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Post by roadsdiverged on Oct 31, 2018 11:29:57 GMT -5
So I'm sitting here working on this OLD (1896) house. I came outside to take a quick break before I cut out a bunch of sheet rock to replace with cement board for tile. When I walked outside the door shut behind me. So I opened it back up and it shut again. It takes force to close the door because its racked a little bit and I havent got around to fixing it. The door has been open all day long and hasn't moved at all. Theres no wind, no breeze and the ac is off. I said "hello whoever you are, I hope you're having a good day."
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Post by pepesdad1 on Oct 31, 2018 11:35:51 GMT -5
Ya just never know....I stand in front of my "kids" graves (you've seen them)...and frequently get chills...just knowing they are there and watching over us is a great feeling of satisfaction.
Had an experience in Camden S.C. in an old B&B...my cat and I felt the cold in the room...while Gary (my cat) followed it around the room. I'm not afraid of the spirits, they know I'm harmless and "feel" for them. Some folks just get freaked out and maybe, just maybe they should.
Hope you are having a good day, Josh.
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Post by roadsdiverged on Oct 31, 2018 11:48:17 GMT -5
It doesnt really bother me or scare me, it's why I said hello. But I'm not gunna lie... I've been looking over my shoulder ever since, haha. I hope whatever/whoever it is likes of my work.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Oct 31, 2018 11:55:12 GMT -5
Long as it doesn't offer suggestions...you should be OK.
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Post by puffy on Oct 31, 2018 12:26:15 GMT -5
I've done more than my share of working on old houses over the years..I hope I don't have to do any more of it.
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Post by roadsdiverged on Oct 31, 2018 13:05:22 GMT -5
I have a love hate relationship with old houses.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Oct 31, 2018 14:00:26 GMT -5
 Old houses are like boats, nothing straight, you have to scribe everything. Been working on my 100 yr old house since 2004.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 31, 2018 14:31:22 GMT -5
Your average spirits are harmless, just don't go out of your way to summon anything, or call special attention to yourself and you will be OK.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 31, 2018 14:32:23 GMT -5
My big fear in old houses in tetanus. 😨
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Post by toshtego on Oct 31, 2018 14:32:38 GMT -5
Old Cajun is about right. I have worked on many old houses. The last was not a house but a two story adobe building which was the village center from 1850 to 1985. When I took it over it was in bad shape and either it gets restored or it falls down.
Anyway, I decided to save it and had the means at the time. Naturally, the mofo was haunted. Now, you can laugh, you can sneer. That is what my helper, "Chavelo" did when I asked him if he thought there were spirits. You see, from about 1850 to the 1940s, this building was the winter dorimitory for the old people who lived up the wagon road leading into the high country. When winter came, the road would be impassible, so the old people were brought down to live in the lower village. Many died in this building over the years. Since the ground outside was hard frozen in winter, it is possible some were buried inside under the floor in the unfrozen earth.
When we started working on the building, it had been deserted for about 30 years. The upstairs windows were broken and it was filled with trash and pigeon droppings. So, the first task was to clean it out. I parked my14 foot flatbed dump truck at the door and we spent a full day filling it with debris. At the end of the day, we made to leave and I asked Chavelo, again, if he thought the place might have spirits. He laughed at my silly notion, what a pendejo am I, ha ha. We got in the truck and it would not start. It would not even crank over. So, I brought over my almost new pick-up and tried to jump the battery. Nope. Nothing. So, we hooked a chain and towed it up a hill to start it on compression. No joy. The remaining option was to tow it home and work on it. Chav drove my pick-up with me in the Dump Truck. As we crossed through my front gate, I tried the Starter again and it fired right up. I suggested to Chavelo that he show the spirits in the old building more respect.
Months later, an electrician was working on the lower level rewiring the place with a new breaker panel. He was on the final panel connections when I came in the front door to see how he was doing. He was suprised to see me. He thought I spent the day working upstairs because he and his assistant heard some one walking back and forth up there all day. It was not me nor anyone we knew.
For a long time, working in there, I heard doors open and close and foot steps with no one present. A visitor once asked me who it was that kept touching her shoulder but was not there when she turned around. During all this, I never had a sense of bad feeling or the evil dread we see in the spook movies. It seemed to me this was a restless spirit who may have lived and died in the building and had been left alone for a long time. Suddenly, the place was being disturbed. Who knows? I sure do not. It is fun to speculate.
Anyway, old houses and building can mean old ghosts....or not. Depends, eh?
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 31, 2018 14:45:34 GMT -5
I worked in the Houston M&M building for about 10 years in the 70's. The name was short for Merchantile and Manufacturing, and the address is #1 Main St.,so you can see how old it is. It is on the side of Buffalo Bayou and supposedly built over the site of a Confederate POW camp.
I worked the night shift, and the building AC cut off at 8:30pm.
I had to go to the sub basement every night to relight the boilers, sometimes more than once.
There was a steel door on the south side that opened to concrete steps that led to another door that opened right at the bayou. I checked it out one day just to see what it was.
Many times at night, especially after midnight, you could hear the sound of chains being drug up and down the steps to the bayou. I brought a couple of coworkers down to hear it and they freaked out. One of them even quit the next day and I am got fired for scaring him.
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Post by toshtego on Oct 31, 2018 14:46:41 GMT -5
Your average spirits are harmless, just don't go out of your way to summon anything, or call special attention to yourself and you will be OK. I would talk to my spirit in Spanish figuring that, like all the old people, that is what was what he or she spoke while alive. English did not take hold here until into the late 1950s after the highway replaced the old dirt road from Taos. |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Oct 31, 2018 15:06:05 GMT -5
Always good to respect the dead...hopefully they will respect you...and leave you alone.
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Post by scrooge on Oct 31, 2018 15:42:20 GMT -5
BOO!!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2018 15:50:53 GMT -5
Josh, today is Halloween.....all the ghosts will be out especially today to mess with your head. Carry a few extra rolls of toilet paper just in case a ghost or two scares the 💩 out of you today!!
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Post by scrooge on Oct 31, 2018 15:58:08 GMT -5
Josh, today is Halloween.....all the ghosts will be out especially today to mess with your head. Carry a few extra rolls of toilet paper just in case a ghost or two scares the 💩 out of you today!! 2 Thumbs Up. !! |
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Post by roadsdiverged on Oct 31, 2018 16:49:57 GMT -5
Well I worked the rest of the day and kept looking over my shoulder, something I never do. The door never moved the rest of the day. It sat half opened just like it did all morning.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 31, 2018 16:51:46 GMT -5
Well I worked the rest of the day and kept looking over my shoulder, something I never do. The door never moved the rest of the day. It sat half opened just like it did all morning. Ghost had to get ready to go out tonight. 🎃 |
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Post by beardedmi on Oct 31, 2018 19:58:25 GMT -5
We live in a 100+ year old house. I swear the lady that was the last occupant still haunts our house. She lived in this place for close to 70 years and my 4 yo has told us about the lady in the corner many times. His room was her old sewing room. This may explain why he's so freaked out the last two nights around 1 to 3 am.
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Post by Pistol Pete 1911 on Oct 31, 2018 20:00:10 GMT -5
It doesnt really bother me or scare me, it's why I said hello. But I'm not gunna lie... I've been looking over my shoulder ever since, haha. I hope whatever/whoever it is likes of my work. Ask whomever or whatever for help with your project let's find out what happens |
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Post by roadsdiverged on Oct 31, 2018 20:24:05 GMT -5
We live in a 100+ year old house. I swear the lady that was the last occupant still haunts our house. She lived in this place for close to 70 years and my 4 yo has told us about the lady in the corner many times. His room was her old sewing room. This may explain why he's so freaked out the last two nights around 1 to 3 am. I'd say that you're right. I'm a believer for sure. I've always heard that kids are more sensitive to them. I have some stories from my 9 year old of his "make believe" friend that he used to talk to when he was 3-5 years old. He told me and his mom that the little boys name was Endrit. Strange name for a make believe friend for a little kid, and a very rare name at that. Endrit is an Albanian name that means "light." |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Oct 31, 2018 20:30:03 GMT -5
Wait til your tools start to move by themselves...time to bail when that happens.
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Post by roadsdiverged on Oct 31, 2018 20:33:42 GMT -5
Now that would freak me out!
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Post by Legend Lover on Nov 1, 2018 7:24:17 GMT -5
Wait til your tools start to move by themselves...time to bail when that happens. If they did the work for you, it wouldn't be so bad. But then again, if that happened you wouldn't be moving around too much so you won't be as fit... and we all know that when it comes to ghosts, we need to exorcise. |
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Post by toshtego on Nov 1, 2018 11:42:22 GMT -5
Wait til your tools start to move by themselves...time to bail when that happens. If they did the work for you, it wouldn't be so bad. But then again, if that happened you wouldn't be moving around too much so you won't be as fit... and we all know that when it comes to ghosts, we need to exorcise. I keep an open mind on the subject of ghosts, UFOs, Big Foot and such phenomena. The simplest answers are usually the correct ones so it seems to me we create this stuff- sounds, visions, even movement by our own selves through unconscious thoughts and powers we do not understand. Roadsdiverged commented on his small son repeating the name "Endrit", an Albanian noun. When I was very young, I kept talking about a visitor named "Yehudi". That baffled my parents as to how I would imagine that. They knew no one by that name. We had no TV and no radio in my room. We were not even Jewish rather I was Baptized as an infant- Roman Catholic. How did I know that name and that word? Certainly, an interesting subject. |
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Post by roadsdiverged on Nov 1, 2018 12:31:43 GMT -5
I see what you did there Paddy! Interesting story toshtego. The name Endrit had always baffled me. He still makes remarks about him once in a while but he said he hasnt seen him since me and his mom got divorced and moved from that house. |
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Post by Legend Lover on Nov 1, 2018 13:08:06 GMT -5
I see what you did there Paddy! Interesting story toshtego. The name Endrit had always baffled me. He still makes remarks about him once in a while but he said he hasnt seen him since me and his mom got divorced and moved from that house. Thank you. I was afraid I was too subtle. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2018 13:11:18 GMT -5
I have a love hate relationship with old houses. I love old houses. That said, I've never had to restore one.  |
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Post by toshtego on Nov 1, 2018 13:31:34 GMT -5
I have a love hate relationship with old houses. I love old houses. That said, I've never had to restore one. In many and, perhaps, most cases it is wiser to tear down and rebuild. If there is historical significance to the house or special architecture, it might be worth saving. Mostly, it is expensive and difficult to build around an existing structure. I have done everything from replacing foundations to the roof framing and in between. Someone has to truly love the old place for it to be worthwhile. |
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Post by roadsdiverged on Nov 1, 2018 18:13:58 GMT -5
I live in a historic town and they WILL NOT tear these houses down. People pour lots of money into them to get them back up to code. And in the historic houses here, you have to follow specific guidelines on what you can and cant do to them. They knit pick everything down to the color of exterior paint. They created a "Historical Society" that has to approve everything. We call it the "hysterical society."
I agree though, it's much cheaper, and easier to tear it down and build a new one from ground up. I like seeing it when its finished, but getting to that point is a MAJOR headache.
(No weird happenings today)
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Old houses are like boats, nothing straight, you have to scribe everything. Been working on my 100 yr old house since 2004.
