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I think my apartment may be haunted.

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exmachina64 said:
Fake edit: Mainly meant to apply to the person you quoted.
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Ah, pardon me, I have a tendency to repeat what the person I quote says word for word. Thank you for pointing out my mistake.

Valjean Lafitte said:
But outright dismissing a potential explanation to an unsolved problem would be just as bad as the 'god of the gaps' fallacy that you presume my post suggests.
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I did, in fact, intend to address this same point in my previous post, but I was rather tired and posted it prematurely. I agree with you to an extent, and I apologise that it came off as me accusing you of committing said fallacy.
 
supergiz said:
CO2 Meter is good.

Not sure if relevant but this is the apartment building next to me. Been like that since I moved in.
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Chris1 said:
Ghosts exist. I'll defend that to the end of my days. I've seen and heard some scary shit going on which has made me a believer. Plus I know someone who moved into a house that someone passed away in before. He moved out within weeks because he thought it was haunted (kept hearing tapping noises in the walls, if he tapped back, whatever it was tapped back louder and faster, etc). Call it a coincidence, I call it a ghost. Fuck that.

Never heard of anything like you're describing but good luck OP.
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So did your friend try to help the person possibly trapped in his wall or did he just peace out and leave them there to die
 
Chris1 said:
Ghosts exist. I'll defend that to the end of my days. I've seen and heard some scary shit going on which has made me a believer. Plus I know someone who moved into a house that someone passed away in before. He moved out within weeks because he thought it was haunted (kept hearing tapping noises in the walls, if he tapped back, whatever it was tapped back louder and faster, etc). Call it a coincidence, I call it a ghost. Fuck that.

Never heard of anything like you're describing but good luck OP.
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You should take the James Randi challenge. There is 1 million dollars just waiting for you!!

http://web.randi.org/the-million-dollar-challenge.html
 
In my previous apartment, I once took a shower and then as I go to leave the bathroom, I see wet footprints on my floor going from my bathroom to the kitchen. It was impossible for it to be me since I didn't leave the bathroom until I finished. Kind of freaked me out but I lived in a studio apartment so there was nowhere for someone to hide. I lived on a floor with other university students and I don't remember if my door was locked. It was weird.

Edit: Also the footprints were small. Not little child small but somewhere between that and an adult size foot.
 
Joe Shlabotnik said:
So did your friend try to help the person possibly trapped in his wall or did he just peace out and leave them there to die
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Aren't they already dead? :P

But yeah he peaced out, he was scared to the point he couldn't sleep at night and I can hardly blame him.

Chiaroscuro said:
If you defend that beyond the end of your days I may believe that.
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Lol :)


keltickennedy said:
You should take the James Randi challenge. There is 1 million dollars just waiting for you!!

http://web.randi.org/the-million-dollar-challenge.html
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I know people will think I'm crazy, maybe I am and it's just a mental thing but it sure as hell doesn't feel it.

Another example.. Someone in my family passed away a few years back, and a couple years after when I was at their house I was going out the back garden and opened the back door but after that I couldn't move for a couple of seconds, as if something was blocking me, even though there was nothing there. I said to my gran about it and she said she felt the same thing a couple of times too when opening doors.

Either we're all going crazy or ghosts are real. I'm going with the latter. Although I don't think they will harm you (if they were going to, they would have already), it's still really freaky. I was like most people here, laughing off ghosts but after that I'm a believer. Never experienced anything like that until the past few years and it's always in houses where people have passed away in before, even in the current house I've lived in for the past 10-15 or so years I've not experienced anything of the sort.
 
soepje said:
supergiz said:
CO2 Meter is good.

Not sure if relevant but this is the apartment building next to me. Been like that since I moved in.
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Seriously though, the house next to the one I'm in now was gutted by a fire and someone died in there.
The house is still sitting there as a shell, condemned by the city.

Positives:
Lowered property value for this house
Quiet neighbors

There are also some cats who hang out over there.
They may or may not be ghosts.
They like cat food, though.
 
Can't wait for the update!

Jackson50 said:
OP, do not be discouraged. I had similar experiences. My ghosts didn't smear ketchup on the wall. They did worse. I first noticed little changes such as objects moved for no reason or an electronic device was turned on with no explanation. The behavior gradually became more disturbing. I'd found my PC browser left on horrific websites with images of dead bodies or videos of people committing suicide, and I'd find mutilated animals on my balcony. What pushed me over the edge was an experience I'll never forget. I went down the street to grab a soda. And when I cam back, an upside down cross with a 666 on top was drawn on my wall. The substance smelled foul, and I believe it was feces. My parents recommended to have a priest bless my apartment. And then things went from 0 to 60 in under a second. I'd tell you more, but the thoughts still disturb me. If you believe it is a ghost, do not wait. You must confront it immediately. Crux sacra sit mihi lux. And may the blessings of Yeshua bar Josef be with you.
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This is pretty fucked up. Would like to hear more if you want to share.
 
Jackson50 said:
OP, do not be discouraged. I had similar experiences. My ghosts didn't smear ketchup on the wall. They did worse. I first noticed little changes such as objects moved for no reason or an electronic device was turned on with no explanation. The behavior gradually became more disturbing. I'd found my PC browser left on horrific websites with images of dead bodies or videos of people committing suicide, and I'd find mutilated animals on my balcony. What pushed me over the edge was an experience I'll never forget. I went down the street to grab a soda. And when I cam back, an upside down cross with a 666 on top was drawn on my wall. The substance smelled foul, and I believe it was feces. My parents recommended to have a priest bless my apartment. And then things went from 0 to 60 in under a second. I'd tell you more, but the thoughts still disturb me. If you believe it is a ghost, do not wait. You must confront it immediately. Crux sacra sit mihi lux. And may the blessings of Yeshua bar Josef be with you.
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This is incredibly hard to believe. You should have set video cameras up and slept easy, as ghosts inconveniently never document themselves. Video cameras = the crucifix.
 
Chris1 said:
Never experienced anything like that until the past few years and it's always in houses where people have passed away in before, even in the current house I've lived in for the past 10-15 or so years I've not experienced anything of the sort.
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I don't want to commit a lot of energy or time to the debate in this thread, but I just want to point out that the three most common places people die in North America are hospitals, nursing homes, and...their own houses. For every house that is "haunted" because someone died in it, there are a thousand more houses people died in where people never even consider the possibility their house is "haunted," probably simply because they don't know there was a death there. And then it starts to look a lot like confirmation bias.
 
theJohann said:
Ah, pardon me, I have a tendency to repeat what the person I quote says word for word. Thank you for pointing out my mistake.
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Not sure if you're being serious or sarcastic.

I wanted to quote both of you, but I couldn't find the part of his post you took that quote from by briefly skimming his long post.

No need to get bent out of shape.
 
Inquisitive_Ghost said:
I don't want to commit a lot of energy or time to the debate in this thread, but I just want to point out that the three most common places people die in North America are hospitals, nursing homes, and...their own houses. For every house that is "haunted" because someone died in it, there are a thousand more houses people died in where people never even consider the possibility their house is "haunted," probably simply because they don't know there was a death there. And then it starts to look a lot like confirmation bias.
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We were the first people to move into this house when it was just built and we moved here when I was really young (can't remember exact age but I was younger than 10) and I think my grans house was just built when she moved in too, but yeah I know what you mean. Just sharing my experiences.
 
I'm such a skeptic I think I would need to have an incredibly strong paranormal/supernatural experience for me to remotely start considering the existence of ghosts or any other sort of paranormal phenomena. I've had weird stuff happen to me, like seeing people on mirrors in my house (I once saw someone that looked straight out of the 50's, staring at me from a hallway that reflects on my bathroom mirror), seeing "ghosts" walking (hovering?) out of my brother's room and other similar experiences, but I know way too much about the (flawed) way my brain perceives reality to consider those experiences as something more than brain farts.

Same for unexplained physical occurrences like in the OP's case. I'd much rather believe there's a physical explanation I'm not seeing than to somehow accept explanations that would require me to renounce my beliefs in thermodynamics or physics.
 
Ok so I need to look through the footage more in depth but upon first glance of the 8 hours or so nothing out of the ordinary.

Btw, that house I posted the picture of has been like that for 10 years. Just asked the guys at the convenience store nearby. They have no idea what the story is with it. It's 3 St Felix St Brooklyn, NY 11217 or 1 St Felix St Brooklyn, NY 11217. Not sure exact number as the sign is torn off of the front of the place.

Need detective GAF's help on this one.
 
supergiz said:
Ok so I need to look through the footage more in depth but upon first glance of the 8 hours or so nothing out of the ordinary.

Btw, that house I posted the picture of has been like that for 10 years. Just asked the guys at the convenience store nearby. They have no idea what the story is with it. It's. Not sure exact number as the sign is torn off of the front of the place.

Need detective GAF's help on this one.
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Isnt this the house beside you? Do you really want to be posting your exact location on the internet?
 
Rivitur said:
Its a detection of energy and as humans we have energy. Energy can't be created nor destroyed so why isn't it possible when humans die so of that energy is left on the earth and can be detected by instruments that are used to measure such things?
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Holy Shit people.

So amazing how many people believe in ghosts. blows my mind.

Energy left behind? Do you even know WTF you are talking about haha holy shit at the pseudoscience babble.

As a recent PhD graduate that cares a great deal about science education this is honestly depressing. In the age of information when people have access to the internet people still believe this shit.
 
boiled goose said:
Energy left behind? Do you even know WTF you are talking about haha holy shit at the pseudoscience babble.
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If there's one thing I've been increasingly upset about in modern science fiction, it's the consistently misleading use of the word "energy" in stories that otherwise try to have vestiges of real science in them. That word has a meaning, and sci-fi should not be using that word in the same way as woo or other anti-scientific nonsense. It's only contributing to people using it wrongly, like they are in this thread.
 
keltickennedy said:
You should take the James Randi challenge. There is 1 million dollars just waiting for you!!

http://web.randi.org/the-million-dollar-challenge.html
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The problem is that supernatural phenomenon always stays at the edge of observation.

boiled goose said:
Holy Shit people.

So amazing how many people believe in ghosts. blows my mind.

Energy left behind? Do you even know WTF you are talking about haha holy shit at the pseudoscience babble.

As a recent PhD graduate that cares a great deal about science education this is honestly depressing. In the age of information when people have access to the internet people still believe this shit.
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That's absolutely ridiculous. How does access to the internet affect the belief in ghosts or the ghost phenomenon?
 
supergiz said:
CO2 Meter is good.

Not sure if relevant but this is the apartment building next to me. Been like that since I moved in.
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I've played the Witcher enough to know how to solve this problem. For some reason the spirit has latched onto you (hence why hauntings can happen in your apartment). Enter that building, find a couple of mementos the ghost had when it was living (these objects are binding it to this realm), burn those mementos, and prepare for a fight. Talk to the residents around you to try and narrow down who the ghost might be since you don't want to burn every object you come across in there.

Good luck OP.
 
JNT said:
Access to the internet does not help inform misinformed people; It just helps them get in touch with other misinformed people.
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Well, this is absolutely wrong. Obviously the internet does both these things. I'm not sure why you would think this, maybe you're misinformed? Are you one of those people that think nobody ever changes their mind on something?
 
Reading through this thread, I am surprised by the amount of GAFers that believe in ghosts/supernatural. I won't deny anyone's experience they have had, but I certainly do not believe in ghosts and the like.
 
supergiz said:
This is Brooklyn. There are quite a few tenants in my building and I am out of here in a month or so.
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Hero_of_the_Day said:
Shit, we only have a month to get the first recorded proof of ghosts existing?
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I don't think it wants him to leave. Why do you think it's throwing a tantrum? It doesn't want to be alone again and wants to make sure there's a permanent solution.
 
Chris1 said:
Another example.. Someone in my family passed away a few years back, and a couple years after when I was at their house I was going out the back garden and opened the back door but after that I couldn't move for a couple of seconds, as if something was blocking me, even though there was nothing there. I said to my gran about it and she said she felt the same thing a couple of times too when opening doors.

Either we're all going crazy or ghosts are real.
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Can you explain why these two options are the only two options there are? Why does "not being able to move for a few seconds" immediately and exclusively imply either ghosts or craziness? What makes you say ghosts, if they were real, are capable of even doing such a thing? Because you've seen it in movies? I'd like to know what you base this assessment on. Or is it a "what else could it be?" type way of reasoning? Which is "an argument from ignorance". Obviously a flawed way of reasoning.

Even if a disembodied voice would loudly declare "yes, hello there. I am a ghost and I'm holding your body in place" that still would not prove it was actually a ghost. If you don't understand why not then you need some serious help in the logic and reasoning department.
 
Rivitur said:
Its a detection of energy and as humans we have energy. Energy can't be created nor destroyed so why isn't it possible when humans die so of that energy is left on the earth and can be detected by instruments that are used to measure such things?
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Because that's not remotely how it works.
 
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