My house is haunted by a young boy

House is empty.
9:14 AM heard it behind me low to the right

At 9:24 I am going to sit in the center of the floor and try to get a specific direction from where it is coming.
 
txflyer said:
Having any urges to put lotion on your skin? :D

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"Put the dog in the basket"

What a great movie. My wife and I used to watch Monk too, and that guy played Capt. Stottlemyer on Monk.
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
House is empty.
9:14 AM heard it behind me low to the right

At 9:24 I am going to sit in the center of the floor and try to get a specific direction from where it is coming.
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Shut off the autosave feature on MS Word; it runs every 10 minutes. ;)
 
Sad to say, I now know what it is.

Damn. I REALLY want to not post this and parlay this into something to further terrify the wife.

Only thing I can't turn off is my primary computer. I use it to work and also record the mystery sound.

Every ten minutes on the ten minute mark, it makes that sound. I suspect I have a hard drive going out. This morning I picked up that it spools and then about 3 min after I hear the Ma Ma sound.

I am terrified I am going to open the computer and find a small boy inside though.

This has been a fun little adventure.
 
Except the spirit of the computer will remain to haunt you after the hard drive dies. It's in mortal pain.

At least you don't have to call an electrician, or a plumber, or perform a Santeria ritual. Goats are expensive these days.
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
Only thing I can't turn off is my primary computer. I use it to work and also record the mystery sound.

Every ten minutes on the ten minute mark, it makes that sound. I suspect I have a hard drive going out.
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I would have suggested you check your computer except you claimed you had shut everything off that was electronic when you recorded the sound. The read/write positioning arm on a hard drive is driven by a voice coil and that is likely what is causing the sound. It only activates when something is read or written to the disk of course. Hearing it does not necessarily mean the hard drive is failing. It may mean only that the sectors involved are scattered in a way that the head makes a different noise than it may previously had. Or some software is now running in the background that hadn't run before.
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
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Damn. I REALLY want to not post this and parlay this into something to further terrify the wife.
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Sigh. This is the life I lead. The thing is, I am pretty sure YOU were more scared about this than I was.

And, no worries, I am sure you will come up with another way to record yourself scaring the crap out of me soon enough. :goofy:
 
Okay so long shot. But thought I'd see if this might help you, Bryan.

We have one of those baby monitors in the kids rooms and it essentially does one of those rotations from camera to camera to make sure things are all good with the kids. Well, on a few occasions, we'd hear some talking from the monitor at night. Not a big deal, right? Kids talk and play before the go to sleep. Well, on a few occasions it happens in the middle of the night and as is customary, one of us checks the monitor to see if things are all good. Kids are all sleeping... okay, maybe just sleep talking.

Several weeks pass. Same occasional sleep talking. Cant figure out which child it is, but don't really care since they are sleeping. Still, strange nonetheless.

One night, youngest is having trouble sleeping. She is not happy as kids are sometimes. I was in her room at 11pm, dark, trying to rock her to sleep. The only sounds are coming from the HVAC unit AC as it turns on and off. It is dark in her room. You see maybe some lights coming from under the door from the hallway and a blinking light from some electronics in the room. But that is it. There I am, staring into space, quiet, darkness, and waiting for that inevitable time when she falls asleep.

All of a sudden, "Hello, blah, blah, blah" in a young child's voice with lights everywhere from the corner of the room.

HOLY SH*T

I lost it.

Scared the crap out of me.

Nearly dropped my daughter.

Turned out to be one of those stuffed animal dolls that lights up when you move it and it talks to you. Apparently, the damn toy was on. And, the HVAC unit air flow or whatever was sufficient enough on occasion to move it so it interacted and spoke out.

Still not sure why we didn't catch on during the day, but maybe there is enough going on in the house that we probably didn't hear it, plus it is inside our daughters bedroom and we don't really go in there during the day and only heard it on the monitors at night.

My daughter apparently had no idea. She can sleep through an earthquake.

Needless to say, I picked up the toy, removed the batteries, threw it down the hallway, and eventually gave it away.

I (we) ain't afraid of no ghost!
 
My daughter has a toy guitar that will from time to time play a few notes.
scared the living hell out of me on more than one occasion.
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
At 9:24 I am going to sit in the center of the floor and try to get a specific direction from where it is coming.
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That's what it wants you to do :eek:


Just saw you found the noise. Or did you?
 
48dodge said:
That's what it wants you to do :eek:


Just saw you found the noise. Or did you?
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I'm 99% sure that is it.
I can't shut down my computer just yet.
I will this evening and do something with pen and paper for a bit.
 
Glad you figured it out, and brought us along for the ride. Interesting! Keep the ghost stories coming youz guyz.
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
I'm 99% sure that is it.
I can't shut down my computer just yet.
I will this evening and do something with pen and paper for a bit.
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How can you be sure the spirit of the boy isn't trying to communicate through your hard drive? It is well known that they use TV sets sometimes. ;):D
 
Is he the ghost of DOS, the ghost of Windows, or the ghost of operating systems yet to come?
 
pigpenracing said:
You need to live it buddy...
I had cabinets slamming in the middle of the night. Every day when I came home it was so cold in the house you would breath frost. The thermostat would be set as cold as it goes. This was everyday. The shower would turn on like someone was there taking a shower. Pretty freaky..... Found out the woman that died there was into some weird stuff like witchcraft... Her son rented me the house.... He and his son were big into kart racing and he had a shop built there with AC and everything. The weird thing is he rented me the house and he stayed in an apartment elsewhere. Seems like he would have lived there????
I never believed this stuff till I was there. When I found out that woman died there it always felt like she was following me after that. The very strange thing was I didn't feel like I had to go, I handled this stuff for about a year. When the priest came I left the house, when he was done I never had any issues again.
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That's not any credible evidence.
You need examinable data, you need to be able to prove it is not self deception. Science. It works.
"live it" is not evidence.
Multiple cameras, multiple angles. Record it!
Invite others to examine the situation as well, multiple observers.

Actual credible evidences of such things would be headlines around the world.
But never does anyone capture such evidence or also interestingly it rarely seems to occur to people to do so even when claims are it is a repeating event. Why do they do this? :dunno:

Stories on the internet are common of all sorts of extraordinary claims. Dime a dozen. Examinable credible evidences
that hold up to scrutiny by professional scientists? Nada.
 
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ssonixx said:
Okay so long shot. But thought I'd see if this might help you, Bryan.

We have one of those baby monitors in the kids rooms and it essentially does one of those rotations from camera to camera to make sure things are all good with the kids. Well, on a few occasions, we'd hear some talking from the monitor at night. Not a big deal, right? Kids talk and play before the go to sleep. Well, on a few occasions it happens in the middle of the night and as is customary, one of us checks the monitor to see if things are all good. Kids are all sleeping... okay, maybe just sleep talking.

Several weeks pass. Same occasional sleep talking. Cant figure out which child it is, but don't really care since they are sleeping. Still, strange nonetheless.

One night, youngest is having trouble sleeping. She is not happy as kids are sometimes. I was in her room at 11pm, dark, trying to rock her to sleep. The only sounds are coming from the HVAC unit AC as it turns on and off. It is dark in her room. You see maybe some lights coming from under the door from the hallway and a blinking light from some electronics in the room. But that is it. There I am, staring into space, quiet, darkness, and waiting for that inevitable time when she falls asleep.

All of a sudden, "Hello, blah, blah, blah" in a young child's voice with lights everywhere from the corner of the room.

HOLY SH*T

I lost it.

Scared the crap out of me.

Nearly dropped my daughter.

Turned out to be one of those stuffed animal dolls that lights up when you move it and it talks to you. Apparently, the damn toy was on. And, the HVAC unit air flow or whatever was sufficient enough on occasion to move it so it interacted and spoke out.

Still not sure why we didn't catch on during the day, but maybe there is enough going on in the house that we probably didn't hear it, plus it is inside our daughters bedroom and we don't really go in there during the day and only heard it on the monitors at night.

My daughter apparently had no idea. She can sleep through an earthquake.

Needless to say, I picked up the toy, removed the batteries, threw it down the hallway, and eventually gave it away.

I (we) ain't afraid of no ghost!
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Great example of how the imagination can run away to scary conclusions when there is a physical explaination.

Imagine never finding the cause. People become convinced of all kinds of wild things. Imagine someone under emotional duress, or prone to hallucinations. It can pile up.
That is where you find ghosts, in the human brain.
 
Mutts said:
That is where you find ghosts, in the human brain.
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Well said. When my sleep schedule gets jacked I can get into a state when I'm falling asleep to where I'm half aware of my surroundings, half awake, but unable to move or make much noise.

If something in the environment changes I will detect it (like the dog walking through the room), but there is often another perceived "evil" entity present. The exact form of that entity changes but it's always my goal to confront that damn thing head on but my lack of the ability to move in reality or in the dream world stops me.

Often times I will suddenly be able to move, think I'm awake, but in reality I'm not awake and I didn't move for real and I end up stuck again.

The last time this happened I finally made enough noice, which basically is me just mumbling if I fight as hard as I can, which woke up the girlfriend who snapped me fully awake.

I explained the whole thing to her. Explained how the evil entity today was in the hallway and wanted us out of the house and how I was rather ****ed that I couldn't get up and tell it to **** off. Then I explained how it's all bull****, in my head, and doesn't bother me and promptly fell asleep for real.

She didn't sleep so good that night.

When I was younger (like 17) the same thing would happen. Expect I always slept on my side in those days and the evil entity was always laying behind me breathing on the back of my neck. Sometime's I'd feel their hair. I quit sleeping on my side, changed to sleeping on my back, so I could at least look the damn thing in the eye the next time. Turns out it doesn't have eyes, just kind of a form, but hell that beats the **** out of not being able to see it.

The brain is a funny thing. I can see how something like this, which I'm used to as a fairly regular recurring event, could drive someone with a weaker mind to insanity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

Oddly enough that states sleeping on your back makes it more likely. My experience is that sleeping on my back means I can better see whatever virtual thing it is that's dicking with me, which I prefer, since I like to confront things versus hide.

Having it occur when you can't "see" the whole room is much more "concerning".
 
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SixPapaCharlie said:
Sad to say, I now know what it is.

Damn. I REALLY want to not post this and parlay this into something to further terrify the wife.

Only thing I can't turn off is my primary computer. I use it to work and also record the mystery sound.

Every ten minutes on the ten minute mark, it makes that sound. I suspect I have a hard drive going out. This morning I picked up that it spools and then about 3 min after I hear the Ma Ma sound.

I am terrified I am going to open the computer and find a small boy inside though.

This has been a fun little adventure.
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Not so fast:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/03/10/us_preacher_finds_demonpossessed_pcs/

-Rich
 
I have love ghosts, but only if I don't ever see one. When I was an embassy guard in the Republic of Georgia from 2000-2001, the embassy at the time was an old imperial palace. That place was haunted. During the midnight shift, I would be the only one in the building, at you could here doors slam. No door alarms, motion alarms, nothing. When you that happens, you have to go investigate. Talk about creepy walking through a pretty big building, at night, alone, wondering what the hell is going on.
 
I have read that the most haunted place in the world is the Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio. Airmen coming back to be with their ships, or so I've read.
 
Jim Logajan said:
I would have suggested you check your computer except you claimed you had shut everything off that was electronic when you recorded the sound.
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Would you mind explaining how that would be possible? Only if you were recording with a bamboo stylus on a wax cylinder with wind-up drive.

Jim
 
jesse said:
Well said. When my sleep schedule gets jacked I can get into a state when I'm falling asleep to where I'm half aware of my surroundings, half awake, but unable to move or make much noise.

Often times I will suddenly be able to move, think I'm awake, but in reality I'm not awake and I didn't move for real and I end up stuck again.

The last time this happened I finally made enough noice, which basically is me just mumbling if I fight as hard as I can, which woke up the girlfriend who snapped me fully awake.
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I have issues with sleep paralysis too, however I don't have the 'evil entity' sensations you describe. I know exactly what's going on, and its super annoying. [Edit: I actually did have the evil presence thing happen once, about two years ago. That time I woke up mumbling like you describe. The rest of the time my episodes are as recounted below..]

This happens occasionally if my sleep schedule gets jacked up. Usually, from being very tired and going to bed early. I can't sleep more than 7 hours or so, if I go to bed around 10, i'll wake up around 4-5 AM and sit there in bed, trying to get more sleep. This results in me drifting in/out of light sleep/dreams, and more often than not at some point I realize i'm fully conscious, but stuck.

Aware of my body and surroundings, but eyes closed and unable to move or speak. From what I understand, this happens when you become conscious, but for whatever reason the brain does not shut off all of the chemicals etc.. that are normally present when sleeping. The result is that you are essentially in full body paralysis. Breathing is on auto-pilot, you can hear and feel, but can't move or open your eyes.

A loud noise or a movement from an external source (such as a dog licking your face or jumping on the bed) will snap you out of it ASAP. I've tried just ignoring the fact that I cannot move, consciously understanding why and going back to sleep, but that never works. Its hard to ignore being paralyzed.

Usually I snap myself out of it by 'fighting' through it. Focus on moving a finger or toe until I can feel a slight movement. Then keep focusing until I can move my whole hand or move my foot, at which point i'll suddenly snap out of the sleep paralysis. Now i'm fully awake, but groggy. If i try to get more sleep, i'll go right back into the sleep paralysis and have to repeat this whole thing. So it's best to just get up and start my day.

Like most sleep disorders, for me this is manageable by keeping a regular sleep schedule.
 
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weirdjim said:
Would you mind explaining how that would be possible? Only if you were recording with a bamboo stylus on a wax cylinder with wind-up drive.

Jim
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Not sure why you are asking me rather than the OP. When he said he shut off all electronic equipment I assumed that meant all equipment that had been running - i.e. that his claim obviously did not include any new equipment inserted into the environment to record sounds. It made no sense to me to leave the one likeliest culprit still running.
 
I went on a "ghost hunt" a few years ago at an old WWII bomb ordnance. We were sitting in a hallway listening to one of those radio things that scans through the channels and all of a sudden there was a voice. I looked down the hall (this place was very dilapidated, obviously.) out of where an old window used to be, and there was a silhouette of somebody. Shortly after that it dropped from about 85F to about 50F. That scared me more than anything. A local news reporter went to the same place and got scratched by something on her shoulder. I don't believe in it either, but who knows...
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
No cat and the timing would be weird for an animal.

The most logical thing I can come up with at this point is possibly a tiny leak in a water pipe or toilet and when it gets to a certain threshold, a bit of water flows causing some sort of movement in the pipes. Grasping at straws but that might explain the consistent timing of it.
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Yeah. That's what it sounds liek to me - water in a pipe. Check for a blocked vent pipe. You may have to go up on the roof and clear it.
 
dell30rb said:
I have issues with sleep paralysis too, however I don't have the 'evil entity' sensations you describe. I know exactly what's going on, and its super annoying. [Edit: I actually did have the evil presence thing happen once, about two years ago. That time I woke up mumbling like you describe. The rest of the time my episodes are as recounted below..]

This happens occasionally if my sleep schedule gets jacked up. Usually, from being very tired and going to bed early. I can't sleep more than 7 hours or so, if I go to bed around 10, i'll wake up around 4-5 AM and sit there in bed, trying to get more sleep. This results in me drifting in/out of light sleep/dreams, and more often than not at some point I realize i'm fully conscious, but stuck.

Aware of my body and surroundings, but eyes closed and unable to move or speak. From what I understand, this happens when you become conscious, but for whatever reason the brain does not shut off all of the chemicals etc.. that are normally present when sleeping. The result is that you are essentially in full body paralysis. Breathing is on auto-pilot, you can hear and feel, but can't move or open your eyes.

A loud noise or a movement from an external source (such as a dog licking your face or jumping on the bed) will snap you out of it ASAP. I've tried just ignoring the fact that I cannot move, consciously understanding why and going back to sleep, but that never works. Its hard to ignore being paralyzed.

Usually I snap myself out of it by 'fighting' through it. Focus on moving a finger or toe until I can feel a slight movement. Then keep focusing until I can move my whole hand or move my foot, at which point i'll suddenly snap out of the sleep paralysis. Now i'm fully awake, but groggy. If i try to get more sleep, i'll go right back into the sleep paralysis and have to repeat this whole thing. So it's best to just get up and start my day.

Like most sleep disorders, for me this is manageable by keeping a regular sleep schedule.
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That sounds absolutely terrifying. I've had nights when I wake and sleep often and do so very lightly, but never have I been unable to move!
 
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