Clutch Fans, do you believe in ghosts/spirits or anything of that sort? Not aliens and bigfoot and stuff but more like dead spirits and or demonic beings? Have you encountered anything of the sort? No particular reason I'm asking, just bored at work and wanted to discuss a random topic.
I have no experiences with the afterlife, but I don't f-ck with spirits, apparitions, or poltergeists. If someone busts out the Ouija at game night I'm leaving.
Someone did bust out a Ouija when I was, oh, 16? 17? "Who does [my name] 'like'?" Who does ROXTXIA have a crush on, so to speak. It spelled out her name. No one in that group knew the fact. STAY AWAY. As far as ghosts? I think there's something to be said about spirits who don't pass on to the next life. You won't catch me locked away in some "haunted" spot after dark filming with the "Ghost Adventures" crew. Real or bogus, I ain't down with that.
I'm catholic don't even joke about ouija boards! I was watching a show on discovery channel with people that swore some paintings carried a demonic being within them. The portrait of Bernardo Galvez made the cut, that's the dude Galveston was named after. my favorite haunted painting:
Yes. I've detailed my stories here so do a search for the stories- Lived in a 150-year-old house in Galveston, saw shadows, stuff was thrown/broken, man's voice told my wife to 'stay asleep' when she was pregnant, bed started shaking when I turned the Astros game off in disgust during the 2005 WS. Lived NW of Ft. Worth and a little boy's voice would say 'Mommy' late at night (wife and I both heard it). Lived close to the Texas Killing Fields in League City, GF brought home an Ouija board which started zooming around in perfect figure 8's then spelling out KILL YOU one letter at a time, over and over again.
Ouija board once told me that Martian women have penises. Wasn't clear if it meant that they had one or more. To this day, I do not want to travel to Mars to find out. True story.
Don't really believe in ghosts, but I've had weird things happen that I've posted about here. I love good unexplainable stories/ghost stories. They fascinate me. My favorite one was when the glass bowl that fell out of our upper cabinet. We heard a crash in the kitchen. It was in the middle of the kitchen, unbroken and no cabinets were open. No way to explain that.
i believe in other entities, tho not spirits of the dead. had numerous experiences at work and home. like seeing my dad roam around the house and when i called on him there was no answer. looked around and saw the car was out, turned out i was alone. at work i saw a lady figure staring at me from the entrance to this room. then she walked inside and when i followed, there was no one. also at work, I've heard whispers in our main meeting hall. i snuck in to sleep during lunch hour and heard whispers from the far end of the hall and kept incrementally getting closer and louder. probably didn't want me to sleep on the job. many others, but nothing too buttfuggingly scary.
In my house me and wife would see blurs pass by real quick out the corners of our eyes. Also everytime I would sleep upstairs I would wake up at 3am out of nowhere and once I heard a soft voice tell me to go downstairs. Never questioned it but it felt good.
Jonathan David Drew was good friends with several people I hung out with -- I knew him as an acquaintance. There were stories of him getting stuck out in the 'Killing Fields' on at least 2 occasions late at night and having to be towed out. He was only convicted of one murder, but there is speculation he is responsible for several more as well as at least two rapes in Austin. Jonathan David Drew-Convicted of killing Houston waitress Tina Flood, 23, in December of 1998. Drew was pulled over by a police officer who found Flood beaten and barely alive in Drew's front passenger seat. She died soon afterwards. Drew is suspected of several sexual assaults and a private investigator has speculated Drew could be responsible for the slaying of Jessica Lee Cain. A search of Drew's former home in League City, where his parents still lived produced a vial containing several human teeth. [Graphic] The Murder of Tina Flood Tina Flood, 23, and her friend, Justin Chapman, attended a birthday party at a bar in Seabrook, Texas. The bar closed and the party ended around 2:00 AM on Sunday, November 29, 1998. Jonathan David Drew, 25, had been at the bar and was introduced to Tina at the party. He bought her drinks and several people stated they saw the two of them kissing. Several people decided to go to a nearby Holiday Inn hotel and because Tina was too intoxicated to drive, she and Justin rode to the hotel with other people. Her car was left in a parking lot next to the bar. She and Justin realized when they attempted to check in to their room that Justin, who was a Holiday Inn employee, had left his employee discount card in Tina's car. Jonathan David Drew was sitting in his pickup truck in the hotel's parking lot and offered to take them back to Tina's car. Tina sat in the middle, between Drew and Justin. Once they got back to Tina's car, Justin got out of the truck and held Tina's purse while she attempted to get out of the truck. As Tina was scooting across the seat toward the passenger-side door of the truck, Drew drove away. Justin tried in vain to hold onto the truck door, but quickly fell off. Tina screamed for Drew to stop. Justin immediately ran to the bar screaming for help. At 2:52 AM, Seabrook Police Officer Marc Hatton was on patrol when he saw Justin beating on the bar's door. Justin told the officer what had just happened. Drew's truck was described as a maroon, full-sized, single-cab Chevrolet truck. The description of the truck was broadcast to all other officers in the area. At 3:49 AM, Harris County Deputy Constable Sean Kitchens spotted Drew's truck and stopped him for failure to maintain a single lane of traffic. Drew was asked for his license and when he leaned over to get it, the deputy noticed a bloody foot lying on the seat. Deputy Kitchens asked who it was and Drew replied, "That's my friend Tina. She's knocked out over there." Tina was lying in fetal position against the passenger door, naked except for her skirt, which was bunched around her waist. She had abrasions on her leg, butt, and arm. Deputy Kitchens called for backup. When Drew was removed from the truck, officers noticed scratches on his arm, neck, and blood on the collar of his shirt. Tina was taken to Clear Lake Regional Medical Center where a sexual assault exam was conducted. Tina repeatedly told the nurse, "Please help me. Don't hurt me." She also said, "Please don't rape me." A CAT scan showed a skull fracture, which had caused Tina's brain to swell and hemorrhage. Doctors tried surgery to relieve the pressure, but she died a day and a half later. According to the Medical Examiner's report, Tina sustained at last two distinct fractures to her skull. This was the result of one or possibly two separate acts of blunt force trauma. A considerable amount of force was required to cause these fractures. There was an abrasion on the back of her head and a bruise on the back of her brain immediately below the point of impact. On the opposite side of her head, there was a massive amount of bleeding, but no bruise on her skin. Her ear was also swollen and there was a bruise behind her ear. The Medical Examiner believed this injury to be caused by a separate impact than what caused her brain injury. Regarding the abrasions and contusions on Tina's shoulder, shoulder blade, elbow, lower back, and buttocks, these injuries were consistent with being dragged on a rough surface, like concrete. He also described a wrinkling or crumpling of the skin on Tina's back, which suggests that something scraped across her back or that she was stepped on. There was bruising in the soft tissue of Tina's neck, consistent with what is seen in manual strangulation. She also had bruising on her lower legs, ankles, and upper right arm consistent with finger impressions. And there were abrasions on her knuckles and thumbs, suggesting defensive wounds. In addition, the sexual assault exam showed that she had been raped vaginally and anally. Jonathan David Drew was found guilty of felony murder and sentenced to life in prison on October 13, 1999. He is eligible for parole on November 29, 2028. Searches of the home Drew shared with his parents turned up women's clothing, a souvenir baseball bat with an unknown stain, and a vial of human teeth. The Drew home is located on Calder Rd. in League City. This the same Calder Rd. that is home to the "Killing Fields" where four bodies of young women were found in the early 90s. Drew is also linked to the disappearance of Jessica Lee Cain in August 1997. [Link is dead]
