I think there was a ghost in the garage last night.

[stuckmotor]

The garage door was not open or opened and sleeping dogs lie against the adjoining kitchen door. They wait for the opportunity of a sound so they can go bonkers. A tractor down the road 500 ft away bothers them, the garage door 100% bothers them, me trying to quietly sneak in the passage door of the garage bothers them. So, nothing here but they did not bark at that sound.
Now what?

Someone seems to have cautioned the ghost to, let sleeping dogs lie.

 

[check]

As noted where we live, distance from road, field of view, deadbolt locks, etc. none of this is remotely possible. It is flat forever out here. The garage door was not open or opened and sleeping dogs lie against the adjoining kitchen door. They wait for the opportunity of a sound so they can go bonkers. A tractor down the road 500 ft away bothers them, the garage door 100% bothers them, me trying to quietly sneak in the passage door of the garage bothers them. So, nothing here but they did not bark at that sound. No one is trying to set up generator to steal because they cannot access it and it weighs almost 300 lbs. It was not rolled to be moved but lifted and moved two inches on a freshly cleaned and mopped floor. Wife is OCD. Read again where we live. No one has keys and if one was missing I would change the locks. No one could possibly be around and if they were I was mowing the lawn for an hour before I went inside. It was still daylight. We are extra cautious. The MIL did pass away at the house a short while ago is the only other thing. Also of note is that we don't believe in ghosts and never have. (And it could not been electromagnetic waves from the twisted power cords because I was wearing my sanctioned TBN aluminum foil wrapped giant gourd helmet with extra long antennas. That's foolproof.) Now what?

I would say a Shrink is next. And make sure you wear that special, special aluminum foil wrapped gourd helmet!

 

[oosik]

Doofy - you shouldn't have ghosts, spirits or anything like that up where you live. Too far from anything civilized. Spent one year working for ADF&G in Glenallen. 1965 - all we had there was the I-Bar-F, Partners Cracker Barrel and a great little hospital run by the local church.

Sorry to veer off topic but so seldom hear from folks living so remote. Hope you are enjoying your time in the wilderness.

 

[sixdogs]

Has anyone else had anything else like this happen to them that's not readily explainable?

 

[shaeff]

Has anyone else had anything else like this happen to them that's not readily explainable?

Back in the 70's when my parents got a helluva deal on their house (which was half a barn, half house), they also inherited the previous owner's dog. Where the kitchen currently is, was a steel doghouse bolted to the floor. The dog, Willie, was a massive German Shepherd, truly a beast of a dog. My parents were renovating the house so they could move out of their apartment, but my mother got side-tracked and began to talk on the phone. My father jokingly said to her: "if you don't get off the phone, I'm going to tear it off the wall!" They finished for the day and went home.

Next morning my father shows up to open the house up and begin working, the steel doghouse is torn out of the floor (it was bolted), and the phone was ripped off the wall. He almost locked up and never went back. The dog was a gentle giant, wasn't chained up and really no way to rip a doghouse or lags through the floor. Very weird.

I grew up in that house. I clearly remember my father asking me, my brother, and my sister if one of us got up in the middle of the night. We never did (at least not the times he asked)- he never told us why he asked. That is, until one day, I was about 17 and just got home late. I was doing my "business" in the bathroom, about 2:30am, house is silent. It's very old, it'll make a creak or a groan, but there's the unmistakable sound of each step squeaking when someone comes down the stairs. It's impossible to avoid. Well, you guessed it, there I am, in a very vulnerable position and heard the steps creaking. I was about finished anyway so I open the door expecting to see a family member grabbing a drink. Nothing. Silence. Our yellow lab was off his bed, hair standing on end just staring at the stairs.

Other than that, it was a great house to grow up in. My parents still live there.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

- Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio

 

[dmccarty]

Sooner or later someone is going to bring "pallets in fields" into this thread. It migt as well be me.

DANG IT! You beat me too it! :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing:

I was going to ask if there was a pallet near the generator and maybe said pallet moved the generator as the pallet escaped to find a field somewhere...:confused3:



Later,
Dan

 

[rekees4300]

Now what?

Maybe the truth is the simplest explanation? How about this, the generator wasn't moved two inches. You and your wife are simply mistaken. As Carl Sagan once said "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". He was referring to UFOs being from another planet. When there are multiple possible explanations for an unexplained phenomenon people tend to believe the most improbable one rather that the most likely one.

 

[/pine]

Maybe the truth is the simplest explanation? How about this, the generator wasn't moved two inches. You and your wife are simply mistaken. As Carl Sagan once said "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". He was referring to UFOs being from another planet. When there are multiple possible explanations for an unexplained phenomenon people tend to believe the most improbable one rather that the most likely one.

See 'Occam's razor'

 

[sixdogs]

Maybe the truth is the simplest explanation? How about this, the generator wasn't moved two inches. You and your wife are simply mistaken. As Carl Sagan once said "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". He was referring to UFOs being from another planet. When there are multiple possible explanations for an unexplained phenomenon people tend to believe the most improbable one rather that the most likely one.

Nope. Generator was moved two inches. See text and explanation.
I also believe in the simplest of explanations and have said that many times on TBN when others are searching for the most complex answer. Start easy and work up from there. We exhausted the easy answers.