Ghost Stories
Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 3:01 pm
whoops
I did have a chat with the thin air though, just to make my intentions clear 'Look, I don't mess with you, you don't mess with me, deal?'
glynnisjohns wrote:.
But i could feel something opressive or evil and it was fucking scary. We both agreed there was a presence in the room that was unexplained or not of this plane. this feeling persisted for at least 3 minutes and then it was gone. Never happened again.
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Whatever it was, it was not positive or happy.
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Cheers
kenoki wrote:tipcat, i have heard a few stories like that (your girlfriend's
Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:I saw a ghost once, but I am also well aware that this ghost could be the function of my overactive imagination.
Still, I saw something that was pretty scary to me!
It was a ghost!
In my apartment!
In Chicago!
Or at least that's what I think that I saw. It seemed real, but who knows? She never showed up again.
John W. wrote:On of my favorite haunted house movies is the original version of 'The Haunting' (the remake really sucked). Silly, b/w, a little creepy in parts.
The thing that gets me is that for all you hear about haunted houses... there just aren't that many good movies out there about them.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057129/
Ally In Exile wrote:this is an excellent thread, btw.
is there a "c/nc: ghosts" poll?
Spudboy wrote:Ok, I have one that is related to audio equipment...
I used to live in an old (1915) condo in a six-flat on the south edge of Uptown in Chicago. Our place was the finished basement and first floor. Among more than a couple odd things being moved (including a glass carboy for beermaking being thrown 10 feet across the storage room and shattered from the shelf it was sitting on with over a foot of clearance to the edge) etc, we had several instances of feeling weird cold drafts - in the summertime - around the stairs or in the basement, and one of our friends that looked after our cat while we were gone expressed reluctance to do so again as "you guys have something in the basement".
My home studio was set up at the far end of the basement (basically one big room), and I was toiling away late one night playing with some sequencing software and my Akai S2800. It was about 3am, and I was taking a short break to light a cigarette and dig up some more samples, when suddenly this groaning sound erupted from the speakers, at double the volume of anything else that night. I froze. Then, this slow, strange rhythm started playing with a droning noise...loose, but seemingly orchestrated. I was a little freaked, but I figured ok...old building, power surge - my synth is freaking out. So, I unplugged the MIDI cables from the back of the sampler.
It kept playing.
Now, I'm freaked. For those unfamiliar, the S2800 is a simple machine. You load samples, and trigger them via MIDI - no onboard sequencing or triggering capability beyond the "play" button for a single sample. This was a multi-track performance of some sort.
Once I managed to shake out of my stupor, I grabbed a tape and jammed it into my 8-track. The music stopped, but I hit record and sat down. After about a 2 minute break, it did it again. Similar, but with some minor differences in timing and note selection.
I should also mention that the entire time, I feel chilled and my hair in on end. My wife (apl4eris to you) ran down halfway through the second time, asking what this was, and also experienced this cold/electrical feeling.
After a few minutes, it stopped, and never played again. The sampler worked perfectly to this day, and I have absolutely no rational explanation for this, but here is what I got on tape, for your judgement.
Sweet dreams.
P.S. I intend to use this as a hidden track on a record, so all rights reserved.