Re: What about ghosts?
[Re: KeithC]
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02/09/20 12:50 AM
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When I started working underground back in the 70s, a lot of miners had ghost stories. Two of the mines I worked were opened in the early 1900s with many hundreds of miners employed, and over time, experienced fatalities. In an area where accidents had occurred, someone would say they’ve seen a ghost. Some of the new hires would be so spooked that they wouldn’t go back into the old workings when nature called.
A mine I worked in the 80s had a foreman killed in a roof fall while pulling pillars shortly before I started working there. A couple of the foreman claimed they would see a flame moving slowly in front of them along the track while making exams on idle weekend shifts. They said it was the flame safety light of the dead foreman, and that the track switch would throw itself when they approached the crossing. They claimed the dead foreman was helping them out by tossing the switch. One foreman claimed he spoke with the ghost once.
I pulled a lot of trips from that section, the switch never got thrown for me, had to get off my motor and throw it myself. Must not have liked union motormen, only foreman.
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Re: What about ghosts?
[Re: KeithC]
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02/09/20 01:07 AM
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Mike in A-town
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I've never witnessed any of this with my own two eyes, but supposedly my house might have a "ghost" or two. Lol
My ex wife and her boy said my house was haunted... She gobbled up that Ghost Hunter crap and tended to be on the overly dramatic side so I didn't put any stock in it. We parted ways and I thought no more about it.
Fast forward several years and I remarried. And my youngest daughter had come to live with me, my wife, and 2 stepsons. I had gone to bed one night and I remember laying there with a weird feeling... I woke up and all 3 kids were standing at the foot of the bed. They were whispering back and forth about who should wake me up. LOL.
Apparently my daughter was in her room and saw someone staring at her through her bedroom window. So she told the boys and they all came to wake me up. I grabbed a pistol and flashlight and headed outside. The window she claimed to see the peeper looking through looked out into the carport. There was a large puddle of water on the concrete floor of the carport... Anyone who had walked up to that particular window would have had to step in it. No wet footprints on the concrete... No tracks in the dew in the grass leading up to the concrete. I shrugged it off and chalked it up to my daughter catching her own reflection in the window and mistaking it for a prowler. Or just being a typical excitable teenage girl.
Fast forward another year or two. I get home from work and my wife tells me about her day... A trip to the eye doctor for the oldest boy. She then asks if I remember my daughter seeing someone peering through her window. I said yes and asked why. She said when she was at the eye doctor the receptionist had asked for information for records, billing, etc... My wife gave her our address and the receptionist said, "Why do I know that address?"
Turns out the receptionist had lived in my house years before I bought it. She then looked my wife in the eye and asked if we had seen the face in the window. She described the very bedroom and exact window that my daughter had seen the person looking through.
Kinda creeped me out a bit. But until I smell sulfur or see the walls bleed I'm staying... I just paid the place off and had central heat/air installed. Lol
Mike
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Vladimir Lenin
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Re: What about ghosts?
[Re: KeithC]
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02/09/20 07:46 AM
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There is a lot of things that happen that there is no absolute explanation, from man any way. When a separation of someone who is really close comes by death, I think our brains by nature have a way of dealing with it without us evening knowing the mechanics of it. When the Jews would have a death of family or friend , they would say a mourners qaddish. They would pray each day for a departed relative friend for 30 days and for a parent they would pray for 11 months less one day. My thought on that is though they were praying for the deceased actually it was for the living and not the dead. It helped them deal with tragedy slowly, sort of like rising slowly in water without get the bends. While we don't say the qaddish ours minds may still have a natural way of dealing with it by seeing, hearing, or feeling. I know after after the death of my mom any time I would smell cookies baking it would bring back the sense that she was near. It was saddening yet comforting, as time went by it lessened.
I think when more than one person is involved in a incident it gets more complicated but maybe we can more assured that definitely something is happening and we are not crazy, lol.
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Re: What about ghosts?
[Re: James]
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02/09/20 10:15 AM
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I put ghosts, angels, and demons in the same category: they're supernatural beings whose existence has not been proved in hundreds of years of investigation. Might as well believe in the Easter Bunny. Jim I used to think the same. But unless "something" happens to you directly, it's hard to believe when there is so much BS out there.
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Re: What about ghosts?
[Re: Michael Lippold]
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02/11/20 11:52 AM
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I work at a feed mill, and My foreman was at work one morning getting lights and air compressors turned on. He then went to the shop to get the boiler fired up for the day. When he opened the door to the shop there was a man standing in there. He was dressed in pin striped bibs and had one of them denim hats like the train conductors wear in the old movies. Said the man looked up at him then stepped into the boiler room. When he stepped in the boiler room no one was in there. He told our manager when he arrived and he thought he was crazy!
When I was a kid we lived in an old farm house that was built around 1900 and my mom had a couple experiences. She was home alone once or twice I can’t remember for sure and would hear her name being called. Also woke up one morning and her perfumes and other bathroom items were arranged from tallest to smallest and that’s not how mom kept them placed.
I personally haven’t experienced anything definitive happen to me personally but I still believe in ghosts or spirits of some kind. Was he noted for drinking some the night before??
Give me a fish, I will eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I will eat for a lifetime
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Re: What about ghosts?
[Re: B. Shope]
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02/11/20 01:52 PM
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hey Nittany what about all those ghost sightings around Gettysburg Battle field? LOL. My step daughter once upon a time was a civil war re-enactor and claimed the battlefield at Gettysburg was haunted. She told of numerous encounters she experienced. I told her I want to experience an encounter so one weekend she gave me a guided tour. She told of several areas of the battlefield where an occurrence was most likely to happen and told me the time of day was the best chance to see it. I do not recall the one section's name but there was a field and maybe a hundred yards beyond the field was a wooded area. She told me if I walked into the woods I most likely would have an experience, lol. She was afraid and would not go along with me. The best time was at dusk. There were other people standing at the field and in the field a little ways looking towards the woods but no one was going towards the woods. I walked through the field and into the woods and walked around in the woods for perhaps 20-30 minutes and I did not experience anything what so ever. We then went to what I think she called Devils Den. I remember she followed a trail going up a hill and then coming back down. I was behind her and all of a sudden she took off running and ran all the way to the bottom. When I got to the bottom I asked why she ran and she said didn't you see it? She claimed there was an experience as she called it and the experience was a bright light kind of like a dot that disappeared as suddenly as it appeared. I laughed and said do you mean that fire fly that a bird swooped in on and ate?
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Re: What about ghosts?
[Re: PAskinner]
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02/11/20 02:11 PM
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I don't believe in Ghosts, but I won't discount the possibility of God allowing your loved ones to speak to you after they are gone. However, I would be very careful here, because demons can pretend to be what they are not.
When my oldest son was 4, he one day started talking about my grandfather. My grandfather had passed before I had children. He would talk about things they talked about. This went on for about 6 months. He has no recollection of those conversations today.
-Goofy-
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