re: Do you believe in ghosts/hauntings?

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After my grandfather died, he visited my grandmother a few days later. She woke up one night and he was standing at the foot of the bed smiling at her. She was not the type to let her imagination run away with her but she firmly believed he came to see her

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That's called a dream or hypnopomic hallucination.

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Do you believe in ghosts/hauntings?

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I prefer to just not frick around it.

For a world that believes in some of the most ridiculous stuff, the answer is "I don't know". I do like Beetlejuice.

Not really. If they do exist, why don't we ever hear about them doing something cool or useful? It would be cool if I woke up to ghosts cutting the grass or washing my truck. Or maybe stay up and keep an eye on the brisket.

No but I believe anyone that "sees" them are 100% convinced and in their mind, they did see something.

I don't believe in ghosts but have a friend who swears that his house is haunted. I never experienced anything when I was there visiting but he said it doesn't come around when I am there. It has put in an appearance when his girlfriend was there.

We updated an old Tudor home after the lady died in it for a Priest who purchased it . One day we came back from lunch and the Priest was on the front porch pissed off asking us which one of us is pulling the prank in the bedroom that the lady died in . They had stripped the Oak floors the day before and while we were gone a pentagram was drawn with a mop and nasty water in the middle of her room. The Priest said he only left for a minute and locked all the doors. That house is probably still on Government and North Foster I think ?

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are not observable by the five (5) senses...

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The real question is why people do the -- five (5). I got it at the first five (5). Redundant much?

Yes, at least I believe in signs.

Yes. Well, I don't know if they are ghosts in the traditional sense, but there is something. I've had a some experiences, a couple of which I would say made me a true believer. I believe that we do not understand the workings or the universe nearly as well as we think we do. What we consider "supernatural" is simply natural; it's just that we don't understand it yet or able to comprehend it.

I was in a coma due to an auto accident. I wasn't expected to live. I was very close with my grandmother who died in 1988. The accident that I was involved in happened in 1994. I never remembered ever seeing my grandmother since she died. Years ago my hobby was raising orchids but I got tired of doing that. While I was in ICU I remember my grandmother talking to me. She said, Mark you need to grow orchids again. I told her that I didn't want to. She next told me that I got an orchid catalog in the mail the day before. I told her that I never got an orchid catalog for over twenty years. She said that the catalog that I got in the mail had a blue orchid on the cover and that my mother put the catalog in the trash where she throws away the old newspapers. She told me to wake up and tell my mother that I wanted my orchid catalog. I woke up and told my mother that I wanted my orchid catalog. She asked me what catalog. I described it to her and she asked who told me that. I said your mother told me and that you threw it in the trash with your old newspapers. My mom said she got a chill down her spine. She went home and she brought the orchid catalog that my grandmother told me about. After six months in the hospital I went home. The first thing that I did was look through the orchid catalog and ordered some orchids. I'm still growing orchids but not at the scale that I did many years ago. I never saw my grandmother after she died but I definitely remember her conversation. I don't believe in ghosts but I believe that a person who you really loved will make their presence known. My mom had a close friend that moved into an old house and the stuff that she encountered there I would have gotten out immediately.