anyone?

bankrobber1

Hi, people
First time posting bear with me.
Does anyone ever get the heebee geebees when they go to a certain place alone? I sometimes take a trip off the beaten track (I live in Mayo)
And certain places really set my brain off, that being said other place's I
Go to, unfamiliar places don’t bother me. I have been in places regarded as haunted and felt nothing, then other supposedly normal places set me off. I not psychic at all, well as far as I can tell. Just wondering do any of you ever experience such instances that seem to "give you the creep's".

Riamfada

Quite often get the heebie jeebies, usually at night when my sensory perception is limited and I cant see as far into the dark down my side enterance . What part of Mayo are you from? The place scares me at night as its so unpopulated but I have a great love for the area and would like to know something about local folklore.

drunkmonkey

yes and you don't have to be alone....some places are evil....best avoided....

hiorta

Perhaps it's an energy that you're sensing. Imagination then fills in all the blanks.

Stoner

I get them a lot, particularly around dodgy spots in the city, like walking down upper O'Connell street on a Saturday night etc. I put it down to fear of the unknown, be that what you can't see, what might be there, or what could happen.

Black Swan

Getting caught out late at night alone, having to walk to a car in an unlit parking lot, or worse, a shadowy underground parking structure... apprehension or something else?

iamhunted

theres a theory about infrasound causing people to feel uneasy (as well as hight EMF fields doing the same):

Since the mid-1980s, British engineer Vic Tandy has made interesting discoveries at two apparently haunted locations in Coventry. In both places people felt distinctly uneasy, hair rose on the backs of necks and some sensed “presences”. Some fled and refused to return. Tandy found that parts of both buildings produced standing waves of 18.9Hz infrasound. In one building an extractor fan was responsible; in the other, a 14th century pub, it was air funneling through a long, crooked corridor.

http://blogsquatcher.blogspot.com/2008/01/feeling-around-infrasound.html

Riamfada

Ive done some work generating infrasound in my office without telling anyone and leaving it running.

iamhunted

interesting. how do you generate the frequency and anyone reported anything yet?

Riamfada

alot of people felt uncomfotable and left actually. I used a tone generator to the frequency and two very large speakers. I didnt bother documenting anything as can do it in about 10 seconds with the gear and Ill prob try it on a wider audience (50 people in a room) next time. Once no one has a brain hemorrhage im flying.

I also tried the brown noise frequency, its a myth. Shame

iamhunted

hahah - the brown noise ... mythbusters and brainiac done things on that too

Riamfada

I dont think infrasound explains outdoor phenomenon and nightly changes. In theory infrasound should be 24/7 in an a area with noise reverb. I doubt you would get this too often outdoors and at night only.

iamhunted

i think infrasound, if indeed it does affect anything, explains only limited feelings associated with the paranormal. I think it is used though in some american commercial haunted houses to give that scary feeling though Im not definte on that

bankrobber1

Well,

The places I’m talking about aren’t regarded as haunted and they are quiet desolate so the frequency thing I’m not sure about.

I have also experienced the feeling of being watched from a distance if that makes sense. I was walking along this road I know quite well and I got the feeling I was being trailed or watched but the my internal "Spidey Sense" told me it wasn’t close to whatever was following me but something was there.

Just one last thing, I have conducted little amateur ghost hunts on my own (yes very smart indeed), and only once did I feel the sense of trepidation that I did in these particular places.
The area that I’ve felt these sensory phenomena is the site of (A) Children’s Famine graveyard (B) Lots of Ring forts(C) Prehistoric Grave markings (D) The general location of tragic accident where two kids where killed by a train and the area also contains
in parts small three to four foot tunnels which are partly caved in, which no one has any idea what purpose they served but get this no one has ever seen anything (I haven’t either).

I don’t always feel this at these sites just sometimes that’s my reason for my first post, if these places had some activity would I not feel these emotions allot more while in these areas which I walk through allot? Sorry to ramble.

Riamfada

bankrobber1 wrote: »

in parts small three to four foot tunnels which are partly caved in

Probably early medieval souterrains (500-1100AD). Underground storage for food and possible places of refuge is my guess. Mayo retains alot of its archaeological heritage due to the lack of agricultural activity you would see on the east ghost. Its a very spiritual and ancient place displaying the earliest organised field system in Europe beside tombs and ritual spaces. I know well educated people who believe in hauntings around the coast. A wonderful place for an huntigation.

Pigs!

bankrobber1

Well,
I had a thought about these early sites, I was told when i was younger about most of the fairy fort or ring forts being connected.
Could lay lines be running through this area and have an effect on me? I've heard that where lay lines occur, the paranormal never seems to far away. How can i find out about the lay lines running through my area?
Is there any resource to find out?

Riamfada

i wouldnt class ringforts and lay lines in any sort of relation to eachother. I know fairy rings in the area are actually the remains of bronze age round houses

littlebug

Bankrobber can I ask where the Children's Famine Graveyard is?

Grimes: that's the most appropriate typo I've seen on this forum See if you can spot it.

Kelly O'Malley

Listen to your instincts.If a place feels bad it is bad for you.
A Famine Graveyard for instance is likely to have some pretty confused and unhappy vibrations around it.
You wouldn't necessarily feel uneasy every time you went to a particular place.Sometimes whatever is causing the feeling may be 'on a lunchbreak' or your radar may be in 'power saving mode'
Remember-paranoia can be a lifesaver!

blue42

i dont think fairy forts are the remains of bronze age houses

Riamfada

perhaps were thinking of different things

blue42

well i heard too that they are all supposed to be connected in some way...but i take your point,that it would not lay lines as such.

Riamfada

Wiki says

Fairy forts (also known as raths from the Irish referring to an earthen mound) are the remains of lios (ringforts), hillforts or other circular dwellings in Ireland. From (possibly) late Iron Age to early Christian times, the island's occupants built circular structures with earth banks or ditches. These were sometimes topped with wooden palisades, and wooden framed buildings. As the dwellings were not durable, in many cases only vague circular marks remain in the landscape.Raths and lios are found in all parts of Ireland

As far as Mayo goes, local workmen in Belderrig 30 years ago didnt excavate a roundhouse at is was local legend that it was a "fairy fort" . In actual fact it was a bronze age roundhouse.

blue42

you seem to know your stuff about fairy forts........have you ever read any books by Eddie Lenihan?

Riamfada

Id love to but unfortuately I very rarely get the time to read fiction or folk tales. Ive usually my head in some archaeology text book. What I know of folklore and folk history is from asking around

stevenmu

Grimes wrote: »

I dont think infrasound explains outdoor phenomenon and nightly changes. In theory infrasound should be 24/7 in an a area with noise reverb. I doubt you would get this too often outdoors and at night only.

There's theories that infrasound can be generated by small tectonic activities, which can explain how it could happen at random times. There's also theories that it can be caused by underground water flowing which could explain it happening outdoors, and there's a theory that that is how some people seem to be sensitive to underground water and possibly how divining rods could work.

Whatever the reasons there are some places that just feel wierd. An old customer I used to have to go to every now and then is based in what used to be an old dublin house now converted into offices. Everytime I've gone there I've felt uncomfortable and just kind of wierd. The customer was very nice and everything was fine there, there was nothing apprantly wrong, and it didn't seem like there was any kind of presence or evil or anything. I just always felt wierd there. Infrasound could definitely be one explanation, another I thought of was radon gas, but I don't know how possible it could be for us to sense that.