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Re: The Haunted House

karbutt — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 18:15:48 GMT

Author: karbutt

Posted: 10/21/2013 22:15

there's this sick one not too far from here that is supposedly the best in the nation. i haven't gone yet but would like to.

Re: The Haunted House

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:45:00 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/21/2013 19:45

I saw this in The Guardian over the weekend and thought it was relevant...

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/20/seances-and-science

Re: The Haunted House

Norman Bates — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:25:41 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 10/18/2013 20:25

meccalecca wrote:

bad energy that revolves around places where terrible things have happened.

"And not all of them was good."

Re: The Haunted House

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:20:54 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/18/2013 20:20

meccalecca wrote:

hahahahaha. that would be the life. if i could have the life of my fat pampered maine coon, i'd take it.

Yeah it was the big fat black moggy purring in my lap that made me think this would be the purrrrfect life (sorry)

🤣

Re: The Haunted House

meccalecca — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:17:19 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 10/18/2013 20:17

Mancsoulsister wrote:

BUT if it does exist and I get to choose, then I would request right now that I come back as a big fat pampered ginger tom cat! :D

hahahahaha. that would be the life. if i could have the life of my fat pampered maine coon, i'd take it.

Re: The Haunted House

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:12:15 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/18/2013 20:12

meccalecca wrote:

i definitely want to be cremated.

i definitely think the concept of heaven and hell is a bit silly. But reincarnation is an interesting idea since so much of nature is cyclical.

The idea of being burnt makes me shudder - so no cremation for me!

Not sure where I stand on reincarnation as I have never really given it that much thought. I am inclined to think not as I reckon I cease to exist (which doesn't tie in with that). BUT if it does exist and I get to choose, then I would request right now that I come back as a big fat pampered ginger tom cat! 😁

Re: The Haunted House

meccalecca — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:08:07 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 10/18/2013 20:08

Mancsoulsister wrote:

I don't believe in an afterlife either. I die and that's it. My body rots either in the sea or the ground (as I haven't decided where I want to be buried yet).

i definitely want to be cremated.

i definitely think the concept of heaven and hell is a bit silly. But reincarnation is an interesting idea since so much of nature is cyclical.

Re: The Haunted House

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:00:57 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/18/2013 20:00

meccalecca wrote:

You're probably right, but I can't help but wonder.

I'm pretty sure there have been reports of hauntings at Auschwitz. and many of the civil war battle grounds and most horrible hospital facilities are rumored to be haunted so i'm not sure the first point you made is worth anything.

Letchworth Village wasn't quite as bad as Auschwitz, but it was pretty awful. and that place has been rumored to be horribly haunted.

my feelings towards the afterlife are extremely mixed, but lean towards that which is written of in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. so it could make sense of this energy is wandering around looking for a new host.

The only reports of hauntings at Auschwitz are by so called 'paranormal experts' not normal people. And noone who works at Auschwitz has reported anything of the sort. Probably because they aren't there at night when the mind can start to play tricks on you!

I don't believe in an afterlife either. I die and that's it. My body rots either in the sea or the ground (as I haven't decided where I want to be buried yet). But me... I have ceased to exist and am gone! I actually wish I could believe in something like heaven because that would mean I 'see' my loved ones again but I just don't. So I tend to celebrate the lives they had on earth and the time I got to spend with them, rather than fantasizing about floating through time and space with them when my time comes.

Re: The Haunted House

Jackwc — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 15:54:10 GMT

Author: Jackwc

Posted: 10/18/2013 19:54

Only one ghost I give a flying fuck about.

Re: The Haunted House

meccalecca — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 15:51:39 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 10/18/2013 19:51

Mancsoulsister wrote:

No ghosts - all in the mind and the power of suggestion!

Re: The Haunted House

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 15:42:01 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/18/2013 19:42

meccalecca wrote:

I understand the skepticism. But I can't help but feel that there's a strange, bad energy that revolves around places where terrible things have happened. Of course, this could be the effects of the subconscious mind and darkness within odd surroundings

The creepy castle cum hotel, is haunted by two dudes who had a falling out and duelled to death! Or the village that is reliant on the tourism trade to survive is haunted by a little girl who drowned in the mill pond!

Yet people are not reporting mass hauntings of places like Auschwitz. the site of millions of terrible and truly horrific murders. The place should be totally overrun with traumatised angry spirits. Yet nothing! Not a whisper - nada.

So yes - I think it is all suggestion and all in the mind. If you are told a place is haunted and the setting is enough to fit that picture and the back story is convincing enough, then yes you could be convinced into believing that the place is haunted and full of bad energy.

I am sure that I saw Derren Brown do an experiment around this, where he convinced a group people that a disused Victorian institution was haunted by the ghost of a woman that was abused by carers and killed. They spent the night in the building and a a number of the group reported strange goings on in the night and even a sighting of the ghost of the woman. Only thing is Derren Brown had made the whole thing up. The building was a TV set not an institution. The woman was one of the researchers on the show and very much alive and well. No ghosts - all in the mind and the power of suggestion!

Re: The Haunted House

meccalecca — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:44:22 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 10/18/2013 18:44

Mancsoulsister wrote:

But ghosts... boogety boogety stories to boost tourism or to thrill and frighten the gullible!

Re: The Haunted House

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:23:57 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/18/2013 18:23

Given the almost infinite size of the universe, I would say that aliens are a probability even though that has yet to be proven and noone has encountered any.

But ghosts... boogety boogety stories to boost tourism or to thrill and frighten the gullible!

Re: The Haunted House

Norman Bates — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:21:40 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 10/18/2013 18:21

an_outlaw wrote:

How do people feel about haunted houses? :)

I've never thought about them until now.

Re: The Haunted House

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:15:19 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/18/2013 18:15

Necharsian wrote:

Then how do you explain that door that sometimes moves or those creeking sounds at night?

Ghosts 1
Unbeliever 0

The wind, the cat or the drunken husband returning from the pub... possibly even a minor earthquake! But never a ghost

If ghosts existed then every house and village and town and city... everywhere in fact would be haunted... because people die everywhere often under horrific or traumatic circumstances. Yet strangely the only places that people think are haunted are 'creepy' dark Victorian houses, ancient castles, pubs and parks (funny how many pubs patrons have supposedly seen ghosts at closing time... 🙄 ) or villages with some 'grisly' past... I'm sniffing the air and it smells a lot like cows to me! 😁

Ghosts 0
Unbeliever 10

😁

EDIT: Google search kind of proves my point...

http://www.hauntedrooms.co.uk/top-10-haunted-places-in-england

Re: The Haunted House

meccalecca — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 12:55:48 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 10/18/2013 16:55

Love haunted houses.

I kind of wish I lived in a city with a greater history of hauntings. Saw Spiritualized in an old haunted church on Sunday. there was a nice energy to the place.

Old mental asylums are some of the creepiest places on earth.

I grew up relatively close to this one called Letchworth Village. I've never been there, but it's got one of the worst/most horrifying back stories I've ever heard.
http://abandonednyc.com/2012/08/05/legend-tripping-in-letchworth-village/

How could anyone not believe in ghosts? it's like not believing in aliens.

Re: The Haunted House

Necharsian — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 12:37:02 GMT

Author: Necharsian

Posted: 10/18/2013 16:37

Mancsoulsister wrote:

Don't believe in ghosts

Then how do you explain that door that sometimes moves or those creeking sounds at night?

Ghosts 1
Unbeliever 0

Re: The Haunted House

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 12:33:48 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/18/2013 16:33

Don't believe in ghosts - so don't think there is any such thing as a haunted house!

Sorry!

*shrug*

Re: The Haunted House

Necharsian — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:47:08 GMT

Author: Necharsian

Posted: 10/18/2013 15:47

Theres an old abandonded hospital near me but now most people know about it so theres cops that keep constant patrol over it. Lots of druggies live there I guess too. We went a couple times but all the doors and windows are boarded shut and then someone called the cops so we scattered.

There was also an old abandoned farm house not far from where I live that me and my friends went to a few times. It was this creepy tall and long building with a barn, old school bus, and a few other small buildings. The house itself had a pitch black cellar with the classic "door going into the ground" type deal. The stairs leading to the top floor were completely caved in but you could still climb up which was where the bedrooms were. There was a pink room with a small cradle in it. Classic ghost movie eh. The whole place was crawling with coyotes and there were a bunch of dead ones just lying on the floors of the buildings. One was cleanly decapitated somehow.

And then we went back to it one day everything was burned to the ground. Remnants of the house and buildings but nothing explorable. Abandoned buildings are cool as heck.

Re: The Haunted House

Patman360 — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 20:11:28 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 10/18/2013 00:11

This is the abandoned mental asylum near my house.
And this one too. (It's a different one)