For those of you that know me personally, I may be a little squirrely, but am not the type to run around wearing a tinfoil hat & a crystal necklace, but I had something weird happen to me recently that I wanted post.
During the afternoon of 5/20, I took my 2 daughters down to Fort Mifflin, a fortress utilized during both the Revolutionary & Civil Wars, located right outside of the Philadelphia International Airport. Supposedly, this fort was instrumental in holding back the British fleet long enough for Washington to gather his troops in Valley Forge, thereby impacting the outcome of the Revolutionary War. You can check their website for more info (http://www.fortmifflin.com/pn/index.php). In addition to it's historical value, the fort is also know as one of the most haunted places in the Philadelphia area.
After stumbling around the compound, I had asked a guide about the rumors of various sections being haunted. The guide directed me to "Casemate 5", which is rumored to have the most activity due to it being the cell used to house a murderer who was hanged at the fort during the Civil War. We walked through a short series of low, dark tunnels to arrive at a hallway with 3-4 dark, arched rooms on our left. The last room on the left was Casemate 5.
Knowing the reputation of this room, I had my camera ready & immediately upon entering, took a picture of the room. The only odd thing that happened, was that immediately after I took the first picture, my camera froze up & the batteries that I just put in the weekend before (and took only about 15 pics with) died. I thought it was odd but not anything indictive of being paranormal. I replaced the batteries, took a few more pictures in the cell, then carried on with our tour.
We toured the rest of the fort and really came away not thinking anything exceptionally weird occurred. While we had fun & a got little creeped out in the beginning, I honestly felt let down by the experience. That is until I came home & uploaded my pics & noticed something strange in the very first picture I took of Casemate 5.
If you click on the link below, you will notice a slightly yellow-greenish, transparent orb hovering above the last bunk. You may want to use an application other than your browser to zoom in for detail. I used Photoshop to auto-adjust the color levels, which will represent a truer picture of the colors in the room & bring out the detail more.
I'm very aware of the photographic anomalies caused by dust, rain & snow, and this picture doesn't seem to contain the characteristics of an error of that type. I have personally taken over 1500 pictures with this camera & have never, ever, seen this effect before.
Ghost Pic - Back Left (http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j224/beermonkey68/P1010002-lvladjusted.jpg)
BM, those spectres must be taking over the internets:
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I can see it either.
But I totally believe in ghosts. The house I lived in when I was a kid was haunted. Creepy shtein.
Ghosts are as real as God, dragons, and true love.
Quote from: Diomedes on June 11, 2006, 11:05:54 PM
Ghosts are as real as God, dragons, and true love.
And the clit. Totally a myth.
Quote from: Geowhizzer on June 11, 2006, 10:59:56 PM
BM, those spectres must be taking over the internets:
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Geo you dumbass.....ghosts don't mess with the internets. It's obviously gremlins.
Quote from: Geowhizzer on June 11, 2006, 10:59:56 PM
BM, those spectres must be taking over the internets:
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If anyone is having a problem, I'm still working out the kinks in my new ISP. So sorry...very sorry
Yeah, I can't see it either. Which is a shame.....because I was hoping for the Stay-Puft Marshmellow man stuffed in a cell.
:-D :-D @ your avatar and tagline.
Some guy camps out at Mifflin, and gets the shtein scared out of him. With audio....creepy.
(http://www.rodneyanonymous.com/radio/mifflin.html)
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on June 11, 2006, 11:34:36 PM
:-D :-D @ your avatar and tagline.
Ahhhhhhhhhhh, I just noticed that too. :-D Farging awesome. I heart the suplex angel.
Quote from: PhillyPhaninDC on June 11, 2006, 11:41:37 PM
Some guy camps out at Mifflin, and gets the shtein scared out of him. With audio....creepy.
(http://www.rodneyanonymous.com/radio/mifflin.html)
Philadelphia Biz Journal article on it (http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2004/05/17/newscolumn2.html)
QuoteBy 2:30 a.m., at Anonymous' urging, Kircher returned to Fort Mifflin. The trio had installed new batteries in flashlights and other equipment. Mysteriously, the batteries died during the night
Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
South Jersey Ghoset Research (http://www.southjerseyghostresearch.org/cases3/05050.html)
Quote from: PhillyPhaninDC on June 11, 2006, 11:34:26 PM
Yeah, I can't see it either. Which is a shame.....because I was hoping for the Stay-Puft Marshmellow man stuffed in a cell.
Farging Verizon. Just fixed the link.
Be prepared to be frightened by a giant yellow-green amoeba.
i can see the pic but i honestly dont see the yellow green thing youre referring to
Quote from: ice grillin you on June 12, 2006, 09:52:09 AM
i can see the pic but i honestly dont see the yellow green thing youre referring to
Look at the back wall, above the bunk. You'd need to zoom a little for the detail to stand out.
i see it, but its very light. problem is everybody's monitor is calibrated differently, so some might see it, some might not. im not sold about the batteries. on digitals they go out all the time, especially if they arn't rechargable and also if your using a flash quite often. but that orb is somewhat weird, was there natural light opening's in there? kinda looks like windows. that could be the explaination.
back in the day during summers I worked at a lumber yard and somehow the head of the "Paranormal Society of Pennsylvania" (Rick Fisher) came in and worked a couple months. If anyone has seen ghosts, this dude was it. :paranoid
I don't necessarily believe all "ghost" sightings are hooey, but I think a place like this might purposely house magnetic fields of some sort or do other prep-work to improve the number of people who visit the tour.
I don't see anything really obvious, either. Could be just another trick of the light...
(http://mikesnoise.typepad.com/noisepage/images/schultz.jpg)
"I see nu-ting!"
It looks like a perfect circle. Maybe you accidentally blew some snot on the lens? That's only my dumb-assed opinion. I believe that some of the sightings are the real deal and I have had similar stuff that creeped me out, so I'm not doubting it.
(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y133/Bobberton/P1010002-lvladjusted1.jpg)
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I think you've found yourself a slimer.
Quote from: mussa on June 12, 2006, 10:02:02 AM
i see it, but its very light. problem is everybody's monitor is calibrated differently, so some might see it, some might not. im not sold about the batteries. on digitals they go out all the time, especially if they arn't rechargable and also if your using a flash quite often. but that orb is somewhat weird, was there natural light opening's in there? kinda looks like windows. that could be the explaination.
If you save it to your hard drive & use another app to zoom in, it's clearer.
I know how digitals eat batteries, which is why I didn't think too much of it at first. It wasn't so much that the batteries died, as it was how strangely the camera acted before they did.
The room was basically pitch black when we walked in, though the wall slots let in a little natural light. The blob doesn't have the characteristics of a lens flare or refraction though.
Quote from: FFatPatt on June 12, 2006, 10:39:38 AM
I don't necessarily believe all "ghost" sightings are hooey, but I think a place like this might purposely house magnetic fields of some sort or do other prep-work to improve the number of people who visit the tour.
That place can barely afford to keep toilet paper in the men's room, let alone setting up secret magnetic coils.
It's hooey.
I will second Jerome99RIP's declaration.
Quote from: FFatPatt on June 12, 2006, 12:22:38 PM
I will second Jerome99RIP's declaration.
:-D I guess it's something you have to experience.
I actually like watching Ghost Hunters on SciFi. They've had some good finds on there. Eastern state was a pretty good find on video, then some lighthouse in St Augustine was crazy. They also had some crazy shtein happen at the Stanley Hotel( from the Shining). TAPS Website Evidence (http://www.the-atlantic-paranormal-society.com/evidence.html)
Quote from: Beermonkey on June 12, 2006, 12:34:27 PM
Quote from: FFatPatt on June 12, 2006, 12:22:38 PM
I will second Jerome99RIP's declaration.
:-D I guess it's something you have to experience.
You said yourself that you left disappointed and that the freakiest thing that happened was your camera batteries dying. No offense, but there are plenty of things higher on my list of things I have to experience.
believe
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Growing up, my buddy's family had a farm down in Odessa, DE. Down the road from him was another farm that he knew the family and they had kids our age. This farm was a slave farm that was in operation up till the Civil War. The house was you basic Brick with that old stucco like surface outside. The house had no A/C or window a/c units.
There was a room connected to the house that had a bar hanging down connected to a wooden beam in the ceiling that the kids mom explaind was used to whip the slaves. We were all haning out in this room for a little while after the kids mom left and all the sudden the temperature dropped really quickly. It was something like 93 degrees outside and the house was extremely hot also. No vents of any kind in this room, we all freaked out and took off out of the house.
That was the craziest experience i ever had, and it was nothing more than a temperature drop.
Quote from: FFatPatt on June 12, 2006, 12:48:19 PM
Quote from: Beermonkey on June 12, 2006, 12:34:27 PM
Quote from: FFatPatt on June 12, 2006, 12:22:38 PM
I will second Jerome99RIP's declaration.
:-D I guess it's something you have to experience.
You said yourself that you left disappointed and that the freakiest thing that happened was your camera batteries dying. No offense, but there are plenty of things higher on my list of things I have to experience.
Well, I didn't say to put that on the list over a trip to Europe & nailing asian twins. It was a eerie experience & the only reason that I was disappointed, was because I didn't get chased Scooby Doo-style around the fort.
Quote from: Beermonkey on June 12, 2006, 12:57:53 PM
I was only disappointed because I didn't get chased Scooby Doo-style around the fort by a dripping wet and stark naked "ghost" that looked exactly like Jevon Kearse.
I see.
Quote from: FFatPatt on June 12, 2006, 12:59:37 PM
Quote from: Beermonkey on June 12, 2006, 12:57:53 PM
I was only disappointed because I didn't get chased Scooby Doo-style around the fort by a dripping wet and stark naked "ghost" that looked exactly like Jevon Kearse.
I see.
Ooh..zing. You haven't played the Kearse card in awhile. :-D
I just wanna go on record and say that this thread started off with a lot of potential and all the right elements to make a great thread but just never delivered and I find humor in it's futility. This thread is the Washington taterskins of the internet.
Quote from: Sgt PSN on June 12, 2006, 05:49:52 PM
I just wanna go on record and say that this thread started off with a lot of potential and all the right elements to make a great thread but just never delivered and I find humor in it's futility. This thread is the Washington taterskins of the internet.
Wait, If you look closely enough, the ghost is trying to convey some kind of message to you.
(http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j224/beermonkey68/P1010002-lvladjustedcopy.jpg)
No, I think I see something now. And it scares the shtein out of me!
(http://www.susbirder.com/cf/mifflin2.jpg)
Quote from: Susquehanna Birder on June 12, 2006, 09:01:53 PM
No, I think I see something now. And it scares the shtein out of me!
:-D I pissed myself in fear.
In all seriousness, here's the object close up.
(http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j224/beermonkey68/orb.jpg)
Quote from: Beermonkey on June 12, 2006, 06:37:28 PM
Quote from: Sgt PSN on June 12, 2006, 05:49:52 PM
I just wanna go on record and say that this thread started off with a lot of potential and all the right elements to make a great thread but just never delivered and I find humor in it's futility. This thread is the Washington taterskins of the internet.
Wait, If you look closely enough, the ghost is trying to convey some kind of message to you.
Well played. But we've got smilies that can do that. Tell your ghost to learn a new trick. :flipoff
Quote from: FFatPatt on June 12, 2006, 12:48:19 PM
Quote from: Beermonkey on June 12, 2006, 12:34:27 PM
Quote from: FFatPatt on June 12, 2006, 12:22:38 PM
I will second Jerome99RIP's declaration.
:-D I guess it's something you have to experience.
You said yourself that you left disappointed and that the freakiest thing that happened was your camera batteries dying. No offense, but there are plenty of things higher on my list of things I have to experience.
Meeting Beermonkey is a freaky experience in itself. :D