dragon(ele)nerd
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Yeah, I couldn't agree more with you,
Haunted Zoos!
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Yeah, I couldn't agree more with you,
I heard that London zoo is haunted by ghostly thylacine, who howls "why you killed us out, why?"
I would love that to be happening at the Bronx Zoo!!
I wish poached and over hunted animals came back from the dead to hunt their killers and then silently go back to God's Zoo in the Sky once their mission is complete (Not pests, though. Or invasive species.). I hope I meet a Ghost Thylacine one day...
dragon(ele)nerd- I think the Ghost Adventure crew isn't faking it. Well- they used to not. I don't know about today. They did a group investigation with a bunch of contest winners and one got caught faking evidence. Tisk, tisk, tisk (always wanted to use that!!
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Tisk, tisk, tisk (always wanted to use that!!
There's no i in Tsk!
My bad. I've never seen the word spelled out.
Tsk, Tsk, Tsk ThylacineAlive
I have ghost stories but none have to do with zoos.
Well, that isn't quite fair. Really, anything can be a pest. Elephants sometimes feed on villagers' crops, canines hunt livestock, etc. And invasive species didn't choose to be invasive, now did they?
And who knows if your grandfather or great-grandfather was one of those hunters? Something tells me that I wouldn't want my great-grandfather killed by a Thylacine...
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I believe you meant to respond to TA?
I kind of meant it to be a follow-up to your statement, but I deleted the quotation box thing.
Not_a_Nautilus
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One of the reasons I don't believe in ghosts is that, if every time (or any significant proportion of the times, really) someone has died (even if we restrict this to violent deaths or deaths of people who had reasons to desire revenge or whatever kind of death seems to create a ghost in these stories) has had some kind of effect on the place it happened, then pretty well the entire land surface of the earth should be haunted, just going by the sheer number of people who have ever existed.
This only increases if we start including animals, too. Seriously, how many animals do you think were brutally killed by other animals on the patch of land where your local zoo is now, in the millions of years before it was built? They should all be equally as relevant as the zoo animals, really.
This only increases if we start including animals, too. Seriously, how many animals do you think were brutally killed by other animals on the patch of land where your local zoo is now, in the millions of years before it was built? They should all be equally as relevant as the zoo animals, really.
Anaheim Zoo, BeardsleyZooFan- This is true. I honetly hadn't thought of that possibility. Mabye I should revise that to modern times where we know better (do we?) and only poachers are effected. Although, some poachers must be doing it just to feed his/her family. Don't get me wrong, I absolutly hate poachers, but if that's the case, you have to feel a little sorry for them (although I doubt that's why most do it).
Not_a_Nautilus- You do bring up a good point but about 97-99% of all the deaths that have happened on Earth, have heppened under natural cause. Ghost often are thought to appear because to the tragic, disrespectful, and often either unresolved or unknown way that they died. Ghosts also tend to be mostly humans with the occasional animal spirit. Personaly, I think that Heavan may just be an-Other Side right here on our planet where all times exist as one (like in The Shining). Now I may be completely wrong but just hear my hypothesis. Darker places that are bothered want to release their evil (or depression) on us while the rest of the spirits just go on in their happy existence. These are the places that are haunted. The stronger the spirit, the more of a chance the spirit will come to us in the form of a Ghost. Emotion probably plays a big role in how these spirits come to communicate with us. The higher level of emotion in a place and in a Ghost, the longer it "lives" in our world. I believe that the longer the spirit lives in that Other Side, the more emotion wears off and once too much of this emotion wears off, the spirit looses its ability to appear to us. That's mabye why recorders, animals, and electronical equitment can pick up EVP's because the spirit is too weak (in out world) to communicate loud enough for us to hear but just loud enough for the equitment and animals to. Mabye, after the Dinosaurs went Extinct, the world was crawling with Ghost Dinos but their engery is now too weak for us to pick up. Basically, when we die we will really be Walking with Dinosaurs (has nothing to do with my story but I wanted to incorporate it.)
Not_a_Nautilus- You do bring up a good point but about 97-99% of all the deaths that have happened on Earth, have heppened under natural cause. Ghost often are thought to appear because to the tragic, disrespectful, and often either unresolved or unknown way that they died. Ghosts also tend to be mostly humans with the occasional animal spirit. Personaly, I think that Heavan may just be an-Other Side right here on our planet where all times exist as one (like in The Shining). Now I may be completely wrong but just hear my hypothesis. Darker places that are bothered want to release their evil (or depression) on us while the rest of the spirits just go on in their happy existence. These are the places that are haunted. The stronger the spirit, the more of a chance the spirit will come to us in the form of a Ghost. Emotion probably plays a big role in how these spirits come to communicate with us. The higher level of emotion in a place and in a Ghost, the longer it "lives" in our world. I believe that the longer the spirit lives in that Other Side, the more emotion wears off and once too much of this emotion wears off, the spirit looses its ability to appear to us. That's mabye why recorders, animals, and electronical equitment can pick up EVP's because the spirit is too weak (in out world) to communicate loud enough for us to hear but just loud enough for the equitment and animals to. Mabye, after the Dinosaurs went Extinct, the world was crawling with Ghost Dinos but their engery is now too weak for us to pick up. Basically, when we die we will really be Walking with Dinosaurs
(has nothing to do with my story but I wanted to incorporate it.)
Really!! At the Cincinnati Zoo! What if you don't turn around...
Anyone know of any stories for the Bronx Zoo (Ghost Thylos
), Mystic Aquarium, Smithsonian National Zoo (more Ghost Thylos), or the Beardsley Zoo (no happy howls of two Timber Wolves who have just reunited or the sounds of wipping wind caused by a 79 year old Andean Condor.)
Really!! At the Cincinnati Zoo!
Anyone know of any stories for the Bronx Zoo (Ghost Thylos
The Virtual Dime Museum: The Haunted Reptile House
Couldn't find any on the other two zoos.
It's a mystery.... I want to try it sometime at the Festival of Lights. (even though I know it won't work)
Dudley Zoo is in the grounds of an 11th century castle which has several ghosts associated with it. One of the most renowned is Dorothy Beaumont, known as 'The Grey Lady' who lived at the castle. The 'Grey Lady Tavern' within the castle keep is named after her. Apparently, alarms in the building go off in the middle of the night for no reason and staff have experienced extreme drops in temperature, accompanied by a strange blue mist that floats through the bar.
There is also the ghost of a drummer boy who was killed during the Civil War, who has been heard drumming.
The Chapel Undercroft is reputedly haunted - people have reported seeing a pair of ghostly legs and also a little girl.
There is also the ghost of a drummer boy who was killed during the Civil War, who has been heard drumming.
The Chapel Undercroft is reputedly haunted - people have reported seeing a pair of ghostly legs and also a little girl.
Civil War?
Perhaps I should have been more specific - I meant the English Civil War (1642 - 1651) between the Parliamentarians (Roundheads) and the Royalists (Cavaliers).