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Amityville was a hoax and the Warrens helped perpetuate it.

I have a temp ID made for use at Yale's library over 10 years ago with a "mist" covering my face and chest. Woman who took the photo using a digital camera hooked up to a computer screamed as she was looking at her monitor and was telling me to go, I don't have to pay. Wondered why she acted that way, then looked at my ID and realized what she saw. Have the card on display. Sure has been fun showing others, even skeptics.
 
Huskybass said:
#horsebarnhill. True story.
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Check.

(Really I think it would be tougher to name places that you didn't do it. It was college after all.)
 
Butch said:
Amityville was a hoax and the Warrens helped perpetuate it.

I have a temp ID made for use at Yale's library over 10 years ago with a "mist" covering my face and chest. Woman who took the photo using a digital camera hooked up to a computer screamed as she was looking at her monitor and was telling me to go, I don't have to pay. Wondered why she acted that way, then looked at my ID and realized what she saw. Have the card on display. Sure has been fun showing others, even skeptics.
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A mysterious mist huh?
 
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Not a “ghost story” in that it’s scary, but my mother believes in ghosts

When she was young, she lived across the street from and older couple, with whom she was friendly. Would frequently go over for lunch on the weekend, have leftovers with them after dinner time, etc...

One week day, she woke up at her typical time, anticipating a school day. Turned out that it was a holiday, she had off, and went back to sleep.

She dreamed that she went across the street to hang with the old folks as she typically did. Hung with the wife in the kitchen, had a bite, talked a bit, and started to leave. The husband was sitting in the living room, through which one would pass to leave. He stopped my mother; explained that she won’t be seeing him again for a while, that he wishes her all the best, and to take care of herself.

She woke up from this morning nap and learned that he died during the time she was asleep.
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
View attachment 47216A mysterious mist huh?
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Typical fog/mist apparitions. Common manifestation, really.

Had another experience at Fairfield Hills sanetarium in Newtown but that's too much typing. I'll just say the whole second floor of a building was colder (also a common occurrence) after we enter a lobby through double doors. All of us were stunned without saying it. No one says anything, I tip toe my way in front of a hallway, hear a rumble/"growl" (also common; found it was reported by others) down the hallway and go back to everyone else (3 or 4 others) and say let's get out. Everyone turned to the double doors and went down the stairs, out of the building without saying anything. Little bro, who's been there before, said he never experienced anything like that before. My little bro and I tell my mother what we experienced, she begs us to never go back, I don't but my little bro does. Dies in a car accident not too long after.

Not wise to mess with beings you can't see 99.9+% of the time. Have been into the paranormal since I was young. It's overblown in the minds of some people. Also not dead people.
 
Butch said:
Typical fog/mist apparitions. Common manifestation, really.

Had another experience at Fairfield Hills sanetarium in Newtown but that's too much typing. I'll just say the whole second floor of a building was colder (also a common occurrence) after we enter a lobby through double doors. All of us were stunned without saying it. No one says anything, I tip toe my way in front of a hallway, hear a rumble/"growl" (also common; found it was reported by others) down the hallway and go back to everyone else (3 or 4 others) and say let's get out. Everyone turned to the double doors and went down the stairs, out of the building without saying anything. Little bro, who's been there before, said he never experienced anything like that before. My little bro and I tell my mother what we experienced, she begs us to never go back, I don't but my little bro does. Dies in a car accident not too long after.

Not wise to mess with beings you can't see 99.9+% of the time. Have been into the paranormal since I was young. It's overblown in the minds of some people. Also not dead people.
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Huh? Are you saying many claims of paranormal activity are in fact supernatural occurrences, but are not related to spirits of dead people? If that is your position, what other causes do you suggest?
 
Rocktheworld said:
Not a “ghost story” in that it’s scary, but my mother believes in ghosts

When she was young, she lived across the street from and older couple, with whom she was friendly. Would frequently go over for lunch on the weekend, have leftovers with them after dinner time, etc...

One week day, she woke up at her typical time, anticipating a school day. Turned out that it was a holiday, she had off, and went back to sleep.

She dreamed that she went across the street to hang with the old folks as she typically did. Hung with the wife in the kitchen, had a bite, talked a bit, and started to leave. The husband was sitting in the living room, through which one would pass to leave. He stopped my mother; explained that she won’t be seeing him again for a while, that he wishes her all the best, and to take care of herself.

She woke up from this morning nap and learned that he died during the time she was asleep.
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I'm friends with a woman who's had somewhat similar experiences but she doesn't know the people. She's had experiences of profound sadness which brings her to tears whether it's just a feeling or actually having visions of people in locations only to later find out the person she saw or felt died there. It gives you goosebumps to hear her talk about it.

Actually my mom has a really similar story to what you described. We had a family cat for many years, she was an indoor/outdoor cat named Checkers. One day she just stopped coming back home after years of always coming back, she was gone for a while so we thought the worst...My mom has a dream one night about Checkers, that the cat was reaching out to her and came out of the woods onto the the lawn that sits outside my parents bedroom, looked at her and collapsed. My mom woke up with the dream in her head, got up brushed her teeth took a shower and as she was toweling off she looks out the window to see emaciated Checkers come out of the woods, look at my mom through the window and then keel over.
 
superjohn said:
I'm friends with a woman who's had somewhat similar experiences but she doesn't know the people. She's had experiences of profound sadness which brings her to tears whether it's just a feeling or actually having visions of people in locations only to later find out the person she saw or felt died there. It gives you goosebumps to hear her talk about it.

Actually my mom has a really similar story to what you described. We had a family cat for many years, she was an indoor/outdoor cat named Checkers. One day she just stopped coming back home after years of always coming back, she was gone for a while so we thought the worst...My mom has a dream one night about Checkers, that the cat was reaching out to her and came out of the woods onto the the lawn that sits outside my parents bedroom, looked at her and collapsed. My mom woke up with the dream in her head, got up brushed her teeth took a shower and as she was toweling off she looks out the window to see emaciated Checkers come out of the woods, look at my mom through the window and then keel over.
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That would be such a better story if “Checkers” was redacted

I chuckle every time I read it
 
Get a Job said:
Huh? Are you saying many claims of paranormal activity are in fact supernatural occurrences, but are not related to spirits of dead people? If that is your position, what other causes do you suggest?
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Same race of beings that can manifest themselves as "aliens". They are not from a distant planet, but they are far superior to us in intelligence, life span and abilities. A different race of beings that have plasma as their basis for life, as we have carbon and water, is not "supernatural". Scientists are now acknowledging that plasma can be a foundation for life. Found this article, from 12 years ago.

 
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Butch said:
Same race of beings that can manifest themselves as "aliens". They are not from a distant planet, but they are far superior to us in intelligence, life span and abilities. A different race of beings that have plasma as their basis for life, as we have carbon and water, is not "supernatural". Scientists are now acknowledging that plasma can be a foundation for life. Found this article, from 12 years ago.

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Have you been smoking Willie Nelson's weed again?
 
Im not as big into conspiracies and stuff like I was when I was younger, but this has always interested me. I have enjoyed reading through this thread and decided its time to put my 2 cents in.

I have never had a personal experience with this. My only information is hearing other peoples stories, so Im not sure If “ghosts” are real or not. I went to see Lorraine Warren at SCSU about 10 years back and that was very interesting. The thing that gets me about all of this, most of these stories of ghost sightings and paranormal activity are the same. So the question that I have for the skeptics is, if people are making all of this up, how come all of these peoples experiences are relatively similar regardless of age or where they live? And the same goes with UFO sightings, if they are all hoaxes, how come it all seems the same all over the world? One thing that gets me about the exorcisms is how some of the people that are possessed or whatever, all of a sudden start speaking Latin yet have absolutely no background in it. Thats the type of thing that really makes you wonder about all of this.
 
My Dad told me this story years ago about my Grandmother who was an in-home nurse back in the '40s and '50s.
One of my Grandmother’s patients was a old and bed-ridden Italian woman. A day came when my Grandmother thought the woman was about to pass so she called my Grandfather to get his priest to administer last rites. (She was English Protestant, he was Italian Catholic). He brought the priest over and the priest believed that the woman wasn’t sick, but possessed by spirits. The priest then brought in an older priest who performed a ritual which my Grandmother witnessed. My father did not have any details of what the ritual entailed, but the patient fully recovered and after a time, walked again. She apparently lived several more years. My Grandmother, whose family despised Catholics (and my Grandfather for that matter), decided to convert and became a member of the Catholic church.
My Grandmother was a tough as nails “Swamp Yankee” and she had zero tolerance for bull$hi+. I always chalked up the woman’s recovery to a psychosomatic response, but my Grandmother must have seen something to make her change her religion. Her conversion made her family despise my Grandfather even more and ultimately led to their divorce, which was unheard of in that time.
I wish I would have heard that story before she passed, because I would have loved to talk with her about it.
 
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My time in CT was limited to when I was at UConn so you’ll have to pardon me if this is a locally known thing, but isn’t there an old hospital/mental institution in CT that was a paranormal hotspot? I was in school around the time that MTV Show “Fear” was on and I believe they featured it on one of the episodes, so I always wanted to take a trip to try and see it but I believe some of the locals said it was impossible to get into
 
Pgh2Storrs said:
My time in CT was limited to when I was at UConn so you’ll have to pardon me if this is a locally known thing, but isn’t there an old hospital/mental institution in CT that was a paranormal hotspot? I was in school around the time that MTV Show “Fear” was on and I believe they featured it on one of the episodes, so I always wanted to take a trip to try and see it but I believe some of the locals said it was impossible to get into
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You may be referring to Fairfield Hills State Mental Hospital which was located in Newtown Connecticut, where I grew up. When I ran cross-country our normal practice route included a pass by the hospital. The hospital was in operation at that time and we would often hear many of the residents or patients of the facility screaming and yelling. We dismissed it as good natured attempts to get attention, but who knows, it may have been very different. I believe a good portion of the movie Sleepers was filmed there during the 90s.
 
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Huskybass said:
You may be referring to Fairfield Hills State Mental Hospital which was located in Newtown Connecticut, where I grew up. When I ran cross-country our normal practice route included a pass by the hospital. The hospital was in operation at that time and we would often hear many of the residents or patients of the facility screaming and yelling. We dismissed it as good natured attempts to get attention, but who knows, it may have been very different. I believe a good portion of the movie Sleepers was filmed there during the 90s.
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Bingo. I believe that was it.
 
Ts5034 said:
Im not as big into conspiracies and stuff like I was when I was younger, but this has always interested me. I have enjoyed reading through this thread and decided its time to put my 2 cents in.

I have never had a personal experience with this. My only information is hearing other peoples stories, so Im not sure If “ghosts” are real or not. I went to see Lorraine Warren at SCSU about 10 years back and that was very interesting. The thing that gets me about all of this, most of these stories of ghost sightings and paranormal activity are the same. So the question that I have for the skeptics is, if people are making all of this up, how come all of these peoples experiences are relatively similar regardless of age or where they live? And the same goes with UFO sightings, if they are all hoaxes, how come it all seems the same all over the world? One thing that gets me about the exorcisms is how some of the people that are possessed or whatever, all of a sudden start speaking Latin yet have absolutely no background in it. Thats the type of thing that really makes you wonder about all of this.
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I want to state at the top that I am not an expert in any of the topics involved in this discussion. If I make a claim, it is an opinion or educated guess unless I cite a source.

The premise that reports are the same across the world and over time is not true. Whether you are talking ghosts, aliens, or other paranormal phenomena, you will read widely varying claims. Granted, there are many elements that are common to numerous reports, but this is hardly evidence that the reports must be true. People have been discussing things they don't understand for thousands of years, and many memes have become part of the collective consciousness. I suspect this accounts for most of the commonality of reports.

Another factor that leads to similar accounts from observers is that they witnessed a real event that is completely natural and/or man-made. It only goes awry when people begin to attribute causes that are not backed up by evidence. This is likely the case in many/most reports of UFOs. Indeed, a lot of UFO sightings are quite credibly and unspectacularly explained after the fact.

Slightly off topic, but still relevant: I think people tend to underplay the possibility that many claims made in reports of paranormal experiences simply didn't happen. People often flat lie, or, even when they believe what they say, they can be mistaken or reporting a hallucination.

For me it comes down to: What is more likely? That our planet is infested with spirits and aliens, or that people lie, hallucinate, and make false attributions to real (non-paranormal) occurences?
 
Butch said:
Same race of beings that can manifest themselves as "aliens". They are not from a distant planet, but they are far superior to us in intelligence, life span and abilities. A different race of beings that have plasma as their basis for life, as we have carbon and water, is not "supernatural". Scientists are now acknowledging that plasma can be a foundation for life. Found this article, from 12 years ago.

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And what is your evidence for this claim? A tabloid article purporting that something tangentially related to your claim is theoretically possible does not constitute evidence, by the way.
 
Get a Job said:
And what is your evidence for this claim? A tabloid article purporting that something tangentially related to your claim is theoretically possible does not constitute evidence, by the way.
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Do a search for yourself. There's more articles citing scientific sources.

It's obvious that beings who can manifest themselves into a "fog" or whatever and lower air temperatures are not made of carbon and water. Fluorescent lights use plasma to brighten up. Not hard to put the puzzle pieces together.

www.vice.com

Scientists Made Plasma That Is 50 Times Colder Than Deep Space

Scientists have created a laser-cooled neutral plasma for the first time that will be used to simulate some of the hottest and most exotic matter in the universe.
www.vice.com www.vice.com

Looks like "life" heats water and cools plasma.

I should add, the time when an apparition showed up on my ID at Yale, I did feel some strange pressure in front of but had no idea what to make of it, so just ignored it. The woman who was screaming after taking a photograph sure got to see it was something. She was terrified. I couldn't believe that had happened. I am not someone who goes on blind belief. I seek proofs.

However, no more from me on this. But I fully "believe" (or know) that "alien life forms" (including "ghosts", poltergeists, etc) are plasma based.
 
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Get a Job said:
And what is your evidence for this claim? A tabloid article purporting that something tangentially related to your claim is theoretically possible does not constitute evidence, by the way.
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The Daily Telegraph isn't a tabloid.
 
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Butch said:
Do a search for yourself. There's more articles citing scientific sources.

It's obvious that beings who can manifest themselves into a "fog" or whatever and lower air temperatures are not made of carbon and water. Fluorescent lights use plasma to brighten up. Not hard to put the puzzle pieces together.

www.vice.com

Scientists Made Plasma That Is 50 Times Colder Than Deep Space

Scientists have created a laser-cooled neutral plasma for the first time that will be used to simulate some of the hottest and most exotic matter in the universe.
www.vice.com www.vice.com

Looks like "life" heats water and cools plasma.

I should add, the time when an apparition showed up on my ID at Yale, I did feel some strange pressure in front of but had no idea what to make of it, so just ignored it. The woman who was screaming after taking a photograph sure got to see it was something. She was terrified. I couldn't believe that had happened. I am not someone who goes on blind belief. I seek proofs.

However, no more from me on this. But I fully "believe" (or know) that alien life forms (including "ghosts", poltergeists, etc) are plasma based.
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Your post is too incoherent to merit a response, but you have inspired a rant.

The post above is a perfect example of the aspect of conspiracy theories and amateur explanations for unexplained phenomena that drives me insane. Laymen grasp onto pieces of technical and/or scientific information (i.e. plasma is a thing) about which they know little or nothing. Then that tidbit which, on its own, is perfectly factual somehow becomes evidence of a claim to which it does not apply at all. (i.e. Plasma exists, so that is what aliens and ghosts are.) Someone with even a rudimentary understanding of the field from which he or she took the information would realize that it has no explanatory power in regards to the claim.

Come on people! If you read about something new and you don't understand it completely, learn more about it before you use it as a basis for an explanation for some occurrence. Otherwise you are just creating or perpetuating conspiracies and/or pseudoscience. At its most benign, this fosters a more gullible and stupid population. At its worst, it can kill people (the anti-vax movement is a vivid example of this).
 
Get a Job said:
Your post is too incoherent to merit a response, but you have inspired a rant.

The post above is a perfect example of the aspect of conspiracy theories and amateur explanations for unexplained phenomena that drives me insane. Laymen grasp onto pieces of technical and/or scientific information (i.e. plasma is a thing) about which they know little or nothing. Then that tidbit which, on its own, is perfectly factual somehow becomes evidence of a claim to which it does not apply at all. (i.e. Plasma exists, so that is what aliens and ghosts are.) Someone with even a rudimentary understanding of the field from which he or she took the information would realize that it has no explanatory power in regards to the claim.

Come on people! If you read about something new and you don't understand it completely, learn more about it before you use it as a basis for an explanation for some occurrence. Otherwise you are just creating or perpetuating conspiracies and/or pseudoscience. At its most benign, this fosters a more gullible and stupid population. At its worst, it can kill people (the anti-vax movement is a vivid example of this).
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Then go ahead and go insane and live in denial of basic reality. Sorry it doesn't suit your tastes. This is basic stuff. You know, like the sun rises from the east?
 
Huskybass said:
You may be referring to Fairfield Hills State Mental Hospital which was located in Newtown Connecticut, where I grew up. When I ran cross-country our normal practice route included a pass by the hospital. The hospital was in operation at that time and we would often hear many of the residents or patients of the facility screaming and yelling. We dismissed it as good natured attempts to get attention, but who knows, it may have been very different. I believe a good portion of the movie Sleepers was filmed there during the 90s.
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I heard the same screaming back in the 70’s. One of my Little League coaches was a shrink who worked a Fairfield Hill’s. Whenever he couldn’t get a field to practice on in Monroe he would hold practice on the institutions grounds. Patients would also be walking by the field as we were playing ball. As a 10-12 year old being there was everything from scary to bewilderment and ,sad to say, amusement.
 
Get a Job said:
Your post is too incoherent to merit a response, but you have inspired a rant.

The post above is a perfect example of the aspect of conspiracy theories and amateur explanations for unexplained phenomena that drives me insane. Laymen grasp onto pieces of technical and/or scientific information (i.e. plasma is a thing) about which they know little or nothing. Then that tidbit which, on its own, is perfectly factual somehow becomes evidence of a claim to which it does not apply at all. (i.e. Plasma exists, so that is what aliens and ghosts are.) Someone with even a rudimentary understanding of the field from which he or she took the information would realize that it has no explanatory power in regards to the claim.

Come on people! If you read about something new and you don't understand it completely, learn more about it before you use it as a basis for an explanation for some occurrence. Otherwise you are just creating or perpetuating conspiracies and/or pseudoscience. At its most benign, this fosters a more gullible and stupid population. At its worst, it can kill people (the anti-vax movement is a vivid example of this).
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www.newscientist.com

Plasma blobs hint at new form of life

Physicists have created blobs of gaseous plasma that can grow, replicate and communicate – fulfilling most of the traditional requirements for biological cells. Without inherited material they cannot be described as alive, but the researchers believe these curious spheres may offer a radical new...
www.newscientist.com www.newscientist.com

www.sciencedaily.com

Physicists Discover Inorganic Dust With Lifelike Qualities

Intriguing new evidence of lifelike structures that form from inorganic substances in space have just been revealed. The findings hint at the possibility that life beyond earth may not necessarily use carbon-based molecules as its building blocks. They also point to a possible new explanation...
www.sciencedaily.com

Duh. Is using Google too hard?

I am not an anti-vaxxer. Talk about going off the rails.

99.9+% of the universe is plasma. Hello.

Let's see you explain what matter can give "apparitions" the ability to "glow", walk through walls and objects and vanish. In powerful ancient sources even, words are used to imply plasma. Or are they all just BS stories people spout around the world simultaneously? I have photographic proof using a digital camera. Go insane all you want. There's countless videos on Youtube. Must be all fabricated.
 
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Butch said:
www.newscientist.com

Plasma blobs hint at new form of life

Physicists have created blobs of gaseous plasma that can grow, replicate and communicate – fulfilling most of the traditional requirements for biological cells. Without inherited material they cannot be described as alive, but the researchers believe these curious spheres may offer a radical new...
www.newscientist.com www.newscientist.com

www.sciencedaily.com

Physicists Discover Inorganic Dust With Lifelike Qualities

Intriguing new evidence of lifelike structures that form from inorganic substances in space have just been revealed. The findings hint at the possibility that life beyond earth may not necessarily use carbon-based molecules as its building blocks. They also point to a possible new explanation...
www.sciencedaily.com

Duh. Is using Google too hard?

I am not an anti-vaxxer. Talk about going off the rails.
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Did you read the article or just the headline? First of all, none of the scientists mentioned in the article are asserting that these plasma spheres are life at all, let alone that plasma can constitute ghosts and aliens. Secondly, the Romanian scientist that speculates the plasma could have something to do with life is offering a possible origin explanation for the existence of living cells as we currently observe them, not that these plasma spheres can be combined to make up living beings.

You are typifying the person mentioned in my earlier rant so perfectly that I wonder if you're just trolling me.
 
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