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The Coker Hill Haunting 2: The Events

3 points by IntronExon 9y ago

SlowBro 9y ago
I don't understand why many people (myself included) fear ghosts? If I heard something go bump in the night it would freak me out. Yet I've never read of a historic event of haunting where the ghost (or whatever phenomenon) actually did anything terrible. Tipping stuff over, opening doors, or in this case knocking on wood, isn't exactly threatening. Yet if that were me I'd split out of that house faster than you can say Casper :-) I don't think it's the fear of the unknown. I see unknown stuff all the time that's not at all frightening. There's something about poltergeist (or poltergeist-seeming natural phenomenon) that's just too much. My wife and her sister both claim to have seen the same ghost from separate rooms. In a house where someone was known to have died, one night she saw a man wearing older clothing standing in her bedroom doorway, looking at her with a puzzled look on his face. She blinked and he was gone. Her sister from her bedroom saw the same man. Only once, and it never happened again.
- choeger 9y ago
  Maybe this is a case of mixing cause and effect. It might not be you fearing the ghost but rather your fear creating it in the first place.
  - SlowBro 9y ago
    Except the order is backwards. Stimulus then response. You’re going along just fine then bam a noise and you jump.
    - choeger 9y ago
      Not necessarily. First of all you might not be aware that you are not "fine" at all. On a subconscious level you might already be fearful. And then of course your perceptions might trick you. While you might certainly think that the noise you heard was the first thing you noted, there could have been several other inputs that set you up so that the particular noise sounded more suspicious or louder or unlikely...
      - SlowBro 9y ago
        No I'm saying the surprise comes from nowhere. Anyway, it's theoretical for me. I can't say I've ever seen any ghost, just been spooked by noises when I was otherwise perfectly happy. Question remains though: Why do many fear ghosts? There's really nothing frightening about them that I can see, and I don't believe fear of the unknown is the cause.
- roryisok 9y ago
  > one night she saw a man wearing older clothing standing in her bedroom doorway, looking at her with a puzzled look on his face. She blinked and he was gone. Her sister from her bedroom saw the same man. Only once, and it never happened again. "who the heck are these girls? Oh shit wrong house!"

3 points by IntronExon 9y ago

I don't understand why many people (myself included) fear ghosts? If I heard something go bump in the night it would freak me out. Yet I've never read of a historic event of haunting where the ghost (or whatever phenomenon) actually did anything terrible. Tipping stuff over, opening doors, or in this case knocking on wood, isn't exactly threatening. Yet if that were me I'd split out of that house faster than you can say Casper :-) I don't think it's the fear of the unknown. I see unknown stuff all the time that's not at all frightening. There's something about poltergeist (or poltergeist-seeming natural phenomenon) that's just too much. My wife and her sister both claim to have seen the same ghost from separate rooms. In a house where someone was known to have died, one night she saw a man wearing older clothing standing in her bedroom doorway, looking at her with a puzzled look on his face. She blinked and he was gone. Her sister from her bedroom saw the same man. Only once, and it never happened again.

choeger 9y ago
Maybe this is a case of mixing cause and effect. It might not be you fearing the ghost but rather your fear creating it in the first place.
- SlowBro 9y ago
  Except the order is backwards. Stimulus then response. You’re going along just fine then bam a noise and you jump.
  - choeger 9y ago
    Not necessarily. First of all you might not be aware that you are not "fine" at all. On a subconscious level you might already be fearful. And then of course your perceptions might trick you. While you might certainly think that the noise you heard was the first thing you noted, there could have been several other inputs that set you up so that the particular noise sounded more suspicious or louder or unlikely...
    - SlowBro 9y ago
      No I'm saying the surprise comes from nowhere. Anyway, it's theoretical for me. I can't say I've ever seen any ghost, just been spooked by noises when I was otherwise perfectly happy. Question remains though: Why do many fear ghosts? There's really nothing frightening about them that I can see, and I don't believe fear of the unknown is the cause.
roryisok 9y ago
> one night she saw a man wearing older clothing standing in her bedroom doorway, looking at her with a puzzled look on his face. She blinked and he was gone. Her sister from her bedroom saw the same man. Only once, and it never happened again. "who the heck are these girls? Oh shit wrong house!"