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Ghosts

Hmm... It's hard to say with my religion conflicting with my mind being muddled after reading way too many books.

I believe that something is out there, whether it is Bigfoot, some itelligent creature living underground that we haven't discovered, ghosts, aliens, etc. But I don't have a firm belief on any one of them. I just no that we can't be the only creatures intelligent enough to create civilization...

Ghosts? Maybe. But not the kinds in stories. I'm going with religion, that is to say, that ghosts are actually (sorry Vendetta,) spirits of the deceased, wanting to tell decendants or friends things, or to comfort them.

(I probably made a few spelling mistakes, I'm using Internet Explorer rather than Firefox right now. Maybe I should switch...)
 
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Please explain how a rotting corpse can have a 'spirit' that is somehow communicating with you. (That goes hand in hand with how telepathically submitting your soul to a cosmic zombie can make you live forever but that's another bridge to burn.)
 
Corsoth Arcole said:
I, personally, don't really understand how anybody can be a skeptic of paranormal happenings. Reports of Ghosts, UFOs, EVP, ESP, examples of Cryptozoology, whatever, go way back in history, and the sheer amount of people who report these phenomena should at least show that the whole idea has some credibility.

I, personally, have never had anything way out of the ordinary happen to me. But, I've heard footsteps in old houses, seen things out of the corner of my eye, and felt inexplicable sorrow when I was walking out of a house from the 1940's. In light of there being no solid evidence against them, and there being the fact that I did see something or other, I'll believe until someone can show me irrefutable evidence that I, and all those other people, didn't see anything out or the ordinary.
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I wouldn't group UFOs and ETs with supernatural happenings because there is bound to be other planets that are inhabited (if not in our solar system) and they are probably a lot smarter than the human race.

I have had a couple of odd happenings, but not that extreme. Once I was downstairs in my house when I heard a loud clapping sound behind me. I turned quickly and seeing nothing, assumed it was my sister trying to scare the crap out of me. So I ducked and crept around so I'd be behind where she was hiding. I jumped into the room and screamed "BOO" (very original, I know). Well, there was no one there. There wasn't even anyone in that level of the house. I sprinted upstairs and questioned my sister and she claimed that she wasn't even downstairs. I believed her because she wouldn't have been able to run upstairs without hearing her.

Another time I was laying in my bed without a fan on or anything. My bedroom door was completely open and against the wall. The only thing in that wall is my closet. My door started to close very slowly all by itself.

I am very interested in the supernatural, but I fear it above everything else.

Ooh, has anyone taken part in a Ouija board seance(right word)? I heard they are insane. Does anyone think they are evil?

EDIT: I've never used a Ouija board, I'm too chicken to do it. But I'm interested in the outcomes.
 
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Ooh, has anyone taken part in a Ouija board thing? I heard they are insane. Does anyone think they are evil?[/QUOTE]

Haven't taken part of one, but I think the people doing them are evil. Well not literally, but still...
 
Darksong said:
How would that work?
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In much the same way it is possible for this orange on my desk to turn into an apple. If all the atoms in said orange were to suddenly change their structure in such a way that they now formed the molecules of an apple, the visible result would be that an orange had turned into an apple.

Similarly, if all the empty space in the atoms of one solid object lined up with all the empty space in another, they could pass through one another.

The probability of this happening is probably... oh, I don't know, analogy time. If I were to convert all the matter in the universe into a giant computer hard drive and then try to store the value of said probability, it certainly wouldn't be big enough.
 
I'm not really sure. I kinda think that there might be ghosts or something but I won't know for sure until I get some proof. Personally, I've never really had any experiences with ghosts at all (when I was 6 or something I lived in a house where someone was murdered and my mom took a picture of me and my friends in my room and there was something that looked kinda like a ghost in that picture in the background).
 
I believe in ghosts. The more sentient on some sort of level kind

Anyways, I actually had a ghost experience (well, it seemed like it at the time. After the whole event, it seems more like a prank)

I was at a summer camp when I was... I think 7 or 8 years old, and the counsellors took us to a haunted house. We peered into the window, and I saw a hand, white as snow, slam into the window. It didn't appear to be attached to anything, and the whole house was boarded up

I know, a counsellor could have snuck into there, dressed in dark clothing, and dipped their hand into white face paint or something (wouldn't be flour, or it would have left a mark on the window). Still scared the shit out of me, however

One of the other kids there told me he saw a bloody shadow. All I could think of about that statement was, "Wait, how can a shadow be bloody?" X3
 
I do believe in ghosts. Seriously, there's just too many "paranormal experiences" for them all to be coincidences or dreams >.>

Plus, if you watch Paranormal State, you are a believer. Seriously

I think I've had minor ones. Like, a long time ago (like 8 years ago) a huge, impossible-to-miss book of fairy tales just vanished from the crate that I kept books in before I had a bookshelf

And every pencil I touch vanishes without a trace within two weeks. Could just be a curse or something but it's scary when your lucky pencil vanishes from your desk

The shadows on my bedroom wall move while I'm trying to fall asleep. I swear

This one stuffed animal that I got for Christmas keeps disappearing from my arms while I'm sleeping, then turning up a few months later in a completely random place where it's never even been before

Everyone says that my bedroom is freezing. I can't really back this up since I feel perfectly comfortable in it, but people say it. And when I don't have a fever, they tell me I'm cold as ice

The lights like to flicker a lot in my bathroom

A giant green booger jumped out of my closet when I was 3. No joke, no lie

And no matter where I am or what I'm doing at home, I feel that something is watching me. Even in the bathroom

Scares me to death D:
 
I'm not entirely sure about ghosts. 2 years ago at my old school, we went on a trip for the week. We went on a Midnight Walk, only it was more like 10pm. One of our teachers pointed to something in the sky, which was moving quickly across the sky. It was a bright light, going too slow to be an aeroplane, and too fast to be a satellite. He thought it might have been a UFO, but it was probably something else. It was still kinda freaky though.
 
I've had the feeling that people are watching me, but when I look around, no one is there. It's probably just me being paranoid.

I've also heard my name be called, or people saying something indistinct. When I ask people if they did it, they say they didn't.
 
I believe in Ghost. Not as the spirits of dead beings though. To me Ghost are...well they're like humans only with angel-like attributes one could say. That's just my theory on Ghost though.
 
I don't think I believe in ghosts at all; there are certainly logical explanations for occurrences like people experience, such as the one below:
When I was younger, maybe seven or eight, I went to my mother's friend's house for a party. My father didn't come with us, because the party was full of women anyways. All the men were out of the house, apparently, and the women were sitting outside in the backyard talking and drinking a bit. I think we had already had dinner. It was a beautiful house, so I was looking around inside it downstairs, when I came to the living room.

There was a sort of wall dividing the living room from the other room, though it only went halfway and the other side was open, and there was a sort of "window" in the wall dividing the two rooms. The window didn't have glass; it was sort of like a hole so you could see from the dining room or whatever into the living room, and it opened things up a bit. Suddenly, as I came into the living room, I spotted a figure moving in the living room, going towards the door. I quickly ducked behind the wall, peeking a little from at the figure, and I remember it reminded my of those strange ghosts in the graveyard in the Haunted Mansion ride. (I was silly.)

The figure was almost definitely a man; he wore a hat and a long coat, and there was something vaguely menacing about him, at least to my young self. He slowly moved to the door, opened it, and as soon as he closed it, I ran to the window, but there was nobody to be seen outside on the dark street. It scared me a lot, but I thought maybe it was my mother's friend's son playing a trick on me or returning to the house, but when I asked he was at a friend's. My mother asked me if I had let anyone into the house, but I hadn't. I was very afraid to sleep in that house that night.

When I told my parents the story again later, they told me I must have been dreaming, but I never fell asleep. It's eerie, but I'm sure it could be made sense of. I wad young, and tired.
 
First off if ghosts dident exist what would be gained in making up a story about seeing a dark figure pass by or a claim there kid is being tormented by something like a ghost.
 
Desolater66 said:
First off if ghosts dident exist what would be gained in making up a story about seeing a dark figure pass by or a claim there kid is being tormented by something like a ghost.
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Warning people from going into dangerous places using the highly effective method of superstition?
Making yourself not seem crazy when you see something like that?
A good story?
Lulz?

Why would someone make up a thing like magic? I mean, what do they have to gain from it? Thus, magic exists.

Why would someone make up vampires? I mean, charming men (and ladies) sucking the blood of the innocent? That's just a mean thing to think of. Who would gain from it? Thus, vampires exist.

Why would I make up an axe crazy psychopath who's currently behind you, judging where on your head he's going to strike first? What would I gain from your fear and paranoia? Thus, the psychopath must exist, and is behind you right now.*

I hope you now see why your logic is fundamentally flawed.

*If you've just checked behind yourself to make sure there is no axe wielding psychopath because of this analogy, I have won.
 
GameFreakerZero said:
Warning people from going into dangerous places using the highly effective method of superstition?
Making yourself not seem crazy when you see something like that?
A good story?
Lulz?

Why would someone make up a thing like magic? I mean, what do they have to gain from it? Thus, magic exists.

Why would someone make up vampires? I mean, charming men (and ladies) sucking the blood of the innocent? That's just a mean thing to think of. Who would gain from it? Thus, vampires exist.

Why would I make up an axe crazy psychopath who's currently behind you, judging where on your head he's going to strike first? What would I gain from your fear and paranoia? Thus, the psychopath must exist, and be behind you right now.*

I hope you now see why your logic is fundamentally flawed.

*If you've just checked behind yourself to make sure there is no axe wielding psychopath because of this analogy, I have won.
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Ok great points but I mean do you really think a 6 year old kid is going to talk about a mean man telling him to do things and there are cases like that like that. Kidst that age are too busy playing around and watcing cartoons why would that make up saomething like that.


Plus there are people telling storys about hauntings in there life and change there names and identities so it cant be for attention.
 
Desolater66 said:
Ok great points but I mean do you really think a 6 year old kid is going to talk about a mean man telling him to do things and there are cases like that like that. Kidst that age are too busy playing around and watcing cartoons why would that make up saomething like that.
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When I was four I thought there was a dragon hiding in my curtains. Why would I make that up? I was too busy being a kid to make up stuff up about a (fairly scary) dragon hiding in my curtains. Children are impressionable and have wide imaginations.
Not to mention there's got to be an area of psychology that deals with this sort of stuff.

Also if you're going to think like that then my previous points, maybe minus the last one, still stand as they're likely recorded in numerous places.

Also UFOs and whatnot; why would people make up a story about being abducted by aliens when surely they're too busy being adults to think that?

Plus there are people telling storys about hauntings in there life and change there names and identities so it cant be for attention.
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See my second, third and fourth explanations.
 
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