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How many of you believe in spooks?
Big Sky Redneck
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One of the guys I work with is a firm believer in spooks (ghosts) and has some pretty facinating stories to tell and he really seems to believe what he is saying, however as he is telling these * stories I am laughing like a hyena inside trying to keep from busting out on him.
Any of you believe he may be right and has seen a real *? I personaly feel he has taken one too many hits of strong acid in his day[:D]
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I'm not apologizing, I am what I am
There is no compromising, I don't give a damn
Ozzy Osbourne - Lightning Strikes
Any of you believe he may be right and has seen a real *? I personaly feel he has taken one too many hits of strong acid in his day[:D]
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I'm not apologizing, I am what I am
There is no compromising, I don't give a damn
Ozzy Osbourne - Lightning Strikes
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"Aim small...Miss small"
Don't assume malice for what stupidity can explain.
Go ahead and LOL.
Why should I care how closed minded you are? [;)] [:D] [:D]
The gene pool needs chlorine.
Months ago I had a friend claim he had spirits in a house he rented. He was serious. I went by the place when he was moving out and did get an uneasy feeling while standing inside the place. Since moving he has had no problems. Don't know about the people who moved into the place.
I blieve there is a spiritual warfare going on all about us that we are not privy to witness with the phisical eye. If we could it would scare the wits out of us.
Idsman can tell you a thing or two about this stuff. I am sure he will wade in on this conversation.
"Save the Whalers, they need jobs too."
Ghosts?
...There is NO way she had time to drive all the way down the aisle, back down the other side and come around again for another pass. My wife said "What the ????", and I turned around to look behind me thinking it must be another similar car. The car we had walked past (the first time) was gone...and was in front of us.
We both stopped and stared at the car and driver, as it drove by.
It was the SAME exact car and driver. It was her!!
FCD
"Fortes et liber"
That wouldn't have been Wal-Mart at rush hour would it?[:D]
I have seen some crazy things happen in Wal-Mart parking lots [;)].
I never actually saw a spirit until about 2 years ago. I was spring cleaning at Mike's house in Pa. while he was at work, washing the big picture window in his living room, very much alone.
I was overcome by the strange sensation that I was being watched, so I peeked over my shoulder and saw a grey figure of a man. I turned away, and then back around quickly, and it was gone.
When Mike came home from work that evening, I told him about my experience. He stated that the man who build the house in the late 1800's had a father who served in the Civil War. Apparently the old man saw too many disturbing things on the battlefield, and his son brought him to that house to care for him rather than lock him up in a sanitarium. Mike had never seen him, but said that the old man had a penchant for practical jokes, like turning on water faucets, slamming the fridge door in the middle of the night.
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it that the former does not submit to hereditary predjudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." - Albert E.
On my tombstone:"Keep you eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel..."the Lizard King
Greg
Former Marine
A N G L I C O
That was just a glitch in the matrix. [:0] [;)] [:D]
The gene pool needs chlorine.
yeah sure, i believe in ghosts.
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I don't believe in either one of them.[;)]
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So yes.
Don't do anything that I've allready done - That'd be just plain STOOOOOOPID.
Have seen something and someone I couldn't explain away....
So yes.
Don't do anything that I've allready done - That'd be just plain STOOOOOOPID.
So have I , but I divorced her 15 years ago!!![8D]
Love them Pre-64's!!!!-Bob
quote:Originally posted by HappyNanoq
Have seen something and someone I couldn't explain away....
So yes.
Don't do anything that I've allready done - That'd be just plain STOOOOOOPID.
So have I , but I divorced her 15 years ago!!![8D]
Love them Pre-64's!!!!-Bob
I hope she wasn't too scary. [:D]
I wouldn't want to explain away my Girlfriend - she's very special =o)
Don't do anything that I've allready done - That'd be just plain STOOOOOOPID.
Love them Pre-64's!!!!-Bob
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-- Gen. George S. Patton
referring to the M1 Garand
A handfull of sheet !!!!!
But now are we talking NSA, CIA or Homeland Defense?
Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution does it state: "Seperation of Church and State".
"Those who beat their guns into plow shares; will plow for those who don't."
"Isaiah 5:20 ?Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"
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I saw a bunch of them at work tonight!
Just call me "Griffin"
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When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
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If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
Albert Einstein
went in and told the wife i wondered what she wanted (this sis and i dont get along the greatest) and that she looked a little different, must have changed her hair or something...but she never made it to the door! i looked out after a couple min and she was no-where around!
then i wondered, "why was she walking from the corner when there are several prking spaces in front of the house?"
THAT sister was nowhere near my house that day...but a sister that died at 6 mo was moved from one graveyard to one nearer my moms house the day before, and that morning my mom heard the door slam and one of the girls call "mom im home!" while she was upstairs. when she came down a min later the house was empty!
I never saw any big cats around here but others have claimed to. Also the sound of banjos would have been welcomed. Phew, it still gives me chills and that happened better than 40 years ago.
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1.) Electromagnetics fields have effects on the human brains that cause the feeling "of being watch" and that someone else is nearby that you can see or touch (high powerlines are the best culprit).
2.) Most hauntings occur at the scenes of violent crimes, most notably murders, and the victim just before dying can excrete a large number of pheromones based on ultimate fear. Even years later, visitors can smell the pheromones on a sub-concious level and develop the same feelings of anxiety and dread. Most good hauntings fade out after a few centuries and it could be due to the wearing away of the implanted pheremones.
3.) The human brain, as a survival mechanism, abhors a vaccuum of information and will draw upon its experience to develop patterns from faulty information that will fit the worst case scenarios. We all might remember from our childhoods of the monster in our rooms that turned out to be a pile of clothes when the light was turned on.
In the Bible, Christ was thought to be a ghost several times and each time He proved to His disciples that He was a living or resurrected human being. He did not deny the possibility of ghosts but the first ghost mentioned in the Bible is the spirit of the prophet Samuel who had been conjured up by the witch of Endor at the request of King Saul. Samuel quickly berated Saul for engaging in the forbidden practice (necromancy) and warned that his Kingdom would be taken away from him because of his transgression.
I'd go deeper into what I believe to be true and my own personal experience with "the other side" but I'm working today. Maybe when I'm done working (around 6pm) if I'm not blasting clays out in Nebraska before the sun goes down.
If I can't spell, so what!
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
It was 1979. I was a campus cop at Gonzaga University in Spokane. My partner, Mario, and I were locking up the music building.
Now, let me tell you about the famous music building. Famous for its spooky dealings.
It was once an old Victorian mansion, so it has many rooms and staircases.
A student committed suicide in its basement in the 1960s. The spirit was so unsettled that a Gonzaga priest (Gonzaga is a Catholic university) did an exorcism there. Yep, it's true. Gonzaga doesn't like to acknowledge it but it's true.
Anyway, while I worked there Mario and I would lock up the music building at midnight, after chasing all the practicing students out.
On a number of occasions, our boss reported the next day that the music building was found unlocked, all doors and windows open and all lights on. Nothing was ever found missing or vandalized.
Mario and I caught hell for not locking up the music building, but we knew we did and assured our boss we had.
One night we were in what had been the house's attic, then used as a huge practice area for the choir. On one side, four offices were built, with a hallway between them (two offices on each side).
Mario and I checked the attic to ensure no students were up there and I walked across the floor to check the doors on the offices. I passed an old wheeled blackboard beside the front of the hallway and walked on another 15 or 20 feet.
After checking the rearmost doors, the blackboard bumped me in the back!
"Very funny, Mario!" I yelled to him.
"What?" he said, from 40 feet away.
"You didn't just roll this into me?"
"Noooooooo .. and let's get the hell out of here!" he said. Now, Mario had served in VietNam with Marine Recon and seen a lot of action, but his Latin blood couldn't take ghosts!
I rolled the blackboard back into place. It did not roll easily and its old, iron wheels squeaked. Surely, I would have heard it approaching behind me.
I never had another ghostly experience, not even to this day.
Believe in them? Heck ya!
"A hit with a .22 is better than a miss with a .44!"
In all seriousness, I think I may have seen a bigfoot the other day when I was out deer hunting. I thought I saw an all black humanoid form at the end of the field, where the timber begins. I was the only one hunting there that day, so it wasn't a person. Now, it may have just been nerves from hearing deer scurrying around or it may have been real--who knows? In any case, I'm not gonna spend my life looking for something that may or may not exist, but if I ever have the chance to get a shot off, you better believe I will.
O Lord,
grant me the Serenity
to accept the things
I cannot change
the courage to change the things I can,
and the supreme firepower to make the difference.
There are three basic theories about Ghosts and Hauntings:
1.) Electromagnetics fields have effects on the human brains that cause the feeling "of being watch" and that someone else is nearby that you can see or touch (high powerlines are the best culprit).
2.) Most hauntings occur at the scenes of violent crimes, most notably murders, and the victim just before dying can excrete a large number of pheromones based on ultimate fear. Even years later, visitors can smell the pheromones on a sub-concious level and develop the same feelings of anxiety and dread. Most good hauntings fade out after a few centuries and it could be due to the wearing away of the implanted pheremones.
3.) The human brain, as a survival mechanism, abhors a vaccuum of information and will draw upon its experience to develop patterns from faulty information that will fit the worst case scenarios. We all might remember from our childhoods of the monster in our rooms that turned out to be a pile of clothes when the light was turned on.
Yeah, and all three of those theories are wrong.
quote:I'm not gonna spend my life looking for something that may or may not exist, but if I ever have the chance to get a shot off, you better believe I will.
You'd SHOOT Big Foot?????
FCD
"Fortes et liber"
It would be self defense
O Lord,
grant me the Serenity
to accept the things
I cannot change
the courage to change the things I can,
and the supreme firepower to make the difference.