Ghost Hunters- in Alameda, CA

[Hedi]

I just love Ghost Hunters- I watch it every week.

 

I know Jennifer (binkybunny) is into haunted stuff and she lives in that area. They are investigating the USS Hornet tonight on TV.

 

 

[bunnytowne]

I have experienced ghost in 2 places in calif. a hotel and our apt.   In florida in 1 house.  Some music would play coming from Brandon’s closet. I tore that room apart could not find anything that could be making that music.  I would walk outside and not hear it so I know was a ghost in his room. 

The one at the hotel was the wildest. I woke up with my arm sticking straight up in bed. Felt cold things between me and my ex.  Cold spots in the room raise goose bumps on my arms.  My parakeet would panic and I would go see the cold spot would be there too. Hanging lamps would swing.

Once it threw a can of food off the dressor.

The one in the apt. would open the kitchen window.  I had a knife making a sandwich one nite and that thing started spinning. scared me. I slammed my hand on it to make it stop,.  My roommates experienced it too.

[Hedi]

I teach nursing students and one of my students is engaged to a Mortician (sp?). She said that some spirits must follow her fiance home because his house is always active whether he is there or not. She said she wakes up frequently with something moving the covers off of her and waking her up. They close doors and all kinds of stuff. Used to she was afraid to be alone without her fiance but she said that now she is used to them and just ignores them.

I love watching this stuf on TV but not sure I could handle experiencing anything.

[MimzMum]

Oh cool! ^_^ I was born in Alameda and lived in the Bay Area most of my life. What channel would this be on? I’ve never heard of Ghost Hunters before.

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

SWEET TOPIC And what a good time to chat about it!!

Ok, I’ve NEVER experienced anything that cool, despite trying LOL but my mom did, she grew up in a haunted house and a friend of mine did too. Here’s their second hand stories (ok they experienced it and told me -not a friend of a friend of a friend of mine!! LOL)

My mom lived in a hundred year old house; Firstly they had a ouiji board, which when they used it caused their dog to chase nothing around the house with the hackles up on his neck. I really believe dogs so this one hits home. It ended up being so creepy and not knowing what to do with it, that my grandfather flipped the ouiji board upside down and tiled it and made it into a coffee table. My mom still has it and I’ve used it before…
She also had experiences where they would be on a couch in the living room and would feel someone walk in and see the couch depress as if someone was sitting there (Again dog going crazy) and where they could feel that person touching their eyes.

Her next door neighbor was a good friend of her moms, and they were chatting one day. The neighbor said to my grandmother that her son had said, ‘mom don’t worry next week I’m going to live with the angels’ and they were chatting about how odd that was. The next week the house burned down…and the child (2 yo) didn’t make it out…

My friend lived in a very old house in Kansas where a little boy had been electrocuted in the bathtub…She said not only could they hear records playing at night-not faintly like while your falling asleep but the whole family up in the hallway trying to figure out what the noise was…but stuff was always moved around.

I definitely completely trust my moms stories as shes super down to earth…my friend I don’t know …but those are my creepy stories…

Dave and I were chatting watching that haunted show and we really both WANT something like that to happen to us…it’s one thing to hear about it but I’d have complete faith if I saw it…

Ok, I actually sort of have a creepy story, there is this man at my nursing home, very cute and sweet. Sits in the hallway by the door and very with it, not on the dementia unit. But he’ll sit and have conversations (long ones, one sided) with people who aren’t there…needless to say many have passed away where I work so …I don’t know I kind of hope he is speaking to someone…

[Cassi&Charlie]

*shivers*

I don’t know about creepiness but the day that my grandmother passed away (when I was little) I said to my teacher that my grandmother had died. I don’t remember it very much but apparently when my mum came to pick me up the teacher mentioned how sorry she was to hear that my grandmother had died to my mum and my mum was like ‘how do you know?”
“Cassi told me just before lunch’

Apparently she’d died at about lunch time and Mum didn’t want to upset me so she was planning on waiting until after school finished to tell me.

Also, my Auntie who is very trustworthy, said that she knew as well. Apparently she just felt something had happened and just felt at peace. My Grandmother had been sick so my Auntie thinks it was her saying not to worry, that she’s at peace now.

[MimzMum]

Okay…y’all are going to think I am totally nuts after this…that is, if you don’t already. ;P
My stepmom, who I knew all my life as mom-I didn’t find out I was adopted until a month before her death-had pancreatic cancer. My stepdad/grandfather didn’t even tell me she had cancer until a month before she died, and at that time he told me I was his granddaughter and that they had taken me in when my birth parents divorced. Quite a big dump for all at once.

Anyway, I was staying at a friend’s house the weekend that my stepmom went into the hospital for the last time. I was talking to my then boyfriend on the phone and suddenly I began to feel rather odd. I told him it was like I was going to pass out. He told me I should tell my friend’s mom and that I should probably not be on the phone at a time like that. So I did this (my friend had gone out with some of her other friends that night and I was staying with her mom and dad as I had been agoraphobic for months and didn’t want to go out with her) and she told me if I was feeling sick I could lay down in their (the parent’s) bedroom and rest for awhile. The only other kids still at home were the younger sister and a friend of hers. I was going to bunk with them for the weekend.

Well I lay down for about ten minutes and yet the feeling wouldn’t go away. This was about 9:50 PM on a Saturday night. In fact, I was feeling worse every minute and told my friend’s mom I thought I was going to die. (I did have bad anxiety/panic attacks at the time and would work myself into quite a state.) Being a very strict Christian she tried to calm me by saying, “Well, I don’t think so dear, but if you are, at least you’ll be with our Lord.” I know she meant well, but that only scared me worse. (BTW, I was 17 at the time.)

I guess I began to thrash, because she asked the husband to come into the room and they both broke out their Bibles and began reading me verses to try and soothe me. All I remember then was that everything went dark.

What I saw in my unconscious state I will never forget.

I was standing on a hill overlooking our little town. I was faced towards where the hospital was. The sky was dark and gloomy, with the only light coming from the orange-ish city lights to the east. It looked like a storm was brewing or something. And as I watched, I could hear something coming towards me. A wailing sound, like someone who was either horribly frightened or in pain. And I could see these wispy figures flying towards me, like black, ghosts. The wailing was coming closer with these figures.

They passed over my head. And the wailing was very definitely a female voice. All of a sudden, I felt a cold, claw-like hand reach into my chest and grab me by the heart. I felt pulled from my body and dragged along with this wailing, wispy mass and all at once, there was a downward (it seemed) facing tunnel in front of me with a white glow ahead. I was definitely being pulled down this tunnel at great speed and the screaming was getting more and more frantic. I had no time to feel anything, but when I think back on it now, I get really chilled.

Suddenly, I felt a pair of great hands on either side of my chest and holding my shoulders, stopping me and holding me back. The pressure on my heart was almost unbearable and I was feeling a sharp pain. Then the cold claw broke loose and the screaming continued down the tunnel until it reached the light…then it stopped.

The hands I felt (that were incredibly warm after the cold claw gripping me) began to push me up out of this complete blackness into a more greyish level of consciousness and I could feel myself waking. I was in no pain. I no longer felt afraid.

I opened my eyes and looked around and there were my friend’s parents, very ashen and watching me like I had been speaking in tongues or levitating or something. They still had their bibles open and I had caught them praying in a manner that suggested they had been very afraid.

When the mom realized I was awake, she asked me if I was all right. I said in quite a calm voice that I was. She asked me if I wanted to go to the hospital. And for some strange reason I said, ‘No. There’s no reason to do that anymore.”

It was about 10:10 PM.

So I got up and had something to eat, I was feeling fine now. Later I went to bed in the sister’s room and we’d talked and laughed like nothing had happened and both of us fell asleep.

I woke up about midnight or later and I could hear my friend’s mom on the phone. She was trying to contact my stepdad/grandfather, who at the time was crewing on a Coast Guard Auxiliary mission that weekend at Treasure Island. I thought, “Oh great, she thinks I’ve had one of my anxiety episodes and is calling my dad to make him come home and collect me.” Figuring I was in for it now, I just rolled over in disgust and went back to sleep.

The next day, us kids were all out in the pool, I was supposed to go to my boyfriend’s house in San Jose later that day. I look up on the balcony and suddenly, my stepdad is there with my friend’s mom. I thought I was in for it for making him come home early and resigned myself to the inevitable. I left with him and went home, figuring I wasn’t going to be going to my bf’s house. But oddly enough, he told me to get ready and he drove me there and I spent a nice day with him and came home.

The Monday following, my stepdad brought me home and then suddenly sat me down on the couch and said, “I’ve got something I have to tell you. I didn’t want it to ruin your weekend.”

I cut him off. “Mom’s dead, isn’t she?”

He was completely taken aback…”How did you know??” he said incredulously. I think he was going to rag on my friend’s mom, thinking she had told me, since (he then told me) when I heard her on the phone that night, she’d been calling my stepdad to tell him my stepmom had passed away…at 10:10 PM that very night.

I shrugged my shoulders and said. “I don’t know…I just felt it.” Then I told him about the strange ‘dream’ I had the other night. I’m sure my friend’s mom had already told him the story of what she had seen. My stepdad was very close to me and he knew I wasn’t just giving him a load. He never doubted that I had probably witnessed the exact moment of my stepmother’s death. We both accepted that it had been a blessing for her, as she’d been in terrible pain towards the end. We also figured that, despite the tone of the dream, she was probably with the Lord now.

Now over the years, I’ve had lots of different ‘episodes’ like this..always telling me when someone has died. During both my pregnancies, I would pick up an item my stepdad had touched, and knew we were going to lose a family member and which one it was…while I was pregnant with my duaghter, I felt his imminent passing coming, but I shook it off because I didn’t want to believe it.

It’s been years now since I’ve felt anything quite that strongly, but I believe the screaming woman in that dream was my stepmother. I knew she was terrified of death. And I believe she tried to take me with her that night.

Okay, I hope I haven’t officially creeped everyone out now…lolz…..

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

OH Mimz wow!!! My mom and her whole side of the family are very psychic if you believe in that…I won’t share stories here (well in this thread-it’d be off topic) but I soooo don’t think you’re crazy…what a powerful thing to experience and what a blow to you!! I bet your mother came to you like that as she KNEW finding out about her cancer and that she wasn’t your biological mohter was going to be hard-she went to be with you.

[BinkyBunny]

Okay, so I just had to say something quick as I haven’t even had a chance to read through everything. First, Hedi, thanks so much, I LOVE that show! I haven’t seen the USS Hornet one yet – it’s on my TIVO. Will watch it tonight.

And Mimzmum how strange is it that I live in your birthplace, and you live in mine. Small world.

[BinkyBunny]

I’ve read everything now and am up to speed. Wow, Mimzmum. No I don’t think you’re crazy either.  Though my experiences aren’t as vivid, mine were just of  dread for “seemingly” no reason but then next day, I would find out a family member died.  This happened to me many times growing up (I had lots of aging Aunts and Uncles)   The “forshadow” dread feeling never happens to me now, but maybe that’s because all 8 of my Aunts and Uncles on my father’s side, and all of grandparents have passed. Note: My parents had me late in life (late 30’s, early 40’s) and my father was the baby of his family. So really, at this point, there hasn’t been a death in our family for many years. If something were to happen to my family now, I don’t know if I’d have that feeling of knowing before knowing. I don’t like it and it does me no good! So I hope I don’t get it.

*shivers*. We may need to start a new thread title Scary, Spooky stuff!

[jerseygirl]

Thanks for sharing these stories. It is truly fascinating to me and I love to hear these experiences!

[ScooterandAnnette]

Posted By MimzMum on 10/29/2008 11:16 PM
It’s been years now since I’ve felt anything quite that strongly, but I believe the screaming woman in that dream was my stepmother. I knew she was terrified of death. And I believe she tried to take me with her that night. 

 

MM, if she was that terrified of death then she likely wasn’t trying to take you with her – I’d say she was trying to keep herself here by holding onto you.

When I was really young, about 3 or so, my great grandmother was in the hospital and dying.  One day at home I was sitting on the edge of the bed and just kind of slumped/slouched down, and said in a voice not normal for a toddler “I’m just so tired, so very tired” and then just kind of suddenly sat up again.  We found out later that my great grandmother had died at the same time.  When I was 11 my grandfather died, and about 10 years later my grandmother died.  My mother was devastated at both.  When I was younger there wasn’t much I could do to take care of her, but with my grandmother’s death I did everything I could to try and look after her.  The night she died I got up in the middle of the night and stood in the doorway to her room to watch and make sure she was sleeping okay.  As I stood there I swear I felt a hand on my shoulder, like you’d feel if someone came up behind you and put their arm around you.  I’m quite sure it was my grandfather trying to either comfort me or standing beside me to look in on my mom (that was more his thing than my grandmother’s) but it scared me to death!  I bolted and ran into my room and dove under the covers, lol.  Which really is a useless thing to do – I mean if there was something there is it likely that they’re going to say oh my where did they go now?  Or oops there’s a duvet in the way, darn!

The house I grew up in as a kid was supposedly haunted.  The rumour was that someone had died in the house but I have no idea if that was true or not.  But I do know that the volume stereo would go up by itself, and on more than on occasion you could see an indent on one of the chairs like someone was sitting there.

– Annette

[Sage Cat]

MimzMum – wow, you have had some intense experiences!

My brother spent a few of his high school years at a boarding school – Darrow, New Lebanon NY. The school had been a Shaker community. He had lots of story’s about strange things that happened there.

To me this is the creepiest thing that happened while he was there: A baby could be heard crying sometimes in one of the buildings. There were no baby’s or small children on campus. When some repairs were being done on that building – the skeleton of a baby was found in the wall.   Shakers were celibate. They only adopted their children. The skeleton was buried in the cemetery. They crying was never heard again.

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

That’s creepy!! What’s a shaker?

[Sage Cat]

The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing – aka the Shakers – were a Protestant group in New England.

They are best known for their plane, simple style of furniture. At their height they had 19 communal settlements. As of 2006, there were only 4 shakers left in New England. I don’t know if there are any still around.

Yes, they do “shake, sing, tremble & speak in tongs. My brother said they would often hear voices speaking in tongs on the campus of his school.

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Ohhh yes Ok, I think I’ve heard of something like that!

[MarkBun]

I went to college on a campus that had an actual castle on it. It was supposedly haunted and my friend was living in the room that had the most experiences in it. When she told me this, I laughed and said that there were no such things as ghosts. At which point, a little glass animal flew past me. There was a small managerie on the fireplace mantle, this one came from it, and there was no one near it. I have always experienced such things, this was just the firmest one.

On a side note, I wrote a ghost story about my school for a special in the halloween issue of the school newspaper. I did this when I was a sophomore and by the time I was a senior, I began to find that people believed it as an actual fact. Amazing how local rumors start…

[bunnytowne]

I used to have dreams about stuff then the next day it would happen word for word.  And when a family member or someone I knew passed I knew it too. I felt it. Once birds sang and it seemed like the birds told me those 2 people would die. Sure enuf they died on their way home when they left our house.

My Mom told me my grandma was like that too.

[RabbitPam]

Since I share similar experiences, I’d just like to wonder: do you think psychic people get bunnies?

BTW: I met a very pretty bunny today. Anyone get any vibes about her for me?

Also, I LOVE Ghost Hunters. Watched a marathon of it that was on last night, like 4 in a row.

[Hedi]

I was brought up in a very strict christian home and I was taught that once you die and pass over there is no coming back. No such thing as ghosts. My mom was so funny about stuff like that but she became a believer of ghosts after this story..

Someone she works with lives in the town I grew up in. She lived in an old house 18th or 19th century. It took her years to tell my mom this story because she knew how funny my mom was about stuff. Anyway…she told my mom that she has ghosts on a regular basis in her house. She said that many nights she wakes up in the middle of the night and it smells like someone is baking pies on the house. No one but her cooks in the house and of course when this happens she goes to the kitchen to find nothing.
BUT..frequently she said her and her family see a teenage girl in period clothing with a parasol and a little dog trailing behind her. She frequently passes them in one hallway and just smiles at them as she goes by them. She said sometimes the dogs shows up even without her running around the house!

Those who love Ghost Hunters- dont forget there is a 7 hour marathon tomorrow night (Halloween) starting at 7pm Easter time. I am not sure where they are investigating by it is supposed to run for at least 7 hours. I am SO excited.

Last year they investigated the TB hospital in Lexington, KY which is about 1.5hrs from me. If I had known ahead of time I probably would have been down there to see if I could meet them. I just love them-they seem so “normal” and down to earth about stuff.

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

SWEET! I think I’m sooo staying in tomorrow -I’m so boring but usually we watch creepy stuff on TV and then go see the newest SAW movie on halloween LOL

Pam-> my thoughts exactly-we all have so much in common, of course we’d have this in common LOL

[LittlePuffyTail]

Creepy Stuff. Nothing scares the pants off me like a good ghost story. I made the mistake of reading some stories the other day “the most haunted places in Canada”. One of them is about an hour’s drive away. Scary. I’ve hardly slept since.

I worked in a law office for about 5 years that was in a really old house that used to belong to a judge who died there. Really creepy stuff would happen. The radio would turn off and on and change volume, things piled up on tables would end up on the floor. One time we found wet footsteps on the stairs to the attic when no one had gone up there all day. I used to have to go up the in attic to do filing and after a while I told my boss I’m not going up there anymore. Weird noises and just kept getting that feeling that there was someone else there.

[Hedi]

I think it makes sense that people could be “stuck” here but animals? Do you think animals can really be ghosts?

I know on GH they talk about residual hauntings-like a movie clip that plays whether people are around or not-like an imprint on time. I understand animals being a part of that but I wonder if they could interact w/ u?

The story above I wrote w/ the girl and dog- I don’t know if the dog ever interacts w/ the owners of the house. But I know that sometimes the dogs shows up in the house w/out the girl.

[MimzMum]

About animals being ghosts…well, after our German shepherd died, I would still feel what seemed like her presence behind me while I fed the remaining dogs and took them their water. While she was alive, she would always follow me around the yard as I fed the other dogs, who were all on leads because they were wanderers, this dog was the only one who would stay in the yard. She knew her boundaries. That’s why it was alarming when she disappeared one day, then returned about 48 hours later. Within a week, she had succumbed to some fatal digestive trauma. (probably the same freaky neighbor who did in my daughter’s dog-I think they lured her away with food and poisoned her)
She had this annoying habit of following so close you would invariably feel her nose in your rump. Drove me nuts. What was worse was getting that feeling after she died. >.<

Like I said, my daughter’s dog was also poisoned. After the dog died, we buried her, along with our other animals we’ve lost, in our back yard. A few weeks later, with my daughter still pining for her dog and feeling she hadn’t gotten the chance to say goodbye, as the dog had to be put to sleep at the vet’s office and we went to get her body the next day; this one night, my daughter had a dream that a little door had opened in the back yard near the grave area, and through it came her dog who went up to her and played about her, then gave her this strange little look and went back through the door. We both believe it was her way of telling my daughter goodbye and not to worry, that she was alright and we’d see her again.

If one believes in the Rainbow Bridge…I cannot imagine how one would not feel there could be ghost animals as well.
I am brought up Baptist, but I do believe-against what the bible tells me-that people and animals can and do walk the earth after death. Like the one story above, I think they are allowed to complete their unfinished business. Then they may sleep.

 

EDIT: Oh, and Pam? Could it be that your next bunny’s name might be “Spooky?” ^_^

[RabbitPam]

MM,
I’ve been thinking of Halloween-related names for hours!!!
Was debating running them by you. OK, hijacking thread sort of, but I am stuck on this little one and she may be it. She was in that very nice petstore (*feels guilt at not rescuing*) that works with my vet. She’s such a nice owner, and the bunny was used to being handled by adults, and was socialized with kids.

She looked like such a girly girl, with a gray hotot eyecircle on white, that Mum suggested “Mascara”.
Also thinking: Bunnykins, Tabitha, Mystery, Halloween, Blythe Spirit, and Cream Cheese. Is Spooky too much like Spockie?
Or: Boo, Boo Boo, Witchie-poo, Salem

Quote from City of Angels: “Things exist whether you believe them or not.”

The Ghost Hunters have reiterated the theory that there are two kinds of hauntings – one being an imprint on a place that’s residual energy, so the ghosts do not interact, like the little dog. The other are spirits that haven’t moved forward, so cause the mischief. My personal belief is that even if they have died, the ability to communicate, to “keep in touch”, is much greater than we think. Just remember that spirits are no wiser in death than in life. Except they may have learned a thing or two about what happens after you’ve died, of course.

[Sage Cat]

I forgot all about this till y’all brought up animals as ghosts:

A friend of my in college was an EMT (ambulance guy) and worked with the Fire Department. In case y’all don’t know – they work long shifts and sleep at the fire stations. The fire-men all had to take turns staying awake at night in case an alarm went off – no big deal, except the Fire House was haunted by one of the former Fire Dogs! The dog would just run around – but still . . .

Many years before, the men were all upstairs – so was the dog (a dalmatian, of course) – in the dorm, when an alarm went off. All of the men went down the pool. The dog followed. Unfortunately, the fall killed the dog. As a result Fire Houses in Austin, Texas are not allowed to have Fire Dogs any more.

Back to the guys having to stay awake at night. My friend said you would find yourself sitting on the floor, in the corner, with some kind of stick in your hands, just waiting for the dog to show up!
Big strong Fire-Men!

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

OT but I *heart* firemen LOL

Anyone have any psychic stories?? My mom went to a psychic after our dog Molly had passed away. The psychic of course said lots of crazy correct things and then she said “molly says it’s ok to get another dog’ Not only did she know the name of our dog who passed away but knew my mom wanted to get another dog but didn’t want to get one too soon!!

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