COULD MY HOUSE HAVE A GHOST?

[user1473872482]

Since last year I have had strange going ons in my house. For example - seeing things out of the corner of my eyes, a quick glimpse of ghost child, a white sort of apparition walking around my bed at night when I was trying to get to sleep and something white being thrown in my direction and when I look to pick it up it is not there.

Could I be imagining these things?

[BertrandRussell]

" If you think you saw a ghost and are honest with yourself then you probably did"

Does that apply to anything else? If you think it it's probably true??

[bikerlou]

Why not? How can we possibly disprove them. We can only give our opinion. If you think you saw a ghost and are honest with yourself then you probably did.

[hopetobehappy]

But a very valid one.

[BertrandRussell]

"Well try as they might nobody has come anywhere near coming up with any other explanation."
Ah- the old "God of the Gaps" argument.

[hopetobehappy]

Is it particularly interesting? Isn't it just saying "I think God created DNA so obviously that must be the only explanation"
Well try as they might nobody has come anywhere near coming up with any other explanation. Personally I find it impossible to believe that DNA came out of chaos. Chaos cannot create codes or symbols.

[SpaceUnicorn]

I think we can safely assume they're going to be telling us all how god created everything. I'm not sure it is reasonable to expect balance or neutrality

Or facts.

[Bluesrunthegame]

Hello,
I don't think you have a ghost because I don't think there are such things as ghosts. However, without projecting things onto you, is is possible you are stressed, tired or hormonal? I ask because for some time, when my DCs were little and I was all of the above, I saw a sort of figure of a woman walking up my stairs. I saw this many evenings around bed time when I was trying to get three little children to bed/read stories/breastfeed when their dad was working shifts. I am fairly sure I created this apparition because of my tiredness etc. I am a terrible coward when it comes to ghost stories or horror films, I can't even read Victorian ghost stories, so a total wimp. But when I saw this figure, and sometimes there was a little dog along with the figure of the woman, I was never frightened. Truly the human brain is a strange thing. I didn't see the figure once the children were older. The last thing that happened was one evening when everyone was past the very early stage, I was bathing the children when I heard my partner walk up the stairs, come into the bathroom, push me sideways, say 'Boo!' in my ear and wrap the shower curtain round me. But he hadn't, there was no one there. And also he never did that sort of stuff. Now I look back, I think I must have had some sort of 'micro sleep', I'm sure I've read about this, must google, and very momentarily dozed off. This is more frightening than anything spooky as I was on my own bathing three children. I felt I was awake, aware, didn't doze off, but it explains what I thought happened.

So not a ghost, maybe you need more rest?

[BertrandRussell]

Is it particularly interesting? Isn't it just saying "I think God created DNA so obviously that must be the only explanation"

[hopetobehappy]

www.tomorrowsworld.org/magazines/2013/may-june/the-miracle-of-dna
Everything comes back to this. DNA. The chapter "Dare to deny a designer" is interesting.

[myownprivateidaho]

Maybe this has been said before or maybe the OP is long gone... but if still reading, maybe make sure your carbon monoxide reader is working properly? CO poisoning can cause hallucinations (and kill you).

[HermioneWeasley]

blush the possibility of alien life is not beyond scientific understanding or in conflict with any laws of physics.

Ghosts are.

You seem to be having some difficulty with these concepts

[BertrandRussell]

The possibility of life elsewhere in the universe is not "beyond scientific understanding"!

[blushrush]

It was an example I was using in an on-going conversation, can't be bothered to go all over it again. Nevermind, this thread has gone so way off I wouldn't be surprised if we find aliens at the end of it...

[JustAnotherPoster00]

I think you're being disingenuous blush, the thread is about ghosts or in my opinion the absence of them, so what has aliens got to do with anything tbh

[blushrush]

Definition of supernatural: (of a manifestation or event) attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature.
"a supernatural being"

Aliens (one of the currently discussed theories), or extraterrestrial life, would fall under this definition.

[BertrandRussell]

KIC 8462852 is an astronomical phenomenon which is being studied and which isn't yet fully understood.

I don't understand- genuinely-what that has to do with the supernatural.

[blushrush]

Arf It is a very interesting topic! I love this stuff

But they're hardly the work of Beelzebub are they ?

Maybe not, but Npower tariffs definitely are!

[Jasonandyawegunorts]

But they're hardly the work of Beelzebub are they ?

There's a conspiracy theory that Mobile phones are from the devil....

[LurkingHusband]

Only that there could be 'something' that exists outside of our realm of understanding.

Of course there is - it should go without saying. But not understanding something (or not being able to understand it) doesn't make it supernatural.

Look at mobile phone tariffs for example. No one really understands them. But they're hardly the work of Beelzebub are they ?

[blushrush]

Arf I think wires are getting crossed here - I'm open to believe in all sorts! Aliens, paranormal, supernatural, etc... I totally believe that life exists out there somewhere.

I'm just saying that if aliens is a distinct possibility, why not being that, in some circles, could be described as 'ghosts'?

BertrandRussell Are you just trying to wind me up now? ;) Very funny...
I did explain, it's in my post. Go read :)