Do you believe in ghosts?

Old 07-02-2011, 02:42 AM
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Originally Posted by klgreene
I also believe in spirits of the dead. About 10 years ago I met a young Native American boy, and went to visit he and his family. They gave me the name of Snow Owl. While visiting him he took me to several different places in his area. One of the places was Siche Hollow, which is just like a beatiful park. When walking back to the car, I looked at a tree, and there was a white looking owl from sap or something. It startled me, and he didn't see it, but once my pictures were developed, I askef his mom what she saw on the tree. She immediately said a snow owl. Then we went to a burial grounds. I took all kinds of pictures of things, but when I had them developed, there were no pictures of the actual burial grounds. Everything else came out. I believe the spirits did not want me taking pictures, so there was nothing to develop.
HOw cool! Yes, I see the snow owl, too!
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Old 07-02-2011, 02:44 AM
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Originally Posted by klgreene
I also believe in spirits of the dead. About 10 years ago I met a young Native American boy, and went to visit he and his family. They gave me the name of Snow Owl. While visiting him he took me to several different places in his area. One of the places was Siche Hollow, which is just like a beatiful park. When walking back to the car, I looked at a tree, and there was a white looking owl from sap or something. It startled me, and he didn't see it, but once my pictures were developed, I askef his mom what she saw on the tree. She immediately said a snow owl. Then we went to a burial grounds. I took all kinds of pictures of things, but when I had them developed, there were no pictures of the actual burial grounds. Everything else came out. I believe the spirits did not want me taking pictures, so there was nothing to develop.
Either that, or you left the lens cap on! Just kidding! I believe. My church was the family home of George Steele. He was one of the foremost architects in pre-Civil War Alabama and Georgia. The tales of what was seen and heard in that house (mansion) are too long and too many to relate right here, but one happened to my mom when she was pregnant with me. When I was about six or five, someone set fire to the main floor. It gutted one section, but the rest was saved. During cleanup and repair, people from the congregation stored stuff at their homes that used to be at the church. My dad brought home some tools (being my dad!). When he brought them through the front door, our dog's hackles rose and she growled while she followed my dad to the top of the basement stairs. My mom freaked and told him to just take those tools right back out of her house! He told her she was being rediculous and didn't. Well, that's when Jennifer (the dog) started acting very strange. She would walk through the house growling. And the sound of cabinets and doors opening and closing started. Our hall closet is stuffed to the gills with linens and junk and you still to this day have to put one hand on the stuff while you open or shut the door so it doesn't come crashing out. The last straw was when my mom heard that door pop open. She was mad because she knewshe would have to clean up all the stuff. But when she got to the hall, there was Jennifer...growling at the closet. The door was closed. My mom went and got the tools and set them outside and wouldn't let them back in. There was never another problem until I was in highschool....but that is for another time!
Ooooo...can't wait to hear more!
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Old 07-02-2011, 02:54 AM
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As I said before I lived in a haunted house for 5 years. Here's one experiende.
My husband and I had gone to bed. While lying there waiting to go to sleep I heard someone calling my name, over and over. I nudged my husband and asked if he heard anything. He told me he had and that I had better answer because I was being called. I got up, walked to the top of the stairs and saw a white glowing cloud halfway down the stairs. That was where my name was being called from. I asked what they wanted, the rest of my antics would make you laugh. I won't go into detail. VBG
The next morning I received a call from my uncle that my aunt had passed away during the night. I asked him what time and it was at that same time I had the white cloud appear calling my name. He then told me she was calling for me when she passed.
When we went to the funneral, I had to go to his house first. He would not go to the funneral until he knew for sure I was there.
After five years in the home, I could write a book. All three of my children, my husband and I had many experiences there.
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Old 07-02-2011, 03:23 AM
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ok...I guess I will share a story or two. I usually don't share much of this type of stuff because people think I am nuts...but here goes.

Back in the eighties and nineties, I worked as a midwife, delivering babies at home. During my apprenticeship, the primary midwife and I were delivering a baby for a young couple outside the (then small town) of Kaufman. This baby was born with a hole in her heart (ok, please folks, let's NOT start a conversation about the safety of homebirth!!! That's not relevant to my story!!) This was before the days of sonograms being used routinely. Anyway, neither I nor the primary had oxygen with us. While waiting for the ambulance to arrive, the primary took the baby to the living room to wait. The father was on the front porch. I was in the bedroom with the mom. The father reported looking up the street and seeing a young man dressed in a coveralls walking up the street toward the house. He was carrying an oxygen tank. He stopped and asked the father if this was the house where the baby had been born. He said yes. Without another word, this "man" walked up to the house, and into the living room. He set the tank down next to the midwife and asked her if she knew how to turn it on. She said yes, but could he as she had her hands full. He turned on the tank, handed her the pediatric size O2 mask, smiled and told her all would be well, and walked back out the door. He didn't speak to the father but just walked up the street, and vanished (according to the father). Shortly thereafter, the ambulance arrived. The baby was transported to Parkland, and was sent back home after a short stay for the repair of a small hole in her heart. But that same day, when the midwife returned to get me (we had arrived in the same car) she asked where the O2 tank went...I asked what O2 tank? Needless to say, the tank was missing. None of the neighbors reported to us that they owned an O2 tank, nor did anyone in town match the description of the man who had delivered it to the house. We all decided an angel had delivered it.

And this one....the house I lived in before buying my current residence had been owned by the same man since the early 40's. He had died in the house at the age of 87. He would stop by many days and nights, to see what we were doing with his beloved home...we could always tell he was there as he would roll his wheelchair up and down the hallway. A deeply committed Christian, I never feared his presence, as I knew he had been sent back to resolve something, or let us know about something...and he just didn't have a "spooky" presence. The last time I saw or heard him, he woke me up in the middle of the night, sitting in his wheelchair on my side of the bed. I turned to him and said, "Please, not tonight. I am really tired." He went away and I never saw him again.

And finally, my Dad was a pilot and owned the same small plane from the early 70's onward. I took many trips in that plane growing up and even some as an adult. (He kept it in mint condition)...now, where I lived at the time he passed on was in an area of restricted air space....no private planes could fly over this area, and the military planes that did land and take off ONLY flew in a certain direction...ONLY. One day, I was out in my large vegetable garden working and suddenly heard a small plane engine. I looked up and there was my Dad's plane (bear in mind, he had sold the plane the yr before he died, and I lived nearly a thousand miles from him), flying a perpendicular course to the normal flight pattern...something that I had NEVER seen in the many years I had lived in that house. He waved his wings, as he always did when he said goodbye to me, and flew out of sight. It was an amazing and comforting sight.

I could relate many other stories, as I have had encounter with angels, departed ones, and demons nearly all my life...but this has been long enough!!! But thanks for letting me share.
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i SEE the snow owl..... =0)
Me too!
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Old 07-02-2011, 04:26 AM
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This has been very interesting read this morning :) Some creepy, some fascinating.

We have only been our house a couple of years and our house was at that time 9 years old. My two year old son, at the time, was sitting on our back porch and was looking out the window and said, "mom, who is that old man in the trees?" I told him I didnt know and I asked what his name was and he said, "Fred." Over time I would ask my son if he stills sees him out there and he says he does and then there are times he says he doesnt.

Another time, was when I lived by myself in a small apartment. There were a couple of nights around midnight that my radio would just turn on by itself. After the second time I unplugged it lol Then one morning I was in the shower and I felt something push my right shoulder while washing my hair. I actually turned around to see if someone was with me lol of course there was not.

And then when I was a child my twin sister and I lived in an old home. We were in our bedroom playing one day and we both saw an old lady with blue hair in our closet. We told our parents about it and they asked the realtor about it and were told that the lady prior to us had died in the house.

SO, yes, I believe.

Yes, I believe.
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Old 07-02-2011, 08:22 AM
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FABULOUS stories! I can't remember the last time I read EVERY single post. It is nice to know that so many others have had these experiences.

My mom experienced "premonitions" frequently: We would often meet half way between our homes, then continue on walking to one or the other home. It had rained one morning and she told my (little at the time) kids that they would find a penny in a puddle at our meeting point. Sure enough, even though we got there before her, they found a penny in one of the puddles!

Another time, when my brother was in the Navy, (I was still at home with her)I was awakened by her moving about the house and asked what was wrong. She responded by say that she just "knew" Georgie was coming to visit from San Diego. We sat up and he showed up that night, having ridden his motorcycle across the country more than 2,000 miles!

I felt she was alerted by her angel. I will post more of my own experiences soon.
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Old 07-02-2011, 08:42 AM
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This is all so interesting! Oh, yes, I believe in both ghosts and angels.
I was driving and my daughter was in the passenger seat. I was just ready to turn left at an intersection; there was an oncoming car also waiting to turn left. Someone screamed "STOP!!!" inside my head, so I stopped! A car came flying around the oncoming car. They would have most likely killed my daughter.

My brother was driving his semi when a crazy guy with a death wish, driving on the other side of the interstate drove down in the ditch and pulled out right in from of my brother. My brother could not move over as he was passing another truck at the time. This huge accident happened where the cab of the semi was totally crushed except for a "protective bubble" where my brother was sitting.
My husband and I went on a tour of a haunted mansion while on vacation. In one room there was a big wooden chair that supposedly was possessed by a ghost. The tour leader moved her hand down the chair. One woman screamed and almost fainted. I felt this "energy" fly into my belly and move down my arms and out my fingertips. It took all my energy with it. It was pretty creepy and cool at the same time.
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Old 07-02-2011, 09:20 AM
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I AGREE--Never let children play with OUIJA boards!! Or anyone else in my house.
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I got rid of the Ouija board my DH had when we married.

In my family, we have "the three knocks" on the door. In the evening when we hear 3 knocks on the door and no one is there, wait and 3 more, nobody there, and 3 more, then we start calling folks to tell them we love them. And quickly visiting near by family, because that is a warning some family member is dying.
My Mom lived in Ohio in 1941 and her brother was visiting and they heard the 3 series of knocks, so Uncle Elmer immediately got in his car and went home to WV so he was there when my Grandpa died. Got there a few hours before. Others also came in the day before, just for visiting but hadn't been there for a while. They never said why, but we knew they had also had the warning.
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yes!
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