weird black "squiggle" right in front of me

when i was 8 or 9 years old we lived in a cul de sac of about 25 houses. it was a straight cul de sac, no bends in the road. there was a group of us kids that played together and we never left the street as it was adjacent to a very busy main road. there was a house up the top right hand side that was abandoned, the front gates chain locked. a few years previous a family lived there, 3 children. apparently one evening the husband became possessed by an evil spirit, got a hatchet out and slaughtered the children gruesomely, chasing them around the house hacking at them. he then locked himself and his wife in the upstairs bedroom at chopped her limbs off one by one leaving her to bleed to death. her screams could be heard all over the street. he was arrested and told police he suddenly got an overpowering urge to kill his whole family.
many times i heard this story as a kid,true or not, it scared the bejayzus outta me...
so this house was our haunted house. we were all scared to go near it, the rumour being the ghost of the mother could be seen at the upstairs bedroom window. even my mother told us not to go near it.
one day we all decided to go to the gates and call out for the ghost to appear. we were all at the gate including a couple of the older lads, when all of a sudden everybody started getting scared,panicky, freaked out even. they said they could see something at the window. not me. unbelievably, and to this day i can remember this very clearly, i saw a black squiggly line going across the driveway from the house towards the garden. i say squiggle because it moved like a snake does. i looked around at the rest of the lads and they were all looking up at the window shaking, screaming almost crying. they were definitely seeing something. but the black line was moving quite slowly about 4 feet off the ground. it was about 2 foot across, it stayed the same width the whole time. it was'nt too thick maybe a couple of inches. i remember shouting "look at that look at that" pointing it its direction. but they were all fixed on the window. the squiggle was moving at a slow walk speed. i didnt feel afraid at all more amazed. after about 15/20 seconds the rest had enough and turned to leave so i did too. i wasnt staying there on my own.
we never went near the house again and i never seen anything like that again. it was so real so yet so unreal..
to this day i can picture it in my head clearly.

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Was the house empty all the time you lived there? It's strange how some houses stand abandoned year after year when housing is so badly needed. There is a house near me that has always been empty since i was a teenager (20 years ago now) and i often wonder if it's haunted. What other reason could there be?

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yes it was. nobody ever went near the house at all. i know there are people on council waiting lists to be housed but even a ghost needs somewhere to live/haunt

Do you still live near the house? Is it still abandoned? Can you take a picture of it?

Where did this all take place?

And in what year did the murders supposedly happen?

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is it possable to post a pic from google eath.
i love these storys.

oooo yes, pictures from google earth please!!

it was 34 years ago and no the house is well gone. i went back there about ten years ago to have a look see. so sorry no photo's

Sounds to me you have a case of squigly line. Seen Here

Cheers

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lol. my favourite show and all.. i also like the scene about the eye floaters. but damn i thought i was getting a proper explanation for what i saw. it was very real and quite unbelievable. has anybody else experienced this before?

Did it appear to be a mist or almost see through line? Or more solid. On an episode(Wolfe Manor) of Ghost Adventures, the "ghost mist", which came out as purple by the UV camera. layed down, as to change form to communicate better with the recorder. Does it remind you of this capture:


While what they found cannot be seen by the naked eye , "black mist" as apparitions are commonly sighted by the naked eye and regular cameras.

Perhaps what you seen travels that way, but a black mist can mean an uninviting entity. Growing up as well, as a kid friends and i would go past the local "haunted" house. They always have a story behind them, and sometimes seems a truth.
Thanks for sharing.

Originally posted by SecretKnowledge
Text there was a house up the top right hand side that was abandoned, the front gates chain locked. a few years previous a family lived there, 3 children. apparently one evening the husband became possessed by an evil spirit, got a hatchet out and slaughtered the children gruesomely, chasing them around the house hacking at them. he then locked himself and his wife in the upstairs bedroom at chopped her limbs off one by one leaving her to bleed to death. her screams could be heard all over the street. he was arrested and told police he suddenly got an overpowering urge to kill his whole family.
many times i heard this story as a kid,true or not, it scared the bejayzus outta me...
so this house was our haunted house. we were all scared to go near it, the rumour being the ghost of the mother could be seen at the upstairs bedroom window. even my mother told us not to go near it.
one day we all decided to go to the gates and call out for the ghost to appear. we were all at the gate including a couple of the older lads, when all of a sudden everybody started getting scared,panicky, freaked out even. they said they could see something at the window. not me. unbelievably, and to this day i can remember this very clearly, i saw a black squiggly line going across the driveway from the house towards the garden. i say squiggle because it moved like a snake does. i looked around at the rest of the lads and they were all looking up at the window shaking, screaming almost crying. they were definitely seeing something. but the black line was moving quite slowly about 4 feet off the ground. it was about 2 foot across, it stayed the same width the whole time. it was'nt too thick maybe a couple of inches. i remember shouting "look at that look at that" pointing it its direction. but they were all fixed on the window. the squiggle was moving at a slow walk speed. i didnt feel afraid at all more amazed. after about 15/20 seconds the rest had enough and turned to leave so i did too. i wasnt staying there on my own.
we never went near the house again and i never seen anything like that again. it was so real so yet so unreal..
to this day i can picture it in my head clearly.

edit on 9/4/11 by SecretKnowledge because: (no reason given)

You are describing EXACTLY the same Cul De Sac I am living in right now, though there are about 45-50 house in it...Straight street and in the middle of a busy main road in the bottom of the town. But I doubt it's the same place

When you say a "squiggle", what exactly do you mean? Physical or Shadow?

Why were you not looking at the ghost lady? That would have been scarier, I think I would have definately scharted.

ok. it was solid black about 2 inches thick. a wavey line about 2 feet across. it moved like a snake does on sand. wavey. "s" shaped waves. it was 4 foot off the ground moving from left to right. i was right at the front of the gate and when i heard the rest getting scared i thought they were seeing the same thing. i looked around and they were all looking up at the window. i said "look at that look at that" but no one did. i didnt look up as what i was seeing was quite unreal. it was in dublin ireland late 70's. i would really like an explanation or theory as it was so surreal

nothing a 12-gauge can fix

but any way that sounds so cool/horrifying i would have move the hell out of there as soon as i saw that ghost

That is strange... I have no explanation for that though I am quite curious now as to what that line could have been...

Scintillating scotoma:

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I've a couple 5-15 minute instances in my life.

a reply to: SecretKnowledge

Wow interesting story! I would guess that you saw the manifestation of leftover negative energy. Seems to usually appear to people as a dark mist or dark shadows but in your case its a squiggly line, maybe the likeness of a serpent because that can be a representation of evil.