| Daydreamer | 01-18-2002 07:47 PM |
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Originally posted by willpower
here's a story that I saw on one of those Taiwanese ghost story shows... it took place right here in Vancouver!! :eek:
A group of friends, all Taiwanese around the ages of 19-25, were at Stanley Park taking an out-of-town friend on a tour of Vancouver. They didn't know this at first, but their friend had a history of being able to see ghosts. Anyways, they stopped at the Hollow Tree for some photos, but the tourist wouldn't move, and was just staring at the sharp left turn in the road right beside the hollow tree. The tourist then asked out loud (in Mandarin) "Was there a motorcycle accident here involving a Chinese guy around our age?"
Most of the Vancouver residents didn't know, but then one of the girls said that her ex-boyfriend's brother had died in Stanley Park while racing his motorcycle. (I personally also heard a story from my racing buddy who said his friends once saw a biker racing a Mercedes who was cutting him off and stuff... on the turn the biker edged to pass him on the outside, but the Benz clipped him and he high-sided into a tree, where apparently police found him with his helmet wedged into the tree trunk) :eek:
The girl asked the tourist friend how he knew, but ashamed of his sixth sense, he just said, "Looks like a dangerous place to ride a motorcycle, yet the same sort of place that would attarct sport riders." At that moment, everyone in the group started to ring and buzz.... their cell phones and pagers all going off at the exact same time. Surprised, they all checked their caller ID's or numerical messages and were confused as hell... they all saw the digits 00000000. They were even more dumbfounded after asking each other who had called when they realized that they all got the same displayed call. As they put their phones back in their pockets, they started to ring again. Again, the digits 00000000 showed on their screens. By this time some members of the group were getting a little scared, but others still weren't convinced. One of the guys then answered his phone... he heard what he described as loud revving noises, possibly from a sportbike. Skeptical, he thought that perhaps it was just a friend calling him from the street as a bike was ripping by. But then the sound of screeching tires came through, then a muffled scream and finally, a crashing sound.
Freaked out, this guy turned off his phone, as did all of the other friends. All through this, the guy from out of town was staring at a nearby tree. Without looking back, he said "Pick up your phone." One of the friends pointed out to him that all their phones were off. At that moment, one of the girls' phones went off, and unable to stop herself, she picked up. What she heard she later admitted she couldn't accurately describe, except that it was the most deathly chilling groans she had ever heard. She was unable to take the phone from her ears, even though she was screaming with fear. She described it as someone forcing her arm to hold the phone to her ear. Finally, one of the guys from the group grabbed the phone and chucked it against the Hollow Tree, when the battery popped off and the phone stopped ringing. That moment, even though all the phones were turned off, they started ringing again, but the terrified group of friends frantically tore the batteries off their phones to stop the ringing.
Genuinely horrified, the group ran back to their cars. They decided that they'd go back to Richmond for dinner. At dinner, they discussed and debated the possible explanations how their phones could do that, but they couldn't explain it. Eventually, the dinner topic turned away from mysteries, ghosts and cell phones and became a regular dinner of friends with jokes and past stories to tell. As all of them were laughing, the girl whose ex's bro died heard her phone ringing in her purse, and without thinking, she picked it up and answered it. "Hi ____ (the girl). It's me _____ (the ex's bro). I need to talk to my bro." Screaming, the girl shoved the phone into her purse, where she caught a glimpse of white inside her purse.... it was her battery. :eek2:
| :eek: :( Scary...When did this happen? At night? 'n was it a long time ago?
Don't you make a sharp LEFT turn around the Hollow Tree? Wait, is that tree the one near the edge and you drive AROUND it OR is it the one that's near a parking place (small)? 'cuz that tree actually has a sign on it. |
