Ghost story continued

I have been reading a book on the hisorty of mining in Utah.  It is a great book; it talks about the early miners and who was in power and whe they found precious metals and how they found them.  It was funny because even the book said that it was mostly luck as to who found these minerals and wehre they found them.
Anyway, to go with my ghost story of my previous post.  I was reading a chapter on mining superstitions and it talked about "Tommy knockers" and what not.  The part that got me was it talked about miners in the early 1900s hearing noises as if people were working the mine.  They knew these mines better than anybody and they knew that nobody was working these areas or that the vein had ended and it was a dead end tunnel and nobody was down there.  Yet, they still heard these noises of people working the mines and they would sometimes hear these "miners" talking to each other as they worked. 
This was written in a mining history book that was published in 2006 with many of the information coming from PhDs and professors of history.  I'm only saying this to make people believe my story a little more.  And I'm saying this because the paragraph in the book sounds exactly like what I heard down in that mine that day.  It was very surprising to read something that was so close to my story. 
So if you still don't believe me then you need to come with me one day to one of these mines and we will try to get a ghost experience.  At the very least you will see how utterly quiet and dark the mines are and how it is extremely unusual to hear anything like we did.

Ghost Story

So the other day my 2 brothers, one of our friends and me went out mine exploring.  We have really started to get into this mine exploration thing and have tried to go out at least once a month.  Well we went out a week or so ago and visited a mine (not sure of the name).  We really had to work to get to this mine entrance and then to get into the actual mine was a bit of an adventure in itself.  Anyways we got down in and explored some of the major levels.  We had been down there for about 4 hours and had heard various noises like water dropping, pipes banging together when we would lean on them and rocks tumbling when we would slip or lose our footing a little.  But when we would sit still for a break we wouldn't hear anything and when we would turn our lights out it was absolutely dark and quiet.  It was actually kind of eerie because of that.

Well we started to make our 2000' ascent up the main tunnel of this mine.  When you are going down it doesn't seem that bad but when you turn around and start to make your way up it is a bugger.  We are all about in the same physical shape so we could climb a few hundred feet at a time then take a break for 10 or so minutes.  Whenever we would stop we would look down the slope and see how far we had come and you could see a long way down the slope.  On one particular occasion we were about 500' from the top and decided to take one last good break then make our way to the top and out.  On our way up to our last break our friend asked it we could hear that noise.  We could all hear it but played it off as rocks falling down the slope since we were walking up and when a rock fell you could hear it for a minute as it traveled down the slope.  We finally made it to our resting spot and sat down.  We started visiting and planning our exit strategy.  Our friend once again said he could still hear that noise.  Again we told him we had just stopped and the rocks we still probably falling.  After about 10 minutes he told us to shut up and listen to the noise.  It was a distinct metal on metal a couple of times, then a scrape and dump.  We sat there for a minute and listened.  It didn't get farther away, it didn't slow down and it wasn't random.  Then we could hear faint voices.  When I say faint they might have been louder but I am partially deaf and could hear them.  I pulled out my camera and my iphone and started a voice recoding on my phone and a video on my camera.  We turned our lights out to try and see if we could see any lights down below and to sharpen our other senses.  We did this for about 7 minutes and the noise was going the whole time.  So, total time so far for this noise was about 25 minutes of it going nonstop.  We knew nobody else was in this mine because of the weather and the remote location of it and the difficulty getting to where we were.  It was definitely a couple of guys working the mine.  We talked for a minute where we were and decided that we needed to get a move on so that we weren't hiking in the dark.  The last thing we did before we moved out was to try something I've seen on Ghost Adventures.  I yelled, "Shift's over fellas.  Let's pack up and go home."  The noise instantly stopped.  How weird is that; the noise was constant for 25 minutes then stops after I say something.  It's either a strange coincident or it was some miners from days past that were still working their old mine.

It was really a neat experience and I truly believe that there were some miners down there with us and that they were just doing their job.  I don't think that they were bad ghosts or anything they were just down doing what they always did and that was mine.  Next time we go out we are going to take a voice recorder with us and try to hear something.  I'm not going to do a paranormal investigation but we are going to try to hear the miner again.

So I had a coworker tell me that I was a nerd the other day.  I was listening to Pandora on the computer and a song came on.  My coworker came through and heard the song and this is what he tells me.  "You're such a nerd.  When people make PVPs in WoW they use this song.  In fact I think it is the most used song for PVPs."  My response was "What the hell is PVPs and WoW?"  He explained to me that PVP stands for player vs player and that WoW is World of Warcraft.  So he is telling me I'm am nerd because I was listening to Pandora and Flirtin' with Disaster came on.  Who's the one that knew all about WoW and all that crap?  This is the reason that I don't really like people in general.  I'm not saying I don't like this kid I'm just saying that people, in general, are stupid and they come up with the dumbest things to say.