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From: darsie@eecs.ucdavis.edu (Richard Darsie)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: Haunted Houses book
Date: 26 Aug 92 16:11:33 GMT
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Organization: University of California, Davis

I'm on Barnes and Noble's mailing list and get these luscious catalogs
from them every other week it seems, full of great books that I can't
afford to get :-)

Their latest catalog has a book which would probably interest readers
of this group, so I'm posting info about it: title, author, and their blurb.  
I'll include ordering info so if anyone they can't pass it up 
they can just send for it.  Shipping and "insurance" charges are
as follows: $2.50 for merchandise under $15.00. Must add tax when ordering 
from California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Michigan, 
New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.
(Disclaimer: I am not in any way shape or form associated with B&N.)

HAUNTED HOUSES USA, by D. Riccio and J. Bingham.  Item #1767680, $8.95
The authors describe their own ghostly encounters and explain ways to
contact spirits. Lists nearly 70 haunted sites across America and the
legends that surround them. Directions to each location and tips on
sensing and recording (!) evidence of ghostly manifestations are included.

Richard
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From: enw2049@rigel.tamu.edu (WALKE, ERIK N)
Subject: Re: Haunted Hospitals?
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Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:52:00 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.163345.27286@cs.unca.edu>, mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott
McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner) writes...

>Jim Heath (jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU) wrote:

>: I recently had occasion to spend a lot of time visiting a
>: hospital and it occured to me to wonder why there seem to be so
>: few stories about ghosts in hospitals.
> 
>There's too many people for one thing, and too many bright lights.
>Besides, even a *ghost* wouldn't want to hang around a hospital.
>That's bad enough when you're alive. I'd haunt a house or something
>first.
> 
>Ghosts need secluded, dark places.

       Do they need these places to BE, or just to be SEEN, though? 

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From: bear@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Bear Giles)
Subject: Re: Can anyone verify these DC ghost stories?
Organization: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration / Boulder Labs
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 03:44:55 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.062850.22841@tamsun.tamu.edu> jcj9536@tamsun.tamu.edu (Cindy Brown) writes:
>In article <Aug18.205754.42836@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> yin@CS.ColoState.EDU (hwei yin) writes:
>>The "Goatman"
>>  Something about a satyr-like goat man that wanders around the local woods
>>at night.  It has supposedly been seen by motorists passing through.  He said
>>something about the thing jumping through the roofs of parked cars, knocking
>>off people making out in the car.

The last line gives it away.  Basically assume _any_ story of someone/
something catching and punishing teenagers making out is an urban legend,
not a true story.


Bear Giles
bear@fsl.noaa.gov
From: david@ariel.yorku.ca (David Forster)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: Re: Haunted Hospitals?
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:55:08 GMT
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Originator: david@juno.ariel.yorku.ca


Jim Heath (jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU) wrote:
> : I recently had occasion to spend a lot of time visiting a
> : hospital and it occured to me to wonder why there seem to be so
> : few stories about ghosts in hospitals.

My sister was in Mount Sinai here in Toronto, and talked about one or
two stories she heard there.  It seems that the ghost of a patient's
wife is supposed to haunt one of the ICU rooms there.  She sits and
quietly knits at the end of the bed.  Apparently her husband was a
patient in the ICU, in that room, when she died.  I don't know if she
died there, or merely during the time when her husband was there.
Curiously, he wasn't expected to live, but did.  On another floor, in
an acute care unit (one step down from ICU) there were some dreadful
screams while she was there.  That's not really surprising with people
in pain, except that they couldn't find the source of the screams.
This is all second and third-hand, so take it with a large grain of
salt.

I rather suspect that these stories, true or not, don't get told for
the obvious reason that patients don't need the extra worries.

- DF
From: ucsatsd@ucl.ac.uk (-8  Big Bad Bob (B3)  8-)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: Re: Disappearing Houses?
Date: 25 Aug 92 17:18:23 GMT
Organization: The HRC

In article <1992Aug19.134830.1@cubldr.colorado.edu> matthews_k@cubldr.colorado.edu writes:
>house from my work.  I noticed a vacant lot with a beautiful park-
>like lawn and flowers.  I thought it was really pretty, and also
>noticed that I could see the back of another house across the lot.
>A few days later, as I drove by, I was stunned to see a house where
>the vacant lot usually sat.  A small, white, 1950's style house, that
>had _not_ been there the day before.  I braked, and gaped.  No way had
>[...]
>puzzled.  I checked the next day, the house was still there.  Ditto the
>next day.  On the third day (you guessed it!) it was gone again, replaced
>by the vacant lot.  There was no sign that a house had ever been there!
>
>Has anyone else had experience with this sort of thing?  I later read a book

I've had something similar, but the other way around, happen to me.
One sunday, I went with a couple of friends to have a walk above the White
Cliffs at Dover (Yes, I'm English). We drove to an area my friend knew a bit,
and followed some little signs for a park-and-walk place. Coming into the
area, we had to stop at a wooden hut on a large concrete platform in the
middle of the road, and pay some cash to get in. My friend was surprised,
because he said it had always been free before. We had a pleasant walk, and
when we left a couple of hours later, the hut wasn't there. We presumed that
there had to be a seperate exit, but because I do research into the unusual,
he agreed to go back round, just to check. 

The hut still wasn't there. Neither was the concrete platform in the road.
In fact, the road had a little grass growing down the middle. This bit of
road is the only way to the carpark we parked in, and it definately had no
hut or platform anywhere along it. Now, I'd be inclinedto view the whole
thing as a phantasm, or even faulty memory, but for one thing. I still
have the ticket that the girl gave us when we payed her for our parking fee.
I keep it in my wallet, in fact, because the whole thing is so odd.

The only explanation that I can come up with is that somehow we had briefly
switched into a parrallel reality where they *did* charge for entry. If
anyone has any better ideas (that don't involve hut & platform being airlifted
out &c !), feel free to suggest away - the dimension-warp idea is just that,
an idea, although I have had other, less certain, suggestions of it from
acquaintances.

Tim.

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From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Subject: Re: College Ghosts
Reply-To: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 21:20:19 GMT

In article <BttEFy.7t2@acsu.buffalo.edu> v095qhyg@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (CONSTANTINOS I. ORFANOS) writes:
>
>           The second report has to do with a kid who had committed 
>    suicide by jumping out of a 10th floor dorm window.  About 8 years
>    after that unfortunate event, the residents of that same room heard
>    a knocking on their window around 11 pm.  Believing it had to be a prank
>    since they live so high up in the dorms, they lift the curtains and
>    found the same kid, who committed suicided 8 years before, floating
>    in the air outside the window.  He supposedly decided that suicide
>    was not the solution.

I HATE stories like this.  I usually worry for a few minutes about
looking out the window, thinking I'll see someone (probably very pale
and dead) looking in.  Just one of my idiosyncracies.


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Sweet Thames, run softly, for I speak not loud or long.
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From: wlamonac@tolkien.helios.nd.edu (william lamonaca)
Subject: Scariest movie
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 01:35:06 GMT

You wanted a list of the scariest movies- here is a list of my 3 faves:

Well, not scariest, but spookiest- "The Haunting of Hill House" (based on
Shirley Jackson's novel by the same name.)
Kind of creepy- "Carnival of Souls"
Very Creepy- "Vampyr" (A somewhat obscure German movie from the early 1930s)
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From: bednarek@picard.med.ge.com (Dennis Bednarek Mfg 4-6971)
Subject: Re: Repost Rose Hill PLEASE !
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 11:41:23 GMT

Theresa McFarland (farland@outland.b24a.ingr.com) wrote:
: In article <9208200052.AA14179@news.cis.ohio-state.edu> FURRJK@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu writes:
: >We only just now got this newsfeed recognized at Virginia Tech, and I
: >find people already discussing a Rose Hill story that resulted in a lot
: >of mail... um, can someone repost it?
: 
: Indeed!  We've only had this newsfeed for a couple of days, but the 
: Rose Hill story sounds _very_ interesting.  
: 
: If you can't post it, Could you email the story to me?

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From: gacya@.mayo.edu (A. Marquis gacy)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: Re: Street lights
Date: 25 Aug 92 16:03:41 GMT
Reply-To: gacya@.mayo.edu (A. Marquis gacy)
Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus

Didn't you guys ever go streetlight kicking when you were kids?
You go walking along kicking streetlights ( you know, the big 
Mercury/sodium lamp kinds) and they go out for a few minutes and then come 
back on.  Certain lights that go on and off a lot are due to sensitive wiring 
(I think)
AMG
From: v095qhyg@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (CONSTANTINOS I. ORFANOS)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: RE: College Ghosts
Date: 30 Aug 92 21:02:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


             Here at SUNY/Buffalo I have heard of two ghost reports
     OUr downtown theater has had a couple of reportings of noises 
     and related stuff.

           The second report has to do with a kid who had committed 
    suicide by jumping out of a 10th floor dorm window.  About 8 years
    after that unfortunate event, the residents of that same room heard
    a knocking on their window around 11 pm.  Believing it had to be a prank
    since they live so high up in the dorms, they lift the curtains and
    found the same kid, who committed suicided 8 years before, floating
    in the air outside the window.  He supposedly decided that suicide
    was not the solution.
From: v124jw4y@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Benjamin R Pierce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: Re: Street lights
Summary: Hmmm... Been happening for 6 years
Keywords: city lights
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:04:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <20144@plains.NoDak.edu>, coffman@plains.NoDak.edu (Clark Coffman) writes...
>This is an interesting thread. Since I moved to Fargo, ND six years
>ago I've noticed this type of incidence around the university here.
>At first I thought it was me. Every night on my way to work I'd pass
>beneath this one street lamp and it would turn off as I approached.
>I didn't always pass by at exactly the same time eithor. For along
>time this particular light was the only one to do this.



I thought I was the only person who had problems with lights acting screwy
around me!  In my case, though, it's a bit more extensive.  Among the incidents
I've encountered:

1.  Light bulbs have a tendency to explode when I'm close to them for prolonged
    periods of time, usually when I'm concentrating intently on schoolwork or 
    the like.  To this day, I don't use clamp-on lamps by my bed because I got
    tired of having lightbulbs pop and send shards of hot glass in my general
    direction.

2.  I, too, have encountered one light on campus which will almost invariably
    go off when I walk past it.  I have taken people with me as witnesses, and
    also had them check the light when I wasn't around; so far, nobody has seen
    it act this way when I wasn't present.

3.  My favorite incident occurred while walking home at about 2 in the morning
    with two friends.  Almost immediately after I made joking reference to the 
    way lights act around me, the next 9 streetlights proceeded to go off, in
    sequence, as we walked under them.


I made the mistake of mentioning this to my roommates of two years ago, all of 
whom were engineers.  The general consensus among them was that I possessed an
"unusually intense personal biostatic field", or some such.  Anybody got a 
better explanation? :)

                                                            --Ben
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
From:  ()
Subject: Re: kinda email ghost
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:03:39 GMT
Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Utah




Re: the first inquiry on "email ghosts: (see below this message)

***********************************************

In article <1992Aug21.033542.18197@engage.pko.dec.com>, moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com writes:
> 
> In article <1992Aug20.234824.255@cis.ohio-state.edu>, tbrown@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu (ted croft brown) writes...
> > 
> >And in the same vein as ghosts showing up right after they have died...has
> >any one recieved any e-mail from someone sent after they have died?
> 
> Actually, yes, though it was the work of a computer blindly following commands.
> 
> Someone I knew went on a long vacation, and died suddenly.  I sent mail to
> him (his account) saying goodbye.  Got a reply from a 'mail watcher' program
> which gave a canned message saying that the person was on vacation, will
> return on such-and-such a date, etc, a few hours later.  Scared me for a
> millisecond, then I realized what it was (I knew I'd get a canned message,
> but the fact I prompted such a message slipped my mind momentarily)
> 
> -Mike
> 
> ****************

My brother is more of an email user than I, but he had a strange occurence one time a wh

happen a while back.
One of the names for his computer is Olga. He sent an email into oblivion to a fri
friend-maybe the address was bad-hard to say. He never got a reply, figured it
was addressed wrong, forgot about it.
A couple of WEEKS later, he got a reply from a woman named Olga in the former 
Soviet Union. Somehow the message got bounced around the world until it found 
her.
Now the correspond regularly. THey're tranmitting pictures to each other...

LH

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From: devol@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (WILLIAM DEVOL)
Subject: Athens County Ohio Stories Wanted
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date:  1 Sep 1992 10:05 EST  

I sure hope I got this right; this is the first time I've ever posted 
anywhere.

I went to college at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.  My parents live in 
Athens County, Ohio, but I wasn't raised there.  When I was in school there
, I became very interested in the local ghost stories.  I've collected a 
few, and I was wondering if there are any of you that can help me out.  I 
realize this is a world-wide news group, but I figure my chances are better 
this way.

If you don't have any Athens County stories, how about ghost stories that 
are associated with colleges or universities.

Here's a story I have to trade...

I spent one summer in Athens tracking down the "real" parts of ghost 
stories I'd heard when I was there in school from 1972 through 1977.  One 
of my old friends had told me he lived in a "haunted" house on State Street
, so I tracked down the current owner and found out that her daughter and 
her daughter's boyfriend lived there.  The owner said she knew nothing of 
any ghosts in the home.  The daughter and the boyfriend, however, told me a 
different story.  They listed foot steps, loud noises (music, singing), car 
trouble, and missing items as some of the problems they had lived with in 
the house.  These things matched the complaints of my old buddy from years 
ago.  I decided to see him again and get his story on tape.

I didn't want to go alone, so I called another old friend, Jane, and she 
said she'd go with me.  Jane and David, the old buddy, had never met. they 
were from different times in my life.  Jane had been a life-long resident 
of Athens County.  David was a transplant.

The three of us sat in David's back yard while David talked and I taped.  
Jane listened.  As David described the house, Jan egrew restless.  Finally, 
she blurted out that David had lived in the house that her grandparents had 
owned before her grandfather had died.  The house had been sold, and Jane's 
grandmother had moved in with her parents.  Jane had spent many nights in 
that house, and she had heard small noises, but she never experienced any 
of the things others described.  She did say that she really hated to stay 
in one bedroom at the front of the house.  David agreed that that was 
always the strangest room in the house. 

This has gone on too long. I don't want to be known as a bore.  I have this 
meeting on tape, and it still gives me the creeps.  I knew two people at 
different times in my life that were tied to the same "haunted" house.
If there is interest, I'll tell you the rest later.  It gets a bit stranger.

WCD
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
From:  ()
Subject: Re: Street lights
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:30:38 GMT
Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Utah



MOre about this below:

>In article <1992Aug25.051521.8258@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, rnakkula@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robin J Nakkula) writes:
> 
> >Enough magnetism to trip a relay at the top of a light pole that is
> >surrounded by metal would distort tv screens, play havoc with digital
> >watches, and etc. Also, if the relays were that easy to trip, passing cars
> >would probably do it with the magnetism generated from the electrical
> >system. Heck, the power flowing to the light might even do it.
> >
> >Disclaimer: I could be totally off base about this. It's been a while since
> >college physics.
> >
> >------
> >Mel Walker                                          mwalker@novell.com
> 
> 
> For a while there, when the exhaust system to our '78 Audi was disconnected
> (we hadn't counted on the new muffler installation to be >that< incompetent
> to fall off in 1 week, and were saving up $300 for replacement of the
> anterior original equipment,) almost every time we would drive by a set
> outo theft alarm, we would set it off.  What was more amusing was the times
> when my fiance and I seemed to be able to do the same thing on foot, walking
> down the opposite side of the street.
> 
> When we finally got the muffler system reconnected and the noise level down,
> the theft alarm triggering incidents subsided, though not immediately -- they 
> seemed to taper off instead.
> 
> @@@---Robin N.
> 
> 

I 've had the problem with streetlights all my life. Sometimes I'm approaching in my ca
in my car, sometimes on foot-actually it doesn't need to be car.
Sometimes the lights come _on_, but usually they go out (70/30)

I also can't keep a watch working. I seem to go through watches every couple of mont
months, and the watch repair guys say it's NOT the battery-they don't kinow what makes it go dea
what makes it go dead. But I have to buy new ones constatnly.
And blow dryers. I go through those like crazy. Now that I think about it,
I seem tyo be replacing all kinds of small appliances all the time.

I got a couple of good jolts as a young person. Once I was screwing the cover plate onto a
plate onto an outlet (my dad said the current was off). Of course it wasn't and the 
the screwdriver slipped into the socket. I was knocked back about 4 feet and tipped over the (metal)
tipped over the metal ladder I was sitting on at the time.
ANother time I was a work at a fast food place and the repairman was working on the 
the ice machine. I had to squeez by-I had a damp rag in my hand and a foot in a op
a puddle of melted ice. Again, the guy said it was turned off,
but a jolt went through one arm and down the other. Not a bad sensation though, just a 
just a kind of a "charge" that time that got my heart goin...

So, are previous shock victims cursed for life to drain the juice of electrical
devices?
Is this why my scooter battery keeps going dead?

LH

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From: ghost@netcom.Netcom.COM (Jay Adelson)
Subject: Re: Three Men and a baby..scariest movie
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 20:13:26 GMT
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Service
Distribution: na


Concerning the Three Men and a Baby ghost...

There was a discussion regarding this issue on rec.arts.movies a year ago,
where several people who were involved with the film eventually disproved
that this was a ghost.  Not to spoil anything, but a person who follows
the actors could easily be a production assistant trying to hide from the
camera.  The reason the apparition could disappear and reappear could be
explained because if the area in the shot is not lit for exposure, it is
conceivable that the "boy" fell off the lattitude of the film at several
moments.  The editing of the film, of course, uses many different takes,
which (although not necessarily in this case) could have been put together
to give a disorienting effect when things pop up and leave in the background.

And as to it being filmed in a real apartment, I can guarantee that it was
not.  Certain shots were filmed in an actual residence but several people
who were production assistants on this shoot have said that the indoor
scene you are referring to was not shot in an apartment, house, or actual
lived in residence.  Magic of movies, no?

-Jay
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