Do you believe in Ghosts?

Well, I came across a poltergeist in a modern shop a while ago.

I was in a cosmetics and perfume outlet shop and felt this eerie presence. I sensed a ghost. Suddenly the ghost lady - I could see the spectral outline of a young woman - started throwing high-end cosmetics into my bag. I was very spooked and tried to leave the shop.

Unfortunately, none of the store detective, the manager, the police or the magistrates believed my explanation. Sooo closed minded.

I don’t believe but, more importantly, I think they should believe in themselves

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Have personally experienced one myself, so absolutely yes!

I think they're real

Nah - no-one ever sees ghosts in 80s shellsuits or 70s flares, always old fashioned long dresses.

I have had a couple of weird things happen, that I have no explanation for.

I think there very well could be other stuff occurring that we aren't aware of. That's as much as I would like to say.

I read an interesting post on here a while ago making the point that if you think of a film which are a "real" depiction of what actually happened in the past without any actual human agency in the humans in the film - just a record of it.

That shows that in principle moving images that actually show what happened in the past can exist.

who is to say that the same thing can't happen in some way in the universe - so these sightings of bomber planes flying over Derwent valley or of soldiers marching and so on - might be the same as a film in some sort of time shift recording by the universe. so what the people that see these things see is 'real' in the sense that it is an actual image depiction of people from the past but it is not 'real' in the sense of being humans from the past who have human agency or can actually do anything.

I thought this was a really interesting idea and wish I could find the post. It's a theory I'd like to read more about as it has a grain (just a grain mind!) of possiblity about it.

I don't believe in ghosts btw. I do believe that people in a traumatised state can believe they see things but that this is dream/hallucination not real ghosts.

I've seen one repeatedly, but no I don't believe in them.

Just went looking.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2004556/Anne-Diamond-The-ghost-tried-sell-house.html

Nope, absolutely no proof

Yes I’ve seen one in my parent’s old house, more of an apparition maybe. My great - grandmother walking past the front room. I wasn’t scared to be honest just a bit confused as to why she should be there. Never seen her again or a ghost since.

This!!!!!!!!!

No but I do love ghost stories and horror films. I'm also an atheist.

I've had quite a few experiences that make me believe. I was walking home from work and I was on a path that was popular with dog walkers and heard footsteps and a dog panting behind me so I stood aside to let them pass and there was nobody there. Another time I was in a hotel with my young son. He was sharing my bed and asleep and I turned off the light and closed my eyes but then had a feeling to open them again. I did and I saw a woman leaning over the bed looking right at me. I closed my eyes tight, terrified but didn't scream as I didn't want to frighten my son. I opened them again and she was gone. In a house I used to live with my husband I kept having a feeling that things were being rearranged on a shelf in our bedroom. He denied moving stuff. We were sat on the bed together and a bottle of aftershave turned full circle and moved on the shelf. We watched it happen together.

Too many to list.

I've posted on this subject many times.

Yes, and I love ghost stories so please tell some :)

This is the sort of thing I think in my head but don't dare type!

If there were ghosts, there'd be some evidence beyond "a feeling" or "something out of the corner of my eye". The only people I know who believe in ghosts are the definition of credulous.

@passthepenguin the more you read on this subject the more stranger it all gets. However when it's being debated in Congress you start to think what? Wait is there something here?

I do. Although I would only confess if I can do it anonymously 😂 I had several ghostly experiences. So, I know it was just not a hear say. The first one was the sound do someone running on the hallway back and forth at 3 am, just outside my bed. It was there even though I was fully awake, so I just switched the light and put my headphones on. The second one, I was with my younger brother and we saw some kind of silhouette of someone (white robe gliding type of movement) entering our house early in the evening. But there was no one there when we checked. The strange thing was that we were in the middle conversation when this happened. For some unexplained reason, we just abruply stopped our conversation then looked at the silhouette at the same time. The other one was when I did night hike on a mountain with my friends. We walked along a route with cliff on our left hand side. Yet, along the route we heard heavy loud breathing coming from the cliff side. We all heard it.