Araby wrote:
Kahar, what sort of paranormal things have you encountered?
Want to apologize for not replying sooner. As Martrae can attest to I rarely get on the forums during the weekend. As for the post she had told me to come take a look at it.
As for what I have seen...well lets see I have visited about 100 haunted sites in my time. From the mundane (Kay Terrace Estate in Conyers, GA) to the not so mundane (Gettysburg Battlefield). Im sure alot of you have called people like me a 'nut job' or a Bullshit artist however, paranormal activities do exsists. Alot of what I have seen is physical object being moved in a room or destroyed.
One such was in New Haven, CT.I saw what happened to a wicker chair seat for all intents and purposes explode. The wicker chairs weaving unwraped and stood straight up as if someone took a fist the size of a large ham and smacked it thru the center point. The Wicker chair was fine up until me and my friend left the room. We were gone only for 2 minutes while we explored the rest of the house. The house's temperature dropped to the point we could see out breath. The temperature drop was in almost instant. This house has been labeled as a 'haunted house' by alot of paranormal investigators. To this date I believe the house is still stands and is occupied.
I have seen chairs slide accross the floor, Mirrors crack for no reason, gheists (apparitions), and changes in atmosphere(fog that was not there when we arrived on site, temperature spikes, Ground muddy even though the weather was dry for over two weeks, etc)I have also heard whisperings and screams in places.
I am not saying I am professional, far from it I do this for entertainement and as a hobby or rather used to (hard to say "Come on kids lets go look at this abandoned house and watch weird shit happen").
For every 4 haunted houses I goto 1 or 2 turns out to be a fake. But there are a few I have seen that cant be disproved even by scientists.
Now to explain my theory as to why a house becomes haunted. It is not a spirit persay if it were the spirit in my opinion would go about its daily tasks, work school etc and the said spirit would haunt more than one area. The residual theory is that when someone dies there are reprecusions similar to throwing a stone into the middle of a pond, ripples go out from the source (epicenter of the death) and flow outwards. The further out from the epicenter the less the residual effects. This is why places like alot of the Jewish concentration camps are considered haunted. Also places like Vlad (Tepes) Castle in
Romania is said to be haunted to this day, even though the atrocities there ended around 1475 (for those of you who have not guessed or are a little rusty on history, Vlad the Impaler was also known as Count Tepes). Scientists have yet to disprove the castle remains as haunted. Too many scientists have gone there to study the ruins only to see and hear things that can only be explained as paranormal.