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Do you believe in ghosts?

  • Yes

    Votes: 24 61.5%
  • No

    Votes: 10 25.6%
  • Undecided

    Votes: 5 12.8%

Ghosts

4K views 85 replies 33 participants last post by  Oregon1986 
#1 ·
Do you believe in ghosts?
 
#4 ·
Until recently I've never had experiences,even though growing up my mom told me our house was haunted and she could see the ghost. Well it's happened twice now where our kids will either be sleeping or out of the house and clear as day you can hear a small child's footsteps run across upstairs and a cute little laugh. I'm not the only one who has heard it. First time there was 4 of us that heard it and we ran upstairs to see. Tell your story
 
#5 ·
My family and all of our neighbors had some weird experiences in a neighborhood we lived in, in Georgia when I was a teenager. All new houses but the HOA was researching what the land had been before it was nuilt on in the 70’s. THAT right there spooked me. That GROWNUPS admitted something was going on and were trying to figure it out. We moved to MA before anything became of it darn it.

No ghosties anywhere else I’ve lived.
 
#13 ·
I have encountered some strange phenomena, but while that was the popular description, I can't attribute these events to ghosts per se. The best I can swear to is that some strange things have happened under my observation. It works much the same way that I can say that there are such things as UFOs in the strict definition that requires only that it be flying and you don't know what it is, as opposed to being green men from another planet.
 
#16 ·
I believe in ghosts and I also believe there is so much more to this earth/universe than we understand. Personally I am fine with that.

A school I worked at for many years was built on a property just outside of Boston MA that was previously a farm in the 1770s and 1800s The house was still there and used as a home for the director.
Part of one of the school building was a part of a barn that was renovated. The teachers had different stories about their experience with a ghost, I can't remember them all. Usually had to do with things being moved in their classrooms.
My favorite story was this - A child, walking down the hall in the renovated barn part said to his teacher - who is that man? The teacher didn't see anyone - she said, what man? The child said, the man there with the tall black hat, pointing down the hall.
Let me assure you the fashion of 1998 was not for men to wear tall black hats.

:eek:
 
#21 ·
I did not fill out the poll, but I have to (reluctantly) admit to "yes".

Many, many years ago when I was on night duty in a psychiatric hospital I saw a patient get out of bed, walk away from me down the ward and into the linen closet at the end of the dorm. I got up immediately went to the closet to find... no-one. There was no way that the person could have exited without passing me. I walked back to my post and the patient I 'saw' was fast asleep in her bed. I mentioned the incident to my supervisor when she made her rounds. It appears that at one time that particular ward had been the "sick ward" and the closet had been an entry way, with a door on the outside wall. One winter night a patient had indeed left the ward wearing only a nightgown and had died of exposure.

When I first moved into this house I frequently smelled a warm, spicy scent. It was comforting and 'sort of' familiar, though to this day I cannot tell you what cologne it is. I never felt frightened or alarmed by it. It seemed to feel benign. I haven't noticed it for about a year or so now and in a way I think I miss it. Or him, as I am sure it was a male presence.
 
#22 ·
I have lived in a series of old houses (a total of 26, I think) and keep hoping to encounter a ghost, but so far no such luck. Based on my experience either ghosts are pretty rare or I am so insensitive to the spirit world that they slip by me unseen.

I remain somewhat open-minded to the possibility of ghost phenomena, but my wife is a firm nonbeliever - so I will come back to haunt her if at all possible.
 
#24 ·
Yes, I believe they exist, but I do not believe they are the spirits of actual deceased people but demonic spirits that sometimes impersonate the deceased so as to deceive. I do not fear them since I also believe in One that has authority over them!
 
#26 ·
Never really did til I moved into this old farm house. Some real odd things...like one winter night the cats & dogs watched & followed what I can only describe as a shadow moving back & forth in front of the wood stove. The smallest cat arched her back & was winding around an unseen leg like someone was giving her a good scratch. The shadow would move...the little cat would move...the other cats and the dog's eyes followed the shadow. This went on for a few minutes until the shadow disappeared into the other room...there are other oddities but I'll stop there...
 
#27 ·
Yes , I believe that there are Ghost ,Sprits, Angels, Demons. I have had several first hand accounts told to me by People that would otherwise not have a reason to Lie. I have felt a presence before but not witnessed anything.

My uncle in 1986 was picking peanuts when he got to the end of the row got out to fix the lift linkage. I reached under the cab from behind and when he touched the lever the lift lifted and pinched his arm between the cab and lift. everyone else was at the other end of the field and could not see him . He said as he was trying to figure out how to get out he looked up into the trees and saw 3 angels . he said the next thing he knew he was driving the tractor back to the other end of the field with his arm only hanging on by the skin . They loaded him in the truck and drove the 50 miles to the hospital . this story stayed the same and he claimed it happened as he told it. I know this man only went to church 4 times in his life. when he got married, his daughter got married , when I got married and his funeral .
 
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