Originally posted by kitty
i wouldnt walk around in the dark anymore if I were you. that story scares me.

I have seen 2 "spirits" in my life time. One was a sick female, I knew her. She died of kidney failure. One night at a friends house she appeared in the room she passed away in, as I was walking down the stairs I glanced into the dark room. caught her in the corner of my eye, she just glidded through the damn room as if nothing was around. very white and full of streaks. I freaked out and left the house.

second occation was a child I saw. Im not going into that story, its disturbing.

I think you need to take all mirrors out of the bedrooms. Possibly bleach all the floors....sounds nuts but I have reason for saying this.

I follow feng shui. Its important to clean the house of everything. That means ghosts as well. Align furniture in an appropriate manner so that all doors and windows are visibe to you when you sit. keep your toilet seat cover down at all times when not in use. Have a bowl of water in EVERY room of the house, some place high up so the kid cant get to it. Buy clear crystals and scatter them in every room near a window preferably, they need to reflect light. they run cheap. wind chimes can be used to chase away bad spirits .



also, read this

Q. Someone has told me to buy a pair of fu dogs and to sit them on my window ledge inside the house. This, I'm told, will protect us from harmful spirits. Is it true?

A. Generally, fu dogs are not placed on window sills but rather facing doors, and on either sides of doors. Statues and figurines of fu dogs are commonly used in feng shui for protection for businesses and homes. You will recognize them because they resemble Pekinese dogs (and look similar to the Chinese lions) and appear all over Asia and in Chinese communities worldwide as guardians in front of banks, government buildings, homes and other structures such as gates and entrances to parks and museums. Preferably, a pair of these animals should be given as a gift but you can purchase them yourself. The dogs are a male (with a ball representing the world under his paw) and a female (with a baby puppy under hers). They should be positioned so that they flank the principal entrance to a building, facing out with the male fu dog on your left and the female on the right, representing the yang (male) and the yin (female) duality of life and the universe.

i am almost afraid to ask...Why get rid of the mirrors?
i saw a X-files once where they found out that mirrors were some kind of gateway...is this why she needs to get rid of them?...if not...please explain

BTW this story gives the creeps every time i read it

Update....

Went to the court clerk's office and looked through the "divorce book"...happy. The way they have this book set up is in sections for each letter of the alphabet and then it has every divorce filed under that letter from since dirt was young to present. So I started at the "dirt young" part and went forward all the way to the 70's (which was way past Mr. Jones croaking) and there is NO divorce filed for Mr. and Mrs. Jones.

Now, you might be asking, so??? But this is important as far as the member is concerned that has gone out on a limb and tried to discern what my grandson saw, and what my son and his friend heard. And I think that took a lot of guts, plus, this now kind of lends evidence toward that member's theory.

The next step will be to go out to the cemetery and locate Mr. Jones' grave and hope that Mrs. Jones is right beside him (because right now I don't know what her first name is). IF, I can get her death date, I can then write off to the state vital records office for her death certificate. Unfortunate, THAT will take awhile.

Well it seems our cozy (and that's EXACTLY how I would describe this grand old Dame of a house) "Country Estate" has become the center of a rather interesting post here...

I am the ULTIMATE skeptic when it comes to the "paranormal" I personally subscribe to the "Occam's Razor" way of thinking...

However.. When my wife (the beautiful Grandma you all know as Valhall) told me of this I was certain of 2 things;

1. She was freaked out by it
2. The boys were freaked out by it

That, in and of itself, got my attention. What or who, if anything, is causing this ecitement doesn't really matter to me. I run on "gut feelings" in busines and in personal affairs. Everytime I've gone against my gut (especially with people) I've paid a dear price for ignoring it.

My "gut" feeling on this house is PEACEFUL... I am totally at peace here, unlike ANY house I've ever had before and I have had quite a few...

Strange part is, as Valhall indicated, the whole lot of us (whole family) feel the same way! To suggest that there is mean or malevolent entity at work here just doesn't hold water with me.

Refarding "taering" the house up, NOTHING could be further from the truth. We are ONLY fixing what ails her. We actually had plans when we first bought it to pretty much tear it all up and re-do the whole place.

After spending about a month and a half in the place we both agreed to leave it exactly the way it is and simply re-do the finish out materials, floors, wall covering, that sort of stuff, NO structural changes at all.

On apersonal note, "I aint afraid of no Ghost!" I mean that. I am weird that way but I have a FIRM conviction that a spirit can only hope to get my soul and they can't have it unless I give it up. That pretty much wipes out the threat factor in my mind. Having said that, if there is in fact some poor lost soul trapped here due to a life of sin or unfinished business I say "live and let die" really, it's their business, if they can't finish dying who am I to judge? More to the point, I CERTAINLY am NOT going to fear it, him or her...

However this turns out I am sure "this old house" is EXACTLY where we are supposed to be right now and hopefully for a long time to come...

I REALLY appreciate all the GREAT information and support you all have given my Bride and I REALLY DIG ATS!!!!!

PEACE...
m...

Valhall,glad to see you back after the weekend.Both you and Springer.

Any update??

Yes...but it's rather anti-climactic. Nothing on the tape but an AWESOME thunderstorm...and I do mean AWESOME! That's worth listening to, so if anybody wants to here it I will save it until somebody teaches me how to digitize it.

BUT, I had the sensitivity on mejum...(that's medium anywhere outside Oklahoma and Texas) and when we got back and I came up the stairs and turned the recorder off, I never triggered it

I'll continue to tape for awhile longer. I'm thinking if I put it in the same place it was over the weekend, with the sensitivity all the way up, IF there is something to record, I might get it.

Just thought I'd throw in that we had a prayer meeting here last week and there may never be anything to record since we prayed for God's protection on this house.

Interesting, Interesting. There could be someone left in the house.

Originally posted by Valhall
Well guess what just happened...right this minute. A phone call from the lady asking for Deborah X...hmmm.

So I say, listen lady, you've called here 3 times now asking for her and I want to know why you have this woman connected with my phone number. And she says I haven't called three times. And I said Well, I know YOU have called at least twice and I have taken 3 phone calls from women asking for her. She says Well, this is only the second time I have called. (Which is odd because it means I have 2 women calling for this lady.) Then I said "Listen, write it down on whatever you're looking at right now that Deborah X does not live at this number, ok?" And she said, "Ok." and hung up.

This sounds like a bill collector. Deborah X may owe somebody money, and she may have had your phone number sometime before you got it.

You know that's what I think. But boy the bill must be big now!

Seriously, I think you are right. But think of the line-up of coincidences:

1. X family lives here (and they were all dead and/or moved by 1950)
2. different X family get phone number and doesn't pay bills.
3. collector calls here at original X family's house which now has secnd X family's phone number
4. ...just when I'm having weird stuff happen.

And that's pretty much what I've concluded really happened!

p.s. I have not recorded anything odd to date and there have been no more strange occurrences. I feel that the prayer meeting was beneficial.

I saw that on alien's post on the other thread. That cute little dancing bunny (though not near as funny as the dancing chicken) is just about as cute as they come.

Are you considering an avatar change, MA?

I'm speechless...primarily because I picked up my laptop and turned it upside down. Trust me, don't go there.

Well, I am glad you are not mortally offended.

I did actually turn my head upside down to see it on the monitor.

I can't fathom how that could be worn in public. What about as a new avatar at ATS?

I think it would be just fine. BUT, so that no one can say I didn't give fair warning...

will you mind either of the following upon your conversion:

1. my affectionate referral to you as CodFace
2. or a slight lessening in my ability to take you serious?

Just asking.

I can't see any fish in my new avatar. ahem.

But you're right, the proboscis is so small as to be comical, and that might have intelligent members take me less seriously.

I will continue exploring, with a keen eye towards the cute and nice.