Whats your opinion, do you belive in ghosts?
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I do indeed. But instead of believeing that they are "spirits" or "souls" I think of them as more a form of energy coming from humans either living or dead. Like when you hear something in your house that has no identifiable source, I believe that it's the energy from the previous owners of the home left behind. Ghosts, to me seem like the energy of the deceased and can be either good or bad depending on the person it belonged to. But that's just my theory :P\n\nOh, and I justify it by believing that humans have such high mental processes, and in times of great stress or joy, I think our brian overworks itself and emits this energy that stays in the world for however long. When we die, I don't believe in heaven or hell, but I'd like to believe that we leave something behind, and having seen and heard ghostlike things, I can only imagine that they are real, and that we do leave behind SOMETHING.
230020
i believe in ghosts but not the scary tipe you see on movies.
1057462
Yes,  in my house there is a ghost living there and just now I think I know why.  Where I live used to be a military base and they would practice shooting and using granades.  What else might have been buried here,  who knows?   I do believe in ghosts but they are not to be afraid of.  Just learn to live with them and you'll be fine.  Who knows,  maybe one of these decades or centuries we will be back as      ghosts!  By the way, one of our neighbors moved because there were ghosts in their house and maybe that ghosts moved to our house because I notice ghosts living here recently way after my neighbors moved!
210663
I know my mom and dad's house is haunted and I think mine is occasionally. The other night my husband went to work and about ten minutes after he left I heard a door close (no one else was home) that we normally keep open. Then our dog actually got up thinking my husband returned when he heard the door shut. I could not see the door from where I was so I did not get up from the kitchen table. Our dog looked down the hallway toward the door and just stared for about three minutes. I called my husband to make sure he did not come back in and he was already at work. We also have a light in our family room that constantly flickers- our house is not that old so I wonder. \nBut at my parents house when I was 15 my mom called up to me that dinner was ready- I was napping in my bed but could not get up -a force held me down and would not let me answer her. My bedroom was once my grandmother's master bedroom where she gave birth to 12 children 2 of whom died at birth in that room. I also had and uncle who died in the house a the age of 26 from black lung (coal in his lungs (something like that)This experience came after I painted the walls of the bedroom and took off layers of old wallpaper. I never told anyone right away about being held down but it scared the crap out of me. I told my neice who comes to visit about it and last year she stayed in the same room with her boyfriend. She asked to stay at my house after the first night because her boyfriend got up in the middle of the night hungry. My mom left some chicken for him in an upstairs kitchen that is no longer used(was once an apt.) He could not find a trash can in the upstairs kitchen because it is not longer used as a kitchen. He left the plate (with some bones still on it on a counter so as not to disturb anyone by walking downstairs with it. When he walked out the door slammed behind him as he reached the bedroom down the hall. He was so frightened he woke up my neice and the two of them could not sleep the rest of the night. \nI believe in ghosts after hearing other stories from relatives and co-workers and have thought about having a group of local ghost researchers go to my mom's house. Nothing done yet though.
800929
I do believe in ghosts/spirits. I never encountered any spiritual situation but I do believe that if the soul won't rest after death, it will find a way to make its presence felt by humans...maybe it's a way of finding peace in order to leave the real world and be set free. Some people might think that the presence of a ghost/spirit is bad news....when in fact it might be a way of letting the person know that the person whose spirit is felt is watching over him/her...like a kind of protection. \n\nWell, if I ever find myself in this situation I'll run for my life! Yes, I said that I believe in them but did I also mention that I'm scared of them?? :/
684060
Wow that sounds so interesting. Love ghost stories. Had a few really strange occurences in my life with the paranormal also. If yo dont believe in ghosts, sorry for you. I know what I saw.
1181869
I've never seen anything like the things people describe when they're talking about ghosts and I don't believe the stories. \n\nBUT\n\nI have seen the shadow of a woman cast on a wall with nothing visible between the wall and the light source. I've also seen black silhouettes of people in my peripheral vision which blink back to normal as soon as I try to take a proper look. \n\nI entertain a fanciful theory about time travellers that might explain it and also sudden drops in temperature.\n\nThere are ghosts of conscience, certainly. The imagination playing with feelings of guilt or of sympathy. Those hauntings, I concede.
607426
mine is simple. i believe in mother nature. i believe that there is a final resting place for souls if you will, but that you won't get there until you learn all of your lessons in each life. as far as the strength to carry on i just look out my window and see the trees and the animals.\n\nand as for the ghosts..yeah i used to see my grandfather in our old house. i'd be in my room watching tv or something and he'd float on by in my other room(i had two rooms connected).\n\nps-runningman i think he wants your personal reasons, not regurgitated words from a website.
1032400
Yes I have. I've seen a ghost.It was in my backyard. My mother also saw it, too. I only saw it once, she saw him several times. We were not stoned, drunk, or anything else. We were sitting on the back porch drinking iced tea. He was in the yard. Very creepy feeling altogether. \n\nI have also seen what can happen with a Ouija board. That's the main reason I don't mess with them anymore. \n\nSpirits, ghosts and such are not to be played with.
876279
No. There are no ghosts. It is the creation human mind. The fears that exist in our mind take the imaginary shape of ghost.
1113503
No, I don't but I sure in the h*ll believe in ghosts. You just got to learn how to not be afraid of them, cuz of you are then they are gonna keep scaring you. They don't really scare me.
1123986
wow that is some story.  but i dont believe in spirits ( ghosts ). i think those are imaginary and in your head. now about that guy who slept in the room after there was a murder in there, i cant explain that. he might believe in ghosts and maybe had it in his head that there was something wrong. \nbut i dont believe in ghosts and these stories that people tell about ghosts and spirits are like made up stories from their heads or minds i should say.\ni am a christian and i dont believe that after someone dies that it could be possible for their spirit to stay on earth and haunt others. i believe that either your spirit goes to Heaven or Hell and your body stay on earth.\ni do believe in Angels. we all have a gaurdian angel that is always around us.\ni really dont know what to say about your story. i think it sounds freaky in someway and also made up. not by you, but maybe by the guy who slept in that bed after the murder.\nwho knows.
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I think the idea is really, really interesting.  I read a LOT about ghosts and hauntings when I was a kid.  And you can't prove that they don't exist because you can't prove a negative.\n\nHowever, as much as I would love for ghosts to exist, the more I know the more I realize that evidence for ghostly manifestations is probably explainable by non-ghostly, real, but ephemeral phenomena.\n\nFor example, I had a book on ghostly hauntings in England.  There were more scent "hauntings" than any other type, meaning that you would experience the haunting by getting a whiff of pipe smoke or bacon.   This can be explained by the fact that scents can be absorbed by porous materials such as wood and plaster.  After they are absorbed, they will disappear until meteorological conditions,  like high humidity, cause the scent to become airborne and be smellable again.  Given a very porous wall and a long-standing habit like pipe-smoking and you can get whiffs of smoke for geneartions.
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I do and I have come across MANY haunted place in my life. There was my grandma's house, my moms house, the local hospital, an old house I used to work at and a community building, 2 of my uncles houses, my aunts house and every house one of my aunts ever lived in lol, I think they just followed her around. \nBut I just posted on another question that asked about ghost the place I spent most of my childhood and probably has the most ghost stories in one place that I know of so I will just repost it here. \n\nI didn't actually LIVE in the house but I spent most of my time there. It was the whole location actually. See my great grandparents had this piece of land that they put a house on and later other family put houses up there to so at one point there were 4 houses with people living in them.\nAnd the whole area is spooky between there and over on the other side of the hill where another family had the same kind of set up. \nJust a few of the stories....\nMy great grandparents had 10 kids, one was killed when she was 17 by her younger brother who was playing with a gun he didn't know was loaded and shot her. 1 year to the day after she died the new rocking chair that was put in the place she had died in started to rock on its own, and the piano that she used to play started to play her fav song by itself, you could even see the keys moving. \nI also had an uncle that died when he was 17, he died in a house fire and he had a car that some of the boys from town used to try and steal so my grandma brought it up there so that her dad could keep on eye on it. When my cousin and aunty were walking from the main house to the house they lived in they passed that car, and inside they saw my uncle and he waved at them. \nMy aunt used to watch the neighbors little boy, he was 4 yrs old and would walk over by himself through, and one time he said that a group of braves followed him and another time he got to my aunts crying and said this little old lady followed him and said he was going to be a chief, he said she was still there and tried to point her out to my aunt. My aunt even got down on her hands and knees to look down his arm and didn't see anything.\nShortly after that the boy was killed when he was riding on the hood of his moms car and fell off. \nShortly after that my cousin was sitting at her moms, the one that used to babysit him, and she heard his little cowboy boots walking up the stairs and heard him knocking on the door crying for my aunt. \nThere are a lot of other things that go on there, noises, shadows going from room to room, my brother thinks he saw my great grandpa once because he looked out and could see the outline of a tall man with a crew cut but him and one of my other aunts were the only ones in the house. There are also pounding on walls and doors and my mom heard someone walking around the kitchen while she knew everyone was sleeping.
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I refer to the "ghosts" as Spirits, first of all.\nAbout 14 years ago, my family moved into a newly renovated duplex.  It was just perfect for us, and we were planning on staying for a long time.  One evening I was napping upstairs when for no apparent reason the bedroom door closed.  Slowly and quietly.  In hind-sight, I think the Spirit was trying not to disturb me, but to shut out the noise from down stairs.  On several occasions my Wife and I have seen a little boy, (Spirit), playing hide-and-go-seek. He would invite us to play by darting in and out from behind furniture and smiling at us, as to say "come on and play, it's fun!"  He was about 7 years old with blond hair, dressed in a tee-shirt and blue jeans.  We had to move suddenly due to a death in the family to care for a house that was left to us.\nI will never forget the little boy.  He will be in my heart forever.  I just hope he finds someone else to play with...\nThere was an evil Spirit in the house also.  This was a man that demanded respect with his presents.  We didn't speak of him at home, we waited to discuss the sightings of him while we were away because we didn't want to get him mad at us.  We are a peaceful family and didn't want to get on the wrong side of him.\nI'm glad you ask this question.  Thank you!
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i wouldnt call them ghosts rather spirits or energies. I use to live in an appartment block which use to be an Old County Infirmary- it use to be the place where they cared for leapers. And I can definately tell you they are real!\n\nLots of weird things happened, once I was watching tv alone and a knife fell off the draining board of its own accord. (there was no vibrations coming from any applicance at the time to have knocked it off). \nAnother time my self and my boyfriend we just nodding off to sleep and right up in the corner of the room a huge dark shadow appeared and swooped over the two of us and away over the headboard-the two of us saw it at the same time.\nAnd there was always thumbing and dragging noises coming from above us although we lived on the top floor.\n\nAnother thing that makes me believe in spirits is that my own mother died 2 years ago, and recently I was at home and heard her bed squeek as if some1 sat on it -thinking it was the dog jumping on or off i went to see there was no one there, all of a sudden I got an overwhelming smell of flowers (she was a keen gardener).\nAnd the most amazing of all is, I had a picture of my mother and myself hugging on new years 1999, I loved the picture as we both looked so happy, I kept the picture in my diary and never ever moved it-no1 else knew where the picture was let alone remember having the picture. \nOne evening I was feeling really down, it was a particular bad time in my life and I asked my mother for a sign that she was looking after me. I was busying myself by clearing out some cupboards that hadnt been touched in years and low and behold the exact picture feel out of an old book- i know it was da same picture as I had written on the back. I reckon it was my mothers way of telling me she's still here in some form still looking after me.
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Yes I do believe in ghosts... If there is life before death, there has to be life after death - YIN-YANG....