strange happenings in louisiana

lifted this from a thread:

[QUOTE]I live in an apartment complex across the street from my university, so it's almost 100% college students who live here. There is one 40-something man who lives here as well, and he's kind of in the story.

It started last Wednesday, I think. I live with my girlfriend and two other guys we knew in high school. There's a shuttle that runs back and forth between the apartment complex and the university, since so many college kids live here. Well, if you are walking to our apartment from the bus stop, you can see our balcony and two bedroom windows.
Wednesday, my girlfriend and one of the guys who lives here were walking home from the bus stop and looked up at our apartment. Normally we keep all the blinds shut because the buildings here are close to each other and people will peek in your windows, but they noticed that the blinds in my girlfriend's room were open. They could clearly see me, sitting at the desk next to the window. I was looking at the computer. They called my name and waved to me, and they said I just sort of looked at them and then got up and walked away from the window. The thing is.. I wasn't home. I was in class. Sure enough, they got to the apartment and came in and I wasn't here, and they were all freaked out. They told me about it when I got home, and it kind of scared me too, since they saw this ghost thing that was pretending to be me, but we all kind of stopped talking about it.

Nothing interesting happened on Thursday, but Friday night all four of us were home and we were sitting in the living room watching TV. It was really late, probably between 2 and 3 AM. All of a sudden, we heard this horrific noise coming from the parking lot. It sounded almost like a pig being slaughtered. It was a series of really loud grunts and groans with occasional high pitched squeals. We all looked at each other in terror for a few seconds and then ran out onto the balcony to see what it was. Once we got outside, the noise was even louder, but it ended pretty quickly. Two of the guys ran downstairs to look around the parking lot but didn't see anything, and there were no other people about from what we could tell.
The next day, I was standing at the bus stop and heard two girls talking about the noise that had woken them up last night. "Sounded like an animal being tortured." I said I heard it too, and that we had looked outside but saw nothing. They seemed freaked out.
On Saturday, maintenance found two dead cats in the bushes next to one of the gates. I only know this because they sent out notices to everyone, trying to make sure no one was missing their cat or something.

Then, there was last night, and that was the thing that made me come here. I woke up in the middle of the night for no particular reason, and heard that it was POURING rain. I love when it rains at night, so I went to look out the window at the storm for a few minutes.
To my horror, there was... something, in the parking lot. I don't know what the # it was. It looked like a tall man wearing a big coat, but there was just something not human about it. It was huddled against a lamp post that has been broken since we moved in, so I could see its outline but not any detail. I ran back to the bed and shook my girlfriend awake, bringing her to the window. By the time my girlfriend got to the window, the thing had moved and was crouching between two cars. My girlfriend thought it was a man being shady and called management, but no one picked up the 24-hour line. (That's happened before though when we called to report noise, so it isn't that freaky). The thing was moving around in between cars in the parking lot, staying mostly in the shadows.
I went out on the balcony and after a few minutes she followed me out there. We watched it for a minute or two and then I just yelled, "Hey!" at it. It stood up at full height, and was definitely too tall to be a normal sized man. It looked around for a minute and fixed its eyes on the building across from us, and then crouched down again and bolted out of the parking lot.
I looked up at where it had been staring on the building, and sitting out on his balcony smoking a cigarette was the 40-ish year old guy I mentioned before. He saw the whole thing too. I yelled, "What the # was that?" but he didn't answer me, just kept staring at where it had gone.

The next night, the people who live on the third floor (directly above us) just came down and asked us why we were banging on our ceiling, which would have meant they heard banging noises coming from their floor. We said we weren't banging on the ceiling, and they went back upstairs. It was a guy and a girl. Like two minutes later the guy came back and told us that when they walked back in their apartment, one of the dining room chairs had been turned over. Before he even left, the girl was back, saying that she heard more banging noises coming from the floor. But since their floor is our ceiling, you would assume that if something banged on either one, both of us would be able to hear it. No one heard anything in this apartment.
They went back but I think they were a little spooked.

We went and talked to the 40-ish guy right after that. He's a little bit of a redneck and really superstitious. Says he's felt weird lately. He thinks the other night was actually the second time he saw the thing, the first time being a few days before. Apparently he was up really early in the morning, when it starts to get light but before the sun comes up, and out his window he saw something just standing by the front building of the apartment complex. Just standing there. He's pretty convinced they were the same thing.
He's got a gun but doesn't want to shoot it, since this is mostly student housing and we aren't allowed to have guns.
He also said he's been having dreams that something was watching him through the window, but has no indication that the dreams are of whatever's been in the parking lot. He could just be dreaming about it because he's been thinking about it.
He told my roommates to stay inside and said to make sure our blinds are always closed. That's pretty much it.

Any ideas as to what it is??[/QUOTE]

I love shit like this. There used to be a really great ghost story website that I used to spend hours and hours of my time reading. I'm pretty sure It's not around anymore. Most of the stories were pretty tame, but then you'd get one or two a night that we so incredibly detailed and equally frightening you had a hard time not believing the author.

[QUOTE=AtomSmasher]lifted this from a thread:[/QUOTE]
Jeeze thats pretty creepy.

Especially the banging on the floor.

[QUOTE=pete's montreux]I love shit like this. There used to be a really great ghost story website that I used to spend hours and hours of my time reading. I'm pretty sure It's not around anymore. Most of the stories were pretty tame, but then you'd get one or two a night that we so incredibly detailed and equally frightening you had a hard time not believing the author.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://theshadowlands.net/ghost/[/url]

what do you know about dopplegangers? very fascinating and terrifying concept.

I was supposed to go on a huge ghost hunt with NeXus in 2008. Plans fell through, though.

[QUOTE=ProfessorMurder]That honestly just creeped the f*ck out of me... That rarely happens.

Could you link me to where you got this man?[/QUOTE]
creeped me out too...

[url]http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread548003/pg1[/url]

you guys should come down to where i live in bucks county. just to give you a little background it's one of the most historical places in the united states. the town i grew up in, 'New Hope', Pennsylvania has been voted by numerous publications as the most haunted town in America. it's featured heavily in the link i provided (shadowlands)...George Washington lived here along with various revolutionary war figures.

[QUOTE=ProfessorMurder]That honestly just creeped the f*ck out of me... That rarely happens.

Could you link me to where you got this man?[/QUOTE]
haha me too. I have to go to sleep now, damn it.

[quote=AtomSmasher][URL="http://theshadowlands.net/ghost/"]http://theshadowlands.net/ghost/[/URL]

what do you know about dopplegangers? very fascinating and terrifying concept.[/quote]

Not much really, I stopped reading about that stuff a while back. I got really pissed off that the Danvers State mental asylum was being torn down and luxury apartments were being built over it. I really wanted to go there and when it got torn down I just kind of stopped caring about that shit.

I lived next to a construction foreman a long time ago, back when they were still tearing down the old buildings. He wasn't working on the project himself but he had buddies who were. Anyways, he told me a story of a guy who found a pretty nice wooden table that he brought home from the asylum to use in his living room. He ended up having all sorts of weird shit start happening after he brought the table home and ended up burning the thing in the backyard after a few weeks. The problems stopped.

[url]http://www.danversstateinsaneasylum.com/home.html[/url]

I hate how when you read or hear something like this you automatically start to sense fear from your surroundings. You don't want to turn around in your chair and you realize it's late, very late at night indeed and this doesn't help the situation any. Fear is man's worst enemy.

Turn around in your chair and smack fear in the face.


Oh shit..

I love experiencing with the paranormal. Just a few weeks ago we went to an abandoned barn at around 12:00 am where supposedly you see a women dressed in white walking around at night. I swear to you we saw her, we saw a white figure left to the barn just floating around. It scared the **** out of us and we ran for it. Haven't been back since, but I want to.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsKkCNHzALs[/url]

[quote=ProfessorMurder]Dude, you want to go on one somewhere in New England (no homo)? My friends are all b*tches, but I've been wanting to ghost hunt for a long ass time...[/quote]

I'm down, but it would have to be a pretty notorious place. Like Danvers State.

[quote=PistolPete]I hate how when you read or hear something like this you automatically start to sense fear from your surroundings. You don't want to turn around in your chair and you realize it's late, very late at night indeed and this doesn't help the situation any. Fear is man's worst enemy.

Turn around in your chair and smack fear in the face.


Oh shit..[/quote]

Yep. Your mind literally starts working against you. You honestly become scared and paranoid and you have to psyche yourself out to like get up and turn the light on.

[quote=ProfessorMurder]I'm down for anywhere bad ass and crazy.[/quote]

I'm talking like no lights, completely dark, just us and some flashlights.

I'm going ghost hunting n*ggas!

[QUOTE=ProfessorMurder]I would definitely be into something like heading down there. I've wanted to do a road trip for a long ass time, why the f*ck not? You staying in Penn through the summer?[/QUOTE]
yes man, i'll be all summer. it's a really special/beautiful little town. great night life too.

here is what your average street looks like:

[IMG]http://www.bucksviews.com/towns/NewHope/Newhopestreet1.jpg[/IMG]

ps - my old man painted that mural on that building.

here is a link about how haunted the area is:

[url]http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm464955.html[/url]

the road i currently live is has been dubbed "the most haunted road in America" by shadowlands as well. dark hollow road.

Even stranger, people apparently want Brad Pitt to run for Governor of LA due to his obvious qualifications.

Interesting story. I'm not a very superstitious person by nature and I would need absolute proof to completely buy it, but that doesn't mean that the imagery described in the story isn't eery as f#ck.

i'd love to like get met by a ghost and just sucker punch that mother f*cker right in the mouth and my hand goes through the mist and it sucks me down a dark hallway

shit would be awesome

[QUOTE=RedBlackAttack]Interesting story. I'm not a very superstitious person by nature and I would need absolute proof to completely buy it, but that doesn't mean that the imagery described in the story isn't eery as f#ck.[/QUOTE]
at the very least conceptually speaking it paints a very frightening picture.

ive seen enough anecdotal evidence, heard enough stories from credible god fearing folks, combined with my own first hand strange happenings in the town i grew up in/currently live in that i have no doubt that there is just some shit that can't be explained.

After reading stuff like that everything you hear or stuff you catch out of the corner of your eye just creeps you out..That's why I generally stay away from legit scary horror movies about supernatural stuff.

i think ive told my laundry ghost story here a bunch of times

[QUOTE=IlliniFan]After reading stuff like that everything you hear or stuff you catch out of the corner of your eye just creeps you out..That's why I generally stay away from legit scary horror movies about supernatural stuff.[/QUOTE]
fair enough but part of me enjoys the sensation of fear. makes me feel alive, heightened sense of alertness, etc.

i could share some stories that would raise the hair on your neck.

[QUOTE=pete's montreux]i'd love to like get met by a ghost and just sucker punch that mother f*cker right in the mouth and my hand goes through the mist and it sucks me down a dark hallway

shit would be awesome[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://i48.tinypic.com/bjcyn6.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE=AtomSmasher]at the very least conceptually speaking it paints a very frightening picture.

ive seen enough anecdotal evidence, heard enough stories from credible god fearing folks, combined with my own first hand strange happenings in the town i grew up in/currently live in that i have no doubt that there is just some shit that can't be explained.[/QUOTE]
Haha shit got me in the mood to hear some more of this eerie stuff. Can you tell some of your stories? You have to have had some strange encounters living where you do..

He should be more freaked out that his buddies saw him in the apartment but he was really at school rather than some strange dude in the parking lot.

[QUOTE=AtomSmasher]fair enough but part of me enjoys the sensation of fear. makes me feel alive, heightened sense of alertness, etc.

i could share some stories that would raise the hair on your neck.[/QUOTE]
I enjoy it too, but only in the moment. It's not fun when it stays with you after the moment has passed and you're constantly on edge.

I have been reading some of the posts in the link you showed Atom, holy f*ck is some of that stuff wierd. Honestly if it were me and some stuff like that happened I would move the next day.

Who else just Googled ghost stories and turned your light off?

*raises hand*

Going back to the story, I can't help but keep thinking about the movie The Mothman Prophecies which was a true story. Sounds to me like the 40 year-old man likes to get liquored up every night and tell fantastic tales the next morning, or he is actually having an encounter with someone or something that's out there.

Could be numerous explanations. A lot of haunted towns either sit on old Indian reservations or slave plantations and thus many haunted stories come out of that as a result.

As for the tall thing... anyone else picturing The Tall Man from Phantasm?

In the Phillippines this thing is known as Kapre

[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapre"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapre[/URL]

My cousin says she had seen one peaking through her bedroom window when she stayed there. Here roon was on the second floor on a flat side on the house.

[QUOTE=pete's montreux][url]http://www.danversstateinsaneasylum.com/home.html[/url][/QUOTE]

just had a look, it's funny how anything between i'd say 1850 and 1910 is more freaky than any other time period. i think it is just the menacing medical equipment and sub par but grand living conditions.

[QUOTE=ConanRulesNBC]As for the tall thing... anyone else picturing The Tall Man from Phantasm?[/QUOTE]
I was actually picturing the tall old man from Poltergeist 2.

[IMG]http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/8062/poltergeist.jpg[/IMG]

....one of the freakiest characters in film history.

[IMG]http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/1292/happyka.jpg[/IMG]

Sweet dreams after looking at those pics.

I hate you.

[QUOTE=DC's Finest]Haha shit got me in the mood to hear some more of this eerie stuff. Can you tell some of your stories? You have to have had some strange encounters living where you do..[/QUOTE]
i was 16 years old at the time. i was living with my dad in an apartment complex that was set a mile south of new hope. new hope is nestled alongside a river. alongside the river is a canal that has a path that is referred to as a towpath. in order to walk back to my dad's place i had to walk on this towpath which is very dark, very scary, and even to this day leaves you feeling unsettled. here is a photo of the towpath i was traveling on:

[IMG]http://new-hope-pennsylvania.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/taking-a-stroll-along-the-canal-path-in-new-hope-pa.jpg[/IMG]

anyway it's late at night, maybe around 1AM. i had done this walk late at night before and always ended up running home just because i'd get easily spooked. there is a very old restaurant called 'odettes' that i pass along the walk. 'odettes' is considered very haunted, a famous news reporter in the 80s called jessica savitch died there in the 80's to go along with numerous other strange happenings [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Savitch[/url]...

[QUOTE]On Sunday, October 23, 1983, Savitch had dinner with Martin Fischbein, vice-president of the New York Post, in New Hope, Pennsylvania. After the meal at Odette's Restaurant, they began to drive home about 7:15 pm, with Fischbein behind the wheel and Savitch in the back seat with her dog, Chewy.
Fischbein may have missed posted warning signs in a heavy rainfall, and he drove out of the wrong exit from the restaurant and up the towpath of the old Pennsylvania Canal's Delaware Division on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River. The car veered too far to the left and went over the edge into the shallow water of the canal. After falling approximately fifteen feet and landing upside down, the station wagon sank into deep mud which sealed the doors shut.
Savitch and Fischbein were trapped inside as water poured in. A local resident found the wreck at about 11:30 that night. Fischbein's body was still strapped behind the wheel, with Savitch and her dog in the rear. After the subsequent autopsies, the Bucks County coroner ruled that both had died from asphyxiation by drowning. He noted that Fischbein was apparently knocked unconscious in the wreck but Savitch had struggled to escape. There was no finding that drugs or alcohol had played any part in the crash.[2][4][/QUOTE]

i have a zippo lighter in my hand. im sure you're are aware that zippos keep a flame very well. anyway i was nervous so i kept lighting my lighter and flicking it shut. trying to keep myself distracted on this terrible walk. as im doing this i feel a very strong gust of wind, the flame then proceeds to go out, i feel paralyzed by fear, im literally frozen. i see a woman that appeared to be in white garments standing along the bank of the canal. i closed my eyes for a moment because i thought i was seeing things, your mind can play awful tricks on you. i then hear very violent splashes of water in the canal. i glance for one second and it looked as if someone was running through the canal. i immediately ran as fast as i could back to my apartment which was maybe 1,000 yards away at this point. very scary indeed.

i'll share an even scarier story shortly.

[QUOTE=RedBlackAttack]I was actually picturing the tall old man from Poltergeist 2.

[IMG]http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/8062/poltergeist.jpg[/IMG]

....one of the freakiest characters in film history.

[IMG]http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/1292/happyka.jpg[/IMG]

Sweet dreams after looking at those pics.[/QUOTE]

Sheeeit! If that dude was dead and in a coffin, I wouldn't be convinced he was dead. He looks like Satan himself.

This guy though is more realistic...

[IMG]http://www.starz.com/titles/NeedfulThings/PublishingImages/needful_things_1993_685x385.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE=AtomSmasher]i was 16 years old at the time. i was living with my dad in an apartment complex that was set a mile south of new hope. new hope is nestled alongside a river. alongside the river is a canal that has a path that is referred to as a towpath. in order to walk back to my dad's place i had to walk on this towpath which is very dark, very scary, and even to this day leaves you feeling unsettled. here is a photo of the towpath i was traveling on:

[IMG]http://new-hope-pennsylvania.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/taking-a-stroll-along-the-canal-path-in-new-hope-pa.jpg[/IMG]

anyway it's late at night, maybe around 1AM. i had done this walk late at night before and always ended up running home just because i'd get easily spooked. there is a very old restaurant called 'odettes' that i pass along the walk. 'odettes' is considered very haunted, a famous news reporter in the 80s called jessica savitch died there in the 80's to go along with numerous other strange happenings [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Savitch[/url]...



i have a zippo lighter in my hand. im sure you're are aware that zippos keep a flame very well. anyway i was nervous so i kept lighting my lighter and flicking it shut. trying to keep myself distracted on this terrible walk. as im doing this i feel a very strong gust of wind, the flame then proceeds to go out, i feel paralyzed by fear, im literally frozen. i see a woman that appeared to be in white garments standing along the bank of the canal. i closed my eyes for a moment because i thought i was seeing things, your mind can play awful tricks on you. i then hear very violent splashes of water in the canal. i glance for one second and it looked as if someone was running through the canal. i immediately ran as fast as i could back to my apartment which was maybe 1,000 yards away at this point. very scary indeed.

i'll share an even scarier story shortly.[/QUOTE]
Mother****er....
:eek:

[QUOTE=ProfessorMurder]If I could pick one time to go live, I'd go back to the late 1800's.[/QUOTE]

it would be a crazy time to live, i think anything from the 18th century onwards would be awesome to live in. provided you aren't in the working class lol.

my other story takes place around the same time period. young teenager at the time. living with my mom and step father in a condo in a town called doylestown, PA that is 15 miles away from new hope. prior to moving into the condo a woman my grandmother was friendly with died inside the condo due to health complications.

it's around 9 PM. my mom was out shopping for groceries and my step father worked in the city so he usually came home around 1030 PM. i was hanging out in my bed room which was up a flight of stairs. im naturally a jumpy person so i vividly recall feeling very uneasy at the time. i was on the phone with a girlfriend of mine at the time and i told her i loved before we hung up the phone. as soon as i got off the phone i heard a very feint voice in a whisper say "i love you". it sounded like it was coming from underneath my door, i had my door shut. my step dad was a big practical joker who loved scaring me. i figured he had gotten home early and was waiting for me to open the door and pop out around the corner and scare the shit out of. we used to do this to each other a lot. i wasn't interested in that happening for obvious reasons lol, so i stayed put in my room. i kept hearing what sounded like a very low decimal whisper speaking to me from outside the door. at this point i was sure it was him but i was still terrified.

i then took a deep breath and decided to get this over with because it was starting to seriously creep me out. i open the door, no one is there. the voice sounded like it was coming from the bottom of the stairs which wrapped around a corner so it was an ideal place to scare someone. i very carefully and timidly walked down the stairs. i called his name numerous times and he didn't respond. i knew it was unlikely that he'd be home at this hour so i figured i'd step outside and see if his car was parked out front. i go outside and no car.

i walk back in the house, run up back into my room. i called my mom because i was freaking out. she tells me not to worry and she'll be home shortly. as im speaking to her i hear a voice in a whisper mimicking all of the words im saying. im an extreme state of fear at this point. my cat is in the bedroom with me and is behaving very erratically which is not helping me relax at all. i had a plastic pair of handcuffs that were cuffed to my door knob that made a very distinct noise every time you'd open the door. it was something of a rattle. i began to hear a very loud rattle that sounded like something was trying to open my door. the sound began to intensify. i remained in my room and kept a pillow on over my head to block out the sound. after a few more minutes of this i heard my mother's voice and consequently the noises ceased and everything was seemingly fine.

i had seen a woman walking in the house before that wasn't my mother. very intense experience. my mother has some stories that i'll talk about that make my experiences seem like child's play.

Man, I would never go ghost-hunting. What the phuck you gonna do if you actually find one? And what if it's as evil as Hitler and as powerful as Chuck Norris? You're phucked :eek: