Do you believe in ghosts?

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CarolfromTX

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When I was teaching, Halloween was pretty much of a lost cause, learning wise, in elementary school, so I used to tell ghost stories for about an hour. It was the only time all year I had everyone's undivided attention! LOL! The kids always begged me to turn off the lights, even though it was broad daylight outside, but I never would. I told them there wasn't anything scarier than a room full of third graders except a DARK room full of third graders. HA! My stories were based on some things that happened to me, but lets just say I embellished somewhat. I've heard some pretty convincing stories, from some pretty reliable people. I'm not saying I believe, and I'm not saying I don't. I will say that I enjoy watching those "ghost stories caught on tape" or ghost hunter kind of shows occasionally. I do wonder why they always have to have all the lights off. Do ghosts only come out in the dark? More than likely, if the lights were on, we'd see nothing was there. Or that what was there was a human. Every city seems to offer a ghost tour, certainly at this time of year, and we've taken some. Entertaining, if nothing else. We were in New Orleans once and saw a for sale sign for an apartment, claiming to have a resident ghost, so apparently being haunted can be a selling point. Who knew?! So, got any ghost stories you'd like to share?
 

I bought an old restored wall clock (1880's) when I was in Spain. The restorer swore that it had a "good ghost" associated with it, but I don't remember why he was so sure about the ghost, but he did claim that it would travel with us when we returned to the states. I never saw that ghost, but the clock has a very pretty chime.
My wife and granddaughter love ghost tours. They tell me that Charleston SC has a good one.
 
love a ghost story - yes I d believe the spirit soul still lives if not crossed over for some reason ---
I lived in a haunted home 'just noises' only 'but my son did being a baby would sit up laughing and trying to talk to something many a night ...
 

Well, I’ve had a few “unusual or unexpected” experiences which had no easy explanation, but I don’t want to lump them under the term “ghostly”.
Around here, realtors would try to hide or dispute any sort of “presence” especially if connected to a violent crime.
 
To believe in ghosts you have to believe in an afterlife and I think when we die we die and that's the end of it. Have never seen or heard a ghost.
 
I once worked in an old two-story building that was located right next to three cemeteries and had the reputation for being haunted. Our maintenance person would not stay working after dark because he would hear activity such as like children laughing and playing. And other folks who stayed late there would also hear strange sounds like that.

One morning I arrived at work at 6:30 when it was still dark (I liked to get to work early). I unlocked the front door and when I went in I heard something like someone walking around on the second floor like with gigantic army boots. Just then another co-worker arrived and she heard it, too. I was thinking maybe another co-worker had already arrived and was upstairs where her office was and was maybe moving furniture or something and making that kind of loud noise. So, I went upstairs where my office also was (only stairway, no elevator) expecting to see her, but there was no one else there.

Another time when I arrived early to work in the dark, another co-worker was already there and told how me when she arrived she looked up at the building and there was a light in one of the offices, and nobody else had arrived yet that she could tell. She wanted me to go upstairs to check on it. I wasn't real crazy about the idea, but I went up anyway. Got upstairs, no one there and no lights in that office or anywhere else.
 
Man I'm really feeling left out here.

I've never seen or heard a ghost, or anything else supernatural.

Never seen a UFO.

Never felt the hand of Jesus or God, or whatever on my heart.

Just a bunch of boring old stuff that have perfectly plausible scientific explanations. :confused:
 
Who's to say? I have never had an encounter with one to my knowledge, but many people firmly believe they have. I have never be abducted by aliens or even seen a UFO in person.

My mom, to her dying day, said she saw a UFO and I remember that time. We were living at the other house then and it was the early 1970s on a very cold January night. We had a Scottish terrier and my mom went out to bring him in. She bent over to unsnap his tether and happend to look up and saw a dark circular object move slowly from southeast to northwest. It didn't make any noise, either. She said it was about 30 feet in diameter and 100 feet off the ground. Later that night the dog barked (which he never did) and the electricity went out for about an hour. There used to be an Air Force base about 10 miles away back then (it is an apartment complex now). She called them. but as far as I know, nothing ever came of it.
 
Re Oak Island: didn’t the McGee boys already find it? Or some of it?
It troubles me, too, that some ghost hunters find only negative spirits, and others only benign.
While we’re at it, and some of you know I am pro-spirits, what is beyond the “ends” of the electromagnetic spectrum?
 
Gettysburg is said to be one of the most haunted places in the country.......Spent the night there at a....ahem, reported haunted motel.....Slept like a baby!
 
NO, although I believe that buildings develop personalities and emotions that you can detect.
The builder who worked at my neighbour's house said that it was haunted, but I think the only spirits he saw came in a bottle.
 
I don't believe in ghosts. I have an open mind, however, but since I haven't seen or felt a ghost in 67 years, I'm losing my patience.
As with "Miracles," Religion, God, whatever....I think people believe what they want to believe. Example: If someone really misses a loved one who died, they may say they "Feel his presence." If that gives them comfort, (just as with God & religion), there's nothing wrong with it.
 
“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them."

"I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly.

"Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied.”

― Sue Grafton, M is for Malice
 
Trade said:
Man I'm really feeling left out here.

I've never seen or heard a ghost, or anything else supernatural.

Never seen a UFO.

Never felt the hand of Jesus or God, or whatever on my heart.

Just a bunch of boring old stuff that have perfectly plausible scientific explanations. :confused:
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Oh, you poor thing, join my crowd. You are NOT alone or left out. Hugs! 🤗
 
Sasha5113 said:
Re Oak Island: didn’t the McGee boys already find it? Or some of it?
It troubles me, too, that some ghost hunters find only negative spirits, and others only benign.
While we’re at it, and some of you know I am pro-spirits, what is beyond the “ends” of the electromagnetic spectrum?
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The same thing with aliens, many films show them as benign (Close encounters of the third kind) and others show them as terrorists (War of the worlds).
 
I've never had an experience with seeing a Ghost. I often wondered though about something my grandson said when he was 3 or 4yrs old. When he would climb up the stairs he would duck his head down. I asked him why and he said "Colleen is flying over my head." I wondered about it for awhile because he didn't know any Colleens. After awhile I looked up previous owners of the house where he lived. About 15yrs before they bought the house there was a fire there and a little girl named Colleen had died in the fire. Strange !
 
Sassycakes said:
I've never had an experience with seeing a Ghost. I often wondered though about something my grandson said when he was 3 or 4yrs old. When he would climb up the stairs he would duck his head down. I asked him why and he said "Colleen is flying over my head." I wondered about it for awhile because he didn't know any Colleens. After awhile I looked up previous owners of the house where he lived. About 15yrs before they bought the house there was a fire there and a little girl named Colleen had died in the fire. Strange !
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Well, I don't know how true it is, but I read that we humans have ESP or some such thing and we lose it by age of 5.
 
CarolfromTX said:
When I was teaching, Halloween was pretty much of a lost cause, learning wise, in elementary school, so I used to tell ghost stories for about an hour. It was the only time all year I had everyone's undivided attention! LOL! The kids always begged me to turn off the lights, even though it was broad daylight outside, but I never would. I told them there wasn't anything scarier than a room full of third graders except a DARK room full of third graders. HA! My stories were based on some things that happened to me, but lets just say I embellished somewhat. I've heard some pretty convincing stories, from some pretty reliable people. I'm not saying I believe, and I'm not saying I don't. I will say that I enjoy watching those "ghost stories caught on tape" or ghost hunter kind of shows occasionally. I do wonder why they always have to have all the lights off. Do ghosts only come out in the dark? More than likely, if the lights were on, we'd see nothing was there. Or that what was there was a human. Every city seems to offer a ghost tour, certainly at this time of year, and we've taken some. Entertaining, if nothing else. We were in New Orleans once and saw a for sale sign for an apartment, claiming to have a resident ghost, so apparently being haunted can be a selling point. Who knew?! So, got any ghost stories you'd like to share?
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This is uncanny. At boarding school I too was the chief spooky story teller. Odd as it was completely against my character being a shy, somewhat introverted boy. But when it came to my rather macabre imagination I shone and left my inhibitions behind. So on the story nite with the ward matron having already doused the lites we lit a lone candle and the other boys would gather around my bed while I scared the pants off them.
 
Sassycakes said:
I've never had an experience with seeing a Ghost. I often wondered though about something my grandson said when he was 3 or 4yrs old. When he would climb up the stairs he would duck his head down. I asked him why and he said "Colleen is flying over my head." I wondered about it for awhile because he didn't know any Colleens. After awhile I looked up previous owners of the house where he lived. About 15yrs before they bought the house there was a fire there and a little girl named Colleen had died in the fire. Strange !
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Unlike you Sassycakes I have had a ghostly situation. This was decades ago before I was married when I was living with someone. I did not actually see any apparition but my girlfriend and I sure felt it. It was a quiet weekend so we decided to liven up things by having a seance. So out came the Ouija board and we started trying to conjure up a spirit..feeling full well this was a futile exercise. Is was NOT. We DID contact something that day without a word of a lie. There was a cold part of the room even tho it was warm day outside. A breeze blew into our room yet it was windless outdoors. My girl said she felt something brush her face. I can tell you that this so spooked me that I have never revisited a seance to this day.
 

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