re: Mysterious GA: Chapter 1

House was a poor copy of Satans Castle in the Mountains of Turkey dating back well before the ottomans.

I believe it.

I notice though that none of the experiences you report resulted in anyone getting hurt. That's what I've experienced as well. All of my encounters with spirits/ghosts have been benevolent. In fact, they've all been for the purpose of trying to help me. Just like that feeling you get in your gut sometimes. WHen you don't know how you know it, but you know something is up and get the hell out of there. I think that's the same thing as ghosts and spirits etc. SOmething talking to you from beyond. But, it's never to steer you toward doom. Always the opposite. Which is self explanortory revealing about the nature of things.

COmpletely opposite of the movies and tv version of ghosts where they are evil and can hurt you.

We need to get into N.D.E.s. Has anyone on here ever had a near death experience where they died momentarily and came back? That show "I survived: Beyond and Back" is a facemelter. A few are ov=bviously fake, but i believe most of them

I have been to cheatham hill many times but never personally felt anything other than the feeling you are on hallowed ground.

Allatoona Pass is a different strory. That place is straight creepy. But not as famous. Googleable.

Old colonial era maps refer to that area as "Hightower" because that's the only way they could spell Etowah in the Queen's English.


ETA- 5.3 miles as the crow flies from Etowah to Allatoona Pass.

More on allatoona pass



It was/is a deep cut through a mountain for the purposes of train tracks in the mid-1800's. Not 20 years after the 1830 land grab that put white people in present day Cobb County, on then-Cherokee land (with some Creek territory south of present day "Dallas Highway".)

The tracks were built, and it was the only way to get anything on rail from Tennessee to Atlanta aka Marthasville aka Terminus aka Giant fricking International Train Depot at a time when trains were the modern day equivalent of private space travel. Super high tech leading edge stuff.

When I was a teen, just a young sweet innocent boy, Allatoona Pass was referred to as Mount Allatoona. There were no parking spaces. No signs. No interpretive kiosks. The first time my friend brought me there to fish one of the two crystal clear spring-fed ponds on the property, I just assumed we were trespassing. I knew nothing of the property or the history.

It's a decent walk from the road to the ponds and it took you through "the cut". The cut is blasted out bedrock for traintracks that no longer existed, just the cut with a walking trail through, and really high steep shear rock cliffs on both sides, the whole climate changes when you walk through it, like when you walk into a cave or tunnel, but you are still in broad daylight.

Everyone knows the feeling of being watched, everyone has experienced it at some point. I have been to Allatoona Pass 4 or 5 times, and every single time, while walking through the cut, I had the most incredible sense of being watched, but not like I was being watched from afar, but being watched by something right next to me. The last time I walked back out, when it was just starting to get dark but was still light out, in the middle of the cut, both me and my buddy are apparently feeling the same thing, look at each other, and both start running back to the car with our tackle boxes and fishing rods in hand. For no other reason than we looked at each other and both had the exact same instinct to simply haul arse. On the drive home, the conversation was assertively "that was fricked up" and "that place is haunted as frick". And remember, we didn't know the history of the place, there were no signs nor kiosks nor memorials and whatnot back then.



To be continued

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All of my encounters with spirits/ghosts have been benevolent.

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A-hem

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For no other reason than we looked at each other and both had the exact same instinct to simply haul arse.

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A gut feeling “. Why in the gut?

Where is most of the serotonin in the body located? In the brain or the gut

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Bobby Lee Cook

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"If your guilty, get him! If you're innocent, you don't need him."

I used to know a lot of people up in the Summerville area, and even Menlo. And some teachers at Chattooga High School. Do you remember who your teacher was?

I knew Ms. Ellis, Mr Herring (Principle), Ms. Taylor and a bunch of others.

Some people I knew were Wilinghams, Lee Ann and Bobby Mitchell (had a son played for the Dodgers for a bit and may have been your age?) Pettits (Chuck and Cindy) and tons of other people. Know any of them?

The gut and the brain actually communicate with one another. Your gut is actually a second brain controlled by a complex system of bacteria and chemicals. And it’s where almost all of the serotonin is produced and distributed to the brain with power over your “mood”. You can read a bunch of scientific articles on it with big words, but in the end, they don’t completely understand the relationship.

The most obvious example is getting “butterflies” in your stomach when you get nervous about something. Gut instincts are harder to describe though. I dont know about you, but when your gut tells you something, it is clear as day and definitely comes from the gut. But I wouldn’t begin to know how to explain how i know its coming from there. But it is.