ghost stories

[Mr Ektion]

i went to maxine's hideaway today. the boss told me that the place is apparently haunted. they are a sweet spot of paranormal experiences and the vancouver paranormal society declared it as one of the most haunted buildings in city.

Apparently when the place is quiet glasses that sitting in the center of tables get knocked off of the table and smash on the ground. There have even been eye witnesses (apparently)! Or stuff like, their lights pulse to a dim on fixtures that don't have dim switches.

well, i was told that the water street cafe building (in gastown) is haunted too. actually, really haunted. now, i used to work up in that building for a year or more a while back.. We did many an all nighter there (before i knew it was 'haunted').

The WSC shared the back staircase that led to the alley with us. They brought out garbage often and sometimes they left the door open for ventillation or carelessness. One night, I was working in the office and i heard someone walking and running upstairs on the 4th floor.

So, Grant and I gathered our battery-less flash light (you know, the ones you gotta 'wack off' so it built up enough of a charge to use?) and braved the darkness to kick this hobo, that's upstairs, out.

The door to the alley. Not open. We go up the stairs to the 4th floor. Locked. I must have locked it the last time we were up there. The place was pitch black. All of the windows were boarded up and covered in plastic so that it was darker for rave parties and such. The entire place was empty. But we DEFINITELY heard the creaking and impact of several people upstairs walking and running around!

No word of a lie, when we found out the place was empty and no one was there.. the hair on the back of my neck stood up. So we're like. ok.. it's old pipes or whatever. This building is one of the ORIGINAL buildings of vancouver!

We go downstairs, start working only to hear the same footsteps upstairs about a half hour later. At which point we called it a night.

Several years later, we find out the place was and still is haunted. I have MANY stories about that place and it's strangeness. kinda creepy stuff!

What about you guys. Any LEGIT paranormal experiences?

[dave mcnasty]

I know someone who works at the spaghetti factory in Gastown and he said there have been hundreds of ghost experiences there. I'm still skeptical but it seems like everyone that works there has experienced something. Like glasses or chairs being moved, and one guy actually had some glowing silhouette talk to him, and tell him to put a better picture of him at the front of the restaurant or something....he took him to the back of the restaurant and showed him a picture of himself and some other people from the back of the restaurant and said "this is the picture I want you to put up."

And some psychic came into the restaurant and said a bunch of shit that seemed to match a lot of people's stories.

[Grapes]

As I say every time this subject comes up:

Ask gnosis.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by Grapes

As I say every time this subject comes up:

Ask gnosis.

y = cosx

[-evil-duerr-]

i see ghosts when i havent slept in awhile. is that legit?

[Grapes]

Originally Posted by ebbomega

y = cosx

.. tan?

[gnosis]

^geeks!

Typical: Every fuckin' year, around this time, seems the ONLY time anyone actually pays attention to what lots of people deal w/ year-round!

Frosty
(nope. Not talkin'. Not without a pint, in a pub...Kingston is good...)

[ppcock]

When I used to work at the lamplighter. We knew the place was haunted, I didnt like going to the bathroom there. Freakin scary shit.

Probably the best "weird" story.

We used to drink after work each night, so there could be a hallucination story here. At the lamplighter in the old times, cops used to come in to go check for drug deals going on, the neat thing.. if you've ever been to the lamp, you'd go to the bar and above the bartenders are mirrors, well, they're 2 way mirrors and cops used to sit there and bust people for posession.
No one goes up there these days, we've accessed it and in order to get in, you have to crawl.. I certainly dont want to crawl there more than once in my life.

Anyways, so we were sitting near the entrance, smoking cigarettes and drinking booze. all of a sudden, I notice that one of the lights there is on.

Now.. the weird thing is.. Those lights are broken. We tried turning them on but they didnt work. So immediately we're shitting our pants. our manager goes to have a look and then the light just goes off, he says he didnt do anything and I totally believe it (What switch turns off the light that didnt turn on in the first place).
Needless to say, we finished our beers and got the fuck out of there.

I've always heard stories about that place being haunted, one of the ex bartenders there would always tell us stories, even some of the promoters had their fair share of stories.
So to finally have one of our own.. totally confirmed it.. That place is fuckin' haunted yo.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by Grapes

.. tan?

cosined

[Revolver]

Originally Posted by gnosis

Frosty
(nope. Not talkin'. Not without a pint, in a pub...Kingston is good...)

When?

I've been a avid reader and researcher of the occult and various other topics since i was a kid.

[ebbomega]

Originally Posted by gnosis

^geeks!

Typical: Every fuckin' year, around this time, seems the ONLY time anyone actually pays attention to what lots of people deal w/ year-round!

Frosty
(nope. Not talkin'. Not without a pint, in a pub...Kingston is good...)

Hallowe'en is New Years, in the old days. People's energies are ripe with madness so they wanna dress up n talk about weird shit. We still got a little bit of that programmed into us.

Since then we've evolved warmer places to avoid hibernation and so we celebrate new year's in January (funny how China has theirs after us).

[Courtney]

I want ghots to exist i've been searching for one for 8 months and i cant seem to find him

[-evil-duerr-]

Originally Posted by Courtney

I want ghots to exist i've been searching for one for 8 months and i cant seem to find him

[Revolver]

Originally Posted by Courtney

I want ghots to exist i've been searching for one for 8 months and i cant seem to find him

more time.

trust me he will start appearing in dreams

[gnosis]

Take a look around youtube. There's actually quite a few videos posted of allegedly real ghosts.

Here's one to start you:

YouTube - Running Ghost

Frosty
(hates mom's house)

[gnosis]

Originally Posted by Revolver

When?

I've been a avid reader and researcher of the occult and various other topics since i was a kid.

We were supposed to do that LAST year, but, you never got back to me.

MarkPaul did. Although, it wasn't much of a conversation. He sorta just talked _at_ me the whole time. And, not much about ghosts/hauntings.

I'm easy to get hold of. How about an afternoon pint, this weekend?

Kingston or Johnny Fox's?

Frosty
(yes, Kingston _is_ haunted)

[gnosis]

Here, re-read it all:

http://fnk.ca/board/f8/coffee-lounge/paranormal-210812/

Frosty
(can't be bothered to type it all out, again)

[Grapes]

Originally Posted by gnosis

We were supposed to do that LAST year, but, you never got back to me.

I'm easy to get hold of. How about an afternoon pint, this weekend?

Kingston or Johnny Fox's?

Put up or shut up, Juan!

Don't go without me fellas. Those are a couple of stellar venues.

[Revolver]

sunday 4pm kingston pub.

sound good?

[ebbomega]

If it's Sunday keep me in the loop, very interested in coming along.

[ppcock]

Yeah.. me too!

I might just cancel Sundays dive for this!

[gnosis]

Originally Posted by Revolver

sunday 4pm kingston pub.

sound good?

SO _do_-able!

We're on!

Frosty
(likes their edamame)

[Grapes]

Hopefully I can get enough homework done to justify going to this.