Wed 30 Apr 2008
Say you were spending one night in a haunted inn that is located at the center of an ancient English stone circle. Supposing that ghosts, spirits, and so on exist, what would you do, say, or bring to provoke an encounter?
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Ooooo, yikes. If I really, really wanted an encounter, I’d just ask. Yep, just start talking out loud.
I have a really weird thing that I can’t explain. I went on a ghost hunt with the Indiana Ghost Trackers at a local cemetery late at night, and my friend went with me. It was the first time for both of us. I wore an obsidian necklace because it is supposed to protect you from negative energy. We both had EMF (electromagnetic frequency) readers. Our leader had everyone be quiet and turned on a tape recorder. We picked out a grave and he started asking questions, like “did you have kids,” etc. I was standing right next to my friend. After each question, her meter would spike all the way up to ten, while mine didn’t move a hair. Then it would go back down, and the leader would ask another question, and it would go back up to ten. Freaky. And we checked around for electrical lines or anything else… didn’t find anything else to explain it.
Isn’t a ghost just the consciousness of a dead-person, trapped inside a body that has a non-standard physical relationship to the everyday world (e.g. it can walk through things)?
If so, I doubt there’s any general statement that can provoke ghosts — just as there’s no general statement that can provoke people. You can come close, with people, by saying, “Anyone want some free money?” or “I’m going to kill everyone in this room!” But ghosts don’t crave material things (right?) and they aren’t afraid of dying (right?).
So you’d have to research the specific ghost. My grandmother’s ghost would get really riled if you said, “Your cooking sucks!,” because she prided herself on being a great cook. King Hamlet’s ghost wouldn’t like it if you said, “Your wife thinks your brother’s cock is bigger.”
If you don’t know anything about the specific ghosts’ former lives, maybe you can research general info about history on the area. For instance, if you’re standing in an ancient Roman tomb, you could try shouting, “It’s Attila! He’s come to sack the city!”
Start surfing the Internet, of course. Try to find as engrossing a site as you can, one that isn’t funny as to provoke laughter. I’m figuring that ghosts like to catch people off-guard, and what better way than to engross yourself in something. Turn off any music in the background.
Become aware of your peripheral vision, or better yet, turn off the lights in rooms to your right and left.
Jebus, I guess I’m doing this right now…..
Oh, and by all means keep a cheap digital camera nearby, perhaps even your cell phone camera. Take a quick, out of focus photo, and put it up on the ‘tubes.
I’d wait until a door creaked or chains rattled, and just yell “get a life!”
I’d move lots of stuff around. And put a for sale sign out front.
Wait, is there a correct answer here? What’s with the English stone circle? Is this the new Zork? Can I change my answer?
Throw stone.
How about throwing a copy of Exorcist into your DVD player and then just laughing through the whole thing? Maybe mix in some Poltergeist as well, keep things mixed up in case your spirits aren’t theistically inclined.
“You want a piece of me? Come and get it.”
And since ghosts are not corporeal, they would just try and try to get a piece, but constantly fail. That would be frustrating. Like Patrick Swayze (sp) in Ghost. No disrespect intended to his illness, or to that wonderful actor who played the subway ghost.
Isn’t the some kind of “Ghost Hunting” type of show on TV to where the person in the show goes to places that are haunted and his goal is to try and piss of the ghosts? I heard that a show like that exsisted from one of my Sergeants last month but he recently left to a new duty station and I can not remember what the name of the show was. Does anyone happen to know what the name is?
dude i want to find out how to piss a ghost off!… and is it possible for them to possess you or is it just some story… hmm? oh and i think it would be awsome if you could talk to them with out all the gizmos and gadgets is that possible??
Tell the spirit to suck your pnus