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Attn Rich, unless it is what you are using for your book, and don't want to tell...

The doorknob fell off my closet door last week... It didn't mean the door would be forever stuck closed.

The story is good, and you tell it well, but you must have been a dumb 11 year old.
 
I like the beginning of this story. :coool:

99XJ said:
Looks like my old cat. Seriously though, cats don't run up to people and attack them. EVER.
:bsflag: You never met Remo. I swear the cat was insane. He would be very nice and would decide for himself who he liked. If you weren't on his list of likeable people, you were screwed.
 
themuttt said:
Just curious here Rich, do you feel very comfortable walking around cemetaries (night or day), or are they extremely creepy to you?
The back way home to the old house passed the town cemetery which had been built just outside the town in the late 1870's. I used to drive by the cemetary often, for some reason it always gave me a sense of peace. I have always liked cemetaries, the are quiet and there is plenty of good reading. I ended up having some very strange experiences in that cemetary which opened up the history of the home to me. I will most likely go into detail about that if people continue to like the stories.
 
Jays89YJ said:
I like the beginning of this story. :coool:


:bsflag: You never met Remo. I swear the cat was insane. He would be very nice and would decide for himself who he liked. If you weren't on his list of likeable people, you were screwed.

Well, this morning my wife went out with the dog to keep them apart. The cat was out on the back deck. Everything was fine until she went to leave, the cat started to freak and bit her. Got me to thinking, perhaps the cat is lonely or hungry. I went and got the cat some food from a neighbor and ate it like it hadn't eaten in days. I am thinking the cat is acting so strange because it was very hungry and used to be a house cat and wants in.

 
Hedley Lamarr said:
The back way home to the old house passed the town cemetery which had been built just outside the town in the late 1870's. I used to drive by the cemetary often, for some reason it always gave me a sense of peace. I have always liked cemetaries, the are quiet and there is plenty of good reading. I ended up having some very strange experiences in that cemetary which opened up the history of the home to me. I will most likely go into detail about that if people continue to like the stories.
the wife and I have walked through the cemetery in Gettysburg (local part not military part), many many times, often at night, just because it was peaceful. Mind you I was Goth before Goth was Goth as well ;). I almost proposed to her there, but did it on the battlefield instead :loopyeye:
 
In all honesty... I did "feel" the house when I was looking at it, the first couple times before signing the contract... Just in case there was a spirit presence... I didn't think there would be, being built in 1960 and all, but you never know... the first house my family had definitely had the presence... strongest in a hallway to the side door.

The adirondacks house also DEFINITELY has the presence, we believe of the former (original) owner, in the beginning he would fawk with people, scared 2 contractors away who swore they will never return... But I believe over time, after seeing the respect we pay to the house and the property, he has accepted us. Lights do dance across walls, shadows do appear from nowhere, and, most freaky, for fractions of a second you "hear" things... things that sound like someone (or more than someone) is talking... like if you had a cassette tape and hit play then pause half a second later. Not enough to understand what was being said, but enough to know it was a "human" voice.

My sister was concerned enough with the new house purchase she called me before the contract was signed to make sure I didn't forget to "listen" or "feel" for anything.
 
themuttt said:
the wife and I have walked through the cemetery in Gettysburg (local part not military part), many many times, often at night, just because it was peaceful. Mind you I was Goth before Goth was Goth as well ;). I almost proposed to her there, but did it on the battlefield instead :loopyeye:

I have never been what you would consider Goth. I have always just really liked old cemetaries, never really knew why. They are more peaceful than any park I could ever hope to find.
 

Vamkie [JU]

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Hedley Lamarr said:
I have never been what you would consider Goth. I have always just really liked old cemetaries, never really knew why. They are more peaceful than any park I could ever hope to find.
There was a wedding or there is about to be a wedding in a cemetary because the lady said that was the most peaceful place she knows
 
********** said:
The doorknob fell off my closet door last week... It didn't mean the door would be forever stuck closed.
That is just a piss poor excuse for not coming out of the closet. :eyemo:

The story is good, and you tell it well, but you must have been a dumb 11 year old.
Gee, thanks Joe. :D What was I supposed to do? I was already creeped out by the house, we were there alone and there was no way to get out. When I was eleven, I didn't have MacGyver episodes to fall back on.
 
Vamkie said:
There was a wedding or there is about to be a wedding in a cemetary because the lady said that was the most peaceful place she knows

It is a strange place to hang out, I will admit. My parents never understood it. I used to like to go there long before I ended up knowing people there.
 

enviro1 [JU]

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Saturday night and you're still hangin' around
You're tired of livin' in your one horse town
You'd like to find a little hole in the ground for a while

So you go to the village in your tie-dye jeans
And you stare at the junkies and the closet queens
It's like some pornographic magazine, and you smile

But Captain Jack will get you high tonight
And take you to your special island
Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Just a little push 'n' you'll be smilin'
Oh yeah, yeah

Your sister's gone out, she's on a date
And you just sit at home and masturbate
Your phone is gonna ring soon,
But you just can't wait, for that call

So you stand on the corner in your new English clothes
And you look so polished from your hair down to your toes
But still your fingers gonna pick your nose, after all

But Captain Jack will get you high tonight
And take you to your special island
Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Just a little push 'n' you'll be smilin'
Oh yeah, yeah

So you decide to take a holiday
You got your tape deck and your brand new Chevrolet
Ah, but there's no place to go anyway and what for
You've got everything, but nothin's cool
They just found your father in the swimming pool
And you guess you won't be going back to school anymore

But Captain Jack will get you high tonight
And take you to your special island
Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Just a little push 'n' you'll be smilin'
La da, da
Oh yeah, yeah

So you play your albums and you smoke your pot
And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot
Oh, but still you're aching for the things you haven't got,
What went wrong

And if you can't understand why your world is so dead
And why you've got to keep in style and feed your head
Well, you're twenty one and still you mother makes your bed
And that's too long

But Captain Jack will get you high tonight
And take you to your special island
Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Just a little push 'n' you'll be smilin'
Yeah, Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Yeah, Captain Jack will get you by tonight
 
Hedley Lamarr said:
Gee, thanks Joe. :D What was I supposed to do? I was already creeped out by the house, we were there alone and there was no way to get out. When I was eleven, I didn't have MacGyver episodes to fall back on.
When i was 11 I was probably smarter than I am now... I was fixing broken things all day long... if a door knob came off I would have picked it up, looked at what it was supposed to do, and either fixed it or found some other way of turning the mechanism.

Today if I couldn't open it with my knife I'd probably just kick it down, but then, then I cared about things.
 
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