How many of you would have the courage to spend the night in a haunted house? The reason I ask is most of you seem very rational and logical. You tough guys and girls don't believe in things you can't see (ie. read any thread on the religion board) so it should stand to reason spending the night in a haunted house should be no big deal right?

I wouldnt mind spending a night in a haunted house (if its actually haunted that is)

Originally posted by Bridge
You tough guys and girls don't believe in things you can't see (ie. read any thread on the religion board) so it should stand to reason spending the night in a haunted house should be no big deal right?
Wait a second, is it haunted or do YOU just believe its haunted? If YOU told me a house was haunted I'd stay in it, in fact I'd stay alone in any house that has ever been on earth.
I wouldn't , however, stay in a real haunted house... that would be scary.

I'd stay in it. What better to convince me of life after death then seeing the evidence first-hand.

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and if you did, would you tuck yourself into bed or let her do it for you?

I'd walk up as long as she wasn't standing there. It's probably rude to walk thru ghosts.

yes i was just thinking that it would be bad manners

I'd walk through her, just because when would I ever get another chance? I'd wanna' see what happend.

Originally posted by Dr Lou Natic
I wouldn't , however, stay in a real haunted house... that would be scary.

Why precisely? Just curious as to know what exactly you expect would happen in a real haunted house? Are all dwelling spirits automatically evil? Why does it have to be scary immediately?

Did you people see the movie Rose Red by the way? That is a hell of a house. I would give something to stay in a house like that.

IF it should excist.

I don't know, I wouldn't stay in a "real" haunted house overnight, because for some reason things are creepier at night, don't you agree? Its not just the dark because a light won't make a difference so I'm assuming its got something to do with our biology, ANYWAY I would walk up those stairs in the daytime and I would give the ghost the finger and laugh my head off and moon it or whatever but I wouldn't stay overnight with the creepy bitch.

My house is haunted :eek:

Sorry Dr Lou Natic, I do not agree. Maybe then, there is something wrong with my biology, for I much more prefer the dark of night, above the day time. In fact, for some reason, my eyes work better in the dark than they do in the light of day.

I do not find things creepier at night either.

Why do you want to give the poor ghost the finger, man? That is not nice. And then run for it during night time?

Tssssss, people are weird... :)

What I mean by our biology is I think emotions become magnified as we prepare to "shut down" for the night. I have no proof this is merely an observation I have made. I think if I altered my sleeping pattern to going to sleep at 1 o'clock in the afternoon everyday I think I would be more creeped at midday than I would be at midnight.

Why not give her the finger? Look at her! She's bein' all ghost-like 'n' shit.... ;)

i voted for "Yes, but i want my teddy bear" but now i'm havin second thoughts...no way! i wouldnt live in a haunted house...i guess i would get kinda freaked...honestly, i'd probably have a nervous breakdown everytime i hear a sound if i went to a haunted house...

i voted 'Maybe, it depends on how haunted the house is'...i don't think i would stay by myself in an extremely active house, but i would have no problems staying in any house with at least one other person. first of all, i would just want the peice of mind that i wasn't imagining anything that would be happening...second, if something scared the sh*t out of me, i would want someone to be able to drive me to the hospital after my heart attack :eek:

i have stayed in a couple houses with some acivity, mostly with onlly noises or small pranks, it didn't bother me, and i actually found it quite entertaining....

but I'm guessing if I put your wimpy asses in that house ALONE , at night, with or without your teddy bear, you'd be crapping your whitey tighties before midnight hit.

So far, IMHO, we have two honest posters, maybe three, because someone voted maybe, and purplestreak and Dr. Lou are having second thoughts.

The rest of you, I guarantee if we had hidden cameras in the place we'd catch you pissing your pants. Of course that's nothing new, you do it all the time at home :D

i'll bet that the frequency of haunted houses which are made out of wood is higher than those made out of concrete.

Definitely, concrete is no good for making creepy sounds. Wood is good for footsteps and creaking and groaning. Chains and such resonate better on wood. Concrete might be good for a night in a haunted dungeon though don't you think? :)

Oh man that's like the ultimate thing to do. Why wouldn't you want to? We're all different, that i can acknowledge, but to me there's nothing more worthwhile than research and finding answers to long asked questions. I have been chasing ghosts and whatnot for years now.. Whether they're psychopathic or not is irrelevant. If it answers a question it's always worth the try.

i voted for having my teddy bear there. i kind of enjoy getting scared, like going on roller coasters and the haunted houses in niagra where they have people in costume grab at you from the walls and chase you. you know it's not real and there's no danger but it's fun to sometimes let yourself go and be a kid.

I don't know, I can think of more frightening things than a creaky old house, if there were some money involevd I'd spend the night :p

I would look forward to it.

Revel in the idea, in fact.

I tried.

I dated a girl a while back who told me that every house she has ever lived in was haunted (including the one she was living in at the time).

Everything from seeing apparitions to hearing noises...
There was a light that would always go on at night...
One night they git tired of it, so they tripped the circuit breaker, and it STILL went on that night...
Doors opening and closing...
Things flying across the room and smashing into the walls...
A little girl ghost that would walk around their house talking...
and on and on and on...

I spent nearly every night at her house for the six months that I dated her HOPING to see this stuff.
I wanted to meet one of these ghosts and try to talk to them.
I wanted to try and touch them.
I wanted to "experience" a haunted house so badly.

Of course I saw nothing at all (damnit!).

My mother's house has the ghost of a dead child (he died in the house when before my Grandmother bought it about 50 years ago) I lived there for a years and saw nothing.
The cats have acted strangely sometimes...
My sister's cat has recently started staring at one point on the wall for a few minutes, then running away and hiding under the bed (like he does when my nephews go there).

My oldest sister used to play with him when she was a little girl.
She would come downstairs and my mother would ask her who she was talking to upstairs in her bedroom (the room he died in) and she would tell her that she was playing ball with the little boy upstairs (that was long before she ever knew about the little boy that died there).

The only strange thing I have ever experienced there (other than some strange feelings about the closet of the room he died in when I was a kid, nothing definate, just a strange wary feeling about the room) was one night a few years ago the night before Halloween.
I was visiting my mother with my girlfriend at the time.
We were sleeping on the living room floor.
My cat, Vincent, was acting strangely (as he usually did when he was there. In the middle of the night he would act as if he was playing with someone, but noone was there.)
All of a sudden there was a VERY loud sound of shattering glass on the front porch, just ouside the room we were sleeping in.
I jumped up and opened the door (it was the night before Halloween, so I thought maybe someone threw something at the house and broke the glass on the screen door).
There was no one outside.
I ran around the house to look behind it.
No one.
No broken glass anywhere.
The street light was not out.
No car accidents.
Nothing.
I looked in the basement.
I checked every window in the house.
The sound was loud enough to wake my sister uo (on the second floor) and my mother up (in the back bedroom) so it wasn't just me and my girlfriend who heard it.
I will admit that was quite strange, but still, I have never seen a ghost.

Still looking, though.

Any suggestions?

Once again with the polls I am the only one to pick one of the things, Im a scaredy cat, im interested in the stuff but that doesnt mean im not a chicken.. hell the heater turning on downstairs frightens me.. OHHH EVERQUEST! MAKE ME FEEL SAFE AGAIN!!!


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Haha, well I'll admit I'm afraid of Everquest! Pay to play, no more tech support, and nothing but a hundred hard core nerds all banding together to battle eachother for a chance to attack the same badguys for hours at a time? I'm shaking in my boots!

Yeah, that's a good point, Fraggle rocker. I think that the CIA spends a lot more time trying to hoax ghost sightings than most people would think, it's right below mind control on their secret priority list, of hidden agendas.

Originally posted by Mystech
Yeah, that's a good point, Fraggle rocker. I think that the CIA spends a lot more time trying to hoax ghost sightings than most people would think, it's right below mind control on their secret priority list, of hidden agendas. Well, they've got a lot of time on their hands. There's not much for most of their staff to do because they can only read Russian and Bulgarian and languages that don't have a lot of spy traffic any more. All the documents in Arabic and Farsi and Pashto have just been piling up for years because nobody needs to worry about what's going on in that part of the world, so they have hardly anybody working for them that's fluent in those languages. Why gee, I wonder if there's a 3-year old plan for 9-11, nicely printed out from Microsoft Project, written in Arabic, gathering dust in the bottom of some bureaucrat's "in" basket, waiting for one of their six Arabic experts to come along and translate it.

So the Czech and Hungarian translators are probably learning how to fake a haunted house. Maybe they figure they can scare Saddam to death.