Your Ghost Experience

[Ringer]

Anybody have an experience with a ghost whether it's seeing one, communicating with one, or believe in them even without actually having any kind of connection with one? Is it possible to believe in ghosts and not be "spiritual"?

I personally have never experienced what I consider to be an encounter with a ghost or spirit. I suppose I very well could have have but it didn't register as one. I think it's a good thing I haven't because it would probably freak me out to the point that I'd be sleeping with one eye open for a while, even if it wasn't there to cause any harm.

 

[dawny0826]

My Aunt June passed away when I was about five years old. Within a year or so of her death, I was playing in the back yard with my cousins, her grandchildren, and I looked up at the kitchen window and there she was...smiling and waving at me. I adored my Aunt June, so it didn't frighten me but I did opt not to mention it to my cousins, as I was afraid it might upset them.

 

[whereismynotecard]

I've got a picture of a ghost, but I don't have a photoscanner, or I'd show you. It's pretty cool.

I don't believe in ghosts though.

 

[sandandfoam]

I don't believe in ghosts. But I can't explain this.
When I was about 15 we went on holidays to an old house. My uncle rented one nearby. We'd never been in this area before. I had a small room at the top of the stairs. As soon as I entered the house I didn't like it. Anyway, on our first night I went to bed about 11. It was a horrible little room. Really gave me the creeps. I tossed and turned all night. The next morning I got up at about 5.30am and went outside. I couldn't spend another minute in the house. My family got up at about 8 and I announced that I wasn't spending one more minute under the roof of that house. Naturally they weren't happy but I was adamant. I was going home. My uncle called later that morning and said I could stay with him so I went. The next evening we were in the pub and this old fella told us that about 100 years previously a woman had killed her 2 kids in the room I had been sleeping in and had then drowned herself in a river running past the house. Neither myself nor my uncle believed him. I thought he was an old git for trying to wind me up. The next day my uncle took me to a friend of his who lived nearby for a visit. I asked this guy had anything ever happened in the house my family were renting. He told me the same story as the old git the night before........
True.

 

[.lava]

i believe there are creatures at energy level so they are unseen in physical and i have some experiences with them. cos they could be seen with what many people call 'third eye' even though we call it that sees metaphysical stuff 'heart's eye'. i do not think they are ghosts or Spirits. they are just creatures like any other creature in other dimension.



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[Rat Fink]

I don't believe in ghosts. But I can't explain this.
When I was about 15 we went on holidays to an old house. My uncle rented one nearby. We'd never been in this area before. I had a small room at the top of the stairs. As soon as I entered the house I didn't like it. Anyway, on our first night I went to bed about 11. It was a horrible little room. Really gave me the creeps. I tossed and turned all night. The next morning I got up at about 5.30am and went outside. I couldn't spend another minute in the house. My family got up at about 8 and I announced that I wasn't spending one more minute under the roof of that house. Naturally they weren't happy but I was adamant. I was going home. My uncle called later that morning and said I could stay with him so I went. The next evening we were in the pub and this old fella told us that about 100 years previously a woman had killed her 2 kids in the room I had been sleeping in and had then drowned herself in a river running past the house. Neither myself nor my uncle believed him. I thought he was an old git for trying to wind me up. The next day my uncle took me to a friend of his who lived nearby for a visit. I asked this guy had anything ever happened in the house my family were renting. He told me the same story as the old git the night before........
True.

I can understand you'd feel bad knowing some murder / suicide / other horrible event had taken place there. But if you didn't know anything then it would be puzzling. Are you sure you had no idea? Hints, maybe? Overheard conversations? Stories with missing bits that your brain filled in for you?

 

[sandandfoam]

Are you sure you had no idea? Hints, maybe? Overheard conversations? Stories with missing bits that your brain filled in for you?

I'm positive. We had never been in that area before.

 

[Erebus]

When I was very young my grandma owned an old house on the moors. This house had seen many different owners and had served as a home, a cafe and a small museum.
As you walk into the kitchen in this house you feel this wierd sensation of something brushing up against your legs, while in one of the bedrooms there was the definite feeling of being watched. As well as these sensations there was the occasional bit of poltergeist activity (particularly where electrical appliances were concerned) with things going missing or malfunctioning.
Now the main thing about this house that I will always remember was when me and my cousin were playing near the storage room. The door to the storage room (or "wood room" as we used to call it) had a window in it that we used to look through occasionally, one day when we looked through the window we saw an old man in the room looking out of a window into the garden. This man was translucent and entirely greyish white. I can still remember his features... whispy hair, 1940's style clothing and dark grey pits in place of eyes. Needless to say, when this figure turned to look at us, both me and my cousin bolted out of the room and refused to ever go near the store room again.
Now it would be far easier for me to believe that I'd hallucinated or imagined something, but there are a couple of things that have always kept me wondering. The first is that even after a good 15 years both me and my cousin still describe the same figure (despite living miles away from one another). The second is that the figure we described was an accurate description of one of the previous owners of the house who died alone and was eaten by his pet cats.

 

[michaelnicko]

I have experienced seeing a spirit in church .

 

[Nepenthe]

Anybody have an experience with a ghost whether it's seeing one...

Yes, seeing one, but realizing upon retrospect it was my fallible senses and overactive imagination that misinterpreted what I was actually viewing.

communicating with one...

Like most kids I played with ouija boards and attended a few seances. But the ideomotor effect, gullibility and cultural doctrination to insist on the existence of an afterlife explains why I was so vulnerable to believing in such when I was a child.

or believe in them even without actually having any kind of connection with one? Is it possible to believe in ghosts and not be "spiritual"?

Oh yeah. There are all kinds of pseudosciences that could be brought in to "explain" ghosts separate from theism or any form of spiritualism. Most of the ghost hunting reality shows portray people wandering around in dark places with equipment they don't know how to use and gathering data they willfully misinterpret and ascribe some nonsensical, yet scientifically sounding, explanation to the readings.

 

[DallasApple]

I have had them.

Also the night my father died "unexpectedly" in a plane crash when he was only 28 my grandfather saw my father pass through his bedroom in the late night..he told my grandmother Jay is here.I just saw him in the window and he went through the room.My grandmother told him to go back to sleep.A couple hours later they called and said they needed to get up over to my mother..that Jay had been killed.

Love

Dallas

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Yes, seeing one, but realizing upon retrospect it was my fallible senses and overactive imagination that misinterpreted what I was actually viewing.

Like most kids I played with ouija boards and attended a few seances. But the ideomotor effect, gullibility and cultural doctrination to insist on the existence of an afterlife explains why I was so vulnerable to believing in such when I was a child.

Oh yeah. There are all kinds of pseudosciences that could be brought in to "explain" ghosts separate from theism or any form of spiritualism. Most of the ghost hunting reality shows portray people wandering around in dark places with equipment they don't know how to use and gathering data they willfully misinterpret and ascribe some nonsensical, yet scientifically sounding, explanation to the readings.

Then how do you explain ectoplasm? And Patrick Swayze?

 

[DallasApple]

Then how do you explain ectoplasm? And Patrick Swayze?

Thats real funny.

Love

Dallas

 

[Rat Fink]

Actually I do think it's funny, I LOL'ed.

 

[Nepenthe]

Then how do you explain ectoplasm? And Patrick Swayze?

You know, that reminded me of a tasteless joke that Im gonna say just 'cause you said the punchline and thus removed me from any guilt:







What are Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett getting for Xmas this year?

Too soon? Not soon enough?

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Funny thing is that I was actually referring to Patrick Swayze because of his role in the movie 'Ghost,' not the fact that he's dying. Although the unintentional joke might be more crass, it also might be more humorous.

 

[Circle_One]

I have had them.

Also the night my father died "unexpectedly" in a plane crash when he was only 28 my grandfather saw my father pass through his bedroom in the late night..he told my grandmother Jay is here.I just saw him in the window and he went through the room.My grandmother told him to go back to sleep.A couple hours later they called and said they needed to get up over to my mother..that Jay had been killed.

Love

Dallas

I had almost this same experience when my grandfather died.

I woke in the middle of the night to see him standing at the foot of my bed, just watching me, smiling. I smiled back and went back to sleep, only to be woken not long after by my mother telling me my nanny had just called and my Bops (my grandfather), had died.

He came to say goodbye

 

[Wookiemonster]

I went to sleep in my dorm room one night and had a extremly vivid dream of visiting my Granny Roth. We sat and talked for hours, she made me spagittie and cucumbers and just generally had a great time. Just before I woke up she gave me a hug and a kiss and said that she would always love me, but had to go.

5 minutes after I woke up I got a call from my dad telling me that Granny Roth had died 5 minutes ago. At the exact same time she told me in my dream that she had to go and I woke up.

 

[Ringer]

At the exact same time she told me in my dream that she had to go and I woke up.

If she only told us to where she was going then that would have solved about 50% of the debates here on RF. An interesting story along with many of the others that people have shared. I was close with my grandma who died a few years ago and lived with my grandpa for a while after her death to help him out. They would have been almost married for 60 years. I slept on the very bed that my grandma died on just a few weeks after. I think I would have liked seeing my grandma and having her tell me she is in a place where she didn't have to worry about pain. She had to live with it everyday for the last 15 or 20 years of her life.

 

[steve ritter]

:slap:i was sat outside my property at 2 30am feb 2009 high pressure no wind no electricity total quiet snow on ground fir tree moved as if a20mile wind was blowing then the washing line circular spun then the other fir tree moved i could not believe it and in the light of a waxing moon what looked like a monk appeared for probably 2 secsthere was no way the wind was meteorologicaly generated i was not under the influance of alcohal just a *** as i smoke outdoors