23 years.... still affraid... of seeing or hearing something...

[chubs]

When I was 12, I'm 35 now... a friend and I were sitting on my bedroom floor, recording jokes on a tape recorder. It was about 10pm.

After we finished our little “radio show” we decided it was time to listen to our creation… so we rewound the tape and pressed play… tapes have a blank part in the beginning… so we waited for the start of the tape and our joke sketches…
After about 1 min… we concluded that nothing had recorded… and I said: “I guess it didn’t work…?”. That is when I reached over to press the Stop button… thinking we had done something incorrectly… and wanted to start over…


Well… my finger never made it to the button…. We started hearing a loud diabolical very low voice laugh… that went on and on… we both froze solid… the voice then said:
“ Good night Stephen, Good night Michel, sleep tight….ha ha haha….”

I jumped up and started running towards my parents that were in basement wreck room watching TV. My 7 year old brother was sleeping in the next room.

I met my father at the bottom of the stairs, he was taller than me at the time… I could see he was mad, because we (my friend and I ) were running and screaming through the kitchen at 10pm… and my brother was asleep…

I could not talk… I was stuttering and crying and could not explain to him what had happened…

When I finally calmed down enough to explain… they both looked at each other and then looked at me like I was in need of medication….

While this is going on… my friend Michel… grabbed a hammer and smashed the tape into 1000 pieces…

Well… as the title says… it’s been 23 years… and I pretty much think about this every day… especially at night… I sometimes wake up at night… feeling someone is watching me… or it pops into my mind when in my workshop…

So that is my story… It’s as vivid in my mind as the minute it happened… I just can’t understand what did this… or why really… why scrare the hell out of 2 12 year olds…

I have recently… (through facebook) contacted my friend who I had lost contact with later in life… I want to know what he remembers of this… and what he feels these days about this…

Has anyone else have something like this happen?

[metaguru]

This is interesting however not unusual you probably had a ghost in you room at the time.

They are nothing to be afraid of as most are only looking for help to be released from Earth. However as you are still afraid and this is affecting your own Aura it could be worthwhile seeing a reputable Energy Healer to correct this disturbance.

With Love
Ian Stone

[chubs]

Thanks, When I watch tv shows like "Most haunted" and stuff like that and see how they get all excited by a thump 50 feet away in the dead of night... which could be the house settling or a racoon or something...

And I think back and the unmistakable voice saying my name and telling me to sleep tight... I tell myself... if there was gohst in that house... they would have no problem at all hearing them....

Or the show crossing over with ... " I see a F... sound like Frank... Is there a Frank in someones life....?"

The ghost had no problem saying my name... or my friends name...

[MeNHim17]

I can't say that I fully understand your situation but do get the main points. I can understand why you are afraid. I was afraid to sleep when I could just feel the anger of a presence, let alone hearing them say my name. It could possibly have been a relative that recently died? Either that or it had watched you and your family for quite some time and learned about you all. In that case, it never caused you any harm physically, though the emotional stress it caused has followed you.

I feel that it wants you to know something or to help it. Otherwise I don't see why it would have made sure you remembered it the way you did. It would probably be a good idea to talk to your friend like you want to and see if he remembers anything that might help you figure out who he is and what he wants.

Not much help, but you can pm me if you have questions. I'll do my best to answer them.

[chubs]

Weird thing... the friend that was there has ended communication with me when I started to dig at him to talk about this... This is the 2nd time he has done this to me...

I first ran into him at a shop near my house... and we started shooting the breeze... I brought up the event and he kind of brushed it off... we did not speak again for about 10 years...

He found me on facebook and we exchange messages... then I brought it up again... he says he remembers it quite vividly... but when I dig a bit... he ends all communication and does not answer my emails...

I guess I might not be the only one traumatized by this...

[Firelion]

I have had things happen to me and I would like to tell you that if you ignore it, it wouldn't bother you so much... the more you don't give into what they want (which is fear), the less you will be scared and say to yourself, oh well... when something does happen.
When I was about 17, a few of us went to a place towners call 'the eyes'... It's a hangout and party spot down a long paved road with a culdesac at the end and absolutely no houses around... anyways, my sister and the two guys got out of the car and started strumming on the guitar while Sharalynn and I hopped into the front seat and started listening to some music on the tape. There was a loud, very deep voice that overrode the tape and came onto the speakers that said 'GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!!!' Sharalynn and I looked at eachother with a 'WHOA!' and got out pretty quick... Kim and the others did not believe us and so we rewound the tape to see if it was on there, and it wasn't... That was scary at the time and freaky, but I did not let it bother me... after that, we drove to old stone cemetary and hung out for a while...
What I am trying to say, is that they won't hurt you, I have had many, many, many experiences, and seen things others would shit there pants if they saw, but I don't let it bother me... I have witnessed things from different dimensions... ones that no one wants to deal with...
Don't worry... Be happy!!!!!!

Originally Posted by chubs

When I was 12, I'm 35 now... a friend and I were sitting on my bedroom floor, recording jokes on a tape recorder. It was about 10pm.

After we finished our little “radio show” we decided it was time to listen to our creation… so we rewound the tape and pressed play… tapes have a blank part in the beginning… so we waited for the start of the tape and our joke sketches…
After about 1 min… we concluded that nothing had recorded… and I said: “I guess it didn’t work…?”. That is when I reached over to press the Stop button… thinking we had done something incorrectly… and wanted to start over…


Well… my finger never made it to the button…. We started hearing a loud diabolical very low voice laugh… that went on and on… we both froze solid… the voice then said:
“ Good night Stephen, Good night Michel, sleep tight….ha ha haha….”

I jumped up and started running towards my parents that were in basement wreck room watching TV. My 7 year old brother was sleeping in the next room.

I met my father at the bottom of the stairs, he was taller than me at the time… I could see he was mad, because we (my friend and I ) were running and screaming through the kitchen at 10pm… and my brother was asleep…

I could not talk… I was stuttering and crying and could not explain to him what had happened…

When I finally calmed down enough to explain… they both looked at each other and then looked at me like I was in need of medication….

While this is going on… my friend Michel… grabbed a hammer and smashed the tape into 1000 pieces…

Well… as the title says… it’s been 23 years… and I pretty much think about this every day… especially at night… I sometimes wake up at night… feeling someone is watching me… or it pops into my mind when in my workshop…

So that is my story… It’s as vivid in my mind as the minute it happened… I just can’t understand what did this… or why really… why scrare the hell out of 2 12 year olds…

I have recently… (through facebook) contacted my friend who I had lost contact with later in life… I want to know what he remembers of this… and what he feels these days about this…

Has anyone else have something like this happen?

[chubs]

Thanks...that kinda helps..... knowing that I am not the only one... Really makes you wonder who and why.... The point of the message....

But I am slowly getting over it...

[RenBean]

This has never really happened to me, I’ve had a ghost presence laugh in my ear before while I was home alone but I was never scared only startled. The way you describe being taunted over a tape recording makes me think more of pranks then anything else. I just hope the experiences you have had since then are more pleasant and less invasive.

[hoggworks]

It's certainly unfortunate that you were so startled, but I'd think that in this case a paranormal explanation is unnecessary.

(Side-note: I actually signed up to the forums specifically to respond to this comment)

Audio cassette tapes all have write-protection tabs on them, so that you can ensure that nobody overwrites what you've recorded on them. I could achieve the exact effect of what happened to you if I were to write-protect one of the tapes, after having recorded some audio -- knowing that you like to record audio yourself, for fun, and knowing also that you would be having a friend over.

I can certainly imagine that your father, or a brother, or a sister's boyfriend, could have snuck into your room, recorded the ominous message, then placed it back. It could've been months old by the time you actually listened to it (considering that it may have only been likely, but not certain, that you'd use it with your friend).

Heck, you might've been so panicked that you didn't notice how hard your dad was trying to keep from laughing when you were freaked out.

This certainly isn't to disregard the fear that you felt when you discovered the recording, but I think that it's better discovered by a feature of the tape recorder, and a bored parent or sibling, than from a ghost.

[chubs]

Sorry, but I am a experienced audio technician (15 years), musician and trained multimedia electronics expert that worked for the Multimedia distribution service at the University of Ottawa (Ontario Canada) for 5 years. I am aware of write protection... the tabs you noted would have prevented someone from pressing down on the record button of the machine... so that can't be the case

This was "MY" cassette tape that had a dubbed copy of an album by the band Grime Ripper (A metal band from the 80's) . I knew (and still know) exactly how cassette recorders worked. This was not a brother (he was 7) or father that did this. I know you would like to give a technical explanation to this... but I would have figured that out myself... with my technical experience.

Thanks anyway.