Do you Believe in Ghosts?

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the_last_gunslinger

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Let me first off start by saying that I' a religiously minded person. I believe humans have a spirit that lives on after they die. I've always rejected, however, the notion of hauntings, of ghost stories because I fail to see how they fit in with my religious beliefs. Questions about why they didn't 'cross over' are hard to answer, so despite my belief in the spirit world, I've always considered myself somewhat of a skeptic in this department.

But...

In the late 90s, my parents purchased what used to be an old school house and began making renovations on it. And almost since we bought it, there have been a number of strange occurrences I'm having a hard time rationalizing away. There are the old stand bys, strange noises, household items inexplicably disappearing, etc. One time our remote control went missing in the middle of the night, and we found it the next morning in the driver's seat of our car. I thought that was pretty weird.

Another time, my sister was certain she saw someone staring at her through the window while she was waiting for the bus. No one was there, of course. I remember once hearing the distinct sound of beating hooves and the neighing of a horse inside the house. This was at 3:00 in the morning and I'm not afraid to admit that it freaked me out a little.

In my parent's bedroom, there was a certain wall that my Mom refused to put the bed up against. Sometimes, if you stood too close to it, you could smell the scent of pipe tobacco, even though no one in the family smoked. That same wall, once, I had an extension cord plugged into the outlet, running it outside. I was working on something when the power cut out. I went inside and found that the cord was not only unplugged, but neatly coiled up in a pile on the floor.

In more recent times, I have a four year old niece who has been going on about two people in the house, one she calls Bob and the other just, the Girl. Bob is a mean adult, she says, and the Girl lives in our walls because she is afraid of Bob. I would think that they were just figments of her imagination, imaginary friends, or something. But too often, I would see her and her one year old brother "interacting" with something that's not there. Opening the door and waving someone in. Both talk to someone that cannot be seen, etc. Last summer, there was a period where my niece said that Bob went away. But recently, she has started up again saying that he's back and he told her not to tell Grandma because Grandman doesn't like him.

All very strange, to say the least. There has never been anything threatening or dangerous, but it got me thinking about it a little.

What do you think? Do you believe in Ghosts? Ever had some strange things happen that defied logic?
 

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Let me first off start by saying that I' a religiously minded person. I believe humans have a spirit that lives on after they die. I've always rejected, however, the notion of hauntings, of ghost stories because I fail to see how they fit in with my religious beliefs. Questions about why they didn't 'cross over' are hard to answer, so despite my belief in the spirit world, I've always considered myself somewhat of a skeptic in this department.

But...

In the late 90s, my parents purchased what used to be an old school house and began making renovations on it. And almost since we bought it, there have been a number of strange occurrences I'm having a hard time rationalizing away. There are the old stand bys, strange noises, household items inexplicably disappearing, etc. One time our remote control went missing in the middle of the night, and we found it the next morning in the driver's seat of our car. I thought that was pretty weird.

Another time, my sister was certain she saw someone staring at her through the window while she was waiting for the bus. No one was there, of course. I remember once hearing the distinct sound of beating hooves and the neighing of a horse inside the house. This was at 3:00 in the morning and I'm not afraid to admit that it freaked me out a little.

In my parent's bedroom, there was a certain wall that my Mom refused to put the bed up against. Sometimes, if you stood too close to it, you could smell the scent of pipe tobacco, even though no one in the family smoked. That same wall, once, I had an extension cord plugged into the outlet, running it outside. I was working on something when the power cut out. I went inside and found that the cord was not only unplugged, but neatly coiled up in a pile on the floor.

In more recent times, I have a four year old niece who has been going on about two people in the house, one she calls Bob and the other just, the Girl. Bob is a mean adult, she says, and the Girl lives in our walls because she is afraid of Bob. I would think that they were just figments of her imagination, imaginary friends, or something. But too often, I would see her and her one year old brother "interacting" with something that's not there. Opening the door and waving someone in. Both talk to someone that cannot be seen, etc. Last summer, there was a period where my niece said that Bob went away. But recently, she has started up again saying that he's back and he told her not to tell Grandma because Grandman doesn't like him.

All very strange, to say the least. There has never been anything threatening or dangerous, but it got me thinking about it a little.

What do you think? Do you believe in Ghosts? Ever had some strange things happen that defied logic?
Well, along the lines of children, after my mom passed, my niece said she heard her daughter, 3 or 4 years old, talking to someone in her bedroom. She went in and asked, who are you talking to? And her daughter said, "Granny, she's right over there" and pointed to an empty corner.
 
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RichardX

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No, but I suppose it depends on what exactly is meant by a ghost. Photographs even of a living person, for example, are a means of preserving the image of some past event. That is basically what a "ghost" is at some basic level. An image from the past that can be seen in the present. We take it for granted because there is a scientific explanation for the process that we can confirm with our own eyes. It is not supernatural to us today only for that reason. But a photograph or film shown to the ancient Romans would have blown their minds. If by ghost, we are talking about the spirit of some dead person haunting the living, then I don't buy it for a lot of reasons. Given that almost everyone now carries a camera to the point that we get videos of a meteor strike in Russia it is hard to understand why there would not be an abundance of credible ghost videos and photos. Why would such a ghost have clothes on as commonly described? Are the clothes haunted as well? As someone once said, you don't have to believe in ghosts to understand that a lot of suffering has gone on in certain places. I'm sure, however, if you go to places where folks have died it is unsettling and some people translate that into sensing the presence of the dead.
 

skimom2

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No. I joke about our house having a ghost, but no.

I do have questions about whether spirits have the capacity to reach into the lives of the living sometimes. When I was pregnant with my 2nd child, my oldest started referring to her as 'Baby Celia'. I finally asked why he called the baby that, and he answered, "Because grandpa said that is her name." I asked which grandpa, Grandpa Roy (my dad) or Grandpa Mike (my husband's dad)? Josh, who was a little bit older than 2 at the time, answered, "No, the other grandpa. The cowboy grandpa." That set me back a bit. MY great-grandpa, with whom I was very close and often dreamed conversations with long after he passed, was an old cowboy (no, really, a real cowboy). My great-grandma, the love of his life, was named Cecelia. Needless to say, we listened to 'the other grandpa', and my daughter's middle name is Cecelia, a name we hadn't even considered. :)
 

the_last_gunslinger

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I do have questions about whether spirits have the capacity to reach into the lives of the living sometimes. When I was pregnant with my 2nd child, my oldest started referring to her as 'Baby Celia'. I finally asked why he called the baby that, and he answered, "Because grandpa said that is her name." I asked which grandpa, Grandpa Roy (my dad) or Grandpa Mike (my husband's dad)? Josh, who was a little bit older than 2 at the time, answered, "No, the other grandpa. The cowboy grandpa." That set me back a bit. MY great-grandpa, with whom I was very close and often dreamed conversations with long after he passed, was an old cowboy (no, really, a real cowboy). My great-grandma, the love of his life, was named Cecelia. Needless to say, we listened to 'the other grandpa', and my daughter's middle name is Cecelia, a name we hadn't even considered. :)

Awesome story, I love it!
 

not_nadine

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I have too much. It's in a couple of books and also a TV show one time. :hopelessness::culpability: Magazines, newspaper as well.

I won't speak of it, except to say was not that scary. It was Just Was.


I am not a freak, I Swear. Thank Gan, there were actors and my picture was never used in any of that stuff.
 
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This is a drawing by my cuz called The Family Ghost....not Lloyd but me other cousin James Hoskins.
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