scary house

[electricalperson]

anybody here ever work in a real old house and get the creeps and have to leave? this house im working at for a friend of the family scares me. they have statues and busts all over the place and they seem to look at me. plus they have creepy paintings everywhere. the house is over 100 years old and the stairs creek by themselves. i had to pack my tools up and left good news is i found a 1965 jem magazine in the wall

 

[iwire]

Ah no ........


My own house is 85, 95 years old, it creeks with humidity and temperature changes.

 

[Pierre C Belarge]

I love those old houses. When I grew up, us kids thought for sure a "witch" lived in our basement. :grin:


I will admit, that more than once a bust or picture did give me a quick skip of the heart.

 

[electricalperson]

its really not that bad of a house. but try working there 9 at night. only lights in the house is my headlamp and all you see is horrible looking paintings and statues straight out of rome. its a little disturbing

 

[satcom]

Ah no ........


My own house is 85, 95 years old, it creeks with humidity and temperature changes.

Bob, I creek with humidity and temperature changes, and so does my house.

 

[480sparky]

It's amazing what Hollywood can do to your mind.



I once worked with a kid with whom I would always comment to when working in a home with a dirt basement, "Gramma's buried down there!" Bugged the bejeebies out of him.
Then one day, I came out of a crawlspace with some chicken bones I had found, and proclaimed, "I found Gramma!"
I think he wet himself.

Ah no ........


My own house is 85, 95 years old, it creeks with humidity and temperature changes.

I'm not even that old, and I still creek with humidity and temperature changes!

 

[electricalperson]

It's amazing what Hollywood can do to your mind.



I once worked with a kid with whom I would always comment to when working in a home with a dirt basement, "Gramma's buried down there!" Bugged the bejeebies out of him.
Then one day, I came out of a crawlspace with some chicken bones I had found, and proclaimed, "I found Gramma!"
I think he wet himself.



I'm not even that old, and I still creek with humidity and temperature changes!

i love crawling through crawlspaces and hearing that distinctive crunch and you look down and see a pile of bones from some small mammal

 

[AV ELECTRIC]

In the navy i was base police and patroled the grave yard shift. I went to see if this old officers club was locked up it was about 3 am. when i got there the french doors were wide open wind was howling and a black cat sitting buy the door looking at me not moving well ime a 22 year old kid and i need to do my job so i went inside left the cat outside hair went up on my neck and decided to call for backup.

 

[aline]

In the early 80's they were renovating the Yellowstone Lake Hotel.
They do all the work during the winter months. The only way to get to the hotel was a 60 mile ride from West Yellowstone by snowmobile.

The boss wanted me to drive to West Yellowstone, unload the snowmobile, ride on into the Lake Yellowstone hotel, look the job over, ride back to West Yellowstone and call to let him know about the conditions of the job.

By the time I got to the Yellowstone Lake hotel it was late and dark with a full moon out. No one was around for miles. The hotel was all boarded up with the power shut off for the winter. I took my flashlight, pried one of the doors open and managed to get inside. The temperature was below zero, I could see my breath, and the floors creaked and crunched as I walked through the hotel with my trusty flashlight. I could hear coyotes howling in the distance.

The hotel had something like 200 rooms or more and I kept waiting for this guy to poke his head out of one of the rooms.

I went up into the attic where I felt something wizzing past my head. I realized the attic was full of bats. I looked at the things the boss wanted me to look at, made a hasty retreat to my snowmobile and headed back to West Yellowstone with the throttle wide open. Man that was spooky.

This is a picture of the Yellowstone Lake hotel.
Picture it in the middle of winter, all boarded up, late at night with a full moon above the lake and coyotes howling in the distance.

 

[nakulak]

we renovated an old house in Waterford, Va (near Leesburg), supposedly dated back to 1700's (had a log cabin slave shed). the plans had a room called "Ghost Room". When you walked by the room the hair stood up on the back of your neck. That ridiculous show on tv really makes paranormal research look idiotic, but I don't jump to assumptions or conclusions either way and try to keep an open mind, fwiw

 

[walkerj]

I get pretty freaked out pretty easily.
I am still afraid of the dark:-?

One time I was working in the attic of an old house(bad enough) when my flashlight died.
My only light was the light coming up through the scuttle hole on the other side of the house.
I nearly wet myself
I was forced to use instinct to crawl across the house.
I still made record time!

Now, everytime I go into an attic, I pop in a fresh pair of batteries.

 

[Karl H]

I don't believe in ghosts. Two years ago I completely re-wired a
restaurant in the gas lamp district here in San Diego. My helper and I
would show up at 3AM in a really old part of town in San Diego. The building
was built in 1908 and still had active KT that was nothing short of a death
trap for anyone working in the confined spaces above the kitchen.
This place had a creepy factor of 10 and my helper and I
agreed that this place would make a great set for any Hollywood
horror movie. The only ghosts we found were three homeless guys
that turned the main electrical room into a condo, complete with
" plumbing."

 

[jjhoward]

I was working alone in very old 3 story victorian. By about 9:30 PM, I couldn't take it any longer. The noises and creepiness just was a bit much.
No power in the house, working by flashlight up on the 3rd floor. Just when I decided it was late enough the HO quietly walked in and slowly came up the very noisy creaky stairs.

I just said hello and goodby and got outta of there.

The creepiness increases with the lateness and how tired you are.

 

[Fulthrotl]

we renovated an old house in Waterford, Va (near Leesburg), supposedly dated back to 1700's (had a log cabin slave shed). the plans had a room called "Ghost Room". When you walked by the room the hair stood up on the back of your neck. That ridiculous show on tv really makes paranormal research look idiotic, but I don't jump to assumptions or conclusions either way and try to keep an open mind, fwiw

tv shows invariably are lame things that discredit whatever they focus upon.
the "reality" shows are mostly insipid swill, but i'll leave that for another rant.

as far as it goes, this isn't mike holt's metaphysical forum, but there is a
building in newport beach that has an apparition on the top floor... here
is the building:

here is the story:
people started noticing this in the mid '70's. not just one or two people...
lot's of people, spanning 25 years. it shows up in late evenings...
janitorial staff was the first to notice, some of the top executives would be
working late, and see something floating at the end of the hallway....
i worked there in 1999 for about 5 months, swing shift, got off at 11:30.
i saw the critter once.... i was working in a office on the top floor, and got a
weird feeling, so i went out in the hallway, and there it was, floating about
30 feet away.... i looked at it floating there maybe twenty seconds, and then
it faded away. it's not what you'd call a likeness of a person, and it's over
seven feet tall, a fuzzy gray white light, not very intense.

giggle or scoff as you see fit, but it did happen. it's not that big a deal.

 

[boboelectric]

anybody here ever work in a real old house and get the creeps and have to leave? this house im working at for a friend of the family scares me. they have statues and busts all over the place and they seem to look at me. plus they have creepy paintings everywhere. the house is over 100 years old and the stairs creek by themselves. i had to pack my tools up and left good news is i found a 1965 jem magazine in the wall

Just when I looked at a job in the prep room of a funeral home.

 

[iaov]

I am not superstitious. Claims of gohsts and hauntings are pretty tall claims and would require some pretty tall proof before I'm buying it.

 

[growler]

When I grew up, us kids thought for sure a "witch" lived in our basement. :grin:

When I first got married I thought I had a witch living with me and it turned out I was right.

 

[iaov]

I'm guessing your wife isn't reading over your shoulder as you type!

 

[ceb58]

I was on a remodel for about a year in a house that was built in 1915. Full basement, 1st and 2nd floor. The whole house was concrete. The original owner had moved to the area to build his summer house. Where ever he was from up north he had had friends and relatives killed in a casino fire he wanted to build a house that would not burn. Some of the carpenters swore they saw ghost in the house and ask me if I had seen any. I told them if they saw them again to tell them I was looking for them I needed help pulling wire in the attic:grin:. The job was finished in late Nov. on New Years day I received a call from the HO. There was something wrong with the electrical and could I come over. When I got there they told me that on New Years eve night at midnight every thing went out for about 2 min. then came back on. No one else experienced any outages in the neighborhood, nothing tripped out. Who knows?

 

[electricalperson]

I was on a remodel for about a year in a house that was built in 1915. Full basement, 1st and 2nd floor. The whole house was concrete. The original owner had moved to the area to build his summer house. Where ever he was from up north he had had friends and relatives killed in a casino fire he wanted to build a house that would not burn. Some of the carpenters swore they saw ghost in the house and ask me if I had seen any. I told them if they saw them again to tell them I was looking for them I needed help pulling wire in the attic:grin:. The job was finished in late Nov. on New Years day I received a call from the HO. There was something wrong with the electrical and could I come over. When I got there they told me that on New Years eve night at midnight every thing went out for about 2 min. then came back on. No one else experienced any outages in the neighborhood, nothing tripped out. Who knows?

my house would do that too. turns out there was a problem in the panel