Nathan Exposed » my ghostly encounter

Do you believe in ghosts?

I do. I’m a person who believes there are things in this world that cannot be explained with science. I do believe in an afterlife, although I don’t have any strong or solid opinions about exactly what happens.

One thing that is commonly reported is a feeling of coldness when a ghost is near. I had never experienced this until a few months ago. I was walking Petey down the sidewalk of our street. There is a vacant lot at the very end of the sidewalk. We usually walk from our house to that lot, then turn around and come back.

It was nighttime, and the air was hot and muggy. I was right at the vacant lot and walked through a certain spot on the sidewalk that felt ice cold. I kept walking and the air was hot again.

I thought this was odd, so I turned around and walked through again. In one spot, everything felt cold. I tried going back and forth, and it was hot on each side. But in this one spot, it was consistently cold.

I looked around for some sort of air flow, but there was nothing there to cause the coldness. It was the weirdest thing. I immediately wondered if there was a ghost there, but didn’t really know what else to do. Rodney was asleep, and I didn’t feel like waking him to have him come down and see if he felt it. So I just went home.

I recently had this conversation with my friend Rey, who used to be a ghost hunter. He thinks it sounds possible that there was a ghost there. I’ve never felt the coldness again though. I guess I’m 70% certain about it. There just isn’t a lot to go on.

I would be curious to know what the history of the land is. The neighborhood is very new, and most of the houses were just built in the last 2 years. I would like to find out what happened on the land before the neighborhood. Was the road always there? Was there an accident of some sort?

It’s worth noting that Murfreesboro, TN is considered to be very haunted. During the Battle of Stones River, over 23,000 people died there. It was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. I once wondered if they had died on the land where we live. But after doing some research, I found that the battle took place on a different side of town.

Anyway, that’s my ghostly experience. Not too amazing, but it has made me wonder about what lurks on the land.

Fri, Oct 27, 2006 @ 8:46 am | Filed in Halloween | Permalink

2 Comments

I think events can leave a “mark” on the land, too. I don’t have any cool stories, though.

Posted by DEL on Fri, Oct 27, 2006 @ 6:21 pm

I don’t believe in ghosts. My opinion on ghosts is that its the nacissism of those who are left alive after someone has died manifesting a belief that the dead person is some how obsessed with them that they would spend the rest of eternity pestering the living.

Posted by thisboyelroy on Sun, Oct 29, 2006 @ 11:17 am