'fess Up! Which One of Ya'll Here Believe In Ghosts? - CrimeSpace2024-03-29T14:44:21Zhttps://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topics/537324:Topic:64705?commentId=537324%3AComment%3A65727&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noI love the concept of ghosts…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-08-22:537324:Comment:657272007-08-22T06:31:00.077ZDaniel Hatadihttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/danielhatadi
I love the concept of ghosts and I want to believe, but I can't, so I just enjoy them in a fictional sense. The meaner, nastier and more brutal, the better. It's all about the appreciation of self-induced fear for me.
I love the concept of ghosts and I want to believe, but I can't, so I just enjoy them in a fictional sense. The meaner, nastier and more brutal, the better. It's all about the appreciation of self-induced fear for me. Perhaps one of the reasons I…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-08-20:537324:Comment:652012007-08-20T20:49:59.901ZJulie Morriganhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Julielew
Perhaps one of the reasons I love ghost stories so much, whether headless horsemen, grey ladies, shades with clanking chains or 1st world war pilots on the turn of the stairs, is that I grew up in a house that had been exorcised at the request of the local priest (who took tea there every Sunday, in an increasing state of nervousness). Tell you what, though, judging by the weird stuff that happened while I lived there (which was after the event), it didn't work!<br />
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I love a good scare - but I…
Perhaps one of the reasons I love ghost stories so much, whether headless horsemen, grey ladies, shades with clanking chains or 1st world war pilots on the turn of the stairs, is that I grew up in a house that had been exorcised at the request of the local priest (who took tea there every Sunday, in an increasing state of nervousness). Tell you what, though, judging by the weird stuff that happened while I lived there (which was after the event), it didn't work!<br />
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I love a good scare - but I much prefer it to be on film or in print. Let's just say I know there's…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-08-20:537324:Comment:650902007-08-20T14:47:01.513ZMaryann Mercerhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/catsmom
Let's just say I know there's something out there that can't be explained, and I try really hard not to get in its way :o) My acupuncturist has a poltergeist in her rehabbed train depot, complete with unexplained accidents (including a broken elbow) and chilly breezes. She has now made peace with 'her' and always greets her on entering. Her significant other however has never had any problems. Did a ghost tour in Scotland and was suitably creeped out...where there is history, there are…
Let's just say I know there's something out there that can't be explained, and I try really hard not to get in its way :o) My acupuncturist has a poltergeist in her rehabbed train depot, complete with unexplained accidents (including a broken elbow) and chilly breezes. She has now made peace with 'her' and always greets her on entering. Her significant other however has never had any problems. Did a ghost tour in Scotland and was suitably creeped out...where there is history, there are ghosts.<br />
Maryann Hagerstown is charming. My Au…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-08-20:537324:Comment:650732007-08-20T12:46:40.478ZDADavenporthttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/DADavenport
Hagerstown is charming. My Aunt and I have done a lot of genealogy research in their little Historical Center there. Also in St Mary's down in South Eastern Maryland. I intend to move back home one day, when I'm an old, widowed lady. Miss Maryland a lot.
Hagerstown is charming. My Aunt and I have done a lot of genealogy research in their little Historical Center there. Also in St Mary's down in South Eastern Maryland. I intend to move back home one day, when I'm an old, widowed lady. Miss Maryland a lot. ...and a very tough creative…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-08-20:537324:Comment:649832007-08-20T05:30:01.875ZKaren J. Laubensteinhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Alaskaauthor
...and a very tough creative writing teacher.
...and a very tough creative writing teacher. I stopped buying his hardback…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-08-20:537324:Comment:649432007-08-20T02:24:08.131ZDADavenporthttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/DADavenport
I stopped buying his hardbacks when I felt he was becoming too formula, but some of his books I consider great. The scope of The Stand was breath-taking. Loved it so much I bought the author's edition as soon as it hit the bookstores. People thought I was nuts. "There were too many words in the FIRST one." They'd whine. "What does that MEAN??. Not if they are GOOD ones!!!" I always said. The Shining is amazing and I also love Misery because his evil is so pedestrian and possible in that one.…
I stopped buying his hardbacks when I felt he was becoming too formula, but some of his books I consider great. The scope of The Stand was breath-taking. Loved it so much I bought the author's edition as soon as it hit the bookstores. People thought I was nuts. "There were too many words in the FIRST one." They'd whine. "What does that MEAN??. Not if they are GOOD ones!!!" I always said. The Shining is amazing and I also love Misery because his evil is so pedestrian and possible in that one. Annie Wilkes is a great creation. And he is one mean short story writer as well. Want to note that author Step…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-08-20:537324:Comment:649392007-08-20T02:07:46.673ZKaren J. Laubensteinhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Alaskaauthor
Want to note that author Stephen King's books caused these same feelings and responses and I stopped reading them because I hated getting that scared! I was in the midst of one of his books once, when my friend dropped by and slid open the sliding glass doors to my apartment, and I grabbed the metal poker to the fireplace and nearly committed murder!!! It can be dangerous! I haven't read many of King's books, since, as I did find it to be too much.
Want to note that author Stephen King's books caused these same feelings and responses and I stopped reading them because I hated getting that scared! I was in the midst of one of his books once, when my friend dropped by and slid open the sliding glass doors to my apartment, and I grabbed the metal poker to the fireplace and nearly committed murder!!! It can be dangerous! I haven't read many of King's books, since, as I did find it to be too much. Yes - I've experienced that s…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-08-20:537324:Comment:649342007-08-20T02:02:44.362ZKaren J. Laubensteinhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Alaskaauthor
Yes - I've experienced that sense on and around the Civil War battlefields near Manassas, Centreville, Harper's Ferry, Charleston, and Gettysburg. It's disturbing. We've been there at dusk and it's like the feelings increase. Also, lived in a former Civil War funeral home when we were young, and the neighborhood kids all tried to scare us about our ghosts - and in the many rooms in the basement, we scared each other silly, but there was a definite SOMETHING there. Something that scared us so…
Yes - I've experienced that sense on and around the Civil War battlefields near Manassas, Centreville, Harper's Ferry, Charleston, and Gettysburg. It's disturbing. We've been there at dusk and it's like the feelings increase. Also, lived in a former Civil War funeral home when we were young, and the neighborhood kids all tried to scare us about our ghosts - and in the many rooms in the basement, we scared each other silly, but there was a definite SOMETHING there. Something that scared us so badly, I refused to go down there. And there were sounds in our huge attic, too... footsteps and such overhead. We were young, but we'll never forget living in that house, or the old farmhouse near South Paris, Maine, that is now a museum, but also had its share of ghosts! That house dated back to the early 1700's, and had crypts into the side of the mountain. I think we were the last family to live in it before it became a museum. I've read so many people experienced ghosts at places like Stonehenge and Egyptian tombs and I will never forget Pompeii and even the Colliseum in Rome and the crypts along the Appian Way in Greece. I also remember playing with a Ouija board as a child and having it spell out that it was our aunt and she asked us to thank our cousin for the yellow flowers on her grave - and none of us had even known my cousin had been there, let alone placed flowers there!!! And yellow!!! And on a dare in high school, I stayed all night at the Stroudwater Burial Grounds near Portland, Maine, where our ancestors have stones and that, too, is on the Register of Historic Places -- but we didn't make it all night. It's in the trees along the Presumpscot River, and we actually saw glimpses of people moving around (I did this with my best friend at the time), and while I couldn't hear, she could, and she kept telling me what she was hearing! We both got so scared we couldn't stand it! We rode our bikes out of there like we were being chased, and made it back the 8 miles or so to home in a blur!<br />
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So there's some of my ghost stories, so yeah, I believe in something from the past being there... whether it is ghosts or spirits or what, I don't know, but whew! I think the one place I have…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-08-20:537324:Comment:649222007-08-20T00:56:34.283ZDADavenporthttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/DADavenport
I think the one place I have been to that affected me heavily like that is the Antietam Battlefield. Very strong sensations and emotions. And Bloody Lane is the most intense area there. Even the Civil War reenactors have a tough time with the feelings at Antietam, they say it is the strangest battlefield from the Civil War to visit overnight. And yet I have a strong, weird pull to buy an old farmhouse that sits within a thousand yards of it. What an amazing place that would be to own. Don't…
I think the one place I have been to that affected me heavily like that is the Antietam Battlefield. Very strong sensations and emotions. And Bloody Lane is the most intense area there. Even the Civil War reenactors have a tough time with the feelings at Antietam, they say it is the strangest battlefield from the Civil War to visit overnight. And yet I have a strong, weird pull to buy an old farmhouse that sits within a thousand yards of it. What an amazing place that would be to own. Don't know why, but I would really love to own that place. I'm with Loomis on the energy…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-08-19:537324:Comment:648902007-08-19T23:09:50.460ZKaryn J. Powershttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/karyning
I'm with Loomis on the energy thing. I've been to the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam. It was the first time and place that I ever felt that the gravity of a situation affected the specific gravity of a place. The first floor of the rowhouse/warehouse is virtually empty, save for a long glass covered display case showcasing her diary in forty of fifty different languages, and yet it was hard to move without being very deliberate. I was never short of breath or too warm or too cold, but as I…
I'm with Loomis on the energy thing. I've been to the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam. It was the first time and place that I ever felt that the gravity of a situation affected the specific gravity of a place. The first floor of the rowhouse/warehouse is virtually empty, save for a long glass covered display case showcasing her diary in forty of fifty different languages, and yet it was hard to move without being very deliberate. I was never short of breath or too warm or too cold, but as I climbed from ground level to the highest floor and then finally the tiny attic steps, I had the sensation of moving through a "dry" fog.<br />
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I've been there twice, in two different seasons, nearly twenty years apart. Both times the sensation was the same. Once we exited into a light rain and so the feeling stayed with me for most of the day. The second time into a bitter February wind, and it dissapated immediately.