Believers Show (Travel Channel) Ghosts/Paranormal

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I've been watching Believers on the Travel Channel and it got me thinking...has anyone on here ever experienced anything paranormal? I used to laugh at these claims, but as time goes on it seems more and more intriguing. On the show they actually have real archival footage and make some real convincing commentary. My father passed suddenly 17 yrs ago during the day. Later that night when we were all home mourning and in shock, my mother asked him to show her a sign that he was ok. Keep in mind I never believed this stuff. Just after my mother said that, we have an antique music box start playing out of nowhere without touching it. It doesn't go off by itself, it needs to be wound up physically. I was half happy that it seemed like a good sign but half scared as hell! Just always found the topic interesting...anyone else have experiences?
 
I enjoy this stuff. I listen to a podcast called "Jim Harold's Campfire" where people call in and tell stories similar to yours. Mostly scary ones, but a lot of nice ones too. Many of them sound genuine and have multiple witnesses, etc.

I've had a few significant things happen to me that could technically be explained, but the circumstances were extremely, extremely unlikely.
 
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[quote="Adam" post=395184]I enjoy this stuff. I listen to a podcast called "Jim Harold's Campfire" where people call in and tell stories similar to yours. Mostly scary ones, but a lot of nice ones too. Many of them sound genuine and have multiple witnesses, etc.

I've had a few significant things happen to me that could technically be explained, but the circumstances were extremely, extremely unlikely.[/quote]

Do spill! I'll give another one that really happened. Drove through Gettysburg Battlefield at 1 AM (they allow car tours since it's huge). Technically they say it's closed at like 10 PM but there aren't any barricades when I was going so I winged it and went anyway. I already planned to play dumb and tell a ranger/cop I was simply lost if caught. Anyway, me and 2 friends were in the car with me. One in the back sleeping and the other riding shotgun awake.

We drove through one of the more haunted areas known as "Devil's Den" where tons of Confederates were slaughtered and many buried right where they lay in shallow graves. I was the only car in the entire vicinity for at least a mile if not more. It was easy to tell since I know I would've seen headlights if someone else was near. As we drove through, I turned to my friend and said, "you're seriously smoking a cigar in the car?" and he looks at me confused like wtf? Just then he goes wait what is that? I swear it was as if a soldier was smoking a cigar directly in front of my face. It was that strong. Not just a whiff. I looked around thinking surely there was an explanation. There wasn't. No one around for miles. After being spooked, I drove home and stopped at a gas station in PA about 30 min outside of Gettysburg. I told this young cashier the story and he said he hears stuff like that all the time and it's not at all surprising. He even told me as a kid his father took him to the battlefield and literally saw the ghost of a soldier enter the car with them as they left. He said his father only recently told him, because he was so frightened at the time and did not want to spook him being a little kid but he saw it clearly. I googled the cigar smell when I got home and turns out many people report this and the theory is that it's the spirits of soldiers still there enjoying their pipe tobacco. I bought a bunch of Gettysburg relics over the years and had some fired bullets in the car at the time. To this day I can't help but think they just wanted to smoke with me lol.
 
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i have walked the g-burg battlefield ten times over 25 days.
my wife and i are staying at her friend's house in g-burg. the next door neighbor comes over - blonde, female, high school senior. she says to me - do you want to see my orbs? i said well, my wife is right here. she leaves/returns with a photo album. the album was pictures taken at night on the g-burg battlefield. the pictures were hard to make out what was photo graphed. but each photo had a bright light in it. the blonde says that its something high school kids do. they go to the battlefield. look for bright lights where none should be and take a picture of them.
 
[quote="section10" post=395189]i have walked the g-burg battlefield ten times over 25 days.
my wife and i are staying at her friend's house in g-burg. the next door neighbor comes over - blonde, female, high school senior. she says to me - do you want to see my orbs? i said well, my wife is right here. she leaves/returns with a photo album. the album was pictures taken at night on the g-burg battlefield. the pictures were hard to make out what was photo graphed. but each photo had a bright light in it. the blonde says that its something high school kids do. they go to the battlefield. look for bright lights where none should be and take a picture of them.[/quote]

Took this picture at the Gettysburg Orphanage (back of it). At first I figured they were particles in the air, but that would be a lot. Who knows? [attachment=1559]image0 (1).jpeg[/attachment]

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Lost a cousin earlier this year. He was at one point the most hated man in Rockland County as he was chief litigator for the Rockland County Child Advocacy program, the guy who when two divorcing parents are ready to go at one another via their lawyers, introduces himself as there on behalf of the children. He and I were in constant political discussions (he on the "buy guns" side and me on the write the perfect screed side). Two days after the funeral I am looking out at the water trap pond behind my house in Florida and for the first and only time I see a bald eagle. It felt like a message.
 
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I haven't seen the show but I have had several supernatural seeming experiences and I know quite a few people who have had dramatic experiences including healings with full medical before/after documentation. One of these is a close family member. Another was a priest friend of mine, whose terminal illness was cured and his healing was used as one of the miracles attributed during the canonization process of St. (Sr.) Faustina of Poland (process started in 1965 and finalized in April, 2000). A good friend of mine has traveled the world meeting/interviewing mystics and people who have had died and experienced other phenomena. He's written extensively about the mystical, supernatural and NDE (near death experiences).

I will share one of my experiences which I have written about elsewhere. This was on a trip to Italy in the 90s.
I visited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_of_Monte_Sant'Angelo (Wikipedia)
As we first approached on foot, a male gypsy stopped us selling holy cards. I could see that they were written in Italian and the guy got very close to me - in my face. I didn’t speak Italian so I sort of brushed him off saying no thank you in English with a polite smile. He seemed to get angry at this. He was dirty in rustic clothes and had thick, powerful looking hands. As he got close to me the word “murder” was suddenly and clearly in my mind. At this time my friend started speaking to him in Italian and told him that I could not use the cards because I didn’t read Italian and the guy just walked away in a hurry. That was it, but I really had this sense that I had just had a brush with a brutally evil person and it has stuck with me forever as does the strong sense of something about the entire place. Holiness or just power of some sort I am not sure what it was. Certainly a sense of history and ancient quality that made the place beautiful and inspiring.

What the Wiki article I linked to, doesn’t convey well about this place is that it is literally built into the side of a mountain. We entered an area that looked sort of like the entrance of a castle, carved into a stone mountain and then descended to an area that was part majestic church, part cavern, including stalactites and stalagmites. There was an altar and chapel here where we attended mass. Shortly into the mass we started hearing strange noises. At first it sounded like someone sick or in pain. Then it was louder and more distinct animal sounding noises. These noises came to a crescendo when the priest was doing the consecration. These were noises similar to what you might hear in a movie where a person is possessed. We never saw the source but the priest serving mass was a young man who looked like under his vestments he could be a model/athlete. He was big and handsome and healthy looking. Yet during the consecration when these noises were getting loud he started dripping sweat. It looked like he was engaged in some sort of battle. He wasn’t the least bit dramatic about it. It wasn’t theater and I’m not sure who else in the chapel even noticed. I asked one of my companions about it later, and she didn’t notice, though she certainly noticed the noises.
 
One of my mentors was the late psychiatrist Fred Hinman. Fred's wife and I were in the same Masters in Rehabilitation Administration Program at Northeastern and we became friends. When Fred taught "Emotional Disturbance in Children" I jumped at the chance to take it as an elective. After one class in which we were doing case reviews Fred turned to me and said "Always remember there is evil in the world."
 
[quote="fuchsia" post=395254]One of my mentors was the late psychiatrist Fred Hinman. Fred's wife and I were in the same Masters in Rehabilitation Administration Program at Northeastern and we became friends. When Fred taught "Emotional Disturbance in Children" I jumped at the chance to take it as an elective. After one class in which we were doing case reviews Fred turned to me and said "Always remember there is evil in the world."[/quote]

Definitely. One of the harmonic convergences of evil is coincidentally, on the north end of Storrs, CT.
 
Stayed a week at the Mansion of Glen Cove, used to be called something else but can't remember. Orbs and clouds in hallways, no I wasn't drunk.

Gettysburg, Cashtown Inn, lights turning on and off by themselves, things moving in the room at night and more.

Gettysburg, bed and breakfast, on the Baltimore Pike - was a Union Field Hospital during and after the battle. TV and lights on and off by themselves all night.

Cape May bed and breakfast, originally owned by a ship captain. Stayed in room which was his drinking and smoking area. Lights flashing through blinds during day and night, got locked out on our porch area by a deadbolt from the inside.

Lights at our home have always gone on and off for no reason. Mrs. O firmly believes it is both of our mothers.

Maybe its all just flashbacks from all the drugs in the 1970's
 
[quote="fuchsia" post=395240]Lost a cousin earlier this year. He was at one point the most hated man in Rockland County as he was chief litigator for the Rockland County Child Advocacy program, the guy who when two divorcing parents are ready to go at one another via their lawyers, introduces himself as there on behalf of the children. He and I were in constant political discussions (he on the "buy guns" side and me on the write the perfect screed side). Two days after the funeral I am looking out at the water trap pond behind my house in Florida and for the first and only time I see a bald eagle. It felt like a message.[/quote] i have couple ghost stories from my house that Nathalie can verify every word
 
[quote="OhioFan" post=395260]Stayed a week at the Mansion of Glen Cove, used to be called something else but can't remember. Orbs and clouds in hallways, no I wasn't drunk.

Gettysburg, Cashtown Inn, lights turning on and off by themselves, things moving in the room at night and more.

Gettysburg, bed and breakfast, on the Baltimore Pike - was a Union Field Hospital during and after the battle. TV and lights on and off by themselves all night.

Cape May bed and breakfast, originally owned by a ship captain. Stayed in room which was his drinking and smoking area. Lights flashing through blinds during day and night, got locked out on our porch area by a deadbolt from the inside.

Lights at our home have always gone on and off for no reason. Mrs. O firmly believes it is both of our mothers.

Maybe its all just flashbacks from all the drugs in the 1970's[/quote] The mansion used to be The Harrison House
 
Also one of Nathalies apartments in Peru she has a camera on the roof and without a doubt it’s picked up crazy orbs a couple times and last month her friends brother needed to stay there as Peru was on covid lockdown and he saw ghost and refused to upstairs to her rooftop abd it completely freaked him out and he knew nothing about the orbs Nats camera has picked up
 
[quote="mjmaherjr" post=395282]Also one of Nathalies apartments in Peru she has a camera on the roof and without a doubt it’s picked up crazy orbs a couple times and last month her friends brother needed to stay there as Peru was on covid lockdown and he saw ghost and refused to upstairs to her rooftop abd it completely freaked him out and he knew nothing about the orbs Nats camera has picked up[/quote]

It’s the apparitions that would scare me most! Never saw one but would go into a panic. I do believe it’s possible that energy remains in places and makes a sort of indent on time. Energy is never destroyed just transferred. I think this may help explain Gettysburg and other places of such pain, suffering, trauma, and death. But we prob won’t be able to prove in our lifetimes!
 
[quote="Mike Zaun" post=395336][quote="mjmaherjr" post=395282]Also one of Nathalies apartments in Peru she has a camera on the roof and without a doubt it’s picked up crazy orbs a couple times and last month her friends brother needed to stay there as Peru was on covid lockdown and he saw ghost and refused to upstairs to her rooftop abd it completely freaked him out and he knew nothing about the orbs Nats camera has picked up[/quote]

It’s the apparitions that would scare me most! Never saw one but would go into a panic. I do believe it’s possible that energy remains in places and makes a sort of indent on time. Energy is never destroyed just transferred. I think this may help explain Gettysburg and other places of such pain, suffering, trauma, and death. But we prob won’t be able to prove in our lifetimes![/quote] I’ll say this. You smell flowers that’s good you smell sulpher watch out. Wait till I tell you sometime the 3 ghost stories from my house.
 
Our fascination with ghosts is at least partly due to the fact that if they exist would verify an afterlife, which we would like to believe is a reality.

I think most mediums are fake but this guy George Anderson may be the real deal. I've read some of the books on him. And know some people who have gone to him and I'm convinced there is something to him.
 
i grauated St Gabriels grammar school in e elmhurst queens in 1961.
the teachers, grades 1 to 5, were the Sisters of charity.
the teachers, grades 6 to 8, were the Christian brothers.
the brothers belonged to the lon gisland/new england section.
whenever a brother returned from missionary work - almost always the southwest pacific, they were required to spend a week with the St Gabe's brothers to get "use' to the states. it was near LGA.
the missionaries always spoke to the 3 classes taught by the brothers.
the topic was always about demon possessions and exorcists.
pacific islanders that never left their villages would be speaking in multiple european languages.
their talks were right out of the movie - the exorcist - which opened decades later.
so when i saw the movie - the exorcist - to me it was just part of my religious upbringing.
 
[quote="section10" post=395436]i grauated St Gabriels grammar school in e elmhurst queens in 1961.
the teachers, grades 1 to 5, were the Sisters of charity.
the teachers, grades 6 to 8, were the Christian brothers.
the brothers belonged to the lon gisland/new england section.
whenever a brother returned from missionary work - almost always the southwest pacific, they were required to spend a week with the St Gabe's brothers to get "use' to the states. it was near LGA.
the missionaries always spoke to the 3 classes taught by the brothers.
the topic was always about demon possessions and exorcists.
pacific islanders that never left their villages would be speaking in multiple european languages.
their talks were right out of the movie - the exorcist - which opened decades later.
so when i saw the movie - the exorcist - to me it was just part of my religious upbringing.[/quote]

Speaking of exorcists, who is the popes and exorcists most trusted figure, and who do demons fear most?
Hint, it isn't God/Jesus.
 
[quote="section10" post=395436]i grauated St Gabriels grammar school in e elmhurst queens in 1961.
the teachers, grades 1 to 5, were the Sisters of charity.
the teachers, grades 6 to 8, were the Christian brothers.
the brothers belonged to the lon gisland/new england section.
whenever a brother returned from missionary work - almost always the southwest pacific, they were required to spend a week with the St Gabe's brothers to get "use' to the states. it was near LGA.
the missionaries always spoke to the 3 classes taught by the brothers.
the topic was always about demon possessions and exorcists.
pacific islanders that never left their villages would be speaking in multiple european languages.
their talks were right out of the movie - the exorcist - which opened decades later.
so when i saw the movie - the exorcist - to me it was just part of my religious upbringing.[/quote]



Curious to know if you knew Donald Ogilvie who graduated from St Gabriels in 1960. We went to high school together.
 
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