I've got a troublesome problem

[Seshmeister]

With regard to power lines: In previous hosues, no. I'd have to check where they are at but I don't believe so. It's something that's occurred to me, too.

Also, I don't eat beans very often. Not my thing.

Normally I'm very scientific. I typically believe that when you die, you're dead, that's that. Given it all, I don't know what to think. Even given my own wide set of experiences (some of them so irrationally and uncontrollably terrifying it would induce tears and give rise to a fight or flight instinct so overwhelming it was almost impossible to resist) I'm still inclined to be skeptical.

I typically try to keep an open mind and look for any evidence I can, even circumstantial, and think about the likelihood of all things. The hard part of it all to reconcile for me is my nephew. He's not doing it for attention. When he first started asking about the person, it was very quiet and he would do it quietly and would not make a big issue out of it.

To date, he's become much, much more agitated, asking us if the person will hurt him, if he's going with us when we go to dinner, and at times has asked us to tell him to go away. The kid is clearly very bothered by something. The Robert thing could be coincidental but honestly it bothers me to think about it.

I dunno. I'd personally like to have the issue resolved and not have my nephew freaked out from time to time, suddenly and inexplicably.

I think a short sharp series of beatings over a few days should resolve the issue.

[Seshmeister]

Apologize? Please. I don't have a monopoly on this. We can both be curious about the vicinity of power lines possibly having an effect on ghostly sightings.

It's that goddamn magical electrickery attracting the ghosties...

[Blaze]

Apologize? Please. I don't have a monopoly on this. We can both be curious about the vicinity of power lines possibly having an effect on ghostly sightings.

Thanks!
I am not up to explaining it and researching a cohesive science based explanation. However, from off the top of my head.....
Electrical fields create variations in magnetic fluctuations, these fluctuations are known to cause anomalies in beings (and things of matter)

Even electrical wire concentration as small as a concentration of home wires can cause certain persons to notice anomalies in and around their beings.

[Seshmeister]

There have been a huge amount of studies on power lines and they've never found any decent evidence.

It's the same with mobile phone towers but hey I signed the petition against one being put up near our house.

Better safe than sorry and all that but ultimately you have to go with the evidence and there isn't any.

[Blaze]

Not all anomalies are harmful, some are just annoying.

[Seshmeister]

Why do you think that Dr. Love (or anyonelse in this thread) would be lying about their experiences?
Since you weren't there when it happened?
Because you haven't encountered anything yourself, doesn't mean it doesn't exist!

About 20 years ago I was out one night and became aware of a strange hovering light which looked about 2 miles away.

It seemed to move a little, it shimmered but it absolutely was not a plane. I wondered if it could be a helicopter but there was no reason for one to be there at that time of night. It certainly wasn't the moon as it was there in another part of the sky and it was much too small but too big to be a star.

I looked at it for 20 minutes or so thinking well that's a bit fucking odd. I had seen a UFO.

The next day the newspaper reported that nearly a hundred people had phoned the police station seeing the same thing.

None of them were telling lies or trying to deceive people.

Turned out it was Venus in an unusually bright low position.


Cheers!

[Blaze]

Uhuh, sure it was.....
That's what the EEC, NWA, and the Illuminati wants you to believe!

[Seshmeister]

Buzzed by those damn Venusians and their ghostie ways.

I felt violated. Not the full anal probe thing like Hagar but they took the piss out of me and it was naughty.

[Dr. Love]

For me, if there is a lack of physical manifestation I'll chalk it up to the mind playing tricks. When there's a clear pattern of incidence, with physically manifesting effects, and more than one person encounter it together and in isolation, I start to be more open minded.

Ghosts or not, whatever it is, something is occuring. What it is, I don't know.

[blonddgirl777]

... Turned out it was Venus in an unusually bright low position.


Cheers!

WOW!!!
So... Is she a blonde, a brunette or a redhead?

[Panamark]

I have a ghost in my house that keeps drinking all my beers !!
He is friendly like casper as he always leaves a couple for me....

[hideyoursheep]

I have a ghost in my house that keeps drinking all my beers !!
He is friendly like casper as he always leaves a couple for me....

Do you ever see him when you're shaving?

[hideyoursheep]

I'm gonna keep you busy tonight!

Get the lube...

[Nickdfresh]

Sorry, if I may butt in. Does electricity have anything to do with this? The reason that I ask is I frequently get shocked when I come into contact with things and people. The most bizarre thing to happen recently was that the paper shredder in the office at work turned off as soon as I stood in front of it. That paper shredder is on all the time and doesn't have a sleep mode.

Butt in anytime you like ...

I've read a little on parapsychology, and one of the more "scientific" theories is that electrical fields within spaces can effect the human brain and cause disruptions in our consciousness and perceptions. I think I saw something on the Discovery Channel where a parapsychologist believed that the rather disturbingly violent haunting of a house was caused by the inhabitants being surrounded by a powerful electrical field of power-lines that was intensified by an underground water flow. One of the incidents was that the husband claimed he was 'attacked' by something in the shower and saw visions of blood and soil going down the drain. The people seemed more believable than your normal sort.

We can argue whether the electrical fields cause internalized hallucinations from within the human brain, or if they open up something that is external, supernatural, and possibly quantum physic. But there is little argument that electrical fields can have a huge impact on the human brain, both negative and positive, as magnets can be used to relieve depression for instance...

[Nickdfresh]

There have been a huge amount of studies on power lines and they've never found any decent evidence.

It's the same with mobile phone towers but hey I signed the petition against one being put up near our house.

Better safe than sorry and all that but ultimately you have to go with the evidence and there isn't any.

Cite one.