This is a place we've visited before. Peggy and I have this thing about keeping in touch with friendly places and this one is friendly. We were shocked to find this house totally taken over by trees and shrubs (what a year for growing in Iowa!) and we literally had to fight our way through it and almost crawl through parts of it. The strange vegetation had sprung up so strong it was blocking the doors. The house has suffered a fire though and part of the front is gone. You can't walk through there, it's a long drop on blackened floor boards to the basement, but, Peggy stuck her camera in and got these shots. *
When we been there before, I felt a presence and got a good orb in the bathroom, but, I didn't post it. I mean, big whoop, an orb, right? But these are different. Not only are they blatant, but, I heard a voice with them. It was a female voice and she said "Sigh, you girls." Like she recognized us and was amused. I was standing behind Peg and to her right and I looked at her and she wasn't talking. I told her I heard a woman and she asked if they were telling us to get out and I said no, she remembers us and she's friendly. Something started to materialize there and Peggy got some odd shots. She liked that funky burn pattern and was aiming at it just as I heard the voice. There ya go. I think it's not just an orb, but, a spirit friend posing and humoring us. I told Peg I didn't think she (the ghost) was alone and then she found this other photo taken about the same time.
When we been there before, I felt a presence and got a good orb in the bathroom, but, I didn't post it. I mean, big whoop, an orb, right? But these are different. Not only are they blatant, but, I heard a voice with them. It was a female voice and she said "Sigh, you girls." Like she recognized us and was amused. I was standing behind Peg and to her right and I looked at her and she wasn't talking. I told her I heard a woman and she asked if they were telling us to get out and I said no, she remembers us and she's friendly. Something started to materialize there and Peggy got some odd shots. She liked that funky burn pattern and was aiming at it just as I heard the voice. There ya go. I think it's not just an orb, but, a spirit friend posing and humoring us. I told Peg I didn't think she (the ghost) was alone and then she found this other photo taken about the same time.
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So basically, I believe these are some of our spirit friends, they always seem to make themselves known and are never threatening. We found odd birds in that mess of trees, nesting, and they screamed at us. At one point during this orb and voice encounter the birds began to repeat my sons name. Eric. Plainly and loudly. Peggy recorded it..so I know we didn't imagine it. They only did it at that time and not again. I have no idea what to make of that. MY camera punked out, something sucked the batteries and now it won't work at all. Which pisses me off, but, that's a ghost hunting hazard. Peg and I were talking and we think we get better results from spirit hunting because of our combined energy. She's very mellow and thoughtful and is always guided to places not on a map and me..I am, well you know. Anyway, it always works for us.
So basically, I believe these are some of our spirit friends, they always seem to make themselves known and are never threatening. We found odd birds in that mess of trees, nesting, and they screamed at us. At one point during this orb and voice encounter the birds began to repeat my sons name. Eric. Plainly and loudly. Peggy recorded it..so I know we didn't imagine it. They only did it at that time and not again. I have no idea what to make of that. MY camera punked out, something sucked the batteries and now it won't work at all. Which pisses me off, but, that's a ghost hunting hazard. Peg and I were talking and we think we get better results from spirit hunting because of our combined energy. She's very mellow and thoughtful and is always guided to places not on a map and me..I am, well you know. Anyway, it always works for us.
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I was going to ask the lady ghost her name, but, those birds freaked me out. I wonder if that was some kind of ghost joke? Oh, and I loaded those pretty big so you can click them and inspect them. I'd like to hear anyone explain that huge one as dust. Pffft. The trees were growing so thick there was no dust stirred up and we didn't walk in there. It was a still day. No breeze.
I was going to ask the lady ghost her name, but, those birds freaked me out. I wonder if that was some kind of ghost joke? Oh, and I loaded those pretty big so you can click them and inspect them. I'd like to hear anyone explain that huge one as dust. Pffft. The trees were growing so thick there was no dust stirred up and we didn't walk in there. It was a still day. No breeze.
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that burn pattern looks like a group of people to me...
The burn pattern is so perfect it looks fake. But it's not, of course. Thats the weirdest thing. I love Donald Sutherlands character in "Backdraft". He's a psycho arsonist. He talks about fire as if it is a personality, and beauty, like it can think & take revenge. It can hate you or you can love it. It's an amazing portrayal. This reminded me of his words.
I like the giant orb in front of the burn pattern. It's like fine art.
Pat,
I saw a bunch of orbs in both pics. The burn pattern with the orb imposed on it does look like a really well done abstract. How cool yet spooky. That whole first shot would make an interesting painting.
My sis and I took a ride to see the abandoned house a few miles from me and it is abandoned, no more. It is under full throttle construction. Heavy equiptment, stacks of lumber and a huge temporary fence to keep looky-loos like me out. Bummer.
I'll have to content myself with your pics. My sis said we should spend the night in a cemetary. I LOVE cemetaries and would have no qualms doing a camp out but I just don't think many spirits hang out there. I've walked through many of them at night and never saw anything.
In our local corpse farm there is a giant oak tree that must be over 100 years old. It's trunk is about 5' across and it's all gnarly and weird looking and I love to go stand by it and touch it because it makes my hamds tingly. Maybe we should camp out under this tree.
Trees have thier own energy. If that tree calls to you, do it. Garve yards are the last place to find ghosts. No one dead actully hangs out there. Usually. At least in my experience, but, I do love them too.
I have a great urge to paint that really big, but, it's not my composition, it belongs to Peggy. And she's an artist too.
we have a great old cemetary in akron, glenwood cemetery and everything i go there to take pix of old tombstones (they do have 'new burials but it's over half OLD) i swear i hear the hooves of the horses with a horse drawn hearse....
sometimes when i am there i feel peoples....i think they are glad to have visitors sometimes...
Tia..Which reinforces my theory that the only ghosts who hang out in cemetaries are the ghosts of those who worked there in life. The grave diggers, groundskeepers and hearse drivers..these places were a huge part of their life and it makes sense to me that THEY would still be there sometimes, doing the same things they did in life.
Pat,
It would be so cool if you and peggy both did your own interpretations of the pic and then photgraphed the works and combined them on the computer. Maybe there would be a message or something interesting to see.
That one begs for oil and canvas. To me.
I love to do it in charcoal, on grey textured paper and then buff out all the pencil strokes and smudge in the details. Nothing sharp or crisp in lines, everything fuzzed and ethereal looking. Then put it in an ancient frame, metal maybe with a natural patina.
That'd be nice. I hate charcoal though. It feels bad on my fingers. Weird.
I love the charcoal idea. But when I looked at that first photo, for some reason I thought it was already painted.
Yeah that big circle is a giant dust particle. Not.
I work mostly in watercolors and oils, but when I do charc's I mix pastel chalks with it to soften and sometimes cloud the effects.
I'd sure like to see some of your work. I sensed that part of you before you ever told me. Artists have a vibe, even on the net.
Speaking of art, i was so much more interesting in the neat scrollwork of the window... lol. I guess that's the analytical aspect of me, not much for soft lines and interpretation. :)
I like that too, but, it's really an old 70's style coat rack. The house is full of little junk.
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