About this ghost in Swedish --- About this ghost automated English translation
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There is a ghost living in my mom's home. As a medium I have been interviewing the ghost. I now have all the facts I need to find out if this ghost has once lived or not. I have put my mediumship aside and am now checking the facts.
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I am also a skeptic, and as a skeptic I will be looking for inaccuracies and inconsistencies, to find out, if this ghost depicts someone who once lived, or if this is all imaginary. I do not favor one outcome over the other, I only want to find out the truth.
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The railroad tracks here at Eklundsnäsbadet. When were they removed?
The ghost says he died over at the railroad tracks here locally by Eklundsnäsbadet here in the city of Södertälje. That is interesting. There sure have been railroad tracks there, and those are a distinct feature in the landscape. The area has a popular lakeside region where people can go swim or camping and a lot of nature for people to enjoy. I have been going there with my family my entire childhood. When you go there you walk past a railroad track, and it kind of cuts through a large region there.
But the fun part is - these railroad tracks were removed a few years back! I need to find out what year they were removed, because the year when our ghost would have died there, the tracks were still there. Although this ghost has not been able to give me the year at which he died (one of the very few things he failed to give me), I do know when he was born and the approximate range of years that he would have had to been there, so it is good to at least look into this to find a discrepancy, if one is to be found. (Even when you can't look for evidence in one case, look for discrepancies! Discrepancies are just as valuable as confirmations, if not more in this case where confirmations have little credibility!!)
Find out: When were the railroad tracks at Eklundsnäsbadet removed?
Update Oct 14: I asked mom if she remembers when the railroad tracks were removed. She wasn't sure but says that in '88 the tracks were definitely there. She can not remember when they were removed but thinks it was about 20 years ago, putting us in the early 90's. If the ghost's son was born 92 or 93, and the son was still a baby when he died, and the railroad tracks would have still been there, then the railroad tracks should have still been there around 92 or 93. I will contact the local government and ask when the railroad tracks were removed. Maybe they can even give me a month. I can also find out on a map what region these railroad tracks would have covered. How long were those tracks? I'd hope to enclose a map here for you all to see. I can also go down there and take pictures to show you the area where the tracks used to be. It is now a long path like just a long mound made of sand.
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Is Chabo a last name in Syrian language? How popular is it?
The ghost says his last name is Chabo, and so is the last name of his father, wife, sons, and at least that of one of his cousins. It is his family name, in other words. Just yesterday I happened to see something on tv where a Syrian man's first name was Chabo. Will this unveil a discrepancy?
I also need to check that Chabo is a Syrian name or not. The ghost says he and his family are Syrian. Is this name consistent with this cultural group? We certainly have a lot of Syrian people living here in Södertälje. However I must say that when my mom called me while I was in the US and told me that she has a ghost in the bedroom of her new apartment, other than me at first dismissing it as nonsense and kind of making fun of it, I thoroughly assumed that the ghost - of course - must be that of an elderly lady. And even when I was here for my visit to mom and she occasionally mentioned "her ghost", I would assume that it must be a Swedish little old lady. But oh I was wrong. This ghost is something as extraordinary as a Syrian man, and he wasn't particularly old either. He was either in his mid- or upper 20's or early 30's. Go figure.
Find out: Is Chabo a Syrian name? Is it a first name or a last name? How common is the name, can I perhaps find out how many families are living in Södertälje that have this name? (Note that I will not delve into any real and living persons' or families' personal space in this ghost investigation. Maybe if this ghost is confirmed and proven to be real, they would want to talk to each other - but that is a long way away, and not even a prospect.)
Answer: If Chabo can also be a first name in Syrian, yes Chabo is a last name. A simple Google search on the name reveals that it is used by several people as a last name. Do not know yet how popular or if it is a Syrian last name.
(Note that I am torn between keeping this ghost case secret just in case this ghost is real and it involves the lives of a formerly living person and those of his still living relatives, and having my need to investigate and look into this ghost case in the first place. If this ghost is found to not have lived, no harm done. Any coincidental resemblance between persons mentioned by my ghost and real people would be just a coincidence, just like what they write at the beginning of fictional murder series on tv. If this ghost is real, I will hope that I will not have revealed any personal or distressful information publicly that the family would wish to keep secret. I certainly know that this ghost has asked me time and time again not to talk about the details. Yet, it would be a reason to celebrate, because first of all this particular person, the ghost, would be able to communicate with the world through me. And something would be learned about the afterlife, that transcends just this person or this family, something that applies to us all, every human being that ever was or will be.)
Looking up his family members in the local registry of residents
I will not say the first names that this ghost has given me. I do however have the first names of his mother and father, wife, son, brothers and sister. I can see if they can or can not be found in the local registry of residents. If they are found it does not mean it is them. If they are not found it does not say that they would not exist and have moved away.
Of course I will not contact any person.
Find out: Can the family members of this ghost be found in the local registry of residents?
Update: I found an online service that claims itself to being a lookup service for people, businesses, etc, in Sweden. So I typed in the ghosts son's first name with last name as Chabo and the city to be Södertälje. It produced no findings. And so I thought, huh, this ghosts son does not exist. But then I thought like a scientist, and entered my mother's first and last name and the city for Södertälje. The same result, no findings. And my mother is definitely registered here, with that name and in this city. So I must find another registry, somewhere. Perhaps at the library. (Note: This is how you have to work as a scientist. You have to not only criticize your data, but also question the methods, evaluate the equipment. Like when I work with chemistry at school I like to test the equipment because sometimes they can be lying. My critical thinking and the fact that I do not have bias to favor falsification as the outcome made me avoid a false negative result here. Someone thinking too much as a skeptic might have said "Aha! The son doesn't exist! Case closed! Falsified!". Moving on.)
Is the last name and are the first names Syrian? If so, then how prevalent are they as names? What about the other "Syrian" facts given by this ghost?
Fortunately Sweden has a Syrian organization and I will ask them whether Chabo is a Syrian last name and what they can say about the prevalence of that name. I can also ask them about each of the first names given to me by my ghost, ask if they are Syrian names, and if they are, are they prevalent names or rare ones. I am sure the Syrian association will be able to help me with that. Some of the first names given to me by the ghost sound like authentic first names, but other ones I am not sure about and do not recall having heard before. (But don't forget about subconscious knowledge! People can know things that they don't know they know!)
Find out: Contact the Syrian association and ask them about these names whether they are Syrian and how prevalent. Also ask about the facts that came up about Syrian culture, such as religion.
Update Oct 14: I was finding that local Syrian associations did not have an e-mail address so I went to their national Swedish website which does have an e-mail contact address - and fortunately for this investigation they are located in Södertälje. Because I might need to ask information that relates to us locally. So I was lucky.
Here they are Syrianska Riksförbundet i Sverige (The National Swedish Syrian Association). I contact them just to check some of the facts supposedly being Syrian names and of Syrian culture. I do not know any Syrian people myself whom I could ask, and I do not want to ask a stranger. I am sure their association would be happy to answer some questions about Syrian culture.
Kindly note that any internet-based at-home amateur-skeptic who contacts this association with rude referrals to Jim Carr's stopvisionfromfeeling website or inaccurate implications about me being a liar, fraud, delusional, etc. will be regarded as a form of personal harrassment and intentional sabotage of a skeptical investigation. Be warned that I will go to the police if there are any signs of a slander campaign against me or my work. Thank you.
Genuine concerns regarding my investigations can be addressed to me personally or in any of the skeptic forums available. An objective discussion can then ensue to make a proper assessment whether I am entitled to any activism. If not justified, any such activism will not be tolerated and will be grounds for legal action.
Thank you.
Update Oct 14: The letter to the Syrian Association has been sent and a copy of it also to the skeptics who are helping me with some data validation (even though that is only partially successful due to irrepairable credibility issues in this particular ghost case). It asks each of the names that the ghost gave me whether those are Syrian names, if so how prevalent, and what decades they were given to newborn. I also ask about various aspects of Syrian culture and religion that came up in the conversations. These facts are all in the fact sheets that were sent to the skeptics in what I claim to be before starting the fact check (credibility issue: I have no way of proving that I did not start early etc). I also gave a brief description of why I am asking, I thought it was more appropriate to explain my business rather than avoid the sometimes touchy subject of ghosts. I just said that there seems to be a ghost in my mom's home and that he is Syrian and I am checking up the facts.
Update Oct 15: The ghost spoke to me last night also. It was pretty much the same conversation pieces as always. The circumstances of his death, and thoughts of his family. I wrote it all down of course, but have marked it as post-fact check material, meaning that now that I have started the fact check, no new facts can be added or included, because they could be inspired from the things that I learn or come across during my fact check as I am looking into the things said to me by this ghost. However I don't think there was anything new mentioned, however what he said pretty much confirms or agrees with previously said material.
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Male first names: The fun thing is, this ghost is not Swedish, he and his family - he says - are Syrian. This is a culture I know little about. So the names he has given me are also supposedly Syrian. Names have come up that I am not sure if they are names, and that provides an opportunity to find inaccuracy and falsify this ghost. He has said five different first names, one of which would be his. He mentions many names and sometimes it is unclear whether he means it is his name or a relative's. I check out these names to see if a) they are names and if b) they are Syrian names and c) if they are names likely given to a male who was born in the early 70's (names come and go in fashion). Later when trying to find this man, I will have to use all five first names and consider any one of those a match if the person otherwise is found.
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Middle name: I asked him what his middle name is, he did not give one. Doesn't mean he doesn't have one, he also wouldn't give me his social security number yet, he has one. But just for the sake of investigation I will look to see if Syrian people have middle names. I expect them to have them, but it is good to be sure.
Family surname: He has given the surname of his family. This surname would have been his, his wife's, his childrens', mother, father, and some cousins, at a minimum. Is this a surname? Is it a Syrian surname? Does this name occur in our city Södertälje? If so, how prevalent is it, to give an estimate of the chance of guessing this name?
Birth date: He has given his birth date. The year, month, and day. It is mostly consistent, only he has given two years: 1974, and 1972. And two days however the two days are adjacent to one another. The month has always been the same. I attribute some of the inaccuracy to the difficulty of hearing this ghost when he speaks. That is why similar-sounding but slightly different facts can come up on different occasions or in repeated answers. You often see this kind of insecurity in tv-mediums also, they say what the name or year sounds like but can not be sure of the spelling. Still, it does provide a narrow range. So: was a man by this name born on that date?
His age: I've tried to ask him how old he is. It has been difficult to get an answer from him to this and that is why I asked him specific ages to get a yes/no answer from him. So when I asked him if he was 22 he said no. Similarly being not 22, he is also not 57 or 28, he is younger than 40, almost 30 years old, and a little bit older than 31. And he has said to me that he is 32. So if 32 years old, if he was born 1972 he would have died 2004, and if he was born 1974 he would have died 2006. However, this was only asking him how old he is and does not mean to say that he died that age. That, namely which year he died, I saved for a different question altogether.
His social security number: Every time he has answered my question asking for his social security number he has always said that his social security number starts with 1972. Which is interesting. Swedish social security numbers are made up as (year)-(month)-(day)-(random four digits). You can say 1972 for the beginning, but when I give mine I always say only 82, I never say 1982. So that is interesting that he would say it in a different way. Most people I know say only the two last digits of the year, but I know that some people will spell out 1972 not just 72. So with his social security number he has consistently given the birth year 1972. I never hear the middle of it, but he always says 48 in there. And once I heard 1948. Since men are given an odd second-last number, his number could not end with 48. 48 can not be the year, month or day, so it has to be contained in the four last. But not the very last two. Interestingly, him saying 1948, fits 1948 perfectly in the middle, as following: 1972-11-19-48xx. Namely, the day of his birth is the 19th. Creepy. So. Can I go to social security number registries and simply try out all of the possible combinations, or somehow look it up with combination of his place of birth and name? Interesting.
Other facts about his life: Other facts about his life are many, and ones which I suppose I could look into to search for inconsistencies, but which if found are not really evidence for anything since they are so common. But if all put together, it is very unlikely that many people would have all of these details part of their life. That is why for these facts, if all other facts fall in place and this person that the ghost would have been, is found and his family is found, I will consider asking his family if these facts are true for him. I have what he once tried to work with, the make of the car he drove, where he lived and where he wanted to live instead (the type of home and city), the name of his best friend (also do the same name-check on that name), his favorite food, his favorite thing to do as a child (play soccer!), his least favorite subject in school (math - and you know I wouldn't make that up, not in my head, I am a physics major and I love math more than anything!), and other facts about his life, interests, religion.
His height: He says he is 174 centimeters. If this person with this social security number, name, date of birth, circumstances of death etc. is found - was he 174 centimeters tall?
Other names given: Same name-check for those.
Oct 16 - Regarding name-check to see if the names are Assyrian names, it has been a few days and I have not heard an answer from the Swedish Syrian Association. So I will contact some of the members of the Assyrier i Sverige (Assyrians in Sweden) group to ask them about the names. Are the names Assyrian names, if so then how prevalent might they be? Let's find out.
Oct 16 - I have a local catalog listing all the residents in Södertälje, the city where the ghost would have lived and where mom lives. Let's see if I can find the names given to me by this ghost. But, before I do so, what if I find the names? It doesn't mean that they are the relatives of this person or that there be any other connection to the character supposedly this ghost. And what if I don't find them? It is not proof that this ghost has not lived, but it sure is indicative of that and will be piled up together with any other facts found against this case. I would also like to find out how many persons there are with this name to produce some sort of statistics that say how easy it would have been to guess this name and to then find this kind of person. I also need to find out if some persons can choose to not be listed in the catalog, which means that persons might exist but not be listed. Fortunately most of the persons he mentioned were male relatives so they would be unlikely to have changed their last name by marriage. His sister however would more than likely be married by now and have changed her surname.
Good news: none of the persons mentioned by this ghost are found in the catalog. Not his father, mother, brothers, male cousin, son, or wife. I take this as evidence against this ghost. Of course it is possible that the family would have moved from the city, but I would think that it is more likely that they would not. I will continue to investigate, now hoping and expecting more than ever to find out that this ghost has not lived. I think that is wonderful news, because it means I would find a reliable conclusion, and like I say, I am also a skeptic and I am happy to crack a case!
Oct 16 - Found an awesome website Namnstatistik Sverige - Svenska namn (Name statistics Sweden - Swedish names). It gives you a count of how many persons there are in Sweden with a particular name that you look up and even tells in what parts of the country how many they are. I now finally have a way to look up the names given to me by the ghost to at least see if they are names and how prevalent.
Make of car: He says he drove an Opel but says that "at least it wasn't a Nissan", implying he wasn't happy about his car. So I was expecting Opel to be some horrible type of car. I just looked up some pictures, and hey, it is a gorgeous looking car! What's his problem!
Animated movie Pingu: Oct 16 - The ghost says that his son used to watch the animated movie Pingu. One thing to look up is what year was the series created? If the year is later than the year in which he says his son was born +3 years, then there is an inconsistency. Note that I do not know how old the son would have been, but all pictures that he has shown me mentally of his son look like not an infant but a baby of up to 3 years old. Personal note: I absolutely hate this cartoon. I refused to watch it as a child myself. Ok, the official Pingu website reveals that the series was created in 1984. The son was born 1992 or 1993 so no inconsistency found there. I'd still like to find out what year it first started airing in Sweden, maybe later than 1984?
Important update October 18 2010: I was sitting with mom in the livingroom just now and during the commercial break in the tv-show we were both watching mom showed me her cellular phone and showed me how it has no reception at all here in our apartment this evening. It doesn't do this and the area we live in always has reception. Well, then mom got to talking and told me about something that has been bothering her the past few days. "Did you know that for the past few days I have been hearing this strange sound over from the coffee table?", she said. She said that in the evenings and also mornings when she has been lying on the couch - which has been her bed ever since she moved in here because she is uncomfortable with the spooky feeling and strange activities in the ghostroom that should have been her bedroom - while lying comfortably and reading, which she always does with the tv off and no music or anything just silence, she has been bothered by this strange sound that appears from the coffee table. The coffee table is right next to the sofa, just a few inches from her with the gap between the two furniture.
If I am watching tv in the evenings while mom is wanting to read on the sofa I always ask mom if it is ok for me to turn the tv on and I ask if it won't bother her while she is reading. Mom always says it is ok for me to watch television while she reads, it won't bother her. Yet this sound bothers her, or that the sound is just such a mystery. So mom started telling me about the sound, saying one thing after the other in a perfect sequence that could not have been fabricated, and I saw in her eyes that she was describing something she had seen. "There is this sound as if when the cellphone is on vibrate." She says it's like a vibrating sound. "But it's coming from on the coffee table." So mom working to figure it out says that it's not her cell phone, because it is not vibrating and it is not there on the coffee table from where the sound comes. Mom has an alarm clock that has to be wound up every now and so often and it makes that typical ticking sound heard all across the apartment if it's quiet and if you listen. So mom says it has to be the alarm clock. So mom puts the alarm clock down on the floor. But the vibrating sound continues as before, right from on top of the coffee table. It is not caused by the alarm clock going about its business.
So, mom thinks that maybe the three green glass holders for tealight candles are sitting too close to one another, somehow grinding and making that noise. So she moves them apart and the sound still continues. There is nothing left on the coffee table to investigate to try to find the source of that noise.
When mom tells me this, it occurs to me that I too have been the witness of the very same mystery. "Mom, I've heard the very same sound, but only in the recent days, the past two days to be exact!" Mom agrees that yes, this has only occurred for the past two days or so. She has lived here for over a year or two and this sound is not something that has ever appeared before. Living in an apartment, different sounds from the environment and neighbors come and go. We also have a construction site right outside of our window building a new school, yet this sound is appearing - what we now see - is on the evenings after working hours when the men are no longer working on the site, and also, this being Monday, the sound has been occurring on the weekend when no workers have been there. Also, the sound is localized, and mom says it is coming from the top of the coffee table.
So I tell mom about the strange sounds I have been hearing in the past two evenings while I have been in the kitchen. I stay up late and mom goes to bed early, so I am often here tip-toeing in the kitchen late at nights with mom sound asleep on the sofa. One of those nights I was minding my own business in the kitchen probably preparing a late night snack. There would be no tv or music on and the neighbors around here thankfully are perfectly quiet at night. Suddenly I notice this vibrating sound. It sounds like a mechanical machine vibrating. The sound is very clear, we are not talking about some faint sound that is maybe there yet maybe not. The sound is loud and clear. "What is that?" I think to myself. The sound bothers me, because I have been living here since early June this year - making that four and a half months by now - and never have I heard this sound before, or anything like it. Not just never heard it here in this apartment but I have never heard such a sound ever before in my life! I am not one to get spooked easily - believe it or not - so I tell myself it's just something in the apartment making that mechanical buzzing sound. Nothing spooky at all, I tell myself and actually manage to convince myself and to settle with that fact.
But being bothered by the sound I try to figure out what the heck that is. So I'm standing by the refrigerator in the kitchen and hearing the sound from over there somewhere, not from the hallway but the livingroom. So I take a few steps toward the hallway and lean closer, I hold my breath not to be making any sound myself and to really listen carefully. I hear the familiar tick-tock of the windable alarm clock as is always there. And at that point I get a better closer listen to that awful sound. It sounds like a machine. If I wasn't in an apartment and had to guess just at random at anything that it could be, I'd say some old machinery in some old steam engine or factory. I don't know, there's just something about that sound that makes me loathe it, it bugs me, it bothers me. And I don't know why.
And I tell myself it must be the windable alarm clock. It simply must. The clock is the only machinery like that that we have here. In our modern electronic age few things any longer are mechanical of the old-fashioned sort that the horrible sound describes. It is the sound of machinery, something running, buzzing, vibrating. A horrible terrible sound. I can't emphasize that enough, something about the sound just disgusts me. And so while listening and carefully holding my breath to figure out what the heck that sound is, all I hear is the windable alarm clock going about as always, and that horrible buzzing mechanical sound of machinery. But the thing is, those sounds are not coming from the same place. The mechanical sound is not coming from where I hear the alarm clock ticking away. The mechanical sound is not even coming from the livingroom.
I want to find out what all of a sudden started making that noise. Because the sound had all of a sudden begun. And never before heard. And had it been there before I would have noticed. Just all of a sudden it had appeared. And what bugs me is that it is loud and clear, it is not something that you can tell yourself that oh it's not really that loud, it is probably nothing. It is a loud and clear sound of machinery vibrating. And the sound sounds like something oldfashioned like something rusty and ... old. Nowhere in our modern age do sounds like that appear. And so as I am certain that that sound is not coming from the livingroom, not coming from where the mechanical alarm clock is, I am so sure that the sound is not coming from there that that is why I do not go there to look for the darn thing. If I had any doubt in my mind that the sound could be coming from there I would have gone there to investigate. Because when you hear such a sound like that, you just have to find what it is just to give that "thing" a good stare and look at it. So where was it coming from?
I notice that the sound is somehow surrounding me in the kitchen. Yet, it is coming from further away. So if it is from around me, then it must must must be the refrigerator. There is no other machinery in the kitchen that could be making that noise. But it is not the refrigerator. I listen carefully at the refrigerator. I open its door and I listen. The sound is not coming from the refrigerator. The refrigerator is quiet. Yet there is this buzzing sound in our apartment. Coming from very very close, yet from further away, yet neither.
I do not find the answer. And the next night I notice it again and it puzzles me yet again. It is something that makes me stop and listen and really challenges me and I can not come to an answer.
I had made no note of that, and certainly not thought of it as anything beyond "just a weird sound". Until mom told me about her experiences with it, that had occured while she had been on her own, on separate occasions from mine.
I had not told mom about this horrible mechanical vibrating sound, nor had I written anything about it. So mom could not have been inspired by my experience. Her experience was hers alone. And when she started telling me about it just a while ago, we were agreeing with each other and finishing each other's sentences about it!
But what is it. And why am I making such a big deal out of it. Well because it's strange. It comes from close by, definitely not a sound coming from the other side of the wall, or from outside. It is in this apartment. Yet it is farther away. And neither mine nor mom's investigations have found the source, and it has left both of us annoyed and puzzled. If it appears again I will be sure to videorecord the sound. But trust me, you will not like what it sounds like. Something about that sound makes me upset and annoyed. It bothers me. And if the sound appears and I try to record it, the sound should appear on the video. Because the sound is louder than the ticktock of the alarm clock, which in itself too is loud.
Of course I wonder - has the ghost started manifesting? This only started when I begun confronting and provoking the ghost and deliberately trying to make it angry, in part to provoke some more response and answers from it, and in part because I do not find that I can reasonably or logically believe in it.
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Update Oct 18: I put the digital camera on the coffee table in the livingroom and set it on record. It can hold up to 45 minutes of film. Mom was reading her book on the sofa and I was sitting on the other end of the sofa listening and watching. A while later I got bored so I fetched a book to read. The book made me sleepy and so I lied down, closed my eyes and drifted into daydreaming about USA and my boyfriend there and what he used to cook for breakfast. 42:30 into the video all of a sudden the familiar landscape of background noise was interrupted by something strange that didn't fit into the landscape. It took a while for the sound to reach my attention after I had heard it. I opened my eyes and just looked at mom. She said for me not to talk in case the sound appears again. The sound had been there. It was the sound of something over the coffee table. The mechanical alarm clock had been put beneath the table and was not responsible.
During the filming I was writing down what the ghost was saying to me and when. These will be added into the video as a text at the appropriate times when they appeared. The video is 1.25 GB large and the PC I am using is unable to upload this huge file from the camera. I will have to wait until the weekend to borrow my sister's laptop so that I can upload and then process the video to YouTube. Hopefully the sound will be caught on video.
Another thing: right after the sound had been recorded the camera indicated low battery. I had just put new batteries in right before beginning this video. It seems too soon for batteries to run out, yet I have to test this theory by filming on new batteries in other occasions to see if it happens again. It is often reported during ghost investigations that film cameras and other electronic equipment mysteriously run out of battery during an investigation and in the presence of other ghostly manifestations, even though the equipment had been charged right before beginning the investigation.
Look forward to the ghost video on YouTube, linked here, soon.
I realize that I have not posted anything of what the ghost has been saying to me this past month here on my website. As a *special treat*, here is what the ghost said to me during the filming of this video (translated into English from original Swedish):
| 00:00 | Film recording starts at 10:04 PM |
| 01:40 | I am not your nice guy anymore. |
| 12:05 | Do you know what is the best thing that I know of? To kick in your head.
Hit the table. - I say
Hey you, I am no longer looking for my family, I know they're not here.
I can find them for you. But to do that I need some information. - I say
I thought I told you, "watch out". |
| 22:35 | Well then. I didn't want to shoot you, I just wanted to place out some evidence. |
| 28:40 | Will you leave me alone then?
Don't you want help? - I ask |
| 30:03 | I didn't want to be beaten to death. |
| 31:00 | I can still feel safe, but not now. |
| 35:30 | Ouch, my arm. |
| 36:35 | So I'll beat you up my friend. |
| 37:53 | I don't have the time to get rid of this film. |
| 42:30 | The sound is heard from over across the coffee table |
| 44:10 | I have to end the recording early due to low battery |
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Please go to About this ghost in Swedish --- About this ghost automated English translation to see what a normal conversation with this ghost looks like, before I started provoking this poor fellow and getting such violent remarks. You must see him in his real character. Also note that these brief messages from him as seen here are such because I deliberately chose not to engage in conversation while filming, whereas normally during an "interview" with the ghost there is a freely flowing two-way dialogue, as seen if you follow those links. NOTE THAT THE ENGLISH VERSION IS AN AUTOMATED TRANSLATION AND THAT TRANSLATION ERRORS DO OCCUR. SO IF SOMETHING DOESN'T MAKE SENSE - IT'S PROBABLY BECAUSE OF THE TRANSLATION! (All of the conversations will later be translated and made available in English. Probably in a book, but also here.)
Please note that this particular excerpt from this late in the ghost investigation gives a wrong picture of what this ghost is like. It all really started out as nice and he even referred to me as "pretend buddy". It was only two days ago that I started provoking him and confronting him, being really rude at times. In part because I was not finding him based on the facts he had given me (but my search ie. fact check has only just started) and I want him to give me more information and evidence and to stop playing games, and in part because I can not let myself believe that this ghost would actually be a person. He is a criminal type person and I don't think it would be a good idea to provoke this kind of person. I have been utmost nice to him throughout this past month of conversations, as I always am. But only now that I started confronting him sharply did these funny sounds start to appear.
I must have captured that sound on video, and hope to show you all what it sounds like this weekend when I have the chance to upload the file. I will now go to listen for the sound some more but regrettably can not record it anymore since the camera is full and can not be emptied until this weekend. I may also go to the ghost's room to see what he says, but I think I'm rather tired after a lot of work on this ghost and couldn't be bothered anymore and just want to go to bed.
Update November 19 2010 - After a long period of nothing, early this morning I noticed our ghost at home standing in full apparition in the doorway to his bedroom. I've often felt him standing right there in the doorway whether the door would be open or closed, but this is the first time I have ever seen a full-body apparition of a ghost or to see anything for as long as this one lasted. Previously I have only seen little fragments of white flashing by. He just stood there, and when I told him that I don't like seeing a ghost and that he should hide from me he walked away into the kitchen.
It was interesting and surprised me. Of course I tell myself that it might not be a real ghost, yet again this "thing" that we have here at home is a real "something". Other people experience it too and simultaneously in the same way and independently and unaffected by the observations of others. There is evidence in the form of aligning multiple accounts by different people that suggests this "ghost" is not a personal or isolated experience in one person alone. This ghost most definitely is "something", that triggers a sensory experience involving feeling, internal auditory, visual, and even physical manifestations in the form of shook furniture and objects stripped off the walls or thrown down and broken in mysterious ways.
The full-body apparition was in the perfect shape of an adult man. It contained the outline from head to toe and all parts of the body equally discernible. It seemed to be clothed. The figure was as if constructed out of light. I was surprised at seeing it so clearly from head to toe, especially since many reports of so-called full-body apparitions still often lack visibility of their feet. I was also surprised at how long this image was lasting, and how it was able of staying intact even when it was walking. There was no coloration to this figure. He was all made out of white light.
I was not alarmed by what I saw. I dive into this ghost phenomenon treating it as a little research project. Of course many might be afraid of the unknown, because it can make them feel unsure and out of place to have something occur which does not belong to their ordinary experience. But there is also an inherent creepyness-factor to many ghosts. The place in which they are experienced, often carries a very negative and unpleasant atmosphere which affects people all in its own. Yet I approach this subject bravely, knowing that it is not likely to be able to cause any harm. As a child I was once afraid of the earwig insect but I cured my phobia by picking up the insect into my hand to see that not only was it harmless but actually quite interesting. Facing ghosts, what ever they are, requires the same amount of courage and commitment.
I have not received a reply about my inquiries of the validity of the names and seem to have gotten stuck in my facts checking. I have not given up on the project yet, however.
The video I made which fortunately happened to capture the strange table shaking sound which was appearing over the living room coffee table has still not been uploaded from the camera. There are technical difficulties and I need to borrow someone's more powerful computer. The video will be made available on YouTube as quickly as possible, along with added texts of the actual conversations from the ghost that were taking place at that time.
And also, I haven't been hearing or speaking to this ghost for ages until he started again this morning shortly after the full-body apparitions. He asked me if I had had any luck at finding his son and I said no. He said that he had deliberately not given me real names of his family members, saying it was because some people had threatened to hurt his family members. He quotes several forms of criminal involvement and he is deliberately evasive about answering my questions or being honest. I really do need a different ghost for my first case study. This guy or what ever it is is hopeless!
More later.
Check back again later for more updates on this very fascinating fact check
if this ghost doesn't exist I sure will show you why and how
(and if he does seem to exist, I'm moving on to more scientific and exciting ghost investigations!)
