ghosts

The women on my paternal side have always been able to "see"; I am no different. It actually gets irritating and sad more than scary.

I believe in spirits. I don't believe I've ever seen one though.

Yes I do. I've had a few experiences when I was younger.

When I was about 10 I was staying with my nana and papa for the weekend we were planing on doing some hiking the next day. Everything was normal for the day and at night after I fell asleep I was awoken by the feeling of someone sitting on the end of the bed and patting my feet. Something that my great grandmother used to do to me when I would see her. She was in a nursing home on hospice care at the time. About 15 minutes after that happened the telephone rang. It was the home calling to say that she had passed.

When I was 14 or 15 I was at a friends birthday party and they wanted to play with the quja board. So we all sat around playing not thinking much of it. The spirit of whatever we were talking to said it used to live there and we all just kinda laughed. Then one of them asked how it died and it spelled suicide. We got freaked out and decided not to play anymore. That night we all slept in the living room for the sleepover and we were awoken by a very loud banging coming from her room. Some of us got up to go and see what was wrong and found her bed had been moved. Everyone except those that were investigating were asleep and her bed had been in the exact same place scene she moved into the house because of how heavy it was. Needless to say we were all super scared.

I did home health before moving to South Korea. While doing an internship to finish my degree I had an elderly woman who was afraid to be alone. This woman was normally very happy and carefree most of the time she wanted to be alone. She kept telling me her sister was there and to not let her sister take her. I tried to calm her and tell her that she and I were the only two in the room. The next morning when I went in for my shift I found out she had passed.

While doing home health my client had a very elderly cat. His cat got sick and had a hard time moving around and taking care of himself. I expected he would go anytime as he had stopped drinking and eating. He had no money to put him down and animal crusaders couldn't come until the next week. So we made him comfy and did what we could to try and get him to eat and drink. At the end of my night shift he seemed to be doing better so we were hopeful that he was getting better. The next day I had the AM off so only went in for night shift. And when I walked in I felt what the cat normally did brush against my leg and give a light meow. I went to fix his plate of food and my client informed me he had passed that morning so I didn't need to make anything.

I believe, to a degree. Or at least, there are some experiences I've had that make me believe. The most distinct was in an old house in Jersey we lived in for a few years. The whole family was in the dining room, and I was in my bedroom, stuck in bed after a double-leg surgery. My brother and I had, for years and years, used knocks to communicate between our rooms. No special codes or anything, but a series of knocks on the wall means we need the other person. So I was in bed, and the family was eating dinner, when there was a distinct series of knocks on the wall between our bedrooms, very similar to the ones my brother and I had been using lately. Obviously I couldn't get out of bed, so I knocked back. No answer. Weird, I thought, so I raised my voice and called for my brother. It took a few tries, but then my mom came in and asked what I needed. I replied, 'nothing, but Nick was knocking for me and I wanted to know what he needed. He knows I can't get out of bed.'

"Nick's eating dinner with the rest of us," my mom said. "No one was knocking."

I've always sort of figured maybe it was a ghost trying to communicate with us in the way we communicated with each other. because for certain, it was too much of a pattern to be something bumping into the wall.

Yup! I'm a believer!

I lived in a really old cottage when i was younger. not long after moving in i woke up and there was a man stood at the side of my bed looking at me. He was wearing really old style clothes. he had a hat on with a feather in it and i just remember him having white hair and a white beard and his clothes were blue. I remember feeling scared and thought i must be imagining it as i wasnt really a believer then. The next morning i woke up and just thought that was a weird dream. Then i never thought much more of it after that. It wasnt until about 3 years later i was sat talking to my mum (the room was hers before i went in there, now i know why lol) we were chatting about ghosts and she happened to mention that the house we used to live in was haunted. So i was like what do you mean??:huh: She went on to describe a man that used to be stood at the bottom of her bed when she used to wake up and that he was wearing old fashioned clothes with a hat that had a feather. thing is.....i never told anyone about the guy i seen as i thought i was dreaming!!so my thoughts changed after that!!!

I also used to work in a British army camp that was at one point a German one(this was in germany too). I used to hear a lot of different stories about ghosts but didnt pay much attention. But whenever i was on my own in a room clearing up at the end of the day i would see something out of the corner of my eye as if someone had just walked past and it happened a lot. And i would hear someone say something...look up and there was nobody there....could have been my imagination but was very strange.

I am curious, for those like me, who have experienced it all their life. Do you ever feel that we really aren't suppose to talk about it.
Sometimes, I just feel that it is wrong. I appreciate the gift I was given, but I dont feel that it is to be used as story telling to try to convince others. This could be just me. :huh:

I think it is to be shared, be it in story telling, or through demonstrations of mediumship. The world is changing, people are reaching out.

I appreciate your answer, I was afraid someone was going to make me feel bad. But, I have been feeling this way for years, but your answer really made me feel more comfortable with it. Thank you so much.

I can't lie checking out haunted areas provide a thrill and excitement for me. I love to go and I am always looking for friends to come along. I have gone to a place called Blue Ghost tunnel (in St.Catharines Ontario) a fair bit and have had some experiences there. The first time I went I was unprepared for everything that would happen, so the second time I didn’t want that to happen. I brought a friend, camera, and flashlight and we began our trek into this 40 foot unlit tunnel. (Half of the tunnel is flooded and cannot be accessed from the other end) We walked to the middle of the tunnel right where the water begins. We waited and could hear the sound of a heartbeat, it’s steady and always there so we are not sure what it is. Another group that came into the tunnel was now standing with us and we decided to start asking questions. I began, is anyone there? How many ghosts are in this tunnel? And so on, with our cameras rolling hoping to catch something. We didn’t hear a word, not even a whisper, finally I asked if someone is here make a banging noise. It was at the moment we heard 3 loud distinctive knocks coming from the flooded end of the tunnel. Yes we then ran! We stopped and laughed at our fear and decided to ask more questions which went unanswered. When I got home to review the tapes. You could hear the knocking and one more thing… the second round of questions in between when we were waiting for an answer I heard “walk away” or “wrong way”. It is my only experience so far and I hope to have more, but to me that was awesome!

I believe in paranormal activity. When I was 16 I used to read the tarot cards. One night around 3 am I was reading the cards to my best friend. Suddenly one of my throws it pops out the devil, death and some other negative card. I put them back to the deck, I shuffled the cards and the next three cards were the same. I had my radio/cd on and suddenly it turns off out of nowhere. I said **** it since then I never read cards again specially at 3 am. While I used to read tarot I noticed a lot of unnatural stuff while I was sleeping (cold, someone sitting next to me or breathing behind my ear)

Now I prefer to avoid it.

Huuuh? Death and the Devil aren't necessarily 'negative'; it depends on the reading and the query. The Devil (important note: the scary thing on this card isn't Satan) can signify being addicted or bound to something, and sometimes even encouraging play over work (especially for a person who may sorely need the fun). I'd also expect this one to come up when a person is facing temptation... like a hell of a lot of us on MFP. XD Death usually just means a transition or a sweeping out of the old and in with the new—a rebirth. Sure, Death can sometimes mean a human death, but most of the times it just shows us how we deal with various endings in our lives.

What kind of wacky Tarot cards were you reading? Did you buy them off some old creepy lady in the forest? :laugh:

Don't spread the old, tired stereotypes about Tarot. They're just a set of picture cards, in the end.

I think a lot of people don't respect "that" stuff. Despite what it is, or what you believe, I think messing with it, without respect, is foolish. It is unknown and uncontrollable and shouldn't be approached without caution and a humble attitude. I've never had any "real" experiences just 2 small things like a slamming door and a weird message written in fog on a mirror. In 27 years that isn't much proof but I still believe based off what other people have told me. I don't think I'm open minded enough to even pick up on half the unexplained or paranormal things that go on around me. I'm OK with that. I think a legit experience would mess with my head too much. I'm a realist and if it isn't tangible it just baffles me. I like the idea of it, but I'm kind of glad I don't have much of a knack for experiencing things. "I see dead people..." not something I want to say, ever. LOL

On another note i kind of like the idea of ghosts being entities from other dimensions. That interests me a lot. As I am not that religious (I believe in SOMETHING just not sure any bibles of today have it "just right"...) So the thought that our energies just transfer into something our 3 dimension world can't see or understand, really seems like a fun idea to me.

Scientists today still can't fully explain the brain, or consciousness. THAT is really cool. So much at our fingertips, so much that we know about in today's world, and they can't explain how the brain really comprehends and they can't put on paper a legit answer for what consciousness is. They just know when you go into coma, or die, that your consciousness leaves. That always sticks out in my mind. I think perhaps what makes us "alive" or gives us a "soul" has something to do with our conscious and subconscious connections with the world. Our energies, and therefore consciousness (or soul) probably just transfer and shift, as our human bodies die. I believe SOMETHING happens when we die I don't think it's just lights out forever.

I don't know but that is certainly strange

Yes, I do!
When I was about 12 years old I saw a young girl (she might have been 6 or 7) walk ahead of me into my friend's house. When I asked my friend who else was at her house she said no one. I didn't believe her so I looked everywhere. No blonde girl to be found. I still remember that to this day!

My hometown is a city that makes a lot of money on people believing that every other building (at the VERY least) is haunted. It makes me feel bad for some of the tourists.

Edit: It also pays some bills, so I don't feel TOO bad for them.

I believe it can all be explained through natural forces- just because we can't do it yet is no reason to attribute phenomena to something supernatural.

Yes... seeing, hearing & feeling those energies- run in my family. Too many experiences to count.

Anyone ever think that these "ghosts" are demons trying to fool people into thinking there is a spot between heaven and hell?