Scariest place I’ve been… that would have to be the other side of our duplex. I’ve been through a lot of crap over there over the years, so I’ll just hit a few highlights.

I live in a duplex that we had built back in 92, I live in one side and the other gets rented out. And since it’s a rental I’ve had to renovate a few times over the years. During these times I’ve had tools vanish 2 seconds after I put them down beside me, I’ve come back to find my tarps torn up and shoved in a closet, I’ve seen non human foot prints appear in freshly cleaned rugs, I’ve had the feeling of someone breathing down my neck.

But the crown jewel was one day when I was finishing up and heading out the door. I heard a loud noise start up in the back bedroom and it was quickly making it’s way towards me. I reached for the door handle and while it turned and it was unlocked, the door refused to open. After a string of obscenities, I got the door to finally open up. I ran through, slammed it shut, and locked it as fast as possible. As I was walking across the yard to my side I turned to see all the lights had turned themselves back on.

About a year ago I was repainting the place again, and on the final night of the job after I had packed everything up and was back on my side of the house, I started hearing banging/tapping on the wall that connects both sides. I also heard the new garbage disposal turn on and off several times.

Chestnuts roasted by Punisher Bass @ 10/23/2009 12:52 AM

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The abandoned hospital at Ft. Wolters, TX (incidentally, where my uncle was born when my grandparents were stationed there). Hell, that whole base is abandoned. It’s eerily silent and totally empty as you drive through, passing the old barracks and officers’ clubs, long ago left to rot. I half expected to see zombies traipsing about in the distance as I drove along through this ghost town.

But the hospital was my main attraction. From the mostly-broken windows to the peeling paint, I knew I had to go inside. Hospitals, new or abandoned and creepy don’t freak me out. Armed only with a flashlight, my camera and an incredible sense of adventure, I found a door that had formerly been boarded up and made my way inside. I couldn’t get any friends to go, even the guys pussied out last minute. Their loss.

I’m a huge history nut in addition to an “urban adventurer,” so it was quite a thrill walking around and imagining what the place must have been like in its heyday, looooong before my time. It wasn’t too scary, I guess. The scariest thing was the very realistic thought of coming across some crazy hobo squatter and his crazy hobo knife. Still, I had fun and my uncle actually gave me $50 for doing something so badass.

Chestnuts roasted by Christine @ 10/23/2009 2:37 AM

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Unrelated to the topic, but I already replied to that.

I went shopping at our local Winn-Dixie grocery store today. Staring at me from the cereal aisle, next to other Cap’n Crunch varieties… Christmas Crunch! I bought a box. Should’ve gotten two, as they are on sale for 2 for $4. Right down the aisle were gingerbread Pop-Tarts.

Chestnuts roasted by Andy @ 10/23/2009 3:14 AM

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Maybe it killed him.

Chestnuts roasted by Ricky @ 10/23/2009 8:23 AM

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Coincedentally (or is it? Mwahahaha), just this morning, I had a kind of a creepy, bizarro experience.

My 3 year-old has recently been going through some sleeplessness, usually getting up in the middle of the night to play with her toys and whatnot, before eventually going back to bed.

Well, this morning at 3am, I wake up to the sound of her feet pattering on the floors, and I figure she’s gotten up again, and I start to go back to sleep. But clear as day, I hear her whisper “I wanna watch cartoons.” I snape awake, because it sounds like she’s standing right beside my bed.

I look around the dark room, straining my eyes to find her, and my room is empty. I start to go back to sleep, and there it is again: “I wanna watch cartoons.” WTF? This time, I sit up in bed and scan my entire room, thinking maybe she’s hiding somewhere. Nope – still alone. I call out “Ava, where are you?” My wife starts to wake up at this point, and I get embarassed, thinking I’m talking in my sleep or something. I roll over and chalk it up to some sort of dream or something.

Now it’s a third time: “I wanna watch cartoons.” Okay, this is getting nutty. Finally I climb out of bed and go to my daughter’s room, open the door, and find her sitting up in bed, totally awake. “Hi, Dad!” she says. “I wanna watch cartoons!”

I still can’t figure out exaclty what happened. It was almost like she was throwing her voice or something. The only thing I can think of is that there’s a vent right next to her bed, and a vent right next to my bed, so maybe her voice was carrying through there? I dunno…it definitely weirded me out in my half-asleep delirium, though.

Chestnuts roasted by tanta07 @ 10/23/2009 9:21 AM

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Good thing I only check in about twice a week, so I’m rarely disappointed.

Chestnuts roasted by Farmer Iggy @ 10/23/2009 11:50 AM

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Wow, I’d be JUMPING on that offer right there, JUAN CARLOS.

Ok, I finally remembered something that happened to me that was pretty freaky. I dunno why on earth I didn’t remember this before… So, I used to work at Toys R Us until about 2 weeks ago (I quit, they didn’t fire me) and one morning I was there doing freight in the juvenile/preschool section. There were only about 5 of us in the store, and I was the only one back there in that section. I was standing on the “racetrack” as they call it, infront of Juvenile, and went to pick up a box of baby wipes. To my left, I see what looked like someone running along the back wall of the store. They were dressed in all black. Black trenchcoat, pants, shoes, and hat. I can still remember the shape of this person and everything.

Well, it totally freaked me out because I knew there was NO ONE in the store wearing all black like that. So I stood there for a minute and waited, because the direction he ran, there was no way for him to get out of that section without me seeing him, due to the layout. I waited for a good five minutes, then slowly walked down, going past each aisle until I came to the end of the section. No one there. It completely freaked me out, and then I find out later that 3 other people (2 were together and saw it) that worked there also saw a person dressed in all black on different days, before the store was open. Freaky!

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 10/23/2009 12:15 PM

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Matt: I’d just like you to know that the awesomeness of the X-E Jukebox and the fact that it cannot be ripped to CD has inspired me to downl- err, ACQUIRE THROUGH LEGAL MEANS a bunch of Halloween tunes for my own massive party playlist. A lot of the selections were taken from X-E, but I’ve added some other stuff- “Remains of the Day” from Corpse Bride, “Black No. 1″ and “All Hallow’s Eve” by Type O, “Coraline” by Rasputina, etc. etc.

Chestnuts roasted by Cheetara @ 10/23/2009 12:47 PM

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Ryane – Your story reminds me of another unexplained sighting I had once. As a teenager, I worked for a while in a kitchen of a restaurant that apparently was housed in a building that had been there for a long, long time. There were numerous ghost stories about the place, usually involving the attic. The only thing tangible invovling the attic I ever saw was that no matter how diligently we would turn out all the lights after the restaurant closed (I did it myself on many nights, and spot-checked to make sure all the lights were out) one light in the attic would come back on within a couple of hours. This didn’t creep me out too much, because it can easily be explained by faulty wiring, someone playing a prank, security lights, whatever. There was one thing that happened while I worked there that I really can’t explain.

We ran out of coleslaw one night, so I went back into the cooler to fill a 5 gallon bucket of the stuff. This walk-in cooler was tiny, like less than 10 feet by 10 feet. I walk in, close the door behind me, put the bucket on the floor, and crouch down with my back to the door, going about the business of filling this bitch up with coleslaw. Out of the corner of my eye, on my right, I see a person from the waist down, walk right past me, towards the back of the cooler. I even heard his or her clothes rustle as he or she went by. I jumped up, ready to do the “Geez…you startled me,” thing, but there was no one there; I was all alone, exactly as I knew I was, in this tiny little cooler. It wasn’t until I got to sit down and think about it later that it creeped me out; at the time, I shrugged it off and went back to work. I was too busy to play with Casper that night.

There’s no mistaking the legs of a person walking past you, especially in such confined quarters. Try as I might, I haven’t come up with a rational explanation for that one.

Chestnuts roasted by tanta07 @ 10/23/2009 2:08 PM

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I looked at illusion in day. As for that in me who exciting, am really done jump. As for me it was in the old house, the light/write was out. I saw, there that was sat down in the chair. I dropped my sandwich, threw my cat to the bear, and the sink. I like the group of the empty gull ran there.

Chestnuts roasted by Yuan Jing @ 10/23/2009 2:22 PM

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Yuan Jing-Your English is getting better.I almost understood your last post.

Chestnuts roasted by Jason @ 10/23/2009 2:31 PM

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Ryane I have heard of a number of haunted Toys R Uses (Usii?)…I wonder if yours was one of them. One in particular was knowingly built over a Native American gravesite, and when is THAT ever a good idea? Lots of sightings of figures in native dress. Dang I wish I could remember where that one was, but I know there’s more than one haunted TRU for whatever reason!

Chestnuts roasted by a2stylee @ 10/23/2009 2:51 PM

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The haunted Toys R Us was featured on an episode of Unsolved Mysteries….among other shows. Also, there was the rumor going around for awhile that in the opening scenes of “The X-Files” when you see the ghost figure walking, it’s apparently footage from a TRU security cam. However I HIGHLY doubt that one….it was just one of those things you’d tell people as a kid.

Did anyone ever hear about that escaped fugitive who lived inside one of the walls of a TRU for months on end? You can google it and read the whole story but the quick version is that he escaped from jail, popped open a vent that lead to a small room that was created when they closed the area under the stairs. He then stole various items from the store to make it a room and he basically lived there for months on end. He even went as far as setting up baby monitors around the store so he could watch them during the day.

Pretty amazing actually.

Chestnuts roasted by The Moxy @ 10/23/2009 3:16 PM

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