non believer - now a believer

scarymoon1

I was always very skeptical about ghosts etc but not anymore. There has been strange things happening in a friends house that is being rented. There is supposedly a baby buired in the garden from years ago. But anyway the friend has always heard strange noise and the other night he found a teddy after being hanged around the shower cord. None of them did it - they swore on family members lives etc. They took the teddy down and the next day it was back sitting in the shower base. He didnt stay there that night! Someone get a priest in - I duno. Has anyone ever heard of anything like this happening before?

Major Lovechild

Someone is acting the maggot!

kylith

Major Lovechild wrote: »

Someone is acting the maggot!

+1. Sounds like someone heard about the supposed grave in the garden and is having a laugh trying to freak other people out. Just because someone says they didn't tie a teddy to the shower cord doesn't mean that they didn't do it.

scarymoon1

kylith wrote: »

+1. Sounds like someone heard about the supposed grave in the garden and is having a laugh trying to freak other people out. Just because someone says they didn't tie a teddy to the shower cord doesn't mean that they didn't do it.

Well I know if someone says they didnt do it doesnt mean they didnt do it! But to repeatedly swear on family members lives and their own children that they didnt do it make me belive them. And to tell other people ablut the story in the bar is taking things a bit too far if they are 'only having a laugh'.

Major Lovechild

Some people will swear on anything. You're being had!

Dave!

Agreed with the above. Man it didn't take much to convert you into a believer!

scarymoon1

I think its preyty horrible how the world has gone when someone swears on their own childrens lives and yet people still dont believe them.

MrStuffins

scarymoon1 wrote: »

I think its preyty horrible how the world has gone when someone swears on their own childrens lives and yet people still dont believe them.

Well if someone with a history of children buried in their back garden started sweariong on their babies lives, i don't think i would be so quick to believe everything they swear on!

Dave!

scarymoon1 wrote: »

I think its preyty horrible how the world has gone when someone swears on their own childrens lives and yet people still dont believe them.

I think it's pretty irritating how the world is so superstitious as to think that whether or not someone 'swears on a life' actually makes a difference to that life...

scarymoon1

MrStuffins wrote: »

Well if someone with a history of children buried in their back garden started sweariong on their babies lives, i don't think i would be so quick to believe everything they swear on!

Why are you even commenting in this forum if you are so quick to dismiss my post!

Roro4Brit

This is bull****. Seriously - do you REALLY believe that the spirit of a dead baby took a physical object and moved it in to the bathroom and proceeded to tie it to the shower cord?

I'm open minded but you need to get a grip OP.

scarymoon1

Why the F**K are all these people commenting in a paranormal forum when they only believe what they think is possible. Thats total Bull.

MrStuffins

scarymoon1 wrote: »

Why the F**K are all these people commenting in a paranormal forum when they only believe what they think is possible. Thats total Bull.

Well, this is a discussion forum. We are discussing your original post.

I swear on my son's life!

Genghiz Cohen

Oh, we're sorry OP,

Yeah that's really spooky, the only reasonable explanation is that the legend of the buried baby is true, and that baby's ghost is haunting the house you are in and that the ghost had a few quid to spare and was bored so went down to the shops to buy a teddy bear and hung it off the shower lead, which I'm sure is how the baby died, (you know how clumsy babies are when having showers) to scare you for no decipherable reason whatsoever.

Logically speaking.

Is that better OP?

MrStuffins

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

Oh, we're sorry OP,

Yeah that's really spooky, the only reasonable explanation is that the legend of the buried baby is true, and that baby's ghost is haunting the house you are in and that the ghost had a few quid to spare and was bored so went down to the shops to buy a teddy bear and hung it off the shower lead, which I'm sure is how the baby died, (you know how clumsy babies are when having showers) to scare you for no decipherable reason whatsoever.

Logically speaking.

Is that better OP?

As spooky as this sounds, i think i'd be much more scared if a living baby was able to do all the things you mentioned in your post.

desertcircus

Which do you think is more likely:

1. All known natural laws are violated for the purpose of tying a teddy bear to something, instead of communicating, appearing, or anything that would be difficult to fake.
2. Someone told a porky.

Seriously, come on. If you really find it harder to believe that someone would lie to you than that poltergeists exist but appear only when there are no witnesses, you need to spend more time considering the probabilities.

Subtle Troll

scarymoon1 wrote: »

Well I know if someone says they didnt do it doesnt mean they didnt do it! But to repeatedly swear on family members lives and their own children that they didnt do it make me belive them. And to tell other people ablut the story in the bar is taking things a bit too far if they are 'only having a laugh'.

I'd swear on my families life, because I don't believe in magic mumbo jumbo, I know they will be fine.

I swear on my Fathers eternal soul that I have the only working prototype real optimus prime robot.

MrStuffins

Subtle Troll wrote: »

I'd swear on my families life, because I don't believe in magic mumbo jumbo, I know they will be fine.

I swear on my Fathers eternal soul that I have the only working prototype real optimus prime robot.

Er..... i believe mine is the only one, so i KNOW you're lying!

charlemont

scarymoon1 wrote: »

Why the F**K are all these people commenting in a paranormal forum when they only believe what they think is possible. Thats total Bull.

bet they vote fianna fail too.....ireland is full of clowns like these anyway , dont pay any attention to these people...

Major Lovechild

the renters of the house are obviously not students as students don't go near showers.

maccored

scarymoon1 wrote: »

Why the F**K are all these people commenting in a paranormal forum when they only believe what they think is possible. Thats total Bull.

ah now - just because its a paranormal forum, doesnt mean you have to leave common sense at the door.

Lets get this straight - someone finds a teddy bear hanging in the shower, everyone swears they didnt do it and therefore that means the place is haunted? Really, say that out loud a few times and think about it again.

Enter Username

Jeezuz H... can everyone relax with the heavy replies to the OP... I'm sure he/she has read all the replies and most probably has changed their opinion about the whole thing.

Oryx

Either post a sensible, polite reply to the op, or dont post at all.

Milly33

scarymoon1 wrote: »

Why the F**K are all these people commenting in a paranormal forum when they only believe what they think is possible. Thats total Bull.

Because they are of course correct :eek: Not really. Sorry for people getting so, well not coming across as too friendly or helpfull some just get to wound up about this stuff..

Im sure what they ment to say is why dont your friends try and get some proof perhaps. Even for their own sakes to stop the uhh I wonder if one of us is not telling the truth and setting this whole thing up. Get one of them who is trustworthy and rig up a camera to see if it spots anything...I would not be too worried if nothing shows up, probably is someone just playing a nasty prank. With the whole babys body being buried there are a lot of places like this...

MrMojoRisin

Milly33 wrote: »

[...] Im sure what they meant to say is why dont your friends try and get some proof perhaps. Even for their own sakes to stop the uhh I wonder if one of us is not telling the truth and setting this whole thing up. Get one of them who is trustworthy and rig up a camera to see if it spots anything...I would not be too worried if nothing shows up, probably is someone just playing a nasty prank. With the whole babys body being buried there are a lot of places like this...

Agreed. Let all of you arrange to put a camcorder in one of the house's rooms for, say, three consecutive nights, along with an audio recorder (e.g. a dictaphone) and draw your conclusions from what does or does not show up on both devices.

A poster above mentioned the redundancy of this whole "I swear on my father's/mother's/family's souls/lives", etc, statement nowadays. That "I swear on..." thing means nothing. They're only empty words, and it's futile to swear on other people's lives or souls to 'corroborate' a story anyway because swearing on something or someone doesn't have any impact on anything. It's b.s.

MrMojoRisin

scarymoon1 wrote: »

I was always very skeptical about ghosts etc but not anymore. There is strange things happening in a friend's house that's being rented.

I'm surprised that you have been 'converted' from being a non-believer to a believer simply as a result of a second-hand story, and not as a result of personal first-hand experience. I'm not being smart, and I'm not disparaging you either, but it just surprises me. I fall into the 'believers' camp, but that was only after seeing some things (a spirit of a relative and another 'thing' I can't quite categorise) and after having a strange experience that I couldn't explain when I was 16. That's where I'm coming from, and most other 'believers' I know have come via a similar 'route'.

scarymoon1 wrote: »

There is supposedly a baby buried in the garden from years ago.

Is this a baby connected to the current family occupying the house, or supposedly a baby having been connected to previous occupants of the house?

Milly33

Thank you MrMojoRisin I hope this poor chap/lassie hasnt been to put off by the rest of the members replies..See you can say things nicely:)

Cunning Stunt

How can there "supposedly" be a baby buried in the garden?! Surely someone would have reported that to the guards by now instead of sitting round talking about it...

MrStuffins

Cunning Stunt wrote: »

How can there "supposedly" be a baby buried in the garden?! Surely someone would have reported that to the guards by now instead of sitting round talking about it...

They dug the garden up but didnt find it.

it was too busy in the jacks hanging up a teddy from a noose!

leddpipe

any sign of the OP?

Max Hunter

How would a baby know how to hang a teddy? Dead or alive!

dvpower

leddpipe wrote: »

any sign of the OP?

You won't be hearing from him again.

MrMojoRisin

MrMojoRisin wrote: »

[...]Is this a baby connected to the current family occupying the house, or supposedly a baby having been connected to previous occupants of the house?

Cunning Stunt wrote: »

How can there "supposedly" be a baby buried in the garden?!

Can you READ?

Cunning Stunt wrote: »

[...]
Surely someone would have reported that to the guards by now instead of sitting round talking about it...

Well, there was the horrific case of that poor woman Cynthia Owen in Dundalk, whose stillborn baby had been buried in the family's back garden for years and all of the family had knowledge of this but did nothing.

Sometimes the authorities are aware of insidious goings-on, but neglect to take action (see Baby P case). Round and round it goes...

scarymoon1

Im not sure why people find my story so unbelievable. Is everyone here Athiests? Is the 'story' of Jesus much more different to mine?? But that topic could go on forever!

Max Hunter

Because it's daft! A hanging teddy!:eek:

maccored

scarymoon1 wrote: »

Im not sure why people find my story so unbelievable. Is everyone here Athiests? Is the 'story' of Jesus much more different to mine?? But that topic could go on forever!

I am now certain the OP was taking the p1ss. this thread is three pages too long

scarymoon1

I wasn't taking the p1ss. A hanging teddy is no more daft than the other stories here!!! But yeah 3 pages is too long - Thanks all for commenting

maccored

So you are serious? Honestly, as I said before, lets think about this.

Which is more logical - A) someone hanging a teddy in the bathroom to frighten people, or the ghost of a baby from the back garden?

personally, I'd go for A unless I had a bit more information to say B was a runner.

scarymoon1

maccored wrote: »

So you are serious? Honestly, as I said before, lets think about this.

Which is more logical - A) someone hanging a teddy in the bathroom to frighten people, or the ghost of a baby from the back garden?

personally, I'd go for A unless I had a bit more information to say B was a runner.

well i feel its not impossible for it to happen.

scarymoon1

maccored wrote: »

So you are serious? Honestly, as I said before, lets think about this.

Which is more logical - A) someone hanging a teddy in the bathroom to frighten people, or the ghost of a baby from the back garden?

personally, I'd go for A unless I had a bit more information to say B was a runner.

well i feel its not impossible for it to happen.

Major Lovechild

It's probably that Spanish lodger that you complain about. You know - the one with poor hygiene standards.

maccored

and how do you back that up? Is there anything to say it *is* possible? (in this instance)?

Everyone has the right to believe what they wish, mind you, but most people usually like to have honest to goodness reasons - especially when it logically looks like someone is winding you up.

Ash.J.Williams

I once hung my sisters teddy bear and left a note, obviously this the same situation.

scarymoon1

maccored wrote: »

and how do you back that up? Is there anything to say it *is* possible? (in this instance)?

Everyone has the right to believe what they wish, mind you, but most people usually like to have honest to goodness reasons - especially when it logically looks like someone is winding you up.

Everything that happens in the world does not need to have a logical explanation.

maccored

OK. Im taking it you just want to believe it was a ghost. Fair enough.

Major Lovechild

scarymoon1 wrote: »

Everything that happens in the world does not need to have a logical explanation.

How do you know?

scarymoon1

Major Lovechild wrote: »

How do you know?

oh go ask a priest or something.

Max Hunter

Maybe it was just a cry for help from the teddy???

Are you cuddling something new? :rolleyes:

MrStuffins

scarymoon1 wrote: »

Im not sure why people find my story so unbelievable. Is everyone here Athiests? Is the 'story' of Jesus much more different to mine?? But that topic could go on forever!

Hahaha, brilliant!

Game Set and Match everyone.

maccored

the zombie teddy bear - in a bible near you

Major Lovechild

scarymoon1 wrote: »

oh go ask a priest or something.

Why? Will he have all the answers? If that is the case then do you not feel that you should be talking to one yourself? Why bother with us?