My haunted house

[Griff]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

On a lot of construction jobs we'd leave little time capsules in the walls, mostly an empty bottle or can or a note, guys who smoked would often leave their butts.

They found a pistol in the wall of a Federal period house near here. Folks were speculating about an unsolved murder and a missing relative on my Mom's side...

[Tulip]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

It's weird I read about your haunted house just now...

Last night I was sitting on the couch watching Jethro, Tony, McGeek and Ziva, and toking on a stogie, at my best friend's house, alone. (He gives me the run of the place whether he's there or not.) I'm halfway through a nice stogie, when all of a sudden, the recliner Friendigr always sits in just decides to kick itself back up to 'half-recline' from 'full-recline' where he leaves it when he gets up. The recliner is two feet from me.

I about shit myself.

Yeah, that would cause a scare but it ain't a ghost.

[plthijinx]

time to break out the ouija board!!

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

My house is haunted, I've kind of known about it for a long time, in fact the house across the street is haunted and the hotel down the block is haunted. But they have lights turning on and off and things going bump in the night.

My spectral occupation manifests itself with the smell of stale cigarette smoke. It is really annoying. The first few times I smelled it, I looked all over the house and outside to see if someone was smoking outside my house near a window, but nothing.

It happens at random times and lasts about 10 minutes. It's mostly confined to the front room.

It's annoying to me.

What other rooms have you smoked in, I mean, er...have you noticed it in? Does your ghost also use the bathroom or take a nap?

[plthijinx]

are you saying you do? meet me at midnight memorial drive! bwahahahahahahahahahaha! oh sorry. laughing for effect.

[Tulip]

Originally Posted by plthijinx

are you saying you do? meet me at midnight memorial drive! bwahahahahahahahahahaha! oh sorry. laughing for effect.

Which part of Memorial Drive?? Never heard of a haunting there. Or we can just have dinner at Spaghetti Warehouse in downtown. I saw in a show once that it's haunted. They even brought all those ghostbuster gadgets and picked up alot of activity with their machines. Apparently, someone died in the elevator shaft that's by the entrance that is now closed off.

[plthijinx]

Originally Posted by Tulip

Which part of Memorial Drive?? Never heard of a haunting there. Or we can just have dinner at Spaghetti Warehouse in downtown. I saw in a show once that it's haunted. They even brought all those ghostbuster gadgets and picked up alot of activity with their machines. Apparently, someone died in the elevator shaft that's by the entrance that is now closed off.

i was referring to the cemetery between downtown and shephard dr.
the spaghetti warehouse is haunted?? really? i love that place! heck yeah, tell ya what, if i get this engineering job i'll take you to dinner there then after go to the brewery tap (i used to work there back in the day) or la caraffe. maybe both....

[Nirvana]

A sign of mental illness, the ability to manifest odoriferous emanations...
oh wait that might mean crapping one's self.

[Shawnee123]

I'm hard of smelling: I'd never notice the "stale smoke." Of course, most of my smoke is nice and fresh.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

It happens at random times and I've tried to tie it to the boiler, or other things, but it's been happening since we bought the place.

Then again, it could be a ghost.

Hey! You didn't answer my question. Are you the only one who smells it? I ask because hallucinated smells--especially subtle, but distinctive smells, that are the same every time--can be a sign that you're having a partial temporal lobe seizure.

[footfootfoot]

Ahh. I will check into that partial temporal lobe seizure, but I am pretty sure Mrs. Foot smells it too, but she is hard of smelling too, so she might have just been humoring me.

Though I would think that ten years of partial temporal lobe seizures might have had other noticeable effects on me.

See, one of the things is, in summer I have gone outside and seen cig butts on the sidewalk about 50 feet from the house. Considering the muggy air and the windows open I figured that is it, but in winter, with all the windows closed (new windows) and no one on the streets smoking, I still smell it.

[footfootfoot]

This is interesting to me.
My grandmother had some form of Epilepsy, FWIW

Bold below, mine. I often have what I call "brain crushing Deja Vus" They are intense and incorporate everything I am doing, eating, saying, and or listening to. I also have these very clear specific memories of a time and place I've never been. The memory is always the same. This is very interesting.

Symptoms

The symptoms felt by the person, and the signs observable by others, during seizures which begin in the temporal lobe depend upon the specific regions of the temporal lobe and neighboring brain areas affected by the seizure. The International Classification of Epileptic Seizures published in 1981 by the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) recognizes three types of seizures which persons with TLE may experience.[24]

1. Simple Partial Seizures (SPS) involve small areas of the temporal lobe such as the amygdala or the hippocampus. The term "simple" means that consciousness is not altered. In temporal lobe epilepsy SPS usually only cause sensations. These sensations may be mnestic such as déjà vu (a feeling of familiarity), jamais vu (a feeling of unfamiliarity), a specific single or set of memories, or amnesia. The sensations may be auditory such as a sound or tune, gustatory such as a taste, or olfactory such as a smell that is not physically present. Sensations can also be visual, involve feelings on the skin or in the internal organs. The latter feelings may seem to move over the body. Psychic sensations can occur such as an out-of-body feeling. Dysphoric or euphoric feelings, fear, anger, and other sensations can also occur during SPS. Often, it is hard for persons with SPS of TLE to describe the feeling. SPS are often called "auras" by lay persons who mistake them for a warning sign of a subsequent seizure. In fact, they are indeed seizures. Persons experiencing only SPS may not recognize what they are or seek medical advice about them. SPS may or may not progress to the seizure types listed below.

[Lamplighter]

Beware !

From the last section entitled: "The Bad"

It's an experience similar to what medical students go through, dubbed sophomore syndrome.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Beware !

From the last section entitled: "The Bad"

I had that experience during master gardener training. At a certain point in the training you spend two entire sessions on all the insects and diseases that plants can get. At the end of that I was like "Fuck it. There's no way this is going to work. All of my plants will die."

I got over it, but it was a lot of doom and gloom to take at once, that's all I could see.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Though I would think that ten years of partial temporal lobe seizures might have had other noticeable effects on me.

Nah, I've been having them since I was 16, and look how unaffected I am!