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sometimes living in a haunted town is weird...
A2597
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OK...I live in St. Augustine, the nations most haunted city, and slowly I'm seeing why.
At first it was just the room upstairs, where the window would slide open on it's own. Nothing much, odd that heavy wood and metal windows could slide UP on their own, but oh well.
Next, the street light. Just this one, that when I walk near it, will turn off, and won't turn back on until I'm about 200 yards away. Just once I could see, but it happens about 90% of the time when I walk by it. Other people have noticed the same, but others can lean on that pole without it turning off. Again, weird.
Then there is the haunted classroom, don't be in there by yourself at night. You will hear someone knock on the door, but no ones there. And theres no where they could run to avoid being seen. The door lock magnetically, but once it pushed far enough in that you could see outside, that takes ALOT of force to bend a door that far, and no one was pushing it.
My kitchen. Dishes disappear and reappear randomly. I'll be here, ALONE, for the weekend. Suddenly no spoons when I need one. I'll find like, one in the dishwasher, but no clean ones. an hour later all four spoons are right where they belong. Other times it the bowls, or the plates, or the forks, or a combination thereof...really weird
Then just other small stuff, the occational book flying off the table, that kind of thing.
So yea, living in a haunted town, pretty cool overall.
At first it was just the room upstairs, where the window would slide open on it's own. Nothing much, odd that heavy wood and metal windows could slide UP on their own, but oh well.
Next, the street light. Just this one, that when I walk near it, will turn off, and won't turn back on until I'm about 200 yards away. Just once I could see, but it happens about 90% of the time when I walk by it. Other people have noticed the same, but others can lean on that pole without it turning off. Again, weird.
Then there is the haunted classroom, don't be in there by yourself at night. You will hear someone knock on the door, but no ones there. And theres no where they could run to avoid being seen. The door lock magnetically, but once it pushed far enough in that you could see outside, that takes ALOT of force to bend a door that far, and no one was pushing it.
My kitchen. Dishes disappear and reappear randomly. I'll be here, ALONE, for the weekend. Suddenly no spoons when I need one. I'll find like, one in the dishwasher, but no clean ones. an hour later all four spoons are right where they belong. Other times it the bowls, or the plates, or the forks, or a combination thereof...really weird
Then just other small stuff, the occational book flying off the table, that kind of thing.
So yea, living in a haunted town, pretty cool overall.
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A) Someone just slid it up.
B) A source of vibration makes it bounce upwards in small steps (millimeter at time?) but once there, it locks in place (can slide freely only in one way).
[QUOTE]Next, the street light. [/QUOTE]
Some contact is broken. When people of specific weight walk in specific fashion, the contact separates.
[QUOTE]You will hear someone knock on the door, but no ones there.[/QUOTE]
You never really hear a knock on the door -- merely another similar sound. Instead of using habit, and suspecting the door, one should look for the actual source of the sound.
[QUOTE]Suddenly no spoons when I need one. I'll find like, one in the dishwasher, but no clean ones. an hour later all four spoons are right where they belong. [/QUOTE]
Have you verified that the place is not inhabited by a strange phenomenon called "humans"? :p I have heard they occasionally wash spoons, dry them, and put them in drawers. Why? Not sure. But they do. :rolleyes:
Ghosts are always nice for company.
And that streetlight thing isnt anything new.. I've had trouble with electronical equipment since i was a kid. The damn automated doors never work for me. Bastards.
This has nothing to do with ghosts. It happens all the time.
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[quote]Some contact is broken. When people of specific weight walk in specific fashion, the contact separates.[/quote]
That's not likely. Walking on solid -- much less paved -- earth wouldn't make enough vibration to cause a streetlight to go out like that; maybe if you were a 400-pound man jumping up and down at the base of the light, but not normally.
OK, logical explaination for the streetlight (The link Sam provided)
Now, if this were the case, why does it happen to the same streetlight almost every time I pass it, and other people have noticed the same thing? (Not just me, Brooke upstairs, Ryan next door, they all have the same problem with the same street light). It also doesn't matter which side of the street I am on. At first I thought that maybe I was triggering the photocell of the light, but that wouldn't work from across the street correct? and should that not be effected by what color cloths I wear? Still, Very odd.
The haunted classroom:
OK, the doors magnetically lock, and from the inside are unlocked by magnetic sensors. Thus, they constantly lock and unloack as you move about. That makes a very simular sound, however it is only a single "Bump" sound. Not a "RAP RAP RAP" of someone knocking. It is definately coming from the door, not the wall, not some further outside source, the door. you can be right next to it when it does that. There are no windows, however the door is on the second floor, and the wood walkway outside makes noise if you try to run, and there is no way you could knock on the door and run away without being noticed. Second, the door bending all the way in like that? It warped the bottom half of the door more then two inches! These are solid, exterior doors, it would take ALOT of force to bend them that far.
As for my silverware/dishes, I have one apartment mate: He was gone (Sometimes for the weekend, othertimes because he works 8 hours shifts, and to top it off, I've only seen him do dishes ONCE, and he never has emptied the dishwasher. My door is open so I can see my entire apartment. No way anyone could get near the dishes without me noticing. And of course I looked for the dishes. First place is where they belong, second the sink, then the dishwasher. I rarely find everything, but then it will just show up later that day, me being home alone the entire time. (Generally sitting right here) Granted, it's unusual for all the dishes to disapear, but I have managed to lose 3 of 4 bowls, only to have the other three pop up right where they belong, eye level on the second shelf. It COULD be selective vision, my just missing it, but not for as often as it happens, it's just weird.
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I KNOW it seems silly, but it's weird, I've tried looking for logical explainations for the past two months for some of this stuff, as of yet, none seem to pan out.
For example, the old windows are counterweighted to make them easier to open. I thought maybe the weights were too heavy, and the window would open if left unlocked in the closed position.
Problem: When they worked on the building they removed the counterweights for whatever reason.
That was my best theory for the window, and it didn't pan out.
Sould I even mention the haunted rooms of the Girls dorms? (The girls dorms are all in the Flagler College building, the mens are in new buildings, so nothing there to my knowledge)
There is one room that they keep under lock and key because the ghost (Or whatever) became violent, I can't remember the specifics of what happened, only that it was enough that they closed that room off and keep it locked so no one can get in.
The second is that many visitors from the outside see someone hanging inside the room by the window, but inside there is nothing out of the ordinary. That one I caulk up to student pranks, and feel that the rumors of it being around before it was a college are just exaggerated.
and the third, well...I think that ones just stupid, not even going to share it.
(OK, the latter will change this July, then I start with the occational glass of wine. :)
And Ive been visited by my grandfather twice since his death..
Personally, I'm not sure if we're talking about ghosts, or just some place where different energies meet enough to make inanimate objects shift from one plane of existence to another, but yeah... I think I've heard & seen enough myself not to rule out everything with 'science'.
Personally, I don't know why, but to me it seems that I'm constantly around dozens of people that just live exactly where I do, and just mind their own business. At least most of the time. The thing just is, that I can't see 'em and possibly, vice versa. Sound crazy? Probably is too, but it's there all right. So personally, I'm rather comfortable with the thought that -if we want to call 'em that- ghosts exist, and they simply don't just exist, but coexist with us. Maybe some places have a bit more active brethren around than most others, and thus what we call the unexplainable happens but still...
Funny little sidenote, a while back I received a call from my grandmother, (from my mother's side), and she just started complaining about stuff that she's started seeing and things that people have been stealing and some such. Point is, that she's practically blind and has started to talk about people that just come and go, old friends who visit her and some other rude lil' young women who steal her stuff. :p Now, my personal belief is, that when you reach a certain age, your mind starts to fade out, and at the same time, fade in on something else. So maybe, for a brief period of time, some get to live in two different realities, all exactly as real as the one we're living in, but just simply not to us, as we only perceive this one. So, of course I turn on my philosophical thinking cap and really meaning what I'm talking about start to ask my Grannie if she's not sure she's actually seeing ghosts. Just when I'm starting to explain my argument, she goes mental on me for saying such a thing and hangs up. :D ...A first time for everything, I guess.
Most windows of that type have weights in the walls to help them open. If under certain conditions the wood contracts enough to ease the friction and the weights are too heavy the window can open on its own. I have two in my house that if you just blow on them and they aren't locked they will open.
Now, if this were the case, why does it happen to the same streetlight almost every time I pass it, and other people have noticed the same thing? (Not just me, Brooke upstairs, Ryan next door, they all have the same problem with the same street light). It also doesn't matter which side of the street I am on. At first I thought that maybe I was triggering the photocell of the light, but that wouldn't work from across the street correct? and should that not be effected by what color cloths I wear? Still, Very odd.[/quote]
I don't think you read the entire article. Yes, the beginning of the article mentions a light sensor, but it also explains that some street lights have aging bulbs that periodically go out as they heat up and come back on as they cool down.
It's just going off and on at regular intervals.
Doing it would require a network of microphones, best with a computer attached.
Solving the window puzzle would require a video camera, possibly also a thermometer/hygrometer (or weather reports for cross reference).
as for the door...none explains it being pushed open...wind can't move it that far. (Well, it [i]could[/i], but it would take some pretty violent winds to do so. :D )
...and to explode the sodium light hypothesis, ordinary fluro type streetlights will darken with my presence, I've killed ordinary old fashioned incandescents too...
...methinks that there is indeed some link between specific humans and some forms of lighting. There is such a thing as the HLS syndrome, I think its a case of science having to catch up with the phenomenon.
[B]Funny little sidenote, a while back I received a call from my grandmother, (from my mother's side), and she just started complaining about stuff that she's started seeing and things that people have been stealing and some such. Point is, that she's practically blind and has started to talk about people that just come and go, old friends who visit her and some other rude lil' young women who steal her stuff. :p Now, my personal belief is, that when you reach a certain age, your mind starts to fade out, and at the same time, fade in on something else. So maybe, for a brief period of time, some get to live in two different realities, all exactly as real as the one we're living in, but just simply not to us, as we only perceive this one. So, of course I turn on my philosophical thinking cap and really meaning what I'm talking about start to ask my Grannie if she's not sure she's actually seeing ghosts. Just when I'm starting to explain my argument, she goes mental on me for saying such a thing and hangs up. :D ...A first time for everything, I guess. [/B][/QUOTE]We've covered similar cases in Psychology, though bollocks if I can remember anything about the scientific explanation for it.
Bah, no time for anti-paranormal rant. Guild Wars calls!
Light went off as I walked under it.
So, after I was about 200 yards away and it turned back on, I stayed and watched it for a few minutes, being a college town, don't have to wait long for people to walk by it.
For about 4 of 5 people, it would turn off, then back on once they are a ways past it.
It's the darndest thing...
[B]I can't say as to know that they are really ghost, but I have seen things that I can't think of any scientific explaination for... [/B][/QUOTE]Yeah, like finding places for wells and how deep well has to be before there's water... or water in more than one depth, no problem... I mean telling depth of those "layers".
No AC in the house, south florida, in the summers it could be 106* F outside, and my room on the second floor would be about 65* F. One wall nothing but windows. Weird? YES!
Or, that same room, during the day, you would be able to watch the shadow of a hooded figure walk along the wall. Nothing casting that shadow, just a shadow. Both my sister and mother had seen it as well. Turns out that was the reason my sister moved downstairs and gave me that room... (Gee, thanks sis!)
like I said, things that I can't explain and most here won't believe.
Black to white apparently made no difference...best guess is still the photo sensor, maybe skin tone...
I want to set up a camera to test it out...