I'm somewhat of a "strange occurance" buff...and ran across this presumably "true" story recently. If nothing else, this makes for an interesting read, true or not...

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I take pleasure in sharing with you the following occurrence because I personally interviewed one of the parties involved,
and have repeatedly gone over the incident with him these past six years. L.C. (his real initials) has been my friend for fifteen years,
but as we visited together one day about six years ago, he told me of this most amazing event in his life which haunts him to this day.

L.C. and a business associate, Charlie, (fictitious name) had just finished lunch in the small Southwest Louisiana town of Abbeville.
Still discussing their work, they began their drive north along Highway 167 towards the Oil Center city of Lafayette about 15 miles away.
The date was October 20, 1969, and the time was about 1:30 in the afternoon. It was one of those picture-perfect days in Fall--clear
blue skies and a nippy 60 degrees, just right conditions for cruising along with the car windows rolled down.

The highway had been practically traffic-free until they spotted some distance ahead what appeared to be an old turtle-back-type auto
traveling very slowly. As they closed the distance between their vehicle and this relic from the past, their discussion turned from
their insurance work to the old car ahead of them. While the style of the auto indicated it to be decades old, it appeared to be in
show room condition, which evoked words of admiration from both L.C. and Charlie. Because the car was traveling so slowly, the
two men decided to pass it, but before doing so, slowed to better appreciate the beauty and mint condition of the vehicle. As they did so,
L.C. noticed a very large bright orange license plate with the year "1940" clearly printed on it. This was most unusual and probably
illegal unless provisions had been made for the antique car to be used in ceremonial parades.

As they passed the car slowly to its left, L.C., who was in the passenger's seat, noticed the driver of the car was a young woman
dressed in what appeared to be 1940 vintage clothing. This was 1969 and a young woman wearing a hat complete with a long colored
feather and a fur coat was, to say the least, a bit unusual. A small child stood on the seat next to her, possibly a little girl.
The gender of the child was hard to determine as it too wore a heavy coat and cap. The windows of her car were rolled up, a fact
which puzzled L.C. because, though the temperature was nippy, it was quite pleasant and a light sweater was sufficient to keep
you comfortable. As they pulled up next to the car, their study turned to alarm as their attention was riveted to the animated
expressions of fear and panic on the woman's face. Driving alongside of her at a near crawl (no traffic in either direction allowed
this maneuvering) they could see her frantically looking back and forth as if lost or in need of help. She appeared on the verge of tears.

Being on the passenger's side, L.C. called out to her and asked if she needed help. To this she nodded "yes," all the while looking down
(old cars sat a little higher than the low profiles of today's cars) with a very puzzled look at their vehicle. L.C. motioned to her to pull
over and park on the side of the road. He had to repeat the request several times with hand signs and mouthing the words because her
window was rolled up and it seemed she had difficulty hearing them. They saw her begin to pull over so they continued to pass her so as to
safely pull over also in front of her. As they came to a halt on the shoulder of the road, L.C. and Charlie turned to look at the old car
behind them. However, to their astonishment, there was no sign of the car. Remember, this was on an open highway with no side roads
nearby, no place to hide a car. It and its occupants had simply vanished.

L.C. and Charlie looked back at the empty highway. As they sat in the car, spellbound and bewildered, it was obvious to them that a
search would prove futile. Meanwhile, the driver of a vehicle that had been behind the old car pulled over behind them. He ran to L.C.
and Charlie and frantically demanded an explanation as to what had become of the car ahead of him. His account was as follows. He was
driving North on Highway 167 when he saw, some distance away, a new car passing up a very old car at a slow pace, so slow that they
appeared to be nearly stopped. He saw the new car pull onto the shoulder and the old car started to do the same. Momentarily, it
obstructed the new car and then suddenly disappeared. All that remained ahead of him was the new car on the shoulder of the highway.
Desperate to associate logic to this incredible sight, he immediately assumed an accident had occurred. Indeed, an accident had not occurred,
but something more haunting, perhaps as tragic, and certainly more mysterious had.

After discussing what each had seen from his perspective, the three men walked the area for an hour. The third man, who was from out of
state, insisted on reporting the incident to the police. He felt that it was a "missing person" situation and that they had been witnesses.
L.C. and Charlie refused to do so as they had no idea where the woman and child along with the car had gone. They were missing alright,
but no police on this plane of existence had the power to find them. The third man finally decided that without their cooperation he
could not report this on his own for fear his sanity would be questioned. He did exchange addresses and phone numbers with L.C. and Charlie.
For years he kept in touch with them, calling just to talk about his incident and to confirm again that he had seen what he had.

High strangeness points to ponder over: what if--she was from the past, and went forward in time, and she is now an old lady still
living today, and what if on that same day it had been her instead of L.C. and Charlie behind the "old car," that same now old lady
would have met herself. What if--the Earth itself has a super mentality and it creates as a cosmic joke all these anomalies of life
on its surface just for its amusement or some other esoteric reason. What if--and this is the final and most depressing of the
"what ifs"--she had come from the past, popped into the future and did not return to her past. The newspapers of 1940 would puzzle
over a disappeance of a mother and her child one cold October day, foul play suspected, the search continues--while she and the child
continue traveling in and out of various time zones forever.

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Anyone else know of any strange occurances or stories that are supposed to be true??

I saw a lead balloon once.

Unbe-fucking-lievable.

2the9sFeaturingJaRule said:

But what does Ja Rule think??...

What amazes me is that the writer of this 'account' felt the need to "have repeatedly gone over the incident with [L.C. (his real initials )] these past six years."

Really eerie, but then anything is possible. Somethings cannot be proven via scientifically.

i love these kinda stories and things

i have had many a weird thing happen in my short life

thanx Byron for sharing this

Another...

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"Freddy Jackson: One of the ten best ghost photos ever taken"...




The story behind this photo:

This photo was taken in 1919 and was first published in 1975 by Sir Victor Goddard, a retired R.A.F. officer. The photo is a group portrait of Goddard's squadron, which had served in World War I aboard the HMS Daedalus.

However, an extra ghostly face appears in the photo. If you look at the enlarged section, you'll see an eerie face right behind the man shown...the man is in the top row, fourth from the left. The "ghost face" is said to be the face of Freddy Jackson, an air mechanic who had been accidentally killed by an airplane propeller two days earlier. His funeral had taken place on the day this photograph was snapped. When members of the squadron saw the developed photo, they easily recognized the face as Jackson's. It has been suggested that Jackson, unaware of his death, decided to show up for the group photo.

This is one of the few "ghost photos" which has been checked out by photography experts without finding any evidence of tampering in any way...

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last weekend... my friend and i, Shay ( who i have known 20 yrs ) were looking at photos taken this christmas of her family and her ...

gloria, shay's mom has passed over almost 2 yrs ago now

and as i looked through the photos ...in one i saw gloria, plain as day and turned to ask how come this older pic was mixed in with the new ones ..

shay was busy fixin dinner and said "not possible machadoodle...i just picked those up from the developer right before you came over"... so i got up and showed her the pic ...

she and i sat for the longest time, just looking at it and wondering ...

very much like this pic Byron posted... gloria was in the background but clear to see

Byron slllooowwwlllyyy back away from the coke....

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

Sounds to me like he accidentally had a Pepsi.
[Edited 2/5/05 17:01pm]

MrJoker said:

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

"This photograph was taken by local resident Tony O'Rahilly on 19th November, 1995, as Wem Town Hall burned to the ground. When O'Rahilly took the photo, neither he, nor other onlookers, saw the little girl in the doorway.

O'Rahilly claims there are no special effects on this picture.

It was taken with a 200mm lens from across the road.

At the time O'Rahilly and other onlookers were stopped by police and firefighters from approaching the burning town hall.

It was only after the image was developed that O'Rahilly saw the little girl.

He immediately sent it to the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena.

They, in turn, sent the photo and the negative to Dr. Vernon Harrison, former president of the Royal Photographic Society.

Dr. Harrison analysed both the photo and negative and reported that he was satisfied that the picture is genuine.

"The negative is a straight forward piece of black-&-white work and shows no sign of having been tampered with," said Harrison. Who is the Ghost of Wem Town Hall?

Fire ravaged the town hall once before, in 1677. The historical record shows that the 1677 fire was caused by a young girl called Jane Churm, who started the fire accidentally when she dropped a candle.

Since that date, it has always been maintained that the Town Hall is haunted by the ghost of Jane Churm.

Despite the international publicity and visits from teams of 'ghostbusters' the image of a woman's face on the pictures has never been properly explained.

Sceptics, including Dr. Harrison, have claimed the image of the girl is just a convenient trick of the light with smoke, flame and shadow creating an optical illusion at the moment the photographer took his picture.

But it still seems almost beyond belief that smoke, flame, light and shadow could randomly form the shape of a young girl in the doorway of a building that has has been reputed for centuries to be haunted by a the ghost of just such a young girl.

Question is - which is the most unbelieveable? An extraordinarily coincidental trick of timing and light - or the vague possibility that spirits roam the earth - and one just happened to be caught on film?"

Mach said:

A mysterious figure dressed in a 16th-century cloak is caught on CCTV closing a fire door at Hampton Court Palace. The palace, built in 1525, is famous for its history of hauntings and visitors have reported seeing ghostly images. - AP

Closed-circuit security cameras filmed the eerie figure, dressed in a 16th-century cloak and a hood, shutting a fire door at the palace on the banks of the River Thames in London.

A still photograph of the ghostly figure was published in national newspapers in Britain and shown widely on television yesterday.

The palace, home of King Henry VIII's fifth wife Catherine Howard, who was accused of infidelity and beheaded in 1542, is open to the public and 300 visitors over the years have reported seeing ghostly images.

But the CCTV image marked the first time an 'apparition' has ever been photographed at the castle.

Security staff had been mystified by the fire door suddenly flying open on two consecutive days.

But a close examination of film from a high, fixed CCTV camera revealed no one in the vicinity.

On the third day, patrolling guards noticed the doors were open again. By the time they searched the CCTV film, the doors had been closed.

A frame-by-frame examination revealed the mysterious cloaked figure appearing suddenly out of the darkness, grabbing the two handles of the door and closing it...







All staff at the palace were interviewed but none had closed the door.

One tourist wrote in the visitors' comment book that he had seen a ghostly figure in the castle at the time.

One of the Hampton Court guards, Mr James Faulkes, said: 'The figure we caught on film sent a shiver down my spine. Its face didn't look human.'

A spokesman for the palace said: 'We are convinced that this is not a prank by any member of our staff. We are totally baffled by what has happened.'

Mach said:

Hey...can you scan in and post the photo??...

Byron said:

i can ask shay ... and see how she feels bout it

MAN: ...What on earth is that!?
MAN (Voice Over): I was upstairs when I saw it.
MAN: Karen! Karen!
MAN (VO): I shouted to my wife...
MAN: Karen, look outside! There's a thing in the sky!
MAN (VO): ...and we ran outside, and...
MAN: Come on!
MAN (VO): ...and there it was. This... long green thing in the sky. Everyone was coming out of there houses. There must have been... 200 people, pointing at this... big green thing in the sky.
MAN: Look up there!
MAN (VO): Then someone said... "That's not the sky, it's the ground." And it was. It was the ground. We were all just looking at a little green bottle. On the ground.



Like,

maybe there was a timestorm in that spot. or, maybe like geographical lay-lines there are geographically oriented time-lines too, and at the intersections maybe things get....screwy, allowing an older layer of time to leak into the 'present'?

that's a cool story.

Here's a ghostly photo too. Notice the vague impressions of a rap figure hovering over the left shoulder of the little boy on the tractor. Ghostly I tell you.

According to experts, this photo has not been doctored in anyway:

2the9s said:

The thing's creepy enough without the ghostly rapper...

i spent a while last night looking through all kinda "ghost" pics on the web ...

there are so many ... and so many stories

its always been interesting to me ...

i dont have a point here

i just wonder how many people have ( here @ org ) had real experiences with things like this ...

Mach said:

More than would admit it without the jokes

Mach said:

In my opinion they are all either bullshit or explainable. People have very active imaginations and alot of people seek attention.

When I was in photo class, I also worked as the lab assistant, so I could have the keys to the lab to go in afterhours and print my assignments when noone else was there. I would kick everyone out at 8pm (when lab time was over), lock the door, and continue printing till about 11 or 12 in the darkroom.

It was a color darkroom, so there were no lights or safelights on at all, just some glowstrips on the walls to help you find your way. After an hour or so, your eyes get used to it and you can still make out the shapes of the cabinets and stuff to find your way around.

I never really got creeped out about it because I locked myself in, and it was so quiet back there, if someone were to unlock the door and come in, I would hear them easily. The only people in the building that late in the evening were a couple older female janitors that cleaned the halls, but I don't think they had access to that room.

There was one night that I kept feeling like someone else was back there with me, which was really unusual because of all the years I worked back there, I never experienced that. It was like that warmth when someone is right up next to you, and I would feel a breeze of someone passing by, but I wasnt hearing anything. I asked who was there and stuck my arms out to feel around, but nothing was there. So I packed my paper up, and flicked the lights on, and went around the whole lab to see if anyone was there, made sure again that the door was locked, and went back to work.

Then a little bit later, I was standing by the color processing machine waiting for my print to go through, and I swear to god I saw someone walk by. Something dark passed by the glowstrips on the wall, but I wasnt hearing any footsteps.

The only thing I could think of was maybe one of those janitors was being a freak and somehow came into the lab, but I would have heard the door unlock at least.

Afterwards, I never had anything like that happen again, so I'm not sure what the hell was going on.

Tom said:

woah ...


thanx for sharing your story

Byron, thank you for sharing your interest in strange occurences. I can write a book on all the stuff that has happened to my parents and family. I've had two strange occurences.

My cousin passed away last year. He was a year younger. We were really close. It used to always be him,his sister Maria and myself. Always laughing and carrying on. We used to really be into Warner Bros. cartoons and the claymations from Rankin Bass every Christmas. My cousin used to always imitate Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, or one of those. He would say "Nobody wants a skinny Santa". Well, last year my cousin passed away. After he was buried we went to visit his plot. On the way back I was walking ahead of my family when something told me to turn around and look at a head stone. I turned around and there on the grass near the headstone was a doll of the character from SCICTT, the one that said "nobody wants a skinny Santa". I gave my cousin Maria a weird look, she came up to me and we both lost it. We laughed and then we cried and then we laughed again. Everybody was like WTF. What a gift that was from him. Nobody could believe it. Even my cousin Maria's boyfriend, who is am Atheist and a scientist, couldn't explain it. I believe that I was meant to see it because the gravestone belonged to a gentleman that was born on Dec. 6th, I forgot the year. My birthday is Dec.7th.

The other thing that happened to me was at home. My home is supposedly haunted by a litte girl. I've never seen her but an ex-roommate and an ex-boyfriend had. I live alone now. One day I was taking my laundry out to the back. I passed the dining room and put my clothes in the washer outside. On my way back, exactly the way I went back I literally ran into a chair. It was right in my way. I KNOW for a fact that chair was not there in the first place. It kind of upset me for a little but I got over it.

Miguel


p.s. Awesome pix.

I never actually saw anything, but one time several years back, I was in bed about to fall asleep. I had my feet sticking out from under teh blanket and felt something tap my foot, as if they were trying to awaken me. i was still awake, but I so sooooo freaked out, I just tucked my feet under the covers, acted like I was asleep and prayed nothing else would happen.

Another time, last summer I was just waking up in the morning, but still had my eyes closed. I had my arms and hand on top of the covers and felt a hand clasp mine. It didn't freak me out, though. it was strangely comforting.

1sexymf said:

I have the feeling you knew this person. It's not just a random ghost. Someone you probably played with. I sense the letter F and M. Sometimes my psychic senses are correct. If that were to happen to I would probably freak out. My mom died in the bedroom where I sleep and I've never had any problems. Even though it's my mom, I think I would trip out if she were to come say hi. I do feel her in the kitchen a lot. That was her place ( I don't mean that in the sexist way, haha). She loved cooking and stuff.