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Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Did you ever?

allycat · Cat Scratch Diva

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

So is that a no for Ally?

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

same thing here, I think I was about 5- not on a bike, but running with my mouth open yelling something, and BAM, big old fly. I don't think I even swallowed him, I think he just flew down my throat.

allycat · Cat Scratch Diva

I have had a few gnats fly in my mouth like when we had our boat, but eeewe.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Aww you got lucky then. I can STILL remember the weird feeling of that thing struggling on the back of my throat. bllllllllllllllllllah, I actually just got a chill thinking about it again.

allycat · Cat Scratch Diva

I hate it when one gets in your nose some how.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Oh yeah, that sucks too. I've had that happen a few times, again, when I was a kid.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

DID YOU EVER...

Try to summon Bloody Mary when you were a kid? Or any other similar type of old ghost story thingy?

I was always to chicken to try. I'd repeat the name a second time and then turn on the lights

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Can you tell I'm bored tonight and feeling kind of dopey

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

hey I saw a stat awhile back- the average person swallows 8 insects a year in their sleep. That's real comforting now that its muggy out, the earwigs are around, I saw a centapede in the basement yesterday that was the size of my pinky finger......

allycat · Cat Scratch Diva

how about candyman? candyman? candyman?

allycat · Cat Scratch Diva

lol, I can't believe you stayed at the Bullock hotel.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

JD, I heard that too once. I sure hope that's wrong. That's always something that freaked me out.

Ally, NOPE. Too chicken.

I did sit in my uncles supposedly haunted house once and taunt the spirits to do something, but i had two cousins with me for backup so that's the only reason I had the cahonas to do that.

Still I woulda crapped my pants if a door woulda slammed or the window shades woulda shut or anything like that.

Molly · The Mediator

Same thing as JR and JD, ate a bug as a kid while riding my bike. Never ate one on purpose.

Oh yeah, we did Bloody Mary one time, and I actually saw something. We were all sitting around the mirror chanting it, when I said something like, "I see her," or something like that. Everyone else ran out of the room while I just sat there. My friend came back in, grabbed me, and drug me out of the room.

Looking back, it was a slumber party, in the middle of the night, we'd been drinking pop and eating sweets, and the room was dark. It was probably a mixture of someone's reflection and a sugar haze.

We also tried Light As A Feather, Stiff As A Board a lot, but we never got anyone higher than about 5 inches. Of course we thought that was too cool and had to be magic.

Ruby · The Good Witch Of The South

Ok I missed something? Bloody Mary? Never heard of it. WE did the ouija board thing and the light as a feather too!

Never ate a bug, but ate some leaves and seaweed! My girlfriend and I used to try to outdo each other!

Woo Hoo · The Chosen Woo

Yes we did Bloody Mary! I still race past mirrors in the dark!

We also did light as a feather, stiff as a board.

Ouija boards just freak me out so that's a no! I had enough problems with ghosts without summoning! Yes I'm a total believer and I've seen 'em! We actually think that the neighborhood we grew up in was built over a graveyard or something!

Oh bugs were never on purpose!

-- Edited by Woo Hoo at 08:19, 2006-07-25

Molly · The Mediator

Never did Bloody Mary? Did you grow up in a cave? (just kidding...)

There's a few stories about Bloody Mary. One says she was the queen who chopped people's heads off. Others say she was murdered in some form or fashion, usually with a mirror that cut up her face. And even others say that her baby was killed and she disappeared looking for her baby.

Basically, you look into a mirror in a dark room and repeat "Bloody Mary" 3 times (or 10 times, or 100 times, or you say "Mary I have your baby," etc. depending on which version you heard), and she's supposed to appear in the mirror. Some say she'll kill you, some say she'll scratch your face off, some say she won't do anything if you turn the lights on right away. Some versions take place in the bathroom and include spinning around or flushing the toilet, some require candles...

Candyman didn't exist before the movie, where they probably got the idea from the Bloody Mary legend.

There's also Blue Baby. I never heard about this one until I started learning more about Bloody Mary, but the story involves a drowned baby, and you have to fill a bathtub with water and act like you're holding a baby.

(If you can't tell, I've done a bit of research in popular modern mythology.)

Woo Hoo · The Chosen Woo

The show "Supernatural" did an episode on Bloody Mary too!

Ruby · The Good Witch Of The South

Does not sound a bit familiar!

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

what's the light as a feather still as a board?

Sparky · Phat Cat EL Presidente

I read somewhere when a fly lands on you they immediately regergitate and lay about a thousand eggs.

Woo Hoo · The Chosen Woo

JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:

what's the light as a feather still as a board?

Place a person on the ground - lying down - keep this person relaxed and still.
Arrange a group of people around this person - preferably one at each end - one either side.
Each person place two fingers of both hands under the edge of the person lying on the ground.
Everyone closes their eyes - and let the chanting begin
The most common chant is "Light as a feather, stiff as a board".
This chant can be repeated until a relaxed, soothing atmosphere is reached

While reaching an agreed number of chants - or when feeling the others lifting the person up - join in and lift together! or give it a go on the count of three - one two three UP!!!!
If this is done right you should be able to levitate the person on the ground upwards quite high,.............well you should..........but it doesn't always work

You should be able to do a one finger hold or let go.

-- Edited by Woo Hoo at 08:48, 2006-07-25

Zim · Chairwoman Of The Board

Bleech Sparky, that's AWFUL! And my daughter wonders why I've got no problem when a bee is buzzing around me but freak out when a fly lands on me!

I've never understood the restaurants that server up bug dishes... there is a restaurant in DC I think that specializes in it! I can say the only bugs I may have swallowed happened in my sleep.

As for the spooky stuff, I did the ouija board once in college with my roommate and boyfriend. I'm sure my roommate made it move all over the place... she denies it, but she was the type to do that whereas I'd rather sit there all night with it not moving... Anyway, in the middle of the night I swear I wooke up everyone was sleeping and the wind was blowing outside. In a moment when the wind stopped I heard the word "Eva" whispered and then the wind kicked back up. That would've been the weirdest part until later that morning at Roys when my boyfriend mentioned hearing someone whisper Eva, before I'd even mentioned the name. Now my rommate is good for moving the pointer all over the place, but I doubt she'd stay up all night waiting for us to wake up so she could whisper Eva!!

And the spookiest part of all? Years back someone had hung herself in the room opposite ours on that U-shaped dorm level. I'd tell you her name was Eva, but you probably wouldn't believe me...

Sparky · Phat Cat EL Presidente

This one time I started chanting Jeremy Riggs, Jeremy Riggs and this ghost showed up.

Should we try it?

Jeremy Riggs! Jeremy Riggs! Jeremy Riggs!

Trish · The Procrastinating Red-Head

Never ate any bugs on purpose. My husband and my uncle got into a bug eating contest one time at a softball game. They ate stink bugs and june bugs. Hello - LISTERINE! Ewwwww. My husband's nickname after that was Stinky. How flattering.

We did the ouija board, light as a feather and bloody mary. I had a bad experience with the ouija board. We had a sleepover at my friends house and were messing with the ouija board and I started to feel like I was spinning and then I looked at the end of the hall and it looked like a face was looking at me from the door. Totally freaked me out. I don't think the fact that we we had just finished watching Hellraiser and eating double pepperoni pizzas from Dominos and drinking about a liter of Mt. Dew each had ANYTHING to do with it.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Whaaaaaaaaaa? Huh

Did someone summon me

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

I LOVE true ghost stories! Zim you're sounds VERY interesting!

Woo, aren't you gonna share some of yours?

I've heard more bad things about ouija borads than anything else. I really think even the toys ones aren't to be messed with unless you're serious about checking out the other side.

Woo Hoo · The Chosen Woo

Ok. In the house we grew up there were several ghosts. Not sure if they we all there at the same time and just inactive but we had 'em. The one that I saw was kind of a mother-type. At the time my parents slept in different rooms. This ghost would walk up and down our hall, opening our doors and just like checking in on us. One time my Dad felt someone get in bed with him and he thought it was my mom. But there was nobody there. I used to run through the hall because I was freaked out by it. But there was one time I saw her. Not clearly. All white and she had a long skirt. Never saw her face very well though. That is one story.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!