ghostrecordings

[bemo]

LOL!! Oh! Comon. You quit recording, cause of that? That's funny. Man, haven't you walked into a 'haunted house' when you were a kid. I don't mean the ones you pay to go in. I mean that creepy abandoned house at the edge of town, or wherever it was in your town. The one house all your buddies told stories about, seeing people in the window and that Old Man Smith (who supposedly died in 1950) was still hangin around and taking childern.
Didn't you ever had to walk through the woods on a moonless night by yourself when you were 12?
Hell, I'd be more scared to walk into a 7Eleven at 1:00am that some weird noise coming out of my speakers.

We really were just looking for an excuse to start drinkingearly that day That actually made it to tape. I whish I could just find the recording. It was done in '87, so the tape is probably long gone. I guess I could recreate it, but it wouldn't be the same.

 

[hasbeen]

I always hear a voice telling me "BUY MORE GEAR!"

 

[mattamatta]

We've got one of those... questhaven I believe it's called. Never been there myself.

I did go with some friends to a creepy abandoned, allegedly haunted, house in a nearby less city-filled town...

Right out of a movie... long winding driveway up to the house that sites up on top of the hill, with what would have been a beautiful view in all directions.

Didn't see anything scary though... friend said the creepiest part for him was being in the bathroom, and looking in the mirror.... knowing that the guy who was murdered there used to look in that mirror every day.

It was really kind of sad to see, for me....

It was the most beautiful house, right up on top of that hill... you could see for miles. Must have been wonderful in it's prime.

But it was kinda sad to see it with the huge front door broken down, windows shattered all over, beer cans on the floor... kind of pathetic to see such a neat place in such a state of disrespect.

Didn't stop me from going in though =D

 

[geet73]

I'm from Williamsport, where is this place? I must go see it.

It's in Royersford, Pennsylvania.

It's going to be about a 3 hour drive for you. My band just bought our van from a band in Williamsport. The Nightmare Scenario, ever hear of them? They're broken up now.. but yea.

http://www.unquiettomb.com/pennhurst.html

There are a bunch of pictures of the place.

Oh! Man those are the best. You have to get a bunch of your friends (try to include some chicks if you can - however, they usually don't go for this sorta thing), and go out there at midnight (make sure there is no moon out - make's it darker).
Before you take off for the 'haunted insane asylum' make sure you guys tell scary stories for about two hours before. You want to be scared, forget Friday the 13th or Jason movies. Go and do this, and I'm telling you you'll find out who are the scary cats.
When I was 14 I was so scared (I used to hang out with a bunch of 18-22 year olds) I almost crushed some guys hand. Yeah, I was so freaking scared I wanted to hold someone else's hand, in my fear I started to squeeze this poor guys hand (don't feel too bad for him, cause they were playing a prank on me) and he had to tell me to ease up on his hand.
When one of the guys pretended to be possesed by a spirit I took off running like a little girl. They kept telling me to wait for them. Yeah! Right, I was like a block ahead of them running like a madman.
Then about a month later a large group went, and this time it was a full moon, which suprisingly didn't make it as scary 'cause you could see pretty far off. Also there were like 10 or 15 people on this trip. What scared the crap out of us, was this large crane (the bird) took off out of the woods and swooped over our heads.
In these you also find the guys that can run the fastest. I was never the fastest runner in competitions. My best buddy was much faster than, I was. Unless, I was scared. I was always at the front of the line - Adrenaline kicks in and forget it - save your self buddy. He he he. Man those were crazy times.

I've been there 10 times or so at night. Creepy as fuck. Heh. The problem with this place is that cops make rounds through there. There's also a national guard building and a veterans' hospital on the property. They have security that walks around too. One of the time I went there, it was a group of 12 of us or so.. a cop car was pulling up around the turn behind us. We all dove into the woods. Those pickers hurt. Heh. Let's just say we made it out of there in like a third of the time it took us to walk up. On the way out.. he almost got us twice. The one time we had to book into an opening in the woods to find trees to hide behind. The next time.. he came the opposite way, that tricky bastard. We were off the actual property, but still on the road leading in. We all had to bolt up a 15 foot hill that was pretty steep. We hid behind some big trees in some peoples' front yards.

I have had some successful visits though. I still haven't gone into the underground tunnels.. yes. There are tunnels. The tunnels connect almost all of the buildings together. There are a bunch of classrooms down there. Even a barber shop! Rumor has it.. they used to transport patients through the tunnels from building to building.

The place is really creepy.. but it just fascinates me. Read up on it a bit.. it's got a lot of neat history. It got closed down due to abuse to patients and really bad living conditions.

HangDawg, if you're really interested in going, PM me. I could give you some directions.

 

[johnnymegabyte]

I remember once while recording in a friends basement that was near a 50KW AM religious station My distortion pedal kept picking up the AM signal of the radio station. At the end of a seemingly perfect take of a song about group sex, the last note od the guitar died out and through the amp we all clearly heard "It's the work of the devil I tell ya', the work of the devil."

We quite recording the rest of that day and just drank.

THERE IS NO DEVIL !!!

666 The number of the beast --- is the number of MAN ( Rev 13)

seems like biblical interpreters embelish obviously plain text with superstition and mythology and confuse the heck out of it for the last 2000 years

 

[Dracon]

I always hear a voice telling me "BUY MORE GEAR!"

Well.... that's OK. Just as long at it's not the dog next door, and it doesn't start telling you to kill blonde women in N.Y.

 

[Dracon]

THERE IS NO DEVIL !!!

Well, it's all in faith I guess. Lucifer (according to non canonical works) was the Angel in Charge of praise of God. His name mean Light bringer. Anyway, supposedly his title went to his head and God banished him. The curious thing is that God (which supposedly created the angels first) made them without feelings. Hence the angels don't believe in God, they know God.

In reality the belief in Satan or the Devil was started with the scripture of JOB. The devil in JOB got associated with the snake of creation. The snake in creation has a dual purpose in Genesis. It denotes the male member and a religious sect that worshiped the snake. The snake has been worshiped by African tribes, the Mayan, and many other cultures. The belief is that an animal without legs, that lived underground and shed it's skin (or as they saw it back then died but yet lived) had to have some powerful magic or sorcery.
The whole Adam and Eve was basically the snake tempting Eve to eat of the fruit of knowlege. The apple as is depicted today (notice is red?) is the symbol of the female virginity. In the old testament whenever you read and Joseph knew Mary or whatever, it means that they consumated a marriage (had sex).
The Devil with horns as we know him today arrose during the middle ages thanks to the Roman Catholic Church, and the snake is still associated with him thanks to Genesis.

Class is over!

 

[HangDawg]

The whole Adam and Eve was basically the snake tempting Eve to eat of the fruit of knowlege. The apple as is depicted today (notice is red?) is the symbol of the female virginity.

So, it was all about a penis trying to get Eve to eat pussy?????

 

[Dracon]

So, it was all about a penis trying to get Eve to eat pussy?????

Uhmmm, no! It's too long and I really don't want to get into it. Suffice it to say that the apple (which was not always considered an apple - the apple thing is a rather recent phenomenon) is the symbol of the forbidden fruit (sex) or the fruit of knowledge. Before the forbidden fruit was the plum (as the Jews interpreted), but basically it's just a forbidden fruit. Genesis actually does not specify what the fruit is (since its suppose to obtain all the knowlege that God possesed) and since the banishment from Eden the tree of knowledge and the tree of eternal life have been guarded by Cherubs (no they don't look like the cute little angles you think they are) with flaming swords.

'nuff said. There are a million books on this issue, and it's basically all a matter of faith, what you believe or what you wish to believe. If you are jewish, mormon, catholic, presbeterian, lutheran, jehova witness, crishna, baptist, pennecostal, moslem, santeria, voodoo, or any judeo based religion then you care about this.
The people that don't care about all this are the buddhist, hindi, cao dai, noe-paganism, scientology, zoroastrianism, sikhism, african traditional & diasporic, any non judeo based religion.

 

[Chippy569]

errh, back on topic, one time i just had our band recorder on during a practice and my guitarist's wireless started picking up some really strange stuff, it had this kind of... downward pitch bend that sounded like it was on a delay effect (his amp was on clean and dry) that would gradually speed up and the pitch gradually got higher. it eventually started sounding like a tornado siren with only 1/2 of the doppler effect.

that thing also has picked up airplane signals, we heard someone going "mayday mayday" the day after that practice. we're all paranoid now... the aliens are coming.

 

[Beck]

I had a friend whose dog ran up a spoke his owners name (Kevin) into the mic.

 

[mrmeggs]

I got two.

Once i used to live in this old house in Sydney, apparently where in the early 1800's (the house wasnt built then) there was a rebellion involving the convicts in the area. We used to jam in a double garage about 20 metres from the house. Well anyway, one day when i was alone i was taking a shit and recording myself accoustically in the dunny (TOILET). I was singing away when I disinctly heard a voice, it wasnt real clear but it was definately a voice though. When i played it back it freaked me out because it was clearly someone saying something. I left there and then and went up to the pub. Itook the tape player with me and showed people the recording and noone denied it. About a week ;later my cousin came and visited me and he's a real hippy dude from queensland and before i even said anything to him he told me that he had no doubt the place was haunted. In no way do i believe in ghosts or anything but thats the only experience ive had where i cant explain it in that area.

This other time i was driving up a country road on a clear day with my girlfriend then all of the sudden the car started shaking like there was a heap of wind or something and black flashes were all around me like little dots we both experienced it weird!!!

 

[Rokket]

I lived in a house that used to be a Catholic priest's home, who was murdered in it in the late 1800's. I never saw anything, but my sister claims that one night she was shook awake and felt hands pressing her into the bed, and a deep male voice was laughing in her ear.
Another time, my brother, who had a police lock on his door (one that fits around the door knob so you can't open it), claims that one night he woke for no reason. The hall light came on, and he heard footsteps come up the stairs. Suddenly his door (which was completely closed) started to open and close by itself several times. Then the footsteps went back down the stairs and the light went back off. The door was completely closed again....

Recording: I was trying to get a guitar track laid, and it was kicking my ass. This is not unusual for me, but after the 10th take, I was listening to the playback, and right at the end, I swore I heard a voice saying "not today" or something to that effect. It wasn't my voice. I played if for my wife, and she made me throw the tape out...

 

[FALKEN]

william burroughs wrote about this in his book of essays called 'the adding machine.' he actually experimented with this in the 60s. He set up a tape recorder to record silence. when the tape was played back, faint voices were heard. He wrote down the words, and found that they followed a pattern very similar to the way that insane people speak/write. he also had done some work examining the brain patterns of the insane, and compared it to being on drugs, and found many similarities. he also found similarities to his 'cut up' method of writing, where he would cut the pages into pieces and paste them back together randomly.

 

[Bobby Darko]

yes, now it's going somewhere. Thanks guys, amazing stories! Bobby

ps. interesting experiment!

 

[Todzilla]

I just wrap some aluminum foil around my head and the voices stop.

 

[Dracon]

Well anyway, one day when i was alone i was taking a shit and recording myself accoustically in the dunny (TOILET). I was singing away when I disinctly heard a voice, it wasnt real clear but it was definately a voice though. When i played it back it freaked me out because it was clearly someone saying something. I left there and then and went up to the pub. Itook the tape player with me and showed people the recording and noone denied it.

That could have been anything! From one of your farts to some guy down in the sewer bad mouthing you for taking a crap while he's in there.

 

[Dracon]

I played if for my wife, and she made me throw the tape out...

LOL!! You guys crack me up. I can just picture your wife, freaking out when you make listen to the tape, and telling you to throw it out. LOL!!! Sorry, man... I .... I'm just weird I guess.
Didn't she ever think that maybe is one of your Guardian Angels or Spiritual Guides telling you that "Hey dude, quit while your ahead 'cause you ain't gonna get this guitar track down today."

Nope, everyone immediately assumes the Devil is talking to them, or some evil spirit. I think it's hilarious. If you believe in an after life, then it should not be a stretch to believe that perhaps some of our relatives hang around or that we may have Guardian Angels. I mean, I'm not an expert but who's to say?

 

[Dracon]

I just wrap some aluminum foil around my head and the voices stop.

Yes! And live near water, cause they are afraid of the water. Also lock your door, 'cause you know they can't come in. LOL!!!

 

[cellardweller]

Never researched the history of the house, but the house I spent many of my adolescent years in was frequently haunted.

I had three friends over one saturday, doing the usual crap 11 year old boys do. There was a babysitter there, mom was gone. We were in the attic when all of the boards began to vibrate, then shake somewhat violently. Of course we exited the attic.

We went down to the kitchen, where we made ourselves some chocolate milk and grabbed some cookies. *BANG* from the garage, which was adjacent to the kitchen... the crawlspace door had not only fallen, but flew approx 7-8 feet from the doorway. Back into the kitchen where our chocolate milk was spilled all over, our cookies were in crumbs on the floor...

We all left the house, the babysitter never returned. We all recounted the occurences of that day many times over the years....

One night I watched my covers creep from my knees to my shoulders, same house... The above are the believable stories which occurred, and were witnessed. Always strange sounds, voices, so much I've forgotten.