Flashlights for flashing at ghost?
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gratewhitehuntr
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OMG this was a great thread
I'll reluctantly acknowledge the probable existence of ghosts.
There was an old house on our property once when I was young.
Although it would have made the perfect fort/hangout/ect I didn't go near it.
I didn't even like being in view of the house.
I was in it twice before we burned it.
During the fire (local FD controlled burn) there were a bunch of pictures taken.
Close inspection of our photos showed what appeared to be people looking out the windows.
The photos taken by the firefighters showed nothing in the same windows.
About 6 months later I felt like I was being watched in our own house.
It started with watching and progressed.
I'm pretty sure I was at least 17 and had been out of the house for 2+ years before my fear of the dark went away.
Yes, I was scared of the dark until I was 14 or 15.
And now I'm a flashaholic. 😗
I'll reluctantly acknowledge the probable existence of ghosts.
There was an old house on our property once when I was young.
Although it would have made the perfect fort/hangout/ect I didn't go near it.
I didn't even like being in view of the house.
I was in it twice before we burned it.
During the fire (local FD controlled burn) there were a bunch of pictures taken.
Close inspection of our photos showed what appeared to be people looking out the windows.
The photos taken by the firefighters showed nothing in the same windows.
About 6 months later I felt like I was being watched in our own house.
It started with watching and progressed.
I'm pretty sure I was at least 17 and had been out of the house for 2+ years before my fear of the dark went away.
Yes, I was scared of the dark until I was 14 or 15.
And now I'm a flashaholic. 😗
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Cydonia
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A few members (in the past) have claimed an incandescent light has a repellent effect of some sorts. The full spectrum output, including the infrared, is as close to real sunlight as we can get, and...since everyone knows nothing spooks spooks more than the light of the sun... I think it is self explanatory. That white hot tungsten filament is the way to go for a ghost flasher. Mag 623 should be on every ghost hunters belt :thumbsup:
im 19, and heck, Im STILL not fond of the dark. Dark+Cold gives me the creeps...
anyone read harry potter?
well i describe being out on a coldish winter night with a significant lack of light as passing by a dementor
odd thing is i actually LIKE cold weather, but in the day time...
Crenshaw
MrBenchmark
Enlightened
I've been interested in astronomy as a hobby since I was a kid. I have absolutely no fear of the dark. There is nothing to be afraid of in the dark, as best I can tell. Indeed, if you leave the cities (where it's just never truly dark) and allow your eyes to become dark adapted, you'd be amazed at how beautiful the stars can be.
I've never actually seen a ghost, so I can't comment on whether or not they are real. I will say that I'm quite interested in people who believe in ghosts.
One of the problems I've noticed with some of them is that they have a very difficult time differentiating between history and urban legend. For example, I found some photos on a local ghost hunting group's website of a house where purportedly a gruesome murder had taken place in the 70's. It was on private property, and they didn't want to reveal the location, just that it was in Dallas. Supposedly if you went into the house, you'd still see some traces of blood on the walls, and if you were foolish enough to try to stay there at night, well, let's just say you'd have a bad experience.
There was just one small problem. I recognized the photos - I'd actually been to this place in the 70's. And it wasn't a family residence back then - it was a gardening business, and had been since the 50's. (It was a farm before that.) A very small amount of research would've shown this to be the case - 8 hours or less.
During the past year, I've been to three or four places that were purported to be haunted. Nothing happened. (Two of them were restaurants - I had a nice dinner though! 🙂) I spent a couple of nights in a hotel in Jefferson Texas that is widely thought to be haunted. (Indeed, the story goes that Steven Spielberg spent about half of one night in the hotel while looking for a place to set the move "Poltergeist", and became so frightened that he left halfway through the night.) Yeah, nothing happened.
Perhaps I'm offensive to ghosts in some way - they certainly seem to leave me alone! Please note - I'm not trying to say ghosts don't exist, or that people who claim to have seen them haven't seen anything. I have no way of knowing either of those things. I'm simply relating my experiences.
Flying Turtle
Flashaholic
Ghosts love to play with laser dots. Just lead them out the door.
Geoff
Geoff
Juggernaut
Flashlight Enthusiast
Ya I wouldn't mind owning one of those😀, though at 19,000 Lumens you can do the same with a 400 watt overdriven bi pin bulb. Which would be a lot simpler😱.
qwertyydude
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Mr Benchmark, you've got it just right. I'm fairly fascinated not by the phenomenon of ghosts which I don't believe exist, but the psychological aspects of those who believe in the ghosts. I even profited from it while in the military. I was once stationed in Connecticut, regarded by Haunted America Tours as the most haunted state. I would almost believe them seeing that it seems that the first and last things you see when driving through rural areas are acres and acres of cemeteries. Which according to most ghost "experts" shouldn't be haunted because cemeteries aren't the place where the severe emotional state of a dying person is permanently etched into the ghostly planes of existence. But anyway there was a an old abandoned insane asylum, or so everyone thought nearby that was purportedly haunted. And people bet me $100 that I couldn't stay there for the night, I easily stayed the whole night without incident, though it was disgustingly crawling with bugs so I asked if the night before I could set a fogger in the area for the bugs. No ghosts but do you think bug fogger can eliminate ghosts? If so I should start packaging and selling my new brand of ghost repelling fogger the markup would be astounding because I've heard a ghost cleansing from a medium can be quite expensive.
MrBenchmark
Enlightened
That's an awesome story. Was it interesting wandering around in there, or just empty and disgustingly bug-infested?
By the way, I can understand why people get spooked at night. Since you aren't relying on your vision so much, I think you must listen more intently - or at least I do, so I notice sounds much more acutely. For example, if you are about to walk into the woods in the dark, and you hear something moving next to you, it's easy to be startled, even though it's just a mouse or a squirrel. I've been startled by owl's before, too - they are really still and silent - until they decide not to be!
Heck, I even got startled in my observatory dome a couple of weeks back. I was out there, by myself, as usual, when I swear I heard someone walking RIGHT BEHIND ME, just outside the dome! (You could hear the leaves being crushed.) It sounded like they were right on top of me. The dome's slot was pointed south, and the sound seemed to come from the north-northwest.
It took me a few minutes to figure out that there wasn't anyone right outside the dome. The dome itself plays tricks with sound. If I'm on one side of the dome, and speak to you, and you are on the other side, it sounds as if I'm standing behind you. This is a little startling the first few times it happens, but you get used to it. The dome is also really efficient at amplifying sounds that originate in the direction in which its slot is currently posted. I can hear conversations fairly easily 60-70 feet away fairly well if it's pointed in the right way. So the footsteps I heard were the deer that like to walk around our yard. They really weren't making much noised - but they were directly in line with the slot. Once I brought out my flashlight and looked around outside the dome, I saw them - they were at the far edge of my yard. It was amazing, it really did sound like a person walking around behind me.
Anyway, proof, as if anyone reading this would need it, that you should always carry a flashlight!
MrBenchmark
Enlightened
It was probably a homeless person, that's all. Bridges can provide shelter.
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Sgt. LED
Flashaholic
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Youfoundnemo
Enlightened
Yall are messed up, what if someone were to shoot at you, I know that if someone were to shoot at me with anything bb gun or otherwise I would be rather irate. And honestly if you were to tell a homeless person that they smelt of urine they would probably whoop your tail end. What because you know that they wont hear you then its ok to say something about them....no diffrent than saying that a jew has a big nose or that a black man has fat lips or even that all white people live in trailerparks is that OK to say so long as that specific group of people dont hear you? You have stooped to a level that I have never seen here on CPF before.
Sgt. LED
Flashaholic
🙁 You're right.
Youfoundnemo
Enlightened
please let the thread go on, it seems that my posting of what I think was distasteful humor (although I did que in on that fact that it was supposed to be funny) the thread some what stopped.....
How about high powered UV lights? Think i will go get one and test it out when i finally decide to go ghost hunting. There is actually a group in singapore that does these activities.
Hmmm, one high powered xenon, a few 225 lumen LEDs, spare cells and an E01 backup, one UV light and most important, good running shoes (and maybe some holy water loaded in THIS for additional safety).
what say you? all set for some ghost hunting?
Hmmm, one high powered xenon, a few 225 lumen LEDs, spare cells and an E01 backup, one UV light and most important, good running shoes (and maybe some holy water loaded in THIS for additional safety).
what say you? all set for some ghost hunting?
Sgt. LED
Flashaholic
I bet a UV light would do something!
Might be an interesting process to discover the proper wavelength however.
Might be an interesting process to discover the proper wavelength however.
