Who else experiences poltergeist?

[Hogarth]

I have a copy of my son's marching orders (to Iraq) on top of the printer, just on the other side of my laptop screen, in front of me.. A moment ago, the pages simply lifted up from the top at a 30-degree angle, rustled audibly, and fell to rest after about two seconds.

Just after that happened, I noticed that things had been moved around on my computer table. (The electric razor had been moved from one shelf to another, and some sundry dollar bills, which had been on resting on a military photo of Mari's son (also on top of the printer) had moved to my desk, just behind the laptop, where all of the communication cables plug in.

If this had all happened overnight, I could write it off to drafts or absent-mindedness, but I actually saw those marching orders lift and rustle. It was spooky.

Ah, well. We're paid up on major medical, and I understand it covers mental health commitments.

[wysimdnwyg]

1. Sounds like your ghosts...

are just trying to let you know they're there. If they were bad, they'd probably be breaking stuff.

Try something. Get a set of those magnetic letters and numbers and put them on the fridge in no particular order. Make sure no one in the house messes with them, and see if the ghost(s) try to communicate.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. was that how you got your username?

No, I can work out what it means really, but it took a little time.

[wysimdnwyg]

10. LOL

Almost!

[noonwitch]

2. Poltergeists are not really ghosts-the movie was wrong

Poltergeists usually are around when there are teens and pre-teens around, especially girls. It's psychic energy that comes from someone who isn't aware that she is producing it. The phenomena frequently occurs in a person who is very frustrated. It can move things, it can even spell out words on a Ouiji board. Usually it rustles papers, flushes toilets, closes doors, turns on faucets, etc.

Now, I assume you are not a pre-teen having a son about to get sent to Iraq, but you are probably very frustrated about his orders.

I personally have never had an experience like that that couldn't be chalked up to some type of real world happening or synchronicity. I did live in a house that I thought was haunted, because every morning when I took a shower, there would be a big Q drawn in the steam on the bathroom mirror, plus there were weird noises at night and my dog would just go nuts barking at nothing visible. I did take the mirror down and examine it for a pattern in the glass or wood backing and could find nothing, but that doesn't prove I had a ghost. I was 21 and depressed at the time.

[m-jean03]

3. Aren't "poltergeist" activities caused by human emotion?

This is what I've read. A lot of distress, anger, anxiety, these things somehow manifest in paranormal activity like what you'd described. This is a theory anyway, as poltergeist ("noisy ghost") like activity often occurs when there has been some sort of major upset in the household, and emotions, particularly of one person, are running high.

[FireHeart]

4. We've got one...

All sorts of weird things happen around here from time to time. One day, I was getting set to warm up a bowl of soup in the microwave. I opened the door--and inside was a big tub of Country Crock margarine. How the hell it got there, I have no idea. My wife and daughter swore they didn't put it there. Besides...we don't use the stuff.

Weird.

[Loonman]

5. Information on poltergeist manifestations

http://www.mindreader.com/opi/poltergeists/


As opposed to classical hauntings.

[Zuni]

6. I have never expierienced poltergeist

which are usually related to adolescents, but I do work in a haunted building.

[linazelle]

7. I think I have a phone ghost....

About five times a year, I'm on the phone when I hear a sound like an extension picking up, and then the auto dialing begins. This happened recently, about three weeks ago, well into a long conversation.

My mom and niece were at home with me. I was talking on a speaker phone and initially I looked to see if they were using the phone. Neither was. I kept talking and the dialing kept happening--in sequences of four autodials of seven numbers, a pause and then a click.

I got up and walked around the house, my niece, watching TV listened wide-eyed while the dialing happened. The other person on line was on a cell phone and kept questioning what the hell was going on.

I have a basement with a phone line. I became scared at the prospect that a phone was down there. I got the dog and went down. No phone. (I removed the basement phone a while ago because of this problem but thought somebody had taken a phone down again.)

As my friend and I continued to talk, the dialing got more insistent. The normal auto-dial tone speeded up to four times that. It was chilling. I would've been scared to death had I been home alone. When I finally was not able to stand it any longer, my friend and I hung up. The phone display said "line in use."

Very spooky.

[LastKnight]

11. ooo creepy

have you tried contacting the phone company about it? mabye a line is getting crossed somewhere.

try disconnecting your autodial phones with just regular plain as day phones... see if it keeps up. were you able to decipher the number sequence (there are different tones for different numbers) or pick up an extension when it said 'line in use'... if you did, what was on the line?

spooky spooky

-LK

[frogfromthenorth2]

9. This thread is hilarious....