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Do you believe in 'ghosts'?

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Bump2021 · 11/01/2021 18:27

I'm not a woo person by nature, I'm more of a sceptic but there has been two or three occasions where I've encountered something unexplainable.

Do you believe in the paranormal?

YANBU - yes (please explain why)
YABU - no, it's a load of bollocks

OP posts:
whereismormonjesus · 14/01/2021 18:53

I’m personally of the belief that sentient ghosts pissed off that their believed home has been occupied etc etc are not a thing. But I do believe that certain energies can be left behind. Or perhaps glitches, and what people are seeing as ‘ghosts’ is actually just trapped energy manifesting briefly as a form of the person, or causing objects to move mysteriously. I grew up in what was a new build house at the time, we moved in when I was a year old. Nothing woo ever happened there. But at 11 after a very traumatic event, I became very tormented. I’d sometimes experience such unbearable despair, it was horrific. The event didn’t occur in the house but I was a wreck. I had several suicides attempts there, then at age 16 my family moved (unrelated). The new owners then contacted my parents to ask if anybody had died in the house, as they kept hearing furniture moving in the night as doors slamming. Also feeling a sad presence. They ended up getting a precise in to bless the house but I can’t remember whether that sorted it. We were all baffled as we had never experienced anything even remotely supernatural.

I fully believe that all of the sorrow I experienced while in that house had perhaps been expelled from my body almost, and was disturbed by the house-move, causing the experience the new owners had.

Mummyratbag · 14/01/2021 19:30

I love the story about the lad at the bar in the Southend disco, also the other one that often comes up in these threads about the woman who was house sitting and chased a puppy into the woods (if you have read it you will know the one I mean - not sure I could find it) and the one about the woman who saw her future self when she was out one evening and didn't fully understand it until she was older and saw her younger self. I have had some strange experiences, at the time they stun me, afterwards I explain them away and doubt myself.

LunaNorth · 14/01/2021 20:17

Poor Amal broke my heart. He just wanted his dad Sad

That Dutch woman deserves shaming. Vulture.

LunaNorth · 14/01/2021 20:18

Sorry, I had a quote fail. I was referring to episodes 2 and 3 of Surviving Death.

Robbybobtail · 14/01/2021 20:21

also the other one that often comes up in these threads about the woman who was house sitting and chased a puppy into the woods (if you have read it you will know the one I mean - not sure I could find it)

The Savernake Forest thread - if you haven’t read it, do, it’s terrifying!

Thehouseofmarvels · 14/01/2021 20:26

My mum said my grandmother saw her parents after they had died!

Mummyratbag · 14/01/2021 20:50

Robbybobtail yes that's the one - gives me the willies

GrossePois · 14/01/2021 21:28

What’s the one about the women who saw her future self? I’ve read the others but not that one.

Mummyratbag · 14/01/2021 21:45

GrossePois - If I remember correctly she was on a night out with her friends - came out of a club and was getting into a taxi when she noticed a woman about 20/30 years older than her staring at her. Fast forward 20/30 years and she was out walking one night and saw her younger self getting into a taxi ..that was the general gist

Walkthroughthefire · 14/01/2021 22:36

Oh, I thought you meant the one where she was looking out the window at her younger self - maybe there are more than one?

happywifi99 · 15/01/2021 01:59

@MagentaIsDoesNotExist

I agree with your post about science not being able to explain things yet. You sound much more educated on the matter than me, but my twopence as a historian would be that in at least several older cultures science and religion/magic/woo were not incompatible at all so it's surely possible that one day science in our culture will be able to explain these phenomena. At least, I hope so.

I find your points about time particularly interesting, I have often wondered if some of the things I've seen (some bloody weird things considering I don't drink or experiment with drugs) are more time related than woo.

NoseinBook3 · 15/01/2021 02:06

I believe in energy not ghosts or apparitions. I prefer to believe that the energy that makes us, us doesn’t just disappear when we die. That our essence goes on to create other things be that a tree or a blade of grass. Gives me hope :D

NSt21 · 15/01/2021 02:21

No. I did when I was younger but having lost relatives and having worked with many people who sadly passed away and never experiencing any sign of ghosts/after-life, I sadly believe that when we pass, that is the end.Sad

DarlingCoffee · 15/01/2021 07:35

I have had some experiences that I can’t explain. When I was little my mum said that I described my grandad who had passed a long time ago, and who I had never met.

WilsonMilson · 15/01/2021 08:22

Yes, I think I do believe in something like ghosts.
The way I rationalise it is that I think as humans we live in quite a narrow bandwidth of experience, like we are only tuned into one reality, but there are other realities out there that we don’t see or experience, and from time to time (ghosts, unexplainable happenings, certain drugs) makes our bandwidth expand a bit.
I also think that time isn’t what necessarily we think it is, but you’ll tie yourself up in knots and go slightly mad if you think about that too much.

Mummyratbag · 15/01/2021 09:45

walkthroughfire I don't remember that one

VenusClapTrap · 15/01/2021 22:23

LunaNorth Poor Amal indeed. His ‘dad’ coming through seemed very staged for the cameras to me.

The worst was that poor woman who’d lost her little boy in episode 5 though. She was utterly broken. It was hard to watch.

snappyoldfartpants · 15/01/2021 22:23

Really interesting the poster who said her traumatic experience may of stayed in the house she left. That's my way of thinking.

I talk to people all of the time, I predict phone calls, write messages at the same time, finish sentences and predict outcomes daily, I live with it and my son does the same, I can do it with most people I'm with or know, but have occasional been able to know things about strangers.

People feel sick to me, if someone walks past I can tell their general health, I just feel off if people are sick and in danger. I e had strangers sit near me and had to move their aura or something is so negative it almost physically hurts me.

I've viewed houses and we had one where my DH was off with the estate agent in the garden, me and DS were in the house, I'd already decided it wasn't right for us, but ventured upstairs, to have a door slam in my face, and the worse feeling come over me, both my DS ran at the same time, they picked up on the feelings and we headed straight out to the car.. my very bemused DH and estate agent just watched as we frantically said quick go go as we all felt something was near the car.

It was a clear sunny day no wind or explanation for the door.

When I was 4 my parents woke me and my sister in the night and put us in the car, we fell back to sleep and according to my mum I woke up after an hours drive and said "she's ok now she's happy" we didn't know granny was in hospital and my mum had the call to come quickly, she passed before they got there but still today say they felt she had told me she was ok.

I honestly have so many daily, some big some small, just knowing about people straight away, I use instinct on everything, I really believe if a pathway or life choice doesn't feel right it's wrong.

tinkerbellla · 15/01/2021 22:26

Why do I always read these threads at bedtime?! Shock

SpudsandGravy · 16/01/2021 09:43

@tinkerbellla

Why do I always read these threads at bedtime?! Shock

That's the woo coming to get you... :-)

ButttaFly · 16/01/2021 17:04

I do, I’ve had quite a few strange experiences. Possibly one of the worst was one night I was awake in bed watching tv, I had my back turned away from the door and heard my little sister come into my room. She’d always come in to my bed in the night. I opened my covers for her to come in and I felt her hug me from behind, she was freezing, like ice. I rolled over to tell her she was cold but there was nobody in my bed. I went into her bedroom and her, and my other sister, were both fast asleep. There was no way she’d have been able to get out of my room and into her bed that fast. I wasn’t asleep, or even tired. I have no idea what it was but it still scares the shit out of me

MariaAngustias · 16/01/2021 17:37

People see ghosts - whether these 'ghosts' are something external to that person's brain or summoned up inside their brain who knows. I know 2 people I am very close to who have seen 'ghosts' and I know for sure they are not lying and they did indeed 'see' a ghost. I have read that this may be due to some sort of electrical brain activity and that people who see things are more prone to temporal lobe epilepsy. Also more common at certain times and if that person is very sleep deprived. Interesting

umpteennamechanges · 16/01/2021 19:57

Thought people on this thread might enjoy this video about Ghosts on the Underground on YouTube.

Very well done so I assume it aired on TV first.

The interesting thing is that a lot of the ghosts / back stories mentioned are from reasonably modern times like the 1950s

Some things there are obvious explanations for. Many of them less so.

umpteennamechanges · 16/01/2021 20:00

@VenusClapTrap

LunaNorth Poor Amal indeed. His ‘dad’ coming through seemed very staged for the cameras to me.

The worst was that poor woman who’d lost her little boy in episode 5 though. She was utterly broken. It was hard to watch.

I've only seen the first couple of episodes so far but the physical medium seems like obvious bullshit to me.

I believe there are genuine mediums, but they're few and far between and most of them don't actually work as mediums they're just normal people (kind of like the PP who feels things).

LunaNorth · 16/01/2021 20:41

I’ve just watched the last episode, on reincarnation.

It’s blown my mind.

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