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Post by casper on Oct 1, 2011 11:34:21 GMT -6
Casper's Friendly GhostsHi everybody! Today is the first day of October and October is the most special time of the year...because this is when all of the ghosts come out! ;D It's only 30 days until Halloween and I can't wait!! Since everybody else is doing a thread about their experiences I thought I would start one too. I am going to call it Casper's Friendly Ghosts and I will talk about all of the ghostly experiences that I have. I haven't had very many but I will someday. (I hope) I just got finished looking at the historical marker at the place where Captain Mantell crashed his plane while chasing the UFO. Me and Skywalker walked down there too it. Actually we ran down to it and I almost died trying to keep up with him. He said it was only a half mile but it felt like ten miles to me. He is helping me write this story right now. Maybe next he will teach me how to use the spell check so I don't always misspell words. ;D I am going to take time off from work on Halloween so I can go do some ghost hunting. I hope I will see some ghosts so I can write about them here. I am keeping my fingers crossed.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2011 14:26:13 GMT -6
Hi Casper!
Please tell us what you thought of the marker. Some of this stuff is new to me. I have read quite a few books on UFO phenomenon and ghosts, but it is very different now to be able to just google a name and hope the internet tells me all I want to know.
Looking forward to hearing about your ghostly experiences!
jcurio
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Post by auntym on Oct 1, 2011 14:57:44 GMT -6
i can't wait either casper..... it sounds very exciting....and this is the perfect month to start your thread....
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Post by casper on Oct 3, 2011 16:00:17 GMT -6
Thanks Jcurio and auntym. I can't wait to get started on this also. I have to go back to work right now though. My company is working me to death.
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Post by casper on Oct 3, 2011 16:01:33 GMT -6
If they work me to death than I will come back as a ghost so I can write about myself. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2011 17:54:20 GMT -6
If they work me to death than I will come back as a ghost so I can write about myself. ;D ;D ~hugz casper~ Looking forward to your future posts.
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Post by casper on Oct 9, 2011 20:02:13 GMT -6
Hi Casper! Please tell us what you thought of the marker. Some of this stuff is new to me. I have read quite a few books on UFO phenomenon and ghosts, but it is very different now to be able to just google a name and hope the internet tells me all I want to know. Looking forward to hearing about your ghostly experiences! jcurio Hi, JCurio. I don't know what I thought about the marker. It was just a sign in front of a tourist information center that looked like a log cabin.Skywalker said that wasn't where the plane crashed but they just put the sign there because the information center was there. Did he put the pictures on here somewhere? I can't find them anywhere.
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Post by casper on Oct 9, 2011 22:00:48 GMT -6
My First GhostI want to tell everybody about the first time I ever saw a ghost. It happened when I was just a little boy and I saw him almost every day. The ghosts name was Casper. When I was little I loved that cartoon more than anything. I used to dress up like a ghost on Halloween every year. At first I would just wear a sheet with holes cut in it for the eyes. Later on I got a Casper mask that i could wear so I really looked like the friendly ghost. I even wore it when it wasn't Halloween so I could pretend to be Casper all the time. That's why people started calling me Casper. I bet you didn't know my real name was Robert. ;D Everybody knew that I loved ghosts and they would always tell me ghost stories. My grandpa had the best ones. He would tell me stories about ghosts that he had seen and other famous ghost stories that he had heard about when he was growing up, like the ghost of Black ridge and Old Charlie Creeper and the Devils swamp. I loved every one of them and I always hoped that one day i would get to see a ghost of my own. Then one night it finally happened. I was about 8 years old. I was laying in bed looking up at the ceiling when the wall up above me started to move! I saw a man stick his head out of the wall and looked down at me. It was a ghost! I got really scared and I ran into my parents room screaming that Casper was coming through the wall and was going to get me!!! I don't think my parents believed me. My mom just said that she thought Casper was a friendly ghost so why was I afraid of him? I thought about what she said and realized she was right. The ghost probably just wanted to play with me. He was probably just looking for a friend just like in the cartoons and I ran away from him just like the people in the cartoons always did. I went back to my room to look for the ghost but i could never find him. i guess he was sad because I ran away. After that I promised that I would never run away from a ghost again and I have been looking for them ever since. Some day i hope I will find one.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2011 22:57:48 GMT -6
That's a sweet story Casper.
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Post by skywalker on Oct 10, 2011 7:43:19 GMT -6
Hi, JCurio. I don't know what I thought about the marker. It was just a sign in front of a tourist information center that looked like a log cabin.Skywalker said that wasn't where the plane crashed but they just put the sign there because the information center was there. Did he put the pictures on here somewhere? I can't find them anywhere. Sorry dude. I forgot to put the pictures on. I've been kind of busy lately. I'll get them on today for sure.
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Post by auntym on Oct 10, 2011 12:08:32 GMT -6
i love your story casper.... LOL i've seen 2 ghosts.... at 2 seperate times.... one was an indian, and the other was an old man.... i didn't feel any fear.... i just looked at them and rolled over and went back to sleep.... i've had ghostley things happen to me, like a magnet jumping off my refrigerator and bouncing... .... this incident really shocked me because this magnet was strong.... feeling a presence, goosebumps when i wasn't cold.... stuff like that.... i always thought my house was haunted until i realized aliens were in my life... now i believe the only ones haunting my house are loved ones who have passed..... and they are just letting me know they're still around.... if a name pops into my head while any of the above happens...i just acknowledge them, enjoy the visit for the moment and let them know i miss them.... they all come back from time to time....
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Post by casper on Oct 20, 2011 18:29:49 GMT -6
WoW auntym! Really? What did the two ghosts do? did they just stand there looking at you. i can't believe you went back to sleep after seeing a ghost. i would have been wide awake all night!
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Post by casper on Oct 20, 2011 18:33:55 GMT -6
I'm writing a ghost story to put on here but I have to wait for skywalker to come back on. he is helping me write cuz i'm not a very good writer. He said he is going to find a picture to post with it also. It's a spoooky story! My favorite kind.. ;D
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Post by casper on Oct 20, 2011 20:15:18 GMT -6
Charlie Creeper and the Swamp GhostToday I want to tell the story about Old Charlie Creeper. This is one of the stories my grandpa used to tell me when I was a boy. He said that he saw the ghost himself when he was about 20 years old. I believe him too. Way back in the 1920s there was an old man who lived on the banks of Boggy creek, which is down in Louisiana near the Atchafalya Swamp. (I think I spelled that right ) The old man's name was Charlie Creeper and he was a really mean guy. When Charlie was a young man he was a gambler and a bank robber. He supposedly also killed a bunch of people. People said he left a trail of dead bodies all up and down the Mississippi River. The police were always chasing after Charlie but nobody could ever catch him. Every time they got close he would head into the swamps down in Louisiana and disappear. Charlie knew those swamps better than anybody because he grew up there in the bayou. One day after a big bank robbery Charlie and his two partners were dividing up the loot when the partners suddenly decided they wanted it all for themselves. They tried to kill Charlie but he was so mean and ornery that he killed them instead. He was pretty badly wounded tho and lost some of the fingers on one of his hands. He took all the gold and managed to crawl back into the swamps just as the law men started showing up. The story said that the posse went in to the swamps looking for Charlie but none of them ever came back out alive! Since then many other people have gone in looking for the old man and a lot of them have disappeared without a trace. Some people say that Charlie killed them. Some say they got ate up by the alligators. Some even say they got ate up by Charlie!! The story goes that Charlie lived to be a really old man and he lived in an old run down shack back in the swamps. He still had all of that gold with him because he never went out of the swamp to spend it. He just kept it hidden in his old shack. Then one day a couple of young men found out where Charlie lived. They followed him back to his old house and they attacked him! Charlie tried to fight them off but he was too old and couldn't do anything and the young men beat him up pretty bad. They then tied his hands together and then hung him from a tree with his legs in the water and then sat there and waited for the gators to come calling. It wasn't long before a big old alligator came creeping along and ate Charlie up! But Charlie was such a mean old man that the gator choked on him and died. After that the two men took all of the gold and ran. They were trying to find there way out of the swamp when it got real foggy...the men got lost in the swamp and kept wandering around until it got dark. Then they decided to make a camp. They couldn't build a fire because everything was too wet so they just sat there in the darkness. That night there was a full moon that made the swamp look really spooky. The men were so scared they couldn't sleep so they just sat there staring at the darkness. Then they saw something moving...it was a white ghostly shape...coming towards them. It was getting closer!! When it got really close they could see that it was a big old white alligator...the biggest they had ever seen!! They tried to run but the gator caught them and ripped them to pieces and ate them up. All of the gold that they had fell into the water and sank to the bottom. My grandpa said that when he was Young he would sometimes see that old white gator creeping around in the swamp. Some people say it is a ghost gator...others say that Charlie and the gator merged together and became the swamp ghost, a white alligator that swims around the spot where the gold is buried and kills anybody who tries to get it. When my grandpa was about 20 years old he said he was rowing around the swamp in an old canoe when he looked down in the water and saw a big pile of gold coins scattered all over the bottom. He was about to jump into the water and get them but he saw something white swimming towards him under the water and thought it might be the swamp ghost. He waited a few minutes and the thing disappeared, so he sat there waiting to see if it would come back. Grandpa was afraid to jump in the water but all of that gold down there was too irresistible. He had to have it so finally he decided that he would just reach down and grab a handful of the coins. Slowly he reached down into the water keeping his eyes open for anything that might have been coming towards him. Closer and closer he came to the gold coins. He had to lean way over the side to try to reach them...but he finally grabbed a handful and started to pull them up. That's when something white leaped out of the water and grabbed his arm and pulled him in!! He got pulled under the water and fought like crazy because he thought it was the ghost alligator but when he opened his eyes he said that he swore that he was fighting an old man! It was Charlie Creepers ghost! My grandpa finally dropped all of the gold coins and managed to break free then jumped back into the boat. He started rowing like crazy trying to get out of that swamp and he said he never went back there again. I used to live in Louisiana for a few years when I was little and sometimes my grandpa would take me fishing in the bayou close to the swamp where Charlie used to live. He would never go too far back into the swamp though. One time when we were fishing I got my lure snagged on a stump under the water. I was about to reach in to get it when my grandpa told me not to. He said to just cut the line and put a new lure on because he didn't want me to get ate up by a gator. I thought he was just being silly and I was about to reach in the water anyway when out of the corner of my eye I saw something white swimming towards the boat. I told my grandpa what I saw and he quickly started up the motor and we took off as fast as that boat could go! ;D My fishing pole was still snagged on the stump and when we took off the pole flew out of the boat and fell in the water. ;D ;D Grandpa wasn't about to go back and get it. He just bought me a new pole when we got home.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2011 20:41:01 GMT -6
LOL Casper... that's a great story!
I was on the edge of my seat the whole time I was reading it!
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Post by auntym on Oct 20, 2011 20:49:56 GMT -6
great story casper.... ;D .... i loved it...
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Post by casper on Oct 21, 2011 9:02:16 GMT -6
This song kind of reminds me of the story of Charlie Creeper.
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Post by skywalker on Oct 21, 2011 16:09:24 GMT -6
Believe it or not there really is such a thing as a white alligator. They are nicknamed "swamp ghosts" because that's what they look like when they are sneaking around in the swamps...especially at night. There are two different varieties of them:the albino, which is white because it lacks any pigmentation in its skin, and the actual white alligator which is just white because that's what color they are. The white ones normally have blue eyes while the albinos are kind of pinkish colored. They are both extremely rare. Here is a photo of a white alligator...notice the blue eyes. White gators actually have white pigment in their skin. The picture I posted at the bottom of Casper's story is an albino.
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Post by casper on Oct 22, 2011 15:56:14 GMT -6
OOoooooo!! I forgot they were called swamp ghosts! That's what my grandpa called them too. I can't believe I forgot that. Thanks for finding the pictures skywalker. Maybe we should change the title to the Swamp Ghost...What do you think?
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Post by Morgan Sierra on Oct 22, 2011 20:22:09 GMT -6
I took care of it. I would love to go back in that swamp some day...especially if there is gold and ghosts! A white alligator would be cool to see too.
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Post by casper on Oct 23, 2011 16:02:02 GMT -6
I love that title. I can't believe I didn't think of it. It's excelleeeent.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2011 17:17:19 GMT -6
Cool story Casper ! Since my fiance is from Florida, I asked her if she had ever seen an albino gator and she said she saw one at Busch Gardens in Tampa several years ago. I had no idea. It would be tempting to reach down in there to grab them coins but I think Id rather keep my arm,,,he he.
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Post by skywalker on Oct 23, 2011 18:03:14 GMT -6
I saw one in a zoo once in Texas. It was a baby that had just came out of the egg. Somebody found several of them in a swamp and captured them all and took them to a zoo. They say the white gators have a very slim chance of survival in the wild because they are too easily spotted by preditors when they are young. I suppose that is what makes them rare. I once saw an albino rattlesnake too. That was pretty cool.
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Post by casper on Oct 30, 2011 20:45:06 GMT -6
Tomorrow is halloween!! ;D ;D I can't wait to go out and see some ghosts and goblins and spooks and stuff. I bet i'm going to see one too. I can feel it. I found a nice spooky haunted house and i am going to spend the night in it tomorrow so I can be there when the ghosts come out. This is going to be so cool!!! I'm not going to run away this time like I did when I was a kid.
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Post by casper on Oct 30, 2011 20:48:31 GMT -6
Cool story Casper ! Since my fiance is from Florida, I asked her if she had ever seen an albino gator and she said she saw one at Busch Gardens in Tampa several years ago. I had no idea. It would be tempting to reach down in there to grab them coins but I think Id rather keep my arm,,,he he. Thanks, touched. I would love to go look for those gold coins too. Or the ghost gator. Maybe I could find both of them then I could be rich and happy...as long as I didn't get ate up by it.
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Post by auntym on Oct 30, 2011 21:10:52 GMT -6
Tomorrow is halloween!! ;D ;D I can't wait to go out and see some ghosts and goblins and spooks and stuff. I bet i'm going to see one too. I can feel it. I found a nice spooky haunted house and i am going to spend the night in it tomorrow so I can be there when the ghosts come out. This is going to be so cool!!! I'm not going to run away this time like I did when I was a kid. ;D ... i can't wait to hear about your adventure in a haunted house tomorrow night casper..... let us know what happens.... will you be alone or with other people?
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Post by lois on Oct 30, 2011 23:03:26 GMT -6
Casper.. I been gone for a few weeks and missed this thread entirely. That was a great story.. it has been wondering how one could get to those coins ;D Something with suction like what the archaeologist use under water bringing up treasures from sunken ships.. they have a machine to blow away the sand . Maybe they have a way to suck up the bottom also.. You might just catch that old alligator with it.. ;D ;D I knew of white alligators but never seen one..
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Post by lois on Oct 30, 2011 23:12:20 GMT -6
Casper .. No one could get me in a haunted house at night alone. and I certainly would run as far away as my legs would take me if I did encounter a ghost.
You are very brave..
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2011 23:23:37 GMT -6
Have fun Casper ! Be sure to bring a camera so you can show us pics of the ghosts you see. Happy halloween everyone !
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Post by casper on Nov 1, 2011 19:15:09 GMT -6
Happy Halloween everybody! I'm back from my wonderful Halloween vacation. I had a terrific time too. First I went to visit some of my relatives and we spent the day carving jacko lanterns and decorating the house. Then we went to a Halloween party and after that I took my neice and nephew out trick or treating. They were sooo cute! My nephew dressed up as a Transformer robot and my niece was none other than...Me!! ;D (actually Casper the friendly ghost) She was so cute. She looked like a little ghost angel. I wish I had a camera so i could have taken some pictures of them. After that me and my cousin went out to the spooky old haunted house to look for some ghosts. It was an old two story farm house that belonged to some family friends. They said that we could spend the night in it as long as we didn't burn it down. We got there about 10 Oclock and snuck inside very quietly so we would not scare away the ghosts. we took our sleeping bags so we could sleep there overnight. For a while we just sat there with our flashlights and told ghost stories and ate marshmallows and halloween candy and drank a few cold beers. Then when it got close to midnight we turned the lights off and waited for the ghosts. After a while we heard some scratching sounds that were mice crawling around in the walls. Then we heard what sounded like a squirrel up on the roof. Then we heard...footsteps! It sounded like they were coming from up stairs! My cousin wanted to leave cuz he's a scaredy cat but I was hoping it was a ghost. After a while the foot steps stopped and it was quiet for a while but then we heard a loud BANG!! Now my cousin was really scared but I thought it was somebody sneaking around upstares so I went up to see who it was. there was nobody there. I looked every where but couldn't find anybody. I don't know if it was a ghost or not but it was something that made that noise. It wasn't just our imagination. It sounded like something fell over but I couldn't tell what. After that things quieted down for a little bit and we got in our sleeping bags to get ready to go to sleep. I was lying on the floor staring at the front door when I saw some big black shadowy thing coming towards me! i hoped it was a ghost and I told my cousin to look at it. He started to sit up when we heard a low growl....Grrrrrrrrrrrrr. My blood just about froze in the veins! I thought I was a goner!! Then the thing barked and my cousin just about jumped out of his skin. ;D I didn't cuz I knew it was a dog. But was it a ghost dog or a real one? I grabbed my flashlight and shone it at the dog and saw that it was just a big old coon hound. Later on we found out that it belonged to one of the neighbors and was probably just looking for some food. My cousin got mad cuz the dog scared him when it barked so he started throwing stuff at it and it ran out. then we were alone in the dark again. After a while we decided that no ghosts were going to show up so we went to sleep. i was laying there asleep when I suddenly heard a loud scream! It was like AAAAHHHHHHH!! AHHH! AAAHHH!!! My cousin was screaming bloody murder like he was getting ate alive!! AAAAHHHHH!!! I pointed my flashlight at him and all I could see was his sleeping bag thrashing around like crazy. he couldn't get out because the zipper was stuck. ;D Finally he tore the zipper apart and jumped up and ran outside screaming like a madman. AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!! AAHH!!! i went out to see what was going on and found out that a mouse had crawled in his sleeping bag while he was asleep. ;D ;D That scaredy cat ran away from a little old mouse. ;D He wouldn't go back in the spooky old house after that so he decided to sleep in the car. I didn't want to sleep inside by myself so I slept in the car too. And that was the end of my spooky old haunted house vacation. I didn't see any ghosts but it was lots of fun anyway. The good news is there is only 364 days until next Halloween.
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