You think you have to make it up?

Randy McCall · Unread post by **Randy McCall** » Thu May 11, 2006 7:27 pm

Every horror movie you see, people are screaming at the characters up on the screen: "Don't go in the basement/attic/spare room!"

We're all too smart to do something that dumb, right? Real people would never go into a haunted house, eh?

Guess again... here's more ammunition for GMs. And it's all real:

Buy/Sell Haunted Houses
http://www.sdparanormal.com/Buy_Sell_Haunted_House.html

How to buy a Haunted House
http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/mortga ... 21031a.asp

Mortgages: How to buy a Haunted House:
http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/mtg/19991028.asp

Here's one from the American Bar Association, useful to any group which has to get rid of a house in which a massacre took place:
A Primer on Selling Haunted Houses and other Stigmatized Property
http://www.abanet.org/rppt/publications ... perlin.htm

Buying or selling a Haunted House: when to call a lawyer
http://www.hollowhill.com/guide/buying-selling.htm

Here's a good one: "New Law Requires that sellers must inform buyers if the house is haunted". Yes, someone actually passed a law!
http://www.smthop.com/articles1details.asp?NewsNum=784

Have fun!

Beelzebozo · Unread post by **Beelzebozo** » Sat May 13, 2006 9:15 pm

It's sad that people let superstitions run away with them...why do we really need a disclosure law about "haunted" houses? You might as well have a law requiring owners disclose bad feng shui in their house, or that a witch lives in the neighborhood.

Stattick · Unread post by **Stattick** » Mon May 22, 2006 4:37 am

Atramentus wrote:It's only superstition until you walk into a room and see clothes filled like an invisible person is wearing them and kneeling beside your bed and they collapse to the floor as you catch your breath and start screaming.

heh

Yeah, I grew up with a minor and mildly malavelent poltergeist that followed me everytime that I moved until I was 16. It never tried to hurt me, but I'd get REALLY bad vibes, and it would break stuff, open or close doors, move my stuff around, and mess with my alarm clock. It usually did this stuff when I was asleep or gone, but there were a couple of time that I saw something move on its own. And there were a couple of times that I saw a ghostly light moving in the hall outside of my door. (Don't ask what it was - I was a little kid and too afraid to look.) Funny, I later found out that the house had been bought brand new by the Roman Catholic church, and had been used to house the local priest for about 15 years, until he moved, and then the next few priests complained so much about the house, (over the course of just a couple years) that the church sold it for cheap and bought a different house in the same area. (It sucks when your alarm goes off at 1:30 in morning for no reason, and then you get in trouble with your parents for waking them up.)

And I had a haunted apartment too, but that was just weird, not scary - although I did freak a bit when an invisible "person" jumped into bed with me one night.

I later found out that my apartment building had originally been a hospice back in the 40's and 50's.

Beelzebozo · Unread post by **Beelzebozo** » Mon May 22, 2006 4:03 pm

Heh. Amazing how the imagination plays tricks on you in an old house, isn't it?

I'll believe in ghosts, demons, aliens, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, or the Unbiased CBS Journalist whenever someone presents hard evidence that such things actually exist. In an RPG? Fine, because that's what makes it fantasy - it's not reality. In real life? Believing in such things is a sign of poor logic. Sorry to burst your bubble there.

Steve Dubya · Unread post by **Steve Dubya** » Mon May 22, 2006 4:49 pm

Stattick wrote:Yeah, I grew up with a minor and mildly malavelent poltergeist that followed me everytime that I moved until I was 16.

I think this is called, "being a klutz."

Vidynn · Unread post by **Vidynn** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:06 pm

Atramentus wrote:It's only superstition until you walk into a room and see clothes filled like an invisible person is wearing them and kneeling beside your bed and they collapse to the floor as you catch your breath and start screaming.

not that that happened to you, did it? :shock:

well, if you answer that with "yes" I dont believe you!

Ridley · Unread post by **Ridley** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 9:52 pm

Beelzebozo wrote:Heh. Amazing how the imagination plays tricks on you in an old house, isn't it?

I'll believe in ghosts, demons, aliens, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, or the Unbiased CBS Journalist whenever someone presents hard evidence that such things actually exist. In an RPG? Fine, because that's what makes it fantasy - it's not reality. In real life? Believing in such things is a sign of poor logic. Sorry to burst your bubble there.

obviously you have never had an experiance with a ghost. Not to hag on you, but its true.

Soemone in my familylived with a very, well, the best ways to describe it is annoying and frightning. it would bang windows and doors in the middle of the night, it threw stuff at people, and started to choke my uncle.

dont tell someone that what they experianced is not true, or nag on them. It hurts

Stattick, I feel for you man.

Stattick · Unread post by **Stattick** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 4:21 pm

Well, it was weird, but not terrifying. I tend to be a bit more sensitive then most to the paranormal, but then again, I learned to "turn it off". So, it's usually not much of a problem. When I get some spirit that wants to mess with me, I can usually just tell 'em to go away, and they usually do. I guess in game terms, that would make me a quasi-nega!

And no, I'm not nuts. Some of my friends have been around and seen stuff move on it's own too, or heard loud bangs coming from unoccupied rooms and stuff like that. No biggie.

It is what it is, whatever the hell it is.