Long story about a Motorola found on an abandoned farm

[zenithfan1]

How about this one? Think someone is smoking or is there a visitor in that picture? Looks like smoke but who knows....
http://forgottenmichigan.com/gallery..._1560.JPG.html

[67Zenith]

There are some very interesting stories here. I had experiences with odd happenings with electricity just after my mother passed away in 2000. It didn't necessarily scare me but it made me feel that some sort of inexplicable communication was occuring. Then after one of my beloved dogs passed away in 2001, I decided I needed to contact someone who might be more in the know on this subject. I found the name of a lady in Wisconsin who was very helpful to me and she explained the mysteries of after life communication to me and the possibility that there is a connection with electricity, as it is a source of immense energy. Too much to go into here in this forum but it did help me to understand a lot. The universe is much more awesome and powerful than we can even imagine. Many things are possible. I can say this...I love to collect old things from my growing up years, the 1960s. Sometimes these items, such as TV sets or clock radios, were owned by other people. Is their "energy" still on them? I don't think so, unless they had a very special attachment to that particular electronic item. If you get a bad vibe from a previously owned item, give the item away. If you get a vibe that is just kind of neutral and you feel good about saving that vintage item then it's probably a good thing for you to own.

As far as the house, with weird vibes, I would not go back. Houses are built from organic matter and there is (or was) life in all organic matter (such as a tree that grows until the day it dies). I would never rent a house or buy a house or renovate a house that I walked into and got a weird feeling from the get go, or if the hair on my arms stood on end or if your "sixth sense" tells you that this place is NOT for you - I'd politely leave on the double. Who knows what happened in some of these places. No use in stirring up what may be better to be left as it is. Places that are clean of bad vibes are always the best places to be in.

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[Reece]

About ten or twelve years ago I was rummaging around in an abandoned house. A friend of mine and I were there to do some HVAC repairs (which I used to do on the side) for the landlord who was fixing the place up. The previous tenant had skipped and left a lot of stuff. Landlord said take what you want, the rest is going to the dump. One thing was a small 35mm camera which I took and used until getting a digital. Then there was a big box of books and letters etc. that I became fascinated with. It was the entire life, it would seem, of a lady who was a nurse. There were letters etc. in there from the 1920's on. Envelopes full of black and white pictures and negatives. In one she and some other women were standing as if Sunday dressed next to a beautiful '38 Buick, parked on the beach somewhere, I had to believe in New England as there were other references to that region. The wind was blowing their long dresses, they were holding onto their hats. She collected Chrismas Seals, there were bunches of them there and a letter to the Christmas Seal Society asking for more. Letters back and forth from some institution where her brother was being taken care of; he was somehow disabled. The more I read her letters, her drycleaning bills, her drugstore invoices, she became real to me.

I tried on the internet, via searches, checks on genealogical sites, to connect with someone who might be her relative and might want this wealth of information, but to no avail. I couldn't just throw it out, the lifetime of a person. She was apparently what we used to call a maiden lady. Finally on a lead found on the cardboard box I found a name and searched and contacted a man. He came back to me and said that he had given this box of stuff to another person (the one who skipped the house) to try to help that guy out, to see if he could sell some of the old photographs and such on that auction site. Apparently there is a market for these. However nothing came of that effort. He said that he had acquired the box at an auction along with much other stuff, and that the family auctioning it did not want it any more.

I could not imagine a family throwing away part of its history like that but there are uncaring people in the world. I asked if I could and I finally sent it back to the man that I had contacted. At least I didn't have it any more, and I wasn't the one to throw it out. I really felt bad about having it around and felt bad for the maiden lady whose entire presence in this world was contained in that dusty cardboard box. Sic transit gloria mundi.

[holmesuser01]

When I was around 9 years old, my dad bought some property and built a small barn for our horses. It came with a small abandoned house on the edge of the lot. I was told to stay out of the house. So, when I was looking around in the house, I found a bunch of old radios from the 1920's thru the 1950's, just sitting around on cabinets, etc. The windows were busted out, and the roof was collapsing. I shouldn't have been in the place. I was a tube scavenger even then, so I got lots of old tubes. This was during my 'rip and destroy' period before I began to conserve antique electronics.

There was a large collie that lived close to this property. This dog used to bark at grass growing, and its owner liked it that way.

One day, we came to feed the horses, and there was no dog barking. This went on for several weeks. No dog.

I was doing one of my walks thru the abandoned house, when I noticed that something had been moved in the floor. It was an old mattress. I moved the mattress and found the dead collie. I ran. I never went back in the house. About a week later, the house burned. It was arson. My dad was called by the fire department, and we went to the scene. It was collapsing as we arrived. I told the firemen about finding the dog inside a few days before this. I caught hell from my parents about disobeying them. BUT, I still have a bunch of the globe type tubes found in the radios in that house. Lots of DeForest, and Cunningham tubes.

I still think that someone was covering up something done wrong in that house.

We still own the property. There is no barn and no horses there anymore. There is a nice car repair building on the site now. My dad is gone, now, so this belongs to me and my mom.

How did I miss this topic? It's very interesting!!

[Glenz75]

I've been reading this thread from the very start and have enjoyed all the stories so far, ZenithFan1 you must be quite a sensitive soul to have picked up on the energy residue and the presence in that house. I am also very in tune with this sort of thing and can easily detect vibes/energies from houses and even places that I visit.

Something that happened to me along similar lines to this thread, I knew this old chap who used to make TVs & radios right up until the 1960's. He died in 2007 leaving a whole lifetime of stuff in his house including NOS parts/tubes/CRTs/Cabinets as he manufactured right out of his house and lived amongst it all, this guy was an obessive hoarder and never threw anything away, not even rubbish or newspapers so you can imagine what the inside was like. He left it all to his one and only daugther who promptly when in and started to clean the place out literally.....About the 7th or 8th skip bin later I found out through contacts that he had died so went to the house to see what was going on and luckily she was there sorting stuff out that day. She knew who I was and said she tried to contact me but misplaced my phone number that her father had given before he died. It was all quite sad really, but his presence in that house was literally everywhere. It was like he was there but you couldn't see him just a real strong energy in the place. You'd be like in a room and like turn around because you'd swear he was standing beside you or just in the room. I ended up getting quite a bit of stuff from there, of course a few dealers had been right through the place a few weeks before and picked through everything and taken more than their fair share while ripping her off in the process, I heard a rumor that one dealer managed to come across a huge box full of NOS 6L6's and sold them for a small fortune on ebay, like thousands of dollars etc, this annoyed me as she was struggling financially and had no help with what do with all his stuff initially, probably explains why she first just started dumping stuff and what she got paid by this dealer for what he took was pittance compared to what profit he would have made out of it.

Anyway back to the story when I got back home my wife who is very in tune said to me, you've brought him home with you and she was right, for the next few weeks he kept us awake at night by making noises/trying to talk, (in life he could talk for hours and was hard to get away from at times) and you'd go into the hallway and catch a glimpse of him standing there, this is no bull by the way I'm not making this up, this really happened and no I'm not crazy either so it was all a bit unnerving really.
I went back to the house a few times after that and got more stuff from there and paid her a fair price for what I took, like NOS radio cabinets and CRTs/components/speakers/output transformers,and about 10 Tektronix tube scopes, including a very rare TV which he made himself out of radio parts and local components/hardware. I must get around to taking some photos of this set and posting it on here, its quite unique in the sense that he used two of his radio chassis and stuck those together and built up the chassis on that.
Eventually over the next few months his presence just weakened and now pretty much don't feel him around at all, I do occasionally still but not often these days.

So there's my story sorry for being a bit long winded and sorry if I've freaked anyone out, but from what I've read from other posters in this thread it sounds like we're all got a that sixth sense in some form or another. I guess it comes with being intuitive and curious as this hobby pretty much is like that!

Cheers
Glen.

[ctc17]

What a cool thread. I dont know how I missed it a year ago....

I love exploring abandon dwellings, amusement parks, mines, fallout shelters whatever. There used to be ton of that stuff around when I was a kid and it has all been pushed over and rebuilt. Property values are to high now for there to be any cool stuff to explore.
Seems like lately I have been finding mostly mines that were converted to fallout shelters in the 60s. A few still stocked with supplies.
I remember finding houses like this that were a total mystery as to what caused the inhabitants to just 'flee' leaving all their positions behind. That is one creepy feeling.
Reading through this thread brought back memorys of the Mira Loma turkey Ranch and Marine Land Sea Park as well as several others.

Zenithfan, found anything new lately??

[AUdubon5425]

Louisiana State University and the Veterans Administration are evicting about 26 blocks of homes and businesses near the New Orleans CBD for their new hospital complex. (Not that there wasn't adequate empty space elsewhere.) Anyway, demolition and moving of buildings has been occurring for some weeks now. Today, I saw a pile of stuff in front of a small 50's or 60's office building - and the back of a console TV. For a moment I was excited - - - oh well, made a u-turn and it was an early-80's System 3 Zenith.

[ctc17]

26 Blocks?!? I mean I know we are a sick lot and healthcare is big money but how big a hospital do yall need? Maybe its time to cut down on the fried foods?

[Sandy G]

Hope they build the durn thing on stilts, or at least REASONABLY close to sea level...

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Hope they build the thing on stilts, or at least REASONABLY close to sea level...

Or at least put the emergency generators on a floor above sea level. Not in the basement of that hospital that got flooded out and no power...

Maybe its time to cut down on the fried foods?

But fried food is artery cloggin' good! Just ask Elvis!

[Sandy G]

Pardon my general mulish, jaundiced outlook on things in general, but I still have a hard time feeling completely sorry for the "Victims" of Katrina-Or ANY hurricane anymore, for that matter. When Katrina paid her visit, for at least a week beforehand, virtually EVERY TV I saw had a picture of the storm's progress-a big, angry, ugly red blob drawing a bead on Da Bigg Ezy...Y'all live on the coast in a town that is basically built below sea level-And it kinda gets obliterated historically about oncet every 25 yrs or so...What part of "Git da funk OUT" DON'T you unnerstand ?!?

[Reece]

NOLA: and with hundreds of school buses available to take them....

[AUdubon5425]

I'll just day this without digging up that whole part of my life: 80% of the people you should feel sorry for never had their stories told the newspapers.

We had not had a storm of that magnitude hit this area in anyone's lifetime - 1915 was perhaps the closest.

The National Hurricane Center was calling for this storm to strike the Florida panhandle into Friday night/Sat morning. Also remember that it didn't "explode" in strength until Sunday morning. Up until then it was a 115mph storm, something we've dealt with before. Factor in the elderly, those who were too scared for their own safety to go to the Superdome (look up what happened in '98 when they opened it up for Georges.) On the other hand, many simply refused to leave or stayed behind to have free pickings after the storm. They had buses in the lower 9th ward to take evacuees Sunday - the NOPD combed the streets asking people to get on them - they didn't fill the first one. How about the grandmother who stayed and drowned with her handicapped immobile son because the ambulance who was supposed to transport him never came? They found her clung to him in his hospital bed. That was a few blocks from my house. Sorry I'm rambling, Katrina is way too deep and complicated of a subject to make blanket statements about.

And yeah, 26 blocks. Majority residential, lower-middle income, 100 year old houses, over 50% redone and occupied. More to do with LSU wanting a showpiece and nothing to do with fried foods. I know that's your obsession 17, but we don't need hospitals for that.

[Robert Grant]

Was not Betsy (1965) similar in scope to Katrina?

I know that huge portions of N.O. were flooded, but that everybody quickly rebuilt - not as much red tape and no arguments over who was entitled to move back into their own neighborhoods.