield, The Alamo. This was over ten years ago, and I don't recall feeling any kind of presence. I do believe in ghosts though, my girlfriend is VERY sensitive to psyhic pnenomena. I sometimes talk to the spirit of my dead mother, who died when I was 11. I believe that ghosts ARE the spirits of long-dead people who for some reason or another cannot or choose not to pass into the afterlife. I believe that my mother visits me through my GF as a source of comfort to me, because we were very close when she was alive, I do also believe that she is in Heaven with Jesus, God, and the angels.

 

[Jubei]

I used to work the graveyard shift at a conference resort in Colorado Springs. At the time, 2 people had died in their rooms, one choked to death on room service food, the other was a suicide. A lot of wierd things would happen there at night. One night while we were on our lunch break, the fire-alarm went off. The security guard couldn't leave his office while the other guard was out, so he asked us to help search for a possible fire. We found a pulled fire alarm switch in a locked hallway with no access except past the front desk, and they swear that nobody went down the hallway. When we returned to the lunch room, the coffee that we made just before the alarm went off, was sickly sweet. And according to the security tapes, that I did see, nobody went into the lunch room between the time we left and then returned.

A friend of mine way back in High School, used to drive an old Mustang that his brother committed suicide in a few years before. His brother was a big AC/DC fan, and anytime that an AC/DC song would come on the radio, the car would stall. It wouldn't happen if you played a cassette (pre-CD), only when the song came on the radio.

Jubei

 

[c_yeager]

Seriously the world has been in existance so long people have died all over it. Yet people who claim ghosts generally only refer to events in recent history. Maybe ghosts have a 100 year life span?

Stories of old Indian ghosts are *very* common out here. Of course, Indian culture is very much a part of the consciousness of folks out here. I would imagine that they see a lot of native spirits in Alaska as well. The fact that ghost sightings have a lot to do with the culture that a person grown up with lends some credence to the notion that they come from within rather than without.

In fairness I have felt the "presence" feeling that others have felt, however I only really feel it in places where I *know* bad things have happened in the past.

 

[RocketMan]

Owned a house in Colorado Springs some years ago. Several weird things happened in that house that just couldn't be explained.

Got up one morning to find that, during the night, a heat register had been pulled up from the floor in the kitchen. It had been leaned on its long end against the closed back door. I had been the only one at home for several days at the time, and I hadn't done it.

One evening the then-wife and I were sitting in the living room. We both very clearly heard the sound of our cat knocking a box of dry cat food off the kitchen counter, scattering the food on the hardwood floor. This was something she had done before.
Normally one of us would shout "Cat!", and out she would run from the kitchen into the living room. There was only that one access to the kitchen, no other way in or out, and it was completely visible, nothing blocking sight lines.
I shouted at the cat, but nothing ran out. Got up to check the kitchen, and no box of cat food, either on the counter or on the floor. And there was no food scattered across the floor. And yet we clearly heard it.

Several other occurrances, sounds heard without apparent cause, items moved, etc. Weird house...

 

[ziadel]

there was supposedly ghosts at the Watervliet Arsenal...

I believe it considering how many people have died in that place...

 

[gunsmith]

very interesting

Who says ghosts aren't just magnetic recordings of past events, replaying themselves when conditions are right in thin air?

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but my "ghost" was weaving around trees and stuff, like he was on patrol or hunting, those trees did not exist when FT Ti as we called it was in the fight for our freedom from King George...yet it was also clear that it didn't notice me or the other boyscouts I was camping with.

I'm not personally a big ghost buff or anything, I believe anything is possible in Gods grand plan though. I remember thinking how different he looked from TV and movie depictions of ghost and how people were portrayed of that day on 70's TV and movies

 

[CajunBass]

Not too awful far from Spotsylvania is the Cold Harbor battlefield. The area is mostly wooded but some of the trenches and earthworks still stand. It was a place of great slaughter and it too has a bit of sadness to it.

The Sunken Road just beneath Marye's Heights is another of the sadder battlefields that I've visited. Very beautiful place too,especially at dusk.

And then there is Gettysburg, Shiloh, Antietam, and Franklin. Whole war was one national bloodbath.

I know what you mean M.E.. I grew up near Cold Harbor and Gaines Mill, and live at Chancelorsville now, and go into Fredricksburg quite often. Just up the road is "The Wilderness."

I've never seen anything that I would call a "ghost." I too believe that when you die, you either go to heaven or hell. There is nothing else.

My wife says she "senses" things. Does she? I have no idea. I know she believes she does.

The theory of some kind of electromagnetic "recording" without any kind of equipment, is interesting though. I have no idea how it would work of course; if I did, I'd be rich.

 

[jondar]

I've really never seen anything I considered from the spirit world. However; when I was about four years old, my dad, my aunt and mother were coming home from a neighboring town. I was asleep in the back seat. The next morning I heard my dad, mother and aunt talking in low tones about what had happened the night before. What I could gather was they saw a man on a horse that they could see right thru. When I graduated HS I went into the service for a hitch. On being discharged I came home and took a sleeping room in my aunts house. I asked her about this and she said it was a bright moonlit night and a man in what looked like military garb was on a horse right by the road. My dad slowed, afraid the horse may bolt out on the road and as they went by they could see right thru both man and horse. I asked her if she could remember where it happened, she said she could so we drove out. It was still a gravel road and near where she thought it happened we found an old granite monument which read, "On this spot Frederick Brown, son of John Brown was murdered ... . " giving the date. My aunt never forgot this to her dying day.

 

[psyopspec]

The first post I have made on THR was to the infamous roundtable ghost-story thread. I tried pulling it up using various internet archives, but with no luck. If anyone happens to have better skills than me, and can find that thread, you're automatically elevated to man-of-the-hour status.

 

[1911 guy]

Civil War graveyard.

I was squirrel hunting as a kid and found a few tombstones back in the woods near Windsor, Ohio. Epitath scared me so much, I remember it several decades later.

"Hark, ye mortals standing by. You are made of dust as well as I. As I am, so you shall be. Prepare for death and follow me."

 

[El Barto]

Strange places

There have been many places where I have encountered something "spooky" but I'll just list a couple.

The bombed-out church at Harper's Ferry. You used to be able to walk around inside of it, but it’s off-limits now. I remember that every time I went in, I got an eerie feeling. Once when I had my dog with me, he refused to go near the place. It just seemed so depressing.

The woods behind my childhood home. I have camped and hiked in lots of places and have never been afraid to bed down in unfamiliar woods, but I never went into the woods behind my house after dark. I lived in that house 15 years and whenever it got close to getting night, I hightailed it out of there. The land was used many years ago for digging clay to make bricks so there were lots of odd pits, gullies and cliffs. I just always sensed something.

Gettysburg battlefield. Went there this past summer and my wife swears that when she was walking around, someone was holding her hand (not me).

 

[M.E.Eldridge]

There have been many places where I have encountered something "spooky" but I'll just list a couple.

The bombed-out church at Harper's Ferry. You used to be able to walk around inside of it, but it’s off-limits now. I remember that every time I went in, I got an eerie feeling. Once when I had my dog with me, he refused to go near the place. It just seemed so depressing.

The woods behind my childhood home. I have camped and hiked in lots of places and have never been afraid to bed down in unfamiliar woods, but I never went into the woods behind my house after dark. I lived in that house 15 years and whenever it got close to getting night, I hightailed it out of there. The land was used many years ago for digging clay to make bricks so there were lots of odd pits, gullies and cliffs. I just always sensed something.

Gettysburg battlefield. Went there this past summer and my wife swears that when she was walking around, someone was holding her hand (not me).

If you like ghosts and Gettysburg, check out Mark Nesbitt's books. He has a bundle of them and they are all entertaining mixes of history and folklore/ghost accounts.

When I was in G'burg with my parents for the first time, we took a ghost tour. While walking back to the ending/starting point at the end of the tour, I feel and scrapped up my knee. Now here's the engima: was my fall really do to my clumsiness or was there an angry Johnny Reb lurking around who wanted to take his pent-up,supernatural ghost rage out on a poor, innocent Yankee kid?

Wow, this thread is way off topic.