Bad juju stuff.

[Whiskey_Bravo]

I was telling a coworker about the visiting Dachau and he asked if I took any pictures while I was there. Nah man, I didn't take any pictures.

[Hmac]

Evil exists in the hearts of men....we've seen examples of it throughout the history of humanity. But I can't grasp the concept of any supernatural or demonic source.

[Sam]

These were personal. But I felt closure more than anything.

[Watrdawg]

You could feel the sorrow at Dachau. I couldn't feel an evil there just the sorrow.

The house I live in now, and have for the last 20 years, the previous owner committed suicide in the attic. He hung himself and wasn't found for 3 days afterwards. There is still the stain in the floor where his bowels released after he died. When my wife found the house there was a lot of unusual things about the situation. I was in Dallas working and she called me up about it. She said she had found a house and wanted to tell me about it. She said it was perfect for our family, we were having another kid, but something happened there. I said what. She said the previous owner had committed suicide there and did that bother me. I said no as long as he isn't haunting the place. If he is as long as he isn't throwing can's and crap at us and wants to be a friendly ghost no big deal. She wrote the check for the earnest money deposit and it was on her birthday. 10/26. The check number was 1026. The street number was the same as our previous one. Our insurance agent was his agent and lastly my wife had been set up with the previous owner on a blind date a few years before we got married. Every now and then when I'm in the attic and getting something out of storage and I see the stain below where he hung himself I get a bit creeped out. Thankfully though I've never felt his presence there. Regardless I'm careful to do anything in the house that may open the door to something negative coming about.

[yoni]

Along those lines, when European jews in Palestine fought to create Israel, one of the primary rifles used were German K-98s complete with waffenampts. This is why I can't assign a presence to objects, is that rifle evil for helping the Germans fight their war of oppression or is the rifle good because it helped those who were being oppressed fight for their independence?

To me it's just a rifle with lots of history.

I built several sniper rifles back in the day using the actions out of those old rifles. Use the action, get a modern barrel and fit it to the action, then we would mill a stock out of aluminum. I even had one where we put a galil folding stock on it.

I always loved those rifles, but did wonder if or how many Jews had their heads blown off with it. But in it's new life it was saving Jewish lives.

[Arik]

When I was a teenager I had what might be characterized as a genuine encounter with a demonic entity.

Since then I've sort of been "gifted" with being able to pick up vibes. I can tell whether a small building, house, office, etc., is haunted just by walking into it.

As I stated in the other thread, I bought a Pennsylvania State Police Colt 6520 off GunsAmerica. It turns out you can Google the serial number and the state police's inventory comes up listing where your serial number was assigned. Mine was assigned to Belle Vernon, Troop B.

I used to work in law enforcement. I'm also a student of history, so any "genuine artifact" is always of interest to me. I actually sacrificed my Vietnam Tiger Stripe camo Colt 6920 to get the PA state police rifle. The 6520 is about as special a rifle can be to me not only for its history but because it's pretty close in configuration to the very first AR I ever owned in 1992.

The funny thing is, I get a weird vibe off it. This is actually the first time I ever can recall getting a "vibe" from an inanimate object, and I've been in many, many haunted locations over the years.

Being that the gun was assigned to some small precinct in a rural area, it's probably not likely it was ever used to take a life, but who knows?

I'm sure the history associated with it is putting a bias in my head, but still--there's that weird vibe. It's almost a creepy, but respectful feeling, like you picked up a bloody sword and knew it had been used to kill a very evil person or something. Handling it feels like it's got some "foreboding", "disquiet", "apprehension", or premonition of something bad attached to it.

Even though I've had many genuine paranormal encounters over the years, this is the one time I think it might be my imagination. My reverence for it having been a police weapon and my interest in history is doing something psychologically to me.

But it just creeps me out that my favorite rifle feels like I'm holding an object infused with some kind of trepidation every time I handle it.

The town you mentioned is only an hour away from Pittsburgh and it's not like it's an isolated town with nothing around. Cross a street and you're in the next town. So the state police barracks there probably patroled a large section of that general area. Also, it's pretty much a shit hole. Lots of abandoned factories and boarded up houses.

Troop B Belle Vernon is just that substation

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

Anyone get the hebbe jebbies at the Roman Coleseum? Roughly a million people killed on a couple of acres there over the centuries- to cheering crowds no less.

[Doc Safari]

Anyone get the hebbe jebbies at the Roman Coleseum? Roughly a million people killed on a couple of acres there over the centuries- to cheering crowds no less.

I get the heebie jeebies that I'll never have enough money to even visit the Roman Collosseum.

[Norseman]

What about a rifle with a Swastika, "7.62 MM," and a Star of David on it?

I can't honestly say, would have to cross that bridge if/when it ever happens as I have never had the opportunity to actually see one.

For me it is kinda along the same vein as to why I would never want to own the "Son of of Sam" gun, or Saddam Husseins Glock, or spend a night in Ted Bundy's house. Purely psychological, yes. But, it's still "bad juju" in my world.

Someone mentioned earlier (might have been the paranormal thread) about skinwalkers. For the tribal communities around me, this topic is bad juju in the extreme, and very real for these folks. So much so that when it happens they will shut down entire communities to perform cleansing ceremonies.

Interesting stuff.

[Doc Safari]

The town you mentioned is only an hour away from Pittsburgh and it's not like it's an isolated town with nothing around. Cross a street and you're in the next town. So the state police barracks there probably patroled a large section of that general area. Also, it's pretty much a shit hole. Lots of abandoned factories and boarded up houses.

Troop B Belle Vernon is just that substation

Wow. I looked at pics online and it looked like a sleepy little village. So that makes me wonder if my rifle was indeed used in some actual crime fighting.