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[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 4 points 6 days ago

They haunt the abandoned malls and apartment buildings rather than old houses...

[–] JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml 82 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The ghost of a nerd died in 1998 adding animated gifs to your website while you sleep.

[–] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 69 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Said nerd and I are probably the same age. I could live with this.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Your brand new laptop or whatever future devices they'll have in 2050 just stops working because of all the advertising spam in everything

[–] PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

writing prompt; a small family keeps finding their futuristic computers infected with old malware. No matter how often they delete LimeWire someone adds it back.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's, like, a g-g-ghost in the machine, Scoob!

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Wasn't this one of those old laptops that had something called .... ummm .. what was it ... doors? .. no, no ... Windows! it was called Windows!

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The reason old buildings are "haunted" is usually carbon monoxide. That's why modern buildings don't have ghosts.

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just read a post-it about that...

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

in my own handwriting no less

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 11 points 1 week ago

I'll check on it after a nap

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think it can also have to do with pipes and stuff vibrating at a sub-audible frequency which can cause feelings of dread and fear. Horror movies use this technique pretty frequently.

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

It also depends on people who believe in ghosts. A normal person just hears pipes making noise.

I went to my buddies house one day and he was excited to show me a video he recorded.... of particles of dust being lit up by the cameras light. I almost felt bad to say the truth because he was so excited to have captured 'ghosts'.

[–] edg@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

I already fill that role in my household.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It probably takes a century or so for a ghost to manifest.

In the time span of eternity, 100 years is nothing.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It’s a lot of paperwork they have to fill out first. Permits and inspections. The bureaucracy of the afterlife.

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Luckily there's a handbook, though I've heard it reads like a VCR manual.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

It used to read like stereo instructions, so it's improved

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Making 12:00 flash on the VCR display was another classic haunt, but no one has a VCR anymore.

[–] gjoel@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

Now they make your smart bulb disconnect from the network.

[–] lazyViking@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The show ghosts has a ghost that died in the early 2000s and he is just a baller "the pantsless ghost of a wealthy Wall Street stockbroker from the early 2000s" and he just wants to party

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

T Money!

When is the new season? September?

[–] lazyViking@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh man, you just made me look it up, and now I realise there are way more seasons than the two available on my localized netflix 😵‍💫

and it seems like season 5(!) is set for October, so I got some months to binge it all 🤩

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

There's also the UK version which is way better. But way fewer episodes and it's ended.

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Woot! Yah, my eyepatch is handy sometimes. This show is worth it.

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It's the only thing on CBS worth watching.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ooooUUUoooooOOOOuuuu Diiiiccckkkkssss ouuut for Hhhhaaaaammmbreeee ooOOOOuuuuu

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

koooOOOnnyyy twennnnty twellllve

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago

"Get PWNT Noob" is written in blood on the walls. A classic late 90s haunting.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

a ghost pops through the wall singing OH SNAAAKE AH SNAAAAAKE OHOOOOOH IT'S A SNAAAAKE

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 8 points 1 week ago

Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger Mushroom Mushroom

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The causes might be environmental.
Haunted houses are a product of the US culture and the oldest houses commonly in use there are from the 1700s.
But it also needs to be fairly isolated - nobody is going to notice a haunting in the middle of a city.

[–] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 8 points 1 week ago

"Haunted houses are a product of US culture", right...

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

There are plenty of haunting stories that predate the US by several thousands of years.

[–] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Rawr XD" why not "Rawr X3"?

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 9 points 1 week ago
[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago

I'd totally buy a haunted mansion if it's haunted by a ghost from the 1990s. Hell yeah.

...Oh, I can imagine more headlines. Someone spending a lot of money to buy a house haunted by a communist, and the sociopolitical debate this purchase creates.

[–] Iapetus@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm pretty sure my ghost is still partying with the goths, in the loft I lived in in 2010.

If you start seeing phantom CD cases with lines of speed racked up on them, or hearing the faint sound of epic mashups, you'll know you're in the right loft.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 1 week ago

I would immediately find an exorcist to banish that bitch.

[–] match@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago

ghost ghost i know you live within me, feel as you fly