Creeped out... vet or ghost hunters?

[Gwenhwyfair]

If you can get a hold of an EMF *electro magnetic field* detector, it's easy to use. Some of the higher end smart phones have apps that enable the phone to measure EMF. In older homes (or poorly built ones) the wiring is not sheilded properly. Often you will have problems with EMF this will not necessarily be related to any problems with voltage/shorts.

Some humans and more so, animals, are sensitive to EMF and it can cause the jumpy behaviour when the animal is in an area closest to the wiring.

If you've exhausted all 'normal' potential issues, perhaps you could contact a paranormal group in your area to check your house out. They usually do NOT charge for this....and should not.

Originally Posted by sagelfn

No evidence of critters. He did place a trap up there just to be sure. Also checked the voltage from outlets and breaker box. Everything was normal.

Didn't hear any tones last night. Guessing it was a neighbor's central air unit or something that I heard.

Same behavior from Sage. I wouldn't say he's acting scared anymore but was anxious and panting. He would lay down, be asleep for a few minutes then shoot back up and look around. Did that several times before I gave up and took him to his crate. He woke me up a few hours later around 6am whining in his crate. Let him out to potty then he went into my room and layed on the bed. Same behavior alseep then jumping up but he finally stayed asleep.

[GSDolch]

Originally Posted by chicagojosh

3:33 is supposed to be witching hour according to some horror movie.

lol, originally the "witching hour" was first brought up in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and it is at midnight.

Although I think its just silly, I'm a witch regardless of the time. :P

ETA: "Witching hour" can actually be used for anytime between midnight and three am, with the "devils hour" being around 3 am. But as said, there are many versions of it. I can assure anyone who is unsettled by the though, most of us witches are either in bed or working third shift....of have insomnia and spend their time a GSD board...

ETA Again: If you really think you have a ghost I can give you some tips/tricks to get it to leave (hopefully)

[kitmcd]

We used to have a shepherd mix that always slept in the dog bed in kitchen. He was one of those perfect rescue dogs that seemed to anticipate all your wants and never needed reprimanding. Anyway, one night he came to our bedroom door (never entered as he knew it was off limits), sat at the doorframe and maintained a low growl while staring into living room.

We got up inspected everything, admonished him back to his bed. He returned to doorway without the growl and proceeded to stay there all night. The next night, same thing....but this time we finally found a bat squeezed in above crown molding in living room.

Once that bat was gone, he returned to his bed and never got up at night again!

[carmspack]

Saturday night, just passed, I had finished my reading material , checked the forum very last time , just as I am doing now, shut things down and went to bed.
It was an oppressively hot and humid day and an equally uncomfortable night, light fog as temp was beginning to change.
Dogs not comfortable . Disturbed , well there are females in season so I figured there was some tension going on there.
And then sounds I hadn't heard before.
Did I mention it was the first day of the long weekend , so the young kids in the neighbouring 10 acres had a bit of a social going on (good thing - no problem - dogs know there hours which are pretty consistent with mine), and a party going on down the road . All happy , no problems . No coyotes that night .
Dogs were just not settled .
I stood outside my front door , looked to my right past the 3 car garage , to the 12 x 12 pen in which there was a dog . He is looking back at me .
Then at the garage there was this ball of light . About the size of a beach ball . The light caught in the mist looked like the light on a flash light when the batteries are getting low.
And then the light went.
So I thought it was company leaving the property across the street from us . Their house set back 300 or so feet from the road , as is ours. I thought the light was from a car leaving with the high beams on and it was just the phenomena of the way the light and the moisture in the air reflected. Went back inside. Same thing , go outside again. This time I see the light dimming. Stand there , oh look there is the light again. But this time I am rubber necking past our trees to see cars leaving. Nothing. Maybe cars leaving next door or cars from down the road turning to to north on the country road. No.
The light keeps going on and off . No particular pattern to the sequence.
I clunk around in the dark , no problem , no fear , until maybe now, thanks very much GSDolch !!! with your witching hour from 12 to 3 , because these ARE the hours that I am outside .
Anyway I got my shoes on and walked to the end of my road to see where the heck the cars were moving. House across the street --- totally dark , totally quiet.
I then remembered that they were away at the parents.
Earlier that evening I had spotted a young bullock which was laying in the field while all the other cattle, barely visible were at the far end of the field. I staid around till the animal stood up and moved only to find that it had a leg injury and only took a step or two reluctantly. I had to get the farmer , same man who had the sheep and donkeys that I talked about in the "good nerve thread" and let him know as this beast was prime victim for the coyotes. The animal needed attending. My husband had to go to one of the other farms , owned by a family member , to get word to him.
Party going steady next door and down the street.

Then as I am walking back toward the front of my house , there is the ball of light again, fade away and come on stronger . I look behind me , no car.

Sheesh . I high tail it back into the house .The next morning I told my husband about it -- and in retelling it got a chill and goose bumps. The light was always in the same place.

The only logical explanation that I would have is that there was a garbage bag ready to be put out on to the road for pick up the following day. Maybe something in there created gasses which had some phosphoresent lighting effect , would dissipate, collect enough off gasses create light and so on --- like swamp gas ---- or NOT.

Only one other time just before a violent thunderstorm , looking out one of the upstairs windows there were big balls of light flying around like something out of Harry Potter . Called the meteorologist as they are interested in the phenomenon of ball lightning . This was witnessed by a few people in the house.

and that is my story.

Carmen
Carmspack Working German Shepherd Dogs

[Wild Wolf]

This thread is very creepy and a little addicting. Keep us posted!!!

[CelticGlory]

I have one for you my great-grandmother and great-grandfather bought this house they found remains of a mother and son that had been killed in the house. Well, everything was I guess peaceful until years a later there was a house fire and five of her children got caught in it while she ran out of the house (she didn't know they were still in the house) well the house is haunted with their ghosts now. No one who buys or rents the house stays for long. The house is now sitting vacant now.
My great-grandfather's land is cursed (by the Native Americans) and many creepy things happen up there as well. We just have bad luck in our family too, but I won't get into full details but the oldest or eldest son always dies in someway early in their life. I've had two cousins pass away in different ways that's just too said to speak of.

I know a lot of war zone areas are haunted, have you ever seen those documentaries or even that Animal Planet show The Haunted?

[GSDMUM]

Has your dog always had this reaction in that room? Any specific date that it started? have you lived in your home long?
Check out your wiring, and keep checking for animals or insects.
Get an EMF detector as high EMF levels can make one experience anxiety, headaches, etc even if there is no ghost.
If you suspect a ghost, you can try boarding your dog for a night or two and if you have a friend with a dog ask them to bring their dog in your room around the time your dog usually reacts to see if it senses the same thing or looks at the same spot in the wall and the hallway.
It doesn't hurt to insist that the spirit is not welcome in your home and tell it to stop scaring your dog! I'm not kidding. No more communication other than this.
What is the history of your house?
I have had experience in this area for a good decade, but have since pursued more "normal" interests, LOL!

[AbbyK9]

For what it's worth, my first call would probably be to the exterminator - maybe you do have some critters in the wall and your pup can hear them but you cannot. With it being colder out, you may have some mice that moved in.

We are currently living in a house that is haunted (more about that below) and none of our animals - we have a dog and three cats - have ever acted like they were uncomfortable, or following something with their eyes, or anything like that.

The house we're in was originally built as a farm house in the late 1800's and has had several additions and changes over the years. It has been as it stands now since about the 50's/60's but has new siding, heating system, etc. upgrades thereafter. The previous owner was an elderly couple who once owned most of the property on the road we live on. Their son lives down the road from us, about 1/2 mile away and runs the local gun shop in town. Their grandson was able to fill in much of the house's history in for us, he's in the same rescue squad as I.

We never had a "creepy" feeling in this house, even though it's old and creaky in places. We do have a couple of things that happen ... stuff that goes missing and then turns back up, cabinet doors that open, and a toilet that sometimes flushes.

We first came in contact with the whole "missing" thing when we were getting dressed for Halloween. My husband and I are both reenactors and were just going to wear some of our vintage uniforms for Halloween instead of going out to buy (or making) costumes. It's our "easy way out" for any sort of fancy dress thing. Well, my husband freaked out because he couldn't find his WWII wool shirt anywhere - so, obviously, *I* must have put it somewhere. (Isn't it amazing how that's always the husband's reasoning - if he can't find it, the wife must have moved it?)

Anyway, he ended up wearing something else that night and over the weekend, we went looking for his shirt. We literally took everything off hangers and out of storage bins, systematically went through each room in the house and, for good measure, the garage. We did this separately - he went through once, then I went through once, so nothing would get missed. No shirt.

In December, hubby was taking some things off hangers in the same closet for a different event and there's the shirt, on top of the wool blankets that are folded on the bottom shelf off the clothes rack. There is NO WAY we could have missed it as we'd removed EVERYTHING from the closet, including the blankets, and had unfolded/refolded all of the blankets. So there it was.

My colleague says his grandpa was in the military in WWII, so it stands to reason that when stuff is going missing in our house, it's always military-related. (The last thing after the shirt were my earplugs for shooting.) He also said that his grandpa was a huge neat-freak, so I've noticed if I haven't cleaned in a day or two, the kitchen cabinet under the sink is open - the one the cleaning supplies are in. XD And sometimes he flushes the toilet.

At any rate, we've never felt uncomfortable in this house and the animals don't "alert" to anything weird or act out of the ordinary. So long as he doesn't take my wallet or my phone, I'm not really bothered about items going "missing", either, as they always turn back up.

[jetscarbie]

Great thread.

My FIL's house is haunted. It was so bad there, we nicknamed the ghost Wilburt. Doors would open, close, slam, creak all the time. You would hear whispering. Sometimes you could hear laughter.


My female dog is not really that affectionate to anybody. It was very weird when she started loving all over my husband. She would sniff him like crazy....over and over again. It was so bad, we thought about taking her to the vet b/c she may have some type of OCD developing. She was smothering him with love. It went on constantly for about a week. Then she started whining a lot. That Saturday, my husband was feeling very crappy. He thought he had the flu. All of a sudden, his eyesight got blurry and he couldn't see. He freaked. We rushed him to the eye doctor who eventually talked him in to going to the hospital. That's how we found out he had diabetes. His levels where in the high 500's.

I really do believe she could tell. I know for some strange reason since then......her and my husband has a special bond now.

oh...and about dog's staring at the wall at the same time every night. Our dog's do that sometimes also. We set up a deer camera outside the wall. We had a family of very fat raccoons that ran across the yard every night at the same time. We also discovered that deer move around the same time every night also. They both usually follow an exact path and an exact time.