Do You Believe in Ghosts?

[LadyPamela]

I came home from work today and the metal trash bin part that the paper shredder goes on top of was sitting right in the middle of the kitchen floor. The bin has been in the living room since it was emptied about two weeks ago (yeah I know, lazy about putting it back upstairs in my home office).

The living room is a short hallway and part of the family room away from the kitchen. I have a cat but I find it hard to believe that she would have, or could have, moved it all that way and set it upright. It isn't round, it's got a slightly curved front and a flat back, so she couldn't have rolled it there and THEN set it upright?

I live alone and no one else has access to my house.

 

[whistlrr]

Thought you might find this excerpt from Wiki interesting:

Wayne died of complications from gout during a 1796 return trip to Pennsylvania from a military post in Detroit, and was buried at Fort Presque Isle (now Erie, Pennsylvania) where the modern Wayne Blockhouse stands. His body was disinterred in 1809 and, after boiling the body to remove the remaining flesh, as many of the bones as would fit in two saddlebags were relocated to the family plot in St. David's (Radnor) Episcopal Church cemetery in Radnor, Pennsylvania. A legend says that many bones were lost along the roadway that encompasses much of modern U.S. Route 322, and that every January 1 (Wayne's birthday), his ghost wanders the highway searching for his lost bones.

Yikes!
After all that I'd have to wander trying to collect my bones too!

 

[whistlrr]

I came home from work today and the metal trash bin part that the paper shredder goes on top of was sitting right in the middle of the kitchen floor. The bin has been in the living room since it was emptied about two weeks ago (yeah I know, lazy about putting it back upstairs in my home office).

The living room is a short hallway and part of the family room away from the kitchen. I have a cat but I find it hard to believe that she would have, or could have, moved it all that way and set it upright. It isn't round, it's got a slightly curved front and a flat back, so she couldn't have rolled it there and THEN set it upright?

I live alone and no one else has access to my house.

Did you look around to see if anything else in your house was out of place? (I know I would have)

 

[LadyPamela]

I did look around. Nothing out of place other than a plastic tube with a car drying cloth in it is missing. I use it to prop open the door from the family room to the garage so the cat can go out there. Gives her a little "outside" without going outside. I only do that in the evening when I'm here and I am obsessive about making sure the back door and garage door is locked when I leave. There is no way I would leave it propped open. I've looked under the furniture in the family room for it and a quick look in the living room but haven't found it yet.

 

[Surf Monkey]

It's pretty obvious that the ONLY explanation is ghosts. Anyone can see that.

 

[LadyPamela]

I talked to my daughter and asked if she was here yesterday. She hesitated before saying "yes". I asked how did she get in?? She said that the sliding glass door in the family room will come open if you jiggle it and pull hard enough. She says you have to really push down the latch hard to make it stay.

Ok... I'll take note of that. Of course, I then looked around to see if there was anything out that I wouldn't want someone (my daughter) to see.

 

[whistlrr]

If you'd like to stop that way of being able to enter (though it would also stop your daughter from getting in that way in the process) you could lay a 2x4 (or similar, broom handle etc) of the appropriate length in the runner part (where the glass door slides to when open) so it can't be slid open.

I can still see how the ghost theory was a reasonable one to consider (just sometimes its a ghost thing, sometimes it isn't)

 

[freeskierpj]

It's possible but I would need to see it to believe it I can't just take the word of somebody else or especially those stupid ghost hunter videos that always say I saw something over there or hear a noise but of course the camera never catches anything I just can't believe some things without seeing it for myself...

 

[LisaLisa]

It's possible but I would need to see it to believe it I can't just take the word of somebody else or especially those stupid ghost hunter videos that always say I saw something over there or hear a noise but of course the camera never catches anything I just can't believe some things without seeing it for myself...

LOL! Yea, I know what you mean. I've been watching the show Ghost Hunters since it started and there has only been a handfull of episodes where they have really ever caught anything on video that was pretty decent stuff.

They do get alot of interesting EVP's on audio tho, but only a few good video incidents. Two stand out in my mind as really good ones, a chair moving all by itself caught on tape, and a perfect shadow of a man that was caught on tape. Out of hundreds of episodes, those were the only 2 really great points.

Oh, and then there was this one episode where they had a thermal imaging camera on this psychic guy and it went crazy........I remember that one too.......it was really very interesting.

 

[AngusATAT]

I've watched a few episodes of that show, and others like it, and all that stuff is so obviously scripted. I would love for something to really happen that made me do a double take and wonder what the heck I just saw.

Oh well.


I'm bored now. My favorite thread has been taken away "for review". I wonder why? Everyone was so nice and polite!

 

[oldtechno]

I believe in the 'good Holy Ghost'.

Sure, why not.

 

[535cheetah]

Yes i believe in ghosts. The human body has its own energy. It is detectable and measurable with our technology. This electrical energy makes us breath, makes our heart beat, and more importantly is what our brain uses as a 'vessel' for our essence, our personality and thoughts. This point can't be denied as it has been proven.

The first law of thermodynamics is that energy can change forms but it can't be destroyed. again, has been proven.

So if you can't destroy energy, it can only change form, then that means the energy in your body that makes you..well you, will change form when the physical body that contains it dies off.

THAT is a 'ghost'. Residual energy. Thats why you always hear of ghosts that haunt a certain house where they died, or soldiers that haunt battlegrounds where they met their end. The physical form required to create more memories (senses and the physical brain) is not there, the 'energy' can only 'replay' what it 'knows'. You probably dont remember everything in your life, but you would remember your death...right? Thats what a ghost 'remembers'..its death, or some high point that happened in its life. If that person wasn't ready to die, or doesnt know they are dead, those are the ghosts you see that are more than just a 'blob' floating through the air. Their energy is stronger, less dissipated. They are more tangible. Those are the ghosts that are able to slam doors, make noises..etc.

I think this also explains things like children that are born after a parent dies, but before they actually meet, but have certain idiosyncracies (sp?) that their parents. A child that says something his dead father did, acts a certain way..etc.


atleast thats my .02

my thoughts exactly !!! well said

 

[Smoking Guns]

I generally try not to "believe" in anything. And I am absolutely, 100%, skeptical about just about everything. However, I know that ghosts -or "phenomenon that seems to appear and behave like what society generally calls GHOSTS"- exist. I suck at telling stories, and dislike recounting these expereices, but yeah... absolutely, no question about it.

I find the sarcastic skeptical posts/comments amusing. If only you had just the tiniest glimpse of what's out there. Maybe one day you will.

 

[clear_blue27]

Yes. I've had some pretty wicked experiences with my friends. We were at the Hollow in Shrewsberry PA. Don't know if anyone heard of the legend. That place is haunted and feels creepy. One night we went to the lake. Something from the lake chased us. We high tailed it out of there.

The next experience was going to see the demon tree. A demon lives in the tree. When we drove past it, it chased us. I never felt so much fear in my life. It was trying to attack the driver, and it also made my other 2 friends weird.

Needless to say we never went back to the tree. So yes I do believe in ghosts. I have this obsession with visiting haunting places. I like to take a drive through the hollow sometimes.

 

[The Unknown One]

i think theres a lot of unknown unknowns out there