Haunting in Luzerne County? (sales, theater, military)

[CatTX]

Originally Posted by mr.magoo

Grandmothers house had two children and a tall thin man with a balding head, in long johns that used to walk through a wall...there was no TV at the house, but the radio was on frequently...

when the man walked the house the radio would crackle and be 'static-ky' , then he disappeared through the wall.

It was ascertained that there used to be a doorway where he went through the wall, that was sealed off during an addition put on around 1900.

The children's story is a sad one...apparently there was a fire and they perished...thus the newer addition to the house.

Yes, Ms. G...There were spirits in the Farmhouse I restored...they were members of the Hutchinson family, that farmed East Windsor, NJ and lived in the house I bought and restored for generations before I owned it.

I think you might have seen pics, or a Google map of my former house?

They were benign and helpful, visited my 3 yr. old daughter at night, right after she was put to bed...my daughter once saw a pic of the Family in a local Historical Society and pointed the Matriarch as the 'lady that comes to my room to talk about horses'

(Farm was a working Horse, Corn, and wheat farm when the Hutchinsons ran it)

During the restoration process, I was actually led, by a gentle tug on the wrist, to two different locales in the rooms to find items of some small monetary and sentimental value... These incidents occured in broad daylight, in the summer months.

That is so cool, but it would have scared the heck out of me.

[mr.magoo]

Originally Posted by CatTX

That is so cool, but it would have scared the heck out of me.

I really fear almost nothing tangible or Earthly...but when it comes to the Supernatural, you have one of the biggest 'scaredy cats' in me.

But for some reason this spirit/spirits was so benign and kindly that I really hoped for another 'touchy' encounter.

There were no more actual encounters where I actually physically felt the spirit(s) but I could feel their presence on many occasions.

[CatTX]

Originally Posted by mr.magoo

I really fear almost nothing tangible or Earthly...but when it comes to the Supernatural, you have one of the biggest 'scaredy cats' in me.

But for some reason this spirit/spirits was so benign and kindly that I really hoped for another 'touchy' encounter.

There were no more actual encounters where I actually physically felt the spirit(s) but I could feel their presence on many occasions.

Oh yes, me too. I love spooky movies, but I keep my eyes covered half the time. I have relatives who used to live in a very old house in Europe, built in the 1500's and, of course, remodeled with modern conveniences and brought to code, but still with the old stone floors, stone walls, and a cellar cut out of stone. When they were kids, one night they both woke up and decided to go to the kitchen to help themselves to snacks. While in there, they encountered a very mean-looking, very old lady who glided toward them at top speed. They both screamed the house down and were scolded, their parents did not believe them. A few years later, there was some sort of problem that required the floor in the living room to be dug up and human remains were found. They turned out to be of a female and well over 100 years old. No way to trace them back to anyone. That was the last that was seen of the old lady.

[mr.magoo]

this is a very cool story...Europe has long 'old old 'ghosts..^^^^^^

I remember hearing a story at a local pub in the English Midlands..this older guy was telling a story about a local church where these three Monks were executed during a Religious War in the Middle Ages...sorry, I don't remember all the details..

but anyway, these three Monks are seen walking down the aisle toward the altar at around the time of their death every few years....

The Monks were actually photographed by parapsychologists in the 1960s, I think, and the pic was featured in the old 'Family Weekly' sunday newspaper insert in the US a few years later.

apparently, the picture quite clearly showed three shadowy hooded fiqures walking down the church aisle...

only thing it showed them only from the knees up...

It was later ascertained that the church floor was raised about a foot during a renovation a few hundred years later, and the Monks are still walking on the old floor, thus the missing bottoms of their feet.

jeez, getting the willys just thinking about it

[CatTX]

^^^Brrrr, that is spooky. I don't think I've ever seen that particular photo. The story that scared me the most and gave me nightmares as a kid was in a book about "real hauntings". It was about a castle turned B&B and the castle had a rather gruesome history of torture. One of the guests woke up in the night and saw someone in bed next to him. He jumped out of bed and turned on the light and briefly saw half a person look at him, according to him it looked like someone who had been drawn and quartered. The book also supplied an illustration, which did not help matters.

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by mr.magoo

this is a very cool story...Europe has long 'old old 'ghosts..^^^^^^

I remember hearing a story at a local pub in the English Midlands..this older guy was telling a story about a local church where these three Monks were executed during a Religious War in the Middle Ages...sorry, I don't remember all the details..

but anyway, these three Monks are seen walking down the aisle toward the altar at around the time of their death every few years....

The Monks were actually photographed by parapsychologists in the 1960s, I think, and the pic was featured in the old 'Family Weekly' sunday newspaper insert in the US a few years later.

apparently, the picture quite clearly showed three shadowy hooded fiqures walking down the church aisle...

only thing it showed them only from the knees up...

It was later ascertained that the church floor was raised about a foot during a renovation a few hundred years later, and the Monks are still walking on the old floor, thus the missing bottoms of their feet.

jeez, getting the willys just thinking about it

Makes sense to me. They knew where they were going.

My brother had a residual haunting. A guy wearing jeans and a plaid or flannel shirt walked from the basement door--in the hall--toward the front door. He'd disappear just before the front door. It happened three times.

[mr.magoo]

Hairs on my neck are bristling and I'm getting that squirmy feeling in the seat of pants after the last two stories...
my 'chicken' tolerance is quicky dissipating...

[auntieannie68]

number 13 for what???? and when????

some of the snarky posters here only confirm what i have seen in person when they post-----it often appears to me that other posters and residents in this area of pa ridicule those that do not feel or believe as they THINK one should

[auntieannie68]

Originally Posted by mr.magoo

I'm all for inviting Pharrell Williams to Luzerne, to get everyone together and do a giant 'Happy Dance' through the streets...and get everyone HAPPY!

I bet that would turn Your frown upside down, auntieannie....from this to this

Are you up for it?
I have to let Pharrell know soon...he's got a busy schedule..

you are off topic but after your replies i rest my case

and off topic--bring in keith sweat instead--my era

[theatergypsy]

Originally Posted by auntieannie68

number 13 for what???? and when????

some of the snarky posters here only confirm what i have seen in person when they post-----it often appears to me that other posters and residents in this area of pa ridicule those that do not feel or believe as they THINK one should

Annie you really should quote the post to which you're responding. I had to go back to find out the reason for your query.

Gerania wasn't being snarky. She was merely relating that the 2014 Gallup poll had dropped this area to #13 in the "unhappiest places" list in response to your (unsubstantiated) statement that it was in the top 5.

Having worked for two very well-known polling entities, I can tell you that polling is a very inexact science. (Gallup, and also Yankelovich, Skelly, and White)

I don't see this area as overly negative. I know there are people who have reason to be unhappy here but the area as a whole presents a good mix of attitudes.

As for the seeming preponderance of negative energy, I have thought often that much of it originates with the Native Americans who once held sway here, but were driven out or murdered by the encroaching settlers.

I also have thought that many of the tales were handed down by people who were uneducated and superstitious and believed much of what they were told and not what they had seen for themselves.

Now that's not to say that I don't believe that there are the lost among us, trying to find their way out. I strongly felt a presence in my house when I first moved in 41 years ago. There is an inside door that we couldn't manage to keep closed, despite it being firmly latched. The first night we were here, my #4 son and I repeatedly closed and secured the door leading to the basement. (Actually, it's a cellar - basement seems to pretentious a term for what it is) Each time, it would manage to open just as we returned to another room. This happened again for a few days and we laughed about it. By the end of two weeks, the door no longer opened on its own, and we sometimes had trouble opening it when we needed to - as if someone, something, was on the other side holding it shut. This has not happened again in all these years. I'm supposing it was some "friendly energy" making its presence known.

As for me, I have not ridiculed you nor have I been snarky. But you consistently make negative responses to almost all positive posts, i.e., unfriendly natives; lack of medical care; high rents; higher taxes; unsatisfactory neighbors; and so on and so on. I'm thinking that it may be your own negative perception reflecting back.