scary house

[480sparky]

I find it interesting that people in a trade (working with electricity, no less!), whose job it is to climb ladders and scaffolds, work in trenches and on lift & bucket trucks, and other such associated real dangers are spooked by a dark room or an old house that is subject to thermal expansion and contraction.

 

[sii]

I work third shift at a plastic plant, we have a total of about 35 acres. I have worked here 13 years and work a ton of weekend shifts where I am the only one here. Twice in 13 years I have gotten so creeped out I had to pack it up and go home. Not neccessarily ghosts or whatever but just noises, you get a seed planted in your head and sometimes it's hard to make it go away. What's really creepy for me is if I'm walking from one bldg to another, the two furthest ones are about 1000' apart, and the light from a yard light starts to overtake the light from another. Sometimes the shadows make it look like someone is walking up behind you. We have had transients and other people in here all the time (including a guy running from the cops with about 10 officers chasing him) so I suppose I have a reasonable basis for my fear.


My wife's favorite story to tell my friends is this: One night, about 4am, I was out in the far corner of our plant property looking through some scrap material. There is a railroad track that goes directly past out plant, about 40' outside the fence. Anyway, it's freezing cold, I have earplugs in, and I have to pee. You know how sometimes you hear or see things that your brain doesn't completely process? Well I heard the train coming but apparently didn't completely process the information. I'm totally focused on whatever I'm looking for and about the time the train gets even with me, the whistle blows. I let it all go right there down my right leg. In retrospect, it's pretty funny but man was I embarrassed.

 

[ishium 80439]

This is not related to EC'ing but it is work related so I figured it should fit.

While I was an apprentice I had a part time job working at a performing arts complex. One of the two theaters that we worked was an old vaudeville house built in 1923 by a women named Mary Vouno (if I remeber correctly).

Many long stories short there was more than one occaision that the house lights did not get turned off after the show until the old lady in the back of the house left. Needless to say that there was no one there.

In terms of houses I have not been put back by anything (when working in CT I've worked in homes that were over 200 years old) that I thought was odd. I've been more scared by some of the neighborhoods I've had to work in .

 

[stickboy1375]

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

Every day, our bread and butter

 

[76nemo]

I had, excuse me, my Mother had problems with touch lamps that I moved to different circuits, and the problem popped up months later with NO explanation. I think I may now believe in ghosts. Lamp in question was fine until one week ago. Out of nowhere, she lit. She asks me my opinion. What am I to say??? Never came on when placed on a different circuit, now it decides to shine. What the heck?????

Am I being serious, do I believe in ghosts? Heck no, but I still can't explain this one

 

[JWCELECTRIC]

electricperson,

Is that the same house that you posted the thread where there were EMF's in one of the kids bedrooms and the Ghost Hunters had recorded high EMF's?

 

[mivey]

I only get scared if I walk around with my flashlight under my chin.

 

[glene77is]

I had, excuse me, my Mother had problems with touch lamps that I moved to different circuits, and the problem popped up months later with NO explanation. I think I may now believe in ghosts. Lamp in question was fine until one week ago. Out of nowhere, she lit. She asks me my opinion. What am I to say??? Never came on when placed on a different circuit, now it decides to shine. What the heck?????

Am I being serious, do I believe in ghosts? Heck no, but I still can't explain this one

Nemo,

I worked in N.Y. near the city, about 40 years ago. Good memories.
Would have stayed, but for the first wife. NY was OK.

About the lamp, though.
Having designed such 'touch switch' circuits in the 80's,
I found that the circuits can be very sensitive to noise spikes.

Such spikes can come from external sources like a loose connection,
or plugging in a loaded device which makes a spark as it is plugged in.
Also can come from internal connections being vibrated or heated,
such as from a poor solder joint, or off-spec chip.
I used both LM555 and old CMOS logic NAND chips for the circuits,
making switches that the handi-capped could manipulate.

 

[electricalperson]

electricperson,

Is that the same house that you posted the thread where there were EMF's in one of the kids bedrooms and the Ghost Hunters had recorded high EMF's?

this is a different house. im going to go back to that other house in a few months to finish the job

 

[76nemo]

Nemo,

I worked in N.Y. near the city, about 40 years ago. Good memories.
Would have stayed, but for the first wife. NY was OK.

About the lamp, though.
Having designed such 'touch switch' circuits in the 80's,
I found that the circuits can be very sensitive to noise spikes.

Such spikes can come from external sources like a loose connection,
or plugging in a loaded device which makes a spark as it is plugged in.
Also can come from internal connections being vibrated or heated,
such as from a poor solder joint, or off-spec chip.
I used both LM555 and old CMOS logic NAND chips for the circuits,
making switches that the handi-capped could manipulate.

Thanks for your your reply glene77is

The weird part is that Mom had this problem with this one lamp in one branch circuit, not with another touch lamp in another branch, so I switched them.

Once I switched them, no problem with the new lamp. After over a month, or so, Mom woke up to the same lamp lit on another circuit. I am baffled.

After almost two months, I am ready to rip these new lamps apart. I can't figure it out, and I don't have the capability to log the input to the lamp's themselves on days apart let alone weeks themselves.

Just REALLY curious!!!!!!!!!!

 

[cowboyjwc]

I was working on a house one time and had to crawl underneath. The owner told me to watch out for the rabbit. There's a rabbit under there?, No, but my daughter claims there is, she'll sit by the crawl hole and talk to it under the house. 15 minutes later I came out and asked the owner to tell me the story again and then asked if they ever had a rabbit, he gave me a funny look and said no and asked why. I said well I crawled back there a little ways and there was the skelton of a rabbit under there, when was the last time your daughter saw the rabbit? Yesterday.

 

[MJW]

Last night I was reading this post in my basement office after the family was in bed. I was enjoying the stories and thinking of a few places I've worked that gave me the creeps. I decided to head up to bed about 10:30 and started walking through the basement to the stairs. All of the sudden someone screamed out "DEAD MEN TELL NO LIES". It was my son's motion activated skull and crossbones toy. I about jumped out of my skin!

 

[rt66electric]

sounds like home

sounds like home

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

I grew up in a old house. Sometime during the night "grandma" would check on the kids. No mater how well I shut-or stuffed a shoe under it as a wedge- my bedroom door, It would go 'click' and open. Now that I have a 1908 vintage mansion (craftsman bungalo) my youngest child will not go upstairs by himself.:smile:

 

[hardworkingstiff]

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.

Thanks sparky, I enjoyed that laugh!:grin:

 

[cowboyjwc]

Last night I was reading this post in my basement office after the family was in bed. I was enjoying the stories and thinking of a few places I've worked that gave me the creeps. I decided to head up to bed about 10:30 and started walking through the basement to the stairs. All of the sudden someone screamed out "DEAD MEN TELL NO LIES". It was my son's motion activated skull and crossbones toy. I about jumped out of my skin!

I hate when stuff like that happens, but it's funny as heck when it happens to someone else.

Thanks for the laugh.

 

[mark32]

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.

That is a wicked story, I can imagine how spooky it must have felt out in the middle of nowhere, at night, alone, freezing cold, no power in a boarded up place, bats flying around, good grief! Sounds like a scene straight out of a horror movie. Did you really have to ride that snowmobile 60 miles each way?

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.

That's freaky too,

Many years ago a few friends were out doing some juvenile things at night in a trucking company's storage area and all of a sudden this sight, very much like you described, was spotted "Following" them off in the distance, scared as heck they ran as fast as they could back to their car, climbing a high chain link fence in the process and never looked back.

Now I'm all spooked out, I just turned on all the lights

 

[LawnGuyLandSparky]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHtPa834UhQ

 

[electricalperson]

heres one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X7c_JuH9_c&feature=related

 

[aline]

Did you really have to ride that snowmobile 60 miles each way?

The original plan was to make the trip everyday.
Instead we ended finding a little room, set it up with a couple of space heaters and a microwave.

We would camp out in this little room for a week or two and then ride back out to West Yellowstone to shower and get more supplies. There was one bathroom about a mile away that had a sink and toilet but no shower. This was the only running water we had.

The work had to be completed by spring and we had so much work to do in such a short time we would work until we got tired, get a little sleep and then get back up and go back to work.

The materials for the job had been delivered in the early fall before the roads were closed for the winter.

By the end of that job we all looked like this guy.

 

[LawnGuyLandSparky]

Talk about roughing it...