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From: dcorsi@orion.it.luc.edu (David O. Corsi)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: **HAUNTINGIII**
Date: 11 Nov 1994 15:16:19 GMT
Organization: Loyola University of Chicago
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I left our dorm last night to go home to Chicago's suburbs to visit my
girlfriend. I don't know if anything heappened over night at the dorm
but something happened to me (I think?) last night at home. I warn you
now I can't be 100% sure about what hapenned to me and you'll see why.
I have an installed car phone. I've had it there for maybe 4 months, and
it works without a flaw. After picking up my girlfriend, I was driving
and noticed my phone, which turns on when the car does, was turned off.
I turned it on. Some miles later I noticed it was off again, I checked
for loose connections but found none. Again I turned it back on. Soon
of course it was off again. I assumed there must be something wrong with
the phone connections and decided to leave it off. After a few more
miles the phone turned itself on. It then turned itself off and acted in
general screwy. Finally I turned the damn thing off when I reached the
place where we were going to eat (Bacino's good pizza!). My girlfriend
was freaked that it was the "ghost" (I told her about the situation.) I
at this point figured that there was a loose fuse or such that was
causing the phone to turn on and off intermitently. Now this is the
important part: My phone turns on automatically after the car starts,
this is because the phone detects the stream of electricity traveling to
it, and it assumes the car has been turned off. When the car is off the
electricity does not flow to the phone at all, UNLESS the phone requests
it. You see the phone can work with the car off but it has to force the
car to give it the juice, you do this by pressing the power key. OK lets
see if this makes sense:
After dinner as we were driving home the phone kept turning on
and off. This I thought was normal if I had a loose conection. One of
the times the phone turned on, I said to my girlfriend, "I'll bet it
turns off" and at that moment it did. After about two seconds I said, "I
bet it turns back on", and at that moment it did. My girlfriend was
freaking out but I was still asuming that it was a loose connection. We
drove back to her house where I was spending the night. We parked the
car in the driveway and we both got out. I locked the door, of course
the car is off. As I look back in the window the damn phone turns on.
Now this is where I got freaked, because according to my knowledge of the
phone that just isn't possible. You have to press the on button when the
car is off. No loose conection does that. I unlocked the door to shut
the phone off but just as I got inside the car the phone turned itself
off. I relocked the door and went into the house. I was kind of freaked
but was calm because my girlfriend would go nuts if she thought I was
scared. It dawned on me that since the phone now had the ability to
"turn itself on" while the car was off what was stopping it from doing
that everynight until the battery was dead. Again I went out to the
car. I was afraid off my own damn car. I looked in the window and the
phone was still off. I unlocked the door and was going to unplug the
phone from the jack when the damn phone turned itself on with its
characteristic BONG sound. Scared me shitless. I unplugged the phone
and it went off, I locked the car and went to bed. When I got in the car
this morning to drive back to school, I plugged the phone back in, and it
turned on perfectly and STAYED on. About 20 minutes into the drive I
decided to call my girlfriend to tell her the phone was perfect. Just as
I was about to pick the reciever up the damn thing turned off.
Now the truth is the problem might be with the phone. I plan on
getting it checked soon. I might not be able to this weekend though. I
really thought I understood how the phone worked and to me some of the
things that happened last night were just impossible. Not to mention the
phone seemed to be acting as if on cue. In fact I failed to state that
the first time the phone turned on while the car was off I was standing
in the driveway saying, "I wonder if the ghost followed us." Now I swear
once I have the phone checked I'll update you all about how wrong I
probably am.
A little part inside me is worried because if it is the ghost it
will be his first direct action at me. I fear that all my postings, and
trying to find out how to get rid of it has pissed it off toward me. At
the very least this is a story showing how paranoid people can get after
a series of paranormal encounters.
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David O. Corsi dcorsi@orion.it.luc.edu
Loyola University Chicago I'm italian and that's all ya need to know
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