What are they going to do if they catch it? Offer it a BLT?

Here wabbit, wabbit, wabbit.

Who ya gonna call?? GHOSTBUSTERS !

No video caps? Call me when they've got something worthwhile to show.

I'm convinced.

oooo, freaky. ive taken pictures of orbs!

Lack of vidcaps sucks but it appears to be a no-shiat ghost.

I want to believe.

Even if there was a video tape, it'd be very easy to edit in a walking, glowy spot in the video. I really think the only way that they'd be able to start to convince me is to show me it happening live, and I'm not about to head over there to check it out.

I'm sure there's better places that ghost would want to be than a courthouse. Like maybe recording in the studio or rocking-out on stage.

When ghosts rock out on stage I assume they play the air guitar?

Let's see...

1) Complex, brand new security system
2) Weird images that can't be seen by the eye

If that doesn't spell system glitch, I don't know what does.

I can see it now:

Courthouse employee: "You need to replace the system, I think there is something wrong it, unless there is a ghost in the building or something."

Security contractor: "It's a ghost. Definitely. Yup."

milowitz

that cracked me up too.

'Rockin out' just cracks me up.

/end threadjack

One night I swear a ghost jumped on me and attacked me. So I started fighting back, hitting the ghostly presence with my fists.

Strangely the next morning my cat was all bruised up. It must have been a ghost though, I want to believe!

...the video monitor revealed the strange light proceeding ahead of Price, stopping when he stopped and starting when he started...


Hmm... a flashlight?

swamp gas

Looks like they're using this kind of equipment, that sucks.

Check out www.ghosthunter.com . There are photos there that show "orbs". Perhaps you think it's a bunch of hooey, but earlier this year on some photos from a Fark Party in the UK , I saw orbs in the background, behind the Farkers. Photos were taken in (where else) a pub. Perhaps someone can find them? Look at them and see if you can see the orbs in the background.

The lesson is clear, stop lynchin people in the court house and don't build on top of the old cemetery! Or you get spookilidge.

This is cool .... and thanks for the info emmasews.

Pandoras Box, you're welcome. I for one, believe it's true,but everyone is welcome to their own opinions. My nieces saw my Mom standing next to them at her funeral, and my sister-in-law saw her at graveside...I've seen her at least twice since she passed away, and talk to her everyday, ask her for help and guidance in my life, and wish so much I could hug her one more time.
/must blow nose, dry eyes and get back to work now.

"If it is a ghost, it's a friendly ghost," said Mark Mumford, clerk of the circuit court. "If it's a friendly ghost, it's not hurting me."

Sure, buddy, just keep telling yourself that.

emmasews

before the masses begin flaming you to oblivion
let me say that i neither believe nor disbelieve.

it is a strange world. my grandparents house was the
sight of some damn strange things. damn strange.
damn damn strange. gramps always told me to just
remember and ignore them.

hope your mom's visage brings you some peace.
perhaps, just perhaps, there's more to the world
than we can see.

i dunno

So, just to make me feel better, I was watching a video on ghosthumter.com and had my speakers turned up really loud so I could hear the ghost say, "coffee, coffee" and forgot I had my Strong Bad Clock on. I'm waiting for "coffee, coffee" but get Strong Bad shouting, "THE CURRENT TIME IS 10:30 A.M.!" I just about jumped out of my chair...there are no accidents or coincidences. Guess I needed a good laugh.

I also was attacked by a ghost one day:

I had been doing some restoration work on an old cottage and ended up staying later than expect. It was around midnight when I finally finished putting up some shelves. As I was packing up my tools, the lights went out suddenly. I looked around and saw a ghostly, ethereal light coming down the stairs towards me. As I stood, frozen with fear, I could see that it was in the shape of an old man, dressed in a hooded cloak. He raised his arms and floated towards me. I knew that it was after my soul and that I would be found dead in the cold light of day. As it reached out to embrace me, I struck at it with a tool and to my suprise I knocked it flat out. As I ran out that cottage, I thanked god that I was lucky enough to be carrying the one tool that could lay-out a ghost - a spirit level.

sprog

ba-dum-dum

not bad. not bad at all.

NASA has found some ghosts too:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040806.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040804.html

d'oh

sprog=spog


/now with extra R goodness

Well, I know I opened a can of flame bait; you all have the freedom to believe or disbelieve, and I'm not going to debate anyone on this.
Enjoy the weekend. Be glad we can sit someplace and look at out computers, debate "stuff", and enjoy the fact that we 1. have food 2. have water 3. have a roof over our head. We're way ahead of a lot other people on this planet.

Call your Mom or Dad just to say I love you.

Should have been "our" computers, on my post, but you know that...
very funny spog...

no flaming here emmasews

none.

i meant it. i have screens full of stories
of that house, the family still owns it.
it's history reads like a bad horror movie
backdrop. it's unreal. really.

i meant what i said, and am on your side.

/hippity hopping thru thread

emmasews

That's very forgivable, especially since you are one of the few people on the Internet that I've seen use "should have" properly, instead of using "should of" like most people do. :)

After noticing the light, Price walked up the stairs and didn't see a thing. But downstairs, where by then a crowd of employees had gathered to watch, the video monitor revealed the strange light proceeding ahead of Price, stopping when he stopped and starting when he started.




This man sought for questioning.

Thanks, mr-bunny.

emmasews

my pleasure.

gotta go Wait Wait Don't Tell Me
is on.

/still lurking though
//we need a ghost story thread, got tons o'em

Kent County Sheriff John F. Price said he doesn't believe in ghosts.

"There has to be a logical explanation," he said, adding "I'm keeping an open mind."


Doofus here is confusing "logical" with "fits into my pre-formed worldview", and then for bonus irony points, goes on to claim an open mind.

There may be little evidence that the events are a ghost, such that a more mundane reason behind the events is far far more likely, but you've gotta admit that the presence of a ghost _is_ a very logical reason for seeing a ghost :-)

Thank you. I'll be here all night. Try the veal.

/don't worry
mr_bunny I'm always falling over my R's too.

Okay, spooky and true story. There is a town in Florida called Cassadega that is populated by mediums.

A friend of mine goes to get a reading, and he asks the lady who his spirit guides are. She says his dead cousin and his great-grandfather on his mother's side, and refers to them by name.

The thing is, my friend had no IDEA what his great-grandfather's name was. He gets home, calls his mom, asks her the great-grandfather's name, and the medium got it right.

Emmasews:
Call your Mom or Dad just to say I love you.

"Hi Mum, just called to let you know that Emmasews loves me!"
"Who?"
"Um, you haven't met him... or her... "(shiat - forgot to ask if a him or a her!)
"Him? HIM? Is there something you're not telling me?"
"No mum, it's just someo..."
"Are you gay? Because, you know, it's ok to tell me if you are"
"Mum? What?! Where did that come from? N..."
"I mean I really would prefer to know these things, and you have to tell me eventually anyway"
"But... no! Mum, look - I'm..."
"Well, I can't say this is a big shock, but I can see you're still a little uncomfortable about it, so let's just take our time, change the topic, you can tell me more in a few days"
"WAIT! No! Mum, look I'M NOT.... What do you mean it isn't a big shock?!? What?! What did you mean by that? What does that mean? MUM?!! WHY DID YOU SAY THAT?!"
"Look, I can see you're a bit agitated about all of ...this, let's just let it settle for a bit. I'll talk to you later. Love you! Bye!"
"No don't hang u... AHH fark! FARKFARKFARK!"

Yeah, I could call my parents to tell them you love me, and the sentiments are nice, but it might end up being more hassle than it's worth :-)

Attention shoppers: Would anyone answering to the name 'emmasews' please report to the customer service desk at the Chesterton, Maryland courthouse? Your mother is waiting looking for you and she's bothering the help.

(going straight to hell for that one)

O.K., here I am. Mom, get back to Illinois! Very funny, Archvillian, but don't you know, the Mom always "knows" first? And, yes, Farkers, I love you all. It's interesting to hear your opinions, sometimes it's easy to figure out how old you are by what you write, and I get a different perspective of things because I see out of my little window to the world.

Hillary, you'd have to do worse than that go to hell. My Mom had/has a great sense of humor.

/sitting in garage listening to NPR, lurking

I can't stand it. Here's some more flamebait.
Hey, someone else has to take the target of
emmasews, right?!? Right. So here goes, have at it....

When I was 11 my aunt got married. I was an altar boy.
After the wedding, my job was to go back to the house
with gramps and setup the tables for the official toast.
We have a huge catholic family. HUGE.
So we are pulling out the crystal, setting glasses at the various tables. When we finished that, we had to go get the
coffee cups and put them next to the flutes. Some freaks
don't drink I guess. huh.

Anyway, so gramps is getting out the cups and I am putting
them on the serving trays to take them to the dining
room, and we both hear a knock at the front door.
We go to see who is early to the reception, no one there.
We come back to the kitchen and the cups are stacked up.
Cup, saucer, cup saucer. 20 high. I freaked out.
Gramps took my hand, calmed me down, and told me sometimes
in life I will see things that don't make sense.
He told me I should just accept that the world is
a strange place and to let it go.

I am still crying when we take the cups down and take
them to the dining room. When we get there, all 100 or
so flutes are formed to a pyramid on the main table.
We left them where they were.
Dinner went down with nothing else happening.
I have never wanted to believe in ghosts.
Still not sure if I do, but it was years before
I took acid, so I don't know what to say about it.



/flame on
//1 story of many

pranked by one of the numerous catholic relatives.

yup

a 2 minute prank they pulled off.

for the wedding of my best friend
they had myself and 3 others build
a pyramid of flutes.

it took the better part of an hour,
and we broke a few trying.

I'm not saying I believe in ghosts,
I'm saying that the world is a farking
strange place, and weird shiat can happen.

occams razor doesn't always cut it.
spelling on occams?!?