Weird stuff used to happen at my house. My wife (girlfriend at the time) absolutely agrees too. Our keys would move from one place to another, little stuff like that. But it would seem to increase if we were gone and came back, like if we went on vacation or something. We nicknamed it "Ghosty". And she read up about paranormal/poltergeist activities, and that they want to be acknowledged. So we would always say goodbye to "Ghosty" when we were going away or something. One night I was playing pinball by myself downstairs, and all of a sudden the hair on the back of my neck stood straight up, and i could FEEL something right behind me - I whipped around, of course nothing was there, but I shut all the games and lights off and went upstairs, I was that rattled.

I've been renting the house out about 11 years now - a pair of girls (well, in their early 40s - women) lived there almost 6 years, and about 3 years in, we were talking and I mentioned to them "the house is haunted, by the way".... They both said, Oh, I believe you", and said that the oven door would just pop open by itself, other things, but nothing scary or harmful, but they both said they felt something.

Just last year, I had to evict a couple people after only 5 months (first time ever). Three days into their stay (in December), they called me at 1030 at night, the furnace went out (have never had a problem with it). I went and dicked around with it and got it running again - no idea what it was. Then a day or 2 later, something else, and something else - smoke alarms going off, all kinda crap. I was over there 3 times in the first week. And my wife said "Ghosty doesn't want these people here". Well, after a few months neither did I, so we got rid of them, apologized to Ghosty, and have a nice young couple in there now. No more problems.

So do apparitions see you when you are in a private situation that would be embarrassing to you? (Dropping a deuce, in the shower etc.) What if those apparitions were deceased relatives? Same with guardian angels. Do they look the other way in times like that? 'Cause otherwise that's disturbing. Inquiring minds...

My dad was a patrolman in Culver City when this happened. He responded to the house where everything went down and said it was one of the weirdest things he’d ever seen. That’s as much detail as I got.

Certainly an interesting subject and being based on science for my career and just in general, sometimes these kind of things are just super hard to explain...with that said, I had a weird experience happen and it didn’t involve seeing or hearing anyone or anything but rather seeing something else...my Dad was killed in a motorcycle accident many years ago and several years later I noticed while showering that his name was written on the glass in the shower...it came out of nowhere and I thought well maybe one of the kids, who were young at the time, wrote it there...so,I finished up and squeegeed the glass doors to clean them off...one of my kids showered later that night and said daddy there’s a name written on the glass...who is it? So they knew his name but called him grandpa only by what they had heard as he had passed before they were born...sure enough the name was,back, written into the fog filled glass...just as I had seen it before...I was starting to get a little weirded out but squeegeed the door again and it was gone...the glass completely clean...I even cleaned it again with cleaner, etc. just trying to make sure I wasn’t crazy...sure enough it was gone and the glass was clear as could be...the next day it was back...now I was getting really freaked out and just went with it as I didn’t know what to do...this went on for just 2 days and then was completely gone and I haven’t seen it since...was it Dad saying Hi or checking on us, maybe...but the craziest thing of all was, this name, his name, that kept appearing written on the glass was in his handwriting as if he’d literally walked up and wrote it himself...

Can we ask what his name was? Only asking if it was Al, maybe a coincidence as it is a short name, but Manny or Robert/Michael/Matthew (more than 2 letters) that's not a coincidence.

I'm betting the name was Kohler.

In AMH if the pops aren't advancing War Fort or Bar Ghost they collect EVP's (electronic voice phenomenon) X # of hits and you hear one of eight random clips.

ANYWAY... one of them is a real EVP (aside from the radio tuning sound in front of it) It's SFX/_FE/EVH.wav on the card.

It's a raspy voice saying "There's a woman back there". My sister's friend captured it in a basement during a ghost hunt.

Hope this doesn't hurt the fairly still decent resale value of the game

If anything that should increase it, another new and first in pinball

His name was Frank

I was working on one of my pins in the garage one night, completely quiet since my wife and kids were asleep. All the sudden I heard someone call my name like they were 5 feet away. I responded “what”. No answer. I walked into the house and everyone was still asleep. No way it was a prank. The voice actually sounded like a guy I knew that died months before. Needless to say I keep some music playing when I work on them now.

Was it a brick-lined basement? Ones with high iron content have been shown to imprint sound and play it back randomly. There's some saloon where you can hear music playing from the 1800s and it's magnetically recorded in the bricks.

And if not, WAS there a woman back there?

And probably didn't mention any strange occurrences going on, or why they sold the house.

LTG : )

I dont know if I believe in ghosts or not, but heres an interesting picture I took earlier this year. We have a cabin on the Alaqua River in Walton County Florida where we spend time on weekends, and I stop by and check on it a few times a week on my way to and from work. On this occasion, when I pulled up there were a couple young deer in the yard, and I was trying to get a picture of them to show my wife. The deer took off running along the river bank and I tried to get a pic out of the open window of my truck. The deer ran out of the frame before i snapped this shot, but when I looked at the pic later on I noticed this apparent spectre standing in the field looking at me.
The area was populated by natives for thousands of years as I have found stone spear points and pottery shards on our property, and it’s also known that a man was cut in half by a sawmill in the early 1900’s very near where this picture was taken. So take it as you may, I think its a very interesting picture regardless.

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I go back and forth, however I had some good experiences, it just they were so long ago and I have been investigating the paranormal since then with little experiences that cannot be explained another way.

When I was younger I was fully awake in bed and had the covers ripped off me. I wasn't asleep or dreaming. Freaked me out so much I knocked the bedside light off the stand trying to turn it on so fast. I also Heard my drum set banging down in the basement by itself. One time I was in the basement and no one was home and heard what sounded like footsteps above me followed by what sounded like someone jumping up and down in the same spot for a minute or two. When I had the courage to go up stairs to investigate it stopped. My parents kept feeling like someone was getting into bed with them in the middle of the night so when they went on vacation somewhere, I house sit the place by myself and set up a camera recording me all night. I didn't feel anyone get into the bed with me but did capture some strange noises I cannot explain. I was by myself and my parents did not have any pets at that time. Here is the video from it:

The house we just bought a few years ago the security cameras go off all the time for no reason, I have them programmed to ignore the dogs. This camera captured this shadow moving on the basement door when no one was home. Watch the only visible shut door in the camera and you will see it. Shadow starts at the top left of the door and moves down:

https://www.facebook.com/chris.dennis.1806/videos/1932298146780279/?t=9

After we closed on the house I ran a search through an online company and found out someone died in our house. Can't find anymore information out other then his name, the date and his age. Judging by his age I would suspect it was due to a heart attack or other age related health issue. Weird thing is he didn't even live in the house. I think he was friends with the prior owner and was maybe visiting when it happened.

Also there was a certain time can't say which pin it was (because I bought about 3 or 4 machines within a 1 month period) but there was a point in which my dogs starting going out in the game room and just staring at nothing. Lately my one dog keeps going out there and going underneath the games then coming back out.

The things that are making me start to shy away from believing is I have been several places that are supposed to be crawling with ghosts and cannot find any evidence from investigations I performed there. My aunt owns an old converted warehouse turned into an antique store that was once a bootlegging operation and we have investigated there, places in gettysburg some old places in lancaster ect and haven't had anything crazy happen. I also am starting to feel like if they were true there would be definite proof of them by now. Most of the videos I have seen are clearly faked or could be something else that was mistaken for a ghost. I am even starting to doubt my own experiences trying to rationalize them.

What? I've never heard of that. I'll have to look it up.

Re: the EVP yes there was a woman in the basement when they caught it. It's pretty creepy.

I wish I could remember the name of the saloon or even where it was. I only remember reading about it as somewhere in the US. It was a pretty interesting outcome for the "haunted" music people heard.

So it calls out the name of the guy who’s show your on ??? Does seem just a little gay when you think about it.

That’s a dude moving.

While we can all have fun with this stuff, with all the scientific technology we have these days, if there was something out there, we would likely know about it.

Ben Heck nailed it with America’s Most Haunted, if you’ve listened to the call outs. Very amusing.

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We didn't know until THIS YEAR that bacteria has languages and different bacteria have different languages they use to communicate with the other bacteria. Turns out that's why they are able to become antibiotic resistant - they TELL the others what works. By scientists injecting gibberish instructions in their "language" into the resistant bacteria (which then tells all the other bacteria gibberish) it can be defeated again with regular antibiotics. They just proved this approach this year.

So yeah, Science. But there's still a mountain of stuff we have no idea about.

No question!

But with all the paranormal investigation shows (and 1000s of followers) .... if they’d found something, they’d be busting their asses to get it out there.

At the end of the day, it’s probably quite a good gig having a ghost TV show and attending expos etc and cashing up. So good on em!

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I think a ghost was guarding your outlanes on ACNC to get that score.

The most scary thing about this video is the fact the guy with the voice recorder ended up killing his wife (who is also in the video talking and holding the recorder) and then ended up committing suicide when the police closed in on him. True story.

My brother and a co-worker lead retreats one summer at St. Vincent's school for boys in San Rafael, CA. People think the place is haunted and my brother and his co-worker had some unexplainable experiences. They lived on the premises and when not leading a retreat, would often be the only people on the premises.

A couple stories I remember when they were the only ones there;

1) He and his co-worker were in one room when they heard a guitar in another room strummed.

2) They were listening to music when it cuts out. They go to the room with the stereo to see what happened and all the mechanical lever switches were turned off.

Yea mark and debbie constantino . Sucks it happened. Even sadder is that she was still alive when the police were aware of what was going on if I remember right

My father died at 39, I was 13 at the time. It was a few months after he died I was home alone and decided I'd do something nice for my mom while she was out and cleaned up the house. After I was done I went in the basement and watched TV.

All of a sudden I hear footsteps upstairs, and the sliding of a chair across the floor. Excited, I thought my mom was home and rushed upstairs to greet her and see her appreciation for cleaning the house. Problem was.....there was no one in the house, she wasn't home yet, but the chair had been moved into the corner of the kitchen kitty corner to the small table, exactly the way it was when my father would have his morning coffees.

Didn't take me long to run out of the house freaked out of my mind.

I don't believe in ghost hunting tv shows and never believed in ghosts at all until it happened to me.

My wife's mom came over and said she'd been having spirits following her around lately. She's pretty religious and superstitious, so I humored her and let her do all her blessings over our new house (we'd been in it for a year or so). Holy water, herbs, prayers, the whole thing. After she left, my bengal cat started chasing something around at 2:00 in the morning every night. At first I thought it was a bug I couldn't see, but I've never heard a cat call out to a bug like they do another cat to come play. It was happening every single night, him tearing around the house and calling for something to come play. He has two other cats to play with, but I'm thinking my cats going crazy and he's made up an imaginary friend. He'd chase it all around me if I sat on the couch to watch, a lot of duck and cover. One night I couldn't sleep and I'm sitting up on the computer playing a video game. I feel a cat pawing at my leg, then my butt wanting up in my lap and I hear cat meow. Aggravated I say "fine" and move my chair back so it can jump up. It took about a second for it to sink in that this wasn't my cat's voice. I look down and there's no cat, my cat is standing outside the door watching almost amused, called out to his "imaginary friend" again, and chases off after the invisible thing again. After a month or so of constantly being woken up by the play noise and a phantom cat jumping on the bed to lay down or trying to sit in my lap, I wasn't creeped out anymore, I was getting royally pissed. Then suddenly it just stopped happening. My cat would call out to try and make it come out for a few days and then gave up sad.

I enjoy reading the stories, and it does seem like a lot of people have had unexplained experiences.

I used to enjoy watching the "ghost hunter" shows on TV, but now they seem anti-climatic and over-edited to enhance the drama. Show after show, and you don't end up with much in terms of hard evidence.

The best evidence we have are the stories, and boy do I enjoy hearing them.

If you're looking for something to listen to this Halloween, the Lore podcast has some good creepy tales: https://www.lorepodcast.com/

When I die, if Ghosting is an option for me, I'd like to be a friendly ghost. Help people find their lost keys, wash & dry the dishes and rewind their VHS tapes. Sure, I'll watch them while they use the toilet, but not in a creepy way.