The Ultimate...? Do Ghosts Exist ? ...Thread

[St. Phatty]

I can't vote no, because I would be speaking of something of which I have no knowledge.

That I don't have a memory of having seen a ghost is not evidence that they don't exist.

The closest I got was when a woman friend died many years ago in a head-on car accident on a country road, killed by a drunk driver.

I was in Silicon Valley on a date, and being young people, that involved going to a video game place. Then we were on our way to a movie. And I got a very very strange feeling, very disquieting. I stopped at my apartment and called 3 people in my family to see if they were OK - something I had never done before.

3 weeks later I was in SoCal for a conference. I called up Tina's husband to see if I could see them, having visited for their wedding a year before. Then he told me the news, about her death. Turns out that it happened 3 weeks earlier, when I had that feeling of terrible premonition.

It's not a case of a clock being right twice a day - it happened once.


What was odd was the week after I returned from that trip. I didn't sleep for a week. I didn't get tired. I wasn't on drugs. I wasn't in love. It was like Tina was visiting me, which obviously makes no sense.

So it's not a ghost experience, more a premonition experience followed by a few days of tireless sleeplessness.

 

[D. B. Doober]

I saw a ghost when I was a kid...it was sitting on my grandpa's bed. Scared me.

 

[420somewhere]

Boo

Boo

I have seen Ghosts on many different cable shows, so I am as sure they exist, as I am sure Aliens exist

Halloween is just around the corner

 

[armedoldhippy]

I was never sure until I saw my father the night after he died. our family was gathered around my mother trying to comfort her, and I was sitting across the room. I looked out the window, & caught movement out of the corner of my eye. when I turned back, there my father stood behind where she sat, looking down at her with a smile on his face. he looked as he did in pictures taken when he was in his twenties. disappeared after about 3 or 4 seconds... now I believe.

 

[igrowone]

i personally haven't seen a ghost, but some indirect experiences
2 family members went to visit a elderly female relative
she had died the previous evening, but that wasn't known
they were knocking on the door, no answer
then saw her looking down from a window
not a big ghost story, but very credible people

 

[DrFever]

IMO its our imagination that creates Ghosts a loss of a loved won ? pet friend our mind pays tricks and believe or not you want them tricks so you can believe
My mother that passed on was a Doctor in OR she told me lots of stories but one that she told me is DEATH
from the moment your pronounced dead even thou your heart stopped your brain is still alive for approx 50 mins during this time your brain which is lacking 02 will start electrically flashing meaning its trying everything to survive and get oxygen but we know there that its not going to happen
Anyways the brain during that 50 min interval will flash memories from the moment you were born all types of memories good and bad
till the light runs out this is what you here from many out of body experiences people saying i was hovering over the table saw my family cry etc these are your last memories that your brain took in you know that light at the end of the tunnel which many think its heaven is actually your brain fighting for 02 once the light goes out that's it your dead no more memories nothing
No Ghosts nothing its humans that make you fear death but once your dead you are only a memory to those that loved you as for moving on awwww NOPE
so tonight when your eatting that fat nice juicy steak look to your right hahaha mooo moooo

 

[Hold Your Fire]

No.

 

[quokka]

I remember when i was about 5 years old i was in a kayak, paddling from a tour boat to the shore of a small island.

When we were about 10 metres from the shore i jumped out of the kayak expecting to land in shallow water but i went fully underwater.....

While underwater for only a second i saw lots of octopus and different kind of fish.

I know what i saw isn't possible, but i saw it.

I 'sort of' believe in ghosts or supernatural, but also how convincing some hallucinations can be.

 

[bombadil.360]

it is ok to doubt, specially with all these 'ghost hunters' reality tv shows...

I've told the story I'm about to write before somewhere in the forums, can't find it, but I'm gonna re-tell it in a short and concise way:

Basically, I was invited to a buddy's house for a party / jam. The buddy who invited me lives ina very nice gated neighborhood, this was in Venezuela many moons ago btw.

The house is pretty big, it has three floors, and you enter the house from the street through the middle-floor; in the middle-floor you have a big saloon, big kitchen and a big family room with a balcony, then upstairs you have a few bedrooms, and finally the bottom floor has two more bedrooms, a huge saloon and through the saloon an exit to a very nice backyard.

the party/jam was in that bottom floor, and the stairs to go down from the middle-floor are right in front of the entrance to the two bed-rooms.

This girl and I were sitting in the bottom-floor, our backs to the backyard and facing the stairs; most of the people had not arrived yet and the people that were there were in the kitchen preparing drinks and snacks.

We then see a woman and two children come down the stairs, the woman was around 50 years old and the children were between 7 and 10 years old; they came down the stairs and went inside one of the rooms, the woman opened the door and once the three of them were inside she closed it.

when my buddy comes down a couple minutes later (the guy who lives there) I commented that I did not know his mom and family were here and wondered if it was ok that we were all there about to jam and make a lot of noise. My buddy looks at me like I'm crazy and proceeds to inform me that his mom and all his family are in Spain, so I tell him that I thought his mom was here because we had just seen a woman and two children go into one of the rooms; we then immediately think that they are thieves, because in Venezuela you think 'thieves' way before you think 'ghosts'

so we proceeded to go into the room to see what was up; we opened the door and absolutely no one was there; we searched the other room, nothing, the backyard, nothing, the whole middle and upper floors, nothing...

anyway, we forget the issue, my buddy thinks the girl and I are talking shit and that really we did not see anything, and so we continued with our evening... later that night, I go out to the backyard to smoke a j, and lo and behold, I realize that this dude's backyard is right above a huge funeral house (the whole neighborhood is on a hill), and that's when I started to think that most likely what the girl and I had seen were ghosts.

 

[murmann]

never met a ghost.......so,nope.

 

[stoned-trout]

I would like to think so ..then I can come back and fuck with certain people...