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Ghost Hunting

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MrsSnape · 03/04/2008 12:13

I'm getting really into the idea of ghost hunting, the topic fastinates me...

Anyway, would any of you stay a night in a place which was said to be haunted? Would you stay well away from any spooky places or are you the type to actively seek them?

One place I'd LOVE to visit is the island of Poveglia just off the coast of Venice. Look it up on google if you're into that kind of thing

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TheDevilWearsPenneys · 03/04/2008 12:50

scariest places is on youtube, I'm watching onwe now.
Wtf is with the voiceover though?

JodieG1 · 03/04/2008 12:52

Scariest places also on link I posted.

southeastastra · 03/04/2008 12:52

oh yes thanks jodie!

we also have a couple of closed asylums near here now made into housing developments. there is a really haunting looking tower that has been converted into luxury apartments, we used to hang around it before they started the development to freak ourselves out. can't think who'd want to buy it though.

hippipotami · 03/04/2008 12:52

We had another mental hospital near us in teh next village. The Victorian army barracks are still there and are now desirable cottages (we nearly bought one) but the actual asylum was a prison for those with mental issues. Apparently Jack the Ripper's wife (?) was locked up there, but for what reason I don't know. It was knocked to the ground and is now residential, but the whole area is spooky...

The Victorian Mental hospital I linked to earlier is beautiful. I can see the clock tower from my bathroom window.
The flats in there are very desirable, but I know that seeing as the patients were tortured, and buried on site, it is a gruesome place...

expatinscotland · 03/04/2008 12:52

Try watchign 'Ghosthunters' on LivingTV. Really, they're the BEST group of paranormal investigators I've seen.

As for trying it myself, nah.

The so-called scariest places are never that scary that I can tell. It's those ones that aren't really expected that get to me.

Exceptions include some places I wouldn't set foot in for all my life.

southeastastra · 03/04/2008 12:53

you were brave being alone in the catacombs! never been but on my list when i eventually go.

JodieG1 · 03/04/2008 12:55

Expat I've read a few of your experiences before and they are frightening! I'm fascinated by the paranormal but not sure I actually want to see anything.

expatinscotland · 03/04/2008 12:56

Not scary at all, south, IME.

I think we forget that oftentimes, in teh past, death was seen as far more welcome than it is now.

Also, religion and spirituality played a much greater role in everyday life. These beliefs often helped strengthen one's belief int he after life and in the protection of God or whatever divine or benevolent force awaiting people in the next world. Hence, there was far less of the fear and anxiety surrounding death that there is now.

We're very much removed from the cycle of life in today's society.

Even in the very recent past, it was much more dominant in ordinary life, even in the growing of food to eat and the slaughter of animals for sustenance.

expatinscotland · 03/04/2008 12:57

Seeing isn't what is frightening. It is how you feel when you perceive something that can, at first, feel very unsettling, particularly if it is unexpected or feels menacing.

tiredemma · 03/04/2008 12:58

I have my eyes partially covered with my hands.....Expat is not realying her scary 'man in the window' experience is she.....

expatinscotland · 03/04/2008 12:59

Seeing him took me back, but far worse was the feeling of utter sadness and tragedy I got from him.

That is what haunted me, tbh.

Same as the mother in our flat. Her grief was truly heartbreaking.

TheDevilWearsPenneys · 03/04/2008 13:02

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j29ofY2CHo&feature=related

This is really unsettling.

TheDevilWearsPenneys · 03/04/2008 13:08

Expat I know what you mean about places that aren't obviously scarey making you unsettled.
There is a bookshop near us that I just can't be in. I get shivery and just feel 'wrong'.

As a teen we used to explore all sorts of places. We once went into a nursing home that had set fire a couple of years before. It was an amazing huge victorian building. There were two very spooky things we saw in there. One was a lift that was open, with an open wheelchair in it.

Another was the dining room, the tables had plates and cutlery on them that had obviously been abandoned mid meal.

I was more fascinated than scared though, and took loads of photos for my art a level, but my mum wouldn't let me hand them in as she said the teacher would report me for trespassing.

bohemianbint · 03/04/2008 13:17

I love derelict old buildings. ALways have, from being teeny tiny. My mate's got the best job, she's working and living full time in a Jacobean manor house!

expatinscotland · 03/04/2008 13:18

i find most abandoned buildings quite peaceful.

sometimes, they emit a sadness, as if they want someone back, some company.

some are very receptive to children.

i've been in occupied places, like your bookshop, Devil, that i literally could not bear.

southeastastra · 03/04/2008 13:21

i'm about as psychic as a brick. old buildings scare me loads. my mate and i just sometimes go out on explorations to weird/old places, never seen a thing.

OrmIrian · 03/04/2008 13:23

I think the saddest things are abandoned graveyards. There is one in our town that is just grass now with a few benches and liberally decorated with empty cider bottles . There a few Victorian gravestones remaining. I think they look totally abandoned. I often wonder what the people who buried them would feel to see them.

expatinscotland · 03/04/2008 13:27

the people who buried them are now in a place where that doesn't matter, Orm, they've been reunited with their loved ones.

don't feel sad.

after all, plenty of old cemetaries have been covered up over the years and have housing sitting on them and no one is the wiser.

Kathyis6incheshigh · 03/04/2008 13:40

It is the places where people have suffered while they were alive that haunt me more than places that simply hold the dead.

expatinscotland · 03/04/2008 13:46

same here, kathy, because that energy sticks around.

OrmIrian · 03/04/2008 13:52

I think it's the sense of abandonment that upsets me. A grave is a place where we leave all that remains of loved ones. It's heart-wrenching to see that coffin lowered into the ground. We like to think of them tended and cared for I suppose.

expatinscotland · 03/04/2008 13:58

whoever was lowered into that ground isn't here anymore. long gone to a place where nothing here can hurt them.

Lulumama · 03/04/2008 14:02

hippopatomi the ghost dog was not the dog..it was the boy again !

as you were, ladies!

kerala · 03/04/2008 14:08

We inadvertently stayed in a haunted place last summer believe me it was terrifying I dont know why anyone would want to seek it out!

It was an old records house attached to a delapidated tiny falling down chateau which the owner rented out as a self catering place. It didnt "feel" particularly wrong as some of you have described and I have also felt about other places, just very old and not particularly well kept.

But the unexplained really loud noises at night woke us all up. DH and my parents are very sceptical about anything supernatural but even DH would not go to the loo on his own at night. It sounded like someone was in the kitchen banging all the cupboards but no one was there. There were also weird fingernail scrapings across our bedroom windows. The windows were high off the ground, it was not trees, nor birds. My parents and DH the arch sceptics were at a loss to explain what the noises were. We were all glad to leave.

tiredemma · 03/04/2008 14:37

I constantly 'sense' something in this house, always feel that something is here.

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