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2011-10-29 10:56:03 AM
2. The Haunted Hollywood Sign

A friend and I tried to sneak over and climb the Hollywood sign once. And we were caught and almost arrested. They just chased us away. So. I guess that's not that interesting a story. Nevermind.

I love haunted places. I don't believe any of it but I love the stories. The haunted New Orleans tour is cool.
 
2011-10-29 11:36:28 AM
4. The Ghosts of the Rock

"Ebeneezer... Ebeneezer Scrooge. Do you know who I am?"

"Yes, you're-"

"IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU KNOW, JABRONI!!!"
 
2011-10-29 12:23:25 PM
You're stretching, TMLO
 
2011-10-29 12:25:21 PM
All spooky, I'm sure.

/meh
 
2011-10-29 12:27:58 PM
In other not news, people are superstitious drunkards.
 
2011-10-29 12:29:38 PM
Am I the only one who read that headline as "The demon butt pirate of the Statue of Liberty?
 
2011-10-29 12:35:27 PM
Where's my potato salad?
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2011-10-29 12:40:56 PM
neelb420: Where's my potato salad?
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I loved you in Pulp Fiction..
 
2011-10-29 12:45:38 PM
Interrupted Infinitum: You're stretching, TMLO

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2011-10-29 12:56:56 PM
man...I wanna be a demon pirate when I grow up! that'd be like...awesome!
 
2011-10-29 01:11:45 PM
I always thought that the Statue of Liberty had a heart, not a ghost...

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2011-10-29 01:13:32 PM
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What one of the restless dead may look like.

/Large Marge sent me.
 
2011-10-29 01:22:03 PM
Don't forget that Mount Rushmore is built on sacred indian burial grounds
 
2011-10-29 01:24:35 PM
Interrupted Infinitum: You're stretching, TMLO

I snickered.
 
2011-10-29 01:29:54 PM
What about the zombies in Area 51?.
 
2011-10-29 01:31:05 PM
Actually Wrigley Field is haunted by the Chicago Whales of the Federal League. Give Weeghman Park its original name back and bring back the Whales, Chicago deserves to see some winning baseball played in that place.
 
2011-10-29 01:35:47 PM
Fano: Don't forget that Mount Rushmore is built on sacred indian burial grounds

So its the rest of America.
 
2011-10-29 01:39:37 PM
Ghost Adventures has better scary places
 
2011-10-29 01:52:13 PM
SanjiSasuke: Fano: Don't forget that Mount Rushmore is built on sacred indian burial grounds

So its the rest of America.


Heh, it's funny 'cause it's true.

/genocide
 
2011-10-29 02:17:03 PM
One of the things I learned in college is that every college stage (the things what plays and concerts are performed on) is haunted by the friendly ghost of a construction worker who fell to his death during the construction of said stage and or building.

Either college auditoriums are the most dangerous places in the world to build, or drama students are... well, drama queens.
 
2011-10-29 03:43:19 PM
The only landmark I've visited and felt like it was haunted was Gettysburg. I didn't see any ghosts (unfortunately/fortunately), but it was more like a presence. I felt it the most around Devil's Den; maybe because so much death happened there OR because it's a quiet place in the middle of grove of trees and boulders.
 
2011-10-29 03:48:51 PM
One San Antonio landmark, The Emily Morgan Hotel, has some creepy shiat going on there. My kids and I went for vacation and stayed there. When I went to get off the elevator, the smell of ether, rubber and something else nearly gagged me. I honestly could not get off the elevator because the smell was so overpowering, it was almost tangible.

We changed floors, had no problems.

I later found out that the floor that I perceived as smelling so awful was at one time the surgical floor when the hotel was a medical center.
 
2011-10-29 04:02:05 PM
Ed Grubermann: One of the things I learned in college is that every college stage (the things what plays and concerts are performed on) is haunted by the friendly ghost of a construction worker who fell to his death during the construction of said stage and or building.

Either college auditoriums are the most dangerous places in the world to build, or drama students are... well, drama queens.


Something similar happened at my College. Fortunately he wasn't killed - it was just a stage he was going through.
 
2011-10-29 04:18:29 PM
bearcats1983: The only landmark I've visited and felt like it was haunted was Gettysburg. I didn't see any ghosts (unfortunately/fortunately), but it was more like a presence. I felt it the most around Devil's Den; maybe because so much death happened there OR because it's a quiet place in the middle of grove of trees and boulders.

Gettysburg is a very strange feeling place, I swear I saw a group of solders hiking across a field one evening.
 
2011-10-29 05:12:36 PM
Tom_Slick: bearcats1983: The only landmark I've visited and felt like it was haunted was Gettysburg. I didn't see any ghosts (unfortunately/fortunately), but it was more like a presence. I felt it the most around Devil's Den; maybe because so much death happened there OR because it's a quiet place in the middle of grove of trees and boulders.

Gettysburg is a very strange feeling place, I swear I saw a group of solders hiking across a field one evening.


Never mind that time I was riding around the Little Bighorn park with my army reserve unit with a tank, and kept finding stuff from Reno's units. Once we even saw an abandoned indian camp.
 
2011-10-29 05:17:44 PM
SanjiSasuke: Fano: Don't forget that Mount Rushmore is built on sacred indian burial grounds

So its the rest of America.


It's not a burial ground. It's sacred, but the funny thing is that mountains and land seem to become way more sacred about 10 years after you start construction on them.

Like the Petroglyphs west of Albuquerque, or the various native ruins of New Mexico. You should go. You know what you won't see? Indians taking their kids to show them the ways of their ancestors.

No, you'll see white people taking their kids. Native Americans find DirecTV way more sacred than rocks, if you judge by what they do rather than what a tiny minority of highly spiritual and educated Indians say.

Tribal leaders care about rocks, ruins, pottery, history, and storytelling. Indians don't.
 
2011-10-29 05:19:39 PM
Ed Grubermann: One of the things I learned in college is that every college stage (the things what plays and concerts are performed on) is haunted by the friendly ghost of a construction worker who fell to his death during the construction of said stage and or building.

Either college auditoriums are the most dangerous places in the world to build, or drama students are... well, drama queens.


This is what I pretty much came here to say. The idea of somewhere being haunted would probably be more scary to me if I didn't hear stories about how almost everywhere I've ever been is haunted because someone died there once.
 
2011-10-29 05:37:19 PM
ChaoticLimbs: Native Americans find DirecTV way more sacred than rocks, if you judge by what they do rather than what a tiny minority of highly spiritual and educated Indians say.

Are you sure you're just talking about Native Americans? Sounds like you're describing a consumerist society rather than an ethnic group.
 
2011-10-29 06:13:05 PM
ChaoticLimbs: SanjiSasuke: Fano: Don't forget that Mount Rushmore is built on sacred indian burial grounds

So its the rest of America.

It's not a burial ground. It's sacred, but the funny thing is that mountains and land seem to become way more sacred about 10 years after you start construction on them.

Like the Petroglyphs west of Albuquerque, or the various native ruins of New Mexico. You should go. You know what you won't see? Indians taking their kids to show them the ways of their ancestors.

No, you'll see white people taking their kids. Native Americans find DirecTV way more sacred than rocks, if you judge by what they do rather than what a tiny minority of highly spiritual and educated Indians say.

Tribal leaders care about rocks, ruins, pottery, history, and storytelling. Indians don't.


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Do you know how long we have searched for a channel? Almost two hundred years. Then we found this network. Can you blame us for not wanting to give it up?
 
2011-10-29 07:06:21 PM
Why would you haunt the place you died? Wouldn't you rather haunt a place where you were happy? I wouldn't want to haunt a hospital, but I might want to haunt the field where I...you know what, never mind. You get the idea.

I've never "felt" a spooky place. That makes me sad.
 
2011-10-29 07:49:07 PM
Since 1886, Liberty Island has been the home of the Statue of Liberty. But earlier in its history it was known as Bedloe's Island, and was reportedly a favorite spot for notorious pirate Captain Kidd to bury his ill-gotten treasure

Well, if those two idiots were looking on Bedloe's Island for Captain Kidd's treasure, they were only about 110 miles off. Kidd's treasure is supposed to have been been buried on Gardiner's Island, which is at the far end of Long Island.
 
2011-10-29 10:51:51 PM
So a couple of weeks ago a neighborhood bully dared me to spend the night in the old Jackson place. I swear I felt something.


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2011-10-30 12:52:05 AM
i.imgur.com

/boo
 
2011-10-30 09:45:11 AM
Hotel Conneaut in Conneaut, PA.

That place is down right creepy, and the abandoned amusement park outside of the hotel doesn't help.
 
2011-10-30 10:40:58 AM
gadian: Why would you haunt the place you died?

The basic idea is if you die violently it leaves an impression on the area and/or disorients you. The classic tale of the soldier on the battlefield looking for his unit, unawares the war has been over for a generation. If a medium can somehow make contact and explain the war's done and they're dead, the ghost is cured.

That's why children dying horrible leave ghosts but miscarriages do not.
 
2011-10-30 08:31:26 PM
Fano: Tom_Slick: bearcats1983: The only landmark I've visited and felt like it was haunted was Gettysburg. I didn't see any ghosts (unfortunately/fortunately), but it was more like a presence. I felt it the most around Devil's Den; maybe because so much death happened there OR because it's a quiet place in the middle of grove of trees and boulders.

Gettysburg is a very strange feeling place, I swear I saw a group of solders hiking across a field one evening.

Never mind that time I was riding around the Little Bighorn park with my army reserve unit with a tank, and kept finding stuff from Reno's units. Once we even saw an abandoned indian camp.


You sir, are a genius. I loved that episode of twilight zone.
 
2011-10-31 10:46:22 AM
illrigger: Fano: Tom_Slick: bearcats1983: The only landmark I've visited and felt like it was haunted was Gettysburg. I didn't see any ghosts (unfortunately/fortunately), but it was more like a presence. I felt it the most around Devil's Den; maybe because so much death happened there OR because it's a quiet place in the middle of grove of trees and boulders.

Gettysburg is a very strange feeling place, I swear I saw a group of solders hiking across a field one evening.

Never mind that time I was riding around the Little Bighorn park with my army reserve unit with a tank, and kept finding stuff from Reno's units. Once we even saw an abandoned indian camp.

You sir, are a genius. I loved that episode of twilight zone.


I just wish my friend had taken the tank.
 
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