# My apartment has been taken over by a fucking POLTERGEIST **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2002, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apartment-has-been-taken-over-by-a-fucking-poltergeist/115435 "2002-06-22T14:22:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apartment-has-been-taken-over-by-a-fucking-poltergeist/115435/21 "2002-06-23T04:43:51Z")
When dealing with “fucking poltergeists” one should always use condoms. 🙂 (sorry scott, but it was too good an opening) What the heck is with all metaphysical threads in the last few days? I think we need Cecil to manifest or something…this is getting downright spooky. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apartment-has-been-taken-over-by-a-fucking-poltergeist/115435/22 "2002-06-23T12:06:47Z")
You didn’t change your locks after your last break up, did you? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apartment-has-been-taken-over-by-a-fucking-poltergeist/115435/23 "2002-06-23T13:12:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jayjay \* > \*\* > > Assuming I haven’t been whooshed… > > The movie “The Shining” was set in a 100-year-old hotel, and the gradual influencing of the young son by the resident spirits was characterized by his increasing incidents of writing “redrum” (“murder” backwards) on the walls. > > jayjay \*\* No, **jayjay** , I never saw the movie. Thanks for enlightening me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apartment-has-been-taken-over-by-a-fucking-poltergeist/115435/24 "2002-06-23T16:12:17Z")
{pretentious poo-pooing hijack} Movie, shmovie, read the book by Stephen King if you want to be highly entertained and scared enough to go put the book in the freezer so you can go to sleep at night.{/pretentious poo-pooing hijack} ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apartment-has-been-taken-over-by-a-fucking-poltergeist/115435/25 "2002-06-23T18:46:48Z")
Yeah, which picture is the little ghost girl? I can’t tell. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apartment-has-been-taken-over-by-a-fucking-poltergeist/115435/26 "2002-06-24T11:00:27Z")
I have to agree with reprise re: the fucking poltergeist thing. PLEASE practice safe sex. You could get PIV!! ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apartment-has-been-taken-over-by-a-fucking-poltergeist/115435/27 "2002-06-24T12:20:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OpalCat \* > \*\*I have to agree with reprise re: the fucking poltergeist thing. PLEASE practice safe sex. You could get PIV!! \*\* Just to annoy you… **Hi, Opal! Ever hear of AIDS?!!!??!??!!!?!!?!?** 😃 - s.e. ---
**Author:** ![Stupendous\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Stupendous\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stupendous_man)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apartment-has-been-taken-over-by-a-fucking-poltergeist/115435/28 "2002-06-24T13:41:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Skerri \* > \*\*… maybe it’s a feng-shui poltergeist. Your ottoman is destroying the flow of the room! 😃 \*\* HA HA HA! That’s excellent! I rarely laugh out loud at something on these boards, but you’ve done it! Stupendous Man ---
**Author:** ![cleosia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@cleosia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cleosia)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apartment-has-been-taken-over-by-a-fucking-poltergeist/115435/29 "2002-06-24T14:09:15Z")
**Squish** > [@](#): > > Not only have I seen ghosts, but I’ve heard my keyboard type by itself at night I heard my keyboard typing at night and thought I had a ghost. It just turned out that my cats were surfing the internet. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apartment-has-been-taken-over-by-a-fucking-poltergeist/115435/30 "2002-06-24T15:05:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scott evil \* > \*\*Oh, I forgot to mention: my TV went to static last night, for no reason… :eek: > > - s.e. \*\* How 'bout the fact that Videotron, because of yet another act of vandalism, went out again yesterday? ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apartment-has-been-taken-over-by-a-fucking-poltergeist/115435/31 "2002-06-24T16:07:38Z")
this thread needs you. NOW! [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=121909](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=121909) ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apartment-has-been-taken-over-by-a-fucking-poltergeist/115435/32 "2002-06-24T20:05:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LaurAnge \* > \*\*How 'bout the fact that Videotron, because of yet another act of vandalism, went out again yesterday? \*\* **Laur** , honey… _I don’t have cable_… :eek: 😛 - s.e. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apartment-has-been-taken-over-by-a-fucking-poltergeist/115435/33 "2002-06-24T21:08:20Z")
Why is it only people who believe in poltergeists/ghosts/whatever have experiences with them. Is it just that they leave all the non-believers alone? Are we not worth their time to try to convert? I’m jealous! ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apartment-has-been-taken-over-by-a-fucking-poltergeist/115435/34 "2002-06-25T01:34:36Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by ResIpsaLoquitor:_ > > 1. My fundie friends would suggest getting rid of anything “evil” in your apartment. Enjoy a lovely fire as you burn your Dungeons & Dragons set. Could it possibly be more **evil** than **scott**? 😃 I could not let that one pass. ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apartment-has-been-taken-over-by-a-fucking-poltergeist/115435/35 "2002-06-25T01:40:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cleosia \* > \*\*I heard my keyboard typing at night and thought I had a ghost. It just turned out that my cats were surfing the internet. \*\* Everytime it happened to me in that apartment, the cats were in their usual places: curled up sound asleep on the bed. I checked. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apartment-has-been-taken-over-by-a-fucking-poltergeist/115435/36 "2002-06-25T01:51:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by D\_Odds \* > \*\*Why is it only people who believe in poltergeists/ghosts/whatever have experiences with them. Is it just that they leave all the non-believers alone? Are we not worth their time to try to convert? I’m jealous! \*\* Actually, I’ve heard many anecdotes from self-professed non-believers who were converted by an experience they had. On the other hand, there are people who will _insist_ on a prosaic explanation for things, even if they never puzzle out what that explanation is. For those people, there can be no hope. [Cue dismal, depressing music] ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apartment-has-been-taken-over-by-a-fucking-poltergeist/115435/37 "2002-06-25T06:03:28Z")
Cessandra, thank you for linking my page! That is so great! Sorry I didn’t get back sooner but I work weekends and don’t get online until Mondays. The little girl is in black and white in the picture of the baby in the yard. She is on the fence line where the support meets and makes a T. Her chin looks like it’s on the rail. You might be able to see her better in the cropped picture. That and if you look to the left just under where the fence runs you can see a shadow figure. And I can’t remember if I included the outline of the word “help” in the yard. I’ll have to take another peek ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Scratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@Chicken\_Scratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Scratch)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2002, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apartment-has-been-taken-over-by-a-fucking-poltergeist/115435/38 "2002-06-25T19:42:33Z")
I too, am a skeptic. I can’t explain why these things happened, I can only tell you what I saw. I lived in an apt. where the previous owner had killed his wife & her lover after catching them in the act, and then hanged himself in the attic. There was one ceiling beam in the attic that looked like a rope had worn away some of the wood, but I can’t be sure. Anyway, neither my roommate nor any of my friends would go near the attic. My roommate wouldn’t even walk past it if she could avoid it. I stored things up there, so I would go up occassionally. Stuff was always moved around, but just slightly. Like, a box that had been upright would be tipped over. One day, roomie asked if I had seen a small porcelain bird she kept “for luck” in her room. I hadn’t, until I went to the attic later in the day. It was on the floor beneath that worn-away beam. EEK! I have another ghost story, but it’s way too long to post. Maybe another time. ---
**Author:** ![DoperChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@DoperChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoperChic)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apartment-has-been-taken-over-by-a-fucking-poltergeist/115435/39 "2002-06-26T01:26:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chicken Scratch \* > \*\* > I have another ghost story, but it’s way too long to post. Maybe another time. \*\* Please please pleeeeaaaasssseeee tell us your story. Ghost stories facinate me to no end. I believe that my apartment is/was haunted. My younger sister’s father (we have different dad’s) passed away a few years ago due to a heroin overdose. Toward the end, the drugs had taken over what used to be a wonderful man and turned him into a horrible person. I think he “came back” to tell my family that he was sorry for how he treated us. Things mysteriously went missing all the time. Books, stuffed animals, etc. would go missing for hours only to turn up in the middle of the floor, or in one case, the middle of my bed. Caps to spray bottles (the pump ones, not aerosole) suddenly went missing. Every single spray bottle in the apartment over a period of about a month would suddenly lose it’s pump. I found out only a few weeks ago that my sister’s father hated those pump bottles. He was a hair dresser and used only aerosole cans. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apartment-has-been-taken-over-by-a-fucking-poltergeist/115435/40 "2002-06-26T02:54:31Z")
**DoperChic:** Have you ever been to [this site]([http://theshadowlands.net/ghost/#real](http://theshadowlands.net/ghost/#real) ghost)? The stories there are presented as submitted, so the spelling/grammar is sometimes atrocious; but if you like reading ghost stories, there’s plenty to keep you awake nights. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apartment-has-been-taken-over-by-a-fucking-poltergeist/115435.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apartment-has-been-taken-over-by-a-fucking-poltergeist/115435.md?page=3)