A "67 Not Out" reader's paranormal story today. A ghostly tale from when Jan was a child. Thank you, Jan.
"You wrote a post recently about a poltergeist and this reminded me of an experience I had, though I'm not sure if it comes under that category. Maybe it's more of a ghost story.
This happened about ten years ago when I was eight years old. I know it may sound like this is some kid's made up story but I remember it so distinctly because my father had just died.
His passing away upset me very much. He had a heart attack and died in our house. Mum and my younger brother were also devastated. I'll never forget the picture of my mum's sad face, it was like her world had ended.
After the funeral we started to hear some strange noises. It was like someone was walking backwards and forwards in our upstairs hall. This became especially scary at night when we were in bed.
This continued but became less frequent but we would also hear a sort of humming noise in the kitchen. A bit like the sound my dad used to make when he was concentrating on some DIY job. Cupboards in the kitchen started to open and close by themselves.
Mum did her best to laugh it all off but even as a child I felt she was only putting on a brave face.
One of my school friends, Mandy, came to stay for the weekend. We were going to go horse riding as a special treat. We were in my bedroom when Mandy said she could hear footsteps. I made out she must be hearing things but then out of the blue the bedroom door opened and shut itself again with a loud bang.
We managed to giggle about it but I was getting quite scared. We then heard loud footsteps outside the bedroom door, which we thought was my mum. Bravely I opened the door but there was nobody there. I called out and mum was in the kitchen making us a snack.
This freaked Mandy out and she asked to go home. Mum phoned for her mother to pick her up.
Mum, my brother and I often heard noises, even music playing plus that humming noise. After what I think was about two or three months it all stopped. We still live in the same house today. Mum won't move as she remembers dad being there. Ten years on, to my knowledge, she has never had another man friend. She loved dad so much.
I did talk about the noises with mum a short while ago and she said she thought it was dad making sure we were all alright. But what it actually was, I'm not sure. I just know it happened."
FURTHER READING:
Her Grandmother Visits from Beyond The Grave
Ghostly Rye: The Most Haunted Town In England
TheUnusual Contact With her Dead Mother
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A team of ghost hunters spent last Saturday evening looking for spirits in the Russ House, and plan to come back soon to see if they can spot the "burning bride of Bellamy Bridge."
She is the central figure in what may be Jackson County's best-known ghost story.
Saturday's trip to Marianna, though, was a search for recordable evidence that the refurbished Russ House is inhabited by unseen residents as well as serving as home to the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce.
The Big Bend Ghost Trackers team has come to the conclusion that, while paranormal activity was not particularly high that night, "there is without a doubt something there," according to group founder Betty Davis.
The team used a variety of devices. One was an electronic magnetic field detector, which picks up "fluctuations in magnetic, electric and radio/microwave energy levels. Paranormal investigators believe that anomalous readings in those energy fields are a sign of a ghost," Davis explained in an e-mail about the visit.
According to Davis, the device registered a "medium-high" reading just after an "ectoplasm" was seen floating in the room. An ectoplasm, Davis explained, is "a misty, slightly foggy substance" that is considered by believers to be "residue left over by a spirit who was recently in an area."
This substance was seen where the Russ family nursery used to be, Davis reported.
Whether one believes in ghosts or not, there have been eerie reports at the Russ House over the years. The elevator is said to move up and down the floors when no one's aboard to push its buttons. The sound of footsteps have been reported in empty rooms. Objects are said to have inexplicably moved from place to place, seemingly on their own.
Davis said the team came to the Russ House based in part on a chance meeting with Mary Pettis, vice president of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce.
Pettis recently went on a "ghost hunt" sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce in Monticello, where she has family. In fact, her uncle, the late Ben Ervin, had been instrumental in getting the old Monticello Opera House back in operation and was active in other community affairs there.
Pettis still has other family members living in the area, and visits from time to time.
At the end of the ghost tour that Pettis had learned of by chance, the guide asked whether anyone had had a paranormal experience.
Pettis had heard stories from others about the Russ House, and she's had some spooky experiences of her own as she worked late into the night on one Chamber project or another.
Sometime last year, she and her daughter saw something they still can't explain. Pettis's daughter was keeping her company in the otherwise empty house one night and put a soft drink can on her desk.
All of a sudden, it started to move. It shifted about a foot, with no "sweat-stream" trailing behind it that might explain the movement as the result of condensation.
Wide-eyed, Pettis and her daughter left immediately.
Pettis sad she has also witnessed the elevator moving from floor to floor with no one aboard.
She said she's talked to elevator experts who told her that, because of its particular operational style, it shouldn't be able to move? even if it were to malfunction ? without someone there to push the button.
She's also heard footsteps on the upper floors when she was there alone.
And there there were the peculiar reactions of her dogs on separate late-night visits to the Russ House.
Her male mastiff weighs more than 150 pounds and cuts a formidable figure as a guard dog when she's there alone. She typically lets the dog make a run-through of the house to make sure no intruder is lying in wait.
One night, he came to a skidding stop near the back staircase and refused to go further. Growling deep in his throat, the dog seemed uncharacteristically afraid, and his eyes started glinting with a silvery glow.
Her large female mastiff reacted similarly at the same spot in the house on a different outing. Both were anxious to leave, and Pettis was ready to oblige.
While she's not ready to say she believes in ghosts, Pettis acknowledges that she's seen some things she hasn't been able to explain away.
And she's not the only one. Many visitors to the house have reported odd experiences to staff, and some people swear that the ghost of Joseph W. Russ resides within the walls of the house he built.
Russ committed suicide in his bedroom there on Feb. 7, 1930, around the time of the infamous Wall Street crash and as the Great Depression had descended on the country.
News of his death appeared in the newspaper a few days later, and one item reads, in part, that "in a fit of despondency last Friday night, Joseph W. Russ, leading citizen of Marianna and one of Jackson County's largest property owners, fired a bullet into his brain."
Davis explained various theories that would fit with this belief.
Some believe that the spirits of those who die unexpectedly tend to stay behind in their familiar and favorite environs, and may not realize they're dead.
The "burning bride of Bellamy Bridge" has had multiple reported sightings through many decades and various incarnations of the tale abound.
Davis and her group are working out the details of a return visit to Jackson County in hopes of getting what they would consider evidence of her presence at the old iron bridge.
They'll be traveling with Dale Cox, a historian who lived here for many years and has written extensively of the local past.
By DEBORAH BUCKHALTER, Jackson County Floridan
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When a location has a ghost or spirit that is able to communicate, respond and/or interact with the living, it is believed to be the result of an intelligent haunting. In theory, this type of haunting involves the spirit/ghost of a deceased person. Sites where gruesome murders took place and other tragic events are often linked with paranormal activity of this type. Sometimes a spirit will remain earthbound because of unfinished business or to bring comfort to family members. An intelligent haunting can also be the result of a spirit unable to leave a place that once brought them happiness and peace.
Signs of a possible intelligent haunting in your home or place of business could be:
1) Objects being moved about/hidden
2) Slamming, opening and closing of doors and windows
3) Unexplainable electrical disturbances
4) The manifestation of an apparition resembling the person as they were in life
5) Strange sounds, voices and unexplainable scents/odors
6) A strong presence can be felt around you
7) The feeling of being touched, cold spots
This is for me (many of you would agree) the most frightening type of haunting. Experts will tell you that it is important to not let fear take over here. One, including myself, must try and remember that it is most likely the spirit seeking attention for help or its inability to detach its emotional ties to a place/person. However, it is important to eliminate all other possibilities before concluding that an intelligent haunting is taking place.
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We all know the most tragic maritime story of all time: the sinking of the Titanic by an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 14th, 1912. However, what many of us may not know is that, over the years, there have been many strange stories centred around the ill-fated ship. The most reported story has been that involving the Titanic Exhibit, which is housed in the Georgia Museum, and which travels from one major city to the next, giving people the opportunity to view many of the once-lost artefacts from the monumental wreckage. The exhibit is reported to be haunted.
Ghostly apparitions, disembodied voices and strange footsteps have been reported at many locations on the Titanic exhibit tour, and volunteers who work at the exhibit claim to have experienced an eerie presence around them while walking through the artefacts. These reports cannot be so easily dismissed, for it is quite often the case that spirits do attach themselves to certain artefacts, and haunt whatever location houses them This could well be the case with the Titanic, for obviously, unlike haunted properties, it is no longer actually standing, but has left behind many artefacts which could quite easily have been left with supernatural potential.
It is not known for sure just how many ghosts haunt the Titanic Exhibition. More than 1,500 people went down with the ship on that fateful evening of April 14th, 1912, so it could be any one or any number of those deceased souls.
A spokeswoman for the aquarium, Meghann Gibbons, has expressed her belief, and the belief of many volunteers working on the exhibit, that it is in fact haunted. One visitor to the Titanic Exhibit, with her daughter and 4-year-old grandson, firmly agree. According to her story, while viewing the 1st class quarters, she and her daughter thought little of the young boy's repeated questioning, "Who is that lady?" and "What is she doing?" They assured him that there was only a dress laid out over the love seat, as if waiting to be adorned. It wasn't until they heard later that the TAPS ghost hunting team was investigating paranormal activity in the Titanic Exhibit that they believed the boy had experienced his first ghostly encounter.
Many visitors to the exhibit claimed to have experienced an eerie feeling, as if being watched, or feeling an immense sadness around specific objects or areas of the exhibit. Most assumed it was a general sombre mood evoked by the 1912 disaster, but as more and more reports come in with similar claims, a lot of people are starting to give these reports credence - including the TAPS team of paranormal investigators from Sci-Fi's "Ghost Hunters". The TAPS lead investigators, Jay and Grant, strongly believe that the Titanic Exhibit is haunted. After a lengthy investigation, which aired on the 97th anniversary of the ship's tragic demise, the TAPS team found sufficient evidence of paranormal activity, including an eerie EVP recording. They were seated in a room trying to communicate with the ghost, and asked the spirit if it wanted them to leave. The voice distinctly replied, "Now - please, wait." Unfortunately, Jay and Grant could not follow up on the questions, since they did not hear the voice until later, when the evidence was being analysed.
This year (2012), a group of ghost hunters plan to mark the 100th anniversary of the 'Titanic's' sinking by travelling out to the exact location of the ship's sinking and searching for any residual impressions left behind from the incident. The group - appropriately named D.E.A.D (direct, evidence, after, death) - hope to achieve results mainly from the use of sophisticated EVP recorders. Their spokesperson, William Brower, says they will be recreating the atmosphere of the doomed 'Titanic's' last hours by serving up the same meals and listening to the same type of music heard on that fateful night a century ago. One of the group, Angelica Harris, hopes this will be a fitting tribute to those that died, including her great uncle who was aboard.
The supernatural incidents revolving around the Titanic could be attributable to residual impressions, which are often left behind after an event of extreme trauma, like the emotional trauma experienced by all those people who went down with the Titanic. Will the group pick up sounds of those who died, desperately screaming out for help in the icy waters of the North Atlantic Ocean? Only time will tell.
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