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posted May 26, 2004 12:54 PM         

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I just wanted to put this up since I will be making a trip home for a visit this summer and I will have to spend time in one of the most haunted towns I have ever encountered.

The place that I am refering to is a VERY small town in Missouri. I only lived there as a teenager but my in-laws still live there. If you can find people that are willing to talk to you about what they have seen and experienced there you find that the same creature/spirits have been there for generations.

The town was founded by an agnostic who eventually built a barbwire fence around the town to keep the Christians out! The cemetary is built in a circle with the founder buried in the center so on judgement day all the people buried around him would stand up and face him.(They moved his body to the next town over back in the late 1980's)

There is so much activity there that it makes ones head hurt trying to understand that what you experience there is not unusual for that place and you are one of hundreds of people that have seen and heard and been followed by these...things.

Does anyone else have a place that they know strange activity occurs? If so, please share.

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posted May 27, 2004 09:06 PM         

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Wow, that sounds really interesting!

I've visited the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, Calif. It is pretty creepy in the way that you feel that you're being watched. I'm interested in what other locals have thought of it, like Isis, and Aphrodite, and others from the S.F. Bay Area.

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posted May 27, 2004 10:46 PM         

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I have always wanted to see that house Nephthys!

I love to hear the stories that other have to share about the places that they have been that are suppose to be haunted. Most people visit these places without having an odd experience.

I think that it is neat that you felt that someone was watching you. Do you believe that it is haunted?

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posted May 28, 2004 01:42 PM         

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I do believe there are spirits there. The friend I went with, we are both very into Spirituality, and there were a couple times we really felt we were being watched. At the beginning of the tour, the room you stand in has a black old fashioned carriage. (the kind that horses pull) My friend and I got the creepiest feeling from that carriage. I felt like someone was there. Then, there are so many doors that open to nothing, and staircases that go to no where, it is just plain creepy. There was one kitchen, downstairs, it was just plain weird. I got a weird feeling in that kitchen. This place was on the Travel Channel's haunted shows once, and the people who work there told all kinds of stories. Who knows, they could be making it up for publicity, but I sure felt creepy there. They have flashlight tours at night but you sure won't catch me going on one of them!

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posted May 28, 2004 01:45 PM         

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OH I just thought of something!!!! I took a picture from outside the house, of a door on the top floor that opens to the outside. If you open the door, you will fall out of the house, because it's on the outside wall. I get such an uncomfortable feeling looking at the picture, I don't even know if I still have it, perhaps I shred it. I'll try and see if I have it.

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posted May 29, 2004 12:10 AM         

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Well the Queen Mary isn't far from here and it's suppose to be really haunted. I haven't been there yet!!

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posted May 29, 2004 05:43 PM         

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There's another haunted town in Missouri. Not quite as bizarre sounding as the one mentioned at the start of this thread....

Actually, the hauntings only happen on one street. After I heard about the stories and the people "seen", I think they were all casualties of one of the Civil War battles that took place in the valley.

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posted July 09, 2004 09:25 PM         

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What town in MO? I lived in Springfield for 3 years and heard stories about several places there that delt with the civil war.

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posted July 12, 2004 04:24 PM         

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Auschwitz in Poland is definitely haunted. have been there once and still can't erase the nightmares from my memory. The worst was when I felt a certain breeze followed by a touch on my back - then the winds grew stronger and we saw some of the hair fly by (a lot of hair remained from the holocaust victims). Spooky...

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posted July 12, 2004 06:26 PM         

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The town where I live is full of haunted places...small town in Oklahoma...full of native american culture and spirits. I lived in an old house built in the 1800's that was sitting on some kind of vortex or "crossing over" window. The house was full of spirits all benevolent...even tho there was a young woman murdered there...she just wanted someone to acknowledge what had happened to her.
Very interesting!!

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posted July 13, 2004 09:50 PM         

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What town in MO? I lived in Springfield for 3 years and I remember a few stories from around there that involved the civil war.

The town that I was refering to in the begining of this post is in about 5 miles from the Kansas State Line.

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posted August 07, 2004 12:31 PM         

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The town I'm talking about is on the southeast side of the state about 100 miles south of St. Louis. Ironton, MO. It is in the same valley where the Battle of Pilot Knob took place. Interesting note, the courthouse still bears the bullet marks from the conflict that took place there.

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posted August 07, 2004 07:54 PM         

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I have heard of Ironton. I lived in Washington,MO for 4 years. And I do have family in the St. Louis area.

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posted August 08, 2004 11:12 AM         

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Cool string.

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posted August 08, 2004 11:16 AM         

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I'm clairsentient (highly sensitive to vibrations) and can tell you that people who are inexepereinced with psychic or spiritual phenomenon, easily confuse their response to "hot" spot (places that have a lot of natrual vibrations or "energy" but not necessarily "haunted") with places of "haunting" activity. Also to make it even more confusing, I have noticed a significant distinction in "hauntings": those that aren't connected to a specific place (like in an "obession" - when a malevolent spirit follows someone from place to place - or with "guardian spirit" that stay with you wherever you go) to those focused on a "hot" spot.

Granted I'm not a ghost hunter - I think when spirits are among us, we are best to leave them alone unless they wish to interact with us - and normally I am far more interested in spiritual experiences that don't involved a specific "haunted" place. However, I have been to so very legit haunted sites, and must say that the spirits that do haunt such places (as opposed to merely residual energies) are often *very* interesting. LOL. Not always friendly, but interesting.

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posted August 14, 2004 01:32 PM         

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You've heard of Ironton? It's such a small place, not many people have. What part of MO is Washington? I know Washington county is right next to Iron County.

It's beautiful country in and around Ironton. ...And about 10 miles away fron Taum Sauk Mountain -- the highest peak in MO.

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posted August 14, 2004 07:19 PM         

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Washington is in Franklin County. About an hour west of St. Louis. My father had a government job and we moved ALL over the state of Missouri when I was growing up.

Since I spent so much time in different places in Missouri I have heard a lot of stories of haunting there. I find most of them to be easily explained. One of the first "Ghostbusters" was started in St. Louis.

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posted August 16, 2004 11:15 PM         

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I've not been much further west of St. Louis than Chesterfield -- I suspect it's pretty country out in Franklin county, too!

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posted August 17, 2004 11:40 AM         

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It was when I was growing up. I haven't lived there since the middle of my 8th grade year in school. Washington sits on the Missouri River. Corn Cobb Pipe Capital of the World and hometown of Jack Wagner.

I lived out away from the actual city of Washington in a sub-division. I really hated leaving some of my friends there. I often wish that I knew were some of them were today.

Wishful thinkin!

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posted August 17, 2004 11:55 AM         

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I used to live near the Queen Mary too, and went there several times in my youth. I've heard the stories... but never saw anything . I've also heard the Wrigley mansion on Catalina is haunted... but never saw anything myself.

I really want to go to New Orleans some day. I bet there's tons of haunted places there! I'm halfway through another Anne Rice book, and over the years she's made me fall in love with New Orleans.

My mom says we lived in a haunted house in Texas. I was only three or four, so I have no recolection. Mom says the little girl would come to me in my dreams and ask me to play with her. She said that you could never look at the girl directly... that you could see her out of the corner of your eye, but when you turned to look to see if she was really there, she wasn't.

Mom also tells of a time in that house when some older kids and I were playing with an ouija board and the board itself started levetating. Mom says those kids weren't allowed to come over and play anymore after that and shortly there after we moved to LA.

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posted August 17, 2004 09:26 PM         

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Way cool story LibraSparkle!

Has anyone heard of any other places? I want to go to Gettysburg this fall and take the ghost tour at the battle field and in the town.

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posted August 18, 2004 11:23 PM         

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That IS a cool story, LibraSparkle!

IrishEyes, being on the Missouri River must have been marvelous! I can only imagine if it was the corn cob capital! Corn as far as the eye could see..... wow! Not much of that going on in the flatlands of Texas where I grew up.

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posted August 18, 2004 11:30 PM         

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Speaking of haunted places....I met a really neat author/minister in Michigan named Rev. Gerald Hunter. He wrote a book called Haunted Michigan. It is a good read! He investigates haunting in Michigan and even lived in a haunted house growing up.

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posted August 19, 2004 01:46 AM         

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I have a great book on haunted places throughout the Hawaiian islands. It's really interesting. There are said to be many haunted places in the islands.

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