Do you believe in ghosts?  Have you ever seen a ghost?
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I don't believe in ghosts. But surely I don't want to see one. I don't know what might my reaction will be and I don't know what will I do, if I see one.
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I believe that ghosts or "spirits" really do exist.  I also believe that it is because they have a "problem" of some sort that is not yet solved to their satisfaction, is a victim of a murder or other crime; or they are caught between this world and the next world, maybe because they committed suicide.
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I see spirits (or ghosts) quite a bit. Sometimes, they do show up in pictures.  You're always going to get controversies over such a subjects, simply because one isn't always certain. I had my picture taken a few years ago with the presence of a loved one who had passed on a few months prior. I knew he was there next to me, so I lean towad him.  It is clear his ectoplasm appeared in the picture.\n\nMy answer to your question is a definite YES!!!\n\n\njoandra_vandowall@yahoo.com
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I have encountered them, and have quite a substantial list of friends who have encountered them. Some things just exist whether you want to believe it or not.\n\nI have a few theories on how someone becomes a ghost, but I should probably explain that I believe in person truth, first. I believe that if Mary believes that she will go to Heaven when she dies, she will go to Heaven when she dies; if Joe believes in reincarnation, he will be reincarnated; if Lucy doesn’t believe in afterlife, than her body will decompose and she will cease to exist. Thus, one way someone could become a ghost, is if that's what they believe will happen to them when they die. For the sake of further clarification, I believe a ghost to be the soul of a living being (including plants and animals) who’s body dies.\n\nAnother way would be if someone dies when they are unsure of what will happen to them after death - their soul is then stuck in limbo until they figure it out. Someone might also become a ghost if there is at least one lesson they have not learned or one goal they have not completed (predetermined by fate), and are stuck in limbo until they learn the lesson(s) and/or complete the goal(s). A third way would be if someone still alive is incapable of coping with the death, and consequently holds that soul back from moving forward until they are able to let go. Finally, someone may also choose to stay behind, for personal reasons.\n\nHere's a little story if you need some convincing: My late dog, Kristy, stayed behind as a ghost for some time after she died early January of 2005. My fiancé and I were watching my parents' house while they were away for a few days. We were the only living beings there, and we had both been downstairs for the past few hours. I went upstairs to fetch something from my room, and just outside my door, I saw something I couldn't explain away as something natural. There was an oval-shaped area of carpet, the size of Kristy when she laid down, that was matted down and warm to the touch, as if she had just been lying there not moments ago. I didn't think much of it as I knew she was still around; I would occasionally feel her presence or even hear the jingling of her collar, as if she were scratching her neck, just beside me. She appeared to stay for a while after we adopted our new puppy, Sam. He was remarkably easy to housebreak, and I'm sure Kristy had a hand in it. I think she also stayed behind to somewhat "approve" of Sam, and to be assured that he was not her replacement.
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i believe in the possiblity of ghosts. i have no proof to say there are or arent ghosts. i have never seen a ghost. i believe that in my own ignorance about the existence of ghosts. maybe i will find out when i die, but until then, unless i see a ghost, i wont say there are ghosts. but i also wont say that there arent ghosts either. sorry if i dont make sense, i know what im trying to say, just having difficulties putting my thoughts into words.
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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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I have seen things I can't explain. That doesn't mean they are paranormal.  \n3 times in my life I've seen things others might describe as UFO's.  Once I was outside playing with friends (around 14  years old) and there were these weird lights.  We started to follow them but as soon as we left our dead-end street they vanished, but when we came back onto the street they were there again.\nAnother time (I was around 22) I was at an ATM at a mall at night (mall was closed) and a very bright object landed on the far side of the parking lot from me.\nThe third time I was a very young child on a drive with my parents and a shiny object fell out of the sky and crashed. We saw debris.\nI had many enounters with a ghost at my grandmother's old house. I never saw her, but I heard her.  And she used to cover me up when I slept over. \nWhen my red lory Scarlett died in 1994 she haunted my house for a while. My husband & others also saw her.  Guests would say "One of your birds is loose--the red one" and I'd say "I don't have a red one anymore" and check--all the other birds would be in their cages.\nMy friend had a white cat who lived at her store. The store caught on fire one night and the cat died. The firemen did try to save it but the smoke had gotten it.  She got a new cat, a grey one, but people kept telling her they'd seen a WHITE cat--customers who never knew she had one that died there.  I've never seen the white cat, but I've felt it brush my ankles when I could see the grey cat from across the room.\nspellcheck dead, sorry for errors.
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Wow, that's really fascinating! I love ghost stories and would love to see one, but I never have. However, here are some things people I know have seen...\nIn kindergarden I had a friend whose dad was in the airforce. My friend saw him one day long before he was supposed to come home from work, or so he thought. The man he saw was wearing the airforce uniform his dad wore and he only saw him from behind, and from behind it looked just like his dad. He saw him work into his parents' bedroom so he went in to ask him why he was home so early, but no one was in the room. He checked the bathroom and even under the bed and in the closet and the man he thought was his dad was not there, no one was in the room. The window was locked. His dad came home about 3 hours later and I don't think my friend ever told him about it.\n\nAlso, my uncle died of a heart attack on Halloween several years ago, and when my little sister was born my parents gave her my uncle's name as her middle name in his honor. She's 9 now and for a few years she's said that he is her guardian angel and she can see his spirit at times. When we moved into our new house, she was terrified to go into the basement without all the lights turned on and someone with her holding her hand. One day I went into the basement to get my art supplies and she was there playing with legos. I was shocked and asked her why she wasn't afraid, and she said it was because he was there.\n\nI find ghosts and spirits fascinating rather than scary, and I think it's so cool that my sister can see her guardian angel! ^^
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My Hubby and his Mother have.\n\nIn the house they live in when he was a baby, the previous owner killed himself in the back bedroom because his wife left him.\n\nThe ghost hated woman, and used to poke my MiL all night.  He also pushed her down the stairs when she was pregnant.\n\nThey have been back to the house since, and there was a squatter living there and said that the last tenants we a load of female students, who just left the house screaming in the middle of the night.\n\nMy in-laws also now tell me that there was a ghost in my old house, in my son's bedroom.  And whenever they came to stay it kept waking them up and throwing fireballs at them.
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I've been in more than one. My family members are "ghost senstives" especially me and my mother. I saw the ghost of a little boy of about 6 years old and a mans shadow in a hat and I was hit on the leg in this one house in Pensacola and at another place there was the scent of lavendar perfume and I had a mirror hanging on the left wall that fell twice for no reason and both times it landed on the video case of the exorcist so I moved the mirror set to the other side of the room along with the video rack and once again the mirror fell and cracked the case for the exorcist tape. I took the hint and threw the tape out and the mirror did not fall again after that. When I saw the landlord I asked him if someone had died in the place and he told me no but then a neighbor had heard my story and she told me that an elderly woman had a heart attack out on the walkway and they brought her into the house where she died.  I see images and shadows in the older homes that I've lived in. There was this place that was almost a hundred years old that had sat empty for three years before we moved in and from day one there was an evil prescence felt and my mother was more attune that I was. The focus was in the attic. I always felt a darkness there and my mother said she'd looked up the stairs one day and saw a man sitting in a wheelchair just watching her and she closed the door. Then she said that she saw a woman come through the closed attic door and go around the corner and disappear. That was it for me and I made a cross and placed it over the attic door and my nightmares stopped as well as my mothers. My sister saw a head in the closet and in the dresser drawer.  That house was the worst of all and I was glad when we moved out of it!!
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I've seen things that can't be explained within reason.  I don't know if ghosts exists, no one does.  Everything else is just an opinion.
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Yes. I lived with a ghost for about 9 months..All sorts of things happend during that period. \nThings would disappear and then end up in weird places.. or be placed right where I would have stepped on them had they been there "while " I was was looking for the items. \nThings would be all moved around and messed up..when they werent 5 min before. \nLights turning on by themselves then turning off again (a constant occuring thing)...doors opening up by themselves and closing. \nOnce I was reading a book and the ghost kept opening my bedroom door..I would get up and close it..and sit back down..a few minutes later the door would open once again..I got tired of playing after a while and left the door open and kept reading..then all of a sudden BAM! The door slammed shut...\nThere were flags in the house that were flapping like being in a strong wind..yet they were in a room without a breath of wind..\nThe list is endless...but eventually it became more agressive.. to the point of violence..There damage was being done to the house..inside.  It wasnt long after that part of it began, that I moved very far away, a different part of the country.. \nI have ended up back there three times since..none of which was my on doings but the way things turned out...\nSo yeah I have come across some strange things..That was just one incident of many that I have experienced in this life time ....so far ; )
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i belive in spirits not ghost, ghost are something some people consider made up to scare (as in booooooooo in the middle of the night or in a grave yard).  i consider spirits as the spirits of the dead and just that not something to scare.
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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!
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Fact... ive seen plenty of things in my lifetime. balls of floating light,doors shutting when there is no breeze, noises when nobody but me is here.. other people in my family have heard these things too.. ghostly sights in my house...
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well i believe in sprits, ghosts, etc...\nJust because you don't see something with your naked eye doesnt' mean that they don't exsist.  I have had weird things happen to me since my father past away 15 years ago.... sometimes i can be sitting in a chair, no one in the house with me and it feels like someone just pushed on my back... so some people would say i was crazy, i think it was a ghost, be it my father or brother or other family member that past on, or maybe my angel, that touched my shoulder to say that they were there.  I don't think that we should open a pandora's box by trying to open a port-hole for evil to come through... but the ghosts will contact those they want... as far as your fathers car, i believe that happened, but i wouldn't give into it or try to give it power...\n\ngood luck
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I have never actually SEEN a ghost, but when I worked as a security guard at an "abandoned" hospital, there was sure some funky stuff going on. Like cold spots, odd noises, funny feelings, and that thing where the hair on the back of your neck stands up for NO REASON. And YA, it was a little scary sometimes. Of course this was just about the COOLEST job I've ever had! Prowling around all night in an old hospital that was built in the late 1800's. Kinda fun!!