Do you believe in the paranormal?

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  • Ewok31
    Ewok31 Posts: 45 Member
    I believe in bigfoot nothing better then going out in the woods looking for a big monkey
  • emdeesea
    emdeesea Posts: 1,823 Member
    edited January 2015

    And atheism...

    And everything which doesn't come from original thought.



    That's so cute. :)

  • Yes. I have lived in three houses that had ghosts, including the one where I grew up for much of my life. (Dad was in the Army so we moved around but that was the one we owned.) It helps if you are sensitive to it. I bought that house from my parents and my son as a very young child could see them also. Needless to say, I had to stay with him until he fell asleep and knock on the bathroom door non-stop while he was in there so he knew I was a door away. Obviously, I never told him of my experiences, since he was very young but I also never told him he was imagining things, as many parents in denial say when kids try to tell them. The younger a child the most likely they can still see. I stopped being afraid when my (dead) grandmother showed up once when I was very frightened. In another, our dog could see the same things as me and he would react to them. After one of my cats was killed by a pit bull that came into our yard, I could feel him jumping on my bed, same as before and see the foot impressions as he walked to his usual position. It stopped when I got my current cat in 1999. People can believe what they want, but I know that there is a "curtain" between alternate world that is sometimes thin. Quantum physics recognized the probability of that being possible. That's as scientific as it gets. Many people are in denial and are afraid to admit it because they are either afraid to be seen as crazy or because they are too afraid of the unknown. I've never been harmed nor do I know of anyone who has. (Not that I'm saying there are not other things out there that can present a danger.)
  • NJGamerChick
    NJGamerChick Posts: 467 Member
    Chaelaz wrote: »
    Along the same lines, I am an empath.

    Me too. But I've seen some pretty crazy (in terms of the realm of traditional normality) things and have been walking my path for way too many years.
  • MusicalSharon52
    MusicalSharon52 Posts: 31 Member
    I'm pretty sure I saw a ghost when I was seventeen. Have you seen anything?

    Also- if someone could direct me to where I can get my username changed, that would be super!
    Happy fitday!
    emdeesea wrote: »
    No - I don't.

    But I also won't say Bloody Mary three times in the mirror, either.

    I'm a conundrum ;)

    That's indoctrination. You probably heard that story when you were really young and impressionable.

    That's how the church gets them too.

    After my Mother passed away, she came around almost daily. I could smell her brand of cigarette smoke, even though she had quitter 25 years ago. Once got her in a picture we took after cleaning some antiques she had collected.
    Other ghosts here as well. We have had a residential ghost here since moving in A child's ghost. Plays with lights, makes music on a baby toy keyboard. One time some keys disappeared. They were for a cabinet our Father used, off limits to my brothers and I. The whole family looked all over for them with no luck. A year or so later we moved to another state. Took some belongings, others went into storage while the house was rented out. A few more years passed after we returned to the house. One day there they were, just sitting on the corner of the table. No one had put them there. They just WERE. Yes. I have had close contact. Want more? Contact me.
  • dln1975
    dln1975 Posts: 62 Member
    Yes, I do believe in the paranormal. I have personally witnessed too many things to not believe ever since I was a kid. I have tried many times to tell myself it was all in my head, but as I've become older I've just "let go," accepted it and it no longer bothers me. Honestly, though, they're not happening as often the older I've become. Kinda odd, but I know people do say children are more susceptible to the paranormal. The most intense experience I ever had was at the Bird Cage Theater in Tombstone, Arizona. I still shiver thinking about that place!!
  • giantrobot_powerlifting
    giantrobot_powerlifting Posts: 2,598 Member
    edited January 2015
    Yaow, well i
    MYDejaVue wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure I saw a ghost when I was seventeen. Have you seen anything?

    Also- if someone could direct me to where I can get my username changed, that would be super!
    Happy fitday!
    emdeesea wrote: »
    No - I don't.

    But I also won't say Bloody Mary three times in the mirror, either.

    I'm a conundrum ;)

    That's indoctrination. You probably heard that story when you were really young and impressionable.

    That's how the church gets them too.

    After my Mother passed away, she came around almost daily. I could smell her brand of cigarette smoke, even though she had quitter 25 years ago. Once got her in a picture we took after cleaning some antiques she had collected.
    Other ghosts here as well. We have had a residential ghost here since moving in A child's ghost. Plays with lights, makes music on a baby toy keyboard. One time some keys disappeared. They were for a cabinet our Father used, off limits to my brothers and I. The whole family looked all over for them with no luck. A year or so later we moved to another state. Took some belongings, others went into storage while the house was rented out. A few more years passed after we returned to the house. One day there they were, just sitting on the corner of the table. No one had put them there. They just WERE. Yes. I have had close contact. Want more? Contact me.
    Well if this is "evidence" put me down as unimpressed.
  • MusicalSharon52
    MusicalSharon52 Posts: 31 Member
    Definitely believe in them!
  • Yes. I have lived in three houses that had ghosts, including the one where I grew up for much of my life. (Dad was in the Army so we moved around but that was the one we owned.) It helps if you are sensitive to it. I bought that house from my parents and my son as a very young child could see them also. Needless to say, I had to stay with him until he fell asleep and knock on the bathroom door non-stop while he was in there so he knew I was a door away. Obviously, I never told him of my experiences, since he was very young but I also never told him he was imagining things, as many parents in denial say when kids try to tell them. The younger a child the most likely they can still see. I stopped being afraid when my (dead) grandmother showed up once when I was very frightened. In another, our dog could see the same things as me and he would react to them. After one of my cats was killed by a pit bull that came into our yard, I could feel him jumping on my bed, same as before and see the foot impressions as he walked to his usual position. It stopped when I got my current cat in 1999. People can believe what they want, but I know that there is a "curtain" between alternate world that is sometimes thin. Quantum physics recognized the probability of that being possible. That's as scientific as it gets. Many people are in denial and are afraid to admit it because they are either afraid to be seen as crazy or because they are too afraid of the unknown. I've never been harmed nor do I know of anyone who has. (Not that I'm saying there are not other things out there that can present a danger.)
    Oh boy, once anyone on the internet begs "Quantum physics" stop reading, there is nothing more to be profited by it.
  • Definitely believe in them!
    People believe all sorts of things. I am more interested in what can be likely shown to be possible or not. Ghosts -- or other so-called astral projections (which are predicated upon physical bodies anyway) -- beg materialism. The upper hand is within the scientific method, not in the imaginations of believers.
  • determined_ella
    determined_ella Posts: 4,354 Member
    Yaow, well i
    MYDejaVue wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure I saw a ghost when I was seventeen. Have you seen anything?

    Also- if someone could direct me to where I can get my username changed, that would be super!
    Happy fitday!
    emdeesea wrote: »
    No - I don't.

    But I also won't say Bloody Mary three times in the mirror, either.

    I'm a conundrum ;)

    That's indoctrination. You probably heard that story when you were really young and impressionable.

    That's how the church gets them too.

    After my Mother passed away, she came around almost daily. I could smell her brand of cigarette smoke, even though she had quitter 25 years ago. Once got her in a picture we took after cleaning some antiques she had collected.
    Other ghosts here as well. We have had a residential ghost here since moving in A child's ghost. Plays with lights, makes music on a baby toy keyboard. One time some keys disappeared. They were for a cabinet our Father used, off limits to my brothers and I. The whole family looked all over for them with no luck. A year or so later we moved to another state. Took some belongings, others went into storage while the house was rented out. A few more years passed after we returned to the house. One day there they were, just sitting on the corner of the table. No one had put them there. They just WERE. Yes. I have had close contact. Want more? Contact me.
    Well if this is "evidence" put me down as unimpressed.


    I've never wanted to gently poke someone in the eye so much in my life, as much as I do right now : :joy:
  • Yaow, well i
    MYDejaVue wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure I saw a ghost when I was seventeen. Have you seen anything?

    Also- if someone could direct me to where I can get my username changed, that would be super!
    Happy fitday!
    emdeesea wrote: »
    No - I don't.

    But I also won't say Bloody Mary three times in the mirror, either.

    I'm a conundrum ;)

    That's indoctrination. You probably heard that story when you were really young and impressionable.

    That's how the church gets them too.

    After my Mother passed away, she came around almost daily. I could smell her brand of cigarette smoke, even though she had quitter 25 years ago. Once got her in a picture we took after cleaning some antiques she had collected.
    Other ghosts here as well. We have had a residential ghost here since moving in A child's ghost. Plays with lights, makes music on a baby toy keyboard. One time some keys disappeared. They were for a cabinet our Father used, off limits to my brothers and I. The whole family looked all over for them with no luck. A year or so later we moved to another state. Took some belongings, others went into storage while the house was rented out. A few more years passed after we returned to the house. One day there they were, just sitting on the corner of the table. No one had put them there. They just WERE. Yes. I have had close contact. Want more? Contact me.
    Well if this is "evidence" put me down as unimpressed.


    I've never wanted to gently poke someone in the eye so much in my life, as much as I do right now : :joy:
    Yes I know, I am such a jerk because I ask for rigorous evidence commensurate to the claim.

    If one doesn't rule out perfectly natural explanations first, then one is not only jumping to conclusions, but indulging in wishful thinking. Furthermore, I've already laid out the epistemology difficulty in appealing to supernatural claims -- which was ignored.
  • LoneWolfRunner
    LoneWolfRunner Posts: 1,160 Member
    If you say there are no ghosts, then how do explain all my missing socks, HUH????
  • If you say there are no ghosts, then how do explain all my missing socks, HUH????
    Touche!
  • LoneWolfRunner
    LoneWolfRunner Posts: 1,160 Member
    There used to be a house on our block that we thought was haunted, because you'd hear people screaming inside and because people who went in never came out. Later on we found out it was just a murderer's house.
  • giantrobot_powerlifting
    giantrobot_powerlifting Posts: 2,598 Member
    edited January 2015
    There used to be a house on our block that we thought was haunted, because you'd hear people screaming inside and because people who went in never came out. Later on we found out it was just a murderer's house.
    LOL> Reality can be scary enough without making stuff up.
  • LoneWolfRunner
    LoneWolfRunner Posts: 1,160 Member
    You know I was joking, right? :)
  • jjscholar
    jjscholar Posts: 413 Member
    While there may be forces in the Universe that we do not understand, I believe that the so called paranormal is a bunch of BS.
  • TheDoughnutTheif
    TheDoughnutTheif Posts: 349 Member
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    Nope. Never seen one, heard one, felt one, etc. Science hasn't supported any entities of paranormal activity nor have any actually been captured and authenticated.
    Ghosts, spirits, souls, etc. are just something that people WANT to believe in so that there's an explanation of unexplained events that may happen in their life.

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    Science can't even explain all of itself. So how is to say? I have an open mind but no I have never had an experience.
  • MusicalSharon52
    MusicalSharon52 Posts: 31 Member
    That's the definition of the word BELIEVE. To believe is not expecting scientific proof. And I'm not talking about Hollywood or Halloween concepts of ghosts. I mean the real ones.
    You either belive in ghosts or not. If you don't believe, no one can convince you. If you do believe, you can't be convinced they don't exist.
  • MusicalSharon52
    MusicalSharon52 Posts: 31 Member
    Sox missing are the ghoul in the dryer. Not a ghost.
  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,832 Member
    Yes
  • sweetteadrinker2
    sweetteadrinker2 Posts: 1,026 Member
    I do believe, simply because I know science (Bio major with lots of lab experience), and I know that it can't explain some of what I've been through. I'm also a wiccan, so there's that. Can't find anything but magic to explain why my spells work out
  • Derpes
    Derpes Posts: 2,033 Member
    One time this green, slimey spirit thing ate a bunch of hot dogs from my fridge.....
  • emdeesea
    emdeesea Posts: 1,823 Member
    This planet is approximately 5 billion years old and something or someone has died on every square inch of it. I do believe that people BELIEVE they have seen or experienced something that they THINK was paranormal, but that something actually exists - no, I don't, and frankly, I think it's silliness.
  • MusicalSharon52
    MusicalSharon52 Posts: 31 Member
    We lived in the UK a few years on a British RAF base. One of the buildings there is a hospital set up for patients,in case room runs out in other bases nearby. There is a ghost in that building that makes rounds checking each room:lights on, lights off. Next room same thing. Then upstairs. Same thing but going the opposite direction. This ghost was there when we got there, still there when we left. Seen by many people. Ghosts being harmful is a Hollywood ghost. Not a real one.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,029 Member
    edited January 2015
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    Nope. Never seen one, heard one, felt one, etc. Science hasn't supported any entities of paranormal activity nor have any actually been captured and authenticated.
    Ghosts, spirits, souls, etc. are just something that people WANT to believe in so that there's an explanation of unexplained events that may happen in their life.

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    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
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    Science can't even explain all of itself. So how is to say? I have an open mind but no I have never had an experience.
    Well let's just say that science can't prove/disprove that "paranormal" entities exist. Kinda like religion, it's based more on faith. Personally I'm not one who uses faith as basis for evidence.
    So I'm never afraid of "evil" or spirits or demons etc. because I don't happen to believe they exist. Fear of things that don't exist really deter people from achieving greater things in life.

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  • Derpes
    Derpes Posts: 2,033 Member
    I have seen Rick Moranis turn into a dog.....
  • SubZeroDude
    SubZeroDude Posts: 1,519 Member
    I've had paranormal experiences while in sleep paralysis, but that could be because of the whole half dreaming thing, or the insidious movies could be real, who knows.

    Also, when at home, I get that creepy vibe of 3:00 am. Think that's the witch's hour or whatever

    My mom's side of the family has lots of "paranormal" stories, pagan stuff
  • SubZeroDude
    SubZeroDude Posts: 1,519 Member
    Also, I've made sigil's that were "successful", but being skeptical, pretty sure they were placebo. Similar to how the Deity Challenge is placebo, although some say it's not
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