Boogers, Witches, and Haints

[Ekklesian]

When I was 13, I received a set of the Foxfire books. They were wasted on me. I had no interest in soap making, food preservation or hide tanning. But one chapter stood out, and that was the one with the old Applachian ghost stories.

Everyone has a ghost story. Tis the season, so share yours here.

I'll start with a recent one. This was December 2020. My ex and I had been separated since April of that year. My daughter was 'home' with me for the Christmas break. I was working nights. While at work, my phone rang. It was my daughter, calling from her upstairs bedroom.

"Are you home from work early?" She asked.

I said, "No. Why?"

"I heard the doors open and it sounded like you walking through the house."

"Abby, hang up right now and call 9-1-1."

She did. I was gathering my things and getting ready to leave work, but called her mother who lived nearby. I told her to get to my place immediately, and then call me when she got there. My workplace was a good half-hour away, and I knew my ex and the police, would get there long before I could, so I hung back waiting for some news.

My ex called me a few minutes later. The police were there and everyone was okay. There were no intruders.

But here's the thing, I usually come in through the garage door. She didn't hear the garage door open, she heard the door between the kitchen and the garage open, and heavy footfalls throughout the lower level, and doors opening and closing...all interior.

She was really scared, and I believe her.

In the back of my mind, I knew of her rebellion. She would call herself a 'goth' girl. My main worry was that she had dabbled in the occult, thinking it all 'fun and games' and not at all real. I was worried she possibly played around with a seance or a ouija board with her goth friends at school.

So I began praying especially about that. I still do to this day. I've never asked her directly, nor have I been open with her about my concerns.

But, she's not had another experience like that. My prayer is simply, "deliver her from evil."

 

[tmjbog]

I can't say for sure whether my would be a "ghost" story or just a series of coincidences. About 3 years ago my mother passed away. She was found dead in the bathtub with no water on Saturday morning. They think she passed away between Tuesday and Thursday.

At the time I was in Colorado for work. My wife called me about 1 AM Thursday morning from our house in WV saying that the ADT alarms were going off (we didn't have monitoring just the system that came with the house). My son and her could not get it to stop. It was alerting on everything. Flooding in the basement, fire, carbon monoxide. They were trying the normal resets and nothing would work. Finally I told them to just pull the unit from the wall, so they did. It was a few days later on that I learned my mother had passed. When I showed up at her apartment with my brothers on Sunday my older brother told me he had listened to her messages on her phone and that Thursday morning the office at her apartment complex left her a message that her neighbor called and said her smoke detectors had been going off all night and asked her to check them.

The second odd thing that happened had to do with two decorative shells that had been in my mom's bathroom that my wife had taken. They were displayed on the back of the toilet in the bathroom next to my office. About four different times over about a six week period after her death one of them would fall off the back of the toilet. A picture that was just above the shells which had been there for about four years fell off the wall once as well.

The oddest thing, though, was a story my two brothers told me. They were doing some housework for my mother on the Sunday prior to her death. She told them that 3 little boys had came in to her apartment and watched tv with her for a while. My brother knew she always kept her door locked and asked her how they got in. She said she didn't know but they just sat with her for a while watching tv then when they were getting ready to go they said she needed to come with them. She said she couldn't she had to stay there, so eventually they left and said they would come back later for her. She was in the early stages of dementia so they assumed she was just reliving her three sons as boys again.

 

[aleshanee]

hawaii has tons of ghost stories and accounts of ghost encounters.... .every inch of oahu is supposed to be haunted with a few places well known for sightings and hauntings.... . many say one reason for that is every piece of ground here not yet excavated has human bones under it... . and the places already excavated and developed in the past had bones that were removed......

the church i;m a member of which has existed for over 200 years on the same spot... and almost that many years in the same building... decided a few years ago they needed to build a combination gym and fellowship hall.... something they had managed to live without their entire history... ...

trouble was they had no space or spare ground anywhere around them...... like most church buildings from the early 1800s a cemetery surrounded most of the building......... so...... they dug up the graves on one part of the property.. . which consisted of native hawaiians buried there in the mid 1800s.... put the bones into boxes and stored them in the basement under the church sanctuary..... then started building their new facility there.... .. .....

lawsuits began almost immediately and continue to this day.... .. but as for me i don;t ever attend services in that sanctuary... which is sad because it;s a beautiful place.... but to me just the idea that i would be sitting in a pew above disinterred and desecrated bodies of the earliest members of the church was more than i wanted to deal with.... ..i don;t have a problem walking through it but that;s about it.... .... personally..other than getting a weird feeling... i never experienced anything i would call ghostly or haunted in there.... but i do know some people who have... .

still.... even with all that it;s still better to be at this church than the one i left to come here.... my previous church gave in to the obama edict concerning churches and gay marriages and began performing same sex weddings...... .i don;t if any ghosts, goblins or witches have invaded the place since they started that..... but i heard from a friend that it is haunted with fairies.... i have no idea what she is talking about... ..

 

[aleshanee]

one of the ghosts common to hawaii is the obake'....... a vengeful female ghost of japanese origin.... .. it appears in a long white dress or shiff.... with long flowing black hair... a pale ghastly face and empty eyes.... ..they also have no feet so they float in the air just above the ground...... legend has it that they only appear in form to men who have been unfaithful to their wives ... . yet there are stories of men admitting to have seen an obake' and only told their closest friends about it..... and ..per local legend... they can still be heard and felt or "sensed" by even other people..including women.. who cannot see them....

there are many places around oahu famous for frequent obake' sightings.... .. one of those is the rocks and cliffs around the point of land at the lanai lookout and halona blowhole area close to the archery range i go to..... .a few years ago there was an archer there who was also a fisherman that fished off those points at night..... . one day he showed up with a foam head... like the kind use for storing/displaying wigs... . and had it mounted on a stick.. he had put a long black wig on it... with a white raggedy sheet hanging under it....and had painted a ghastly looking face on it .... he said it was his obake' arrow target....

he said he had been haunted and harrassed by an obake' for years on multiple occasions while fishing around the cliffs and he was tired of it... .. he figured if he shot that obake' target to pieces he could excorcise that ghost from himself and make it go away or bother somebody else.... .. ..i was there the day he brought that thing out to shoot at.... .. ..someone else that saw him that day asked him if he knew the history of who was supposed to be haunted by obake;s ..and why... .... he said..... "yeah... i know.... it;s why i;m divorced....".....

 

[abcaines]

I have absolutely no paranormal or ghost stories. Never been haunted by anything... Nothing.

All stories of ghosts or demons have been second hand to me. Whenever I thought something might come up, it fizzled into nothing. I remember once, a babysitter who fancied herself a medium of sorts brought out her crystal ball and was enquiring of it, I can't remember what but she yammered on about but she fell silent for a few moments then suddenly, went, "Hmmm." She then picked up her crystal ball put it away. Never heard anything further.

 

[aleshanee]

I have absolutely no paranormal or ghost stories. Never been haunted by anything... Nothing.

All stories of ghosts or demons have been second hand to me. Whenever I thought something might come up, it fizzled into nothing. I remember once, a babysitter who fancied herself a medium of sorts brought out her crystal ball and was enquiring of it, I can't remember what but she yammered on about but she fell silent for a few moments then suddenly, went, "Hmmm." She then picked up her crystal ball put it away. Never heard anything further.

the ship falls o clyde is supposedly haunted by dozens of ghosts..... mostly of former sailors who died on board and even passengers that travelled on it once.... .many different people including visitors who didn;t even know each other claimed to have seen some of the same things in the same places.... even years apart from each other...... ......

then several years ago one of the curators brought in a medium/ghost hunter type guy and took him through the ship.... . the guy came back beaming with wild but detailed stories about all the different ghosts and aparitions he had seen on his tour of the ship.... several of us were there listening to the guy tell anout it... ...... ..then my dad spoke up and told how he had been working on that ship for over 20 years... on every part of it... even doing diving work under it and had never seen or heard anything like that..... ... the guy told him.... "someone like you never will.... "......

it sounded almost like he was trying to insult my dad - so my dad asked him what he meant... .. and the guy said... "you;re too hot.... you have what i call a hot personality... .. you are a natural repellant to them..... "...... the way he said it raised even more questions so the guy told him... "if you were catholic and a priest they would have made you an exorcist.... because they would have seen you as having the ability to send ghosts and spirits back to the grave... or to hell - if you believe in that sort of thing"....... ..and even as he said all that he appeared to be annoyed that anyone was questioning his psychic abilities.....

my dad just laughed about it..... but needless to say my dad and this guy did not hit it off.... ..kinda obvious they were not going to be best friends.... . ....i kept quiet and didn;t tell the guy anything at all... but i had never seen any ghosts on the ship either..... but then i hear weird things all the time.... it;s just part of schizophrenia..... but i never thought i was seeing or hearing a ghost or disembodied spirit.... the ghost hunter and a couple of other people went off through the museum talking among themselves..... we left and walked over to the aloha tower market place for grilled cheese sandwiches....

 

[abcaines]

the guy told him.... "someone like you never will.... "......

it sounded almost like he was trying to insult my dad - so my dad asked him what he meant... .. and the guy said... "you;re too hot.... you have what i call a hot personality... .. you are a natural repellant to them..... "...... the way he said it raised even more questions so the guy told him... "if you were catholic and a priest they would have made you an exorcist.... because they would have seen you as having the ability to send ghosts and spirits back to the grave... or to hell - if you believe in that sort of thing"....... ..and even as he said all that he appeared to be annoyed that anyone was questioning his psychic abilities.....

He'd probably say the same thing about me as well.

I had a barracks mate in the Navy say he wanted to do some kind of psychic reading on me so I let him. After a few minutes, he dropped his hands, stepped back and said reading me was like reading a rock wall. I'll let you guess what my response was... (I was a young zealot at the time...)

 

[aleshanee]

He'd probably say the same thing about me as well.

I had a barracks mate in the Navy say he wanted to do some kind of psychic reading on me so I let him. After a few minutes, he dropped his hands, stepped back and said reading me was like reading a rock wall. I'll let you guess what my response was... (I was a young zealot at the time...)

you are probably right.. he would.. i think my dad knows the guy who makes these wartime
story videos.. ...he was serving in hawaii for a quite a while and his picture looks familiar
... he makes a lot of videos concerning paranormal experiences that quite a few members
of the military have while in the service... mostly about marines and navy... and especially
in active war zones or places where heavy combat action occured.... .. he did this one
about okinawa most recently.....

foul language warning - as with most videos concerning military there is
considerable profanity

 

[abcaines]

you are probably right.. he would.. i think my dad knows the guy who makes these wartime
story videos.. ...he was serving in hawaii for a quite a while and his picture looks familiar
... he makes a lot of videos concerning paranormal experiences that quite a few members
of the military have while in the service... mostly about marines and navy... and especially
in active war zones or places where heavy combat action occured.... .. he did this one
about okinawa most recently.....

foul language warning - as with most videos concerning military there is
considerable profanity

From the video: "It's more of a rumor than a collection of stories..."

Standard boilerplate for stories of the paranormal.

 

[Ekklesian]

Way back, as a kid, watching one of those pop documentaries on ghosts, it dawned on me...why are ghosts clothed? Do the clothes have a ghost? Why are some of them reported to appear with their injuries? Why do some appear to be aged, and others as children?

There's no question that many ghost stories are the result of an overactive imagination, or just plain hoaxes. But there's also no question that some apparitions are real. They're just not the souls of dead people. And just as the devil took on the appearance of a snake in the Garden, and of Samuel in the conjuring of the witch of Endor, the genuine apparitions are those of deceiving spirits.

 

[Ekklesian]

 

[AverageJoe]

Growing up I was acquainted with a lady named Greta Alexander from Delavan, Illinois. She communed with the spirits, and could assist the local and national police in locating persons who had disappeared and had been murdered, and could see when people were going to have things happen in their lives. She was NO FAKE. She claimed to be a Christian. She helped find the body of one of my friends when I was a teenager. In the early 1980s, my autobody shop did some work on her car after an accident. She and I were having a conversation when she picked up her car after having it repaired, and she reached out for my hand to shake it. As soon as my hand was in hers she started crying and told me that I would soon feel the pain of a broken relationship and that I would move away. My fiance and I broke up exactly four months later and I did indeed move from Green Valley, Illinois to Watertown, Wisconsin. She told me several other things that came true as well. Our paths were to cross again several years later.
My wife and I have experienced several things that are unexplainable. We have been sitting in our dining room in view of the kitchen cabinets and had the cabinet doors on the top set of cabinets open and two coffee cups thrown out onto the kitchen floor. We consulted out pastor and he told us that we were both under the influence of demonic spirits, not that we were being attacked by them, but we were "under the influence" of them. This was in an IFB church in Augusta, Georgia. We left that church. We learned a few weeks later that several of our neighbors in that complex were part of a Coven and that on the night that these things took place that they were right next door.
Then in the early 1990s I went to work for Menards in Pekin, Illinois and had a coworker named Rob Conover. He was an internationally known psychic. One day while working together in the lumber department he put his hand on my shoulder to get my attention and quickly froze. He told me we needed to go to lunch immediately that he had something important to talk to me about. As we ate lunch in the breakroom he stated that the minute he put his hand on me he was told by a spirit that I had a psychic ability that was not being used. Now, it's true that I have been able to foretell certain things, much to my chagrin, My mother is the same way, as was my maternal grandfather. At any rate he also told me the spirit told him that I also had been in contact with Greta Alexander, the first psychic I mentioned. He told me that my wife's sister was meddling with the spirits and that it would be better if she didn't. Seven years later my wife's sister was certified as a paranormal investigator, and also as medium...
Though I'm saved and am a laypreacher, I have had many such happenings. I've had pastors tell me that I don't hvae the Holy Spirit but am "demon controlled." It's those kinds of statements that have made my wife and I remove ourselves from several churches. And, in most cases where the pastor has made such statements, either they or someone in their family has been caught in sexual "adventures, been caught grooming young boys for homosexual purposes, or been grooming young girls . Only one of the many pastors who have made that statement is still in the pulpit but is under investigation on sexual and financial indiscretions. I don't commune with any spirit but the Holy Spirit.

 

[aleshanee]

night marchers... ..this is one of the most common ghost legends of hawaii.... and it is supposed to occur on every island ... what they are is spirits of the dead who walk together at night as if marching.. roaming the earth... (or at least the earth on these islands)....sometimes they are a mass of common people who are dead.. sometimes a mass of ancient hawaiian warriors chanting their war chants.... the legend says they avoid populated areas - which is why people here are so reluctant to go into the rainforest at night.... or walk on remote beaches at night.....

it is also said that if you see night marchers you must remain very still and very quiet until they are gone... because if they see you they will grab you and force you to march with them.... and then you will become a night marcher yourself condemned to roam the earth at night with them.....

however... . since they are only the dead who have died on whatever island they inhabit - there is always the possibility that if you grew up here and your family history is here.. then one of them might be a relative of yours.. ... and if that is the case the relative will force the other night marchers to release you and let you go on your way.......

i know people who fervently believe in these things ....nobody i know has ever seen one themselves.. ... but as with most ghost stories like this they all know somebody who knows somebody else who has seen them.... and they also know of a few who were even taken by them but released because one of their dearly departed relatives was with them....... ..... and then of course there are stories of people who ventured into the forest or onto a remote beach by themselves at night and were never seen again...... it;s assumed the nightmarchers saw them and got them too........ .. ....hawaii has many ghost legends...
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[abcaines]

Growing up I was acquainted with a lady named Greta Alexander from Delavan, Illinois. She communed with the spirits, and could assist the local and national police in locating persons who had disappeared and had been murdered, and could see when people were going to have things happen in their lives. She was NO FAKE. She claimed to be a Christian. She helped find the body of one of my friends when I was a teenager. In the early 1980s, my autobody shop did some work on her car after an accident. She and I were having a conversation when she picked up her car after having it repaired, and she reached out for my hand to shake it. As soon as my hand was in hers she started crying and told me that I would soon feel the pain of a broken relationship and that I would move away. My fiance and I broke up exactly four months later and I did indeed move from Green Valley, Illinois to Watertown, Wisconsin. She told me several other things that came true as well. Our paths were to cross again several years later.
My wife and I have experienced several things that are unexplainable. We have been sitting in our dining room in view of the kitchen cabinets and had the cabinet doors on the top set of cabinets open and two coffee cups thrown out onto the kitchen floor. We consulted out pastor and he told us that we were both under the influence of demonic spirits, not that we were being attacked by them, but we were "under the influence" of them. This was in an IFB church in Augusta, Georgia. We left that church. We learned a few weeks later that several of our neighbors in that complex were part of a Coven and that on the night that these things took place that they were right next door.
Then in the early 1990s I went to work for Menards in Pekin, Illinois and had a coworker named Rob Conover. He was an internationally known psychic. One day while working together in the lumber department he put his hand on my shoulder to get my attention and quickly froze. He told me we needed to go to lunch immediately that he had something important to talk to me about. As we ate lunch in the breakroom he stated that the minute he put his hand on me he was told by a spirit that I had a psychic ability that was not being used. Now, it's true that I have been able to foretell certain things, much to my chagrin, My mother is the same way, as was my maternal grandfather. At any rate he also told me the spirit told him that I also had been in contact with Greta Alexander, the first psychic I mentioned. He told me that my wife's sister was meddling with the spirits and that it would be better if she didn't. Seven years later my wife's sister was certified as a paranormal investigator, and also as medium...
Though I'm saved and am a laypreacher, I have had many such happenings. I've had pastors tell me that I don't hvae the Holy Spirit but am "demon controlled." It's those kinds of statements that have made my wife and I remove ourselves from several churches. And, in most cases where the pastor has made such statements, either they or someone in their family has been caught in sexual "adventures, been caught grooming young boys for homosexual purposes, or been grooming young girls . Only one of the many pastors who have made that statement is still in the pulpit but is under investigation on sexual and financial indiscretions. I don't commune with any spirit but the Holy Spirit.

Wow.

Even though I am usually skeptical about reports of the paranormal, I still believe that there is a spiritual realm out there where the Holy Spirit is active as are demons. For whatever reason, God has chosen to withhold all experience in this realm from me.

 

[AverageJoe]

Wow.

Even though I am usually skeptical about reports of the paranormal, I still believe that there is a spiritual realm out there where the Holy Spirit is active as are demons. For whatever reason, God has chosen to withhold all experience in this realm from me.

I can guarantee you that I NEVER wanted these contacts, nor did I relish them. I wouldn't wish them on anyone else.

 

[aleshanee]

i started posting the stories on the fff of what happened in my childhood and the abuse i suffered almost 20 years ago... reason being the fff seemed like a safe place to do it... .. i also posted quite a bit about the waking nightmares i have had since childhood.... and continue to have.... and how they persist even to this day... .they are terrifying and can last for a long time after i am awake....much longer than the waking dreams other people have.... becoming impossible to discern from reality until it stops...... and i feel the same way averagejoe does - i wouldn;t wish this on anyone.....

this video is about people who experience something similar.... though not to the extent i do... .and while the reason for theirs is often unknown ..the reasons for mine is well known and documented... .for me it;s part of schizophrenia and acute post traumatic stress disorder that resulted from being sexually used as a child... and also from witnessing the murder of my natural sister after that.... .... my waking nightmares are quite often recreations of those events with additional things added to them that didn;t. happen in the original incidents.... and unlike people whose waking dreams usually end once they are fully awake sometimes mine do not .... plus they can also occur any time of the day even in the middle of a normal day when i am out doing normal things.. ....it;s just one of the reasons i can;t live on my own...

the stories from this video are all about guys in the military - who were never victims of abuse. ... . it brings up a lot of interesting questions.....

 

[abcaines]

 

[Ekklesian]

night marchers... ..this is one of the most common ghost legends of hawaii.... and it is supposed to occur on every island ... what they are is spirits of the dead who walk together at night as if marching.. roaming the earth... (or at least the earth on these islands)....sometimes they are a mass of common people who are dead.. sometimes a mass of ancient hawaiian warriors chanting their war chants.... the legend says they avoid populated areas - which is why people here are so reluctant to go into the rainforest at night.... or walk on remote beaches at night.....

it is also said that if you see night marchers you must remain very still and very quiet until they are gone... because if they see you they will grab you and force you to march with them.... and then you will become a night marcher yourself condemned to roam the earth at night with them.....

however... . since they are only the dead who have died on whatever island they inhabit - there is always the possibility that if you grew up here and your family history is here.. then one of them might be a relative of yours.. ... and if that is the case the relative will force the other night marchers to release you and let you go on your way.......

i know people who fervently believe in these things ....nobody i know has ever seen one themselves.. ... but as with most ghost stories like this they all know somebody who knows somebody else who has seen them.... and they also know of a few who were even taken by them but released because one of their dearly departed relatives was with them....... ..... and then of course there are stories of people who ventured into the forest or onto a remote beach by themselves at night and were never seen again...... it;s assumed the nightmarchers saw them and got them too........ .. ....hawaii has many ghost legends...
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Interesting lore.

 

[Ekklesian]

i started posting the stories on the fff of what happened in my childhood and the abuse i suffered almost 20 years ago... reason being the fff seemed like a safe place to do it... .. i also posted quite a bit about the waking nightmares i have had since childhood.... and continue to have.... and how they persist even to this day... .they are terrifying and can last for a long time after i am awake....much longer than the waking dreams other people have.... becoming impossible to discern from reality until it stops...... and i feel the same way averagejoe does - i wouldn;t wish this on anyone.....

this video is about people who experience something similar.... though not to the extent i do... .and while the reason for theirs is often unknown ..the reasons for mine is well known and documented... .for me it;s part of schizophrenia and acute post traumatic stress disorder that resulted from being sexually used as a child... and also from witnessing the murder of my natural sister after that.... .... my waking nightmares are quite often recreations of those events with additional things added to them that didn;t. happen in the original incidents.... and unlike people whose waking dreams usually end once they are fully awake sometimes mine do not .... plus they can also occur any time of the day even in the middle of a normal day when i am out doing normal things.. ....it;s just one of the reasons i can;t live on my own...

the stories from this video are all about guys in the military - who were never victims of abuse. ... . it brings up a lot of interesting questions.....

Are you on medication for these? My friends daughter is on clozapine. Not enough to fully silence the voices, but enough to allay the psychosis.

I only started the video. The first story, to me, is clearly demonic. I've heard many, many stories like this. Why would so many people be having the same dreams?

 

[Ekklesian]

Do you try to pray during the waking nightmares?