Do you believe in ghosts?

savannahs21
savannahs21 Posts: 364 Member
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Why or why not. Do you have a true ghost story?
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  • Mangoperson88
    Mangoperson88 Posts: 339 Member
    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 :D I was trying to watch Poltergeist 3 yesterday. I just changed the channel lol coz didn't have the guts to see it >:)
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    No.
  • savannahs21
    savannahs21 Posts: 364 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    No.

    Why not?
  • MsCzar
    MsCzar Posts: 1,071 Member
    Nope.
  • beagletracks
    beagletracks Posts: 6,034 Member
    edited April 2021
    I think it’s scarier accepting there is nothing after death. Just nothing.
  • savannahs21
    savannahs21 Posts: 364 Member
    I believe in them, I have seen two.
  • KosmosKitten
    KosmosKitten Posts: 10,476 Member
    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.
  • ReenieHJ
    ReenieHJ Posts: 9,724 Member
    savannahs21 wrote: »
    I believe in them, I have seen two.

    Puhleaze elaborate??
  • savannahs21
    savannahs21 Posts: 364 Member
    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.
  • savannahs21
    savannahs21 Posts: 364 Member
    @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.
  • NVintage
    NVintage Posts: 1,463 Member
    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.
  • Mangoperson88
    Mangoperson88 Posts: 339 Member
    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
    savannahs21 Posts: 364 Member
    @Just_Mel_ That's crazy! Has anything happened since?
  • RandiF55
    RandiF55 Posts: 2 Member
    I don't have a ghost story of my own, but I definitely believe in the spirt world or "other side". All that energy has to go somewhere. Always been interesting topic for me
  • NVintage
    NVintage Posts: 1,463 Member
    Just_Mel_ wrote: »
    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.

    I think I started typing before you posted your story. I was just referring to all mystical experiences. That does sound creepy, though!
  • Mangoperson88
    Mangoperson88 Posts: 339 Member
    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.

    This is exactly what I believe that when under stress or trauma our brain can create all kinda shiity illusions. I was being abused by my grandfather when I started seeing that girl at 5 and unfortunately I reacted negatively to it/her and that triggered a whole lot of tragic events.
  • NorthStar77
    NorthStar77 Posts: 1,080 Member
    No.
    But i do believe in the X files type events/people/phenomen
  • savannahs21
    savannahs21 Posts: 364 Member
    @Frompumpkin2cinderella But what about when someone isn't under stress and doesn't have trauma?
  • Mangoperson88
    Mangoperson88 Posts: 339 Member
    savannahs21 wrote: »
    @Frompumpkin2cinderella But what about when someone isn't under stress and doesn't have trauma?

    Then I think what some of them here said sensitive and open to such energy. I was just sharing my own experience.
  • Just_Mel_
    Just_Mel_ Posts: 3,992 Member
    savannahs21 wrote: »
    @Just_Mel_ That's crazy! Has anything happened since?

    Nope. I'm convinced that house has some definite bad juju.
  • KosmosKitten
    KosmosKitten Posts: 10,476 Member
    edited April 2021
    1. I tend to be very skeptical on the whole. I believe most things can be explained scientifically or at least have erm.. terrestrial origins.
    2. I don't believe in an afterlife. I'm agnostic (don't adhere to a religion or set of beliefs, but openly admit I have no clue what happens after we die and have no proof one way or the other to prove/disprove god/gods).
    3. I still, to this day, think that either the house where I grew up is haunted *or* the land it sits on is "haunted", for lack of a better term. Haunted is in quotes because I know not everything that happens/has happened is ghostly in origin. Some of it just kinda weird stuff.

    So my childhood home was only built in the 70s. My dad built most of it and it sits on five acres, at the front of a forested area. It's private property and kinda remote, so there shouldn't be people hunting or hiking back there. Anyway, the house was built in the 70s, *but* many people had tried to build homes on that property since the 1800s... and they all burned down. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. I think only one case was found to be the fault of bad wiring, the other attempts we know about (outside of my dad's home) never had their origins determined. Ever since I was a young child, weird things would happen in the home. Sure, I can chalk up weird noises to the house getting older and settling and I can attribute *some* shadows to the passing cars on the highway (our house is situated in front of a tiny state highway that gets routine traffic), but there are a few things I can't explain (yet).

    Time disturbances: Hiking in the woods behind my home sometimes leads to interesting adventures in which you not only lose track of time, but it appears you will "slip into" other dimensions or time periods. The woods look the same, but not. Either the time of day changes, the plant life changes, or it takes on a mirage quality that's just a bit eerie. The last time it happened, it was as though I walked into my woods, only to emerge in a place several million years in the past.. or that looked like something out of a science-fiction novel. Think of a vaporwave aesthetic, but with ice ponds.. in the middle of a steaming hot summer. That's the kind of stuff I would see. I wasn't gone for that long, either. So I wasn't dehydrated, wasn't hallucinating, wasn't lost, etc. It was just a weird experience.

    Shadows that look like people when people aren't around: Now this one I can attribute *sometimes* to passing cars, but a lot of times, there would be silhouettes in the picture windows of our home that looked distinctly like people. And people wearing clothes from bygone eras (think the stovepipe hats that were popular in Lincoln's time, Edwardian style dresses and hairstyles, etc.). There is no reason I should be seeing such specific shadows that move like people do (so not moving at the speed of cars) when I am alone on the top floor of the home and no one is outside as my parents at the time were working during the day.

    The newest: The newest incident is a grandfather clock that hasn't worked in ages. It's not wound up, it wasn't set to the correct time last I visited (about two weeks ago) and hasn't chimed in years (it was assumed to be broken). In order for this clock to work properly, it has to be regularly wound. And again, no one has touched it in years because it was assumed to be broken. Well, about a week or so after I came back home after my stepmother's passing, the clock suddenly started up again. It started telling the correct time, despite no one touching it to put it at the correct time. It chimes regularly on the hour at the correct intervals and the correct number of times. It does all the things a grandfather clock *should* do, except it's supposedly broken and hasn't worked properly in years. And of course, it started up again shortly after my stepmother passed in the home.

    I am only saying there are a string of unusual occurrences happening in the home that do not currently have an explanation. I've tried to tease some out over the years (outside of the grandfather clock because that one is very recent), but have not reached any meaningful conclusions and I feel that is how many ghost/spooky occurrences are. They may have valid explanations at some point, but currently do not.

    Besides, even though I don't adhere to a religion or believe in supreme beings, I like the mysticism as I think most humans do.

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