Do you believe in Ghosts, paranormal etc...

mansize · 12-03-2016 06:09AM #1

Have to say I don't, think its all a steaming pile of bs, from a time when people weren't as well educated and it was used to frighten/scare/keep people in their place.

What say you?

Mena · 12-03-2016 06:14AM

No but they make for some pretty awesome movies.

mansize · 12-03-2016 06:18AM

lets make a pot...

matchthis · 12-03-2016 06:35AM

When I was about 10, I'm convinced I saw one. It was a man all dressed in black. I came down one night for a glass of milk and he was just sitting in front of the TV. He had this strange grey hair, even though he wasn't very old.

mansize · 12-03-2016 06:53AM

matchthis wrote: »

When I was about 10, I'm convinced I saw one. It was a man all dressed in black. I came down one night for a glass of milk and he was just sitting in front of the TV. He had this strange grey hair, even though he wasn't very old.

and what happened? Was the glass there the next day? Was it a dream?

Noo · 12-03-2016 06:55AM

I believe that people genuinely believe they see stuff, they don't make it up....but some minds are more easily manipulated than others and will go for the paranormal explanation rather than a logical one. There is usually an reasonable explanation for most stuff if people bother to look. On the other hand stories like jan van eycks on the creepy/unnerving thread....well i just don't know to begin explaining that one. Creepy ****.

kneemos · 12-03-2016 09:16AM

https://www.google.ie/url?q=http://www.near-death.com/paranormal/deathbed-visions.html&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjErvHZ2brLAhWDthoKHTEACC8QFgg1MAY&usg=AFQjCNElgG_4xoDuCffC8k_Jw3MB1NogEQ

mansize · 12-03-2016 09:18AM

Surely that can be explained by the mind deteriorating as it shuts down?

The Backwards Man · 12-03-2016 09:19AM

Haven't met anything worse than myself on my travels to date.

Alf Stewart. · 12-03-2016 09:27AM

Live with a phantom crapper meself.

No one ever admits to leaving them in our downstairs dunny, no flush, no paper either.

Has to be a ghost.

Tipsy McSwagger · 12-03-2016 09:29AM

matchthis wrote: »

When I was about 10, I'm convinced I saw one. It was a man all dressed in black. I came down one night for a glass of milk and he was just sitting in front of the TV. He had this strange grey hair, even though he wasn't very old.

Did he have a box of milk tray in his hands?

mansize · 12-03-2016 09:30AM

Alf Stewart. wrote: »

Live with a phantom crapper meself.

No one ever admits to leaving them in our downstairs dunny, no flush, no paper either.

Has to be a ghost.

Flaming Gallah! Well Ailsa did see Bobby in the fridge, maybe it's her and a dirty protest!

Littlehorny · 12-03-2016 09:33AM

It's bull, nowadays everyone has a camera in their pocket all the time yet the only "evidence" that is ever showed is old photos taken with crappy cameras from the 70's and further back.

Alf Stewart. · 12-03-2016 09:35AM

Littlehorny wrote: »

It's bull, nowadays everyone has a camera in their pocket all the time yet the only "evidence" that is ever showed is old photos taken with crappy cameras from the 70's and further back.

The ghosts are becoming tech-savvy and camera shy?

Doh.

mansize · 12-03-2016 09:38AM

Littlehorny wrote: »

It's bull, nowadays everyone has a camera in their pocket all the time yet the only "evidence" that is ever showed is old photos taken with crappy cameras from the 70's and further back.

Or when you had double exposure prints... Oooh

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 12-03-2016 09:46AM

I don't believe, that said, I wouldn't be rushing off to the nearest haunted castle to debunk the theories

Wanderer2010 · 12-03-2016 09:46AM

I never used to until I went along to Loftus Hall for the tour. I was only going for a laugh and for something to do- I'm a very logical and analytical minded person who would have always dismissed ghosts as the creation of the vulnerable or distressed.
Then I got to tour Loftus Hall and I never felt so threatened and uneasy in my entire life. The place has a malevolence to it that is beyond description. The rooms glow with the awful history of the house from black satanic masses to the horribly unnerving Tapestry Room.
I was very shaken after leaving the tour and i put it down to theatrics or placebo effect, so I went back for a daytime tour and again all the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end for the entire hour. I couldn't get out of there fast enough. Not even the OWNER is allowed upstairs as the spirits slam doors and hiss in his face.

So yes I'm a recent convert to the idea of an afterlife!

kneemos · 12-03-2016 10:37AM

mansize wrote: »

Surely that can be explained by the mind deteriorating as it shuts down?

If you want a logical explanation there's always one available. However there is no more evidence the brain does this than there is for ghosts.
The similarities between them is the part I'd find interesting.

mansize · 12-03-2016 10:41AM

kneemos wrote: »

If you want a logical explanation there's always one available. However there is no more evidence the brain does this than there is for ghosts.
The similarities between them is the part I'd find interesting.

Yeah, logic is my go to answer for most things.

RobertKK · 12-03-2016 11:00AM

I have been having weird dreams lately.
In my house, you would hear when someone got up at night or was walking on carpet covered wooden floors (not solid upstairs - old house), but lately I have been asleep and I keep hearing in my sleep the routine that sounded exactly like my mother's when she got up at night, she was a bit noisy in her older years.
The room is next to mine, and I hear someone walking across the floor loudly, opening the door to and using the bathroom to the point of flushing the toilet, then heading back to bed.

I have to put it down to some mental thing that is comforting to my brain, as it gives me a feeling of her still being around.
Because if what I hear in my sleep is real, that would be weird.

KatW4 · 12-03-2016 11:02AM

I don't really but I get scared really easily so I wouldn't want to go to anywhere creepy!

Sam Kade · 12-03-2016 11:07AM

mansize wrote: »

Have to say I don't, think its all a steaming pile of bs, from a time when people weren't as well educated and it was used to frighten/scare/keep people in their place.

What say you?

But they were Banshee's and fairies not ghosts and people weren't stupid back then just that they had to make their own entertainment.

mansize · 12-03-2016 11:11AM

Sam Kade wrote: »

But they were Banshee's and fairies not ghosts and people weren't stupid back then just that they had to make their own entertainment.

Being uneducated doesn't mean you are stupid