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Tiny Coffee Golem wrote:
NobodysHome wrote:

My experience is similar to Tiny Coffee Golem's: With the paranormal (ghosts, UFOs, etc.), it's always the people who want to believe, or who already believe, who seem to see things.

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To this day she still talks about the day we were driving down the highway and saw a "fleet" of UFOs flying in formation and flashing in unison.

And every time I drive down I-5 at night, that same fleet is still there, in the same place. Blinking the same way.

To say she makes me a bit more of a skeptic is an understatement.

This in a nutshell. "Believers" typically want to believe and thus convince themselves of it. The human mind has a remarkable capacity for self delusion.

I haven't always been a skeptic and I had a "spiritual encounter" once upon a time. I later saw it for what it was. In my case an alcohol induced lucid dream.

While I kinda agree as I know a lot of people who want to believe and have convince themselves things can happen...that is all true. But the above story did happen to me...and I really Don't want to believe. As a matter of fact I have gone though it a number of times trying to rationalize it...and other strange occurrences that have happened in my life.

Anyway I have read this...and well yeah it is probably true for the majority of the 'ghost hunters' type...but there are people out there who nerver believed in anything like this and have encounter things.


Tiny Coffee Golem wrote:
BigDTBone wrote:
Tiny Coffee Golem wrote:
BigDTBone wrote:
Tiny Coffee Golem wrote:
DungeonmasterCal wrote:
Empirical data or not, many people have seen strange things that seem to defy scientific endeavor. I have never seen anything personally, but I know people who have. Call them ghosts, demons, shadow people, etc. Do I believe in them? My answer is there are things we don't understand, so I neither believe or disbelieve, but accept what others do. If they believe they saw something, then I believe them. Was it a "ghost"? I can't say.
Occam's razor suggests it's a minor hallucination.
In fairness to Occam's razor, both "there is a ghost," and "you're hallucinating," have the same number of assumptions and are equally valid as hypotheses.

Incorrect. Hallucinations have been shown to exist many many times in many many ways. Ghosts have not. Ever. In any way.

Edit: Also, nothing that suggests the supernatural is real is a valid hypothesis unless you have something (anything) to back it up with. At least with the Chupacabra/Bigfoot thing above they were making some effort to collect hair/DNA samples. Had that DNA not otherwise been known that would have been suggestive of an undiscovered species at minimum.

That's not Occam's Razor. Occam's razor is concerned with the number of assumptions, not the quality.
The existence of hallucinations is not an assumption. The existence of ghosts is. At minimum the hallucination hypothesis has one fewer assumptions than the ghost hypothesis.

That person is hallucinating. (1 assumption)

That person saw a ghost. (1 assumption)


BigDTBone wrote:
Tiny Coffee Golem wrote:
BigDTBone wrote:
Tiny Coffee Golem wrote:
BigDTBone wrote:
Tiny Coffee Golem wrote:
DungeonmasterCal wrote:
Empirical data or not, many people have seen strange things that seem to defy scientific endeavor. I have never seen anything personally, but I know people who have. Call them ghosts, demons, shadow people, etc. Do I believe in them? My answer is there are things we don't understand, so I neither believe or disbelieve, but accept what others do. If they believe they saw something, then I believe them. Was it a "ghost"? I can't say.
Occam's razor suggests it's a minor hallucination.
In fairness to Occam's razor, both "there is a ghost," and "you're hallucinating," have the same number of assumptions and are equally valid as hypotheses.

Incorrect. Hallucinations have been shown to exist many many times in many many ways. Ghosts have not. Ever. In any way.

Edit: Also, nothing that suggests the supernatural is real is a valid hypothesis unless you have something (anything) to back it up with. At least with the Chupacabra/Bigfoot thing above they were making some effort to collect hair/DNA samples. Had that DNA not otherwise been known that would have been suggestive of an undiscovered species at minimum.

That's not Occam's Razor. Occam's razor is concerned with the number of assumptions, not the quality.
The existence of hallucinations is not an assumption. The existence of ghosts is. At minimum the hallucination hypothesis has one fewer assumptions than the ghost hypothesis.

That person is hallucinating. (1 assumption)

That person saw a ghost. (1 assumption)

Hallucinations exist (not an assumption)

Ghosts exist (1 assumption)

I honestly don't know how this is confusing.


It's not confusing, it's just not Occam's Razor. You are using that statement as an appeal to authority and it doesn't apply.


BigDTBone wrote:
It's not confusing, it's just not Occam's Razor. You are using that statement as an appeal to authority and it doesn't apply.

You're mistaken and have yet to show what I've said that's incorrect.

Your statements that person is hallucinating and that person saw a ghost both have assumptions within them. Only the very existance of one of them (ghosts) is an assumption.

There is no appeal to authority in my statement. If there is please clarify what Authority I'm allegedly appealing to.

If I am shown to be mistaken if be more than happy to own up to it. Though by your statements it doesn't appear you fully grasp the concepts that are being bandied about.


Ummm, William of Ockham.

To be a valid hypothesis you do not have to assume the subject is real; only that it effects the world. The purpose of experimentation is to determine reality, and hypotheses are before experimentation.

Therefore in the system where by you explain reported events each of the following represent only one assumption;

A) the person is hallucinating.

B) the person saw a ghost.

Discussion of likelihood or rationality do not fall within the purview of Occam's razor.


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Tiny Coffee Golem
Science is all about theory, there is no definite. That is why science is always evolving and theories are constantly being tested, disproved then discarded. What I am trying to say is that by saying "there are no ghosts" is just a theory. To argue that you can disprove the existence of ghosts via science is what's truly irrational. Long ago when people proposed the theory of the sun being made of gas instead of being hell (a theory proposed by Tobias in 18th century England), they were mocked and laughed at. Now look. We just were not advanced enough yet to explore that possibility. So you never know for sure if a ghost is fake or if the human soul can live on beyond death. If you don't believe in ghosts, that is your opinion but please don't go around saying we are the ones being irrational for our beliefs.

I'm sure if someone told a person 500 years ago that we would fly to the moon on a rocket or be able to communicate using a small device called a cell phone, they would think you were insane or possessed. Anything is possible, so why not ghosts? People have believed and experienced ghosts since the dawn of time. People who have never met each other nor had prior knowledge of a haunted location have claimed to have seen the same apparition known to haunt a specific location. There is no way that these people could share the same hallucination, there is also no way for a whole group to see the exact same hallucination then capture it on camera or audio. And besides, this thread asked for ghost stories, not whether or not ghosts are real and if it is irrational to believe. It was not about debates, but rather telling stories about experiences with ghosts. Have fun and just relax. No party poopers, they stink and ruin everything! :p


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Is there empirical evidence that hallucinations exist? You can't show me a hallucination, after all. Those people could all be lying.

If I said, "I've never had a hallucination, and it seems to me illogical that people could see something that wasn't there," how would you prove me wrong?

(I do believe that hallucinations exist, of course... and I believe in the possibility that ghosts exist, though I don't make any assumptions about what they are, if they do exist. I have more personal experience of "ghosts" than of hallucinations.)


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So, about those ghost stories....


Andrew Crossett wrote:

Is there empirical evidence that hallucinations exist? You can't show me a hallucination, after all. Those people could all be lying.

If I said, "I've never had a hallucination, and it seems to me illogical that people could see something that wasn't there," how would you prove me wrong?

(I do believe that hallucinations exist, of course... and I believe in the possibility that ghosts exist, though I don't make any assumptions about what they are, if they do exist. I have more personal experience of "ghosts" than of hallucinations.)

There actually is empirical evidence supporting hallucinations. MRIs show increased activity in visual and auditory centers of the brain while people purport to have them.

But that's not my point. All of that is the product of experimentation. Whether or not something is real is determined by experimentation. Hypothesis formation by definition comes before experimentation, so a posteriori knowledge about what may or may not be real does not get factored when forming a hypothesis. Occam's razor is specifically a tool for hypothesis formation, not conclusion drawing.


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It's possible I'm not using Occam's razor correctly. I'm going to look into it. BigDTBone thank you for bringing this to my attention.

Everyone else I'm very sorry the thread derailed.

Just tell the ghost stories please.


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Here are some other experiences I had.

This particular incident happened on the Fourth of July and both my husband and father were present for this.
After dinner we decided to launch some bottle rockets off into the street for fun. As we were firing, the bottle rockets all went where they were aimed. That was when my father looked up at the sky and noticed a strange black cloud that stood out. It hovered above the roof and was roughly the size and shape of a man. We all started looking up at this strange cloud as it grew darker and darker. We just assumed it was a weird cloud and shrugged it off. We continued to fire the bottle rockets and at one point I got a bad feeling. I looked up at the weird cloud and I knew it was going to do something to hurt me. That was when a bottle rocket that was aimed at the opposite direction from me, flew right at my face. This happened twice and then finally the dark cloud went away.

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Growing up I lived in a haunted house. My sister and I were tormented by those "things" that lived in the house. My mother and father always told my sister and I that seeing ghosts ran in the family. This made our childhood difficult and frightening because most people didn't understand nor believe us. The ghosts in our home were particularly aggressive, often shaking the bed or pulling off covers. It got so bad that we never left the room at night for water or to go to the bathroom unless one of our parents happened to be up. That was when the ghosts got tricky and started luring us out. It would mimic the distinct sounds of my father's footsteps so that we would come out, only to find ourselves alone In a pitch black living room. It would even turn on the television so that the light would dance down the hall. When you finally reached the living room, again it was pitch black. Every night my sister and I would hear whispering and clicking on the computer in the breakfast nook. The voices spoke loud enough to be heard but never enough to be clear enough to make the words out. One night my sister wanted to stay up to watch some tv. Next to the television was a window. She looks up and a white apparition of a man appeared and walked past it looking in. She felt that it was wanting to come into the house. There were several entities in the home and two outside that we knew of. We called one of the entities "thing 1" because it resembled the character from doctor Seuss. This being was white with a fluffy or sparkly head and was always running. I actually caught this one In a photo. We finally moved out when I was 16 and was relieved, thinking that the scary crap would stop. It didn't.

Later on my husband moved in and he too started to encounter weird things. One particular night that I will never forget was when we were expecting my uncle. He was on his way for a visit and he was supposed to come very late in the night after a long drive. That night it was raining like crazy, a typical summer night in florida. We were starting to fall asleep when we heard loud pounding on our window. We thought it was my uncle in the rain trying to wake us up so that we would let him in. I looked out the window and there was no uncle, no car, no sign of anyone. This happened several more times around the house. The last time it happened was when I was in the sunroom with my cats. I heard a loud knocking on the back door. The next night after that my sister was in the sunroom with the cats too, when all of a sudden a deep guttural growl began to sound off from behind her. The growl was so deep it vibrated the whole sunroom and the cats ran under the couch for dear life. This frightened the cats for several days.

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The last story I would like to share would be the encounter in my in law's home. My husband and I were there alone watching a movie and eating pizza in their living room. The living room is right next to the kitchen and in the kitchen is a cow on a swing figurine hanging from the ceiling.
The cow is kind of heavy and doesn't budge even with the fans or air conditioner on and doesn't even move when a door is opened or closed. While we were sitting there on the couch we noticed movement from the corner of our eyes. The cow began to swing on its own. Then to top it off the kitchen door opened By itself. We were a$$ and elbows out the door.

I know some may not believe my stories but they were very real to me and my family members. Ok anyone else got some goodies to share? I wanna hear some ghost stories!


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There have been times when I have been awake in bed and have seen things. Ghostly things. Glowing eyes floating in the darkness, looking at me. Sometimes I would also hear things: Static, or wind rushing, or indecipherable whispering, or a voice speaking my name.

These were always frightening, especially because I would sometimes find myself unable to look away, or even move. And then I would snap out of it, bolt upright in bed, and the eyes and strange sounds would be gone.

I started seeing the eyes when I was about 12 years old. Not often-- maybe once every two or three months. But it was always frightening, and I was sure I was seeing a ghost. Or an alien. Or a demon.

I kept seeing these terrifying eyes occasionally throughout my adolescence, into my college years, and into adulthood. While I am very much a skeptic vis-a-vis the paranormal, these visions both vexed and frightened me. Especially because these apparitions we're personal: They would appear regardless of where I was, and no one who'd been sharing my bed when I had a haunting ever saw anything unusual.

In my 20s, I conducted a good amount of research into what the eyes could be. And in a tome about piercing the veil between sleep and wakefulness, I found the answer:

Spoiler:
Hypnogagic hallucinations.

They're a well-documented phenomenon in psychology literature. It's also pretty fairly common, particularly for people that are sleep-deprived. Eyes in the dark are one of the most commonly reported sights. Many psychologists have speculated that reports of aliens or ghosts are simply people experiencing this.

I still see the eyes from time to time, and they are still frightening, but at least now I know what they are... And I also know how to avoid them:

Spoiler:
Get at least 7 hours of sleep a night!


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My dog woke me in the wee hours from a sound sleep, so she could go out and take care of business. I stumbled out of the bedroom, down the hall to where it separates into the kitchen and living room. I was going to turn into the kitchen, following the dog to the back door, when I saw someone standing in the living room, silhouetted by the light from the cable box.

I stopped cold. I could have sworn there was a young girl, about the size of a four year old, standing in the dark of my living room, staring at me, quiet and preternaturally still. The hair went up on the back of my neck. I blinked and rubbed my eyes, and she was still standing there, not four feet from me. After a long moment, I slowly reached out, leaned forward, and tapped a finger where her forehead would be.

Hard plastic. It was the upright vacuum cleaner I'd neglected to put away after vacuuming the living room. Once I touched it, it no longer held any resemblance of a girl. I collapsed into a fit of hysterical giggles and then went to let my impatient dog out.

Poe's hypnagogic state in action.


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I don't believe in ghosts, per say. I do believe that science is nowhere near explaining everything, however. I prefer to keep an open mind simply because I was taught in Uni that it's BAD science to close your mind to a possibility, no matter how outlandish it may seem, as you have already formed a conclusion.

With that being said...I work nights at a hotel that once served as a military barracks. In fact, I'm working right now. I see, hear and smell odd things all the time. A lot of it can be explained pretty easily - the camera's motion sensor is being tripped because of a computer screensaver, for example.

But I know a lot of the bar staff are convinced the place is haunted. We've had some odd things I just can't figure out, like why the motion sensors on four different camera tripped in sequence, like someone was walking from the bar to the office I was in...without anyone actually being there.

At least twice the bar manager and I have had to check out sections of the bar we knew were empty because we heard someone in them. We didn't find anything. On another occasion we had to check his flat upstairs because we heard someone walking around down in the bar, despite the people who lived there being in said bar.

I've had TV's turn on in empty rooms, but I always figure that's just some weirdness with the TV remotes.

Then there's the regular odd noises in the corridors, strange shadows on the cameras and smells of food cooking in the hotel area (where there are no food cooking facilities) that can mostly be explained away but sometimes feel odd.


Tiny Coffee Golem wrote:
Vod Canockers wrote:
There is a gentleman from Central or South America that has been collecting fur samples from Chupacabra sightings and attacks. One of the paranormal investigation shows offered to have all the samples DNA tested if he would agree to accept the results. Every sample was identified as a known animal. That gentleman is looking for someone to test all of his samples because they are Chupacabra hairs.
Didn't they do the testing already and it turned out to be a dog or something? Maybe that was Bigfoot. Same concept though.

Yes, every sample was tested, but the gentleman was so sure that they are Chupacabra hairs that he refuses to believe reality.


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So here are more creepy things that have happened in my life....

1) I sometimes feel a phantom cat walking on my bed. This one actually reassures me as I had a great cat for about 15 years while growing up. So I kinda like to think it is just him letting me know he has my back. At least that is what I hope it is.

2) Growing up I used to sneak down to watch TV late at night during the summers. The TV was on a TV stand with one of those push latches ( you push the door and it would click open)...anyway as I was watching Late Night with David Letterman it suddenly just clicked open. I went to bed right after. The next morning after the sun had raised I went down to look at it...it was still open and nobody was up yet.

3) Another time when I sneaked down to watch TV the ceiling fan started to turn on it's own. While the logical explanation for that would be that some breeze coming from somewhere made it turn....but I have never seen it do that with that a very strong wind outside.

4) Last of the sneaking down to watch TV late at night stories...my grandmother was living with us during this time. Usually on my late night sneaking I stayed away from her room...but for some reason which I can't explain I went to her room...knocked on her door and she was still awake and I said "Good night'...she said to me "Good night" back and I closed her door. The next morning my mother found her dead in her chair. I still don't why I went to say good night to her.

5) One morning I woke up with my neck feeling funny...like it was scratched. I figured I must have done it in my sleep or something and went to work. One of my Co workers asked me something very odd...

"Are you afraid of vampires or something?"
"No...they don't exist." I replied.
"Well you have crosses scratched into your neck."

So I went to the bathroom and sure enough on either side of my neck there was scratches in the perfect shape of a cross...

6) The most recent one is one night I went out the back door to go have a cigarette. When I came back in I head a male voice talking down in the basement. I must have listened for at least a couple of minutes...I could not make out anything being said though. And it was not my father's voice. There was no light coming from the TV down there. I turned on the light I heard a 'Shushing' sound...armed with a baseball bat I proceeded to check the basement...I looked in the boiler room...the closets...every where...there was no one there.


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I've only had 1 paranormal experience and it was odd. I was at the movie theater with my gf at the time and we were watching the first Kick-Ass. We were the only ones in the theater as it had been out for about a month at the time. What happened? After the credits I was still looking at the screen, glancing forward so I would know where I was going. I looked back at the screen and saw the silhouette of a young girl in front of the screen. It could have easily been something wrong with the projector or whatnot but it didn't feel like that. I don't know it's hard to explain. Do I want to believe? Sure, but was it paranormal? The thing is I'm not sure. One second it was there, the next it was gone.

Scarab Sages

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My granny used to say that gramps (who had been dead a number of years by this point) would pinch her toes while she was sleeping.


John Kretzer wrote:

So here are more creepy things that have happened in my life....

1) I sometimes feel a phantom cat walking on my bed. This one actually reassures me as I had a great cat for about 15 years while growing up. So I kinda like to think it is just him letting me know he has my back. At least that is what I hope it is.

2) Growing up I used to sneak down to watch TV late at night during the summers. The TV was on a TV stand with one of those push latches ( you push the door and it would click open)...anyway as I was watching Late Night with David Letterman it suddenly just clicked open. I went to bed right after. The next morning after the sun had raised I went down to look at it...it was still open and nobody was up yet.

3) Another time when I sneaked down to watch TV the ceiling fan started to turn on it's own. While the logical explanation for that would be that some breeze coming from somewhere made it turn....but I have never seen it do that with that a very strong wind outside.

4) Last of the sneaking down to watch TV late at night stories...my grandmother was living with us during this time. Usually on my late night sneaking I stayed away from her room...but for some reason which I can't explain I went to her room...knocked on her door and she was still awake and I said "Good night'...she said to me "Good night" back and I closed her door. The next morning my mother found her dead in her chair. I still don't why I went to say good night to her.

5) One morning I woke up with my neck feeling funny...like it was scratched. I figured I must have done it in my sleep or something and went to work. One of my Co workers asked me something very odd...

"Are you afraid of vampires or something?"
"No...they don't exist." I replied.
"Well you have crosses scratched into your neck."

So I went to the bathroom and sure enough on either side of my neck there was scratches in the perfect shape of a cross...

6) The most recent one is one night I went out the back door to go have a...

I seem to recall from GURPS Supers that there was a advantage/disadvantage called Weirdness Magnet. You might have this John. :-)


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Now....I don't believe in ghosts, but I do have a story to tell

My first semester starting my PhD, I moved into a basement apartment in Laramie. Sometime around October I recall being uneasy in bed, and I thought I heard scratching from the bedroom window, which happened to be above my bed.

This itself isn't really that weird...there were shrubs right in front of well the window was in. Also it's Wyoming, which is no stranger to wind.

At any rate, I got bothered by it for whatever reason, and decided to check if anything was outside the window.

When I opened pulled the curtains away, I appeared to see the body (below chest level) of a girl in a white old-fashioned sleeping gown, dangling from above.

Obviously I was super freaked out, but turning on the light revealed nothing outside. Still made for an uncomfortable night, and yes I did check the other windows and made sure the apartment was locked.

So as I mentioned, I don't believe in ghosts. And I don't believe this was something supernatural. I think the experience I had was probably a result of a novel living situation (this was the first time I had ever lived alone...I had always lived with parents or roommates prior to that), time of year and environment (a windy October night), a probably sleep state of mind that didn't have me at its most alert, which led me to imagine that a reflection of the window curtains was a dressing gown. At least that is my best explanation. I will note the house wasn't especially old, nor did I ever have anything else happen during the 6 years I lived there that would make me think that was a genuine sighting


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My beloved grandmother died suddenly in 1989 when I was 20. I was a sophomore in college at the time. About a month after the funeral, I found myself studying in my dorm room when the phone rang. I picked it up.

"Hello?"

"Hi, Hal. It's Nana."

We had a very typical conversation for a few minutes: My classes, things going on at home, politics... And then I asked a question...

"Um, Nana, aren't you dead?"

"Yes. I'm calling from Heaven."

"I didn't think Heaven actually existed."

"It does if you believe in it. When you die, you go where you think you'll go."

"Huh."

"I have to go now. I won't be able to call you again. I love you. Good-bye."

"I love you too."

-CLICK- Dial tone.

And then I woke up.

The conversation had been a very vivid dream. Did I have an actual conversation with my grandmother from beyond the grave? Our was this my subconscious trying to provide my conscious mind with some closure? Hard to say. All I know is that I found that dream very comforting, and I still think of it 25 years later.


Aberzombie wrote:
My granny used to say that gramps (who had been dead a number of years by this point) would pinch her toes while she was sleeping.

I don't know if that would be romantic or scary as hell hahahaha.


Ghost stories....
I know people who believe in ghosts on the flimsiest of evidence (i.e. none). That's about it.

Having walked alone through the dark woods in rural Norway in autumn nights I can see how an overactive imagination can make you believe in trolls and whatnot. Any strange sound or half-glimpsed movement is suddenly filled with menace, fear and uncertainty make you start imagining things.


Bjørn Røyrvik wrote:

Ghost stories....

I know people who believe in ghosts on the flimsiest of evidence (i.e. none). That's about it.

Having walked alone through the dark woods in rural Norway in autumn nights I can see how an overactive imagination can make you believe in trolls and whatnot. Any strange sound or half-glimpsed movement is suddenly filled with menace, fear and uncertainty make you start imagining things.

party pooper alert! Party pooper aleeeert! ;) but we welcome you to the party anyways. Got any stories you may have heard from a friend or perhaps a weird experience?

Lantern Lodge Customer Service Dire Care Bear Manager

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People are having a good time here sharing their ghost stories. If you don't want to contribute to this thread in a helpful or friendly manner or if the subject of this thread is not your cup of tea you are cordially invited not to post in it.

Lantern Lodge Customer Service Dire Care Bear Manager

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I've gone back through the thread and removed some posts and replies to those posts. This is not the thread to debate whether or not ghost stories are real. If you want to debate the existence of supernatural entities, you need to start a new thread. Keep in mind that we do not tolerate threads created to mock or bait other users.


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Bjørn Røyrvik wrote:
Having walked alone through the dark woods in rural Norway in autumn nights I can see how an overactive imagination can make you believe in trolls and whatnot. Any strange sound or half-glimpsed movement is suddenly filled with menace, fear and uncertainty make you start imagining things....

I remember that night....I almost had you then.....hahahaha

Maybe next time?


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Troll-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo wrote:
Bjørn Røyrvik wrote:
Having walked alone through the dark woods in rural Norway in autumn nights I can see how an overactive imagination can make you believe in trolls and whatnot. Any strange sound or half-glimpsed movement is suddenly filled with menace, fear and uncertainty make you start imagining things....

I remember that night....I almost had you then.....hahahaha

Maybe next time?

No fair! You said I could have the next one!


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I've never seen a ghost, but I certainly be open to the experience.


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Boo! (translation-Dot)


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Randarak wrote:
I seem to recall from GURPS Supers that there was a advantage/disadvantage called Weirdness Magnet. You might have this John. :-)

Well maybe...though I think CyraXIII has me beat.

Another creepy story...I have the ability to only jinx my best friend or predict the future...

I have told him he is going to be fired from a job, get in a car accident, etc sorta in a joking way...and it mostly happens...so I kinda of stopped doing it.

My other great future prediction was back when I was in the 2nd grade I think there was a school project to describe something that happened that summer. My summer was very boring so I created a elaborate story how a bat got into the house...and how I got to fly out a window. Flash forward about 15 years...a bat got into the house and remembering the story I used the same trick to get it to leave...strange right?


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Sara Marie wrote:

I've gone back through the thread and removed some posts and replies to those posts. This is not the thread to debate whether or not ghost stories are real. If you want to debate the existence of supernatural entities, you need to start a new thread. Keep in mind that we do not tolerate threads created to mock or bait other users.

Thank you!


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Okay this did not happen to me but my sister. She was hanging Christmas decoration around the house one day. She was hanging some balls from the light fixture in the hallway. She noticed one of them just started swinging back and forth. As if somebody was tapping it. She has (or had) at least 5 minutes of it swinging on her cell phone.

So does anybody else has anymore stories?


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I just remembered that the night after we buried my dad my mom said he came to visit her. He was dressed the way he was when they first met, and was young. He told her everything was going to be ok. Until her dying day she believed he'd really been there, and she was one not given to belief in the supernatural normally.


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The closest thing I've been to a ghostly experience was when my grandmother died a few months ago.

My aunts dressed her and tucked her inside her bed, along with a mortuary cloth surrounding her head, before the people from funerary services got there to take her to the chapel, so that everyone could say goodbye. The whole family had gathered in her home; my dad asked me if I wanted to see grandma for the last time, so I went into her room and leaned forward to kiss her on the forehead.

That's when I felt a huge load around my shoulders and arms, like when someone hugs you strongly, and for a moment I could swear I heard my grandmother saying something (but I couldn't make out what exactly).

Most of myself thinks it was a sudden rush of emotions and maybe my head confusing the sounds coming from other parts of the house, but a part of me still can't shake off the feeling of how impossibly real it all seemed.


That is it for stories?


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My family moved a lot when I was a kid. One time we were looking at potential new houses, my little brother stopped us all in the kitchen and said, "Mom! We can't live here! This house is haunted!"

The realtor turned white as a sheet and stammered, "How could he know that? There was a murder here once!!!"

I didn't have the heart to tell her that my brother had said the exact same thing about every house we ever looked at.


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Kirth Gersen wrote:

My family moved a lot when I was a kid. One time we were looking at potential new houses, my little brother stopped us all in the kitchen and said, "Mom! We can't live here! This house is haunted!"

The realtor turned white as a sheet and stammered, "How could he know that? There was a murder here once!!!"

I didn't have the heart to tell her that my brother had said the exact same thing about every house we ever looked at.

Wow what are the odds that all the houses your family looked at was haunted? ;)

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Spanky the Leprechaun wrote:

Can we all agree that ghost stuff isn't scientifically proven and everybody who was compelled to point this fact out is real smart or whatever and just do ghost stories?

It would all be string theory, given they are separated from us by change in possibility...

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Kirth Gersen wrote:

My family moved a lot when I was a kid. One time we were looking at potential new houses, my little brother stopped us all in the kitchen and said, "Mom! We can't live here! This house is haunted!"

The realtor turned white as a sheet and stammered, "How could he know that? There was a murder here once!!!"

I didn't have the heart to tell her that my brother had said the exact same thing about every house we ever looked at.

So your little brother is a fisherman...threw in a line and hooked a fish.

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My brother told me he once saw a human sized 'predator' doing that invisibility that is a distortion in the air crawl into the house along the wall of the lounge and flash its eyes at him...before vanishing.

I remember sitting in the car driving along as a kid and spotting a t-Rex bound across the highway behind us...appearing at the edge of the road, and vanishing again...not into the bush...rather returning home in time.


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My one and only personal ghost experience has been like one John Kretzer experienced; the phantom cat.

I would climb into bed, and a few minutes later, there would be the sensation of a cat jumping from the floor onto the mattress, walking over my leg. It would then knead the blanket between my knees, and then curl up to sleep. Sometimes it would purr.

Now, as we actually had cats, this wouldn't be unusual. Until you reach down to pet the cat, and there's nothing there. But there's still pressure on your leg, from where it's lying. It's warm. It's purring. but it's just not there.

It only happened on the bed in my room, and not always when I was trying to sleep; I'd lay there reading a book and it would happen (I spent the last four chapters of R.A. Salvatore's "The Spearweilder's Tale" with this going on). and it wasn't localized; I could feel it jump onto the bed with my whole body, there was the sensation of covers moving as it padded around and kneaded them, and it wasn't always laying against the same place on my legs; sometimes it would be between the thighs, others it would be against one calf, or draped on an ankle, or even over near the wall next to my hip. if it was a hallucination it was a surprisingly vivid, frequent, and complex on.

I don't believe in the supernatural. Ghosts aren't real, as far as I can figure. but... this was definitely a series of sensations I experienced regularly for over two years. And frankly if it WAS some weird, freaky, paranormal entity? I figure that in the scheme of things, appearing to me in the form of a cat who just wanted to snooze on my legs is probably one of the better possible outcomes of such a thing's presence in my bedroom. I just came to accept that I had a fourth cat who happened to be invisible and (mostly) intangible, and rolled with it.

Hell, my best guess is still that I was actually sharing a moment with an alternate-dimension me who actually DID have a cat flopped on his lap while he was in bed. It's as good as anything else I've got, I figure.


Every once in a while, I feel my smartphone vibrate... but no one called!


yes, I have

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