Haunted Nail, dont know what to think about this Options

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/insane.gif) Now our house has been getting kinda funny(others say creepy but..) most things as sounds and things dissapearing and coming back
can be put on the account of curius beings but.
We have a nail in the door step to the living room that just keeps popping up the nails beside is not affected i have nailed it in around 10 times already and nailed in 1 on each side to verify its not the board moving.
I meen wtf a nail?
I know they move over the years and so but whitin 25 minutes max it pops up again slowly thou as its being pulled..
anybody got an explanation?

Can you record a video of the occurrence & upload it to youtube (or some other site)? There's all sorts of things a camera can pick up that the human eye can miss (lamentably vice versa). It'd at least make for some interesting conversation material.

Otherwise I'd say experiment! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Is it the nail? The hole? Air pressure? Something else?
Have you tried...

• different nails of the same size & shape, but different materials?
• a screw instead?
• nailing that particular nail somewhere else?
• etching something on top of the nail or around the hole?

Can you record a video of the occurrence & upload it to youtube[/url] (or some other site)? There's all sorts of things a camera can pick up that the human eye can miss (lamentably vice versa). It'd at least make for some interesting conversation material.

Otherwise I'd say experiment! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Is it the nail? The hole? Air pressure? Something else?
Have you tried...

• different nails of the same size & shape, but different materials?
• a screw instead?
• nailing that particular nail somewhere else?
• etching something on top of the nail or around the hole?

dont own a camera but thoose experiments sure sound fun but i,m worried if i pull out the nail totally it would stop. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/prop.gif)
and its actually getting quite fun to see ppl hurt them self on it lol (IMG:style_emoticons/default/evil2.gif)

At my families old cabin there was this old porch on the front that had been there since the house was first built in like 1920. So it was old. We noticed some the nails were comming loose and had to hammer them back in. What was happening was the nails were loosing their grip and people walking across it generated enough force to cause some of the nails to start to slip out of their place. Eventually we just tore it down and built a whole new porch. But what is sound like to me is that for whatever reason this one nail is in a piece of old wood, probably has been there for a long time and its just in need of being replaced.

What I would do is drive the nail with a hammer back in place. Then jump around, stomp your foot walk by it alot and see if you can't make it come back out. My guess is the more commotion you create the faster that nail will pop back out. If that doesn't explain it take out the old nail and try driving a new one in the same place as the first. If this new nail also comes out then you pretty much know its not the nail, its the wood. Again if the wood is old it'll warp and become more pliable, meaning that if you apply enough force to it, it can cause nails to come out. So that just means you need to replace the wood.

If you want to prove the nail is magickal I would totally replace the old wood with new and use that same old nail. If comes out then, then thats something interesting.

Of course if you don't want to deal with this mysterious nail altogether try replacing it with a screw. Now if THAT pops out then you KNOW some freaky mojo is a foot! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

This post has been edited by Acid09: Dec 18 2007, 06:43 PM

At my families old cabin there was this old porch on the front that had been there since the house was first built in like 1920. So it was old. We noticed some the nails were comming loose and had to hammer them back in. What was happening was the nails were loosing their grip and people walking across it generated enough force to cause some of the nails to start to slip out of their place. Eventually we just tore it down and built a whole new porch. But what is sound like to me is that for whatever reason this one nail is in a piece of old wood, probably has been there for a long time and its just in need of being replaced.

What I would do is drive the nail with a hammer back in place. Then jump around, stomp your foot walk by it alot and see if you can't make it come back out. My guess is the more commotion you create the faster that nail will pop back out. If that doesn't explain it take out the old nail and try driving a new one in the same place as the first. If this new nail also comes out then you pretty much know its not the nail, its the wood. Again if the wood is old it'll warp and become more pliable, meaning that if you apply enough force to it, it can cause nails to come out. So that just means you need to replace the wood.

If you want to prove the nail is magickal I would totally replace the old wood with new and use that same old nail. If comes out then, then thats something interesting.

Of course if you don't want to deal with this mysterious nail altogether try replacing it with a screw. Now if THAT pops out then you KNOW some freaky mojo is a foot! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

well the wood and nail is only a a year old lol and yes we have stomped around it but anyways gonna try a new nail. and after that a screw.
the things is its just so damm funny that that nail is popping out even thou its 2 nails on each side new. thou i strongly belive there is some natural explanation.
well maybe ( (IMG:style_emoticons/default/insane.gif) ) the nail is growing like a mushroom hehhe well i am going to beat this nail before anybody else gets hurt (IMG:style_emoticons/default/knuppel2.gif)

( edit few minutes later) now i just took another look and the 2 other nails have been coming out also well i pulled everything out now and screwed it in place

This post has been edited by jlx: Dec 19 2007, 06:22 AM

the nail is growing like a mushroom hehhe well i am going to beat this nail before anybody else gets hurt

You know there is the possibility that some fungus is growing inside the hole made by the nail and that as it grows it pushes the nail out.

i've never known fungus to grow that fast! However, maybe its magnetism? Whats beneath the floor board? and is the nail being forced in the center? quality control could of messed up the wood surface of the board...it could be aslant, and weight from either end would push the nail in the center upwards. Or maybe you just have really clever mice! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/hmm.gif)

if i were you, i would hammer the nail into a different location on the floor. Who knows? maybe the piece of wood is haunted? look at the wood very closely! do you see any faces? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/weird_thread.gif) Well for the fungus part we have some sort of wierd mushrooms growing in our boiler room..(they look kinda like brown goblin ears lol)
They pop up over night. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/zap.gif)
but as for the nail its now banged in a closet
and doing fine. So not the nail but to the intresting part the screws are also coming out but not as much just a little.
But i will see tomorrow i tightened them now.
But if they still come out i will rip that door step out and make fire wood out of it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/butcher.gif)

But if they still come out i will rip that door step out and make fire wood out of it

Thats what I would do. But it is kinda creepy about the screws comming out too. Maybe you should stick a cammera by it and see if something paranormal happens before you make firewood. If the wood is fairly new the problem might be the quality. Like the difference from partical board and solid oak or ply wood.

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/butcher.gif) chopwood.
Well pulled out the nail planted whit my herbs and scrweded out the rest of the new screws.
Chopped the board so found nothing wierd under it either just more wood.
this nail and board was playing whit us LOL.
Well i sure as hell cant explain it.
But for public healt resons i had to get rid of it too many ppl hurt them self and a bloody floor aint pretty when girls come over...T
hou when i think about it we have blood all over the place anyways lol...
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