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784382 tn?1376931040

has anyone ever seen shost?spirits??

has any ever been in contact with the "other"side.... seen shost?..felt something in the room with you?....the movies freaks me out sometimes... but i totally believe that they walk amoung us..... i believe babies and animals can see them but we cant

would love to hear you stories
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675347 tn?1365460645
I've had some 'paranormal' experiences, but have only actually SEEN what could have been a ghost -once.
This is what happened
A friend had come to visit me. Around dusk he went home. he went out my front door, and past my window to walk to his car parked just past my house, and I saw him go. The window was open, to the left of me, and I half turned to fix my hair in the mirror. Then as I was doing that, I caught sight of someone walking quickly kind of bent forward a bit, past my window in the opposite direction. Thinking it was my friend who had forgotten something I went out quickly (my door is real close to the lane, about 6 feet away, it probably took me less than 20 seconds to get outside) -and saw the red lights of my friend's car driving away. Then realizing it couldn't have been him, I looked down the lane the other way, to see who had just walked past. It's a straight lane, so easy to see along it, it was not dark, and there are no houses or any place a person could duck into.....and there was NO-ONE there.

I mentioned this strange event to a farmer's wife who lived down the lane at the time. She said in a very matter-of-fact way "Oh that was old Tom! Lots of people have seen him!" (I described more or less the figure I'd seen, how tall approximately, what colour he was wearing etc) She told me it was an old man who used to live nearby and always walked quickly bent forward a bit. Since he'd died, his ghost had been seen many times walking the lane.
Well, I have never seen him since that night however.
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535822 tn?1443976780
facinating reading these experiences, I havent seen people or ghosty apparitions but I do believe they are there, at least I believe that folks like penswriter and the others here are sensitives,I am more like you ginger I get feelings about stuff even before it happens extra sensory perception isnt it, many many times It has proved true ..maybe telepathy is a better term ..and you know it happens more in times of stress...
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675347 tn?1365460645
I had deja-vu a lot of times, but the weirdest was when I was a student. It was early morning and me and a friend were getting ready to go to classes. I got a big deja-vu feeling, then suddenly remembered  "When this happened before...what happened NEXT?" Then I 'remembered' what was about to happen in the future! (the next 5 minutes) It freaked out my friend, and me, and made me feel a bit dizzy. I never had that same experience since then though.
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Oh and when I was 13 my favorite uncle was murdered. I was super close to him and I felt SO SO SO guilty b/c that night my mom had a nagging feeling to stop and visit him after my play practice but I was so tired I begged her to just go home so I could go to bed. We got a call at 4 am that Uncle Lee had "shot himself" (another aunt and I are working on getting it changed to homicide. We actually solved the case, know who killed him and who set it up for suicide) and was dead. I was completely devastated. I couldn't stop crying. I felt like it was my fault. If I hadn't been so selfish he'd still be alive. Well that night when I did finally fall asleep I had a dream about him. Not just any dream, or memory but it felt so real. We were sitting in the park by our houses. (He was living a few miles away from us and we'd always go to the park together) We were sitting on the swings talking. I remember I was in my softball uniform (He never missed a game) and he was wearing his usual cut off jean shorts, a tank top and ratty sneakers. I was crying and telling him how sorry I was for not saving him or letting mom save him. He put his hand on my shoulder and said "kiddo, it's not your fault. don't worry. She'll get what's coming to her. and whatever they say, it's not true. Remember it's not true. I wouldn't do that. You'll know what I mean. I have to go but know that I love you bunches. You're my favorite girl." and I woke up.

I didn't know what he meant for the longest time. Then aunt boo and I found out the truth.
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I've been having things happen since I was a little girl. The first occurance I remember was when I was 7 (they still happen) but my mom said I had an "imaginary friend" starting when I was 2.

The first that I remember was when we lived in a 250 year-old farm house. During the civil war it was used as a hospital (there were 2-3 really big battles fought near-by). One of the "ghosts" was a nurse. The second was a man. He was mid to late 40's. We actually found his skeleton stuffed in a blocked up chimney (we moved 3 days after finding it). The nurse was a very nice lady, the man not so nice. One day I was playing in our attic when I heard the man laughing and a large, oak mirror began to fall where I was sitting. I felt something shove me hard enough to throw me against the wall. Saving me from being crushed under the mirror. I had the hand prints on my chest (where I was shoved) to prove it. The second happened a year later (small things happened in between these 2 big things). One morning I woke up extremely sick. The doctors didn't know what was wrong, tests coming back negative for everything. They sent me home and my mom put me to bed. I had a high fever, throwing up and just couldn't wake up. (This is from what my mother told me.) 5 days into my sickness my mother went into my room to check on me and saw the old rocking chair moving back and forth. As though someone were sitting in it. She watched as it stopped and she heard foot steps. The blankets moved up my bed and tucked me in. She then saw the figure of a woman in an civil war era nurses uniform standing by my window. The woman turned and smiled at my mom. The next morning I was fine.

After leaving there we moved to a smaller house next to my aunt and uncle. A few years after we moved in my uncle passed away suddenly from a heart attack. I was up a bit late one night doing homework (After the funeral) and was staring out the window. It was 10 pm (I remember looking at my clock) and I saw the white figure of a man that looked like my Uncle Dave going into his house. (My aunt still lived there.) The next morning I asked if she had seen him, she did. I asked what he had wanted and she smiled. He gave her a letter. I actually saw the letter and read it. About 6 years later my aunt passed away. I got a strange voicemail on my cell phone...from MY number. o_0. When I listened to it...it was my aunt. She said "We're happy now." Really creepy.

I've always had odd things happening around me. I could go on and on and on with my stories. (A few of the women in my family are "sensitive" to ghosts/spirits. My mother and I seem  to be the most sensitive.) Another occurance was shortly after my grandfather passed away. My grandma's phone started ringing, from her own number. When my aunt picked up the phone it was nothing but static. She hung up and there was a voicemail. We listened to it and the voice was my pappy. He said, "I love you babe." (He always called my grams babe. Never gerry, geraldine, honey...just babe.) We all got voicemails like that. He always called me his little princess (I was a big time pappy's girl.) A few nights after my gram's got her voicemail...I got mine. I wasn't able to answer the phone b/c I was working. When I saw that my number had called my phone (yeah it's happened to me 2 x's) I was confused. I listened and it was pap. He said "I love you princess."

The most recent (and has been happening continuously for the past year) was when my dh, kids and I moved into our new house (we're renting.) Our first night here I kept seeing a man standing in the down stairs bedroom doorway. I see this man a few times a week. Our landlord didn't bother to tell us that 5-6 years ago an elderly man lived in the downstairs (it used to be an apartment but was turned into just one really big house) and he died here. He is now roaming all over the place. One night a few months ago I was laying in bed reading and this huge black cat jumped onto my bed, (my cat is big...but a light grey) meowed at me and disappeared. I still see both the man and the cat. They don't bother us. Just roam around.  
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I saw a procession of people walk right past me in my yard with very mournful faces. It has been over two years ago. Their clothes were of old. They were nearly transparent. Among them were men, women, and children. I avoided eye contact. I am not lying. They walked right across where my storm cellar is.

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203342 tn?1328737207
My grandmother told me several years ago that she had a vivid dream. In her dream she had got up out of her bed and went into the kitchen. Standing in the kitchen was her older sister, smiling at her. She asked in bewilderment what she was doing there and her sister said simply, "I came to say goodbye." Again, in bewilderment my grandmother said "Goodbye? What do you mean?" and her sister smiled at her again and my grandmother woke up.
The next morning she found out that her big sister had died the night before. Maybe God allowed her to say goodbye to her little sister before leaving this world, I don't know. Still, it's pretty fascinating!

My grandmother also said she was at her mother's side when she was dying and that her mother opened her eyes and reached her hands out and with this look of joy on her face said "Oh! It's beautiful!" and then she died. What did she see? Did she see angels? Jesus? Did she get a glimpse of heaven? I don't know. I hear stories like this a lot though.
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I've been fortunate enough to have had a couple of encounters that I cannot explain other than them being paranormal or contact with the other side.

One that I don't mind talking about is a situation that happened at my workplace numerous years ago.  It has a bit of a recurring theme, and on 2 occaisions I had a witness.

I used to manage a bar/nightclub that has a bit of history behind it.  Im not for sure how this "sighting" fits into the history as there never has been a documented death on the premisses....anyhow, here we go.

One night at closing, I had some money to count down and move to the office.  All of the tables and chairs had been properly stacked, all doors shut and locked, and all cubby holes where somebody could steal away had been checked.  The building was completely vacated except for myself and my head doorman.

I was at the end of the bar with the safe open, counting a till down and looking for a suspected error.  My doorman was sitting infront of me drinking an after shift beer, when all of a sudden a lone chair from a stack fell to the floor.  It made quite a racket, so I shoved the money into the safe and we ran to the general area of the commotion.  An older chair, (1 of 4 we had from the old days) was lying in the middle of the floor about 2 feet from the closest table.  The noises we heard was one loud boom, and in order to make that sound, the chair would have had to have been dropped flat on its back.  Falling from the stack would have toppled over the whole stack making far more noise.  We sat for about 10 minutes trying to replicate the accident and couldnt.  Every time at least 2 of the chairs fell and made far more noise than the one loud boom we heard.

We restacked the chairs putting the old chair on top, and then did a quick building check to make sure nobody was messing with us or that we hadnt missed something.  The building was completely clear, so I went back to the safe and my doorman back to the beer he had been drinking.  We were talking about the incident and heard a couple of noises that were identifiable, but one that wasnt.  It sounded like someone sliding a table on a wooden floor.  Although the clubs floors were either wooden or carpeted, the 4 tables that were on the wooden floors were right infront of us and hadnt moved.  We kind of laughed about it and began talking about the paranormal.

I got the money counted and squared away and opened another beer for my doorman and one for myself.  Out of nowhere, you could smell a freshly lit cigarette.  I looked over my shoulder down the length of the bar, and in the corner of my eye I caught the profile of a cowboy leaning against the bar with a cigarette in his mouth.  My doorman caught a quick glimpse as well.  He looked at me and said, "did you just see that guy?".

I almost puked.  There was a weird feeling in the air.  We walked down the length of the bar, me behind the bar and him along the outside of the bar where the stools were.  As we got to the end of the bar, you could smell the cigarette better and the area was cooler than the rest of the building.  WE sat and talked about it for about 30 minutes and eventually left, locking the door behind us.

The next weekend we saw the same character, basically a sillowett (spelling, sorry) but we had 2 more witnesses.  This bother one of the 2 guys so bad that he quit staying after work....

I saw this "ghost" about 5 times total over the next 4 years and after the 2 previous times with witnesses.  I figured that he meant no harm..... been out of the business for better than 4 years now, but think of that particular customer on a regular basis.
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Not sure if anyone is reading these posts anymore (ok, well I am LOL) but I have so many stories to share.

I think this is such a great topic to continue. Hopefully it will get more recognition. I just love to hear people's stories of the unknown.

I'll go back to when my grandma passed away in 1995. She was my best friend and at times more of a mom to me. It was really hard to deal with her loss. I taught myslef to play piano when I was around 8 and although I'm not that good, she would listen and tell me how great it was, especially when I played her favorite hymns or oldies. Well, one night I was in my room playing my grandma's favorites and crying...missing her and the air in the room changed and I smelled her perfume and the enitre time I played I felt her there listening. This happened several more times and it was such a comfort...not scary at all.

Another time I was praying to my Guardian Angel and asking for sign that they were there. I had 1 candle lit in front of me and all windows closed and no other drafts. While I'm sitting there praying with my eyes closed I hear/feel a rush of wind and the candle was blown out! Again, not scary at all...just confirming what I had asked.

I use to read a lot of books on the paranormal, Sylvia Browne etc and would read them in the bedroom and the entire time I'd be reading my light would flicker....constantly and very annoying but not scary. I haven't read a paranormal book in a while and you know what? The lights in my bedroom don't flicker!

One time I was going through a really bad depression and suicidal. I felt so alone in the world and I would talk to my deceased grandma and one day I got so desperate that I asked for her to show me a sign that she heard me and that I wasn't alone...I asked for her to move a picture or something on my dresser. Well that night when I came home and walked into my room my photo of me as a baby being held by my grandparents was on the floor in an area that naturally even if it fell would not have ended up there. It was such reassurance.

Some other things....my mom was a caregiver for an elderly lady and this particular time I went with her to look at christmas lights, we had a great time and dropped the woman off at home. I noticed in the rear view mirror a lady wearing a white turle neck and white pants walk behind the car just as my mom was back out. I yelled for my mom to stop and couldn't believe that she didn't see that poor lady....only there wasn't anyone there. Now that was a little unnerving. It happened again a few months later when my mom was taking me to work and again I noticed someone in white (the same person perhaps?) in the mirror and I mentioned to my mom to wait until that persons gets out of are way.....well there wasn't anyone there.

I also dream very vividly..to a downfall. Very had for me to get sleep. This has been a problem my whole life. I will dream for 1-2 hours in full color and very real and then wake up...then it dream then wake up. I don't normally sleep more than 3-4 hours at a time if I am lucky. Sometimes when I am in the state between being awake and asleep I see visions and sometimes they have come true.......for instance once I had a vision that I walked into work and was told so and so wasn't in today because she had a migraine. Well that very morning I went to work and it played out just like in my dream!

So I could go on and on. Since I started having kids and got married and am very little free time I notice that I am not as "aware" of these things anymore but I would like to be. It runs in my family. My mom has psychic abilities but out of fear she has suppressed them. My uncle has had visions too.

Sometimes things are strange in my apartment but I do not feel it's bad. My cats used to just stare at this one corner of the building all the time and sometimes things like a wooden spoon in the kitchen will fall even though it was secure so it meant it had to be lifted up to fall.

Oh and one more thing.....does anyone else see spirit orbs in their pictures? You can google it to see what I mean. I get them all the time. I feel like it's our guardian angels and or deceased friends/family. When I had my first child and my husband and I took pictures there are spirit orbs in most of the pics...same thing with my son and when I take pics of the kids sometimes there are streaks of white fluffy light....like an orb moving. It's amazing and I'm so fascinated by it.

Ok so one more thing LOL. My mom used to live in the upstairs apartment and they had this cat and one night I dreamed that I was in the her apartment playing with the cat. Well that morning my mom tells me that the cat was making so much noise last night it was like she was playing with someone! I think I astrally projected and was really playing with the cat! Weird but fascinating.
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Hello, I can't help but wonder if your Mom was seeing spirits. For many years and even now people are labeled with schizophrenia because they are believed to be hallucinating when they are really seeing a ghost. I imagine it's no walk in the park and after a while you begin to think something is really wrong with you. I do believe someone can have schizophrenia but some are labeled incorrectly. I know this is not the topic of discussion but I felt the need to share it.

One of my experiences: I was driving down the street with my boyfriend late one night (about 2 or 3 am). We were coming up on a very elaborately decorated Church on the left with these big double doors. Up ahead about 300 yards was a service station. I was driving fairly slow at the time. I see a women appear out of no where on the right side of the road. She was standing or should I say hovering over the sidewalk. She had this gorgeous wedding dress on and she glowed with a beautiful almost golden light. She was mesmerizing. She just started floating across the road effortlessly. She went across at a slight angle because she wasn't exactly lined up from the Church. I don't know why I remember that part enough to mention it. She glided up the steps and went right through the double doors. She was gone. I didn't say anything at that moment. A few hours later my boyfriend ask me if I saw the lady go in the Church. My jaw like to have hit the floor.

To Turkey23, My cat also goes around chasing things on the wall. One day I was in the bathtub and he came in on a mission. He started going around the tub trying to reach something up on the wall. He really hates water. He went all over that bathroom trying to get what ever it was. He followed it right out the door. He has done this in different areas of the house. It's almost funny. I have three small dogs and two of them I believe see spirits. They will just sit and stare at two particular areas in the living room. If it was just one dog I wouldn't think anything about it but they both do it together and at different times. They are following something with their eyes it seems.

One more: A close friend of mine passed away from cancer. About  1 year after her death her husband was finally able to go through some of her things. He had bought her this beautiful Silver Tea and Coffee set with the tray and everything. He gave it to me because he knew I would take care of it. Anyway, I placed the set on a side table in my dining room. It had been there for about 2 weeks. As I was walking by I heard something metal vibrating. I thought is was the air-conditioning vent in the ceiling. I looked all over for about 5 minutes and finally realized it was coming from this set. Keep in mind it had been rattling the whole time I'm looking. I walked over to it and could see the tray moving ever so lightly. I pressed on the table in case their was vibration in the house or something but it didn't stop. I picked up every piece and set them back down. They were still vibrating. Finally I said "Lisa, would you please stop messing with the Tea set." And in an instant it stopped.

Hope you enjoyed some of my experiences.
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784382 tn?1376931040
WOW GAVE ME THE CHILLS!!... THE ROCKING CHAIR WOULD HAVE HAD ME FREAKED OUT FOR FOREVER!,,,oooops sorryabout the caps!....but the knowing people are going to die is just amazing.....but understandably very scary to know those things....
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968908 tn?1274871115
When i was younger 10yrs old my grandad died.  I lived with him, my nan and dad and so was very close to him.  About a month after he passed my nan, dad and i were sitting down stairs in the front room when we have heard someone as plain as day walk across my nans bedroom from the bay window to the bedroom door.  We all looked at eachother but didn't say anything....then 2 mins later the footsteps came down the stairs, exactly 13 steps for eachstep, i counted.  Behind where my nan use to sit was abot a two foot gap situated in the bay window, behind her chair was some extremely creaky floorboards which was in desprate need of being fixed.  My nan turned as white as a sheet when all of a sudden the floorboards went nuts and was creaking loudly.... i got a bit scared and sat with my dad but my dad reasured me it was only grandad....

Later that night i was on my way up to bed when i got to the top of the stairs and turned to go up another smaller flight of stairs which lead to my bedroom when i saw my nans bedroom door was open and there as plain as day was my grandads rocking chair, rocking back and forth in strong motion.  I became extremely panicky and ran back down stairs to my dad and found it very difficult to settle at night for a long time after that.  But i feel due to me being so scared the movements and sounds died down alot.... for a few years.  

However when i became a teenager and with this and numerous other experiences of the unkown i became curious about the afterlife and wanted to make contact so i stupidly started to mess around with the Owigi board.  From this i am almost certain i have gained a spirit that has become attached to me and i feel it isn't a good one, or maybe one that doesn't have the best intentions for me and drains my energy to provide for themselves..... so i need to be cleansed i think.

I am also extemely sensitive as in i can predict when something bad is going to happen to people, i have predicted several peoples deaths and within a month or two of 'having the feeling' they most certainly have died.  The most hurtful was knowing that a little baby who lived in my neighbourhood was gona die, but what could i say, they would of thought i was pure insane if i had of said anything.  Sadly a month later the baby, who was 8 weeks old died of sudden infant death or cot death.  After this child died i screamed for this 'curse' to be taken away and i didn't want this insight.  Luckly this was the last death i have predicted since, so maybe my prayers were answered.  However i can still feel when someone is in trouble or really needs my help.  

I do suffer severely from anxiety and i think this is due to the negative energy around me that comes from this spirit.  But in a strange way i also feel a sense of comfort at times from it, like its trying to protect me...... and this is the only reason why i think i haven't called upon my priest or medium as yet to clense me.  In a way i feel it may be my mum, due to she suffered terrible when she was alive from schizophrenia and died a tragic death, so in life she was in severe torment from a very young age....maybe this negativtity is what i feel?????
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535822 tn?1443976780
That is indeed strange, I often think children are perceptive they are such innocents ... Well  this is one story about my Mom, I was having my first child and I was living in London, she was living a few hours away from me , I went into Labour ,24 hours later had a little girl with red hair , I learned later that around the time I had the child  1am my mom in her own house asleep,,she had a dream, in the morning my mom  went to a neighbor and told her she was worried as Margaret , me, that I  had the Baby and it had been born with a head injury as she saw the blood on the childs head, this is in the  dream , a short while later she got the news from my DH telling her we had a little girl and that she had bright red hair.....The neighbour verified the story ........
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784382 tn?1376931040
my best friends daughter (taylor) is 4 years old....her brother in law passed away when we were in highschool.... so taylor wasnt even a thought yet.....and she never knew john (who passed)....

a few days ago.... taylor was talking to herself (like most 4 year olds) and was just going on and on and on ....and finally we asked her who was she talking too .....she said johnny....ok coulda just been a imaginary friend that she just happened to name johnny.....later on that day we walked past a picture of johnny and she pointed and said " thats who i was talking to, thats johnny"......nobody knew what to say i think we all turned white, and fought back the tears.....

mybedroom door has been opening for no reason....none at all. no open windows....and my cat will wake up out of her sleep and just stare and follow something on the walls.....freaky
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784382 tn?1376931040
yes yes yes!...everything.... i get ESP and de ja vu EVERY SINGLE DAY..... kinda crazy but everyday, multiple times a day it happens to me.....i can tell you what song will com eon the radio....usually finish your sentence.....and can be somewhere and SWEAR i had ALREADY done that same exact thing, and will even tell you what will happen next.....
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535822 tn?1443976780
I have no ghost stories, but some ESP ,Telepathic stuff will that do ?
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968908 tn?1274871115
Hi, yeah i have a spirit or two how is attached to me and the house.  My children see them all the time and i 'feel' them alot.  I tend to see something out the corner of my eye move really fast and when i look up nothing is there.  Other people who are sensitve have experienced stuff going on in the house as well.  
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784382 tn?1376931040
i love hearing about this type of thing...even tho it totally freaks me out sometimes..... wish other poeple would come and put their stories here!..... im listening!....keep them coming!
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I had a friend pass away suddenly after a night of us drinking (she was hit by a drunk driver when her Designated Driver was taking her home).  A few days before her funeral I was driving down a street in my town and seen something glowing red drop from the sky.  There were no trees or buildings or anything near me...and this came STRAIGHT down.  For some reason I decided to back up to see what it was, I opened my door and it was a lit cigarrette.  My friend use to smoke, so it scared the **** out of me.  I went home and was in the kitchen putting stuff away in the fridge when I heard someone whisper my name.  It sounded like they were right behind me, it sent chills down my spine because it sounded soooo close- so I yelled to my mom thinking it was her--I ended up waking her up out of a dead sleep.  I almost about 95% sure that night's events were my friend that passed away just screwing with me.  The day of her funeral her son had a train set that started to go all by itself.  The family went to turn it off and it was already off...

I totally believe in this stuff...

I also had an uncle who passed away of lung cancer.  I was about 12/13 years old--the night he died I went to sleep.  Something woke me up in the middle of the night and there he was standing at the foot of my bed dressed in all white and glowing.  I pulled the blankets over my head thinking it was a bad dream and when I look he again he was SITTING on my bed just looking at me!  I told my mom about it the next day and she told me he was just letting me know he was ok.

I also lived in an apartment, a couple years ago, that I believe was haunted or was a passing door way for spirits. The building was from the early 1900's.  I would wake up in the middle of the nights and see people in my room or passing by my door.  These weren't modern dressed people, these looked like immigrants who were coming over to America, dressed really poorly, for freedom.  It was scary at first and I felt like a TOTAL lunatic even telling people about it....lol  

Geez I could go on and on!!!
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