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12:58 pm
January 13, 2009


CrowTRobot

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posts 228

Just some oddball, but true, stuff:

Came home the other night and couldn't get our bedroom door open. Apparently, the ironing board had fallen from behind the door, closing it and lodging itself between the dresser and wall. I had to reach through the slight door opening and push it away from the door to get in the room.  I couldn't help but think of GHs ironing board episode. But with me, just because it didn't fall again after I put it back up, I did not declare my house haunted.

But the reason I really wanted to start this thread was to see if others do any of this:

If we hear a sound in the house, one of us will grab the nearest remote, cell phone, whatever, pretend we're doing EVP work, and say, "If that was you, give us another sign." If I get to it first, I'll usually add, "If you're trying to communicate with us, grab my………(insert favorite body part to be grabbed)…..

We try to go for a walk every evening, so when we pass an empty house, I'll say, "If anyone is in there, give us a sign."….(Oh, it's best to make sure no one else is around when you do this)….So far, no dice.

Oddly, we don't really ever use the word debunk, which is a word I don't ever remember hearing until I started watching GH.

I….I'm thinking.

1:36 pm
January 13, 2009


A Adams

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Actually in our home, if I (we) hear an odd noise the first thing I do is check to see where all the pets (culprits) are, and 99% of the time they are sleeping (lucky devils lol). Which brings me to my next conclusion, if they are chillin' (and I know if I could "detect" a presence then they could detect it far better than I can) then I can relax too.

But I just realized maybe our pets and the entity are used to each other or even buds or something, maybe if they can push lamps they can knock over food bags, etc, hehe. Oh well, that just took the "all's well" out of the unexplained noises in my home theory. Arrrgh!

2:29 pm
January 13, 2009


Wes

Spaulding Inn, Room 38

Investigator

posts 142

CTR,

Wasn't there a Broadway show about ghost hunting called "Bring in da noise, brink in de-bunk" ?

(sorry)

"The truth shall bear all light."

2:37 pm
January 13, 2009


Learjet

Australia

Lead Investigator

posts 1122

Actually this is how it all started for me. For a few days after my father died we (my mother and I) thought we could hear him walking up the stairs and clearing his throat as he used to. We both heard the noises at the same time and looked at each other in surprise.

Then 2 weeks after my mother died I heard footsteps and the door knob rattle as she used to when she was alive. The last incident was so clear it freaked me out, I swore there were burglars in the house and went on the hunt with a loaded gun! After the search revealed nothing I continued to hear strange noises at one end of the house. This prompted me to connect up a video camera to an image intensifier in case I could catch something on video.

I didn't have any sort of EMF meter or voice recorder at that time. I ended up with no evidence apart from personal experiences. This was at 4am, conditions were dead still, not a breath of air in motion and to this day have no explanation. That was 15 years ago now and nothing similar has happened since. At the time I wish I had some sort of ghost detection equipment, other than the IR camera I used for astronomy.  And so it began…

OD'd on EMF

1:59 pm
January 14, 2009


Nosfer

Rotaredom

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posts 2957

CrowTRobot said:

Just some oddball, but true, stuff:

Came home the other night and couldn't get our bedroom door open. Apparently, the ironing board had fallen from behind the door, closing it and lodging itself between the dresser and wall. I had to reach through the slight door opening and push it away from the door to get in the room.  I couldn't help but think of GHs ironing board

episode. But with me, just because it didn't fall again after I put it back up, I did not declare my house haunted.

But the reason I really wanted to start this thread was to see if others do any of this:

If we hear a sound in the house, one of us will grab the nearest remote, cell phone, whatever, pretend we're doing EVP work, and say, "If that was you, give us another sign." If I get to it first, I'll usually add, "If you're trying to communicate with us, grab my………(insert favorite body part to be grabbed)…..

We try to go for a walk every evening, so when we pass an empty house, I'll say, "If anyone is in there, give us a sign."….(Oh, it's best to make sure no one else is around when you do this)….So far, no dice.

Oddly, we don't really ever use the word debunk, which is a word I don't ever remember hearing until I started watching GH.


LOL, never thought of that as a communications method. When I hear a sound I can for the most part dismiss it as ducts cooling, wood floors contracting etc. Upon reviewing evidence, though, I've never detected any cold spots, or in fact any temperature fluctuations of any kind. Temperature is the only parameter that I monitor constantly in various rooms (very precisely and very fine intervals) so it's the only one I can go back to and look at the data to see if there was anything evident.

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8:27 am
November 22, 2009


CrowTRobot

Investigator

posts 228

I didn't want to start a new thread for this, so I'll just stick this here.

Was walking through Costco the other day when we passed a bin overflowing with stuffed lions. As we walked past, one of the lions fell out and landed up against a friend. We made some lame joke about it and put it back. Then I got to thinking, "WWTD: What Would TAPS Do?"

Jay: "Did  you see that?

Grant: "Yea. What happened?"

Jay: "This stuffed lion fell out of the bin."

Grant: "Really? It wasn't me; I was over here looking at the ladies' hose packages."

Jay: "I don't really have an explaination for that."

Grant: "Yea, I don't know if you can call it paranormal, but stuffed animals don't just jump out of a bin like that."

…..Later…..

Steve: "This is where Jay was attacked by that stuffed lion."

Tango: "Wow"

Steve:  "Maybe if we do some insultingly wild embarrassing African native dance, we can get it to move again."

Tango: "OK"

…..Later…..

Kris: "This is where they've seen stuffed animals moving around."

What's her name: "No way!"

I….I'm thinking.

9:01 am
November 22, 2009


Nosfer

Rotaredom

Moderator

posts 2957

Later….

Jay to Costco Manager: "Well, you know what we did…"

Grant: "We'd like to show you this piece of footage, keep your eye right here"

Jay: "Now, have you ever seen the lions do that before?"

Manager: "Well, now that you mentio…"

Jay: "There's this theory out there where stuffed animals can take on the characteristics and actions of what they represent. So, was that paranormal, I can't say, but I've never had that happen before"

Grant: "We also caught this audio evidence we'd like you to take a listen to"

Manager: "Okay"

Jay: "Now, you'll want to be listening right about here"

Manager: "Sounds like some wild African dance?"

Grant: "Yeah, that's what WE thought, too!"

Jay: "So the lion jumping at me, can't say for sure, but when you add this EVP we caught, I definitely think you might have something going on here"

Manager: "We'd love to have you come back"

Jay: "Hawesome, we'd love to come back…I see you're having a sale on flour next week"

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2:11 pm
November 22, 2009


Judy Holiday

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JLMFAO! that was great.But also sad that this is what the show has become.

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