Do you believe in ghosts?

[Gamergirl80]

This question is to everyone? If you have seen one, i'd love to hear about it??

[grasscarp]

I saw a ghost about 35 years ago in a house where someone was dying. The apparition I saw was apparently the long departed mother of the person dying. I was told the next day what her mother had looked like and it matched what I saw (which I hadnt told to anyone). .

[Ice.Maiden]

Yes, we have a few "visitors" in our house. At least two females've been seen, and there's also a "male" presence. That's all I'm saying, but they look very solid and real.

[sara3]

I stayed in a caravan on a farm with a friend and our kids. if there wasn't a ghost playing games, I have no explanation for the truly weird things that went on.

we were both terrified at the time and have never spoken about since.

[redcrx]

i have seen a black dog running along next to my car at 50mph.
on the same stretch of road i passed a man whose face and hands glowed white. He was dress in what looked like a quaker style outfit. both my passenger and i believed him to be a ghost.

[HJT40]

I have seen "things" more like shadows which have seemed to go in to a wall and I have seen an object move, when there could have been nothing to move it - I did try to move it myself without touching it.

This has happened since my Mum passed away. Maybe I am wrong, but I like to think it is her letting me know she is still about.

[Harry-Wragg]

redcrx - were you speeding or on speed at the time?

[Jillius]

Very much so. I spent my childhood in a haunted house as I have said before. It annoys me when people say they don't exist. Trust me.... they do !

[redcrx]

lol Harry, no i wasnt.

[grasscarp]

Jillius I can relate to that. When people say they "dont believe in ghosts" to me it is like saying I don't believe in Hawaii or something that you havent see for yourself!

[naomi24]

Yes, like Ice Maiden, we've had a few visitors too - several in fact. Yep, they exist.

[Octavius]

I believe that claimed �ghostly visions� are either simply made up or are a result of sensory confusion/ subconscious trickery.

grasscarp, you might have seen an old photograph in the house perhaps and with death in the air this played on your subconscious?

Ice, can you explain what you mean by a �male presence�. What did these females look like?

Sara, weird things always go on in caravans. The unexplained, doesn�t have to = supernatural. There are plenty of other possibilities you could have considered?

Red, perhaps you were on the way home after seeing an advert for the film King Pin on the TV!

I don�t mean to sound dismissive of your claims, my personal view is that I doubt ghostly visions are exactly that. I would ask, did you believe in ghosts before you saw these ghosts?

[eyeshade]

deffinitely yes! My mother in law saw a ghost in a sussex farm house years ago, the woman was sitting by the side of hubbys cradle and she was looking at the baby. When mother in law walked towards her she disappeared almost instantly. I have seen lights shoot accross the room and a further time last year when hubby and I both saw a light directly above his stomach one evening shortly after him being diagnosed with colon cancer. We later found out that a group of people in South of England had done some distant healing for him that night !!

[Harry-Wragg]

redcrx - did the dog have a number on its back? - I would like to know which track it runs at!

[naomi24]

It's difficult for anyone who hasn't experienced anything like this to believe it, but just because they don't have personal experience it doesn't mean that everyone who has is either deluded, or hallucinating, or lying. Many things that happen do have a perfectly rational explanation, but there are some that just cannot be explained. Believe me, I've tried.

[grasscarp]

Octavius. I had definitely not seen any pictures of any ancestors of the dying lady either before or after I saw the apparition. I certainly did not conjure her up, or want to see anything at all. I also heard her coming up the stairs. If you had been there anyd witnessed this for yourself you would probably resent somebody suggesting it was all a production of your imagination!

[naomi24]

As I said, it's difficult for someone who has no experience of such things to believe it.

[Octavius]

I don�t think I would really resent someone telling me that I imagined something that I could not prove. I would even question it myself.

But you didn�t answer my question.

Did you believe in ghosts before you saw a ghost?

[LoftyLottie]

I believe in strange 'forces' what want of a better word. Things that we cannot understand but have a scientific explanation.

Well, I at least know what I mean, even if noone else does!

My very down to earth neighbours have a 'ghost'. He doesn't come very often, but when he does he walks through the house and up the stairs and the footsteps stop at the newer extension. They call him he because his footsteps are heavy. He has also been known to have conversations with other 'ghosts' in their dining room! He is not seen, just heard and visitors who haven't known about him have heard him too. I haven't .

[Harry-Wragg]

Is the Holy Ghost in charge of all the other ghosts?

[naomi24]

Don't worry, Lottie. The cavalry's here and I know exactly what you mean. The problem is that most people seem to align what is commonly termed 'the supernatural' with religion, God, angels, etc, etc, whereas, I like you, think it's a natural phenomena which does have a scientific explanation - even though we don't know what that explanation is - yet.