Do you believe in ghosts?

Praetorian · 15-01-2004 12:39AM #1

I'm a very sceptical person by nature, a 'Scully' if you will. Anyway, somehow the topic came up with my parents, and I was very surprised to find out that they both believe in ghosts! In fact they both claimed to have experienced weird events.

So tonight I kind of made fun of my parents, but just a few minutes ago I experienced something very freaky. Something that sounded kind of human hissed at me!!! We have some cats, but they are all outside, my pc speakers are off! What the f**k like! :eek:

I haven't been drinking or taking any drugs just in case you were wondering

Töpher · 15-01-2004 12:56AM

The only yes voter so far? Disgraceful!

KlodaX · 15-01-2004 01:20AM

give me a good reason not to believe...

BKtje · 15-01-2004 02:16AM

you have been having a conversation, your mind is still thinking about it and then you hear something you'd normally dismiss.

Sounds fairly open and shut

sionnach · 15-01-2004 02:55AM

Originally posted by KlodaX
give me a good reason not to believe...

they don't exist. very simple tbh

Pepe LeFrits · 15-01-2004 03:53AM

No.

TheSonOfBattles · 15-01-2004 06:05AM

Originally posted by sionnach
they don't exist. very simple tbh

Great argument. Love the scientific bit in the middle

I actually voted wrong since I do believe in the paranormal and have had a personal experience that has bolstered that belief a small bit.

About a month and a half ago I was lying in bed just settling down to go to sleep, and was starting to get to the drowsy point, when I felt a very sudden feather like stroke across the skin of my upper arm. At the same time I heard a voice saying to me "this isn't a dream". When I looked up at the corner of the room furthest from me there seemed to be a small dark mishapen thing up in it (my room is constantly lit up by a couple of small lights from computer equipment, and my laptops moniter before you say anthing). Couldn't move for a minute or two, and found myself unable to get out of the bed for an hour or so. Stayed up till about 8 that morning, the experience was at 3ish. All of a sudden, just felt safe as houses, turned around and went back to sleep.

Also, when I was 14 I was on camp with the scouts over in Chalfont St. James in England. About a week in, I was washing dishes after dinner and joking around, and I suddenly felt really strickened and saddened and had to go sit down. I had a premonition that my grandmother, who was somewhat sick at the time, was just after dying. About an hour or two later I got a call to confirm my worst fears. Was unable to go home at the time, and had to wait for the trip to end which was kind of a bummer as well.

Dot.Bomb · 15-01-2004 08:12AM

I'd be a serious skeptic on this topic.I think some people are very open to suggestion - just look at the whole moving statues in Ballinspittle in the late 80s, although thats more akin to mass hysteria

Moriarty · 15-01-2004 09:33AM

Undecided really. To make me a firm believer either I'd have to see something myself or hear it from somone I trust implicitly.

woosaysdan · 15-01-2004 10:07AM

im convinced that the niteclub that i work in is haunted!!! when i would be up there at the start of the night i'd hear doors closing and people walking around, scary sh!t i think it might be the ghosts of people banned:)

Tommy Vercetti · 15-01-2004 10:58AM

I don't believe in ghosts but

I BELIEVE IN A THING CALLED LLLLOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEE!

ixoy · 15-01-2004 11:04AM

No, I don't believe in ghosts. Give me some proof, rather than anecdotes - it not being a mathematical proof, you can't really ask me to disproove it. We die and we rot. End of story.

TheSonOfBattles · 15-01-2004 11:08AM

Who says we die and then become ghosts? They may just be another lifeform for all we know. More than likely thats what they are tbh.

Cabaal · 15-01-2004 11:22AM

Originally posted by TheSonOfBattles
About a month and a half ago I was lying in bed just settling down to go to sleep, and was starting to get to the drowsy point, when I felt a very sudden feather like stroke across the skin of my upper arm. At the same time I heard a voice saying to me "this isn't a dream". When I looked up at the corner of the room furthest from me there seemed to be a small dark mishapen thing up in it (my room is constantly lit up by a couple of small lights from computer equipment, and my laptops moniter before you say anthing). Couldn't move for a minute or two, and found myself unable to get out of the bed for an hour or so. Stayed up till about 8 that morning, the experience was at 3ish. All of a sudden, just felt safe as houses, turned around and went back to sleep.

Thats either due to one of three things and you know it:
1. far to much sleep, your mind has become hyperactive
2. NOT enough sleep so you start imagining things
3. You watched Aliens, I told you before DON'T watch it, you'll have nightmares
But did you listen...noooooo

daveJAM · 15-01-2004 11:38AM

1. far to much sleep, your mind has become hyperactive
2. NOT enough sleep so you start imagining things
3. You watched Aliens, I told you before DON'T watch it, you'll have nightmares
But did you listen...noooooo

Or it could have been you, or Dealga, or _sheep. But it was more than likely dogs!

He sneeks into your room, starts to stroke you, tells you its not a dream, then all of a sudden, you get chloroformed and imagine the rest, except for the not being able to move part. That happened! Dogs is kinda kinky like that!

Pepe LeFrits · 15-01-2004 11:41AM

It was me, i love sneaking into people's rooms and rubbing their arms with feathers.

Phantom Featherer signing out, peace n8z.

daveJAM · 15-01-2004 11:43AM

Oh and lets not forget the not being able to get yourself out of bed part!

dictatorcat · 15-01-2004 12:41PM

drowsy point, when I felt a very sudden feather like stroke across the skin of my upper arm. At the same time I heard a voice saying to me "this isn't a dream". When I looked up at the corner of the room furthest from me there seemed to be a small dark mishapen thing up in it (my room is constantly lit up by a couple of small lights from computer equipment, and my laptops moniter before you say anthing). Couldn't move for a minute or two, and found myself unable to get out of the bed for an hour or so

sounds like sleep paralysis, i've had it once or twice and it's very very freaky. It's believed to account for quite alot of "paranormal activity that occurs just before, during or after sleep.

more info at:watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/S_P2.html#pp

Woden · 15-01-2004 12:47PM

yeah sleep paralysis is well documented i think and supposed to be weird

no i don't believe in any of that crap

Hal1 · 15-01-2004 01:24PM

Originally posted by woosaysdan
im convinced that the niteclub that i work in is haunted!!! when i would be up there at the start of the night i'd hear doors closing and people walking around, scary sh!t i think it might be the ghosts of people banned:)

Yes possibly the dead scangerz that od'ed there from all the 'e' werrrrrrrrrrrr, tihs is fookin deadly =0

Kalina · 15-01-2004 01:37PM

Sure I believe that the paranormal exists. I've heard a few great local ghost stories so I choose to believe that there's fact in them somewhere.

B1G 3Y3s · 15-01-2004 02:14PM

Originally posted by Tommy Vercetti
I don't believe in ghosts but

I BELIEVE IN A THING CALLED LLLLOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEE!

Was that supposed to be funny?

AL][EN · 15-01-2004 02:27PM

Yea i do believe in the unseen / paranormal, strange things have happened before, science cant explain everything.

who ya gonna call................????

tinkerbell · 15-01-2004 02:33PM

GHOSTBUSTERS!

I believe in ghosts, had two freaky incidents happen to me at home, one where I saw these two people hovering over me when I was lying in my bed, and the other when I felt some thing grab my throat the following night. I remember yelling "I can see you" and then they jus vanished.

Really ****t up! Of course I was scared ****less and so I slept with the door open ever since then.

AL][EN · 15-01-2004 02:43PM

Originally posted by tinkerbell
GHOSTBUSTERS!

:cool:

Ive never had unexplainable or freaky incidents happen to me but my brother swears that on the night after my grand father he saw him in the room and talked to him, my brother though it was a dream, at the time my brother was in school doing his leaving at the time and was scared sh!tless that he was going to have to repete school as it was really looking like that he would.

But according to my bro my grandad told him that he's pass school and everything would be alright, he'd make it to college and he'd get a job, and he did to this day my bro doesnt really know what to make of it and neither do i.

Grom · 15-01-2004 02:58PM

In reference to the fellow that had an exp with the person at the corner of his room They are refered to as the shadows.Do some research on them they are really interesting.I do happen to believe in the paranormal I have the the w*** Board and some stuff has happened there that I or none of my friends can explain however I would not do it again as I had a bad expierience with it.

I do believe in them but I also believe that most exp's with ghosts are maybe another race another being.

IS any one here firmiliar with 'Rods' if so then thas some ****ed up **** i think you will agree just seeing them defies all physics that we have come to believe (If they are in fact real)

tinkerbell · 15-01-2004 04:17PM

what is this rod that you talk about?

My experience was weird enough, but then somethin odd happened. I screamed my head off (obviously), and the following morning, both my parents hadn't heard me, yet my brother had heard the scream. I jus thought it kinda strange, coz if I so much as talk in my sleep, it wakes up my folks, never mind when I scream in my sleep! Oh and my brother could sleep through a nuclear holocaust.

AL][EN · 15-01-2004 04:40PM

Yea Grom Ive herd about the rods alright saw it on a aired on bravo unfortunatly science disproved the rod theroy about 2 or 3 months ago there was some techie explanation that they had that seemed to make sence something about the way a camera takes photographs it can capture light incorrectly im not sure im not a science geek but it seems that there fake

Tinkerbell:

There's plenty of stuff on these apparent rods now for a while i did actually believe however science once again has smashed my dreams!!

This is one example of a website on rods.

go googling for "UFO Rods"

PLEASE PLEASE dont do a web search for just the word rods as you (ahem) come up (no pun intended) with some rather dodgy websites.

Big Chief · 15-01-2004 05:24PM

Originally posted by KlodaX
give me a good reason not to believe...

give me a good reason to believe

Mossy Monk · 15-01-2004 05:31PM

no i do not believe in such things

robbie1876 · 15-01-2004 05:48PM

This is one example of a website on rods.

Looks like a plastic bag caught in the wind to me....

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