Do you believe in ghosts?

[Dag26]

Do you believe in ghosts.

 

Post stories of encounters with the paranormal and your opinion on it.

 

I do personally beieve in ghosts, i have never personally encountered them but i think some of the pictures and videos i have seen have to be real.

Edited January 27, 2010 by slipknotrledge

[Rhoda]

Already a topic.

 

Although, it may be a little too old to bump. In that case, no, I find the notion completely idiotic and I consider anyone who believes in it weak willed. Nothing personal, of course.

[Crazy Tiki]

YES!! Why? Harold Ramis said so.

[bobgtafan]

If there really are ghost I dare one to cockslap me right now....yeah didn't sh*t happen.

[YeaHomie]

What does ghost mean to you? A without-form creature that kills people? Creates horror sensations? No, there's only spirits. It's the one who doesn't reincarnate or so.

[808]

I do personally beieve in ghosts, i have never personally encountered them but i think some of the pictures and videos i have seen have to be real.

You have never seen a ghost yet you believe in them. That's crazy. Even if pics\vids look real doesn't mean they are. People find ways to fake things and make them look very real.

[Wuirt]

 

I do personally beieve in ghosts, i have never personally encountered them but i think some of the pictures and videos i have seen have to be real.

You have never seen a ghost yet you believe in them. That's crazy. Even if pics\vids look real doesn't mean they are. People find ways to fake things and make them look very real.

Yeah, I'm with you there.

 

 

F*cking Nasa manipulating all of those photos to make the world look round.

[Tyler]

Edited July 10, 2011 by Unoriginal44

[Vercetti Gangsta]

I don't see how I could believe in ghosts? Never seen one, never experienced anything really paranormal... Bit like Aliens. Never seen one, never experienced anything... Uhh... Alienlike? :s

 

As with anything, there's a possibility that it could exist. Just that Aliens are another thing... A few billion stars in the Universe say there's a large probability that we're not alone!

[K^2]

If you mean a dead person walking around in some non-corporeal form, no. There is absolutely no way. But there could be any number of phenomena that could be called "ghosts". Heck, a ball lightning might qualify, and we don't even completely understand how these happen.

[uNi]

I love how K^2 confuses both sides of a discussion. As for myself, nah.

[The-King]

I believe that if they are real that they are actually the remnants of the electromagnetic pulses within our brains which become, upon death, separate from our body. Anyone with a basic education knows that, energy, like mass, is always conserved, since the very beginning the same amount of both matter and energy have been present within our universe. Now I'm getting a bit distracted here, but think of it this way, where does that energy that once made up the impulses within our once functioning brains go when we die? I like to think that they separate from the body and as such try to live on as an electromagnetic entity, stealing energy from the air around it, hence the ever famous "cold-spots" as well as the bursts on EM Meters during most supposed encounters with ghosts.

 

I suppose this was more me trying to fit logic into something illogical, and at this point there isn't any real technology capable of recognizing such things as being sentient so I like to think it true. Makes life more interesting no?

[smeagol]

Last Thursday i was in the school library using one of the computers and i got a strange feeling that someone put their hand all over my shoulder. at first i though someone wanted my attention but when i turned around no one was there.

 

i do not believe it was a ghost, but just a strange feeling due to some unknown reason.

 

I use to believe in ghost when i was younger but these days i do not believe they are real. But then again, Ive had no experience of seeing a ghost or any unnatural phenomenon for that matter.

[808]

F*cking Nasa manipulating all of those photos to make the world look round.

You've got a point but ghosts are scientifically impossible.

[Weirdo.]

If you mean a dead person walking around in some non-corporeal form, no. There is absolutely no way. But there could be any number of phenomena that could be called "ghosts". Heck, a ball lightning might qualify, and we don't even completely understand how these happen.

Actually, my mother is a paranormal investigator, and she has a pretty good understanding of paranormal activity.

 

She catches the voices of ghosts whenever she investigates somewhere, so much so that she's starting to develop an ear for it. Yes, she hears ghosts in real life.

 

I visit her every now and then and I always listen to what new voices she has recorded. She even has a clip of an old man calling her and her colleagues, "whores". Once, a ghost even through a brick at one of them during an investigation!

 

And while we're still on the subject of paranormal voices, don't you find it interesting how ghosts can speak without any vocal chords?

 

I'll leave for just a second and see if she has anything on her YouTube channel.

 

~5 minutes later...~

 

Nope, nothing particularly exciting. Well I did find some videos from another channel:

 

 

 

Fascinating.

[d0mm2k8]

 

Actually, my mother is a paranormal investigator, and she has a pretty good understanding of paranormal activity.

 

So basically she's a con-woman?

 

No offence but that's the way it seems - or she actually does believe in this ....

[Weirdo.]

Actually, my mother is a paranormal investigator, and she has a pretty good understanding of paranormal activity.

 

So basically she's a con-woman?

 

No offence but that's the way it seems - or she actually does believe in this ....

She does actually believe in this.

 

Please read the rest of my post for more information.

[Cheat]

As a religious person I've grown to believe at least in some kind of a greater power and while I'm not yet even sure if I believe in God or his powers, I'm neither too sure about if I believe in ghosts and/or other paranormal activity or not.

Looking at the fact that I scientifically deny the existance of ghosts, I guess I'm just fascinated by the mystery that's in believing something that can't be proven wrong or right. So I guess the answer is no.

[K^2]

If you mean a dead person walking around in some non-corporeal form, no. There is absolutely no way. But there could be any number of phenomena that could be called "ghosts". Heck, a ball lightning might qualify, and we don't even completely understand how these happen.

Actually, my mother is a paranormal investigator, and she has a pretty good understanding of paranormal activity.

 

She catches the voices of ghosts whenever she investigates somewhere, so much so that she's starting to develop an ear for it. Yes, she hears ghosts in real life.

Fascinating.

The way they record "ghosts" is by overdriving an amp or setting up a feedback loop. They are either picking up heat noise from the amp itself, which is assuming they actually got descent equipment and were using it mostly correctly, or just static, buzzing from electrical circuits, and sometimes even actual radio transmissions. You'd be surprised how easy it is to turn an amplifier for the microphone into an AM radio. The rest is an effect called Pareidolia. Look it up. I can guarantee you that if I sit down, cook up a random noise on my computer, give it to some EVP enthusiast, and they'll find some words in there, even though I can show an exact algorithm producing this noise, which would be reproducible on any computer, excluding possibility of paranormal. In fact, similar tests have been done with both sounds and images.

 

Actually, I can make it an open challenge. There are some locations nearby that are said to be haunted. I can go in there, record some EVP exactly the way it is done by the "experts". I know people who have done EVP in these locations, and it's quality stuff, according to them. Then I'll cook up a pure mathematical noise with similar characteristics, break these up into segments, and put them up for download. Challenge is to identify which are EVP containing voices of the ghosts, and which is computer-generated noise.

 

Oh, and when somebody hears voices, it's a warning sign for schizophrenia. Having just one of these signs doesn't necessarily mean anything else, but if there are any paranoias or hallucinations to go along with that it's something to have checked out. Otherwise, it's probably just stress and hearing fatigue due to trying to listen to all these EVP records. You know how your ears ring after a loud concert? Same idea. Personally, I tend to hear indistinguishable "whispers" after a long flight. Cause is the same, noise from the turbines resulting in ear fatigue.

[Dingdongs]

Already a topic.

 

Although, it may be a little too old to bump. In that case, no, I find the notion completely idiotic and I consider anyone who believes in it weak willed. Nothing personal, of course.

Agreed.

[Carnage1120]

Already a topic.

 

Although, it may be a little too old to bump. In that case, no, I find the notion completely idiotic and I consider anyone who believes in it weak willed. Nothing personal, of course.

Agreed.

Indeed

I need some hard evidence if you want me to believe in that.

[roryhynes]

 

Actually, my mother is a con-woman, and she has a pretty good understanding of complete bollocks.

 

She catches the irrelavent noises whenever she investigates somewhere, so much so that she's starting to lose respect from those around her. Yes, she hears ghosts in her head.

 

I visit her every now and then and I always listen to what new voices she has imagined. She even has a clip of an old man calling her and her colleagues, "idiots". Once, a thug even through a brick at one of them during an investigation!

 

And while we're still on the subject of schizophrenic madmen, don't you find it interesting how people can operate without any sense of reality?

 

I'll leave for just a second and see if she has anything on her YouTube channel.

 

~5 minutes later...~

 

Turns out she just smeared her sh*t on the window so I had to clean that up.

 

Fascinating.

Here's what I read.

Edited June 4, 2010 by roryhynes

[El Digato]

After having intense experiences with ghosts, I can't say I don't believe in their existence.

[Girish]

After having intense experiences with ghosts, I can't say I don't believe in their existence.

Care to elaborate what these 'intense experiences' are? It's hard to judge if you don't explain.

[sonnyBlack]

It's hard for me to say really. I'd like to say no, but then again my sister swears up and down that she sees and hears them in her house. While staying over her place one weekend I could've sworn I seen one of her supposed ghosts.

 

The thing I saw was only visible for maybe a second, but that second seemed much longer. But as random as it sounds it looked like someone approaching the couch with a load of laundry and setting the clothes down on the cushion before vanishing. For a moment I thought it was just my sis coming up from the basement as the part of the couch I seen it at was just around the corner from the cellar door. The figure I seen made no sound or anything, it was like a video was playing on mute in thin air and like that it was gone.

 

And it didn't like dramatically fade out of existence or appeared slightly transparent. It appeared to be a solid figure that just like that vanished from sight, kind of like how if you turn your tv off, how the images on screen just blink out of sight.

 

One possible explanation could be that I was just seeing a reflection from the tv screen appear on my glasses lens, as I was watching the tv while wearing glasses at the time. However I don't remember there being a scene on screen of someone carrying a load of laundry. On top of that the image was so in sync with the couch that was in the room, I remember it had hunched over the couch to place what it was holding down on it before disappearing.

 

So it was very strange and I still don't know what to think of it. It wasn't frightening though, it was actually pretty cool I thought.

 

 

The other odd experience I had over there was some time after she had told me she heard what sounded like a young child shouting out to their mother, she had told me that on a couple of occasions she heard in her hall the voice of a child shouting 'mommy', seemingly at her. She does have her own kids, at the time she had an infant and a 4 year old, so she thought her 4 year old may have been calling for her. But when she checked up on him, he was sound asleep.

 

I didn't know really what to make of that, I figured I'll believe it if it happens to me. And oddly enough, it did...

 

On another occasion where I was spending the weekend over there, it was about 8 or 9 am. I was sleeping on an inflatable bed set out in the living room, and unfortunately for me, the living room is where her kids go to play when they wake up. But luckily she wanted to do some shopping, so she and her husband took the kids to go shopping with them so I can sleep in for a bit. Yay.

 

It was shortly after they had left that I began hearing what sounded like a small child shouting out somewhere upstairs. I knew it wasn't my nephews because I had just watched them leave the house with them a few minutes prior. I wasn't dreaming because it was hard to get right back to sleep because her kids were just running/crawling around before they left. So I was awake and what I was hearing really was happening at the time.

 

Their house is connected to the neighbor's house though, so they do share a wall. And that's what I thought, I just figured her neighbor must have a kid and that's all I was hearing. It sounded a lot like what my sister had described to me before though, but I didn't think a whole lot of it and I went back to sleep.

 

Later that day I mentioned it to her and I asked if her neighbors had a kid. She said no but one of them is pregnant. But a fetus ain't gonna be able to cry out like that, so that ruled that out. Maybe it could've been another kid in the neighborhood yelling out, but I find it very strange and coincidental that I heard what sounded to me like the same unseen kid my sister claimed to hear and for it to sound like it was coming from the same part within the house.

 

So I'm really not sure what to think when it comes to the paranormal. There's explanations, but then again strange things do happen.

[kmlwin.1996]

I've met the real ghosts.

 

When me and our friends go on a vacation together, there is a village near our car. But we don't go there. We sleep in our car. There are people in a village. Next morning, a scream of my friend shouts aloud, we got out of our car and he said "The Village is gone." We looked at the village but there was no people, instead of it, it is a GRAVE YARD! We were too frighten and we drove our car at very fast speed.

 

The Ghosts with villages is called "Kyat Kon" in Burmese script. We believe that was a real ghost village.

[rocketalypse]

I believe that ghosts exist and that they are around us everyday but I think that they cannot harm us.

[Kyle F]

I do not mean to mis-judge or mis-criticize anyone when I say this, but I think that skeptics that don't believe in the spiritual world is because they don't want to try and have any encounterments with them. For example, those that say "oh ffs shut up you retards ghosts/spirits don't exist end of story omfg stfu" obviously have never had any encounters or spiritual/paranormal event experiences in their life, and don't want to. If a skeptic went to a severely haunted house with alot, and I mean ALOT of negative activity alone, they'd soon change their attitude if they started to insult spirits by saying "Oh you can't scare me you don't exist you inexistant twats" or something else along those lines, and a spirit made physical contact with objects or threw objects at the skeptic, I am pretty sure he/she'd run as fast as his/her legs could carry him/her out of that house....

 

Whether people believe that the spiritual world exists or NOT, does not mean it doesn't exist. People have been murdered by these spirits and other beings such as demonic forces, and just because someone or a whole lot of people disbelieve or they don't will not make them leave. Like I said in one of my posts relating to this subject, I and many people have had experiences though some have not. People have been invaded by non-human beings, such as demons. Go ahead people, disbelieve and say they don't exist, they take that kind of pleasure and they want you to think they don't exist, that's the whole point of being invisible to the human eye, and unknown to the human race...otherwise they wouldn't stick around...they want us to disbelieve in them for a reason only known to THEM and to THEM only.

 

OK, some people (very rare though) have had contact with Angels, they have had "God" speak to them, but not in physical or spiritual form. People would not start having these kind of experiences when they are near to death or a sudden near death experience/out of body experience for nothing. As said by those who HAVE had these experiences on the news, youtube and whatnot they have had a near death or out of body experience and have been to heaven or hell and back (including myself). People would not come out with this kind of thing in full detail (unlike those sick people who like to claim they have and fake it)....

[sivispacem]

You see, in relation to the above, I see an awful lot of unsubstantiated claims. People killed by spirits? I'd like some empirical proof please. A "spirit world exists"- again, how can you be so definite without empirical proof? I feel a lot of your points are based on people's perceptions of events rather than reality- and the human mind is far from infallible. For instance, take the example of those who believe they have talked to angels- I know people who believe that they've talked to Elvis Presley and that he is alive, living in Reno. Does that make it true, just because someone believe it is? No, it does not. Does belief in God somehow make it's existence empirically measurable? No.

 

As I said, the human mind is far from infallible. Perception seldom equals reality.

[BnB]

Ghosts don't exist.....