Haunted Recording Studios

[Jeff White]

I am a total skeptic, though I have been around some folks who have experienced some weird stuff, including my brother who experienced the effects of sleep paralysis and swears that something was holding his down in bed, choking him. Frightening, yet easily explained through sleep paralysis. My folks have a 206 yr old farm house, so of course when orbs turn up in pictures etc it's explained as "ghosts", though it's dust on the lens etc. My mom swears that she has heard footsteps going up and down the attic stairs, and our older neighbors told my mom that the guy who passed away int he house in the 1950s or 1960s used to keep his booze up there. I've never experienced any of it and believe that folks' imaginations can get the best of them.

However, though I am a skeptic who doesn't really believe in ghosts or the like (when you're dead you're, well... dead), I have experienced the Brown Mountain Lights first hand. Folks still can't really explain it. When I saw them there were dozens of flashes, orbs, etc. Pretty amazing.

[dwlb]

wow, I'd never heard of sleep paralysis as a medical condition. It's happened to me several times. Of course, they say irregular sleep cycles is a possible cause, which in my case makes sense.
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[JASIII]

Not exactly studio related, but here's my 'sleep paralysis' experience:

I was living for a time with a friend and his girlfriend, staying in their spare bedroom. One night I had a very clear 'dream' (actually at the time I wasn't sure if I was asleep, awake or somewhere in between). In my dream I was lying in bed in that very room, it was exactly like reality, which is WEIRD for my dreams. At the foot of the bed and to the left side, there was a figure standing. I could not tell if it was male or female but I sensed it was female. It was a dark color and had no face, just a grey oval. It was almost more like a shadow or outline of a figure. It had a pointed shape to the 'head', as if it either was hooded or had long, flowing hair that obscured the shape of the head itself. I was extremely agitated by the presence of this figure and was trying in my dream to yell at it to go away. In my dream I knew it was a ghost. But, as with sleep paralysis, forming words was impossible, it was like I had suffered a stroke, couldn't control my mouth and voice. I was trying so hard to yell words but couldn't, just garbled, muted noises came out. Finally I woke up and was freaked out by the fact that except for the figure being gone, the bedroom and setting was exactly as my dream had been.

A couple weeks later I was home with only my friends' girlfriend and I remembered the dream and told her about it. She freaked out because roughly around the date I had my dream, she had been awakened by my friend thrashing in bed and yelling "Get out of here!", as if he was upset at someone. When she woke him up, he described the same thing I had seen! When he got home I asked him about it and he remembered the dream and described to me almost exactly what I had seen in my dream! Even down to the fact that the figure was at the foot and to the left of his bed. Crazy stuff.
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[mikeyc]

I had a sleep paralyisis episode at my old studio...
I was crashing on the couch in the control room and I woke up in the middle of the night to see someone walking around the end of the couch, turn towards me and sit on my chest. I couldn't move at all and I was having a hard time breathing, and I couldn't make a sound.Scared the living shit out of me. I never thought the place was haunted, though.

My house isn't haunted either-- despite the fact that the guy who built the house died in a fire started in the master bedroom, and the fact that the widow of the second owner left his military-issued grave marker in the garage after he died. You'd think something would happen! Sheesh.

[MoreSpaceEcho]

man, this sleep paralysis business is an awful lot like the one time i smoked salvia...

[Jeff White]

[dwlb]

[MoreSpaceEcho]

[0-it-hz]

I thought this was about soundcraft!?
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[cgarges]

Halloween's coming up, folks. Any more good stories?

Not that it's studio-related, but I just found out that the house I bought a couple of months ago is very close to two of the most haunted houses in this county.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC
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[cgarges]

Halloween's coming up, folks. Any more good stories?

Not that it's studio-related, but I just found out that the house I bought a couple of months ago is very close to two of the most haunted houses in this county.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC
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[RefD]

my only sleep paralysis experience was brought about by being dosed up with Seroquel by my Neurologist.

which is weird cos it's not among the known side effects, but this repeated two times in a row so there it is then.

apart from being unable to move or talk, there was nothing else weird going on...certainly no ghosts or anything, just my wife walking around doing stuff and looking a bit peeved that i wasn't getting up.

i later described to her what she'd been doing and she told me i'd recounted all her activities almost exactly.

i DO have an uncle who lived in an illegal basement apartment in Queens back in the 90s and had 3 ghosts living with him.

i recall him saying that when they appeared there was usually nothing spectral about them, they seemed as solid as anyone else.

they would linger continuously for hours or days at a time and occasionally he would wake up to see one or more of them had been watching him in his sleep.

they would also straighten the place up while he was out, tho he only ever saw the after-effects and not the actions that produced this.

i know when he moved to Manhattan one of them (i think it was a little girl) followed him but then vanished apparently permanently after 9/11.

i should also mention that this uncle of mine has no history of mental illness, either.
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[JASIII]

[cgarges]

[cgarges]

[øøøøøøø]

about 3 years ago my then-girlfriend (now wife) and I lived in this apartment together. I swear stuff happened in there. Once the stereo turned on all by itself. Switch flipped and everything. We were right in the room with it and she saw it too. I cannot explain that one.

Then the creepiest one was when I yelled at my lady once for leaving my CDs out all over the table out of their cases.

Later that night as we were in bed (she was already asleep) I heard this very otherwordly decidedly un-human voice admonish me for yelling at her. It said "About the CDs... did you practice what you preach?"

It was FUCKING weird.

[JohnDavisNYC]

were you drinking the tap water, brad?

john
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