Ghosts, what are your thoughts?

[Crowbob]

I saw an apparition once. Beautiful girl with a long, whispy sort of gauzy translucent white dress. She floated right over and twisted my arm until I cried out in pain.

Then I became conscious face down on the front porch of the dusty old house I was renting in college and soon discovered my arm was all akimbo exactly as it was when I had fallen on it right after the beer ran out.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

This ties into the "let's make money thread."
Suppose I charge $$$ to go into a house.
In front of the owners I do some voodoo stuff, then tell the owners to leave.
Over the next couple of days, I install water hammer arresters, redo faulty wiring, spray a crapload of "great stuff" into all the walls/floors. I drill about 1000 self tapping screws into everything to tie all the walls/floors/ joist together. Then I spackle everything over. Maybe even true up some loose doors and stuff.
For effect, I stick some dry ice in a box and walk out like this....



Would I be statistically any less effective than any 'real' exorcist?
Makes me curious.

[impactbumper]

Back in the days, when I was young and dumb, I have seen **** you guys would not even imagine. I don't necessarily think they were ghosts though , more so my imagination

[black_falcon]

How many people have lived and died on this earth? That would be a lot of ghosts hanging around and I've never seen one.

It's a fun topic if nothing else, and like UFOs, there's been just enough strange incidents over the years to make people wonder "what if".

I had one that really made me think twice when my grandfather passed away ten years ago, but I'm sure somewhere somehow there's an explanation.

[72doug2,2S]

My dog has seen them.

[Scuba Steve]

I've never seen or seen any evidence of anything, so put me in the skeptic camp.

[VINMAN]

I'm around dead people all day. Haven't seen a ghost yet....

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[Rednine11]

What all sorts of signals or freq can trigger those E detectors?
I bought one to play with and its kind of creepy.
I left it at my buddys house for two weeks. not a sound out of it. The house is a new build.
I took it to one of my rentals where I know for a fact someone passed and it went ape chit

[wdfifteen]

Ghosts, what are your thoughts?

Hmm. Are you asking the ghosts here what they're thinking?

[tabs]

Originally Posted by M.D. Holloway

I wish there were ghosts...I have never witnessed anything along those lines. Never saw a UFO either. I guess I'm not the chosen...

It is because you thinking is stuck within the four walls of the box and you can not see beyond your own nose. I am not saying there are or aren't only that there are possibilities beyond our imagination.

[look 171]

who don't dogs do not see dog ghosts, or why don't we see animal ghosts? ntil its proven, I am still a none believer.

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

There's a lot of evidence to suggest that cats can see into the ultraviolet spectrum, which can explain a lot of their reactions to things we can't see in the visible light spectrum (but maybe not everything).

I have also had cats my whole life... I don't get too freaked out when they react to things I can't see...as P-O-P says their eyesight is much different than ours (I have at times pulled out a ladder only to find an infinitesimal gnat on the ceiling they were staring at). Add to that their hearing... I have seen video of a bobcat chasing a mouse that is tunneling under over a foot of snow.

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by sand_man

Ghosts? Nah. Now Bigfoots...

So... when a bigfoot dies?

[tabs]

Originally Posted by scottmandue

So... when a bigfoot dies?

It really stinks..

[Crowbob]

Amazingly it took 17 posts about ghosts before somebody tied UFO's in.

Not so amazingly it was Lubey.

Ghosts are just stooped.

I have, however, seen a UFO.

I was in love at the time so it may have been a pair of panties.

[sand_man]

Originally Posted by scottmandue

So... when a bigfoot dies?

Originally Posted by tabs

It really stinks..

Well played, Sirs!

[WolfeMacleod]

My Great Grandmother owned a house in Port Townsend, WA that was a hospital in WWII. Dark rooms, surgery, the whole works...
415 Harrison Street was built in 1871.

I spent quite a few of my kid years there with my great Grandmother, and I can say.. yes, yes indeedy. We've seen and heard things there. Like the crying babies...

The house was sold in 1998 to a couple who had planned on restoring it to it's original form, or much like it.
A couple months ago, my GF and I went to PT. We drove by, and I decided to stop because the couple was outside. They were very happy to see us, too.. told us that MANY of the people who had a connection with the house had been by... like the last nurse when it was a hospital, her daughter took her there for Mother's Day a few years ago...
The house has a helluva history. I was suprised to see some of my great Grams old furniture there, too.. like the old wind organ.

After a while of talking to the couple and being shown some of the renovations, I asked about the "goings on" in the house.

They didn't want to talk about it.



When I called my aunt later that day to tell her we'd been there, the first thing she asked was if they said anything about the crying babies.

[wdfifteen]

Are zombies ghosts?

[Por_sha911]

I think that it is interesting that people who are totally closed minded to the existence of God are very open minded to ghosts and other theories about the paranormal.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by Por_sha911

I think that it is interesting that people who are totally closed minded to the existence of God are very open minded to ghosts and other theories about the paranormal.

LOL, I was just thinking the opposite, how people open to the existence of God are close minded about ghosts and the paranormal.

I think what it is, at least for me, I don't necessarily NOT believe in "God" rather I don't believe in the God as he / she / it is portrayed in any of the big / popular texts.

The other thing is people who are open minded about ghosts and the paranormal in general feel that way based on a personal experience, something more tangible than being asked to believe just on word of mouth and pure faith.