to be shit scared?

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Namechanger. My DD, who is just 3 was playing upstairs early on. All of a sudden she let out an almighty shriek and screamed help. It was the sort of cry your child makes that makes you drop everything (in my case a knife and some lemons) and dash. I dashed up as she was running down the stairs. She literally jumped in my arms and looked terrified.

i asked her what was worng and she said that was a man in her room. I said whta did he look like, she said bigger than her with blue hair (she is unsure of her colours ) My first thought was ghost. I gave my DD, 10 the phone and said if I scream, take the others and run out of the house.

Adrenalin took over and I ran upstairs and got my baseball bat and searched every nook and cranny, no one there.

I came down and reassured everyone that it was probably the cat that spooked her whilst shitting it I asked DD what the man said, she said he said, this is my room and my bed.

reassure me please.

Go on then.

Go on then what? Explain any and all incidents of people thinking they've seen ghosts? Frankly my dear, I couldn't be arsed. But usually you can go straight to overactive imaginations, gullibility, wishful thinking, and perceptual and cognitive processes.

you can't, so you turn to being patronising to make yourself sound more intelligent!
You can't prove that people see ghosts, you can't prove that they do. There are a million and one things in the world that happen every day that there is no evident explanation for. It doesn't mean there isn't one, or that those things don't exist.

i feel the same way about people that believe in a god as i do about people that believe in ghosts.

So do I. I feel that you should believe what you want as long as you don't hurt anyone else in the process. Why ridicule someone for believing something different from that which you believe.

No ridicule. Just asserting that non-existence things don't exist. S'called logic. If you for some reason interpret that as patronising, that is up to you. If, as you insist, we are all entitled to our opinions, why are you trying to stifle mine?

There aren't a million things that happen every day that haven't got an evident explanation. We're quite clever, as a species, we have very strong ideas on most things, if you ask the right people (scientists rather than psychics). Its just more wishful thinking on your part to increase your sense of wonder.

Oh the irony buk - it is you who is trying to stifle opinions with your insistence that you are right and everyone else is wrong!

I remain open on this, not sure either way.

People used to believe the world was flat, which is logical when you think about it.

There may well be a scientific explanation for 'ghosts'. After all, who would believe that big heavy machines could fly through the air or that you could speak to someone in Australia on the telephone or e-mail them a message instantaneously?

I saw a ghost once, in a house I had never been to before.

When I described it to the owner he went and got a photo, which was of a little girl who had lived in the house previously and died while living there. It was her who I had seen.

I swear that is a true story

Gimme a call 'cause bustin' makes me feel good.

Seriously though OP, how old is your house? I'm way more inclined to say imagination. If the 10 year old had said they saw it, that's another thing altogether. Rather interesting if the first time a ghost appears is to a child, of 3 when their imaginations are just starting to explode!

Oh I do love me a bit of Tim.

"If You Open Your Mind Too Much Your Brain Will Fall Out"

and

"Do you know what they call alternative medicine that works? Medicine!"

Our second biggest (and nicest) room is at the front of the house when we first moved in none of the children wanted that bedroom, my youngest was actually petrified to even go in the room on his own, I have also felt a horrible vibe whenever I go in there. After about a year of living here I told a neighbour about the children not wanting to sleep in the room she said that there had been a fire in the old house that was originally on the plot and a child had died.

I believe in ghosts and couldn't care less if people try to tell me that they aren't real.

I know what I've seen and know what I have felt.

OP hope you're ok!!

I don?t believe in ghosts but I do believe in a presence, when my Grandmother died (I was abroad at the time) I felt her presence near me a few times I could even smell her perfume each time I felt her around me.

I don't know much about ghosts but I do know about toddlers' imaginations. My nephew used to sob inconsolably if somebody sat on his imaginary friend's chair (you're squashing Lolo!). This was the same child who made his dad take him to the late night clinic because he was clearly in agony from earache. After the doctor had peered hopelessly into both ears and shone his little lamp and failed to find anything, dn piped up cheerfully with "oh, I just said that". Yet a few minutes before he had appeared to be in great distress.

Out of my large extended family I can only think of one child who did not make up imaginary companions or thought they had monsters in the wardrobes.

This does not prove that there was no ghost in the OPs upstairs. But it does show that a ghost is not the only possible explanation.

[grins] OPs first thought was a ghost... so she grabbed a baseball bat...

wtf was she going to do with it.....

I have to tell you this.

My friend sees little creatures in a loft room. The room has wood panels on the walls. She thinks they are a kind of species of garden gnome, related to that little green Irish, whats his name? It is there out of sadness that the wood has been chopped down, as they are forest creatures. It protects the wood, it is their kind, and they are not happy with friend having wood paneled walls.

That's what I was going to post squeaky!

Leprechaun?

Yes, that is it, some species relative to the leprechaun is inhabiting my friends loft.

Actually, Buk, you have been ridiculing. You suggested that people who believed in ghosts had their minds so wide open, their brains had fallen out. Being told 'frankly, my dear' I would class as being patronising. as for stifling, can I refer you to every one of your above posts!
There are lots of reasons why people see ghosts, and lots of unexplained incidents too. Many people have open minds as to the reason. Nobody, not even you, can prove that those reasons, every time, are not supernatural. You can use theory and supposition, just like everyone else, but it's called the unexplained for a reason.
Surely it's unscientific to assign an answer to something that doesn't have a definitive answer?

Once it was myth that the earth was round.

And it was totally illogical that the Earth should orbit the sun, and not the other way around.

Buk, you claim to rest your belief on science, may I remind you that science may be a constant, but the real restraint is the human mind. Science as we know it, is explained by humans. What you claim to be the truth, is nothing but another human beings perception of it.

Science does not change, the planets dont change their orbits, the only thing that really changes, is the explanations the human brain come up with.

Science gets debunked.

Only by more science. Not by woo.

Nothing has a definitive answer thats not the scientific method. However we can easily say what things are not.

So it's ok for scientists to be wrong, but not anybody else?