Does anyone here believe in ghosts?

[tlongII]

There is no such thing as ghosts. They do not exist.

[DMC]

A lot of the stories on here sound like they've been inspired by a movie someone saw. The only exception would be the young child hearing the voice.

When I was about 6 years old, I was faking sleep on the couch when everyone else went to bed. I was going to stay up and watch TV. They left me there. I laid there in the dark and I heard the sound of someone walking up to me from the hallway. We had creaky wooden floors so you could hear every footstep. I thought my older brother was coming to scare me. As it got closer, a salt shaker on the table next to my head just fell over. I raised up to scare my brother and no one was there. I checked and my brother was in his bed asleep.

That was weird, but there are other explanations than ghosts.

[Sisk]

Oh ok that's pretty crazy. Good story frenzy not gonna lie scanned the first paragraph and missed that he killed himself. Scary

Yeah I completely missed that part too.

[dav4463]

There are numerous accounts of children who speak to people who are not there. Children aren't afraid. They have no reason to be afraid like adults.

[CuckingFunt]

Ultimately, no. I'm open to the idea of the supernatural, and even more open to the idea that we don't and probably won't ever have all the answers about what happens to us after we die, or anything like that, but I just can't buy the idea of a ghost. Especially when it's defined as something with form, memories, or a purpose.

If I were to put it into words, I'm more open to the idea of... residual energies. Or a "presence," as so many people put it. I think that something can happen in a place -- something traumatic, or violent, sure, but also perhaps something joyous -- that changes that place. Changes its vibes, as it were. I've definitely been in places that feel, I don't know, unsettling. Or where I've felt some sort of a presence. But that, for me, doesn't necessarily translate into the idea of ghosts or haunting.

[mavs>spurs]

I've got a theory that demons seem to be attracted to the sort of negative energy you are talking about which is why some places may seem "haunted" when it really isn't ghosts at all but rather something more sinister. I know the trendy thing on spurstalk is to be a non believer but I've simply experienced too much for that to be plausible.

[bus driver]

some good stories, although I have never had a ghostly experience so it is hard for me to say yes. but i dated this girl in college who said that her stuffed animals would be moved to the center of the room. although i dont know whats stranger the ghost moving the stuffed animals or a girl in college with stuff animals.

[Spursfan092120]

When I was 12 years old, I was staying at a friend's house, and we were watching tv. Sent his little brother upstairs to get us a drink. He came back down pale as ...said he saw something scary..he was 5. We kept hearing noises around the house, and called the police 3 times. They never found anything. The last time, I was going back upstairs and saw a bright light that looked like a face staring at me through the window. Stepped outside to see what it was, and it was gone....yes, I believe in apparitions.

[sonnytris]

I used to work as a volunteer on the aircraft carrier CV 16 The Lady Lex for a year. I was involved in the Over nite programs for chruch groups and scouts and such. We would bring the groups on board at noon and they would depart the next morning . We had to patrol and maintain control on 500 kids at times. You would be all over the ship and there were some strange things and I prefer to not call them ghost but I did see some strange and heard stranger things at nite . There where pople who swore they had seen sailers from wwll on board . I would have never stayed alone on that big ship at nite . We with the OverNite program had to spend the nite with those kids . The Ghost Lab spend a week on board in 2010 and had special on the discovery channel .

[slacker77]

I'm not really sure how I feel about ghosts,but I did have somewhat of an eerie experience that seems to kinda fit the discussion here.About 10 years ago I was staying at this old rent house.On one of my days off I was cleaning up around the place.I had my stereo playing in the living room while I was cleaning up my bedroom.All of a sudden the music starts getting louder and louder.So I drop what i'm doing and run to the living room to turn it down(I figured my dog had sat on the remote,but he was outside).I look at the volume readout on my receiver and it it's just climbing on its own.The part that really freaked me out was when I looked at the volume knob.It was turning on its own.Like someone had their hand on it.I shut the power off and take off for awhile.There was nobody there except me.That's about the only kinda freaky thing that has ever happened to me.Sounds like bs,but it did happen.

[The Reckoning]

My family and I went to visit my grandparents in Oak Cliff.

there have been several stories of hovering TVs and VCRs from that area's homes

[Leetonidas]

there have been several stories of hovering TVs and VCRs from that area's homes

Only at night though

[Axe Murderer]

tbh i've never had any sort of experiences with ghosts

[DMC]

I'm not really sure how I feel about ghosts,but I did have somewhat of an eerie experience that seems to kinda fit the discussion here.About 10 years ago I was staying at this old rent house.On one of my days off I was cleaning up around the place.I had my stereo playing in the living room while I was cleaning up my bedroom.All of a sudden the music starts getting louder and louder.So I drop what i'm doing and run to the living room to turn it down(I figured my dog had sat on the remote,but he was outside).I look at the volume readout on my receiver and it it's just climbing on its own.The part that really freaked me out was when I looked at the volume knob.It was turning on its own.Like someone had their hand on it.I shut the power off and take off for awhile.There was nobody there except me.That's about the only kinda freaky thing that has ever happened to me.Sounds like bs,but it did happen.

The knob can turn on it's own (with a remote input). It's motorized, on most tuners.

[DMC]

Went here in high school. I mean really high. It was fun but nothing happened.

The city of San Antonio, Texas is home to many ghosts and legends, but none is more disturbing than the legend of Midget Mansion.



As the legend goes, in the early 1920s a wealthy family of little people, father mother and two children, moved to San Antonio. The father had made a lot of money appearing as a midget in Hollywood movies. He had always resented having to live in houses that were built for normal sized people. So with his money he designed and constructed a tiny mansion for his family. It was entirely built to scale, down to the last detail. Tiny stairs, tiny toilets, door knobs close to the ground. He also built several tiny houses next to the mansion that were the servants quarters.

But, for some reason, he hired normal sized people as housekeepers and servants.

Possibly because of the discrimination they had faced all of their lives, the midget family are said to have hated normal sized people. They took their anger out on their servants, treating them very poorly. The servants were forced to live and work in tiny, cramped and very confined spaces that were intended only for little people. The midget family enjoyed watching their tall servants struggling to cope with their midget surroundings.

The mistreatment went on for a long time, until finally one of the servants snapped. In a fit of rage, he set fire to the mansion and unleashed an attack on the midget family with an axe as they tried to flee. As they lay dying, the crazed servant gathered up their bodies and stuffed them into a bedroom closet. Then he took his own life.

Firefighters managed to quench the flames and the horrible deed was discovered.

Maybe because of its bizarre history, the property remained vacant for many years. It came to be known by locals as Midget Mansion and neighbors said that it was haunted. They heard screams and saw figures moving about inside the house even though it was vacant.

People who have visited the mansion claimed to hear strange sounds of scratching coming from inside the walls. The sounds seemed to be loudest in the bedroom closet.

For years, this mansion has attracted hundreds of high school students on halloween night who dare eachother to knock on the front door and provoke the unseen inhabitants into action.

This made me laugh. Midget mansion...

Anyone from there post here?

[TE]

I've got a theory that demons seem to be attracted to the sort of negative energy you are talking about which is why some places may seem "haunted" when it really isn't ghosts at all but rather something more sinister. I know the trendy thing on spurstalk is to be a non believer but I've simply experienced too much for that to be plausible.

+1

I agree wholeheartedly. Some people in here are too into the idea of not believing anything until it is proven scientifically.

As a scientist myself, I have to say there are many things that cannot be explained. One of those is paranormal experiences.


Years back when I stayed home alone because my rents' had a vacation, I experience some crazy throughout an entire day. That morning, I remember having some pain in my kidneys, didn't know why and still haven't figured it out why. My parents said bye to me and told me to do chores, take of the house, etc... Around noon, I began throwing up. Trying to relax, I couldn't lie down on my bed because I felt like something was lying on top of me, suffocating the living out of me. I then started to just walk around and that's when it got crazy. Some weird old lady knocked on my door yet I didn't want to answer the door because I felt I looked like at the time (being sick and all). After a while, I lied down on my couch and began to feel the house shake, culminating into having plates and silverware fall on the floor. I immediately went to see what was up and I found broken plates, silverware, and a napkin full of worms.


I kid you ing not.


The day after, I went with my dad to the bank. My dad was busy with a teller, and I stayed sitting waiting for him only to see the same lady that had knocked on my door creepily sitting right next to me. She looked at me, smiled, and said " o, young man, if I wasn't crazy I could call my son". I told my mom of her, and she said that the old lady use to live in our house a couple of decades back. The old lady had lost her son in the same house we lived in due to a suicide.



The next month, I began experiencing the same physiological ailments. My dad thankfully got a job offer elsewhere, and we left that ing house.

[DPG21920]

Good movie; would watch.

[ALVAREZ6]

I don't like saying whether something exists or not, so I will say the possibility is there.

Thanks for letting us know that things that haven't been 100% dis-proven have a possibility of existing.

[DMC]

There's no way that a rational person would conclude ghosts exist based on anything I have read in the stories in this thread.

[tlongII]

There was one night years back when I heard loud scratching on my door late at night. I couldn't figure it out so I opened the door. It was my dog.

[thispego]

[Frenzy]

What happened to that chick frenzy?

Never talked to her again after we graduated. She was hot back in the day but got fat,as with most women.

[desflood]

My aunt told me a great true ghost story. Before I begin, you need to understand my aunt a little; she was one of the first three female police academy graduates in Houston and was a cop for many, many years. She got by in a man's world by being tough as and always speaking exactly what was on her mind, a practice she continues today. She's probably the most honest, horrible, lovable old I ever met .

She told me the story of an old pair of her friends, husband and wife. Her dream was always to own a house on one of these Texas lakes (don't recall which one) but they could never afford it. Like so many people they slaved away most of their lives, saving little by little, until they could finally afford to build it. It took them years. She never got to stay in it; before they moved out of the city she was diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer and died quickly. She told her husband (and many of her other friends) that if he ever took another woman to "her" house, she would haunt them both. Well, it only took him a few months to find a new girlfriend, one that was about half his age to boot. Sure enough, he took her to the lake house - but they left in the middle of the night and he put the house up for sale the next week. Apparently the wife really meant what she said about haunting him and the other woman. He talked about downright frightening noises, doors and windows banging repeatedly, lights turning on and off. Eventually dishes started crashing to the floor of their own accord. When the cutlery started flying (including the steak knives) they decided it was time go. He never even returned to the house to get his furniture out.

[Blake]

Don't you have to believe 100% in ghosts if you're a Christian?

depends.

I think most Christians will say when you die you go straight to heaven or , which suggests that there are exactly zero ghosts roaming the earth.

There is, however, one mention of the prophet Samuel's ghost appearing to Saul in the OT.......so of course, there are plenty of different interpretations of what the ghost really was, if it was a ghost at all.

[703 Spurz]

There is no such thing as ghosts. They do not exist.

Sort of like a Blazers Championship?