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Lotus-eater

babymoo wrote: »

If you are a believer no proof is neccesary, if you are a dis believer no proof will ever be enough. - Very true words.

Rubbish, I don't believe in any spirit malarkey, show me proof and I would, only there is no proof.

I'd like to see a ghost, never have, I'm sure I won't, but if I do, then I'll believe, that would be proof enough for me. I don't think that's that unreasonable. Quite sensible really.

I'm not scared of the dark either, I used to have to walk through a pitch black graveyard to do my huge paper round when I was a kid, it never bothered me.
I remember some other kids daring me to meet them in the graveyard at midnight, I just told them not to be so stupid and I was going to bed. They laughed at me because they thought I was scared, I never bothered enlightening them.

I also did a fair bit of courting in the same graveyard thinking about it. If there's one thing that gets your mind off spooks and ghosts, it's a young lady who's willing to be in a graveyard with me in the pitch dark.

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There's a foundation willing to give £1,000,000 to anyone who can prove ! http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html

sashadesade

I'm a very logical, skeptical person and as such would like to say I don't believe in ghosts. Unfortunately I can't, because I've seen and heard a few things that simply can't be explained away easily. I'm (grudgingly) certain that ghosts exist, but as for them being the spirits of dead people? Not so sure.

Lotus-eater

sashadesade wrote: »

I'm a very logical, skeptical person and as such would like to say I don't believe in ghosts. Unfortunately I can't, because I've seen and heard a few things that simply can't be explained away easily. I'm (grudgingly) certain that ghosts exist, but as for them being the spirits of dead people? Not so sure.

I've seen lots of weird things. An UFO, an animal that definitely isn't supposed to live in the UK! But no ghost.
What have you seen?

sashadesade

Lotus-eater wrote: »

I've seen lots of weird things. An UFO, an animal that definitely isn't supposed to live in the UK! But no ghost.
What have you seen?

At my parents house, I saw a funny looking man in my parents bedroom when I was quite young. I asked my parents about him and they said I'd imagined it. Over time I decided they were probably right, but the memory's quite vivid. In my room there was a squeaky floorboard and a squeaky chair, and at night I'd sometimes hear the floorboard squeak and a few moments later the chair, like someone had walked across the room and sat down, but never got the nerve to look and see. The weirdest thing that happened was when I was in bed one night and I felt someone lean right over me and make a droning noise in my ear. I freaked out and sat up but there was no one there. I'd only just got into bed and was wide awake when it happened, so I know it wasn't a dream.

In the house I live in now there have been a few odd things, but not much. I heard the living room door open on it's own, which shouldn't be possible. I got woken up by someone saying my name sharply when I was alone in the house. I figured this was just an auditory hallucination, but then my husband got really freaked out because he was going to bed and heard somone say 'hello' next to him - guess they like him a bit better than they do me!

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Lotus-eater wrote: »

an animal that definitely isn't supposed to live in the UK!

what was it?

ACutally this could be quite cool - let us know what have you seen ghostie wise.....

Lotus-eater

sashadesade wrote: »

At my parents house, I saw a funny looking man in my parents bedroom when I was quite young. I asked my parents about him and they said I'd imagined it. Over time I decided they were probably right, but the memory's quite vivid. In my room there was a squeaky floorboard and a squeaky chair, and at night I'd sometimes hear the floorboard squeak and a few moments later the chair, like someone had walked across the room and sat down, but never got the nerve to look and see. The weirdest thing that happened was when I was in bed one night and I felt someone lean right over me and make a droning noise in my ear. I freaked out and sat up but there was no one there. I'd only just got into bed and was wide awake when it happened, so I know it wasn't a dream.

In the house I live in now there have been a few odd things, but not much. I heard the living room door open on it's own, which shouldn't be possible. I got woken up by someone saying my name sharply when I was alone in the house. I figured this was just an auditory hallucination, but then my husband got really freaked out because he was going to bed and heard somone say 'hello' next to him - guess they like him a bit better than they do me!

Well I suppose we've all had things like that. Not exactly that unexplainable tbh.

I suspect my ghosts would have to be a little less subtle than that! :rotfl: or a lot less subtle! Tapping me on the arm and saying "I'm a ghost" would be a good start.

I've lived in old old houses for most of my life and have "definitely" heard someone walking at times, but I'd draw the line at calling them ghosts. Old houses would probably be a better definition

I did see a weird animal morphing thing when I was about 8, scared the bejasus out of me, I still feel uncomfortable about it now, even though I've mostly convinced myself it must have been my imagination.

GlynD

I used to be a soldier and I've done loads of night patrols in hostile areas. I've also been in places where you are so far from civilisation there is not even any ambient light but no, I'm not afraid of the dark. I wasn't then and I'm not now.

I have heard the Banshee though and it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up like a brush. :eek:

There was also a very funny incident in Norway over rats :rotfl:

Lotus-eater

GoldenJill wrote: »

what was it?

A bloody huge black cat the size of a female lion! Well not quite that big, but big enough to send the hair on the back of my neck up and my legs to jelly.
That's another thing I didn't believe in before I saw it.

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GlynD wrote: »

I have heard the Banshee though and it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up like a brush.

geez... when was that? where were you? there is a story about those who hear the Banshee... hoping it was something else you heard