Can you help me with this question re Ghosts

[Bretrick]

If ghosts can walk through walls, why do they not fall through the floor?

 

[feywon]

Because many haunts are not of the material world so don't obey the laws of physics we must while living. Most perceptions of a spirit we receive are actually a projections of their consciousness, so that is in control of their appearance and observable movements.

There are exceptions as there are also 'residual haunts' that are more like manifested echos of highly emotional events (usually traumatic ones)from the life of the person. They are very different from spirits that linger to watch after loved ones or because of some 'unfinished business'.

Your question, however reminded me of a story naturalist and science historian Loren Eiseley told in a book i read last summer. He didn't name the scientist in question, because he had heard it 2nd hand and couldn't confirm it, since man had died already.

The way it went, the very well respected man in his later years, having read that due to atomic structure all physical/material things and beings are more empty space than actual matter would sometimes be hesitant to walk across a floor. He feared his atoms would pass thru those of the floor like flour being sifted. Not rational considering it had not happened in all his decades of life, but when he thought too much about the unseen composition of the material world the concern would worry him.

 

[Bretrick]

I have never seen manifestations but used to often get feelings and even have "conversations" with entities.
Never was I frightened, simply fascinated.
At one point I did become concerned.
Certain "events" had me doubting all I thought I knew about what happens when a person dies.
Would I meet my long-ago tormentors once I died?

 

[Lavinia]

They do not have physical bodies so are not affected by physical objects. Some 'ghosts' are like a recording on the ether and are often seen to walk at a higher level than the current floor. This might reflect changes that have been made to a building.

 

[DHH]

They don’t fall through the floor because they don’t want to. If they wanted to, they would.

 

[Pepper]

One of my many hospital rooms was haunted. It had translucent entities which paid no attention in me. Only one who I could not see manipulated the window shades in front of witnesses. That stopped when I asked it to.
HThey just went about their own business. I saw them.
Never had this happen before.
Hard to type on phone

 

[bobcat]

Because they are light and fluffy like clouds.

 

[dusty]

Every spirit I have seen was always in the form of like they were when alive. Ohe elderly spirit was walking down the hall and she looked as real as life and she spoke to me twice, then walked through the door to outside. Another approached me in the wheelchair he had used when on earth, we were outside and he started talking to me and I thought he was alive until he began fading and then went through the door to the inside w/o opening it. I found out later he had died a week before.

Another spirit came down the stairs here where I live, dressed as a police officer and I said hello to him. I thought he was outdated in his attire but he was carrying a gun on his right side. He said hello to me and then bent over and whispered something in my left ear. I didn't hear so he said it again. I still didn't hear it but we said goodbye and he walked theough the outside door.

There have been many more but these are the latest.

 

[Naturally]

Because even ghosts know you don’t mess with gravity before coffee.