Whew! At least we didn't have to organize a donated battery drive for you!

I could use one of those! *Smacks digital camera* WORK YOU PIECE OF JUNK! Ehem, cough.

Hey guys, first post here.
On the subject of the markings on the walls, I think it's probably just somebody with dirty hands, maybe somebody was working with dirt outdoors and then they came in and wiped some off on the basement wall while getting something?

Welcome to the UM! Yeah, I really, really, really, hope that that is all that it is. While it would be cool to have a cryptid/ghost in my basement...well...I would never sleep in my house again.

My basement is creepy as Michael Jackson in a clown suit singing 'American Pie' and i sleep in it

Try to take photos if you can of the marks on the wall.Have you had anything missing or moved around in your house,like keys, etc.etc.?
Do you or anyone in the place hear sounds coming from the basement at times,do any neighbors report strange noises or seeing shadows in your home when you are not there?

Do you know anyone who could set up a camera in the basement that would be hidden from anyone down there,but would possibly capture
on film who was making the prints? This might catch someone human or ghostly.Has anyone played with an ouija board lately in the house?
How old is this place and how long have you lived there?

You might want to document whenever this happens as well as any noises,etc. If there is paranormal activity you might be able to contact
aparanormal group in your area.

Holly makes a good point, as have others, if you really want a proper suggestion on what it is i suggest you upload the pics of them ok?

He did upload a few but they were rather blurry

It was Tom Cruise

/thread

Ok, well after looking at each picture carefully...

i sitll dont know what it could be....

it looks a bit like ash and finger lines i'll have to try that experiment again...


















Ok well after redoing the experiment...

i get nearly the same results, it is possible that your brother/s could be playing trick on you

Thanks guys.

My house is from the...let's see *checks little number on the side of my house* eighteen hundreds. Yup, my mum just confirmed that. I'm always losing things (including my camera, as you guys can tell!) so I wouldn't really know if a cryptid/ghost stole something or not. My house is really old, so there is a lot of creaks and groans all the time from all different parts of the house, so I don't really pay much attention to them. We have a newer renevated part of the house, but that isn't where the basement is. I'm pretty sure my siblings arn't playing a joke on me because the only one who is ever around is my thirtey year old brother, and he's never played a prank in his life. He also is not very involved in my life and has no idea I'm interested in the unknown and stuff.

I was thinking perhaps my friends, but in the time frame in which the prints appeared, they wern't around so they would have to be able to sneak in my house. I can't think of any possible way they could do that, and if they managed to pull that off, I'm pretty sure they would have done something more elaborate.


BTW, I am of the FEMALE species.

hi im ne im french and i think that storie is great ^^

wow for some reason I doubt this frenchie.

Rather interesting, but while reading through the thread, I'd have to agree...was rather a build-up to getting the pictures uploaded and they turned out to be rather disappointing (imo).
Thanks for uploading the pictures though, I'm pleased that I actually got to see them..
I don't really know what to suggest. It doesn't look too creepy to me..
I guess if I saw them in a basement, it might give me the shivers or something, but only because my imagination would run wild!
I'd suggest you film in there next..

If I were in your position, I would probably set up a video recorder with an IR component (newer Sony's come standard with this) and coat the floor around the prints with flour or baby powder. Make sure the battery is charged and leave it running all night. re watch the video carefully and try to notice any disturbances. Also i would put a voice recorder down there also (Video camera audio is not the greatest) and try to record an EVP of some sort. Most likely you are making a mountain out of a molehill but it never hurts to be sure.
Hope that helps.

Sorry about the double post, Comp lagged

hi guys, i'm new here. had to join after reading this thread (thx Otterclaw), as i woke up today & saw finger prints on my wall that weren't there last night. these look like anyone could've done them, but i'm the only person who goes into my room, & i know i never did it because i never have dirty fingers & my hand is too big to make them anyway. there is also a straight line going down my wall (which looks like something dripped down it) & what appears to be faint prints again next to it. i can show pics if it's important

Might as well post the pics..it'd be interesting to see

Go for it if they're the same as Otter's then you two might be visited by the same thing every so often... must have to take the bus thats why it doesn't happen every night.

What if the thing haunting spacecadet's sig is what's haunting their basements??? Sorry Otter you will probably hate me tonite when you're trying to sleep

Or at least the night he signs in...and reads your post

Hello everyone, two years ago I had a frightening experience in my home. Late at night I awoke to find that something had entered my home and was watching me from my kitchen; when I noticed the movement I was so afraid that I started yelling at the figure in the kitchen, I also get somewhat angry when people think that they can invade someone else's home so I made a move towards he/she with the intention of clobbering it. The figure, I wasn't sure what it was, appeared to be a low-crouched animal or person very low to the ground. When I was near the bar that seperated the living area from my kitchen, it drew itself up and lept from the [open] kitchen window without a sound. It's like it just jumped through a hole without hitting the edges or making any noise.

This is really strange so stay with me here.

My girlfriend's family was planning on coming over to our house last weekend and we had a similar experience, my girlfriend and I, while preparing for the visit. It was the evening and I was waiting for her to arrive, I was standing on the rear deck and I saw the headlights from her car they were shining from the drive way near the front of the house past the deck. The headlights remained on as I saw her shadow approach. My cell phone lit up because she was calling me I answered thinking she needed help bring the food in and she was whispering and trying hard to restrain her voice. She said that she was in the car and that there was something in front of her, in her head lights, and that when she pulled in it turned away and started moving away from her slowly along the side of the house; that's when it dawned on me that the long shadow that I was seeing in the headlights was something coming my way!

I didn't freak out, you are best to remain calm in that sort of situation so that you can think. I stepped from the porch and when my foot made a scraping noise because of sand on the deck wood, I saw the shadow lurch and head for my neighbor's fence, it appeared like the shadow of someone that had just broke out into a bounding run. As I turned the corner of the house this is what I caught on my cell phone camera, this has been uploaded to youtube for about four days now.

What does this have to do with your experience? I found grubby, soot stained finger marks on my window frame and counter two years ago, and again I found the same soot marks on the corner by the neighbor's fence and on the rails of the deck.

*snip*

Alright my opinion is that they look like lighter soot marks.

1. If the original poster was truely interested in getting this situation taken care of she would have done a lot more work in a lot shorter time. For example, I live in smack down town Richmond, Virginia. I work security for a very large company HQ right here and every night when I check the perimeter I meet Mr. Fox. This fox shows up in the same place at the same time every single night and is always on time. I REALIZED this so I bought a 1 use camera and have since taken several pics of him cuz he is never late.

2. If the original poster was truely frightened of what ever sort of being with dirty hands that is triffling and wipes its hands on the walls, then maybe she should have sought professional help instead of going to an internet forum. I mean professional help like the police or PI or I don't know... YOUR PARENTS... Personally I think that your mystery monster picks his nose, leave a bottle of hand sanitizer and some paper towels in your basement and see if maybe the monster will get the hint. I wonder if he wipes the seat when he sprinkles...

3. How long was the booger picking monster in your basement before you realized that he picks his nose? Probably a long time. In that time he never tried to pick your nose in addition to his own? So, if you have been there for awhile and he never tried to pick or nose or dig in your ear or leave underwear with skid marks in the living room, etc. maybe you should just leave him be. Maybe the booger monster is in the basement of HIS house wondering why creepy creatures from upstairs keep coming down and disturbing his moon goblin collection.

I am not a skeptic naturally, but I do not look for far out situations when I see something mundane. I have an example of this that you all will love I am sure:

I was camping for 2 weeks near Jamestown, VA before leaving for Lynchburg. Every night I heard blood-chilling screams of rage outside my tent. I heard the leaves crunch as what ever it was came closer; the screams were louder. It sounded like a cross between a barking snarl and a howling scream. My blood was turning to ice inside my tent, I realized that it was right outside. My tent was in a clear spot in the woods and the full moon illuminated my tent; I saw a large shadow fall over my tent. I got up enough courage to peek through a little eyelet hole thingie and discovered that my stalker was a grumpy male white tail deer. He was angry because the booger picking monster blew his nose in his cheerios and eats it every day! Hey! I opened the tent flap and yelled at it and it looked at me like what the heck are you doing here? before running off to make hoof prints on Otterclaw's basement wall. Oh well, I rested easy that night and I have never been scared of strange noises since, even that time something fell out of a tree I was camped under and smacked the top of my tent and rolled down to the ground and walked away lol.

I came across like a national search engine for bigfoot sightings, I read through the reports of strange howling screams heard in the woods near Surry, just across the James River. The website's host attributed it to bigfoot. I emailed him and told him my story and he replied and said that bigfoot has been known to mimic local fauna. Well I was like how do you know the deer didn't mimic the bigfoot in an attempt to make me pee myself? No reply of course; and of course the "I'M RIGHT YOU'RE WRONG" approach is why no one ever gets anywhere with this kind of thing. Heck I heard a similar story to mine on the Coast to Coast show and I emailed Art and told him about my story, but I didn't want to call and make his guest look dumb on the radio. About 2 days later he replied and stated that he was thankful for my consideration and that he has had a similar experience with aggressive deer as well.

In conclusion, I would like to say that I took the encounter for what it was, a pissed off deer who was mad because I put my tent in his pool room. I didn't run around raving that I saw the legendary white unicorn who was in disguise and he lead me to the center of the woods where I found Excalibur the legendary bong, and we smoked and then he went back to his UFO to meet his alien parents and go back to Zeta Reticuli. What you saw were dirty marks on the wall, unless you know what made them, this thread needs only one page and one post to cover all the information that you can come up with in a life time for this incident.

BTW: The shadow around the house thing did happen! It was a drunk mexican who was lost tho... He wanted the house right behind mine.

Nice post dracula.Factory very entertaining. seriously though, there are some types of mold or mildew that can grow to look and feel ashy. maybe it was something wiped on the walls earlier, but it took time for the mold to grow. If thats the case, be careful some molds can be dangerous to breathe in.

with that in mind sometimes the mundane can be much more dangerous than the mythical or supernatural

Oh yea, I have no doubt that that drunk mexican could have easily robbed my girlfriend. I'm just saying that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. I've had strange experiences in the past myself, I believe in sleep paralysis because I experience it. When you are affected by sleep paralysis sometimes your dreams seem to overlay what you are seeing, sort of like dreaming with your eyes open, most of the time I just overcome it by snapping out of it and the alien trying to wipe his boogers on my face vanishes.

As for the mold, soak a cloth in bleach water and wipe it a few good times, that will kill the fungus. Be easy if the surface isn't latex paint.

In the event of a booger monster, leave some food for it I guess, the gift of food seems to be a universal sign of good intentions. Actually, why don't you try the Santa approach and leave something big like a sandwich or something. Later return and see if he ate it and left you a present hopefully one that you will not need a plastic bag to retrieve. If the latter is true then I guess you have your proof that a being is pooping in your basement. Post pics plz...

Working until late at night has allowed me to say that generally other people are the most dangerous things that go bump in the night. Sometimes I see movement and look and there is nothing there, when you lack external stimulation, your brain invents it to keep you on your toes. The thing with animals is that wanton violence and destruction is a product of twisted HUMAN intelligence. In the wild, if an animal suffers even a slight injury, its days are numbered. Most animals will fend off an attacker until the attacker flees, but they generally do not hunt eachother down for vengence. Animals kill for food and they rarely kill for mating, and even more rarely kill for self-defense (house cats being a notable exception to all of these). Animals of the same type generally do not fight eachother without cause and generally work together in a way that should make us ashamed. How many times have you all seen a three-legged dog romping and playing with other dogs? The other dogs don't call him a gimp and make fun of him and the dog doesn't sit in the corner and cry like an emo kid because his parents won't let him on myspace anymore. To another dog, a three-legged dog is a party boy who hops around in a visually interesting way, he is stimulating and exciting. To humans, a guy in a wheelchair is a crybaby and boring and he makes us feel bad just by being there. Who is the one running and hiding? The cryptid, not you. Bigfoot knows that we want to pet him, Nessie knows we want to eat her, Dragons and unicorns departed with the Excalibur bong aliens, and chupacabras - well he just sucks.

PS: There is this guy at work, in a wheelchair, and he rockets around the office like a ninja grabbing the rail poles to turn at 90-degree angles at like 15 mph, this guy uses his disability as a way to quickly make deliveries and such. He is the quickest to show his ID when blasting through the front doors and is the LEAST of my worries. Given the general behavior of such a person, the stereotype should be that he sits in the corner complaining about his lot in life.

BTW: Can anyone prove just how dangerous the supernatural is? I have never been attacked by a ghost.

Again, nice post dracula.Factory. your statements are thought provoking and entertaining as well, i wish i were as glib of tongue If it poops in your basement please sent pics, i laughed for quite some time at this, very funny

In my conclusion i have studied these photos and of course they look like spontaniouse marking on the wall but in picture number three you can clearly see the marking of a thumb in the botton corner and in picture one you can see that the pinkie finder has a distinctive claw like a carnivore.

Your a kid so il put it this way... They look like a carnivour animals clawmarks or somone going in your basement with a bear claw trying to freak you out!

But i do belive in the paranormal so i would sugest you get a book on animal claws and read it to take a closer look at these photos.
you can also notice that their are no palms that that concludes that no human did this accidentaly!

If you have any further questions email me at emilym009@hotmail.com

This is one of the most rediculous Crypto threads I've ever seen in my time!

This belongs somewhere else!

why does it belong somewhere else? it is supposedly an unidentified entity. pretty sure that would fall under the paranormal.

Any updates in the past 20some days? Did you manage to get better pics or try the flower trick?

Yea this thread belongs in the "Basics of Personal Hygiene Book, Chapter 1, pg. 1". First sentence: "Wash your filthy hands before touching anything! Keep that out of your mouth, you don't know where it's been!". Etc...

No... it doesn't belong there! Put it in Everybody Poops.

No, it belongs in "Nobody Poops But You"...

how about... "You're a Naughty Child and That's Concentrated Evil Coming Out the Back of You"?

Come on lets keep the replies sensible please.

LOL, are you saying that you don't poop?

Keoshin: yea whoever left the marks shouldn't be allowed to handle fresh produce.

nice pictures. looks like dirty fingers wipping resedue of what ever with only one stroke. there were no deep marks so from starting point till the mark fades. so that means what ever did it aint clawed. must be man made, with middle finger slightly curled.
one stroke to wipe from a dirty fingers would do that.

like what is suggested, i really hope that aint poop.

concentrated evil... that is so funny!!... i now have new word to call manure with. CONCENTRATED EVIL..brilliant.

If thats the case, then i just flushed the Anti-Christ down the toilet!! (with the aid of a plunger sprinkled with holy water)



sorry, I couldn't help myself, you are free to adress the original topic now

Looks like jagermonsta marks to me.....

When I read that an anti-christ almost ended up in my pants.

"Nobody Poops Anti Christ But You"

"Basketball-sized Chocolate Mud Baby" <=== not a creature of this world... but a user of its toilets...

"Gotta Drop The Browns Off At The Superbowl"

LOL we should start a new thread, "what do you call your poop?"

As I've already requested that the responses to this thread remain sensible and this clearly isn't happening there's little point keeping this going, the original post was addressed a while back and all we're seeing now is a lot of silliness.

Closed.