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COULD MY HOUSE HAVE A GHOST?

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user1473872482 · 27/09/2016 20:52

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?

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BertrandRussell · 04/10/2016 21:15

" suppose it was because it was something that couldn't be explained away. Not everything can. Just because things can't be proved doesn't mean it isn't so."

Just because something is unexplained does not mean it is unexplainable. It just means it hasn't been explained yet.

And there aren't any supernatural events that have been properly investigated that haven't turned out to have rational explanations.

hopetobehappy · 04/10/2016 21:30

But what if there IS no explanation. Can't we ever get to a point where we admit defeat. Why must we be so hellbent on not believing. Why must we only believe in things we can see and have proof of. There's nothing wrong with keeping an open mind.

Daydream007 · 04/10/2016 21:33

It could be a spirit of some sort or your imagination. I've had similar a couple of years ago when my dad was dying and I was under severe stress. Also when I've been stressed and over tired I've seen things.

HermioneWeasley · 04/10/2016 21:37

There is nothing wrong with being open to new ideas and evidence

There is everything wrong with lacking any critical thinking

There was a poster on here over thr weekend, terrified for her nephew whose family were performing a painful exorcism rather than getting him the crisis mental health support he needed

If you're going to believe in bollocks and let it proliferate it ends up harming people.

BertrandRussell · 04/10/2016 21:42

"But what if there IS no explanation. Can't we ever get to a point where we admit defeat."

Why would we? How can we possibly say "There will never, ever be a rational explanation for this event so it must be supernatual" when the explanation might be discovered the next day?

And anyway, there always has been an explanation whenever a supernatural event has been properly looked at.

ToadsJustFellFromTheSky · 04/10/2016 21:47

I suppose it was because it was something that couldn't be explained away. Not everything can.

But just because something can't (yet) be explained doesn't mean it was a ghost.

ToadsJustFellFromTheSky · 04/10/2016 21:48

There's nothing wrong with keeping an open mind.

But if you open your mind too much your brain will fall out...

Thejubremonyatthelibrary · 04/10/2016 21:51

AIBU was definitely the wrong place for this OP.

BertrandRussell · 04/10/2016 21:53

"AIBU was definitely the wrong place for this OP. shock"

BertrandRussell · 04/10/2016 21:53

Sorry- I meant to say "Why?"

hopetobehappy · 04/10/2016 21:53

And anyway, there always has been an explanation whenever a supernatural event has been properly looked at.
But there hasn't though. How could we know that. I presume most people who have experienced ghostly happenings haven't rushed off to physic investigators, or whatever they're called to want to get it verified. It's just something they probably wouldn't broadcast to the world.

BertrandRussell · 04/10/2016 21:56

That's why I said "When it has been properly looked at" Obviously lots haven't

But you would have thought there would be at least a couple of the ones that have that remained unexplained?

ToadsJustFellFromTheSky · 04/10/2016 22:03

I actually think that people who already believe in ghosts are more likely to label any weird and out of the ordinary experiences as being the work of something supernatural.

Where as someone who doesn't believe in ghosts might experience the same weird thing but they might not even think twice about it or they might decide that there is a rational explanation for what happened even if they might not know what that rational explanation is.

Does that make any sense at all?

hopetobehappy · 04/10/2016 22:07

bertrand just for interest, do you believe in UFOs?

BertrandRussell · 04/10/2016 22:09

Do I believe in UFOs?

Nope.

That's not to say that aliens might land tomorrow. They just haven't yet.

hopetobehappy · 04/10/2016 22:14

So do you not believe that there might be life on other planets?

BertrandRussell · 04/10/2016 22:22

i have no idea. There might be. Why is that relevant?

ToadsJustFellFromTheSky · 04/10/2016 22:22

I don't believe in ghosts.

However I have had a few experiences which I might have decided were ghosts if I believed in them iyswim.

Like the time when I was lying in the bath after a tiring day at work. I had the shower curtains pulled around the bath and I was 99% positive that I had also closed the bathroom door before I had got in the bath.

So there I was just relaxing in the bath when I suddenly became aware that the door was slowly being pushed open. I live alone so as you can imagine I was up like a shot. Once I was sitting up I saw the door was wide open. I then sat and watched as the outline of a person walked through the door, into the bathroom, past the bath and over to the toilet where it then disappeared from my sight.

I opened the curtains and nobody was there. Like I said though the bathroom door was open and I could have sworn I had shut it. However there was nobody in my bathroom or the rest of my house and no sign that anybody had been.

I was tired and had been kind of dozing off in the bath so to me it was pretty obvious that I had imagined the figure walking into the bathroom. I was sure that I had shut the door but obviously I was mistaken and I must have left it open.

However what if that had happened to someone who believed in ghosts? They would be far more likely to claim that it was a ghost they saw. They may even use that experience to "prove" that ghosts exist and that they "know" ghosts exist because they've seen them.

So I think it's a little unfair to say that people who don't believe have clearly never had any woo experiences. They may well have but they simply don't believe a ghost was responsible for what happened.

Arfarfanarf · 04/10/2016 22:24

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ToadsJustFellFromTheSky · 04/10/2016 22:27

Of course UFO's exist. A UFO is an unidentified flying object, is it not? I doubt you'll find many people doubting the existence of unidentified flying objects tbh.

I've seen a UFO before.

It was an object. It was flying. I didn't (and still don't) know what it was.

Whether what I saw was a visitor from another planet is a different matter entirely...

ToadsJustFellFromTheSky · 04/10/2016 22:35

I've already asked this but how come nobody ever manages to capture all these ghostly encounters that apparently prove the existence of ghosts on camera?

Considering everyone has a camera with them all the time these days you would think that someone would manage to capture all this proof of ghosts on film/picture...

I even asked the OP if she could get a snapshot or a video clip of some of the weird things she's been experiencing so we'd be in a better position to advise what was going on and what she can do about it but she seems to have disappeared...

hopetobehappy · 04/10/2016 22:37

I used the wrong word with UFOs. I really should have said "other life forms" . The relevance being, we haven't ever had proof of any but we're certain there must be some.

GardenGeek · 04/10/2016 22:40

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A1Sharon · 04/10/2016 22:48

It is so easy to scoff at ghosts and ghouls in the day time. I do not believe in ghosts.
Unless it's night time.
And I read the story Toad just related.
Then I am definitely a believer in the supernatural.

Arfarfanarf · 04/10/2016 22:52

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