Do you believe in ghosts?

[BoyNextDoor]

Nearly one-in-five U.S. adults (18%) say they’ve seen or been in the presence of a ghost.

I've never seen one. You?

 

[Fata Morgana]

Yes I do. Once.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

The same people that believe in ghosts dismiss God as a ridiculous thought.

 

[Magnetron]

Seen? No.

Heard? Yes.

Had physical objects moved around to different locations? Yes.

 

[smartandsexy]

I absolutely, positively do not believe in the existence of ghosts. That doesn't stop supernatural ghosty films scaring the bejeezus out of me though.

 

[RedAllan]

Not sure, maybe.

Confusing, yes I'm confused.

 

[lovetoread]

Yes I believe and yes I have seen them.

 

[coacheric]

Yes I believe and yes I have seen them.

I'm with you. I've done and seen a lot of shit in my life. I have every reason to believe that ghosts are real

 

[Disgustipated]

I have a recurring dream about a ghost but I don't think we've formally met.

 

[Debbie]

I haven't seen one. But I do think it is a possibility that they might exist.

I have felt like I was not alone in a room (when I was) but it doesn't freak me out.

 

[dolf]

yes, I have seen them. but that doesn't mean I believe in them.
ok, they aren't disproven, i'm not attacking people who believe.
but brains glitch. perception is not always reality. seeing isn't proof.
you can stimulate your brain with drugs or electricity and see angels.
when people go blind vivid hallucinations are exceedingly common.

 

[snugglestruggle]

Define Ghost? I've herd people refer to those glowing floating bubbles you sometimes see on video as a ghost. Mist? unexplained shadows on the wall? Creepy voices? Apparitions, all can be attributed to being ghostly.

No, I don't believe in Ghosts.

 

[Amberchgo]

I do. I've been places where people have died and I "feel" something.

Creepy.

 

[Wings]

I do believe.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

ghost, spirits and aliens lol

 

[bronzeage]

A ghost once got into my car and rode home with me. He got out as I was parking. However, I don't believe in ghosts.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

A ghost once got into my car and rode home with me. He got out as I was parking. However, I don't believe in ghosts.

lol..

 

[BoyNextDoor]

How about some more ghost stories from the believers?

Did you see stuff moving? or was it in a different place than you remember?

 

[pink]

I think they could exist, yes.


Never seen one.


Never heard one.

 

[Aquagal]

I worked in a remodeled, older building that was formerly a gentlemen's club back in the 50's or 60's. Really beautuful, very large 'home', with this grand, sweeping staircase. There was a story of a man that had died shaving of a heart attack in the upstairs bathroom right down the hall where I worked. Some Saturdays I'd be the first one in the building, had to turn on all the lights. Several times I found the bathroom door locked, the hot sink water had been running for awhile as by the time I'd get in there the room was heavily steamed. Electronics would turn on all by themselves while I was there. All things that are probably explainable. I never 'saw' anything, or really felt anything, just that initial opening up for the day by myself would give me the creeps.

 

[RedAllan]

I may have seen one when I was locking up a old school building, but because my friends had been winding me up about the "ghost" it may have been my mind playing tricks.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The late psychologist, Julian Jaynes, wrote a fat book called THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE BREAKDOWN OF THE BICAMERAL MIND. That is, until 500BC people were functionally psychotic. People hallucinated all kinds of things, and acted on what they sensed. People were schizophrenic, and schizophrenia was the norm.

Vestiges of it still exist, like when you experience ghosts, and you know what your partner is thinking, and you have premonitions. I cant think of any good reason to discount the idea that the dead roam through our primitive mind, just as the living roam about in our consciousness.

http://julianjaynessociety.tripod.com/

 

[Disgustipated]

How about some more ghost stories from the believers?

Did you see stuff moving? or was it in a different place than you remember?

My dream, or whatever, is that someone is pulling the bed sheets off me. Had the dream since I was a child and have it until this day.

Doesn't mean I believe.

 

[Fata Morgana]

My dream, or whatever, is that someone is pulling the bed sheets off me. Had the dream since I was a child and have it until this day.

Doesn't mean I believe.

Once or twice I've thought someone was sat on my bed and bouncing up and down. I've never been sure whether it was a dream or not as I certainly was not wide awake. Whatever, it has scared the crap out of me and made my heart pound.

 

[lovetoread]

Its hard to explain such things, which makes it hard to believe, because most of what happens is with feelings.

You can feel cold

You can feel scared

You can feel not alone

And if you are really lucky you can hear them.