Ghost Hunting This Year?

[sacredheartandbloodofjesus]

[quote name='Arpy' date='11 January 2010 - 11:04 PM' timestamp='1263269072' post='2035194']
http://xkcd.com/459/
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This joke seems blasphemous to me.

[Jaime]

[quote name='sacredheartandbloodofjesus' date='12 January 2010 - 12:02 AM' timestamp='1263272522' post='2035213']
I dont think going out ghost hunting is a very wise thing to do.
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Didn't you see? He has an EMF detector.


that's a wise move

[MIKolbe]

deja vu, all over again.

[jeffpugh]

You people and your hobbies.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='sacredheartandbloodofjesus' date='11 January 2010 - 11:04 PM' timestamp='1263272652' post='2035215']
This joke seems blasphemous to me.
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You're just a stick in the mud.

[Happy_Catholic]

There's a haunted old theatre near where I live, apparently the guy who designed it couldn't deal with the critism of his work, so he hanged himself in there. Apparently if you go in there and yell "THIS PLACE IS RUBBISH (or words to the effect)!" he manifests, unpleasantly so.

Edited January 12, 2010 by Happy_Catholic

[Catholictothecore]

hmmm....hauntings....

I don't think it's the same thing as "communicating with the dead." You're just trying to see if you see something. Those machines that supposedly pick them up...now, those are rubbish.

[Mark of the Cross]

[quote name='Catholictothecore' date='12 January 2010 - 05:21 PM' timestamp='1263277312' post='2035262']
Those machines that supposedly pick them up...now, those are rubbish.
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If a human can sense them, or a camera can photograph them, or they can affect material objects, then why can't a detector detect them?

[Ash Wednesday]

[quote name='Lounge Daddy' date='11 January 2010 - 01:12 PM' timestamp='1263233537' post='2034884']
Who here is planning summer trips around the possibility of ghost hunting and the like? I've been thinking about that, and I even wrote [url="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2561133/skeptics_and_believers_alike_agree.html?cat=9"]an article about packing EMF detectors along side the beach towels and suntan lotion[/url]. (Yes, that means that I wrote a non-political article.)

Here in Michigan, there are a lot of shipwrecks, old lighthouses, graves, a few old military outposts, and even old ghost towns that were once bustling mining communities. So I am thinking that next time we go camping for a week, we might do a bit of paranormal investigation.

Anyone else making paranormal plans for spring and summer vacations?
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Maybe you'll have a story for Ghost to Ghost AM and can tell Art Bell all about it!

[Lounge Daddy]

[quote name='Ash Wednesday' date='12 January 2010 - 06:08 AM' timestamp='1263294483' post='2035298']
Maybe you'll have a story for Ghost to Ghost AM and can tell Art Bell all about it!
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Yessssssss!

[mcts]

hmm. I've never heard of someone ghost hunting outside of television.

[Jaime]

[quote name='mcts' date='12 January 2010 - 04:54 PM' timestamp='1263333295' post='2035579']
hmm. I've never heard of someone ghost hunting outside of television.
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there's barely any room inside my tv

[Mark of the Cross]

[quote name='hot stuff' date='13 January 2010 - 10:47 AM' timestamp='1263340072' post='2035655']
there's barely any room inside my tv
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Flat screen ghosts?

[rhetoricfemme]

So... Is there anything doctrinal or scriptural against ghost hunting? When we first moved out here I was tempted to just visit local places with haunted reputations. The paranoid side of me decided a pregnant gal probably didn't need to be talking up dead folks in old hotels and such.

I'd imagine there to be a distinct difference between visiting haunted places with the hope of running into something, and using a Ouija board or other methods to draw something out. Not to say the former is any smarter than the latter, but, theologically speaking I've never heard of there being anything against it.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='rhetoricfemme' date='12 January 2010 - 06:57 PM' timestamp='1263344275' post='2035707']
So... Is there anything doctrinal or scriptural against ghost hunting? When we first moved out here I was tempted to just visit local places with haunted reputations. The paranoid side of me decided a pregnant gal probably didn't need to be talking up dead folks in old hotels and such.

I'd imagine there to be a distinct difference between visiting haunted places with the hope of running into something, and using a Ouija board or other methods to draw something out. Not to say the former is any smarter than the latter, but, theologically speaking I've never heard of there being anything against it.
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The general attitude is that specifically in the case of going to haunted places, it's about intention. Ouija boards, tarot cards, seances, etc., are different obviously, which you obviously recognize.