I was wandering thru Machpelah Cemetary here in Lexington.. see photos ... and I wanted to take them in black and white.. just because the old headstones look neat in black and white.. although they are just as neat in colour..

my camera has a setting for black and white.. so I set it. And off I went in search of neat headstones.

twice my camera flipped back to colour pictures and I had to manually change it to black and white  twice.

I had the odd sensation I was being followed also , even heard footsteps at one point walking in the grass behind me! I turned around several times and snapped pictures but.. I did not seem to catch a ghost on film.. I was the ONLY person in the cemetary (well , alive person at any rate)

this morning would have been a good time to wander thru with the camera again.. there was a heavy fog.. would have made for some awesome pictures!

The other day I was walking past one of the older churches in town ,delivering mail ,  and I swear  that I got a tug on the hem of my shorts from behind! I turned around to see if there was a child behind me or some person trying to scare me or something..( none of my friends would do that! lol! )  someone was attempting to get my attention.

 

my next wandering of cemetaries will be the old Catholic cemetary , also here in town.. and then the Forest Grove cemetary.. which was the slave cemetary.. look for them in pictures!

I seemed to have sparked something.. and since I have nothing else to do at the moment.. I will explain this photo.. it is in my "things that caught my eye" picture album

 

 

 

About 3 years ago I worked with a local restoration company.. workin on the old houses that are in multitude round here.. we had one particular house that had been empty for 20 plus years.. part of my job was to go in and take "before" and "after " pics. I used about 10 rolls on this house.. I was the only one in the house during the photo sessions . and this picture was the only one that came out like this. I believe it shows 3 seperate ghosts.. one coming down the stair , one with his 'hand' on the rail and one back behind a bit. while I also took pictures I was also a painter.. and there would be various times when I would be there painting after we got the restoration started. There was a couple times when I knew I wasnt alone in the house.. even tho I was. I would hear footsteps on the stairs or up stairs .. of course I would look, but never saw any one. I'm not the only worker to experience a presence either.. a few have said that they heard steps also ..on the stairs or up stairs, and one told of when he was up stairs working on the bricks in one of the fireplace.. a brick came sailing past his head.. like someone threw it at him.. or so he swears.. perhaps they were trying to get his attention? or simply just to scare him.. or play a joke even? The house itself was built in 1840, making it nearly one of the oldest homes in Lexington. Nearly.

Ok.. I don't know when I last spoke of my ghostly guest..

been a while I think.

The other day I was sittin here at my computer desk.. being home all alone.. and I kept hearing thumps and bumps from downstairs.. this kept up for a good hour or so.. at one point i had gone into  the kitchen to make a sandwich or something and I heard what sounded like someone stomping up the stairs.. only halfway.. then the sounds completely stopped!  I went down stairs later but nothing was moved or turned over and of course.. no one was down there..

Then yesterday the kids had just left for school.. and I was walking past the stairwell on way back to my bedroom for something.. and I heard "mom" I swear it sounded like my son.. but I knew he was gone off to school already! sounded like he was at the bottom of stairs!

first time I have heard this particular ghost guest speak..

the kids swear up and down they have heard a mother hush a child and a baby crying in this house. I haven't heard this.. and they say they havent in a while either.. but when we first moved in and when the basement was superactive.. they heard it most every nite.. and seen the "old man" walk down the hall and disappear into the back bedrom that was my son's( now is my daughter's ). my son has braved the elements and is moved down stairs....

 I seen the old man.. but to me he looked like a child.. with a "old face" freaked me out.. as he was standing right at my side of the bed one nite.. staring at me.. after that is when the basement got really active.. with doors slamming and stuff.

well.. will tell ya of another ghost guest  at another time.. different house different guest..

 

Apparantly my sister's house is haunted also! I was talking to a friend the other day and we got on the subject of ghosts.. how???  anyway..  so he says " the house that Kristy lived in  is haunted" and I  say.. " my sister lives in that house now.. she never said anything about it! ".. what the heck?? so he proceeds to tell me about  when he was over there partying one time and there was footsteps going up and down the stairs and across the floor upstairs.. and then a really loud BANG from what is now my sister's tv room.. at the time Kristy's bedroom.. and then the lites in the bathroom started to flip on and off.. so of course it freaked out the guests and my friend says he will NEVER go back to that house.. so I ask  my sis .. I start off by saying.."so I hear u have a haunted house" which of course freaked her out because she didn't know I knew.. she says.."ya.. how'd u know?" So I proceed to  tell her what my friend told me... and she says "ya.. tho it's been quiet lately.. I have heard the same things." and to top it off she says she heard what she thought was the step daughter coming around the one side of the hall (see there's  square in the house.. the hall goes all the way around the house in a square).. so she jumped into the bathroom to "scare" the stepdaughter.. and when the footsteps passed the bathroom, she jumped out.. but no one was there. So of course that kinda freaked her out. She has heard the ghost running across the floor upstairs or up and down the stairs also.. she thinks the ghost is that of a young teen or a older child.

The other nite my ghost guest made itself known again.. it knocked over the pool cue stick. When it hit the floor I thought on of the kids dropped it.. so I holler from my seat in the livingroom to be careful with the sticks.. to which my daughter emerges from her room.. (upstairs) and says it wasn't her.. and my son is engulfed in a video game and never even realized I spoke.. so it wasn't him either.. so when Donnie goes down stairs to investigate, he comes back up and says there was no way that is "fell" over because it was propped in such  a way that it couldn't have just fell over(because that's how he left it ..propped in the corner). It was laying facing in such a way that is way moved and then dropped..

 

 

hmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Vaile Mansion Though this old building has no accounts of recent hauntings, it is said that at one time it was so ominous that passersby would cross the street rather than walk in front of the old home. Built by Colonel and Mrs. Harvey Vaile in 1881, the 31-room mansion includes nine marble fireplaces, spectacular painted ceilings, flushing toilets, a built-in 6,000-gallon water tank, and a 48,000-gallon wine cellar. Reportedly, some time after Mr. Vaile built the mansion he encountered some trouble when he was accused of mail fraud and potentially faced a jail sentence. The despondent Mr. Vaile began to deteriorate and went a little crazy.

Vaile Mansion

Mrs. Vaile, mortified over the accusations, took an overdose of morphine and killed herself in 1889. Later Mr. Vaile was exonerated but, alas, it was obviously too late for his wife. Mr. Vaile lived for another five years and never remarried. Supposedly the mansion was haunted by Sylvia Vaile, as she was often reported as having been seen looking out the windows after her death. According to one legend, when she died, her husband could not part with her so he buried her on the front lawn in a glass-topped coffin set flush with the ground. However, neighborhood protests finally forced him to give his wife a more conventional burial. We, at Legends of America, talked to the people working at the Vaile Mansion in the spring of 2004, who not only looked at us like we were insane, but denied that Mrs. Vaile was ever buried on the property. (Who knows?) After Mr. Vaile died in 1894, the home became an inn for a brief period. Then it was used as a private asylum and sanitarium. A mineral water company, the Vaile Pure Water Co., operated from the site soon after the turn of the century. Later it became a rest home for the aged. Acquired by Roger and Mary Mildred DeWitt in the 1960s, the home was saved from destruction. It was given to the citizens of Independence after the death of Mrs. DeWitt in 1983. Today the mansion is operated as a museum at 1500 N. Liberty. It is open to the public daily from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m

Okay this is odd.. I posted it, it was there. I came back to add a video and it was gone.. NO JOKE!!!! (and just so you know.. while I was perched on my chair here at the computer the other day.. and being the only one home.. I had someone tug on my shirt sleeve form my right side and to do that someone would have had to crawl across the bed to get to the right side cause of the way my computer is set up .. and there was no one there, and yes I looked! even tho I knew no one was there! but that is not the only thing that happens in this house that is odd..... ) SO with that being said......................................

Once AGAIN>>>> here are some odd supernatural superstitions......

When two people in the same house have the same name, ghosts will stay away.

Ghosts hate new things, if you are being plagued by a ghost hang something new over your door.

Say, "what in God's name do you want?" when you first see a ghost and you will not no fear.

A baby born near midnight will have the ability to see ghosts.

A ghost will come and knock on your wall when someone in the house is going to die.

Never strike at a ghost or get mad at it. You will have very bad luck and the ghost will resent you and plague you for it.

Ghosts enoy people singing and will listen.

Graveyards at night are very lucky if you are quiet. Speak and you will be haunted for a week.

Christmas Eve is the favoured time for ghosts to walk the earth.

When horses and other animals are acting strange, they are seeing ghosts. A horse that snorts at night is seeing a ghost. Look through the ears of an animal that is looking at a ghost and you will see the ghost.

Always settle an arguement before you sleep or a ghost will come and bother you about it.

If someone sees a ghost, look over their left shoulder and you will also see the ghost.

and now for a ghost video!!!!!!