Do you believe in ghosts?

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Had friend and her partner over for dinner and we got talking about the supernatural. I’ll be honest I was rather surprised when she casually said she’d seen ghosts quite regularly (she works in a hospital) so my question is, do you believe in the supernatural?

I’m on the fence as I’ve never experienced anything like that myself however I’m open minded on the subject 👻

I do, but I’m not aware of ever having seen one. I love reading about others’ experiences though :)

Yes, used to see a shadow of a man quite often at home. Didn't give it much thought until my DH spotted it and scared the crap out of him. We called him jock, probably didn't bother me as I grew up in the house so knew no different

Categorically no. I don't believe in anything supernatural, am not superstitious and have no religious faith. I'm constantly astonished at the number of people who do though.

I do, yes.

Several experiences both at work and in my personal life have brought me to that conclusion.

People think it's weird, that's ok. I don't really care.

I do. I was always 50/50 and wanted proof, then got it in my old house. I woke up to see a woman standing above my bed, went into the bedroom once and saw ExP looking out the window I spoke to him but he didn’t reply so left and he was in the living room...no way he could’ve moved that fast, felt ExP get into bed with me and told him he felt freezing he didn’t reply so turned the light on and no one was there

Yes I do but I have never seen one.

We had the odd thing in our old house after my grandad passed away, more so when our second child was born. I was doing a night feed but wide awake. I had put DD down when I heard a mans voice shh'ing her to sleep and saying it's ok. I turned to look at DP but he was fast asleep and it wasn't his voice. I'd also heard it over our other DDs monitor a few times and so had MIL. Paper documents magically appearing in the fridge. Just little things. Eldest DD talking about "a man". The other week eldest DD looked at a corner of a room and said "hello how are you doing? Then said I'm going to grandma names house" I haven't mentioned my grandma by name so was surprised to hear this. No idea if she's heard it of other family. I think most children can see things.

You guys are braver then me, I think I’d probably have a heart attack if I actually saw something

I phoned my friend to ask her if she had any experiences and she told me that when she was a little girl she suffered from insomnia. One night, in the early hours she heard what sounded like an army outside her house. With chariots and lots of people marching, she was too scared to walk over to the window and look out and eventually it went away. The thing is nobody else heard it but she swears it’s true and it’s not her style to BS.

I live in an old hospital (renovated into luxury flats) and I regularly experience things.

I know a lot of nurses/care staff and they have story after story and most are believers of something unexplainable thanks to working in hospitals. I take their word for it as they are the ones around life and death more than me.

I'd say no. But... and it's a big one. We live on the site of an old hospital and since we had our daughter there have been odd things happen. She wakes up in the night terrified because a girl in a red/purple dress won't let her out of bed. It's recurrent.
I've bad things like breathing at me whilst in bed. Running footsteps and this week, I swear I saw something pass the living room door. DH says doesn't seem to feel alone and my mother says she has seen shadows cross the spare room at night.

However, DD could be having nightmares. I have experienced sleep paralysis before so it could be back. I was sitting in the dark when I saw the figure so shadows and DH might be imagining it. My mother the same.

What is spooky is that the neighbours had the same thing when their DD was the same thing. Other people on the development have reported things and the vicar seemed genuinely worried when I mentioned it casually. DD has never heard us discuss happenings on the estate.

It doesn't scare me. If DD comes in terrified I tell her that nothing can hurt her and do the go away thing. We are happy to stay there alone.

So there it is. I don't know whether we want to investigate further.

Yes I do.
Lived in a house that had a presence when I was a child. I saw and heard things that couldn't be explained ~ so did the rest of my family. So did the 2 successive owners.
Also worked in a place that has a presence.

No.

I don’t believe in Santa Claus, leprechauns, the tooth fairy or the Easter Bunny either, and until I see some proper evidence of the existence of such things that isn’t going to change.

Yes. I am always aware of something on the landing. Then one day, I nearly crapped myself when I saw an old woman walk from the bathroom. I also saw a ghost of a man near my parents House. I felt so sick an hour after seeing it. It was so weird.

I do. Could never live in a house converted from a hospital or similar, too spooky for me. A local prison is being converted into luxury flats and I don’t know how anyone could comfortably live in them.

Yes.

As a child I was lying on the sofa at my grandparents house when a choir of around ten boys and an older man in choir-style robes marched past the end of the sofa and through the wall towards the front of the house. There was no noise but I could see that they looked like they were singing.i was stunned. My grandad was sat watching the television oblivious to them.
He laughed when I told him.
I am still bewildered.
The strange thing is that straight opposite the house is the village church.
I visited and for many years lived in this house. I never saw them again. There was a 'strange' atmosphere sometimes though ( before and after I saw this apparition). My mum had strange experiences living there as a teen.

Some great stories here! Any more?

I know somebody who has moved into luxury flat in what used to be a mental hospital, and whenever I drive past I wonder whether the residents have any odd experiences. I couldn't live in a place like that

My friend's previous house was odd. We'd hear women's voices in the kitchen, from the living room, quite muffled. Also a shaky balloon, those large ones that have rice inside of them. It terrified me and I'm usually a cynical sceptic! My pal found out the house used to be a flower shop years before and she'd often have lovely wafts of floral smells when walking in and out of rooms downstairs.

Yes, I have memories of seeing "ghosts" going back as far as 5. Some positive & some negative. I lived with a negative one for 4 years, convincing myself it couldn't physically hurt me. That was until the day it threw a knife at me. Leaving that flat I realised that fire, flood & pestilenceI kid you not we're probably also down to it. Still makes me shudder to this day

Any more? A pub I used to frequent had funny acoustics in their ladies toilets. Many of us would hear indistinguishable hushed conversations in the next cubicle, an empty one! Definitely a close up sound that would almost drift in and drift away again (like it was voices caight in a bubble.) Not when I was too tiddly either.

Nah. We've managed to document creatures that live in the deepest part of the ocean so you'd expect there to be some evidence by now. Was talking to my sister some years ago when I said similar and she said 'you need to watch some videos on YouTube' and then looked confused when I laughed.

I saw things as a child when living in a very old house that can't be explained and have been corroborated by others who didn't know my experiences. I could not be less woo but I think there are things we are not yet able to explain with current scientific knowledge.

I lived in a house when I was little where inexplicable stuff happened. For example, my brother's tonka truck (it had a skip on the back) was full to the brim with water one morning. There were no leaks in the ceiling, and neither myself nor my brother would have had the wherewithall to fill it so full. We've never known why it happened. We used to hear breathing.

I have no idea if ghosts exist or not. I've seen a few weird things, but who knows, maybe it's just the workings of the human mind?
What I love is when people say categorically that ghosts do not exist. They can say that with confidence, because they have proof. Right?

I always used to think that I would believe it if I experienced anything, but never really believing that I would...
Until I started work at the school I am currently Head Teacher at. I'm here alone a lot. Next to my office are the shutters for the canteen, which occasionally will rattle a little if there's a strong wind. But recently they've started banging like someone is battering their fists against them. I've also heard laughter - child's and adult's. I've seen someone walk past the kitchen window when there was nobody there, I've seen someone walk past a small window in an internal door when the only people in the building were with me in that room. There have been things appear on a table that people were looking for when they categorically weren't there a minute before and no one else could have put them there. Today, I opened a door to leave a classroom and what I thought was a child or a stooping adult ducked under my arm and pushed past me as I held the door open. I turned round to berate whoever it was for being impatient, and there was no one there.

I never feel uncomfortable here, never afraid, there's a really happy feeling in this building. I'm just not a fan of being here alone any more! And being called out at three in the morning when the alarm goes off to a rural school with no external lighting... Well that's just a joy!