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Offline Craig_Slocum

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Re: DS and Real-Life Supernatural
« Reply #15 on: March 29, 2002, 07:37:04 AM »
I have had too many experiences to not be a believer, and have known people who have had experiences too, one of whom was actually with me at the time when something happened and heard it too, nobody else in the room. There is a spirit world. I believe there are good and bad spirits, not all demons, like I was taught in the church I was raised in.  I was once told that "visitations" usually happen to people who are more emotional and sensitive. Somebody here mentioned "weird feelings". Recently, fairly often I have been sensing a warm feeling surrounding me, that comes out of the blue, lingers for a few moments, then goes away. I don't know what to make of it. I don't mind it. It's rather a nice feeling, comforting. My family and I saw actual photographs a couple of weeks ago, that had visible apparitions. While my daughter, her father, and I went out to dinner, there was a car club, old car show going on in a big lot near the restaurant we were going to. There were lots of neat old cars. We saw a 1969 Hearse with a coffin, and my little girl's father took pictures of us standing next to it. The coffin was open and propped up against the back of the hearse, which was open. Amusingly, my daughter and I were both wearing Dark Shadows t-shirts. I don't know if the pics will come out because they were taken at night. Anyway, we found out something really interesting. The couple that owned the hearse, showed us some pics that were sent to them by some people like ourselves who had pics taken with the hearse. The people were standing by the hearse almost exactly like my daughter and I had been, and there in the photos, you can plainly see some apparitions that could not have been added in there. You can see a torso and a face. I never saw anything like it. There must have been some left over energy there, from the hearse. We haven't got our pics developed yet. What a trip if something like that comes out in our photos! I really think though when something like that happens, it is meant for a certain person or persons. I have heard of it happening to other people, apparitions appearing in photos. Never thought I would get a first hand look at such photos. That was a neat experience.
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Re: DS and Real-Life Supernatural
« Reply #16 on: March 29, 2002, 07:39:21 AM »
Oh well said, Mr. Rainey....well said indeed.
And speaking of supernatural fiction, I tried very hard to have an encounter with yours today...only to be thwarted in my efforts by the nitwits at my local Borders Books.

Their computer swore to me that they had "Dreams of the Dark" Available In Store....said so right there on the screen.  So I looked where it told me to look.  And then I looked in places it didn't tell me to look.  And then I asked for help from the Information Desk (a greater misnomer I have never encountered, except, of course, for their Customer Service Department) but none was forthcoming.

I considered demanding the attention of the store manager, but that gentleman and I have had our differences before and I didn't think it would be helpful to drag him out of his hiding place back behind the washrooms....so I came home with NO copy of your book.

Never mind, there is always the local Barnes and Noble and when all else fails, the online options.  The book was written by a Rainey, and I would feel remiss in family obligations if I didn't get my hands on the thing...not to mention feeling I was missing out on the fun!!
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Re: DS and Real-Life Supernatural
« Reply #17 on: March 29, 2002, 09:47:32 AM »
Oh I definetely believe in the supernatural, I've had too many things happen in my life not to. I've had dreams that people I know were going to die, and as bad as it sounds, they always do. One time I dreamt that the lady across the street from me died. She was a young woman and pretty healthy so my family couldn't understand why I would dream this. Sure enough, 4 months later, she was in a bad car accident and unfortunately passed away. I really hate when this happens too, because it's pretty sad knowing who you know will pass away. I also believe in Guardian angels as well and I do believe that I have one watching over me. When I was in my early twenties, my sister had her own apartment and I would go and stay with her from time to time. One night, she went out with some friends and I was there alone in the apartment. I had planned on spending the night there, but for some unknown reason that I can't explain, I just didn't feel like I wanted to be there that night. I never felt like this before so I couldn't explain it to even myself, I just knew somehow that I did not want to stay there and wanted to go home. So, I called a cab and went home. Well around 1am my sister calls up and tells me that her apartment had been broken into! All I could think of was that I probably would have been fast asleep and God knows what could have happened if I had been in that place when these thieves got in. Another strange thing that happens concerns my grandmother who passed away some years ago. She always used Ben-gay and everytime I visited her, the whole house would smell of it. Every so often, when Im in my mom's house, all of a sudden the place will smell of Ben-gay, and then something always falls off the wall, a picture, the clock, a glass on the shelf, its so strange, but my mom always says, "thats your grandmother again!" One night my mom and I were driving home in an awful rain storm and suddenly we smelled the Ben-gay in the car.  As we were exiting the parkway, my car suddenly skitted off the road and we stopped! Thankfully, there were no other cars around and I could only think that's the reason why my grandmother was visiting us again, to protect us from harm.  I do agree with Birdie though, that they're are so many things to fear amongst the living.  My dad always said to me, "It's not the dead you have to be afraid of, it's the living!!"  
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Re: DS and Real-Life Supernatural
« Reply #18 on: March 29, 2002, 12:37:24 PM »
I wish I did believe in the supernatural. I'd bring a Ouija board into the recording booth and have Grayson redub her lines from the great beyond! ;D

Or, at least ask her where the trims and outs are! ::)

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Re: DS and Real-Life Supernatural
« Reply #19 on: March 29, 2002, 03:34:27 PM »
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I wish I did believe in the supernatural. I'd bring a Ouija board into the recording booth and have Grayson redub her lines from the great beyond!  

Or, at least ask her where the trims and outs are!  


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Re: DS and Real-Life Supernatural
« Reply #20 on: March 29, 2002, 08:59:46 PM »
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I'd bring a Ouija board into the recording booth and have Grayson redub her lines from the great beyond! ;D

Or, at least ask her where the trims and outs are! ::)


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Re: DS and Real-Life Supernatural
« Reply #21 on: March 30, 2002, 08:19:25 PM »
And interesting topic. . i am in the middle. . not too skeptical but not a whole-hearted believer either.  I do believe in ghosts, particularly after my recent stay in a 15th century house in Belgium. . .those dreams were **too** real. .  :o  And while after reading the Vampire Lestate in college, I wanted there to be vampires. . i just don't think there really are any. . .not like Barney anyway.
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Re: DS and Real-Life Supernatural
« Reply #22 on: March 31, 2002, 01:03:01 AM »
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I really have no idea how anyone could take anything as regards the supernatural seriously.

I had an "experience" when I was 5. I thought I saw a ghost. Now, older and wiser, I realize it was nothing more than the overactive imagination of a child who was otherwise bored at that particular moment, a child who desperately wanted to see something supernatural.

To me personally and to most people the idea of the supernatural is mind-bogglingly childlish rot. If I did believe in te supernatural, which I certainly don't, I certainly would not say so in public or to any of my friends.

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Re: DS and Real-Life Supernatural
« Reply #23 on: April 02, 2002, 12:14:44 AM »
Not the supernatural per se, but I do believe the soul never dies.  Where it goes from here, I don't know...

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