Do you believe in the paranormal..??

[rollwiththetimes]

So I know this is VERY controversial.. but I have just had an experience I cannot explain.

I was in the living room, tv on and relaxing on my own. I am the only one in my house tonight. DP is working away so I've settled in for a night in front of the telly to catch up on rubbish tv

Anyway. I was relaxing alone when I saw what I can only explain to be a gentleman, wearing long overalls leaning up against the kitchen door, back towards me. He looked completely real, solid.. not the way you expect a typical ghost to look 🤣😅

Anyway. I sat there, completely frozen. I didn't know what to do, just in complete shock. I blinked and rubbed my eyes so many times thinking at some point, this man would go. But no. He stood there still, facing away from me.

Eventually he turned slowly to face me.. but in this effortless glide. Does that make any sense?! It was like the hand on a clock, just a smooth motion. It was really strange.. he looked right at me, in the eye.. smiled and disappeared just as quickly as he appeared.

I am dumbfound!! I've never experienced anything like it before. I don't know what to think. Am I going mad?! I'm not tired, haven't been drinking... I'm so confused! What could this mean?!

I'm sleeping here alone tonight. I don't think I want to!

I think ghosts are real ...i do get the point " why aren't we surrounded by them?" Perhaps we are but only some peopke are susceptible to them. I lived in a flat with a presence. Even my visitors said it was haunted. We can't all have been hallucinating. When i told my colleagues where i lived her 1st reaction was " that block of flats is haunted...my friend lived there and saw a man walk through the wall."

No OP, I think the dr is the best person to help. Best of luck to you 💐

Carbon Monoxide sounds more likely

"we can't all have been hallucinating"

Maybe not but some may be ill. Some may be attention seeking. Some may be taking the piss. Some may be lying. Some may convince themselves they've seen something because they've been told others have.

Candid camera did an 'invisible fish' prank.
An empty tank.

People were told there were 'invisible fish'.

Many people saw them. Pointed at them. Swore blind they could see the movement of the water.

Some of them would have been lying, perhaps not wanting to admit they couldn't see what someone was pointing at. Some of them would believe they saw something.

I don't doubt that many of the people who say they've seen ghosts truly believe they've seen ghosts.

But they've no more seen the spirit of a dead person than the people on candid camera saw
invisible fish.

Dear God I would completely and utterly shite myself. That is unbelievable. Only consolation I can see if that he was smiling, he’s probably friendly! I don’t think you were hallucinating, it sounds as clear as day and you gave a very detailed recollection.

There is a fine line between sanity and madness.

Try this one then :)

“For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.” Franz Werfel

or

'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.' (Attributed to Einstein)

To have a closed mind to the possibilities out there is very sad. We know very little of the universe.

You’re literally just quoting stuff that had little to nothing to do with the paranormal. That Einstein quote is about imagination - he isn’t saying the paranormal exists, he’s saying that the most important factor of intelligence is imagination and creativity, outside the box thinking is more valuable than rote learning. He isn’t saying ‘ghosts exist.’

The Werfel quote is from a novel about religion. He is saying for people who believe in God no proof is necessary. The point he was making was that his novel wasn’t trying to convince people God existed or deny that God existed - he was trying to make it clear that his novel wasn’t inviting an argument about religion but was simply a novel open to the reading of anyone.

I imagine you think these quotes you’re pulling out are making you look intelligent and lending authority to your argument or making the non-believers look silly but they’re really not.

And I don’t have a closed mind. I’m often shocked by the things the human brain can do and make us see. I just don’t believe people are seront ghosts. For a start, why does nobody ever see a ghost in a hospital gown or their pyjamas? That’s what you’re wearing when you die. Why do they never see them in hospitals? That’s where most people die. Why are they always wearing ‘old timey clothes’ and not dressed like something from a Corey Haim movie? People died in the 80s too.

It’s nonsense. Often peddled by the malicious and lapped up by the gullible.

@Kanaloa

People have seen ghosts in hospital robes and in the old days most people didn’t die in hospital at all. And people have seen ghosts dressed in modern clothing. Stop trying to dismiss it by making things up.

I’m not making anything up, I was commenting on the stories on this thread. And my comment was that since so many people die in hospital they should be ram packed with ghosts, so everyone should be seeing them in hospitals.

I won’t stop trying to dismiss it unfortunately. I do think it’s utter and total nonsense. If you have any proof of it (outside of random quotes from Shakespeare and novels that aren’t even about the paranormal) I’d be happy to have a look though.

My friend told me that when she was a little girl her mum used to bake cakes and regularly take them to an elderly friend.
My friend often went with her and remembers an old gentleman always sitting in his chair with his pipe and waving to her.
Last year she asked her mum who he was and was told that she can’t have seen him as he had died before she was born!
K was able to accurately describe him to her mum!

I'm on board with animals and plants too.

In the 1980's my then BF was at college in a colliery village the North when not at sea.
I used to stay sometimes, poodle round South Shields & go shopping. It was a victorian terrace divided into flats, he had the ground floor. I had a bad vibe from an unused bedroom, the gas tap on the cooker would regularly come on by itself. I didn't think anything of it until the college course came to an end and BF said strange things were happening in the flat. As he was on the couch studying, various papers would move about by themselves and a glass tumbler started spinning on a coffee table then flew off and smashed against a wall. His Mum advised not to tell me or I wouldn't come to stay! I knew nothing about the house or it's history.

I believe in the paranormal, however I am also very skeptical and will always explore every plausible explanation of things before I definitely believe it.

My grandad was a joiner on a Scottish island in the western isles in the 1950s/60s/70s. My mum ,(who is now in her 80s) said he would always see an old lady washing sheets by the loch whenever there was going to be a death on the island, and he'd be asked to make a coffin. Each time sure enough, there would be a death 😳. He would also see lights flashing on particular spots, and then there would be a fatal road accident on this spot

OP, you may well have seen a ghost, maybe keep researching and find out if the date is of any significance? However, it might not be a bad idea to check out plausible explanations too and speak to your gp. Definitely keep an open mind though.

I used to see ghosts and hear voices in the night. Turned out to be hallucinations from severe stress. They have stopped now I'm on medication.

I'm wondering if you were actually asleep without realizing it.

No.

@orwellwasright can you prove they don't exist? No different to proving they do exist.

@Tamzo85 , that's the kind of ghost I'd like to have an encounter with. A dashing and debonair 15th c Spaniard. Proper high-end ghostliness!

Lost my dad suddenly in 2017. Stayed at my moms house the night it happened & woke in the morning & clearly saw my dad leaning over my daughters cot. Similar to u, rubbed my eyes, blinked not believing what I was seeing & yet still he was there when I looked again. He didn't look up just down at my daughter the whole time. Then faded away after about 60 secs.

I have heard spirits linger around for a bit when they die before passing over, my daughter was only 10 months so I reckon he was saying his final goodbyes.

No

No, it’s generally understood that you can’t logically prove a negative.

My understanding is that hallucinations are now considered to be more common than was previously thought and not necessarily a sign of illness.

I've had about four hallucinations after waking at night. They are a kind of waking dream.

I do. I used to work for an elderly widow who told me she saw her late husband pottering around the house regularly.
Also I have had many unexplainable experiences myself.

I am so torn on this. My Mum had loads of paranormal experiences when she was alive. As a person on the fence, I have to say I believed her every time, as there was no rational explanation for the things that she experienced.

She even got an unexpected and uninvited reading for me one time! I was not there. She had visited a paranormal gathering at a church. No registration required, so the Mediums had no information about who would walk through the door that night. A Medium told her that someone had stepped forward to give Tortuga a message. Now, bear in mind, my name is VERY unusual. I think I've maybe met 3 other people in my life with this name. And yet the Medium quoted it. The Medium then went on to tell my Mum a very detailed message for me which included a tonne of things that I had not shared with my Mum (I had decided to leave my husband, no one knew though). The Medium knew it all.

After that, I became a believer. BUT....my Mum always said that when she passed away, she would prove to me that the afterlife existed. She promised me. So when she died, I expected something. It's been a few years now, and absolutely no signs. My sibling however, claims to have had the agreed sign. But this person has some mental illness, and lies all the time, so I am reluctant to believe it.