Non-Civil War Ghost Story

[JerseyBart]

This is when I started believing in ghosts and probably started peeing the bed too. (don't worry, I stopped the latter days ago...lol) This dream, a pretty quick one, occurred probably when I was 7 or 8 years old. In my dream I was laying in my bed looking out into a dark hallway. Only the hallway spotlight was on. Standing under the spotlight and staring at me were two children, a boy on the left and a girl on the right, wearing colonial time period clothing. Scared to death, I woke up, but those two children were still staring at me. I very quickly pulled the covers over my head and tried to fall back to sleep, even more scared to death in real life than I was in my dream.


Bart

[pendlekin]

Bart... where you living in an older home when you were a kid, like maybe one old enough to be around during colonial times????

[JerseyBart]

Pendle,

Not at all. The house I lived in was built in the 1940s. And there's nothing really historic about the town I live in other than it was a stayover town as vacationers travelled from Eastern Pennsylvania to the Jersey Shore in the early and mid 1900s. Nothing that I know of explains that dream, except for the fact that I've had plenty of strange dreams in my life. I regaled my students with them this year. They probably thought that I was nuts. They aren't half wrong.

Bart

[JerseyBart]

But on second thought, I lived just off of the White Horse Pike and the house across The Pike from my house...probably 75 to 100 yards...has been around since the 1700s. But any ghosts living in that house have probably been haunting its revolving door of inhabitants for being the seediest collection of trash ever to populate a historic house.

Bart

[pendlekin]

Bart...I just Googled White Horse Pike (not that familiar with NJ aside from the whole poofy hair thing<snicker>) It seems to be a rather historic route. Who's to say what used to be there pre-40's (or under there) still gives me the creeps.

[JerseyBart]

Gives you the creeps??? I lived it. lol But that was the only time I ever saw them.


Bart

[Texas2nd]

Hi ya'll,

I'm new to this forum and wanted to check in with fellow "believers". I'm a member of a paranormal group. I'm also a great fan of history and the ACW.

Went out the other day to an old Cemetary where the UDC was having a Spirit Walk, you know - where members dress like thier ancestors and escort folks from grave to grave telling history - it was great!

In our pictures (during the day) we got all kinds of phenomena - some looked like light orbs other looked like see through sunspots. I think the old ghosts came out to see what all the commotion was!

If there is a spirit walk near you go check it out. You will be surprised at what you can take pictures of during the day in the cemetery at these events!

Texas2nd

[debski]

I have had strange things happen similar to your experience. I think it's kind of fun to have things out of the "Normal"happen. Sometimes it has scared me to death. Someday I will post some.

debski

[84th Pa Heise]

I was mt biking up an area called Boone Mt in NW Pa. When I reached the top even though it was a hot day in July I became chilled to the point of goose bumps. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a man dressed in dark clothing with a round hat on. He had a beard and a wore a colored sash. That much I know I saw. When I stopped my bike and looked to my left there was no one there but a dead tree with no bark. The tree was more of a five foot stump than an actual tree. The goose bumps really exploded on me then. I decided to continue my ride and just forget about what I thought I had seen. Later in my ride I decided to return the way I had ridden in. When I rode back to the spot of my sighting I was amazed to find the tree was not standing any longer. I got off of my bike and looked for the tree to be laying on the ground but found nothing. I do know that the area of my ride used to be a village known as the Bish Settlement. I have ridden my bike to the Bish Cemetary and the old foundations of some of the long since lived in houses. Back in the seventy or eighties some so called devil worshipers had performed some kind of ritual at the cemetary and put the old tombstones in the center of the cemetary in an upside down cross. They dug up one of the graves and used the skull in the ceremony. They were caught and had to replace the broken stones and do some work to fix the area up. Probably has nothing to do with what I thought I saw on the hill but who knows.

[Texas2nd]

84th,
Sometimes our passed-on relatives, angels and god are trying to tell us something is wrong and to get out of there. Looks to me like you had a "get outa-here" experience!
Texas2nd