cblev65252
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posted on December 13, 2007 08:30:16 AM new
Or is it? I usually brush off strange occurrences in our home and chalk them up to it being an old house or maybe a truck going by. Books come off of shelves, things drop off of tables, touch lamps coming on by themselves. However, I am having a hard time brushing off the strange thing that has happened two nights in a row. My cell phone is a flip phone. In order to turn it on you have to flip it open and hold down a button. When it's coming on you hear a loud obnoxious whoosh and the phone's light will come on. I turn it off at night. No one needs to be calling me after 11:00 p.m. I leave it on my night stand. For two nights in a row, I've been awakened by a loud whoosh and the light from my cell phone telling me it's been turned on. Night before last it happened at 3:49 am. It was a very calm night weather-wise so I can't blame the weather. This morning it happened at 4:04 a.m.
Now, how do I explain that one?
Cheryl
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tomwiii
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posted on December 13, 2007 08:59:08 AM new
"Who ya gonna call?"
Why, Ghost-Buster Ralphie, of course!
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Just CALL him at: 1-800-STI-NKIE
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hwahwa
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posted on December 13, 2007 09:07:03 AM new
Did anyone die recently?
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Lets all stop whining !
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cblev65252
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posted on December 13, 2007 09:35:07 AM new
Not recently, no. My brother died in 1996 (and I have had visits from him in the past) and my husband died in 1999. Unless, of course, I don't know about it yet. Ken has loudly announced around the house that he welcomes any and all spirits of the friendly persuasion. I don't exactly want that, but it is his house. I just wish they'd pick on him and not me. LOL!
Cheryl
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hwahwa
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posted on December 13, 2007 10:21:55 AM new
Some spirits are curious and this one may just be curious of a device which emits energy/vibration!
Also it is linked to you,so there are traces of you on the device !
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cblev65252
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posted on December 13, 2007 11:23:11 AM new
hwahwa - You are probably right. I know a lot of people don't believe in this sort of thing. So happens, I do. I once had a Reiki treatment that left the Reiki master kind of shell shocked. She said my crown Chakra shines like a beacon. All I could say was "wonderful". That does a lot to explain the types of people that radiate in my direction, both dead and alive. LOL!!
Cheryl
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hwahwa
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posted on December 13, 2007 11:56:02 AM new
may be you can sell your crown chakra on Ebay.
Remember that Ghost in a Jar??
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on December 13, 2007 12:06:55 PM new
Have your sweetie set up his video camera on a tripod. Leave a nightlight plugged in to provide dim illumination.
fLufF
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max40
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posted on December 13, 2007 12:36:07 PM new
Or you could have a bad cell phone.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on December 13, 2007 01:33:48 PM new
Cheryl seemed to be saying that she leaves the flip closed.
fLufF
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annekila
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posted on December 13, 2007 01:58:55 PM new
I totally believe it. I lost two sons in the last 4 years. I have had all manner of visits..many to do with the TV or computer. I feel very safe with my spirits around me....
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CBlev65252
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posted on December 13, 2007 02:40:12 PM new
Fluffy is right, the flip is closed and the phone is off. It's not a bad phone. I think tonight I'll leave the phone in another room. Geesh, I need my sleep. I'm running on empty here.
Anne, I'm sorry to hear about your sons. Spirits don't really bother me all that much except that once I'm awakened, it's very hard for me to get back to sleep!
Cheryl
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roadsmith
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posted on December 13, 2007 03:50:09 PM new
Would you happen to have a teenager in the house, one who's into pranks?
My father once had a very strange thing happen to him having to do with a distant aunt who'd died, and I had a strange thing happen after he died. I think there's *something* out there that we don't fully understand - yet.
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CBlev65252
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posted on December 13, 2007 03:53:58 PM new
Thankfully, my children are grown adults and no longer living at home!! No grandchildren here either.
Cheryl
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aintrichyet
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posted on December 13, 2007 04:13:04 PM new
jeez cheryl ... nothing is ever 'normal' for you LOL ...
i like the idea of setting up a video camera to "see what it sees".
give lil Ryan a hug and a kiss from me.
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tomwiii
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posted on December 13, 2007 04:22:22 PM new
annekila:
You said:
" totally believe it. I lost two sons in the last 4 years. I have had all manner of visits..many to do with the TV or computer. I feel very safe with my spirits around me...."
Oh, geez Anne! Ralphie sends a great big HUGE sloppy BT smooch yer way, and we both send our bestest wishes for you and yours for a bestest HOLIDAY SEASON...
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annekila
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posted on December 13, 2007 04:27:30 PM new
Well, thank you, Tom and Ralphie! I can always use a sloppy smooch..never know when they will come in handy....
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sthoemke
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posted on December 13, 2007 07:00:19 PM new
Don't worry. It is just ebay calling you to remind you that the are having a free gallary promotion last week. The time difference from India explains the call at 4 in the morning.
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mcjane
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posted on December 13, 2007 07:22:36 PM new
Cheryl, sounds like you live alone. I've never had any ghostly experiences, but if I did & lived alone I would be outta there faster than you could say BOO.
Guess I watch too many of those "supposedly" haunted house shows on TV.
I don't believe in ghosts, but the goings on in those houses scare me enough not to risk it.
Try putting a rubber band around your phone & if it opens & starts to whoosh in the middle of the night, get out fast & leave the phone behind.
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pixiamom
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posted on December 13, 2007 08:17:54 PM new
I, for one, think Sylvia Brown is a pile of rubbish. But I have noted my Dad's distinctive after-shave fragrance present years after he deceased during family gatherings, A very good friend, the head of marketing for a Fortune 500 company and Pulitzer-prize nominated related his experience when he lived in a "haunted house" in Cape Cod. Unexplained cold drafts, open doors closed, while his wife miscarried, Banshees screamed from the house.
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NEGLUS
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posted on December 13, 2007 08:43:48 PM new
My mother and sister (not Pixia, the other one) report that they can smell not only Dad's Aramis aftershave but also pipe tobacco smoke every now and then. I haven't been so lucky.
I had one experience: The night one of my dear friends died after a long and valiant fight with breast cancer, she visited me in a dream. The dream began with me saying to her - "What are you doing here? You are supposed to be dead!" She laughed and laughed and then showed me where she was now and that it was a lovely place with fabulous light (she was an artist) and she had no more pain. She asked me to help her husband with her two young sons (9 and 10 years old) and then she was gone. I am certain it was Meaghan. This dream helped me in so many ways that I finally shared it with her husband who said that I wasn't the only one who reported seeing her in a dream that night.
Some things just cannot be explained.
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cashinyourcloset
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posted on December 14, 2007 06:16:45 AM new
Not to be a wet blanket on all of this ghost stuff, but I don't understand why you think that the flip being closed means, absolutely, that the phone is not defective.
The last I heard, there wasn't anything other than a switch in the hinge, or a small projection in one inside flap that presses against a corresponding switch on the other inside flap to tell the phone that it is closed.
There's nothing to keep a closed phone from working (that's how it is commonly kept in your pocket). There's surely no code in the phone that instructs it to never operate with the flap closed. And, as most devices today with processors inside (i.e., probably not your toaster, but surely your DVR, VCR, etc.), it is never COMPLETELY turned off.
Occam's Razor, that sharp instrument of truth, tells me that I would invest in another phone rather than thinking that a dead person is visiting, or heaven forbid, this event is a premonition of an impending death.
Claude
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MAH645
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posted on December 14, 2007 09:20:01 AM new
Kinda reminds me of shortly before my mother died she called me on the phone to tell me that her bother-in-law had just called her and said he would be seeing her soon. He had been dead for over 20 years so that was impossible. She died three weeks later.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on December 14, 2007 09:42:21 AM new
Cheryl seemed to me to be saying that while she places the phone by her bed with the flip closed and the phone powered off, the flip was open when the phone spontaneously came on.
I have as much experience with faulty electronics as perhaps anyone here, but it seems to me that a flip opening of its own accord requires something or someone other than a bad connection on a circuit board.
fLufF
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cashinyourcloset
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posted on December 14, 2007 09:58:51 AM new
Cheryl never said anything about the phone being open when she is woken up, just that the phone normally requires opening up to turn on.
I looked back at the posts she made, and could see nothing that indicated the phone was actually open.
Cheryl might have "seemed to be saying" it, but she didn't come right out and say it.
So, Cheryl, is the phone open or closed after this happens?
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tomwiii
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posted on December 14, 2007 10:16:23 AM new
Ralphie Humbug guesses that it's probably just a "bit of undigested beef"...
"What me worry?" "childrens do learn"
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CBlev65252
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posted on December 14, 2007 11:26:10 AM new
Cash - It was closed and off when I went to bed and open and on when I woke up.
Last night the phone was kept downstairs in the living room nowhere near me. Except for some barking and growling by the dog (typical since I live in the city and it's never dead quiet), I got a decent night's sleep. The phone was still off this morning so nothing happened last night. There are no more electronics in the bedroom. I might borrow my son's digital camcorder one of these days. You never know! There could be a flaw in the phone, I suppose. Although, it's a new LG that's about 1 month old. There is just no way the phone flips open on it's own. It closes too tightly. Now, with my old LG it could have happened because the flip part was pretty worn and loose.
Pixia - I don't think much of Sylvia Brown either. She's supposedly a psychic, though I have my doubts about that. I don't like how she has commercialized herself and her so-called talent.
Neglus - It's interesting that you mention your dreams. I had several when my brother died. We were very close. The last one was the strangest. I woke up gasping for breath and scared the dickens out of Ken because of it. I don't know how long I stopped breathing, but it was for more than a second I'm sure of that. Ken said I was nearly blue. The feeling that David was there with me in the dream was the strongest it had ever been. That was the last time I saw him.
Cheryl
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cashinyourcloset
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posted on December 14, 2007 12:05:42 PM new
Okay, then, I guess the next swipe of Occam's Razor brings us to a sleep "disturbance."
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on December 14, 2007 12:44:39 PM new
Claude, I figured you were going there next, because it's what I thought of first. But it didn't make sense to me.
Sure, I've done things in the middle of the night and not remembered them in the morning. We've probably all had conversations with our bedmate and completely forgotten them by dawn. Sleep is a form of anesthesia, after all, and part of the purpose of anesthesia is to make you forget. They gave me so much Versed during my colonoscopy that I have no recollection of what happened between the time I complained of pain and the cheery "All done!" from the nurse. Twenty minutes have been chopped out of my personal tape. (A few more than Nixon's, I guess.)
But I couldn't make sense of the time frame in Cheryl's case. She wakes up, opens the phone, powers it up and goes back to sleep. Then she hears the phone power up.
Although, I've just re-read what I wrote and I realized we forgot to ask Cheryl if she's on any meds.
fLufF
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CBlev65252
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posted on December 14, 2007 01:10:35 PM new
Although, I've just re-read what I wrote and I realized we forgot to ask Cheryl if she's on any meds.
Nope. Just Tylenol PM from time to time. I'm a very light sleeper so sometimes I need the Tylenol PM to stay asleep. All Ken has to do is turn on the microwave downstairs in the kitchen and he will wake me up every time. It doesn't take much to wake me and that drives him (and me) crazy. I've never been a heavy sleeper.
Cheryl
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