Do You Believe in Ghosts?

My sister in law has seen spirits since she was a kid. She hates it. My husband (her brother) can do some freaky weird stuff that I won't even go into here, lest you all think I'm crazy! Paranormal talents run in their family, at least three generations back. I wasn't a believer but after 13 years with him, I can't deny it.

I believe, there have been times when I have been on my own in the house and felt 'something' call it what you will, apprehension, me getting myself worked up, the fact that I watched Paranormal Activity on my own and then went to bed with the covers over my head. Probably the most hairs on the back of your neck standing up for me is the shot of that kid at the top of the stairs in the Amityville house. Regardless of whether it is fake or not, that scares the bejesus out of me.

I believe, there have been times when I have been on my own in the house and felt 'something' call it what you will, apprehension, me getting myself worked up, the fact that I watched Paranormal Activity on my own and then went to bed with the covers over my head. Probably the most hairs on the back of your neck standing up for me is the shot of that kid at the top of the stairs in the Amityville house. Regardless of whether it is fake or not, that scares the bejesus out of me.

that picture always gets me.

Wasn't the Amityville house a hoax?

Wasn't the Amityville house a hoax?

Pass either way anything ghost related with kids in it scares me to the point where my wife said when we have kids shes making them stand on the landing in the middle of the night and point at me in those long white night gowns a la the ring *shudder*

LMAO! That's funny.

I managed to get a hot girlfriend... So I suppose anything is plausible.

Part of me says no, the other half says yes, yes I do - I've lived in 3 different locations that all had activity that I could not find scientific explanations. I've seen things that I know shouldn't have happened, had others tell me of similar experiences that occurred in the same locations. I've gone as far as looking for excuses: mice, leaky pipes, settling floors, neighbors, mold, high EMF, ect.... But I've seen, felt, and recorded things that I can't prove.

As scientific as I want to be, there are somethings out there that just can not be explained with logic.

Those, then I believe are part of the paranormal. Something beyond the "norm" and can be both wondrous & frightening. If this included "spirits" of those past this mortal coil, ok. It also could include alot of things that weren't even human (heck, alot of people believe in demons & angels).

So yes, I do, as much as the scientist in me screams otherwise. And I'm ok with people saying they aren't or saying i'm foolish. Fine, peachy - and when something finally happens to you, then you'll understand.

I've had too many experiences in my life that I am a forced believer, and I'm the type of person that likes to deal with facts and things I can prove. Here are a few of my experiences:

Every time a family member is about to die in my family, the TV would turn on to an old TV station that used to show her favorite soap operas at my grandparents house. Also, things like lights would be on. I always thought my grandma was joking when she said that stuff happened, but when my grandpa was in the hospital and my mom was cleaning and taking care of her house, we could walk in to the TV on and only certain lights on. We would turn them off when we would leave too. My grandma never came home, and we were the only other people with keys. My grandpa died not too long after. The house was owned by his mother.

I was convinced there was a ghost in a new apartment we moved into when I was younger, and would wake me up during the night shaking my bed. I was 13 or 14 years old at the time, and I ended up sleeping on the floor in my moms bedroom. It came to a point where my mom had the school psychologist talk to me. I def didn't tell them I thought there was a ghost in our apartment, just that I was having trouble sleeping. I also used to go for walks in the morning before school, and a few months into this going on I was walking around our complex. I could see someone else walking around early too, not too unusual. But everywhere this woman was supposed to be at, or where we should met up, she was never there. I thought it was really eeerie to the point I went home and locked the door. Could be nothing, but still makes me wonder. Years later and I completely forgot about all this happening, a psychic said to me, "You used to have an old woman shake your bed at night." It took me a few minutes to realize what he was even talking about.

When I was in high school, the seniors were taking us (freshmen) to a haunted house in an extremely secluded area. I actually didn't realize at the time that it was a real haunted house they were taking us to and I actually didn't discover that until a year or two later. We were dared, in pairs, to go into the house and play this old piano for a few minutes and then to come back out. OK no big deal. The house was creepy, and you can't go further into the house since it was so old that holes were in the floor. Strangely, the piano was right next to where the door opens. Well, my friend and I went and were playing some of the keys on the piano when I kept hearing talking. I asked my friend if she heard anything, and she said no. So I figured the seniors just had a spooky tape in the background to scare us. And the talking kept getting louder, and I asked my friend if she was sure because it was getting really loud. I then realized that the voices were in my head and they were getting louder! It sounded like three different voices, all saying EXTREMELY nasty things. I still remember one saying, "We're going to rape you." I was sooo startled that I ran out of the house. I ended up asking the senior (who was a neighbor of mine at the time) if they had a tape in their, because I was trying to rationalize it and she said they didn't. I have never been more freaked out at that moment in my life. I KNEW I wasn't hearing them outside of my head, but it was freaky to hear something and no one else hear it. There used to be pictures online of this place, and I just looked and they are no longer available. That's how I found out it was an actually considered a haunted house since a new friend of mine used to have a website with the pictures of the house. The story he wrote was that the guy was nuts and murdered his wife. I don't know for sure, but something like that you don't forget. I had a hard time sleeping for the next few nights.

The last story I will mention happened after tragically my friend Emily died, and my ex-bf committed suicide a week later. Obviously, I was having a terrible time dealing with this. During this time, I had my own phone line in my bedroom that I would use for dial up. We lived in the middle of nowhere, and that was our only option. I always had internet on, and never used my phone. No one even had that phone number since it was exclusively used for the internet. Well, after my friends had died, I would always get these phone calls of just static. It ALWAYS happened when I was home alone, sometimes as early as 5am right after my parents left for work. It kind of creeped me out, because it's like someone knew I was awake. Eventually, the phone calls turned into mumbling with static. I couldn't make out anything. It would even happen Saturday mornings when I was home alone. It was so weird.. always when I was home alone. Sometimes I would hang up knowing it was the eerie static phone calls, and I would turn off the answering machine because it's even creepier to not answer the phone and hear it on the answer machine while you're home. Well, I remember one day I actually turned the internet off and my phone started ringing. So OK.. answered it and it was the same static mumbling! I quickly hung up and unplugged the phone. This went on for a good month/month and a half. Then, this one day when I was home alone on a Saturday morning, the phone rang and I had the courage to answer it and try to listen. I was trying to listen to the mumbling and realized it sounded just like my dead ex-bf! I even said, "DAN?!" and I never hung up the phone so fast! Well, as I did that and turned around I saw this blueish-white light come out of no where, get bigger in the middle of my dad's room, and make a weird crackling noise as it disappeared. It's hard to explain what I saw, but I'll never forget it. I was sooooo freaked out, and I couldn't do anything! I was stuck at home, no car, in the middle of winter. So I turned on the TV, called someone on the phone, and waited for my parents to get home. After that, nothing happened. No more phone calls or anything. Weeks later, I told my friend what had happened and she told me that her sister (also friends with both of my friends) was having the same experiences.

This isn't even EVERYTHING I've experienced, but these are the ones that always stick out in my mind more than anything.

i belive and i am very sure i have seen them and heard them too.

Yes, I believe and I have had soo many experiences. But, even if I tell you about them. You will still doubt until you yourself have seen them or experienced them.

I always say Ghost don't scare me.. people do. :huh:

When you read these experiences, you see how people refer to the kids being able to see them easily. That's because kids don't have their filters built up yet. Their minds are open and free. So, they an see and hear hem easily. Our heads are so stuffed with crap it takes extreme moments for us to see them, even when they are right there all the time.

Ghosts, or probably spirits, visit us in our dreams a lot more than we realize. It's easier for them that way because our minds our open. So, when you are dreaming that you were talking to a loved one n your dream, they is a high probability that you were. That my opinion anyway.

Ghosts, or probably spirits, visit us in our dreams a lot more than we realize. It's easier for them that way because our minds our open. So, when you are dreaming that you were talking to a loved one n your dream, they is a high probability that you were. That my opinion anyway.

I sure hope that is true. Normally my dreams are easily forgettable except for the dreams that have loved ones who have passed on in them. And then it is so lucid!

And yes, I believe in ghosts and spirits, I have had many unexplained experiences with the paranormal since I was little that leads me to believe this.

yes.

The very first thing that should have came to every ones mind especially on Sunday is GOD, Jesus Christ, the holy spirit. Where is your faith people. I believe from the depths of my soul in the holy spirit. I know Jesus Christ died for our sins. Is this your ghost maybe not but it is the spirit after death. Even science says energy can not be destroyed. Billions of people of this world believe in some form of religion and God. Are you such and atheist that you will go against this common highly documented phenomenon? Perhaps you will find out one day but I know where my soul and my families souls are going after death. I have more faith in God than I do in myself!!!!

THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes

I personally do not recall seeing one but I can sense/feel spirits around when they are letting me know that they are there.

My son has seen one. Often children will see them more as their minds are more open to what's around them then adult minds are. I know he saw one for sure because we were liviing in my grandparents house and he saw a lady walking around on the anniversary of my grandmothers passing. No other way to explain it away as she passed 30 years before he was born so he never knew her.