Do You Believe In Ghosts?

I do believe in ghosts. I don't think I've ever had an experience or anything but when things go bump in the night I get spooked so obviously I must believe. I however don't believe those ghost hunting tv shows are real, I mean they pretty much feed you what the "voice recording" thing is saying. I only watch them for pure entertainment.
 
Little Miss Muffet said:
I do believe in ghosts. I don't think I've ever had an experience or anything but when things go bump in the night I get spooked so obviously I must believe. I however don't believe those ghost hunting tv shows are real, I mean they pretty much feed you what the "voice recording" thing is saying. I only watch them for pure entertainment.
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I absolutely don't believe in ghosts, but I get spooked as well when there are weird noises in the house although I'm all alone. Houses make noise on their own, but I guess it's only natural that people get scared. Who expects noises from downstairs when there's nobody there to make them?
 
Don't you just love walking into an old wooden house that no one has been in for ten or fifteen years. To hear the floor boards creak, the walls groan. And strange sounds emanate from rooms further away the longer you stand there. That little pocket of air in a water pipe, when a tap is turned on the little rattle can cause all sorts of weird sounds where the pipe isn't fixed tight to a wall or beam. That can also have a thought provoking mind meld; when it wakes a sleeping snake that slithers through the gaps in a wall. It can cause small vibrations that to reverberate into the attic where the owner of a skeleton gets really peeved at being disturbed.
So next time you see an old house, that you'd like to see inside, don't. Just keep walking on by.
 
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Although I love the idea of ghosts, I don't really believe in them. I used to believe completely, but over the years, I've seen a lot of evidence explaining what people have called ghosts for so long. I've read of several studies explaining, as someone mentioned earlier, that old houses often have carbon monoxide in the air which can cause hallucinations. These, along with the magnetic wavelengths of older buildings, can account for many "ghost sightings." I'm not saying they're not real, I'm just saying I prefer to think of hauntings from a scientific point of view. The sensation of someone grabbing your feet can be caused by uneven flooring. People vaguely seen in the background of photographs who were not there can really just be shadows that the brain is interpreting as faces or bodies. Feeling like someone is breathing down your neck can just be a breeze from a source you don't know of.

If ghosts are real, which is entirely possible, I think that they are not as common as people are led to believe. Even if some personal experiences were really ghosts, I think a lot of them are easily just natural occurrences being misinterpreted.
 
spikeluvr185 said:
Although I love the idea of ghosts, I don't really believe in them. I used to believe completely, but over the years, I've seen a lot of evidence explaining what people have called ghosts for so long. I've read of several studies explaining, as someone mentioned earlier, that old houses often have carbon monoxide in the air which can cause hallucinations. These, along with the magnetic wavelengths of older buildings, can account for many "ghost sightings." I'm not saying they're not real, I'm just saying I prefer to think of hauntings from a scientific point of view. The sensation of someone grabbing your feet can be caused by uneven flooring. People vaguely seen in the background of photographs who were not there can really just be shadows that the brain is interpreting as faces or bodies. Feeling like someone is breathing down your neck can just be a breeze from a source you don't know of.
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Make sure to question the "scientific" explanations as well. If you're experiencing hallucinations due to carbon monoxide poisoning, you're about to die. Also, while there is plausible evidence that geo-magnetism can cause the appearance of lights (such as Earthlights), it wouldn't create images of people.

When somebody claims to have a scientific explanation for ghosts, it's a good idea to make them explain exactly how their explanation works, and show proof that their hypothesis has been verified through experimentation (like making people see ghosts in a controlled laboratory setting).

Otherwise, their explanations hold no more weight than those of the ghost hunters.
 
AndrewCrossett said:
Make sure to question the "scientific" explanations as well. If you're experiencing hallucinations due to carbon monoxide poisoning, you're about to die. Also, while there is plausible evidence that geo-magnetism can cause the appearance of lights (such as Earthlights), it wouldn't create images of people.

When somebody claims to have a scientific explanation for ghosts, it's a good idea to make them explain exactly how their explanation works, and show proof that their hypothesis has been verified through experimentation (like making people see ghosts in a controlled laboratory setting).

Otherwise, their explanations hold no more weight than those of the ghost hunters.
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Yes, but I think it's a little like in court. The suspect is innocent until proven guilty. And not guilty until proven innocent. I think ghost hunters or whatever you wanna call them should be able to prove that there are ghosts, and not the other way around. It's a lot more difficult to prove the non-existence of something than to prove the existence of it. I could say that there are invisible fairies living in the basement of my house. How can you prove they're not there? They're obviously not there, but the thing is that I can't prove that they are there either, and I can still say they are, because you can't prove me wrong.

Also, in my opinion, 'it's ghosts' is just an easy explanation for something as yet unexplainable. For example, a few hundred years ago, people didn't know what thunder and lighting was, and how they worked. So they said it must be a god, Thor. Now we know how it works, and who still believes in Thor?
 
AndrewCrossett said:
Make sure to question the "scientific" explanations as well. If you're experiencing hallucinations due to carbon monoxide poisoning, you're about to die. Also, while there is plausible evidence that geo-magnetism can cause the appearance of lights (such as Earthlights), it wouldn't create images of people.

When somebody claims to have a scientific explanation for ghosts, it's a good idea to make them explain exactly how their explanation works, and show proof that their hypothesis has been verified through experimentation (like making people see ghosts in a controlled laboratory setting).

Otherwise, their explanations hold no more weight than those of the ghost hunters.
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I agree that scientif explanation needs to be explain to be valid, or else you are right they are exactly the same as theories made by ghost hunter. I just wanted to add that its absolutely possible for someone to see the image of someone. Geomagnetic waves can create similar impact to complex partial epileptic seizure (not to confuse with the convulsion type seizures). Basicly the way it works is that our right hemisphere of the brain is responsible for the sense of presence (as the left hemisphete is responsible for the sense of self). Activation of the right temporal lobe would create the apparition of a physical entity in the upper left corner of the eye. Just like actiation of the right parietal lobe would create out of body experience.
 
While I'm sure there are hardcore ghost hunters out there who think they can one day prove the existence of ghosts, I'm not one of them.

Ask yourself this: what would you consider proof of the existence of ghosts? What would force you to believe?

Not photographic or video or audio evidence. That can always, always be faked... even genuine photos or vids of a ghost would be assumed to be fakes by skeptics.

Not somebody waving an EMF meter around and claiming there's "activity" over here in this corner. All EMF meters do is detect the presence of EMF energy. Lots of things give off EMF energy. We have no idea whether ghosts are among those things.

Not an infra-red camera. Ghosts, if they exist, are either a) the spirits of dead people, in which case they don't give off any body heat, or b) some kind of illusion or mirage or "psychic recording"... which also wouldn't give off any body heat. If you catch something moving on a thermal camera, it's pretty much certainly a living person or animal.

Unless you can capture a ghost in a bottle and study it, the only real "evidence" of their existence is personal experience. If you see one, you believe, if you don't, you either disbelieve or maintain an open mind.

I've never seen a ghost with my own eyes. I keep an open mind because of the number of people who have. And really, I'd rather that nobody prove one way or the other. It's a lot more fun this way.
 
What would I consider proof of the existence of ghosts? That's the thing. I don't know. Like you said, probably only personal experience. Even though I don't believe in ghosts, I still keep an open mind about it, although some of the stuff I write doesn't sound like it. But I never ever write that it's a fact that there are no ghosts.


But now, in the eyes of all you who believe in them, what exactly are ghosts?
The souls of dead people haunting the living, scaring people who disturb them? Beings with a consciousness? Beings that are aware of what they're doing? What do they want? Really just scare the living?
 
I believe there are ghosts. I have absolutely no explanation as to what, exactly, they are, or how they're here, but I believe in ghosts. I've seen a few, myself.

I think they're just energy left behind by that person that didn't go away when the person died. I don't believe that ghosts are actually the person's soul that stuck around.
 
I think I'm somewhere in the middle. I'm not a non-believer, however I won't say for certain that ghosts exist. There is no evidence to suggest their existence, but there are clues. We believed the house that I grew up in to be haunted. Many of us have experienced similar things, for example, we would all hear footsteps upstairs at the same time when there was only us in the house. But none of those experiences are conclusive, so as far as I am concerned I'm still on the fence.
 
I definitely believe in ghosts. I've never experienced a ghost first hand, my experiences have involved what they call shadow people. And it started when I was really young, before I knew anyone else had experienced it & before they started calling them shadow people. I've had quite a few terrifying experiences & I hope I never experience it again. Shadow people aren't believed to be the spirits of human beings like ghosts are so I've never actually seen a ghost. I've done a lot of research though & I actually had uploaded a video about my experiences on YouTube but I took it down because I had people from work watching my videos & that made me uncomfortable. I know my stories on a few sites out there though. But how could anyone not believe in ghosts or spirits? There's too much energy & too much evidence these days to deny that there is something out there.
 
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