Just wanted to know if any houses in fairfax county are haunted...i live in tilly so lemme no people?!?



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Nope, sorry there are no haunted houses in Fairfax county (or any other place in the world), because there are no such things as ghosts.

Have you ever seen one before? If so, explain please.

This is this one haunted house I have heard about but I forgot where it was.

the ghosts wiped your mind

Probably.

We thought we found one once. It turned out it was Mr Daniels trying to scare people away from his counterfeiting operation.

Johnny Walker Wrote:
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> We thought we found one once. It turned out it was
> Mr Daniels trying to scare people away from his
> counterfeiting operation.


And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids and that dog

There be one in FFX city but not the way overdone civil war house on old lee highway but the clubhouse for the hoity toity of farrcroft. probably few folks left alive in these parts that remember
also ain't the old county courthouse got a ghost or two?

any houses haunted in chantilly?

zerxesva Wrote:
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> any houses haunted in chantilly?


The phantom of a doctor with a bloody uniform has purportedly been made out on a handful of instances drinking diesel from a gasoline pump at a gas station in Chantilly. Several of the folks here declare this ghost takes pleasure in startling people who come seeking ghosts in Chantilly. Whatever folks verbalize, this ghost certainly is terrifying; one that is preferably not disrupted.

in other words....ur a fruit cake who likes ghost's

any houses haunted

I thought I had heard about one off of Vale Rd, closer to Hunter Mill back in the 80's. Not sure if it's true, for I never checked it out.

thats great ne more people?



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i heard of of the bunny man in clifton.....anything of that sorts in fx cty???

no really ne hauntings in fx cty?

EYYYYYYY KIDS I'M THE BUNNY MAN AND I LIVE ON BUNNY MAN BRIDGE RAWRRRRRRRR
DON'T YOU DARE STEP TO MY BRIDGE OR I'LL THROW BUNNIES AT YOU

just me Wrote:
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> I thought I had heard about one off of Vale Rd,
> closer to Hunter Mill back in the 80's. Not sure
> if it's true, for I never checked it out.


Was the house ever described to you by chance?

dude oscar wilde was gaye which means your gay so quit using his quotes....faggot

and "your" retarded

As I recall, you could not see the house from the road and it was a 2 story house.

Is it still there?

Bunny Man Bridge is supposedly a haunted bridge. Lorton Prison is also known to be haunted. There are a few homes in downtown Clifton that are rumored to have ghosts in them. Also, check out all the old Civil War Battlefields around the area as well as downtown Occoquan; both are places that are rumored to be very paranormally active.

Walney Road in Chantilly, VA is supposedly haunted by a little girl who died in a fire there.

there's supp a haunting accross the st from me in chantilly.....lil red headed girl shows up in my neigb's closet...kinda creepy



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I knew a place that was haunted in SC, obviously not here, but the stories were creepy as hell. It was a brand new apartment building full of campus students, and everyone had something happen regarding this lady and girl that would appear, and call them out by name. Their lights would flash when it happened too. People would also have water fill up their drawers at random, even when no one else was around (During Summer break). It was built upon a reclaimed swamp, so who knows what happened there.

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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).

ThePackLeader Wrote:
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> I knew a place that was haunted in SC, obviously
> not here, but the stories were creepy as hell. It
> was a brand new apartment building full of campus
> students, and everyone had something happen
> regarding this lady and girl that would appear,
> and call them out by name. Their lights would
> flash when it happened too. People would also have
> water fill up their drawers at random, even when
> no one else was around (During Summer break). It
> was built upon a reclaimed swamp, so who knows
> what happened there.


Yeah, I know that place. An infant was electrocuted in a drawer full of water, that's why the lights keep flashing.

The Little River Turnpike Safeway parking lot is haunted by the distant memory of living wages for legal American workers.

Brandon Wrote:
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> The Little River Turnpike Safeway parking lot is
> haunted by the distant memory of living wages for
> legal American workers.

You'll be the first to complain when the price of groceries goes up...

If you're old enough to read a cesspool of a forum like this, you should be old enough to know there's no such thing as a ghost

There are lots of them on TV, so I've heard.

yeah but theres also a man on walney rd in chantilly and if you drive through at a certain time on a tues or wed after midight some hitch hiker appears......and if you don't pick him up then you end up crashing a few miles later...crazy shyt...

Numbers Wrote:
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> ThePackLeader Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I knew a place that was haunted in SC,
> obviously
> > not here, but the stories were creepy as hell.
> It
> > was a brand new apartment building full of
> campus
> > students, and everyone had something happen
> > regarding this lady and girl that would appear,
> > and call them out by name. Their lights would
> > flash when it happened too. People would also
> have
> > water fill up their drawers at random, even
> when
> > no one else was around (During Summer break).
> It
> > was built upon a reclaimed swamp, so who knows
> > what happened there.
>
>
> Yeah, I know that place. An infant was
> electrocuted in a drawer full of water, that's why
> the lights keep flashing.


Damn South Carolinians!

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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).

The closest we had for a haunted house was the old plantation house (some called it Franklin Manor) across from Franklin Middle School. It was demolished in the early 90's but not before one attempt in which the wrecking ball equipment malfunctioned and was left in the mud for months.

I remember being scared as all hell when I went in back in my teens. There were bordered up walls and windows and the first floor was covered in vandal graffiti and beer cans but the top floor had a room that was just filled with stock ticker tape and hand drawn pictures... creepy. But the creepiest part about the house was the small slave graveyard right in the backyard, one grave was inscribed "Here lies Gertrude. God put to rest her sinful soul." The basement also haunted me for years.

dude that was pretty good....thanks for that story franklin manor.......anymore "real" hauntings in fairfax county???/

7400 block of McWhorter Place in Annandale.
South side of the street, behind the middle house.
I double dog dare you to go there at night.

does anybody know of any more haunted places at night?

where are the scared people

myself

4019 middle ridge dr. Fairfax

Doris, I used to live in that house, (4019 middle ridge dr.) Do you know this because you live/d there? Or, know someone who does? When my family lived there (not long) we had problems with the thermostat, and other strange things...

Franklin Manor Wrote:
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> The closest we had for a haunted house was the old
> plantation house (some called it Franklin Manor)
> across from Franklin Middle School. It was
> demolished in the early 90's but not before one
> attempt in which the wrecking ball equipment
> malfunctioned and was left in the mud for months.
>
>
> I remember being scared as all hell when I went in
> back in my teens. There were bordered up walls and
> windows and the first floor was covered in vandal
> graffiti and beer cans but the top floor had a
> room that was just filled with stock ticker tape
> and hand drawn pictures... creepy. But the
> creepiest part about the house was the small slave
> graveyard right in the backyard, one grave was
> inscribed "Here lies Gertrude. God put to rest her
> sinful soul." The basement also haunted me for
> years.

Turley Hall. Served as a hospital during the Civil War.

There is an area of hiking paths in the woods off the Occoquan reservoir in Clifton, there is no house but I have been there during both day and night fishing... At one cove there is a laminated letter posted on a tree to an 18 year old girl who died right there on the bank.. 2 actually! I have see some crazy shit going on back there in the middle of the night while I was posted up trying to reel in MR. Whiskers! I have seen a person literally swim out of the water.. What I thought was a beaver stood upright to about 5-7 and disappeared into the woods without responding to my yelling, spotlight, and actually throwing rocks at it.
I have seen another elusive man at night 2 times in a canoe dumping full bags overboard! They guy looks straight at me when I spot light him and he too never responds to me yelling. So now I just Stare back at him. I witnessed a death on the road in which I take to get there, Julie Shew whose boat mysteriously capsized in the calm wake of the Occoquan A truck driver got stuck on the access road one night and I came out of the woods to see what was going on and there was nobody there.... Just an 18 wheeler bottomed out on Kinchloe Rd in Clifton.. An unpaved road that cuts through the woods where this place is. I am there every other night during the summer and there are certain parts I will not post up at or even walk by at night.

I appreciate a good spooky story as well as the next guy, but make an effort to do some research first before you start laying down complete bullshit. Julia (not Julie) Shew went out rowing on day with steady 20mph winds, with gusts up to 35mph. Her boat capsized in front of Fountainhead, which is always the worst part of the river on a day like that due to how wide it is. It was far from what you'd call a "calm wake".

Think before you type and don't insult peoples' intelligence, especially those that knew the deceased.

Yeah Julie julia.... Does it matter? I didn't meet her. Point is her disappearing at fountain head right down the road from where I speak of! I have been there during all types of weather conditions. 20-35 mph winds has not produced a tidal waive or anything to threaten the chiseled and experienced rower that was a week or so from a marathon of some sort! Doctors claim heart failure may have played a part! Why do I need to research this if it was my buddy that called in the police station because Because he stumbled upon the body after a week of unsuccessful searching passed!

P.S. RIP Shew and do not mean to insult anyone's intelligence and I am not going to look up or research because i feel this was all fresh in my mind...

It doesn't matter how experienced of a rower you are!

An elite 125lb female rower in a 25lb boat that sits 6 inches out of the water does not stand a fucking chance against 18" white caps and 35mph wind! This is not brain-busting math we're dealing with here. I've been rowing for 18 years, 13 of those years have been on the Occoquan. It doesn't take a tidal wave to capsize one of those boats!

Stop embarassing yourself. You don't know shit about rowing or Julia. She rowed an average of 60 miles a week. Heart failure didn't play a part in what happened.

Take it easy buddy!!!! If you are offended then row yourself to another fucking blog! I never claimed to know rowing or Shew! If you read a little more carefully then you will see that. I am not the one embarassed!!! My story told comes straight from my memory of what I have witnessed over the past two years... When it comes to a disappearing rower, I only knew of it through talking with officers on emergency rafts that were searching for her that week or two weeks. An experienced rower would or would not know when it is much too dangerous to be out in the water????? your 18 years experience rowing means shit to this story!!

Chuck- are you scared of ghosts?? seems like it buddy!

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Fairfax County Police have confirmed that the body of rower Julia Shew has been located in the Occoquan River Reservoir near Fountainhead Regional Park.

Shew, 64, had been missing since the weekend. According to police spokesperson Tawny Wright the search was complicated by dense underbrush. The reservoir is man-made and contains branches and tree stumps below the surface which made locating Shew difficult.

An avid rower, Shew had last been launching her boat from neighboring Sandy Run Regional Park. Fountainhead Regional Park employees notified authorities that they found a capsized boat at approximately 5:30 p.m. last Saturday. Fairfax County rescuers and dozens of volunteers have joined in the search effort throughout this week.

Shew is reported to have been attempting to row 3,000 miles in a single year before her 65th birthday later this month.



UPDATE 4:39 p.m.: What began as a rescue operation Saturday evening is now the grim task of recovering a body. Dive teams, helicopter, marine patrol and harbor police are trying to locate the body of Julia Shew as quickly as possible.

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How or why Julie Shew, an expert rower, disappeared is a mystery. The clues are few: her overturned boat and a shoe floating in the water a few miles from the dock. They were part of the area search teams scoured Monday.

Bud Johnson, spokesperson for Fairfax County Police, explained, "The main barrier in this search is we don't know precisely where she went into the water, so therefore, we have to react to every single clue that we see and we don't know what we can ignore and what we can focus on."

Twice on Monday a helicopter surveyed the shore line and D.C. police launched their boat equipped with sonar to increase divers' chances of locating Shew. The sonar takes 3D images of the reservoir bottom, which is 40-feet deep in some places. Given the size of the search area, it can make the process slow-going.

Johnson told us, "I'd say it's easily a square mile and that's a tremendous amount of space under water."

The 64-year-old was training for a race held Sunday. By all accounts, it was a routine run she had done hundreds of times. In fact, Shew was on pace to set a record, sculling 3,000 miles in just one year. She had hoped to accomplish her goal in time for her birthday later this month.

UPDATE 9:48 a.m.: The missing woman has been identified as Julia Shew of Lorton, Va., ABC 7 News has learned.

UPDATE 8:46 a.m.: Fairfax County Police and Fire Rescue Search Teams resumed their search of the Occoquan Reservoir around 7 a.m. Monday. Officials say this is now a recovery effort.

UPDATE 6:45 p.m., Sunday: The search and recovery has been suspended for the night and will resume Monday morning. Watch ABC 7's Richard Reeve's report in the video clip for the latest information.

Correction: It was originally reported that the missing woman is 65. We are now told her 65th birthday is later this week.

NOTE on scull boats and sculling: The missing woman was reportedly using a scull boat. Scull boats are small, narrow racing boats of different sizes, rowed by one person or a team, often used in competition or for individual training. Single scull boats are the smallest and are rowed by one person, but with two oars.

Single sculls are also used by "hunters to gently maneuver their way across water bodies such as ponds and lakes to be able to hunt birds such as ducks from the water," according to www.scullboat.com.

UPDATE 1:30 p.m., Sunday: ABC 7 New reporter Richard Reeve is on the scene where the search for the missing woman has continued today. He reports that the search is on the water and on land.

Fairfax County police tell him it's a recovery mission on the water, a rescue mission on shore, in case she crawled onto shoreline somewhere.

Boats are on the water and dogs are being used to catch a scent on the water.

The woman disappeared in the Occaquan Reservoir off Fountainhead Regional Park.

The race she was to participate in Sunday is at nearby Sandy Run Regional Park.

Police have not identified the woman and will not until she's found. They say she's a Fairfax County resident.

UPDATE 9 a.m., Sunday:

Fairfax Fire Battalion Chief William Garrett tells ABC 7 that the missing 65-year-old woman was training for a marathon scheduled for today.

Original story, 9:12 p.m., Saturday:

FAIRFAX STATION, Va. (AP) - Authorities are suspending a water search for a 65-year-old woman missing in Sandy Run Regional Park in Fairfax Station.

Fairfax County Fire and Rescue spokesman Capt. Willie Bailey says authorities began searching for the woman around 6:30 p.m. Saturday and found the woman's scull boat in the water.

But authorities suspended the water search about an hour later after it got dark. They were continuing to search on land.

Bailey says the woman's car was still in the park's parking lot.

Chuck imagine that... it says there

"The 64-year-old was training for a race held Sunday. By all accounts, it was a routine run she had done hundreds of times. In fact, Shew was on pace to set a record, sculling 3,000 miles in just one year. She had hoped to accomplish her goal in time for her birthday later this month."

I guess your 18" Whitecaps were routine for her!

YES, THERE ARE A LOT OF HAUNTED PLACES IN FAIRFAX COUNTY.........
1) MOUNT VERNON PLANTATION- GEORGE, AND MARTHA, AS WELL AS CHILDREN, SLAVES, AND AS WELL, ASSORTED OTHER PERSONAGE. THEY ARE FRIENDLY. SOME ARE JUST GOING THROUGH DAILY CHORES, AND SOME ARE ABLE TO APPROACH VISTORS AS THOUGH THE VISTOR HAS VISITED THE 1790's.
2) SHERWOOD HALL LANE- A GHOST COACH RIDES ALONG SHERWOOD HALL LANE, AROUND 11,11:30 pm....SOMETIMES AS LATE AS 1am. THE COACHMAN IS VERY FRIENDLY, AND TIPS HIS HAT TO ANYONE OUT AT THAT HOUR. HE IS A BIT RUSHED, BUT GOES SLOW ENOUGH THAT (LIVING)PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO SEE DETAILS. THERE IS USUALLY PEOPLE IN THE COACH, AND SOMES THEY WAVE AT PEOPLE ON THE SIDEWALK..... THE HORSES ARE VERY BEAUTIFUL, AND YOU CAN HERE THE HOOFS, AND THE WHEELS ON THE GROUND, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE IT IS ON DIRT, INSTEAD OF THE PAVED ROAD THAT THE ROAD IS.
3) THE WOODS THAT ABUTTS THE JEHOVAH WITNESS CHURCH. SLAVES WERE BURIED IN THE AREA, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE SEEN MANY OF THE GHOSTS OF THESE SLAVES, AND COMMUNACATED WITH THEM.....THEY ARE FRIENDLY, AND VERY INFORMATIVE. THERE ARE A FEW THAT ARE MISCHEVIOUS AS WELL AS ONE THAT IS DEMONIC. THE TOWNE HOMES HAVE MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE SEEN THEM, AND DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THEM, AND MANY, LIKE MYSELF, WHO HAVE BEEN HERE A LONG WHILE,(20 YEARS)AND HAVE NO PROBLEM TALKING ABOUT THEM TO OUTSIDERS.
THERE ARE MANY OTHER SIGHTINGS, AND I COULD LIST SO MANY MORE ON HERE, BUT MY TIME IS RUNNING OUT, AND I HAVE ERRANDS TO RUN.

Bump

Yes, lots of them...

http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/21188.html

Gatehouse and Government Center. Haunted by ghouls that steal your money while shrieking that you're greedy for objecting.

Union Goon (),

Here's the deal. There is an old house with an extended drive way on the right side of Walney Road just passed and headed away from Poplar Tree Road. This is a house that was supposed to have been used as a hospital during the civil war. There is a family or other small cemetery in the property and near the house. Because of its historic background the house and cemetery have remained and houses have been built up all around them.
When I was around 12 I and two of my friends went there twice. When we had returned the second day a large portion of the Steele or iron fence around the cemetery was bent up like a cinnamon roll. Wasn't that way the day before. Then as we knocked on the door to the house and no one answered we all stood back at the same time and looked up at the house and in the upper window was the ghost of a somewhat heavy set white woman. She was dressed in clothing from the civil war era, all of her was gray and she was just looking down staring at us.
This is an official haunted house and graveyard and I am extremely serious and am being honest about everything. All three of us saw the same things and I have no doubt about what I saw.
Back when there were only a few houses out there, years ago they say a Mr. McQuarter became an alcoholic and drank himself to death. Possibly related to ghost and spirits freaking him out. I walked his property many times, years ago. It was where Waverly Crossings is now located. Right down the road from the haunted house and cemetery. This is not a joke. I believe that there are many old spirits and ghosts at this location and it is a very secretive place. The Real Thing