We have a ghost in the new house -- seriously!

[LostinVA]

I heard it the first time right before we moved in -- when I was upstairs painting. You hear a door open and a slow, heavy tread across the dining room -- eek! The other night we were upstairs in bed reading and heard it. The ensuing conversation:

Haruka: I'm turing on the TV.
Lostinva: Good idea.

It is a very old farmhouse... my grandmother lives in a 400-year-old house oft filled with creepiness, so I'm kinda used to it.

We didn't hear Him this weekend whne the inlaws' Lab was here.

[malta blue]

1. Make friends with your ghost...

:hi:

We had creepiness in my childhood home, and I know for a fact that a teen died from a fall down the stairs. We used to say we had a stair ghost, and damned if I didn't fall down those stairs whenever I said it.

[LostinVA]

3. I kinda have!

I "chatted" with the beastie and told him I was excited to e ein their home and promised to take care of it.I felt like a fool saying it, but it made me feel better.

[Kajsa]

83. LostinVA, that made him/her feel better too.

I KID YOU NOT!

I know of what I speak.

Keep that good vibe going and you should be fine.
;-) :hi:


I mean it- I know Southpaw will so think I'm kidding.
Southpaw-:P

[madeline_con]

49. Maybe you were pushed! n/t

[VenusRising]

2. That's cool!

I love houses with spookies in them. Well, as long as they aren't aggressive spookies.

I hope they three of you live peacefully together. :hi:

[LostinVA]

4. My Mom hopes she hears it when they come up for Thanksgiving

But, she grew up in a home more haunted than the Amityville Horror, so this is small taters to her.

[VenusRising]

10. I never lived in a haunted house, but I stayed in one.

That was quite an experience! It's very weird to be touched by something you can't see.

[Haole Girl]

5. Eeeek!

:scared:

Hey... will you please tell Haruka her myspace has been hacked? Maybe the ghost did it! lol :hi:

[LostinVA]

6. Good grief -- AGAIN?

Thanks!

[Parche]

7. Hope Its Friendly

:hi:

[LostinVA]

13. So far!

:scared:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

8. Pour EVOO on it.

That'll learn him.

[LostinVA]

12. The Ghost does like to watch RR

Which makes me think he's related to you in some way.

[texas1928]

9. EEEH

Just foot steps and doors opening.

Not scary. Wait til one moans three times from the front room.

[LostinVA]

14. OMG! SHUT UP!!!

I'm alone right now -- Haruka's in class and won't be home for about 45 minutes!

:scared:

[texas1928]

16. That one was a very active spirit.

He messed with the cats, opened doors, moved my tv set, moved a box of dishes in a cabinet that I can not reach, I saw him numerous times, and he moaned. He is attached to a license plate, my friend has the plate and they had to move the plate outside because the ghost was messing with the baby at night. He recorded someone talking in the babies room one night. They have it outside and they have shadows that stand outside the living room window and there are knocks on the door, windows and walls.

[LostinVA]

21. EEEEEEEEEEEEK

[texas1928]

56. Was not too bad.

You kind of got used to it, then he would do something different. Like the night we were watching TV on the couch and the front door right by the TV opened about 6 inches, and my wife and I both watched the doorknob slowly turn back like someone was controlling it.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

11. Maybe he'd like some cookies.

Does a door actually open, or is it just the sound you hear? Sounds kind of fun!

[LostinVA]

15. Just the sound

And, to make it even "better," the cat peers into the dining room while all of this is going on.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

19. I'm certain cats can see things we can't.

If he's walking through the dining room, he may be looking for leftovers, or goodies to eat. Or maybe he choked to death on a chicken bone.

[LostinVA]

22. The DR also used to be the original kitchen

I'm 88% positive.

[lost-in-nj]

17. I believe you!!!

I have a few here to.....

It's probably a good ghost.....

call Weird NJ!!!!!!

Just let me know

I want to be there if they come!!!!!



lost

[LostinVA]

23. I wonder if it's a Guido ghost

[DS1]

42. that would explain any 'thump thump thump thump' sounds

and if the place smells like a bottle of Grey Goose that someone can't afford, definitely a guido ghost. Probably a young male, drank himself to death in your house during a house party, can't wait to see some lesbian action.

Hey, you posted it.

[LostinVA]

57. There's no lingering scent of Grey Goose

We just have an obscene quantity of Cuervo in the house for our Margaritaville Frozen Concoction Maker.

[zabet]

18. Make friends with it...

then you can ask it to help you find
lost or misplaced items.

[LostinVA]

25. That's what my grandmother did in her house

She calls her ghost, "Elizabeth."

[triguy46]

20. You need to read House of Leaves and decide if living in an old farmhouse is woth it.

[LostinVA]

24. I am soooo not reading that book

[HughBeaumont]

76. That book would make one awesome horror movie.

Too bad it'll never happen.

I need to re-read that one . . .

[flvegan]

26. For the love of...It's not a ghost, nimbus.

It's probably just a person who can conceal himself quite well who means no harm, yet wants to view you and your lovely betrothed living in harmony.

Tell Haruka that I like the black pair best, and that I like the way the tat on the back of her neck is perfectly in line with the tat on her lower back.

:hide:

[LostinVA]

27. Jesus Christ -- I THOUGHT THAT WAS YOU!!!

[Fire Walk With Me]

28. Do you hear knocking sounds?

Three times, on the ceiling? That could mean that it wants you.

Twice on the pipe means it's not going to show.

http://tinyurl.com/3dpowp

[LostinVA]

29. Update: The cat just freaked out

He looked under the basement door, then jumped two feet straight up, backed away and walked into the kitchen.

The basement is a really scary Stephen King like basement, that includes a huge room accessible through a hole in the rock wall. It has no lights on that side and even the landlord has never been in there.

[flvegan]

30. Dude, I would SO stay away from that basement mystery room.

You're likely to stumble over some fat guy in his underwear monitoring a network of hidden cameras around the house. Besides, you trip over and disconnect my T1 line, and I'm gonna be pissed.

[LostinVA]

34. Nah -- I'll probably just find the landscaping guy Ricky

He's creepy.

[Sequoia]

70. That reminds me of a book, whose title I can't recall

about a family who moved into an old house in New York state. That "other room" in their basement was a crawl space where some Germans had died in an accident in the ealry 1900s or late 1800s. A ghost dog was there too. It was so scary, very scary, and when I moved the house we moved into had a dirt crawl space. I never went in it.

[MilesColtrane]

69. Whatever you do don't obsess about the last scene of the Blair Witch Project...

...the one where Heather and Mike get split up in the old farm house...Mike separates from Heather running down to the basement...after a minute of panic...Heather goes down to the basement only to see Mike standing, facing the corner...then BOOOOOO!!!

[Maine-ah]

31. have your carbon monoxide levels in house checked.

seriously. :hi:

[LostinVA]

32. Don't worry -- we have new carbon monoxide detectors installed

It's about the only new thing we have.

[LostinVA]

33. Update: I just heard people talking and it wasn't me or Haruka

I looked at Haruka and said, "Shhhh...shhh...do you hear people talking?"

She said, "Uh yeah, the TV upstairs is on."

Me, "Oh."

Living in a haunted house messes with your head, man.

[Dr. Strange]

35. I didn't used to believe in ghosts

until I saw this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfZItov1BUo

Now...I'm not so sure.

[LostinVA]

36. There's no fucking way I'm watching that right before I go to bed

[Dr. Strange]

44. Chicken!

Well, watch it tomorrow, then.

[Roon]

62. That video scared the FUCK out of me

I was like, "Oh!! The chair started rocking! Creepy"...then it was all, AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! I was jittery for an hour after that..LOL..I should have KNOWN!! I have been on the internet for 12 years.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=7044174&mesg_id=7044174

[Dr. Strange]

65. The first time I saw that video

(which I saw because some DUer had a thread on it, about a month ago), I shit me pants. And then I had to watch it again a couple of times and laugh my ass off!

[Roon]

68. I watched it again

even though I knew it was coming, it still made my heart skip a beat..LOL

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

74. Ahhhhhh....

How'd I get suckered into that?!?!

[Shine]

37. Burn some sage and tell it to go to the Light.

:D

[LostinVA]

40. We tried pine incense -- it didn't seem to do the trick

If things start getting too weird, Haruka's getting one of her family's priest friends in here.

[Marrah_G]

38. Call TAPS!

[LostinVA]

41. Can I call Jennifer Love Hewitt?

[Marrah_G]

46. You can try, but Donna from Taps is cute and would actually answer the phone =P

[charlie and algernon]

81. forget donna, the new girl, Kris, is MUCH hotter

[soleft]

91. Yes, call Jason and Grant!

They can fix your plumbing while they're there.

[DS1]

39. Awesome

Be nice, they will be too

[LostinVA]

43. Can you do a photoshop of a ghost head on a pic of Haruka?

Just kidding.

*evil cackle*

[flvegan]

47. I CAN!!

It has to be a nude pic of Haruka, though. E-mail it to me, and I'll get right on her...uh, it. Yeah.

Shut UP, DS1.

[DS1]

54. Incorrigible

you

[LostinVA]

55. Like a pit bull

[DS1]

51. no, but I do have a picture of a ghost in the next photography group's contest

A Guest on Christmas Eve

[LostinVA]

59. And this is one reason why we're working to get blinds on all the windows

I do not need to be seeing that when I pull in the driveway.

The other reason is the creepy landscaper Ricky.

[Fox Mulder]

45. Sweet.

[LostinVA]

58. Yeah, until you're home alone with a freaked out cat

[charlie and algernon]

87. i've been home alone with a freaked out dog, not fun

i was living with a volunteer for a campaign i was working and this one night i was home alone, the dog kept barking at something just over my shoulder. the dog was a little poodle and naturally skittish, but that night he was seriously freaked.

[madeline_con]

48. The dog should be able to see him.

Does he seem an unfriendly sort, or just a lost soul?

I'd worry if he were malicious or vengeful.

[LostinVA]

52. The dog is a bit slow

We said that Molly probably spent the weekend thinking, "I like this invisible man, who pets me."

He doesn't seem unfriendly. The only thing that's been touched is a hairbrush that went missing and was returned to it's proper place, a couple days later.

[madeline_con]

93. Maybe he needed a hair sample to cast a spell. n/t

[crim son]

50. Nothing wrong with a friendly ghost.

I believe I may have one in the servants' quarters, which is where I've been sleeping for about seven years. It comes up and down the back stairs and at least once a week it joins me on my bed while I am trying to sleep or nap. I can feel and hear the bed sink down as if somebody is sitting next to me. It scared the crap out of me for a couple of years but now I find it comforting. Seriously. Our house was built in 1883 so it has a fair amount of benign history.

[LostinVA]

60. He better not try to take a nap with me

This house is from "at least" 1906.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

53. Creepy Cool.

Keep us posted.

[LostinVA]

61. Oh I will

Last night, Haruka went out for a cigarette then ran upstairs all freaked about some scratching and creaking noise. I think she's getting paranoid. I think it was some sort of animal in the basement, not the ghost.

[cboy4]

63. Oh boy. Do you think it could be the ghost of Jerry

Falwell?

Do you hear the tapping of feet coming from the bathroom?

Maybe it's the ghost of an angry Democrat who's mad you're reaping the benefits of that New Jersey decision (the one that cost us the '07 election)?

Just brainstorming.

[LostinVA]

71. Nope, the ghost isn't cruising in the bathroom

Mostly, he just walks through the dining room.

[krispos42]

64. Leave out some milk and cookies...

and hang your stockings by the chimmeny with care. See what happens!


I've heard a ghost myself, once. It creeped me out pretty good, but I never heard it again after that.

[LostinVA]

72. We're definitely not leaving out milk and cookies

The former tenants seemed to cultivate vermin friends. They're gone now, but we want to keep it that way.

[Capn Sunshine]

66. wait until one of them touches you

or you feel a very very very cold spot .
Just in time for Halloween:scared:


I had a ghost in my house which was built in 1903. All she ever did was walk across the antique mirror in the dining room ( it was 6' long and about 4' high-part of the original structure) when you could just see her out of the corner of your eye as you passed by. Always at night.

[LostinVA]

73. EEEEKKKKKKK

That's about the same age as this house.

[Sequoia]

67. Who might it be?

[LostinVA]

75. No clue -- the only history I know about the house is

that the former tenants were really dirty people, but that only accounts for last year's history.

[Call Me Wesley]

77. Just calm down and sooth yourself

by concentrating on this uplifting picture ...



;)

[LostinVA]

79. You are evil

BTW, Gniles has been standing guard in the kitchen over the Frozen Concoction Maker.

[tigereye]

82. I think that's actually scarier!

Hi CMW!

[LostinVA]

84. It's definitely scarier

:scared:

[Call Me Wesley]

86. ;)

OK, for sounding like a total loony and quotable somewhere else: Ask her/him to leave. Tell her/him that all is taken care of and that her/his presence is no longer needed and that you'll think of her/him.

[tigereye]

89. I lived in a old house when I was in grad school and we often felt that

something was there, esp. if someone was alone - that you could almost see something out of the corner of your eye. It was creepy.

That house had what I can only call "weird energy" for some reason - my current house, which is about 105 years old, has none of that.

I always think it has something to do with the history or people who lived there over all those years....

[Call Me Wesley]

85. Hi tigereye!

Hope all is well! :hug:

[tigereye]

88. how are ya? What's new?

How is the garden?

Mine is a dried up mess due to lack of rain... I have lots of bulbs I need to put in, though.

[Call Me Wesley]

90. We're fine but busy.

The garden is fine, too. It's fall here, so maintenance comes to an end for some time, but I have bulbs to put in, too. I still have some peppers to harvest.

Otherwise, there's nothing new I guess. Time went like nuts, and it's almost Christmas again. :scared:

[redqueen]

78. Cool!

You don't get any bad vibes do you? If not I suppose it's nothing to worry about.

I'd call TAPS. And hassle them about that hottie. :P

[LostinVA]

80. No bad vibes -- other than being kind of creeped out

[Mrs.Matcom]

92. Our house is 130 years old, and we have two

'friends' in the house. They come and go. The dog and two cats see them when they are here. The couple that owned the house a long time ago, both died in the house, at different times. Kenny and Linda, both are very helpful. I dropped a necklace behind my dresser one morning before work. When I came home it was back on the top of the dresser. I thought matcom had fished it out for me, but he told me it wasn't him. Kenny used to change the channel on the TV upstairs when we were watching it, we told him to knock it off and he did. It will take a while for you to get used to them, but then you will forget they are even there! Have fun! :hi: