Do you believe in ghosts?

Sublab · #1 12-04-2011, 05:33 AM

I do, or at least I think I do, I don't know. Ever since I was a kid I'd have this eery sense of something being present all the time and 'it' being invisible. I'd have the same nightmare regularly, something with ghosts and a city in flames. Even to this day I often get the feeling that something invisible and alive is surrounding us. But that's just me.

Interested as I am though in things such as ghosts, I wandered around on you tube and came across Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Crowley Hall and just a huge pile of video's. The thing that struck me was the amount of people that are 100% sure ghosts are real, and these people are just like you and me. That said, if I see a place like Waverly Hills on a picture, it's enough to freak me out. I would never have the balls to venture inside a building like that, not even with a bunch of people.

How about you?

Big_Daddy · #2 12-04-2011, 05:47 AM

The human mind is a fascinating thing. I don't believe in ghosts, but does that help when I have to venture into a dark basement? I wish...

tekdiver500ft · #3 12-04-2011, 05:59 AM

I believe 100% in ghosts. I've seen my grandmother-in-law, and she died before I met my wife, and there are no pictures of her. However, when I described the entity I saw, my wife and mother-in-law both got gooseflesh due to the accuracy of my description.

i_got_a_mohawk · #4 12-04-2011, 06:11 AM

We're ready to believe you!

Sublab · #5 12-04-2011, 06:55 AM

When I was about 16, me and a bunch of friends got together to call on the ghost of an old woman who had lived in our town and was murdered. Back then we had a barn transformed into 'our place' where we would always hang out and listen to music, and that barn stood next to the house where my then girlfriend lived. It was a sunny day with no wind at all. The back door of the house was open, as was the door of the barn. We started the ritual and gradually intensified it. We asked repeatedly for a sign of presence, but nothing happened. We went on and on. Apart from us there was no one home. No one in the house, no one outside. It was silent outside. We kept asking for a sign of presence. All of the sudden the back door of the house slammed shut, really SLAMMED. We ran out to the house and found no one there, not inside, not outside, and no wind whatsoever. We were all kind of scared.

To this day it puzzles me how that door could have slammed shut.

reasonbass · #6 12-04-2011, 06:59 AM

I believe in ghosts. They fascinate me. I have been on a Ghost Adventures, Ghost Hunters International and Supernatural watching frenzy lately.

pedroims · #7 12-04-2011, 07:08 AM

Yes I do, but I believe ghosts are demons making people to believe that they are family that we have lost. Do you belive in satan? then you should believe in ghosts.

**pacojas** · #8 12-04-2011, 07:10 AM

I BELIEVE!!!!

i lived with an intelligent entity for three months. it showed me IT was the boss of that space and not me. i now use the building for storage. last month it launched a 4x8 sheet of plywood right off of the wall after i walked pass it.

my co-worker will not enter this place alone after he was pushed from behind. he said that when he turned around, he expected to see me,... but no one was there! my worst encounter had me so amazed my fear was replaced by awe.

i will never forget being witness to a moon-lit room turning pitch black as i lay there. the black formed on the ceiling and expanded to floor level. as it engulfed me, i could barely breathe from the weight on my chest and was unable to sit up-right until the blackness dissipated.

it happened 2 more times that week and i was stoked to personally be able to confirm it at least for me! i have a history of close encounters from early childhood. seems like it came from my grandmother to my mother to me. the three of us would have the Good Spirit vs. Bad Spirit discussions as was needed.

my mother was extremely gifted with The Sight! actually, i'm more frightened of people...

Tituscrow · #9 12-04-2011, 07:12 AM

Oh dear. I predict here and now that this will get very, very silly.

**bassybill** · #10 12-04-2011, 07:14 AM

I wouldn't say that I believe in ghosts but I will say that there are plenty of real phenomena out there that science has yet to explain satisfactorily.

As a youngster I had a couple of experiences with a ouija board that are basically the reason for my opening statement. I know of no current scientific explanation that can fully account for the movements of a glass that I personally witnessed in those circumstances. Yes, I do know about the ideomotor effect and I'd go as far as to accept that the people using the board are somehow responsible for the movements, but when you see it working for real it is definitely not easily explained away.

I should add that I'm typically very skeptical about anything that might be considered "supernatural". In fact, I don't believe that anything is truly "supernatural" - I believe that we just lack a natural explanation at present.

fhm555 · #11 12-04-2011, 07:15 AM

Can't say I believe in ghosts, but things happen here at our (very) old house that make me wonder. This is actual manipulation of objects when I'm in the same room but with my back turned, a bar of soap torn to pieces in the sink shortly after I used it to wash my hands when I was home alone, stuff like that.

**pacojas** · #12 12-04-2011, 07:28 AM

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Originally Posted by fhm555

Can't say I believe in ghosts, but things happen here at our (very) old house that make me wonder. This is actual manipulation of objects when I'm in the same room but with my back turned, a bar of soap torn to pieces in the sink shortly after I used it to wash my hands when I was home alone, stuff like that.

dude!!!! i love when stuff like that happens.

my all time favorite event,...

on a hot summer day i was doing my home-work. i go fill a small paper cup with ice cold water and place on the table, next to my books, right in front of me. i then start writing when i hear the sound of someone placing a paper cup on the floor. i look down to my left and there sat my cup of water,... not a drop missing!!!!

I FRIGGIN LOVE IT!

slaps76 · #13 12-04-2011, 07:32 AM

I've never had anything close to an experience with ghosts, or supernatural, however have an open mind to it. One of my good friends has a couple stories, and he's not the type to make things up for the hell of it.

The thing I don't understand is why from all these stories of people encountering threatening ghosts, is it seems nobody ever gets harmed. It's always close calls, or something very minor. The shows I see on TV are a f'n joke. Every episode, one of the "ghost hunters" gets mysterious scratches down their back...the least painful area you could scratch someone. I want to see their face get gouged, and I might fall for it.

Relic · #14 12-04-2011, 09:25 AM

I "ghosthunted" for several years. At the beginning, I loved the whole notion of ghosts. I believed in them and wanted to verify my beliefs. As soon as I applied any sort of scientific method to the issue, it all came crumbling down. Ghost hunting has proven to me beyond the shadow of a doubt that ghosts do NOT exist. That said, there's more to the universe and reality than meets the eye - that I'm sure of. However the classic notion of a disembodied soul sticking around somewhere and going "woooOoOoo.." on a dark and stormy night...? It's a bunch of bullcrap. (IMHO of course)

Sublab · #15 12-04-2011, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by slaps76

I've never had anything close to an experience with ghosts, or supernatural, however have an open mind to it. One of my good friends has a couple stories, and he's not the type to make things up for the hell of it.

The thing I don't understand is why from all these stories of people encountering threatening ghosts, is it seems nobody ever gets harmed. It's always close calls, or something very minor. The shows I see on TV are a f'n joke. Every episode, one of the "ghost hunters" gets mysterious scratches down their back...the least painful area you could scratch someone. I want to see their face get gouged, and I might fall for it.

The Ghosts of Crowley Hall has the main investigator going into one of the cells when the doors closes apparently by itself and the guy gets out after a struggle with a ghost. He gets out with scratches on his face. One of the other investigators comes off with scratches on her wrists.

It's this documentary, or whatever it is, that got me the creeps big time. I don't know if it's authentic, and I look at it as a sort of Blair Witch Project kind of thing. Not real, but still creepy. But what I can't get my head around to is that if these things are what they are and they are real, why there isn't more investigation being done and why it isn't more out in the open.

Jazz Ad · #16 12-04-2011, 09:36 AM

I'll believe in ghosts when I don't see one.

Unrepresented · #17 12-04-2011, 09:50 AM

Nope. I believe that humans are extremely good at crafting narratives around the limited data that their brains pass on to them on a conscious level. Compiling just a couple of these like "the human body is dead, but there must be something left behind" and "I was feeling fearful in a situation and I noticed additional things that made me fearful from an unknown origin" creates all the narrative you need for ghosts, even if I don't believe that narrative is an accurate assessment.

**Eric Perry** · #18 12-04-2011, 09:51 AM

I believe in ghosts wholeheartedly and have had some freakish stuff happen at a house I used to live at.

**jmattbassplaya** · #19 12-04-2011, 10:27 AM

I've always been open minded to it, but I've never experienced anything to make me even remotely believe in their existence.

IconBasser · #20 12-04-2011, 10:33 AM