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Ghosts at the Firehouse
Every fire department has a history that is capable of going back hundreds of years.
Our firehouse has been standing for a long time... long before I was even born. They say that a ghost is nothing but a memory preserved in time. The people at the firehouse are torn between those who truly believe it is haunted, those who have seen things but ignore it, and those who have never seen anything and are totally skeptic. Based on my own experiences, I fall into the first category I named. I believe that people that have passed on still walk the firehouse. Sometimes strange things would happen... like I've seen the bay doors open and shut on their own when no one is standing near the button. Every now and then I would swear someone just walked into the room, and I'd turn around and the room would be empty. Apparitions can be seen sometimes walking the hallway or the bay. I've heard air brakes engage when none of the apparatus had turned a wheel all day. Sounds are heard that have no rational explanation. Though we search for some way to contraindicate the fact this place has spiritual inhabitants, we usually come back empty-handed.
Could it really be that we have unseen souls still tending to firehouses long after they've left this world? I honestly believe you can love this job so much that you would refuse to stop doing it even after you die. A firehouse would be a prime place for a haunting anyway considering the history and tradition of a fire department, many as I said, go back centuries.
Our firehouse has been standing for a long time... long before I was even born. They say that a ghost is nothing but a memory preserved in time. The people at the firehouse are torn between those who truly believe it is haunted, those who have seen things but ignore it, and those who have never seen anything and are totally skeptic. Based on my own experiences, I fall into the first category I named. I believe that people that have passed on still walk the firehouse. Sometimes strange things would happen... like I've seen the bay doors open and shut on their own when no one is standing near the button. Every now and then I would swear someone just walked into the room, and I'd turn around and the room would be empty. Apparitions can be seen sometimes walking the hallway or the bay. I've heard air brakes engage when none of the apparatus had turned a wheel all day. Sounds are heard that have no rational explanation. Though we search for some way to contraindicate the fact this place has spiritual inhabitants, we usually come back empty-handed.
Could it really be that we have unseen souls still tending to firehouses long after they've left this world? I honestly believe you can love this job so much that you would refuse to stop doing it even after you die. A firehouse would be a prime place for a haunting anyway considering the history and tradition of a fire department, many as I said, go back centuries.
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Comment by Erin T. on February 17, 2009 at 3:01pm
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PHILLY,
Nobody needs to hear your comments or bs. okay?
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Comment by FETC on February 10, 2009 at 8:30am
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Our house is old, circa 1885 old and a brother died in the same bedroom that I am currently assigned to. Is his spirit or ghost still in there? No clue because I have never had his ghost or spirit grace my presence.
I'm with E-913 on this one...
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Comment by SMOKEnPipesJim on February 10, 2009 at 7:07am
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IN one of my two volly houses, back early 80's "things" happened like your saying is going on there, the doors(could be another electronic device) butwhen your siting and listening to the footsteps upstairs,and go up and find no one in the entire besides yourself , you kind a go hmmm never seen a true apperition, butIwas NOT the only one who regularly caught something going past the dayroom door to the apparatus floor.. and it goes on, an antenae that was bent over and let go twanging when no one human was within 12 feet of the parked vehicle .. I figured it was AL who was the department mechanic, he built they're first 3 fire trucks, his grandson still has his stanleysteam car and model A wrecker which was hand crank operated , he always checked the house and rigs nightlywhen he was active, the nightwatchman guy... On my job, Walt was our last LODD, since he passed, in 1995 we have had at least one bank of the fluorescant lights eitherin the kitchen the pot and pan storage or another store room just behind that with a differant access point thathas been perpetually out, since 1995 ifwe replace bulbs the whole fixture goes out, if the electrician replaces a ballast say in the kitchen thepot and pan room light goes out like you say, cant prove it, but it sure is funny how this annomoly moves around and NEVER is fixed in those 13 years like was said, No harm in either case which leads me to believe its either of "them' letting us know..(walt was his shift's primary cook,and was in charge of the house fund, which was locked in that outside closet...hmmmm
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Comment by Kerry Purdy on February 9, 2009 at 5:21pm
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I soooo agree! Theres something amis in our station to!!!!!!!!!!
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Comment by Engineco913 on February 9, 2009 at 3:47pm
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Besides, in the Scooby Doo Movie, Velma says "There is no such things as ghosts."
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Only every day that end's in a "y" Philly. :)
I'm not a believer in ghosts/orbs/spirits. I think they only live in each of our own imaginations.
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Comment by Dustin on February 9, 2009 at 3:11pm
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2 rooms of my old firehouse was part of a movie theater back in the 1800-early 1900's. Back in the day the theater owners wife hung herself in one of the rooms....which is now the locker room. We heard footsteps from time to time, but no need to call the Ghost Busters.
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ohhhh i TOTALLY believe in Ghosts. I would probably be one of those who would still walk the halls. I believe that those whom have passed on still come around us, watch over us, and even go to calls with us. It's actually pretty neat.
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Comment by Oldman on February 9, 2009 at 9:59am
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You are entering a new dimension. A dimension of sight and sound...
Sorry, I was thinking of something else. Actually Capt. Jim visits us quite regularly. Jim is the first LODD for our department. There will be little sounds, creaks, and even doors opening and closing. He'd even talk on the stations phones. We only have two lines, but he would use line 4. It would stay lit up for a while, then go off for a while.
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Comment by Doug on February 9, 2009 at 8:27am
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Our dispatch center, the one I used to work for, is supposedly haunted. Some strange things have occurred there, myself witnessing a couple of them.
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