Do you believe in ghosts?

[Anonymous]

I used to live in upper Old Town (not the fancy part) and our civic association hosted a presentation about the history of the neighborhood. Someone from the Northern Virginia Urban League was asked about their building, because it was rumored to be haunted. The building had once housed slavers, and they kept slaves in pens there. She matter-of-factly confirmed the rumors. She told of chains rattling in the basement, and of one cleaner who quit. No one would stay in the building after about 9 at night. I believed her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to live in upper Old Town (not the fancy part) and our civic association hosted a presentation about the history of the neighborhood. Someone from the Northern Virginia Urban League was asked about their building, because it was rumored to be haunted. The building had once housed slavers, and they kept slaves in pens there. She matter-of-factly confirmed the rumors. She told of chains rattling in the basement, and of one cleaner who quit. No one would stay in the building after about 9 at night. I believed her.

That's terrifying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, they're fairytales.

Go to Woodlawn Plantation and you will find out they are not fairytales!

What's up with Woodlawn plantation?

This one? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlawn_(plantation)

[Anonymous]

Apparently this house in Scotland is so haunted prospective employers informed anyone potential hires that they've gone through 5 nannies in the last year.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/family/looking-new-job-family-offers-50000-nanny-look-children-haunted/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_fb_tmg

[Anonymous]

I though my keyboard was on the blink. Kept randomly typing letters. Like sssssssssssssslllllllllllllllrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Today it wrote reeeepeeeennnntttt.

Went to church for the first time since my wedding today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, they're fairytales.

Go to Woodlawn Plantation and you will find out they are not fairytales!

What's up with Woodlawn plantation?

We had a party at Woodlawn Plantation. The dinner was downstairs, and you had to go upstairs to go the bathroom. Everyone who went up there came back very creeped out (including myself). Everyone was a little sheepish about it, as in "Have you been upstairs? Did it seem strange to you?" There's just a very hard to describe, but scary presence there. None of us had heard the stories about the house being haunted before that night.

[Anonymous]

What stories from Woodlawn? Care to share?

[Anonymous]

I don't call them ghosts. I believe in the spirit of the dead. I participate in a mediation group and the leader s a medium. We have visitors all the time. Its not scary.

[Anonymous]

I worked in an old building on Huntington Ave. (in Alex.) that has since been torn down (this happened in 2011). I came in on a Saturday to get some work done and the whole building was really quiet. I thought one of our VPs was in his office because I could hear someone in there and I thought I could sort of see him working away. he seemed really busy and I didn't want to disturb him so I just went to my office and stared getting things done.

When I left for the day his office and the rest of the building was totally quiet.

On Monday, I saw the VP on the elevator and said a quip like "sure feels like a short weekend when you spend half of it at the office, right?" and he look at me like he didn't get it and said "well, have a good day."

A couple of months later a colleague told me that in the 70s there was another VP who had that office, and one day he he went home and committed suicide. I always wondered if that's who I saw working in the office that day.