Do you believe in ghosts?

savannahs21

Why or why not. Do you have a true ghost story?

ReenieHJ

I want to hear stories as well.

I've heard a few stories from people that truly believe what they saw or experienced, were from ghosts. I have not had those experiences myself so am skeptical in apparitions, etc. My sister and I were talking about seeing signs, etc., recently. She's going to go to a Psychic who comes highly recommended by a good friend of hers. Her friend says this psychic can tell her things that nobody else would know. My sister says a good researcher+internet could find out most everything. My sister is a true skeptic but needs and wants to believe in something.

We had a nice talk and I told her about the 'pennies from heaven' experience I'd had many years ago, when we were cleaning our parents' house out.

Ugh, Just spent 20 minutes looking for my old post and I must not be searching correctly.

Anyways, looking forward to others sharing their ghostly experiences.

Mangoperson88

I absolutely believe in ghosts and have had some awful experiences. A medical professional would call it hallucinations...idk . I'm also a horror movie buff but I just can't sit alone later I was trying to watch Poltergeist 3 yesterday. I just changed the channel lol coz didn't have the guts to see it

Motorsheen

No.

savannahs21

Motorsheen wrote: »

No.

Why not?

MsCzar

Nope.

beagletracks

I think it’s scarier accepting there is nothing after death. Just nothing.

savannahs21

I believe in them, I have seen two.

Motorsheen

beagletracks wrote: »

I think it’s scarier accepting there is nothing after death. Just nothing.

One can both believe in an afterlife and not believe in ghosts.

KosmosKitten

Motorsheen wrote: »

beagletracks wrote: »

I think it’s scarier accepting there is nothing after death. Just nothing.

One can both believe in an afterlife and not believe in ghosts.

Or vice versa; believe in ghosts, but not necessarily an afterlife. Depends on how you define what a ghost is.

Vikka_V

Ghosts of mfp past? yep. they haunt the forums

Our personal past...memories...yep...I'm feeling it hard

I have occasionally had auditory hallucinations - I like to think I'm being alerted to something...something? idk what - but something

ReenieHJ

savannahs21 wrote: »

I believe in them, I have seen two.

Puhleaze elaborate??

Analog_Kid

I hope ghosts are real.


Because, after I die, there's a few people I want to haunt and totally scare the living *kitten* out of them.

savannahs21

ReenieHJ wrote: »

savannahs21 wrote: »

I believe in them, I have seen two.

Puhleaze elaborate??

When I was maybe 5 or 6, I woke up before my mom and sister and went to watch tv in the living room and looked over and saw a ghost I then looked back at the tv when I fully realized what I saw and whipped my head back to the ghost who was still there. I got up and told my mom and sister that I had seen my grandma. I somehow knew that it was my grandma even though she died before I was born.

The second ghost I saw was when I was 10. We had moved to another house and I had woken up in the middle of the night to go the bathroom. And there was a women (ghost) standing in the doorway. I remember opening my mouth to scream but I didn't hear myself. I went to tell my sister, I asked if she heard me scream and she said yes. When we had moved out (family is military ) the neighbor had told my mom that a women had died there, which obviously we didn't know.

I have had other weird experiences but have never seen another ghost since I was 10.

ReenieHJ

@savannahs21 I've been told by others who have experienced different paranormal activity type things, that one has to be 'open and receptive' and 'sensitive' to those kinds of things.
I really would like to have those experiences but it would probably scare the living daylights out of me if I did.

savannahs21

@ReenieHJ
I do think that's mostly true. For me I've basically have just said, I'm probably always going to have weird things happen but I do not to see you.

Just_Mel_

For about 6 months after my divorce, I lived in a haunted house. We had multiple experiences including kitchen cabinet doors slamming when no one was in there, objects placed lined up that no one was home to do, pictures turned the wrong way. Once, I "fell" down some stairs and sprained my ankle. It literally felt like I propelled forward, and my daughter witnessed it, saying it looked like I was pushed. Same daughter (who was 11 at that time) says she saw a little boy staring at her in the middle of the night once. We believe there was a mischievous child ghost, and an old woman ghost.

One day I came home from work and my girls were gone to my mom's for the weekend. The tv screen had Finding Nemo playing, even though I had turned the news off before I left that morning. I went into the bathroom and saw all my daughter's bath toys lined up on the counter. None of them had been there when I got ready that morning.

This was a rent house my folks owned. After I moved out, my sis and her husband lived there for a couple years. They both claim crazy things would happen. Lots of mysterious noises, lights turning on and off. The house was recently sold and I think going to be tore down.

NVintage

Sorry to say I don't. I am a bit of a mystic sometimes, but I think our brains are capable of such complexities and imagination. Everything like that has a logical explanation even if we're not able to comprehend it yet.

Just_Mel_

NVintage wrote: »

Sorry to say I don't. I am a bit of a mystic sometimes, but I think our brains are capable of such complexities and imagination. Everything like that has a logical explanation even if we're not able to comprehend it yet.

I tend to think some people are more open to certain energies that others can't detect. I've found that kids seem to be more open than adults. I've tried to explain away my personal experiences, but haven't been able to altogether.

Mangoperson88

savannahs21 wrote: »

ReenieHJ wrote: »

savannahs21 wrote: »

I believe in them, I have seen two.

Puhleaze elaborate??

When I was maybe 5 or 6, I woke up before my mom and sister and went to watch tv in the living room and looked over and saw a ghost I then looked back at the tv when I fully realized what I saw and whipped my head back to the ghost who was still there. I got up and told my mom and sister that I had seen my grandma. I somehow knew that it was my grandma even though she died before I was born.

The second ghost I saw was when I was 10. We had moved to another house and I had woken up in the middle of the night to go the bathroom. And there was a women (ghost) standing in the doorway. I remember opening my mouth to scream but I didn't hear myself. I went to tell my sister, I asked if she heard me scream and she said yes. When we had moved out (family is military ) the neighbor had told my mom that a women had died there, which obviously we didn't know.

I have had other weird experiences but have never seen another ghost since I was 10.

I also began hallucinating since the age of 5. I saw a little girl and I continued seeing her for a long time and she was certainly no friend coz that little *kitten* caused some really bad things to happen to me(won't go in gory details). I was seeing her till my early 20s and my situation had worsened when I was 18 so i started reading up on hallucinations and many articles said that kids usually see things till the age of 6(imaginary friends etc) as their souls are still pure or some sh!it like that. When I started seeing a shrink at 23 that little *kitten* girl stopped coming to me so I strongly believe I suffer from hallucinations and mental illness runs in my family (my grandfather's sister committed suicide).

savannahs21

@Just_Mel_ That's crazy! Has anything happened since?