Do you believe in ghosts?

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

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

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!

No.
But i do believe in the X files type events/people/phenomen

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.

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.