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Steve D. · #**136** 11-07-2010, 03:16 PM

Hey Mark,

Don't peruse the rectangular threads much and just this morning found your post and this thread. I spent two hours reading it non-stop. You mention the ETF. I recall attending my first ETF convention some years ago. When I ventured to the "back area" of the museum building. I experienced that "funny" feeling as I walked, with fellow VK'er Steve K., among the aisles and piles of old TV's stacked around me. It was late in the day and very dim. There was yet a couple of rooms, we explored, even futher back with old tv's & equipment that was quite spooky. We now hold the auctions in that area and soon the pix tube rebuilding equipment will go there. Thanks for this thread.

-Steve D.

Zenith26kc20 · #**137** 11-08-2010, 02:02 PM

This is an interesting thread. It reminds me of the "camp" I bought in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi a few years before Katrina. I bought it from the old mans son after he "bought" it from his father, the Colonel.
He handed me the keys to look at it before I decided to buy it. Even though it was packed with stuff (the family of the Colonel used it as a closet or storage area when the son moved back to New Orleans) When I walked in I felt extremely welcome and was happy to buy it. Once I got started I could feel the old Colonel's presence. He seemed to approve of all the work and I always felt welcome when I walked in.
Then came Katrina. The camp floated off it's four foot tall foundation piers landing a few feet away from them. Keep in mind my camp is around 25 feet above sea level! Water was nearly to the ceiling. I cleaned it out and started to repair it but it wasn't until the new foundation (the floors are now 10 feet off the ground) was finished and the camp anchored to it that I felt his presence again. He is back and seems happy that I put the place back together. I spend alot of time there now and can almost see him sitting on the couch sometimes. He was a ham operator and I guess my DXing must amuse him.

Reece · #**138** 11-08-2010, 02:08 PM

This thread reminded me of the attached site. Don't you wish you had walked in on this when it was in better condition? I surely hope our workshops don't end up like this guy's did. Food for much contemplation here.

BTW Zenith26kc20, your camp looks idyllic, great place to hang out.

http://www.qsl.net/wa0jcv/Shop.htm

Zenith26kc20 · #**139** 11-08-2010, 02:38 PM

Yes (and thanks!) the camp is great! There is a Zenith roundie for the main TV and a 15 inch Emerson CRT for the "all day"" TV. A 20 inch LCD monitor for pictures of over the air DXing.
I hate to leave it to return home as it is so relaxing. I think a bit of the Colonel has rubbed off on me as I look for things discarded that can be useful there (like the 15 inch Emerson left in front of my shop) and the back door. According to the Colonel's son, the camp was built mostly from material he obtained from torn down houses.
I'm sure we lost plenty of old homes when Camille and Katrina finished here. Going north from the coast will still yield a old house now and then but like Audubon5425 said earlier, you have to be real careful because of the meth labs. I think the midwest and further north is probably better as the weather starts to discourage "activity " in an abandoned house.

AUdubon5425 · #**140** 11-08-2010, 08:29 PM

My uncle still had his family home in Uptown New Orleans (on Jefferson & Laurel) - the carriage house was never rented as part of the deal and it was pretty much as his grandfather left it when he died in 1968. In the 1920's into the 1930's they used it as a radio shop. The back room (which had a floor) still had bunches of old parts in there. There were two large desks with drawers full of old capacitors, resistors etc. from well before WWII. I was actually using the carriage house for storage. When he put the house up for sale I salvaged some old meters, knobs, and some radio industry magazines & catalogs from 1946-47 I found in the attic. I wasn't into repairing radios then and had no place to store the rest of the stuff at the time. The house was renovated this year and the carriage house (which needed a lot of work) was gutted and turned into a carport.

mbates14 · #**141** 11-08-2010, 10:45 PM

Sorry to bring up an old post, but Did you ever restore that TV?

I have a tube portable plastic japanese radio, i would say it was made towards the end of the tube era for radios.

my great grandma gave it to me just before she died, and I get a weird feeling about it too sometimes. Plus it doesnt work. no matter how hard i try to get it fixed, recapped etc, it will not work. it tries really hard to work if i bring my finger almost laying on the ferrite core antenna.

weird....

Cruiseomatic · #**142** 01-13-2011, 07:16 PM

Wow, I don't know how I missed a thread like this.....
My '29 Majestic radio has on occasion raised and lowered its volume, And I don't mean by capacitor or component failure. The vol. knob has been seen to turn on its own, One night I couldn't receive hardly any of the local stations, just old music that was not on any other radio in the house. My '53 Packard Bell has only done one thing and that was turn it's self on. Most people don't believe in this kind of thing, But I sure as hell do.

Here is a night shortly after my wife and I got married, I had a really uneasy feeling that night but went ahead and went to sleep. I had a nightmare that scared me so bad I jumped (literally) out of bed. I remembered an old trick I heard about television and spirits. This is what I encountered, And if you just look, You'll most likely see what I saw that night.

It is more obvious in this one:

Both of those were taken on a digital television which is why it has "snow lines" 2 things should jump out and bite you on the bottom picture. There is something(s) in the first one as well. I have not yet caught anything on my '53 model.
Them 3 things combined, I couldn't sleep for 2 days. And when I did, It wasn't in my own house.
But on these old electronics, Spirits can and do attach themselves to them. Just think, That set you have in your house might be the same set a married couple both worked very hard for their whole life to buy and are now deceased and its in YOUR house and they are not happy with you....Not to mention, Spirits also attach themselves to vehicles. You don't even want the stories attached to my '89 F150.....

compucat · #**143** 01-13-2011, 08:08 PM

What are we supposed to be seeing in the digital snow? The static does not appear to be completely random but I am not sure what I am supposed to be looking at. I have never had any paranormal activity related to my vintage electronics but I do believe it can happen.

heathkit tv · #**144** 01-13-2011, 10:58 PM

I dunno. In the first pic I spotted what sorta kinda appears to be a ghostly face flipping the bird, this is turned sideways and I put a red border around the area. In the second pic I roughly outlined what I'm talking about and rotated it upright for clarity (the borders are the exact same ones from the first pic).

Is that what you're talking about?

JoeNewberry · #**145** 01-14-2011, 12:39 AM

I don't want to offend anybody's beliefs, but those pictures are a bit like Rorschach ink blots. I can see all kinds of faces in both pictures, but heathkit tv's illustration shows me that we're not seeing the same things. We have pattern driven minds and if you present us with randomness we try to sort it out into something ordered. It's also hard to look at them and not see faces, after reading the whole thread about angry spirits and uneasy feelings around certain things and places. If we had just seen the pictures without any background to them, would we have seen faces or just seen a TV with static on it? I apologize for my skepticism, but I do find this a fascinating topic.

The original poster's story was quite spooky. If I didn't know he'd survived it I'd have gotten worried at the description of all the abandoned vehicles. It made me think about all the abandoned cars around the farmhouse in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Cruiseomatic · #**146** 01-14-2011, 05:27 AM

I've outlined what I'm talking about in red.

site123a · #**147** 01-14-2011, 10:23 AM

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AUdubon5425 · #**148** 01-14-2011, 10:15 PM

Well, I guess they'll never bother me, because I can't make out a thing in all of that.

Cruiseomatic · #**149** 01-15-2011, 06:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by site123a

I'm a open minded person but, the only thing I can see on that TV is snow. My view is, if you have to use imagination to see something, than it's not really there...

I agree, But the same is for EVP's. Some hear it, Others just hear white noise.

*zenithfan1* · #**150** 01-15-2011, 07:44 AM

I've caught several EVP's in my own house. I was the only one home at the time and when I played it back, I heard a weak and strained voice and there was tapping on the microphone after each question I asked. It was cool!

BTW, as an update on that house, I couldn't find out a whole lot about it and now I've seen people out there doing stuff and I think it's gonna get burned down soon, like several others that I used to like to hang out in.