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Lanny_MacDonald · 05-29-2007, 10:15 AM

I'm still not sure I believe in ghosts, but I have had a couple of incidents that makes me wonder.

I went to a murder mystery night at the Deane House in Calgary. This house has a history and reported hauntings. Dinner is served on the main floor of the house, but most of the murder mystery is acted out in the upper floor of the house. While on the second floor, we were watching the actors do their thing and giving the clues that the guests would need to solve the mystery. Being tall, I allowed the shorter people to stand in front of me so they could enjoy the production more. I was watching the action unfold and felt a tap on my left shoulder. I shuffled aside a bit, as if to give someone a better view. I felt a second tap and shuffled a little more, almost standing on the feet of the person beside me. I felt a third tap, and turned to give the person a dirty look and tell them I couldn't move any further. When I turned, I came face to face with a wall. There was no way anyone could have tapped me on the left should as I had been worked into a corner. That didn't really scare me, but it has stuck with me for the past six or seven years since the event happened.

The second happened when my wife and I lived in Florida. My wife had always complained about an feeling of unease, and not like being at home alone. I thought she was just paranoid, because we lived in a pretty nice neighborhood and there was not a crime problem in that art of the city. One night we were watching TV in bed, and I heard our dog growling. He doesn't growl without reason, and was sounding surprisingly aggressive. My wife sent me out to see what the dog was growling at. I went out in the living room and found him staring at a point in space about 7-8 feet in the air, growling with his fur up. I stood next to him and tried talking to him to calm him down. He wouldn't stop staring or growling. I finally gave him a push to break his stare and get him moving. He circled around a pillar we had in the foyer and began staring at the same spot and growling just as aggressively. This freaked me out quite a bit, because dogs aren't supposed to conceptualize three dimensions, so something HAD to have been there to have him behave in that fashion. As I said, I was disturbed by this, but it was only to get worse. When I went back to bed and told my wife of what was going on, she said it was not a surprise to her. She said she had heard her name called many times from the other end of the house and had felt many cold spots in the house (as had I, but thought was just poor HVAC design). She was certain our house was haunted.

What is really strange about this house was that our yard had a tick infestation that we unable to get rid of. We had our yard treated multiple times, but the ticks would never go away. Our dogs were continually covered in the nasty little arachnids no matter what we did. What really sent me for a spin was that our neighbor, who also had dogs, said he never had any problems with ticks on his dogs. The problem only seemed to be in our yard. He also told me that no one had lived in the house for more than a year, and most people moved out suddenly (the last owners actually just left one night and never returned). The creep factor went through the roof there.

I'm still skeptical, but these events really have made me wonder.

05-29-2007, 10:15 AM	#37
Lanny_MacDonald Lifetime Suspension Join Date: Oct 2001 Exp:	I'm still not sure I believe in ghosts, but I have had a couple of incidents that makes me wonder. I went to a murder mystery night at the Deane House in Calgary. This house has a history and reported hauntings. Dinner is served on the main floor of the house, but most of the murder mystery is acted out in the upper floor of the house. While on the second floor, we were watching the actors do their thing and giving the clues that the guests would need to solve the mystery. Being tall, I allowed the shorter people to stand in front of me so they could enjoy the production more. I was watching the action unfold and felt a tap on my left shoulder. I shuffled aside a bit, as if to give someone a better view. I felt a second tap and shuffled a little more, almost standing on the feet of the person beside me. I felt a third tap, and turned to give the person a dirty look and tell them I couldn't move any further. When I turned, I came face to face with a wall. There was no way anyone could have tapped me on the left should as I had been worked into a corner. That didn't really scare me, but it has stuck with me for the past six or seven years since the event happened. The second happened when my wife and I lived in Florida. My wife had always complained about an feeling of unease, and not like being at home alone. I thought she was just paranoid, because we lived in a pretty nice neighborhood and there was not a crime problem in that art of the city. One night we were watching TV in bed, and I heard our dog growling. He doesn't growl without reason, and was sounding surprisingly aggressive. My wife sent me out to see what the dog was growling at. I went out in the living room and found him staring at a point in space about 7-8 feet in the air, growling with his fur up. I stood next to him and tried talking to him to calm him down. He wouldn't stop staring or growling. I finally gave him a push to break his stare and get him moving. He circled around a pillar we had in the foyer and began staring at the same spot and growling just as aggressively. This freaked me out quite a bit, because dogs aren't supposed to conceptualize three dimensions, so something HAD to have been there to have him behave in that fashion. As I said, I was disturbed by this, but it was only to get worse. When I went back to bed and told my wife of what was going on, she said it was not a surprise to her. She said she had heard her name called many times from the other end of the house and had felt many cold spots in the house (as had I, but thought was just poor HVAC design). She was certain our house was haunted. What is really strange about this house was that our yard had a tick infestation that we unable to get rid of. We had our yard treated multiple times, but the ticks would never go away. Our dogs were continually covered in the nasty little arachnids no matter what we did. What really sent me for a spin was that our neighbor, who also had dogs, said he never had any problems with ticks on his dogs. The problem only seemed to be in our yard. He also told me that no one had lived in the house for more than a year, and most people moved out suddenly (the last owners actually just left one night and never returned). The creep factor went through the roof there. I'm still skeptical, but these events really have made me wonder.