Orion
Pacific South West
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No of course my house isn't haunted and neither are all of yours either!
There is no such thing as the paranormal, or ghosts, or anything similar, I am sorry to say as they do all make for a good story.
The reason I say this is that there has NEVER been a case that has withstood any serious test. If there had have been, then the James Randi Foundation's one million dollar prize would have been claimed a long time ago. Here is a brief outline:
"The Foundation is committed to providing reliable information about paranormal claims. It both supports and conducts original research into such claims.
At JREF, we offer a one-million-dollar prize to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event. The JREF does not involve itself in the testing procedure, other than helping to design the protocol and approving the conditions under which a test will take place. All tests are designed with the participation and approval of the applicant. In most cases, the applicant will be asked to perform a relatively simple preliminary test of the claim, which if successful, will be followed by the formal test. Preliminary tests are usually conducted by associates of the JREF at the site where the applicant lives. Upon success in the preliminary testing process, the "applicant" becomes a "claimant."
To date, no one has passed the preliminary tests."
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Just to be clear, the aim of the foundation is not to take the 'fun' out of the supernatural, but to try & stop the charlatans from taking money from the gullible and to try & prevent people from making life altering decisions based on this kind of 'evidence'.
Maybe some of you that really believe you have witnessed something, should begin the claim process. After all, who wouldn't like a million bucks!
Never miss an opportunity to walk on the grass.
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down home
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Well...I don't believe I could make a dime off what I posted or many others. I could write a book, if I had any talent and desire to be ridiculed or whatever you folks like to do.
One thing not sure the Ghosts or Spirits Union 501 has ever come up with a wage scale or legislation to protect their In tele ctual Rights yet.
All the phony baloney on tee vee is laughable as best.
There are more things, in this world than in your limited experience or mine.
I've seen and experienced more than I want to see as has a whole lot of people. People don't stand on the corner telling, of their experiences. You know: all the stuff you hear at family get togethers etc, most has a basis in truth. Much get's reinterpreted after a generation or so. Much however doesn't.
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taborekle
Clements, Md
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1 funny story and 2 real ones.
Funny story.
I got up late one night to use the bathroom. On the way back to bed I see the perfectly framed shadow of a person standing in our bedroom doorway, not 10 feet from where I was standing. I shouted out "WHO ARE YOU!" (this very early in the morning). My wife leaped out of bed. I moved, the shadow moved. Err. I held up a hand, so did the shadow. The moon was setting just outside, and in a perfect alignment was beaming it's light through a almost floor to ceiling window against our bedroom door, perfectly framing it Stone Hedge was not in more perfect alignment. When I walked between the window and the door, instant shadow (of myself) against the door.
ok, now 2 stories that are also true.
When my father passed away my family flew out to my old home. My brother Steve picked us up at the airport, and on the way to the old home told me of the dream that he had that night. Dad was facing Steve, sitting on a stone wall with his legs drapped over the side of the wall. "Oh Steve, everthing is so beautiful here, it's so green." (The wall reminds me of Bible:Luke 16:V26 "..between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they that would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us.." I think that the wall, was as close as Dad could get to deliver his message.
2nd story. Southern Maryland has a haunted lighthouse (famous for the haunt) at Point Lookout State Park. My son, his friend and I visited it during a open house where the "friends of the light house" had a display showing the many pictures of the haunted here. I have to say that my son and friend heard voices from a room that no one was in, and the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end and I felt very 'unwelcome' while there. I HAD to leave.
There is a civil war graveyard at the site, and the light house is haunted by many of the captured prisoners that were kept there that died.
Larry
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bigred1cav
ohio
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My wife haunts our house. She rules and makes noise and shakes things sometimes she drags stuff across floors making eerie sounds.
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