Do You Believe in Ghosts?

[hogan873]

If nothing else, I'm sure this will be a good thread to read when you need a scare.

 

I do believe, only because I've had a few unexplained experiences. The one that I can't explain away happened when I was working part-time in a restaurant. I was sitting at the bar folding napkins before it opened when I felt someone place their hand on my back. I assumed it was one of the waitresses, but when I looked up into the mirror behind the bar no one was there.

 

Strange.

[Kyyle23]

No experiences personally, but I do believe.

 

Im getting sick of the whack shows that are on though

[hogan873]

I agree with the shows. There are too many, and most are pretty ridiculous. They'll take any background noise and try to make the viewers believe it's a voice.

[MexSoxFan#1]

When I lived in Mexico as a teen having moved from Chicago with my dad, I had to live in my Grandma's house with my then 15 year old brother, we were supposed to be looked after by my 24 year old aunt (married to my dad's brother) while my dad was in another state setting up his business.My grandparents were away living in California so it was just me, my brother and aunt in this big old house that my uncles were always telling everyone that strange sh*t happened there.

 

Being a skeptic, I really didn't pay much attention to it but things got so weird that my aunt eventually left the house and moved with her family and would stop by the house to fix us dinner but when it got dark, she hightailed it outta that house, LOL, which looking back was kind of a crappy thing to do, leaving 2 minors to fend for themselves only leaving a loaded rifle.Anyways, it was kind of scary because it was a really old dark house with lots of rooms and we would hear what sounded like someone running on top of the roof, like really loud steps, not like what dog or cat would make.Obviously we thought it was someone trying to get in but this was every night, and then we would hear those noises also coming from the kitchen and living room.Nothing ever went missing so it wasn't theives.

 

My uncle once told me a story about how when he was younger he was sort of rebellious and one night after a night of heavy drinking, my grandma told him that "el chango se te va aparecer" which means that the beast would pay him a visit for being a bad son, lo and behold he swears that a large wolf with red eyes appeared in front of him one night and chased him all through the house before it just disappeared, lol, it scared the living crap out of him and it set him straight

 

I don't know what to believe but I do know strange things happened in that house and I still have a few more weird stories but I'll post them later because I got to get some sleep and I don't want that on my mind:P

Edited January 14, 2010 by MexSoxFan#1

[hogan873]

I suppose what really makes me believe is that my mom still swears to this day that she saw her mother years after she died. She says she was sitting in her bedroom where I was asleep in a crib (I had just been born) when her mother walked into the room, looked at me in the crib, smiled at my mom, and walked out. She said she wasn't scared at all. A lot of people have ghost stories and some seem credible, but this one pretty much seals the deal for me as far as believing.

[Kyyle23]

some of the shows certainly dont help my belief at all. The ghosthunters guys piss me off, all they do is scream and run around and act like idiots. I mean, if you really wanted a ghost to appear to you, you better stop getting freaked out every time something odd happens

[hogan873]

some of the shows certainly dont help my belief at all. The ghosthunters guys piss me off, all they do is scream and run around and act like idiots. I mean, if you really wanted a ghost to appear to you, you better stop getting freaked out every time something odd happens

 

I think it's Ghost Adventures that has the muscle-head guy who taunts the ghosts. They can be pretty humorous, but whay would you want to piss off a ghost...especially a purported evil entity?

[JPN366]

No ghost stories, but I can tell you about one seriously creepy UFO experience.

 

[hogan873]

No ghost stories, but I can tell you about one seriously creepy UFO experience.

 

Let's hear it.

[Sonik22]

I think it's Ghost Adventures that has the muscle-head guy who taunts the ghosts. They can be pretty humorous, but whay would you want to piss off a ghost...especially a purported evil entity?

I believe, and Ghost Adventures is the only show I'll watch about ghosts. I love those guys

[JPN366]

I don't know what is was, but I'll describe what I saw. It was 1999, I was 18 and I was driving home from returning a movie to Blockbuster at about 10PM. About a mile away from my house, I was driving through an area that was hilly. I come down a hill and before I go up the next one, I stop. Above a house at the peak of the hill was something about the size of a small school bus. I couldn't make out shape or actual size, but there was a row of 4 or 5 round lights that gave me the impression of the school bus size. I stopped dead and just looked at it. I rolled down my window, but heard no sound. I backed up a few feet to turn down a perpendicular road next to the house. As soon as I accelerated down that street, the object moved from a dead stop as fast as a projected light would move and hid from me behind a row of trees further down that road. I about pissed myself, I can't begin to tell you how unsettling seeing it move was. I continued driving in that direction, but ended up going back towards my house. As I was headed back, I saw it about 150 feet above me. As soon as I accelerated again, it sped up and I lost sight of it. Like I said, I have no idea what it was, but it wasn't the only time I saw strange moving lights in my neighborhood. I don't know if it matters, but there is an Air Force base a few miles from that neighborhood. When I got home, I told my Mom about it. I was completely lucid and she said I looked like I had seen a ghost. So, there was nothing questionable about the experience.

[2nd_city_saint787]

Love "ghost hunting" havent it dont it much lately but i have a couple stories. Gypsie Graveyard does not like me, first time i went nothing happened except some bad gut feelings and feelings of paranoia so me and my friends were messing around and having a snowball fight. well a few weeks later my girlfriend decided to tell me she felt something pull the middle of her jacket and she didnt wanna say anything because she thought wed think shes crazy, well after this was said we went back the next day and no lie i was wandering off apparently by myself, i thought i was walking with one of my friends, so i start "talking to my friend" and hes responding in simple yes or no answers, rather mean like and then i start asking where the virgin mary went because the spot i was in was where i coulda sworn the virgin mary was. well i kept asking "my friend" and freaking out like whered it go and "he" said over there and i look to see where "hes" pointing and no lie there was no one there. Another time i went there my brand new 07 pontiac g6 failed to start 6 times after i saw a rather large black figure approach me that looked like a huge dog. another time there the group i was with (me included) swears we say then angel in the middle of the place move its wings.

 

 

and thats just at Gypsies if i remember i will come back later on tonight and post more s***

[Kyyle23]

I think it's Ghost Adventures that has the muscle-head guy who taunts the ghosts. They can be pretty humorous, but whay would you want to piss off a ghost...especially a purported evil entity?

 

yeah the guy that wears all the ed hardy gear. He really pisses me off, and he runs from everything

[WilliamTell]

My first experience was when I was 15 (8 years ago). The town next to mine has an old myth that dates back to the 1910's I believe. The husband supposively went crazy and shot his wife and kids, then ran to a train overpass and hung himself. The house is said to be haunted so 5 of us wanted to check it out on Halloween night. We get to the house, which no one has lived in for years, and see a fainting green light in the top floor of the house. After finally getting enough nerve to go into the house, the 5 of us inspect the house and don't find a light in any room of the house. Then we leave the house and go back outside and the green light is gone. Soon after our experience in the house, the house was boarded up and impossible to get in.

 

I thought seeing the green light was strange enough, but a couple years later I was telling the story to some friends and they all said it would've been impossible to get upstairs like we did because the staircase had been missing ever since they could remember. Thinking these people were pulling my leg or something I started asking a bunch of people and they also said the stair case had been out for years. I still don't know what to believe about that house. It seems impossible to comprehend what actually was going on in the house the night we went there. Too bad the house is boarded up so now.

 

I have another story I'll post later.

[G&T]

I think it's Ghost Adventures that has the muscle-head guy who taunts the ghosts. They can be pretty humorous, but whay would you want to piss off a ghost...especially a purported evil entity?

 

Because they don't exist and they know it.

 

But as someone said, if you ask for a ghost to appear, why run away when something weird happens?

 

It's a guilty pleasure of mine to watch those shows, actually. But the more I watch, the more convinced I am that ghosts don't exist.

[BigEdWalsh]

From the age of 11 to 19, I lived in an old (over a hundred years old) house in Elmhurst. It was huge and had a real neat garage which was actually more like an old coach house (it was huge and had a big old room upstairs). This place was so creepy, I'm not kidding you. The house was creepy, the garage was creepy...even the yard was creepy. Often, even out in the yard (which was gigantic) I would get "unsettling feelings" best described I guess as a sense of dread.

One time, I believe it was summer, I was messing around with two friends on my front porch, which was a very large covered open porch (more about the porch later) when all three of us saw this guy walking through the yard. He was shabbily dressed and looked kinda like you would think a hobo would look. Well, were all looking at him and he walks behind a big old oak tree and never appears on the other side. I mean, he was GONE. We're all like, "Wtf?! Where'd that guy go?". We never saw him again.

We had a gigantic attic. I used to think of it big enough to have a bowling alley up there. We used to hear footsteps in the attic on occasion. One time, my brothers and I were were home alone at night and we heard very defintie constant footsteps. My older brother who was probably 16 or 17 at the time was a gun nut and he had several guns. He takes a gun and gives me a gun (I hate guns) and he says' "I'm going up there. IF somebody comes down and it's not me, you f***ing shoot them!". Well, he went up, I was terrified but he came back down (I didn't shoot him..hehe) and we didn't hear any more footsteps....that night.

I don't know how many times my mom would ask me to run a box up to the attic. There was a door to the attic and then winding steps up into the attic. Only on a couple of occasions, was I ever brave enough to make it to the top of the attic stairs. Very creepy up there!

Getting back to the front porch we often would hear footsteps on the porch. Usually it was so obvious that someone was on the porch or coming to the door that I or someone else would go to the door before they would ring the bell but you'd open the door and no one was there. That happened a lot. My dad told me (long after we had moved) that he often saw people in early 1900-s style clothing on the porch.

On a humorous note, every Halloween my Dad would blast spooky sound effects on a stereo. There were lots of kids that would walk right past our house. It was funny.

The house was torn down shortly after we moved out because the church across the street needed a parking lot. So, it's long gone but lives on in occasional nightmares.

On another note, my mom says that she used to see a deceased aunt of hers occasionally. She would appear at the foot of her bed and beckon to her. This was when my mom was a kid. My grandmother said one time when my mom was a toddler, my grandma went into my mom's room to check on her and she was not only not in her crib but she was sitting on top of a dresser. My grandma said there were no drawers pulled out, no possible way she could have climbed up there.

I got UFO stories too. People think you're crazy when you tell them you've seen a ufo.

 

[JPN366]

I got UFO stories too. People think you're crazy when you tell them you've seen a ufo.

 

Or they laugh. I didn't want to see what I saw, but I saw it.

[longshot7]

Nope. I don't believe in God, so I sure as hell don't believe in ghosts. Sorry.

[BigEdWalsh]

Or they laugh. I didn't want to see what I saw, but I saw it.

Exactly. It's not like I wanted to see a frickin' ufo, but I did. And like what you described, what I saw made NO sound. That was the weirdest thing and it was low enough to the ground that I would have heard something.

[NorthSideSox72]

I believe in energy. Human beings have some sort of resident energy, some might call it a soul. I don't think that vanishes completely when someone dies - the energy goes somewhere. How coherently, I don't know. But I will say, I've had a few experiences where certain places have a certain feel to them, which I attribute to those energies. Beyond that, I just don't know, but I wouldn't outright dismiss the possibility of "ghost". I just don't think I believe in the human apparition type stuff, or physical encounters.

 

[hogan873]

I've never had an experience where I saw an actual apparition. The few experiences I have had were sounds, unsettling feelings, cold spots, etc.

 

There was an old farm house that we would meet friends at to go hunting or just gather for a weekend. Supposedly the house was haunted by the previous owner (Ben) who died in the downstairs bedroom. There were plenty of things that happened that seemed like a haunting, but I know oftentimes we were just scaring ourselves. However, we would often hear footsteps and a rocking chair rocking in the attic. The strangest thing was we'd occasionally hear a phone ring, and there was no phone in the house.

[MexSoxFan#1]

Nope. I don't believe in God, so I sure as hell don't believe in ghosts. Sorry.

I'm not religious at all but I know what I've seen and heard with my own eyes and ears, I know it sounds crazy but I'm not gonna convince myself I didn't go through some weird crap.

[zenryan]

I dont believe in Ghosts but when I was like 6, my dad cut out a picture of Frankenstein's head and taped it to my tv screen. The glare from the street light bouncing off my tv screen made the picture visible in the darkness. I woke up in the middle of the night to Frankenstein's face staring at me and I basically cried myself to sleep b/c I was so scared.

[farmteam]

I believe in energy. Human beings have some sort of resident energy, some might call it a soul. I don't think that vanishes completely when someone dies - the energy goes somewhere. How coherently, I don't know. But I will say, I've had a few experiences where certain places have a certain feel to them, which I attribute to those energies. Beyond that, I just don't know, but I wouldn't outright dismiss the possibility of "ghost". I just don't think I believe in the human apparition type stuff, or physical encounters.

 

My views are somewhat similar to this. I think those "unsettling feelings" and "cold spots" are more energies in familiar locations or times. However, if I ever did see a ghost in human form, and I had no other explanation whatsoever, I could see myself believing in it then, and not outright dismissing it.

[knightni]

Nope. I don't believe in God, so I sure as hell don't believe in ghosts. Sorry.

Just because you don't believe they exist, doesn't mean that they don't. Just ask Carl Everett.