johnbo, post: 334572, member: 8695 wrote: .....I still get the shivers telling this story.
I really don't cotton to the concept of haints walking amongst us...but I will be the first to admit I have seen and heard things over my life than cannot be explained any other way. My feelings are "What we know is easily eclipsed by what we don't."
I'd keep a good distance from there, too.
North of Lakeview, Oregon is some spooky country without that story. Especially up by Wagon Tire....
Just a P.S. to my above story. Last weekend family members were vacationing at my wife's family ranch and found a human skeleton. It was uncovered when the creek washed away the bank. State Policy have been called. Another story begins.
paden cash, post: 334575, member: 20 wrote: I really don't cotton to the concept of haints walking amongst us...but I will be the first to admit I have seen and heard things over my life than cannot be explained any other way. My feelings are "What we know is easily eclipsed by what we don't."
I'd keep a good distance from there, too.
OK, I was just talking to my parents about this last night. I'll share a little story and try to keep it short.
My grandmother passed away awhile ago. About 4 or 5 days afterward she passed, a few things happened at my parents house that were definitely paranormal.
My parents were sitting in their living room and both witnessed a cow bell (which was hanging from a hook), start to wildly swing side to side making quite the racket. The ringing lasted about 20 seconds!
The same day - a 3" dia. glass sphere that was sitting in the same shelf that the cow bell was hanging from, jumped off the shelf towards my mom. She put her hand out and caught it! It didn't roll off the shelf, it jumped upwards and several feet towards her. My dad also witnessed this as well.
The last thing happened a couple days later. My mom was home alone and heard the distinct sound of foot steps walking up the stairs. She walked down the hallway and there was nobody there. That was the last time anything abnormal happened in their house.
My parents have never lied to me and I am confident that these things actually happened.
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Several years later my grandfather was in hospice and on his deathbed. He saw several things (that only he could see) over the course of several days...his dead brother-in-law, a snake, and a little hummingbird (which landed on his outstretched finger).
I did some quick Google searches last night and visions of lost loved ones, ringing of bells, and visions of snakes and small birds are common deathbed visions in many different cultures. Makes you wonder about a lot of things.
To add to the first part of that story...when my grandmother was alive she joked that she wanted her ashes dumped in an ash tray in a Reno, NV casino.
She was an avid gambler. She was probably very serious about that request.
Well as happens to many people - their ashes get split up and spread in several different places. My dad took some of her ashes to Reno. He couldn't go through with putting her in an ash tray, so he spread her ashes into the Truckee River. When they were through, they looked up at a street sign and noticed that it was Eloise Ave. My grandmothers name was Eloise. What a weird coincidence.
johnbo, post: 334578, member: 8695 wrote: Just a P.S. to my above story. Last weekend family members were vacationing at my wife's family ranch and found a human skeleton. It was uncovered when the creek washed away the bank. State Policy have been called. Another story begins.
D.B. Cooper! Finally found him!
Ric Moore, post: 334627, member: 731 wrote: D.B. Cooper! Finally found him!
Any money?
paden cash, post: 334575, member: 20 wrote: I really don't cotton to the concept of haints walking amongst us...but I will be the first to admit I have seen and heard things over my life than cannot be explained any other way. My feelings are "What we know is easily eclipsed by what we don't."
I'd keep a good distance from there, too.
I fall into the same camp. My rational side wants to say "no way, can't be true, must be some other explanation" when I here stories of paranormal activity. Then I think of all the places in both the old and new testaments of the Bible where where spirits are mentioned. I think of all the things I've heard from folks that I trust and all of the odd occurrences in my own life that just defy logical explanation. If I were sure that paranormal activity is pure bunk then Ouija boards, dark moonless cemeteries, and David Blaine's street magic wouldn't scare the hell out of me. :'(
paden cash, post: 334321, member: 20 wrote: I'm still mesmerized seeing images of the devastation, up close and personal would be a kick in the gut to me. I cried like a baby ten years ago as I watched the carnage unfold on the tv. No place is a good place for a CAT5 to hit the beach, but NOLA was the worst place it could have landed. Sometimes I still think that the rest of the population that sees it on tv CAN'T really comprehend the death and devastation that took place.
But on a good note, life carries on down there. Apparently tragedy can take lives and buildings, but thankfully it cannot take spirit.
I'll never forget, a couple of months before Katrina I was watching a History Channel type of program about the worst potential disasters in the United States. Number one on their list was a category 5 hurricane striking New Orleans. Well, we all know what happened shortly thereafter.
and David Blaine's street magic wouldn't scare the hell out of me.
ESPECIALLY THIS......
