Has anyone actually seen a ghost

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Not, caught something out the corner of your eye or felt a presence, I mean actually seen one, spoken to one etc?

im aware this sounds woo. I don’t think I do believe in them, never seen one but ppl I have spoken to say they have.

maybe some ppl are more receptive to these things or maybe it’s a trick of the mind?

just be interested in anyones experience really

Yes. Many times
Our current home is 400 years old. We have an elderly gentleman, he likes to watch my husband paint and draw.
When I was about 5/6 we stayed in a holiday home in Wales. I saw an Indian lady and gentleman at the cliff side of the garden- she was wearing a sari- I’d never seen an outfit like that before and asked where they had gone, I can still see them now.
We’ve had visits from friends that have passed. Lots of different experiences.

if you’re open to them, they will visit.

they dont try with a closed mind, they know that you lack faith in what you’ve seen and will dismiss them. Why would they spend that energy ?

Why? There are many paranormal events that are shared experiences- haunted houses and so on.

That’s not a claim. Proving a negative isn’t possible. Yawn.

'Yawn' back at you and your obsessive posting on this thread. You won't change people's minds, most certainly not people with direct experiences which they've shared.

The thing is, though, no so-called "direct experience" has been verified. Surely if ghosts were real, over the centuries someone would have found a way to prove it?

It’s an OBE- out of body experience. I had a patient have an OBE once when I was a nurse. He had arrested. When we revived him he told me exactly what I had been doing and where I had placed his dentures ( which were well out of sight and I hadn’t said where I was putting them).

But would they?

Totally hypothetically, if ghosts did exist, who could say whether they would want to be recorded, are able to manifest in such a way that allows them to be reproduced or even seen. Also, dealing with live humans can be challenging enough, let alone indignant dead people, furious that their ability to make contact, after what might be a great trauma and struggle is written off as superstition. Further, cameras may not yet be sophisticated enough to record them.

I personally think that these mysteries will be solved at some point in the future. There are so many factors in life that we can't explain. It has recently been suggested that we have as many as 33 different senses. Within different ranges of susceptibility to, or development of each sense, some individuals could possess a greater ability to perceive certain things phenomena, accounting for feelings of being watched.

There have also been discussions around the process of death and brain activity afterwards. Is it possible that some people are actually more dead than others? Would it be possible for events to create a sensory impact on any surviving consciousness, potentially, facilitating situations whereby some sort of encounter could occur? The senses are arguably tools affecting our functioning, either enhancing our wellbeing, or detracting from it. Perhaps the likelihood of it happening could be trauma related or through some other deeply affecting life experience, either of a positive or negative nature, affecting either the deceased person or a subject in an experiment..

It's all conjecture, which is most probably wrong anyway. Being a human is wonderful; sometimes it appears that this sort of analysis does more harm than good. Perhaps the best aspect of visitation dreams and hauntings is the representation of our connection to them, rather than focusing on us contacting them.

It's all conjecture at this point in history. It doesn't seem likely that it will be definitively explained during my lifetime. There is a pot of collective goodness in the world, that we can all access. It can be difficult to do so, but the wisdom of our ancestors lives on in all of us, to a greater or lesser extent and feeling a connection to them should arguably be the goal, rather than a verifiable encounter.

Sorry for the essay, it's one of my favorite subjects.

Yes- I wasn't the only person that saw. I don't like to speak about it and was advised not to by a priest. We had the property blessed and moved out

Last sentence in paragraph 2 should say 'phenomena,' rather than things.

It has been a long night and I can't find the edit button.

Yes lots of experiences, interesting about the hat man, never knew it was a thing, my exH had seen him, he was small and playing on his own in the living room when a tall man wearing a trilby hat walked in and disappeared.
I have interacted with girl in the park when I was young and she disappeared, too quickly to have gone anywhere.
objects moving in front of me in a old house we once lived in, I was ironing and a object moved off the work surface in front of me, purposely not vibration.

I think you also have to have the "gene" for it. I grew up in a haunted house and have never doubted the existence of the paranormal. But my psychic abilities are non-existent, while my sibling went on to train as a medium.

My mum grew up in a village that had lots of legends and hauntings (and a surprising number of murders for such a small place). When she was five she was out playing by herself in a beanfield on the edge of the village when she saw a very tall green-skinned man in a kind of leafy outfit. Later on, when she was about 11, she saw a picture in a book that looked exactly like what she had seen - it was Robin Goodfellow, or the Green Man, a harbinger of a good harvest. And they did have a very good harvest that year. There are loads of well-known ghost stories from that village but this isn't one of them and I don't think anyone else has ever reported seeing this.

I think so.

I used to live in Clifton in Bristol and my friends and I twice saw a small naked man running between cars as we walked home in the evening. We assumed it was a local weirdo.

Then one night, my friend and I were walking home at about 4am and saw a dwarf, naked except for a cloak (seriously).
Again, we laughed it off but he disappeared so fast.

Found out years later that the road these incidents happened on used to be called something like Gallows Road and a highwayman, a 4 ft dwarf, had been hung and buried at the top of the road as it's where he used to rob people.

See this is the stuff I do find quite compelling - when something happens to children who don't have preconceived ideas about 'old houses' and aren't binging on Uncanny podcasts (like me.)

Did you ever ask you mum later if your questions freaked her out?

I had a marginal experience in work a few years ago when my pass went missing late one evening and I had to ask a colleague who was leaving for the night to let security know I was still upstairs and would need help exiting the floor/building if I didn't find it (so dodgy, when you think about fires, but that's how the door locks worked and I was afraid I'd be trapped for the night.)

Looked everywhere for it with the cleaner - and was getting a bit panicked because I also had a late-night train to catch. She had to go as well after we checked a final bin (bless her.)

When I came back to my desk it was in a very obvious place. I was a bit freaked out but just relieved more than anything else.

Then the security guy started phoning me and I very quickly said: don't worry, all sorted, but he wouldn't let me get off the phone. Unhelpfully started regaling me with stories of things that had happened TO HIM and how the building was on the site of where they used to hang criminals after sentencing in a nearby court.

I love spooky stories and would have thought of myself as someone 'open' to an experience because I love a good tale - however, I think I'm oblivious and far too caught up in my own dramas to notice much! I wouldn't have given my pass any further thought if the security guy hadn't said something.

Still not sure that it's explainable by a ghost but you do encounter these places were things seem to happen over and over again to people who are unconnected to each other.

@OViennaMother would have put it down to imagination I think, house was full of children so she was fixed on practical tasks of keeping us fed, watered and reasonably clean. This was around 1960, no tech around, not even TV until I was about 12, so my knowledge of anything supernatural would be limited

I remember being little and looking out the window onto the small lawn in our new build. I was with my mother and saw to my astonishment a runner wearing shorts ans vest with a number - hurdle over our fence and on over the next and out of sight. I recall exclaiming my surprise to my Mother who has seen nothing.

No, I haven’t, but I did pretend to once as a child, and it was discussed publicly. Mortifying.

That was me!

You've remembered it perfectly.

Its the weirdest thing when something like that happens to you. Tips the world on a tilt slightly, and you suddenly worry about how much of what we comfort ourselves by thinking is a load of rubbish is actually true !

I never forgot this either, dd went through a period of piling her toys up one on top of the other in the middle of her bedroom the first time I saw this it really scared me and I thought of this post! if I hadn't of had a rational explanation I don't know what I'd have done!

There was no sense of malice. And it was a sunny evening.

One other strange thing happened in that room but not to me. The teacher who's classroom it was told me one day that the previous afternoon the clock above her desk had ''fallen'' off the wall, but not really. It had in fact sort of shot across the room. It was a light plastic cheap wall clock like a tesco Value one. It didn't land on her desk. It hit the ground a long way away. On that carpet area in fact! I didn't tell her what had happened to me. When these things happen for real you kind of don't want to talk about it!

not Me but DM has.

Out of all the billions of people that have died over thousands of years, if ghosts did exist, how come people don't see them all the time?

Maybe many people aren’t receptive to seeing them
Maybe only certain dead people’s energy remain as ghosts
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Not me (thankfully) but two good friends of mine have, independently, and neither would be the sort interested in making stuff up. One friend used to see a man around her house watching her, he was slightly transparent and it used to shake her up. When she met her husband and they'd just started dating and it was one of the first times he stayed over, he also saw the same thing in her bedroom during the night and it scared the shit out of him! She had never mentioned her experience as it was early days in their relationship and she didn't want him to think she was nuts 😁

what did your friend and her husband see?