Be sure to put this tune on your iPod.
Will you have internet access during the night?
Can you post from your camp out?
Absolutely – I’ll be online and posting for as long as I’m awake.
Or alive…
Or undead.
As long as he doesn’t post anything followed by “need answer fast,” we don’t need to worry.
Does your laptop have a webcam, Hal?
Live boots-on-the-ground footage with our embedded SDMB skeptic?
Those corpse drawers would have me hearing footsteps and feeling bony fingers on my shoulders, and I don’t even believe in ghosts.
I just want to add that a draft can easily cause a door to “open, slam shut, open again, slam shut again, etc.” If the door swings easily and the wind outside is gusting, the airflow inside can shift back and forth quite dramatically. (I lived in a very drafty apartment for a couple of years.)
That’s what *you *think.
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Wow, I am jealous! I think it would be neat to stay in a supposedly haunted building. You should totally turn it into a doper sleep-over and we could all bring sleeping bags, Stephen King novels, and various food stuffs. ;)[/QUOTE
I was thinking exactly the same thing,I’d get a real buzz out of it .
Unfortunately I’m on the wrong side of the Atlantic.
See, this is why your newer funeral homes aren’t haunted. It’s too damn expensive anymore. Back then, a successful funeral home could afford to maintain a full-time staff of unquiet dead, plus paid internships for poltergeists. These days, they’re lucky to have a single part-time spirit orb during off-peak hours.
This reminds me of one of my favorite Boston restaurants (Amrhein’s)-its been in the same building for 80+ years. Whilst dining there once, my mother mentioned that the main dining room used to be ina funeral home-I didn’t enjoy my dinner so much , after hearing that!:eek:
Interestingly, I am fairly certain that the funeral home my brother was laid out in used to be a steakhouse.
And one of this franchise’s other ‘funeral homes’ was plainly a large, refurbished service station/auto repair-type building.
Both these funeral homes were decorated with the most god awful yard sale furnishings you could possibly imagine. The viewing parlor had this goofy-ass restaurant crystal chandelier in it that hung down to eye level. One of the pictures on the wall was a paint-by-number Last Supper, and another wall ornament was a random coat of arms with tacky little antlers on it. The ex-service station funeral home had this mind-boggling canary yellow vinyl office furniture, which I strongly suspect was simply left over from the building’s muffler-repair days. In a way I feel that I owe those people a left-handed debt of gratitude, as the sheer insanity of the surroundings was probably an invaluable distraction from the grief.
Bottom line: some Florida funeral homes are not very good, so don’t die here unless you’re prepared to be remembered in conjunction with some unintentionally surreal and decidedly unfunereal surroundings. I am always impressed when I see a funeral home with the proper dignity and ambience, even if it has long since been converted into a bank or an upscale eatery.
Another true Florida funeral home story: on Nebraska Avenue in Tampa, there’s a funeral home that has a cat clinging onto the roof. The first time I noticed this, I hastily pulled my car over, only to realize that the cat in question was a life-sized ceramic decoration. After passing by the place several times, I finally worked up the nerve to go in and ask what the deal was with the cat. It turns out that the building used to be an antique shop, and when the funeral home moved in, they never bothered to take the cat down.
The peculiar inappropriateness of Florida funeral homes even extends to their names. “Moss Feaster?” “Crisp-Coon?” Yes, I’d like my cremation services to be handled by Crisp-Coon, please. And who could doubt the embalming skills of Moss Feaster Funeral Home? (Even if your name really is “Moss Feaster,” you really ought to consider a more generic name if you decide to open a funeral home.)
Will you be able to upload any images to your flicker(type) account during the evening?
Gee, you could be pranking us all night.
Anything interesting will be linked as soon as the spirts allow me to regain control of my body…
So, we’re coming down to it now. Unfortunately, I’m not going to have the technological arsenal I had hoped for. I’ll have my camera, but no camcorders – those who were going to be lending theirs didn’t come through, and I…sigh…I can’t can’t find the damn charger for mine. :smack:. One of my digital cameras has a video mode, so I’ll bring that one along if I need to take a 30-second video. The thermal detector is a “maybe” right now – the owner says I can’t have it overnight, but can borrow it for a couple of hours.
So, any other ideas for any low-tech ghost-hunting? Like I said above, I’ll sprinkle baby powder all over the staircases – anyone got anything else along those lines?
A windsock to detect supernatural breezes?
A Ouija board? Just for laughs…
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“… Dammit, these aren’t funeral home ghosts; they’re from the bank.”
Don’t you have a dog?
They are supposed to be sensitive. Especially to people sneaking around.
Yeah, but my dog is, to put it lightly, a moron. His radar goes off at the slightest innocuous sound…he’d be barking the entire time.
Plus, there are dogs in the office all the time (it’s a pretty laid back place to work), so any canine supernatural detection skills have already been put through the paces.
And on that note, it’s time to get my stuff together and head over.
Got my:
Laptop
Main digital camera
Backup digital camera (w/video)
[del]proton pack[/del]
Humungo flashlight
Tiny flashlight
Baby Powder
Pillow
Blanket
Pepsi One
Breakfast
Guess that’ll about do it…see everyone at the site!
Good luck, Hal! I’ll be reading. Although I think you’re more likely to find “haunted” activity if you were to live there on a regular basis than just spending one night. Still, maybe you’ll be a conduit for supernatural behavior tonight. (I almost made that “toNight”)