Do you believe in ghosts/spirits? Share your experiences!!

I cannot help but believe in ghosts and spirits...

I have a 16 year old who I SWEAR saw a spirit when he was 2.5 years old. My step mother in law was in the hospital dying of cancer...we had been told that she didn't have more than a few days left, but we had a toddler, so we couldn't really camp out in the ICU. We went to bed that night, but my son wasn't sleeping well, so I took him down to the living room to play. He pulled several toy phones out of his toy box, and had been playing with them as I dozed on the couch. All of a sudden he looked right at the (empty) love seat and said "grandma? grandma?" and was NOT touching the phones, so I am fairly confident that he was not pretending to talk to her. I looked at the clock and saw that it was like 2:23am....My MIL died a few hours later. I found out that at 2:23 am she was in the final coma before her death.

She LOVED my son to death--spoiled him from the day he was born. It made her so sad that she had been going to chemo and had to stay away from him. She was the kind of person who literally apologized from her death bed because she thought she had scared him by not wearing her wig! I can totally believe that she came to check on him one last time before she totally left the physical world...

I think its safe to say there is no such thing as ghosts.

With out getting overly defensive... can you prove it?

I think its safe to say there is no such thing as ghosts.

With out getting overly defensive... can you prove it?

The burden of proof is on the one making the claim that they exist.

I think its safe to say there is no such thing as ghosts.

With out getting overly defensive... can you prove it?

The burden of proof is on the one making the claim that they exist.

Then where have you have been? Start reading, there are plenty of eye witness testimonies, to state their is something.

Just because you haven't seen it, isn't reason to deny it. If that was the case, the world would be still flat and the center of the solar system

I'm a skeptic. But my experiences have made me question my beliefs. Maybe you've just never had the opportunity to witness something. But other skeptics have, and now they believe.

This last Christmas my wife thought for sure she saw our 12 year old girl by our bed and thought she might be looking for presents. She went over to the bed after yelling for her to stop looking and no one was there. Of course she saw her on my side of the bed. Previously, I had seen a figure that I too thought was our daughter from time to time. It's a new home and no one has ever lived there prior to us. If our daughter sees her, we'll probably have her sleeping in our bed too.

I grew up in a house I have no doubt was haunted. Too many instances to type here. The house I lived in before we got married was haunted by the rancher who was killed in the front yard by a steer. I've heard slippers sliding on the wood floors at night several times with the creaking of the boards and my night stand light came on twice by itself when I was in bed. My dog would stare down the hallway and growled a couple of times at nothing.

At work, as a cop, we respond to alarm calls often. On one occasion two of my good, no nonsense officer friends responded to a two story house in our city. They rang the doorbell with no answer. They walked around checking doors/windows and looked up and both saw an elderly woman looking down at them. They motioned for her to go to the front door. They said they waited and waited but no one came up. They started knocking and as they did, the residents arrived when the alarm co called them. They explained the woman inside wouldn't come to the door. The lady said "you saw her too?" She went on to explain they've seen an older lady at times in the house. They were a little astonished as we deal with physical evidence and this isn't the norm. They still talk about this house. I've been on complainant calls and after they tell me what's going on in their house and have no idea what's going on, I think to myself "you've called the wrong people for this kind of problem." They would even ask me if I thought their house was haunted. I give other possibilities and suggest they seek other alternative resources if the noises/sightings continued.

this morning, around 5 am, i was woken up by a loud banging. i couldn't determine where it was coming from and it stopped before i could get up to try to figure it out.
i asked my mother a few hours later if she had heard it and she had not.
then i thought about it for a second and figured it out- it was my father, getting the water off of his toothbrush by banging it off the sink, which just so happens to be attached to the wall that separates my bedroom from the bathroom.

Just because you haven't seen it, isn't reason to deny it. If that was the case, the world would be still flat and the center of the solar system

While I agree with your sentiment that absence of proof does not necessarily lead to proof of absence, I have to take issue with the examples you used to support your position. Nobody ever had to accept "on faith" that the Earth wasn't flat or the center of the Universe. It was possible to scientifically prove both by using repeatable experiments that could be performed by anyone. And that's the problem with ghosts - you have to just "believe" what other people say. There's no way to independently verify them.

None of that means that ghosts are not real or that all of this eyewitness testimony is faulty. Just that it's really not open to the scientific method, which will always leave skeptics unconvinced.

While I agree with your sentiment that absence of proof does not necessarily lead to proof of absence, I have to take issue with the examples you used to support your position. Nobody ever had to accept "on faith" that the Earth wasn't flat or the center of the Universe. It was possible to scientifically prove both by using repeatable experiments that could be performed by anyone. And that's the problem with ghosts - you have to just "believe" what other people say. There's no way to independently verify them.

None of that means that ghosts are not real or that all of this eyewitness testimony is faulty. Just that it's really not open to the scientific method, which will always leave skeptics unconvinced.

So are you saying that when we die, our souls will die also & that there is no such thing as eternal life? Sorry but I think all of us will become a "ghost" someday as we will all die.

Science & religion are like oil & water that can never be mixed.

While I agree with your sentiment that absence of proof does not necessarily lead to proof of absence, I have to take issue with the examples you used to support your position. Nobody ever had to accept "on faith" that the Earth wasn't flat or the center of the Universe. It was possible to scientifically prove both by using repeatable experiments that could be performed by anyone. And that's the problem with ghosts - you have to just "believe" what other people say. There's no way to independently verify them.

None of that means that ghosts are not real or that all of this eyewitness testimony is faulty. Just that it's really not open to the scientific method, which will always leave skeptics unconvinced.

So are you saying that when we die, our souls will die also & that there is no such thing as eternal life? Sorry but I think science & religion are like oil & water that can never be mixed.

no, that's not what he's saying. he's saying that you cannot scientifically prove that there is an afterlife.

What do ghosts, vampires, zombies, santa claus, and god all have in common?

Many people believe they exist, many people don't believe they exist, no one can prove they exist, and no one can disprove they exist.

Believe whatever makes you happy.

Just because you haven't seen it, isn't reason to deny it. If that was the case, the world would be still flat and the center of the solar system

While I agree with your sentiment that absence of proof does not necessarily lead to proof of absence, I have to take issue with the examples you used to support your position. Nobody ever had to accept "on faith" that the Earth wasn't flat or the center of the Universe. It was possible to scientifically prove both by using repeatable experiments that could be performed by anyone. And that's the problem with ghosts - you have to just "believe" what other people say. There's no way to independently verify them.

None of that means that ghosts are not real or that all of this eyewitness testimony is faulty. Just that it's really not open to the scientific method, which will always leave skeptics unconvinced.

I know, in this life, there are things that we will never understand. I just wanted him to see my point. I admit, not the best examples to use... but, I can barely keep eyes open, and it was the first two examples that came to mind.

Another story of mine was way back 2006, a few days after my long time nanny passed away from endometrial cancer. She was obese.

I was sleeping when suddenly I was awakened by something heavy & cold trying to shake my body as if somebody was trying to wake me up. When I opened my eyes, there was no one in the room & when I checked the time, it was 2:00 am & I still had few hours to go before my mom wakes me up at 5:30 am to get to work (alarm clocks have no effect on me so I need somebody to wake me up, hehehe). Moreover it happened on a Sunday which means no work so my mom wouldn't have to wake me up. Then I remember that my nanny also used to wake me up at morning whenver my mom isn't available.

Another time while I was watching something on television, suddenly the TV went off. At first I thought that there was something wrong so I went near the TV to check & then I was surprised to find out that someone had unplug the cord. But the thing is no one was there except me, :noway: I remembered my nanny teasing us that in case she would die, she would visit us & jokingly switch off our television sets.

Yeah I hear wind, doors/floors creaking, and things outta the corner of my eye too. It must be GHOSTS... no wait it's not. DERP. Save the paranormal for the movies people. Coincidences and unexplained activity leave the weak minded with thoughts of ghosts and spirits. I could go on and on and on but I guess some people's minds just don't mature.

And this is what we don't need. We all have our own beliefs, but you don't see the people here being *kitten*'s but those who don't believe in it. If you don't just move along with out insulting. Kthx.

Don't get all butthurt about it. I thought we were all expressing our beliefs.

bump! Can't read this now, have to sleep! lol