Have you ever seen a ghost?

ahtfulal84

I've never seen one of these lads but many people have. Have you ever seen a ghoul?

El Guapo!

I'll answer for everybody on the planet.


No.

Grimreaper666

I've never seen anything I can't explain so far in my lifetime.

justforlaugh

yes

RikkFlair

Funny I was just watching an episode of Most Haunted.

Not a sniff of a ghost, but plenty footage of that dope of a presenter sh1tting herself cos a moth flew by her ear.

wretcheddomain

Nobody sees a ghost - they delude themselves into thinking they saw something because it makes for an interesting story.

Compare 'I stayed in a house one night'....to 'I could barely sleep after seeing a 4 year old child (she told me she was 4!) flying around the house throwing tampons at the lights causing them to flicker'.

dxhound2005

They're everywhere. They even have their own housing estates.

Sunnyisland

What do baby ghosts wear on their feet ?





Boo-ties

The_B_Man

Yes, but I don't believe in them. As a scientist, I can't explain what I saw.

wretcheddomain

I don't like haunted houses I'm afraid...

A ghost walks through a bar one day...

My wife is very spiritual. She's dead.

padma

Yes

theblaqueguy

Yes I have they were wearing a white sheet I ran faster than usain bolt when I saw them it was scary sh!t

Temptamperu

Got ten blue ones for 50 quid!

ColeTrain

Anyone that says yes is a filthy liar.

I've seen............................................









things...


:eek:

keith16

I ate a packet of ghosties once. Delish.

Sunnyisland

justforlaugh wrote: »

yes

padma wrote: »

Yes

We'll explain.

Frosty McSnowballs

Just the twice....or once.

What if I saw ghost twins, is that 1 or 2?

SilverScreen

I find it a bit on the suspicious side that nearly all ghost stories are always at night and nearly always when somebody is alone. You never hear of a ghost story where a family went to a beach on a hot summers day and saw a ghost making sandcastles.

Muise...

Senor Jingle Balls wrote: »

Just the twice....or once.

What if I saw ghost twins, is that 1 or 2?

If they were in the corridors of a boarded-up snowed-in hotel, get out of there as fast as the tricycle will carry you Senor. REDRUM! :eek:

keith16

SilverScreen wrote: »

I find it a bit on the suspicious side that nearly all ghost stories are always at night and nearly always when somebody is alone. You never hear of a ghost story where a family went to a beach on a hot summers day and saw a ghost making sandcastles.

I would pay good money to see a ghost making sandcastles.

dxhound2005

Mrs White got a fright,
In the middle of the night.
She saw a ghost eating toast,
Up a lamppost.

A few. Maybe 3 any way, plus many other experiences.

Mint Aero

I've seen 5. Came down one night for a glass of milk and there they were playing poker at my kitchen table. Anyway I bought in for a round, had a chat. Apparently they were on the way to a pub in the next village to visit the deceased previous owner residing in the lounge. Asked me if I wanted to go for few scoops, said I would. B*stards only wanted a lift though. Out we go, but turned out the six of us couldn't fit in so I said night to them and off they went.

The next day I realised they were ghosts :eek:

Sunglasses Ron

I'll tell you something that happened to me once, it was years ago, I was staying with my great aunt at her house in Connemara, it's a big house miles from anywhere, apparently during the great famine a cruel landlord and his beautiful daughter lived there, the story is he forbid the daughter from marrying a young soldier,it broke her heart and in her despair, she hung herself in her bedroom, the room I was staying in was that very bedroom, I remember it was icy cold, lit by a single candle, I was drifting of to sleep when suddenly, I heard a strange creaking noise coming from the far corner of the room........

Pat Mustard

Infrasound: possible explanation for ghost sightings/ hallucinations?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_Ll3pHtxmQ

More on the 'haunted lab' here, with an audio clip featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Vic Tandy of the School of International Studies and Law at Coventry University put together a paper back in 1998 called The Ghost in the Machine. In it, he describes the science behind a phenomenon concerning the human eye, which stands to be the root cause of a portion of "ghost sightings." Apparently 18hz-19hz sound waves can cause a resonant vibration in the eye, inducing artifacts misinterpreted as supernatural. These frequencies are referred to as infrasound because they are below the hearing range of humans.

For anyone interested in sharing proper stories, there's already a long-running thread about it over in the Paranormal forum.

PirateShampoo

Haven't seen one, although my mother told me differently, but the older I got and more I thought about it, I'm now convinced she said it just to scare the **** out of me.

Anyways, I have heard one.

When I was about 11 or 12 ish a new boy moved into our local area, his family had bought the old Mill house which had been rebuilt and split into two houses after it had burnt down years beforeI was born.

So one day me and my two mates where happily playing down stairs in his empty house during the middle of the day while his mum was next door in his nans when all of a sudden we heard loud foot steps running across his landing and threw his parents bed room with several dull thuds in between.

It scared the crap out of us but we all went up stairs to investigate, when we got up there we found nobody only several fancy dinner plates which were hanging on the wall where now all over the floor. So basically we turned white and high tailed it next door to his mum.

I 100% certain we were alone in the house and I still get chills when I think about it. Me and my mate who was there were only talking about it the other week in the pub when we meet the new owner who we questioned after a few pints if anything weird ever happened since he's been there. We were kinda disappointed when he said no.

Femme_Fatale

Personally wouldn't rule out ghosts as I can't know for sure - why are people so confident they definitely don't exist?

sunflower27

ahtfulal84 wrote: »

Have you ever seen a ghoul?

Ghoul.... hahahahahaha :pac::pac::pac::pac:

El Guapo!

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Personally wouldn't rule out ghosts as I can't know for sure - why are people so confident they definitely don't exist?

I'm open minded to just about everything. My problem with the ghost thing is, in all the hundreds of years that people have been claiming ghost sightings/experiences, there hasn't been a single shred of even slightly convincing evidence to support it. 99% of it has a logical, rational explanation.
It's like the whole psychic thing too. There has been zero proof offered up as evidence. I'd love to be proven wrong though. And I wouldn't ridicule someone for believing it either. I used to believe in it too not so long ago. I'd just like to see some type of convincing evidence. Or even something that makes me stop and say "Hmm, maybe....just maybe....."

Femme_Fatale

El Guapo! wrote: »

I'm open minded to just about everything. My problem with the ghost thing is, in all the hundreds of years that people have been claiming ghost sightings/experiences, there hasn't been a single shred of even slightly convincing evidence to support it. 99% of it has a logical, rational explanation.
It's like the whole psychic thing too. There has been zero proof offered up as evidence. I'd love to be proven wrong though. And I wouldn't ridicule someone for believing it either. I used to believe in it too not so long ago. I'd just like to see some type of convincing evidence. Or even something that makes me stop and say "Hmm, maybe....just maybe....."

Personally... it's the sight that I fear most, I'd rather have a piece of toast, watch the evening news.
But that's just me.

beano345

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Personally wouldn't rule out ghosts as I can't know for sure - why are people so confident they definitely don't exist?

Why are some people so confident they do exist? Surely its up to them to prove it

RikkFlair

Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

I'll tell you something that happened to me once, it was years ago, I was staying with my great aunt at her house in Connemara, it's a big house miles from anywhere, apparently during the great famine a cruel landlord and his beautiful daughter lived there, the story is he forbid the daughter from marrying a young soldier,it broke her heart and in her despair, she hung herself in her bedroom, the room I was staying in was that very bedroom, I remember it was icy cold, lit by a single candle, I was drifting of to sleep when suddenly, I heard a strange creaking noise coming from the far corner of the room........

It's like we're all around the campfire and someone needs to continue this story....

job seeker

I ain't sayin' nothin'...

El Guapo!

kowloon wrote: »

I don't want to see a ghost, it's the sight I fear the most. I'd rather have a piece of toast and watch the evening news.

Look up.

kowloon

El Guapo! wrote: »

Look up.

No idea where you're getting that from, and I certainly wouldn't open a tab and forget to refresh it before I post. Down with your lies El Guapo!

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Calibos

I 'Resurrect' this previous post of mine when a Ghost thread comes up.

My level of belief in the supernatural was re-affirmed when I came down the stairs one night to the kitchen to get a drink. Through the window in the back door I saw the floating ghostly form of Jesus Christ or a spirit that looked like the traditional white blue eyed bearded man depiction of Jesus.

This apparition just confirmed what I already knew..................

......That the brain is an amazing organ but that it regularily gets things wrong and that even the most convincing visions are in all likelyhood....ahem...brainfarts.


If I was a believer in the supernatural and then saw this apparition, my likely reaction would have been fear and then I would have imediately ran off to tell someone. Mine would have become one of those countless anecdotes that you hear. ie. "I have a friend who said he saw a spirit and he is a straight up guy, he wouldn't lie about something like that, I have no reason not to believe his sincerity" etc etc. (I am a straight up guy and I wouldn't lie about something like this)

The difference is that I am not a believer and I know the illusions the brain is capable off. My first reaction was not fear and the wish to run straight off to tell someone. My reaction was WTF and immediate curiosity. ie. I know I am not really seeing what it looks like I am seeing.

I stopped dead in my tracks and studied this vision of a bearded robed man in the back yard out through the window in the back door. I knew this was likely an instance of the brain taking some visual clues in the murky light and jumping to the wrong conclusion and filling in the gaps incorrrectly when 'drawing' what it guessed I was seeing on my visual cortex. This type of thing has an evolutionary basis. In the dim light around the Plieostecene campfire and the eye/brain detects a shape moving in the bushes nearby, its better for the brain (and its transport mechanism - Your Body!) to be safe than sorry and draw a sabretooth tiger on the visual cortex and make you jump, than guess its just an interplay of light and shadow with a branch of the bush. Better to make you jump by mistake 9 times out of 10 than not make you jump that 1 time it really is a sabretooth tiger.

I knew this was one of those instances. I studied the apparition for a few moments and then it clicked what it was and the apparition collapsed. It was something like the reflection of the towel on the chair beside me in the window of the back door superimposed over something hanging on the gate out in the yard. ONce I knew what it was I was able to make the apparition re-appear and disappear at will. Think of it like that popular illusion of the candlestick and the to faces looking at each other. One can switch their brain from percieving the candlestick or two faces and switch between the perception of them at will.

I smiled and went back to bed. Like I said, what if I was a believer and didn't pause to study the vision and immediately ran off and told the story with complete sincerity to others. This would be just another one of those supernatural anecdotes.

Everyone experiences this kind of brainfart its just that when it happens in daylight and the thing your brain draws on your visual cortex is an everyday object, one doesn't think they saw the ghost of a big rat, one just laughs to ones self that they thought they saw a big rat for a second. For some reason a lot of people don't seem to connect the dots and realise that this is the exact same normal nuerological perceptual brainfart thing that happens when they think they have seen a ghost later in the day

The rat example was me walking out the back door and seeing a big rat run past me which made me jump. A split second later my brain copped on to its mistake. I was looking down as I walked out the door, just as my mother walked past to the utility room. She was wearing beige slacks that camoflaged her legs against the beige floor tiles, In that split second my brain only percieved her disembodied brown shoes zipping past along the ground. My brain made a split second guess and drew a rat on my visual cortex. I jumped, my perspective changed and I saw the rest of my mother in my peripheral visual. The illusion collapsed and the rat disappearred. The exact same type of thing as My Vision of Jesus.

The exact same thing as the ghostly figure on the dark lane ahead disappearing before my eyes. It was just my brain redrawing the bush branch and shadow/light interplay from its human shape into its real shape....a bush branch and a shadow. It wasn't a disappearing fecking spirit of a middle ages soldier from a historical battle in the 16th century haunting the area around the old battlefield etc etc

Plumpynutt

Temptamperu wrote: »

Got ten blue ones for 50 quid!

Spotted a fair few blue ones around town alright

prizefighter

theblaqueguy wrote: »

Yes I have they were wearing a white sheet I ran faster than usain bolt when I saw them it was scary sh!t

I'd say Usain Bolt is pretty quick when he sees men dressed in white sheets tbf

FlipperThePriest

In sleep paralysis during the transition between sleep and waking up hallucination happen as you can mix up reality and dreamed images together.. often resulting in seeing a figure beside the bed... called "Old Hag Syndrome".

This has happened me 2 or 3 times, and although at the time, I knew what was going on it was still pretty freaky being that I'm still half asleep, even if I looked away and back the image was still there. Could take about 10 seconds for the image to disappear.

Maybe this could account for so many people thinking they see ghosts at night or in the bedroom??

jimgoose

ahtfulal84 wrote: »

I've never seen one of these lads but many people have. Have you ever seen a ghoul?

I've seen a lot of gowls, but never a ghost.

Akrasia

El Guapo! wrote: »

I'll answer for everybody on the planet.


No.

Exactly. Everyone knows that ghosts live in space

fedor.2.

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Here's one

Akrasia

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Personally wouldn't rule out ghosts as I can't know for sure - why are people so confident they definitely don't exist?

What is a ghost?

If you can answer me that question, I can tell you why it almost certainly doesn't exist

the problem with ghosts is like the problem with gods. The idea is so vague and wishy washy that people can claim to 'believe' in them without being answer the most basic questions about what they are.

If ghosts are souls that are stuck here on earth for some reason than they clearly don't exist because the 'soul' is not an actual thing. It's just a description that we give to human consciousness and human consciousness is an emergent property of the human brain and nervous system.
If the brain gets destroyed, (as tends to happen at death) there goes the 'soul'

Are ghosts simply 'apparitions'?
An apparition is something that is 'seen' but may not exist. It could be a construction of the human brain where due to a trick of the light or an over active imagination, our brain can create an image of something spooky that only exists as an idea in our head.
This is not supernatural, it is Pareidolia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia

Is there any evidence of ghosts? No, of course not.

diomed

Urban dictionary
ghost on skis
Someone who is completely and utterly useless; one whose existence is nonsensical or has no point.

I've worked with a few.

BBDBB

no, but I look I just did apparently

kieran.

I sat to the toilet this afternoon did a good solid number two.... but when I looked below and the was nothing to be seen !

A phantom poop....... AKA Ghostie

smcgiff

zippy84 wrote: »

In sleep paralysis during the transition between sleep and waking up hallucination happen as you can mix up reality and dreamed images together.. often resulting in seeing a figure beside the bed... called "Old Hag Syndrome".

This pretty much explains what my sister said she saw in my parents' house.

My dad, quite the rational man normally has also claimed to have seen a figure in the same house. He was awake, saw them at the end of a corridor, went downstairs, gathered his nerve and went back up to see if he could find them. He said he couldn't.

But, no - I've not seen nor do I believe in ghosts.

DazMarz

Had to be done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe93CLbHjxQ