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I saw a ghost and I am scared shitless

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Widfara said:
Saturday night, 12:30 AM. I am walking back to my dorm room from my job at Target. 5 miles lay between me. About a mile in, at Broadway and Columbus, I come to a block where the street light is out. On my left is the road, on my right is some guy's backyard. The wall is low enough so that I can easily see the whole yard. There are trees and bushes from his backyard reaching over onto the sidewalk. So the whole area is ominous. All I have is a box cutter in my pocket for protection.

Cars occasionally whiz by on my left; somewhat intermittently, however. All of sudden I hear a car approaching very slowly... and then coming almost to a complete stop. Without even looking I feel my blood run cold and my body shivers. I look over my left shoulder and see an old, ancient woman in the car. She is white as fuck- her skin is milk and her hair is whiter than that. She seems like she floats her arm across the car and opens the passenger seat and looks at me. I am scared beyond belief. I raise my left arm and utter "I'm, uh, all right, thanks."

Then she drove off.

BUT SHE DIDN'T HAVE A FACE! Her face was simply a white mask, that is all! I remember looking at her face, but I don't remember making eye contact. Then I realized she had no eyes! Absolutely no facial features whatsoever. And whiter than fuck. Fucking ectoplasm or something. Goddamn phantom. She was wearing a frilly dress and had the air of a menacing old lady, not like a sweet old grandma or something.

As I went from my left shoulder to my right, I glance into the guy's backyard- and stare directly at a statue of the Virgin Mary. Eeriest feeling ever.

I don't think it was merely an old lady trying to give me a ride. It was a spirit, a mean spirit. There may have been an accident on that block and now she is the remnant of that day, picking up lonesome travelers on the road. I am still shaking from this experience.
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Ghosts have cars now?

But, honestly, if anything it may have just been a prank. I could totally see some guys on my floor doing the exact same thing.
 
Hell yeah ghosts have cars:

"Tell 'em Large Marge sent ya."

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So wait, the vast majority of GA-Fers have never experienced any ghost encounters? I guess you guys lived in very peaceful places.

:lol

Nobody's house was built on Indian Burial Grounds? No previous owners being murdered in the home?
 
When I was about 6/7 yrs old I was playing on my brand new NES. It was about 9-10 pm and i remember looking outside. I saw a man, who looked like Darth Vader except he was wearing a metal suite (he had a cape too), he was walking away from my house but when I looked at him he suddenly looked back. He had a metal face or something. As soon as I saw him, I ran back to my mom who was in the kitchen.

Darth Vader's reincarnation!?
 
Bud said:
When I was about 6/7 yrs old I was playing on my brand new NES. It was about 9-10 pm and i remember looking outside. I saw a man, who looked like Darth Vader except he was wearing a metal suite (he had a cape too), he was walking away from my house but when I looked at him he suddenly looked back. He had a metal face or something. As soon as I saw him, I ran back to my mom who was in the kitchen.

Darth Vader's reincarnation!?
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Sex offender
 
I wish I still believed in ghosts. Life was alot more interesting and joyful then. I guess what that saying ignorance is bliss is quite true.
 
madara said:
I wish I still believed in ghosts. Life was alot more interesting and joyful then. I guess what that staying ignorance is bliss is quite true.
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Find religion or fret about NWO/Aliens. :)
 
Scrow said:
well actually it is possible to prove that something exists.

it is completely impossible however to prove that something doesn't exist. it can't be done. ever.
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So nothing can ever truly be "extinct"?
 
BiLo said:
So wait, the vast majority of GA-Fers have never experienced any ghost encounters? I guess you guys lived in very peaceful places.

:lol
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You should visit southeastern PA if you are interested in this stuff. There are a few haunted places in my area:

- Gettysburg (supposedly most haunted place evar)
- Eastern State Penitentiary
- Fort Mifflin
- Valley Forge

The Gettysburg ghost tours are nuts, I think they still run some at night especially around Halloween. The guides tell some pretty crazy stories at the various locations around the town. The last time I went there when I was younger the battlefield had a weird fog over it at night, almost like little clouds of smoke you would see if you fired off cannons. Just thinking about the whole town at night gives me heebie-jeebies.
 
Screw you. I read this thread title at 3am this morning and got too scared to go upstairs from the basement. After reading it........screw you X 2
 
There's an abandoned insane asylum where I live.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_Lunatic_Asylum

The old hospital was featured in an episode of the ABC television show "Scariest Places On Earth," which claimed Athens, Ohio was the 13th most haunted place on Earth.
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I haven't seen any ghosts yet... what gives if we're 13th most haunted on Earth? :lol

I haven't actually been there, but I guess the grounds are supposed to be pretty, and the university owns it now but I think a lot of it is still abandoned. There is a graveyard there with nothing but numbers on the grave markers... guess the patients' names didn't matter. :( I probably won't go there because I have an extreme phobia of cemeteries.

The stain left by the decaying body of a 54-year-old female patient has fueled the speculation of those who believe in haunted places. She was found dead in an unused ward early in 1980, after she had been missing for six weeks.
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Whoa creepy ><
 
BiLo said:
FYI: Ghosts have the intelligence of a mentally retarded person. It's like they're a set program that does the same junk everynight.
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I guess you've never had a conversation with a ghost then? Just because SOME of them do the same shit every night doesn't mean they ALL do....

But on the subject of those who do, there's a really fancy hotel/bar called the Bacara out past my parent's house in Goleta, California. I found out about a year ago that the guests had been seeing ghosts, and my dad was talking to a guy who worked there who said it's becoming a bit of a problem. Apparently the hotel IS burried on top of some kind of burial ground, and every Friday night around 4am, in one of the rooms a woman will appear dressed in full Indian-style clothing, and walk down the hallway, out onto the balcony of another room, and throw herself off.

So after hearing this I call up my friend that works there and ask him to investigate, and he comes back a few days later saying he overheard some guards talking about it. We were all going to go ghost hunting there at one point, but he had an "encounter" in the hotel's ballroom that scared him pretty badly so we called it off.

:(

I have more stories but I'll save 'em for later.
 
Widfara said:
Saturday night, 12:30 AM. I am walking back to my dorm room from my job at Target. 5 miles lay between me. About a mile in, at Broadway and Columbus, I come to a block where the street light is out. On my left is the road, on my right is some guy's backyard. The wall is low enough so that I can easily see the whole yard. There are trees and bushes from his backyard reaching over onto the sidewalk. So the whole area is ominous. All I have is a box cutter in my pocket for protection.

Cars occasionally whiz by on my left; somewhat intermittently, however. All of sudden I hear a car approaching very slowly... and then coming almost to a complete stop. Without even looking I feel my blood run cold and my body shivers. I look over my left shoulder and see an old, ancient woman in the car. She is white as fuck- her skin is milk and her hair is whiter than that. She seems like she floats her arm across the car and opens the passenger seat and looks at me. I am scared beyond belief. I raise my left arm and utter "I'm, uh, all right, thanks."

Then she drove off.

BUT SHE DIDN'T HAVE A FACE! Her face was simply a white mask, that is all! I remember looking at her face, but I don't remember making eye contact. Then I realized she had no eyes! Absolutely no facial features whatsoever. And whiter than fuck. Fucking ectoplasm or something. Goddamn phantom. She was wearing a frilly dress and had the air of a menacing old lady, not like a sweet old grandma or something.

As I went from my left shoulder to my right, I glance into the guy's backyard- and stare directly at a statue of the Virgin Mary. Eeriest feeling ever.

I don't think it was merely an old lady trying to give me a ride. It was a spirit, a mean spirit. There may have been an accident on that block and now she is the remnant of that day, picking up lonesome travelers on the road. I am still shaking from this experience.
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Wait, a woman asked you to enter her car and you didn't? WTF man. FHUTA oppurtunity lost.
 
Dr_Cogent said:
I'm not saying they are or aren't.

Got proof of that though?

Pretty hard to prove a negative though. :)
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As was said earlier: burden of proof. If you tell me there's a flying monster that looks like John Tesh who terrorizes you every night, it's not up to me to prove there isn't.

I agree with EvilLore
 
SpoonyBard said:
You can't prove it isn't.
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Normally, you have to prove that something exists, not that it doesn't exist, for people to believe you.
Just like in a trial the others have to proove that you're guilty, not that you are innocent.

Apart from that, I know what you mean. I would never say with absolute certainty that "ghosts don't exist!". They may exist, but as long as it's not proven, or I haven't seen one myself, I just assume they don't.
 
cloudwalking said:
There's an abandoned insane asylum where I live.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_Lunatic_Asylum



I haven't seen any ghosts yet... what gives if we're 13th most haunted on Earth? :lol

I haven't actually been there, but I guess the grounds are supposed to be pretty, and the university owns it now but I think a lot of it is still abandoned. There is a graveyard there with nothing but numbers on the grave markers... guess the patients' names didn't matter. :( I probably won't go there because I have an extreme phobia of cemeteries.
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From what I understand, every building but the tuberculosis ward is being used for something now. The huge main building, for instance, is the Kennedy Museum of Art. Go here for more. I've never actually gone on foot through the cemetery there, though I've seen it. The only cemetery I've actually been in in the area is the one on West State, and I certainly didn't see any ghosts.
 
WordAssassin said:
So after hearing this I call up my friend that works there and ask him to investigate, and he comes back a few days later saying he overheard some guards talking about it. We were all going to go ghost hunting there at one point, but he had an "encounter" in the hotel's ballroom that scared him pretty badly so we called it off.
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that "encounter"? got told off by the boss for snooping around his wife's underwear.


i would like to hear more stories please! :D


I do believe that people who do have ghost encounters are very lucky people. I mean, if ghosts are real, that opens up the possibility that God is real! and the Devil and all that other crap (like fairies and hobbits).
 
I have experienced something weird. About 7 or 8 years ago I went to bed after being up 28 hours straight. I was exhausted. (I came home from a lan or something.) After a couple of minutes, I was suddenly sitting on my bed staring into 3 grinning faces. They were very blurry and kinda washed out, but there was something there. I thought I had a dream. I switched on the lights, and they were still there! I paniced abit, but I was so tired that I don't really remember what happend, I fell a sleep again and in the morning there was nothing there. Nothing like this occured ever again. I don't think it was a ghost, and I was probably hallucinating since I was so tired. But who really knows though, I will always remember it. Freaky as hell!

Our house at that time was very old from the ground, but completley rebuilt.
 
Manics said:
You don't hang around airports alot do you?
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It was from Target.

Himuro said:
Widfara are you in a town called Silent Hill?
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Nope, Tucson AZ. But it is really shitty and somewhat like Silent Hill I suppose.

PhoenixDark said:
Wait, a woman asked you to enter her car and you didn't? WTF man. FHUTA oppurtunity lost.
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If she was actually a real woman, she looked like she was 85. I would not have sex with her. Though I occasionally get the taste for "mature" poornography.
 
Himuro said:
Hey guys have you seen that video of that guy and his friends going into that haunted house and some tall ghost thing walking out of a doorway? I wish I had a link.
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I remember a still capture from a CCTV camera in the UK of a tall ghost standing in a door way, he was all white (naturally) and dressed in really old fashioned clothes. The ghost seemed pretty solid so presumably it was just some guy dressed up, but if that thing was real... *shudders*.

I believe it made the news once.
 
human5892 said:
As was said earlier: burden of proof. If you tell me there's a flying monster that looks like John Tesh who terrorizes you every night, it's not up to me to prove there isn't.

I agree with EvilLore
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Had many years of debate, you are preaching to the choir. That's why I said what I said. It's hard or impossible to prove a negative.

I understand where the burden of proof lies.

Obviously original poster can't prove that what he saw was real. But, on the other hand, lets just forget he even said anything and it was entirely just Evilores post all by itself. He made a statement, and it obviously can't be proven either. That's all my point was.

Unfortunately neither side can ever prove their case because there is no concrete evidence. Neither side can claim their position as fact as a result.
 
Maxwell House said:
You walk 5 damn miles to Target? Damn!!! That is working hard for your money.
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Yeah, the buses stop at 8pm on the weekends, it sucks. The walk is enjoyable though- a lot of time to think.
 
I don't know why everone always thinks a ghost would take a humanshape form...it's our physical body that gives us this form I think a spirit would be different...I don't get spooked out though it's garbage
 
Thanks to you bastards, instead of working on a website, I'm looking up haunted places and ghost stories in Los Angeles. I've heard of a few ghost stories in Palos Verdes (the Lighthouse, Wayfarer's chapel, the Vanderlip Mansion) and found quite a few places in Pasadena. I'm thinking if getting some friends together to ghost hunt around Holloween. Any LA GAFers are weclome to come along.
IF YOU DARE!
:D
 
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