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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2014 11:57:53 GMT -5
The current movie reminded me of a board I used to own as a pre-teen. Nothing happened, although I used it by myself, in daylight. I believe it was subsequently tossed out after one too many creepy stories.
I've never seen a ghost...but, having no other way to describe it, know when something is there. It's an internal feeling. Sometimes it's fun. Sometimes it isn't, and I am sufficently motivated to get the hell out of there.
I've gone on ghost hunts with friends who use equipment. We wind up empty handed most times, but I usually know that from the moment we get there. I feel nothing. Although it's fun to climb up lighthouses at night and stare out into the sea from assorted coastlines.
And then there are those other places in England I'm inclined...not to visit, at all.
My last creepy experience was visiting a friend who had just moved into a new property. The previous owners sold the house after constructing it. No one died there. Something caught my eye while looking out into a large living room, but the others said no one else was there. That night, lights suddenly turned themselves on. In other places, this has also happened, including fans, blenders, always in the room I'm in. Electrical surcarge? Doesn't happen to anyone else around, plus I distinctly head the 'click' these appliances make when turned on.
Yet I'm not creeped, simply because I don't get that feeling.
I subscribe to the thought that just because you can't see something doesn't mean it's not there.
Any of you had a creepy experience that has lingered on?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2014 13:22:30 GMT -5
I don't disbelieve, but I am far more concerned with what the living will do unto me than anything dead and lingering.
-M
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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 9, 2014 16:12:58 GMT -5
Eh, if there is life after death(which I'm pretty sure there isn't) I'd imagine there'd be more important stuff to do than come back to this world and mess with people so I'm going to go with it's all a bunch of BS.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 9, 2014 16:50:09 GMT -5
I've mentioned this before but it bears repeating
About 10 years ago, very cold and wet January night at about 10PM, my friend was driving me to a party out on Long Island. It was a dark and desolate road thru a forested area in the suburbs that we never drove before. We were going slow because it was pitch black and the roads were slick. As we turned a bend we both saw a woman alone on the road in a full length white coat. As we passed her I got a tingly feeling and looked back. She made no motion at us, no movement at all. I asked my friend should we go back to see if she was all right but before he can answer we saw flashing lights up ahead. We slowed to a crawl and witnessed a demolished car and a police vehicle. On the road was a body-a woman in a full length white coat - everything identical to what we saw a few minutes earlier. We got the hell out of there and drank heavily at the party
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2014 20:02:39 GMT -5
Skeptical leaning towards bs.
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Post by shaxper on Nov 9, 2014 21:01:42 GMT -5
My belief in ghosts used to be that they were either echoes or maybe an accidental crossing over from another time/reality. That ghosts didn't know they were ghosts and weren't fully aware of you anymore than you were of them. There's some evidence to support this, and it lines up well with most anecdotes about ghost encounters.
Then, after my father died, some very weird stuff happened. Things that were witnessed by others, were scientifically demonstrable, and things that absolutely, positively, were not explainable except by the idea that my father was trying to talk to me.
I don't like to talk about it, and I won't.
But I definitely don't know where I stand on ghosts.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2014 22:14:50 GMT -5
I've known too many level-headed (well, I assume he's level-headed -- he sure as heck comes off that way here) people like shax who've had seemingly inexplicable experiences to discount the idea. I know Cei-U! had a doozy of an (apparent) encounter at some point, too; he mentioned it on the old forum a few years back.
And of course it's no secret (well, it may be to our newcomers, of whom we have quite a few) that I'm fascinated by the paranormal in general -- ghosts, ESP, precognition, UFOs, cryptids, ad seemingly infinitum. I call myself more of a fascinated skeptic than a believer, but at this late date it's pretty clear I'm a lot closer to the latter end of the spectrum.
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Post by Randle-El on Nov 10, 2014 0:46:17 GMT -5
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Post by Nowhere Man on Nov 10, 2014 7:37:31 GMT -5
I'm pretty much convinced that the power of suggestion is at the root of supernatural occurrences. I've had creepy experiences, but they'd take place in a graveyard or while in a relationship with someone into Wicca and the occult. It's funny how when I avoid stimuli like that, I never have these experiences. I don't watch paranormal shows anymore, and have never been into horror movies all that much, but if I would do that for a week or so, the vibe and mood in the house would change and I'd feel like a dread presence was all around and so forth. Of course I did...it was being suggested to me.
I'm living in the house where my grandmother died and haven't had a single experience since I've been here. Beyond this, the entire methodology of ghosts is downright silly when you think about it. I'm an atheist, but even if I wasn't, what do you make of ghosts? God just gives certain people a pass on heaven or hell and lets them hang around their house upturning furniture and playing pranks? This is a good use of their afterlife?
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Post by Pharozonk on Nov 10, 2014 13:19:01 GMT -5
I'm a total believer after I had an experience in New Orleans a few months ago.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2014 13:28:12 GMT -5
Details, Pharo, if you care to share them?
The closest I've come to a possible paranormal experience I've described before & will again as soon as I can grab some time.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 10, 2014 16:54:58 GMT -5
My friend and I, witnesses to our ghostly experience a decade back, have had extensive conversations about it. There is one thing I can't explain about the woman in the long white coat dying and seeming to re-appear in the road later on wearing the same coat:
Why do we see the white coat? Is that the ghost of the white coat? Why isn't she naked-the way she came into the world? Is that a ghosty bra and panties too? Is the perfume also the ghost of Chanel #5? Do people who wear glasses come back with ghost spectacles? How far does it go concerning the items you wear,carry,spray on? Dental implants,prosthetic limbs,nail polish? I'm trying to understand the rules of apparitions since I never hear much about naked ghosts
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2014 16:59:36 GMT -5
My friend and I, witnesses to our ghostly experience a decade back, have had extensive conversations about it. There is one thing I can't explain about the woman in the long white coat dying and seeming to re-appear in the road later on wearing the same coat: Why do we see the white coat? Is that the ghost of the white coat? Why isn't she naked-the way she came into the world? Is that a ghosty bra and panties too? Is the perfume also the ghost of Chanel #5? Do people who wear glasses come back with ghost spectacles? How far does it go concerning the items you wear,carry,spray on? Dental implants,prosthetic limbs,nail polish? I'm trying to understand the rules of apparitions since I never hear much about naked ghosts Sounds similar to the paranormal phenomenon known as the white lady or lady in white. wikipedia-M |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 10, 2014 17:03:04 GMT -5
I neither particularly believe or disbelieve in ghosts or other particular supernatural things. If there are things causing the experiences people report, as others have said, they may not be dead people come back. Or maybe they are. All I know for sure is I have immense contempt for these "ghost hunter" tv shows. One of the denizens of my household likes watching them, and I've had to sit thru them on occasion. These guys make Scooby Doo look impressive by comparison.
And, while I worry far more about what the living are up to, I won't touch a Quija board or other occult stuff. Better safe than sorry.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 11, 2014 16:03:30 GMT -5
My opinion on ghosts is that I'll consider any scrap of evidence with an open mind, secretly hoping that there is indeed some unfathomed reality superposed to the one we are familiar with. Ditto space aliens and paranormal powers. I was a huge UFO and Bermuda triangle buff as a kid.
Unfortunately, there is not one scrap of actual evidence that ghosts exist. Anecdotes, yes. Evidence, no. And we managed to find evidence for the bloody Higgs boson!!!
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