Ghosts and the Paranormal

[carnation]

Bumping because I want to. No, it's not October! I don't care! Has anyone got any new stories?

[Cheerio]

Paranormal Sidenote? There are still 2 posts on page 14 of this thread that I can't read, but I know FSUZeta and I posted them within past three days. I also for some reason can't scroll to the bottom of page fourteen of this thread.

[carnation]

I can see FSUZeta's post from yesterday at about 10 and yours about 4 hours later. Is that what you're talking about? I don't see any others by her.

[Cheerio]

Yes, thank you. I'll have to check for those posts on a different computer at another time.

[homeward*bound]

One of my oldest friends passed away about 20 years ago after a valiant battle with breast cancer. Every year since then, a group of us ran or walked a charity 5K she enjoyed in Deidre's memory. We always had silly t-shirts made to wear during the race to celebrate her life. It was always a fun event followed by a celebration brunch and champagne.

One day, about 10 years or so after Deidre had passed away, one of our mutual friends and I were sitting on her bed and chatting. My friend's two year old toddled into the room and went directly to her mother's closet. She pulled out a garment and placed it on the bed between us. You guessed it -- out of hundreds of garments in the closet, she chose the t-shirt from our most recent Deidre run. Her daughter left the room right afterwards. My friend and I just sat there looking stunned. It was just like Deidre to make herself known like that.

[FSUZeta]

My daughter had put her two little girls down for the night. When she walked past their bedroom, she heard the older one talking. She poked her head in the door and asked Lily who she was talking to. Lily replied that she was talking to a lady that had died. My daughter asked her what the lady's name was and Lily said, "Memaw. She sometimes comes to talk to me in the night. She is nice." My mother's grandmother name was Memaw. She died two months before Lily(her first great grandchild) was born. She was so excited and wanted to meet that little girl so badly. I like to think that she was able to "pierce the veil", and it makes me happy.

[OldFLDDD]

My daughter is a graduating senior at UofSC. She's always been "sensitive" as far as seeing and hearing things, back to when she was little, but in the last few years is even more so. She is in a new apartment building that was completed in 2018, so it's been very odd that she's felt so many "presences" and had things happen there. She's felt some angsty spirits and has had things jump off of shelves and things turn on by themselves from time to time, but nothing too crazy. When I am there (I am also sensitive but not as much as she is), there is an overall dark/negative energy in that building that I can't describe. We could never figure out WHY such darkness would be in a new building. UNTIL, she found out through a friend who dates a guy who works for the city that there is some history to it--apparently, when they were excavating the property prior to building, they came across bones and had to stop site preparation while they did their due diligence. It turns out, from what he heard, that some bodies were disposed of in that location that came from some kind of asylum or something. We can't get any other information on it. So perhaps that explains some things. In any case, she is more than ready to be out of there! She's tried acknowledging to the entity that she knows what happened and she's sorry, but it continues to show up. She does feel it has a little bit of a sense of humor as it appeared to her a couple of days ago while she was studying and distracted her so she told it to go bother the noisy neighbors upstairs, and up it went through the ceiling!

Also, in another building where she works on campus, she had just finished a class session one evening and was alone in a bathroom. Someone or something started banging loudly on a bathroom stall and then stopped. She quickly left! There are a lot of stories of ghosts and hauntings around campus since it's so old. These things don't scare her nearly as much as they would me!!!

[carnation]

My daughter, who works at UGa, was sitting in a stall in a bathroom she knew was otherwise empty. Suddenly, a roll of toilet paper came flying over the wall and bonked her on the head.

[carnation]

OK, another story. This week, the bell rang and I told the incoming class to wait in the hall while I ran down to get something from another teacher. I was gone less than a minute. As I got within a few feet of my room, the lights went out and the door, which had been open a couple of feet, slammed shut in their faces.

Naturally, this scared the ones in the front and I leapt in to see if someone had sneaked in and was messing with us. Nope.

Not ready for spooky season.

[carnation]

Today before my planning period, I trotted down the hall to the restroom, leaving the door open. I came right back and the door was locked. Not jammed, but locked!

The campus cop came down to open the door and we distinctly heard the bolt slide...it had definitely been locked and not jammed. In case someone had gone in and was still in there, he jumped in to clear the area but no one was there. I pulled my keys out of my desk and showed him how they'd been there, that I hadn't taken them with me. He then told me many stories about scary things that had happened in the school. 🙁

Then he went to look at the school camera to see if anyone had been messing with my door while I was out and he came back and said no, I was out for 3 1/2 minutes and no one had approached the door, that it had just shut. Then during last period, a rigid poster that had been leaning against the board inexplicably fell forward. 🙁 🙁

By the end of school, the custodians had heard and they told me a ton more scary stories about the building. When I got home, Georgia Power had managed to cut into both our gas and water lines and we currently have neither. I think that was a fitting end to the day.

[Sciencewoman]

What's the history of the school building? Is it old?

[carnation]

It's rather old but most people blame the paranormal activity on a science teacher who killed himself with cyanide in his classroom several years ago. I didn't have any problems until the last couple of months but apparently, many other teachers have stuff happen regularly and they just laugh it off. One teacher had all the coats on hooks in the back drop off one by one really quickly.

[carnation]

Bump for 2023!

[AGDee]

My logic is, if you believe our spirits/souls exist after death, then it could make sense for them to exist on earth just as much as it would make sense for them to exist in heaven.