Do you believe in ghosts?

I lived in a rent house that was old. I feel to sleep in the den after I had through a party for my daughters and woke up like someone or something was sucking the air out of me. And my dog refuse to go in the bathroom that separated the two bedrooms. This was a round house we call them when you can go in one room and come out another just doors separates them

No, bummer. I so want to meet a ghost or alien

I don't know if I believe in ghosts, but I believe that I'm terrified of the idea of them.

Nope

I only believe in things I can see or feel. Hearing can play tricks on you but not sight or feel

When I was going through my divorce, my 3year old son and I rented this horrible stinky apartment in an unfortunate area (it was at that time all I could afford).
There were several nights I would wake up hearing my son talking to someone but when I went in to investigation he was alone and would just say the nice Grandpa man.
One night I woke up feeling as though something or someone had shaken me. I watched as a black shade floated from the end of my bed into my son's room where I heard my son say, "how come mom doesn't see you?"
I then watched the black shade float from my son's room into the bathroom. I was paralyzed with shock because just before it entered the bathroom it stopped and turned to look at me.

There is no such thing as ghosts or zombies or werewolves or heaven or hell or a god that looks down on us and forgives our sins because we go to church. You have one shot at getting it right and you're living it.

TheRoadDog wrote: »

There is no such thing as ghosts or zombies or werewolves or heaven or hell or a god that looks down on us and forgives our sins because we go to church. You have one shot at getting it right and you're living it.

I don't believe in god/the devil/heaven/hell, etc. either, but I did see what I saw. Doesn't mean god exists.

Yes!

Yes. We went through a several months period a few years back where we had some very strange things happening in our house. On several occasions, my son and I (separately) saw the ghost of a young boy. Fortunately, nothing like that has happened in the recent past. Say what you will, but we saw some things and they can't be explained.

Yes! I'm from Mexico and my family and I went through a lot of ghost stuff we lived in 3 different houses and of continued ,we got to the fourth one and still scary stuff continued happening but my family just gave up on moving out. We been told that sometimes they follow you. .. luckily I moved to Maryland and it didn't follow me but my mom tells me what happens now and then over there at their house

Absolutely! I've never seen one but definitely heard one making noise and saw things move/fall in my sister-in-law's house. Terrifying experience.

I've never seen one but for the longest time I've heard someone walking up to the side of my bed in the middle of the night, like someone quietly walking on the carpet and it stops right by my bed.. could just sense someone and my body would freeze up, I was terrified. Then I started working out in the morning and I get up at 4:20 so I'm so tired I could be abducted by aliens and would have no knowledge lolz.

Booooo

newmeadow wrote: »

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thorsmom01 wrote: »

I used to believe. When I was an early teen , my sisters and I had one of those quija boards. It scared us so we walked it to the dumpster and threw it away in top of an old washing machine.
The next day it was on our porch. We screamed and ran Inside. We then bagged it up and threw it back in the dumpster.
For years we where scared and wondered how it hovered out of the trash back to our house. It was enough of a scare for us to stop playing those ghost games .
When I was about 20 I asked my mom If she remembered that ghost game that came back from the dumpster.
She said " yeah you guys learned your lesson about playing scary games that night ! I got it out and put it on the porch because you guys threw away a 20$ toy for no reason "

My Mother is definitely not religious, other worldly, spiritual, etc. But she specifically warned me against ever messing about with a ouija board. Thing is, the ouija board is an entirely commercial creation like a typical board game. If there has indeed been any contact with the 'other side' through its use it is believed to have nothing to do with it being a ouija board and more down to contact being attempted regardless of the means of contact. The supposed spirit just recognises the effort rather than the means. Basically, you may aswell try contacting a spirit with a game of monopoly.

These boards have existed to contact hidden spiritual forces - using one format or another - for 1,000+ years. Long before Parker Brothers. The set up of a Ouija board looks nothing like a Monopoly board. The intent behind its use differs greatly from a Monopoly game. Even 8 year olds know that playing with a Ouija board is fun and exciting but mysterious, a bit scary, and potentially dangerous. Unlike an innocent, family friendly game of Monopoly. It's good your mother explicitly warned you against using a Ouija. Even non-religious people with little to no interest in spiritual matters, when they mature, seem to automatically repel a Ouija board.

You're gonna feel silly when you have to pay a ghost all of your monopoly money because you landed on its hotel filled property.

newmeadow wrote: »

TheCrawlingChaos wrote: »

At one point I did believe in ghosts. I got so into it that I started doing "investigations" with some friends.

Why such an explosion of people interested in so-called ghosts and ghost hunting nowadays? I know this may sound wacky, but it seems to me that a belief or interest in ghosty woo woo things and inexplicable activity is a new religion. Steadily replacing traditional religious beliefs and communities. Thoughts?

I didn't intend for that to be an explosion of any sort. It was just a start to my backstory to my answer to the question. I didn't always believe in ghosts befote that point. It was a quick flare up that lead to other interests that quickly killed my original interests, replacing it with some thing i now see as even more exciting and fascinating.

Even if it is seen as a new religion, that doesn't exclude it from criticisms. I think it's important to respect other people, but it certainly doesn't mean their beliefs require that same respect. People should separate themselves from their beliefs.

I intended no disrespect to anyone who may belief one way or another. I'm just bad at words and expressing the idea of "hey I have some interesting information for you."

As a scientific skeptic, I put a lot of emphasis on how we know something to be true. To me, believing in something that is correct is important. If there's evidence out there that refutes something I believe, I want to know. Of course this just leads to a philosophical discussion about absurdism and existencialism, and what is important is only what is important to the person it's important to.

All I'm saying, if there's someone out there that got an interest in paranormal stuff because of an interest to understand the world, theyou may be interested in looking outside of their own comfort zones and read some of the available information criticizing and refuting a lot of those claims. The universe is immensely fascinating and awe-inspiring without having to resort to pseudoscience. And now I'm projecting I guess.

Tl;dr sorry if I sounded like I was attacking or anything. I didn't mean to.