Does anyone here believe in ghosts?

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As per the title, does anyone believe in ghosts?
I have had a couple of things happen in my life that were very strange. Has anyone else?
And it makes a nice change from talking about Bonnie Blue. 😀

Did you know that bacteria was once thought of as science fiction? People then didn't have the microscopes to see them with. Just putting it out there...

My family swears blind they saw a leprechaun in my nana's garden. We were having fireworks in her garden when everyone except me and my dad (my mum, nana, aunt, grandad, and sisters) started pointing at air- just plain, blank air, all asking if anyone else could see the short, stout man in a top hat walking down the garden path with his cane.

To this day, they still all swear they saw a leprechaun walk out from behind the plum tree, hobble down the garden path, and vanish behind the shed. My dad and I were the only ones who couldn't see him.

They were not, to my knowledge, high, although I've always been very fussy around food and drink and wasn't eating and drinking the same things as them. I'm not entirely sure I trust that hot lemonade they were all drinking.

don't you find it strange that there isn't a single shred of scientific evidence that ghosts exist?

There isn't a single shred of scientific evidence to prove that they don't.

I don't necessarily believe in ghosts but I have had a couple of things happen to me that were odd.

I lost my Aunt when I was 15, she sadly had breast cancer that spread to her liver, and she passed away in her early 40's.

On the morning of her death, I woke up with a jump, a violent jump, that frightened me. I remember looking at my clock, 07.30 am. My Uncle called my Mum several hours later, my Aunt had passed away at 07.30 am that morning.

2001, I was moved from ICU and high dependency ward to a normal hospital ward. I'd been seriously ill with bacterial meningitis and septicemia. It was nighttime when I was moved from the normal ward to a small side room by myself. A nurse came to see me just before I moved to the side room, and I remember telling her that she looked like my Aunt who passed away. She smiled and told me that I mustn't worry as I would be OK, then left. Another nurse came over and I asked her about the red headed nurse, and told her she looked like my Aunt. The nurse told me that there wasn't a red headed nurse on duty.

I wasn't on any drugs at that point, and I know I saw this nurse. It's something I've never really understood, but put it down to an oddity!

I'm not confused, I'm recounting what I heard. We were at a talk at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich about time & space, black holes and whatnot. Afterwards, the lecturer (a cosmologist) said if anyone has any questions please come over and he'd do his best to answer. While we waited our turn, we listened to him talking to someone else who asked about dimensions. That's when he said that they thought there could be about 11 of them, but it was cutting-edge research so far and they didn't know for sure. It was something to do with the universe missing a lot of matter that should be there, but wasn't, so the hypothesis was that there were other dimensions where that matter could be hiding. This was about 20 years ago so things have probably moved on since then.

Because it isn’t possible to prove a negative. Think about it.

I live in a rural area and was out cycling with DH one evening when we went past a field. Just through the entrance was a cart with several children playing on and around it and a man ploughing with two horses. At the time I just thought how lovely carrying on the old traditions. Asked hubby later if he had seen it but no he hadn’t. Then it occurred to me that if it was a demonstration then where were all the cars of people watching. Similarly if it was a for a film you’d expect vehicles around. Perhaps it was just a family who still like to carry on the old ways but I still wonder about it. I’ve lived in the area all of my life and one set of grandparents were farmers who ploughed with horses in the area.

Wow, that's really interesting, thank you. I wonder how much the thinking has changed with, is it, quantam mechanics/physics?

Wow 😲 😳

I grew up in Warwick yes :) I didn’t know either of those stories but just googled them, so interesting! Thank you

With all the advances in technology, science etc don’t you find it strange that there isn’t a single shred of scientific evidence that ghosts exist?

Even if some one put real proof out there, we'd never know for sure because of the advances in AI, they used to say the camera never lies, but now it does......frequently

My In laws live in the New Forest and have done since the 70s, they live close to Burley or the "witches village" as it's known, very odd atmosphere in that place I tell you, the air in the village feels "charged" if you get what I mean. Their house backs on to woodland and at night it's bloody creepy, many times they've seen strange lights coming from the woods. I'm sure there's black magic going on...

I do, the house I previously lived in for 16 years had lots of things happened, all coincided with my son hitting puberty and right up until we moved. .

For example I can not tell you about the strange things i see when i have a particularly bad water infection...
I actually SAW my 15 year old son wheeling a crash cart towards me when i collapsed in my hospital room after my blood pressure dropped dangerously during urosepsis.
Plain and clear as day, there he was, in medical scrubs.
So I can see how some folks become convinced they have seen ghosts or spirits.
The fevered mind is a jolly strange thing, I have come to realise!

Oh yes it is. Think about it.

Sorry to stick my nose into someone else's argument but you actually can prove a negative by logical equivalence.

Just because we are bumbling around the woods in the dark doesn't mean that we are practising "black magic" (whatever that might be)!

More likely to be playing with the nature spirits.

Why not do it in the day then? Doing anything in the woods in the dead of night is bound to arouse suspicion! But there has been signs of black magic over the years in the New Forest, they've lived there for donkeys years...

You’re joking ?

Dogging ? 🧐

No it's dense woodland not accessible by car, you'd have to walk deep in to the woods, I don't think doggers could be bothered with that when there's easier locations for them! I could be wrong though...

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Yes. I grew up in a haunted house. Been in the family for years and still is. Most of the family (over several generations) have seen it. Although not a malevolent spirit I can’t say I feel at ease in the house.

Someone I know was driving along a dark country road and heard 'slow down'. He wasn't speeding but slowed anyway. Just after a lorry came round the corner. It was out of control on the wrong side of the road but straightened up. He'd have been wiped out. He was alone.

Too many people gawping like we are free entertainment.

Yes there have been stories of "black magic" in the New Forest for decades. It does rather depend on how you define "black magic" of course. I know from a reliable source of one group who practiced there but you'd find them very dull to watch.