WHOOOOHOO! :-)

[exitwound]

Well, as some of you know, me and my fiancee have been trying to get a decent house for rent further away from the city....today we were offered the house we wanted which has 70 acres of beautiful forest property, plenty of privacy, but isn't too far away from our friends, family and business clients.

The fiancee is still at work so I haven't been able to tell her yet, and I'm so psyched I just had to tell *somebody* :-)

It won't be easy at first, esp. because for two months we'll have to pay for both the house and the apartment (we're moving into the house on the 1st of next month, but our lease here isn't up until April 30th)....the house doesn't have a built-in dishwasher so we'll have to buy one and we'll also have to buy our own washer and drier....

That's on top of tax time, which is doubly nasty for us because we're both self-employed so we are going to be paying in rather than getting a rebate back....

....but regardless of all that, one way or another we'll make it work and we'll finally be rid of this damned urban bullshit! No more constant mystery noises from the other apartments, no worrying about people looking in our windows or listening to our conversations, no having to keep the cats inside so they don't get run over or picked up by animal control never to be seen again!

Woohoo! :-)

[Winter]

Awww....that's awesome. She'll be really surprise. Yippeee! Any home warming parties coming along with that move? ;)

[Ono]

That's great! I'm happy for you ew! :D

[Nyar]

when you go for a walk in the field your cats will follow.......

[Winter]

when you go for a walk in the field your cats will follow....... :roll: :P

[Nyar]

when you go for a walk in the field your cats will follow....... :roll: :Pwhen i worked outside my cats followed me around everywhere i went

[Winter]

when you go for a walk in the field your cats will follow....... :roll: :Pwhen i worked outside my cats followed me around everywhere i wentDon't they run off?

[Nyar]

when you go for a walk in the field your cats will follow....... :roll: :Pwhen i worked outside my cats followed me around everywhere i wentDon't they run off?nah....they would play around and snoop like cats do but always come back to me when i went in. they never strayed beyond my property.

[exitwound]

when you go for a walk in the field your cats will follow.......

Oh, I'm counting on it! They follow right behind me and even follow simple commands as if they were dogs. It's great....I can't wait! Haven't been able to move around freely outside like that with the cats in over two years now.

[kidcanuck]

when you go for a walk in the field your cats will follow....... :roll: :Pwhen i worked outside my cats followed me around everywhere i wentDon't they run off?nah....they would play around and snoop like cats do but always come back to me when i went in. they never strayed beyond my property.
That's because you were on the second floor balcony of your apartment.

[exitwound]

Don't they run off?

If the cats have been raised well and were never feral, as long as you stay within their "territory" they'll follow you wherever you go. Sometimes I have to call to them to remind them that we're still walking if they get fixated on something, but they don't run off during walks.

If they want to go off and be by themselves, they generally won't be available for a walk in the first place. But they find the places people go quite interesting, so usually they're just a few feet in front or behind :-)

[Lady Rhian]

Congratulations, exitwound! That's awesome, I am so jealous of the 70 acres. :D

[exitwound]

Congratulations, exitwound! That's awesome, I am so jealous of the 70 acres. :D

Wait until you see the pictures. I have always had a passion for land management, trailmaking, gardening....and I know this area from when I used to mountain bike at least 50 miles every day - it's got great terrain for me to work with.

The outside of the house is somewhat worn and you'd expect a shabby rural cabin on the inside to look at the timber siding....but it's been pretty well renovated and inside it's actually a damn solid place to live considering the price and the amount of land.

We'll have a two-year lease, and the whole overlapping rental thing is a little scary (even though on paper we *should* be able to cover it all despite tax time looming) but it's exactly what we were looking for.

Now to actually do this move without completely dropping the ball on my work.... :?

[Nyar]

remember..........its all about cats.

[exitwound]

remember..........its all about cats.

don't worry, i'm not going to forget 8)

Jezebelle is looking at me, half asleep, from behind my flat panel all like "where is my five-acre field full of mice already?!" :roll:

[Winter]

So, how did she take the NEWS? :D

[exitwound]

So, how did she take the NEWS? :D

the shrieking, hollering and shouting was classic :)

[Winter]

So, how did she take the NEWS? :D

the shrieking, hollering and shouting was classic :)YEAH! Women are easy to please huh? ;)

[exitwound]

YEAH! Women are easy to please huh? ;)

naaaah....this one isn't. but I'm well-trained :wink: :mrgreen:

[Winter]

YEAH! Women are easy to please huh? ;)

naaaah....this one isn't. but I'm well-trained :wink: :mrgreen:There you go! ;) LOL I like her already!

[Bob Lawblaw]

Well, as some of you know, me and my fiancee have been trying to get a decent house for rent further away from the city....today we were offered the house we wanted which has 70 acres of beautiful forest property, plenty of privacy, but isn't too far away from our friends, family and business clients.

The fiancee is still at work so I haven't been able to tell her yet, and I'm so psyched I just had to tell *somebody* :-)

It won't be easy at first, esp. because for two months we'll have to pay for both the house and the apartment (we're moving into the house on the 1st of next month, but our lease here isn't up until April 30th)....the house doesn't have a built-in dishwasher so we'll have to buy one and we'll also have to buy our own washer and drier....

That's on top of tax time, which is doubly nasty for us because we're both self-employed so we are going to be paying in rather than getting a rebate back....

....but regardless of all that, one way or another we'll make it work and we'll finally be rid of this damned urban bullshit! No more constant mystery noises from the other apartments, no worrying about people looking in our windows or listening to our conversations, no having to keep the cats inside so they don't get run over or picked up by animal control never to be seen again!

Woohoo! :-) Sounds awesome, EW! Congratulations!

[Lady Rhian]

Wait until you see the pictures. I have always had a passion for land management, trailmaking, gardening....and I know this area from when I used to mountain bike at least 50 miles every day - it's got great terrain for me to work with.

The outside of the house is somewhat worn and you'd expect a shabby rural cabin on the inside to look at the timber siding....but it's been pretty well renovated and inside it's actually a damn solid place to live considering the price and the amount of land.

We'll have a two-year lease, and the whole overlapping rental thing is a little scary (even though on paper we *should* be able to cover it all despite tax time looming) but it's exactly what we were looking for.

Now to actually do this move without completely dropping the ball on my work.... :?

Looking forward to seeing them. Best of luck with your move, sounds like you found a bit of heaven. :D

[exitwound]

it's still sinking in. i think the next three weeks are going to be some of the longest of my life, waiting to finally get settled into this place!

we're even allowed to modify the house and the property as long as it looks good....can't wait to finally use my handy-man skills and green thumb again!

two years away from the forests and the mountains and the PEACE AND QUIET of my native new england countryside was two years too many.

i hope you guys like stories from the sticks, because i'm gonna be full of 'em this year :-)

[Lady Rhian]

i hope you guys like stories from the sticks, because i'm gonna be full of 'em this year :-)

I love hearing stories. Let me know if there are any ghosts in the house, too. :lol:

[Nyar]

i hope you guys like stories from the sticks, because i'm gonna be full of 'em this year :-)

I love hearing stories. Let me know if there are any ghosts in the house, too. :lol:

Kims mom works at a Hospital in Bridgeport....and she personally knows policemen and firemen who responded to this call....and they all saw it with their own eyes and swear to this day that what happened there is the truth:


Lindley Street



From the case files of the Warrens:

This is a true story that occurred in Bridgeport, Connecticut about poltergeist activity. This is one of the most asked about cases, THE LINDLEY STREET HAUNTING. I remember as a young man all of the crowds that gathered outside of the police line that day. I was one of them pushing my through the crowds to get to Ed and Lorraine. At that point Lorraine spotted me in the crowd and came right over and said what are you doing here? I had said to Lorraine, I'd like to go into the haunted house to see the furniture move and to see the cat speak, Ed saw Lorraine and I speaking and came over to see what was going on at that point. They decided that I was too young to be involved with a case of that magnitude, little did I know that I would be involved with so many of their cases in the future. I can tell you this, I saw enough witnesses and people coming in and out of that home with amazing stories of the Lindley Street haunting.

The Goodin family had moved to the one story, four room house about 1960. It had been built 60 years before, supposedly for the child of a Bridgeport shirt manufacturer. Gerald Goodin was described in the seminary student’s report as a factory worker at Harvey Hubbell. Laura Goodin was described as a high strung, devout Roman Catholic. Both were said to be protective of young Marcia, whom they adopted after the death of their only son. They walked her to school in the morning and rarely let her leave the house alone. Marcia was said to be an unhappy child, ostracized in school. She was also described as a deceitful youngster with an unhealthy interest in the occult, according to reports. Her only friend, reportedly, was her orange and white cat, Sam. In the fall of 1974 Sam went to a veterinary hospital for an operation. When he returned home, he supposedly began acting strangely, as if he were trying to talk. Later, Gerald Goodin claimed, the cat would kick at the basement door, yelling, "Let me out, you dirty Frenchman, you dirty Greek!"

The banging noises in the house had started about two years after Marcia was adopted in the late 1960’s but it was around December 1973, the Goodins claimed, that the unexplained activities began in earnest. The Warrens, who have a reputation for investigating the unexplained and have published books on everything from ghosts to werewolves, claim to have witnessed the moving furniture and destruction of religious objects. T hey said it was Marcia’s unhappiness that caused the disturbances. It may have been a combination, they said, of a psychic disturbance caused by her angry "aura," and by evil spirits attracted by that aura. "It was something inhuman," Ed Warren said. "As far as we’re concerned, those were evil spirits in that house."

It is November1974, the Warrens are called in to by the Goodin family to investigate a malevolent force that had been terrorizing the family and home. Furniture was being thrown, family members injured, even the family cat was speaking ethnic slurs. "Things were flying around in the front room when we went in there." Gerald Goodin told a radio station, describing events of Sunday, November 24, 1974. "Whatever it was, it was acting like a demented person and I felt I had to get my family out of the house." By November 26th, the police superintendent said the supposed haunting was a hoax by the troubled Marcia, and fed by the parents, eager to cash in on their newfound fame. Whatever it was, it made national headlines, drew crowds of onlookers and went on to become a legend that causes goose-bumps still today.

A Bridgeport patrolman responded to "trouble unknown" called to the Goodin house that November Sunday. "When I went to the door, the lady came to the door, I asked ‘What’s the problem?’" recalled the patrolman now a sergeant. "She was crying and pointed." The lady was Laura Goodin, she pointed to a living room so disheveled it looked as if someone had thrown the furnishings about. " I asked if she had been burglarized?" She replied "No this is always going on," Thinking the dreadful pounding noises that echoed through the home for years and the moving objects might be caused by a "settling" of the house, the police called in the fire department. But fire officials and the city engineer found no structural problems, and ruled out the possibility of renovation work at the nearby St. Vincent’s Medical Center was causing the problem.

The Rev. Edward Doyle of St. Patrick’s Church, then the fire department’s chaplain, blessed the house. He later stated at the time of the blessing, he saw nothing that led him to believe evil spirits were present. But others on the scene saw things they couldn’t believe. The then fire chief John Gleason said his men witnessed "dinner plates rattling, pictures jumping off the wall, a television set falling over and a heavy leather chair jumping at least 6 inches off the floor." A 22 page report prepared a year later by a seminary student quotes the Bridgeport police records as saying officers saw the refrigerator rise about six inches off the floor. A 21 inch portable television rose off a table and rotated and objects on shelves vibrate and fall to the floor. They also allegedly saw a lounge chair that Marcia was sitting in move rapidly backwards and overturn, but when officers tried to move the chair, it wouldn’t budge. Also in front of onlookers, a plastic crucifix "exploded" from the wall. Ed and Lorraine Warren of Monroe, famed paranormal researchers, still have the pieces in a small box in their home. "Never in my life did I ever see so many police officers get down on their knees and ask for a priest’s blessing as in the Goodin home." Lorraine Warrens recalled. "They were really at God’s mercy in that house and they knew it."

Tim Quinn had worked as a reporter for just a few years when he was sent to cover the haunting on Lindley Street. First, he saw the crowds, then police told him a religious rite was going on inside the house, and then the Warrens came out. Then he went in. The one thing he remembers seeing is a leather chair sitting on the kind of thin rug that leaves a light mark when you brush across it or step on it. "Suddenly, the back went down and the chair moved a few feet," he said "but there was no mark on the carpet from the runners underneath the chair." He called it a strange, eerie experience, underscored by something a firefighter said to him. "People shouldn’t be afraid of this," Quinn said the firefighter told him, "because if there is a devil, then that means there must be a God, and there must be an afterlife."

When word leaked that strange occurrences were going on in the house, the public, their interest peaked by the devil possession movie "The Exorcist," began crowding around. Soon, traffic was tied up for blocks, police had to cordon off the street, and even arrested some gawkers who refused to leave. Media around the world wanted to know about Bridgeport’s "demons." The Goodins, according to witnesses, ate up the publicity like popcorn. They invited reporters into the house, and were even guests on Tiny Markle’s radio show. "I think the little girl was clearly very happy with the attention and I get the feeling so were her parents," Quinn said. "I don’t think they wanted this to end." But end it did, quite abruptly, with an Announcement on November 26 by then police Supt. Walsh that the haunting was a hoax perpetrated by the young girl. Walsh said Marcia confessed to making the furniture move when people’s attention was diverted and making the cat talk through ventriloquism.

After Walsh’s announcement, the crowd dispersed and the frenzy died down. Those who believe in ghosts complain Walsh was less interested in finding the truth than killing the publicity. "I know the things that I saw and the things the police saw in my presence, and it was real," said the Rev. Bill Charbonneau, who taught a course on the occult at St. Joseph’s College in West Hartford, Conn. "It certainly was not explicable in normal terms." Charbonneau said he studied the paranormal at a university in Rome, and was called upon many times as an exorcist. While at the Goodin house, he said he was sitting with young Marcia when she screamed at him to turn around. Just then, the bureau slid rapidly from one side of the room to another with no one having touched it. Later while alone in the basement of the house, he heard an ugly voice singing Christmas carols. He found the voice coming from Sam the cat. Whatever was happening, Charbonneau said, it was centered around Marcia, because she could "sense" the occurrences as they were about to happen. But she definitely did not create them, he said. "It wasn’t a hoax, it definitely wasn’t a hoax," he said. "In terms of whether it was poltergeist activity or whatever it was causing it, I was thrown out of the city before I could do anything about it." He said Walsh threatened him with arrest if he ever came back to Bridgeport.

The house on Lindley St. today sits next to a condominium complex. Its weathered brown and yellow paint is peeling and the lawn unkempt. Laura and Gerald Goodin both have died and Marcia Goodin , who would be 34, could not be located. Most of those contacted that were involved with the case said the bizarre experience has never really left their minds. The Warrens call it "one of the most famous, well documented poltergeist cases in history," and rated it a 10 on a one-to-10 scale of supernatural things they’ve seen in their 50 years of experience.

[Lady Rhian]

Thanks for sharing that Nyar. I have read some of their investigations, very enjoyable reads indeed.

[Nyar]

Thanks for sharing that Nyar. I have read some of their investigations, very enjoyable reads indeed.most of new england is haunted. i would beware buying a house on more than an acre of land......you know how those ancient indian burial ghosts take to having their tribal lands violated. :twisted: might end up like that voodoo doll from trilogy of terror
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[Winter]

i hope you guys like stories from the sticks, because i'm gonna be full of 'em this year :-)

I love hearing stories. Let me know if there are any ghosts in the house, too. :lol:I think there is one in my place. :( Every morning I wake up all my pics are crooked. LOL Maybe it's me. Two mornings ago I woke up and heard someone say sometihng. I tought I left the T.V. on in the living room but it wasn't. I'm sure it was someone outside somewhere. Eeek!

[Nyar]

i hope you guys like stories from the sticks, because i'm gonna be full of 'em this year :-)

I love hearing stories. Let me know if there are any ghosts in the house, too. :lol:I think there is one in my place. :( Every morning I wake up all my pics are crooked. LOL Maybe it's me. Two mornings ago I woke up and heard someone say sometihng. I tought I left the T.V. on in the living room but it wasn't. I'm sure it was someone outside somewhere. Eeek!

ever felt something lay up against you in bed? i swear i have a ghost dog that sleeps next to me until i scared it off about 7 years ago.

[Lady Rhian]

My old house was haunted, Nyar. Supposedly, there was a burial ground not too far from our property, some of it may have been on it. Talk about an awful feeling- hardly anyone could stay downstairs in our basement alone, without having the urge to run upstairs fast.

I also have an EVP of the cemetery around the corner from my house. My daughter kept complaining of hearing a man's voice, whenever she walked past the cemetery. So, my friend and I went out late at night with our recorders, quietly laid them down next to a couple of graves, and sat across the street in darkness and silence, til the time on the tape ran out. When we got back to the house, we listened to the tape, and on it said:

man's voice "heaven wants"
woman's voice right after "two"

This was 2 weeks before 9/11.

[Nyar]

My old house was haunted, Nyar. Supposedly, there was a burial ground not too far from our property, some of it may have been on it. Talk about an awful feeling- hardly anyone could stay downstairs in our basement alone, without having the urge to run upstairs fast.

I also have an EVP of the cemetery around the corner from my house. My daughter kept complaining of hearing a man's voice, whenever she walked past the cemetery. So, my friend and I went out late at night with our recorders, quietly laid them down next to a couple of graves, and sat across the street in darkness and silence, til the time on the tape ran out. When we got back to the house, we listened to the tape, and on it said:

man's voice "heaven wants"
woman's voice right after "two"

This was 2 weeks before 9/11.
wow! thats cool. When i saw Lorraine Warren give a lecture last October she played a lot of EVP recordings and they were spooky. you sure it wasnt someone walking by?

[Master Chief]

Hmmmm.... I've never actually seen a ghost... nor do I really "believe" in them. Once you're dead, you're gone. I have however been seeing people out of the corners of my eyes for the past few months that aren't there when I turn to look at them. A *VERY* unnerving experience...

[Winter]

i hope you guys like stories from the sticks, because i'm gonna be full of 'em this year :-)

I love hearing stories. Let me know if there are any ghosts in the house, too. :lol:I think there is one in my place. :( Every morning I wake up all my pics are crooked. LOL Maybe it's me. Two mornings ago I woke up and heard someone say sometihng. I tought I left the T.V. on in the living room but it wasn't. I'm sure it was someone outside somewhere. Eeek!

ever felt something lay up against you in bed? i swear i have a ghost dog that sleeps next to me until i scared it off about 7 years ago.You gave me the shivers! I'm going to freak tonite going to sleep. :(

[Lady Rhian]

wow! thats cool. When i saw Lorraine Warren give a lecture last October she played a lot of EVP recordings and they were spooky. you sure it wasnt someone walking by?


I live in the country, on a lake front home. It was dead on the street, and we sat across the street, waiting in the dark. No one came near the cemetery or drove by it. This cemetery is very old, built next to a corn field.

[Lady Rhian]

Winter, I somehow missed your post! That does sound like you have a visitor.

[Winter]

Winter, I somehow missed your post! That does sound like you have a visitor. :shock: Well, they haven't told me to get the fuck out yet so I think I safe for now. lol

[Lady Rhian]

:shock: Well, they haven't told me to get the fuck out yet so I think I safe for now. lol

LOL. Do you have a tape recorder? Or a cassette/cd player? If the pictures change around again, I would try and see if you can get an EVP at night. Or, set up a video camera.

[Nyar]

Winter, I somehow missed your post! That does sound like you have a visitor. :shock: Well, they haven't told me to get the fuck out yet so I think I safe for now. lol

have you ever been brushing your hair in the mirror in a dimly lit room and suddenly see in the reflection a small person behind you peeking from around the side of a doorway? at that point youre too scared to turn around and when you do they arent there........

[Nyar]

have you ever been driving down the road at night and as soon as you drive under a lamp post it goes off? i mean why dont i see it go off a quarter mile in front of me? why not in my rear view mirror a football field length behind me? why does it happen to me as soon as i get next to it?

[Lady Rhian]

have you ever been brushing your hair in the mirror in a dimly lit room and suddenly see in the reflection a small person behind you peeking from around the side of a doorway? at that point youre too scared to turn around and when you do they arent there........

Nyar, stop playing Bloody Mary, LMAO.

Just kidding. We have a mirror my parents had in their living room. We always thought in our old house, we were seeing things due to the light. Well, when we moved up here, we put it over the fireplace. The house, at the time, had very poor lighting, and we saw, let's just say, a couple of people who weren't invited in the house, nor were they behind us when we turned around. Said mirror is now back in the garage, never again to be hung up in my house, LOL..........

[Lady Rhian]

have you ever been driving down the road at night and as soon as you drive under a lamp post it goes off? i mean why dont i see it go off a quarter mile in front of me? why not in my rear view mirror a football field length behind me? why does it happen to me as soon as i get next to it?

I've heard that it has to do with the way headlights hit them. Now, what REALLY spooks me out, is when the effers go off AFTER I pass them, LOL. That's happened a couple of times to me, about 3 in a row went off one night. Scared the crap out of me.

Have you ever driven and seen a spirit walk in front of you on a country road?

[Winter]

STOP IT! lol DON;T FREAK ME OUT! :shock:

[Nyar]

you should listen to Art Bells halloween show where it is 5 hours all night long of callers calling in with their true to life ghost stories. man....they send a shiver up my spine. (the man in the mirror is one i got from there). Shadow people are another phenomenon that happens a lot....people see someone, or some thing move out of the corner of their eyes and it isnt there. Sometimes they wake up and see the drifting shadows on the wall of their bedroom and think its just wind in the trees.....then realize there arent any trees in the window! ....when they see the form of the shadow person drift and walk eerily across the room. it gets to heart attack proportions when people are in bed too afriad to move and it comes toward them and reaches out..........

[Winter]

Candy man!

[Nyar]

have you ever been driving down the road at night and as soon as you drive under a lamp post it goes off? i mean why dont i see it go off a quarter mile in front of me? why not in my rear view mirror a football field length behind me? why does it happen to me as soon as i get next to it?

I've heard that it has to do with the way headlights hit them. Now, what REALLY spooks me out, is when the effers go off AFTER I pass them, LOL. That's happened a couple of times to me, about 3 in a row went off one night. Scared the crap out of me.

Have you ever driven and seen a spirit walk in front of you on a country road?

no...it wasnt on a country road but it was on highway 183 just a few miles from Texas stadium (you know....a team called the cowboys). Me and a friend of mine were parked on a hill overlooking the highway drinking some wine and listening to some tapes (we were teenagers) and we saw this woman walking along the highway. it was a long, flat stretch of road and she had a ways to go before she got anywhere so as we were getting back into the car we decided to see if she needed a ride. i turned around and she WAS GONE! there is nowhere she could have gone.....we were above the only area that she was walking.....we could see to the horizon in each direction. she wasnt carrying anything.....she just disappeared.

later on driving by i noticed one of those roadside crosses people put up when people are killed in accidents. it just happened to be on that side of the highway.

[Winter]

I'm not reading any of this stuff until tomorrow. :oops:

[Master Chief]

have you ever been driving down the road at night and as soon as you drive under a lamp post it goes off? i mean why dont i see it go off a quarter mile in front of me? why not in my rear view mirror a football field length behind me? why does it happen to me as soon as i get next to it?

There's one light in the town I live in that has gone off EVERY SINGLE TIME I have ever driven under it. Not when I'm riding with friends, but when I personally drive under it. Regardless of what vehicle I'm driving. I've driven a Jeep, Minivan, and pickup truck under it... and it's gone off every time. Yeah, that's only midly wierd. Sometimes it goes off a second or two afterwards, sometimes before, sometimes when I'm right under it... yah.

[Winter]

Ok...going to bed now. Thanks for the nightmares! :shock:

[Lady Rhian]

I well remember this story told by my beloved late aunt. She lived in Bruinswick, Maine at the time, back around the early 1950's (God, that sounds ancient right now!). I am not sure if it was in that town, or the next town over, but this is a true story she told us:

One rainy night, my Uncle David was driving home from work, it was around 8 pm, and dark out. He saw this young teenage girl on the side of the road, in a dress, walking home. She had no jacket on, and the dress was a spring dress, and it was in the fall, when he saw her. He pulled over and asked her if she wanted a ride, and she nodded, got in the back seat of the car, , telling him the name of the street and the number. It wasn't too far from where he was, so they got their quickly. Just as he pulled over and went into her driveway, she vanished.

A woman saw him pulling up in the driveway, and came out to ask if he needed anything. He told her what happened, and she said "I thought that might have been why you were here. My daughter died several years ago in a car accident, and on some rainy, foggy nights, she tries to make her way home. You're not the first person this has happened to.

Needless to say, my Uncle David never went that way home again on rainy nights.

[Nyar]

I well remember this story told by my beloved late aunt. She lived in Bruinswick, Maine at the time, back around the early 1950's (God, that sounds ancient right now!). I am not sure if it was in that town, or the next town over, but this is a true story she told us:

One rainy night, my Uncle David was driving home from work, it was around 8 pm, and dark out. He saw this young teenage girl on the side of the road, in a dress, walking home. She had no jacket on, and the dress was a spring dress, and it was in the fall, when he saw her. He pulled over and asked her if she wanted a ride, and she nodded, got in the back seat of the car, , telling him the name of the street and the number. It wasn't too far from where he was, so they got their quickly. Just as he pulled over and went into her driveway, she vanished.

A woman saw him pulling up in the driveway, and came out to ask if he needed anything. He told her what happened, and she said "I thought that might have been why you were here. My daughter died several years ago in a car accident, and on some rainy, foggy nights, she tries to make her way home. You're not the first person this has happened to.

Needless to say, my Uncle David never went that way home again on rainy nights.

this guy called in once and him and some of his redneck buddies were in a pickup in Louisiana out in the country somewhere. They were going down a back road at night near the swamp when they passed this old man in overalls walking along in the pitch black in the middle of nowhere. they stopped to ask him if he was ok and when he turned to look at them his eyes were glowing! they all panicked and he backed his pickup around and backed up too far and got in the mud and the old man kept walking towards them and he peeled out and got loose of the mud and hauled ass down the road. one of them looked out the back window and could see the glow of his eyes in the dark way behind them.

[Soldier 13Fox]

70 acres! Damn, that's effin awesome. Congrats EW. Now you can blast the new NIN (when it's released) as loud as you want and NO ONE will hear. :D

[Alli27]

Well, as some of you know, me and my fiancee have been trying to get a decent house for rent further away from the city....today we were offered the house we wanted which has 70 acres of beautiful forest property, plenty of privacy, but isn't too far away from our friends, family and business clients.
Woohoo! :-)Congrats!!!

Very happy for you both, and I will impatiently await your housewarming pahty invitation!! :P

[exitwound]

most of new england is haunted.

Eh, I'm a deep-north Yankee, we use ghosts to sweeten our coffee with ;-)

They also make excellent dusting rags if you can get a firm grip on their ectoplasm 8)

In short, I'm not worried. The house in NH is full of the prescence of my ancestor's unhappy spirits (my great uncle, who owned the house from the 40's to the late 70's, drunk himself to death there and his body wasn't found for a while) but I learned to use the much greater power of my living spirit, better anchored in the world of solid matter than theirs, to enforce an only slightly spooky peace.

I can feel their presence when I'm there, but it's not bothersome or scary at all; even without my practiced ability to create a shield of will that is stronger than that of any spirit I've come across, yankee ghosts are relatively respectful most of the time -- even when they're the ghosts of crazy folks whose lives ended unresolved....

[Soldier 13Fox]

Er . . . ghosts . . .hmmm . . .

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70 acres! Damn, that's effin awesome. Congrats EW. Now you can blast the new NIN (when it's released) as loud as you want and NO ONE will hear. :D

Oh, believe me, that's one of the first things I plan to do :-)

That, and run around naked, completely wasted, firing shots randomly in the air. If no SWAT teams or black helicopters appear, I'll know for sure that we picked the right place 8)

[Nyar]

if you go for a walk in the woods youll find that dilapdated old cabin noones ever seen before.....and when you go inside the place is a wreck. theres some large candles on a table next to a book bound in skin with strange writing on parchment about something called Yog Sothoth. you utter the strange incantations aloud then hear something rustling in the leaves outside the cabin............

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if you go for a walk in the woods youll find that dilapdated old cabin noones ever seen before.....and when you go inside the place is a wreck. theres some large candles on a table next to a book bound in skin with strange writing on parchment about something called Yog Sothoth. you utter the strange incantations aloud then hear something rustling in the leaves outside the cabin............

LOL. Reminds me of those old turn-based text games :-)

[Quiet Creeper]

Wow 70 Acres? :shock: That is gong to be awesome,time for you too buy a Rokon look it up,you'll thank me.


Congrats on the awesome find EW.P.S. Look out for sausquatch :D

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One of the first things I plan to do once we're moved in is to get a GPS unit that's compatible with my Macs and explore the property. It'll probably take me a couple of weeks to roam the whole place, get to know all the trails, clear them out for riding, etc....

That's of course if the snow is out by then. There's a good chance we'll get the usual spring nor'easters and won't even know quite what the ground looks like until some time in April :roll:

[Nyar]

if you go for a walk in the woods youll find that dilapdated old cabin noones ever seen before.....and when you go inside the place is a wreck. theres some large candles on a table next to a book bound in skin with strange writing on parchment about something called Yog Sothoth. you utter the strange incantations aloud then hear something rustling in the leaves outside the cabin............

LOL. Reminds me of those old turn-based text games :-)

Zork

[Quiet Creeper]

if you go for a walk in the woods youll find that dilapdated old cabin noones ever seen before.....and when you go inside the place is a wreck. theres some large candles on a table next to a book bound in skin with strange writing on parchment about something called Yog Sothoth. you utter the strange incantations aloud then hear something rustling in the leaves outside the cabin............

LOL. Reminds me of those old turn-based text games :-)

Zork


I loved that game,I used too play it on my apple IIC

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Lindley Street Haunting


Lindley Street Haunting
In November of 1974, Ed and Lorraine Warren were contacted by the Goodin family to investigate the strange activities going on inside their Bridgeport home. Tales of moving and floating furniture, desecration of religious objects, and a demonically possessed talking cat were described in great detail by the homeowners. Before the end of the year, hundreds of curious onlookers and reporters from all over the globe descended on this small four-room house to witness the bizarre haunting. At the center of all these supernatural goings-on was a ten-year-old girl named Marcia, who could supposedly foretell when this strange activity was about to take place.
http://drazor1.tripod.com/id137.html

Linked to this thread. :-) :moose:
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