Is it wong that some people are afraid of ghost and spirits? Or is it stupid?
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It isnt stupid, rather more like the Imagination running away with itself. There are no ghosts and those that say otherwise probably have other extreme tendencies. There is no loitering about to point the finger at your murderer, or some poor girl trapped between Realms. It is purly fiction of the mind. We dont hover above our deathbeds, or go to our own funerals, or spend years trolling the same piece of creaky half lit corridor. There are cold spots which can be explained.There are no Proven sightings, and of course a camera wont capture a ghost, there is nothing there to capture. Its all scaremongering, attention seeking, and Imagination. Imagination is a powerful thing and can warp anybodies mind to believe they saw something they then believe they see the ghost.The more they tell it the more they believe it. \n\nNote for snoopy, you should be ashamed of yourself, spreading such rubbish. You have no proof of Ghosts or demons or spirits, no-one has.
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Yes!  There are spirits in the world. \n\nI for one would love to hear your story. \nI have had a few myself from places i have stayed over the years.\nI have only seen one ghost in a whitish shade.. \nAll the others were noises like running down the hallway when no one was there.. or having both my dogs start backing in the corner of the room.. then sitting down politely waiting for something..  \nMy dogs never sit and face a corner.. \nMade me move real fast.. found out i was sleeping in the same room the old man before me died in ..  \nIf i knew that i wouldn't have rented that house. \nthere has been so many to mention. \n\nSome good some not so good. \n\nALD
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Oh' yes there are, if not ghost, then there must be a lot of bad spirits around.\nYou probably can't see them, but they are everywhere at every house, including yours.\nIf you want to see them I always can tell you how.\nBut if you do, just don't go fooling around with them, as the minute they notice you are seeing them, they all will be asking you to accept them in your body.\nSo pretend as usual not able to see them, if by mistake they talk to you, with a sarcastic voice, just keep cool as nothing is happening. OK.
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Yes, there are ghosts- but we don't really know what ghosts are, that's the problem.\nAs I see it there are 3 kinds of ghosts-\n1. Spirit of the dead trapped here- classic ghost\n2. Psychic residue from traumatic event - this ghost is like a tape loop that plays over and over\n3. Window in time where we can see the past or future.\nThere is also poltergeist activity, which is thought to be the \nuncontrolled emotional energy of a young girl in the vicinity, and is not really a ghost.\nI don't get faced with ghosts all that often but I just talk to them, as if there were a friend standing next to me instead of just a cold spot in the empty air.\n ADDED:\nIt runs in my family, my mother and grandmother had great intuition...\n\nI've noticed in studying near-death experiences that people see what they expect to see-if they are religious they see angels, if not they see the earth spirit in some sense...\nand many see loved ones who have died previously (even if the near-death person didn't know that person was dead). What I'm trying to say is that some very confused dying people may not\nrealize they are dead, or they resist dying so strongly that they get trapped here. This is considered the "classic ghost", and I think this is actually very rare.\n\nI think the more common ghost is the "residual emotion" ghost. This ghost has no consciousness, it is just a energetic replaying of the traumatic event again and again. While these can be truly scary, I think they fade eventually with enough time and work.\n\nI think ghost-ness could happen to anyone on the wrong day. Faith won't save you, neither will science. The classic ghost often just needs help to realize they are dead and move on, or some are doing something they consider to be very important amd are not ready to move on. Lots of classic ghosts haunt places they lived, and they stay to maybe to warn others or to keep an eye on  their beloved home.\n\nThe residual ghost is not an entire soul, just a soul fragment or echo, usually caused by a violent death. So my local hanged-man ghost is just a recording of what happened, that soul  is not there any longer but the house is still badly haunted by the negative emotions set loose there.\n\nI actually think the reading of the Tibetan Book of the Dead is very powerful, it's a guidebook on how to release your hold on the dying body and merge with the universe. It's read during dying, and for several hours afterwards as the soul lets go and travels to its rightful place.\n\nI've learned some protections through my own shamanic practice, and I'm learning more through my friend's new learning set on Witchcraft (white, by the way). She is actually much more religious than I am, my friend the witch, and I am expecting to learn the Sephiroth and a bunch of other stuff...\nUh, get on with it already- Okay... For instance, I am blessing graveyards in my area right now.I take some time in my car to envision my helping spirits and to see myself putting on a protective cloak. Then I walk around the property, and on all its roads. Along the way if I feel anything I welcome it and I breathe it in. Then I get in my car, I go home,and I sit and meditate and feel everything I picked up breathed out and envision it going into the ground to be absorbed by the planet. Then I see myself taking off my cloak.\n\nAnything else? I have felt dangerous things, I have sometimes avoided these things or gone forward to tell them they should tell me what they are. I know the website of an experienced ghost hunter where she warns of certain types of hauntings as being, she feels, non-human and very dangerous. I haven't had that feeling but I do not normally go wandering graveyards at night with instruments and cameras.Maybe I should, it might be fun. They do a protective prayer before they enter and when they leave.\n\nI have a lot of theories but of course we only have so much proof-\nThere a
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That is an excellent question.\n\nAnd a question that is further complicated by the fact that not everyone sees ghosts and we certainly don't know what ghosts are yet.\n\nWithout knowing what they are it is very difficult to determine why some see them and others don't.\n\nI personally think it has something to do with the biological (chemical and structural) make-up of the brains of those who can see ghosts.\n\nOf course, some ghosts are easily explained away as hallucinations, mistaken identity, trick of the eye, optical illusion, etc.  Others may be the cause of certain environmental factors, such as high levels of EMF, on the brain.\n\nJaime
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People tend to say they hate things that they dont know anything about because they are scared.  They fear it because it is different from how they are and they dont know it, so its scarey to them.
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Ghosts and hauntings are a fact.  People everywhere experience this type of phenomena.\n\nBUT it is yet undetermined what ghosts are.  I personally think it is unlikely that its the souls of deceased people.\n\nI think it is more likely that ghosts and hauntings are caused by an energy imprint, environmental factors, psychological experiences, or some combination therein.\n\nI guess my point is that people do have experiences they attribute to ghosts, but we can't yet determine what causes those experiences to occur.\n\nWith all that said - I can't even say that ghosts aren't the souls of deceased people.  But the whole idea seems a little illogical to me.\n\nJaime\n(please note these are my views and not the views of everyone in my group)
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I don't think most people "see" ghosts per se; they experience them. When most people tell you about their encounter with a ghost or the supernatural, the things you will hear most often are tales of cabinets falling over, doors and windows opening themselves, toilets flushing, floating cats, ect.
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Ghosts are everywhere, they are the spirits of those who have gone on before us. Some believe they are demons but then again isn't there something about a ghost in the Bible. Father son and holy ghost correct... I have a ghost in my rug ( Native American made) who visits me when I am stressed out to the max, and he sits with me and comforts me. I have had a ghost in one house where we lived of the woman who had lived there and her cat who used to just sit on the top of my bookcase... The building I live in now, use to be a ballroom and hotel rooms and Capone use to hang out around here, the ghosts in this place are not happy ones, but they don't bother me as long as I don't bother them..
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I've dealt with the spooks for a number of years.  Lucky for us that most of the ones we dealt with were friendly. I say 'us' because I WASN'T by myself with the experiences. \nA few of them were like family and my niece and nephew grew up with them,and are still in contact with them.  Most of our dealings with them were fun,and a few times I've had the hell scared out of me.  Yes,we had some not so nice ones come around from time to time.\n    I know them (the spooks)  well enough,that if I were to read your question to them,they would advise you to leave the ghost in your house completely alone.  You don't know what you could be getting youself into,because he could be dangerous.  I saw someone get  picked up and thrown down a flight of stairs one time.  Good luck and God bless
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i have! i saw it in my house nd not i dunt think i saw da person or even kno them!! i dunt wanna freak u out buh da thing is i still see ghosts all da time... buh there lik shadow's i dunt alwys see there faces... well i dunt think u shud b therrifyed cuz if u show dem ur fear thy'll take dat to there advantage nd thy'll scar u.. nd i dunt think u wan to b scared by a ghost jus dunt show ur fear dat's all i gotta say... o yea nd dunt talk to dem.. its scary nuff u saw one!!
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I'm a ghost hunter. I became one because I lived in a haunted house. It has quite a few spirits residing there. Ghosts are everywhere. Ghosts don't appear the same way the majority of people on here don't believe in ghosts. When the people on here who say they don't believe in ghosts finally die, they won't be appearing to people. They won't believe they can. It's the power of the living persons belief that allows a ghost to appear. A ghost can sense a person willing them into appearance, the same way a person will call a person on the phone when someone is thinking about them. Ultimately it is STILL up to the ghost whether it will appear or not. Most ghosts don't have time to screw around with the living. The afterlife is far too full of decisions about where and even "when" to take off to rather then to stay here and mess with a living person who really can't do anything for them anyway. We are beneath the ones crossed over. We have nothing to offer them. That is why they don't need to interact with us. Even family members are far too busy for us. In the afterlife, time travel is possible, far distances can be accomplished within seconds. Why be around a bunch of jerks like us, when you can be enjoying the joys of swimming with great white sharks in the blue oceans of Hawaii???? DUH!
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I am a paranormal investigator.  And while there are a few graveyards with the reputation of being haunted, it is rare.  If you were a ghost, wouldn't you find a graveyard a boring place to hang out? My wife and I investigated a very old and large graveyard in our town and came away from it with a feeling of great peace and respect for those that had passed on and were buried there.  Nothing scary at all.  I'm sure you have nothing to worry about.  Rest In Peace!
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People have the ability to create "thought forms."  Particularly in groups it is easy to create hysteria as well.  The biggest problem with this data is there's no way to have a control group so its hard to know for certain what was going on.\n\nOn the other hand, Poltergeists are never a "real ghost" they are in fact the manifestations of someone or some thing's latent psychic energy.  Also, Demons are always looking for belief to exploit... the results of this study really don't come as much of a surprise to me. It's a shame they never tried to identify further what really happened.\n\nThanks for sharing! ^^\n\n*added* Epona, I reported you... it's been over 24 hrs and still no response.  My question is, why did people give you two thumbs up for not giving an answer?
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My understanding is that you are asking if other people out there are having paranormal experiences. So you're having unexplained things happening to you? My friend at work had a problem with some mild poltergeist activity in her home. But it did stop when she moved house. Its a fascinating subject. At times it gets even the best of skeptics flummoxed. I even know of another person who have problems with electrical items, computers, etc. She is a medium/clairvoyant/healer and its not much fun for her when things go faulty when she's using elecrics. Don't have to believe me, but I do see it happening.
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Ghosts and the paranormal?
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People always fear what they don't understand and most people know nothing of Wiccans. In addition, the majority of people associate witchcraft with evil, as portrayed in many films, ie., something/someone working against God, and children's fairy stories are full of 'wicked witches', so it's something we learn in childhood.