any personal experience with Ghosts??

[HHI944]

Originally Posted by kach22i

My brother and I smelled the pipe tobacco of the former caretaker of a lighthouse in north Florida (St. Augustine) which died long ago.

You can take your pipe, why not your favorite cigar too?

If there's no smoking in heaven, then I shall not go...
Scotch too......gotta have Scotch....If I can't have those, I'll be content to haunt the earth....specifically the Dominican Republic and Scotland

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by trekkor

There are no dead humans appearing as "ghosts".

Some people are troubled by demons, however.


KT

Is this the argument that if you believe in God, then you also believe in the Devil, and therefore demons?

[genrex]

Originally Posted by trekkor

There are no dead humans appearing as "ghosts". Some people are troubled by demons, however.

All that exists in heaven and on earth is not listed in the bible, Horatio.

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[trekkor]

Believe as you please.

There is only one truth.
People are either conscious after death or they are not.


KT

[gassy]

My family and I have seen "drips" of water fall from our ceiling-- so clear that I got up and checked the ceiling. Dry. I'm skeptical about this stuff but I can't explain the drips. The drips man, the drips. Freaks me out.

[930addict]

My ghost stories:
#1. Several years ago in building 1 there was a guy by the name of George that died soon after returning to his desk after a meeting. Turns out he was diabetic and died of diabetic coma. Anyhow the coroner took him out of the building in a freight elevator. A few days later an electrician, a contractor, entered the building at 2 a.m. with tool box in hand and stepped into the freight elevator. When he turned around to face the door he saw something enter the elevator with him. He dropped his toolbox and jetted outta there. The next day he told his supervisor what happened and told him he was not going back into this building. His supervisor brought the matter up to our facility guy. The facility guy asked the supervisor to get a description of what he saw. The electrician described George exactly as he was the day he died. Mind you this guy is a contractor and knows nothing about the goings on in our facility (we have 3000 employees). This issue escalated to the executives. When they called the facilities manager in asking for solutions he told them that he was not a ghostbuster. There were a few such sightings after that. The last one was witnessed by one of the warehouse folks who swears he saw two shadows on the building as he was walking to his car – his and a mysterious one. After a few paces the mysterious one sped ahead and disappeared. That was the last sighting of what we presumed to be George.

#2. In building 2, there was a lady that had worked for the company for 30+ years. She and her husband were killed in a car wreck as he was driving her to work one day. Afterwards several people say they saw her in the break room as though she was sitting right in front of them.

#3. My grandfather passed away in 2003. I used to help him with his lawns and rental properties. About a week after he died I was lying in bed with my wife and just started dozing off when I got the feeling someone was watching me. I opened my eyes and as clear as day I saw a “person” wearing overalls and a flannel shirt quickly turn and walk through our bathroom door. It scared the hell out of me. So much so that that I backed into my wife while pulling the blankets up to my nose and nearly pushed her off her side of the bed (we have a king bed). My grandfather was a carpenter and wore overalls and flannel shirts.

#4. I was in 5th grade and we just moved into a new house. The house was strange and became more strange as we remodeled. The light in the stairwell was red when we moved in. In addition, there was a room down stairs that had Hawaiian wallpaper. There was just something weird about the house. As we tore down the walls to the weird room, we found chains and sex toys hidden in the wall. At the time we found it comical in a WTF kinda way. There was a day when my mom had to take my sister to school but I stayed home. She left the house closing and locking the door and I was playing with my RC Kenworth car hauler on the kitchen floor. Several minutes after she left the house got noticeably cooler and there was a light breeze in the house. Something caught my attention in the stairwell. I couldn’t focus on it but there was something there coming up the stairwell. It rounded the corner and “walked” right passed me right in front of me and the bar doors that were in the hallway actually moved. When my mom got home I was in tears in the laundry room with a butcher knife. She didn’t believe me but to this day I get the chills when I think about it. In fact, I’m not a religious person. I was raised very conservative Christian but since have become more of an agnostic as far as religion goes. But because of this single experience I know there is “something else” after we’re dead. I don’t know what but there’s something.

[dewolf]

Originally Posted by kach22i

If the brain really does fill in 60-80% of what we see, then it's fair to say we see only 20-40% of what is there - right?

Maybe most ghosts exist in that 60-80%.

After all, consider that children are much more sensitive to these paranormal phenomena.

Children are still learning to "see" and their brains lack the ability to "fill in" based on past memories because these memories do not yet exist.

No, we see everything that is there. The mind makes up a mental image of its surroundings via your peripheral vision. We don't actually see the object we are looking at in reality anyway. We are only seeing the light reflected back off the object.

How are you certain that children are much more 'sensitive' to paranormal phenomena?

Childrens minds are excellent at recall. In fact they are far better than we are at recalling their surroundings.

[romad]

Originally Posted by dewolf

No, we see everything that is there. The mind makes up a mental image of its surroundings via your peripheral vision. We don't actually see the object we are looking at in reality anyway. We are only seeing the light reflected back off the object.

How are you certain that children are much more sensitive to paranormal phenomena?

Childrens minds are excellent at recall. In fact they are far better than we are at recalling their surroundings.

Dewolf
This is one of the areas you can not convince someone....as soon as someone has one of these experience its all to real for them. The mind is not a perfect thing its constantly trying to evaluate its environment even with limited inputs. Sometimes the anaylsis is wrong but, the experience is very real to the person.

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by 930addict

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#4. I was in 5th grade and we just moved into a new house...............

I think early exposure to these sorts of things can make one more sensitive to them later on in life.

For others who have not yet experienced similar events, they just cannot imagine the implausible being plausible.

Dear dewolf and romad, shoot the messenger if you don't like the news seems to be your motto, good luck with that. A bit short sighted if you ask me.

The "weird" happens, deal with it or deny it, your choice.

[azasadny]

I do not believe in ghosts...

[genrex]

That's what I thought until two years ago.

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by Laneco

Just because we can't see something, or understand something, does not mean it fails to exist.

It seems like Christians have been saying that for many years. Just sayin...

[Zeke]

It would be interesting to run the numbers of how many people of a certain era have existed v. the number of people on the planet now. Then one wonders why there are no stories about ancient man appearing as a ghost. Who is eligible? Only souls since the Dark Ages?

The point being, if there are spirits around from all who have been here before, why haven't most of us seen dozens?

[Schrup]

Originally Posted by azasadny

I do not believe in ghosts...

My shift partner died in the bathroom 10' away from where I sit at work ten years ago. He was married to the job, not much else in his life. I shy away from all that kind of stuff, no interest.

[romad]

Originally Posted by kach22i

I think early exposure to these sorts of things can make one more sensitive to them later on in life.

For others who have not yet experienced similar events, they just cannot imagine the implausible being plausible.

Dear dewolf and romad, shoot the messenger if you don't like the news seems to be your motto, good luck with that. A bit short sighted if you ask me.

The "weird" happens, deal with it or deny it, your choice.

AAAAAH Another lib who believes in ghost, what a surprise.....and what messenger are we shooting, facts are facts. by the way do you believe in God? because if you don't you fall into that real special category.

[dennis in se pa]

People who smoke freebase/crack will swear there are ghosts outside their windows.

[GWN7]

My first Dr. Glen Hamilton practiced out of a house. You would enter from the front door (double doors) and then would be in the waiting room. It was done in old oak trim with plaster walls. A huge fireplace was centerpiece of the waiting room with old leather chairs and leather settee's to sit on while you waited to see the Dr. A heavy velvet curtain split the room in two. You went thru a doorway to the left where a stairway went upstairs and the nurse/receptionist had a table and chair with a file index on all the patients next to the stairs. You had to go up the landing of the stairway and down the other side to get to the doorway to the Dr.'s conference room where he did most of his examinations on his patients. As a kid I always felt at ease when waiting to see the Dr. Cold chills would run down my back making the hair on my arms stand on end sometimes while I waited. I would feel uneasy while sitting there. These feelings would end when I went in to see the Dr. Strange piano music used to waft from the second floor of the house. I wrote off the chills and feelings of unease when I was older as a child's fears of getting a needle and the piano music came from the Dr.'s sister who lived upstairs and gave piano lessons.



Hamilton House

That was until I got older and learned the story of Hamilton House.

It turns out that the house was where my Dr., Glen Hamilton grew up in. Along with his sister and two brothers. Their father was Dr. T.G. Hamilton and mother Lillian. Both were very interested in spiritual communication after the death of one of their sons. They would have séances and mediums from around the world at their house. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King were among some of the notables in attendance at the séances.

The whole history of the Hamilton's can be found here if your interested: Thomas Glendenning Hamilton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I went back to the house long after Dr. Glen had retired and the house's main floor had been turned into a retail business and the same feelings that I had as a child overcame me again.

Not sure if there are ghosts but there might be something out there.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by genrex

That's what I thought until two years ago.

I, for one, would be interested in your before and after tale.

Many of my friends and family have experienced, for the lack of a better term, "ghosts"...one of them, a retired Marines Corps pilot I went to flight school with, on multiple occasions.

He was in the first CH-53E squadron in the Corps and they had a number of accidents with an unfortunate loss of life. He related to me, on penalty of making me a ghost if I mentioned this to anyone, some of the stories of visits from former squadron mates that had perished in the accidents.

Spine-tinging stuff.

Me? I am so closed off to the idea of seeing, let alone interacting with, a ghost that I don't seem to be on the tour and don't want to be. Unless I can pour it over ice, I have no need for spirits.

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by Zeke

It would be interesting to run the numbers of how many people of a certain era have existed v. the number of people on the planet now. Then one wonders why there are no stories about ancient man appearing as a ghost. Who is eligible? Only souls since the Dark Ages?

The point being, if there are spirits around from all who have been here before, why haven't most of us seen dozens?

From what I've seen on TV specials they claim ghosts have a limited presence or energy as which decreases over time. Limits on ghosts ages seemed to be an accepted norm within the program which went into reporting the oldest ghost and so on. Even the oldest ghosts had fewer sightings over several generations or even centuries.

If a ghost is an energy of some kind which we cannot measure or as of yet identify, then it might make sense that they eventually fade away.

[kach22i]

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