Do you believe in ghosts?
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Slimjimjellybelly wrote: »As einstein once said
“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”
I believe our souls are our energy and is still present after death.
Maybe our brain sees the energy of the deceased as what they once were, It's just a thought?
I actually sit on the fence with this topic because I've had some unexplainable events but am still a sceptic.
Love your user name.
I like that quote.
I've shared this on the forums before but saying it again. When my dad passed away 12 years ago, I was staying in his hospital room. I'd sit with him most of the day, walk around, spend the nights there. I had just curled up on a reclining chair across the room from him and falling asleep for the night. His bed had been pushed up against the window and the light was coming from behind him. Something had me pop my eyes open and glance across the room, just in time to *know* he had just barely passed away and I saw......something......a wisp.....soul..... energy....leave his body and float away. Call it what you will but it's an image I'll remember until I die. And I'm as skeptical as they come.
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This kind of relates to the topic but has anyone ever heard of The Cokeville Miracle? I watched the movie the other day and it's based on a true story. It happened at an elementary school in Cokeville, Wyoming(IIRC) and evidently many of the students involved, saw dead ancestors along with angels. Any thoughts? I found it very interesting.0
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I do not believe it's a figment of anyone's imagination. I used to discount peoples' claims of paranormal activity before it happened to me. People don't "invent ghosts" because they can't understand something. I don't understand nuclear physics or rocket science but I'm not inventing it in my head, either. Some people have no clue and they're the first to share their "expertise," and I say this with a giggle since it's truly ignorance at its finest that they have to interject on every whim. I was every bit that clueless, once, and I wish wish wish I still was...
Also, I do think some people are extra sensitive and see more, feel more, hear more than others. I don't consider myself extra sensitive, just sensitive enough...4 -
@LoveyChar
It's touchy. People visit from the world over without speaking English. They have no idea what they're seeing but they see what others have experienced. No one told them anything before they arrived. I know you're seeing what you're seeing.
The old civil war army fort we lived in was busy. For forum purposes, I've found if you say you don't believe in anything that's the approved and acceptable answer for everything. Always. Ask me how I know.
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Yes, I do. I've had a few experiences I will go on record believing they involved paranormal activity.
I've offered up the events to others who have discounted me as 'crazy'. At this point, I generally keep stuff like this to myself.2 -
SomeMFPuser wrote: »Yes, I do. I've had a few experiences I will go on record believing they involved paranormal activity.
I've offered up the events to others who have discounted me as 'crazy'. At this point, I generally keep stuff like this to myself.
It's truly sad when others resort to calling people, like yourself, crazy because of different experiences.
I know I mentioned in a prior reply that I believe in 'signs' from deceased family members because I've had experiences involving those. And I do wish I'd had ghost experiences because it would certainly give me more of a tangible reason to believe. Some things I have to see myself. It's not that I really doubt, it's just that I'm not totally on board either. I know, I'm bad at explaining my thoughts. 3 -
I've never thought anyone was crazy but I've always chalked it up to an overactive imagination in the past. I've never even believed people were lying to me. I had a friend tell me years ago that he had a little girl ghost in his house and he left the television on for her all day. I thought, at first, that he was kidding. He was not...4
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As my mom was dying, she was experiencing death-bed visions of family long, long, long past and was talking with them. She would quietly mention out loud who was there to see her. She shortly passed hours later.
I for one believed she saw who she did.4 -
@SomeMFPuser It's all going to come out in the wash, isn't it. I've several family members who've encountered passed relatives before they died. One aunt said her sister was sitting on the end of her bed every afternoon a few days before she died. One fell out of a river raft and almost drowned, spent 2 weeks in the hospital. She had the option of 'leaving' at the young age of 12 but another relative told her it wasn't her time to go. She's wilder than a March hare and lives her life on full tilt.
Another cousin had heart surgery and flatlined two years ago. She wanted to stay but a 'young' great great grandmother she'd never seen told her it wasn't her time to go. She described her to a tee and the elders confirmed it. I'm not big enough to wear 'Universal' shoes; and no amount of stories or experiences will ever convince anyone of anything. Faith is a gift and it's all gonna come out in the wash, so put that sucker on spin and give it all you've got.
Ooo, my cousin had that person hanging around her until she went home. During the surgery, she told her, "You've got to breathe, NOW!" So she did. Your mileage may vary. It's confirmed, she did ask all the other nurses about that "other nurse" in the room. They laughed and said there hasn't been anyone else in this room. Ever.
That 'nurse' never left her side until she went home and she's never encountered them, again.5 -
Yes. When I was 13, I woke to see an elderly woman that I had grown up with in the corner of my room. She told me that she had died and that she loved me. This was unlike any dream that I had ever had. I told my Dad the next morning and he believed that she was really there. We found out later that she had died around that time. We were in a different State and didn't find out until a few months later.
As an adult, I was living in NE PA, Wilkes-Barre PA, in a rental home. it was three stories with a full basement. Many strange things happened there. My niece went to check on her son, who was 3, and found him sitting with most of his toys floating in the air. He was laughing and said that the "girl" was playing with him. We found out later that a 6 year old girl had died in a fire in the house years earlier. And one time, in the basement, my BF and I were startled by a blue ball of light that suddenly shot from one end of the basement to the other end. We never did find out what that was about, there were no electrical outlets where it came from or went to.
For years, from age 7 on up to my late teens, when I would get extremely upset I would feel my Great Uncle's arms around me and feel him telling me that it was "ok". I had a psychic tell me, from just shaking my hand, that he was attempting to make amends. He had molested me. He had died when I was 7. I ended up "telling" him that I would be ok if he left, and I never
"felt" him again.5 -
A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. I don't want to step on any deeply felt principles. Ironically, it's far more acceptable to impress views of nothingness onto others. To be fair, that road should run both directions with respect for all.3
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I believe that it’s possible people experience unexplained encounters with what most call ghosts.
I don’t necessarily believe in ghosts the way most people describe ghosts.
You won’t ever catch me with a Ouija Board though, lol.
Dimensions, I’m leaning more towards multiple dimensions.3 -
I watched a lot of youtube videos about near death experiences over the past 2 years. Dr. Eben Alexander, even if he doesn't claim to have died, describes events while comatose that make you think that you don't understand anything. Besides that, there are many stories recorded as far back as Plato of people who recovered from death and told of events in a spirit existence. The thing I realized is that our languages are for the living and are unsuited to describing the rest of existence.5
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The Cowardly Lion and I agree exactly the same way......"I do believe in ghosts...I do.,.I do believe in ghosts.". The only time I feel it was a ghost was when stayed at a hotel traveling from Ohio to Nebraska. Kept turning to look in direction that kept seeing something. Each look brought more into focus until saw elderly gentleman sitting in plush chair. All who kept looking ( where I was looking) said saw nothing. Also, two different houses I lived in between 7 and 13, whitenessed two demons. I can still see every detail after 50 years. Was so scared to move, that I sat in living room staring at front door until the sun came up.3
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I've never seen anything. But I know people who've claimed to see demons. I believe them. For me, I'm terrified to see anything I can't explain. Someone once told me that if it was a demon in my presence that it would show itself because demons want you to be terrified. Makes sense, but I don't know.2
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