Things That I Never Knew

[eric1978]

I always wondered why they needed an old/scary place to live. Has anybody ever seen a ghost in new construction?

I also wonder why all the ghost-chasers on TLC always have the lights off and use night-vision equipment. Is it so the ghosts don't see them and hide?

Hmmmm. So many questions.

I know you're joking, but the sad reality is that they do it in the dark to make it more entertaining for those people out there whose brains function so poorly that they actually think ghosts exist and that people are communicating with them. As John Fogerty said, "I know it's true, 'cause I saw it on TV."

[snagged in outlet 3]

Hey Max

That's clearly a shark.

SIO3

[duckydoty]

Creve Coure (SP?) Lake by St. Louis is an Ox Bow lake.

The Mo-Mo has definately taken up residency around Upper Taney. He has increasingly been feeding on the speared trout that the Gooney Birds collect for him, because the Nauga population has started to dwindle. The increasing bear population down at Taney should help with decreasing the Mo-Mo's trout consumption because the bears are a little closer to the normal prefered diet of Nauga to the Mo-mo.

[Buckshotdad1960]

The Chinese think that all their ancestors are watching them! Boy, talk about pressure, no wonder their so skinny from worry. LOL

I know you guys are just funnin’ and don’t really believe in Bigfoot or ghost but I would just like to say a couple of things here for the others who might come along and read this thread.

Ghosts have always fascinated me. Look at how much thought, time and energy is devoted to them. You couldn’t have a scary movie without one right? But in the real world are there really ghosts?

Being someone who believes in God and the after life I figured if there really was such things as ghost they would be mentioned in the bible, after all Jesus did say, I HAVE FORE TOLD YOU ALL THINGS.

What I found out was even more scarier than ghosts.

Supposedly ghosts are just ordinary people who died and never left the earth, doomed to wonder around, so they get bored and start spooking people right? Well the bible says that’s not true. See no one truly dies. Sure your flesh body dies and decays but their soul instantly upon dieing returns to heaven to a holding place to await the return of Christ to the earth. Every one who has ever lived and died is there and you will go there too. Note the story of Lazereth and the rich man. It explains what the holding area is like. Remember now I’m not getting religious on you here. Whether you believe in God or not, go to church or not is all on you! I could care less! I’m just saying that I do believe in God and this is what the bible says.

So there are no bumps in the night that can’t be explained. But take notice when Jesus walked the earth as a man what things happened!

Now according to the king James version of the bible, The Devil and 7,000 bad boy angles are being held in captivity in heaven to be released upon the earth in the end times.

These angels are also referred to as Demons. Yeah, and apparently not all of them are locked up in heaven either!

Notice in the stories of Christ where people brought other people who were possessed by one or more of these demons to Christ and he had to cast them out. Where did they go? One story said that a man brought his son to Jesus and told him that the Demon who possessed his son would make his son fall down in the fire they had going, (I guess to keep warm or cook with). Another story told about two men who lived in a cemetery that Jesus cast Demons out of and the Demons went into a herd of pigs. Then the pigs all ran off the bluff into the sea and drowned. Another story was when some fake religious leaders tried to cast a Demon out of a man in the name of Apostle Paul and the Demon looked at them and said, Paul I know, but you I know not! Then the Demon whipped the dog snot out of them, stripped their cloths off and made them run off naked.

Now I’m not saying there is one on every corner. And I’m not saying they all look and act like Linda Blare on that movie THE EXERCIST but what if…you were to run across one? Would you know what true Demon possession looked like? And what does it take to get possessed by one? Do you have to kill a hundred people? Drink blood? Be a used car salesman like Fishingcricket? LOL What?

How much of the bumps in the night are only our imagination and how much is real?

Ok, let the jokes begin!

[eric1978]

How much of the bumps in the night are only our imagination and how much is real?

Some are our imaginations, the rest are real. But they all have an explanation, whether we know what it is or not. Sorry.

[Buckshotdad1960]

Yes some are real, like a can falling off a shelf or a cat jumping on a lid, but there are no ghosts. Demon possession on the other hand is real! After all what would posses a man to stand in freezing water in the winter time and fish for trout! LOL

[KCRIVERRAT]

Hmmmm... from what I remember reading about former posts concerning the Taney parking lot, are you Taney guys spelling MOMO correctly?

[FishinCricket]

Yes some are real, like a can falling off a shelf or a cat jumping on a lid, but there are no ghosts. Demon possession on the other hand is real! After all what would posses a man to stand in freezing water in the winter time and fish for trout! LOL

There are probably cases of phenomenon that we (and science) can't truly explain yet... But there has never been any evidence that Demons or Ghosts exist.

thanks for the bible lesson though, it was interesting to hear it from a different pastors point of view.

[FishinCricket]

ok, check this out.

In my old house (before the tornado) my wife at the time was out of town and I was sitting at the tying bench, tying flys and listening to tunes. My dog was laying in the hallway between the kitchen and the bathroom, and we were the only ones there. All of a sudden it sounded like something heavy hit the side of the house towards the back (I even felt the vibration of it). The dog jumped up and looked at me. I jumped up and looked at him. Then I turned on the back porch light and went outside to see WTF it was.....Saw nothing. I grabbed a flashlight and walked all around the outside of the house and shop.....nothing at all. I walked out in the middle of the yard and looked on the roof..... nada.

I went back in and caught a strong whif of bleach...I thought WTF ???? Went back in the laundry room and there is a busted bottle of bleach on the opposite side of the room from the shelf where it always sat, and a big wet spot on the wall above where the split open bottle was laying. There was a 6" dent in the drywall where it had hit.

That freakin' bottle of bleach launched off the shelf, slammed against the wall and bleach was everywhere. HTF can that happen ?

And BTW, I hadn't done laundry for days, and I seldom use bleach so I know for a fact where the bottle was before that happened.

Your bottle of bleach came into contact with a minute black hole.. Err something..

Or the devil did it.

[eric1978]

ok, check this out.

In my old house (before the tornado) my wife at the time was out of town and I was sitting at the tying bench, tying flys and listening to tunes. My dog was laying in the hallway between the kitchen and the bathroom, and we were the only ones there. All of a sudden it sounded like something heavy hit the side of the house towards the back (I even felt the vibration of it). The dog jumped up and looked at me. I jumped up and looked at him. Then I turned on the back porch light and went outside to see WTF it was.....Saw nothing. I grabbed a flashlight and walked all around the outside of the house and shop.....nothing at all. I walked out in the middle of the yard and looked on the roof..... nada.

I went back in and caught a strong whif of bleach...I thought WTF ???? Went back in the laundry room and there is a busted bottle of bleach on the opposite side of the room from the shelf where it always sat, and a big wet spot on the wall above where the split open bottle was laying. There was a 6" dent in the drywall where it had hit.

That freakin' bottle of bleach launched off the shelf, slammed against the wall and bleach was everywhere. HTF can that happen ?

And BTW, I hadn't done laundry for days, and I seldom use bleach so I know for a fact where the bottle was before that happened.

That's a perfect example of one of those things that you can't explain but has an explanation. There has to be a logical answer, you just don't know what it is. That would freak me out though.