what are some of the ghost stories in your area/neighborhood/country? have any ever hapened to you?

Question

do any of you believe in spirits/gohsts? if you do what are some of the ghost stories around youve heard? have you ever seen a ghost/spirit? did it feel malevolant or good or peaceful? any info on what you all think will help.

Answer 1

I do believe in spirits. I live in north Georgia, not too far from Chickamauga Battlefield. One of the biggest ghost stories in that area is of Green Eyes. He is supposedly a ghoul that scavenged on the dead soldiers in the Civil War, but there are other stories about his origin. I've never seen him, but I've felt his presence, and he didn't seem friendly at all. But some of the other spirits in the Battlefield are friendly, and even curious about modern things. I've had mists in pictures taken there. One awesome place I love to visit is The Old Stone Church Museum. There are still bloodstains on the floor and marks from where soldiers would use church pews to feed their horses... but the atmosphere is incredibly peaceful, and one night, about sunset, I was driving by there, and saw a infantry soldier standing beside the building, and he smiled and saluted before fading away.

I love living in this area, it's so rich in history from even before the civil war. The Indians once lived in this area, and sometimes, I can sense them in the woods around my house. They seem happy as long as there aren't machines doing crap in there, lol. Ghosts don't like machines too much... not construction ones, from all I've been able to tell... they are too noisy, I think. The source listed has a picture of the stone church, and some other sites of historical interest in my town.

Answer 2

We had a haunted house in my neighborhood growing up,
I knew someone hung himself and which tree if was before my parents thought I was old enough to tell the whole story- because you could sometimes see the rope and hear it creaking.
Anyway, the house is never occupied for more than a year or two by any family that buys it. I think someone should rent it by the half-year... It's a very bad-feeling house.

I heard workmen hammering in the Winchester Mystery House when I was there, I never commented on it but I recently saw a show where the wal-through psychic said the spirits of the workmen were still building. I thought there were real workmen there, but I guess I was wrong.

And I had a ghost experience at the Stanley Hotel. I was just leaving a deserted ballroom when the piano played a note.
I looked all around the piano, underneath it, the seat, the strings,
and then I just sat down and said "Okay, I'll stay a minute but then I need to go see my friends." I sat there in the freezing air while the piano made odd little sounds behind me, like someone running their hands over the strings. When it stopped and the air got warm again, I said goodbye and left.

Answer 3

In the South of Mexico there is the legend of "El Cadejo" - basically a ghost dog. Many other cultures also have legeds of ghostly dogs and the premise is always the same: If you see a ghost dog, you'll die.

OK, I've never seen a ghost dog but my grandmother swears that once she was driving home at night with her sister and brother in law. The driver (grandma's brother in law) slammed the breaks because a dog jumped in front of the car.

My grandmother said that the dog was enormous and had wild, matted dirty hair "almost like a ram" and glowing red eyes. Months later after that incident her brother got into a car accident and died.

Answer 4

Actually there's a large stone pillar in the metro area of my city. Legend has it that in the 1800's in the local market place there was a pastor who was trying to spread the word of God to the people. No one would listen to him so he cursed the city for being so full of sinners. He predicted that a tornado would sweep through the market place and destroy every inch of it expect for one pillar. Years later after his curse had been long forgotten, sure engouh a tornado did in fact come through the city and the only thing it didn't hit was that very pillar. As the story goes anyone who dares to move or damage the pillar will meet wtih certain death soon after. The pillar is still there today and is a popular attraction on history walks.

Answer 5

Yes, I believe in them & most people I know claim to have encounters as well. There was a woman that had died in the house that we grew up in & my siblings claimed that they saw her ghost outside the window facing toward the garden.
We did have strange occurrences in the house (several light bulbs popping in the same room but then working properly later on without the bulbs being changed, things suddenly disappearing & showing up in the most unlikely places later on, cold spots, etc.) but these may be contributed more to poltergeist activity more to a haunting. We were a large family & poltergeists are very likely to be around adolescents.
My mother did have a very frightening [supernatural] experience in my sister's bedroom & would never sleep in that room after that.
I have seen a doppelganger of my cat (which is very likely--she is an evil thing!), & ectoplasm in the sense of an entity that could fully materialize. It is not a comfortable feeling & not one you ever get used to.
I think that we all have the ability to see them if we only our minds to them. All children have the ability until it is "brain-washed" out of them, which I think is extremely sad. I think that if we were to keep an open mind to these type things it would be easier to open hearts & minds to other things as well, like being more acceptable of others [living] as well.

Answer 6

There was a story from the 60's that a man on Halloween was decapitated by a car and his head landed in a tree. The parents in the neighborhood said he came around every Halloween. I never saw him.

About two weeks ago I was sitting here on the computer. I felt like somebody was looking over my shoulder. So I said this out loud. "You can feel free to stay if you want to." I felt something, like a finger, run across my shoulders and down my back. That was freaky. Never did see anything though.

Answer 7

i have a pretty good story

In the Downtown area, there is a bell tower over 120 years old

One night only two workers were working on the tower which was still being built. One worker had an accident with one of the large boulders he was working with and got himself killed. the other worker was afraid that people would believe he killed the other worker since no one else was around, so he took the workers body and buried it in the bell tower wall and he left for mexico the next day.

eventually, the tower was finsihed, but wierd things would happen in it such as moaning and things moving, no one knew why. A long time passed, and the other worker when on his deathbed told about how he had buried a fellow workers body in a bell tower in Cheyenne, WY after he died. Much later, in the mid 1990's, two local radio reporters got the courage to spend halloween night in the bell tower. They reported live from the bell tower, i listened to it myself,and everything at first was running smoothly up untill midnight. when it was midnight the reporters started to hear a bunch of wierd noises, bangs off in other rooms. Eventually really wierd things started to happen, like equipment moving on its own, moaning noises where heard, and the reporters got so freaked out they ran for the door which was locked and they couldnt get out. Luckily, one of the churche's janitors was listening to the report and drove down and unlocked the door for them. they ran out leaving all ther equipment and everything.

After that, the city got curious as to how true the stroy of the body i the wall was, so they took some sort of x-ray machine to the bell tower and sure enough, there were bones in it.

also after this, all the teachers at my school were talking about it and i listened to them one time during detention

Sometimes, at night, when the church is all locked up, people walking by at 4 in the morining or people wh live nearby will here the organ playing.

you can see pictures of this church in the 1800s here, sometime after construction on it was completed:

http://www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com/capavelsouth.jpg

notice its tall bell tower, in the left of the picture

Answer 8

My whole family, on both sides have always seen ghosts etc. My last house had a woman there, but she she wasn't scary at all. The only one that ever scared me was the one that used to follow me around the house when I was alone at night, and pull the covers off the bed.... creepy!

Answer 9

i live in new orleans & there are so many damn ghost stories & ghost tours it's a shame. yes i believe in spirits.. i just thank God that i haven't come face to face with any & i hope i never do.
i would provide some links.. but it's kinda late, i'm home alone.. & i really don't wanna be lookin up that kinda stuff...

Answer 10

yeah, there's this haunted bridge across this field
everytime someone has crossed it, no one came back
there's also so this house where this 8 year old grl is buried in the backyard
every person that moves in, can hear her speak and walk around on the second floor
no one dares to go up though
some claim they saw her, some claim they heard her
every family ends up moving out though
no one knows when she'll be the one to leave...