After posting on the "unforgettable moments" thread...why not start an obake thread.

They say Asia...and also Hawaii has many ghosts... Have any of you experienced anything ghost related before?

I'll start:

My friend from Japan has a fear of ghosts but he feels that he has a "sixth sense" thing about him that freaks us all out. Anyway, he went on a trip to Long Beach's "Queen Mary". For some of you who don't know about this big ship, it's haunted. I have family that worked there and one who was a vistor's group guide and she always tells me that there are weird moments on that ship where she hears kids talking and the place has been already closed.

Anyway, my friend from Japan called and he was freaking out. He was saying that he was getting some unusual vibes at the Queen Mary and I told him about the ghosts from that ship. He was frightented and left the ship immediately. A week later, I still haven't heard from him since he called but he was still visibly shaken. I asked him what was wrong and he said that he felt someone calling for him. A child...

I believe that he knew nothing about the ghosts of Queen Mary but the thing is...either he has skitzo tendencies or ghosts actually do communicate with him.

kndy
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Here is more accounts on the ghosts of the Queen Mary:

http://www.ghostsandlegends.com/gstories.htm

hm... pretty interesting. Was it just that one time ur friend heard voices or is it all the time?

Smiley_18 wrote:

hm... pretty interesting. Was it just that one time ur friend heard voices or is it all the time?

No, it was usually when there was something unusual...cold room or something sixth sense-ish.

But this was not the only obake story...many of my friends in Hawaii have some really weird stories of driving alone on the Pali. But there are some wicked obake stories in Hawaii and in Asia...like these:

---->>>>> http://www.geocities.com/wahiawaboy/ghost.htm

Gives me goosebumps.

kndy

kndy-nt2099 wrote:

No, it was usually when there was something unusual...cold room or something sixth sense-ish. But this was not the only obake story...many of my friends in Hawaii have some really weird stories of driving alone on the Pali. Gives me goosebumps. kndy

what were their stories?

True story: Tomomi and I go to JPN every yr and last year during our visit, we to a 2 day trip to yoron island, an island between okinawa and kyushu. Yoron is a very small island, this place's main income is the resort for the romantics, in which we stayed in.

needless to say, being a small island, there are very narrow streets, and there are no sidewalk or curbs. we were walking from the resort to the nearest town, a good hour walk away. we left at around 6 o'clock and watched the sun starting to set. As we were walking, we walked by these group of farmers (there's a lot of farmers in this island) harvesting, i think potatoes, singing in unison while harvesting. We waved to them, and they greeted us back.

Arrived in town eventually, had some local sashimi/sushi/great time, etc. Afterwards it was about 8 o'clock, and we were like, crap it's late. let's go catch a cab. After about 30 min looking/waiting for a cab, being that since small towns are usually dead at around 8, it seems evident we were NOT gonna catch any cab, so we had to walk back.

Mind you we were not prepared to walk back, but we had no choice. The street was narrow and the only light we had was the moon light, a few stars and an occasional 2 or 3 stop light we ocassionally saw, no street lights whatsoever. It took a LOT longer walking back to the hotel than walking to the town because we couldn't see that far. So this is now about 9:30 now, and we heard the same songs that we had heard near the patch of crops from those farmers before (we thought), you know, they had the same small truck in the side of the road, so I wanted to make sure and ask for direction. As I walked into the field, i thought they were just right there, b/c it's too dark to see, so you can't harvest anything. After about 2 or 3 minutes, I decided to leave the field and Tomomi had asked why I went to the field, and so I asked her "didn't you hear them farmers singing there? I wanted to ask for directions." She replied, "what voices?" That's when we both felt a chill up our spines and SPRINTED all the way (about 15 min) to the resort!!!! We had stopped off in the lobby and was catching our breath when the receptionist asked us anything was wrong. we explained to him what happened that night and he immedietly went to the back and brought us out some salt. We then took the salt and sprinkled/threw it all over us!

The receptionist explained to us that the 2nd field closest to the resort was "haunted" from the owners of that farm sin ce WWII. Man, I've never been so creeped out in my life!!!
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OMG.. that's really scary.
Especially since it was out in the field and so dark outside. I would freak out.

I'm sooo scared of ghost stories...it's so sad . My mom's friend was a psychic and whenever she went to New Orleans she would see ghosts and I'd get soo creeped out when she'd say things about them. Like one time on a haunted mansion tour there a baby was crying and she said it was because a old man was scaring it and no one else saw him and I was so disturbed. I normally would have just thought she was some crazy lady but she was able to read my mind about things so I believed it when she said there were ghosts. Ghost stories are just so scary to me, but keep sharing because I like to be scared

Have you realised, that a lot of Japanese people have (or claim to have) the sixth-sense or something psychic to that nature?! Not trying to be cynical here, but you think I might have something to do with their culture, or genetics?!

nagaioyasumi wrote:

Have you realised, that a lot of Japanese people have (or claim to have) the sixth-sense or something psychic to that nature?! Not trying to be cynical here, but you think I might have something to do with their culture, or genetics?!

I haven't met too many Japanese people who were psychic or have claimed to hear ghost but one...but I have seen many weird specials on Japanese TV about haunted bridges and really crazy stuff.

I really have to show some of you Star Dokkiri vids where they do obake jokes on celebs and they scare the living crap out of them.

kndy

kndy-nt2099 wrote:

I haven't met too many Japanese people who were psychic or have claimed to hear ghost but one...but I have seen many weird specials on Japanese TV about haunted bridges and really crazy stuff. I really have to show some of you Star Dokkiri vids where they do obake jokes on celebs and they scare the living crap out of them. kndy

Yeh! It seems that the Japanese are so... what's the word... mm... "sensual".

Puhahaha! Obake jokes?! LOL, I would have sustained a heart attack!

nagaioyasumi wrote:

Yeh! It seems that the Japanese are so... what's the word... mm... "sensual".

that explains all the movies like ju-on, ring(s), uzumaki, etc...
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Not a ghost story but freaky anyways....one of my friends' family moved into a new house about 5 years ago. My friend started getting these horrible nightmares about people getting murdered and stuff - this is from what she told me. She really couldn't sleep very well from what I remembered. Almost every night for like two weeks this was happening to her, so she told her parents about it. They got scared and hired a person who does feng shui or supernatural stuff - a genuine one. Her parents really believe in that stuff. So this feng shui expert got weird vibes from the house and said there was restless spirits or ghosts..that something bad must've happened in the past. So he exorcised them...And my friend told me she stopped having those nightmares after that...

Freaky but it could be just coincidental....

I just saw this news story...this is one obake story that is amazing!

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/2852204/detail.html

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I don't mean to be a nuissance; just giving me 2 cents here:

1) During Hawai'i's plantation era, different ethnic groups from all over the planet came to Hawai'i for work: Japan, Philippines, Korea, China, Portugal (Brazil too, I suppose), the Pacific Islands, and other countries. They didn't exactly all arrive to the islands at the same time. They're all still highly represented here in the islands to this day. And from that same era . . . they'd share ghost stories (among every other type of story, by the way). Now, I'm not too sure about the characteristics of the spooky accounts, but . . . once the phenomenon of "ghost stories of the archipelago" came about, it's funny how the featured apparitions managed to have characteristics from all of the cultures (i.e., one example is how one ethnic group whose ghosts didn't have legs . . . suddenly started to have them, in the respective accounts, once cultures whose ghosts DID have feet started to come to the islands).

2) With regard to the Pali situation . . . I'm surprised any local TV news stations haven't managed to try driving over the Pali in "that" fashion (see, even makes me scared to write it) to prove or disprove the occurence. I mean, they could probably afford to do it each week until some pop empirical evidence can be derived, however shortly or eventual.

Anyway, on a sorta' related note, Dracula ain't got nothin' on the vamps in Tsui Hark's Vampire Hunters!

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am_takashi wrote:

I just saw this news story...this is one obake story that is amazing! http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/2852204/detail.html (t)

Hey Taka,

WOW! Pretty cool and it made it in the news!

kndy

The Man wrote:

I don't mean to be a nuissance; just giving me 2 cents here: During Hawai'i's plantation era, different ethnic groups from all over the planet came to Hawai'i for work: Japan, Philippines, Korea, China, Portugal (Brazil too, I suppose), the Pacific Islands, and other countries. They didn't exactly all arrive to the islands at the same time. They're all

You are definitely correct. There are some stories though, I wonder about them...especially the Night Marcher type ones. But as for the interest in crazy obake stories in Pali or Hawaii...thanks to Glen Grant for that!

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Anyway, on a sorta' related note, Dracula ain't got nothin' on the vamps in Tsui Hark's Vampire Hunters! # # # #

Definitely want to see this! Need something much better than the "Twins Effect"!

kndy

This is a true story..me and my friends were about 12 years old..we walked from the northside of town to the south..for a stupid reason that I don't want to mention..while walking we passed this park, it's across from a cementary, next to a railroad, and a community where people say theres haunting..we walked pass the park, passing the tall skinny trees.

Well then we decided to go back home, we passed the tall skinny trees again, decided to rest there..looked around..I was thinking the trees are in different places I told my friends that and they agreed..we were thinking oh shit let's go home quickly! Right then this creepy lady walked pass us, she was all covered up, you can only see her eyes. This is in summer, she would be hot and sweating like hell in her clothing! She was also holding an umbrella, she was walking really slowly and I got the creepist feeling She finally passed us.

About a minute later we decided to walk again..and when we walked passed the railroad..we saw that the creepy lady was really far away in a timeframe of a minute!! We were freaked and jetted home!

The freakiness doesn't end til then..when I got home, I was washing my hands then I saw that I have a scar on my wrist..I'm thinking what when was this here? I know I didn't get cut this month..so I thought the lady made it..that night I decided to sleep in the living room couch..it was dark, and I awoke..I looked at the window and saw green light..totally freaked and kept my head under the cover til I fell asleep.

She's that one ghost that is common in Thailand and Cambodia, I don't know the name for it..but yeah I was scared.

This is one of the classic obake told by okasa-chan of Aumangga

Here goes cover urself w/ blanket:

"While I was in my room all alone and it was all dark. I begun to smell a fart that wasn't mine"



look rena smells the fart too she was wiggling her hands to boo away the smell.

I think there was a thread 'bout ghost tales, but, I don't think there was one started about personal accounts of the unexplained.

And since Halloween's a-comin' up, I figured we could share.

Better than that, I'm wondering if this thread can be the catchall for accounts of the unexplained when ya'll's recall them or once they occur.

I'll start out with my own simple tale:

Back a decade or so , back when I had friends , (hahaha, just kidding, just kidding don't be sad for The Man) I made a call to one of 'em, I dunno, probably seeing what they were up to or if they wanted to do something, whatever. Casual, nothing planned, nothing really intended.

I picked up the phone and punched in or dialed the numbers (keep in mind that I DID enter the numbers).

There was silence for a few seconds until I heard, "hello? Hellooo?" And I figure I responded with "hello" or "hello, who's this?" something like that. There was probably yet another silence. And, I guess either him or me said "____________, is this you?" And then the obligatory, "huh" or "what?"

Well, I'm sure there's some electrical engineering explanation (EEE) for what happened, but, yeah, I guess this is a situation where my friend and I called each other at the exact same time. I know, I know, it doesn't really seem like a big deal, but how I think about it to this day are the odds of something like that happening. And, to be fair, this was a friend I talked to on a regular basis anyway.

Somehow, subconsicously, we knew to call each other at the same time.

This isn't quite as strange or creepy...but when I was younger I used to get a lot of "deja vu" feelings. Things would happen, or things would be said...and I could have sworn that I had experienced that exact same moment before.