What can you tell me about Ghosts?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

Do you believe in them? Have any of you had an otherworldy experience? Both my sisters claim to have had a few freaky ghost experiences.

[autorank]

1. They do not exist. Don't waste your time. It's a con.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

6. I'm thinking there's some truth to the stories

many reputable people have had these experiences-including friends and family who are the rational types.

[lenidog]

7. I would have to disagree my friend

and I speak from personal experience

[Kathy in Cambridge]

8. Tell your story-would love to hear it

I am totally open to the supernatural, just not to Creationism, aliens and other such BS.

[lenidog]

12. Okay

this happened to me about 12 years ago. I was home on leave and and was visiting a friend that I had known since HS. She lived in a old farmhouse with her mother that was built in 1770. I was there with her and another friend from school and we had a few drinks. It wasn't anything serious just enough for a slight buzz. Since it was late and I was considered a part of the family I crashed on her L shaped couch and my other friend crashed on the other part of the couch. Now she had told me in the past that the place was haunted. I didn't disbelieve her but then again I didn't believe her. I just kept an open mind. I had never seen anything and never thought I would. So we crashed and about a couple hours later I woke up. I was sleeping facing the back of the couch and flipped over. About five feet way from me and about five feet in the air was what looked like a cohesive ball of smoke. I blinked a couple time, closed my eyes for a minute and then opened them. It was still there bouncing up and down and left and right. I woke my friend and told him to flip over and tell me if he saw what I was seeing. He did and described it perfectly. So for the next five minutes we watched this ball, it never lost cohesion and never came nearer. It then came forward then headed to the right and started down the stairs. We just laid there for a couple minutes and then flipped over and went back to bed. We had seen the ghost, we never felt threatened at anytime or scared. The next morning we told them what we had seen. They were surprised they had never seen the ghost. They believe they had felt her at times and had heard her. (BTW they had the impression it was a woman and she liked to sing and or hum.) Someone could probably come up with some explanation like it was a weird plasma discharge from he earth or some other shit. But I believe and I also believe that the simplest explanation was that it was a ghost.

[Inland]

2. I would, but I don't have time:

I have to write a scathing post on how anti-science and irrational creationism is.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

5. People who believe in Creationism may as well believe

in Greek or Norse myths.

[x-g.o.p.er]

3. Didn't used to...

Until I had an encounter with one.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

4. Really? Do tell-I love a good ghost story.

Were you creeped out?

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. Many years ago I visited a beach in Ireland...

It was in Wicklow and called Barna.

At the time I was 22 and had met a couple of American guys on the boat going to Dublin from Liverpool. One had a car and we decided to see Dublin together and stayed in the same B&B.

One day we drove south (this was in a psychedelic painted VW bug with German license plates, LOL) and ended up on this beach. It was November and chilly, there were virtually no people on the beach. Plus, you had to scramble down these dunes to get down to the beach...which was one of the most beautiful strands I have ever been on in my life...even today.

But there was an aura on the beach. I can't explain it, but it was terribly sad. Suddenly I started crying because it affected me so damn much. Then...being 22 and with these guys, I started to feel damned embarrassed at bawling at nothing. But the guys were a bit teary-eyed too and said they felt it too.

Something horrible had happened on that beach and it was haunted by it. All three of us felt it.

On edit: There was a terrible sadness about that beach. Thus the aura that got to all of us. It was a remarkable experience.

I've been back to Ireland, but never to that beach.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

10. Maybe the "Potato Boats" left from there

the stories of the starving and desperate Irish cramming onto those boats. Many were too weak to make it to North America. There is something really sad about Ireland. The weather adds to the mood.

[Quakerfriend]

11. Love that story greatauntoftriplets!

I have had a couple of experiences. When I was a young girl, I grew up in a house that was 325 years old in PA. Though I never saw him, many times visitors to the house would tell us that they had seen a man in overalls in the house.

Also, a psychic once told me that there were "many civil war soldiers buried in shallow graves on the property".

Also, seven years ago when I was very ill with cancer I had the "feeling" that many spirits were around me. This happened most often right before I fell asleep or awoke. They were all very near by, and all very loving. Nothing at all negative.

Interestingly enough, when they spoke to me it was more like a conveying of thoughts, their mouths did not move. Every encounter I had was with a relative, some I did not even recognize. For ex: one morning a women visited and said "she was Jane, and she reassured me that I would always be with my two boys" As a young mother I was worried about what would happen to my children if I were to pass on. In any case, I found out by describing her to my older sister that this was my Aunt Jane who had died of Ca when her three boys were very little. The very next day, a friend brought me a book (I had not asked for) and I opened to p. 454 to a quote about how the mind plays a part in cancer. This was a quote from Dr. P who was my Aunt Jane's father, and who happened to be famous oncologist. I felt that the book was a confirmation of Aunt Jane's visit!

Remember, nothing happens by coincidence. I learned this from "The Celestine Prophecy" a James Red field book. A must read!

[autorank]

13. Found some on the internet: identified source of voices.

http://www.thevoicestellyoutovote.com/

[NightTrain]

14. Up until about 1958, they scared the shit out of black people.

Hey, the movies wouldn't lie to us now, would they? :eyes:

[Gothic Sponge]

15. I've had many experiences.

Those experiences changed me from an atheist to Agnostic.

[medeak]

16. life changing experiences

husband and I shared same experience and it changed our lives.

There is a life after and it is good and full of love.