Have you ever thought you have seen a ghost?

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oakapple

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Have you ever seen a ghost, or thought that you did?Do you believe that they exist? Why would somebody come back , what's in it for them?If some do, then why don't millions come back?Do you think [if people are sure they have seen somebody who they know is dead] they may be seeing a 're-run' like a short flash of film? Tell us your thoughts.
 

Nope. There ARE no ghosts................well, except for Casper.

If you think you've seen a ghost, it was probably a shadow....maybe a reflection from a passing car, animal etc.
 
Falcon said:
Nope. There ARE no ghosts................well, except for Casper.

If you think you've seen a ghost, it was probably a shadow....maybe a reflection from a passing car, animal etc.
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Certainly a lot of the stories would fit this thought, but there are some.......... !We may be a small island here, but we are chock full of ghost stories, some of them rather convincing.
 

Oakapple, this is an interesting topic.
I once was convinced I saw a ghost. I was living in a house where the previous owner had recently died. One evening I looked up towards the mirror and saw a line of light travel across the mirror. There was no explanation for it, because the lamps were not flickering and there were no lights coming in from outside. I guessed it must have been the previous owner's ghost. Now when I think about it, it is possible someone in another room might have been playing a trick on me. But who knows for sure. wooo woooo
 
I have never knowingly seen a 'ghost' altho' I've felt a 'presence' on a few occasions what it might have been I can only surmise, but let me tell you a short tale.

I had been estranged from my father for some years..as had my brothers and sisters.
I had no contact with anyone who knew him or my step mother and hadn't had for about 4 years.

I'd just recently returned from living in Spain and I was asleep, and in my sleep (dream?) I awoke to see the face of my father in my darkened room.. his fully formed face as clear as a colour picture and I could hear him call my name very clearly which is what in fact woke me in the first place ...then he was gone.

It shook me up, I wondered why on earth I would have dreamt of him..and it played on my mind for a couple of years off and on. Eventually it bothered me so much that I decided to make some enquiries to ensure he was alright , a man who was always in very rude health and never a days illness so no reason for me to think anything was amiss .. I didn't want to make contact believe me, he was the father from hell a very violent human being who was the cause of my mothers' death .. hence our estrangement , but he was still my father. Anyway long story short...I eventually after jumping through many hoops discovered he had died , and it had been just about the time I'd had that dream 2 years previously...

I promise you this is the truth...I will never have an explanation for it.
 
hollydolly said:
I have never knowingly seen a 'ghost' altho' I've felt a 'presence' on a few occasions what it might have been I can only surmise, but let me tell you a short tale.

I had been estranged from my father for some years..as had my brothers and sisters.
I had no contact with anyone who knew him or my step mother and hadn't had for about 4 years.

I'd just recently returned from living in Spain and I was asleep, and in my sleep (dream?) I awoke to see the face of my father in my darkened room.. his fully formed face as clear as a colour picture and I could hear him call my name very clearly which is what in fact woke me in the first place ...then he was gone.

It shook me up, I wondered why on earth I would have dreamt of him..and it played on my mind for a couple of years off and on. Eventually it bothered me so much that I decided to make some enquiries to ensure he was alright , a man who was always in very rude health and never a days illness so no reason for me to think anything was amiss .. I didn't want to make contact believe me, he was the father from hell a very violent human being who was the cause of my mothers' death .. hence our estrangement , but he was still my father. Anyway long story short...I eventually after jumping through many hoops discovered he had died , and it had been just about the time I'd had that dream 2 years previously...

I rpomise you this is the truth...I will never have an explanation for it.
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I've heard of this happening. I don't like the word ghost but I'd never rule out spirits/vibes whatever.

I have a friend who has had many dreams predicting disaster. She dreamed her husband was in a car crash and a couple of days later he was. She dreamed her grandmother had died suddenly and it had happened during the night.

I've never seen anything but have felt a presence, twice. Made me wonder at the time if Guardian angels were more than a myth.
 
Of course, I was about 7. Turned out to be a jacket hanging on the back of the door that the wind blew across making shadows, there were many more times since, similar explanations. Doesn't make me less afraid of things that go bump in the dark though. LOL!
 
AprilT said:
Of course, I was about 7. Turned out to be a jacket hanging on the back of the door that the wind blew across making shadows, there were many more times since, similar explanations. Doesn't make me less afraid of things that go bump in the dark though. LOL!
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My experience was about the same age.

I was lying in bed, calling out to my parents in the next room for a glass of water.***
They didn't respond, but I did see a skeleton in the doorway carrying a tray on which was a glass of water.
I wasn't thirsty after that.

**There is a distinct possibility that I was actually asleep the whole time.
 
I saw a ghost or spirit or...some sort of being once while at work. The building closed and secured(mothballed prison), with only one entry for which I possessed the only key. I did not speak of the incident for about a year, until I started hearing other employees reporting encounters. Could tell many stories.
 
A number of persons who have worked there say the now-closed portion of our penitentiary in Santa Fe has ghosts as the result of the bloody 1980 riot that took place. It took many lives in the most grisly ways and lasted for days and days. People who work security in the old parts report seeing all kinds of things. The people who report them are not woo-woo kind of people, but prison guards, many of whom are ex-military. My husband worked up there for a while after he retired, and he didn't like going into that portion one bit; and he wasn't one to be creeped out by ghostly tales.
 
I've never seen a ghost, and although I've welcomed contact from deceased relatives, they have never appeared. I have an open mind though, as I've heard of many stories, and not everyone can be lying. But as far as I'm concerned, seein' is believin'.
 
I have seen ghosts, that I'm sure of, on one occasion on the porch of a Victorian era house. I'm more sensitive to the presence of spirits or angels. An "angel" onced helped me manoeuver my stuck car out of a snow drift during a blizzard. He never spoke a word and I never saw his face. When I got out and rolled down my car window to thank him he had vanished into thin air leaving no footprints - with snow in every direction. (Because of that I assume he was otherworldly.) And I believe so to this day.
 
Only once actually seen an apparition, not a figure but a happening which could bot have been happening at that time, but have have been in a presence many times.

One old house we lived in my baby son would crawl towards a stairwell corner and laugh and burble for twenty minutes at a time, and the dog would pad over there and wag his tail and lie contently. We had a little baby girl who would come to visit and she would do the same, even when my son was still napping.
 
Interesting tales. I have never seen anything myself, but that does not mean I don't believe that some people have done. There are so many reports of odd things, that even when you discount the mistaken, the nervous, the over active imagination, and the downright lies, there are some reports from reliable and down to earth people that I do believe.I'm not sure what causes 'sightings' and I don't really think the person [from the past] is actually there, but that it's more like a recording, that atmospheric pressures 're-show' somehow. Feeling a presence however, is different again, as is pre-cognition.
 
Sometimes it takes courage to admit that you think something other worldly is going on, as people tend to laugh it off.I always think those people may be the first to run shrieking out if they had to stay in one of our very old abbeys, mansions or inns.:eek:
 
:boo::wave: I'll be the first to admit, I'm one that would be the first out the door if I start hearing weird loud noises; not because I'd believe it's haunted, but, because I know there are some psychos in the world that love to scare the pants off people and some who are a real threat to life and I wouldn't want to wait around to find out their motivation. I know the haunted houses at amusement parks are fake, but, I don't enter those either, I am not a fan of being scared in those ways. I do like a scary movie, but, that's as far as it goes for me.

I wouldn't ever sign up to stay at a haunted mansion, just because I'm a chicken and don't like being scared by people sneaking up on me, I've experienced real terrors from real people in life, I don't need to play at it. Halloween doesn't count. :playful:
 
As I've said before, those who don't believe will never believe, those who do believe simply accept things at face value.

I suppose I'm preconditioned, having a mother, sister and wife who are all fey (I think, from some things he has come out with, that my son is too, but he would die rather than admit it!).

When we lived in Cornwall one of the roads we sometimes used would make my wife very uncomfortable. She would become very cold even on the warmest summer day, and have goose pimples all over her arms. This affected her so badly that she would frequently persuade me into a three mile diversion.

Talking about this to an old Cornishman he said, "Ah, that'll be because that is the place they used to burn the witches."
 

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