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 AK-Mal_Owner
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Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:49 am Post subject: Share your ghost story! |
 
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Halloween '09 is rapidly approaching... Listening to the radio on my way in this morning, they were sharing ghost stories. So I thought I'd share mine. And yes, this really did happen.
This takes place about 20 years ago... I used to go on a white water rafting trip every year for summer camp up in Northern California along the Klamath River. One of the stopping point is in the middle of seemingly no where, along a highway. Across the street (highway - a little podunk 2-laner) is the local cemetery. The dates in the cemetery go back to the early 1800's, and you can see the years where there were epidemics. The worst part is when you come across a number of smaller graves with children.
Earlier several of us had gone over to the cemetery just to look around. It's surrounded on three sides by a 3-4 foot fence, with a gate down by the road. Around sundown, we say some one come out and lock the gate. We spend the night sitting around the campfire telling stories, to include ghost stories based on the cemetery (these are ones that are usually told year after year, passed down from the veteran campers to the newer ones.) After a night of ghost story telling, we were climbing into our sleeping bags for the night, we happen to hear a noise. We looked across the street and say a figure moving down the street along the front of the cemetery. We couldn't see the shape of the figure... it was dark after all.. but it was like a hole in the darkness... darker than dark. And it glided smoothly... it didn't bobble around like some one walking. When it reached where the gate was (remember, we saw it being locked). That's when the "thing" turned, and looked right at us. And we know it turned because, in the spot where its face should have been, was nothing more than two red dots. We freaked. It turned and moved into the cemetery... again, it never bobbled, or bounced... it glided. We watched as it disappeared up into the beck of the cemetery... Someone went over the next morning. The gate was still locked.
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zgurl49
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Location: Minot, ND
 
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Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:42 am Post subject: |
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Ooh creepy ak! *shivers* I got goosebumps!!
I haven't really had many encounters with "ghosts" but I do remember one time at my parents house about 5 years ago. My sister in-law lived with us and one night just the two of us were home and we were watching horror movie in the basement.We had gone upstairs for some ice cream bars and saw that there were only 3 left, so I grabbed one and started eating it. She grabbed one and put it on the counter then used the bathroom while I went back downstairs. She came out and the ice cream was gone, and there was only 1 bar left in the freezer. We never found that darn ice cream bar and it still freaks us out a bit.
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LadyInque
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Location: Eastern Massachusetts
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Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:50 am Post subject: |
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I don't have any personal ghost stories. That's probably for the best. Some of my students were talking about Paranormal Activity, a movie I refuse to see. They said it's because I'm a chicken, but I said, "I'm not a chicken. I'm afraid of ghosts. There's a difference."
When I was a freshman in college, my roommate and I went to see the Warrens give a presentation. A nicer, cuter old couple you couldn't hope to meet. The presentation was terrifying. By mutual agreement, my roommate and I slept that night with the lights on, and my silver cross hanging from my loft.
About two weeks later, we went on a ghost tour through Colonial Williamsburg. It was an activity for the whole hall of our dorm, an excuse to set people up with dates. I got set up with the man I would later marry, so I can't complain there. But more terror, and there are parts of Williamsburg I refused to go after that.
So I'm sorry, no good stories here, nor do I want any. I don't do ghosts. I don't. But for what it's worth, my Nagymama (Hungarian grandmother) claims that my Nagypapa's ghost haunts the second floor of their house.
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 masked_platypus 
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Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:15 am Post subject: |
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Well, I don't know if that can count on "ghost stories", but each time I want to write something, that %*@# pencil is gone.
Must be some kind of evil spirit, sure. 
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 Muriel
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Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:10 am Post subject: |
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Sorry, no ghost stories from me.
I just don't believe in ghosts and whenever something strange happens around me I always find a natural explanation.
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AK-Mal_Owner
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Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:38 am Post subject: |
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I believe that there's "something" ... whether it's ghosts, spirits, angels, or some other kind of phenomenon, I don't know. But I've had too many personal experiences, and I've heard some of the experiences of others to easily dismiss it. I believe there are some people that are tuned in, and can feel things, but I don't believe in seances or people who claim to "communicate" with the dead. |
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 alien_avatar
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Location: Berlin
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Imagine: only 15 chatmessages in 1 hour, on SST !!! 
So keep in mind, this day.
It is unique !
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Oh no, it's not!!
I remember another slow Sunday, where I grandly announced in the (nonexistant) chat that I was going to eat LUNCH!!!
That important message still graced the top of the chat when I came back an hour later... and was still there an hour after my return...  
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masked_platypus
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Mon Feb 01, 2010 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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Well.. I remember saying hello in the chat, leaving for a four hours meetings, and still see my hello in the chatbox when I come back 
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