Ghost adventures and other paranormal shows

I enjoyed Portals to Hell. I came across it a while back and just continued watching the episodes.

My mom, my brother, and myself have all seen/experienced unexplainable things. I'm not a religious person at all so I don't know about the "afterlife" but it sure makes you scratch your head.

What about you?

I practice at a track here on Long Island that we call ghost town, it’s at the old naval weapons base in Calverton, I usually practice alone and some strange stuff happens, just odd things, so I asked the track manager if anything odd ever happened to him, he was like “oh yeah when I’m alone grading the track, why do you think we call it ghost town”

Took me awhile to put it together lol

Ghost Adventures is a great show, but the earlier seasons are definitely the best. I would freak out being alone in many of the places they've visited. The evidence is pretty eye opening, especially the demonic stuff they uncover because of how much despair and anger are at these horrible locations.

I've had some experiences that I can't explain, and I don't discount that there is something going on. My weirdest experience happening inside the Edinburgh vaults which I cannot explain in any way.

Having said that I find any show like ghost adventures extremely hard to believe due to the fact that it is entertainment first and foremost. They almost have to provide something incredible in every episode or nobody would watch it, to survive they have to get viewing figures and along with that comes a paycheck. I wouldn't put it past them to make shit up to keep their ratings up.

My wife watches these are loves them. I’m at the opposite end. I hate them. These are all fake and heavily produced and edited. It’s all scripted and setup. I just can’t watch them. At least my wife agrees they are phony shows. But she still likes them. If something is fake then call if fake and maybe I’ll watch if entertaining. But don’t pitch it as real when it’s obviously all setup and produced. That’s insulting. So for that reason I refuse to watch them.

What happened in the vaults?

So, back in 2012 I was on a family holiday for Christmas. We drove up through York and stayed in Edinburgh over Christmas.

I believe it was the 23rd of December and we were walking down the Royal Mile at about midday from the castle to our hotel when we passed a sign for the vaults. It was advertised as paranormal and having ghosts jump out on you and all that standard tourist trap rubbish which was uninteresting to me.

What was interesting though is that I am interested in history to the point that anything historical draws me in. So naturally with the vaults being Victorian hell-holes full of murderers, gambling dens, brothels and being so bad that the police didn't enter them (a no go-zone, they say history repeats itself) I wanted to go inside and have a look. So we decided to do the tour at 5/6pm.

Now this is Scotland in the middle of winter so it had been dark since 4.30pm and blowing a gale with added lashings of torrential rain. Imagine being strapped to the front of a fishing trawler in the middle of a North Atlantic winter storm and you get an idea of the weather that night.

I put on a t shirt, hoody and a goose feather thermal water proof coat I used when I was living in Canada, I was layered up well. We set off up the Royal Mile in the atrocious but completely normal weather. When we got there we met our group and our guide which was full of Americans with us being the only English people.

I fully expected some banter about the English from the guide but he actually said that most of the wars between England and Scotland were Scotlands fault which despite later events was probably the most shocking thing that happened all night.

We went inside and I asked him about the ghost adventures episode filmed there and he said in a gruff Scottish accent that Zak Bagans was really fucking annoying which made me laugh. We went through the tour and nothing odd happened in the slightest, literally dead as the grave. I didn't expect anything to happen as to me it was rubbish and the history of the place was what I was there for.

Anyway the tour ended and the weather hadn't let up as we were nearly blown away when we emerged back on the Royal Mile and made our way back to the hotel. When I got back to my room I went to have a shower, but as I undressed my back felt a bit itchy. When I looked in the mirror I was genuinely amazed, I had raised welts from scratches that ran in threes from the top of my back to the bottom. The direction and placement looked random but it was a distinct 3 lines.

I didn't have them when I left the hotel, I've had my back scratched pretty hard (not from ghosts or demons but something even more scary, women) and never did I have marks like that left on me. I'm open to suggestions of how they got there, but I cannot explain it.

Realised I rambled but whatever

Back in 1999 we bought an 1870's farm house. Started doing fairly major renovations, replastering, opening the rooms and doorways up a bit, new flooring ,kitchen etc,etc. A dozen different times my wife or I could not find our keys no matter where we looked, hours would go by and finally one of us would go thru the dining room and find all of our keys in a big pile in the middle of the dining room table, also pantry doors would fly open unprovoked, but nothing super scary or dangerous. These occurrences dwindled as we neared the completion of the renovation. Paranormal "experts" told us that since we were disrupting the house the spirits were disrupting us by taking our keys ,etc. Then after a few years of living there, my wife's mother died and shortly afterwards my daughter ( 12 at the time) who was very close to her Grandma, was claiming she would see blue orbs flying around her room at night after going to bed. We kinda ignored it for a few weeks, but she was starting to get a bit freaked out about it, so my wife slept in her room with her one night and about midnight I heard her calling my name and I rushed over towards that bedroom and sure enough a bright blue orb flew out of her room and down the steps, right past my head. We were all freaked out about that and the same paranormal expert claimed it was my mother-in-laws spirit letting my daughter know she was alright, haven't seen it since. That was about 15 years ago, now my daughter and son-in-law live in that house and my wife and I built our "retirement" home on the lower part of the 16 acres, and my daughter claims once in awhile she'll hear strange noises and the pantry door opens up periodically ,but its been mostly quiet. I'm not a religious kinda guy ,but these strange things make me believe that there is possibly another dimension that we are not completely aware of ......yet