Ghost Hunting.

[gryph89]

Well, the thread explains itself. Recently, I've had an experience with ghosts. And I gotta say, despite being shit scared, I was VERY interested and intrigued by it. So me and groupies and getting electronical equipment together and are going to try a crack at "Ghost Hunting" I know it sounds childish. But I have to say, I'm quite serious when I say this.

So, I was wondering if any of you guys has have/had experiences with Ghosts, and if so, what kind? Was it a picture, or an actual apparition figure.

Once we get the equipment up and running. I literally will be posting videos here on it. But it'll have to wait about two weeks for my paycheck cause I need to buy some audio cables and recorders.

Like I said before up there, share some experiences with me, I'd really enjoy hearing them.

[Unforgottner]

Hooray for discussions on AIM turned into threads!

[gryph89]

Hooray for discussions on AIM turned into threads!

Haha, I was bored and decided to share with you. I was gonna make a thread here regardless.

[Ächilles]

I live in New England, one of the most haunted areas in the world.

My grandparents lived in the oldest house in Boston until they died recently. The basement was a Civil War torture chamber. There were still shackles and chains on the walls. Below it was a sub basement which we could never get in. We believe it had an incinerator to burn bodies. There were hidden rooms and compartments all over the house, as well as a sealed up tunnel in the basement which went about two miles under the harbor into Castle Island, and old war base.

A lot of weird and scary things happened there. I have more stories than I can tell.

[gryph89]

I live in New England, one of the most haunted areas in the world.

My grandparents lived in the oldest house in Boston until they died recently. The basement was a Civil War torture chamber. There were still shackles and chains on the walls. Below it was a sub basement which we could never get in. We believe it had an incinerator to burn bodies. There were hidden rooms and compartments all over the house, as well as a sealed up tunnel in the basement which went about two miles under the harbor into Castle Island, and old war base.

A lot of weird and scary things happened there. I have more stories than I can tell.

Feel free to share em all.

I had a couple. One day after my Grandma died, I turned off my TV, and the door to my room was closed, and I heard her voice whisper "Ed" I really couldn't move at all.

My uncle then died shortly after, And I had the ashes in the little rosary bowl thing. My mom took a picture of me standing next to it doing something, and my uncle was sitting the the chair my dad usually sits in smoking a cigerette.

Its those kinda things that get me want to do this, cause I love the rush when these thigns happen to you. You can think clearly, but your body refuses to react.

[Ächilles]

For validity purposes... my grandmother took a stroke eight years ago, and could not live on her own. My grandfather passed away about seven years ago. My grandmother then moved out to live with us about six years ago (passing away one year ago). In those six years, seven families have lived in the house. None lasting more than a couple months. This past year, the city closed the house to buyers for reasons they did not share with the public. By request of the neighbors, all the windows and doors were boarded up.


Well, for starters, the Civil War prison in the basement is only the beginning. Over the years, a slew of weird inhabitants occupied the house. Here are two minor happenings...

In South Boston, all of the houses are very old. It began as an Irish ghetto. The natives did not give the Irish much land to live in, and with so many people the only option they had to fit was to build up. All of the houses are what we call triple deckers. They're very skinny, very close together, and very tall. Usually three families occupy a house, one on each floor.

My grandparents owned all four floors of their house. The bottom was the kitchen, living room, and a small den. The second was my grandfather's room, and my grandmother's. (my grandmother would not sleep with him because he was an alcoholic. In WWII, his job with the Marine Corps was to clean the corpses off of the battlefield. It drove him crazy, and he was never sane again. He resulted to drinking) The third and fourth floor were both empty rooms. The top floor was one giant room. During holidays, all of the kids would play on the top, empty floor. My mother went up to count how many kids to make places for at the table, and counted ten. When we came down, there were seven of us. Our parents asked us all where the other children who were up stairs were, and we didn't know what they were talking about. There were three children up there amongst us and we didn't even know. I was about five or six.

This one is bizarre. Like I said, it was an old house with a lot of hidden little rooms. If I had to guess, to hide slaves. Outside there was a window on the side of the house which we never knew it was too. We figured it was to one of the many rooms we never found. When my grandfather passed away, we decided to clear out his room. We moved the giant chest he had against the wall and found a small door about three feet tall. We opened it to the room with the mystery window. The floor of the room was covered in hay, and in the middle was a small cage. Inside the cage were very old clothes of a child. If I had to guess, early 1900s. There were shoes and a pair of knickers. We never found any explanation for this. The local museum came and took them.

[gryph89]

Wow, that stuff is exactly like what I was thinking. Weird things that ponder the mind.

When my father was young, he used to see faces in his windows, and my grandma before she passed used to just tell him it was his imagination. Then he started see-ing full faces of people with army helmets on. Turns out the old house was in fact a Veitnamese hideout during the Vietnam war. ANd a large group of the were arrested during the raid of the house, the put p a fight and we're killed.

I'm definatly buying this auido equipment tomorrow if I can scrung up the cash. This weekend. I'll get a video of me and a few people. If no evidence is found, I'll still post it, for validation's sake.

[Cuathon]

ive never seen a ghost, but i once tricked this guy into thinking i was one. it was fun :)
specially when i told him later.

[Ächilles]

You would love it here, Gryph. Being the oldest part of the country, there are an endless list of paranormal places to explore.

I do it over the summer. Actually, in about a month is a trip to the TB Hospital... an abandoned insane asylum from the twenties.

[Memory]

My friend lives by a an old Civil War base in NJ. He lives in a house that once occupated by Civil War soldiers.

So i was over his house and i take a picture of one of the cool designs in his house on my phone. It was fine for a while, but one day was looking at it and i see a trace of a soldier in the background. Next day i look at it and its gone.

It comes back now and again.

[Cliche]

Tell us more, Achilles. I'm already starting to get a bit creeped out. I'm looking behind me like every minute or so because I think I hear/feel something.

;)

[Elentari]

Personally, I think the whole ghost business is a bunch of nonsense. I've never had any ghosty experiences, I've never known anyone else who I trusted enough to believe when they told me they had ghosty experiences...

That doesn't keep me from getting creeped out thinking about it though.

[Cuathon]

im with elentari here. ive never had an experience with ghosts. i see things that look like stuff, but its always just shadows when its dark out. it used to scare me when i was little though.

[gryph89]

Yeah, its more of a question as if if you believe it or if your just skepical.

Once I get all my equipment sorted out. I'll be able to get some things going.

The team I've assembled with is composed of 5 people :

Ed - Main Camera Operator, and lead investegator
Melissa - Lead investagator- EMF reader
MAtt - Tech manager, investegator
Joe - Research and investagator.
Terry - Transportation


Once I start to get the videos up, I'll point out who is who.

[Ächilles]

It comes back now and again.

No it doesn't.

Elentari and Cuath -

Understandable. Usually it's hard to believe until it happens to you. Then you've never been more sure of anything in your life.

[***Duo***]

I'm in the same boat as Elentari and Cuathon.


-Duo

[Cuathon]

well, i know ill never have that kind of experience so ill take your word for it :)
ghosts are still not real.

[FiReBrAnD]

During my High School years a group of friends probably consisting of about 5-10 people just depending on who would go on what nights. We use to go out to all kinds of places like cemetaries, abandon houses, and this giant abandon grain mills here in my hometown. Only time I was honestly about to piss in my pants is one time when we went to this places called Deep Creek Cemetary about 10-15 miles away from civilization, we had to travel on a dirt road about 10 miles to even get to the place and then afterwards had to get out and walk down to the cemetary because it had several fences protecting it because they didn't like people going inside of it because of past people vandilizing it.. Well anyways the cemetary has a ancient gate upon entrance that is from the 1860's and as me and one of my best friends were walking through it just reading graves and trying to spook the girls we were with by hiding behind graves and jumping out on them.. We then went behind one grave to scare another friend when we heard a faint voice sound as if it was directly behind us say "Get back" me and him instantly looked one another in the eye and took off like the police were chasing after us and still to this day I have no clue what the hell we heard nor have I ever gone back to that place nor do I ever planning going back anytime soon..

btw here is the website to the place its one of the first cemetaries established in the area when the first settlements were established
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~drycreek/deep.htm

[Draquist]

My uncle died of cancer about 4 years ago. He was in love with cats, had 18 of them and would always call and leave messages on our machine of just him meowing then he'd hang up. 2 weeks after he died, we received a message of what sounded like him on our machine meowing.

[Anarchy_United]

Once we get a little older and can drive, my friends and I are going to go and explore the gates of hell in New Jersey(Weird New Jersey).

[gryph89]

Once we get a little older and can drive, my friends and I are going to go and explore the gates of hell in New Jersey(Weird New Jersey).

That's cool. Me and a couple of my friends there. Then one of my friends started getting really scared. So we left and took him home.

[Anarchy_United]

That's cool. Me and a couple of my friends there. Then one of my friends started getting really scared. So we left and took him home.

We are gonna get airosoft guns, police flashlights, and my one friend is bring his uber-video camera. He is the rich bastard of my group of friends. He has multiple 1000$+ camera, which pisses the hell out of the rest of us.

[Unforgottner]

Wheres my uberscary ghost footage, Ed?

[Oisin]

I live in Massachusetts, too. Like almost anyone who has lived in Massachusetts, I believe I've encountered the paranormal. I've never seen anything concrete, but I've felt what I believe to be presences, and I've felt people patting me on the back or whatever when I'm the only one in the room.

For starters, I live in Marshfield, which is full of old houses and such. My house is built on a plot of land that was used by Daniel Webster, and we're always digging up horseshoes and and other things from his era. Well, one day, when I was little, I was building legoes in my cellar, when my t.v. mutes itself and then proceeds to raise its contrast all the way. That's a very hard thing to do, because it was an old-fashioned t.v. and you had to turn the knobs on the television itself to raise/lower contrast. I booked it out of there SO fast.

Some of my friends also have weird houses. One of them is an old Coast guard lighthouse which we dubbed the "Mansion." In the cellar, there is a big steel door that leads to a detention room. It's "fun" to lock each other in there for certain amounts of time. That's where my soldier was patted once, and it's something that's really indescribable. Also in the cellar is a wall-wide mirror, and all the girls are obsessed with taking pictures in front of it. Sometimes shadows that don't belong to any of us show up and stuff like that. I've also attempted to spend a night in a "birthing and dying" room that's in my friend's old colonial home, but I had to leave after about twenty minutes due to feelings of violent nausea.

There's other places around me that you can just feel things in, like the Sun Tavern in Duxbury, the Alden House, also in Duxbury, and the Governor Winslow House in Marshfield.

I really hate the feeling you get after this kind of stuff, but once the initial shock wears off it's really kind of cool.

[Pigeon]

I once did a tour of the shanghai tunnels in Portland, OR.

The guide (who kinda looked like Ron Jeremy) kept pointing out whenever we were around normal ghost sightings/noises/happenings.

supposedly there were doors that opened/closed, woman in white dresses, shoes that haunted your dreams, whistling, and more. But I ended up only hearing some whistling.

The tunnels themselves have an intense history, and there are establishments built above them that are said to be haunted.