I've been watching a GHOST HUNTERS marathon and even though I've seen the entire season it still freaks me out.

I know a lot of people don't believe in that and that's cool, but others of us have experience some freaky stuff.

Once I was taking my laundry to the back of the house. It's pretty much a bee-line on the way back there was a chair in my way, in the kitchen. I know it wasn't there before because I had walked past probably a minute earlier. I live alone so nobody could've done it.

My house was built in 1910 or something like that. I know that the previous owners didn't have any children. My ex-roommate saw a little girl back there once. Maybe it's her....

Wanna share any stories?

M
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Hmmm, I'm fairly undecided on the manifestations of 'ghosts'.

A ghost being a real spirit? I'm increasingly doubtful about that for the most part... However, I do believe that certain 'peak emotional moments' or tragedies can leave an impression on a place, like a recording of a past event, and some people are sensitive enough to pick up on that stuff. I'm sure a lot of people have walked into a house or old building and felt instinctively it was either a happy or creepy place.

Anyway, I've got an interesting story. I tend to ramble on about the most minor things so be warned. :lol I live in a 19 room Victorian built in 1889 and have plenty of experiences I could write about BUT here's one in particular. I first moved here in 1996. Shortly after that, I was unpacking boxes and cleaning out the butler's pantry when I started seeing, out of the corner of my eye, a small black shape that kept running around the corner of the doorway... every 10 or 20 minutes for the period of an hour I would see it dart past a box and out the door or back in again. I have a black cat so I thought nothing of it until it suddenly dawned on me that I had locked the cats upstairs so they wouldn't get hurt among all the scattered furniture and packages. For a number of years, just once every few months I would still see it out of the corner of my eye and it was always in the area of the kitchen/pantry/dining room. So, back in 2002 we're having the side porch that hangs off the dining room renovated. The workers pull up the flooring of the porch and find the skeleton of a little black cat that must have gotten stuck back in against the house and died. Could be pure coincidence but since it's been removed, I haven't seen that little black shadow.

Hey Miguel,
Mu ghost came back - remember a while back I posted that my house was probably haunted?

Well anyway, this littel bastard is back. Last week when I was sleeping, it shoved me in the back and the other night it puched me in the side of my back.
Now not only do I have to deal with this shit again, but also along with the bullshit that is currenlty going on with my parents.

I told it to leave twice. It'll stop for a while and then start up again. teh last time, I told it ti could stay as long as it didn't mess with me.

Yesterday morning, I put a CD in my wall unit stereo and the shit stopped and the CD doors opened on their own.

ive seen too many ghosts, wasnt scared at all

IAintTheOne said:

Well I wish I could say it didn't scare me, but I'd be lyin!

1sexymf said:

Holy Wow!!!! You need to call somebody to bless the house. That's really is nuts. I don't think I could live there. You are very brave. You should take some pix and see if you get anything.

M

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Unh, unh, I too afraid to take pix. I guess I'll have to join a church to get it blessed.

I caught part of that marathon last evening and thought of you. I still think your idea to have a get-together at the Stanley Hotel is marvelous.

As for a personal story to share of a ghostly experience, sadly I have none. Though I do know a couple who live nearby to me in an old Victorian mansion and claim to frequently hear the sounds of a dinner party in their (unoccupied) dining room, as well as voices and unexplained noises in other rooms of the house. The couple says this phenomena does not frighten or bother them, but rather they've become rather accumstomed to their alleged spectral roommates.

I plan to visit them sometime and check it out for myself.
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WillyWonka said:

Trust me, you don't really want it.

1sexymf said:

Actually, yes I do.

I belong to a paranormal study group and this phenomena interests me greatly.

WillyWonka said:

How would you feel if one like to try to kick your ass every now and then?

1sexymf said:

Does that mean no comment?

1sexymf said:

Alright, joking aside, to give a proper answer I would first need you to define and expound upon precisely what "trying to kick my ass" entails.

WillyWonka said:

Read my original response post. It ain't pleasant to have an unseen force, shove you in the back, punch you in the back, smack you in the back of your head, poke you in your butt cheek, tap your foot, tap your back and ever so gently shake the side of your bed precisely where your head is,

Seattle - Andrew's Rainbow House - A young man named Andrew who was gay finally decided to tell his father he was gay. His father freaked out and killed his son and himself. The next morning the house was painted rainbow colors on the front and the back of the house is an array of colors and swirls. There is also colored tile on the roof and a gray letter "A" in the tile roof. The house has been painted before but the next day the house is always backing to the rainbow colors. The house was shown on "Unsolved Mysteries" for the unexplained activity.

Seattle - Capitol Hill - The "South Annex" - The South Annex now houses a Dental Office and the English Institute of Seattle Central Community College. In the past, it was the Burnley School of Art. There is a story that a young male student at Burnley committed suicide and since then his spirit has haunted the building; mostly moving objects -- pushing them off shelves, etc. Some folks have claimed to see his ghost.

Seattle - Capitol Hill Methodist Church - a presence haunts the church and it's origin is not known.

Seattle - Civil War Cemetery - There is a small Civil War cemetery next to the Lakeview Cemetery where has been seen ghosts walking around in Civil War uniforms.

Seattle - D.A.R. Building - Witnesses have claimed to hear strange voices and eerie music inside this old church. There have even been reports of a young female apparition walking down the front stairs. She is dressed in a gown from the 1800’s.

Seattle - Elliatt Ave. - An apartment building that's located right off Elliott Avenue. Have seen someone walking through the hallways of the apartment building, but it disappears without any of the doors being opened.

Seattle - Georgetown - Central Baptist Church - Mysterious sounds, slamming doors, and strange old man sightings haunt this Korean Baptist church. This was a former Masonic church which was once used to sacrifice animals and supposedly humans. Visit this building alone and you'll experience first hand of the level of demonic hauntings in this building.

Seattle - The Good Shepard Center - The place used to be a girls reform school in the twenties and was closed in the late fifties. There is an eerie presence there

Seattle - GreenLake - Ghosts and apparitions have been seen by numerous amounts of people. Some say that it may be the ghost of some one who died in the lake.

Seattle - Hamilton Middle School - Hamilton Middle School is a very haunted school and there are many sightings whenever you are alone in the bathroom, there are strange footsteps heard and the door opens and closes on its own. The bathroom is on the 2nd floor. It is heard that a girl got pregnant and died at this school.

Seattle - The Harvard Exit - This is now a movie theater but used to be a meeting hall for a women's organization. People have reported seeing the ghost of a hanging woman in the hallway, as well has hearing footsteps and laughter.

Seattle - Hotel Andra - Formerly listed as Claremont Hotel - Employees have reported sounds as of a violent, riotous party from the 1920's and the Prohibition era complete with period jazz music and the sounds of breaking glass. A worker fell to her death from the hotel's upper floors in the 1960's, possibly adding to the ghostly air of the place. Visitors have experienced a levitating paperweight, which crashed back to the glass-covered top of the desk. The staff has become painfully aware of the manifestations, and most have started to notice them. Complaints about the noise are common among hotel guests, but, as one former employee put it, "How do you turn off a ghost?". When staff members investigate the disturbances, which seem to come largely from the 9th floor, the noise abruptly stops, only to start up again later.

Seattle - Lewis Studio - many people have seen the shadowy ghost that haunts this building.

Seattle - Martha Washington Institute - sometime in the 40s-50s a janitor at this women’s institution weft crazy and murdered several patience and some staff before being subdued by police. Its said that he, carried the bodies to a near by dock and threw several into the water. Me and some friends got drunk and decided to test our nerves by walking the grounds "only a foundation, dock and small forest "we split up and one friend Jessie fell down several times claiming to have been grabbed by some force around the ankles "small scratches around the sock area confirmed this". I heard what I believe to be footsteps and a woman or child crying. Natives to Rainer Ave don’t go near it and cursed us when we pulled over to ask directions.

Seattle - Nathan Hale High School - Apparently, a long time ago someone was raped in one of the halls in this school. Some people have hear odd noises and there is a place in one of the halls where people have walked right thru it and a rush of fear came over their whole body.

Seattle - old slave mansion - there is a gate that goes around this mansion and it is said that if you step one foot into the gate you have to fully enter and walk past a forest that is on a huge hill and at the top of the hill is a wishing rock that makes wishes true and if you don't you will have bad luck forever. But the mansion presuming haunted by the past slaves and many have said that they have seen ghosts there and one friend has said that there cousin has been in that building and a ghost of an old woman has pushed her out the window of the second floor fortunately the girl did survive with minor injuries.

Seattle - Old Well's Fargo Bank - There has been reports of a dark shadowy figure with no eyes. Lights being shut off and on. Sounds of running water when no one is in the building.

Seattle - Pike Place Public Market - The ghost of a Native American woman has been seen at night when all the tourists and shoppers have gone home. The site was sacred somehow to Indians until the market was built. The woman still hangs out. Also at pike place market at the bead emporium, the ghost of a child haunts. When renovations were done to this business a few years ago, it was discovered that in the wall was a basket of beads from when the store opened until the present though there was no way to access this space as the door had been painted shut many years before the store opened.

Seattle - The Rivoli - a turn of century building where the spirit of a young Eskimo girl who came to Seattle to start a new life has been felt and seen. Her mentally ill Cuban boyfriend stabbed her to death and her body was hidden behind a Murphy bed. The door to her apt. was padlocked and she wasn't discovered for several weeks until her neighbor noticed a strange smell.

Seattle - Rainer - At around midnight a kid will come up to u and choke you. You can feel it but not see him. you’ll here him say give me money and food.

Seattle - Rite Aid - West Seattle - Rite Aid used to be a mining place in west Seattle and it is rumored it has a spirit that will turn off lights, set off alarms, and even call employees and hang up.

Seattle - Screaming Well - They say if you look into the well you can hear screaming of people who fell into the well years before. They say sometimes the voices follow you home.

Seattle - St. Edwards State Park/ Bastyr University - Reports of children playing on the playground and running around, chandeliers were swaying back and forth, cold spots, as well as things moving in the basement around the chalkboards and chairs

Seattle - University of Washington - Columns Amphitheater - After dark, there is an entity at the Columns Amphitheater who does not like visitors. A couple sitting on a bench is a favorite target. The entity shakes the closest bush or shrub violently, and growls very low if you do not pay attention. Some people are unable to enter the amphitheater at night because of the forbidding, brooding feelings within. The Columns Amphitheater was named for the four columns from the original University of Washington building located closer to downtown.. Have no idea if the entity came from the original building or is some angry student, but he seems to be male and a young adult. Someone might consider taking a camera in there!

Seattle - University YMCA - Many times from 1990-1993, while cleaning basement work-out room, heard footsteps and voices coming from upstairs, although all members had left the building. Also felt presence in furnace room. Building was built in 1951.

Seattle - West Seattle - Suicide Bridge - There's a bridge located in Seattle. Supposedly, a person had committed suicide by jumping off a bridge with his dog. You can see the chalk marks still when you go there and around 2-4 am people have seen the man with is dog by the beach near there staring at people.

Seattle - The Sorrento Hotel - Many unexplained occurrences go on here all the time. >From footsteps, glasses moving in full view of the guests in the Hunt Club Bar. Guests report sightings of a woman on the 4th floor near her room 408.

1sexymf said:

Yes, surely that would be quite upsetting and unsettling. If such occurances were taking place in my home, I would immediately be contracting outside help to rid my home of the unwelcome presence/s.

Have you contacted any organizations or individuals regarding your situation?

WillyWonka said:

I have a room upstairs that was converted into a kitchen in the 1920's when they made an apartment out of a portion of the second level. I was taking a bath in the room next door one afternoon when I heard something drop, like someone dropped some pots and pans. A few minutes later the entire back part of the house semlled like Green Beans & Ham. I could even smell pepper. I don't have any idea how to explain that one, and it's kind of off the wall, but there you go.

I'm very lucky. There are a bunch of haunted places to visit here in the San Francisco bay area. I live around 5 miles away from THE WINCHESTER MYSTERY HOUSE. I finally went on the tour and was dissapointed when I asked the tour guide if she has ever seen or felt anything. She said that she hadn't. She should've just lied to me.

I also live around 10 miles from the famous Haunted Toys-R-Us in Sunnyvale. I've never been there.

I also want to have dinner at the Brookdale Lodge. That's on highway 9 in the Santa Cruz mountains. Gangsters used to hang out there in the 30's and 40's. They say that they can hear parties and music. A little girl also haunts the place.


M

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

That's really cool. I think I've heard of two of those places. Great!.

july said:

I was in Seattle last year. I wish I would've done my ghost homework before I went.


M

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Yeah, there is a lot of spirits and occurrences.

Seattle Weekly Magazine: Haunting article except. Pike Place Market.



Sheila Lyons of Pike Place Market and other shop owners say they've experienced ghosts, or at least their pranksterish stunts, firsthand. We stand on the gloomy ramp where several claim they've seen Chief Seattle's daughter, Princess Angeline (the name given her by the Denny family), come swooshing through. We feel the cold spot that hovers around one of the support pillars.

Sheila, who owns a magic shop in the Market, knows everybody along the way and the access she enjoys pays off at Avenue One restaurant, housed in the building that was once the Butterworth Funeral Home. There, bartender Claire tells of hearing burbling voices late one night, as if a radio dial were being twisted across frequencies. Waiter Paul has the best tale, though: the night a burly customer broke into tears and frantically rushed out of the restaurant when he saw a woman clutching a shawl staring at him from the hallway. She glided away and blinked out. Paul imitates the spirit. "It was zoop! like this," he says, feinting sideways. "She wasn't using her legs!" the customer bawled, according to Paul. Funky ghost.





The market does have a strong feeling there. It's been like that forever.

Pike Place market is a good place to start with for a ghost visit.
If you ever make your way around Seattle again.



Brief Location History: Location is publicly accessible. Retail store.

Fred Meyer
Auburn, WA

Paranormal Background: Shoe Department and Stock Room - Employees have reported boxes thrown around in the Apparel stock room when no one else was there. This stock room is connected to the Shoe Department where employees and customers frequently report shoes being thrown at them.

Here is a photo of the rainbow house.



Andrew's Rainbow House
Private Residence

Brief Location History: private residence

Paranormal Background: The story goes that Andrew told his father he was gay and that his father couldn't handle it and killed Andrew and himself. The next morning the house was found painted in rainbow colors in the front, and the back in swirls and colors. There are also colored tiles on the roof and the letter "A" in gray tiles on the roof. Apparently the house has been repainted, but the following day it is always back to rainbow colors. The house was supposedly featured on "Unsolved Mysteries" but, no reference to the airing of that episode has been found. There also has been a report of Andrew's ghost being seen in digital pictures.

In contrast to Andrews house. The Georgetown castle.


Georgetown Castle Private Residence
Georgetown, Seattle, WA

Brief Location History: Private residence.

Paranormal Background: Various spirits. A very bad feeling and entity's. The castle has caused one tenant to commit suicide and that the landlord requires people to sign a liability waiver when they put down their deposit.

THANKS JULY!!!!!

Now I can't wait to go back. I even missed the underground city when I was there.


M

It's funny you mention the "Ghost Hunters" show. Just the other night I watched it and they were investigating a prison where almost 1,000 people had died -- and only about 100 were actual legal executions. Why do they put those shows on so late at night?!?! I think I watched it at about 11:00 and then couldn't go to sleep because I was so freaked-out over it!

purpleunderground said:

It was a marathon. That season is over. I can't wait until next season. They're going to continue in the U.K. Woo hoo!!!!!

The regular season shows are on earlier. I know what you mean about freaking out a little after watching the show.

M

hey beautiful

Mach said:

If you're talking to me.....hi sweety!!!!!


M

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

sure was

sure wish we could go out looking for ghosts tonight... the weather here is stunning

Mach said:

It's beautiful here too!! I would love for you and I to go to one of those old cemetarys and take pictures. A couple of weeks ago I went to the cemetary where my mom and a bunch of family members are. I took pix but nothing paranormal appeared.


M