Do you believe in ghosts?

Do you believe in ghosts?

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I don't, I've never experienced any paranormal activity.

How about you folks?


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Yes, I believe in them, I think my salary is potentially one of those entities, because of the bills around me and the cost of living, it just cease to be visible before I even realized it was there.
 
Of course not, I'm a grown adult. I live in London which has been continuously inhabited for 2000 years, so if they were real they'd be absolutely fucking everywhere, and I'm sure they'd be doing more to make their presence known than turning off light switches and pushing teacups off tables.

Nobody has ever displayed any kind of scientific evidence for them existing. I don't care how convincing your drunk grandma's story was. She was probably hallucinating from exposure to toxic fertilizers in the 1940s.
 
jimbob27 said:
Of course not, I'm a grown adult. I live in London which has been continuously inhabited for 2000 years, so if they were real they'd be absolutely fucking everywhere, and I'm sure they'd be doing more to make their presence known than turning off light switches and pushing teacups off tables.

Nobody has ever displayed any kind of scientific evidence for them existing. I don't care how convincing your drunk grandma's story was. She was probably hallucinating from exposure to toxic fertilizers in the 1940s.
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Yah I agree, never experienced any apparitions or anything otherworldly in my life.
 
As a thought experiment, I assume many people who were murdered knew who did it, especially domestic violence victims. If they could become ghosts and get revenge, that's probably the very first thing they'd do, so if they could, there would be a long list of murderers dying mysteriously shortly after their victims were killed. This is assuming they don't need 100 years of training to become ghosts and assuming after dead, they don't have something much more satisfying to do than get revenge. Also victims of war bombings surely would have motivation to get revenge after they dieded.
 
GSP_37 said:
As a thought experiment, I assume many people who were murdered knew who did it, especially domestic violence victims. If they could become ghosts and get revenge, that's probably the very first thing they'd do, so if they could, there would be a long list of murderers dying mysteriously shortly after their victims were killed. This is assuming they don't need 100 years of training to become ghosts and assuming after dead, they don't have something much more satisfying to do than get revenge. Also victims of war bombings surely would have motivation to get revenge after they dieded.
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That's interesting, never thought of that.
 
GSP_37 said:
As a thought experiment, I assume many people who were murdered knew who did it, especially domestic violence victims. If they could become ghosts and get revenge, that's probably the very first thing they'd do, so if they could, there would be a long list of murderers dying mysteriously shortly after their victims were killed. This is assuming they don't need 100 years of training to become ghosts and assuming after dead, they don't have something much more satisfying to do than get revenge. Also victims of war bombings surely would have motivation to get revenge after they dieded.
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There would be countless reasons for ghosts trying to make contact or interact with the living world.

Priests and other holymen would be inundated with people trying to make contact, asking wtf went wrong with their death and why they're stuck in limbo, they'd also get taunted by smug atheists.

You'd have dead scientists trying to provide recordable data for the living. Europe would have millions of nazi ghosts who would presumably be causing all sorts of ruckus across the continent's synagogues.
 
Not in the way they're depicted in movies and scary stories. And maybe "believe" is not the right word either. Is there a possibility of some sort of other worldly dimension? If they exist, I believe it's something our current science has yet to uncover. Maybe in the future we'll have the tech to tap into the 4th dimension or something and find out that it's just been these beings that fuck with us. Maybe they're glitches in the simulation. Or maybe it's all in our heads.
 

Guy giving a lecture, on the paranormal.​

Guy: "How many people believe in Ghosts?"

About 60 hands go up.

"How many have seen a ghost?"

About 15 hands go up.

"How many have spoken to a ghost?"

3 hands go up.

"How many have had sex with a ghost?"

One hand goes up, Paddy right at the back.

Guy says to Paddy " I have been doing this for 40 years and you are the first that has claimed to have had sex with a ghost , please come forward and explain. "

Paddy says, "Sorry , I couldn't hear you from the back, I thought you said goats."
 
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No I don't, not really. I've never seen one (nor do I want to).

Though I don't think everyone that sees one is mad, lying, misidentifying either. I think there may be a small number of people who do see/experience something. But what it is I do not know.
I don't think they are dead people.

Years ago I lived in an apartment in Sydney and had a malamute at the time.

Late one night he suddenly got up and started looking at something in the centre of the room. He stretched out cautiously and was sniffing up and down like there was something/someone strange standing in front of him that he was wary of.
Obviously I couldn't see anything and I started calling him and talking to him. But he ignored me and kept sniffing and was looking at what would be approximately where a persons face would be if they were standing there.

It went on for 20 seconds then he suddenly broke out of it and happily came trotting over to me as though nothing had happened.
No idea what it was. It never happened again. He was also not a watch dog and did not have protective instincts and was not skittish either.

I have known several people who claimed to have seen/experienced stuff regularly and they told me many stories but I have caught them out lying about other stuff so I obviously dismissed it.
 
GSP_37 said:
As a thought experiment, I assume many people who were murdered knew who did it, especially domestic violence victims. If they could become ghosts and get revenge, that's probably the very first thing they'd do, so if they could, there would be a long list of murderers dying mysteriously shortly after their victims were killed. This is assuming they don't need 100 years of training to become ghosts and assuming after dead, they don't have something much more satisfying to do than get revenge. Also victims of war bombings surely would have motivation to get revenge after they dieded.
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I don't think that holds water because ghosts might be killing their murderers all the time and we wouldn't know it.
 
I've had a couple of experiences I can't explain. But was it a ghost, I don't know. One looked 100% like a person I do know that much. My ex was into the Ghost hunting shows so we spent the night at quite a few "haunted places". But my craziest experience was as a teenager, and then one with her on a random weekend trip.
 
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