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Viet: I hope you O soon and get an extra sticky bean! And yeah, I'm hoping he was wrong as well! He said he felt I had "a gift" and asked if I wanted to stay and be his apprentice. Sounded a bit like a 60-something year old man was trying real hard to get a teenager to move in with him. :wacko:

Stucki: $45! Did she say what year? I think for that much money, she ought to have been more specific! :haha:

I don't know how I feel about the whole psychic thing. I do believe in some aspects of the paranormal (spirits/ghosts, for example), but I just don't know what to think about psychics. I guess I think there are some people out there who have a gift, but most psychics and fortune tellers are probably full of it. I learned to do tarot readings for fun (I thought the cards were pretty:haha:), but I never believed in them. I also learned to read runes, but I can't do readings for myself. Maybe I should try it for someone else.
 
GingerPanda said:
Viet: I hope you O soon and get an extra sticky bean! And yeah, I'm hoping he was wrong as well! He said he felt I had "a gift" and asked if I wanted to stay and be his apprentice. Sounded a bit like a 60-something year old man was trying real hard to get a teenager to move in with him. :wacko:

Stucki: $45! Did she say what year? I think for that much money, she ought to have been more specific! :haha:

I don't know how I feel about the whole psychic thing. I do believe in some aspects of the paranormal (spirits/ghosts, for example), but I just don't know what to think about psychics. I guess I think there are some people out there who have a gift, but most psychics and fortune tellers are probably full of it. I learned to do tarot readings for fun (I thought the cards were pretty:haha:), but I never believed in them. I also learned to read runes, but I can't do readings for myself. Maybe I should try it for someone else.
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I definitely believe in ghosts....we live in a very active house :)
 
Awesome! I would say I'm jealous, but I like to be able to go home from the investigation. :haha:

What kind of stuff goes on?
 
GingerPanda said:
Awesome! I would say I'm jealous, but I like to be able to go home from the investigation. :haha:

What kind of stuff goes on?
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Voices, footsteps, full body apparitions, things falling off shelves.

We have a really high baseline EMF in our house, our investigators think that we have a "portal" [which I'm not sure I'm buying...lol]

None of it is sinister though, so we just learned to ignore. It didn't start until we renovated and gutted the house though....most of it is residual [the apparition is in the same place every time] but the conversations and footsteps are usually in sets of 3's [which the investigators said means that it's intelligent]

pick up until DH leaves [for trips and stuff] but none of it's scary so I've just learned to live with it...or yell at them to "keep it down" lol.

The last team that came did a bunch of EVP work and they asked a few questions that got answers

"do you know you're dead"
"Yes."
"do you know that this is no longer your home"
"Yes."
"do you like Nicole [me]?"
"Yes."
"are you still here because of her."
"Yes"

We assume that our little permanent resident is the previous owner [He died Dec 2011] about half a mile from his [our] house in a motorcycle accident. We think that it's him, and we think that he likes me because I took care of some paperwork for him [I kept getting capital one statements saying his account was past due and stuff, so I called the company and explained and put them in touch with his ex wife to figure it out....plus, I talk to myself [him] and I told him what I was doing] So we assume he's stuck around because he likes me. lol

It's kind of cool in a way, because the activity usually picks up when DH leaves and because it's not scary, I just tell myself that he's making his presence known to reassure me that even though DH isn't home, I'm not all alone in the house....

Anddddddd, now I sound like a lunatic. lol
 
Here's the link.

https://www.accidentin.com/article1...n_dies_in_motorcycle_crash__havelock_news.htm

https://www.witn.com/home/headlines/135081448.html

It's been a couple years, the articles are harder to find now.
 
No, I think it's really awesome! I used to be a paranormal investigator (I was an EVP specialist), so I definitely don't think you're crazy. I've seen, heard, and felt some stuff that's pretty nuts. (Including getting groped in a max security cell in WV State Pen.) Our paranormal group disbanded after something really nasty followed our lead investigator home.

I don't think I believe in portals, though. That just seems too... mystical.

Your house sounds awesome, and it's really cool that you feel like he's keeping you company! Nice to know that when your DH is gone, someone will be looking out for you and bean. :thumbup:
 
Whoa, that's neat that you're comfortable with the spirit, Stuck. I was worried when we first bought our house that we may not be alone. Out house was built in 1890. Nothing has happened though.

Ginger, what is EVP? Good luck with temping. I couldn't bring myself to do it.

I hope you get the job, Viet! It sounds amamzing.

Good luck to those waiting to O!
 
hi all. Quick Question.
When you have children, or if you have or preg when they get older how will you tell them about others beliefs. I am sure mine will come across God in family and in school and they will ask. I have to be careful what I say in case they repeat it and could come across wrong. IE cant say its like santa clause to them or imaginary friends. I was going to teach different religions but the whole faith thing is hard to explain apart from saying some people believe etc
 
Sbmack said:
Whoa, that's neat that you're comfortable with the spirit, Stuck. I was worried when we first bought our house that we may not be alone. Out house was built in 1890. Nothing has happened though.

Ginger, what is EVP? Good luck with temping. I couldn't bring myself to do it.

I hope you get the job, Viet! It sounds amamzing.

Good luck to those waiting to O!
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I love old houses! EVP stands for Electronic Voice Phenomena. Sounds, voices, or footsteps caught on audio recorders that you didn't hear at the time. Sometimes they're in response to something you've said or done, which indicates an intelligent haunting (the spirit is aware that you are there and reacts accordingly), and sometimes they don't seem to correspond to anything going on, which can indicate a residual haunting (the spirit is not aware you are there, and usually will replay the same actions over and over like a recording on a reel).

If you search "EVP" on YouTube, you'll find some you can listen to. As with anything, there are probably a lot of fakes. There's a user on there called ETSUxSGH or something like that. That was our college group. I think there are three EVPs on the account. And one music video. Haha.


Dragonfly said:
hi all. Quick Question.
When you have children, or if you have or preg when they get older how will you tell them about others beliefs. I am sure mine will come across God in family and in school and they will ask. I have to be careful what I say in case they repeat it and could come across wrong. IE cant say its like santa clause to them or imaginary friends. I was going to teach different religions but the whole faith thing is hard to explain apart from saying some people believe etc
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We will tell our kids about religions as a social education, but we will tell them that mama and daddy don't believe in it. We will explain that religion is a personal belief. Some people believe, and some people don't.
 
Thats what I was going for to. Dosnt feature in our house religion so probably wont have a big factor.

Also my house is very old and haunted. :)
 
Yours too? Man, that's one of the reasons I'd really like to get to the UK. Here, a 60 year old house is practically ancient. You guys have castles. In doing genealogical studies on my family, I actually found a line in my dad's side that owned Harewood Castle in England for a few centuries. It still stands, but barely so. I've always dreamed about visiting it and seeing if it was haunted.
 
Dragonfly, more or less what Ginger said. Depending on the age, though- a 4 year old is probably not going to need that much explanation. "We don't pray in our house." (Or whatever the thing you're discussing is.) I think by the time kids can really understand that some people believe and some don't, they'll have already observed differences between their family and their friends' families and know that every family is a little different.

Ghost Hunters is one of my guilty pleasures. But I'd like to beat the sound effects guys who add in the music and stuff when I'm trying to listen! Gah!
 
I know exactly what you mean about the sound effects guys! Unfortunately, Ghost Hunters fakes some of their evidence, and the network treated a lot of the crew poorly. That's why a lot of the people who used to be on the show aren't there anymore. They quit. On the show, Donna said she was leaving because her Chron's disease was flaring back up. But later she came out and talked about how they were being asked to "make stuff happen" and how Jason and Grant treated them all so poorly. We were actually almost officially a chapter of TAPS, but there was so much bullcrap going on, we dropped out.

I still watch International on Netflix, though. Probably because Barry's sexy Irish accent soothes me. :rofl:


I really liked Ghost Lab when it was on. Those guys were awesome, and legit. Great guys, too. We were allied with them before our group disbanded. I still have my uniform shirt.
 
I liked the first few seasons. Now... Most of the time it ends up being noise while I do something else. Just too much nonsense now. :(

Waiting to find out when we can move into our new plac.... We've been planning/hoping for the 4th since the current girl was supposed to be out by the 30th & there wasn't anything the landlord really needed to do to the place. We're doing the cleaning in return for halving the deposit, so if she's out by the 30th, I was going to spend that week doing that. But... We called yesterday to confirm & he still hadn't heard when she'd be out for sure. Grrrr! And I'm almost as packed as I can be for now. He's supposed to call her and find out today. But I have this awful feeling that she's going to dawdle & take her time. And we've already asked for one extension (we originally were supposed to be out before the end of the month).
 
Maybe it's the pregnancy hormones but I FRAKING HATE the Ghost Adventures people. That shite is so fake, it doesn't even seem real. lol. Plus that dude's voice makes me want to throat punch babies. lol
 
ghost adventures I watch for entertainment s its so cheesy. But most shows are rubbish. except the one my friends made here in NI which is on tv again soon that ones cool.
 
I'm going nutz this month and feel like I'm jinxing myself, but I got our dog a "I'm going to be a big sister" t-shirt for the BFP reveal to my OH and I got this book for when bub is around 10 years old!!! LOL
'The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true' by Richard Dawkins

By being so cocky and buying stuff for this bean that will probably never happen (I'm 43)...I'll prolly get a slap in my face and t-shirt and book will lay around the house mocking me until I'm 80 :coffee:

yeah - I'm the kind that didn't get any baby stuff until 3rd tri with both my other kids and now I'm not even pregnant and are thinking about things waaay too early :wacko:
 
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