DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '24 I => Current Talk '08 II => Topic started by: borgosi on July 12, 2008, 10:51:34 PM
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If you came across your dream house, maybe a house like Collinwood or the Old House, and it was for sale for an unbelievable price. You go in and check it out, it's all that you always dreamed it would be, so you ask, why the low price. Then they tell you it's haunted. Do you buy it? You know there are ghost there. Beyond a shadow of a doubt you know ghost are there, do you buy it?
I would even if it was an over priced shack, as long as I had the money. [ghost_shocked]
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Definately!!!!! I used to live in a house with a ghost! [ghost_grin]
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Definitely!!!!! I used to live in a house with a ghost! [ghost_grin]
Did you call in F.O.G. to check it out? (Friends of Ghosts) Or S.M.O.G.? (Scientific Measurement of Ghosts) Just a little Avengerspeak....
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It would depend. Is it a good ghost or a bad ghost?
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It would depend. Is it a good ghost or a bad ghost?
I know how to find out. Eenie meenie, chili beanie....
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Assuming that the DS depictions of ghosts are accurate, then I would certainly not move into a house inhabited by a bad ghost. The most likely outcome would seem to be, at the very least, your children get possessed. It's also likely that the ghost will eventually force everyone out/destroy the house.
On the other hand, if it was a good ghost, I would pay extra money to live in that house. Good ghosts are known for saving your life from time to time, testifying at trials when you really need them to, and warning you of imminent danger.
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Do ghosts watch you when you're on the john?
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Only bad ghosts do.
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I've always wanted to live in a haunted house, or at the very least to see a ghost, so I would definitely buy it, especially if it was as spacious as Collinwood or the Old House. (Then again, with the price of housing in California these days, it's wise to snap up the cheap ones when you find them, ghost nor no ghost. [ghost_wink])
ProfStokes
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A haunted house would be my dream home!! One of my favorite movies is The Ghost and Mrs Muir. Moving into a house on the sea haunted by a sea captain ( who looks like Rex Harrison) would be a dream come true [ghost_smiley] [ghost_wink]
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I started to agree with Lydia and Garth, that if it was a good ghost buy it.
But then I got to thinking even if it is a good ghost, that won't stop a bad
ghost from popping up too and bringing in even worse troubles with it.
So no thank you.
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If the ghosts were anything like Quentin or Gerard, then no way!!! Life is too short and already equipped with enough problems that I would want to add any supernatural trouble to it.
On the other hand, I wouldn't mind sharing quarters with a friendly spirit, such as a spirit of a child, like little Sarah. I like to think that children can be as innocent in death as they are in life (of course it would depend on the child too....with my luck, I would wind up with the ghost of a child who may have tampered with the brakes of a car, hehe).
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Beyond a shadow of a doubt you know ghost are there, do you buy it?
Well, considering that I'd probably swear that the house I currently live in is haunted (little things disappear never to be seen again, clocks stop and start on their own, groggy sleep over guests have woken up asking me who's standing behind me when no one is), I'd probably say yes. If my experience is any indication, ghosts, spirits, whatever just like to let you know they're there, but they're not malicious. They just want to have fun. [ghost_wink]
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Definitely!!!!! I used to live in a house with a ghost! [ghost_grin]
Did you call in F.O.G. to check it out? (Friends of Ghosts) Or S.M.O.G.? (Scientific Measurement of Ghosts) Just a little Avengerspeak....
[clap2] [laughing7]
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While I like to believe that there is an afterlife I really have no proof. If I lived in a house with a big time ghost, one that would offer that proof, it would take away all doubt.
We used to hear footsteps in the house we lived in before this one, but those things can be explained. I want to see or even live with a ghost that could only be explained as a ghost, good or bad. I look at it this way, proof of a ghost is proof of an afterlife. If you had proof that this life isn't the end, it really wouldn't matter how short it is. In other words I could put up with alot more bad stuff if I had proof that this wasn't the end.
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If ghosts in one's house are the proof of an afterlife that would be proof of the wrong kind of afterlife that I'd never want to have. Who wants to spend eternity as an apparition hanging around some house?
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If I were going to buy a Victorian or an old Southern Antebellum house, they don't have to tell
me the house is haunted, because I will ask them first.
I was talking to a Cousin of mine yesterday. He moved to Wilkinson Co. Georgia lastweek in a house
way out in the country and the middle of no where. He was telling me there is an old house across
the road from him and the house was built back in 1873. The house is condemn and nobody is
living in it. An 86 yr-old man bought the house to save it from being demolish, but my Cousin told
me that the old man is not planning to do anything to the house. But last month, the old man and
his son replaced some parts of the roof with new tin.
Anyway, I told my Cousin if I ever get up there for a visit. I might want to sit close to the house at
night waiting to see or hear something strange.
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If the ghost does cleaning, then yes. If it also does yardwork, very much yes.
But to be honest, like I've said before, I don't believe in spooks, even though I've worked and stayed in places that are haunted and I had experienced stuff in them. Despite that, I still don't believe.
Gerard
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My grandmother's mom (my grand greatmother) lived in a haunted house. The WHOLE family saw stuff there. It wasn't isolated events. I mean EVERYONE saw things happen. I encountered a black looking thing in the shape of a tall man. It was weird, when it walked into the room I couldn't speak. THIS IS THE GOD'S HONEST TRUTH! I was frozen. He walked toward my bed and I felt as if I were smothering. I mustered all my might to move and finally it was like something broke loose and I came out of my bed screaming. I know this wasn't a dream. The apparition walked into my room not two minutes after I laid down. I wasn't even situated. IT was horrible. I definitely felt it wasn't friendly. Friendly ghost are welcome. This THANG wasn't.
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I think ghost would prove an afterlife but I don't think they would prove that haunting a house would be the only kind of afterlife. Many people that believe in and study ghosts believe that hauntings happen because someone had unfinished business in life. If that is true, once the business is completed the spirit would move on. I don't think anyone would want to just hang out in their afterlife. I also think it would be cool to try and help a spirit complete its unfinished business so that it could move on.
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If ghosts in one's house are the proof of an afterlife that would be proof of the wrong kind of afterlife that I'd never want to have. Who wants to spend eternity as an apparition hanging around some house?
IF one wants to believe what some say about this sort of stuff, very few ghosts, spirits, whatever are trapped in houses - many just sort of drop by for visits to either check out where they lived or to check up on the people who currently live there, often because they have some sort of connection to them. It's not necessarily like they're spending eternity doing anything from hiding things on people to being a general nuisance - or even just being a comforting feeling.
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Cheap AND comes with ghosts?
I would buy it immediately.
Then not only would I have a house all to myself, but I would have the bonus of hunting for ghosts right in my living room. I'm fascinated by the existence of ghosts and spirits and like to visit haunted places, so there no way I would turn it down. [ghost_cheesy]
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I once read if an old haunted house or building has been demolished, it will not make the spirit go
away. If they build a shopping center or condos at the same site where the haunted house or
building once stood, the spirit will haunt the new condos or retail store.
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So, when the old Collnsport courthouse where Vicky had been tried for witchcraft in 1795 was demolished in the spring of 1968 to make way for who-knows-what monstrosity, the ghosts of convicted criminals that were surely haunting it (this is Collinsport, after all!) would have haunted the monstrosity too. Very pleasing.
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I personally would rather visit a haunted house than live in one. It would bother me to know someone was watching me all the time. I like some privacy some time.
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So, when the old Collnsport courthouse where Vicky had been tried for witchcraft in 1795 was demolished in the spring of 1968 to make way for who-knows-what monstrosity, the ghosts of convicted criminals that were surely haunting it (this is Collinsport, after all!) would have haunted the monstrosity too. Very pleasing.
Well sure, if the Collinsport courthouse was haunted before it was demolished.
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Possible haunted places built on the courthouse site:
Haunted Fotomat booth
Haunted currency exchange
Haunted-Wigs-R-Us
Haunted day care center
Haunted secret missile silo
These aren't good but I feel like posting it anyway.
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What they built on the site of the haunted Collinsport courthouse -
A haunted ready-to-wear Mostoller boutique - complete with hundreds of sleeveless frocks! [ghost_rolleyes]
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How about an Ohrbach's retail outlet? Along with a Junior Sophisticates? Every night, when the clock strikes twelve the mannequins come alive and do an eerie fashion show with the Muzak version of No. One at the Blue Whale in the background. Plus, Carolyn, Vicki, Maggie et. al. won't have to truck down to New York City for their wardrobes.
Gerard
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Haunted HoJo's.
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Speaking of GHOSTS. I laughed my head off today when PROF Stokes said something to the effect "that he hoped he would be a ghost one day" LOL It was so funny. It's in the Quentin story. I hadn't noticed it and I was rolling [ghost_cheesy]
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When my grandmother died eight months ago, a cousin of mine and her family came down from North
Carolina for the funeral and they were staying at my grandmother's house. That night, a noise woke up
my cousin and she got out of bed and she saw the kitchen light on, the kitchen door to the garage was
standing wide open, the garage light on, the garage door was open, the front yard motion sensor light
was on. So my cousin shut the garage door, turn off the garage and kitchen lights and shut and locked
the kitchen door to the garage. She went back to bed.
Well 30 minutes later, another noise woke her up and she found the kitchen and garage lights on again
and the kitchen and garage doors open again. She woke up her husband and he grab his firearm and went
out and walked around the front yard. He did'nt see anything. So my cousin said this house is haunted and
lets get out of here. They went ahead and drove back to North Carolina.
My father believed somebody in the family was trying to break in, because my grandmother used to have
money stashed all over inside the house. But I asked my father why would anyone want to break inside
the house, knowing there is somebody staying in there? I also mentioned to him when you open the garage
door, it will make alot of noise. Then I asked, why would the person comeback the second time trying to
break in?
Now I have read stories about strange happenings that goes on inside the house when the owner had
just died.
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Doug, that is a spooky story!
Whatever the incarnation - if Quentin was haunting the house, I would buy it. I don't care if he regularly set fire to the furniture - I would still buy it.
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[91a2] LMAO!
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Scientifically speaking, Your spirit is energy. It is a scientific fact that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. So when you die your spirit does not. Does this not in itself prove that ghosts exist? [Ghost00] You can't argue with science!
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I was always very close to my Grandmother. She died some 15 years ago, but every once in awhile, I know she is around because I smell the perfume she always wore-"Evening in Paris". So I just say, "Hi Grandma" and smile while going about my business. She is a comforting spirit-I don't think I'd like one like Quentin or an evil one-I would never buy a house that had one like that!