Do you believe in Ghosts?

[dottiedodah]

just that really ,found some interesting things online that made me think .YABU ghosts dont exist YANBU could be something in it

Absolutely not. Many experiences attributed to ghosts, such as strange sounds or sensations, can be explained by natural phenomena, psychological factors, or environmental conditions.

A very sensible, Working class Scottish Vet, Eddie Straiton wrote of a building he first set up in practice in which had a ghost.
It would scare the nurses who stayed overnight to look after the animals.
It banged around until one of the nurses yelled at it and told it to shut up.

@oakleaffy

I used to shout at my poltergeist and tell it off . The next occupant didn't and she was scared so she experienced it more intensely as it fed off her fear .

Sleep paralysis is so different to when one saw a 'ghost' though.. Sleep paralysis I have had, {usually when napping on the sofa} rather than in bed.

Another experience I had I can't be too specific about as have written about it online and don't want to be identified in real life, but it's to do with a very specific rapping of knocks at a specific time..I went to the door to answer it, and there was nothing there but the sound of thick silence and running water of rain as it ran down the lane. Nowhere for anyone to hide.

When the house was sold, the new owner had the same phenomenon, and contacted Dad via the estate agents to say the place was haunted.

@oakleaffy - not sure if you are agreeing or disagreeing with me 😂but yes sleep paralysis is very different to what has happened when I have experienced something I thought could be paranormal.

The rapping I heard I was sure was a human, but it continued after Dad sold the house..It didn't feel scary, it was like someone who was cold and impatient wanting to be let in. {there was an electric bell, and an iron door knocker, but the rapping was knuckles on wood.

Dad said 'It has to be someone from the pub, playing pranks', but no one was ever there, he definitely wasn't a believer in ghosts.

Male knuckles for sure.

See I'd be looking at getting a loved one immediate psychiatric help if they told me any of this.

I'm agreeing with you, as I too saw a male figure in the room I was staying in. {A couple of posts above , written this afternoon 👍

I think until one has something happen oneself, it is hard to believe.

I am skeptical, especially of 'mediums' and the like who prey on vulnerable people, who use cold reading and other methods to gain information, and it's always something very bland and generic.

But when one sees and hears things, that does put a different spin on things, especially when it has happened to several 'witnesses'.

There is a very simple and fool-proof way to tell if a place is haunted.

If you think a place is haunted...

.. it isn't.

You can stop posting now - you're welcome.

When I was a hell of a lot younger, I used to work in care homes and I’ve had some very strange experiences in them that I cannot explain one that I was the only one upstairs because all the care staff had put the old people downstairs for breakfast and I was just cleaning out the commode and sorting out the rooms as I was walking back. The footsteps behind me got closer and closer sending a shiver down my back and for some strange reason I didn’t want to look around because I knew I was the only one there and I screamed and I run really fast downstairs and the carers thought I was off my nut they thought I had gone mad but it was really scary.
another time in a different old peoples home there was his old couple that used to have one room together and it affected me and another friend. It was a strange atmosphere like u didn’t want to go into the room and I was a very chatty person and I like to talk to the old people, but I couldn’t do it in this room. It made me feel sick so I had to just drop stuff off and then I just walked out again fast but do you know what’s very strange when they both died and the next resident moved in? It was perfectly fine. It felt almost like it was calm. And I couldn’t believe the difference. I wonder if some people have artefacts that have some sort of possession attached to it because it just felt very very deep dark and horrible feeling.

I work in a grade 1 listed Tudor manor house and I can assure you people imagine what they want, because for whatever reason, it makes them feel excited/important/special/whatever.

I can spot these people the second they walk through the door as a rule.

They want the place to be haunted and when you tell them it's not, they look at you like you've just shat on their head.

I’ll tell you where I had a very horrible feeling as well, I went to the British Museum and when you stood in the bit that’s got all the Egyptian stuff the tombs and the hieroglyphic stuff . I think it’s at the bottom main bit it was a long time ago that I went anyway. I suddenly realise it was just me and the security guard seemed a little bit far away and they just seemed a very dark energy and I was like I would not want to be here alone at night because it just felt very bizarre has anybody ever felt that going into that part of the museum? Very heavy atmosphere

No.

I've had a lot of odd experiences over the years. Usually it takes the form of a strange or oppressive vibe to the air, and yet I'm often relaxed and not freaked out. It feels like a simple, "huh, something isn't right here."

I can go to the same place twice and feel the "vibe" on one visit and not on the following visit. Sometimes I go to a known haunted location, like the Tower of London, feel nothing and come away a little disappointed! (Ghosts are definitely my ND special interest. I love a good ghost story, as long as it is supposedly true)

I feel like if it was purely my frenzied imagination and desire to feel something, I would feel things more consistently. Surely the Tower of London would have given me a psychosomatic experience to justify the extortionate price tag. Surely a place where I thought I'd experienced something creepy would feel even scarier when I went back an hour later in the pitch black.

One of my previous workplaces was haunted. Everyone who worked there had a story to tell, even the sceptics. Especially the sceptics! But most shifts were pretty chill with nothing weird going on.

To those of you saying there would be billions of them, please remember, not everyone becomes a ghost and those that do only remain 'on earth' until they ate 'sucked off' and then they swoosh up into heaven. Being 'sucked off' can happen immediately after death or not for decades or hundreds or thousands of years- but when it happens 'whoish' they are gone.

Pah!

I’m not sucking off any ghosts, thank you very much.

Nah. It's always an old lady in grey, 15th century soilders, etc never dan from 2009 in a tracksuit who got run over is it. If they were real, someone would have caught evidence on film by now..decent imagery not a blurry image

There was actual footage of a 16th century female ghost, who had died being burned as a witch, being 'sucked off' on BBC1

Lol at 'actual footage'!

I believe in the ghosts of people I've known and have changed me. They live inside me. Not in any real way, but the lessons they've taught me guide me through life. I talk to my dead relatives occasionally. I know they're not actually there, but it comforts me to remember them.

Bloody hell. Sounds more like pornography than bbc prime time

Now I think about it, my friend said she sucked off a ghost.

Edit: Just checked with my friend. What actually happened was that she sucked off some bloke and then he ghosted her. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

It is actual footage. You see her become enveloped in a beam of light and she is 'sucked off' up into it. It's very clear- no mistaking it. She sort of fades in colour as she is being 'sucked off' as if the final life is being drained from her. Thinking about it, she was probably an early 17th century ghost rather than 16th century, but had probably been born in the 16th century.