Do you believe in Ghosts?

[chiefs_freak]

well i have been thanking about this topic for a while now and im going to do a survey on it. Do you guys believe in ghost? are they real or fake? Have you ever incountered one? plus i thought this would be a fun post. please tell!

[tk13]

Originally posted by Dartgod
TK, what's the story behind that pic?

Go watch the movie 'Three Men and a Baby'... that's a photo out of a scene that's actually in the movie. During this scene toward the end, Ted Danson and the elderly woman are walking with the baby and as you pass by there's that figure in the window. There was a big deal made out of that when it was first noticed in the movie, everyone said it was the ghost of a boy who had died on that movie set I believe. The crew of the movie said it was a cardboard cutout of Ted Danson. Personally it doesn't look like it to me, but it's probably just some stunt to boost ticket sales. It's still creepy to see everytime I watch the movie though.

There's a link explaining it..

http://www.parascope.com/articles/0397/ghost13.htm

[Sure-Oz]

I gotta rent that sometime just to see it, I may have never noticed before, is that the first movie? Any other flicks with stuff like that?

[tk13]

Originally posted by BerettaZ
I gotta rent that sometime just to see it, I may have never noticed before, is that the first movie? Any other flicks with stuff like that?

Yeah that's the first movie...'Three Men and a Baby'...

It's NOT 'Three Men and a Little Lady'...don't get them confused.

[aturnis]

Little boy looks like a lifesize cardboard cutout of Ted Danson to me...

[Valiant]

yes

i remember when i was in sthe sixth grade and living in liberty there was a old boarded up house... well i was snooping around it during the summer and knew nobody was in there..so i was peering thru a crack in the window...well there was a black figure move across the room...it didnt walk it just glided across the room..well i took off as fast as i could..never went back that summer...i moved to independence that winter...years later i went back and luckly it was tore down..so i didnt have a chance at second redemption..because im afraid i would have went in..

then my friend says her grandmother place is haunted...the story of this haunting is in a baby cradle...they say if something is in the baby cradle weird things happen...she said when she was younger she remembers seeing eyes in the darkness..and her aunt and grandmother have actually witnessed a adult woman in the house..it was paceing back in forth when one of there children went to get surgey done...supposeably it is a child, dad and mother ghost..a whole family around this baby cradle...well i asked her why they didnt get rid of it..she said it doesnt bother them so they dont get rid of it...they store it in the attack...but have to check on it every once in a while..because if something falls into it..they start hearing noises and footsteps upstairs and that is how they know something is in the cradle..so they go upstairs take it out and then go on about their buisness..i told her i want to come over and witness it.. im still waiting on her reply...i also asked if they have ever tried contacting or bringing somebody in to investigate...because im not sure if she is telling the truth or not...but if so, i want to witness it..then pee myself...

[keg in kc]

I've never seen one (nor do I particularly want to) but I think it's entirely possible they exist. 'course, the existence of ghosts doesn't necessarily guarantee we know what they are -- instead of "spirits of the dead" they could be some kind of recording of events, a memory of sorts. Or they could be some type of entities that inhabit the same space as we do, but are other-dimensional or in some other way reside outside of the range of our senses. They might be static charges or some other form of energy. Or it could be a combination of all of those things. Who knows.

What I do know is that I've heard too many stories to completely discount the possibility that they're real.

Then again, what do I know...I think UFO's exist, too.

[BigOlChiefsfan]

I went to The Myrtles Plantation with Mrs. BOCF years ago. We had lunch there, and altho the crawfish salad came back to haunt me later, we didn't have any real other troubles. I will say it was a creepy place about sunset, what with the spanish moss and all that screaming from the big house....

[tk13]

Originally posted by aturnis
Little boy looks like a lifesize cardboard cutout of Ted Danson to me...

Ted Danson is 6'2"...that would make the bottom of that window about 5 feet off the ground and the top about 12 feet high...it just looks funny, doesn't it?

[Frazod]

I do believe that ghosts, spirits, residual psychic energy, or whatever the hell they are, exist. Much like UFOs, there is just too much evidence to rule out existence of these things that we don't understand out of hand.

My personal experience is limited, but I've had a taste here and there of the unexplained.

One of my best friends is an officer in the Air Force, and was stationed at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne. This base was once an old cavalry post, Fort D. A. Russell, and is purported extremely haunted. I have a book about Wyoming hauntings that has an entire chapter dedicated to it. Anyway, my friend told me that there was a ghost in his house (officer's quarters, a old house well over 100 years old). Said there was a room the dog wouldn't go in, occasionally heard sounds, footsteps, what have you. I thought he was full of shit. He explained the story that an cavalry officer was having an affair with another officer's wife, in his house, and that the husband came home one day while the guy was there, and he tried to escape by means of a second story window. Unfortunately for him, though, he fell and died. Nice story, I thought. Well, the window in question was in a storage room on the second floor. Chris (my friend) took his dog in the room. The dog went nuts, whimpered and whined, and when he put the dog down it ran like hell out of that room. The dog didn't act this way anywhere else in the house, but it would never go in that room. This I saw with my own eyes.

Anyway, that night, I slept in a bedroom just a closed door away from that room. Now, it may have been my imagination, but I've spent nights in old houses before, and never have I heard a friggin sound coming from settling/old pipes/whatever that sounded like A SWORD RATTLING IN A SCABBARD! After a couple of sleepless, terrified hours, hearing this damned noise every few minutes, I went downstairs and slept on the couch. Slept fine down there, and that's where I slept for the remainder of my visit.

I bought this book the next day, and sure enough, the story about the fallen officer was in there.



I've had some incidents in my new house as well. Sometimes the cats will sit and yowl down into the basement, for no apparent reason. There's nothing down there. My garage door also goes up and down on its own occasionally (although I realize this could be because a neighbor has a controller on the same frequency). One thing that wouldn't explain would be why my television went on right in front of me one night when I walked in the house - all the shades were drawn, and the remote was on the table with nothing near it. That was a bit odd, to say the least.

Personally, I've never felt a cold spot, or any sort of malevolent presence, so if there is something in here with us, I don't think I've got any issues with us. And besides, if it ever wanders into the bathroom, the sight of me naked is probably scarier to it that anything it could to do me!

[Valiant]

the only thing that really freaks me about ghost is..

are they watching me when im having sex or jerking off...and i cant even charge em a fee...

[keg in kc]

Originally posted by frazod
I've had some incidents in my new house as well. Sometimes the cats will sit and yowl down into the basement, for no apparent reason. There's nothing down there. My garage door also goes up and down on its own occasionally (although I realize this could be because a neighbor has a controller on the same frequency). One thing that wouldn't explain would be why my television went on right in front of me one night when I walked in the house - all the shades were drawn, and the remote was on the table with nothing near it. That was a bit odd, to say the least.

Hey, isn't that how the Amityville Horror started, or was that Poltergeist?

[Frazod]

Originally posted by Valiant
the only thing that really freaks me about ghost is..

are they watching me when im having sex or jerking off...and i cant even charge em a fee...

This might explain why nothing's occurred recently.... the ghost probably fled in fear and digust. Who needs a priest to get rid of the damned things?

[BigOlChiefsfan]

If you went to KU, you probably heard about The Stull Graveyard

Oooooooooh, spooky stuff, kids! Count Floyd says wake me when it's over!

[Mr Grimm]

Originally posted by frazod


This might explain why nothing's occurred recently.... the ghost probably fled in fear and digust. Who needs a priest to get rid of the damned things?

You know if anyone could scare the dead....it would be fraz!!

[Frazod]

Originally posted by keg in kc
Hey, isn't that how the Amityville Horror started, or was that Poltergeist?

We've been here almost a year now. I think I would have at least heard "GET OUT" by now.....

Plus, this house is new construction - there was nothing here prior to it being built. It was just open land, and unless there was some long since destroyed farm house on the site, was probably always open land.

Maybe some Indian pitched a teepee here once and died in it. Who knows?