Do you believe in ghosts?

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

...or spirits from the netherworld...or at least that some kind of "energy" exists that we can't explain? Ever seen a ghost...heard anything go bump in the night? Ever felt a presence that you couldn't explain? Afraid of the dark, old empty houses, graveyards or being home alone?

Anyone got any ghost stories?

I believe there is something out there that exists between this life and the next "place" we go when we die. I don't know what it is...whether ghosts are real or just in our minds.

I do know that my wife and I were married in an old museum that is said to be haunted and there is a place on our wedding video that you can clearly hear footsteps on the stairs leading into the room we were married in. No one heard any footsteps during the ceremony though...and they're too loud to have been missed. We thought it may have been the photographer...but there are pictures taken at the moment of the footsteps that are in a totally different place. Not to mention everyone was seated and no one left or entered in the middle of the ceremony. We all could have seen them if they had.

I know that my wife, kids and I have all heard footsteps in our hallway and the pages of a newspaper being turned out in our living room early in the morning on various occasions. I know too that my youngest daughter hollered out to my wife and I after she went to bed one night and asked which one of us just walked past her room. We were both sitting in the living room watching tv at the time and neither of us had gotten up or walked anywhere. My daughter is absolutely positive one of us walked by her room and into our room though. I even had to get up and go search to convince her that no one was in there. The good thing is she wassn't even scared. I also know that once we took the nameplate of the former owners off of our front door, these things seem to have all but stopped.

Here's a pretty cool story someone sent me with a pic on the next post...

> On November 19, 1995, Wem Town Hall in Shropshire, England burned to the
ground. Many spectators gathered to watch the old building, built in 1905,
as it was being consumed by the flames. Tony O'Rahilly, a local resident,
was one of those onlookers and took photos of the spectacle with a 200mm
telephoto lens from across the street. One of those photos shows what looks
like a small, partially transparent girl standing in the doorway. Nether
O'Rahilly nor any of the other onlookers or firefighters recalled seeing the
girl there.
>
> O'Rahilly submitted the photo to the Association for the Scientific Study
of Anomalous Phenomena which, in turn, presented it for analysis to Dr.
Vernon Harrison, a photographic expert and former president of the Royal
Photographic Society. Harrison carefully examined both the print and the
original negative, and concluded that it was genuine. "The negative is a
straightforward piece of black-and-white work and shows no sign of having
been tampered with," Harrison said.
>
> But who is the little girl? Wem, a quiet market town in northern
Shropshire, had been ravaged by fire in the past. In 1677, historical
records note, a fire destroyed many of the town's old timber houses. A young
girl named Jane Churm, the legends say, accidentally set fire to a thatched
roof with a candle. Many believed her ghost haunted the area and had been
seen on a few other occasions
>

[Demonpenz]

i would go up there right now and take a picture but I guess it is going to storm

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by JimNasium

I did a Google image search for "ghosts" and this is what I came up with. How can you ghost doubters explain this?

I see it there in the lower right - a ghost couch. Wow.

[Hydrae]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I see it there in the lower right - a ghost couch. Wow.

Wow is right! I never knew that couches had a soul. Gonna have to be more careful about what I do on my couch in the future!

[Ecto-I]

No proof, no ghosts. Until I see one or am presented with some damn good evidence, I don't believe. Hell, even if I do see one, it'd probably be a hallucination or something.

Ironically, Ghostbusters is my favorite movie!

[Frazod]

Yes, I believe in ghosts. I've had a couple of experiences that really can't be logically explained. Nothing I've actually seen - but in one instance, something that I definitely heard.

[Nightfyre]

I don't believe in them, but I've seen one.

[KcMizzou]

I'm undecided. I believe there are lots of things out there we dont or can't understand. But specifically? I dunno.

[ChiefFripp]

Originally Posted by beer me

take a joke well...?

Yes as I offered one back I really don't know your woman

[Jenny Gump]

Thanks a lot guys. You have officially freaked me out.


I'm gonna go catch the Stiffler Dance-Off real quick to bring me back to Quirkyville.

[Frazod]

I pulled this story from an earlier ghost thread. Didn't feel like retyping it.

Originally Posted by frazod

Yes, I do. I spent a few days in a house that had a documented ghost.

Several years ago I visited a friend of mine who lived in officer housing at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne. The base was originally an old cavalry outpost, Fort D. A. Russell. The house I stayed in was well over 100 years old and had always been used as officer's quarters.

Apparently, the wife of an officer was having an affair with another officer. The husband came home, and the other guy tried to escape out an upstairs window. According to the story, he slipped and fell to his death.

The first day I got to the house, my friend told me the story, and that I would hear things in the night. I told him he was full of shit. Then he took his dog and carried it upstairs to the room in question. The dog acted normally everywhere else, but in this room, went nuts. He whimpered and squirmed, and when my friend put him down, he bolted out of the room.

I did notice that the room was cold, but it was November, so I didn't think anything of it.

That night, I slept in a room separated from this back room by a short hallway. Now, I've slept in old houses before, and am aware of the sounds they make (pipes, creaking, etc.). But no house makes a sound like footsteps and a sword rattling in a scabbard!

I was scared shitless and barely slept. For the rest of the time I was there, I slept on a couch downstairs, and was fine.

There was something in that room. I know it.

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

Originally Posted by Demonpenz

We have this house near by that is supposed to be haunted. I used to stay over there when i was little, one day I walked into the room and i saw an imprint of a bed rise up like someone was getting out of the bed, but yet no one was around. Then like one day we heard a bang at 1 am and a marble 200 pound table got tipped over for no reason at all. The way it was tipped over freaked me out. But then again, i smoke alot of drugs

OK I admit it....it was me. I tipped the table over. Gotcha.

[Braincase]

I believe in the ghosts of frazod and Iowanian and other things that go "**** You" in the night.

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

Originally Posted by frazod

Yes, I believe in ghosts. I've had a couple of experiences that really can't be logically explained. Nothing I've actually seen - but in one instance, something that I definitely heard.

I know what you mean. One time I was at Joe's house for a Chiefsplanet get together and I walked over to a spot in the room where I could get a good picture of everyone watching the game...and the "e" in the Chiefs wall-hanging just fell off the wall and broke on the floor. I swear it wasn't me...

[Abba-Dabba]

Originally Posted by beer me

Why does the existance of ghosts or spirits of the dead have to have anything to do with God? Can't they just be another realm of existence beyond the one we know? Energy left over by a life cut short or a life not finished?

How do you explain sounds on my wedding video or a girl in a picture that isn't there when everyone can see or hear it? Is everyone's mind playing the same trick on them at the same time...?

I'm atheist. I believe there is no afterlife. The soul is a human invention in my eyes. I'm not trying to change anyones belief/faith they may have. Each one of us is entitled to our own. And I believe neither one of us is more right than the other. Well, to be honest in the end I will either not know a thing and become dirt or be wrong and burn in hell for eternity.

[Nightfyre]

Originally Posted by Saggysack

I'm atheist. I believe there is no afterlife. The soul is a human invention in my eyes. I'm not trying to change anyones belief/faith they may have. Each one of us is entitled to our own. And I believe neither one of us is more right than the other. Well, to be honest in the end I will either not know a thing and become dirt or be wrong and burn in hell for eternity.

Way to be.