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

Definitely, I believe in ghost and spirits. Personnally, I have had many experiences with hearing my name called, being touched, seeing shadows etc. My youngest daughter is extremely sensitive. Different spirits come to her often from children to elderly people. They follow her from home to school. When she goes to different people homes, she can sense the ghost or spirits. My daughter is in her first year of high school, but when she was in Catholic elementary school, she served as an altar server for Mass. She would serve at funerals and would describe how the decease would be in the back of the Church watching his/her's funeral. My daughter is more comfortable with her gift as she has gotten older.

yes, i have quite a few experiences..my brother has also seen these, either with me or on his own and then we spoke about it later on..

one was an old house we were looking at to buy. it was out in the middle of the bush and it was COLD. i mean there was almost a line when you crossed onto the land that the temp dropped. the house was a 2 story place with a meat cellar attached to the front building (it was an old farm house). upstairs was living areas and downstairs there was a second bathroom, toilet, laundry and a double car garage... well one of those garages was BRICKED UP. both the "inner" section and the outer door were sealed. when we went down there, the brother and i both had a queasy feeling, like we were about to be sick.. almost a spinning too fast feeling. my mum and dad told us we were just being stupid and to have a look around. so we went towards the garage (we didnt know that was sealed until later on when we looked at the outside of the house) where we saw a foot coming out of the wall. and it was swinging, in and then out and back again.. we could see a rope tied around the girder beam above the wall and pretty much put two and two together. still not sure why the garage was bricked in but we were told it was a "deceased estate" and that it had been sitting empty for almost 10 years (there was still furniture inside it).

the second encounter ive had was in the house we built later on that same year. we bought a block of land on an old tobacco farm, at the edge of a lake. the lake had been covered in the build more houses on it and these were our neighbours blocks. i was home alone one night when i felt the urge to look up. when i did, standing in the front hallway in front of me was a large black dog like shape with glowing red eyes. it looked really angry at me and snarled (no sound) and then walked through the hallway wall into my parents bedroom.. i saw that same "dog" a few times but i also saw a smaller, almost "scotty dog" shape with the same red eyes. my brother saw it once and he told me that the scotty dog had appeared in his room, walked into the wall and when he went to chase it, it turned on him and became the big scary dog thing.. i was 14 at the time.

ive had a few empath moments too. i tend to sense emotions of the land and i get pretty jumped up or just want to sink and cry in certain areas. ive always had this.. it was stronger when i was younger and lived really without technology and constant human presence.. i would like to find it again but im not sure how.. im not sure if im sensing people imprinted on the areas or if im channeling something else.. i wouldnt mind talking to people who know about this sort of thing.

Apparently, this thread has touched me because I was thinking about it this morning and I really feel a need to respond to Grinch and everyone else yelling and screaming about science and proof.

I assume that you believe in the Big Bang Theory (not the show, but the actual creation of the universe). I took astronomy in college. It was a 200 level intro course, so certainly we didn't get into all the nitty gritty little details and I'm no expert, but found it fascinating, just as I find physics -- especially theoretical physics -- fascinating.

What I learned in my itty bitty class is that the Big Bang is one of several theories of the beginning of the universe, but let's just for argument's sake say it's the only possibility. That means that before that event, there was nothing. But not nothing in the sense that there was empty space. There was actually, literally, NOTHING. No matter, no space, no reality whatsoever. It's one of those things that most cannot even comprehend because how can there have been such a huge nothing, right?

So, anyway, out of this nothing there was a big explosion and all that we know as the universe -- stars, planets, empty space, meteors, comets ... -- came bursting out and in the billions of years since, the matter and empty space have continued moving farther and farther apart as the universe continues expanding. But expanding into what? What's on the other side of the universe? Astronomers have built telescopes powerful enough to see, essentially, the end of the universe. There's something like a wall there they can't see past. So the universe in which we live is finite. How is that possible? What's on the other side? More nothing? Another universe? Many other universes? These are all theories held by actual scientists. Yes, they do think that there are possibly multiple universes floating around out there like massive bubbles in space, bumping up against each other.

They also believe that if there is not enough matter in the universe, eventually it will reach its limit and contract back to the nothingness that was here before. And if there is enough matter to keep it expanding, it will eventually expand to the point that no two objects will be anywhere near each other. But, again, into what is it expanding? And if it contracts to nothingness, what's left? Nothing!

So think about all of that and then ask why the concept of the existence of ghosts is so far-fetched. Humans are puny creatures with limited capacity to understand the vastness of what's really out there. And to be so convinced that there is no afterlife, no spirit world, no ghosts or no God, to me, just shows a huge amount of arrogance and, really, a lack of creativity and a certain kind of intelligence. Kind of like my cousin who is a whiz at math and science but turned to me at intermission when we saw Much Ado About Nothing and asked me what was going on because she didn't understand a single moment of the play.

How many ghost/spirits have been documented? I don't believe there is any hard evidence of other wordly entities and there never will be. Why is that? They must be too clever for us once they cross over into the "unknown". Is that why we can't prove of such a thing?... or...maybe there's no such thing.

Read my above post.

Just sayin'.

And to be so convinced that there is no afterlife, no spirit world, no ghosts or no God, to me, just shows a huge amount of arrogance and, really, a lack of creativity and a certain kind of intelligence.

Creating supernatural beings to answer questions you don't know is a bit more arrogant. Someone who is a non believer/skeptic is less arrogant because they can stand back and say "you know what, I don't know what this is" and then try to find out, instead of stating it was a ghost or it was God or some other supernatural being because of their own fear of not knowing. That's all science is, its trying to seek out answers in the most logical tested way. Filling up the gaps of what we don't know with supernatural beings is just an easy way to get an answer, even if its the wrong answer.

Um, yeah, no.

And to be so convinced that there is no afterlife, no spirit world, no ghosts or no God, to me, just shows a huge amount of arrogance and, really, a lack of creativity and a certain kind of intelligence.

Creating supernatural beings to answer questions you don't know is a bit more arrogant. Someone who is a non believer/skeptic is less arrogant because they can stand back and say "you know what, I don't know what this is" and then try to find out, instead of stating it was a ghost or it was God or some other supernatural being because of their own fear of not knowing. That's all science is, its trying to seek out answers in the most logical tested way. Filling up the gaps of what we don't know with supernatural beings is just an easy way to get an answer, even if its the wrong answer.

The problem is - the people on here quoting science aren't actually doing this. They are just saying they don't believe and that is it.

I'm all for chalking an experience up to something tangible that we know about, but to deny absolutely the possibility of there being more than we know of in existence is closed minded and distinctly unscientific.

And to be so convinced that there is no afterlife, no spirit world, no ghosts or no God, to me, just shows a huge amount of arrogance and, really, a lack of creativity and a certain kind of intelligence.

Creating supernatural beings to answer questions you don't know is a bit more arrogant. Someone who is a non believer/skeptic is less arrogant because they can stand back and say "you know what, I don't know what this is" and then try to find out, instead of stating it was a ghost or it was God or some other supernatural being because of their own fear of not knowing. That's all science is, its trying to seek out answers in the most logical tested way. Filling up the gaps of what we don't know with supernatural beings is just an easy way to get an answer, even if its the wrong answer.

The problem is - the people on here quoting science aren't actually doing this. They are just saying they don't believe and that is it.

I'm all for chalking an experience up to something tangible that we know about, but to deny absolutely the possibility of there being more than we know of in existence is closed minded and distinctly unscientific.

A quote from American Horror Story that I feel fits perfectly right here: "How can you be so arrogant to think that there is only one reality that you’re able to see?”

And to be so convinced that there is no afterlife, no spirit world, no ghosts or no God, to me, just shows a huge amount of arrogance and, really, a lack of creativity and a certain kind of intelligence.

Creating supernatural beings to answer questions you don't know is a bit more arrogant. Someone who is a non believer/skeptic is less arrogant because they can stand back and say "you know what, I don't know what this is" and then try to find out, instead of stating it was a ghost or it was God or some other supernatural being because of their own fear of not knowing. That's all science is, its trying to seek out answers in the most logical tested way. Filling up the gaps of what we don't know with supernatural beings is just an easy way to get an answer, even if its the wrong answer.

The problem is - the people on here quoting science aren't actually doing this. They are just saying they don't believe and that is it.

I'm all for chalking an experience up to something tangible that we know about, but to deny absolutely the possibility of there being more than we know of in existence is closed minded and distinctly unscientific.

Stories of supernatural beings have always been used to fill up gaps of what we don't know so all that tells me is that these stories have been created for that purpose and when we get into religion its been a way to control people. There is no evidence that supernatural beings exist and I rather keep my mind open to explore the possibilities of what we don't know then sum it up that its a ghost.

I think you're missing the point there then. What people are doing is denying that there is ANYTHING other than what can be rationally explained by the information we currently have.

What people on the other side of the fence are saying is that there is SOMETHING. Perhaps we just don't have appropriate technology to detect it in a conclusive manner yet. Perhaps we never will. I refer to them as ghosts etc, because this is the name we have given them. It is something that everyone understands and simplifies a concept rather than having to preface all comments with a disclaimer on the unknown identity of such occurrences.

Absolute denial is just as close minded as absolute faith.

Its funny how people can get so upset about topics like this. I do choose to believe in ghosts. Am I certain that they exist, and its not just a trick of the mind? No. But im okay no being "sure". I like to think that there is something beyond this life, and that someday when my husband or I die, we wont be gone from eachother forever. What's wrong with that? Its okay if you choose not to believe the same thing.

I have actually had some creepy encounters though. I lived on an abandoned farm as a kid. One night I woke up to find a man sitting in the chair by my bed staring at me. I would also see people swinging on the porch in our big wooden swing.

I was at a friends house one night sleeping upstairs and opened my eyes to see the rocking chair next to the bed moving. It had an old typewriter sitting on it, which was pretty heavy. Really freaked me out! Did I mentioned her house backed uptown an old cemetery?

I got one more. I didn't have time to write it down yesterday morning with my original post.

This is more of a...well I can't explain it, but in my paternal family and on down to me and my son, we always see some sort of being with red eyes.
My great uncle was walking home from work in Monterrey Mexico. This was very late at night, I guess he worked swing shift and this was probably back in the 30's-40's. He says he saw a dog walking along a bit behind him but he figured it was a random stray and didn't think anything of it. But the dog followed him for at least a mile (people walked huge distances back then, go figure lol) and he said that there was no streetlights and he had no flashlight but the dogs eyes were glowing red. He ran home crying like a baby.
My auntie, some years later, says she saw a man with glowing red eyes peeking into her window one night. This was probably in the 50's.
When I was 14 I was yacking on the phone with a little bf of mine and I looked up into my doorway and I saw a male figure with glowing red eyes standing there. I shut my eyes and when I opened them he was gone.
When my son was 4 or 5 he wouldn't go into our back bedroom because he said he saw a "man with no face and red eyes".

My great uncles story I heard from my father, who heard it from him when he was a very old man. I never met him. My auntie herself told me her story.
I figure for me, I had been up half the night and maybe it was a hallucination brought on from sheer exhaustion. I never told my son any of our family stories, so where he got that one from, I have no idea. I chalk it up to a child's vivid imagination.

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This is a true story that happened very recently. A widow in our church was at home and alone when her cell phone rang. The caller I.D. said the call was coming from her land line (the house she was in). She answered the phone, but there was no one on the line. She just said. " I miss you and I love you" and hung up the phone. It was the 1 year anniversary of her husbands death. This is not the type of woman to make up a story, so I believe her 100 percent.

That gave me chills.

Me too.

My grandpa had something similar happen to him. His dad died in the 70's, while my dad was little. My aunt had gotten Grandpa Doug a cell phone for Christmas a few years ago for him to take hunting. He pretty well just left it turned off in the car, and didn't use it. He decided to go to the car one day and check to make sure he didn't have any messages. He had only one, a voicemail, which he said was "Doug, it's your dad. Haven't talked to you in a very long time. I miss you. Love you." That was it. It scared him so bad, he threw the phone away.

BUMP

My grandma (mom's mom) passed right before I turned one, without having gotten to see me first. Not long after her passing my mom heard her mother's voice calling her from my bedroom. She finally decided to go in there and see what was going on and she saw her mother's ghost by my crib. For about a year after that, I was seen talking (baby gibber) to no one. Once my dad was in the kitchen while I was in the front room and he heard a woman saying "hello, how are you?" so he though someone was at the front door. He went in there and and I was alone. I consider her my gardian angel. Many years growing up, my dog would always stare at the top of the steps at nothing. It would kind of creep me out and I would just say "hi grandma" to make myself feel better.

Also, in the same house my dad insists that he's seen his grandmother who had never been in our house and would sometimes smell rose water out of nowhere. That was what she used to wear.

My stepdad once bought a house in California. Not long after he lived there, he woke up with a dark mass standing before the bed and he wouhad a terrible feeling. The next day, he was coming home from running errands and his dog was running flat out in the opposite direction of the house. My stepdad got home and saw that his dog had busted through the door because something had scared him so bad. They moved out soon there after.

Last night I was woken up at 3:00am when the bed shook and I felt something heavy on my chest. when I was able to get up I found my wife in the living room playing on her computer. she said she couldn't sleep and then turned her computer off. after I fell asleep I had some of the most horrible dreams, it seemed like I was under some sort of psychological attack. I got up and looked in the mirror and I looked different like I was looking at myself through someone else's eyes.

I was physically attacked by some unseen force a little over a year ago that left scratched on my face and chest.

Wow!!!
What did you do?
What did your wife say when you told her what happened?