Anyone have any strange stories of something that happened to them like seeing a UFO, ghost, or whatever??

Been to the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, CA. Other than thinking I would hate to be the cleaner for it, however I did not get any kind of strong feelings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House

In Reno, NV on my block there had been suicides at the 2nd house down as well as the 3rd down but never so anything strange around our block except for some of the people in Reno, NV.

[Sidney Lanier]

Our house up north is only a few miles from one of the UFO capitals of the world: Pine Bush, NY. However, the only UFOs we've seen were proven frauds.

The best friend of a cousin of mine (who died last year) is a psychic who is relatively quiet about it and absolutely refuses to use her psychic abilities for payment of any kind. The local police have utilized her services successfully. She was once called in to the home of a family where one of the children (age late 20s, I think) had committed suicide. Parents were appropriately devastated as it was completely unexpected and there was no explanation.

The psychic spent some time with the parents and wandering through the house, then spent considerable time in the room of the suicide, and apologetically told the parents that she could sense nothing except something vague about a penguin, which didn't make sense even to her, and clearly not to the parents.

In the ensuing weeks, the parents spent considerable time in that room, pulling out things, looking in odd places--and finally found the answer! In a book that was a favorite, maybe THE favorite of the young person, they found the suicide note neatly tucked into it. The book was published by Random House and was part of their Penguin Book series.

Go figure....

Seems like a house the Ghost Hunters should like into. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Hunters

Like this show even though I have not seen it very many times.

[Rokinronda]

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/sm...ic,5527.0.html Tal, Its ok the tin foil hats aren't necessary.....did you see these posts? Angels are watching over us! I have a few other stories that are absolutety mind boggling, but have me convinced there is much we don't know.......

[Sidney Lanier]

Had just posted this on Rokinronda's thread on 'Just for fun':

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We had friends in our town in the Hudson Valley (now retired and moved away) whose house had a ghost. He (former IBMer) never saw him, but she (musician, church organist, my fellow Hospice volunteer trainer) and all their three sons frequently did to the point that they named him 'Flash' for his penchant to suddenly appear and disappear. He appeared to be an older, white-haired man dressed in a red flannel shirt and jeans, never said or did anything, was just visible and then not. The house is next door to our local library where we held our Hospice training sessions and we would often walk to their house to view training films as the library did not have a TV/VCR at the time. I never saw Flash.

They once had another couple visiting to play bridge, and at one point the woman went upstairs to use the only washroom in the house, came back downstairs and gave the homeowner a playful smack on the back of his head as she walked back to her seat. 'What was that for?' he asked, and she replied, 'For scaring the heck out of me upstairs.' All three swore to her that no one had left the room during her absence, so it had to have been Flash, following her description.

After they sold the house, they came back from time to time to visit. My former fellow volunteer told me that the first time their buyers saw them, they took them aside and said, 'There's something we need to talk to you about....' Evidently Flash belonged to the house rather than to our friends who had sold the house. He's still there!

Originally Posted by Rokinronda

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/sm...ic,5527.0.html Tal, Its ok the tin foil hats aren't necessary.....did you see these posts? Angels are watching over us! I have a few other stories that are absolutety mind boggling, but have me convinced there is much we don't know.......

Thanks for the link Rokinronda. Nice meeting you at the Crispers TOTV luncheon last Friday.

[Donna]

Originally Posted by Sidney Lanier

Had just posted this on Rokinronda's thread on 'Just for fun':

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We had friends in our town in the Hudson Valley (now retired and moved away) whose house had a ghost. He (former IBMer) never saw him, but she (musician, church organist, my fellow Hospice volunteer trainer) and all their three sons frequently did to the point that they named him 'Flash' for his penchant to suddenly appear and disappear. He appeared to be an older, white-haired man dressed in a red flannel shirt and jeans, never said or did anything, was just visible and then not. The house is next door to our local library where we held our Hospice training sessions and we would often walk to their house to view training films as the library did not have a TV/VCR at the time. I never saw Flash.

They once had another couple visiting to play bridge, and at one point the woman went upstairs to use the only washroom in the house, came back downstairs and gave the homeowner a playful smack on the back of his head as she walked back to her seat. 'What was that for?' he asked, and she replied, 'For scaring the heck out of me upstairs.' All three swore to her that no one had left the room during her absence, so it had to have been Flash, following her description.

After they sold the house, they came back from time to time to visit. My former fellow volunteer told me that the first time their buyers saw them, they took them aside and said, 'There's something we need to talk to you about....' Evidently Flash belonged to the house rather than to our friends who had sold the house. He's still there!

Sidney,
Sounds to me like Flash was a Residual Haunting..
Energy cannot be created nor destroyed -- but it can be left behind. There is a direct connection between a tragic, violent or untimely death and a haunting. An untimely passing robs the victim of a future, stops him from fulfilling his goals and dreams, cuts his life's plans drastically short, rips him away from his soul mate. He doesn't even have a chance to say goodbye. The shock of this sudden and unexpected departure is so intense that it leaves an imprint on the location, which results in a residual haunting.

Residual hauntings are by far the most common, and are often compared to the data stored on a video recorder. The extreme energy emitted at the time of the tragedy is recorded onto the environment. When you experience the sound of phantom footsteps, images, apparitions or scents, what you are actually experiencing is a recorded playback of what happened in the past. There is no interaction with the living -- the ghost does not see or hear you because the ghost is not actually there. Only his energy remains, it is a remnant of his living form that you are seeing, just like when you watch a video. This cycle continues in the same place at usually the same time of day or year indefinitely until the energy is exhausted or diminishes to a low enough level that it is undetectable by human perception.

http://www.chipsparanormal.com

Saw a program of Ghost Hunters which included a segment on the Goldfield Hotel in Goldfield, Nevada. Really interesting what they found but I was kind of skeptical about the findings without an unbiased observer also being there to make sure everything is on the up-and-up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfield,_Nevada

[nhsnowbird]

Ghost Hunters is a favorite of both my children (in their 30's). I've always believed in angels and I have a great respect for ghosts. Went to Gettysburg as a child and I could feel the sadness there ... did not like that trip at all!