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For the people who believe in or have claimed to see "ghosts" at some point...
Posted on 4/15/16 at 9:43 pm
Posted on 4/15/16 at 9:43 pm
Let me say first that I personally don't believe in ghosts, but I think its foolish to deny the possibility of their existence. However I still think the whole idea of it seems ludicrous. Proving the existence of a ghost would raise a lot of questions. I'm amazed at how many people truly believe in them.
1. If you claim to have seen or experienced the presence of a ghost one day, what was the purpose of it? Like why did the ghost make himself known to you? Surely ghosts are invisible so if they become visible to us, it must be for a reason right?
2. If ghosts can make themselves known to us, why don't they do it more? Think about it for a second. If you died and became a ghost but had the ability to appear to and communicate with humans, what would stop you from revealing yourself to your family and being with them? Why do ghosts hide from us MOST of the time?
3. Do ghosts just wander the earth doing practically nothing?
4. Does everyone become a ghost when they die? If so, why don't sightings happen more often then?
5. And what about this notion of a ghost haunting a place or something? This seems to be the biggest reason why people claim a ghost has revealed himself. Why would a ghost haunt a house or place of death? What would the ghost do if the house was torn down?
1. If you claim to have seen or experienced the presence of a ghost one day, what was the purpose of it? Like why did the ghost make himself known to you? Surely ghosts are invisible so if they become visible to us, it must be for a reason right?
2. If ghosts can make themselves known to us, why don't they do it more? Think about it for a second. If you died and became a ghost but had the ability to appear to and communicate with humans, what would stop you from revealing yourself to your family and being with them? Why do ghosts hide from us MOST of the time?
3. Do ghosts just wander the earth doing practically nothing?
4. Does everyone become a ghost when they die? If so, why don't sightings happen more often then?
5. And what about this notion of a ghost haunting a place or something? This seems to be the biggest reason why people claim a ghost has revealed himself. Why would a ghost haunt a house or place of death? What would the ghost do if the house was torn down?
This post was edited on 4/15/16 at 9:47 pm
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Posted on 4/15/16 at 9:45 pm to NeverRains
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I personally don't believe in ghosts
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I think its foolish to deny their existence
Wat
Posted on 4/15/16 at 9:47 pm to dbeck
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Wat
Sorry. Wording error. Fixed.
Posted on 4/15/16 at 9:47 pm to NeverRains
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what was the purpose of it?
Broken arse glass.
Posted on 4/15/16 at 9:52 pm to NeverRains
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If you claim to have seen or experienced the presence of a ghost one day, what was the purpose of it? Like why did the ghost make himself known to you? Surely ghosts are invisible so if they become visible to us, it must be for a reason right?
I've had a few experiences at my family's restaurant and our house. At both places we would see ghost cats. Can't explain why they were there. You'd catch a glimpse of a white cat chasing our other cats around the house. We inherited our house from my great grandmother. The one time I saw her I presume she was just wandering around her house. No direct contact was made with me. At our restaurant, I was pushed across a small room by a ghost. Thought it was my cousins hiding behind the swinging doors but no one was in the building. I know there was some history with the building from way before my great grandparents acquired it. People used to see an old man in our back dining room but I never saw him. Word was that he was an abusive man but I've never heard any history on him.
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If ghosts can make themselves known to us, why don't they do it more? Think about it for a second. If you died and became a ghost but had the ability to appear to and communicate with humans, what would stop you from revealing yourself to your family and being with them? Why do ghosts hide from us MOST of the time?
Frankly, we have very little understanding of this. Your guess is as good as anyone's.
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Do ghosts just wander the earth doing practically nothing?
I buy into the theory that they are stuck here with unfinished business.
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Does everyone become a ghost when they die? If so, why don't sightings happen more often then?
Again, your guess is as good as anyone's.
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And what about this notion of a ghost haunting a place or something? This seems to be the biggest reason why people claim a ghost has revealed himself. Why would a ghost haunt a house or place of death? What would the ghost do if the house was torn down?
Who the hell knows.
Posted on 4/15/16 at 10:09 pm to NeverRains
My Dad passed away when I was 13.
The night he died he woke me up and told me he needed to speak with me. We went into the living room and he told me he how much he loved me and that he would no longer be there for me and I was going to have the responsibility of being the man of the house and taking care of the family.
The next morning my Mom came into my room and told me that Dad had passed away during the night.
Call it what you will but I had no knowledge of him passing away that night. Yes, I knew that he was dying but I did not know that was the night he would finally give out.
Frankly, it does not matter to me whether it was my father's ghost or my own brain creating the scene in a dream. It absolutely felt real to me and certainly helped bring me peace at his passing.
The night he died he woke me up and told me he needed to speak with me. We went into the living room and he told me he how much he loved me and that he would no longer be there for me and I was going to have the responsibility of being the man of the house and taking care of the family.
The next morning my Mom came into my room and told me that Dad had passed away during the night.
Call it what you will but I had no knowledge of him passing away that night. Yes, I knew that he was dying but I did not know that was the night he would finally give out.
Frankly, it does not matter to me whether it was my father's ghost or my own brain creating the scene in a dream. It absolutely felt real to me and certainly helped bring me peace at his passing.
Posted on 4/15/16 at 10:14 pm to Shunface
Awesome story. Hope my fathers passing brings me as much peace.
Posted on 4/15/16 at 10:21 pm to Shunface
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Shunface
Not being a dick just trying to understand. So you went to the living room with your pops as a ghost or were you dreaming? Or did your pops really tell you all that and then passed away after he went back to sleep?
Posted on 4/15/16 at 10:24 pm to NeverRains
1. I have no idea.
2. I have no idea.
3. I have no idea.
4. I have no idea.
5. I have no idea.
I don't expect anyone who hasn't experienced it to believe otherwise. What I saw/heard doesn't make me an expert or in any knowledgeable position to answer your questions. I didn't volunteer or choose to experience it. It happened and to such a degree that I'd be as foolish to deny it as someone who hadn't would be to believe it.
Actually more so, because it's easier to believe in an unknown than deny a known.
And to quote the great Forest Gump, that's all I have to say about that.
2. I have no idea.
3. I have no idea.
4. I have no idea.
5. I have no idea.
I don't expect anyone who hasn't experienced it to believe otherwise. What I saw/heard doesn't make me an expert or in any knowledgeable position to answer your questions. I didn't volunteer or choose to experience it. It happened and to such a degree that I'd be as foolish to deny it as someone who hadn't would be to believe it.
Actually more so, because it's easier to believe in an unknown than deny a known.
And to quote the great Forest Gump, that's all I have to say about that.
Posted on 4/15/16 at 10:24 pm to Shunface
Damn, I don't think I could have went through losing my dad at 13 without going crazy. I'm 40 and he's still here with me my best friend but still mydad first. Still tells me when he thinks I'm fricking up.
Posted on 4/15/16 at 10:26 pm to NeverRains
ghosts live in a different dimension. they only appear to humans when there is a rip in the fabric of the universe.
Posted on 4/15/16 at 10:27 pm to NeverRains
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I'm amazed at how many people truly believe in them.
BROKEN arse GLASS
Posted on 4/15/16 at 10:28 pm to NeverRains
I saw a ghost in my house once, it was a lady in a dress standing in a doorway at my house who then proceeded to vanish before my eyes. My dad used to own part of a dress of a Jewish woman who was killed in a concentration camp, and that night he left it out of his safe because I was doing something regarding g WWII for school and was bringing it with me the next day. With all that being said, I actually don't belIeve in ghosts. I know I saw what people would consider to be one, but... Idk, the whole idea just seems silly.
Posted on 4/15/16 at 10:45 pm to Howyouluhdat
It's hard to explain. It was definitely a dream but to this day (17 years later) I can still remember everything we talked about, the clothes he was wearing, etc.
I've never had a dream that I can remember more than bits and pieces but that night it felt completely real. Like he really was there with me but he was in a coma at the hospital.
That morning when my mom told me I didn't cry, I wasn't upset, I was at peace. I had spoken to my Dad that night and knew he was in a better place and everything was going to be ok.
I've never had a dream that I can remember more than bits and pieces but that night it felt completely real. Like he really was there with me but he was in a coma at the hospital.
That morning when my mom told me I didn't cry, I wasn't upset, I was at peace. I had spoken to my Dad that night and knew he was in a better place and everything was going to be ok.
Posted on 4/15/16 at 10:53 pm to Shunface
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That morning when my mom told me I didn't cry, I wasn't upset, I was at peace. I had spoken to my Dad that night and knew he was in a better place and everything was going to be ok.
Sorry about your loss man but at the same time that's kinda cool in a way that you really got to have a farewell talk with him. A lot of people don't get to do that. I have personally never experienced anything paranormal but I have a close friend who has. This dude jokes around constantly and hardly ever talks about anything serious but when he told me he felt the presence of his brother that passed on his bed one night I truly believed every word he said. He was eerily dead serious and he's the type of guy that would tell you to stfu if you were to ever say something like that to him. There's another dimension or something that spirits get in. Not really sure how it works but there's just too much evidence of weird occurrences around the world not to believe it.
Posted on 4/15/16 at 10:53 pm to NeverRains
If you want to see some ghosts come to Fort Smith. Judge Isaac Parker hanged 160 people in the same spot. Surely there should be some ghosts wandering around the courthouse lawn.
Posted on 4/15/16 at 11:03 pm to Shunface
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That morning when my mom told me I didn't cry, I wasn't upset, I was at peace. I had spoken to my Dad that night and knew he was in a better place and everything was going to be ok.
The night my mother past I had a vivid dream of her sitting on the edge of my bed telling me how everything is going to be ok and that she was ok. I was 20 at the time. A year later I held my grandmothers hand as she died from influenza. As she was passing she told me that she was going to be ok and that Lynn(my moms name) told her to tell us she was ok. It was a weird feeling.
Posted on 4/15/16 at 11:08 pm to Shunface
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The night he died he woke me up and told me he needed to speak with me. We went into the living room and he told me he how much he loved me and that he would no longer be there for me and I was going to have the responsibility of being the man of the house and
I don't doubt it one bit...
Mom called out to me 4 days after she passed...but I had to figure out why
Posted on 4/16/16 at 12:28 am to NeverRains
I have no idea why my wife and I saw the same ghost of an elderly woman walking through our house while we were in different rooms of the house. We never saw the ghost again. She was in a hurry like she was passing through. I have sometimes wondered if the ghost was the mother or grandmother of the prior owners, or if she had lived on the land before my neighborhood was built.
Posted on 4/16/16 at 1:48 am to Eightballjacket
My favorite uncle passed when I was 26. The night of the funeral me and my wife were sitting at the kitchen table in my moms house (uncle was her brother) talking and I was very upset. There was a table too radio sitting on one of the kitchen counters that just turned on and started playing Don't close your eyes by Keith Whitley. This was my uncles favorite song. My wife said that was him telling me goodbye (he died suddenly-heart attack) and I believe it.
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