Ever seen a Ghost ?...

Paddy20 · 12-02-2004 12:26am #1

Anyone ever seen a Ghost ?..

I have when I was 12 years old and a very close relative had just died. I did not know they were dead, but I was sitting talking too my brother, in an upstairs bedroom. His was sitting with a window at his back and as he talked I saw this grey misty unmistakable vision of the person who had just died, very slowly drift up past the window and smile and wave to me, as if to say goodbye.

I can honestly say that experience changed my life, and ever since I have had no doubt that there really is a hereafter. Although I am not particularly religious. I do believe we have a spirit or energy force that moves on somewhere else after our human body dies.

Anyone else had a similar experience ?...

P. :ninja:

Woden · 12-02-2004 12:41am

i've never seen em i'm afraid for the simple reason that they don't exist

bizmark · 12-02-2004 12:42am

what data said

Tazzle · 12-02-2004 12:49am

Here we go again. :dunno:

flogen · 12-02-2004 2:08am

Ive never seen a ghost, although I have firm belief in them (and a spiritual beyond or afterlife) due to some occourances that were, to me, more than coincidences.
Also Ive heard plenty of strong anecdotal evidence (yes, i know its not scientific, but that doesnt bother me), as regards clairvoyants and the like....

Flogen

Deadwing · 12-02-2004 2:32am

I saw a ghost this morning, when i looked in the mirror.

Tellox · 12-02-2004 3:03am

According to my mother, When I was around 5yrs old, I refused to go into the hairdressers, because, according to myself; "The old woman upstairs says im not to go in there any more" ... now, my mother assumed this was just me not wanting to get my hair cut, and said I'd go get it cut after a week or so. A week or so passed,and she tried to force me to go in, but I was crying hysterically at the door.

My mother brought this up in a conversation with my grandfather, and apparently, my great aunt used to have her own hair salon upstairs in there,and she despised children...

dod · 12-02-2004 9:46am

Of course they exist... even if only in our mind

Bubba · 12-02-2004 9:59am

Originally posted by Paddy20
Anyone ever seen a Ghost ?..

I have when I was 12 years old and a very close relative had just died. I did not know they were dead, but I was sitting talking too my brother, in an upstairs bedroom.

P. :ninja:

So a very close relative died and you didn't know about it??????????? yeah yeah

whosurpaddy · 12-02-2004 10:15am

put on gerry ryan now. their doing a piece about ghosts

cannonballkid · 12-02-2004 10:20am

I am a ghost so there

Bubba · 12-02-2004 11:48am

Originally posted by cannonballkid
I am a ghost so there

O OK THEN................WATEVER UR INTO LIKE

TUTS · 12-02-2004 12:11pm

I know of two different families were the all the clocks stopped in the house when a member of the family died. One Tipp one Clare....

And yep i believe in Ghosts.

cannonballkid · 12-02-2004 12:15pm

I saw one for real . A door in my house flew open one day and a light turned itself on and off to

Dustaz · 12-02-2004 12:16pm

Yay, paddys back - welcome back paddy

whosurpaddy · 12-02-2004 12:17pm

Originally posted by Dustaz
Yay, paddys back - welcome back paddy

cheers yea

Paddy20 · 12-02-2004 12:31pm

Dustaz,

I never knew that I was away !. Maybe I died and I am only here in spirit :eek:

Who is this imposter above called 'whosurpaddy' anyway ?....

I think I'll haunt him, for trying to steal my life force.

P. :ninja:

Now, lets hear more from the gormless unimaginative sceptics, please ! ww)

Zulu · 12-02-2004 12:44pm

Can any of the believers out there explain one thing...
Picture this, you die. Theres an afterlife.
...so you choose to hang around a building for a few hundred years, scaring people. Why? Are you that petty? Doesn't that sound a little childish to you?

I personally don't believe in ghosts. I cant reasonable believe that if there was an afterlife, someone would choose to hang around a castle say, spooking people. :rolleyes:

Big Chief · 12-02-2004 1:30pm

Originally posted by Deadwing
I saw a ghost this morning, when i looked in the mirror.

yeh same except every morning

mirrors screwed into the wall of your room opposite your bed are annoying...

Unpossible · 12-02-2004 1:46pm

...so you choose to hang around a building for a few hundred years, scaring people. Why? Are you that petty? Doesn't that sound a little childish to you?

The reason they would stay around is because they might have died tramatically/suddenly, they are not aware that they are dead or they are restless waiting for something to bring peace to their tormented souls which will allow them to pass on

Zulu · 12-02-2004 1:50pm

Originally posted by Unpossible
The reason they would stay around is because they might have died tramatically/suddenly, they are not aware that they are dead or they are restless waiting for something to bring peace to their tormented souls which will allow them to pass on

...yea, for a couple of hundred years, spooking people. :rolleyes:
Gimmie a break - not convinced at all.
People die tramatically/suddenly the whole time. If that was the case - you wouldn't get anywhere near any WW2 prison camp.

PrecariousNuts · 12-02-2004 2:12pm

I saw a ghost once and I pissed myself, then he said he wasn't into that sick watersport ****.

Bubba · 12-02-2004 2:13pm

Originally posted by Unpossible
The reason they would stay around is because they might have died tramatically/suddenly, they are not aware that they are dead or they are restless waiting for something to bring peace to their tormented souls which will allow them to pass on

YOUR REALLY INTO THIS GHOST STUFF ARN'T U

Paddy20 · 12-02-2004 2:14pm

Zulu,

You know, not everyone is"spooked" by Ghosts. I for one have no fear whatsoever be they good, bad or indifferent.

Have you, or do you know anyone who was "spooked" by a Ghost or restless spirit. If not, then why bring up "spooking" in the first place ?...

P. :ninja:

Zulu · 12-02-2004 2:30pm

Originally posted by Paddy20
Zulu,

You know, not everyone is"spooked" by Ghosts. I for one have no fear whatsoever be they good, bad or indifferent.

Have you, or do you know anyone who was "spooked" by a Ghost or restless spirit. If not, then why bring up "spooking" in the first place ?...

P. :ninja:

emmmm, thats the general preception of ghosts isn't it? Isn't that a good enough reason to bring it up? I didn't notice anyone saying that seeing a ghost was the happiest moment of their lives.
If I did see a ghost, I think I would be a bit spooked. I would imagine most people would be spooked.
(Just did a quick survey here in my office 6 out of 7 staff would be spooked if they saw a ghost - the one that wouldn't, well better bite my tounge on that one!) Not everyone is as hard as you I guess

Evil_Bilbo · 12-02-2004 4:41pm

Anyone seen the ghost in 3 men and a baby?

Its a young boy in the window in the bedroom just as the mother comes in to see the baby.

Apparently he used live in the house and died falling off the balcony or something

Check it out - its there - its pretty dang creepy

Still - ghosts, eh? Who knows? Not me....

Zulu · 12-02-2004 5:13pm

Originally posted by Evil_Bilbo
Anyone seen the ghost in 3 men and a baby?

Its a young boy in the window in the bedroom just as the mother comes in to see the baby.

Apparently he used live in the house and died falling off the balcony or something

Check it out - its there - its pretty dang creepy

Still - ghosts, eh? Who knows? Not me....

...reflection of crew in the window???

Giblet · 12-02-2004 5:18pm

Three men and a baby..

http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/3menbaby.htm

LegacyUser · 12-02-2004 6:31pm

Heres my worthless opinion, you are all a biological machine, every atom that makes you was here before u were born, you were dead before you were born, hands up who was bothered being dead when the dinosaurs were stomping around for a few hundred million years, or when napolean was struttin his stuff or the world wars were raging, not me, will be the same when im dead, no worries, so i don't need to believe in ghosts or any other supernatural stuff, including god and similar

tinkerbell · 12-02-2004 10:13pm

I believe in ghosts, two appeared hovering over me when I woke up in the middle of the night, a few nights / maybe weeks later, something grabbed my neck forcing me to wake up.

Also, when I was younger, I had these dreams about an old woman, and when I told my nana about it, I gave the exact description of her grandmother, who I had never even seen a picture of, or had heard about her before.

My granda saw ghosts when he was younger as well. Definitely I believe that there are other beings co-existing with us. I think that you jus have to be open enough to believe, and only then can you see. Tiz the kinda thing that I'd love to see them again, but it's really a scary experience as well. I ain't surprised that loads are sceptics about the whole ghost thing, but I guess at the end of the day, if you haven't experienced it yourself, you won't believe in it

I'd love to go and visit some places that are supposedly haunted. Back home in a village a few miles away, there was this house that even on a hot summers day, the road in front of it was always freezing cold, and around it. Odd.

DriftingRain · 13-02-2004 12:05am

Don't believe in ghosts....

I did hear there was a ghost in the movie Three Men and a Baby. Something about the curtians in in their living room????:rolleyes:

Have to see one to believe in them!

~DR~

Zulu · 13-02-2004 10:11am

I don't believe in ghosts hanging about this world, the universe is just a bit bit for me to accept that. I am very open minded, but, to me, this borders on the ridiculous - up there with a man from the North Pole. (Just my opinion - millions for children can't be wrong about the dude from the pole

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Originally posted by tinkerbell
I believe in ghosts, two appeared hovering over me when I woke up in the middle of the night, a few nights / maybe weeks later, something grabbed my neck forcing me to wake up.

Sleep paralisis and night terrors I have experienced - but they were just that, I understand that my mind was still in dreamy land, I could cry ghosts - but it isn't ghosts.
As for your experience, feeling somthing grabbing your neck.
I suggest to you, that if a ghost (good) wished to wake you for some reason - they wouldn't grab your neck (absolutly terrifing the s**t outta you), but perhaps your foot/arm.
Now if that was ghost bad (meaning to grab your neck) and could physically kill you - surly they would finish the job? (Sorry don't mean to freak you out here) But it dosen't make sence at all. Only that it was trying to scare you... why? Why would a spirit hang around for years to scare random people???

SheroN · 13-02-2004 10:30am

BOOOOOO!!!

hedgetrimmer · 13-02-2004 10:41am

Had a few of these experiences

1. Once I was staying over in a friends house in a room in which the door periodically locks itself (an occurance observed by several different people at diferent times) when I had the sense of a middle aged business man there, and saw him clear as day, very calm very rational, doffing his cap to me.

At breakfast the following morning, I mentioned that I had an odd night and the elder sister said "Oh, did you meet my businessman?". Odd.

2. There was another time in my sister's hosue in Prospect Avenue where I was staying over, but couldn't sleep - I kept get horrible "flash-backs" of beating and nasty things. On the strength of that, they did some poking in newspapers in the Ilac library (where my sis worked at the time) and found that the house had been used to lull people back for drugging, beating and robbing.

3. A house in the country where I was staynig with some friends. I woke up in the middle of the night and "revealed" to one of my friends, who was awake, the most detailed account of what had happened her in tht room when she was 8 years old. Something I couldn't have known (only knew her for a few months, and she was 18 then), but I was accurate in every detail.

I have done a bit of research into this and maybe might do a book one of these days - Incredibly briefly all emotions produce energy. Energy can't be destroyed it just changes form. We can pick up on energy - consider walking into a room in which there has been an argument - you know that there has been one instinctively, you could "cut the atmosphere with a knife". Perhaps we don't fully use that part of our brain that interprets this energy yet, but we may someday. Until then, our brains project images, visual representations, feelings, sensations, but all detached, ephemeral...ghost-like.

If you consider a current scietific theory that language will be defunct within 100 years, perhaps this energy-awareness will be an evolutionary step to a new form of communication. Consider the huge surge to replace codified dogmatic religion with more energy-based systems (yoga, tai-chi, Buddhism, etc).

Anyway, I could go on for hours....

Zulu · 13-02-2004 10:54am

Originally posted by hedgetrimmer
Had a few of these experiences
1. Once I was staying over in a friends house in a room in which the door periodically locks itself (an occurance observed by several different people at diferent times) when I had the sense of a middle aged business man there, and saw him clear as day, very calm very rational, doffing his cap to me.

Why oh why, would a spirit hang around to lock doors? ...and unfufilled desire to be a prison officer??? Ahh come on, I just can't accept that.

...now as for the energy theory - I can accept that as a possiabilty.

Zulu · 13-02-2004 10:55am

Originally posted by Zulu
Ahh come on, I just can't accept that.
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...sorry, I'm not calling you a liar - I do believe you, but just can't accept that it's a pervious person hanging around to lock the door.

hedgetrimmer · 13-02-2004 11:35am

No problem Zulu, the door could be entirely unrelated to this specific "vision". Stuff happened in that house a lot, like knifes jumping off tables and bottles from the back of a shelf smashing on the floor.

Which could, to continue my "theory", be merely kinetic forms of built up energy in the place of in people (recalling that most poltergeist activity occurs around people, not places, ususally in their teens, and usually amongst what people would call "troubled teens" - a well established occurance which can be found agreed upon in most parapsychology circles)

tinkerbell · 13-02-2004 6:28pm

Originally posted by Zulu
Sleep paralisis and night terrors I have experienced - but they were just that, I understand that my mind was still in dreamy land, I could cry ghosts - but it isn't ghosts.
As for your experience, feeling somthing grabbing your neck.
I suggest to you, that if a ghost (good) wished to wake you for some reason - they wouldn't grab your neck (absolutly terrifing the s**t outta you), but perhaps your foot/arm.
Now if that was ghost bad (meaning to grab your neck) and could physically kill you - surly they would finish the job? (Sorry don't mean to freak you out here) But it dosen't make sence at all. Only that it was trying to scare you... why? Why would a spirit hang around for years to scare random people???

I can't answer your questions, all I know is that two bizaare incidents happened. I have no understanding at all of how spirits behave, all I know is that they co-exist with us

gonker · 14-02-2004 8:31pm

yes i have seen a ghost..... when i was about 16 lying in bed talking to my cousin who was in the bed next to me i saw a woman walking....i say walking...gliding along the wall in my bedroom she was dressed in victorian clothes....... just floated past and disapeared into the wall she didnt see me or give any indication that i was there. my cousin said i had a funny look on my face....my house was 1930s built so couldnt have been a flash back maybe from a previous build...i dont know....it wasnt scary just weird...
my mam (rip) on the other hand had very freaky experiences....during the war wwII :-) she was sent to the country to her grandparents to their old house where they could hear horses in the stables but there was no horses...gates slamming shut but the gates were not there people walking up and down stairs where my great grandad would shout to leave his family alone... she also woke up to see a little boy beside her bed playing with matches and a candle he turned to her and smiled...scary stuff.
gonk

Kold · 15-02-2004 1:25am

Something has to be proven scientifically in my opinion before I'll believe it. I mean, i won't go believing something just because someone told someone told someone (religion...).

fozzle · 15-02-2004 5:04pm

Science can't really prove anything, there's always loopholes, thats why no sensible scientist will ever talk about "facts".

I'm a scientist myself and yet I believe that there is some basis for ghosts, whether as spirits or as residual energies I'm not sure, but I've seen and heard things that I can't explain, and my house is over 230 years old, so I wouldn't be suprised if the people who lived there before (most of whom I'm related to) had left their essence in the house.

TCamen · 16-02-2004 1:13am

Mansion near my house (it's now a Spanish boarding school) used to have a ghost apparently. A lady in white that committed suicide by jumping off the roof. She would repeat the act every night, according to friends. Then again, you'd believe anything when you're young & impressionable hehe.
I've never seen a ghost, but I do believe in the paranormal & stuff like ghosts. Once years ago I was in my bedroom,was about 6 at the time, a big hardback book moved a few feet on the floor when my back was turned. I heard the thump of it hitting the floor & looked back. It was definitely in a different place on the floor. Now I'm not saying a ghost did it, but I can't explain how a big heavy book would spontaneously move around on the floor

My bedroom is above the kitchen, and sometimes I could hear the chairs moving as if someone had pulled it back to sit in during the night, yet everyone was upstairs in bed. I dunno, hard to explain I guess, and sounds silly reading it back even to me, but hey, just wanted to contribute

Zulu · 16-02-2004 10:42am

Originally posted by fozzle
Science can't really prove anything, there's always loopholes, thats why no sensible scientist will ever talk about "facts".

I'm a scientist myself and yet I believe that there is some basis for ghosts, whether as spirits or as residual energies I'm not sure, but I've seen and heard things that I can't explain, and my house is over 230 years old, so I wouldn't be suprised if the people who lived there before (most of whom I'm related to) had left their essence in the house.

Ok, sorry but I'm a scientist myself. I've studied it for too long now to listen to such comments.
"can't really prove anything" & "no sensible scientist will ever talk about facts"!!!
The mind boggles.
Science proves 1+1=2.
Science proves that the speed of light in a vacum is 299,792,458 m/s.
As you would know, when writing up an experment you list all the facts.
:rolleyes:

vibe666 · 16-02-2004 11:33am

yes, i've seen several, right from when i was about 4 (my mum found me having a detailed conversation with my recently dead grandfather), to seeing people who just weren't there.

i've seen and heard too much for it to be anything but real,, and i'm a pretty big sceptic when it comes to lots of 'unexplained' things.

i have my truth and i don't need to prove it to anyone. believe me or not. i'm not at all bothered either way.

hedgetrimmer · 16-02-2004 11:39am

I find it interesting to see that science itself is now branching into more esoteric fields, like quantam theory, and proporting suggestions that various meditative methods and oriental texts have been saying for centuries - such notions like the act of observing something changes the nature of that which is being observed.

I am not a scientist, but I do believe that true understanding in a lot of things will come from a combination of science and philosophy - maybe science proving philosophy. All scientific discoveries were deemed science-fiction until they actually happened, and in some ways, philosophy is there though process that can lead to such musings becoming scientific investigation and maybe occasionally being proven.

Just a thought.

Kold · 16-02-2004 11:41am

Well tbh with you, Science is the study of everything. I mean there are more conventional branches of science but everything is a science.

aine · 16-02-2004 12:18pm

yup....I was staying in a friends one night and as I was going upstairs I just happened to look out the window on the landing, the window looked out over the road in front of her house and I saw a woman walking down the street, nothing unusual there I guess except in was four thirty in the morning......no I hadn't been drinking, my friend was going away for three months so we were just having a lets get everyone together and have a bit of fun minus alcohol night!

So anyway as she got nearer I noticed that she was dressed in a nurse's uniform, but not a modern one....a really old style one and she had this weird little lantern thingie as well, I told my friends mother about it the following morning who informed me that the house at the end of the street used to be a fever hospital!! I was well spooked!

Zulu · 16-02-2004 12:35pm

I saw a ghost one, and I asked him if ghosts REALLY exist, and he said "b*llix to that, are you mental, of cousre they dont"

Exit · 17-02-2004 2:16am

Originally posted by hedgetrimmer
All scientific discoveries were deemed science-fiction until they actually happened.

Exactly. It would be silly to assume that science can and has proven everything.

ThrAx · 17-02-2004 3:02am

Originally posted by Bubba
YOUR REALLY INTO THIS GHOST STUFF ARN'T U

WHATS WITH ALL THE ****ING SHOUTING?!!! :rolleyes:

dod · 17-02-2004 10:25am

OK first of all, No I don't believe in ghosts.

However: I woke up from the deepest sleep last night to find somebody in my room that shouldn't have been. No idea who he was. In shock I jumped up & took a swing at him (This all happened instantaneously, it was an instinctive reaction). Then I pulled the curtains open to light the room from the streetlights, and there was nobody there.

No I hadn't been drinking earlier or anything else along those lines, and I swear that, to me, the person in my room was as real as could be. The utter terror I felt was very very real. The punch that I swung at him was certainly real. But I punched nothing, and there was nobody there when I opened the curtains.

Do I believe in ghosts now? No I don't. But I can't explain last nights incident either. Not something I'm going to dwell on, but I thought of this thread and decided it would be timely to throw this little episode into the mix.

Ever seen a Ghost ?...

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