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tanguerra

tanguerra

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It's nearly halloween, or 'All Hallows Eve' which falls on the 31st October every year and has done for a very long time. On the 'old' calendar this day would mark the death of the old year and the birth of the new.

Many people don't know that traditionally Halloween is the time when the souls of our departed loved ones appear to us. Somehow over the years this turned into the idea that on this one night of the year, ghosts would rise and walk among us, rapping at our windows, and peeking through our locks. The children today in many countries like to dress up as ghosts and goblins and go from house to house begging for sweets or playing tricks. Of course, no good Halloween party is complete without some spoooooky ghost stories to round out the night.

Do people have anything spooky to share? It could be a personal encounter with a ghost, a phone call from the 'other side'. It could be that spooky thing your cat does. I will get the ball rolling with a spooooky thing going on right now, in the USA. The mystery of the clown sightings... What's going on? Is it a craze? Is it a hoax? Is it a prank? Are there really clowns wandering alone in the woods?

Clown sightings: the day it all began
The first person to spot a clown, the patient zero in the current epidemic of threatening clowns sightings spreading across the US, was a little boy at a low-income apartment complex in Greenville, South Carolina. He ran to his mother, Donna Arnold, and told her what he had seen: two clowns in the woods, both brightly dressed and made up. One with a red fright wig and the other with a black star painted on his face. They whispered something to the boy.

“They were trying to lure him to the house,” his mother told me, pointing toward the woods.

A path into the woods led down into a shaded hollow, at the bottom of which was a small pond. Beside it sat a house that seemed abandoned. Someone had boarded up the windows, and the balcony sagged. New bags of potting soil sat near the basement door, though. And a modern security system looked recently installed. After sunset a car approached the house; a gleaming white, new-model Mercedes that looked as out of place as any clown car....
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Of course, as always, with 'everything I do' ... there's always an X connection.

Boo!

...If there was a movie with the theme of one person dying and the other one continuing on it would unfailingly reduce me to uncontrollable fits of tears. I remember seeing the film 'Gallipoli' which is not even a love story, but the story of two friends who go to war together, at the movies and sobbing so uncontrollably that it embarrassed myself and my friends! All I knew was that I knew what that was like and the feeling was overwhelming. Something similar happened when I saw 'Ghost ...
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I can't help but think of my new favorite show:


I just watched the 3rd episode and it keeps getting better. Really, creepy, spooky and solidly in the horror genre.
 
So for the past 6 years, my partner, my son, and I have been living in the Buenos Aires suburbs here near the coast...in a house we think is haunted. Before, my wife's grandparents lived here. They bought the house in 1983 and were told at that time that it had ghosts. Before her grandparents moved in, someone had taken red paint and drew a large demon face on the wall next to the den. Of course, they had it painted over.
The house is maybe 80 years old, but is nice and has been redone many times. Supposedly there is a basement that has been covered (that part alone spooks me---what the devil could be under us?). Our long living room used to be an open patio place in the center of the house, but is now covered with a retractable roof.
'Grandma' had called the ghost here Max, a friendly sort who showed up as an elegant man wearing a suit. Once, even 'grandpa' saw Max standing near my brothers-in-law when they were elementary school age, smiling and trying to hug them after dinner one Christmas. And, as always, dressed in a suit.
I had heard all these stories, but I never really believed in ghosts. I mean, I think there is something, but scary stories, scary movies, and paranormal activities just don't really interest me. I made a deal with my wife to not mention any of this stuff to my son, who was 11 at the time we moved here. I didn't want him to be frightened.

Of course, first thing: my son not only sees a man he describes as having dark, slicked back hair and wearing a suit standing outside his bedroom door one night, but a long thermometer that was here when we moved in and hangs right outside the same door was slamming and moving about for no apparent reason one afternoon when he was home alone.
My son=immediately terrified. Thanks, Max.
We have had other things happen too, and we have detected areas in the house that are more active than others: the kitchen, where we sometimes see someone who isn't there and where I have have been pressed into/lightly pushed quite often. The den/dining room (the same place where Max was seen with my wife's 3 brothers): we see someone standing there then disappear, sometimes we have unexplained patches of water show up on the floor. Quite often, I will think my son or she will come into the kitchen behind me, or join me in another room, but when I turn, there is no one there.
We also have heard voices in the house, or it sounds like one of us is calling to the other, but no one else is home. This happens often, as recently as yesterday. One night a few years back, my wife and I were getting ready to go to sleep and she suddenly said, "Did you hear that??" I hadn't heard a thing. She described it as someone talking, but it sounded like Parseltongue from Harry Potter.
Quite often, things go missing and then turn up again: perfume bottles are a favorite. We thought about making a list of these things, but never did. One that stands out was a key that always sat on a hutch that we sometimes needed. When it went missing, we just said, 'Ok Max, give that key back! We need it!' Surely enough, the next day it appeared. I know there are more happenings, but I can't remember them all right now.
Some of these things could be a trick of the eye or, I guess, explained by something else. My son isn't the trickster type and would never have the patience nor interest in hiding stuff or making stuff up. To be honest, I have never been scared here. They're fairly consistent things we have experienced, so I just shrug my shoulders and accept the fact that we have a funny, friendly Argentine named Max sharing our place with us.
 
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We have other things happen too, and we have detected areas in the house that are more active than others: the kitchen, where we sometimes see someone who isn't there and where I have have been pressed into/lightly pushed quite often. The den/dining room (the same place where Max was seen with my wife's 3 brothers): we see someone standing there then disappear, sometimes we have unexplained patches of water show up on the floor. Quite often, I will think my son or she will come into the kitchen behind me, or join me in another room, but when I turn, there is no one there.
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I love this part. I would do a few things in that house. Someone with a pendulum would likely notice alterations in those rooms, as they say electromagnetic fields are altered right in the spots where ghosts pass through or the phenomena are more intense. A sensitive person could even try to ask Max why he is there. And wow, the patches of water... someone here knows of the faces of Belmez? I'm afraid you might have missed some great paranormal phenomena there... :(

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To be honest, I have never been scared here. They're fairly consistent things we have experienced, so I just shrug my shoulders and accept the fact that we have a funny, friendly Argentine named Max sharing our place with us.
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And why should you feel scared? I think most of the times ghosts are friendly or just silent companions who don't intend to do any harm. Our own fear of the unknown often make things worse. When you have a bit of knowledge of the astral and have one or two lucid experiences in your own house, you start to see it as something natural.

Which reminds me... (going back to topic):

My house is also very, very old, more than a century. My partner knows a bit of the people who lived here before his parents bought it, but not as much as to go back all those years. The thing is that I once had a "dream" (astral projection) where I woke up, walked down the long hallway and got to the bathroom. The bathroom wasn't like the current one. There was a bathtub at my left side (where the W.C. is now) and I saw a man having a shower there. I didn't recognize him and he seemed not to notice me. When I told my partner the dream I had had, he said that was exactly where the bathtub was before the reform, something I didn't know and I had no way to know... To this day we have never felt anything strange (except right after his mum's death and some other "strange dream" I've had), and I wonder if what I saw was a real ghost (I don't think so) or just some scene from the past I happened to tune in.

EDIT: Btw, I'm not saying I wouldn't feel scared if I had a ghost in my house... I would likely lose my sanity, at least for a while.
 
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I have had numerous encounters with ghosts. They mostly don't frighten me. The first time I was about five years old. It was not long after my grandmother died. I was 'half asleep' and she appeared beside my bed. She was very nice, and a lovely lady. She said she had just 'popped in' to check on the 'kiddies' - my sisters and I. I was the only one who saw her. She offered me a cup of tea. It was a very sweet experience. That's maybe why I am not scared of 'ghosts'?
 
Ghosts might not scare me, but zombies do!! The scariest show on TV or anywhere (ever in my opinion) is The Walking Dead. [Not PG!]


What scares you???
 
I think reality is scarier than anything else: politicians, television shows, people's indifference towards living beings' suffering (of course that incluyes slaughter houses as well as refugees), current education, official lies... I could go on. Zombies? Too many in this society, I've become inmune.

Sorry if I spoiled the thread. :confused:
 
You and me both, Eowyn. Though that doesn't mean I wouldn't be terrified if a literal zombie showed up on my porch, against all odds. The thing is, if one actually did ... I'd probably eventually come around to feeling concerned about how it became that way. And it's more likely it would be the victim of some corruption or destruction, not the thing to fear.

I'm more afraid of the hidden cruelty behind suave exteriors than I am of the blatant fictions that expose the layers of our fear for cross examination.

One of the most terrifying movies I've ever watched was The Devil's Advocate. The reason it hit me so hard is because of the way he made his choices thinking he was doing something good, without seeing how he was being manipulated. *shudders* I see that too often in real life, and it's even more insidious without the creepy background music and obvious demonic demonstrations to drive the point home.
 
Imagine the horrible screams.....

It'll soon be Halloween so time to prepare some yummy treats for the neighbourhood kids. Try dipping Brussels sprouts in chocolate for them.

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This is one of the 'spoooookiest' stories we have had on the forum over the years, but there have been many. I wonder what ever happened? Worth a read for newer members who may not have come across it.
http:// http://www.reincarnationforum.com/threads/reincarnation-or-something-more.5579/
Reincarnation or something more.

I suppose im looking for help or even slight clarification if even possible on events that have happened to my partner and myself over the last couple of months. Without going into everything the facts are that approx 2mths ago during our very first night as a couple we were disturbed during the night by a sound in the wall which at first we thought were mice or god forbid rats etc etc this went on for at least an hour and eventually really began to upset us so i lashed out and kinda slapped the wall in a bid to move what was ever there.

After about a second later a slap on the wall was returned...i repeated this a few times and the same result at one point i even tapped out a series of notes which was also returned..as anyone could imagine we were both a lot freaked out and spent the day looking for a explanation but there is only the 2 of us and during the last number of weeks we have slowly been communication by a series of tapping 1 for yes 2 for no and through various different methods have not only asked about our past but our futures...
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I am hoping X will come and 'haunt' me on 1 November. Fingers crossed. There is a large, full length mirror that used to belong to him. Nobody knew what to do with it, so there it stands, rather glamourously, in my little hallway.

I plan to sit up late tomorrow night with some candles and see if he will 'appear'. Probably not, but you never know. It will mark one year since I felt him 'fly away' just after midnight on a wild and windy night, All Saints Day 1 November 2015. So.... perhaps.

Worth a try at least.

 
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On the night of Halloween, Oct 31st, set a place at the dinner table for him. This is a tradition as old as time. A place should be set for all of your loved ones who passed this year.
 
I did not sit up late last night or set a place at the table. My son is staying with me at the moment and I didn't want to do anything 'weird' to maybe freak him out.

I felt like a bit of a wimp at the time, going to bed before midnight, but my eyelids were so heavy, I just couldn't stay up any later. So, I went to bed early in the end, and told myself not to be 'silly'. But I had a dream about X and I running across a field together, as children, innocently laughing and holding hands, so I suppose that's pretty good.
 
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I've read your story, the story of you and X. I was deeply touched while reading.
It's just now that I realise the freshness of your wound, exactly one year ago. I hope you can cope with it in your own unique way.
Sending you love.
 
Sorry to hear that, Cryscat. Generally, then, one would have a bonfire.

Your dream sounds pretty nice, Tanguerra. About the best you could expect.
 
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